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Sept. 30, 2001
Salt Lake City, Utah (Sept. 30) -- After giving up three first-half goals, the University of Arizona women's soccer team dropped a 4-1 decision at Utah on Sunday.
The Utes struck barely 10 minutes into the match, a goal by Katie Tate, then Julie Herdic put Utah up 2-0 by connecting on a penalty kick in the 37th minute. With less than three minutes to play in the first half, Missy Dennis sent the Utes to 3-0 before halftime.
Arizona freshman midfielder Vanesha Bailey finally broke the shutout for the Cats early in the second half, scoring her fourth goal of the season at 55:02. The Wildcats were unable to make any other gains offensively, and Utah put the cap on the win with a goal at 72:05.
Senior goalkeeper Shannon Monti played all 90 minutes in the nets for Arizona, collecting three saves, as Utah out-shot Arizona, 12-5. Wildcat freshman forward Candice Wilks had a pair of shots, while Bailey and sophomores Sierra Cristiano and Liz Bartlett had one shot apiece. Wilks, Bailey and Bartlett each had shots on-goal.
The loss was Arizona's second of the weekend and sent the Wildcats to 3-3-1 on the year. On a three-game win streak, Utah improved its mark to 5-2-0 overall.
Arizona continues its six-game road swing with two matches in Colorado next weekend. The Cats play at Denver on Friday, Oct. 5, at 3 p.m. MDT, then they take on Air Force on Sunday, Oct. 7, at 12 p.m. MDT in Colorado Springs.
1 2 FUtah 3 1 4Arizona 0 1 1
Utah - Tate (Brower) 9:49
Utah - Herdic (penalty kick) 36:08
Utah - Dennis (unassisted) 42:36
Arizona - Bailey (unassisted) 55:02
Utah - Kofoed (Tate/Maxwell) 72:05
Shots: Arizona - 5, Utah - 12
Shots on Goal: Arizona - 3, Utah - 7
Corner Kicks: Arizona - 7, Utah - 7
Fouls: Arizona - 17, Utah - 14
GK Saves: Arizona - 3 (Monti 3), Utah - 2 (Asay -2)
Attendance: 368
Records: Arizona 3-3-1, Utah 5-2-0
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Founded in 1842 the New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, and one of the oldest in the world. It currently plays some 180 concerts a year, and has given more than 15,000 concerts. Alan Gilbert began his tenure as Music Director in September 2009, the latest in a distinguished line of musical giants that has included Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, and Leonard Bernstein. Since its inception the Orchestra has championed the new music of its time, commissioning or premiering many important works, such as Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, From the New World; Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3; Gershwin's Concerto in F; and Copland's Connotations. This pioneering tradition has continued to the present day, with works of major contemporary composers regularly scheduled each season, including John Adams's Pulitzer Prize– and Grammy Award–winning On the Transmigration of Souls; Christopher Rouse's Prospero's Rooms; Melinda Wagner's Trombone Concerto; Wynton Marsalis's Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3); John Corigliano's One Sweet Morning, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra; Magnus Lindberg's Piano Concerto No. 2; as well as, by the end of the 2012-13 season, 22 works in CONTACT!, the new-music series.
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Saturday 12 Apr 2014, 7.30pmColston Hall, Bristol
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Jakub Hrůša conductor
Lukáš Vondráček piano
Gun-Brit Barkmin soprano
Monica Groop mezzo soprano
Peter Berger tenor
Mischa Schelomianski bass voice
Thomas Trotter organ
Bristol Choral Society
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Messaging and Data Rates
You understand that while there is no charge for the Quikly service, your standard carrier messaging and data rates may apply. We can only send SMS text messages to mobile phone numbers (sorry, no Google Voice of VOIP services). Quikly's supported carriers include: Alltel, Appalachian Wireless, AT&T, Bluegrass Cellular, Boost Mobile, Cellcom, Cellular South, Centennial Wireless, Cincinnati Bell, GCI, Immix Wireless, Inland Cellular, IV Cellular, Nex-Tech Wireless, Nextel Communications, nTelos, Revol Wireless, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, United Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, and West Central Wireless. Additional carriers may or may not be supported.
