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A fascinating piece of work that approaches "Citizenfour" in its deconstruction of governmental failure and the systems underneath the war on terror that are not…
A fascinating piece of work that approaches "Citizenfour" in its deconstruction of governmental failure and the systems underneath the war on terror that are not…
Cassel's latest movie that smartly keeps his innate menace on a slow, low simmer, isn't nearly as convincing or compelling as its star.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A review of Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" from its NYFF premiere last night.
A NYFF report on new films from Chantal Akerman and Michel Gondry.
An article about "The BlackWhite Love Play."
Our monthly series digs into the career of Wes Craven and comes out with his 3D 2010 film, "My Soul to Take".
A FFC review of "The Look of Silence."
A review of "A Girl at My Door".
An interview with "Green Street Hooligans" and "Punisher: War Zone" director Lexi Alexander.
An obituary for filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
Did you ever want to take a three-day bus trip sitting next to Julia Child? Just asking. In 30-minute programs on TV, she was priceless. But to live with her, I suspect, must have taken the patience of a saint. Her husband Paul in "Julie & Julia" is portrayed as a saint, so that explains her marriage.
Now about Julie Powell. That's the woman who wrote an online journal documenting her vow to cook all the way through Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, 524 recipes in 365 days. She is also married to a patient man, although he retains enough self-respect to walk out for a few days half-way through her project. Together, they make just about enough money to live above a pizza parlor in Queens. How do they pay for all those groceries?
The performances go a long way toward selling the characters; Meryl Streep creates an uncanny version of Julia Child, of course with a spot-on accent. She seems to have grown several inches to play the great 6'2" chef. Stanley Tucci, playing her diplomat husband, stands 5'8" in real life. The movie somewhat diminishes this difference, but at no point, however, does he seem capable of denying anything to his beloved goddess.
Amy Adams could make anyone lovable, but with Julie Powell, it's sometimes a stretch. Julie is so single-minded about her obsession that it comes to dominate her married life. Having cooked a few of Julia Child's recipes myself, I doubt there are many you can start on after getting home, some nights, as late as 8 or 9. The dinner bell seems to have rung at the Powell household after midnight, although the wait was mellowed by a remarkable number of martinis.
The film, directed and written by Nora Ephron, cuts back and forth between the two women, showing how their dedication to cuisine shaped their lives and marriages. A fair number of no-doubt delicious recipes are prepared and served, but there is never a moment when our mouths water as they did over the Japanese noodle soup in "Tampopo."
Nor are the leads seen as great eaters. They put a forkful in their mouths, close their eyes and say "mmmm," and that's about it. If Paul likes a dish, it is because it gives him the opportunity to tell Julia what a genius she is. Poor Eric, Julie's husband, simply gobbles everything like pizza after a softball game; having to wait so late for his meals perhaps gives him anxiety.
Julia Child was a rarity, an American woman studying haute cuisine at a French school for professional chefs, and was obviously a gifted student and a natural chef, even if she was driven to cooking because of her impatience with bridge. Ephron chooses to show her education in scenes so broad we could be watching "I Love Lucy." If you came home and found your wife savagely dicing so many onions that she had a pyramid two feet high, would you wonder about her?
As for Julie Powell, her project is undertaken to boost her self-esteem; she's a telephone call-taker in a cubicle, dealing with insurance questions involving 9/11, although "really" she's a novelist. Someone once said, What you do all day instead of your real job IS your real job.
"Julie & Julia" is not lacking in entertainment value, especially with the Streep performance. But if the men had been portrayed as more high-spirited, it might have taken on intriguing dimensions. Both husbands are, frankly, a little boring: They've been assigned their supporting roles in their marriages and are reluctant to question the singlemindedness of their wives.
All the same, credit is due. Julia Child really did write a cookbook that changed American culinary history. And Julie Powell really did cook her way through 524 recipes in 365 days. I am currently writing a cookbook titled The Pot and How to Use It, about how you can cook almost anything in a rice cooker. Take my word for it, it's not going to take anyone a year to cook their way through this one.
An interview with Michael Shannon on Freeheld, 99 Homes, Boardwalk Empire, and more.
A comparison of Frank Costello in The Departed and Whitey Bulger in Black Mass reveals weaknesses in the latter.
Our monthly series digs into the career of Wes Craven and comes out with his 3D 2010 film, "My Soul to Take".
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An Island: CC-Licensed Film, Public-Private Screenings Announced
Music and film lovers take note – An Island, a beautiful new film by Vincent Moon featuring Danish band Efterklang, is very quickly nearing public release. A new teaser for the film was released today along with an announcement describing the "Private-Public Screenings" of the film:
Efterklang and Vincent Moon welcome all our listeners and followers to host their own screenings of An Island.
We call these screenings Private-Public Screenings and the rules are very simple.
- The screenings need to have free entrance
- The screenings need to be public.
