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Does ZoneAlarm Extreme Security provide security for HP QuickWeb, or is it needed? Thanks, and Happy Holidays!
Does ZoneAlarm Extreme Security provide security for HP QuickWeb, or is it needed? Thanks, and Happy Holidays!
If that is just a toolbar calling up common software installed on the system then yes, ZA should protect your system. However, you will need to test it yourself or contacting ZA support if they are aware of it. Link to support in my signature.
Hi, Guru! Thanks for responding.
HP QuickWeb is an environment, not a toolbar. It is really interesting, because it gives a dual-boot option, and connects to the web without going into Windows (the default OS). If there is no internet connection, or the time has lapsed (5 to 30 seconds), then it boots into Windows.
It is supposed to let certain things "crossover", like music and videos, but I have read mixed reviews about its capabilities...
Well, yes call it as you want if you like the new graphical user interface then keep it. Normally they add an extra layer to the system eating up system resources and may conflict with other applications not designed to run with it.
As a general principle keep it simple and you will avoid issues. We can't really comment on third party software here and if there are no other ZA related questions I will soon close this thread.
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Home!! No No No!!!
Trip Start
Apr 17, 2006
Trip End
Apr 16, 2007
It was a little bit nerve racking, when the day came we left for the USA and normality behind us. For a year thereafter, nothing was really planned, especially in regards to places and times to be somewhere! What was ahead of us was down to us decide on and what we felt like doing. The freedom to get up on any given day and point at a map and say, 'let's go there today' was something that really took a while to sink in. But soon enough, this privilege itself, was what made the trip so amazing. Going form the routine of home, to the unknown and unplanned, is a strange but great thing.
Even the flight tickets themselves, allowed us so much freedom to change the dates. This meant that we didn't have to leave a place prematurely, if we found we liked it. Neither did we have to stay in a country, any longer than we wanted to.
So just to re-cap, it was: London to Boston - LA to Rarotonga - Rarotonga to Fiji - Fiji to Auckland (NZ) - Christchurch to Sydney - Sydney to Singapore - Bangkok to Singapore - Singapore to Trivandrum (India) - Delhi to London! Phew! Well... All that for the bargain price of �1000 each. Those flight destinations had to be more or less stuck to (unless you paid a fee), but dates could be changed as many times as we wanted to. These entry and exit cities were merely points to start, or finish from/to. In between these flights, we could go and explore the country, or neighbouring countries, either overland, or by way of internal flights. So basically, as long as we made it to the required city (by however means) for the flight out, what we did in-between, was down to us. Going overland is the greatest thing we found to do. Covering so much distance and seeing the things we would have missed by flying, felt like real travelling. Admittedly we were guilty of getting got caught up in a few internal flights ourselves. It was just so hard not to. The sheer distances to cover, was sometimes just not practical and with air travel being so cheap, it made it a lot more favourable to take to the skies, mainly for the sake of our all important budget!!
As expected; there were a few regrets of the trip, caused by not going to/seeing places which we later realised we should have. The main ones we think about most were; not going to New York and not visiting the Grand Canyon, whilst being so close from Vegas (but we were ill for 3 days out of the 5 so we feel better for that). Then not going to Laos and Cambodia and a few other places in India and Thailand, are a little regretted. Why we missed these places, all mostly have a good reason behind it. Besides, we realised that we have been so lucky with what we did do and see. Plus we had to admit the fact that you just can't do everything.
We could have made the mistake of really going for it and seeing far more than we did do. But these places would have only been in small doses and we wouldn't have really seen the 'real' place, being in such a rush. We have to admit, we were certainly playing on the lazy side on occasions and stayed in some places far longer than what we needed!! But things happen for a reason and the things we did and the people we met instead, all makes up for missing some things out.
In just a year, we have achieved and done so much, that it's hard to know what normal life will be like. No matter what anyone says, it's the best thing anyone can do and certainly is the best thing we have done. The things we have fitted into a year has been incredible. We have seen Niagara Falls, Driven thorough the Rockies, seeing wild bears, to then seeing the bright lights of Vegas. We have hiked on a glacier, to Rafting off a 7 metre waterfall! We have driven 4500km from the Sydney Opera House, through the Australian Outback, up to Darwin, to seeing Wild Humpback whales. Then the experience of seeing Wild Rhinos from the top of an Elephant was just amazing. We've hiked in the Himalayas, got a headache in cities such a Delhi and Bangkok, to spending many a lazy day on the beaches of Goa and Thailand! Course we can't forget checking out Alcatraz. These things are merely absolute highlights. There is much, much more. But we won't go on too much, as depression will likely set in if we remind ourselves further! Ha ha!
We don't mean to sound boasting with all this. We just want to try and put across, how it's been and somehow describe it all into words. The people we have met, the cultures we have experienced and the things we have learnt, as well as the above, are unforgettable. It's great though, knowing this has been done for the same price of a reasonably decent new car. This is what we call a good deal, even if others don't. We know what we would choose again!
On the trip, we've argued, laughed and got plenty drunk. Louise's sleep walking certainly won't be missed, not to mention Indian Gin and Tonic! Along with this, even the unpleasant places we have visited and not so pleasant people we have battled with, all make up part of the experience. We have stayed in some pretty horrible rooms and had some pretty stressful and long journeys, not forgetting the bouts of sickness and hurried visits to the toilet!! But we've loved every minute of it. There are however slight problems and downsides with having done all this!! How are we ever going to get back to normal??? And to work again!????! Well what a thought!!!!!........ Having had this long off, seeing our great world, certainly makes it hard to shed the feeling of how uninteresting life can be back home. On the other hand it makes us realise that we have it good compared to some people's life's we have seen. Then again, saying this; one thing seemed to ring true with the vast majority of the poorer people we met. They always portrayed happiness (weather meant or not), no matter how little material things they had. It seems the values that many have lost nowadays are mostly retained within the least well off of people. We have met some amazingly generous people, not to mention witnessing the kindness and friendly attitude toward others and us. Don't worry we are not going all religious or hippy etc. We now just appreciate what is out there to experience and have got the taste for it..
Who knows if/how we'll settle now? People have said to us, that it must be it for us now and that we'll stay to settle and get jobs......hmmmm......Naaaaahhhhh NOT LIKELY. Live life like it's the last day of your life, cuz one day, it bloody will be!!! Ha ha.... Woo woo.
There are far more places to see. Heck we've only covered 5% of the world!! There are great things to do and more travel pods to write yet, before we start to consider festering away!! You don't get away with our probably boring stories that easily!! Watch this space... Thanks for following us on our trip!!!!!!.....

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Århus (ôrˈhōs) [key], city (1992 pop. 204,139), capital of Århus co., central Denmark, on Århus Bay, an arm of the Kattegat. The second largest city in Denmark, it is a commercial, industrial, and shipping center. Manufactures include beer, metals, textiles, machinery, chemicals, processed food, ships, and tobacco products. First mentioned in the mid-10th cent., Århus is one of the oldest cities in Denmark. It developed rapidly after it became an episcopal see in the 11th cent. The city declined after the Reformation (16th cent.) but recovered its prosperity in the 18th cent. Århus is also a cultural center, with a university (opened 1928), a prominent theater, a museum group of early Danish houses, and a large library. Noteworthy buildings include the Cathedral of St. Clemens (1201) and the town hall (1942), made of Norwegian marble. Until 1948 the city's name was spelled Aarhus.