Text Message Volume and Preference Options
For verification purposes, you will be sent one (1) SMS text message upon opting in to your first Quikly campaign which also constitutes the initial creation of an account. This SMS text message will contain an opt-in code and you will need to enter that code in the space provided on the opt-in screen in order to compete your opt-in. This is a one-time SMS text message-- you will not receive any additional SMS text messages containing opt-in codes to participate in subsequent Quikly campaigns. Upon opting in for the first time, you will indicate your preference of participating via SMS text message or email. You will be able to change your preference setting at any time. If you select SMS text message as your method of participation, whenever you choose to participate in a particular campaign, you will receive up to three (3) SMS text messages per campaign: one if you have "earned time" and opted to be notified via text message in advance of the start of the campaign; another notifying you when the campaign goes live; and a third if you successfully earn a reward and you opted-in to receive the reward via SMS text message. However, you understand and agree that human or technological error may, in rare instances, result in more than the intended number of SMS text messages being sent. You also may elect to receive additional SMS text messages regarding your account, the Site and Services, and/or upcoming or current campaigns. You may opt-out of receiving SMS text messages at any time by: (1) manually changing your user preferences (Hint: upper right hand corner of the initial Quikly page); (2) emailing Quikly at firstname.lastname@example.com; or (3) texting "STOP" to the appropriate short-code number.
Age Requirement
By participating in any campaign, or using the Site or Services in any way, you verify that you are at least 13 year of age. Additionally, you understand that particular campaigns may include a specific age requirement to participate (e.g.: must be 18 years or older to participate), and you acknowledge that you must meet the posted age requirement for any campaign.
Claiming or Purchasing a "Quikly"
A "Quikly" is the offer, reward, or deal you claim or purchase during a campaign. By clicking to claim or purchase a Quikly, you are agreeing to the terms, restrictions, and conditions associated with that Quikly. Moreover, you understand that Quiklys are subject to the limitations and rules set forth by the Merchant making the offer via the Quikly platform.
"Claiming" a Quikly indicates that you have participated in a campaign whereby both the participation and the reward are free. "Purchasing" a Quikly indicates that you have participated in a campaign whereby the participation is free, but the offer, reward, or deal is the ability to purchase an item, perhaps where quantities are limited, or perhaps at a price not otherwise generally available to others. To claim or purchase, click or visit the unique link delivered upon live release.
Notification of the live release of a campaign will be sent to you by either SMS text message or email, depending on your prior decision recorded at the time you enroll for the campaign. The email and SMS notifications for each campaign will be sent substantially simultaneously.
By using the Site or Services, you acknowledge that delivery speeds may vary for any outgoing or incoming message, regardless of medium. For example, an SMS text message announcing that a campaign is going live must travel through a series of networks including your wireless carrier's. Similarly, an email message goes through a series of email networks before it reaches you. Neither Quikly nor any Merchant offering a campaign has any control over the speed with which those messages transmit through those networks. Accordingly, no responsibility is assumed for any delay in your receipt of any notification that a particular campaign has launched, or our receipt of any submission you make.
A claimed or purchased Quikly will be available to you through a unique microsite, an email or a particular manner specified in the campaign details. In order to purchase a Quikly, you must make payment through a payment gateway. All terms and conditions of the third party gateway will apply.
You understand and agree that human or technological error may result in issues surrounding the campaign and your Quikly. Conditions outside of the control of Quikly or the Merchant, such as conditions regarding your Internet and cellular provider, may affect the deliverability of any notifications. Additionally, the time in which a Quikly is released or received may vary. If your Quikly is not received within 12 hours of claim or purchase, please contact us at email@example.com so the issue can be resolved.
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Expiration Dates: General
Generally, campaign details, fine print or the Quikly itself will establish an expiration date. However, state law may require a merchant to honor any portion of a Quikly for which you have paid money ("Paid Portion") beyond the expiration date. Any portion of a Quikly that was free ("Promotional Portion") will always expire on the established expiration date and may not be extended beyond it.
Expiration Dates: Date-Specific Deals
Quiklys may be date-specific, such as a ticketed event or a specific day to stay at a hotel ("Date-Specific Deal"). Usually this means that the Quikly can only be redeemed on a single date or that you have to choose from a list of available dates before claiming or purchasing. In either case, the date will be identified, and can only be redeemed on that specific date. Both the Paid Portion and the Promotional Portion expire on the specified date. You may not reschedule a Date-Specific Deal for any reason. No full or partial refunds are given to customers who fail to redeem a Date-Specific Deal. Quikly, or the Merchant, may cancel or reschedule a Date-Specific Deal. In this event, we will notify you by email prior to such cancellation or rescheduling. If the Date-Specific Deal is rescheduled, the email will include the new date or time. If you cannot make the new date, you will be entitled to a refund, upon request, of any Paid Portion. If, however, the Date-Specific Deal is canceled and will not be rescheduled, we will automatically refund to you the Paid Portion. In either situation, any Promotional Portion is not compensated for.
