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History of Crutches
Since antiquity humans have fashioned support devices to hold themselves up when they became sick or injured. Support device use dates back to 2830 BC. A carving on the entrance of an Egyptian tomb depicts a figure leaning on a crutch-like staff.
Crutch design has evolved from the basic "T" used by Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol to lightweight aluminum braces with ice-gripping tips or energy-storing tips that function as shock absorbers and are slip resistant.
For lower-limb injuries such as a broken leg, broken ankle, sprained ankle, knee injuries, and other injuries, as well as after surgery on the leg, knee, or ankle or foot, crutches remain useful today to decrease discomfort, reduce recovery time, and assist walking. Often when you get a cast put on your leg or foot you will be required to use crutches for a period of time. Crutches may also be used by amputees, and people with other disabilities that make walking difficult.
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Is there somewhere I can find a prewritten WebApp (with database) for a used car dealer? The application would need to support the following:
- Easy setup in a low cost Shared or Cloud Host
- Give potential customers easy way to browse current inventory (cars on lot) with suggested prices
- Give dealership easy way to login and update inventory (cars on lot) and suggested prices
- Give potential customers easy way to send the dealership an inquiry about a specific vehicle on the lot with CAPTCHA style SPAM protection
I prefer ASP.NET MVC and Microsoft SQL Server, but I might consider other technologies such as WebForms and LightSwitch (HTML5). I am reasonably comfortable with MVC and WebForms, but I really don't want to waste a bunch of time writing an application that might already exist.
I did find a few interesting templates via Bing that seem to control CSS and Layout, but I'm not sure if they contain any business logic or if they would integrate well into an MVC App.

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5 People Who Screwed Things Up for Everybody
#2. Cecil Beaton Invented Messing With Your Body Image
Today, everyone and their aunts protest the negative influence modern fashion photography has on the body image issues of our youth. Thanks to the photographers' and magazines' tendency to, er, creatively correct their shots, scores of girls grow up thinking stuff like blemishes, love handles and supernumerary nipples are shameful rather than the human norm, and therefore need to be hidden or otherwise dealt with.
Look at this crazy broad, enjoying her own body. It makes us sick.
The rift between how celebrities look in media versus how real people are is the cause of all manner of craziness, and the ensuing schizophrenic body image culture keeps both diet and comfort food industries good and cozy. And this is not even taking anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders into account.
And we can blame a whole lot of this nonsense on a single man: namely, a long-time Vogue and Vanity Fair photographer called Cecil Beaton.
Seen here rocking the hell out of a vest.
Such iconic celebrities of the past as Marilyn Monroe, Salvador Dali and Ingrid Bergman -- along with many more awesome now-dead people -- were in reality rather more wrinkly, lumpy and human than we think. Each and every one of them owes a large portion of their image today to Beaton's camera and gift for flattery. Especially the latter, seeing as he edited the shit out of his photographs and pioneered many of the staging techniques still used today.
He may ALSO have been the first hipster in recorded history.
Sixty years before Photoshop 1.0 was launched, Cecil was toiling away in dark rooms with basic tools such as razor blades and markers, trimming waistlines, "correcting" bulges and sharpening features. He was the Photoshop of his time, and actually became world famous for his ability to make the rich and famous look unreasonably sexy.
Others trod down the pathway he paved, eventually turning it into a goddamn eight-lane freeway, as editing the flaws out of public figures metamorphosed from a stylistic choice to a basic requirement. So if it wasn't for Cecil Beaton, we might live in a world where beauty ideals would be radically different, or at least one where the contents of Anne Hathaway's armpits would be free for the world to gasp upon.
God forbid any celebrity show a crease.
In fact, while we're on the subject of celebrity photographers ...
#1. Felice Quinto, Photographing Liz Taylor, Became the First Paparazzo
Look at the magazines section next time you're shopping. A good half of the magazines likely feature a candid shot of a famous person -- usually Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston -- doing something "behind the scenes," such as shopping or getting drunk or whatever. For some reason, when somebody is really good at acting, we immediately want to know what they look like while wearing sweat pants and eating a burger. Thus, we have an entire industry devoted to studying what entertainers do when they are not being entertaining. These photographers follow actors and pop stars around the clock, hoping to snap a candid photo that they can sell to Us for six figures.
This picture would be worth an extra $90,000 if she had a visible wedgie.
But while both famous people and obsessed fans have always been with us, we haven't always had a whole profession dedicated to digging through the compost that constitutes their private lives. In fact, these paparazzi didn't show up as a force until in 1962, when Richard Burton and Liz Taylor -- who were filming a highly anticipated movie together -- were pictured gettin' dirty on a yacht in the Mediterranean.
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Frankly, we don't consider it scandalous if there isn't at least one farm animal involved.
At the time, they were two of the biggest stars on Earth. The famously promiscuous Taylor was already tearing through husband number 4, and there had been no shortage of rumors regarding the sexy, sexy chemistry between the two. Papers, of course, needed details, which led to a small number of shameless photographers stalking the actors and even infiltrating the set as extras to try and catch them in the act.
Finally, in April, cameraman Felice Quinto was in the right place at the right time, and ended up with a snapshot of Burton and Taylor frolicking on a yacht. Hollywood had gained its first epic scandal with one simple picture. Quinto would go on to photograph JFK's funeral and get shot at by actresses with arrows.
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Above: Journalism.
Suddenly, every photographer wanted to be the one to come up with the next scandalous photo that would dominate headlines. Quinto would live to regret his roll in the birth of the paparazzi. But that was too late to stop future generations from caring way the hell too much about the relationships and genitalia of movie stars.
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Thanks to this man, we know what Lindsay Lohan's stretch marks look like.
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The jobless rate falls because the labor force shrinks.
The lousy March jobs report jolted financial markets Friday, and understandably so. In a trend that has defined this weakest of all modern economic recoveries, the jobless rate keeps falling but largely because the labor force keeps shrinking.
The unemployment rate fell to a new four-year low of 7.6%, from 7.7% in February. Good news, except the main reason for the decline was that nearly half a million Americans (496,000) left the civilian labor force. They retired, quit working, went back to school or gave up looking for work.
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The economy created a net 88,000 new jobs, 95,000 in private business. This means that for every unemployed American who found a job in March, about five left the labor force. If the Obama Administration can convince another three million or so Americans to leave the job market, the President will be able to hail "full employment."
The slack job creation isn't as bad if you average it with the revised figures since December. The average job growth for the last four months is 181,000, and 169,000 over the last year. Nonetheless, in the 45 months since the recession ended, job creation has averaged 113,000 fewer jobs a month than in a normal recovery, according to Congress's Joint Economic Committee.
If job creation had kept pace with a typical expansion, about 4.2 million more Americans would be collecting a paycheck. The March decline is especially disappointing given the stock market's strong run and other signs of revived confidence.
Some analysts on the left are blaming this on the modest sequester spending cuts, but you can't find much evidence for that in the March report. Federal civilian employment fell by 2,200 but state and local government jobs climbed by 7,000. The Post Office lost 11,700 jobs in the month, but it also lost $15.9 billion last year.