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AEC From the Ground Up: The Building Information Model
1 Nov, 2004 By: AIA ,H. Edward GoldbergIs BIM the future for AEC design?
Computers and digital technologies have changed almost every aspect of society, but they've only just begun to have a major impact in reshaping the architectural and building industries. While manufacturing, industrial design, entertainment, and many other areas that rely on design and production have been revolutionized, the effect on construction practices has been small. We still rely on hand labor, work from drafted drawings, and generate schedules and work plans in traditional ways.
Figure 1. Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005 outputs construction documentation in standard 2D format such as plans, elevations, details, schedules, and specifications. |
Even BIM (building information modeling), a methodology for storing complete information about a building in a computer model that is lauded as the newest innovation, is based on a 30-year-old concept introduced by Chuck Eastman, Ph.D., of Georgia Tech College of Architecture and Computing: "Building information modeling integrates all of the geometric model information, the functional requirements and capabilities, and piece behavior information into a single interrelated description of a building project over its lifecycle. It also includes process information dealing with construction schedules and fabrication processes."
3D modeling, virtual buildings, single building models, and other ideas have been used during the last decade or so. These concepts focus on two areas: The generation or extraction of 2D drawings from 3D building models to improve productivity in documentation, and the use of data embedded in objects contained in the model for the purposes of generating schedules and lists of materials.
BIM (building information modeling) extends these ideas from drawing and schedule production to the creation, management, and communication of information about the building—specifically addressing the quality and consistency of that information. Certain inconsistencies are acceptable for drawing production, such as approximate vs. completely accurate area measurements, elements drawn graphically instead of modeled, and components duplicated one on top of the other. These inconsistencies are unacceptable in BIM, however, because they make the information unreliable for use by other team members and other software applications.
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Figure 2. Graphisoft ArchiCAD, in combination with the RCC database and Timberline Software (www.timberline.com), can produce a high-level construction estimate.
The building model excels in coordination between multiple design disciplines and in making building information available for use throughout the entire building cycle, including the design, construction, and facility management stages of a project. Depending on the particular need, data can be viewed as a 3D model, as traditional 2D construction documents, and as binary information for output to other programs for energy and structural analysis, estimating, and project management. BIM works on design, construct documentation, analysis, and implementation levels.
Because BIM mimics a real building, some of the real benefits on the design side can be fully realized only when the architect or designer is the computer operator. This issue is getting attention from many of the large architectural firms that have traditionally used CAD as an electronic drafting tool and have structured their practices according to a hierarchy in which a project architect sketches a concept and the CAD operator acts as a scribe. One of the greatest benefits of using a BIM application at the design stage is the ability for the designer to understand the relationships of the building and its systems instantaneously in regard to aesthetic, performance, and program issues.IN THIS ARTICLE |
To be truly viable, a BIM software solution must contain a modeler capable of quickly and easily creating a 3D model. If it takes longer to create the 3D model than it takes to draw the model in three views, much of the design benefit of the software is lost. To this end, the major BIM options—Autodesk Architectural Desktop, Autodesk Revit, Bentley Architecture, and Graphisoft ArchiCAD—all include routines that allow easy modeling.
Once a model is created, it can be analyzed for purposes such as structural member determination, electrical and mechanical loads, and, through gbXML, energy consumption loads. Autodesk, Bentley, and Graphisoft are all working to support gbXML with Green Building Studio (www.greenbuildingstudio.com). a free Web service that assists in the energy analysis of buildings in the design stages as well as with the selection of energy-efficient green building products and materials.Another good example of this type of analysis is in structural engineering with Bentley Structural (www.bent ley.com/structural). or Tekla Structures (www.tekla.com). Both fully 3D parametric structural steel and concrete building modeling software packages that integrate with structural analysis applications. Bentley Structural even offers bidirectional links to analysis applications such as Staad Pro and GT Strudel—keeping the building model, analysis, and drawings all in sync.
BIM definitions |
Construction Documents
Construction documentation is normally output in standard 2D format. It consists of plans, elevations, details, schedules, and specifications. Instead, data from the BIM appears as a traditional architectural drawing, but is actually planar views of the building model.Once these views are placed on pages, interoperability between the different views is of paramount importance. Any changes to the model affect all the different views and, ideally, any changes to any of the views also reflect in the model and all the other views.
One of the top productivity features of BIM software is the ability to generate elevations and sections automatically from the model and have them coordinate and update whenever a change is made to the model (figure 1, p. 56). Another productivity feature now available in most BIM applications is the ability to create and maintain schedules for objects such as doors, windows, and walls. The most advanced BIM applications maintain these views directly as part of the building model, so that changes made in any view directly update the model and other views.
The implementation level pertains to using the information contained in the building model. Once the model is created and construction documents are generated, it's possible to cull data from the model to use in special-purpose estimating, project management, and facilities management programs. For example, using ODBC export output, Autodesk Revit and Architectural Desktop 2005 can export information about all of their objects and transfer the information to programs such as Microsoft Excel and Access for manipulation.Graphisoft ArchiCAD, in combination with the RCC database and Timberline Software (www.timberline.com can produce a high-level construction estimate (figure 2). Bentley's architectural, structural, and HVAC solutions integrate with programs such as Excel or databases so that users can manipulate information and make changes in either program, then synchronize the information with the building model. The AEC community expects to find the greatest gain at the implementation level. It's also in this arena that confusion exists as to who will own, distribute, and take legal responsibility for the building data.
In the Now
As noted above, the major options in the BIM arena for architects are Autodesk's Architectural Desktop and Revit, Bentley Architecture, and Graphisoft ArchiCAD. For engineers, Autodesk Building Systems and Bentley HVAC for MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) are available. All of these programs perform, to different degrees, those functions that classify them as BIM solutions.The BIM concept has not been widely implemented, although a few clients such as Disney and the GSA are beginning to ask for BIM projects. However, BIM software is being used on projects around the world. Graphisoft's ArchiCAD was recently used to design the Eureka Tower, an 88-story tower in Melbourne, Australia, known as the world's tallest residential building. The architecture firm SOM is using Revit to create a building model for the Freedom Tower, which will be the world's tallest structure and overlook the World Trade Center site in New York City. Bentley's multidisciplinary BIM solutions are being used on the renovation of the Pentagon, the world's largest office building.
Many architects are still trying to figure out how to be compensated for the enmeshed data that exists in the model. They are reticent, at this time, to accept the liability that may exist if the owner and contractor rely solely on the exported digital data for material purchasing and project management. BIM is clearly being applied most quickly on projects where architects and engineers work for the same company, where a building owner values the building model for proprietary use, and in design/build projects where the liability is shared.
Gaze Into the Crystal Ball
Once all the legal problems are worked out, it's conceivable that the architect or designer could create only the virtual building model and have all other trades take the information they need directly from the model, thereby completely bypassing the construction document phase. For example, the concrete contractor would examine the virtual model for the necessary foundation components and send the quantity requests (over the Internet) directly from the model to the rebar and concrete supplier. The concrete contractor would then have the survey crew lay out the coordinates from the virtual model to the site through GPS-controlled instruments. Any questions could be resolved in the field by viewing the virtual model from any vantage point using portable computers and comparing the model with the actual building. The field personnel might also wear video glasses or virtual monitors so they could overlay the 3D model onto the building under construction.The future possibilities are endless, but the foundation is centered on our ability to understand BIM.
