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==Something isn't working right!!!!==
==Something isn't working right!!!!==
Please [http://ioquake3.org/get-it/test-builds/ upgrade to a test build.]
Please [http://ioquake3.org/get-it/test-builds/ upgrade to a test build.]
== HD/High Resolutions ==
== HD/High Resolutions ==
Revision as of 17:05, 29 August 2015
- 1 Windows
- 2 Mac OS X
- 3 Linux
- 4 Android/iOS
- 5 Something isn't working right!!!!
- 6 I'm getting an error that says "User Interface is version 3, expected 6"
- 7 I'm getting some Sys_Error thing about a pak0.pk3, wtf?!?
- 8 HD/High Resolutions
- 9 Using HTTP/FTP Download Support
- 10 QuakeLive mouse acceleration
- 11 SDL Keyboard Differences
- 12 I can't bring down the console with the ` or the ~!
- 13 Help! Ioquake3 won't give me an fps of X anymore when setting com_maxfps!
- 14 Using shared libraries instead of qvm
- 15 Why can't I run Team Arena or the Mission Pack?!?!?!
- 16 How do I enable Voice-Over-IP?
- 17 Using Demo Data Files
- 18 Will You Remove the CD-Key Check?
- 19 Punkbuster
- 20 Useful Console Commands
Download a test build
Where are my files? I'm used to them being in the Quake 3 directory!
On Windows, all user specific files such as autogenerated configuration, demos, videos, screenshots, and autodownloaded pk3s are now saved in a directory specific to the user who is running ioquake3.
In order to access this directory more easily, you can also type
%APPDATA%\Quake3\ in the file explorer and hit enter
On Windows 98 and ME, this is usually a directory named:
C:\Windows\Application Data\Quake3\
On Windows 2000 and XP
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Quake3\
On Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10
I don't like this!
You can revert to the old single-user behavior by creating a shortcut to your ioquake3 executable with the
fs_homepath cvar set to the directory where ioquake3 is installed. For example:
ioquake3.exe +set fs_homepath "c:\ioquake3"
Mac OS X
Download a test build
Where are my files?
/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Application Support/Quake3/
Download a test build
Where are my files?
We don't currently have an official version of ioquake3 for mobile devices, there are many versions of ioquake3 that you will find if you search app stores for Quake 3. We didn't make them, we can't fix them.
Something isn't working right!!!!
Please upgrade to a test build.
I'm getting an error that says "User Interface is version 3, expected 6"
You need to install the patch data.
I'm getting some Sys_Error thing about a pak0.pk3, wtf?!?
You haven't installed the
pak0.pk3 from the Quake 3: Arena Disc or Steam into your
baseq3 folder, you still need to buy Quake 3: Arena to play that game.
HD/High Resolutions
You're in luck, not only do we have instructions for setting a non-standard resolution, but in HD modes we will display Quake 3 more properly than id's last version. You can find out your screen resolution from this link. For an older macbook, I'd use these commands in the console:
/r_mode -1 /r_customheight 800 /r_customwidth 1280
then if I'm in-game I would use
/vid_restart to restart ioquake3's video system with the new display resolution.
If I want the game to be fullscreen you can use the
/r_fullscreen 1 command. To set it back to windowed mode you can change the 1 to a 0
/r_fullscreen 0.
Note that the in-game video preferences will not list your new resolution.
Using HTTP/FTP Download Support
Want to download maps and mods faster? If the server you're using supports it, you can!
Just type
/cl_allowdownload 1 in the console and hit the enter key.
Changing that number to 0 will disable downloads, here are some other options
- cl_allowdownload 1
- Enable HTTP/FTP and UDP downloads.
- cl_allowdownload 2
- Disable HTTP/FTP downloads, but enable UDP downloads.
- cl_allowdownload 4
- Disable UDP downloads, but enable HTTP/FTP downloads
QuakeLive mouse acceleration
(patch and this text written by TTimo from id)
I've been using an experimental mouse acceleration code for a while, and decided to make it available to everyone. Don't be too worried if you don't understand the explanations below, this is mostly intended for advanced players: To enable it, set cl_mouseAccelStyle 1 (0 is the default/legacy behavior)
New style is controlled with 3 cvars:
The old code (
cl_mouseAccelStyle 0) can be difficult to calibrate because if you have a base sensitivity setup, as soon as you set a non zero acceleration your base sensitivity at low speeds will change as well. The other problem with style 0 is that you are stuck on a square (power of two) acceleration curve.
The new code tries to solve both problems:
Once you setup your sensitivity to feel comfortable and accurate enough for low mouse deltas with no acceleration (cl_mouseAccel 0), you can start increasing
cl_mouseAccel and tweaking
cl_mouseAccelOffset to get the amplification you want for high deltas with little effect on low mouse deltas.
is a power value. Should be >= 1, 2 will be the same power curve as style 0. The higher the value, the faster the amplification grows with the mouse delta.
cl_mouseAccelOffset sets how much base mouse delta will be doubled by acceleration. The closer to zero you bring it, the more acceleration will happen at low speeds. This is also very useful if you are changing to a new mouse with higher dpi, if you go from 500 to 1000 dpi, you can divide your
cl_mouseAccelOffset by two to keep the same overall 'feel' (you will likely gain in precision when you do that, but that is not related to mouse acceleration).
Mouse acceleration is tricky to configure, and when you do you'll have to re-learn your aiming. But you will find that it's very much worth it in the long run.
If you try the new acceleration code and start using it, I'd be very interested by your feedback.
SDL Keyboard Differences
ioquake3 clients have different keyboard behavior compared to the original Quake3 clients.
SDL > 1.2.9 does not support disabling dead key recognition. In order to send dead key characters (e.g. ~, ', `, and ^), you must key a Space (or sometimes the same character again) after the character to send it on many international keyboard layouts.
The SDL client supports many more keys than the original Quake3 client. For example the keys: "Windows", "SysReq", "ScrollLock", and "Break". For non-US keyboards, all of the so called "World" keys are now supported as well as F13, F14, F15, and the country-specific mode/meta keys.
On many international layouts the default console toggle keys are also dead keys, meaning that dropping the console potentially results in unintentionally initiating the keying of a dead key. Furthermore SDL 1.2's dead key support is broken by design and Q3 doesn't support non-ASCII text entry, so the chances are you won't get the correct character anyway.
If you use such a keyboard layout, you can set the cvar cl_consoleKeys. This is a space delimited list of key names that will toggle the console. The key names are the usual Q3 names e.g. "~", "`", "c", "BACKSPACE", "PAUSE", "WINDOWS" etc. It's also possible to use ASCII characters, by hexadecimal number. Some example values for cl_consoleKeys:
"~ ` 0x7e 0x60" Toggle on ~ or ` (the default)
"WINDOWS" Toggle on the Windows key
"c" Toggle on the c key
"0x43" Toggle on the C character (Shift-c)
"PAUSE F1 PGUP" Toggle on the Pause, F1 or Page Up keys
Note that when you elect a set of console keys or characters, they cannot then be used for binding, nor will they generate characters when entering text. Also, in addition to the nominated console keys, Shift-ESC is hard coded to always toggle the console.
