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NeoOffice Download and Installation Issues
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Installation Issues
Check your language settings before installing NeoOffice/J
NeoOffice/J adopts the uppermost language of the Languages: box of the International pane of the Mac OS X System Preferences as its own language for spellchecking (assuming that the necessary language pack is already installed or the language is one of the default 12 languages).
Be aware that some languages have more than one form (e.g., English has US English, British English, Australian English, etc.) as the possible selection; click the Edit List... button in the Language tab of the International pane of the Mac OS X System Preferences to add your version of the language, and then drag and drop it to the top of the list in the Languages: box before launching NeoOffice/J for the first time.
See Activating Dictionaries for further details on issues with certain languages.
When running the NeoOffice/J installer, the "test" returns with "NeoOffice/J can not be installed on this computer."
Mac OS X 10.2.x "Jaguar"
This problem may occur on versions of Mac OS X 10.2.x. The Neo/J installer checks to see if you are running Mac OS X 10.2 or higher and checks to see if you have BSD support installed on your machine. If either test fails, Neo/J will not install.
The solution is to install the BSD support. If you have the retail version of Mac OS X 10.2 system it's on the first install CD. When you put the CD in, the Welcome to Mac OS X window pops up. Open the Optional Installs folder, where there is a shortcut to the BSD installer. Double-click, then follow the instructions.
If you believe the BSD subsystem is installed, you can also look for the file BSD.pkg in /Library/Receipts.
To check manually if the BSD subsystem is installed, try the following in a terminal window:
basename ihavebsd.test .test
If you see the text: ihavebsd, the subsystem is (at least partly) there. If you get an error, you should certainly install the BSD subsystem anew.
Mac OS X 10.3.x "Panther"
This likely applies to Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" also.
The BSD subsystem is installed by default on 10.3.x (Panther) as part of the BaseSystem.pkg. If this problem occurs on 10.3.x machines, your BSD subsystem may have been somehow removed or messed up. It is not recommended that you reinstall BaseSystem.pkg alone, since this may leave your system in an unuseable state. Instead, reinstall Mac OS X from your retail CD; select the "Upgrade" option to preserve all of your settings, documents, etc. Then reinstall the latest Mac OS X updates and security updates to return you system to an up-to-date state.
N.B.: Since this requires a fairly significant amount of work, and perhaps time, you should probably check the trinity forums first and see if someone can determine if something else is the problem and find another solution.
Why does the NeoOffice/J installer request my administrator password?
In this thread, Patrick Luby explains the reasons for this requirement:
- Administrator access is required because Neo/J uses OpenOffice.org's multi-user installation. This doesn't require admin access, but in the early days of Neo/J testing, we found that the OOo code has a very bad habit of trying to edit the installed files if the files are owned by the same user that is running Neo/J. This can really muck up a Neo/J installation over time.
- So, to prevent the OOo code from editing any of the files in the installation, the installer executes chown -Rf root:admin and chmod -Rf a-w all of the Neo/J files.
When upgrading to a new version, the old brown icon remains in the Dock.
For those of you who are upgrading from 1.1 Alpha to Beta, or from 0.x to 1.1 Beta, 1.1 Release Candidate, or the full 1.1 release, the new icon (a tan ship in a dark blue circle) does not show up in the Dock if the old brown one is already there. Drag the existing icon out of the Dock until it goes poof, then start NeoOffice/J. Now the new icon appears in the Dock. Choose Keep in Dock.
Patching Issues
The patch installer refuses to start the installation.
Under Mac OS X 10.2.x, the installer will return the error message "There are no suitable partitions for the installation"; on Mac OS X 10.3.x and 10.4.x, the installer will provide a red "stop" sign with exclamation point; clicking on the volume will produce the error message "You cannot install this software on this volume" as well as some further information about the problem (or on 10.4.x, "Could not find specified message for index 16", which is a bug in the 10.4.x installer).
There are two cases in which these messages might appear.
The patch is for a version of NeoOffice/J newer than the version installed on your computer
As solved in this thread, "It seems you were still running NeoOffice/J 1.1 Alpha 2, and the latest patches only work on NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta. Neo/J moved from the OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 codebase to the 1.1.3 codebase between Alpha 2 and Beta, so one can't just patch Alpha 2 and get Beta. It would be like trying to apply the Mac OS X 10.3.1 updater to Mac OS X 10.2.8...."
If you open NeoOffice/J and select "About" from the "Help" menu, the version reported in the About window should be NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate (as of May 2005).
To fix this problem, drag NeoOffice/J from the Applications folder to the Trash. Then download and install the latest version and the new patch that goes with it. See the NeoOffice/J Release Notes to learn which version is the latest.
NeoOffice/J is not located in the /Applications folder
The message will also appear if you have moved NeoOffice/J from your /Applications folder. The patch installer will only search the /Applications folder for NeoOffice/J installations; /Applications is the only supported location for installing NeoOffice/J.
To fix this problem, quit the installer and move NeoOffice/J back into your /Applications folder. Because the underlying OpenOffice.org stores a number of absolute pathnames in its configuration and preference files, you will also have to delete the <username>/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1 folder or you will experience errors running NeoOffice/J in the future. Then run the installer again to install the patch.
Post-Installation and First Launch Issues
Why does NeoOffice 1.2 Alpha "hang" part-way through startup?
NeoOffice 1.2 Alpha will appear to "hang" (the progress bar will stall between the "n" and "O" in "OpenOffice.org" in the tagline) during startup. This is normal behavior; the delay is caused by the initialization of native fonts. NeoOffice/J 1.1 and earlier initialized native fonts during the long delay prior to the appearance of the splashscreen, so the problem was less noticeable--although that behavior often caused people to wonder if the application was actually launching!
The length of this delay will vary depending on the number of fonts you have installed; you can shorten the delay considerably by using Font Book to disable fonts you do not use. (Make sure not to disable fonts required by Mac OS X, of course.)
Why does NeoOffice access the Internet after the first launch?
NeoOffice is regulary being improved. Bugs are being fixed and new features are constantly being added.