- The screenings need to have a minimum capacity of 5 people
- The screenings need to be verified by Efterklang & Vincent Moon and only screenings that are featured on www.anisland.cc are official Private-Public Screenings
Moon and Efterkland hope to create "a free and inspiring distribution method for [the] film" – as such, An Island is CC BY-NC-SA licensed (like all of Moon's current work), allowing the free sharing and reuse of the film for non-commercial purposes.
More info on hosting your own screening is available here.Comments Off on An Island: CC-Licensed Film, Public-Private Screenings Announced
ePSIplatform Blog Series on Creative Commons and Public Sector Information
The following is cross-posted from the blog of the European Public Sector Information Platform (ePSIplatform). ePSIplatform is a comprehensive portal showcasing research and projects working to stimulate and promote public sector information (PSI) re-use and open data initiatives in Europe. Creative Commons is pleased to contribute a series of blog posts discussing the role of CC tools for use in public sector information.
Creative Commons' (CC) suite of licenses and public domain tools have set a global standard for legally facilitating maximum re-use of information, where re-use (access, collaboration, dissemination, follow-on innovations, business and community ecosystems, etc.) of information is desired — as has particularly been the case with public sector information (PSI).
This ought to be of little surprise, as open licensing is completely aligned with the interests of governments in encouraging re-use of PSI, as expressed in EU Directive 2003/98/EC and similarly around the world. More broadly, there is great interest in open licenses for publicly funded information, including various kinds of cultural, educational, and research information. Across these broad categories stakeholders have realized again and again that if rights statements are confusing or not present, re-use of information will be suboptimal. Implementing CC is the solution.
In this short blog series, we will not describe the basics of the CC license suite and public domain tools, nor their burgeoning adoption by governments throughout Europe and around the world–follow the links for a review.
Instead, for the expert ePSIplatform readership (many thanks to ePSIplatform for the opportunity) we will highlight some useful "things you may not know" and point out some "things you might think you know, but are incorrect" about legal and technical aspects of CC tools — ones particularly pertinent to PSI adoption that have surfaced repeatedly in discussions CC and institutions in our global affiliate network have had with governments and publicly funded institutions, including in the course of providing implementation assistance for governments seeking to share. Following are some of the things we'll discuss briefly in upcoming posts:
While all CC licenses require attribution, it is built in a sophisticated and flexible manner: non-endorsement, right to request removal of attribution, attribution to a publisher or funder, appropriate to medium, attribution links, and technical support for making attribution easier and more useful.
How the CC0 public domain dedication works robustly across jurisdictions, including its minimal license fallback that effectively works like our attribution-only license, and how the same technology that makes attribution under our licenses easier and more useful also makes non-legally-mandated citation of public domain materials also easier and more useful.
Jurisdiction and CC licenses: how that works legally (all CC tools are designed to apply worldwide). Also the leadership role of CC affiliate network jurisdiction projects in PSI.
How CC0 and CC licenses are being used for data (both are used extensively for PSI); also how they treat sui generis rights (separately, CC will be issuing an in-depth contemporary statement on this topic in the near future), what this means for PSI, and related improvements we're exploring for an eventual version 4.0 of the CC license suite.
We are also developing a topic report on PSI and CC tools, to be published at the conclusion of this series. The report will include references to much of the excellent material published on PSI and CC over the last several years.
Feel free to leave a comment on this post if you have burning questions about the items above, or requests for other points to be covered in this series or the topic report. As always, if you have questions about CC licenses and public domain tools, we hope you'll come to the source for the official story.Comments Off on ePSIplatform Blog Series on Creative Commons and Public Sector Information
CC Website Changes
If you watch our website carefully, you'll notice a few changes today. Some of those changes are small, and some are fairly significant, and we'll be making more changes later in 2011.
We're making these changes because we've received feedback — from our community of users, friends, supporters, and more — that the current set of web properties we have here at Creative Commons isn't working as well as it could. Our websites have always emphasized using Creative Commons tools, or finding Creative Commons-licensed works. But we haven't always made it easy to understand exactly how we are making possible the full potential of the internet via open licensing.
Today's changes mark the first step towards fixing that problem.
The first change you'll notice is that we're putting learning about CC into a featured spot on the home page, right next to where you can choose a license for your works.
Another change is that we are making it easy to see that we work across culture, education, and science, instead of putting those as links in a sidebar or even onto different domains, as we have done in the past with education and science. On each of those pages, we put in a "carousel" of users and implementations that draw on our growing repository of CC case studies. All of our work is global across all three domains, so we've also updated and prominently feature our international affiliates network page.
Regarding science, we're redirecting the old Science Commons front page to http://creativecommons.org/science. This is part of our comprehensive integration of science into the core of Creative Commons — on a par with culture and education. We're still figuring out exactly how to migrate all of the content inside the sciencecommons.org domain, so for now we're leaving that content up and linking to it from the new page.
We made it easier to find and learn about the licenses themselves, and we made our vision and mission explicit on the About Creative Commons page.
Last, we put a "fat footer" into place at the bottom, so that visitors and experienced CC users could rapidly access key parts of the site without having to dig around and click around in a site map.