The sequester certainly can't explain the pullback in private hiring. For that you have to look to Washington's regulatory and tax squeeze that has put a risk premium on hiring. The payroll tax rose by two-percentage points in January, and small business owners were clobbered with an income tax hammer.
Employers also say that new costs and uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act are making them cautious. The rule that small firms with more than 50 employees are subject to new health mandates is capping employment at restaurants, hotels, factories, retailers and the like at 49 workers. Retail trades lost about 24,000 jobs in March.
The deeper concern is the continuing decline in the share of Americans who are working or looking for work. The civilian labor participation rate fell again in March to 63.3%. That's 0.5-percentage points lower than a year ago, and it's a stunning 2.4-points lower than June 2009 when the recovery began. The last time the participation rate was so low was in May 1979, before the surge of women into the workplace in the 1980s and 1990s.
It's important to understand how striking this job-participation collapse is. Labor participation fell or stayed flat in the recessions of 1973-75, 1981-82 and 1990-91, but then rebounded and kept climbing in the expansions that followed. The bursting of the tech bubble and the minor recession of 2001 knocked about a point off the peak rate of 67.3% in April 2000, but even after the Great Recession ended in June 2009 the rate was 65.7%.
Has the great American work ethic suddenly vanished? Doubtful. A more likely explanation for the shrinking workforce is a failing education system that doesn't give young adults the skills they need to compete in the information economy.
Another probable culprit is the rapid expansion of government payments—jobless insurance, food stamps, Medicaid, disability and various tax credits—that provide millions with an alternative income to getting a job. Research by Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and others shows that the generosity of federal benefit programs means that workers face very steep financial disincentives to take a low-wage job. The benefits phase out as they begin to work.
Whatever the causes, this is lost human capital that isn't realizing its full potential or contributing to national well-being. It also means that fewer workers will have to finance the rapidly arriving retirements of the baby boom generation. One of Mr. Obama's favorite talking points is "making work pay," but his tax and welfare policies are shrinking the workforce precisely when we need more workers to pay for the entitlements he doesn't want to reform.


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Except for a blog post here and there, describing the custom attributes someone created, but that do not seem to get any traction - like one describing how to enforce immutability, another one on Documenting Thread Safety, modeling the attributes after JCIP annotations - is there any standard emerging? Anything MS might be planning for the future?
This is something that should be standard, if there's to be any chance of interoperability between libraries concurrency-wise. Both for documentation purposes, and also to feed static / dynamic test tools.
If MS isn't doing anything in that direction, it could be done on CodePlex - but I couldn't find anything there, either.
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In today�s Hollywood, where a blockbuster movie can cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce, it would be unthinkable to shoot one a second time with an entirely different cast.
But in 1931, things were different. One of the biggest hits in theaters that year was the horror classic �Dracula,� which made Bela Lugosi one of the most famous men in the history of movies. What many probably don�t know is that as soon as shooting ended each day and Lugosi and his supporting cast went home, the cameras kept rolling into the night.
As was the custom in the early days of �talkies,� many producers shot a second version of their films in a different language with a different cast. For �Dracula,� Carl Laemmle opted for a second version in Spanish. In it, Carlos Villar�as stars as Count Dracula and Lupita Tovar assumed the role of Mina, played by Helen Chandler in the English-language version.
So why are we telling you all this? Tonight offers a rare opportunity to see a piece of cinematic history. The Durango Independent Film Festival will show the Spanish version of �Dracula� at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. DIFF Executive director Joanie Fraughton said the Spanish version has become popular with film buffs in recent years. She and other festival organizers think the Durango audience will love it. The fundraiser replaces the festival�s annual �Walk of Fame.�
�The consensus now seems to be that the Spanish version is actually better than the original,� Fraughton said.
That opinion makes sense, given the circumstances in 1931. The daytime shoots served as dress rehearsals for the Spanish shoots, and the camera crews were able to correct lighting and blocking issues that arose during the day for the nighttime version. The Spanish version is also generally considered a racier version; Tovar, who is now 102, has always said as much.
�I remember when I saw the English version later, I thought �our costumes were sexier,�� she said in a 2008 interview on NPR. �We wanted our version to be the best, and according to the critics, I think it was.�
The biggest difference in the two versions is length. The Spanish version runs about a half hour longer, mostly because of the histrionic differences between Lugosi and Villarias, and because of stylistic differences between the English version director Tod Browning and his Spanish version counterpart, George Melford.
Melford let the camera linger on Villarias and Pablo Alvarez Rubio, who played Renfield, for uncomfortably long stretches of silence as both men tended to overemote their facial expressions. The result is almost campy � lots of wide eyes and mouths agape.
The music at tonight�s show will be accompanied live by guitarist Gary Lucas, who wrote an original score for the Spanish �Dracula.�
He first played along with the film to rave reviews in 2009 at the Havana Film Festival, but the most memorable was at the Transylvania Film Festival � at the source, so to speak.
�They set me up in front of an old abandoned castle, and I�m pretty sure some actual bats were dive-bombing us,� Lucas said.
Lucas is a film buff and has written and played similar scores for classic horror films including �The Golem,� �The Unholy Three� and �J�Accuse.� Neither of the original versions of �Dracula� was scored save for a few musical cues and a short interlude of Wagner music, so Lucas had a clean slate from which to work.
�The trick is to keep music happening while juggling two guitars,� said Lucas, who plays electric and acoustic instruments for the movie. �I have specific themes that I assign, but there�s a lot of improv, and I invent a lot of music spontaneously. I approach it like an old-time silent movie.�
Fraughton plans to invite him back next year to perform with another classic film.
To pad the coffers a bit more, tonight�s fundraiser also will feature a small but intriguing silent auction of custom-made lamps by local artists Cindy Coleman, Miki Harder, Aubrey Merolanne Donahue, Maureen May, Amy Vaclav-Felker and Brandon Donahue.
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I am trying to design a logo that makes the color blend as on the image beneath. How do I do that? Any design guides or tips you can give me?
I am trying to design a logo that makes the color blend as on the image beneath. How do I do that? Any design guides or tips you can give me?
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This should be quite easy in Adobe Illustrator.
Easy :)
Extra bonus points awarded if you keep the initial logo as a base, so the joins between the sections receive better antialiasing (there's several ways to do this, depending on you competency). You could also keep the shapes in tact and use masking instead of the Pathfinder tools, but that may be a little more confusing.
It would also be possible to create these logos in Photoshop, but I'd take a different approach. Or, even better, create the paths you need in Illustrator, then move them across to Photoshop to apply the colours.
There are a few different techniques to use. Try this tutorial it should be a good starting point. The tutorial discusses the Shape Builder Tool and rich gradients in Illustrator CS5 to achieve a similar look for Celtic Knots. You should be able to transfer this over to the logo design to get the desired effect (you really only need the rich gradient component as @Burnso suggests but the using the Shape Builder Tool/Warp tool would achieve the desired twisting effect).


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While many markets in Europe and Latin America continue to struggle with expanding refueling infrastructure quickly enough to meet the needs of both consumers and fleets, the adoption of NGVs is still growing rapidly. North America, however, continues to lag.
The global market for light-duty natural gas vehicles
(NGVs), which produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventional gasoline
engines and which run on fuel that is cheaper than gasoline,
varies significantly depending on the region and country.