Except as otherwise stated, you may obtain a refund of a Quikly's purchase price (if any) by emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.com. The email must indicate your intent to receive a refund and must be received within (7) days of your purchase. However, we are never responsible for repaying any Promotional Portion of a Quikly. Any use of a Quikly, in full or in part, nullifies and voids our obligation to issue a refund. No refunds will be issued after a Quikly's expiration date.
Merchant Is The Issuer
The Merchant is the issuer of all Quiklys. The Merchant is also solely responsible for all goods and services provided to you and for any and all injuries, illnesses, damages, claims, liabilities and costs it may cause you to suffer, directly or indirectly, in full or in part, whether related to the use or redemption of a Quikly or not, as well as for any unclaimed property liability arising from unredeemed or partially redeemed Quiklys. Unless otherwise indicated in a particular campaign, Quikly acts solely as a marketing service on behalf of the Merchant to help execute the Merchant's campaign, and may from time to time also engage third parties or affiliates to assist in that process on behalf of Merchants. By participating in any campaign, you irrevocably waive all rights related to, and release Quikly and its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, officers, directors, employees and agents from, any liabilities arising from or related to any act or omission of a Merchant in connection with your use of a Quikly or the products and/or services it provides in connection with it.
Deal Availability
Some campaigns may not be available in certain areas of the country. Please check the details or fine print prior to opting in to a campaign to ensure that the Quikly is available to you. Additionally, Quikly reserves the right to exclude or limit the provision of all Quikly features. We do not represent or warrant that any product or service promoted via the Site or Services will be available to any particular person. Scarcity drives each campaign. Therefore, Quiklys are limited in number and attempting to obtain more than one Quikly in any individual campaign by any means – whether by use of multiple email addresses, accounts, mobile phone number or otherwise – is strictly forbidden and considered a violation of these Terms. Violating these Terms constitutes grounds for account deactivation and/or disqualification from a campaign and any Quikly you have claimed or purchased may be reallocated at our discretion. Whether or not you have violated, or attempted to violate, our rules shall be determined at our discretion.
User Activity
User Content
By sharing content online relating in any way to Quikly or any campaign ("Content"), you grant Quikly a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty free, fully paid and perpetual right and license to use and exploit that Content in any way in any media.
Advance Notice
Typically, you will share Content relating to a particular campaign as part of Quikly's "earn time" platform. "Earning time" means that Quikly will reward you with advance notice of when the relevant campaign will be released live. Advance notice may be earned via social gestures such as: email messages; Facebook posts or "likes"; Twitter tweets or "follows"; Pinterest pins; or photo's uploaded on Instagram. However, gestures that involve asking or inviting another person to participate are only rewarded when that gesture directly results in an additional campaign opt-in (i.e. users are not rewarded in any way for the invitation itself).
Prohibited User Activity
You agree not to use Quikly for any inappropriate purposes. Strictly prohibited actions include uploading, posting, or transmitting material:
That is unlawful, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, abusive, threatening, profane, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, or otherwise objectionable;
That violates or infringes upon the rights of others in any way;
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That contains advertising, publicity, or solicitation for a product or service that did not receive prior approval from Quikly; or
That inhibits other users from using or enjoying the Site.
Additionally, you agree to follow all rules and regulations of the particular social media outlet you use. Quikly strongly suggests that you read and review their terms of service or rules. Specifically, you agree to completely release Facebook of any and all liability which may accompany your involvement in a Quikly campaign. Additionally, you acknowledge that Quikly is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. Further, you understand that when you create an account or sign up for an individual campaign, you are providing your information to Quikly and the Merchant, not to Facebook (except to the extent you post any information on Facebook).
Finally, you are solely responsible and liable for activity that occurs on your account and you agree to notify Quikly immediately in writing if there is an unauthorized use of your account.