I can't bring down the console with the ` or the ~!
Press the Shift and Escape keys at the same time, this will bring down the console on any system.
Help! Ioquake3 won't give me an fps of X anymore when setting com_maxfps!
ioquake3 now uses the select() system call to wait for the rendering of the next frame when com_maxfps was hit. This will improve your CPU load considerably in these cases. However, not all systems may support a granularity for its timing functions that is required to perform this waiting correctly. For instance, ioquake3 tells select() to wait 2 milliseconds, but really it can only wait for a multiple of 5ms, i.e. 5, 10, 15, 20... ms. In this case you can always revert back to the old behavior by setting the cvar com_busyWait to 1.
To force ioquake3 to use shared libraries instead of qvms run it with the following parameters:
+set sv_pure 0 +set vm_cgame 0 +set vm_game 0 +set vm_ui 0
Why can't I run Team Arena or the Mission Pack?!?!?!
Did you buy Team Arena? It comes with some modern versions of Quake 3, but most people who just have Quake 3, don't have Team Arena (which is the same as the mission pack).
To install Team Arena, copy the pak0.pk3 from the missionpack directory on your cd-rom to the missionpack directory under your ioquake3 directory.
How do I enable Voice-Over-IP?
- Make sure your network settings are set to broadband.
- /s_useOpenAL 1
- /snd_restart
- /bind q "+voiprecord"
- Hook up a microphone, connect to a VoIP-supporting server. (server.ioquake3.org, for example)
- Hold down the 'q' key and talk.
If none of the above works, please read the VOIP README file.
Using Demo Data Files
Copy demoq3/pak0.pk3 from the demo installer to your baseq3 directory. The qvm files in this pak0.pk3 will not work, so you have to use the native shared libraries or qvms from this project. To use the new qvms, they must be put into a pk3 file. A pk3 file is just a zip file, so any compression tool that can create such files will work. The shared libraries should already be in the correct place. Use the instructions above to use them.
Please bear in mind that you will not be able to play online using the demo data, nor is it something that we like to spend much time maintaining or supporting.
Will You Remove the CD-Key Check?
No, we will not be removing the CD-key check. The Quake III: Arena game is not free, and you must purchase a CD or buy it from Steam to play it. Don't let this confuse you, the engine is open source, and is absolutely 100% free. If someone makes a new game based on the source code that does not use the pay-for game data, they of course don't need to and should not require a CD key in their game.
ioquake3 will not work with PunkBuster. There are no workarounds, play with your friends on well-administered servers. PunkBuster is closed source software and all the hooks for it were removed from Quake 3 before the source was released to the public.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 21, 2011) – The best of ETSU's historic tennis program reunited for the first time in over a decade on Saturday afternoon during the men's basketball game inside the MSHA Athletic Center.
Current ETSU Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and former ETSU head coach Dave Mullins, current head coach and director of tennis Yaser Zaatini and assistant coaches Ricky Rojas and Travis Sandlant were joined on the court by former greats Gustavo Gomez, Ricky Hernandez, Diego Iglesias, Enrique Olivares, Marcos Pablovich, Oscar Posada, Kenneth Roft, Armen Safarian, Moises Serrano, Larry Stamm and Juan Yanuzzi.
Among the many accomplishments the fifteen men acheived in ETSU's prestigious tennis history, Zaatini and Olivares share the highest honor of being named All-Americans during their collegiate careers. Zaatini became ETSU's first All-American in 1992 and earned the honor again in '93. In each season, Zaatini was the Southern Conference's No. 1 singles champion, doubles champion, Player of the Year and Tournament MVP. Olivares was named to the All-American list for the 2007-08 season, when he was also named Atlantic Sun Player of the Year, Tournament MVP and Student-Athlete of the Year.
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Flat Fee MLS Listing Texas
Is the practice in the real estate industry where a seller enters into a listing agreement with a real estate broker who accepts a flat fee rather than a percentage of the sale price for the listing side of the transaction. The buyer's broker is still typically offered a percentage though that could be a flat fee as well. A discount REALTOR® flat fee MLS brokerage typically unbundles the services a traditional real estate brokerage offers and list the property for sale in the local multiple listing service (MLS) a la carte without requiring the seller to use its services for valuation assistance, negotiating, transaction management and showing accompaniment. Flat Fee brokers are real estate brokers, just like the national brand names, but offer discounted or unbundled services. Most flat fee brokers do offer full service brokerage services. Many flat fee brokers are limited service brokers but we offer full service brokerage as well.
In the by owner MLS ®, the listing agreement between the Texas real estate broker and the property owner typically requires the broker to enter the property into the MLS and provide other contracted services, with the broker acting as what the traditional industry has coined a "limited service broker". However, the flat fee industry prefers the term a la carte broker because the services are not limited. Instead freedom of choice is expanded to allow sellers to pick from a menu of services.
Within the nontraditional real estate services market, there are multiple programs offered to sellers that share the common objective of saving the consumer money by reducing the overall expense of selling real estate. A "nontraditional service" does not automatically entail "limited service". For instance, some full-service brokers list properties under a full-service agreement but charge a "flat rate" that is not a percentage of the sales price.
For Sale By Owner MLS ( Multiple Listing Service in Texas ) is not different from traditional real estate brokerage services. Because the Texas MLS requires a listing agreement between a real estate broker and property owner, the rapid explosion of discount flat fee service providers has created a gap in the States developing laws governing flat fee services provided by real estate broker.
The main differences flat fee Multiple Listing Service and traditional services, flat fee allows the seller to sell as a for sale by owner in and not pay a commission. With traditional commissioned real estate agents, if you sell your own property, you will own the agent a high commission. Flat fee listing allows the customer to sell as a FSBO and with an agent, having the best of both worlds.
You are not a for sale by owner FSBO on the MLS, you are listed with an agent but still have the option to sell your own property without paying a buyer agent commission. We are a discount real estate broker from the normal 6% commission. Flat Rate or Flat Fee MLS listing services have been around for years but is fast becoming more popular when selling your property.
We comply completely with SB 810 on all our listing packages (along with all rules and regulations by TREC, TAR, NAR & MLS Boards) - that includes a provision that requires a broker who represents a party or who lists real property under an exclusive agreement to: inform the party of material information related to the transaction, including the receipt of an offer by the broker, and answer the party's questions and present any offer to or from the party. The bill prohibits a broker who represents a party from telling another broker to negotiate directly with the broker's client. The bill further provides that, for purposes of 1101.157, a license holder who has additional authority to bind a party under a power of attorney or a property management agreement is considered a party to the lease or sale; an inquiry to an employee of a builder or developer about contract terms or forms does not violate §1101.652(b)(22) if the person does not have authority to bind the employer to the contract; the delivery of an offer to a party does not violate §1101.652(b)(22) if the party's broker consents to the delivery and a copy of the offer is sent to the party's broker; and provides an exception to the requirement of sending a copy of the offer to a party's broker if the party is a governmental agency using a sealed bid process that does not allow a copy to be sent to the broker.
