text: Keenan Palmore ODU Sports W&M Edges ODU, 74-68 In Optima Health Challenge January 01, 2014 By ODU Athletics Men's Basketball vs. W&M - Recap MBB at WM - Postgame Presser ODU-W&M BOX WILLIAMSBURG, VA—ODU sophomore guard Aaron Bacote scored a career high tying 28 points, but the Tribe of William and Mary rallied to hold off the Monarchs for a 74-68 win Wednesday night at William and Mary Hall. ODU falls to 5-9 and the Tribe improves to 7-5 led by 26 points from Marcus Thornton and ties the third annual Optima Health Challenge series between the two schools at 20 points each. W&M led by as many as 17 in the first half, 28-11 at the 6:05 mark on a three-pointer by Julian Boatner, and would go into halftime with a 35-26 lead. The Monarchs went on a 14-4 run to start the second half and tied the game at 40-40 with 16:22 left on a three-pointer by red-shirt junior guard Dimitri Batten. After a W&M miss, Batten scored again to put the Monarchs up 42-40. Marcus Thornton then hit a trey to give the Tribe a 43-42 lead with 15:22 remaining. Batten scored again on a layup to give the Monarchs a 44-43 lead. The Tribes Fred Heldring hit a jumper to put them up for good at 45-44 with 14:38 left. Omar Prewitt followed with a three-pointer for a 48-44 lead. The two teams traded baskets down the stretch as the Monarchs got with-in two at 62-60 with 2:35 left on a three-pointer by red-shirt freshman guard Ambrose Mosley, but Thornton got a basket and hit two free throws to put W&M up 66-60 and the Monarchs would get no closer than four, at 68-64 after a tip-in by freshman forward Denzell Taylor with 21 seconds left in the game. Bacote's 28 points equaled his career high set earlier this year against Missouri State. He also had a team best three assists and two steals. Joining him in double figures were Dimitri Batten with 12 points and red-shirt junior forward Richard Ross with 10. ODU outrebounded its 10th opponent in the last 11 games, winning the battle on the glass, 32-27 and scored 36 points in the paint. Ross and Taylor hauled down six rebounds each. ODU shot .500 (29-58) from the field to the Tribes .467 (21-45), but W&M was 21-for-27 from the free throw line to the Monarchs 5-for-9, including 0-for-3 in the final two minutes when they were trailing only 64-60. Joining Thornton in double-figures were Julian Boatner with 14 and Omar Prewitt with 11. Kyle Gaillard led the Tribe with six rebounds. The Monarchs return to home on Saturday night when they host George Mason of the Atlantic-10 at 7 p.m. at the Constant Center.


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Toyotas are boring cars. Many people buy them, but not because they are interesting. Toyotas have many fine qualities, such as great fuel economy and apocalypse-proof reliability, but they're about as desirable as a manila envelope. Even CEO Akio Toyoda had to admit that this was a problem; he recently demanded that the company build "more exciting vehicles." The first Toyota-branded vehicle to come out of the new regime is the redesigned Avalon, which debuted at the 2012 New York Auto Show.
The current Avalon is pretty bland, so Toyota tried to liven up the styling of this 2013 model. The new Avalon is a bit smaller, but that is because of a faster roofline and shorter overhangs. The gaping grille looks much more aggressive, as does the Lexus GS-like rear end. The fenders also get some muscular flares. The reskin is courtesy of Toyota's California design studio, Calty. It's not the prettiest sedan in the world, but it is a huge departure from the old Avalon. Toyota was so sure that no one would guess what car they were showing that company spokesmen waited until the end of the unveiling to announce it's name.
Sporty styling or not, the Avalon is still Toyota's flagship, so the interior needed to have the "premium feel" carmakers like to talk about. To achieve that feel, the dashboard's leather trim is hand assembled; the rest of the car will be built alongside Camrys at Toyota's Georgetwon, Kentucky plant. According to Toyota, the Avalon has more interior space than a BMW 5-Series, thanks to its 111-inch wheelbase.
Other carmakers, like Chevy and Acura, work hard to impart a sophisticated, luxurious feel to their flagship cars. With the Avalon, Toyota had the opposite problem. The Japanese company is good at making smooth riding sensory-deprivation tanks, what it needed was more, well, excitement. The 2013 Avalon has steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters, and a sport mode for the electric power steering and throttle. These are common features on other cars, but unheard of on a full-size Toyota.
Toyota promises firmer on-center steering feel and confidence-inspiring off-center feel. The company also said that the Avalon is also more rigid, thanks to extra structural bracing and welds. That should improve handling, but how will the Avalon get going in the first place? "V6 power and excellent mileage," was all Toyota said.
Executives are the only people who can make things happen quickly at large corporations. Toyoda's new philosophy has already been applied to the Scion FR-S and a few Lexus models. However, the Avalon is the first mainstream model (and the first to get a Toyota badge) that Toyota has made "more exciting." A full-size sedan is never really a paradigm of excitement, but Toyota's effort on the Avalon bodes well for its future models. New Supra, anyone?

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The seniors in chemical engineering are midway through finding solutions to practical issues in their Senior Design Clinic.By Thomas Guengerich
This is the fifth in a series of articles about the senior design classes in the engineering programs at New Mexico Tech. Previously profiled were the Electrical, Mechanical, Materials and Petroleum Engineering. Next up: Civil Engineering.
SOCORRO, N.M., March 30, 2009 – The seniors in chemical engineering are midway through finding solutions to practical issues in their Senior Design Clinic.
Ten students are working in three teams to address issues of global consequence along with their professor Dr. Robert Bretz.
One team is trying to develop an environmental friendly gasoline additive. The other two teams are working on different systems and procedures to create hydrogen. One team is working with domestic wastewater treatment systems. The other is trying to perfect a system to harvest hydrogen from algae.
Samantha Miranda, Leanna Marquez and Kauotar Abbou Oucherif are trying to develop methodology for making ethyl tert-butyl ether, or ETBE. In the United States, methyl tert-butyl ether, or MTBE, is the standard gasoline additive.
The team has researched an American patent for producing ETBE, but the public records say very little about the chemical process to create ETBE and the patent-holders were not inclined to share information.
The students found a Spanish company that produces ETBE and has opened a dialog with company officials about methodology. From the Spaniards, they are learning the details about splash-blended ethanol.
"They know the process and the design scheme," Abbou Oucherif said. "They know the hardware and operating procedures."
Most of their research is simulation and modeling – and not benchtop chemistry. They have designed a process flow diagram, process and instrumentation design and operating procedures. As the spring semester progresses, they will look at equipment specifications, hazard and operability studies and their presentations.