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General Campaign Rules:
Each campaign has its own specific terms, which will be posted in conjunction with the offering of that campaign. In addition to those campaign-specific terms, these Terms shall also apply. In the event of any conflict, these general Terms shall govern.
Quikly campaigns are time based, which combine strategic pre-release positioning with fast-action response time, to claim or purchase a Quikly. You may strategically position yourself in a number of ways, including, for example:
All Quiklys offered in any campaign are automatically sequenced and distributed depending upon the order in which participants have clicked to claim or purchase. Those that click first receive the top positions. This process continues sequentially until all Quiklys for a particular campaign have been claimed or purchased. Please read and review the specific campaign details and fine print prior to opting in to a particular Quikly campaign. They will inform you of information such as: the quantity of Quiklys available, the deadline for opt-in to the campaign, the range of time in which the campaign will go live, as well as any geographical or age limitations.
You understand and accept that neither Quikly nor any Merchant is responsible for malfunctions of electronic equipment, computer hardware or software, or for incomplete or incorrect campaign opt-ins. Nor is any responsibility assumed for problems downloading or accessing campaigns from the Site or for any other technical problems related to the Site or Services. Additionally, we reserve the right to modify, suspend, or terminate a campaign in the event that it becomes infected by a computer virus or is otherwise technically impaired. In the event a dispute arises regarding the identity of the person claiming or purchasing a Quikly, the Quikly will be lawfully belong to the individual whose mobile phone number is on record for the relevant account used in the campaign. However, you also understand that any knowing provision of false or inaccurate information is grounds for removal from a particular campaign, including withholding any claimed or purchased Quikly's, and potentially deactivation of your Quikly account.
You also understand and accept that by opting in for any campaign(s), you are giving your express permission to be contacted by Quikly via email and/or SMS text-message per your preference for such campaign(s). By clicking the "I agree," "Let's go," "OK, I got it," or "verify" button, or any button comparable language, you are validating your opt-in and accepting the rules as they are herein stated or as they are stated in that particular campaign, as well as these overall Terms.
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Where is the Catholic Church advancing, and why? Real, nitty-gritty stories of apostolic Catholic laity and clergy in the field from Siberia to Peru to U.S. college campuses. No hype, wishful thinking, or nostalgia—just real faith, spread by hard work.
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During this Year of Faith, when Catholics from all walks of life have been called to participate in the "new evangelization," a question naturally arises: What sort of evangelization works? Are there any proven programs, that have demonstrated the power to attract people to the faith?
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Philip Lawler, one of the steadiest Catholic journalists alive and author of Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture the best book on the priestly abuse crisis … has put together a valuable collection of essays on things that are going right in the Church: When Faith Goes Viral: 11 Success Stories on the New Evangelization from Alabama to Vladivostok.
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Pick up this little anthology for your pre-Christmas reading. Its inspiring chapters may help you, despite all temptations to Scrooge-like cynicism about our postmodern world, to welcome the commemoration of the birth of the Savior with greater joy and, who knows, maybe even a greater hope.
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Restaurateur Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. (CBRL - Free Report) has approved a share repurchase program, thereby maintaining the trend of returning wealth to its shareholders. The authorization is effective immediately and substitutes the prior authorization.
Under this program, the company is authorized to repurchase up to $50.0 million of its common stock. The authorization expires on Sep 24, 2014. Prior to this, the board had approved the repurchase of up to $100 million of common stock on Sep 19, 2012.
The increase in share buyback authorization reflects the company's confidence in its fundamentals. At the same time, the share buyback will help the company reduce share count, thereby increasing earnings per share and return on equity. Apart from enhancing shareholder value, this strategic move will also lift the relatively undervalued share price.
This Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company also has a dividend distribution policy in place. The company had tripled its annualized dividend payout to $3 per share at the current level from $1 per share in Nov 2011. The latest hike of 50% in quarterly dividend payment to 75 cents was announced in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013.
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The link below will take you to our University Advancement donation page. Before you visit, we'd like to share with you the descriptions of the various funds we have in place to which you may donate. For any fund below that does not appear in the drop down list on the Advancement page, you may select "Other" and enter the fund name in the "Other" comment field.