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Intel Planning 10-core Xeon E5-2600 V2 Ivy Bridge-EP CPU
Subject: Processors | October 17, 2012 - 06:48 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: xeon E5-2600 v2, lga 2011, Ivy Bridge-EP, Intel, 22nm
A recently leaked slide reveals one of Intel's upcoming Xeon-branded server chips coming in Q3 2013. The Xeon E5-2600 V2 is an Ivy Bridge-EP processor and will be compatible with motherboards featuring the LGA 2011 socket.
The Xeon E5-2600 V2 in particular has a 70W TDP (thermal design power) rating while the highest-end Ivy Bridge-EP CPUs will have TDPs of up to 130W. The E5-2600 V2 has 10 physical cores, and with HyperThreading it can handle a maximum of 20 threads. Each physical core has access to 256KB L2 cache and the chip has a total of 30MB L3 cache. Further, this (and other) Ivy Bridge-EP processor will support up to 1866MHz DDR3 system RAM.
Interestingly, the Xeon E5-2600 V2 is merely the middle of the road part for Intel. The company will be releasing processors that are even higher-end than this one. They will have up to 12 physical cores which means up to 24 threads. And paired with Intel's 22nm manufacturing process and 3D transistors, these chips will fit right into workstations and server rooms.
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Good post cause I think what is gonna happen is you will see people opting to grab a Xeon rather then a regular part due to the performance ceiling we've hit. Of course cost is prohibitive in a lot of situations due to the Xeon being a high margin product but I think the lure of 12 cores is tempting even if I will NEVER use all of them till the day I die. Performance via overclocking is losing its luster because of a ceiling we've hit, next logical thought is more cores....aka Xeon. I would appreciate a response from the PCper guys on what they think of this train of thought.
A 12 core / 24 thread part with a 130W TDP? Heck yeah I want it!
So I see we've come from the Xeons models having 50% more core than the highest end consumer part to having 300% more cores. It's really a shame AMD has been struggling or else we'd see a lot more compelling consumer grade parts from Intel.
I'm getting older I just see myself getting a Xeon eventually
Good post.
I think this is great, looks like Intel has really gotten thier 22nm IvyBridge E/EP design/refinements down really well.
I think its safe to say that when we get the Ivy Bridge-E refresh in the desktop space, that we could see 8 or maybe even 10 core desktop versions, and likely 6 cores being priced at the current 4 core Sandy Bridge-E prices.
I sure hope that when 6 becomes main 12 will easily be supported
OK, so when is PCper going to be having a contest to win a 12 core Xeon Ivy Bridge system?
As soon as Intel sends us a few. :)
I have been a huge fan of AMD since they started. It's sad to think that this might be the end for them. I have built many computers using their processors. My current one probably the last. Their Idea of using the same socket for such a wide range of of processors made it possible for me to start with a cheaper dual core and upgrade to an overclock-able quad core when I had more money.
I think Intel should take notes on the positives that made AMD so damn popular and try to aspire to offer more affordable high speed options. I fear though that without a direct competitor it's only going to get more expensive.
That said I am impressed that they made a 10 core and are planning a 12. Good for them that they are still innovating.
Two Xeon E5 12 cores procs OC @ 4+ ghz on water cooling installed on an EVGA SR-X mobo with 64 Gigabyte of 2ghz+ mhz Ram speed with 2 x 512GB Corsair Neutron SSDs with two Gefore 690 OC video card on SLI?.. That would be an awesome Workstation / Render Farm for those freelance 3d and digital effects artist and animator (including me) Though the Question is???.. HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST?.. Lol. With POWER, comes with a Price! Lol! :-)
No Intel for me!, I do not like the Intel Insider and remote-control inside them.
Hackers, government, or whoever able to format hard-drive and or turn off the CPU with the built in codes on the CPU. Well, if wiki info is right, that is near the bottom of the page.


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Commemorative IYC stamps to be issued in Sri LankaActivity by N.M. Sanjaya Hettigedara | added on Sep 26, 2010 | Sri Lanka
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The Steering Committee IYC 2011 Sri Lanka has proposed to Sri Lanka Philatelic Bureau to issue of 5 Commemorative stamps to celebrate the year 2011.
As the Chairman of the Steering Committee IYC 2011 . National Secretariat (Sri Lanka ) and the IYC representative in Sri Lanka, I have proposed to the Philatelic Bureau of Ministry of Posts and Teleommication of Sri Lanka to issue at least 3 stamps to celebrate IYC in Sri Lanka . These stamps will high light the 1. Mdm M Curi (photograph)
2. Well known Scientist in Sri Lanka (Name to be decided by the Council of the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon)
3. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon
4. We have decided to use logos of the Institute of Chemistry, IYC 2011,
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the International Monetary Fund says the United States, Europe, Japan and China all need to make adjustments to their current economic policies in order to boost a still-struggling global economy.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde says the United States and many countries in Europe need to focus more on growth and less on trimming budget balances this year. She said there was a critical need for policies focused on spurring jobs. Lagarde told a news conference Thursday that "we need growth, first and foremost."
Lagarde spoke to reporters to preview upcoming discussions among finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's 20 major economies plus the spring meetings of the 188-nation IMF and its sister lending institution, the World Bank.
Earlier this week, the IMF lowered its outlook for the world economy this year, predicting that government spending cuts would slow U.S. growth and keep the 17-nation area that uses the euro currency in recession.
Officials of the Group of 20, among them Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, were scheduled to begin their discussions over a working dinner Thursday night and wrap up Friday with the issuance of a joint communique. The G-20 is composed of the world's major developed countries such as the United States, Japan and Germany and fast-growing developing nations including China, Brazil and India.
That joint statement was expected to repeat a pledge the group made at their last meeting in February that they would avoid using competitive currency devaluations to gain advantages in trade.
Lew, previewing the U.S. objectives going into the meetings, said that he would press Europe to do more to support growth and would maintain pressure on Japan and China to avoid lowering the value of their currencies to boost their exports at the expense of the United States and other countries.
Lew said it was important that G-20 nations "avoid a downward spiral of 'beggar thy neighbor' policies," the type of destructive trade competition that worsened the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Lew, who just took office as Treasury secretary in February, held a series of one-on-one meetings with finance officials on Thursday including a discussion with Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso.
In addition to reaffirming commitments the two nations have made on currency policies, Lew and Aso discussed the importance of the actions both nations have taken to isolate North Korea from the international finance system, the Treasury Department said in a statement after the meeting.
In recent weeks, North Korea has threatened to attack the U.S. and South Korea over the sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test. South Korean officials have said the North is poised to test-fire a medium-range missile capable of reaching the American territory of Guam.
In her comments, Lagarde talked about the dangers of overemphasizing deficit reduction with growth still fragile. She said the United States had avoided the "fiscal cliff" of across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts at the beginning of this year that could have derailed the U.S. economy but had made a policy error by allowing $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts, known as a sequester, to take effect on March 1.
