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spoiler:Could not believe the game allowed the PC to really "get to know" Benny in such a way with the Black Widow Perk. I was so shocked I forgot to kill the ill dressed little punk. I guess Angel is not living up to her name.
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I just like the basic look. I don't try and do anything contemporary, but just focus on the classics … rather than mixing up colors. I just find it the more basic, the better.
How do you describe your style?
Derivative of the late '60s fashion, (specifically) the British rock movement of the late '60s, early '70s because that's where (and when) I grew up.
What are your favorite pieces?
My Ralph Lauren navy blazer and my Alan Flusser flat-front tan pants.
Where is your favorite place to shop?
I never shop. I know exactly what I want and go and look for it. … I absolutely never shop. It's (usually) going to be Macy's, Dillard's or Banana Republic, one of those places.
Who is your fashion icon?
The Kennedys, (specifically) JFK, and their vacation photos. They always had those iconic pictures – classic stylish.
You have a stylish bike, too! Is that a big part of your life?
I've always had a motorcycle, since I was 16. It's always been a pleasure to me. (My bike now is) an iconic and vintage Japanese bike. … There's a group in Louisville with vintage bikes who meet every Wednesday night at The Monkey Wrench on Barret Avenue. This one I've had since April last year; I built it. It's a handcrafted bike (similar to the ones in) the late '60s, early '70s that were iconic in London, and it won best in class at the Carl Casper Custom Auto Show here in Louisville. I don't think there's another one like it.

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I've been looking for this movie about a boy who gets a rare illness.
This illness starts when the boy is between 5-9 years old and is based on a real person's story. The illness has many symptoms involving the illness one by one. First the boy gets pains, then becomes blind, then deaf, then bald, etc.
It's a very good movie, but very horrid and disturbing at the same time (due to the illness, that is).
I remember the father of the boy to be a famous face, possibly James Woods or Nick Nolte. I've checked both their filmographies but couldn't find it.
Thanks to anyone who can give me any answers or hints!


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Susan Walsh, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's choice for interior secretary is a lifelong outdoors enthusiast who likes to bike, ski and climb mountains.
As president and chief executive at Recreational Equipment Inc., Sally Jewell has applied her passion to her job, helping push REI to nearly $2 billion in annual revenues and a place on Fortune Magazine's list of "Best Places to Work."
Now Obama hopes to take advantage of Jewell's love for the outdoors and her business sense as she takes over at Interior, the federal department responsible for national parks and other public lands.
In announcing the nomination, Obama said Jewell has earned national recognition for her environmental stewardship at REI, which sells clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts. He also noted her experience as an engineer in oil fields and her fondness for mountain climbing.
The toughest part of Jewell's new job "will probably be sitting behind a desk," Obama said.
At a White House ceremony Wednesday, Obama said Jewell "knows the link between conservation and good jobs. She knows that there's no contradiction between being good stewards of the land and our economic progress — that, in fact, those two things need to go hand and hand."
At REI, Jewell "has shown that a company with more than $1 billion in sales can do the right thing for our planet," Obama said. Last year, REI donated nearly $4 million to protect trails and parks, and 20 percent of the electricity used in the company's stores comes from renewable sources.
If confirmed by the Senate, Jewell, 56, would replace current Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has announced he will step down in March.
Jewell said she was "humbled and energized" at the prospect of leading Interior, which manages more than 500 million acres in national parks and other public lands, as well as more than 1 billion acres offshore. The department oversees energy, mining operations and recreation and provides services to 566 federally recognized Indian tribes.
"I have a great job at REI today, but there's no role that compares to the call to serve my country as secretary of the Department of Interior," she said.
Jewell was born in England but moved to the Seattle area before age 4. She has led Kent, Wash.-based REI since 2005. She served as chief operating officer for five years before taking the top job and worked for nearly two decades in commercial banking before that. She also has worked as an engineer for Mobil Oil Corp.
Jewell emerged as a frontrunner for the Interior post in recent days, edging out better-known Democrats such as former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter. The Interior job traditionally has gone to politicians from Western states. Salazar was a Colorado senator before taking over at Interior in 2009.
Jewell donated $5,000 to Obama's re-election effort and has supported other Democrats, campaign finance records show.
Jewell is the first woman Obama has nominated for his second-term Cabinet and a prominent representative from the business community, addressing two criticisms Obama has faced.
While relatively unknown in political circles, Jewell is no stranger to the White House. In 2011, she introduced Obama at a White House conference on the "America's Great Outdoors" initiative, noting that the $289 billion outdoor-recreation industry supports 6.5 million jobs. She also appeared at a 2009 White House event on health care.
Jewell, who won the Audubon Society's 2009 Rachel Carson Award for Environmental Conservation, was hailed by environmental and business groups alike.
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DSM-5 Field Tests Reliably Detect Schizophrenia
5 December 2012. Clinicians trying out the new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5, largely come to the same conclusions, according to a trio of papers published online October 30 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Conducted by the Research Group of the DSM revision team led by Darrel Regier of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and David Kupfer of the University of Pittsburgh, and including members from academia and the APA, the studies found that for 14 out of 23 disorders with adequate sample sizes, the revised diagnostic classification criteria produced consistent results when used by different people, as did new dimensional measures of symptoms shared across disorders.
For schizophrenia, reliability in diagnosis and in dimensional measures of psychosis scored in the good range. This is reassuring, given that for this revision of the DSM, the APA has abandoned the subtypes of schizophrenia (e.g., paranoid, disorganized, etc.) present in previous editions of the manual.
For the most part, the DSM-5 worked, said Helena Kraemer, a biostatistician at Stanford University, who was part of the Research Group. Its probably the most scientifically credible revision of the manual thats ever been done.
These trials mark the endgame of a 14-year-long revision process of the DSM, a catalogue of psychiatric disorders that helps clinicians accurately and consistently make their diagnoses. The new results may help assuage some concerns over revisions to the manual, and identify sections needing further tweaking before its release in 2013.
The new studies focused on test-retest reliability of the manual, asking whether two different clinicians using it to evaluate the same patient would come up with the same diagnosis. This was explored under real-world conditions, in which clinicians with different backgrounds diagnosed a random sample of patients, including those with symptoms that crossed diagnostic boundaries. This approach contrasts with the previous DSM-IV field trials, which estimated reliability under ideal conditions: patients with comorbid symptoms were excluded, and clinicians were highly trained experts in a particular disorder.