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|School of Education General Fund
|To advance the mission of the School of Education in supporting students, advancing programs (involving the expansion and support of the curriculum and the School's teaching mission), and impact/outreach (activities that directly benefit the schools and communities the School of Education serves and that communicates the mission of the School of Education).
|Student National Education Association (SNEA)
|To provide financial support to any prospective student teacher seeking licensure at Metropolitan State University of Denver. (The student may be degree seeking, or just seeking licensure.) Preference given to SNEA members.
|Kappa Delta Pi Student Scholarship
|To benefit high achieving students with financial need studying to become teachers in their student teaching phase. Preference is given to members of Kappa Delta Pi.
|School of Education Annual Scholarship Fund
To support students in the Metropolitan State University School of Education during their student teaching experience.
|School of Education Retention Fund
The School of Education (SOE) Retention Fund will create an assistance award program for students experiencing unforeseeable financial hardships. This program is to be available to students majoring in any of the SOE teacher preparation programs and funds will be disbursed to students in hardship situations of last resort when other financial avenues have been explored.
|Jack and Fran Kaufman Scholarship for Student Teaching established by Cecelia Box
|The fund is established to provide financial support to students seeking professional teaching licensure during the semester of their full-time student teaching. This fund is in recognition of and hopes to alleviate the challenges and sacrifices students face carrying the full-time commitment of student teaching, which, for so many, conflicts with their ability to support themselves.
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What may be the #1 most requested new feature for any software, Process Throb, has been added to the old-school Mac process monitoring utility, Peek-a-Boo. The new feature joins some bug fixes in version 2.1 of the software.
Peek-a-Boo allows you to easily monitor all of your running processes, your CPU use, and more. This information can be received in chart and graph form, in log-format, etc.
You can see a screen shot of Process Throb at Clarkwood Softwareis Web site. The new feature basically gives you a graphic display of all your processes, and uses OpenGL to make them "throb," according to how much CPU each app is using.
Other changes in the update include some minor bug fixes such as:
- Process List closing/reopening glitches resolved
- improved memory usage
- documentation rework
You can find more information on Peek-a-Book at the Clarkwood Software Web site. The update is free to registered users of version 2.x, and the full version is priced at US$20.


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January 7, 1959
George W. JURGELIS
SOUTHERN MOTORS EXPRESS, Inc.
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This matter comes before this court on defendant's Amended Motion for Removal of Cause under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1404(a) (Document No. 14 in Clerk's file) and involves a diversity action in tort to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff, a resident of Paulsboro, New Jersey, as a result of an automobile collision at a point on U.S. Route 40 in Baltimore County, Maryland, allegedly caused by the negligence of one of defendant's servants, agents or employees.
In Norwood v. Kirkpatrick, 1955, 349 U.S. 29, 75 S. Ct. 544, 99 L. Ed. 789, the Supreme Court, in discussing the relation of 28 U.S.C.A. 1404(a) to the doctrine of forum non conveniens as recognized by the Supreme Court in Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert, 1946, 330 U.S. 501, 67 S. Ct. 839, 91 L. Ed. 1055, said at page 32 of 349 U.S., at page 546 of 75 S. Ct.:
'* * *, we believe that Congress, by the term 'for the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice,' intended to permit courts to grant transfers upon a lesser showing of inconvenience. This is not to say that the relevant factors have changed or that the plaintiff's choice of forum is not to be considered, but only that the discretion to be exercised is broader.'
It appears, therefore, that under the present state of the law, the factors to be considered by a court in determining whether or not to transfer the action under 1404(a) are established by the Gulf Oil Corp. case, and the degree of discretion to be exercised by the court is established by the Norwood case. In applying the law to the facts of this case, the hearing judge is of the opinion that this case should be transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland for the following reasons:
(a) The law of Maryland is applicable
and judges of the Maryland District Court are more familiar with that law than the judges of this court.
(b) Another action involving this same accident had been instituted in the Superior Court of Baltimore City and, upon removal, is presently before the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
(c) Most of the lay witnesses are from Maryland.
(d) Plaintiff was first treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
(e) The scene of the accident would be more readily available to the jury if a viewing became desirable.
(f) The case will be reached much more rapidly in the District of Maryland because of the less crowded docket.
Plaintiff's choice of forum and the case of Mazinski v. Dight, D.C.W.D.Pa.1951, 99 F.Supp. 192, relied on by plaintiff in opposition to defendant's motion, have been given due consideration. However, with regard to the degree of discretion to be exercised by the court, the Mazinski case, in light of the Norwood case, does not represent the present state of the law. It is the opinion of the undersigned that the interests of justice would be better served if this case ...