Lagarde said the United States needed to pursue "better quality" deficit reductions with less impact coming in the near-term.
She said that a priority for Europe was "to fix its frayed banking system" and also where needed to moderate its austerity programs. Lagarde noted that Spain was struggling with high unemployment and therefore the country needed more time before pursuing aggressive deficit reduction.
The IMF's economic report called on both the United States and Britain to scale back its deficit cutting in the near-term. The austerity program launched by Britain in 2010 was designed to reduce high budget deficits through tax increases and spending cuts but ended up weakening Britain's recovery from the recession.
Lagarde was asked whether the IMF had given conflicting advice to countries such as Britain by first praising the austerity programs and then contending they were too stringent.
She said the IMF had always cautioned that if economic growth started to falter, then a country needed to moderate its deficit-cutting programs. "We very much stand by that" advice, she told reporters.
Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA, an anti-poverty group, however, said that the IMF's reduced economic forecast demonstrated "a kind of schizophrenia at the IMF" in which growth has been hurt "due to the austerity policies the IMF previously promoted."
In Europe, countries are split over how much budget austerity to pursue, with some nations resisting Germany's push for a strong emphasis on deficit reduction.
Referring to disagreements over the issue, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said Thursday that his government had chosen "to keep open the engine of growth." He said, "Germany understands that as prosperous as it is, as strong as it is, it also needs a strong France."
At a separate Washington news conference, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said his institution welcomes creation of a new development bank being started by five of the world's emerging economic powers because new sources of capital are critically needed to meet the world's need to build new roads, dams and other infrastructure projects.
The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced last month that they will create a development bank to help fund $4.5 trillion in infrastructure projects. The announcement was seen as a direct challenge to the World Bank, which has been accused by the developing world of having a Western bias.
Associated Press writers Harry Dunphy and Desmond Butler contributed to this report.


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Serving America: Memories of Peace Corps SERVING AMERICA: MEMORIES OF PEACE CORPS highlights the experiences of some of the nearly 3,000 volunteers who served during the early years of the Peace Corps. A mix of archival film and photographs, along with personal stories from former volunteers, tells a story of service and idealism. Interviews convey the volunteers' passion, commitment and bravery as they lived and worked in developing countries, including South and Central America, Africa and the Middle East. D
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Young Lincoln Historians share their insight into Abraham Lincoln's boyhood, his close family bonds and personal tragedies that helped shape his attitudes, mold his character and cast a dark shadow of depression on his adult life.G
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Global Voices "The English Surgeon" In the early 1990s, British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh traveled to Kiev, Ukraine and was horrified by its medieval brain surgical procedures. Since then, Marsh has attempted to improve the system by performing procedures for free and sending used equipment to Igor Kurilets, a controversial Ukrainian neurosurgeon. The English Surgeon looks at the dilemmas of the doctor-patient relationship and the moral choices of modern medicine. D
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America ReFramed "51 Birch Street" Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parent's 54-year marriage was a good one. So he isn't prepared when, just a few months after his mothers' unexpected death, his 83-year old father, Mike, phones to announce that he's moving to Florida to live with "Kitty", his secretary from 40 years before. Always close to his mother and equally distant from his father, he's stunned and suspicious. D


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A Tale of 7 Patents: Rockstar v. Google
Nov 11, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Patent warfare is a veritable fixture of the mobile world these days, sadly, and -- by virtue of Android -- that heaps a whole lot of mess within the boundaries of the blogosphere's Linux territories.
We've seen plenty of skirmishes come and go already, of course, but the latest example -- in which that thinly veiled and proprietary minded entity known as "Rockstar" is suing Google and other Android users -- is being called nothing short of "thermonuclear" war.
The expression, of course, hearkens back to the words of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who considered Android a "stolen product." Now, Rockstar -- which, not coincidentally, includes Apple -- appears to be making good on Jobs' combative words.
'If You Can't Innovate, Litigate'
Just to recap, Rockstar beat out Google at purchasing thousands of patents previously owned by Nortel. Now, however, "despite losing in its attempt to acquire the patents-in-suit at auction, Google has infringed and continues to infringe the patents-in-suit," states the consortium's complaint, which singles out seven patents in particular.
Moreover, Rockstar is also suing Samsung, HTC, Huawei, LG, Asus, among others.
Bottom line? Plenty of "pith" and vinegar, shall we politely say, down at the blogosphere's seedy Broken Windows Lounge.
"Unbelievable," began consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack, for example. "You know what they say: If you can't innovate, litigate."
In other words, "this is the market losers attempting to attach themselves to the market leader like a parasite in the hopes of both making money from and attaching so much weight that it slows down," Mack explained.
'The Last Desperate Attempt'
"M$ and 'partners' are becoming desperate," agreed blogger Robert Pogson. "Patent suits are the last desperate attempt by a failing business model to control markets. M$ has failed miserably in the mobile space, and the best it can do is apply a tax."
Fortunately, "the world is waking up to patent trolls and software patents," Pogson pointed out. "This is the tar pit for dinosaurs like M$. Once testimony from the courts and depositions rolls on CNN, their monopoly will be dead. Before then, these suits will have little effect on consumers who are unaware of the evil that lurks in M$."
The Supreme Court "will deal with software patents in the next year or so and shoot them down," Pogson predicted.
In the meantime, "this case will take many years if it ever comes to trial, and Google can afford to fight hard. Governments and Google's partners should be lining up on Google's side," he said.
'A Moral Issue'
Indeed, "this is really just further proof, were any needed, that the patent system has become a way to stifle innovation," Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien concurred. "Any period of rapid technical progress will naturally lead to formerly dominant companies that make a misstep and get left behind (See Blackberry).
"So they look for any way they can find to stop the successful firms, and the patent system is becoming very handy," he added. "If we don't rein this in, we will find that our competitiveness is eroded because there are other countries who have a more intelligent view (See New Zealand)."
The problem with patents is not commercial, Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. told Linux Girl. Rather, "it is a moral issue," he said.
"Nobody mentally sane can say that some corporations are good -- they all have their own agendas," he explained. "So maybe Google has stepped on someone else's toes -- but i would bet my smartphone on the other side being the evil here."
The suit is "potentially troublesome for Google, Samsung and other affected Android OEMs with interests or intentions in the U.S. marketplace," Google+ blogger Brett Legree suggested. "As for Android overall," however, "that horse has been out of the barn for years, and the last I saw of him, he was galloping over the mountains in the distance..."
In other words, "with AOSP, any Android OEM could simply continue to build 'clean Android' -- i.e., no Google apps included -- and sell in every market *except* the USA (or any other market foolish enough to allow similar patent abuses)," Legree pointed out.
"The real money in mobile (and computing overall, if mobile really is the future) is elsewhere, in the rest of the world," he concluded.
'This Is Pretty Brazen'
"I wonder to what extent this may get the companies that own Rockstar in trouble for collusion," suggested Chris Travers, a blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project. "After all, they have effectively pooled their resources to discourage any competition.