The Research Group charged with testing the DSM-5 had a different mindset from the get-go, Kraemer told SRF. A decision was made early on that the purpose of the DSM was for patient care, she said. So we had to evaluate the quality of these diagnoses for real patients in the hands of real clinicians in the real world.
This real-world mentality could account for the somewhat lower measures of reliability obtained for the DSM-5 in these studies compared to those for the DSM-IV, though they still compare favorably to those in other branches of medicine, according to Kraemer and colleagues (Kraemer et al., 2012).
Getting real
In the first paper, first author Diana Clarke and colleagues laid out the design of the field tests, which took place at 10 sites in the U.S. and one site in Canada. Several features of the trials allowed assessment of how the manual would perform in everyday clinical settings: 1) 279 clinicians of different levels of expertise and experience, including psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health nurses, interviewed the patients; 2) the clinicians were trained to use the DSM-5 through one hour of Web-based training, and three hours of in-person training, similar to how training is expected to proceed after it is published; 3) standardized diagnostic interviews were not used, because they are not routinely used in clinical practice; and 4) patients were selected randomly, with 2,246 patients ultimately enrolled and 86 percent completing both interviews.
To amass enough data in 10 months on 21 adult and 12 pediatric diagnosis categories contained in the DSM-5, researchers employed a stratified sampling design in which different sites were assigned to collect patients with four to seven different target disorders. The researchers aimed to get 50 people per target diagnosis per site to make precise measures of reliability for even rare disorders. Initially, arriving patients were screened and sorted into one of these targeted disorders if they met DSM-IV criteria (or likely had symptoms associated with DSM-5 criteria), or into an other diagnosis catch-all. Then, a DSM-5 trained clinician, blind to this assignment, would interview the patient and diagnose according to DSM-5 criteria. Four hours to two weeks later, a second clinician, also blind to this information, would do the same.
The clinicians entered their data into a centralized database, which was then analyzed separately by field test organizers. This provided a more objective measure of reliability, Kramer says, compared to the previous DSM-IV field trials, in which data could be analyzed by the same people who had developed revisions to the manual.
Reliable diagnosis
In the second paper, first author Regier and colleagues reported that adequate sample sizes were obtained for 15 adult diagnoses and eight pediatric diagnoses. Reliability was quantified with intraclass kappa, a probability-based measure that reflects the predictive value of the first diagnosis, with values close to 1 being predictive (i.e., a high chance that the second diagnosis would agree), and values close to 0 being unreliable. Intraclass kappa takes into account the possibility of chance agreement, which other measures, such as a simple percentage of cases in which clinicians agreed, do not. It also provides confidence intervals, giving researchers a sense of precision for their reliability estimates.
Overall, the DSM-5 performed well, with a majority of disorders scoring in the very good and good ranges of reliability, and giving prevalence rates in the same ballpark as those obtained with the DSM-IV. Disorders in the very good range (kappa 0.60-0.79) included post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex somatic symptom disorder, major neurocognitive disorder, autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Those scoring in the good range (kappa 0.40-0.59) included schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, binge eating disorder, alcohol use disorder, mild neurocognitive disorder, borderline personality disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder.
Schizophrenia fared well enough, with kappa scores of 0.46 for schizophrenia itself and 0.50 for schizoaffective disorder. The prevalence of schizophrenia diagnoses was slightly lower at one site than that found using the DSM-IV on the same patients (0.53 vs. 0.37), but whether this will translate to population-wide changes in prevalence awaits epidemiological studies based on DSM-5 criteria. Overall, the results suggest that folding the DSM-IVs different schizophrenia subtypes into a single schizophrenia diagnosis in the DSM-5 did not hurt diagnosis reliability. Similarly, combining different autism-related DSM-IV diagnoses into a single autism diagnosis gave a consistent kappa (0.69).
The hotly contested attenuated psychosis disorder (APS) (see SRF Live Discussion), considered a potential precursor of psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, did not accumulate enough samples to precisely estimate reliability. Though the kappa was 0.46, the confidence interval was too wide for this to be meaningful. Kraemer suggests that this reflected a design flaw that overestimated the number of these kinds of patients seen by the sites tasked with enrolling cases of APS, rather than the specifics of the APS diagnostic criteria or clinician training on it. Earlier this year, APS was stricken from the main text of the DSM-5 (see SRF related news story).
Disappointing results came for major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, which both scored in the questionable range. Because the criteria for these disorders did not change substantially in the DSM-5 revision, Kraemer suggests the low reliabilities may reflect the plethora of other symptoms that tend to come with these disorders, and their variation over time. Among field trial patients with diagnoses of major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, and alcohol use disorder, comorbidity was the rule, rather than the exception—only a minority had pure versions of a disorder that did not include symptoms from other disorders.
Dimensional domains
Because different psychiatric disorders share features, and because the boundaries between diagnoses may be a difference in degree rather than type of symptom, the third study tried out new dimensional measures of these cross-cutting symptoms. First author William Narrow of the Division of Research at the APA and colleagues reported the consistency of the assessments of each patient in 14 psychological domains, including depression, anger, mania, anxiety, and substance abuse. Using questionnaires developed to capture these features, patients rated themselves (or informants rated patients unable to rate themselves, either because of age or ability) on a scale of 1-5 on each item at each of two visits before their interviews with a clinician. The two independent clinicians also rated patients in two domains—psychosis and suicide risk.
These assessments were remarkably consistent across the two visits, as measured by intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). For adult patients scoring themselves, and parents scoring their children, ICCs in the good or excellent range resulted, whereas less reliable scores emerged when children under 11 rated themselves. For the two domains rated by clinicians, however, the results were less consistent: in adults, psychosis was rated with good reliability, but less well in children. Suicide risk was also judged inconsistently, with ICCs in the questionable range for adults and unacceptable range for children, suggesting some troubleshooting still needing to be done.
Though it is not yet clear whether this dimensional view will be included in the DSM-5, the results position dimensions as promising complements to the category-dominated view of psychiatric diagnoses. A forthcoming study of convergent validity will explore how well dimensional measures predict diagnosis, and vice versa. This will give a sense of the overlap between these two styles of measurement, and also help address issues of validity, by focusing on how well the disorders are captured by the measures for which they were designed.