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My name is Mark Miller and I am part of M4ISU (previously Millers4ISU), along with my children J.R. , Emily and Riley.
Here is a little bit about me.
We have been caching since January 2012 and you can say that I became "hooked" shortly after we started. I got into caching to have a family activity and one we could do outdoors. It has really taken a direction I did not expect and we have developed many friendships with other cachers through events and even meeting on "the trail".
The kids like attending events that are over night so we can stay and a hotel, and they like the ones with kids caches. Ammo cans with tradeables are their favorite hide.
My favorite are cemeteries and anything with history. Virtuals are awesome as well, especially those that get you off the beaten path. As a kid, whenever we traveled I always wanted to stop at the roadside markers; now I have a reason to do so again !
I have had too many great caching experiences to pick one ; a couple highlights are the day the boy and I did 16 counties in Northeast Iowa in a day ; the day Em and I did the IGO series, she stuck with me all day ; and the recent team caching I've been doing with my central Iowa friends to get difficult caches or just a whole slug in one day.


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The first challenge that you will need to overcome when you begin programming a game is as the title suggests: how to think about the software you're writing.
If you've done any kind of programming before it was probably some kind of LOB application, like a website or some winforms or maybe some scripts. That kind of programming follows a specific kind of model that unfortunately is only partially applicable to game programming. First, let's talk about what you know.
In your typical web or winforms application, your software starts by running some kind of initialization code. It sets up the UI, loads configuration, puts some things into memory. If it's a web application, your UI is scripted with HTML and rendered by the browser software. If it's a winforms application, your UI is still "scripted" with controls you've setup at design time and your operating system (or the runtime, or a combination thereof) renders them. From that point forward, your application will generally only do things in response to interactions initiated by the user. Your application responds to events. You, the smart application developer, takes good care not to stall the UI with CPU-intensive things in the main UI thread – when you need to harness the CPU, you fire off another thread in the background.
The point is that application performance is practially an afterthought in most modern programming because frankly most tasks that a user wants software to automate just aren't that hard to do for modern hardware. As a result, most programmers – including me, I admit – have gotten lazy about it. Thanks to my formal CS education I am aware of concepts like algorithmic complexity and I try to use linear (or logarithmic) algorithms over polynomial ones, but honestly, if I can write an n-squared in 10 minutes for an n in an hour, I'll use the n-squared a lot of the time.
When you are writing a game, performance is the first consideration you need to make, all the time.
This is a big paradigm shift for most programmers because they're used to getting so much for free – namely, the actual application display. Web developers are by far the laziest in this respect because they don't even need to worry about things like out-of-thread processing on event handlers because all of their processing is happening on the server and is totally divorced from client display (scripts don't count).
In the bad old days of C++ Windows applications, we programmers needed to write something called "the main loop" or sometimes called "the message pump." The message pump was basically an infinite loop that continually probed the operating system for kernel-level events related to the window created by the application – mostly things like "the user clicked the X widget". The details aren't important but the fact that your program at its core was an infinite loop waws an important one, because nothing's changed. WinForms applications work this way too; .NET just hides it for you and does all the message pump handling automatically, at the CLR level. And it's really efficient. The CPU overhead for all of the stuff .NET does for you, like actually draw your controls on the screen every time the screen refreshes, is tiny.
When you are doing game programming, you don't get this for free. Here's what XNA gives you:
- An Update method that executes essentially as fast as possible
- A Draw method that executes as fast as your monitor's vertical sync rate refreshes the screen
- A handful of initialization methods that are executed at startup
I was a little bit surprised when I created a project from the XNA template and got a new subclass of Game and saw these methods, surprised because while they give the most possible freedom, they are also a bit overwhelming. Without proper care, Update and Draw give you enough rope to hang yourself.
Unlike typical app development where your application only really needs to do things in response to what the user tells you to do, when you're programming a game, you have to be aware that your game is doing something all the time. XNA is constantly calling these methods for you in the game's main loop.
That's important. Web and forms UI developers don't think about their presentation in terms of frames. When you want to show something on the screen you create a dynamic control and add it to your layout; when you want to hide something, you remove it from your layout; your framework (browser/forms) takes care of it from there.