While many markets in Europe and Latin America continue to
struggle with expanding refueling infrastructure quickly enough
to meet the needs of both consumers and fleets, the adoption of
NGVs is still growing rapidly.
According to a recent report from
Pike Research, titled Light Duty Natural Gas
Vehicles, the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly becoming the
world's largest market for NGVs due to strong growth in markets
such as Thailand, India and China.
North America, however, continues to lag in this sector.
Although sales of NGVs in the region will grow at a healthy
10.2% compound annual growth rate from 20122019, the
study found, annual sales will still reach only 37,000 by
2019just over 1% of the world market, which is expected
to reach 3.2 million in annual sales in that year, the study
"Sales of NGVs will grow strongly in the next several years
in North America, but the market is starting from a very small
base of about 16,000 vehicles a year," said senior research
analyst Dave Hurst.
"The lack of widely available refueling stations, the
absence of government incentives for purchasers, and low
consumer awareness of NGVs will keep the North American market
to just a fraction of the total world market," Mr. Hurst
As in Europe and parts of Asia-Pacific,
the growing infrastructure for NGVs in North America remains
focused on servicing fleet customers. This will likely limit
the growth of NGV passenger cars both in North America and in
other markets, according to the report.
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Typically, my kernel_task process uses 1-4% CPU and 100-700MB of memory. However, sometimes when I have the power adapter plugged in, the CPU usage jumps to around 500% (8 cores) and stays there until I unplug the power adapter. I can plug it back in and everything is fine for a few seconds or a few days, then it eventually happens again. How can I stop this from happening?
In my experience this has always been due to a hardware fault. However before doing anything else reset the SMC as detailed here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 as its power related.
This appears to happen when the Mac is struggling to communicate with hardware. Which Mac is it? How old is the battery? Is your battery life still good? Has the Mac had any damage - dropped? Liquid? Have you tried a different power adapter?
http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259 covers disabling the kernel extension responsible for triggering this misbehavior. However, doing so also disables some other thermal management functionality.
I got this issue once on my 15-inch Mid 2012 MBP running 10.8.4 because the audio input had switched to the internal microphone and it was picking up the constant noise of my fan. Switched the audio input to Line In and cpu usage dropped from 524% to 3%
my kernel_task issue (cpu at -> 500% for ever) was blutooth related:
Please have a look at this typical problem: kernel_task at 300% and the suggested method of analysis: diagnosis of a CPU hog.
To display processes sorted starting with the biggest CPU consummer:
...sorted starting with the biggest virtual memory consummer:
...sorted starting with the process making the more context switches (being started and stopped with a huge frequency, sometimes the result of 2 processes talking together, not letting the other processes the freedom to get the cpu):


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I've constantly heard good things about vim, and now I'm intrigued. The only thing that's putting me off is it's irregular keyboard controls. Does anyone know of any good beginners tutorials for vim?
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Vim comes with its own tutorial, for a start. Just run this in a terminal:
The good thing about
Beyond that, you can take a look at the links here: Vi Lovers page
The nice thing about that page is that it briefly discusses the various links it provides, so you get a sense of which are better or worse and why.
I would add that the best way to get comfortable with Vim is to use it exclusively for a bit. If you end up hating it, fine. Use something else then. However, the only way to train your fingers and brain is to use it. My fingers now do
Stackoverflow: Vim Tutorials
I found the instructional videos by Derek Wyatt on Vimeo to be very useful. He has uploaded 27 videos, starting with basic editing and describing more advanced features later on.
"A Byte of Vim" is a book which aims to help you to learn how to use the Vim editor, even if all you know is how to use the computer keyboard.
Check this VIM game, its plain awesome: http://vim-adventures.com/
It's the "Zelda meets text editing" game. Beat the game to master VIM. I finished 2 levels, 3rd under development it seems.
Also check this. Its good: http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html
I think vim recipes is a good to-the-point book.
I'd start off with the manual page (man vim), but I can see why you wouldn't want to read through the entire thing.
As such, this came up in a quick google search. It covers some of the more important points, although there are probably more in-depth tutorials.
In your terminal:
Then in your opened vim buffer:
When you get familiar with the touch type, you need some customizations to beautify it, like a beautiful color scheme, and an elegant font. Feel free to download my setup at GitHub.


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What does AirPlay over WAN do? I have an AirPort Express 802.11n. This was the last generation to hook directly into the outlet.
I believe it refers to accepting airplay connections from computers connected to the wired ethernet port on the AirPort Express. The port's primary purpose when the AirPortExpress was first released was to connect to a cable or DSL modem. Apple and many other home router makers refer to this as the WAN connection. However, I think it only supports AirPlay when the AirPort Express is being used to bridge wired devices onto a WiFi network.
I base this on my interpretation of this review of the AirPort Express on Small Net Builder:
If the airport express is being used to extend your network and plugged into another router via the wan port, you will be able to use airplay from devices connected to your other router.
It allows the use of AirPlay from outside your private network. WAN= Wide Area Network.


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Graveside services for Susan Szymarek, 53 of New Boston, will be Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 2 p.m. at New Boston Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established in Susan's name. Speer Funeral Home, Aledo is assisting the family.
Susan died on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at Genesis Medical Center, Aledo.
Susan was born on April 11, 1959 in Mesa, Ariz to Robert and Mary Ann (Eickholt) Szymarek.
Susan loved watching TV; listening to Country Music, especially Patsy Cline and coloring. She also enjoyed spending time with children and her two favorite cats, Fred and Little Man.
Those left to cherish Susan's memory include her sister: Patricia Lattemore of Mesa, Ariz.; Sister-in-law, Lorraine "Lori" Szymarek of New Boston; Nephews: Brian and Kyle Strom; and many other family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers: Joseph and Peter.
Condolences may be left at www.speerfuneralhome.com.
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It's been six years since CM4. I'm not saying that there hasn't been any changes to the game in the last few encarnations, but seriously it's been a while since the the last all-new version was released.
The current slider tactical system has reached its development potential. It needs to be replaced by something more flexible and realistic. There should more tactical variables but fewer ordinal options within each variable.
The game can also be vastly improved by introducing a set piece and set play designer. It could do with more options to set up combinations between specific players in a tactical system.
I think SI are focusing too heavily on recreating "realistic" score lines and league tables for the ai; on "tweaking" the current framework to the nth degree of realism. However I think so long as the current tactical module remains unchanged, that nth degree cannot be achieved because the match engine is limited in its potential.
The "winning formula" of the cm/fm series lay in the vast player attribute database, not in the slider tactical module (as I have mentioned before). So SI should not feel reluctant to change that part of the game considering its age.


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Today's letters: A logical step
Published: Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 8:02 p.m.
To the editor: The school shooting tragedy in Connecticut will hopefully prompt Henderson County commissioners to fund and our sheriff to budget for school resource officers at all Henderson County public schools.
It is my understanding that there are only school resource officers at our four high schools. These officers are shared with the middle schools and are not based on-site.
Elementary schools in this county do not have resource officers on their campus. Middle schools previously had full-time, on-site resource officers until budget cuts.