However, in addition to modeling, simulation and scientific research, the team is also investigating the market for ETBE – or lack thereof.
"We are looking at the economics – economic analysis, economic constraints and the social, political and geographical constraints," Marquez said.
The development of a market for ETBE in the United States would require significant political policy change, Abbou Oucherif said.
"Nobody in the United States is pushing to switch from ethanol," she said.
In the United States, most MTBE is corn ethanol. The technology for making MTBE is well-developed and the industry is mature. MTBE was first introduced as a gasoline additive in the late 1970s to increase oxygenation, to combust gasoline more thoroughly and, hence, reduce hazardous emissions.
More recent studies show that MTBE creates environmental risks, some of which would be mitigated by converting to ETBE. In Europe, ETBE is used more widely – not because of environmental concerns, but because of tax breaks offered to ETBE producers.
Without a changing of the political winds, proponents of ETBE face an uphill battle to replace MTBE as a gasoline additive.
The other two teams are examining hydrogen, albeit from completely different sources.
Kerri Harvey, Zach Peterson and Annie Hohmann are designing a theory and system for extracting industrial-grade hydrogen from municipal waste water. Harvey said the team wanted to examine a green technology. In this case, their system could harvest energy from sludge that would otherwise be dumped in landfills.
They are examining a multi-step process that would employ a plasma reactor and separation columns to filter and distill municipal waste in basic elements.
"We're making a detailed instrumentation design," Harvey said. "We're coming at this problem like engineers – specifying every valve and every piece of equipment."
At its simplest level, their system would separate waste into basic molecules like water, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, then extract the 99.997 percent pure hydrogen.
"The biggest challenge is that municipal waste doesn't come in constant composition," Harvey said. "The chemical composition changes by city, by time of day, by time of year."
Peterson said they are looking for a methodology that will work with a variety of chemical compositions.
"We want to find a process with large limits where we can run a bunch of stuff through it and get the product we want," he said.
The models they've developed so far would be rather expensive. Harvey said the initial capital costs would be too great to make the investment worthwhile. A significant challenge is to fine-tune the system to make it more affordable.
Their goal is to produce hydrogen that can be used in fuel-cell transportation purposes. They are using the city of Albuquerque as a benchmark. They are shooting for a system that could handle the city's municipal waste and produce enough hydrogen to power the city's fleet of busses.
"We want to reduce the cost of hauling sewage," Harvey said. "Another great aspect is that the plasma reactor intensifies heavy metals, which are normally disposed of. The reactor takes sand and makes a sort of glass that is strong enough to use as a building material. So, there's not a waste stream."
Team No. 3 is also examining hydrogen production; however, they are looking at developing a means of using biological processes to create hydrogen. They are also looking closely at transportation and industrial uses.
Brock Romero, Britt Catron, David Meyers and Daniel Martinez found a patented process, while they are refining to make more efficient and economical.
They are considering a new heat exchange process with a combustion turbine. They are fine-tuning the system with an eye toward creating a self-contained electricity generation device that could be used by a household or a neighborhood.
"Right now, our system is designed for home use, but it's too expensive," Meyers said. "If we can optimize it, it'll still probably be only used by wealthy residents with available land."
That makes the current available market for home-based hydrogen power relatively small. The key development to advance hydrogen use will be storage, he said.
"Compression costs are a critical issue in hydrogen – and with natural gas, too," Bretz said.


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NORTH ANDOVER, MA - Five different Warriors tallied a goal as #18 Merrimack extended its unbeaten streak to five, remaining unbeaten at home with a 5-3 victory over #7 Boston College in front of a sellout crowd of 2,772 at Lawler Arena Friday afternoon.
Merrimack (5-2-4, 4-2-3 HEA) hits the ice again Saturday at #6 New Hampshire at 7 p.m. The Eagles (7-5-0, 5-4-0 HEA) will host Vermont Sunday afternoon at Conte Forum.
Stephane Da Costa (Paris, France) led the way, breaking his five-game scoreless streak with a goal and two assists, while Jesse Todd (Camrose, AB) and Joe Cucci (Melrose Park, IL) also had multi-point games.
Ranked for the first time in school history, the Warriors earned the season-series victory over the Eagles for the first time since the 1996-97 campaign with their third straight home win over the defending National Champs. They also improved to 4-0-1 at home this year and 16-3-2 since the beginning of last season.
After Cam Atkinson notched his first of two first-period markers, Todd and Francois Ouimet (Lorraine, QC) scored 1:16 apart to give the Warriors the short-lived 2-1 lead. Todd took a stretch pass from Da Costa and beat John Muse for the breakaway tally, his team-leading sixth of the season at 14:39.
Moments later, Ouimet netted his first goal since October 23, 2009, wristing home a rebound off a shot from Cucci to put the hosts in front at 15:34.
But Atkinson answered with his second of the period and 10th of the season, putting home a rebound off a Brian Gibbons shot with 35-seconds left in the first to send the teams to the locker room tied at two.
After the Warriors' penalty kill killed off a five-minute major, Ryan Flanigan (Rochester, NY) gave Merrimack the lead with his third of the year, beating Muse on a breakaway off feeds from Cucci and Da Costa at 13:19 of the second.
The Eagles outshot Merrimack 11-7 in the second, but Joe Cannata (Wakefield, MA) turned aside all of them, including three breakaway stops, one being a great glove save off Chris Kreider midway through the period.
Chris Barton (Calgary, AB) scored what proved to be the game-winner, gathering a loose puck in front of the crease and wristing it past Muse for his fourth of the year at 1:57 of the third.
Patrick Wey made it a one-goal game again at 4-3 with a power-play marker, the first of his career at 7:23 of the third, but the Warriors held from there, spending the final 2:43 of the game on the power play, with Da Costa burying an empty-netter with eight-seconds remaining to secure the win.
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CREXi is a commercial real estate community, marketplace, and technology company that simplifies transactions and accelerates business for brokers, buyers, agents and tenants from listing to closing. For more information visit CREXi.com.
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Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world's leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation, & entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, & audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
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BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm. We invent, build, scale and invest in startups with the world's most influential companies. We share risk and invest alongside our corporate and startup partners via a range of collaborative options.
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Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility. We have over 2700 customers in over 150 countries.
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Factual is the location data company the world's most valuable brands and technology companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses.
130Local Employees
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NEXT is a technology company that connects shippers and carriers to meet today's growing transportation demands. With smart matching and predictive load technologies, NEXT matches truck drivers with capacity to available loads, streamlining the process and providing drivers with full control over their careers.