Although the overall mix of patients varied in their age, ethnicity, and education, the authors noted that the types of patients seen at these large, academic clinical sites might not catch the full spectrum of psychiatric patients. Another forthcoming study will report how the DSM-5 fared in smaller, general practice clinics. Because their small size precludes any measure of reliability, the focus will be on how user friendly the DSM-5 is in this setting, asking whether it is clear, practical to use, and useful.
This represents a tremendous amount of work for one manual, and Kraemer said it may be the last time a full-scale revision of the DSM will happen. Instead, the DSM-5 is planned to be a kind of living document in which advances in knowledge may be quickly incorporated into the manual, taking a year or two instead of waiting every 15 years for a full-blown revision of the entire manual. This rolling process of improvement via piecemeal adjustment would make the DSM-5 more responsive to scientific progress in psychiatric disorders, and potentially disseminate the fruits of science more quickly out into the clinical world.—Michele Solis.
Clarke DE, Narrow WE, Regier DA, Kuramoto SJ, Kupfer DJ, Kuhl EA, Greiner L, Kraemer HC. DSM-5 Field Trials in the United States and Canada, Part I: Study Design, Sampling Strategy, Implementation, and Analytic Approaches. Am J Psychiatry. 2012 Oct 30. Abstract
Regier DA, Narrow WE, Clarke DE, Kraemer HC, Kuramoto SJ, Kuhl EA, Kupfer DJ. DSM-5 Field Trials in the United States and Canada, Part II: Test-Retest Reliability of Selected Categorical Diagnoses. Am J Psychiatry. 2012 Oct 30. Abstract
Narrow WE, Clarke DE, Kuramoto SJ, Kraemer HC, Kupfer DJ, Greiner L, Regier DA. DSM-5 Field Trials in the United States and Canada, Part III: Development and Reliability Testing of a Cross-Cutting Symptom Assessment for DSM-5. Am J Psychiatry. 2012 Oct 30. Abstract


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How does Picasa decide how to process RAW photos? When I shoot in RAW+JPEG the two pictures can look dramatically different. Is it just converting the RAW files upon import, or is post-processing still possible in the application?
I don't know all the technical details of how Picasa handles RAW files, but my short answer would be: "Dont even bother". There's a good blog post on using Picasa with RAW files.
Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with Picasa. It's very good at what it's made for. I use it all the time for basic JPEG editing and uploading baby snapshots to share with family, but when I need to process some RAW files I'll always go to Capture NX or Lightroom (one day when I figure out how to handle colors in Nikon's RAW files).
First of all, it sounds like you are comparing Picasa with your camera's JPEG generator, so I'll talk about what your camera does first, and the I'll talk more about how Picasa works.
A typical camera will take an image on the sensor, and it'll be some kind of a RAW image. As it takes an insane amount of time to write an image out, most of the time the conversion to JPEG is done using a specialty chip that handles the conversion. They typically have a few settings, like sharpness, contrast, white balance, etc, but the control is fairly minimal, and you're stuck with whatever comes out the other end.
Picasa will do some preliminary processing on all RAW images upon import. Picasa, like most serious photo editors, doesn't actually change the RAW image directly, instead, it contains a sidecar file that lists the changes that have been done. There are a few exceptions with Picasa, namely when you do spot removal, or red-eye removal, a JPEG is created, but otherwise, the only changes occur in a sidecar file.
What Picasa does out of the box isn't completely clear, but it is clear that it does some kind of auto contrasting. I've noticed that when I've used it, the highlights are almost always over exposed, where in camera or using Lightroom, I don't see the same problem. Of course, you can fiddle some with the dials to try and improve the performance, with limited success.
Picasa, for it's price, is a great program, but like most things, you get what you pay for. I do recommend it as a whole to a beginning photographer, but if you're the type to spend hundreds on a camera or lens, you should consider a few hundred to get a better post processing program.
If you're a perfectionist and have a good eye for extreme detail and have plenty of time, then shoot in raw. If you take a reasonable photo to start with, Picasa does a half decent job with JPG.
To sum up raw contains every detail shot and you have to edit what's what: dodge and burn brightness contrast etc. With JPG your camera is programmed to works out what it judges to be a good photo. JPG also loses a certain amount of detail


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WEIRTON - Weirton Madonna High School honored its 34 newest graduates Sunday during commencement exercises for the Class of 2013, held at St. Joseph the Worker Parish.
Welcoming her fellow graduates, family, friends and the school's faculty, salutatorian and senior class president Amy Davis recalled some words of advice she received while making the transition to high school four years ago.
She said she was told by the secretary at St. Joseph the Worker Grade School to enjoy high school because it goes by so quickly.
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NEWEST GRADUATES — The Weirton Madonna High School Class of 2013 commencement was held Sunday at St. Joseph the Worker Parish. - Craig Howell
"Four years is a long time, but as I look back I realize she was right," Davis said.
In her salutatorian address, Davis continued by discussing some of the class' experience over the years, beginning with memories of the Sept. 11 attacks while they were in first grade. She also recalled being afraid of the seniors during her freshman year, numerous good times and a few bad times.
"None of these memories would have been possible without our families, friends and teachers," she said.
She concluded by encouraging her classmates to go out into the world and make new memories, new friends and experience new things, noting a quote from her favorite fictional character - Batman - saying "It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you."
Valedictorian Sarah Mills continued looking back over the class' high school years, including the loss of Sarah Smalley, who would have been a part of the class. Smalley died in the summer of 2005.
"I'm sure she is watching down on us today, smiling," Mills said.
Mills said the students will all be faced with numerous choices in determining who they will be.
She encouraged her classmates to embrace the college experience, try new things, take risks, and, quoting Walt Disney, "Keep moving forward."
Weirton attorney Michael Nogay served as the guest speaker Sunday, relaying some advice gathered from his life and experiences.
He told the class to never confuse being lucky with being special, to set their sights high and dream big, and, noting improvements done at Madonna in recent years, he encouraged the students to find ways to give back and help their own little corner of the world.
"If we each do our small part, this whole world will be a better place," Nogay said.
He encouraged the students to stay away from drugs and alcohol, suggesting they even forego pain medication when getting their wisdom teeth removed.
"Live with the pain and discomfort for a few days," he said, noting too many people these days become addicted to pain medicine.
Finally he told the class to never rely on others for their own happiness in life.