When you first install alpha, beta, or release candidate versions of NeoOffice, and about once a week thereafter, the application will check the Internet to inform you of any new recommended patches or updates so that you can be sure that your version is always up-to-date.
If a new patch is found, your preferred web browser should open and take you to the patch download page.
Staying up-to-date will not only increase the stability of your software, it will cut down on the large number of "duplicate" bugs filed that have already been fixed in released patches. This helps ensure that limited development time can be spent on unfixed bugs and adding new features.
This "patch-check" feature is often disabled in final release versions, such as NeoOffice/J 1.1, since they are relatively stable and well-tested, and because users wish to deploy final releases in computer labs and enterprise environments.
Why does NeoOffice ask me to register when I first run it?
Registration is not required to use NeoOffice. It is simply a way for developers to get a sense of who is using NeoOffice and to connect you with the web site, support fora, and Bugzilla.
Do I have to make a donation?
If you would like to make a donation to help support continued software development, you are encouraged to do so. It is not, however, required.
How do I get rid of NeoOffice?
You have tried NeoOffice and decided it is not for you. This happens sometimes. You can use these instructions to remove NeoOffice without leaving any trace. Please note that you will no longer be able to read any documents you may have saved in the OpenOffice.org file format.
Please leave a message in the NeoOffice/J Testing forum describing what you found lacking in the application so that we know what improvements people are looking for.


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Just as the SEC prepares for a new chairwoman, the agency is experiencing "internal turmoil," and its workload under the Dodd-Frank Act presents myriad compliance challenges for the agency—chief among them is effectively examining advisors, former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt said Thursday.
Speaking at the Investment Adviser Association conference in Arlington, Va., just outside Washington, Pitt said that despite the fact that the SEC has a newly focused and more sophisticated exam program, the agency lacks the proper funding to effectively examine advisors, and a self-regulatory organization like FINRA, along with outside compliance audits, would provide the solution.
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High drama preserved for posterity by Noah Rothman so that future generations might know what it looks like when a man presses the record button on his digital camera. Lefty media has been throwing a ticker-tape parade for this guy replete with multiple interviews over the past week after he revealed his identity, which was predictable but still feels bizarre. He happened to be recording when Romney said something damaging during a speech; he had the minimal political awareness to recognize the damaging utterance and to share it with the media. What's left to tell? Granted, no campaign season is complete anymore without an everyman like Joe the Plumber emerging from anonymity to confront the other party's candidate, but there was no confrontation here. Prouty doesn't even claim to have recorded the speech out of animus to Romney or because he heard him say something during the speech that triggered a fateful "Aha! He's about to implode politically!" glimmer of awareness. He just thought it'd be worth taping the GOP nominee giving a private speech and he ended up being in the right place at the right time with the shutter open when lightning struck. I can understand wanting to interview him to hear the nuts and bolts of what happened but Frank Foer acts like he's listening to Abraham Zapruder recount the Kennedy assassination. Mellow out.
Question: Before we send this tape of Prouty showing off his Canon to the Smithsonian, shouldn't we try to establish definitively that the "47 percent" comments were a gamechanger in the campaign? I've been taking it on faith that they were but I don't think I've seen any convincing analysis that O would have lost but for Romney's gaffe. In fact, one of the points made by statistical modelers after election day was that no one should have been surprised by the outcome; Obama led Romney from start to finish, with the only moment of real weakness coming after Romney crushed him at the first debate in Denver. You can see this at a glance by examining Nate Silver's election forecast graphs. The red line never climbed above the blue in any of the three metrics, not even for a day. If you study the trend in September specifically there's some evidence that the "47 percent" remarks did hurt Romney: Obama's on a downward slope until September 17, the day the video emerged, and then suddenly he begins to rebound. Or, maybe, Obama was set to rebound anyway: Notice that the downward slope begins on September 11, the date of the Benghazi attacks. It could be that the video halted O's slide due to the sudden shift in news coverage away from Libya and towards Romney (smart priorities, media) or it could be that the fallout from Benghazi had been fully absorbed a week later and the public had concluded that Obama didn't bear much responsibility. In that case, his rise after September 17 could in part be a return to his numbers pre-9/11 as outrage over Benghazi faded. Either way, there's no denying that the "47 percent" remarks didn't stop Romney from putting a major dent in O's lead two weeks later after the first debate, despite the heavy coverage of the remarks in political media over the preceding 13 days. Clearly the video didn't help him and there's no question that it ended up costing him votes, but a gamechanger? Go read this Harry Enten piece again if you missed it when I linked it yesterday. The grim truth was that Romney was fighting a losing battle all along.
But look. This is really just the left's version of Rick Perry saying yesterday at CPAC that you can't blame conservatism for losing in 2008 and 2012 when the GOP didn't nominate conservatives. We all want to see election results through the analytical prism that's most flattering to our own beliefs. What's more heartening to the left, the idea that Obama won because the economy, while dismal, wasn't quite dismal enough to knock off an incumbent? Or the idea that the people revolted at an aloof plutocrat who sneered at the thought that the "takers" were propelling Obama to victory over the "makers"? C'mon.


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The executive director of Baxter Academy said he's sure the Portland charter school will be ready to open as planned next month.
On Monday, the building failed an inspection to get its certificate of occupancy.
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After many months of testing, Google News redesigned the homepage and made it more customizable. One of the most important changes is that each group of related news has a topic ("Mobile industry", "Toyota", "Tropical storm Alex") and you can easily subscribe to the topic.
Google News has a new section called "News for you" whose goal is to show news about your interests. You can add custom news topics, select how often you read news about each topic and choose if you want to see the news grouped in sections or as an uninterrupted stream.
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EC 337 American Economic History 4 cr.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Applies toward the integrative thinking (intt) general education requirement.
- Prerequisite: EN 211 with a grade of "C" or better or HON 102 and HON 112 and sophomore standing.
Transformation of the American economy, with particular emphasis on the modern period of industrialization. The focus is resource allocation within the major theme of economic growth. Special attention is devoted to the role of the corporation, ethics, advertising, environment, labor, public policy decisions, and critics and defenders of the economic order.
Note: Cross listed as HS 337.