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As one of the first Internet companies to call Los Angeles home, for nearly 20 years Boingo has grown from a tiny start-up to the leading Wi-Fi company in the world, publicly traded on NASDAQ (WIFI). We help the world stay connected to the people and things they love with award-winning Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Superstars always wanted–join us.
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A leader in advertising technology, SteelHouse created a marketing platform that includes every element needed to create a successful digital marketing campaign: creative development, audience segmentation, media placement and real-time reporting.
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At CCC, we're all about connectedness - from our people to our products. Our team is truly reshaping the auto and casualty insurance, auto manufacturer, collision repair, and parts industries. We're setting the bar in these industries for AI-powered data insights, machine learning, IoT, and telematics.
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Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is a camera company. At Snap, we believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
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The future of publishing and e-commerce is data. OnPoint is a leading data-driven, online publisher and service based e-commerce provider. Leveraging premium and contextual domain names combined with original content and large audiences, OnPoint is building a robust, highly monetizable "Signal Graph."
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Shippabo is an online platform that provides its users with shipping rates and shipment scheduling solutions. The platform offers freight forwarding, government filings, and trucking and drayage services to its users. It features online bookings, online custom bond purchases, real-time notifications, and shipment management.
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Our mission is to build the world's most consumer-focused clean power platform and inspire a connected movement of people towards a brighter energy future.
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Taboola enables over 1.4B people to discover what's interesting and new at the moments they're most ready to explore. Powered by Deep Learning, AI, and a large dataset, Taboola's discovery platform creates new monetization, audience and engagement opportunities for digital properties, including publishers, mobile carriers and handset manufacturers....
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DISQO provides BEHAVIORAL & OPINION data empowering clients to discover what consumers do & how they think. We've built the largest first-party behavioral data source enabling brands & insights professionals to gain a competitive edge by harnessing data that was previously inaccessible.
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Heartbeat connects brands directly with the millennial and GenZ audience they are trying to reach, and consumers with the brands they genuinely love. Our network of over 210,000 real consumers creates scalable, ROI-focused user-generated marketing campaigns on social media, proving that word-of-mouth is the best marketing channel out there.
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Clutter is an on-demand, physical storage and moving, technology company that is disrupting the $50B/year self-storage and moving industries. We've built an end-to-end logistics and supply chain platform, enabling us to offer consumers a much more convenient solution at price parity with the incumbents!
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EZ Texting is the #1 mobile marketing platform for business. With over 50,000 customers and 40% of all mobile users in the U.S. consistently receiving communication from our solutions, EZ Texting is revolutionizing how businesses personally connect with consumers.
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I mentioned in a caption in the last article that David Gasman ruined some of my treasured childhood memories by voicing the lunatic Lucas Kane in Fahrenheit (Quantic Dream, 2005). The only reason that happened, though, was because he played a part in making them in the first place with his voice work for Twinsen in Little Big Adventure 2: Twinsen's Odyssey (Adeline Software International, 1997). I was eleven when this game was released, I think I got a copy when I was 12 and it had been re-released by EA. At the time I was using a Pentium 166 MMX and the full motion video of this game, and the inviting 3D worlds blew my tiny little mind. What has made me so very fond of it, though, is its character. It's a wonderful universe to get lost in, and I intend to in this blog post, in the hope you'll dig it out, dust it down, and play it – or if you don't have it, find it and take your first step into a wonderful new world. Also, and this is important, I've discovered the development of a fan-made Little Big Adventure Prequel!
Twinsen's career as a dress-wearing world saver began at the end of 1994 with Little Big Adventure (Adeline Software International). It was also released shortly after with the title Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure. In his first outing Twinsen had to rescue his girlfriend Zoe from the clutches of the evil "FunFrock" – a nasty wizard and dictator of Twinsun, and he must also save the goddess that lives in the planet's core from said nasty wizard, as he wishes to kill her and steal all her power. The first game was completely in an isometric 3D perspective set entirely on the planet Twinsun. Alas the first game is rather hard to come by. It isn't, repeat isn't, classed as abandon-ware, but who exactly owns the rights to the franchise is somewhat tricky to decipher as Adeline Software International was officially dissolved in 2004.
Twinsen's Odyssey…
My exposure to Little Big Adventure began with the sequel, and it supports the notion that in games – in contrast to movies and other media – sequels are often better than the originals. It also goes some way to furthering the idea that Ray Muzyka of Bioware spoke of only two days ago at GDC: "If you try to build a franchise around a single character, that can be a problem. If you build it around world, anything is possible." Sure Twinsen is the star of these games, but the best thing about them is the wealth of characters you encounter. They were notable back in the 90s for being some of the only games in which every person you enoucntered had their own unique views, voice, and general character. Quite impressive compared to the mess that is the voice-work and NPC system of Oblivion, a game made 10 years later, that claims to be of incredible scope, where characters voices can change dramatically mid-conversation, and it can be difficult to tell people apart. When you add the fact that Little Big Adventure characters can often be walking sausages, and that they have more character and you won't mistake them for any of the other sausages, it really stands as a testament to the brilliant design, and care that went into every detail.
Before I go on, I should mention this game's great innovation: The behaviour system. By deciding what "mood" Twinsen is in, it affects what actions he is capable of, how he moves, and how he throws his magic ball/uses his weapon. This can have an affect on gameplay (the AI is also quite intelligent, LBA was one of the first games where guards would run to seek re-enforcements or sound the alarm instead of just attacking or chasing Twinsen) in terms of stealthy movements or solving puzzles. It's main success is that it simplifies controls, which otherwise would have been convoluted.
The general tone of the LBA universe is quite light, but rich with variety, wonder, and an innocence that I think is the main reason I keep returning to it. To best set the scene you should watch the opening cinematic and beginning of LBA2 (from a "Let's Play…") below:
The game plays like a child's daydream of adulthood, of adventure, and of wonder. With the mix of the fantastical and the familiar it recalls the bizarre things you would day dream innocently as a child. The mysteries of the universe are alluded to but not explicitly explained, and the most mundane things are just as mundane there. The game opens with your friend, a talking, flying, dinosaur crashing into your back garden. So you go to the pharmacy – a somewhat mysterious place for any kid, but in a boring sort of way. When you get there you find a woman (who is little ball with legs, incidentally) who can help you as she works for a wizard. When you get to her house, she's doing the hoovering. There is a grounding in the things you observe in the world around you as a child running throughout the game. There's a wonderful cinematic in a ferry where Twinsen gets imbroiled in the "I've made eye contact with another passenger – do they think I'm looking at them?" moment. It's only short, but in this bizarre universe there are still moments like these for the character that children and adults can relate to. Innocence seems to be the by-word for LBA. There is combat, but it never feels malicious. Most of the laughs come from funny voices, or slapstick humour. And your willingness to experiment is rewarded – not by slapping you with a morality system, but by kindly forgetting your actions most of the time.