The vamped up presence of deputies during the early morning is appreciated, but an all-day police presence at each school is only a logical step toward ensuring the safety of our children while they attend Henderson County public schools.
Those who have the power to make school resource officers a reality in each school should be committed to this immediate priority. For our childrens sake, we need to be preventive, not reactive.
Mandy Dalton
A great lineup
To the editor: The Times-News article covering the Flat Rock Playhouses open house public information session was correct that a man in attendance voiced concern about the language in a few past plays.
What the article did not capture as well was the Playhouse representatives response as they went through the steps they had taken to have their box office and printed materials do a better job of describing shows and also doing a recalibration of the overall mix of shows.
They also walked through the upcoming 2013 season where only one show Les Miserables, which includes a song by a group of Paris prostitutes stood out when compared to the rest of the roster. Its an incredibly rich lineup with shows such as The Odd Couple (of Neil Simon and TV fame), Evita, Deathtrap (a comedy/thriller that has been a huge hit here before), Hank Williams: Lost Highway, A Christmas Story (an 80s classic about a boys desire for his first BB gun), Cats, The Big Bang and a pre-Broadway run of a Judy Garland tribute musical written and performed by her daughter.
The year 2013 is going to be a great season with plenty for every age and taste. Dont miss out!
Susan King
Too hilarious
To the editor: Im still chuckling about the hilarious diatribe you published recently by John Fogle. I found it one of the most humorous you have published by the Republican columnists.
At first I wondered if he was serious, but after a second reading, I realized no serious American would write something like that for a local paper. I believe you wouldnt (or shouldnt) publish something filled with so much bile and unproven accusations unless it was meant to be funny. Perhaps your headline could have indicated it shouldnt have been taken seriously.
Alan Edick
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text: Members: The MTC is composed of voting members from the cities and towns located in Mecklenburg County and non-voting members from the surrounding counties to ensure regional involvement. The voting members include the Mayors of Charlotte, Cornelius, Davidson, Huntersville, Matthews, Mint Hill and Pineville, the Chairman of the Board of Mecklenburg County Commissioners and the regional representative from the North Carolina Board of Transportation. The MTC also includes five non-voting members representing local governments outside Mecklenburg County to ensure regional involvement including from the South Carolina Department of Transportation. The MTC is staffed by the City of Charlotte Public Transit Department. History: Long-term development planning of the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) as a regional system is based on the July 1998 "2025 Integrated Transit/Land-Use Plan for Charlotte-Mecklenburg", created by the City and County, with significant participation by the six suburban Towns of Davidson, Huntersville, Cornelius, Pineville, Matthews, and Mint Hill. In November 1998, the citizens of Mecklenburg County approved the levy of a one-half cent sales tax to be used to finance public transportation systems. A Transit Governance Interlocal Agreement was negotiated and then signed in February 1999 between the County, the City and the six Towns. The Interlocal Agreement defines the relationships and mechanisms which guide the planning, financing and implementation of the 2025 Transit/Land-Use Plan and updates to that plan. The 2025 Plan and the Interlocal Agreement called for the involved local governments to share responsibility and accountability for regional transit services under five guiding principles:


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I have an RCX 1.0 set from 1998 and I would like to upgrade the RCX 1.0 to RCX 2.0. Can this be done? Exactly how would I obtain a firmware file and load it? I do have access to the Bricxx Command Center, if required.
The hardware of RCX 2.0 is identical to 1.5, and the only difference between these two and version 1.0 is the charging port which had been removed. So they're compatible and you can indeed use a newer firmware on an older brick.
You'll need the Mindstorms 2.5 SDK, which contains the latest official firmware. It's probably not on the LEGO site any more, but Philo has saved it for posterity on his site.
You may also want to use a compatible, but faster, firwmare from Dick Swan, you'll find it archived here.
As for uploading it to the RCX brick, I think there's indeed an option for it in BrickCC but I'm not too sure where, so I can't help much there. It's probably in the documentation somewhere.


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Does anyone else automatically downvote Memory Man?
I know it sounds bad, but anymore whenever I see one of his "deals," I just down vote it. Seriously, since when is $100 an acceptable price for 2GB of outdated memory?
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I generally try not to pay too much attention to who is posting, but outdated memory for $100 would get a downvote regardless of who submits it.
Typically, it goes like this: "Wow, that's a terrible deal. Why would they post it?" -looks to who posted- "Oh. That makes sense."
That can apply to a decent few posters on here
No. But there are 2 that I do automatically downvote.
Worldofcables because the shipping costs are always outrageous.
And cufflinksman because.... well just check out his "deals".
I've noticed that too, $30 for a 128MB Xd card ???? If it were a SD card it should be going for < 12 cents, if you could even find one that small!
I don't automatically downvote but I do chuckle to myself and wonder what kind of fool would pay those prices ;)
He's just trying to capitalize on the hipsters.
"Dude look at this memory card. It's maker is like really obscure- you've probably never heard of them. It's 256 mb. Totally retro."
I'm still saving up my downvotes; rumor has it that they can be cashed in for Jumbowoot coupons kinda like at Chucky Cheese. :)


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Let $X$ be a variety. Then, is $X$ path connected? And by path connected, I mean any two closed points $P, Q$ on the variety can be connected by the image of a finite number of non-singular curves.
Given any two points on a projective variety, blow them up and re embed the blownup variety in P^N. Then by Bertini, any general linear section of the right codimension will meet the variety in an irreducible curve which also meets both exceptional divisors. Then blowing back down gives an irreducible curve connecting the original two points. Normalizing that curve gives a map from just one smooth connected curve that connects your two points. (I learned this trick from David Mumford.) – roy smith 11 hours ago
In the affine setting over $\mathbb{C}$, an algebraic set is path-connected in the analytic topology if it is irreducible (in fact, its smooth locus is path-connected too). Conversely, it is irreducible if and only if it contains a dense open path-connected subset of smooth points.
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- 22 Resorts
- Consistent Snow
- Diverse destinations
- Resorts open before those of many other states
- Home to Vail, Beaver Creek, Copper Mountain
Related Regions: Folgaria, Lavarone und Luserna, Italy, Trentino, Ski Tour dei Forti, Skirama Dolomiti Adamello Brenta
Folgaria in Italy has created a new piste and installed a carpet lift to get around a long standing layout problem with its extensive ski area. The ski area offers a total of 54km of runs suited to all skiers from beginners to advanced level. More


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I need a firewall because I was decade long user of internet security suites on windows. I am not a professional of networks or anything but a student who just needs to block unblock running applications... GUFW a simple firewall was a good option but isnt available on Fedora nor any gui firewall & am frustrated over searching it for 2days... I checked Vuurmuur its powerful but for noobs & if configured wrongly its a great mess (even their documentation forewarns that). Similarly SeLinux is not a firewall
A firewall controls the flow of traffic to and from a computer to the network. SELinux can confine access of programs within a computer and hence can be conceptually thought of a internal firewall between programs
I think its just a way to protect core filesystem nothing more than that ... So what are my options, please suggest me something some resource that is understandable to a starter & if somehow bugged willn't have irreversible consequences.