"Ultimately, it is your job," he said.
The members of the Weirton Madonna Class of 2013 are Serra Alongi, Amanda Best, Lacey Boreman, Madison Burchill, Julia Castellucci, Nicholas Conforti, David Crawley, David Cullinan, Amy Davis, Makenna Dziatkowicz, Dylan Fenske, James Fulciniti Jr., Steven Fuscardo, Toriano Fuscardo, Gina Granato, Alan Green, Taylor Himmelrick, Joseph Holmes, Quintin Hukill, Emalee Hvizdak, Garrett Hypes, Corey Perri-Johnson, Alexia Korth, Charles Kotten, Kaitlin Kramer, Kaitlin McGaughey, Sarah Mills, Dominic Notni, Taylor Pavan, Cassidy Psaroudis, Nicolette Sellitti, Taylor Thomas, Rachel Veltri and Alexandra Yazbek.


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in iOS SDK, how to detect movement of user? Here is the assumption:
- The user holds the iPhone horizontal ( parallel to the floor )
- The iPhone is 3GS / 4 / 4s
- Location service is ON (do I need this?)
- The user is walking around, so I have to detect how long he walk (doesn't need to be accurate)
- The OS supported are iOS 4 & 5
I already implemented
CMDeviceMotion for direction, tilt & pitch detection, but I still can't figure out how to detect the movement of user. Please advice. Thanks a million!


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Second Trimester 1stTrimester 3rd Trimester
160 days to go...
Your baby todayYour baby's jaw continues to grow throughout the pregnancy, but at this time it can still appear to be quite short. The early tooth buds are hardening within both jaws and, just as with the other bones, calcium is being laid down to strengthen their structure.
Around this time, you may become aware of your baby moving, although for some women first movements are felt much later.
Although your baby is very active, she's not big enough for you to feel any but the strongest kicks on the walls of your uterus. "Quickening" is the term used to describe these first movements, which feel like tiny flutterings or bubbles in your lower abdomen. You may not notice them or not realize that they are the baby at first, since they feel similar to having gas.
If you've been pregnant before, you will be more familiar with the sensation and able to recognize it. First-time moms generally don't feel movements until a bit later, at about 18 to 20 weeks (see You are 19 Weeks and 3 Days), so don't worry if you haven't felt anything yet. The flutterings become more persistent and definite over time, and there will eventually be recognizable kicks and nudges.
Once you can feel the activity, you will become very conscious of them and may become aware of a pattern to them.
Focus On... Dads
Being patient
It will be exciting when your partner tells you she can feel the baby move and a great milestone of the pregnancy, but when you touch your partner's belly, you won't feel anything at all. Just be a little patient since there will be plenty of opportunities later on in the pregnancy to feel the movements. Meanwhile, keep talking to your baby-she can hear you!
As A Matter Of Fact
Babies are rocked to sleep by their mother's movements.
This is why you're less likely to feel your baby move when you're active. You're also likely to be distracted yourself and miss some movement.
The Lowdown
That funny feeling
The first time you notice your baby moving marks the start of a new chapter in the bonding process, and it seems it has always been the case, even in ancient times.
In many cultures, until the advent of pregnancy tests, "quickening" was the first conclusive evidence of pregnancy, and was viewed as the point at which human life began.
According to ancient Egyptian, Greek, American, and Indian beliefs, the first movement marked the moment when the soul entered the fetus. Aboriginals regard the location where the first quickening is felt as highly significant for the baby.
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Excerpted from Pregnancy Day by Day.
Copyright © 2008 Dorling Kindersley Limited.
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I am studying Fundamentals of Multimedia by Ze-Nian Li and Mark S Drew. They use the term "sprite" but I don't understand the meaning. Can someone explain to me what sprites are and how they are used?
If in the book they are talking about image sprites for the web they are images that contain multiple images, like for instance a series of icons to be used in a navigation bar. You would have one http request for the "sprite" and use CSS to display the icon needed. You can have sprites that contain all of the images for a given page if you wanted. The main reason for using them is to lower the amount of files to be downloaded for the website or webpage.
Hope this helped:)
Technically and historically, a sprite is an animation (not an individual frame of one). I have never seen an actual authority cite the origin of the term, but it has to do with scanline priority queues and graphic display hardware.
A sprite sheet is a well-structured single image (usually a series of animation frames laid out in a grid of
A paper and pencil analogue to this is a roll of paper tape with drawings on it, pulled behind a frame which is set up so that only one drawing is visible through the frame at any given time. If you pull the tape rapidly enough, you see an animation.
Sounds a lot like a movie reel.
From Wikipedia:
In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. Initially used to describe graphical objects handled separate from the memory bitmap of a video display, the term has since been applied more loosely to refer to various manner of graphical overlays.
A sprite is a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. A sprite is basically an animation. The main reason for using sprite is to lower the amount of files to be downloaded for the website or webpage.


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Emmett J. Vaughan (1934-2004)
Emmett Vaughan started his University of Iowa career in 1963, as an assistant professor. For many years, Vaughan directed the college's efforts in insurance education. He was instrumental in helping the university earn a distinguished reputation in the field of insurance education in the 1970s and 1980s. He mentored and trained many of the industry's top leaders and wrote a defining text, Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance, now in its 10th edition. Today, insurance executives throughout the state and nation credit Vaughan for influencing their careers.
He was named an associate professor in 1965 and a full professor in 1972. At the end of his career, he served as a professor of finance and was instrumental in the establishment of the Tippie College's Institute of Risk Management and Insurance. The institute was named in his honor in 2004.
He held the professional designations of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU). He was a member of the American Risk and Insurance Association, Beta Gamma Sigma, Omicron Delta Epsilon, the Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters, and the Financial Executives Institute.
For 20 years, Vaughan was the editor of the Agency Management Manual, a popular valuable reference on the legal, financial, and strategic issues related to the operation of an insurance agency. He served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor on health insurance issues and testified before committees of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. Senate, and House of Representatives. Following the Persian Gulf War in 1992, Professor Vaughan assisted Adjustors International, the company hired by Kuwait, to coordinate the nearly 3 million claims for U.N.-mandated reparations due its citizens from Iraq.
Vaughan's importance to the field of insurance, particularly in the state of Iowa, was acknowledged when he was inducted as a charter member of the Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2003, Allied Insurance constructed a new training center at their Des Moines, Iowa, facility, which was dedicated and named in his honor.