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Canon Fixes 5D Mark III Light Leak Issue with Black Tape
Canon Fixes 5D Mark III Light Leak Issue with Black Tape
Just weeks ago, Canon confirmed that their latest 5D Mark III DSLR did have a light leak issue, where illumination from the LCD panel in dark environments could disrupt the AE sensor's detection of light.
Canon has swiftly offered free inspection to owners and have also adopted a fix on their newly manufactured 5D Mark III units. To see how Canon rectified this problem, LensRentals.com, who got its first shipment of post-fix 5D Mark IIIs, opened up a unit to take a peek into its internals.
The fix was a simple one, consisting of just black tape, which is pinned to the side of the display.
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Update: Dan Radcliffe Cricket Rumor Squished
Jan 19, 2008
UPDATE: Thanks to Page from Dan Radcliffe.co.uk who let us know that via his official reps, the story about Dan Radcliffe playing a game of Cricket in LA is FALSE.
Thanks Page!
Sports fan Dan Radcliffe may be coming out to Los Angeles, California this weekend to take part in a celebrity match of one of this favorite sports: Cricket. The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that organizers for the Australia Week G'Day USA festival have added this event their schedule in hopes to further promote Australia in the United States and have a slew of celebrity talent poised to take to the field. The paper is reporting Radcliffe may appear at the game which is said to include other notable names such as Russell Crowe, Jude Law, Robbie Williams, and Mick Jagger. The official G'Day USA site describes the Hollywood Ashes Twenty20 match by saying:
This event will see Australian and English international cricket legends, celebrities and local players fight for the honour and glory of the Hollywood Ashes. These traditional rivals battle it out in an action packed 20/20 cricket match starting at 12 noon.
Steve Waugh, former professional cricketer and the one overseeing the event, notes that Dan Radcliffe may be the 'dark horse' in the match, saying: "I know Robbie Williams is a big soccer fan and I'm not sure about Jude Law, but I know Daniel Radcliffe loves his cricket so I'd say he'd be the danger man."
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Stand with your feet about 6 inches apart from each other toes pointed forward.
INHALE: Step forward with one leg and lower your body to 90 degrees at both knees. Don't step out too far. There should be 2 to 2.5 feet between your feet at this point. Keep your weight on your heels and don't allow your knees to cross the plane of your toes.
EXHALE: Push up and back to the starting position to complete one rep. Repeat all reps on one leg, then switch to complete one set.
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Keep your back upright. The further you step, the more you work the glutes (buttocks) and hamstrings. The closer you step, the more you work the quadriceps muscles on the top of your thighs. Place your hand on a chair or wall or balance if necessary.
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Study: Patients need training on new health insurance
- Many new Medicaid beneficiaries in Oregon thought health insurance was similar to car insurance
- Study in %22Health Affairs%22 found that Medicaid patients worried about costs
- More education is needed to help new insurance customers%2C researcher says
WASHINGTON — New Medicaid patients in Oregon failed to use their benefits effectively because they did not understand how to use insurance or health care, according to a study released Monday in the journal Health Affairs.
As a result, researchers told USA TODAY, patients did not receive preventive health screenings, schedule appointments to manage chronic illnesses or use their new insurance coverage for anything beyond medical emergencies.
These findings, researchers said, should be considered in future health policy decisions, particularly those related to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion.
"There's this idea that health insurance is like car insurance: You use it when something really bad happens," said lead author Heidi Allen, an assistant professor at the School of Social Work at Columbia University and one of the co-investigators in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.
In 2008, Oregon used a lottery system to expand its Medicaid program. An initial study found no "statistically significant improvements" in physical health in the first two years, which meant no decrease in costs associated with poor health. A second study found increased emergency room use.
"After two years, we weren't really able to detect any differences, even though we knew people were using more care," Allen said. "Conservatives took that as evidence that Medicaid wasn't good insurance and that it shouldn't expand."
Instead, Allen found in her review of in-person surveys of 120 new enrollees that:
• People assumed if they used their insurance for something minor, like a physical, someone who needed care more might not get a turn.
• People knew they were using taxpayers' money and didn't want to waste it.
• Patients who knew they only had emergency dental care assumed that extended to all health care, so they went to the emergency room and not a regular doctor's office.
• Medicaid beneficiaries did not understand that preventive screenings could save the system money in the long term, or simply didn't know they should get an annual exam.
• People were afraid of how much they would be required to pay if they saw a doctor.
"This is a good opportunity to socialize people who may not have had health care for a really long time about how we want them to use health care," Allen said of her findings. "I see an opportunity for us to help patients understand, 'When this happens, this is where we want you to go.'"
Forty percent of new Medicaid enrollees didn't seek care very often because they didn't understand how the program worked, Allen said. When they did seek care, it was usually in an emergency. Nearly a third of these less-frequent users avoided care because they didn't know how much they would have to pay.
The other 60% of the 120 new enrollees surveyed used their insurance more often, but many also reported having difficulty understanding their benefits. Only about 10% used preventive care — and those consumers said they understood the benefits of preventive care. Ten percent said they saw immediate, marked improvement in their health because they were able to afford medications or a needed surgical procedure.
Of the regular users, just under half said they didn't feel like their doctors understood them or that they had very poor health that continued to get worse. Thirty-nine percent of the regular users said their health improved with insurance, but it took time. In those cases, the doctor tended to address the most-pressing health concerns first, and then work later on lifestyle changes that could help overall health.
"For the people that used health care on a regular basis over the three years, there was a group of people whose lives were just transformed," Allen said. "Those are people who had been waiting for surgeries, or needed a medication and felt so much better."
In one case, a 33-year-old man with debilitating back pain from a car accident walked with a cane. After two years' worth of treatment, he was able to walk without the cane, lost 80 pounds and stopped eating fast food. "No one would hire me walking with a cane," the man told the researchers. He said much of the weight loss came after he was able to get a job where he walked a lot.
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Despite a decision by the NFL to ignore the administration's pleas to promote Obamacare, the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens have decided to go all in — in exchange for a $130,000 contract, according to documents unearthed by a public watchdog group.