It could be argued that I'm taking it too far. Perhaps I am, but this is a game that is aimed at children, but I don't feel is speaking down to them. It is, however, and I think quite intelligently, playing to their imaginations. As an early example of a game where free-roaming in a 3D environment was done well (the French have a way with breaking ground in 3D things if Isabelle was anything to go by) it found a way to reward a lot of the things your childhood mind could throw at it. Yeah, you could hump a cow. They knew you'd do that. If you went into the school and for some reason hit a child their big brother would meet you at the gates and box your head in, only fair. And if what game would provide you with a car for getting around, and not throw in a racing track? Not LBA2.
Not long ago I wrote an article in which I discuss GTA IV, and how in that game you're being pulled in two directions – emergent (or dick-around) gameplay vs a linear mission structure. The beautiful thing about LBA2's tone is that – due to the fact that the story is sufficiently lighter in its presentation (at one point all of the children from your home planet are stolen, but this is done quite elegantly, showing an empty school bereft of activity. An empty field where once lessons were taught -the actual kidnap being over in moments) you never really feel hurried. It is only later in the game where a cutscene of a moon that is hurtling toward Twinsun is shown (at random intervals) that you feel encouraged to get on with things. This isn't enforced in the design, thankfully, as by this point you are on the planet Zeelich, and they've given you a casino to muck about in, complete with a Wheel of Fortune game hosted by a talking, monocled, crocodile. If that doesn't scream "Mess around with me!" I don't know what does.
I've always been interested in the idea that if you're going to make a game you should know what sensations you want to encourage before you get started. Adeline, it seems, knew that they wanted to make an Adventure game here that was fun. Not just entertaining, or engaging, but specifically fun. That seems like a redundant thing to say, but I don't think that fun is a prerequisite of game design – I said in the previous article that I enjoyed the opening of Fahrenheit, but I didn't think hiding a dead body was fun. Stressful and exhilirating maybe but not giggly fun. It brings forth to mind the idea that games can have the same draw as a Fisherprice activity centre and that sometimes you can have fun without a forced narrative at all. That often doesn't last when its done alone (Amanita Design's The Pantry is more-or-less just that: A pantry where you can click on things on screen and see unexpected (though scripted) interactions take place. A fun distraction/experiment but you will tire of it after 5 minutes), but the LBA series takes that idea and runs with it in the context of a linear narrative adventure game. If there were no little distractions, easter eggs, secrets or whatever you call them, then – partially due to the graphical limitations of the time – Twinsun might feel a bit lifeless. As it stands, and especially with LBA2, you get the feeling that every corner of every area has had something interesting put in it so you're never just darting through thoughtlessly. In a genre that is known primarily for being one where the story is the main focus, the LBA series manages to spread its charm, wit, and personality, equally and thickly over every element of the game. From character design, voice-acting, animations, world design, and certainly not least its sound design.
The music of LBA is another big draw for me. I personally love it, and it fits perfectly with the tone of the game. Take the main theme of LBA2 (embedded below). Being of better sound quality than that of the first game, it captures the excitment, joy, and wonder of the adventure without sounding gamey. It's not overly dramatic, fast, or grand sounding. Compare it with the music of Zelda, and you begin to understand that the music also supports the idea that the game is encouraging a feeling of innocence while playing. There is dramatic music when the situation calls for it, but the main theme is the aural stamp of the game. The mission statement as it were, and LBA's mission is innocence, wonder, and fun.
It would disservice to not mention that LBA2 is supported in text and voices in several languages, with the ability to set the speech and text to different languages. I, myself, and I know of several others who have used this to supplement their learning of another language, and the game has a certain noteriety for it. I used it for my German exams at school in 2002 even.
As I mentioned at the beginning of the article there is a fan-made prequel in the works, and potentially a game set between the events of LBA1 and 2. These, I feel, deserve their own article that I'm preparing.
Mike Dunbar
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I'm Artisteer user too. So, I tried Themler for a 4 weeks, so tired to add CSS in different modules and too fixing a bags. It's very slow editor, it really annoying to do work on it, too complicated. Finally I rebuild my joomla template with Notepad ++ and FireFox CSS tools. It takes about 4-5 hours to do so, compare to 4 week in Themler it nothing.
Finally I found Bootstrap 2 patch for Artisteer in Artisteers forum. It works very good.
May be your team can fix the bugs in Artisteer and permanently add bootstrap on Artisteer ? So far it's way better program than Themler.
Plus! Themler software make your web (joomla base) very slow too and interfered into basic joomla code, it's not only template, Themler try to take control over joomla primary code.
Posted: 8/23/2016
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Themler is really great!
Cathy Roberson
Posted: 10/20/2016
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For me, Themler was a shiny object.The program has lots of potential.The latest revision of Themler is very powerful and much easier to use.
No Thanks
Posted: 10/26/2016
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I just tried the latest version of Themler (v.355 Beta).
It's a big improvement over previous versions. Yes. But still slow and I had some crashing issues.
Many of the Billion Themes I imported in were broken even after it said it was updating to the new version. Updating the theme takes forever. Why isn't the updated theme installed at the start?
It's such a shame that the company gave up on Artisteer long ago and before Themler was ready. Won't be renewing my subscription this time.
Roy K Fahey
Posted: 10/31/2016
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Thanks for sharing this info with us.
Guy Shelemy
Posted: 3/4/2017
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Well I loved Artisteer and I thought Themler would be even better. I need documentation to learn software and Artisteer has a great .pdf I printed off at Staples and read front to back. I was expecting the same for Themler, but it NEVER showed up! I asked for documentation, but I guess the development team is as unresponsive as bad code. I'm tired of waiting and Artisteer is one of their dead projects now so I suppose I'll have to take my business elsewhere. Too bad! Poor project leadership!
Posted: 3/28/2017
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I still used artisteer, but with
This is a plugin for Artisteer. It basically makes artisteer awesome again.
Without quicker themes artisteer is dead. I would check out quicker themes.
Posted: 3/29/2017
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I still used artisteer, but with
This is a plugin for Artisteer. It basically makes artisteer awesome again.
Without quicker themes artisteer is dead. I would check out quicker themes.
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Yes me too... its so cool...
Posted: 3/29/2017
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Fred :
This is a plugin for Artisteer. It basically makes artisteer awesome again.
another one? no thanks!
the templateer = dead
wp tux = dead
wp theme city = dead
stop throwing good money after bad. stop beating a dead horse.
beaver builder is killing it! try it and never look back.