Vaughan served the University of Iowa as associate dean for external programs for the then College of Business Administration from 1979 to 1985 and as interim dean of the college from October 1981 through July 1983. After serving as interim dean of the Division of Continuing Education, he was named dean of the division in 1986, and he served in that role until 2001.
A member of the University of Iowa Presidents Club, Vaughan received many distinctions in his long career. He was named the J.E. Partington Professor of Insurance at the University of Iowa in 1968. One year later, he was inducted as a member of the Japan Risk Management Society, one of only two Americans to receive that honor.
Vaughan earned a Ph.D. in economics and insurance from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1963 and an M.A. in economics from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 1962. He earned a B.A. in economics from Creighton University.


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Bubbling up: Diet soda market adding exotic flavors
|The soda market has been losing ground to sports drinks and vitamin waters in recent years with one exception: diet sodas. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
Today, it isn't just colas that are going on a diet. The market for no-calorie sodas has become as effervescent as the beverages themselves, with an ever-expanding palette of exotic flavors such as coconut, pomegranate and coffee - many of them from small companies that are developing loyal followings catering to customers' thirst for carbonated indulgence without the sugar.
"We'd all love to drive a Ferrari if it had the fuel consumption of a Prius, but you can't have it all. What we've found with our product is that it gets the fuel consumption of a Prius and maybe drives like a BMW," said Paddy Spence, chief executive of Zevia, a brand of stevia-sweetened sodas based in Culver City, Calif., that is sold locally at Ralphs and Albertsons supermarkets and, later this fall, will be available at Vons and Target.
Zevia is one of the only carbonated drink companies to use the natural, no-calorie sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, which is generally recognized as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as a sweetener in foods. Stevia is more commonly used in non-carbonated beverages, such as Sobe Life Water and Vitamin Water.
Most diet sodas are artificially sweetened with aspartame (better known as Equal), acesulfame potassium (also known as Ace-K) or sucralose (branded as Splenda) - sometimes in combination. All of them are artificial sweeteners produced using chemical processes that are regulated by the FDA as food additives.
The FDA has approved the use of five artificial sweeteners as food additives, including aspartame, Ace-K and sucralose, as well as saccharin and neotame (better known as NutraSweet). Before each sweetener came to market, the FDA determined they were safe "well within acceptable daily intake levels," said FDA spokeswoman Carla Daniels.
While some studies have shown that repeated exposure to low- and no-calorie sweeteners may lead to the development of preferences for sweet foods and beverages and high-calorie foods, and eventually lead to health complications associated with such a diet, that hasn't slowed the market.
Diet soda is a rare sweet spot in the carbonated soft-drink business. Sales of soda overall have been declining in the U.S. since 2005 as consumers migrate to other types of bottled drinks. In 2000, diet sodas made up 24.7 percent of the $76 billion carbonated beverage market in the U.S.
Driven by consumers' demand for sweet drinks without the weight gain and tooth decay associated with 160-calories-per-can sugar versions, diet sodas now make up 29.1 percent of sales, according to John Sicher, editor and publisher of Beverage Digest in Medford Hills, N.Y.
Galco's Soda Pop Stop in L.A.'s Highland Park neighborhood carries almost two dozen types of diet soda, such as Fitz's of St. Louis, Boylan's of New Jersey and Hank's of Trevose, Pa., as well as Lorina from France and Squamscot from New Hampshire. Among the flavors he carries are diet sodas in grape, chai and vanilla, as well as more traditional flavors, such as cola and citrus.
"People want to taste something different, and that's what we're about," said John Nese, owner of Galco's for 15 years. "Some of those people want zero calories."
With the variety of chic diet sodas expanding faster than the contents of a CO2 canister, we asked a few Times staffers to sample a dozen brands in a wide variety of flavors, such as cola, grape soda and root beer. Here are their thoroughly unscientific reviews.
Cascade Ice Acai Blueberry Pomegranate
(sweetened with sucralose)
"I enjoy this as a less sugary option to fruit juice. It's light but still has the berry taste."
Hank's Diet Root Beer
(sweetened with aspartame)
"Good root beer flavor but lighter."
Jones Zero Calorie Vanilla Bean Soda
"Doesn't taste too sweet. Very nice vanilla flavor."
Lorina Sparkling Lemonade
"I could drink this all day."
Squamscot Diet Grape
"Yum! Doesn't taste like diet."
(sucralose and Ace-K)
"Bad flavor, extra sweet finish." "Sweeter than Diet Coke with a genuine cola flavor."
Dr. Brown's Diet Cream Soda
"All sweet, no flavor." "Wow. Love it."
Fitz's Diet Cream Soda
(sucralose and Ace-K)
"Strong vanilla flavor, a little too sweet." "Tastes like vanilla ice cream."
Zevia Mountain Zevia
"Too sweet."
Blenheim Ginger Ale
"The ginger is so strong that it burns."
Manhattan Special Espresso Coffee Soda
"Tastes like carbonated burnt coffee. Very bitter but too sweet at the same time."
Taylor's Tonics Chai Cola Light
"Exotic in a bad way."
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Shell said it had already shut the Trans Niger's 28-inch pipeline to remove connections used for crude oil theft when the incident occurred, causing it to shut the 24-inch pipeline as well. It said the 24-inch line will reopen once it is safe to do so, while the 28-inch line will remain remain shut-in.
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Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian subsidiary has shut a key
pipeline in the Niger Delta following an explosion and fire at
a point that had been targeted by oil thieves, the company said
in a statement Thursday.
The Trans Niger pipeline, which carries 150,000 bpd of oil
through the Niger Delta to the Bonny terminal, was shut on
Wednesday after the event at Bodo West in Ogoniland, the
statement said.
"This is another sad reminder of the tragic consequences of
crude oil theft," said Mutiu Sunmonu, managing director and
country chair at Shell's Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum
Development. Oil theft is a persistent problem in Nigeria,
Africa's largest oil producer, and frequently disrupts oil
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previous crude oil theft point was being repaired by the team,"
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28-inch pipeline to remove connections used for crude oil theft
when the incident occurred, causing it to shut the 24-inch
pipeline as well. It said the 24-inch line will reopen once it
is safe to do so, while the 28-inch line will remain remain
shut-in until the fire has been extinguished and investigation
and damage assessment completed.