Judicial Watch told Secrets that the team was recruited by Maryland state officials to help it sell Obamacare, the new health care insurance program that has run into mammoth computer and bureaucratic troubles in its first three weeks.
The state previously announced its plans but the size of the check was not released. Judicial Watch received a copy of the agreement between the 2013 football champs and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange.
The professional football team that won this year's Super Bowl is getting $130,000 from American taxpayers to promote Obamacare, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch this week.
The deal was secured on September 9 between the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL) and Maryland health officials. The White House has tried recruiting professional sports leagues – especially the NFL and the National Basketball Association (NBA) – to help promote the president's healthcare law but they have declined.
In fact, the NFL confirmed months ago that it would not participate in the Obamacare public relations campaign, offering the media this written statement: "We have responded to the letters we received from members of Congress to inform them we currently have no plans to engage in this area and have had no substantive contact with the administration about [the health-care law's] implementation." Washington D.C.'s mainstream newspaper called it a "blow to the administration."
But Maryland officials evidently appealed directly to the home team, announcing in early September that the Ravens would help market the state's Obamacare exchange known as Maryland Health Connection. Both parties refused to offer specifics when the deal was initiated and Judicial Watch filed a Maryland Public Information Act request for details.
In a "Sponsorship Agreement" between the Maryland Health Connection and the Ravens, the state will pay the Super Bowl champs $130,000 to push Obamacare on television, radio, the team's official website, its newsletter and in social media. This includes the Ravens Report Show on cable TV and a number of pre and post-game radio segments as well as Facebook and Twitter plugs.
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Your gifts through the Christmas Bowl will support local partners around the world to both meet urgent need and create change that lasts. Thank you.
Thank you for celebrating with churches across Australia
Share God's love through the Christmas Bowl
As a Christian, Rev Frank Byatt believed he had a responsibility to share the joy of his Christmas with our brothers and sisters in urgent need.
That's why on Christmas Day in 1949, he put a Bowl of Remembrance on the dinner table and asked his family to place a generous gift in it to 'share your good dinner with hungry children in other lands.'
Today, tens of thousands of us now follow Frank's example; sharing God's love with our brothers and sisters in urgent need around the world, through our gifts to the Christmas Bowl.
Over the past 70 years, we have seen that real change is possible and we will continue to respond as the church across Australia and commit to loving our neighbours around the world.
Together we are working for safety, dignity and justice in communities threatened by conflict and disaster. Thanks to your gifts to the Christmas Bowl, Burmese refugees will have enough to eat, Palestinian families in Gaza can now receive the desperately needed medical care and Christians and other groups fleeing persecution in Iraq still have hope.
#LetThemStay is a new campaign supported by the Australian Churches Refugees Taskforce (ACRT), an Act for Peace initiative, which aims to create a new, more compassionate attitude to refugees and people seeking safety in Australia.
Mianda and her sister fled their homeland in South Sudan because of the war. It's been a long, hard exodus but finally they've found peace and safety in Ethiopia.
Because of Gaza's long blockade and the recent devastating war, jobs and opportunities for training are scarce. It can be easy for young people to feel lost and purposeless. Despite this, many are determined to learn the skills they need to look support themselves and their families.
Mother-of-six Maya had to leave behind her a life of sunset strolling in the park with her husband and evening meals with the family for a damp house in a refugee camp in Jordan. In winter, water comes through the leaky ceiling, and in summer it's stiflingly hot.
Zimbabwe has been hit by a devastating drought, and farmers are struggling to grow enough food. The farming techniques they've used for generations just aren't working any more.
Since 1984, Act for Peace and OfERR, a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee run organisation, have partnered to empower and provide support to refugees living in 100 camps in Tamil Nadu, India.
Teatro Ekyumenikal (Ecumenical Theatre) is a cultural theatre group established by Act for Peace partner's the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. The group's eclectic performances bring social justice issues to any venue, however small or large.
Last year's Cyclone Pam was only one of a series of natural disasters that have struck the island of Vanuatu in recent years. People on Vanuatu are frequently affected by extreme weather events like this, which can have a devastating impact on houses, farms and businesses, leading to poverty and loss of livelihoods.
Act for Peace is the international aid agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia and a member of the ACT Alliance, a global network of more than 130 Christian organisations, all working together for change.
We believe in a world where every person is free from suffering caused by conflict and natural disasters. Across the world, we work with local communities so they can prepare for emergencies and respond fast to protect the most vulnerable people when disaster hits. We also lobby governments and decision-makers for positive action which promotes peace and supports people affected by conflict and disaster.
The Willunga Tree Festival is a great way to support the Christmas Bowl, engage with the community and share the Christmas spirit.
I am very proud of the Coffs Coast for rallying behind the purposes of Act for Peace and the Christmas Bowl, in providing support for targeted countries and assisting them to be resilient to global issues.
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Sally Lloyd-Jones, together with illustrator Jago, have produced two amazing devotional and Bible story books for children. Her writing is fresh and creative with a simple, conversational style. I wish I had these books for my children when they were little. Have a look at her website, it's worth a visit. Although they have both done more books, these featured here are my favourites. The first one is a story bible, the second a devotional for children.
Jago is an amazing award winning illustrator who captures the message and the imagination of the reader so totally. The creativity and sense of humour in Lloyd-Jones' writing is mirrored in Jago's illustrations so beautifully. The artwork is unique, creative and just plain fun! Jago's website is equally delightful. I've set the page for both websites to their "About" sections so you can read about them, they both have a very entertaining introduction of themselves.
'The Jesus Storybook Bible' invites children to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the centre of God's great story of salvation and the centre of their own story as well. The stories are fresh and feel new when reading them and the perspective is right, presenting a vocabulary of faith that underscores what the sub-title already suggests: "Every story whispers his name. " The central message of the books is "God's Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love." Jago's illustrations capture the very essence of the stories and underscore the messages within.
'Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing' is a perfect companion to the story Bible. with the same message and similar style, Lloyd-Jones' goal in creating this first devotional for children, was to offer an opportunity for an experiential side of the relationship with God to go along with the informational side. It's an innovative collection of 101 simple, yet profound reflections and thoughts on faith. Insights are drawn from creation, history, science, and the writings of great thinkers, preachers, and writers. It is perfect for family or bedtime devotions. It is accessible yet theologically rich, revealing Biblical truth in word and image. It brings a hopeful message that will make the heart sing. Again, Jago's illustrations enhance and enrich the experience.