H. Edward Goldberg, AIA, is a practicing licensed architect, industrial designer, and AEC industry analyst. Ed's book, Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005: A Comprehensive Tutorial (Prentice Hall) is available now (www.prenhall.com). Ed is also offering real-time Web collaboration courses on how to use Architectural Desktop, VIZ, and SketchUp. You can reach Ed at firstname.lastname@example.com. His personal web site is www.hegra.org
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In her easy-to-follow, friendly style, long-time Cadalyst contributing editor and Autodesk Technical Evangelist Lynn Allen guides you through a new feature or time-saving trick in every episode of her popular AutoCAD video tips. Subscribe to the free Cadalyst Video Picks newsletter and we'll notify you every time a new video tip is published. All exclusively from Cadalyst! |


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kglad Jul 20, 2012 7:55 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)1 person found this helpfuluse a main file to load each the questions and display the score.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 20, 2012 11:11 PM (in response to kglad)How do i do that? I'm sorry i'm just good at thinking not doing. This is what i want to see:
1.) Answer 15 questions. (15 external movieclips)
2.) When i answer question # 1 and i get the response "CORRECT!", I acquire 1 point. Then i click the "next" button, it will load the next external file which is question # 2.
3.) When question # 2 is loaded, my 1 point should already be there.4.) When i get the correct answer in question # 2 it should add another point to the 1 point earlier so that makes 2 points.
5.) After question # 15, let's say i got 7 correct answers. I want the 7 to appear on the next frame or next external movieclip. (I know dynamic texts are used.)I need actionscripts and i need detailed explanations to do these. I am not a programmer or an "actionscripter". PLEASE HELP.
Thank you for your response.
-NOTE. I JUST NEED ACTIONSCRIPTS FOR THE SCORES AND DETAILS HOW TO INPUT IT. THE "CORRECT" RESPONSE CAN BE DONE THROUGH "gotoandplay at frame or label".
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 20, 2012 11:24 PM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)ALSO IS THERE A WAY TO CONVERT MY 500+ SWF FILES INTO 1 TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN APPLICATION THAT HAS ITS OWN ICON?
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kglad Jul 21, 2012 7:51 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)is there anything in your many files other than text questions? are there graphics that accompany different swf?
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 21, 2012 8:05 AM (in response to kglad)Yes. There are animations and graphics too. When a question is answered correctly or not, you are entitled to choose wether to view the explanation why it became the answer or to move on to the next question. The explanation is the interactive part because it is animated.
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kglad Jul 21, 2012 9:48 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)then there's no easy way to change your setup to use one file.
hopefully, you used consistency naming your 500 files and consistency in determining correct and incorrect answers. did you? if yes, what naming patterns did you use?
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 21, 2012 11:11 AM (in response to kglad)I found a software that can convert and compile a collection of swf files into one .exe application. It's called swfkit, the only problem i have now is the registration code and serial key. AND THE SCORING. I named questions file name base on the category which they belong to. Example
Chemistry - SUBJECT Chemistry - SUBJECT
Matter - COMPETENCY Elements - COMPETENCYI I
Matter_001.fla/.swf, Elements_001.fla/.swf
Matter_002.fla/.swf, and so on. Elements_002.fla/.swf, and so on.I also have PHYSICS and EARTH SCIENCE (MAKING IT 500 QUESTIONS ALL IN ALL)
Thank you for accommodating me sir. I really need your help.
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kglad Jul 21, 2012 5:13 PM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)file naming looks good.
what about questions and answers?
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 22, 2012 5:18 AM (in response to kglad)Thanks. I designed the questions and answers in a graphical way. I only put behaviors on the choices/buttons "A" "B" "C" "D" that would gotoandplay at frame or label, "CORRECT" or "WRONG"
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kglad Jul 22, 2012 6:44 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)as2 has no easy way to detect the frame label of a frame.
is there something else that will allow the main swf to determine if a an answer was correct or not? eg, if the last frame played in one of your swfs is greater than 20, can you infer the answer was correct (or can you always infer it was wrong)?
or, is there code in your swfs that indicates which answer is correct?
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 22, 2012 6:59 AM (in response to kglad)No. I don't know how to use AS2 in that kind of way. But if you can help me do it, I'd definitely use it. Because it's like i'm only using the gotoandplay at frame or label to create an illusion that my quiz is programmed or scripted.
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kglad Jul 22, 2012 11:11 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)is there anything consistent in your swfs to determine whether a question was answered correctly or not?
if not, you will need to edit all 500 swfs.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 23, 2012 2:50 PM (in response to kglad)I don't know what kind of consistency you are asking for. But if i were to edit all 500 swfs. What would i modify? Because when i created question#1 i just hit save as to name the file question#2 so that i wont start from scratch in creating the next 499 questions. Hope this is what consistency means. Thanks. I'm still stuck.
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kglad Jul 23, 2012 3:05 PM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)is there anything in your question1 swf that indicates whether a question is answered correctly or not?
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 24, 2012 4:43 AM (in response to kglad)Let me put it this way. In question1 swf, i added a behavior to button A (which is the correct answer to the question) that when it is clicked, it will jump to a frame that says, "CORRECT" while "B" "C" and "D" have the behavior that when is clicked will jump to the fram that says, "WRONG".
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kglad Jul 24, 2012 6:41 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)that won't work with a master swf unless it's an as3 swf. with an as3 master swf, you can load all your question swfs and it can detect which of the two frame labels were played.
or, you can use an as2 master swf and edit each of your question swfs and add code like:
to the last frame of a question swf when answered correctly and
to the last frame of a question swf when answered incorrectly.
which sounds better?
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 24, 2012 7:58 AM (in response to kglad)Yes. That looks good. But i can't understand it fully. Please add more details sir. Thanks.
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kglad Jul 24, 2012 8:16 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)which looks good? there were two options.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 24, 2012 8:35 AM (in response to kglad)the "this._parent.completeF(1)
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kglad Jul 24, 2012 10:09 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)add that to a few of your swfs (to test that everything will work) and then create your master swf.
the master swf should probably contain some way for users to select which quiz they want to take. one or two comboboxes would work for that.
then use code to load the selected quiz and display the score:
var scoreVar:Number=0;
var target_mc:MovieClip=this.createEmptyMovieClip("target_mc",0);
// in a combobox change listener:
// create a score dynamic textfield (say score_tf) to display your score.
function completeF(n:Number):Void{
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 24, 2012 2:58 PM (in response to kglad)Thanks! I want to try that, but you see i don't know where to put those codes exactly. Please make a very detailed way to put those codes. I already made a swf that would let the users choose what kind of quiz they want to take. It goes like this,
When a user chooses one, they now choose what competency they want.
i hope my images helped.
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kglad Jul 24, 2012 4:41 PM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)what code is your physics button using? what code are the physics sub-buttons using?
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 25, 2012 5:54 AM (in response to kglad)My Physics button has a behavior *load external movieclip* it loads PHYSICS MENU.swf
and Physics sub-buttons have behaviors *load external movieclip* it loads VECTOR_001, VECTOR_002 and so on. -
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kglad Jul 25, 2012 7:26 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)copy and paste the code for one of your subject buttons and one of your physics sub-buttons.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 25, 2012 8:43 AM (in response to kglad)SUBJECT BUTTONS
on (release) {
//load Movie Behavior
if(this == Number(this)){
loadMovieNum("PHYSICS MENU.swf",this);
} else {
this.loadMovie("PHYSICS MENU.swf");
//End Behavior
on (release) {
//load Movie Behavior
if(this == Number(this)){
} else {
//End Behavior
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kglad Jul 25, 2012 9:24 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)that has to change.
and, assuming you have code in your loaded swfs that re-load the menu swf, you'll need to change that too.
while you're changing code you may as well stop the bad practice of adding code to buttons. remove all that code, and assign your subject and sub-subject buttons instance names (in the properties panel).
all your button code should be attached to frame 1 of your main timelines and should look like:
target_mc.loadMovie("PHYSICS_MENU.swf"); // where target_mc is created once in each swf that loads another swf as shown above.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 25, 2012 2:59 PM (in response to kglad)Yes. I should probably end that habit. I just don't know an alternative way to do it. Thanks for the code, i'll try it later and i'll tell you what happened.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 27, 2012 7:02 AM (in response to kglad)i can't load the Physics Menu.swf.. Is there a code that i need to put on the Physics Menu?