Further just tell me if I want to reject in/out traffic for the address(s) containing keyword wolfram e.g pk.server.wolfram or wolfram-mathematica.com how would I do that in iptables or somehow...& if I want to block intenet for application /opt/telepath-gabble how would I achieve that


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Actor Steven Michael Quezada joins Jim Burlson of the Albuquerque Comic Con to talk about the events and celebrities at this year's convention.
3rd Annual Albuquerque Comic Con
January 12-13
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
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Rails to trails project moving along
The old railroad from Johnson City to Elizabethton looks completely different.
The weeds are mowed and most of the steal and crossties have been carted off.
"It's going to be beautiful," says Nancy Gilley, who lives along the trail, "I enjoy the outdoors anyway, walking."
She plans to use the new trail, in fact she tells says she's already tested it out.
"I walked down it a few times, I know I'm not supposed to, it's lovely, it's going to be nice," explains Gilley.
Dale and April Wortman walk down Old Elizabethton Highway almost daily.
The couple says they can't wait for the trial to open.
"I think it will be safer," April Wortman said.
"A lot of people drive pretty crazy," Dale Wortman says as he describes walking in the area, "there's a lot of traffic, we've been shoved off the road a couple of times."
Along with the excitement the trail brings, there's concern in this community.
One neighbor says she is worried about the people next to her home and the danger it could bring
Law enforcement officials say they plan to keep a close eye on the trail once it's open.
Most of the tracks are gone now; the railroad had 24 months from the time the city bought the property in 2011 to remove them.
With the work winding down, Johnson City and Elizabehton leaders will meet in a couple of weeks to work on the trail's master plan.
Trains have not used the tracks in roughly a decade.
The path is close to 10 miles long stretching from downtown Johnson City to downtown Elizabethton.
Both cities tried to buy the land, but Johnson City won out paying 600-thousand dollars in 2011.
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It's all about the water at Rend Lake, where you can swim, boat, water ski and fish. Relax at Rend Lake Resort, tee off at the 27-hole Rend Lake Golf Course or do some target practice at the Rend Lake Shooting Complex. Also located at Rend Lake is the Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Center, featuring more than 800 artists.
This three day October festival in downtown Mt. Vernon includes a beer tent with live entertainment, parade, children's area, food, fun, car show, band competition, pumpkin competition, carnival, pet parade and so much more!
CITY:Mount Vernon
Two cabins. Located off the southwest side of Rend Lake complete with full kitchen, two bedrooms, satellite TV, washer and dryer, front porch with swing, fire pit, barbecue grill and just 15 minutes off of Interstate 57.
Aquatic Zoo Waterpark - Mt. Vernon
The Aquatic Zoo Waterpark is fun for all ages. The facility features two 30-ft. tall slides; one 112-ft. body slide; one 266-ft. dual rider tube slide; two diving boards; a children's splash pad; interactive voice and light features; lazy river; zero depth entry leisure pool and concessions.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Mt. Vernon Market is located at the former armory building in downtown Mt. Vernon and features farmers markets, flea markets, vendor fairs, trade shows, entertainment, and other events throughout the year.
CITY:Mount Vernon
The Annual Hot Air Balloon Festival features 40 hot air balloons, races, glows, tethered balloon rides, main stage entertainment, craft fair, free children's activity area and games, cardboard boat races, car show, fireworks and much more.
The gateway to the largest outdoor playground in southern Illinois includes Rend Lake, the second largest manmade lake in the state. Wheelchair access.
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts & Mitchell Museum
Exhibitions, a children's gallery, a permanent collection and special events. Grounds include 85 acres sculpture park, nature trails and bird sanctuary. Hosts annual Cedarhurst Craft Fair.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Home to the Balloon Fest, Foundation Park has many walking trails, nature areas, and gathering places.
Rend Lake Resort and Conference Center
Situated on Rend Lake in Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park, this modern resort offers cabins and boat rental suites, courtesy boat docking slips, restaurants and more. Guests can enjoy golfing, hiking, horseback riding, swimming and other water sports.
Named one of the best courses in the Midwest, this 27-hole course has paved cart paths, fountains and many challenges. There's also a lighted driving range, a pro shop with a pro, and special lodging/golf packages available year round. On the eastern shores of Rend Lake.
More than 160 exhibitors from throughout the country show and sell diverse craft items. Includes continuous entertainment, children's activities, and a variety of food.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Annual Home Garden & Business Expo featuring over 40 exhibitors and 2 full days of "How To" demonstrations. Breakfast and lunch available, hourly door prizes, blood screenings on site and register for the "Grand Prize!"
Provides affordably priced and beautifully furnished accommodations. Optional spa and fireplace suites. Restaurant and golf course on site.
March 16, 2015 - Bluegill Music Festival will lunch its inaugural event on July 4, 2015 for a one-day festival packed with some of country music's hottest acts. The all-day festival will be complete with Southern Illinois' largest fireworks display, along the shores of the Rend Lake Dam, in Benton, IL. The lineup includes Eli Young Band, LoCash, Clayton Anderson and more exciting acts to be announced. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, March 20th and can be purchased at www.bluegillfest.com and at Black Diamond Harley Davidson. Drawing fans from around the country, including Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, the festival is at the intersection of some of the nation's most dedicated country music fans. Bluegill Music Festival will feature nationally recognized BBQ vendors from around the country. Interactive entertainment for fans will also include activations, like: bags, washers, bubble soccer, Illinois longest slip n' slide, helicopter rides from Black Diamond Harley Davidson, a mechanical bull, a kids area with a large inflatable slide and the "Bluegill Lagoon", featuring a 60 x 100' VIP beach, with cabanas, private wading pools & lounge area. Additionally, Southern Illinois' largest fireworks display will begin at 9:30pm, and is free for all guest.
Constructed in 1857 as the southern division of the Illinois State Supreme Court, Abraham Lincoln successfully argued a famous tax case in 1859. In 1888, Clara Barton used the building as a hospital. Tours are available. Please call in advance.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Enjoy fine handcrafted Illinois wines served with a personal touch in a relaxing country atmosphere. Experience the outdoor beauty of Southwestern Illinois' rolling farmland or sip wine indoors by a cozy fire.
This orchard features fresh-picked apples, peaches, a pumpkin patch, cider and special events for children during apple season.
This semi-private, nine-hole course features a historic three-story clubhouse, surrounded by Lake Moses. Host of the annual Benton Gold Cup, the course also features a well-stocked pro shop, driving range, rental clubs and carts, and a golf pro on site.
Rend Lake College Market Place
Large golf outlet store plus clothing, brass, crafts and sporting goods store. Formerly Jent factory outlet mall.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Bugsy's is Mt. Vernon's only authentic Chicago-style food! Menu includes real Chicago-style dogs, as well as a Greek menu, and much much more!
CITY:Mount Vernon
Antiques, collectibles, glassware, oak furniture, and fireplace mantels.
CITY:Central City
Come and enjoy the region's most exquisite culinary experience, from the open kitchen, to our Wine Room with 1000+ wines from all over the world, to the unique culinary cuisine prepared by the one and only Chef Liz. Exceptional food and even better service await your palate here at RARE Chophouse!