text: This is one of those subjects that gets far more discussion than it probably deserves. Most everyone agrees that 15,000-mile oil change intervals are not in the best interests of the car if real longevity is a concern (150,000 miles and up). Beyond that, the debates begin. So in the interest of reducing worry by owners of new or still-young Bimmers, I thought everyone might like to see what the inside of a high-mileage, well-maintained engine looks like. These are photos of the valvetrain of an M54B25 engine in a 2001 325xi. The oil and filter have been changed approximately every 7500 miles since the car was new. The only oils ever used are Mobil1 5W30 and BMW High Performance Synthetic 5W30. Filters are OE BMW parts. The car is driven ~50 miles per day, mostly highway commuting miles, for pretty much every week of its life except when I was on non-driving vacations. This engine is just over 210,000 miles old. It pulls strongly, smoothly and easily to redline and in terms of power and torque feels pretty much the same as just after break-in. It sees 5000+ RPM shifts every day and redline--just shy of the rev limiter--pretty much weekly. It has never been abused but never been babied, either. Oil loss is about 1 quart per 3000 miles. The catalytic converters are original and the car has never failed an emissions check. Please excuse the large dimensions but these are quick, poorly-lit cell-phone shots that will not resize well. This is the VANOS unit and cylinders 1-3. There is some light buildup in the corners of the VANOS housing where oil cannot easily drain away, but nowhere else. This is cylinders 3-6. Note the complete absence of sludge or buildup of any kind. The light gold varnish on non-moving parts is soft enough to be rubbed off with a shop rag. (I tried, in a small spot not in the photo. Calling it "varnish" is almost an exaggeration.) If you look closely at the forward exhaust cam lobe on cylinder #3 (bottom right of this picture) you will see a small variation in the finish--a shinier stripe at the forward edge--which is pretty much the only sign of wear on the cam. The variation is undetectable to the touch, even with a fingernail. I don't regret being unable to provide pictures of the bottom end of the engine. However, I replaced the oil level sensor a few thousand miles ago and found pretty much the same conditions inside the pan. (The tiny bit of it I could see/reach anyway.) These photos are unretouched and the only cleanup I did was to wipe down the gasket sealing surfaces. Other than that, what you see is what I've got. Modern synthetic oils are truly very, very good at keeping an engine clean and resistant to wear. This is perhaps THE classic "your mileage may vary" issue but I hope these photos and description of the engine's history help you decide how to care for yours.


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Given a metric space (M,d) define the packing function P(x,R,r) to be the maximum number of non-intersecting balls of radius r with centers in the ball B(x,R). Let's call M packing-homogeneous if the packing function is independent of the base point x.
Conjecture A complete connected packing-homogeneous space M is homogeneous. That is, the group of isometries acts transitively on M.
Completeness is necessary as Ricky Demer pointed out.
Connectedness is necessary. It is not difficult to construct finite graphs that are packing-homogeneous, but are not homogeneous (vertex-transitive).
Remark 1 It follows from the work of Gleason, Montgomery, Zippin and others on Hilbert's 5th problem that a complete connected finite-dimensional homogeneous space is a manifold. Thus, a complete connected finite-dimensional packing-homogeneous space that is not a manifold (for example, has fractional Hausdorff dimension) would provide a counter-example to the conjecture.
Remark 2 I hoped to settle this question for length spaces (or inner metric spaces), i.e. when the distance between two points is equal to the length of a shortest path. Every length space is a Gromov-Hausdorff limit of grpahs. I was hoping to establish a connection between some "almost packing-homogeneous" and "almost homogeneous" properties of graphs that in the limit would give me the desired result (in the spirit of what Gromov does in his paper on groups of polynomial growth). Or, to prove the opposite, constructing a convergent sequence of graphs that is "almost packing-homogeneous" but "increasingly inhomogeneous". After some attempts I thought that the problem for graphs may be as difficult as the original conjecture.
Remark 3 As far as I know, the conjecture is open even for Riemannian manifolds of dimension greater than 2.
I was not able to find any papers that would mention this question or try to attack it. How plausible is it that the conjecture is true? Where one would look for counterexamples?
I would also be grateful for any comments that would put this problem in a broader context, or any guesses as to how difficult this problem might be.


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On July 30, 2012, California Proposition 8 proponents petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, petitioners (the original "Defendant-Intervenors") ask the Court to review the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' opinion in Perry v. Brown, (671 F.3d 1052), which affirmed the district court's determination that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional (Perry v. Schwarzenegger, 704 F. Supp. 2d 921).
We have prepared a timeline of key events, and gathered the main briefs and opinions, for the Prop. 8 federal cases leading up to the Hollingsworth petition. These are intended as highlight compilations only. Both are linked below.
Prop 8 in Federal Court_Key Timeline
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The Verdon Fosse Estate and American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21) have joined forces to reconstruct the Act One finale number "Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar" from the 1986 Bob Fosse musical Big Deal.
Career long assistant and noted authority on Bob Fosse, Kathryn Doby was brought in from California along with original cast members Lloyd Culbreath, Valarie Pettiford, Cady Huffman, Roumel Reaux and Candace Tovar to help reconstruct the intricate dance that will be performed at an invited guest only showing on November 14, 2012. Fosse dancer Mary MacLeod was invited to attend the reconstruction and help run the auditions for dancers hired to perform the number.
Lloyd Culbreath, Valarie Pettiford and Kathryn Doby have the task of teaching the number to the 14 dancers that will perform the piece at The November 14th showing.
Nikki Feirt Atkins, founder and executive director of ADM21 related, "The reconstruction of this work exemplifies our "living mission", which is to honor the true intent and nuanced details of the original choreographer. It has been a thrilling experience to witness the original cast members gather in the studio with their notes, memories and joy of Fosse to reconstruct this magnificent piece.