"While the U.S. federal government has become more friendly to oligopolies than they were before the AT&T breakup, I imagine there are limits, and this is pretty brazen," he added.
In any case, "patent lawsuits are risky, and there are usually no real winners," Travers concluded. "The litigation is expensive, patents are often vague and get narrowed by the courts, and so forth. In the end. this strikes me as a bit of a lose-lose situation for everyone -- I don't even think it will slow down open source in phones."
'It May Give MozOS a Shot in the ARM'
Last but not least, Slashdot blogger hairyfeet took a different view.
"I'm sure I'll get hate for saying this, but... Android infringes," hairyfeet began. "So do Linux, BSD, Windows, OSX -- they ALL infringe, because pretty much every idea has been patented up the wazoo. Just look at video compression: Anything newer than MPG 2 and you are walking into a minefield!
"Why do you think that Google refuses to indemnify their users?" he added.
It's for that reason, in fact, that "I have been saying for years that Torvalds and Co. should be pushing for a 'free as in freedom but NOT beer' model so that they can build up a patent war chest to insure that Linux and its derivatives are protected," hairyfeet went on. "Because without patents to protect it, frankly it would be REALLY easy to remove Linux and Android from the landscape."
As long as Linux is at the mercy of the corporations, "we will be seeing more and more of this, and as its biggest target, Google better be ready to open that wallet," hairyfeet concluded. "How many more tollbooths can Android take before it's no longer viable?
"The only upshot to this I can see is it may give MozOS a shot in the ARM -- pun intended," he added, -- "as its tech is based on good old HTML and JavaScript, and that tech is for the most part FRAND."


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Bighorn sheep transported to new home via helicopter
01/16/2013 7:14amTwenty sheep were placed in a new home Tuesday, and flown part of the way by a helicopter.
New school encourges kids to think like scientists
01/16/2013 8:20amThe Granite School District is getting ready to open a first of its kind school in the district. It's designed to make elementary school children think like scientists.
Man sentenced for endangering children during woman's suicide
01/16/2013 9:44amAn Emery County man accused of providing a loaded gun to a woman who killed herself in his home has been ordered to serve jail time for endangering his children.
Exploding propane, bullets hamper firefighting effort
01/16/2013 11:10amA Clinton family is out of their home following a fire that included exploding propane tanks and .22-caliber ammunition.
Flu proves costly for individuals, U.S. economy
01/16/2013 11:12amEvery year, the U.S. economy loses an estimated $87 billion because of illness. That includes things like doctor visits, medicine, and time taken off work.
Opinion: 2013 economic outlook similar to 2012
01/16/2013 11:26amAt the start of a new year, there is a sense of new beginning. However, when it comes to the economy, 2013 will be similar to 2012 in many ways. Depending on how you look at it, another year like 2012 is good or bad news.
Ex-Utah police chief resolves criminal defamation case with an apology
01/16/2013 4:06pmThe city's former police chief has apologized to his successor for using his name to post derogatory comments on a website that honors fallen law enforcement officers.
Mother sues for wrongful death in texting while driving death
01/16/2013 5:56pmA Uintah County woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a man who police say hit and killed her teenage son while texting and driving.
Wednesday's Child: Katie
01/16/2013 7:09pmIt's a simple wish. A family of her own. Parents to love and who love her in return. 16-year-old Katie desperately wants a family of her own.
Guns in the Home: Tips for resolving divisive issue
01/16/2013 7:40pmA lot of families are divided over packing heat in the house, and finding common ground can take years. So, what can you do to make it an easier process?
'It was just kind of a ride' says woman rescued from avalanche
01/16/2013 7:52pmA woman was back country skiing in Porter Fork with her boyfriend on Saturday afternoon when a large avalanche swept her away and buried her. Now, she's recovering at University Hospital.
Cold weather, inversion has school opting for indoor recess
01/16/2013 8:07pmBetween frigid temperatures and poor air quality, many Utah schools are choosing to keep kids indoors during recess. At Daybreak Elementary School, the administration is trying to counter the growing cabin fever.
Retired BYU professor let killers in his home, prosecutors say
01/16/2013 8:10pmThe video showed a home that was largely undisturbed. There were drawers and gun lockers left untouched. None of the doors showed anything to suggest a forced entry.
Indie time: Sundance sets focus on low-budget film
01/16/2013 8:13pmIt's that time of year again when a tiny ski-resort town becomes the place to be for anyone in show business _ stars and directors, distribution executives, musicians, unknown filmmakers hoping that people might want to hear the stories they tell.
Search under way for Utah woman missing in Mexico
01/16/2013 8:19pmA West Valley city woman is missing in Mexico after a scuba diving trip off the coast took a bad turn.
Over $31M collected by Utah's U.S. Attorney in 2012
01/16/2013 9:06pmUtah's District Attorney's Office collected some $31,373,879.25 in 2012, much of it related to one or another high-profile cases.
Legacy Parkway shooting, chase ends with officer-involved shooting
01/16/2013 10:43pmA man was hospitalized Wednesday night following a shootout with police, the result of a high-speed chase and reports of shots being fired at a vehicle on Legacy Parkway.
Many Utahns react negatively to Obama's gun violence announcement
01/16/2013 10:45pmMany of the state's citizens, leaders and gun rights activists are saying the president is missing the mark when it comes to stopping gun violence.
Personal information for 6,000 Utah Medicaid clients 'misplaced'
01/16/2013 10:46pmThe personal data of 6,000 Utahns who use Medicaid is missing. The Utah Department of Health announced Wednesday that a third-party contractor had misplaced a USB memory drive containing the information.
Man convicted of killing brother says he'll never forgive himself
01/16/2013 10:50pmA man who accidentally shot and killed his brother on a camping trip last summer spoke publicly about the experience for the first time on Wednesday, saying he doesn't think he'll ever be able to forgive himself.
Arrest made in kidnapping of Herriman teen
01/16/2013 11:59pmDetectives with the Unified Police Department made an arrest Wednesday in the kidnapping of a 13-year-old Herriman girl who disappeared last week.
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Verify the basic capability to handle the stroke properties ("stroke", "stroke-width" "stroke-linejoin", "stroke-linecap", "stroke-miter") in combination with the "rect" element and straight-line path commands. The pair should be rendered as as two red line segments. The upper segment should have round end caps. The lower segment should be chopped off where the two line segments meet.
The test uses the "path" element, as well as basic "fill" (solid primary colors), "stroke", "stroke-width", "stroke-linejoin", "stroke-linecap", "stroke-miter", "font-family" (Arial) and "font-size" properties.


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Blackboard Online Course System Help
UPDATE TO STUDENTS USING BLACKBOARD... Blackboard will now be AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLING you in any courses for which you are registered, however, if the instuctor has not made the class AVAILABLE within Blackboard, you will not see it on your personal Blackboard page until that is done.
Blackboard is Victor Valley College's e-learning environment that provides students with the opportunity to stay connected with their instructors and classmates. Blackboard may be a component of some or all of a students courses as either a supplement to the course, as an element of a hybrid course or as the structure for a completely online course. Blackboards potential features include receiving class material, checking grades, online quizzes, virtual chat rooms and discussion boards.