Game programmers have to remember that nothing appears on the screen unless you draw it every single frame. This means that your Draw() method assumes the screen is empty because it is – you will be clearing the screen at the start of every frame. This also means that every line of code that you write in Draw(), or in a method that is called in Draw(), will be executed (optimally) 60 or more times per second. That's a lot of times per second. If your drawing code cannot finish in 1/60th of a second, your framerate starts to drop.
When you're just starting out, your framerate, even on bad hardware, should never drop below your vsync rate, which is probably going to be 60 – so 60fps. As your begin working with XNA, the first thing you should do is add a framerate counter to your application. Use this one:
The reason that I recommend this is because the only way you're going to wind up with something playable in the end is if you remain vigilant on drawing performance. Any time you add anything to your game, whether it's a new drawing technique or a new game logic function, if doing so causes your framerate to drop below 60, you're doing it wrong. I say this because it's 2010. You're not doing real-time ray tracing. You're not doing Doom 3 ultra quality. You're not a Final Fantasy intro video. You're doing a hobby game for fun. If you can't render it in 60 frames per second, it means you're making a systemic error in something you're doing in code. It doesn't mean that the GPU can't handle it. (Unless, of course, you choose to load your screen with thousands and thousands of polgyons. If you want to tank hardware, you can tank hardware).
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The Keepers are an insecticide race, believed to have been created by the Protheans to serve as caretakers of the Citadel. They kept the Citadel in top condition for the 48,000 years between the Protheans disappearing and the Asari re-discovering it. The other species of the Galaxy believe they exist for no other reason than to maintain the Citadel and its systems.
After many failed attempts to find out more about the Keepers, the Citadel Council made it illegal to interfere with their work. They were considered completely harmless to other species and their work in maintaining the Citadel's conditions were considered too important to intervene. As the years went by, people stopped caring about the origin of the Keepers and just let them get on with their work.
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There is a minor subplot assignment called "Scan the Keepers" in the Citadel. In this assignment you must find all 21 Keepers in the Citadel and scan them for research. The assignment is given to you in the Citadel Tower Council Chambers. You earn XP and credits for each Keeper scanned, as they are scanned.
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It's revealed later in the game that the Keepers were controlled by the Reapers. They were already on the Citadel long before the Protheans arrived. Their main function is to keep the Citadel in top condition so that new species will want to settle there. The Keepers are also created to stop the current species from discovering that the Citadel is actually a hidden Mass Relay that leads to Dark Space where the rest of the Reapers are waiting. When a species reaches a certain level of technological advancement, the Keepers will receive a message from the Reaper Vanguard - a single Reaper that has to stay in the Galaxy and watch over the new species until it's time to restart their cycle of galactic genocide. The Message will tell the Keepers to open the Citadel Relay and allow the Reapers to come through and exterminate all species in the Galaxy.
The Protheans managed to cut the Keepers from all ties to the Reapers, however they couldn't do it quick enough to prevent their own destruction. The Keepers now respond only to the Citadel, which is why the Reapers needed Saren to access the Citadel Relay and why they are planning on replacing the Keepers with the Geth.
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|Well it's been nearly 8 months since my last blog post. "What have you been up to?" might you ask. Well my friend, many of those days have been spent squatting at DC's not-so-secret Toki Underground shoveling ramen noodles down my throat. Located in DC's historical H Street corridor, Toki resides in an area where dudes donning salmon chinos and their J. Crew loving ladies avoid because they find tattoos and snapback caps a bit too treacherous. Toki Underground is nestled above The Pug and seats about 20, has an average wait of an hour, is dim, and loud but is absolutely ambrosial. Decorated with figurines, skateboards, and spray paint; it's as if I've awoken from a wet dream only to find myself lying in front of one of those supersized checks made out to me for $15 Million. Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself. Toki's menu is fairly simple but with a bevy of daily food and drink specials it's never old. My recommendation: Miso Hakata (comeswith Pork Loin, a half-boiled egg, and extra noodles. It'll cost you $12 and it's worth every penny — your 0.05% APY savings account surely wont miss it — so don't be a cheap-ass.


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If you have an iPhone, you've been there. You're trying to type one text message and something totally different -- sometimes totally inappropriate -- comes up, thanks to Apple's autocorrect. It's funny, but man it can be awkward. And speaking of awkward, it's about 1,000 percent worse when it involves a mom. Oof, things can get rough.
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