Posted: 4/1/2017
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I can't say my experience with Themler was good, really. I decided to co-work with Templatemonster as their products never let me down. I even pre-ordered upcoming X-Cart templates
there for my next ecommerce project.
Lol. No.
Posted: 4/12/2017
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Useless. Utterly. Useless. It is baffling how out-of-touch with reality these software producers are to come up with something that is so hopelessly irritating and backwards. Templates do not apply pages. Every update to the website reverts the built in top menu to the initial two buttons "Site Admin" and "Logoff" (what on earth!?!?!), this means spending half the day reverting the menus back to their original menu items. Background pictures get pixelated or have to be tiled about 5 times to fill the page width because the rubbish heap cannot handle picture files bigger than 1MB! Seriously??!?!! This is 2017 for goodness sake!!!!!!!!! I will tell anyone who will listen: Don't waste your time! Use artisteer instead and manually upload the themes.
Ah yes and after all that they have the gall to hard code their own backlinks to the footer in such a way that many people won't work out how to remove them; yet they reply that "they can't make it as simple as just hitting delete". Yeah right. Don't want to is more likely. What is more insulting about this is that they clearly can code, but are just pulling the wool over our eyes.
Goodbye Themler.
Yu Joe Ker
Posted: 4/12/2017
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I don't. I don't like it one bit.
Posted: 4/12/2017
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I think the only time I like it is when I am training, boxing that is. I get such good results when I think about this.
Posted: 4/12/2017
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I just don't have the patience for it. I swear my Commodore 64 (still works!!!) is faster.
Posted: 4/17/2017
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It's really really really bad.
Trying to change the background colour in a section of the default theme.
Click the section you want to change
Click the design tab
Click the background dropdown
Select your background.
Seems easy, right?
Except nothing changes.
Maybe I mis-clicked. Lets try again...
Nope, background selection still shows the colour I chose.
Background of the section is still white.
The whole product follows those simple guidelines. Straighforward interface that doesn't actually DO anything to the template you're working on.
This product is bad, and Artisteer is out of date and being deprecated. This company is over - spend your money elsewhere. Wish I had.
Posted: 6/21/2017
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I exported a Artisteer theme in to it with the Blog posts numbered post 1 and so on so I could keep them in order for when they were out of date.
Contacted support as when I imported all the Blog posts were out of order They had no idea what to do but do them all again.
I don't know what I did but pure luck I fixed it. Only problem is I can't remember how I did it as there is so much. I also code just using Notepad++ and it is by far more user friendly even if you need to know how to code.
I was going to subscribe again and give it a real go trying to learn it but I think I will look around for other software or keep using Artisteer. As if I need a site which is basic and quick I use Artisteerinstead of coding my own.
Posted: 9/3/2017
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I love Artisteer, So I thought I would like this... No... it is slow, it is confusing. it is just plain not useful at all. I have wasted 2 days of trying to figure this garbage out. I am back to just using Artisteer..... Waste of money.
Posted: 9/3/2017
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Looks like Artisteer is about to push a new product. . If you look at the bottom of this page you will see a link.
Posted: 10/12/2017
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Themler is a very bad program!!!
Posted: 10/17/2017
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Themleris HORRIBLE! Buggy! Scripts are not working and it is not editable in WP for anyone who can't HTML or CSS. I MISS ARTISTEEER!
Posted: 12/11/2017
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I like Themler a lot and use it for all my projects, WordPress and Joomla. I worked with Artisteer in the past and loved that too, but working in the cloud has many advantages. The only thing is speed; Themler on a shared hosting environment can be slow. What I do is to create the majority of the template on a fast machine and then export and import it to the website and continue building. Themler is way better with responsive design and building blocks than Artisteer.
Posted: 1/9/2018
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Stop this crap and continue to develop Artisteer. So far I have not seen so much ignorance.
Posted: 6/26/2018
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Alex Lara = Yes I agree and it doesnt appear they really care either? Thats the worst part. i got sick of trying to get answers
I still use artisteer rarely but my favorite and way more options is XARA Software Try that Alex takes a bit to get used to it but when u do its great.


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The innocent suspect
The dangerous power of a story ruins a man's reputation
When my husband's cousin Jim Van de Velde came to visit in 2000, he played with our 6-year-old, talked with our older son about books and movies, and updated us on his mother and sisters. We enjoyed, as we had always enjoyed, his quiet, steady kindness; but we also knew that he was despondent and that the family was in agony. For the past couple of years Jim had been in limbo: the only suspect ever named in the murder of Suzanne Jovin, a Yale undergraduate stabbed to death in December 1998. Jim, a Yale lecturer who had been Jovin's thesis adviser, was questioned after the murder. His name and photo started to appear in newspapers within a week. He had lost his career and his reputation. There was never any evidence connecting him with the crime, but because the murder went unsolved, there was no way for him to break free of the story.
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By now, it was clear that everything true about him could be transmogrified into its sinister opposite. Whatever the facts were, they existed only to mislead. He was a blond former choirboy; therefore he must have been concealing some dark secret. He had served in the military; therefore he must have learned intelligence tricks that helped him cover up his tracks. He honored Suzanne Jovin by bringing flowers to class after her murder; therefore he must have been romantically obsessed by her.
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We need to beware of the power of stories: how we tell them and how we read them. I watched Jim get caught up in the jaws of a story that almost ate him alive. Since then, he has quietly built up a new career, working in the field of counterterrorism out of the public spotlight. He's OK, but what happened to him isn't. It caused enormous pain and harm. If we're going to insist on reading his life as a Hitchcock movie, let's at least get the right movie. It wasn't "Psycho." It was "The Wrong Man."