CITY:Mount Vernon
Southern Illinois Artisans Shop and Visitors Center
More than 25 categories of arts and crafts from fine art to the traditional crafts from more than 900 Illinois artisans. Also, home to the Southern Illinois Art Gallery. Special workshops and events throughout the year.
28-lane bowling facility with snack bar.
CITY:Mount Vernon
With 45-acres of recreation, Fairview Park features a swimming pool, baseball and softball fields, Skateboard Park, several picnic shelters, and a variety of playground equipment.
Movie Theatre with 8 theatres featuring special ticket pricing and traditional movie theatre concessions.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Jefferson County Historical Village
Experience the past as you walk through a pioneer village of authentic log cabins featuring a calaboose (circa 1820), the Mount Olive Church (circa 1873), a one room school house and more.
CITY:Mount Vernon
In 1779 George Rogers Clark led his army from Kaskaskia through this area to Vincennes, Indiana, where they captured Ft. Sackville from the British. At the time, this building was named for being near the midpoint of the Vincennes-St. Louis Trail.
Market Days Flea Market & Vendor Fair
Held the first Saturday of every month, this farmers market and flea market features Free Lazer Tag, Amish made bakery items, crafts, antiques, furniture, household items, baby furniture, produce, collectibles, art, food booths, and live entertainment by a different musical guest each month.
CITY:Mount Vernon
An extensive collection of genealogical materials offers visitors an opportunity to research local Mt. Vernon history.
CITY:Mount Vernon
This public nine-hole, 32 par course also offers a driving range, rental carts and clubs. Miniature golf, camping and fishing are also available for a fee.
You can find berries, apples, peaches, pears and watermelons in season here.
Downtown Car Show/Cruise Night
Downtown Car Show / Mt. Vernon Cruise Night - The Car Show will be located on 9th Street between Harrison and Jordan. Features cruise night, car, truck, and motorcycle show; entertainment, food, demonstrations, and a 50/50 drawing. The Car Show will have various models from "Classics" to "Modern."
CITY:Mount Vernon
Inglenook Farm Bed and Breakfast
A delightful retreat on the outskirts of Mt. Vernon, this historical home has been transformed into a bed and breakfast paradise tucked away from the road on five acres complete with a pond, and old barn, and beautiful gardens.
CITY:Mount Vernon
On the corner of 3rd and Rte. 3 St. Sells pottery, china, quilts, glassware, antiques, old signs, old toys, vintage clothing, old clocks, furniture, gas station memorabilia.
This fresh water shrimp (prawn) farm offers agricultural tours and harvest festivals in the fall. Prawn, catfish and hushpuppies are available for purchase.
Full-service campground with pool, pavilion, grocery shop, RV supplies and laundry available. Modem hookups. Shopping, golf, Rend Lake water activities (1½ mi.), 20 shaded tent sites.
Centralia Historical Society Museum
Centerpieces of the collection are newspapers and memorabilia from the coal mining days with tributes to railroad history.
Centralia Area Historical Museum
Artifacts, pictures of coal mining, railroading, business, farming in and around Centralia. A work in progress by the Centralia Area Historical Society to preserve the past of Marion County.
Campground open April 1st through October 31st. Activities begin in May and run through September. 147 sites with electricity and 14 tent sites. Close to Rend Lake and Visitors Center.
Centralia's resident carilloneur performs on the town's 65-bell carillon, one of the few in the country. The surrounding park also features a museum and tours of the 165-foot-tall tower.
This restored 1905 jail museum was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is near Rend Lake and features displays on General John A. Logan, The Beatles' George Harrison, actor John Malkovich, baseball star Doug Collins and Charlie Birger, the last convicted criminal to be hanged in Illinois. Only 5 miles of Rend Lake.
Franklin County Garage and Auto Museum
Only 5 miles south of Rend Lake, this old 1910 Ford garage has been restored to its original condition and now displays vintage cars, Beatles and Charlie Birger, (the last convicted criminal to be hanged in Illinois) memorabilia.
Centralia Illinois Downtown Theatre
This former vaudeville and movie theatre has been restored to its former glory. The Playbill for the 2008 season includes Chapter 6, an acapella group that started at Milliken University in Decatur, IL and now tours worldwide and the touring company of Second City in Chicago. Don't miss the excitement.
The park is open for boating and fishing year round and hosts a major drag boat racing event each year.
Shopping mall with Sears, JC Penney, Peebles, and a variety of specialty shops.
CITY:Mount Vernon
This public 18-hole course offers challenges for both beginning and advanced golfers. A lighted driving range allows extended practice hours, and free group golf lessons are available every Saturday.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Badollet House Bed & Breakfast
National Register historic home featuring period decor with contemporary conveniences. The Badollet House is not only a bed and breakfast, but also caters to small parties, weddings, business meetings and special occassions.
Located in the Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park, the shooting complex offers gamesmen one of the most state of the art shooting facilities in the Midwest. Wheelchair access.
Steve's has a big selection of antiques and collectibles.
This 18-hole, semi-private country club features lush Bermuda fairways and bent grass greens with four sets of tees (the longest over 6,500 yards). Green Hills also offers a large driving range, plus practice and chipping greens, a pro shop, lounge and restaurant.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Beautiful hand-stitched quilt,; plus a large supply of quilt and dress fabrics and notions in a quaint country store.
Sidwell Friends Bed and Breakfast
This B&B is housed in a classic 1920s Colonial decorated with antiques and fine art. Sidwell Friends is located just blocks from Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, which features the Mitchell Museum and an impressive sculpture park.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Quality rooms with competitive prices located off I-57. Close to all the activities at rend lake with restaurant and lounge on premises.
Jefferson County Historical Village
Authentic log structures. Historic memorabilia from the area are carefully preserved and displayed at the village. Open from the first weekend in May through the last weekend in October
CITY:Mount Vernon
This public 18-hole, par 70 course is open year round, with rental clubs and carts, plus a snack bar.
The Rusty Nail has a large selection of great antiques.
A Family-owned business for 59 years, this little roadside restaurant is known for its country home cooking. They offer about 10 flavors of homemade pie daily, but are famous for their sinful White Pie that's heaped with whipped cream and pecans. Plate lunches, ham & beans, Friday and Saturday catfish dinners. Call ahead for groups. Seating for 86.
Goody's offers a wide variety of clothing, shoes, and accessories for the entire family.
This public 18-hole, 72 par course offers rental clubs and carts, and a pro on site.
Located in downtown Centralia, this 60,000-sq.-ft. building features an Olympic-size, six-lane competition pool with spectator seating. The main gymnasium has room for two full-size basketball or three volleyball courts with seating for 400.
Spacious, quiet, clean and affordable lodging, with free in-room coffee, free continental breakfast. Enjoy 25" remote color tv-hbo and cable. Just minutes from I-57.
Located in Benton's Days Inn, this popular restaurant is open daily serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. The specialty is the BBQ, chicken, beef or pork. Lunch & Dinner specials, kids 10 & under free on Sunday, delivery, catering & carryouts. Bar with two pool tables. Karaoke Wed. and Sun.
Come see many unusual items, some you don't see every day -- and our prices are very fair. We always tell the customer go check the rest, come back to the best!