This is just the beginning of the process. We're working on a much more complete site redesign as part of our strategic plan for 2011, but we wanted to get these fixes implemented immediately. For those of you following CC's progress over the long term, note that our previous significant website refresh came nearly two years ago. We will be tracking the impact of the changes through our website analytics, and we welcome feedback on how you use the site, what you'd like to see, and how you think we can make our website more effective throughout the course of the year.3 Comments »
CC REL by Example
The following is cross-posted from the CC Labs blog. Creative Commons technical team blogs at CC Labs about metadata, emerging standards, demos, prototypes, and Creative Commons' technical infrastructure.
You may have noticed that the copy-and-paste HTML you get from the CC license chooser includes some strange attributes you're probably not familiar with. That is RDFa metadata, and it allows for the CC license deeds, search engines, Open Attribute, and other tools to discover metadata about your work and generate attribution HTML. Many platforms have implemented CC REL metadata in their CC license marks, such as Connexions and Flickr, and it's our recommended way to mark works with a CC license.
In an effort to make CC license metadata (or CC REL metadata) much easier to implement, we've created CC REL by Example. It includes many example HTML pages, as well as explanations and links to more information.
We're hoping this guide will serve as a useful set of examples for developers and publishers who want to publish metadata for CC licensed works. Even if you just use CC licenses for your own content, now is a great time to take a first step into structured data and include information about how you'd like to be attributed.
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Nature Publishing Group Announces New Open Access Journal and Support for CC!
Nature Publishing Group has long been a leader in scientific and medical publishing. The company's flagship publication, Nature, has been publishing across a broad range of scientific disciplines since 1869 and is the world's most cited interdisciplinary journal. In the past several years, Timo Hannay as head of web publishing and Annette Thomas as CEO of MacMillian (NPG's parent company) successfully brought NPG into the digital age with a wide variety of new scientific journals and projects that leverage the power of the Internet.
As part of this program, NPG has made very clear its support of open access publishing. Last month, the company announced that an additional 15 of its journals now offer open access options. And this week, the company announced a brand new online open access journal called Scientific Reports. With this launch, a full 80% of NPG academic and society journals and 50% of all journals the company publishes offer open access options to authors.
Another way in which NPG shows its support of open systems is by supporting the work we do at Creative Commons – both philosophically and financially. We find ourselves on the same side of the table as NPG during many discussions on how to increase openness and innovation in scientific communication and digital access. Key members of NPG have repeatedly expressed their deep appreciation for the fact that CC licenses are the foundation on which the Open Access movement rests. In a recent meeting between CC and NPG, Jason Wilde, Publishing Director of NPG, told us that they would like to show that appreciation in a concrete manner – a donation to Creative Commons for every each publication in Scientific Reports. We are thrilled to have this financial support that will help us continue to provide the legal and technical infrastructure of open systems.
Nature Publishing Group is a visionary group of people with a clear view into the potential of the digital era to enhance scientific communication. They believe in open access and, as the world's premiere publishing group, they have the authority to lead the rest of the world towards increased OA. We are excited about the launch of Scientific Reports and the way in which it strengthens the long-standing bond between our two organizations.Comments Off on Nature Publishing Group Announces New Open Access Journal and Support for CC!
CC kicks off its 9th year with incoming CEO Cathy Casserly and a successful year-end campaign
Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter.
A warm thank you to all of our supporters! Our 2010 campaign raised $522,151.25 from 1,139 individual supporters and 22 companies. A huge thanks to our Board of Directors and all of our corporate sponsors, including 3taps, Tucows, Digital Garage, Ebay, Microsoft, LuLu, wikiHow, Hindawi, Squidoo, The Miraverse, and Aramex. More campaign numbers will be available soon on our blog.
Creative Commons enters 2011 with renewed energy, thanks to the holiday season and a new incoming CEO! As many of you know, we welcomed Cathy Casserly as incoming CEO of Creative Commons. As the Senior Partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and former Director of OER at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Cathy brings with her extensive experience with foundations and open educational resources (OER). But Cathy has also been involved with CC from the beginning. Lawrence Lessig writes,
Cathy Casserly by Joi Ito / CC BY
"One of the most important moments in the history of Creative Commons happened on the day the Supreme Court upheld (incorrectly, in my view, but let's leave that alone) the Copyright Term Extension Act in Eldred v. Ashcroft. After reading the decision, I had my head in my hands, buried in sadness, when my assistant reminded me that I had a 10am meeting with two people from the Hewlett Foundation. This was exactly one month after we had launched Creative Commons.
Cathy and Mike had heard about the Supreme Court's decision. They recognized I wouldn't be in much of a mood to chat. So they launched right into the reason for the meeting: The Hewlett Foundation had decided to help launch Creative Commons with a grant of $1 million dollars.
I won't say that after I heard that news, I forgot about the Supreme Court. But from that moment on, it was much more important to me to prove Hewlett's faith right than to worry about what the Supreme Court had gotten wrong. And I was especially keen to get to know these two people who understood our mission long before most had even recognized the problem that CC was meant to solve."