Community leader Sylvester Kogbara, who chairs the council
of chiefs and elders of Bodo, the community in the Eastern
Niger Delta where the incident took place, told the Wall
Street Journal that the pipeline suffered a spill early
last week, but on Wednesday "it caught fire," wounding several
Shell said so far practically no oil had spilled as a result
of the incident since the fire was burning it off.
"What is visible in the water is from an earlier oil spill
which was also as a result of oil theft," said Mr. Sunmonu.
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Two-point games are becoming a habit for the Pratt High School boys' basketball team. On Tuesday, Senior Night, the Greenbacks played their third consecutive such contest. The difference was, this time Pratt found a way to win—dropping the Sterling Black Bears 56-54.
"It was fun for the kids to win a close one," PHS head coach David Swank said. "Especially on senior night."
The game was close throughout, with Pratt establishing a 17-14 lead after one quarter. "It was huge that Christian (Kurz), Spencer (Sullivan) and Liam (Kahmeyer) came up big offensively for us in that first period," observed Swank. "Sterling's game plan was to take away Skylar (Dean), and we were able to score 17 points in the first quarter without Skylar having any of them."
The Greenbacks took a slim 28-27 lead into the halftime locker room. After the break, Sterling had to spread out their defense to account for the other scorers, and Dean was then also able to get into the offensive flow, ending the night with 17 points.
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It was an honor to be included in Saturday's Salute to Our Heroes military gala in Topeka. Having an opportunity to say thank you in person to the men and women who serve and their families is something I love to do, and it was a treat to hear stories from a few of our servicemen and servicewomen. I asked a couple at our table, for example, where they were stationed before coming to Fort Riley. He chuckled when he answered, "Hawaii!" But, he said, he and his wife do enjoy Kansas and, being from Iowa and Illinois, are thankful to be closer to family. A Lt. Col. had left an MRE at my seat as a gift - I'm told it is a good flavor! The soldier at our table then shared some insights into navigating the culinary waters during his two deployments to Iraq!
While those conversations put the realities of military life into a light-hearted perspective, there were several moments that drove home the harsher realities about which there is no joke. I was presenting an award to the VFW and asked to be introduced to their representative, Lynn Rolf. We approached his table and were told he was seated with several Gold Star families - their loved ones had lost their lives serving our nation. They went around the table and introduced themselves, names I recognized from reading them on the news. These were the faces behind those names, the ones left behind and to whom we also owe a debt of gratitude. When Lynn accepted the VFW award, he recognized the families, a moment which brought the audience to its feet in an extended ovation.
An equally poignant moment came before dinner, when our attention was drawn to a small table at the front of the room to the side of the stage. I had never been to a military gala before and was unfamiliar with this tradition, The White Table, honoring those killed in action, missing in action or held prisoners of war. I have included a photo below and share with you the symbolism of each element, as described on the web site for the Armed Forces History Museum.
The tablecloth chosen for the table is always white. White symbolizes the pure intention with which the comrades honored have served.
The table is small with a setting for just one person, reflecting the vulnerability of one prisoner against his enemy.
A single rose in a vase sits on the table symbolizing the blood that has been shed. The rose also represents the families and loved ones that have been left behind and the faith they uphold that their loved one will one day return.
A slice of lemon is placed on a bread plate as a reminder of their bitter fate. And the salt on this plate symbolizes the tears that have been shed by their families as they quietly wait.
A glass on the table is inverted which denotes their inability to be with us and toast with us this night.
A candle on the table represents the light in our hearts that accompanies the hope that they will one day find their way home.
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The game two homosexual men play while having sex or an event at he Homosexual Olympics.
Holy cow!!! I never new Steve was gay till I walked in on him and his boyfriend playing dodge-ball!!!
автор: Weslitzu 7 июля 2010
1. A game played in Phys. Ed. usually involving the lobbing of rubber or leather balls into people to eliminate them. It seperates the strong from the stupid, bench-warming pansies. It is currently being banned in most American school because parents think kids should be coddled beyond belief.
2. The object thrown in a game of dodgeball
2. The object thrown in a game of dodgeball
2.) I broke my nose because some jock hurled a dodgeball at the speed of light.
2.) I broke my nose because some jock hurled a dodgeball at the speed of light.
автор: InvisibleWater 23 октября 2012
When your balls stick to your leg.
Man, I have a serious case of dodgeballs.
автор: Steif798 6 августа 2011
why i started smoking pot and cutting gym class because they outlawed this great game that allows people to take out their rage with a rubber ball.
I cant clock Tim anymore cuz they outlawed dodgeball. now i smoke pot and cut class
автор: trashisyummy 22 апреля 2011
To send a cell phone text message to your network of friends through the increasingly popular website dodgeball.com
"When I go out later, I'll dodgeball."
автор: fambai 28 декабря 2004
A excellent game in which two teams try to eliminate each other by tagging opposing players "out" with an inflatable rubber ball. A player is out if he is struck by a ball before it bounces or if he throws the ball and an opposing player catches it before it bounces. If a ball bounces, it is considered out-of-play until it is thrown again.
A lot of useless liberals who call themselves "physical education teachers" are trying to turn children into pansies by outlawing dodgeball. These idiots, who never should have been certified to teach in any state, don't realize that dodgeball does NOT destroy self esteem. Dodgeball is nothing more than a REALLY FUN GAME!
автор: Pissed Off Paul 17 октября 2003
A great game that teaches you a great lesson in life...survival of the fittest
A:Dude throw the ball u frekin pussy
B:I...i cant (mean while jonnie launched a ball at his head and now he is out)
B:I...i cant (mean while jonnie launched a ball at his head and now he is out)
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The Long, Hard Facts
If Michael Phelps demonstrated anything in the 2008 Olympics, it was that the United States Of America is pretty much the best at everything. OK, not so much education or health care or manufacturing things. But we rule at swimming. Oh, and internet porn. We produce more than anybody on the planet. Even adjusted for population, not even Japan can touch us.
Now, we know what you're saying: as a country we probably just produce more websites in general, and porn happens to be one variety. Not so. As early as 2003, Germany was producing 84.7 websites for every 1,000 members of their population to America's 63.7. In 2006, Israel was number one in the monthly hours spent on the Internet. Even Luxembourg, Germany, and Ireland lead in broadband penetration, a statistic so upsetting that we refuse to use it as a segue to a perfectly tuned dick joke.