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kglad Jul 27, 2012 11:19 PM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)what code are you using to load it?
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 28, 2012 1:09 AM (in response to kglad)i am using this
on (release) {
//load Movie Behavior
if(this == Number(this)){
loadMovieNum("PHYSICS MENU.swf",this);
} else {
this.loadMovie("PHYSICS MENU.swf");
//End Behavior
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kglad Jul 29, 2012 10:55 PM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)you're not using any of the code i suggested. i suggested different code because your code won't work to create a master swf that tallies an overall score.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 30, 2012 8:30 AM (in response to kglad)i used the code to load it but i dont know what code is to be put in the file to be loaded. What code do i put in the Physics Menu.?
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kglad Jul 30, 2012 9:08 AM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)var tl:MovieClip=this;
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CRAAZYGENIUS Jul 30, 2012 2:11 PM (in response to kglad)It still doesn't load the external movieclip. Could you put some instructions where i would put the code specifically. Very detailed please. ALL THE CODES I AM GOING TO USE.
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kglad Jul 30, 2012 4:19 PM (in response to CRAAZYGENIUS)you need to name your button, that loads that swf, vector_btn. attach that code to first first frame that contains that button.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Aug 4, 2012 12:20 AM (in response to kglad)it works..now what do i do to get the scores as the quiz goes on.?each time a subtopic is answered, the user is given the final score. also i would like to put a score on the top right corner of the screen as the user answers the questions.
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CRAAZYGENIUS Aug 4, 2012 12:47 AM (in response to kglad)thanks. i'll ask you if any problems occur..


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"Well established"? Smartphones were a niche market before the iPhone, and only exploded in popularity (and continue to grow dramatically) after the iPhone was introduced in 2007.
One word: Blackberry.
Maybe the iPhone established smartphones in the consumer market. Smartphones were well-established in the business market before the iPhone and the Blackberry to this day owns that market.


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BOISE, Idaho Nominees for the 2007 ESPYs Awards were announced today (June 25) and the Boise State University football team has been nominated in the categories of "Best Game and Best Play". The 15th annual awards show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and LeBron James, will be broadcast on July 15 (Sunday) at 7:00 p.m. (MT) by ESPN. The show will be taped on July 11 (Wednesday) at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. This is the first time a team or student-athlete from Boise State has been nominated for an ESPY award, which celebrates the top moments, most emotional stories and best performances from the past year in sports. In the category of "Best Game", the Bronco football team is nominated for its 43-42 overtime win over the University of Oklahoma in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Boise State is up against this past year's AFC Championship game when the Indianapolis Colts came from behind to defeat the New England Patroits, and Oklahoma State University's 105-103 overtime victory over the University of Texas in men's basketball. Boise State is one of five nominees for the "Best Play" award. The Broncos were nominated for its winning two-point conversion in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Boise State head coach Chris Petersen called for the "Statue of Liberty" play where quarterback Jared Zabransky handed the ball off behind his back to running back Ian Johnson who went untouched into the end zone for the historic win. Other nominations include Travis Pastrana, who successfully completed the first double back flip in motocross at the ESPN X Games; Darrelle Revi's 73-yard punt return for the University of Pittsburgh; New York Met's Endy Chavez robbing a home run off the bat of the St. Louis Cardinal's Scott Rolen in game seven of the NLCS; and Dwyane Wade's wild off the glass shot in the Miami Heat's 104-101 win over the Indiana Pacers. For the fourth consecutive year, fans will determine the winners in all contested categories, by voting June 25 through 11:59 p.m. (ET) on July 7 (Saturday). Fans can vote by going to the web site www.espys.tv, or find the same link on Boise State's web site at www.broncosports.com. |
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Christine Quinn Weighs the Possibility of a Fast-Food Ban
This hasn't been the best week for our nation's fast food chains: Yesterday, President Obama signed the new health care bill, which included legislation requiring any restaurant with at least 20 outlets to post nutritional information on their menus. Right around the same time the President was signing the bill, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced her intentions to ask the city to distinguish fast-food outlets from regular restaurants in its zoning code.
The Daily News reports that Quinn is asking the City Charter Commission to formally differentiate fast-food restaurants in an effort to restrict their number in poor neighborhoods, where they have traditionally flourished. Such restrictions have been put in place in cities like London and southern Los Angeles; City Councilman Joel Rivera tried to introduce similar legislation back in 2006, but was thwarted by the city's zoning laws.
The Los Angeles fast-food zoning restrictions have not been without their critics: Slate's William Saletan argued it had the effect of "treating poor people like children," while a Rand Corp. study found that poorer neighborhoods didn't actually have that many more fast-food outlets than their wealthier counterparts. What the targeted neighborhoods did have more of were small grocery stores like bodegas, which sold largely highly processed snack foods. And it was snacking and soda consumption, the study found, that had more of an impact on weight gain than the presence of fast-food restaurants.
The study also came to the conclusion that sit-down restaurants, which proponents of the zoning legislation hoped to attract in place of fast-food chains, weren't a particularly healthy option, either: Calorie counts for average sit-down meals typically exceeded those of, say, a burger and fries.
The Los Angeles City Council intended the two-year zoning restriction as a stop-gap measure "to allow City Planning time to study the effects of these establishments as they pertain to community design, pedestrian activity, traffic and other important urban planning;" If New York passed a similar measure, it could carry a similar time limit that would allow the city to plan a more long-term strategy for battling obesity. Better start rolling out a few more green carts now.
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Brief Stop in Dresden
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Dresden is mostly famous in the U.S. for the massive Allied bombing in WWII that resulted in the great firestorm (See Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five). Declared a 'free' city, it was supposedly a safe haven and was crammed with refugees as the war ended. However, the Allies bombed it in a manner called 'carpet bombing' and they were far too successful. The resulting fires multiplied and coalesced to create one gigantic fire that consumed the entire city. While this was a great tragedy of destruction, the human loss was phenomenal. As the fire grew, it created a great wind and sucked up all the oxygen from the air- about 40,000 people died that night, many from suffocation, in a 'safe haven'.
Dresden has been rebuilding ever since. Their greatest effort has been to meticulously restore the old buildings in the city center- and there is great pride in the near completion (at last, 60 years later) of the "Frauenkirche" (Our Lady's Church).
I arrived in Dresden late in the afternoon, and had to search for a room, get one, manage the streetcar system to get there, find the hotel, check in and get situated. By that time, it was almost 5 in the afternoon so I did not get to go into the restored church or any museums. I did take a walk as dusk fell and looked at the old city center. Citysizewise Dresden is small, but jewel like. Built on the banks of the Elbe, the important 'old' buildings (restored) cluster on the banks and rise up, lit at night, and remind me of Budapest and Prague, but much smaller. It is a city that can be 'seen' in a day, walked in little more than an hour. So I walked it and took in the sights (no pictures).