How To Login to VVC Blackboard for Your First Time.
- You will need to complete two tasks. They are:
- Update or add an email address to your account
- Change the password to your account
- Open your browser. (It is suggested that you use either, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, or Mozilla's Firefox 1.0.x or higher, with the Windows Operating System. For the Max Operating System, 10.3 or higher, use Apple Safari 1.2, or Mozillas Firefox 1.0.x or higher. VVC Blackboard does not currently support other browsers, such as AOL).
- Enter the address http://bboc.vvc.edu in the browser's address bar. (Bookmark this page for future reference). This will take you to the gateway screen.
- On the gateway screen please click on the Login button.
- In the box under Username: enter your username as your seven digit student id number (i.e. 0123456) without any blank spaces. This will remain your username in VVC Blackboard.
- Enter your password as your six digit birth date as mmddyy (i.e. Jan 9, 1981 would be 010981). We suggest that you change your password the first time that you login.
- You should now be at your VVC Blackboard home page. (You should see Welcome, YOUR NAME HERE! near the top of the page.
- Click on Personal Information under Tools on the left hand side of the page.
- Click on Edit Personal Information. Add your email address under part one, then complete part 2 and click on the Submit button in the bottom right hand corner of the page. Then select OK on the next screen.
- Now click on Change Password. In the password box please type your password (it is case sensitive) then retype it in the Verify Password box and click on the submit button and choose OK and then OK again. This will return you to your personal VVC Blackboard page.
- Your home page in VVC Blackboard page will display all of the VVC Blackboard classes that you are enrolled in on the right-hand side of the screen.
For additional assistance contact the VVC Blackboard Online Help Desk at email@example.com or call (760)245-4271 ext. 2740.


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Phil's Fonts has over 100,000 fonts from 75 foundries worldwide. Not every font we have is displayed on this website. If you can't find what you're looking for here, there is still a chance we have the font. You can fax or email samples to our top notch font ID team to help you find the font or fonts that you need. Fax number is 301-879-9227, or email us here: email@example.com
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As a casual handwriting face, Marydale works well in diagram legends, cutlines or other display type, product packaging, movie credits -- in fact, in any situation when the idea is to simulate informal handlettering like you might find on a sticky note. Marydale comes in three weights: Regular, Bold, and Black. Each has a full character set, along with a scattering of fanciful ornaments. The OpenType release adds true small caps, numerous ligatures, and a stylistic set that substitutes a few less quirky glyphs (duplicating our \Marydale Inspired\ version of the font), as well as support for Central/Eastern European, Greek, and Cyrillic languages.


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Greg Collette necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
We are an established Knowledge Management (KM) and Process Improvement (BPI) company, providing both consulting and software wizards to streamline and activate our client's business processes.
We recently developed gStepOne (http://www.gstepone.com) a free Google Wizard Writer, designed to activate the information provided by Google search by delivering it as a wizard, in the context of a task. Imagine that for each search we do, rather than simply receiving a list of passive information, we received an interactive, Google-generated wizard, with each step linked to appropriate web information, videos and tools, to provide guidance and know how about doing things.
That's gStepOne, step one in Google's transition from world information service to Worldwide Wizard.
How does it work? Simply draw a map of the steps in a task by dragging and dropping shapes onto the page. Link the steps and give each a name. gStepOne Googles the web for supporting "How to" information and training for each step and generates the wizard.
The wizard is then available to guide and support others when they need to do the task.
That's the product. Now we need a logo.
People looking to transplant their brain/knowledge online.
gstepOne is designed for people who need or want to share their expertise, in business, in clubs, in community organisations, or just for fun. They can create wizards to help deliver a service, sell a house, hire staff, conduct an event, adopt a child, take out insurance, apply for a grant – any task where people need to do things like the expert, without the expert being there.
gstepOne is perfect for businesses, government departments, councils, etc who can use it to convert procedure manuals and handbooks into interactive wizards, either for their own staff or for the public wanting to use their services.
We work with business, government and consumer markets.
gStepOne is elegant, innovative and deceptively simple. As is the gStepOne website.
It is a new kind of product. It merges people's knowledge with business process maps; it uses each step description to find and link to the web resources the user needs to complete the step; and it generates a wizard for anyone who needs to do the task.
This is a huge jump in functionality currently available anywhere, and we would like a creative, memorable, innovative logo to match.
Currently we have stylised the name and developed a simple favicon (see website). These are the only efforts we have made to design a logo. We want something better.
We don't mind if you use GSO rather than gStepOne in full.
The logo should also be recognisable in favicon format.
"Don't just read about it…Do it." is the tag line. Incorporate it if possible.
Only vector formats (layered rgb file in a .png format and a regular .png file, .eps, .pdf or .ai).
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Gonzales pulls upset of fellow local fighter
As trainers unlaced his boxing gloves in the dressing room, a jubilant Omar Gonzales kept repeating these words: "It's my turn now. My turn."
No doubt, it is.
Gonzales registered a stunning upset Saturday night, winning on a split decision over former world title contender Raul Martinez at the Alamodome.
A 1999 Holmes graduate, Gonzales knocked down Martinez in the fourth and final round and won on two of three judges' cards in a meeting of San Antonio-based super bantamweights.
"This feels good," Gonzales said. "I trained hard for this fight. I focused and I won it. It was clear."
The victory was a stunner for local boxing fans because Gonzales (6-8) had accepted the fight only Monday as a replacement for Colorado's Shawn Nichol.
Martinez (29-3) has been a championship-level fighter since 2009 when he lost a world title fight to Nonito Donaire in the Philippines. He also lost a title bout in 2011 to Rodrigo Guerrero.
Once 24-0 and riding high, Martinez clearly needs to get to work to rejuvenate his career.
"I thought I won the fight," said Martinez, who was cut badly over his left eye in the third round. "I thought I won three out of four rounds. But I have no excuses."
Gonzales won 39-36 on one judge's card and 38-37 on another. Martinez held a 38-37 edge on the third card.
Displaying an accurate left jab and hook, Charlo kept peppering Lora through four rounds of the scheduled eight-rounder. Officials called it off after 10 seconds in the fifth when Lora couldn't get off his stool.
Williams (12-0-1) overwhelmed Johnson (14-11-3) after hitting him flush with a round-house, left hook.
He followed with two rights and a solid left uppercut before it was stopped at 1:43 of the third in a scheduled eight-rounder.
Gausha, who was in the 2012 Olympics, went to the canvas on his posterior in the first when Waters (2-4) caught him with an overhand right.
In other bouts, super flyweight Ivan Morales (21-0) won on an eight-round decision over Raul Hidalgo (17-8). Featherweight Miguel Flores of Houston (11-0) stayed unbeaten with a four-round decision over Weslaco's Guadalupe De Leon.