And this is just a picture of Germany.
Things aren't looking much brighter going forward. China overtook us in total users by nearly 30 million in 2008 (of course, everyone knows the Chinese multiply by binary fission, so raw usage doesn't count). At least we're number one in is percentage of population using the Internet ... well, as long as you don't count Japan, Australia and Canada. That's right, we're losing the Internet war to our freaking hat.
The Moneyshot
But then, we have porn.
America has produced the most pornographic webpages of any country, or any 10 countries for that matter. At last count, we were responsible for 244,661,900 pages of perversion. Our nearest neighbor in that respect is Germany with 10,030,200 pages, but given the depraved material they're renowned for one can safely assume most of those pages have only been visited once or twice.
But we probably just lead because we have a higher population, right? Wrong; based on the current U.S. population, there is approximately 0.8 porn pages per U.S. citizen, six times the average of Germany. And if you think we're stopping before it's a one to one ratio, don't forget that there's a little Michael Phelps in ALL of our pornographers. U-S-A! U-S-A!
#2. Porn > Productivity
The Long, Hard Facts
It is nearly impossible to quantify the effect that the desktop computer has had on production in modern business. Their capacity to automate, error-check, schedule tasks and intercommunicate are the very core of productivity. Even the inclusion of solitaire on most systems is vastly more efficient than breaking out a deck of cards and clearing the desk to play.
Three monitors, two towers and a laptop. Fuck you, procrastination.
The Moneyshot
There is no question that computers make our lives more efficient. After all, the staggering amount of pornography browsed at work probably cuts down on the time finding it at home significantly.
According to a 2008 Nielsen Online study, 25 percent of employees with internet connections use them to visit porn sites, which is up 23 percent from the previous year. M.J. McMahon, publisher of Adult Video News Online, further reports that hits on adult content peak during office hours. Its prevalence at work is blamed on the availability of non-subscription sites, a growing sentiment in the younger generation that pornography is not taboo, and those hydraulics on office chairs that let you ride low enough to facilitate covert wanking.
It's not just a syndrome here in the Land of the Free (hand). Queen's University in Belfast conducted a survey of employees at 350 businesses in the U.S., U.K. and Australia for the porn-filtering firm SurfControl. Overall, 28 percent admitted to downloading sexually explicit content from the Web while on the job, though U.S. employees were slightly less likely to do so. Or they were smart enough to deny it.
The good news is you don't have to worry about that lagging work ethic hurting the economy. The porn industry employs about 12,000 people in California and pays over $36 million in taxes every year, so every clandestine tug is helping, really.
#1. Porn > Everything
The Long, Hard Facts
Remember at the beginning when we said as big as you think porn is, it's actually bigger? We meant it.
Microsoft, purveyor of the operating system used on most of the computers in the world, reported 2008 profits in excess of $16 billion. ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded company and number five on Forbes' top 2000 companies, posted 2008 profits of $40.6 billion. Though there is little in common with their industries, they do share one common bond: porn revenues spank them both, and then poop on their chest.
Secretly, Microsoft kind of enjoys it.
The Moneyshot
In 2006, the sum of international revenues from pornographic videos, sexual novelties, magazines, "dance" clubs, pay-per-view and Internet was approximately $97 billion.
Can you even wrap your mind around that number? Try it this way: that's larger than the combined annual revenues of the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball. Think about how many stadiums full of furiously masturbating people that is. Just don't think of it the next time you're at a game.
Still not impressed? Well, our domestic revenues for pornography are larger than the revenues of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink combined.
This means $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography internationally every second. To put that in perspective, when ExxonMobil posted a quarterly profit of $11.7 billion last year, the largest in American history, they were effectively making $1,947 less per second than the world of filth mongers. Worse, Astroglide is water-based, so Exxon isn't even getting a cut of the lube commodities market.
When you start talking about money this big it's not even fair to compare individual companies, so we just made the jump to entire fucking countries. If you compare porn revenues to Gross Domestic Product, the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year, it is bigger than Morocco. And with mobile porn estimated to grow to become a $3.3 billion business by 2011, it's only a matter of time before Kazakhstan goes down like...
Well, you know.
Want to find out where you are on the global scale of contributors? Then check out The 10 Steps to Porn Addiction: Where Are You?. And find out how Japan is doing its part to curb this downward spiral into moral decay, in The 10 Most Perverted Old School Video Games.
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When you use the forum I would assume most to think I can post and read threads so all must be good. On the back side of things we are under daily attack from spammers, spam bots, hackers etc. Just yesterday alone I had to manually dump 40 new registrants into the spam can. Our previous forum (Simple Machine's) was worse as hackers were actually able to get into the system and delete images.
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Just realized that the
还不 part of speech in phrases such as "还不是因为爱", "还不都怪你" is quite tricky. How do you translate it into English?
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It's translated as "actually", "really", "just"; it is used to show your emphasis. It's a very tricky expression because it has no negative meaning, while it has a negative look (不).You usually use this word in a sentence as a response to show your disagreement with the speaker.
You and your friends go hiking in a big mountain, and you get lost. Fortunately, you have a GPS device, and it helps you get out of the adversity. When you are safe, one of your friends says, "Thank goodness!". You would say,
Here, You imply that he should thank you!Not thank goodness!.
And another one would say
Now,he wants everyone to know that they should thank him :)
I also want to show you the negative form of this expression, you would say:
I think 还不=还不是,it might be translated into 'it's all'. Because in Chinese you could express the same meaning with "全都是。。。".
还不是因为爱 = 全都是因为爱 = It's all because of love
还不(是)都怪你 = 全都(是)怪你 = It's all your bad
Although it's not quite, you can think 还不 as double negation. The character 还 contains a 不 too. :)
I would translate 还不 as "isn't it". For example:
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With an example of a person explaining why or why not he is inclined to help another person, I'd possibly translate it as
Example meaning: I will help you, because I love you
Example meaning: I would help you, if only you weren't solely responsible
还不是 can be translated to English literally as isn't.


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I'm writing own game engine and want to look how other peoples implement game engine architecture. So any advices about well architected engines (even paid ones) are welcome.
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First, let's make sure we're on the same page here. If you're looking for something to let you render in 2D, I consider that separate from a 2D game engine.