As it is getting colder and I was in the 'newer' part of town, I did some quick shopping- I can no longer wear short sleeved polo shirts and a light jacket! So, two new long sleeved shirts (two polos left behind) and I am eyeing winter coats, gloves and scarves and am sure I will purchase both in Berlin as I was shivering so while walking in Dresden!
On the train now to Berlin, no room reservation even though I spent 2 hours last night trying...I hate this part and prefer to know where I am going but it cant be helped. I had long conversation with an exceptionally chatty German man on the train. He is heading home from Prague for medical reasons but has a neat job for the European Union advising the Czech government on 'Social Services'.......hhhmm, something right up my alley indeed! I may look into this further at some point!
Klaus is quite chatty. He has to have fem/pop bypass and rushing back home. He used to be Merchant Marine and when I show interest in his travels- he tells me about them. Then he tells me he is starting a group to sing old sea shanty songs- all of which are in English (the 'lingua franca' of sailing days). I learn a great deal about sea shanty singing- especially when he starts singing them to me, for about an hour!
Sea Shanty Website: Crossjack is in German, website- think based in Oldenburg. He is singing to me about King Louis. Learning about capstan vs windlass shantys (call them 'sea songs' not shantys): different beat and rhythm because they needed different speeds to lift and raise various sails. Also there are 'pumping' shanties that vary based on the type of pump, and 'bunt' shanty for furling the sails. He knows about 40 songs and is singing them to me. There are apparently shanty books that were published mostly at the end of the 1800's and are collectors items (fascinating stuff). "Sailing down to old Maui", "When I first landed in Liverpool, I went upon a spree", "Don't go to sea once more", "Riding on a dunkey (not a donkey, but the straw of the sea bed)". And so on.
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Chinese Communist Party's 17th Central Committee has last gathering
The last gathering of the Communist Party's 17th Central Committee takes place in a hotel in Beijing today before the 18th national congress
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The Communist Party's elite will meet in a closed-door conclave in the capital today as the party scrambles to wrap up preparations for the once-a-decade transfer of power that will officially start next week.
Around 370 members and alternative members of the party's 17th Central Committee will gather at the Jingxi Hotel for its seventh and last plenum.
It is one of the last opportunities for the party's leaders and their successors to finalise every important detail of the party's 18th national congress, which will open next Thursday.
High-stakes decisions on personnel arrangements involved in the generational handover and on policy issues that will set the country's direction for the coming decade will top the agenda for the plenum.
It will also formally expel the disgraced former Politburo member Bo Xilai and the former railways minister Liu Zhijun from the party.
Although all the paperwork to be tabled at the party congress should be finalised and approved by the plenum, analysts said last-minute changes were still highly likely before the official announcements at the end of the party congress, which is widely expected to last for a week, although there is no official announcement yet.
According to Politburo decisions over the past two months, the official agenda of the plenum will include the approval of a keynote address to be delivered by the party's general secretary, Hu Jintao , at the opening of the congress, and a proposed change to the party constitution.
Little is known about Hu's address, his last as party chief before he hands the reins over to Xi Jinping after the party congress, or about what changes are planned for the constitution, which is commonly revised at party congresses.
Despite widespread public disaffection with political stagnation, high inflation and worsening environmental degradation, analysts said Hu was expected to hail his decade in power as a success, giving China's rise to the world's second largest economy as his main accomplishment.
Preparations for this year's leadership transition were thrown into disarray by factional rifts and horse trading, a number of scandals, including Bo's spectacular downfall, and swirling rumours about splits among incumbent leaders and influential party elders, including the former party chief Jiang Zemin .
Although the party decided to throw the book at Bo in late September after months of manoeuvring and infighting among various factions, uncertainties still surround the final composition of the next generation of leaders, who are expected to take power after the party congress. Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, a China expert at Harvard University, expressed concerns over the extent of political uncertainties over the leadership transition.
Crediting a source in Beijing for the insight, MacFarquhar said it seemed Jiang had outwitted Hu in the top picks for the Politburo Standing Committee, while Hu has outwitted Jiang in the military's personnel changes.
Despite the talk of harmony ahead of the party congress, MacFarquhar and other analysts also point to apparent disunity in the top leadership in the wake of the country's worst political crisis in decades, triggered by the sacking of Bo, once a front runner for the Politburo Standing Committee.
Both Bo and Liu, a former central committee member, are facing criminal prosecution.
Two alternate central committee members are expected to be elected as full members at the plenum as their replacements, even though their terms may last only a few days. More than half the members of the party's central committee will be replaced at the party congress.
Zhang Lifan , a Beijing-based political analyst, said that amid intense rumours and the party's culture of secrecy, the confusion over the leadership transition had also been complicated by a more politically aware public and the power of popular social networking sites such as Sina Weibo.


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Best Of :: Shopping & Services
We love Lush so much, we gave this creative bath and body store a Best of Phoenix last year, even before the first Valley location opened. In the past year, we haven't been disappointed! In fact, we've gone back several times, to stock up on charcoal face soap, lemony flutter cuticle butter, and our favorite, bubbling bath bars with a unique smell we can't get enough of. We love that Lush puts out cookies and lemonade on a Sunday afternoon, and always labels its products with a cute drawing of the person who actually made the item. Best of all, we love buying Lush products as gifts it mitigates our guilt, because we have to admit that the prices are a little steep. But really, what price can you put on the head of your child, we think to ourselves, as we buy our daughter's teacher the "Happy Gift" a box filled with six Lush products, scented with orange, jasmine, ginger and rose, for $45? And what the heck, we'll buy ourselves a "Desperate Housewife," too (including a Two Timing Tart bath bomb and Smitten Hand Cream, $22.50). We deserve it.
When we wanted to rent an Australian Jungle Carpet python, we knew where to go. Rich Ihle has been collecting, studying and breeding reptiles for more than 30 years, and he's happy to lend some of them out, for a fee and with supervision, for which we're thankful. We're not sure we want a python all our own (who knew they peed!), so we'll stick to the rental option, thanks to Reptile Adventures.
To be honest, we thought hydroponics was just a method to grow better dope plants inside your closet. That was before we stepped foot in Tempe's Sea of Green. Turns out it's actually a real science, dude. Who knew? Contrary to popular belief, hydroponics isn't about growing a plant in water. Heck, we all did that as kids with pineapples and potatoes, so who would need fancy supplies for that? Most hydroponic gardens are cultivated in a stiff substrate, like floral foam or Perlite, soaked with water and placed under a UV light. Sea of Green offers everything you need to set up an indoor hydroponics garden. There are seeds, pots, herbs and full kit systems with catchy names like Ebb & Flow. The bulk of the place's business is mail order, but hey, there are probably just a lot of model citizens out there growing organic plants. Yeah, that's it. Big, leafy, green, er, vegetables.
You'd think it would be easy to find good desert plants in the actual desert. Think again. We scoured nurseries (limited selection), souvenir stops (tacky) and gardens (pricey) before stumbling upon this little gem of a shop hidden in Old Town Scottsdale. Cactus Hut proprietor Jeffrey Shaw has been quietly importing and grooming desert plants for 30 years. His tiny storefront has a stellar variety of unusual succulents and cacti, from the spiny echinocactus, also called a barrel cactus, to the more welcoming hildiwinteria with its fuzzy yellow coat. Popular gifts include magnets with miniature live specimens and prepackaged cactus kits ranging from $7.95 to $26.95. Shipping service is available on most items. It's hard to kill a cactus, but don't get too cocky. Occasionally, a customer will come back after a few days with a dead aloe, says Shaw, wondering how that could have happened when it was watered faithfully twice a day.