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Blog for those who are interested in Czech genealogy, who have ancestors in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Seigniorial Registers
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Thank you! I was wondering what information was in these registers. Very helpful! Glad you are back blogging again!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Church records for Mlyny, Vlceves, Krec in Tabor were destroyed by fire. Seigniorial records for Radenin Hroby are limited to 1709. Do I have any other options?ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello, well it depends on what your ancestors did, if they owned some land property. If so, it's possible to try the cadastral books - but these are not yet online and I'm not sure if they really exist for this domain.Delete
Did these registries only exist in the Records from the Trebon archive? If they are not available online for other areas, are these registers available for other archives if you go to the actual archive offices? We have ancestors with records in the Pilsen and Litomerice archives, and I was just wondering if these registers might be available for either of those archives? Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Stephanie, these registries exist also for domains outside South Bohemia, they are just not online. They are stored in the domain archives, often directly in regional archives, but sometimes in district archives, it depends on type of domain.Delete
I LOVE that you used Orlik as your example ;D This is MY land! What I don't completely understand is what you mean by "dependent." Do you mean that they are all serfs and employees? Or just orphans and disabled people? I know that my ancestors always worked for the estate.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Judi, "dependent" are serfs and employees of the domain, those who belong to the domain/estate. Personally free (independent) people are not included in the seigniorial registers because they were not a subject to any domain/estate, but directly to the king.Delete
Can you tell us more about who is included in these records? I have families from the church records that I can not find in the seigniorial records. Should I look in other villages or could they be omitted? I also wonder what judith.engels asked about what you mean by "dependent". Could that be why they are not included, if they are not dependent? Thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
Dependent explained above, thanks for reminding me.Delete
There were more reasons why people were not included:
- they were personally free, ie. independent, and didn't belong to any domain
- village was divided between two or more domains/estates
- there exist only orphan registries for that domain/estate
Last point: There were two kinds of these registers - registers of all serfs and registers of orphans, widows and disabled only. Some estates have only the orphan registries to find out who has the estate's administration take care of.
Thank you Blanka, I had wondered why I couldn't find them (ever, with MUCH searching). They were count's foresters, and gamekeepers. So in addition to moving around a lot, it seems they were free from the estates and won't be in these records. Thank you for the explanation.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2014 at 3:16 PM
Could you please tell me how to find the seigniorial registers for Zaluzi u Budislav, and the nearby village of Nova Ves? I don't know which 'rychta' they were in.ReplyDelete
Thank you!
Do you know where Seigniorial Registers would be found for the Příbram area?
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Some say I am a gourmet cook as expressed by my wide-ranging repertoire of dishes which also covers the greats of traditional Jewish cookery such as cholent, knishes and blintzes. However, there is one recipe that I have inexplicably never been able to conquer. It is for something quite simple involving a recipe that has been in my family for generations.
My mother, who was born in Manchester, England, never had someone who could readily teach her how to cook on an everyday basis as her mother died quite early on when my mother was seven. My mother's older sisters and my grandfather's sister, Pessel Gruber Henick, served as surrogate cooks. Unfortunately, my grandmother's sister, Ettel Oxenberg Axelrad, lived too far away in Blackpool, England, to pass on my grandmother's heritage of recipes.
Aunty Pessel was from Drogobych, Ukraine, and she lived at 19 Irwell Street, right through the "entry" from 19 Cheetwood Street where my mother lived. It was in an area called Strangeways which was filled with emigrants, mostly Galitzianers and Rumanians, even some Litvaks and gentiles. They all lived cramped and crowded in the old-style backstreet row houses which had been constructed for mill workers during the advent of the Industrial Revolution.
The houses did not have indoor plumbing or electricity or any of the refinements of the modern age, other than gas lighting, when the emigrants lived there. Early on, cooking was done in the fireplace or hearth with cast iron pots made especially to withstand the heat of the fire. For some fireplaces, there were niches or ovens where cooking would be done and then there were stoves which were developed that were wood or coal burning. The kettle and other cast iron pots would be hung in the fireplace as well to cook. It was not an easy life for the family chef then, but despite this, many a grand meal would come out of these less than perfect accommodations, day after day.
In this regard, my mother would wistfully reminisce about these long ago dishes which had filled her childhood with vibrant and taste-tempting memories with a yiddishe tam. There was bilban, kichlach, gebratene fleisch, geyorene cake, and my grandfather's specialties, kalyeh kez and the drink, mead or honey wine.
My mother's favorite, by far, was made every Rosh Hashanah and Passover by her Aunty Pessel. It was ingber, aka ingberlach or imberlach, a carrot candy, which Aunty Pessel would make by grating a mound of carrots, mixing them with sugar, honey and ginger and adding in walnuts. My mother would be in charge of helping to crack the shells of the walnuts and then they would be mashed into smaller manageable pieces with the mortar and pestle. When all the ingredients had been cooked on top of the stove, Aunty Pessel would spread them out on a flat surface with a spatula, score them into diamond shapes and let them harden.
The resulting candy, piquant with the pungent flavor of ginger, would be fabulous except for the bits of shell which often remained in the mixture as Aunty Pessel did not see so well and missed them when adding the nuts. It was a tiny flaw in an otherwise perfect candy confection. Who could complain?
As Aunty Pessel did not measure anything she cooked and neither did any of my mother's sisters, there was no actual recipe which was handed down from anyone. When my mother thought about it and wanted to make ingber and teach me, she had no idea of what to do.
It then became an obsession to find just the right recipe for ingber. First, I looked about to find what ingber meant. It turned out that ingber is the German and Yiddish for ginger. Actually, in middle German, it is zingiber and similar spellings occur in many languages even from India where ginger is grown and also China where it was thought to have originated.
Then, I asked all of my mother's friends who were good cooks of the old style. None had heard of ingber. Perhaps it was due to their being mostly Litvaks and this might be a primarily Galitzianer recipe? No, how could that be? I'd heard of Litvaks making the recipe in South Africa, where the largest group of Litvak descendants lived. I'd have to try harder to find a recipe.
So, I then tried asking Aunty Pessel's remaining daughter, Golda Henick, if she remembered the ingber. Yes, of course, she did and she proceeded to give me the recipe. As I remember it, it was a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Unfortunately, she was, by this time, too old (in her nineties) to make the recipe herself and show me what it was like. Her nephew's wife, Sandra Freedman, just said that the secret to making it work was to use equal parts of all the ingredients. As Sandra explained to me, the recipe was as follows:
Aunty Pessel's Ingber (via granddaughter-in-law Sandra Freedman)
- 1 lb. Carrots
- 4 oz. (1/2 Cup) Chopped Walnuts
- 1 lb. (2-1/4 Cups) Sugar
- ½ Tsp. Ginger
However, when my mother tried this recipe, it failed miserably.
My mother's siblings were long gone by the time I started this search and I tried asking their children. Only Dina, the wife of my late cousin, Brian Fink, responded with a recipe which sounded delicious, but which had an Israeli twist to it with orange juice as an ingredient and a different kind of nut.
Dina Coleman Fink's Ingber
- 1 lb. 4oz (1/2k) Cooked Carrots
- 1 lb. (1/2k) Sugar (a little less)
- ½ Cup Orange Juice
- ½ Tsp. Salt
- 3 oz. (75 grams) Ground Almonds
- 1 Tsp. Ginger
- 1 Tsp. Vanilla
No, that was not what I was looking for.
Next, I trawled through my huge collection of Jewish cookbooks looking for recipes. Hardly a one had anything for ingber. It was a strange and consuming odyssey which was not getting anywhere fast. I was beginning to think my mother had dreamed up this ingber and it did not really exist at all, only in her memory.