We welcome Cathy and thank Joi for his fruitful two years as CEO. We are equally excited that Joi will remain Chair of the CC Board, and look to both Cathy's and Joi's strong leadership to move CC forward in 2011.
In other news:
- CC talked with Mark Surman from the Mozilla Foundation about the connection between Mozilla and CC, and CC's role in the broader digital ecosystem. CC also talked with the Maine Department of Education about how they are investing their educational grants in OER.
- Journalist Dan Gillmor reflected on the challenges and rewards of publishing "Mediactive" under CC.
- CERN Library and the University of Michigan Library released hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records into the public domain using CC0.
- CC filed comments in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Inquiry on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Economy.
- In an effort to balance legally sound terminology with culturally palatable translations, CC Affiliates in the Spanish-speaking and Arabic-speaking worlds have harmonized the language in their license deeds.
- Finally, CC turned eight last month. In celebration, "Building on the Past" creator re-released his video under CC BY. Watch the video and read about Justin Cone's motivations.
Thank You!
Thanks to all our supporters who helped us raise over $500,000 for our annual fundraising campaign! Stay tuned for a precise total and analysis — we're still counting mailed checks! If you didn't get a chance to donate to the 2010 campaign, start 2011 off right by showing the world how much you appreciate CC.
Because of our supporters, we will be able to continue developing the necessary tools to support and facilitate participatory culture and innovation around the world. 2011 is going to be a big year for CC – stay in touch and keep sharing!Comments Off on Thank You!
$48,000 left to go – help us reach our goal!
Help us ring in the new year by making sure we reach our $550,000 fundraising goal by midnight tonight. If you love CC then show us you care by donating today!1 Comment »
Letter from CC Superhero Josh Sommer of the Chordoma Foundation
Josh Sommer
"I'm in a race; a race to outrun a rare and deadly form of bone cancer called chordoma, with an average survival of 7 years. To find a cure, there is a lot that needs to happen sequentially, so to win the race, I need science to move quickly. Fortunately, uncanny new technologies in genomics, computing, synthetic biology, etc. have put cures for virtually any disease within the realm of possibility. Unfortunately, the way we practice science is not designed to move on the timescale of an individual's disease.
Despite all of the technological advances that have been made in recent years, it still takes on average 1-3 years for results to be transmitted from one lab to the next; it still takes months or years for materials and data to be transferred between institutions; and untold masses of observations and creations never get shared at all. It's no wonder, then, why it takes decades for discoveries to be translated into new treatments, and why the hurdles are often just too large to overcome for small-market diseases like chordoma.
For anyone affected, or whose loved one is affected, by a life threatening disease, this is simply intolerable. Think about it: in the very recent past, humankind has developed the tools and know-how to cure disease, yet we are stifled from maximizing the potential benefit of these new tools by social and legal systems that evolved in a bygone era. This has to change.
But let's be realistic. Despite the fact that our scientific enterprise is not optimized for speed, it does have many virtues. And traditions such as academic tenure, peer review, intellectual property, and shareholder return are not going away any time soon – nor should they, necessarily. If we can sequence a genome in the course of a week, surely we can find sensible solutions to enable the data to be shared.
Creative Commons is leading the charge to find these solutions. By helping researchers make data open and available, by streamlining the material transfer process, and by uncovering and integrating data from various stakeholders, Creative Commons is grease to the wheels of science. It is a source of hope to me in the race to outrun my disease. It is a means to maximize our collective investment in research. That's why I support Creative Commons, and why if there's a disease you'd like to see cured, I urge you to give whole-heartedly to Creative Commons as well."
Josh Sommer is the executive director of the Chordoma Foundation, which he co-founded with his mother, Dr. Simone Sommer, after he was diagnosed with a clival chordoma in 2006. He believes that patients should play an active role in bringing about treatments for their own conditions, and that patients represent a largely untapped source of funding, energy, and know-how in the treatment development process. Follow Josh on Twitter.Comments Off on Letter from CC Superhero Josh Sommer of the Chordoma Foundation
Language Harmonization at Creative Commons
One of the most important values at Creative Commons is the usability of our tools. We strive to make all of our tools human-readable, often bridging dissonant vocabularies and frameworks to ensure our tools are compatible and understandable the world over. The challenge of localization is balancing legally sound terminology with culturally palatable translations. Sometimes the terms in which lawyers and courts communicate are unfamiliar or alienating to users outside of the legal profession. Moreover, even within the legal field, there can be a range of opinions about which terms are most appropriate.
Creative Commons oversees translation on two levels: our legal code and our license deeds. The former, the legal code or "lawyer-readable" layer, is adapted to the laws and official languages of jurisdictions around the world. The latter, the deeds or "human-readable" layer, are designed for everyone to understand. Unlike the legal code, the deeds are not legally-binding but rather a helpful, plain-language summary.
Historically, if two or more jurisdictions shared the same language, such as Spanish, each jurisdiction team would conduct a translation of the legal code and of the deeds. Sometimes the result is messy: for Spanish alone, we had over 10 translations of the license deeds, some differing only slightly and others more so.