We're cheating a little, because the truth is that High Spirits Prickly Pear Flavored Vodka is actually brewed in Flagstaff, at the Mogollon Brewing Company. Yeah, we know, Valley sprawl being what it is, Flag is practically north Phoenix . . . Maybe by next year. In any case, we feel justified in giving this vodka a Best of Phoenix not only because it's so good, but because when we finally did locate it, it was in a Bashas' in Ahwatukee, not at the brewery in Flagstaff. (You can't buy it at the Mogollon Brewery. We know that because we drove all the way to Flagstaff, walked into the brewery with a toddler in tow and asked to buy it. They can't sell it by the bottle, the kind bartender explained, because it's brewed on site. Whatever. We were annoyed, but glad no one commented on the child.) In any case, you can find High Spirits Prickly Pear Flavored Vodka at your local Bashas' here in the Valley, if it's not sold out, and it might well be because although it costs almost $30 a bottle, this stuff is gooood! We sipped it straight (warm, even, we were that eager to try it), but we prefer it over ice, or, as a friend suggested, it might go well over ice cream. We can't think of a better use for a prickly pear.
All year long, we keep a folder full of ideas for Best of Phoenix awards menus, newspaper clippings, notes scribbled on cocktail napkins. This year, that folder also contains a bar of soap. Yes, it makes the folder a little bulky, but we've found it's not enough to keep a bar of Wild Women Soaps prickly pear on the bathroom counter we like to keep it by the computer, and sniff it often. It smells that good. If you want your own bar to keep by the computer (and maybe one for the sink, too), you can buy it at the gift shop at the Desert Botanical Garden, or shop online.


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VietNam makes their long-awaited return with a new album, An American Dream, to be released on Mexican Summer, Feb 26th 2013. Michael Gerner, the creative force behind VietNam, is back onstage for the first time in five years with a new six-piece lineup (featuring half of his old band) laying down his signature cocktail of apocalyptic street blues. After taking a long break to explore his interest in ambient analog synth soundscapes on the West Coast (scoring films and recording with his project DA), Gerner has now made a bold comeback to both New York and rock and roll with his best record to date – adding a new dimension to the instrumentation with a moog player and a violinist. VietNam's prior releases include their critically-acclaimed and commercially successful self titled debut LP VietNam on Kemado Records in 2007, three prior EP's on The Social Registry, and their debut, The Concrete's Always Grayer on the Other Side of the Street, on Vice Records in 2003.
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BOWLING GREEN — Full-time lane closings for a widening project on State Rt. 25 north of Bowling Green will start Saturday morning, the Ohio Department of Transportation announced.
The work will require restricting Route 25, also known as North Main Street, to one lane each way plus a center left-turn lane between Dill Street and Newton Road through next summer, ODOT said.
Traffic delays may be worse than usual Saturday while crews put the construction traffic pattern in place, the department cautioned.


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Project by oakwood | posted 10-15-2012 11:49 AM | 1303 views | 2 times favorited | 10 comments |
I wish this tray had been my own design but it would have been impossible as I have no artistic skills. The inspiration, I should say the pattern came from (wwhttp://www.amazoncanvas.com/#index.htmlw.wood-veneers.com/j-home.htm) I used the lower portion of the piece displayed. The tray will never be sold and hopefully will become a familly heirloom. I hope. To do this tray I had to improvise and extend my coping saw from a 12" throat to a 31" throat. It is easily adaptable and although all I needed for this project was 24" clearance, I thought why not make it a bit longer for maybe future projects. If anyone is interested in the saw I can post more photos. It is no piece of art but it works. Here are some wonderful links pertaining to marquetry. Enjoy.
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Looks great to me, and I think it is a very fine piece of art, in an interesting style. -- John C. -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." George Washington |
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I disagree it is a work of art ,beautiful -- http://artisticwoodstudio.com Custom furniture |
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Art, John is in the eye of the beholder and in my eye, this is art. -- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fibreglass trees. http://thecanadianschooloffrenchmarquetry.com/ |
#4 posted 10-15-2012 06:23 PM |
beautiful work..a very pretty tray |
#5 posted 10-15-2012 10:50 PM |
Very nicely done. Lotsa gr8 details. -- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Keep your dust collector fed. firstname.lastname@example.com |
#6 posted 10-16-2012 01:36 AM |
Wow! That is beautiful and I can't imagine how tedious that was. Fine art for sure. -- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm |
#7 posted 10-16-2012 04:44 AM |
Very nicely done John, not only is the marquetry first class, but the rest of the tray surrounding it is first class as well. Bravo. Thanks for sharing with us! -- Aim high. Ride easy. Trust God. Neale Donald Walsch |
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Beautiful! You don't give yourself enough credit. I couldn't do that!! -- cathyb, Hawaii, www.cathyswoodworking.com |
#9 posted 10-16-2012 05:48 PM |
It really is a piece of art.I think it would looks better hanging on the wall rather than to be served with it. -- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted |
#10 posted 10-16-2012 11:13 PM |
Beautiful tray! -- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence |
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The United States on Friday upheld its program to turn a large share of the corn crop into ethanol for motor fuel, saying it did not cause undue economic harm despite steep competition for depleted U.S. grain supplies after the worst drought in 50 years.
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In August, as the drought seared the Midwest, the governors of several livestock producing states including Georgia and New Mexico asked the Environmental Protection Agency to suspend the ethanol mandate. They said it pushed up prices for feed grain and squeezed producers' profits.
But the EPA decided that the relief brought on by freezing the mandate would not be significant and would reduce corn prices only about 1 percent.
"We recognize that this year's drought has created hardship in some sectors of the economy, particularly for livestock producers," said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation.
"But our extensive analysis makes clear that ... waiving the (Renewable Fuel Standard) will have little, if any, impact."
The EPA determined the mandate did not cause severe economic harm, a requirement for waiving the measure.
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Aimed at reducing U.S. reliance on foreign oil, the RFS requires 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol to be made from corn this year. About 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is used to make ethanol.
Many oil companies oppose the RFS, saying it adds costs to making gasoline.
Patrick Kelly, a senior policy adviser at industry group the American Petroleum Institute, said the EPA "applied an improper and unnecessary high bar, which makes it questionable if any waiver could ever be granted," and that the RFS had become "increasingly unrealistic and unworkable."
This was the second time that the EPA denied a waiver. In 2008, regulators rejected a Texas petition to halve the mandate temporarily.
Upholding the mandate could benefit ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland and privately held POET.
Corn futures in Chicago were up 3-1/2 cents at $7.24-3/4 a bushel on Friday, reversing early losses after news the government would uphold the mandate, traders said.