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Billboard battles don't help much
About a year ago, in northeast Oregon, someone shot one of the wolves that ran with the Wenaha Pack. A few months later, the poacher had not yet been caught, and the case was getting cold. To revive interest, conservation groups raised $10,000 for a reward and rented space on a billboard just outside of the ranching and farming town of La Grande, Ore., pop. 12,700. The billboard asked in bold letters: "Who killed the Wenaha wolf?" And it added, "Whatever you think of wolves, poaching is wrong."
In less than two days, the landowner, who had leased the billboard space to an advertising firm, demanded that the firm take the sign down. Then, in March, a new billboard went up. This one depicted four cows peacefully grazing in the background, but in the foreground, the huge head of a snarling wolf was pasted in. The headline read: "Wolves are protected, why not cows, people and private property rights?"
Whatever side you're on in these wolf wars, the absurdity of that question is offensive. Cows not protected? That will be big news for many people, especially those environmentalists who charge that cows get too much favoritism on public land, including being grandfathered in to graze in designated wilderness. It will also be news to private landowners in open-range states who must fence out cows to keep them from intruding onto their land.
Consider the case of Dr. Patrick Shipsey. In 1996, after unsuccessful attempts to keep out persistent cows that liked a stream on his land, his patience snapped, and he shot 11 cows. He said afterward that he was tired of trying to keep the cows from trespassing on his land along a riparian area he was trying to restore. He was convicted of criminal mischief and "unauthorized use of livestock."
Not only were the cows protected, but Oregon's open-range law meant that Shipsey didn't even have a right to demand that his neighbor keep the cows off his private property. Of course, I do not agree with Shipsey killing cows. But his story illustrates the extremes of our disputes about restoring wolves, the so-called sanctity of private land and grazing cattle that seem to have a lot of power. Our conversation is often all about outrage and little about reality.
Misleading rhetoric in these emotionally charged debates only serves to rally extremists on both sides while alienating and confusing the more thoughtful -- and numerous -- middle ground where the solutions reside. The placement on a billboard of a huge and snarling wolf head next to text falsely implying that property rights are being taken away is guaranteed to heat the blood of many Westerners. It does nothing to resolve differences between wolf advocates and opponents.
So who won this billboard battle? It is impossible to say with precision. The Oregon Legislature recently passed one useful bill, establishing a mechanism that compensates people for livestock killed by wolves. This was breakthrough legislation resulting from ranchers, wildlife advocates and the governor working together calmly and rationally. No billboards were involved.
But that wasn't the only wolf legislation passed. Rep. Mike Schaufler, D, capitalized on the heated political discourse: "If your cattle, your pets, your family, your property is threatened, you should be able to shoot any varmint that's making that threat even if it's the last one on earth." Legislation was then passed that allows anyone in Oregon to kill a wolf in self-defense or while defending a family member. The vote was unanimous, for who could ever vote against self-defense?
Well, actually, every legislator could have, because the new law is an unnecessary duplication of already existing laws. It's irrational to boot. It is already legal under both state and federal law to defend yourself, even if it means killing an endangered species. This legislation merely provided cover for lobbyists needing to claim a victory for an extreme position, while further cluttering our legal system with an unnecessary and misleading law.
In the end, I sympathize with the ranchers. Small ranchers and farmers are indeed under a lot of pressure and facing many threats to their existence. Yet the threats they face have much more to do with corporate monopolies and government policies than with wolves or other predators.
I want small ranchers and farmers to flourish here, just as they once did, to preserve and protect the rural Oregon that I love. I also want wild areas and wildlife to flourish here, as they once did. Both have coexisted in the past, and they can again. What's required is thoughtful discussion to find ways to bridge differences instead of artificially creating even more of them. Debate by billboard doesn't resemble discussion; it just makes our tempers rise. It's time to call cow chips on irrational rhetoric coming from either side: the extreme greens or the extreme ranchers.
Mitch Wolgamott is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a biologist, born and raised in Oregon, who writes from rural Union County.
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With gas prices soaring above $4 a gallon, grousing at the fill-up station is rising fast, too. But instead of complaining, America's leading "hypermiler" advises simply "teaching your right foot" to behave.
A former nuclear engineer, Wayne Gerdes is the nation's foremost proponent of a radical shift in driving behavior away from the gun-it-and-go style to an approach he calls "hypermiling" aimed at saving fuel.
Once a voice in the wilderness, this hypermiling evangelist has recently found a receptive and apparently growing flock. To demonstrate his techniques, Mr. Gerdes recently drove 800 miles from Chicago to New York in a borrowed Toyota Prius hybrid burning just 8.9 gallons – or 71 miles per gallon, far better than the car's fuel-rating.
Still, it's not a system just for long trips, nor is owning a hybrid required, he says. Even in his eight-year-old Honda Accord, Mr. Gerdes can squeeze out 59 miles to the gallon, double its fuel-economy rating.
Doing so, however, involves deploying many subtle, as well as common-sense, changes to driving habits. They range from timing traffic lights and gliding on through rather than stopping to filling tires to the maximum level listed on the tire instead of what's inside the vehicle's door. On subtler points, Gerdes is equally adamant: park on the highest points of mall parking lots to use gravity more – nose out to avoid backing up.
"We're finally starting to see a lot more people moderating their driving and going a little slower – and that's nice," he says. "But moderate isn't enough when all this stuff is so easy. We can't afford to 'just drive' anymore. We have to use the tools we know."
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Jack-rabbit starts are obviously out, he says. So is heavy braking. His new mantra is "DWB," or "Drive Without Brakes," which means driving almost as if you didn't have them – gliding to stops instead of accelerating to them. Using momentum to sling-shot a vehicle through turns instead of braking first, then accelerating. Changing to synthetic oil, taking heavy junk out of the car's trunk, and minimizing the use of air conditioning – which can cut mileage by 5 to 25 percent.
This last step may be hard for many. But it makes perfect sense to Gerdes, who began hypermiling as a patriotic gesture after 9/11 to help make the nation more energy secure. Even so, few were interested until gas prices climbed after hurricane Katrina.
Now with gas prices higher still, dollar-saving driving is the new incentive. To deal with that, 66 percent of Americans said they would change driving habits and 71 percent said they were thinking about buying a fuel-sipping vehicle, according to a recent CNN/Opinion Research poll.
Another sign is the growing attention to mileage achievement these past three years at the annual Hybridfest in Madison, Wis. At the festival's "MPG Challenge," on a 30-mile course, William Kinney of Kennewick, Wash., drove his Honda Insight at 168 miles per gallon – 223 percent over the EPA estimate of 52 m.p.g. for his vehicle to win the top division last year.
Still, it's hard to say just how widely the hypermiling idea is catching on. Hits on Gerdes website cleanmpg.com have soared with increasing attention by the news media. And as gas prices have grown, so have discussion board tips on how to save gallons.