Creative Commons invited its affiliates in Spanish-speaking jurisdictions to review the Spanish translations of the license names (Attribution, ShareAlike, NonCommercial, and NoDerivatives). In a conversation led by CC Chile's Claudio Ruiz, the Latin American affiliates discussed the best linguistic solution, one that balanced usability with legal accuracy. After several months of discussion, a majority of the Latin American teams reached an agreement to harmonize their existing deeds into one under the following scheme. This is particularly notable since unlike the Arab harmonization effort discussed below, these jurisdictions had already published deeds for their particular jurisdictions.
- Attribution: Atribución
- ShareAlike: CompartirIgual
- Non-Commercial: NoComercial
- NoDerivatives: SinDerivadas
You'll see the harmonized translations available now on our license deeds. Please note again that the deeds are not legally operative; instead, they play a critical role in helping ensure our licenses are understandable and accessible to users.
Finally the Arabic Translation for CC Licenses
by Mohammad Basheer (mbaa) / CC BY
Similarly, Creative Commons encouraged its Arab world communities and affiliates to coordinate their translation efforts. They appreciated the importance of harmonizing the key license terms early on so that all Arabic-speaking users would have a consistent experience with CC.
During the recent CC Arab World meeting this October in Doha, Qatar, a lively discussion among attendees underscored the importance of harmonizing translation within the region. The challenge again was to balance legal compliance with user-friendly terminology. At the end of the meeting, CC affiliates and community representatives from six jurisdictions in the region reached a consensus on terms that CC will use for all future license-related work in Arabic. All the participants provided input in a session moderated by Bassel Khartabil and Mahmoud Abu Wardeh at CC's request, with the following results:
- Attribution: نسب المصنف
- ShareAlike: الترخيص بالمثل
- NonCommercial: غير تجاري
- NoDerivatives: منع الإشتقاق
- Creative Commons: المشاع الإبداعي followed by mention of the original English name in parenthesis (Creative Commons)
These terms will be deployed in the upcoming Egyptian licenses, as well as across all Arabic deeds and informational materials. These efforts underscore the cooperative nature of the affiliates and community members who strive to make CC simple and approachable for users across the globe. We also hope to roll out similar harmonized terms in other languages over the coming months.
If you'd like to contribute to Creative Commons' translation efforts, you can join our translation teams at Transifex.3 Comments »


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SoGE is a Star Wars Total Conversion for SoaSE: Rebellion with it's roots in the Homeworld 2 mod Star Wars: Warlords which features the two primarily sides of the Galactic Civil War, the Clone Wars, and the Yuuzhan Vong War. The current public version works for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion 1.80/1.82+ and, with or without, all DLC. Rated #6 player's choice in MOTY 2014.
Dec 29th, 2012 12 people agree 7 people don't
I have to rate this a six. While I have been waiting for a SOASE mod based in the Star Wars universe, this one fails in some fundamental ways, drawing away from the base economic structure of Sins, and for little to no reason.
-Asteroid and planetary populations are low, but the tax rates remain the same, meaning the more planets you have under your control, the less tax income you have. This does not translate well from the Sins system, as planetary populations should (at the very least), not handicap your credit income, and at most, give you a reason to hold onto systems, and their populations.
-Far, far too many asteroid mines. I've counted as much as 13 mining stations in some gravity wells, with the standard .6-.7 rates for each one, leading to a huge influx of resources early on, which in my opinion, stems your reasons for expansion, as you could keep a small, clustered group of systems and have all the resources you need.
-The scale of battles is not indicative of the star wars universe. Look at the Battle of Naboo, Yavin, Coruscant, any large 'naval' battle had precious few large ships, and mostly fighters, you will not find a battle with 48 star destroyers versus dozens of other ships. The scale of ship battles in vanilla rebellion (One titan, a dozen or less capitals, a few dozen corvettes) would be perfectly set for a 'realistic' Star Wars conflict.
The scale of the ships is, as some other reviewers have mentioned, also a problem. If we are willing to suspend the disbelief of the resource income, we can suspend the disbelief of the scale of a planetary system. I would have much rather liked to see large capital ships crusing slowly through a plantary system than small blips and icons floating around.
In closing, the ship models, visual effects, 'lore' based research text, and sound effects are very nice in this modification, but the fundamental lack of understanding of the game's basic resource, ship and economic mechanics leave much to be desired.
Dec 29th, 2012 4 people agree 3 people don't
Unit size, too small. Cost for the basic ships? Too high. Epic fights? once again size plays a factor, and since theyre so small they have limited guns compared to vanilla. research? Be done with it in an hour in all fields, easy.
Jun 23rd, 2015 0 people agree 0 people don't
I liked it but I think it needs more types of capital ships
May 9th, 2015 0 people agree 0 people don't
The game is well made, many units, buildings and planets etc....
But, like others have pointed out, the games starts to lag very early.