A 2D game engine provides more than just low-level commands. It provides a place to hook AI behavior. It provides real structure that you can build on. So I'm going to talk about those kinds of things, not merely 2D drawing systems.
There really aren't a lot of 2D engines out there. The one I know off the top of my head is Torque Game Builder (aka: Torque2D).
But the real problem is that you asked for "well architected engines." Quite frankly, I'm not sure such a thing exists, whether 2D or 3D.
I've looked at the guts of Torque2D, and while the library looks reasonable from a high-level user perspective, if you actually read any of the code, it's like something out of MC Escher. I'm sure there was rhyme and reason to it at some point, but that was a long time ago.
I've seen quite a few other engines, and perhaps the most well-architected one I could say I've seen is maybe Quake. And that one has more C-isms in it than you can shake a stick at.
Game engines are notoriously hard to architect well, for a number of reasons. Most engines aren't built to be engines; they're built to be a game that is highly moddable. So they're built on a game development schedule, which accrues quick-fix hacks and other unpleasantness readily.
Another big reason is that everything may need to talk to everything else; system segregation is really hard to maintain. Animations need to cause sound playback. AI actions need to cause graphics to happen. Sound playing needs to notify the AI (so characters can "hear" sounds). The "tree" of calls in a game often turns into a nightmarish graph.
The bane of every game engine is the dreaded entity class. I've seen several entity classes in a few shipped games, and while some of them may have been OK, none of them were good. You have not seen a "fat interface" until you've seen a game's entity class. It makes sense; it needs to touch everything. It touches sound, rendering, animation, AI, networking, anything that actually matters in a game ultimately comes back to the entity class.
My advice: look at how some 3D engines handle it. There really isn't that much difference between a 2D game than a 3D one; it's mostly about the renderer.
I hate promoting my stuff here, but I'll just mention that my own C++ game engine for rapid prototyping is here: http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/vectorstorm-test-harness-games/
It began life as a 2D vector graphic-based game engine (as prototypes happen faster, I've found, if you're not thinking about sprites), but has now being extended to support simple 3D graphics and textures as well, if desired.
But apart from its somewhat eccentric and manual style of rendering, it's reasonably full-featured, with its own memory manager (with leak/overwrite/etc checking), an integrated physics system (currently using Box2D), sound/music systems, keyboard/mouse/gamepad handling and remapping systems, its own maths code, etc. And it's compatible with Windows/Mac (and all but sound with iOS), and could be ported to Linux without much more work than simply writing a Makefile. Please do feel free to grab the source from the live subversion trunk and browse through it, copy bits of it into your own project, or whatever. I'm happy for folks to make use of any of that code in whatever ways they like.
It's still under active development (including some major restructuring right now, particularly in the rendering area), so the commenting/documentation isn't fantastic, and may occasionally be a little out of date. But the code is all there, and is reasonably under control and organised, and there are plenty of sample game implementations to compile, play, and browse the sample code from, to see how it all fits together.
The two engines (with available source) that I feel stand out in terms of C++ architecture are SFML and Ogre3D. Ogre3D is considered by many to be one of the best examples of object-oriented design, though it is a massive engine and therefore takes some effort to learn. SFML has a similar design, but is considerably smaller and geared specifically towards 2D, and you may find it more useful for the time being. Granted, neither is a full-fledged "game engine", but it is an excellent start.
Suggestions aside, I'd say take a look at lots of engines, whatever you can get your hands on. Not a one is perfect, and studying a wide variety can help you figure out what you like and what you don't like about each one, which in turn will help you design your engine to best suit your own needs.


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In the past when I wanted to mock an abstract class I'd simply create a mocked class in code that extended the abstract class, then used that class in my unit testing...
public abstract class MyConverter : IValueConverter
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public virtual Object ConvertBack(...) { ... }
private sealed class MockedConverter : MyConverter { ... }
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I want to get into the habit of using Moq instead. I'm not sure how I'd go about using Moq to test the default return value of my abstract class. Any advice here?


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I've been using a custom membership provider for authentication in all my web form applications till now. I'm about to start developing my first website using MVC. I'm wondering if I should I use the built-in membership provider that ships with ASP .NET MVC, or if I should create my own. My site needs to integrate with openid, facebook, google etc for authentication and openauth for api access. I'm wondering how easy it would be to use the built-in one for my needs.
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So personally, I would use some simple custom code to handle membership persistence for most basic-medium websites.
This then segues to your second question: OpenId. Use Andrew Arnott's DotNetOpenAuth .NET framework -> it litterally Kicks Serious Ass (tm). Using this is independent of HOW you save the user membership data to a repository. Ie. if you go ahead and use the Sql Server + ASP.NET Membership provider, you can still (and should) use DotNetOpenAuth. If you have a simple, custom way to save user details to a database (which is what I do), you can also still use DotNetOpenAuth -- the two are independent of each other.
So, IMO, don't use the overcomplicated ASP.NET Membership + Sql Server stuff but a simple table or two to save your own user details. Next, you MUST use DotNetOpenAuth for any OpenId stuff (StackOverflow uses DotNetOpenAuth to handle their OpenId login).
Good Luck :)
(I'm sure my opnions of the ASP.NET Membership provider + Sql Server to persist that info will cause a few people to nerd-rage, here).
If you have to ask, you shouldn't be writing your own provider. Doing security well is really hard. Doing it wrong is incredibly easy.
But the good news is that what you want is incredibly common, and there are tested, off-the-shelf tools which already do it. An example is Janrain. There are others, too. Use an existing, proven tool whenever possible.
Take a look at what's happening with NerdDinner. They've recently (6 months ago) integrated with OpenID, with Google, Yahoo as featured providers. They're still allowing all their 'native' logins as well. Here's an example of a site allowing the user to authenticate in different ways.
If you can mirror some of their functionality, you'd be able to roll in Facebook, OpenAuth, etc. The big benefit is that it's already been implemented in ASP.NET MVC, and you'd just have to borrow some of that implementation.
Here is an option and one that I use successfully.
You essentially have a single user which can be authenticated multiple ways.
Using the built in provider, which you could of course switch out at any time, does not preclude you from authenticating that user multiple ways.
When a user authenticates with OpenID, Facebook, etc. match that login against a table that matches the specific login method and identity to the Forms identity and just set the set the user as logged in with their canonical Membership user name.
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