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Troy Perkins sent a long ball up the middle that was headed down to Patrice Bernier. The playmaker slipped a pass through the New York defense to Di Vaio, who beat Robles to the left side for his second goal of the season. New York finished the match short a man after defender Brandon Barklage was sent off for taking down Patrice Bernier at the edge of the penalty area in the 74th minute. Warren Creavalle and Giles Barnes scored 6 minutes apart in the second half at Houston as the Dynamo edged the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1. The win helped the Dynamo extend their home unbeaten streak to 27 games, dating to July 2011. Houston has never lost at its new home, BBVA Compass Stadium. Darren Mattocks scored in the 36th minute for the Whitecaps. Dallas midfielder Jackson scored a second-half goal and set up another in a 2-0 home win over Real Salt Lake. In the 71st minute, Jackson helped give FC Dallas the lead with a volley over the head of Salt Lake's Lovel Palmer. Fabian Castillo gathered the pass outside the penalty area before dribbling around Palmer and firing a shot from about 15 yards. Jackson scored in the 81st minute after he stole the ball from goalkeeper Josh Saunders outside of the goalie's box and tapped a shot into the center of the net. At Carson, California, Mike Magee converted a penalty 5 minutes into the second half as the Los Angeles Galaxy beat the Rapids 1-0 to take the Western Conference lead. The Galaxy were playing without striker Robbie Keane and defender Omar Gonzalez, both off on international duty. In other matches, the San Jose Earthquakes beat the Seattle Sounders 1-0, the Columbus Crew edged D.C. United 2-1 and Sporting Kansas played out a 0-0 draw with the New England Revolution. © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. |


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This week, Konami released
Star Wars: Force Collection
for the iOS and Android operating systems. It allows you to battle your collection of characters, represented by cards, against online opponents. You can quest through planets like Tatooine and Endor to gain new cards and vehicle blueprints, collecting crystals and credits along the way.
Sounds great, right? Well, perhaps from a certain point of view. Personally, I believe Konami has fallen to the Dark Side. Here's why...
I've spent several hours in the game so far. I've played on at least two planets, built two different types of vehicles, collected tons of cards, and even bought crystals via "in-app purchases" (IAP) to unlock more cards.
I did this so you won't have to.
It pains me to see a
Star Wars
product like this, and it pains me even more to have to warn people away from it. I've written four drafts of this review so far, ranging from balanced to scathing to ridiculing. Then I decided to forgo the review entirely. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all, right?
But I feel like something needs to be said about this so-called "game." I'll try to be as objective and fair as possible, and I'll try to keep the sarcasm to a minimum. Bear with me.
About the recent trend of "card collecting" games...
I've seen people using the term "CCG" (collectible card game) to refer to this sort of app. Traditionally, CCG's refer to actual games with actual cards. A player has an actual collection, builds a deck, and plays an actual game against other players. That player normally trades cards to further his or her collection.
This app is neither a true collection of anything, nor is it truly a game. But I'll come back to that in a moment.
Smartphone developers discovered that they could make more money by releasing a free game and charging "micro-transactions" within the game via "in-app purchases" (IAP) than they could by charging a price for the game itself. This has led to an explosion of "freemium" games, in which the player is able to progress through the game for free but may purchase premium content to get ahead. In some cases, players hit a "pay wall," where they effectively can't progress without buying in-game content.
Recently, someone came up with the idea to take popular franchises and release battle games in which players can pay to unlock more powerful characters.
But what's better than paying to unlock new characters? Paying for a
to unlock new characters. By using cards to represent the characters, developers can now charge players for a pack of cards, which may or may not contain cards the player already has. The effect ends up being similar to gambling, and it seems to be just as addicting.
With franchises like Transformers, G.I. Joe, Marvel Comics, D.C. Comics, these developers start out with a built-in audience. Combine that with a proven money-making format, and games like these are gold mines.
And now
Star Wars
enters the fray.
Starting the
Star Wars: Force Collection
You start the game in a brief tutorial. Princess Leia appears and spouts some badly-worded dialogue about needing your help defeating stormtroopers. Thus, the introduction to the game's quest mode begins.
You see things from your character's point of view. You're holding a lightsaber, and stormtroopers appear in front of you.
You tap them. They die.
That's it. That's the game's "quest" mode. All you do is tap bad guys. They die instantly, and you never take any damage. Your job is to mercilessly slaughter seemingly pacifistic stormtroopers.
And please, take your time. There's no reason to rush. There's no timer. No hand-eye-coordination is involved. They will just stand there forever until you kill them.
Tap. Dead trooper. Got it? Good. You just mastered 95% of the "game."
A few times per planet, you'll get to a boss fight. On Tatooine, the first planet, this will always be between Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett. You get to choose which character you want to help, which indicates whether you're supporting the Light Side or Dark Side of the Force.
This is the
aspect where there's a bit of a challenge. When you tap to attack, there's a meter that repeatedly fills up. The fuller the meter, the more damage you do. If the meter is in the red, you do critical damage. If it's not in the red, that's fine too -- your opponent will die after a few strikes regardless.
More questing...
Now that you're an expert at playing the quests, you'll notice that you've "unlocked" (randomly collected) some low-level cards. You may also have received some blueprint pieces for your first vehicle, the T-16 Skyhopper.
You may also have noticed an "EP" meter. These are your energy points. When they run out, you have to take a break from questing. At first, you spend one point per hit. By the time you hit Endor (the second planet), you're spending three per hit.
They replenish at one point per minute, or you can use crystals to replenish them immediately.
How do you get crystals?
is my answer. I'm sure Konami's answer would be by purchasing them via their IAP store. But you
earn crystals by playing the game. After several hours and countless battles, I've earned 25 so far. Considering a single random card is 300 crystals, I'm not thrilled.
Building a formation...
This is where the app gets
more interesting.
The cards you've collected so far can be put into a "formation," which you can use to battle other players. Each card has attack and defense values, hit points, and weapon ranges (short for lightsabers, medium or long for blasters). Some cards have special abilities, such as Jabba's ability to reduce the defense on neutral cards (both yours and your opponent's, it appears).
Cards have a ranking from one to five stars. This indicates the card's rarity, and the rarity determines the overall power of the card. Three-star cards are easy to come by. Four-star and five-star cards are the most powerful.
You can spend credits you've earned to "enhance" a card. This increases the card's level (up to 30), which in turn increases the character's stats.
You can also "evolve" a card. If you have two copies of the same card (with the same rarity level), you can combine them into a
more powerful card. Of course, this brings the card back to level one, causing you to lose any credits you've already spent enhancing it. So in many cases, it's more like "devolving" a card.
Each card also has a cost. Your CAP rating (I'm still not sure whether that means "point cap" or whether it's an acronym) determines how much you can spend on your formation. Dathcha won't cost as much as Aurra Sing, but he won't be as powerful either.
Once you've collected six pieces of a vehicle blueprint, you can start building a vehicle. It seems you get one vehicle per planet (e.g. Tatooine gives you the T-16 Skyhopper). Vehicles are much more powerful than characters, but the damage they take is permanent, so you'll have to replace them frequently.
You can arrange your formation on your own, or you can have the app do it for you based on your weapon types and overall power. I've found that letting the app do it for you is just as useful as doing it yourself.
Battling other players...
Battling other players involves going to the "Battle" screen and choosing your type of battle. Each battle costs "BP" (battle points), and it appears you get 10 at a time. Of course, you can buy crystals to replenish your BP when you run out.
Battling someone to steal a piece of a blueprint costs 4 BP. This is probably the most productive form of battle, as not all vehicle blueprints can be found by questing. If you want vehicles, you will
to battle.
Choosing to "take revenge" against someone who just attacked you will also cost you 4 BP. But remember, if you lost the first time, you're going to lose this time too.
You can also choose to battle someone close to your ranking or close to your player level, either of which will cost 2 BP.
After selecting an opponent and editing your formation (should you wish), you tap the "Start Battle" button.
Then you sit and watch the battle play out.