The ships are really really really really really small....as a consequence space combat sucks a bit. Laser beams seem bigger than Capital ships... :s
You can't see a thing and thus enjoy the game.
Apart from that the game is good. But those things should be corrected...
Feb 26th, 2014 0 people agree 0 people don't
I would love to vote it better but sadly every 15 minuets or so it crashes, which needless to say gets in the way a bit.
Jan 21st, 2013 1 person agrees 1 person doesn't
I had to give it a 6. While I really want to like this star wars mod I cant.
The cost of everything while increased and the speed at witch you get resources is increased I feel that it takes to much control from the player. Also when I finally got the resources to build an SSD it auto built and then I never did see it build it is building.
But for me the big glaring issue is that the mod crashes every hour on the hour. I have a fairly beefy machine and was only playing on a small map vs one ai and it would crash.


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Masking an area inside/outside a line strip (XNA/HLSL). (self.gamedev)
submitted 2 years ago * by denisrobot
I have some point lights in my game which are just sprites implemented with help of HLSL. Currently I'm trying to implement dynamic shadows and I managed to make the program calculate the area in which the light should be drawn (area that is not behind walls etc).
Here is what it looks like when I draw a line strip between the calculated points: http://i.imgur.com/YNWaC2K.png
So I was wondering how I would draw the light sprite only inside that line strip? Can it be done with HLSL (I'm not that good at HLSL), or perhaps I should just do it in XNA?
[–]Khael8 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
You need to convert the polygon into triangles.
Since your polygons can be concave, it can be complicated to triangulate.
I've personally used the C++ version of poly2tri and it worked ok. There's a C# version you can try out.
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Clogged drains can easily turn from being minor annoyance into major plumbing problems. Interesting thing is, foreign substances such as grease, strands of hair, food etc. have been found to be the main causes of clogged drains. Noticing that your home's drainage system is clogged on the other hand will almost be automatic owing to the sight of your sink. Other outlets within the house starting to back up or better yet, the release of a very foul smell both of which will definitely draw your attention. In some cases, even your toilet might also overflow. All this however should not have you worried as there are highly trained and experienced clogged drain repair service providers such as clogged drain repair Modesto who serve as a guarantee to sort out the problem with your home's drainage system while exercising a high level of professionalism.
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I was on the hunt for bandage dresses online. The selections and options are astounding. When I searched for the dress, over 2 million links were found claiming to have this much sought after dress. This dress comes in a wide variety of styles, colors and sizes. It seems to be THE DRESS everyone is after right now I am not excluded from that observation. I searched online for hours until I found the dress that was perfect for me.
When looking for a dress online, don't skimp. Do your research. Make sure to measure yourself correctly. Don't flatter yourself. You are the only one who is seeing the measurements. Then, using the store's size chart, select the correct size for yourself. Wearing a dress that is too tight or even too big will make you look uncomfortable and unattractive. This is a dress you want to fit well, as it is naturally flattering.
Also, make sure you are skimping on the price. Look closely at the product description. Don't opt for a cheap fabric and end up looking silly. Spend a little extra and get a quality product. But, don't overspend. If you have the time, look at as many sites as you can. You will find the one that combines quality and great prices.
Choosing the color can be difficult since you can't see it on. Find a photo of yourself and hold it up to the pictures of the dress. If you are a blonde with blue eyes, the deep green color may not flatter you the way it did the redhead in the photo. Pay attention and make an informed decision.
This dress is so perfect for so many different occasions, you'll want it to last a long time. Be sure that you have checked the instructions for care and look into the wear on fabric. You may learn something you didn't know before.
Online shopping can be overwhelming at times. Not being able to touch or try on a dress makes it difficult to take a decision. But, these dresses are everywhere. If you follow the tips I provided, I am confident you will find the dress that is perfect for you. If you are unsure about it, try to seek out online boutiques that offer free shipping on returns or include return packaging just in case. Have fun shopping for bandage dresses online. You'll love the results.
Using Hotel Signage Devices To Satisfy Your Guests And Visitors At All Times
One of the best ways to promote your hotel offerings and keep your guests satisfied is to use hotel signage devices. These can help you keep your guests informed, guide them to the right locations as well as help you target content for specific audiences.
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By using digital signage displays you can advertise all your drink and menu specials to your guests all the time. Whether you have a delicious lunch special or some drink offers you can let all your guests know about it. You can also advertise your restaurant, bar and lounges and promote them as the best places to interactive with colleagues and business partners.
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With the help of fourwindsinteractive.com hotel signage, you can also keep everyone informed of the outside world. You can have the devices connect with local news channels about important international or local events, broadcast the weather or announce the latest stock exchange updates. All your guests will also be aware of hotel policy changes, upcoming events, specials or conferences as well as usual information such as checkout times, price changes and others.
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You won't have to use your staff members to guide your guests and visitors anymore. You can put your employees to better use and let digital signage devices to display the map of the facility, pinpoint points of interest such as the restaurant or the lounge bar or help visitors find their way and guide them to the location then need to get to. With hotel signage it is easy to help everyone manage their time better and guide them without using extra resources. Your front desk phones also won't ring non-stop as you will have provided your guests with a more convenient way to learn about specific events and locations.