Nicole Fosse, Director and Artistic Adviser of the Verdon Fosse Estate, said, "It is so exciting to be in the studio and watch a new generation of dancers have the opportunity to learn this number from the true and authentic Fosse perspective and work ethic that Lloyd Culbreath and Valarie Pettiford bring with them. Kathryn Doby overseeing the re-construction adds the clarity and specificity that so few people have of my father's work. There has been no other project since my father's death that has been this true to his original intent.


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Reasons to persevere
Blind Your Ponies
Stanley Gordon West
400 pages, softcover: $14.95.
Algonquin Books, 2011.
Willow Creek, the Montana town at the heart of Stanley Gordon West's new novel, Blind Your Ponies, is home to the Broncos, a high school basketball team on a losing streak. It's also a way station for adults escaping their pasts, and the basketball team's quest for the state championship mirrors the struggles of the townspeople, turning a familiar David-and-Goliath fable into an intricate look at a community slowly awakening to newfound hopes. As the ragtag team members discover unexpected reserves within themselves, they encourage other locals, whose painful experiences include terminal illness, a child's death and memories of a shooting. Together, the people of Willow Creek come to realize "Good happens, every morning that the sun rises, every night that the moon shines, every moment that the earth turns."
Some Western archetypes appear (a lone fugitive, a bullying cowboy), and a Norwegian exchange student is employed for humor, but most characters are sharply drawn, particularly Elizabeth Chapman, the grandmother of one player, and Sam Pickett, English teacher and head coach. Chapman's lively, eccentric personality -- she's accompanied by a foul-mouthed parrot as well as the team's unofficial mascot, a three-legged cat -- and Pickett's growing self-confidence (he draws inspiration both from Don Quixote's "impossible dream" and a burgeoning romance) help strengthen the team when harsh revelations are made. Both Chapman and Pickett have suffered violence, but rather than brooding on the past, they focus on those in their care.
The unusual title derives from a legend about Crow Indians returning from a hunt. After discovering their families destroyed by smallpox, the hunters deliberately blind their ponies and ride off a cliff, in an act that can be read as either despair or as a heroic leap of faith that they will rejoin their lost loved ones. Both interpretations appear in the novel to great effect. West asks readers to ponder the meaning of victory, emphasizing that it is more than a reward for "playing hard with a chance to win." It is also found in being magnanimous toward family and neighbors, and in "giving your all." West reminds us that even apparent misfits have reason to persevere. It's a welcome, unabashedly upbeat message with which to begin the year.


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=Related Tasks=
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* [[Document Binarization Evaluation for LRDE DBD]]
* [[Document Binarization Evaluation for LRDE DBD]]
* [[OCR Evaluation for LRDE DBD]]
Latest revision as of 01:22, 4 July 2013
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Contact Author
Thierry Géraud – email@example.com EPITA Research and Development Laboratory (LRDE) 14-16 rue Voltaire F-94276 Le Kremlin-Bicetre France
LRDE is the copyright holder of all the images included in the dataset except for the original documents subset which are copyrighted from Le Nouvel Observateur. This work is based on the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, issue 2402, November 18th-24th, 2010.
You are allowed to reuse these documents for research purpose for evaluation and illustration. If so, please specify the following copyright: "Copyright (c) 2012. EPITA Research and Development Laboratory (LRDE) with permission from Le Nouvel Observateur". You are not allowed to redistribute this dataset.
If you use this dataset, please also cite the most appropriate paper from this list:
- Efficient Multiscale Sauvola's Binarization. In International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 2013
- The SCRIBO Module of the Olena Platform: a Free Software Framework for Document Image Analysis. In the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011.
This data set is provided "as is" and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Current Version
Document binarization, Magazine, Scanned
The dataset is also available at http://www.lrde.epita.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Olena/DatasetDBD
This dataset is composed of documents images extracted from the same French magazine: Le Nouvel Observateur, issue 2402, November 18th-24th, 2010.
The provided dataset is composed of 375 Full-Document Images (A4 format, 300-dpi resolution)
- 125 numerical "original documents" extracted from a PDF, with full OCR groundtruth.
- 125 numerical "clean documents" created from the "original documents" where images have been removed.
- 125 "scanned documents" based on the "clean documents". They have been printed, scanned and registered to match the "clean documents".
Purpose of the three document qualities:
- Original : evaluate the binarization quality on perfect documents mixing text and images.
- Clean : evaluate the binarization quality on perfect document with text only.
- Scanned : evaluate the binarization quality on slightly degraded documents with text only.
Ground Truth Data
- Ground Truth for LRDE DBD text line localization
- Ground Truth for LRDE DBD binarization
- Ground Truth for LRDE DBD OCR
Related Tasks
- A setup script is provided to download and configure the benchmarking environment. This is the recommanded way to run this benchmark. Note that this script also includes features to update the dataset if a new version is released.
- A Python script is provided to launch the benchmark and compute scores.
- C++ programs (and sources) are provided for performing evaluations and reading ground-truth data.
- 6 binarization algorithms (and their respective C++ sources) are provided and compiled to run this benchmark on their results.
Minimum requirements: 5GB of free space, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, …)
Dependencies: Python 2.7, tesseract-ocr, tesseract-ocr-fra, git, libgraphicsmagick++1-dev, graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat, graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat, build-essential. libtool. automake, autoconf. g++-4.6, libqt4-dev (installed automatically with the setup script on Ubuntu and Debian).
- G. Lazzara, T. Géraud. Efficient Multiscale Sauvola's Binarization. In International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition 2013 [[1]]
Submitted Files
Version 1.0
Please refer to http://www.lrde.epita.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Olena/DatasetDBD for downloading the files from the origninal datasets site.
- Original images (213 Mb)
- Clean Documents images (67 Mb)
- Scanned Documents (583 Mb)
This page is editable only by TC11 Officers .


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Price Range
Induction Saucepans
Induction cooking has become all the hype. People are replacing their hobs with induction hob tops only to discover that their existing saucepan sets and cookware may not work with the new hobs. The rule of thumb is that if a magnet sticks to your existing saucepans and cookware it will work with induction. If you are saucepan shopping instore it's always useful to bring a magnet along with you. In this section we have featured a complete listing of all cookware that is suitable for induction use. Induction cooking had gained popularity due to a number of reasons which are discussed in detail below.