Memories Antiques-Collectibles
We have a very large selection of fine glassware, vintage and antique furniture, and the latest in collectibles.
Modern motel off I-57 featuring free Continental Breakfast, restaurants next door, cabel TV, free HBO & ESPN, golf, hunting and fishing nearby, close to Rend Lake.
Badollet House Bed & Breakfast
This 4 room bed and breakfast is located in downtown Salem just minutes from the Mariona County Fairgrounds.
Welcome to the Americas Best Value Inn-Bell Tower of Centralia, Illinois, conveniently located in the heart of downtown Centralia within view of the historic Carillion Bell Tower and within walking distance of some of the finest dining and shopping in southern Illinois. Our 4-story interior access (elevator) Inn features 56 nicely furnished guest rooms with added amenities including cable TV with HBO and hairdryers. Upgrades include coffeemaker, mini-fridge, microwave, and iron/board. We offer a FREE deluxe continental breakfast, indoor pool, and playground for the kids, a meeting/banquet facility with kitchen and a business center in the lobby. Come relax and enjoy the value at the Americas Best Value Inn-Bell Tower of Centralia. Hi-Speed Wireless Internet Access available.
Campground with 100 sites with electricity located on Rend Lake. The Seasons Lodge Restaurant, the Rend Lake Gold Course, and the Southern Illinois Artisans Shop are all within walking distance.
This 18-hole course has lots of character, and is open to the public from 9am-12pm Monday through Friday. Golf carts are available.
Affordable, clean and comfortable lodging with lounge/bar and restaurant on site. Right off the interstate.
Great, home-made pizza.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Enchanted Crest Bed and Breakfast
Bed and breakfast located in Belle Rive, IL.
CITY:Belle Rive
Webber's Wagon is a mini mall full of unique antiques and collectibles.
America's Best Inn is a part of a national chain specializing in easy, comfortable and affordable hotels. This hotel is conveniently located just off I-57/64 and includes free breakfast. Pets ok.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Clean, affordable, quiet and comfortable lodging in downtown Centralia. Within walking distance to downtown businesses shops and cafes.
Best Holiday Trav-L-Park-Benton
A private, family-oriented RV campground with 120 sites from tents to huge recreational vehicles. Peaceful, wooded setting close to all the activities at Rend Lake.
Peebles offers nationally recognized brand name apparel, accessories, cosmetics, and footware for the entire family.
Located at the intersection of I-57 and I-64, the Drury Inn & Suites Mt. Vernon is just moments away from popular attractions, shopping, outdoor adventures and history lessons.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Great Mexican restaurant with authentic Mexican food and a great atmosphere.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Illinois State Museum - Southern Illinois Art Gallery
A museum gallery featuring theme-based exhibitions of works created by past and contemporary Illinois artists and artisans.
Located on the Rend Lake Golf Course, Gibby's restaurant opens 30 minutes before the first tee time every day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served. Sandwiches, steaks and seafood are on the menu.
Friendly service, clean rooms, near shopping center. Restaurant - laundry service.
A Comfortable and Affordable Lodging Experience The Guesthouse Inn & Suites Salem IL hotel offers the convenience of a Denny's Restaurant and Cocktail lounge on site. Our Salem Hotel offers a 24 hour front desk service, free local calls, parking, USA Today Newspaper, coffee, hot chocolate, tea, and complimentary popcorn. We are a pet friendly Salem Inn, pet fee apply.
This 160-year old home has three rooms of original furniture, pictures and personal items once owned by politician William Jennings Bryan.
Rend Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
Anglers looking for crappie, catfish and bass drop their lines at this area, located on the 18,900-acre Rend Lake. A comprehensive management program provides habitat for a variety of wildlife, including great blue herons and many species of shorebirds.
86 acres of shaded playgrounds, tennis courts, swimming pool, in-line skating area and walking path around the lake. Fishing is allowed with proper license.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Kaskaskia College's Blue Devil Gymnasium has hosted NJCAA tournaments, as well as many youth and all-star events. This full-size college floor can handle a pair of basketball or volleyball courts. On the exterior, the complex features a baseball field with batting cages, two softball diamonds and a full-size soccer field.
20 sites, big rigs welcome.
Chinese Buffet 7 days a week, featuring the best Hunan, Szechwan & Mandarin Cuisine in the area. we also offer carry out, buffet to go, lunch specials, and a seafood buffet on Friday & Saturday. Located on the beautiful Benton Square.
General line of antiques, collectibles, glassware, furniture, primitives, crafts, records, and books. Call for appointment.
Located near I-57 & I64
CITY:Mount Vernon
Low daily, weekly rates, located near fast food, stores, and laundry mat.
This annual festival held the first weekend in October celebrates pioneer life with demonstrations, crafts and food. Features a blue grass band, cemetery walk, and a church service at the historic Mt. Olive Church. Free admission!
CITY:Mount Vernon
Strong's Gifts and Collectibles
Gifts for all occasions, name brand collectibles, greeting cards for all holidays.


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New Service Release and Power Tools for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
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The team that builds Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (or "DBPro" for short!) has been hard at work on a service release and a set of power tools that add new functionality to DBPro. For this interview we asked Gert Drapers, the software architect for the DBPro team, to show us the new features of these releases. Gert has been working at Microsoft since 1991, having spent most of his career on the SQL Server team. If you like the SQL Query Analyzer, Gert is the guy to thank!
You can download the DBPro service release here and the power tools here.Hint: Click the "Download" link to access a higher-resolution version of this file which makes it easier to see the demonstrations.
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JoshRoss wrote:The download link to the wmv does not seem to have an audio track. Or it does not seem to work. Normally there is a windows media 9 video track and a windows media 9 audio track.
EDIT: Windows Media Audio Voice 9 20 kbps, 22.05 kHz, mono does not seem to work for me.
What is the difference between the voice codec and the regular audio codec, besides the obvious?
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I understand that there is commentary during the match at the bottom of the screen, but why isn't there any audio commentary? I've always wondered that.
I understand that there is commentary during the match at the bottom of the screen, but why isn't there any audio commentary? I've always wondered that.
I think they may have tested this, but several computers exploded in the process
Unnecessary and would probably slow the match speed down.
I doubt it wouldn't really work for a number of reasons
- Would only be able to be used when watching the match at a slower than normal speed
- A lot of commentary lines would have to be recorded in multiple different languages
- What about team names?
- What about player names?
- We had it in CM2 and it was rubbish
Because you'd turn it off after two games
Because FIFA doesnt develop new players and has a tiny database compared to FM
Ok thank you for your answers. Makes sense, I forgot about the database size and amount of players/teams, etc.
Isn't the commentary used in FIFA Manager just the commentary from FIFA 10/11 whatever? It's not like SI have another game with a commentary track ready made that they can use.
When I started FM in 2009 I wondered the same thing myself, but I've come to the realization that it wouldn't really be necessary. FM has trained me to want progression to be lightning fast.
Would prefer better match sounds and atmosphere tbh.
Sounds dead most of the time, then again maybe that's representative of modern football.