"I'm just taking advantage of the hills and the back roads and all the great hypermile advice," says Laurie With, a business manager in St. Cloud, Minn. "People zoom up behind and flash their lights. But if I'm doing the speed limit, I have the right to do that without having someone say 'go faster, go faster.' "
Following Gerdes's rules, she's coaxed her 2005 Honda Civic far higher than its 41 miles per gallon rating to get more than 65 m.p.g. on her daily commute. She lightly accelerates down one hill, gliding up to the crest of the next. Driving "without brakes" and no more than the speed limit as well as inflating her tires to the maximum have all helped, she says.
So does having a gas-mileage gauge, which tracks miles per gallon in real time. While more vehicles today have them, one of the auto industry's little secrets is that all cars sold since 1997 have the capability to use them. Gerdes recommends buying a "scan gauge" for about $150 as the fastest way to improve mileage through "accountability."
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Al Walker, a Boston computer-security expert, has adopted the hypermiling way of life for his Prius hybrid. In addition to the car's built-in fuel-economy indicator, Mr. Walker has bolted onto the dash a voltage meter, vacuum gauge, tachometer, and temperature readouts to help him tease more mileage out of his motor.
Like a few other hypermilers, Walker comprehends sophisticated techniques like "pulse and glide" that can utilize the engine's torque curve to minimize engine thirst.
On a recent trip to New Jersey, Walker and his Prius achieved 72.5 miles per gallon – and almost 60 miles per gallon on a short test trip with this reporter to display his hypermiling methods.
"This is the essence of good pulse and glide driving – using the engine to accelerate, gently," he says, smiling and nodding at the gauges, "but not so gently that you're running it inefficiently."
He follows the Gerdes hypermiler basics, too, which means highway travel mostly in the right lane at the low-end of the speed limit. For this he has another more low-tech approach – a sign on his rear window advising bumper riders to "Go Around."
"Okay, that truck back there is getting a little impatient because I didn't burn out [of that stop light] back there," he says, glancing at his vacuum gauge as a large SUV bears down. "I guess he'll just have to deal with it."
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Kroeker, Susanna Schowalter (ca. 1879-1941)
Susanna Schowalter Kroeker, a pioneer missionary (General Conference Mennonite) at Janjgir, India, was born ca. 1879 in Mühlhausen, Alsace (then part of the German empire). She lived with an aunt at the castle Geisberg in Alsace, part of which was maintained as a resort or vacation home, part of which was home for six families who farmed the surrounding land for the landowners.
Susanna met her future husband, Johann F. Kroeker, when he visited the Geisberg and Schafbush while a student in the mid-1890s at St. Chrischona Bible School near Basel, Switzerland. J. F. Kroeker, born in Gnadenfeld in the Molotschna colony, was one of several Mennonites from Russia to study at this Bible school. Kroeker thereafter studied at Bethel College, North Newton, KS graduating from the academy in 1899.
Susanna and Johann Kroeker and P. A. and Elizabeth Penner, were the first General Conference Mennonite missionaries to India, arriving at Bombay on 9 December 1900. The Kroekers opened a mission among the outcaste Chamar and Ghasia people located on the west side of the Hasdeo River on the central part of the northern plain known historically as Hindustan. The couple first lived in a small one-room hut in the midst of the people. As with every other home in Bhatapara, they had no well or toilet facilities.
Later when they had secured land for a mission station they moved into a tent. While living in the tent Susana became very ill and the government doctor who came to attend her said, "I can give you no hope." Yet God restored her. The station eventually included a four-room bungalow, a row of houses for the Indian workers, a boys' boarding school, and later a girls' boarding school.
Suffering sicknesses repeatedly, the couple resigned in 1908 but were persuaded to stay on until the spring of 1909, completing eight and one-half years of service. The family now included three sons and two daughters. They returned to Germany with plans to move to the United States to assume a pastorate. The move was prevented because J. F. had lost his citizenship, whereupon they returned to the place of his birth to serve the church in itinerant evangelism. During the Russian Revolution they were taken by Red Army officers and separated. Susanna and the children never saw J. F. again. They kept in touch by sending letters by proxy and finally he was sent to Siberia where he died of typhus fever.
Moyer, Samuel T. They Heard the Call. Newton, KS, 1970: 34- 40.
Ratzlaff, Harold. "Plantinga Church in India." MTh thesis, Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Bethany Biblical Seminary, 1950: 7-43.
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|from Hal Leonard's Guitar Method Guitar Techniques
One of the many cool yet underappreciated features of an electric guitar is the ability to control volume after the string attack. For example, if you attack the string with the volume off and subsequently turn it up, you've just performed a volume swell. This technique produces an almost violin-like tonal quality. There are two ways to perform volume swells: with the guitar's volume knob or with a volume pedal.
Volume knob manipulation is more common because you don't need to purchase an additional piece of equipment, but it also requires a bit more dexterity when performing fast lines. Guitars such as the Fender Strat have their volume knobs placed very near the bridge pickup, which allows the player to curl his or her pinky finger around the knob while playing to facilitate rapidly played passages.
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June 10, 2009 - Dark Void, one of a handful of Western-developed games the company has been producing, made its playable debut at last year's E3. The title intrigued quite a few, but the coarse frame rate and a few half-baked gameplay ideas left us with doubts as to whether or not Airtight Games would be able to deliver on the game's potential. Since then, Capcom has kept the game under tight wraps, finally reemerging at this year's show. Clearly, they have been very busy.
Dark Void is really a whole different game since the last time we played it. Not only have the graphics been overhauled and the frame rate smoothed out, but the gameplay has been completely retooled. Whereas last year's game was more of a cover shooter with some flight sequences, the 2009 build is more of an action-adventure game that brings all of these pieces together.
Unlike the earlier version, the demo tosses you immediately into the sky with the signature Rocketeer-inspired jetpack. The awkward, vulnerable feeling of flying has been toned down considerably, which is a bit of a loss since subtle animation touches made flying with a jetpack seem as scary as it really would be. Instead, you have guns mounted on your back, and the controls feel more like a traditional aerial combat game like the developer's earlier Crimson Skies game.
After taking out a few targets from the air, we landed on a base and headed inside to sabotage it. Indoors the jetpack can be used as a sort of double-jump (it can also be triggered into flight mode at any time, but doing this in a cramped hallway is a good way to become a stain on the wall). The controls on the ground are very typically Gears of War, and the arsenal seems classically sci-fi, with lasers and plasma guns alongside more traditional weaponry. The cover system has cleaned up a bit, and it feels less fidgety, but it also lacks some of the swift animation and subtle camera work that makes it feel so satisfying in Gears.
It was after this sequence that it became really apparent how much Capcom and Airtight have been working to integrate the different elements. We flew around to another part of the base, went inside, and then started a vertical ascent using platforms for cover, while shooting enemies all the way. At any point we could have hopped off, flown, or walked around. It had a much more coherent feel, and it helps to make the jetpack seem less like a novelty and more like a real asset to the gameplay.
Capcom plans to launch Dark Void in the fall, a release target shared with seemingly every other game at the show. Capcom's producer expressed some concerns that the title could get "Dead Spaced" and lost among higher profile sequels, but they seem determined all the same. While the build still needed a bit of work, they have taken amazing strides in the last year, and it will be interesting to see what the final months hold.
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