That's it. There's nothing to
in the battle. Either your numbers are better than your opponent's, or they're not. If you were able to see your opponent's entire formation and numbers in advance, you could solidly predict each and every battle.
By the way, if your opponent is using a "sheild" item, you lose automatically. Not just the battle, but the BP you spent to attack him. And of course, there's no way of knowing in advance wheter they have a shield item or not.
Fun, huh?
I almost forgot to mention the social element of the game! You can have allies!
Of course, you can't
your allies. I can't pick my friends to join me. Instead, you send requests to random players who can choose to either accept or deny you. Likewise, you'll receive requests from other players you don't know.
As of right now, it seems you start out with about 14 ally slots. I'm now up to 15, but it's not really clear how you get more. Perhaps with the "alliance gauge"?
Speaking of which, by sending
your allies messages, you increase your alliance gauge. By default, these messages say "May the Force be with you." And since you don't actually
these people, you're probably going to just leave the message there and spam
your allies to get the alliance gauge moving.
Want to clean all your "MTFBWY" spam from your inbox? No problem. Just navigate to your inbox (did I mention navigation is a mess?) and delete them.
One by one.
Is there a benefit to allies? Yes. Two, in fact. During battles, you can "ask" them to "assist." Though you're not really asking them anything. You're having their lead character card join you in one battle that day.
The other benefit is the collection of AP (ally points), because you
need yet another type of points to deal with. Sorry... The sarcasm is starting to seep in. AP will allow you to buy random cards. While you technically have a
for a rare card, the chances are so negligible that you should count on a one-start or two-star card each time you do this.
Thoughts overall...
I feel like I should have included screenshots or something. But this "game" is so bad that it'd be a waste of time to bother.
So instead, I'll take that extra time to point out that the interface is horrible. Screens take an eternity to load. Navigating the menu is a
experience, whether you're on a phone or tablet (and yes, they use different navigation for each).
For example, when you complete a "goal" (which you won't care much about, trust me), you go into the "goals" screen to see what you've earned. But you have to tap another button there to get the list of things you've earned. Then you tap "Receive All." Except that just moves it to your inbox. So then you have to tap your Inbox. Then you get a list of the things you just received. Then you have to tap another button to... well,
receive them.
There's no cloud sync across devices. Instead, you get a nine-digit player ID that you can type into a different device to
your data to that device. If you want to resume playing on the old device, you have to transfer it back. You're basically importing your data each time you use a different device.
The only good thing I can say about this app is that it has a
selection of characters. I've got Bravo Two (from the Battle of Naboo). I've got pod racers. I've got Nizuc Bek, Sy Snootles' bodyguard. I've even got youngling Jedi (whom it's apparently okay to send into battle). I'm pretty happy with the selection of characters in the game.
Unfortunately, that does little to offset the plethora of issues with this app.
So in summary...
The selection of characters
The background info on the characters
There's no real "game" here. You just tap the same enemy over and over.
The social system is nearly useless.
Battling other players is boring and unchallenging.
The interface is horrible.
No sync across devices.
The app teases you by letting you "play" for a few minutes then wants you to pay to continue the session.
To get the cards you want, you'll probably be spending a lot of money.
Star Wars
fans, but I recommend you stay clear of this one.
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Joseph and Pat Walsh Blakeman of Greensburg will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
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The 15-year-old unsolved murder file on State Trooper Johnny Edrington is getting another look. Edrington was killed in the line of duty on Dec. 21, 1988.
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For the first time in 36 years, a Republican placed his hand on the Bible to take the oath of office as governor of the commonwealth of Kentucky. Gov. Ernie Fletcher and Lt. Gov. Steve Pence officially took the oath of Kentucky's top offices shortly after midnight on Dec. 9 and again in a ceremonial public swearing-in Tuesday afternoon.
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Getting children interested in gardening starts with making it fun. Instead of focusing on the hard work and heavy lifting, start out with some fun stuff to get kids enthusiastic. Here are a few tips.
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One of the biggest obstacles for kids and gardens is the time it takes to let something grow. That's why it is a good idea to start out with fast-growing plants like beans, which are often one of children's favorites. Herbs and sunflowers also grow fast, rewarding children quickly for their hard work.
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If a long-term garden is in the works, and you have to room, a great way to encourage children is to pick large varieties of vegetables. Huge pumpkins and watermelons, towering sunflowers, and tomatoes bigger than their heads will wow kids. Big foods and big gardens can impress upon them that their hard work pays off.
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Have them choose the food they'll grow and care for. Maybe the kids love peas or strawberries. When it comes time to harvest, they'll love eating what they grew. I used to love picking blackberries as a kid and would eat more than I saved for pie! Tomatoes are another childhood favorite, and popping a ripe, homegrown cherry tomato in your mouth inspires great memories.
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A port city that dots the western edge of the Caspian Sea, Makhachkala is surrounded by low-lying mountains on its other sides. (Dagestan means "land of mountains.")
The beaches reflect none of the glossy luster of Black Sea resorts; speed bumps seem to outnumber traffic lights; Residents and hotel guests complain about long periods of water shortages.
Nonetheless, the capital is enjoying robust economic growth. Construction sites are everywhere and new hotels are being built. Shops are full of well-known western brands, including Apple's iPhones. Cafés are teeming with young people and families.
But life is not easy in this North Caucasus town. Take the mayor, for instance.
Said Amirov has survived 15 assassination attempts since the 1990s; one of them put him in a wheelchair. He refuses to be photographed in it, wanting to project an image of power and authority in a culture obsessed with male athleticism and physical prowess (wrestling and soccer are the most popular sports).
Though named the Best Mayor of Russia 2012, Amirov is an emblem of corruption, according to one local journalist. When asked about corruption during a press briefing this week about the Boston bombing suspects, Amirov dismissed the topic: "Corruption exists everywhere."
However, local residents say corruption is particularly rampant in Dagestan.
In a town that features a clothing shop called "Tony Montana" – named after the Cuban gangster played by Al Pacino in "Scarface" – men swagger in leather jackets and sweatpants. Police checkpoints dot the main roads and semiautomatic weapons are on plentiful display.
The majority of women wear hijabs and long skirts, but it's not unusual to see women with uncovered hair, three-inch Louboutin heels and tiny skirts.
With a population of half a million, the capital is also a cultural crossroads. Dagestan is Russia's most ethnically diverse republic with more than 30 ethnic groups.
Sectarian strife
Apart from geography, Islam is the other tie that binds so many diverse groups. Arab conquerors introduced the religion to Dagestan in the seventh century, making it the oldest Islamic republic in the Russian Federation. Dagestan has between 1,800 to 2,000 mosques, according to official Russian government reports, more than neighboring Chechnya or Ingushetia.
During Friday prayers, hundreds of men streamed toward the white multidomed Central Mosque, the largest in Makhachkala. As they prayed, heavily armed men – some dressed in camouflage, some in civilian clothes – ringed the edge of the mosque grounds.
It is the perfect snapshot of the strife surrounding Islam in Dagestan.
Adrienne Mong / NBC News
The Central Mosque in Makhachkala. Dagestan is the oldest Islamic republic in Russia.
As terrorist attacks spread throughout Dagestan – now considered more volatile than Chechnya – Russia's security forces have cracked down further on dissidents and suspected militants, fueling violence, tension and fear.
"As soon as we began preaching Salafism, the government began targeting us," said Gadzhi Mohamed, who helps run a local Islamic civil rights organization called "Akhlusuna." In fact, "as soon as someone says 'pure Islam,' they become an enemy of the people, created by the state."