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You can also use electronic signs to advertise local businesses in your hotel and generate more revenue. You can bet that many business owners nearby will pay hefty sums of money to gain an advertising space in your hotel, so you could increase profits for your business as long as the other businesses don't compete with your own.
Earn the appreciation of your guests and keep them satisfied and happy by using modern hotel signage devices in your facility.
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Are you fed up after drinking tasteless so called fruit juices for years? Time has come to change your juicer. Usage of centrifugal juicers has become outdated as modern day users are shifting towards masticating juicers. Though they entered market recently, they are giving stiff competition to the already well-established centrifugal juicers. One must note here that all the models that are tagged as masticating juicers are not best at working and one needs to have some idea about how they work to select the best. Omega and Kuvings Horizontal Juicers are often voted as the best masticating juice extractors not only by users, but by independent reviewers as well.
Here is the list of some of the important features of masticating juicers.
How they work?
You may have seen centrifugal juicers where the items are cut into pieces with the help of powerful blades which are connected to high speed motor. Special chambers for juice and pulp are resent. But the masticating juicers work on different principle. The strong auger present in the masticating juicer presses the vegetables, fruits to strainer and this result in juice. Though the procedure is slow it is very efficient.
To test the efficiency of the masticating juicer, take some pulp from the centrifugal juicer pulp chamber and put that used pulp in the masticating juicer. You can easily get significant amount of juice from that pulp also which proves the efficient performance of masticating juicers. It must be noted here that reverse is not possible i.e. you can't get juice from masticating juicer pulp.
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By the taste itself you can easily say which one is more nutritious. If you use masticating juicer, the cell structure of the vegetable or fruit is retained and you can experience 100% natural taste. You can easily observe original color of the vegetable or fruit also. If you opt for centrifugal juicer, the cell structure of the vegetable or fruit gets changed and this changes the taste of the juice also. Masticating juicer output is rich in fiber when compared to others.
Juices extracted from centrifugal juicers destroy easily and quickly when compared to masticating juicers output. More oxidation decreases the life span of centrifugal juicer output considerably. Masticating juicers output remains fresh for more time when compared to others as the oxidation rate is less. More oxidation is due to destruction of cell structure.
It is really hard to collect juice from wheat grass. Wheat grass is expensive and if you are unable to extract 100% juice from it means you are wasting your hard earned money. Number of persons using the wheat grass in USA is increasing considerably because of is positive health benefits. If you put same amount of wheat grass in centrifugal juicer and masticating juicer, you can easily get 20-30% more juice from masticating juicer.
Masticating juicer scores in all the above areas but it is not perfect. Centrifugal juicers score in the areas like speed, price etc. Most of the users who recently shifted from centrifugal juicers to masticating juicers are happy with their decision and their positive mouth talk is helping immensely in getting new users.
Airbnb Advantages
The advent of the internet has opened the doors to a new model of economy - Sharing Economy. With this socio-economic system the creation, production, consumption and distribution of goods is shared directly between people and organizations. It's a way for people to share resources with each other instead of relying on a single institutional authority to provide everyone with needs. Among other sectors, this economic model is changing the landscape of the travel business through an endeavor called Airbnb. Founded in 2008 by Joe Gebbia, Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk, this company has become the largest hotelier in the world. If you want to travel somewhere and arrange a stay directly with the property owner, then Airbnb is the service for you.How does it work?
Airbnb is a renting social network where anyone with a computer or mobile device can either book or rent a lodging space to another person in any part of the world. Both guests and hosts can join the website for free and start uploading information to their profiles. Usually, guests search the database for listings (submitted by the hosts) of properties to book in any given location. After choosing one and sending a booking request to the host, the latter can either accept or reject the offer after scrutinizing the profile of the requesting guest. Both can establish several parameters of selection, and both can communicate with each other before a booking is actually made. Paypal and/or any major online credit card system are accepted as payment options.
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Given its radical idea and concept, Airbnb offers advantages unavailable in other traveling services. One of the best features is the referral incentive program. Registered members are now allowed to refer a friend or acquaintance and profit from the referral's use of the Airbnb's platform. A new user who registers through a referral link is greeted with a $25 Airbnb Voucher Code 2015 that can be used in a qualifying reservation. Qualifying reservations are those equal or greater than $75 in value. When one is made, the user that sent the Airbnb voucher code 2015 receives travel credit bonus which can be used as a discount in the next transaction.
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The Sony MDRZX550BN Bluetooth headset offers excellent grade audio quality with digital noise cancelling features. These headphones are also NFC compatible and are also extremely comfortable to wear.
This pair is one of the best noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones in the 2014-2015 market. features at just the push of a button. The digital noise cancelling features allow for up to 90% cancellation of noise. This makes the headset really effective even when using it in really noisy environments. The convenient and reliable Bluetooth streaming technology ensures that no data is lost when the device is used within the recommended range.