When you adjust the heat on an induction hob the heat adjusts almost instantly. While gas traditionally was the most responsive to heat adjustment in the past this is now matched with induction. The induction hob remains cool to touch so over spills or boil over won't burn in situ and can be wiped clean without having to wait for the hob to cool down.
Unlike any other heat source there is no wasted energy. The heat is inducted directly into the cookware giving you the more efficient energy usage. With induction cooking, energy is supplied directly to the cooking vessel via a magnetic field; thus, almost all of the source energy gets transferred to that cookware. With gas or conventional electric cookers (including halogen), the energy is first converted to heat and only then directed to the cooking vessel—with a lot of that heat going to waste heating up your kitchen (and you) instead of heating up your food.
Please note the size of your induction plates and always use a saucepan in keeping with the size of the plate. You can always place a smaller saucepan on a larger plate but not recommended to do the reverse. If you place a larger based saucepan on a smaller plate then you will have parts of the saucepan that will not heat us as the induction plate is too small. For example an oval roaster or a fish kettle. You will have uneven heating on induction hobtops.
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Induction Cookware Benefits
- Instant Heat Adjustment
- No Wasted Heat
- Safety - Cool to touch
- Ease and Adaptability of Installation - Some are simply plug in!
- Ubiquity- Every home has access to electricity unlike gas.
- Cleanliness - Cool to touch nothing burns on. Hob top stays like new!
- No char flames.
- Flaming the sauces/ liquids or foods over gas for the more adventurous amateur chef is not possible with induction
- Cookware has to be induction suitable
- Won't work when there is a power failure unlike gas


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TwoCook County prosecutors have been suspended for failing to file charges against a man who had threatened to kill his family -- three months before he set them on fire, killing himself, his wife and one of his young children.
The prosecutors had declined to file felony charges against Nathaniel Beller, 29, in September after he was accused of filling a bathtub with gasoline and threatening to kill his family, according to a Cicero police report.
Cicero police officers said they forced their way into the apartment after negotiating with Beller to release his two children. At one point, Beller lit a cigarette while in the apartment, according to the police report.
An assistant state's attorney interviewed Beller at the hospital and later informed police that no charges would be filed, according to a Cicero police report. Another prosecutor, according to the report, cited a "lack of evidence" and the lack of cooperation from Beller's wife Taniya as reasons for not approving felony charges.
Months later, shortly after being released from a mental health facility on Dec. 29, police say Beller poured gasoline on his two young children and his 33-year-old wife and set them on fire. Beller, his wife and his 4-year-old daughter Neriyah died. His son Naciere, 9, was critically injured.
The prosecutors received a 60-day suspension, said Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State's Attorney's office.
"My office has conducted a complete review of this matter and, as a result, I have ordered the unpaid suspension of two assistant state's attorneys who were ultimately responsible for the charging decision that was made," State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said in a statement.
"We must be accountable for our actions," she added.
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March 20, 2013
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – A balanced offensive attack and a strong defensive performance led the No. 3 Notre Dame men's lacrosse team to a 9-4 victory over No. 8 Ohio State on Wednesday afternoon inside the Loftus Sports Center.
Freshman attackman Matt Kavanagh posted a game-high four points on two goals and two assists for Notre Dame (5-1). Senior attackman Sean Rogers added two goals and one assist. The Irish had seven different goal scorers in the contest.
Fighting Irish senior goalie John Kemp matched a season-high total with 11 saves. The Notre Dame defense held the Buckeyes scoreless from the 12:14 mark of the first quarter until there was 10:47 left in the game, a span of 46:27. Ohio State (5-2) entered today averaging 11.8 goals per game this season.
All five Notre Dame wins this season have come against a team ranked in the top 10 of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) poll at the time of the contest. This is the first time the Irish have defeated five top-10 opponents in the same season since the 2010 campaign.
"Ohio State is a very good offensive team. They've been giving teams fits all year," Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan said. "I think we really benefitted from playing Denver on Saturday because they are very similar in their styles. They are both very unique to the rest of the lacrosse world, but similar to each other in their styles."
The Fighting Irish scored less than a minute into the contest when Ryan Foley took a pass from Jim Marlatt and deposited the ball into the back of the net. Ohio State tied the game (1-1) on a Reegan Comeault goal with 12:14 left in the opening quarter.
Notre Dame started a 5-0 run on a Conor Doyle goal with 5:41 remaining in the first quarter. That goal gave the Irish the lead for good. A Nick Ossello tally put the Irish up 3-1 by the end of the first quarter. Kavanagh assisted on both scores.
The Fighting Irish defense kept the Buckeyes off the scoreboard for the entire second and third quarters. Notre Dame used second-quarter goals from Ryan Mix, Marlatt and Kavanagh to take a 6-1 lead into intermission. Rogers and Doyle had assists during that stretch.
"We played a very, very good first half today," Corrigan said. "We are a tough team to come back on from five goals down. I'm still waiting for us to put a full 60 minutes together. We're about halfway through the year now and it's time for us to really kind of know ourselves better and have a sense of what the plays we can make and which ones we need to take a pass on."
Following a scoreless third period for both squads, Ohio State snapped its drought on a Comeault goal with 10:47 showing on the clock in the fourth quarter.
A Rogers goal off a feed from Tyler Kimball put Notre Dame back up by five (7-2) with just under 10 minutes left in regulation. A Buckeye tally from David Planning 25 seconds later cut the Irish lead to four (7-3).
Rogers once again gave the Irish a five-goal cushion (8-3) when he scored off a pass from Foley with 5:25 remaining. The Buckeyes quickly answered back on a man-up goal from Jesse King, but that would be their final goal of the afternoon. A man-up tally from Kavanagh produced the final outcome.
The Fighting Irish were 1-for-1 in man-up opportunities, while the Buckeyes were 1-for-3. Notre Dame outshot Ohio State 42-27. Buckeye goalie Greg Dutton made 10 saves in the loss. The Irish won the faceoff battle as junior Liam O'Connor was 9-of-17.