Slowly, I began to find recipes and my mother and I tried each one of them out. There seemed to be a consistency in the ingredients and the amount used . . . 1lb grated carrots to 1lb sugar, was a common theme throughout. However, when the mixture was boiled as the recipe directed, it never seemed to harden. During the preparation of one recipe, we became so disheartened at this, that we plunked the whole thing into the freezer hoping it would harden at last. No such luck! It remained an orange-reddish mush.
Some said it might be the extremely high humidity of South Florida which caused the mix to fail to harden or not letting it sit for several days. The thought of letting such a sweet mixture sit out for days brought on thoughts of every ant or bug in South Florida's tropical climate attacking the mixture without impunity. Anyhow, no matter the reason, it was tearing out your hair time for both my mother and I.
Throughout all of this, we must have grated tons of carrots, not an easy task I can tell you. I was beginning to hate the thought of carrots altogether. It reminded me of the time I had made my father an old Litvak Passover recipe, eingemachts, which means in Yiddish "to preserve" as in preserving fruit. The recipe consisted of using large black radishes, honey, ginger and almonds. Supposedly, when completed, it would be the consistency of jam or preserves and could be spread on bread or dollops dropped into tea, the way it was done in "der heim". However, it had caused such a stench when it was cooking that it had driven my father out of his comfortable chair to the out-of-doors. It was an inevitable consequence of modern unfamiliarity with old ingredients and recipes.
My father, who was a chef and restaurateur, as they call it now, was very easy about all of this uproar about ingber and he let my mother and I struggle through this lengthy and time-consuming process by our selves. He, in the meantime, placed himself steadfastly in front of the television engrossed in the latest football match, ignoring the hubbub. After all, my mother was almost always expected to get something like this right as she had a perfect palate and taste for things and was a very creative cook.
When I was a child, I remember that she had written to the Duncan Hines Company regarding an idea for a recipe which she thought they might like. She had added pudding to the recipe of one of their cake mixes. One day, some representatives appeared on our doorstep to speak to her about her recipe. Next thing she knew, they had incorporated her idea into their cake mix. Nothing ever materialized monetarily for her from this other than a carton of free boxes of the Duncan Hines mix. Every time we used the mix, it brought back the memory of how our mother had been creative enough to change this popular mix into something special.
In addition, at one time, my mother worked for James Neville McArthur, the noted founder of McArthur Dairy, one of the largest such agricultural enterprises in the state of Florida. Very often, given her perfect palate, he would have her taste proposed new brands of ice cream and give her opinion of them. She knew her stuff and did not mince any words about things which did not meet her exacting standards.
So, I had faith that she would, no doubt, figure out the problem eventually with the ingber. However, that was never going to be as my mother became ill and later passed away never uncovering the secret to making the perfect ingber that she fondly remembered. For many years, I gave up on any further sleuthing regarding ingber. For, how would I ever know, if it was done correctly or had the right tam. The person who knew was now gone. It seemed a silly goose chase to pursue.
Soon enough though, I had an added incentive to continue. My cousin, Rose Yodaiken, sent me her recipe for ingber. It was, at least, fifty-five years old and she had learned to make it with her mother, Sadie Fink Josephson, my mother's sister, when she was a youngster in Dublin, Ireland. My Aunty Sadie was a fabulous cook and everything she made was delicious as I remembered from childhood meals she had made me.
Sadie Fink Josephson's Ingber (via daughter Rose Yodaiken)
- 1-1/2 lbs Carrots
- 16 ozs. White Sugar
- 3 tsp Ginger
- 4 ozs. Walnuts or Almonds
- 1 Lemon, juice of
According to my cousin Rose, the derivation of this recipe was up for grabs. It may have been from our Aunty Bessie, my mother's oldest sister and the fountainhead of all of the heirloom recipes in the family or, from the well-known Florence Greenberg's Anglo-Jewish Cookery Book, 1958. Sometimes, it is difficult to determine what an heirloom is; or what is an adaptation from a popular cookbook.
Following this lead, I posted an inquiry on the British-Jewry digest on the Internet, asking for anyone who had the Florence Greenberg book, 1958 edition, to respond and check for an ingber recipe for me. Immediately, I was overwhelmed by individuals who were happy to oblige with lookups. It is surprising how many people had this basic cookery book. It seemed to be equivalent to Americans having a Jenny Grossinger's Art of Jewish Cooking, also published in 1958, or, actually, a more modern choice, Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook.
Florence Greenberg's Ingber
- 1 lb. Carrots
- 1 lb. Caster Sugar
- 4 oz. Chopped Nuts
- ½ tsp. Ground ginger
Spread on a damp board, and when cool mark with a knife. When cold break into pieces along the marks.
After reviewing this recipe, it appeared that my Aunty Sadie's version might have been a candidate for an heirloom recipe as it was that much different in quantities and ingredients from Florence Greenberg's to be a bit special. Perhaps I had found my family's original recipe after all.
(Published with permission of the British-Jewry News 16, March 10, 2009) © Ann Rabinowitz, 2008


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The 2013 Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and it's a lot of what you expected: Tina Fey and Claire Danes killing it for '30 Rock' and 'Homeland,' a bunch of 'Breaking Bad,' 'Modern Family' and 'Downton Abbey' nods and an academy that was, as usual, mad for 'Mad Men.'
The only real surprises? The nominations for 'Behind the Candelabra,' which we all just figured was nominated ironically. Also, where was 'The Walking Dead?' Norman Reedus deserves every award in every category. Every. Single. One.
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Hugh Bonneville, 'Downton Abbey'
Bryan Cranston, 'Breaking Bad'
Jeff Daniels, 'The Newsroom'
Jon Hamm, 'Mad Men'
Damian Lewis, 'Homeland'
Kevin Spacey, 'House of Cards'
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Connie Britton, 'Nashville'
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Helen Mirren, 'Phil Spector'
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Adam Driver, 'Girls'
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In early 2012, India flip flopped over allowing 51 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) to multi-brand retailers (for instance department stores and retailers like Wal-Mart and Ikea) in the country.
Eventually the central government seemed to pass the buck by saying it approved the measure, but would let each state decide whether they wanted these global retailers in their cities.
Opposition parties in India called nationwide strikes to oppose Wal-Mart because of the threat it poses to local businesses. And on a visit to India, Joseph Stiglitz seemed to share this sentiment.
While delivering a speech titled 'Redefining Capitalism,' The Hindu reports that Stiglitz warned his audience about certain foreign retailers. While he didn't name Wal-Mart, it was evident which one he was referred to given the massive controversy it generated. From The Hindu:
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...India has to ask before opening its markets to financial products, what they are going to do for promoting growth. The evidence is so overwhelming that these instruments will promote instability that a lot of caution is needed."