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The powerful rechargeable battery featured on this headset offers users with a massive 29 hours of continuous music playback or talk time. This equates to about 150 hours of standby time for the unit. The headset comes bundled with a USB charging cable and the device has a maximum charging cycle of 25 hours when keeping the noise cancelling features on.
The headphones feature a 30mm driver unit which is capable of delivering full and powerful balanced sound and offers a full frequency response over wireless streaming. The bass, the mid-range and the highs of the audio are crystal clear and this headset offers the best in sound quality, as is expected from a reputed brand like Sony.
The unit is designed with special cushions which relieve pressure and provides a comfortable fit and is great for acoustics. The compact ear cups even fold flat inwards when the unit is not in use and also offers amazing portability.
These premium headphones are compatible with most Bluetooth and NFC devices. However, the compatibility and interoperability among devices varies. The unit offers unbroken and great sound quality when used in the recommended range of connectivity.
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Using Turmeric In Order To Have A Healthier Scalp
Featuring tubed flowers and an orange color, you could say that turmeric is quite a beautiful plant to look at. However, as millions of people already know, this is not just a nice plant to gaze at, but it's also one of the most popular ingredients in Indian cuisine and one of the most widely known supplements for people who want to improve their cholesterol, liver function, relieve arthritis pain and so forth. The good news is that turmeric has such a wide range of uses that some people call it a wonder supplement. So with no further ado, let's see how you could use it in order to improve the health of your scalp.
Places To Get It From
If this is the first time you hear about turmeric and you want to know where can you buy curcumin, you can easily find it in the majority of online and offline stores, but be warned: it's always recommended that you get it from a store that has a good reputation, since some of them may sell fake turmeric, meaning you won't get the health results you are looking for by using it.
Using It For Your Scalp
Okay, if you want to use turmeric to improve the health of your scalp, you'll need to consider poking a hole in 3 to 4 liquid turmeric capsules. After you do that, you should carefully squeeze the liquid out of them and then apply it on your scalp. To get great results, it's recommended you'll apply about fifteen drops of turmeric on your scalp. Some people though use much more than that (up to thirty).
Massage The Scalp
After you have applied the drops on your scalp, it's time that you give it a gentle massage. Make sure you don't push too hard on your scalp, since this is only going to lead to unnecessary pain. Instead, focus on applying gentle pressure to every inch of your scalp. After you have massaged the turmeric in the scalp, you just need to give it some time so it can dry properly.
How Long Should You Use It?
Most of the times it's recommended that you use turmeric until the condition you're dealing with goes away. There is no overdose of turmeric so to speak, unless you decide to include it in your favorite dishes. If that is the case, then you'll need to start with half a teaspoon and then increase it after a few weeks and so forth.
Easy Steps Of Making A Web Site
Generally, knowing how to make a web site entails various steps. First of all, it is very important that you get inspired. This involves looking at websites with excellent designs and think about why they are excellent designs. This often comes down to the resources, pages, information and resources being laid out in a way that is very easy to use and see. Getting ideas about how to design your own website requires that you look at the sites that do same things so as to get ideas about the best place to put your different type of content. It is important that you always stay realistic to your skills and keep in mind that ease of access is the most crucial thing. In case you lack certain piece of information easily visible, ensure that reaching that information is logical.
It is vital that you consider choosing a theme. However, you may skip this step in case you already have a fairly good idea about the main focus of your website. If that is not the case, you may figure it out by first understanding that there are millions of people on the internet and many of them have websites. You will never get started if you limit yourself to something that has never been done. Start with what usually comes to your mind when you think internet. It may be news, music, blogging, socializing or e-commerce.
Making a website also requires that you consider figuring out your content. Generally, there are several types of content and there are considerations associated with many of them. It is necessary that you figure out the content that suits your needs as well as the website. For example, consider whether you want to have contact information on the page of your website. Be careful about the kind of information you avail to people.
For your own security, do not display things such as your home phone number or home address since such information can be used in stealing your identity. Other things to consider include a store, media, images and widgets. In case you have a website building application such as adobe Dreamweaver, creating a website from scratch is not very hard. You may have to do some coding but do not panic at all. The HTML looks complicated. However, it is hard a first and very simple once you get the feel of it.


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Podcasts for Peer Tutors/Consultants
Here at Sweetland we have a large number of audio clips recorded during different sessions at our Peer Writing Centers. These clips reveal several common challenges and scenarios that our consultants have faced and approached with varying methods. We've created five podcasts showcasing clips centered around thought-provoking issues:
- How can you help with that all-too-tricky part of the paper: conclusions?
- What do you do when you're unfamiliar with the genre of writing someone is working on?
- How do you continue a session when you and the writer aren't connecting at all?
- What place does social justice have in the writing center?
- What are effective strategies that you may use in your everyday tutoring experiences?
We hope these podcasts will not only bring to mind relatable experiences you've had as a writing consultant, but will also inspire you to think of many new questions to bring to future sessions and your understanding of tutoring philosophy.