Notre Dame opens BIG EAST play Sunday at Rutgers. Faceoff is slated for 1 p.m. (ET) in Piscataway, N.J.
March 20, 2013 – Loftus Sports Center – Notre Dame, Ind.
#8 Ohio State (5-2) – 1 0 0 3 – 4
#3 Notre Dame (5-1) – 3 3 0 3 – 9
Ohio State Scoring (goals-assists):
Reegan Comeault 2-0, David Planning 1-0, Jesse King 1-0, Turner Evans 0-2, Logan Schuss 0-2
Goalie: Greg Dutton (L, 60:00, 10 saves, 9 GA)
Notre Dame Scoring (goals-assists):
Matt Kavanagh 2-2, Sean Rogers 2-1, Conor Doyle 1-2, Jim Marlatt 1-1, Ryan Foley 1-1, Nick Ossello 1-0, Ryan Mix 1-0, Tyler Kimball 0-1
Goalie: John Kemp (W, 60:00, 11 saves, 4 GA)


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Melvin, (sorry to the others, I used the wrong address to post to the mailing lists, so my previous message didn't get through) you wrote: > You dont need smart servers, just socially aware cloud storage. Flat > files are fine, you can let Agents do all the middleware. ok, I should'nt have used the term 'server'; I was not considering cloud-storage (yet)... It does not really change my point, though: if you only trust a single agent ("dungeon master") to manage game-data and enforce game logic, you end up with a rather centralized system. On the other hand, distributing the game logic is harder: - how do different agents maintain consistency of the game? - how do you trust a newly discovered agent? - how do you know that several agents are not colluding to cheat? But obviously, I merely scratched the surface, while you seem to have clearer ideas on the subject... :) -- thanks for the links by the way. I'll keep an eye on that. pa On 12/15/2010 12:39 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > On 14 December 2010 22:21, Pierre-Antoine Champin > <email@example.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this is fun, but we have to ask ourselves: what is the added value of >> RDF/sem-web/linked-data here? >> What does http://drogon.me/ have that wouldn't be possible with HTML+PHP? > > To me the Web, particularly the Sem Web is a universal space whose key > advantage is interoperability. > > So, each world can interop with similar worlds. > > Also worlds can operate with other parts of the Semantic Web Space. I > use the acronym SEMANTIC to describe key areas: > > Social > Entertainment > Markets > Access > Nearby services > Trust > Information management > Currencies > > So a game can be social, have trading with virtual currencies and > markets, you can interact with a personal or public web of trust, with > existing information or things in the real world in your locality (eg > augmented reality), using web standards. > > Granted each area on the list is still in an embryonic phase. But > this is a level of interop simply not available in other systems. > > We've seen linking of basic social and trust in PHP+HTML (facebook) > and social and entertainment (zynga) get some traction. But when we > have interop across all areas we'll have a that much more powerful > system. > >> Don't get me wrong, I think those ideas is great, and kudos to you guys for >> turning them into code so quickly! >> >> My two cents on this question: >> >> 1/ linking to real world data is definitely an interesting track, because >> this leverages existing linked data for the purpose of the game > > Yes, agree, leverage interop. > >> >> 2/ another way to use linked data principles is that the game can be >> distributed, even more so than an HTML-based game. > > Exactly. > >> >> I imagine that every character, place, item... could have its own RDF >> description, linking to each other. A triple between two objects (X is >> located at Y, X owns Z...) is considered true only if both the subject and >> the object claim it. >> >> This implies that the RDF files are hosted by "smart" servers that will >> allow updates by anybody, but under certain conditions. > > You dont need smart servers, just socially aware cloud storage. Flat > files are fine, you can let Agents do all the middleware. > > http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CloudStorage.html > >> >> For example, a place will acknowledge that it contains a person only if the >> person claims to be in that place, and only there. > > This is game logic. It need not reside on a server. > >> >> The protocol might be tricky to design for more complex things like >> transactions. I imagine that an item would change its owner only after >> checking that both the old and the new owner explictly agree on the >> transaction >> >> <#me> game:agreesOn [ >> a game:Transaction ; >> game:give some:sword ; >> game:receive some:money ; >> ] > > Im working on an economic aspect. This is an interesting proposal on > transactions and contracts: > > http://iang.org/papers/ricardian_contract.html > > I have reasonable confidence we can introduce a sophisticated economy > that can be leveraged by all sem web projects, probably before end of > next year. > >> >> Plus, the buyer would have to trust the sword not cheat on them and return >> to its previous owner without notice... >> >> Fights will probably be even trickier... But I think the idea is worth >> exploring... > > Many ways to model this, again agents can handle this. > > Traditional architecture is > > client<--> middleware<--> data store > > Web oriented architecture is more flexible and can have, in addition: > > client<--> data store > client<--> agent<--> data store > client<--> data store<--> agent > > With trust and PKI regulating actions. Of course we see why WebID is > important here too. > >> >> pa >> >> >> On 12/02/2010 01:20 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >>> >>> On 2 December 2010 01:13, Toby Inkster<email@example.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:06:42 +0100 >>>> Melvin Carvalho<email@example.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think the next thing I need to model is 'items'. >>>>> >>>>> At present need to work out a way to say a location has an item. >>>> >>>> Perhaps model it the other direction? >>>> >>>> <item22> game:initial_position<node394> . >>> >>> I was thinking more along the lines of: >>> >>> Location x has >>> item 1 >>> item 2 >>> player 1 >>> player 2 >>> >>> With a trusted Agent(dungeon master) adding them to a copy of the game >>> world. >>> >>> The DM is allowed to sparql update the locations via insert and >>> delete, contains the game logic, and interacts with players. >>> >>> In this way you can have 1 or more DM's given access to administer the >>> worlds, the best DMs would become 'resident' in the game world. >>> >>> Agree, it's not the only way to model it, but I like the idea of a >>> file based solution mediated by agents. >>> >>> Make sense? >>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Toby A Inkster >>>> <mailto:email@example.com> >>>> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >Received on Wednesday, 15 December 2010 08:40:12 UTC
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