I just like playing without sound at all. Allows me to be 'sucked' in to the world of FM
Personally I'd love it and would have it on all the time. Technology has moved on in quantum leaps since CM2, and anyway in those days I played SWOS and it had wonderful commentary. Was it Jonathon Pearce? I'll never forget the "He-hey, the Iceman cometh" when the penalty taker stepped up.
But don't forget, in SWOS you only ever got one comment on 'Oh thats a good pass" for the whole of the game =)
I prefer commentating on the game myself. That way i can build up my players the way Sky do with Rooney, Bale, Terry etc ;-)
It would be pointless. Time would be best spent improving current in game features and introducing new ones that actually improve game play.
Actually making it work for Regens is not that difficult. Think about it.. Every regen in the game carries random first and last name based on the nationaility. All names are programmed in the database so regens are only reusing current names in random fashion. In order to have this work for commentary one would need to separate first and last name and record them separately. Now when commentator is talking he would just bring up the recorded file for first name and then last name thereby combining it to full regen name. Recording all these names is however a big task but not impossible, it would just consume a lot of data. Personally I wouldn't mind commentators along with key highlights but it would have to work for little bit more than normal speed.
- Would probably take less time and be more welcome than several different translations of the press conference questions
- Individual club badges and kits have been created, surely a one worded soundbite of each team name isn't a massive overhead in comparison
- Again it's just saying one word if you're picking surnames, recording them wouldn't take as long as chopping up the sound file, but maybe just pick the most popular ones and leave the community to fill in the blanks. Either that or just don't include player names and make the commentary revolve around "he" and "they" and generic other comments
- Do it better then
I think it's a great suggestion that should probably be re-visited by the powers that be, with the inclusion of matchday style TV views, with nicely built up stadiums and ever improving levels of animation, adding matchday sounds is just as important to some, and commentary forms part of that.
Would hope the idea isn't completely dismissed.
"There is no audio commentary in Football Manager because the creators worried lonely users would develop an emotional attachment to the voice."
From http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Football_manager
I would rather have authentic voice commentary then text scrolling on the screen saying things like "Yeeeeeeeeeeeahhhhawwwwwww!" Besides the text-scrolling commentary goes by so fast you have to stare at it to get everything.
Sorry but I hope one day they put real voice commentary in.
I play Pro Evolution Soccer with a friend of mine.
We play about 3 nights a week, for 2 hours a night.
In these 6 hours, we play about 30 matches.
After 2 weeks, I'm just tired of hearing the damn commentary saying the same things over and over and incorrectly and at the wrong pitch ...
In FM, I play up to 60 games in an evening. Now that would be fun for like 1 hour.
And yes, I could (and will) just shut it of, like I did with the 3d match engine. But still, I'd like to see effort, time and money spent on other things, like an AI for the opposition or so.
We're football managers though. Sitting/standing in the dugout/technical area. Why on earth would we have commentary? :confused:
I remember there was Peter Brackley on CM2 Italia, the first version of CM I had. Could hardly ever install it to work though. (Or the game for that matter, spent ages when I first got it reading the manual thinking "This game sounds amazing!" before I made the installation work.)
Number. Sorry.
The thought of Andy 'i talk rubbish' Gray been in the game is cringe worthy.
hey sometimes, I heard the audio commentary in the first half injury time...
I wish for the day when we can get enthusiastic South American "Goalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll..." commentaries during pre-season friendlies against amateur sides...
There might already have been commentary in for all I know. The sounds has always been so poor in the past, that once the game is installed, I go to options and turn the sound off (amongst other changes).
They say you learn something new every day, I just have. I didn't have a clue that it had been tried in CM2. I will have to see if I can find the disk and give it a whirl, to see how bad it was.
I do my own commentary and I know I can't be the only one.
"And that's just ridiculous, I can't believe my eyes. Dirk Kuyt has just run 70 metres with the ball, beaten two players and scored, I'm going to jump off a bridge now as this cannot be happening in real life so I must be dreaming"...
We need voice commentary.
SI, don't stress the difficulties, make it come ture
I wouldn't use it. FACT.
would only ever accept it or use it if they got Carlo Zampa to do the voice over
first thing i do when i install FM is to turn off all the sounds so i would never find a use for this at all.
Taking into account the amount of games i play in a day and the relasonably low amount of scripted commentary lines already I bet having voice commentarywould very quickly become very annoying.
I feel it's more realistic WITHOUT audio commentary. Do managers have headphones, listening to commentators during matches? Not really. It would be even more realistic if there was a Manager Camera View, along with the others, like Broadcast, or Sideline, etc. It would probably be a lot of work in terms of graphics, but it's worth trying. If it turns out to be a bad idea we can always use the other camera options.
I found a patch that implement voice commentary. The patch is made by a Chinese guy, so the voice commentary is in Chinese
below is the video:
The patch is just about 13M, so not very perfect, but it means it isn't hard to implement
Last edited by master_wu; 04-02-2011 at 09:34.
I dont know about anyone else, but i always play FM on my laptop while watching TV and so do the other people i know who play FM. So for me voice commentary would be pointless
ah ok, again i used to turn all the commentary off on football games, i hated hearing the same thing over and over again lol
Andy Gray needs a new job, SI get hiring.
EA has done this with a number of titles- their NHL series had voice commentary, and while it was fun at first, it got repetitive and silly fairly quickly. at some point you just run out of new lines, and its a slog to hear. Just to get a decent variety SI would have to record hours upon hours of tracks, it would inevitably not match the action in place, and no way could they have some commentator read off thousands of first and last names separately just to insert into the the commentary to cover the DB. My current save has a db of 125,000 players . . . What a waste of resources that should go into firming up the game in other areas. As one poster said, it would just get shut off my the majority either right off, or within a week
We should have Alan Partridge commentary!
"That was liquid football!"
"He must have a foot like a traction engine!"
For me the BIG QUESTION is... Why is the text commentaty in FM2011 as good as is was in FM2010, FM2009.... CM93/94??
I know, i know... it has some differences, but no major ones! Your team wins the league... and nothing special happens! common, at least 15 or 20 lines of rubish text saying something like:
"oh my god| they've done it! and i never expected, because this team should only achive the 5º or 6º place"
"They won! They were favorites, but still, great work from manager XXXXXX"
You now what i mean?
Because, winning the league or the champions league happens one time every season (at most), so why dont SI give some 15 or 20 lines of text at the end of those game?
I'd just settle for better quality sound than we have currently in the game.
I dont think we need commentary . Yes, FIFA manager has it but their engine is from FIFA games . SI made it's own 3d engine , so I think it's very impressive ( and gameplay is much much better than FIFA's). All I want now is better animations and graphics ( especially players). Also a bit longer cut-scenes after games.
Hey dudes, Andy Gray is great!
You know though, if SI were to add voice commentary they don't necessarily have to mention the names of players/clubs....
in PES they mention the numbers instead of the players name? It still bring the experience
One of the things about FM that appeals to me is how it lends itself so well to multi tasking. I don't think I could actually play FM without some kind of TV/music in the background, I'd turn the sound effects off however great they were.
Open \Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\data\events\match_sounds.cfg
You will know that mix the voice commentary and sound files(\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\data\sounds\default), you will easliy get voice commentary in the game
You can record voice commentary yourself, or capture them from TV LIVE/RECORD


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