Stiglitz said India needs to be smart about the FDI it attracts and should do it in a way that it gets access to "capital, technology, access to markets and training". He also said the government needs to pursue policies that are good for its populace and not chase growth "based on crony capitalism".
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Lucky for us we also have specialty food stores like Marukai that allow us to take a little walk on the wild side and get out of our homemade food rut. There are several of these Japanese-centric markets in the area that feature everything from Shiseido cosmetic counters, to housewares, freshly baked bread and freshly caught fish just flown in from the Andaman and Sea of Japan. We had a hankering for fresh poke recently, the kind we had in Hawaii several months back, the kind that wouldn't be satisfied until we made a bowlful that we could pick leisurely on throughout the whole of a Sunday afternoon. Marukai came to the rescue. Of course, along the way, I found a few other goodies to fill the basket and it occurred to me that I shouldn't hoard this fantastic little resource, but share it with you all.
Let's start with the ceramics.
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I snapped a peek at our cart as we walked up to the check out counter so you can see what made the cut on this trip.
Marukai is technically a "membership" store. But you can pay a $1 fee and snake a day pass. I warn you. I wouldn't go hungry- or maybe you should. The place smelled like a fancy dinner house the other day and the samples they were handing out would give even Costco a run for their money.


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Here's a thoughtful piece by Bryan Curtis on how TV documentaries bring us behind-the-scenes of our favorite sports and have changed the nature of reporting:
I take no pleasure in being the schmuck writer who points out that TV sports documentaries — also called "vérité sports" — have gotten really good. And not just good, but observant. TV is recording the small, telling details of an athlete's life, capturing noisy moments and quiet moments, doing the delicate labor that sportswriters — if properly motivated — pride themselves on doing. So on behalf of writerdom, I ask: What the hell is going on?
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A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings. The first powered heavier-than-air
aircraft, the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer, used a biplane design, as did most airplanes in
the early years of aviation. While a biplane wing structure has several advantages it inevitably
produces much more drag than a similar monoplane wing. Improved structural techniques and
materials, and the need for greater speed, effectively made the biplane configuration obsolete
for most purposes by the late 1930s.
The term is also occasionally used in biology, to describe the wings of some flying animals.
In a biplane aircraft, two wings are placed one above the other. Both provide lift. Very
often there is a fuselage to which the lower wing is attached, while the upper wing is raised
above, although other combinations have occurred. Almost all biplanes also have a third
horizontal surface, the tailplane, to control the pitch, or angle of attack of the aircraft
(although there have been a few exceptions). Either or both of the main wings can support
flaps or ailerons to assist lateral and speed control, although the upper wing has tended
historically to be more important in this regard. Often there is bracing in the form of wires
and slender struts positioned symmetrically on either side of the fuselage.
Variations on the biplane include the sesquiplane, where one wing (usually the lower) is
significantly smaller than the other, either in span, chord, or both. Sometimes the lower
wing is only large enough to support the bracing struts for the upper wing. The name means
"one-and-a-half wings". Another (aerodynamically quite distinct) variation is the tandem wing
biplane, which is an aircraft with one wing in front of the other (e.g. a wing in the nose and
a wing in the tail).
Advantages and drawbacks to biplane designs
RAF BE2c biplane of 1915.Aircraft built with two main wings (or three in a triplane) can usually
lift more than can a similarly sized monoplane of similar wing-span. Another advantage of biplane
wings is that a given wing area requires a shorter wing span, which tends to afford greater
maneuverability. The struts and wire bracing of a typical biplane form a box girder that permits
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On the other hand there are many disadvantages to the configuration. Each wing negatively
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of the other. Placing one wing forward of the other is known as stagger. Forward stagger (where
the upper wing is further forward) is most common, but backward stagger has also been used,
notably in Beechcraft Staggerwing. Excessive amounts of stagger distort the box girder
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Biplanes were most successful in the early days of aviation when the all wing structures
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The inherent strength of the biplane configuration in this situation was decisive, as early
monoplanes tended to suffer from overly flexible wings, resulting in poor lateral control, and
a greater risk of wing failure. Once the need for external bracing was removed by the widespread
adoption of improved structural materials and techniques monoplanes quickly superseded biplanes
in aviation. Modern biplane designs now exist only in specialist niche roles and markets such as
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The vast majority of biplane designs have been fitted with reciprocating engines of comparatively
low power; exceptions include the Antonov An-3 and WSK-Mielec M-15 Belphegor, fitted with turboprop
and turbofan engines, respectively. Some older biplane designs, such as the Grumman Ag Cat and the
aforementioned An-2 (in the form of the An-3) are available in upgraded versions with turboprop engines.
Famous biplanes include the Sopwith Camel, Avro Tutor, Antonov An-2, Beechcraft Staggerwing,
Boeing Stearman, Bristol Bulldog, Curtiss JN-4, de Havilland Tiger Moth, Fairey Swordfish,
Hawker Hart, Pitts Special and the Wright Flyer. The Stearman is particularly associated with
stunt flying with wing-walkers. Famous sesquiplanes include the Nieuport 17 and Albatros D.III.
In an interesting parallel to the role of the biplane in human aviation, some researchers
have suggested that the feathered dinosaur Microraptor glided, and perhaps even flew, on four
wings which were held in a biplane-like arrangement. This was made possible by the presence
of flight feathers on both the forelimbs and hindlimbs of Microraptor, and it has been suggested
that the earliest flying ancestors of birds may have possessed this morphology, with the monoplane
arrangement of modern birds evolving later.[1]
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CLEVELAND (AP) Kyrie Irving scored 35 points, including 13 in the final 2:52, as the Cleveland Cavaliers stunned the Oklahoma City Thunder 115-110 on Saturday night.
One night after saying he was ``disinterested'' during a loss in Detroit, Irving was simply spectacular down the stretch. He single-handedly closed out one of the NBA's best teams, making his last five shots and showing why he's an All-Star at 20. Irving's biggest shot was a 3-pointer with 42 seconds left to make it 113-108.
Kevin Durant scored 32 points and Russell Westbrook had 28 for the Thunder, who came in 35-11 and with the league's best road record. Durant left briefly in the third quarter with an apparent back injury.
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For all the things Lions receiver Calvin Johnson did last year, his quarterback thinks he can do better.
Of course, that would require breaking his own record for receiving yards (1,964), after he took the single-season mark away from Jerry Rice in 15 games last year.
That's why Matthew Stafford thinks Johnson can exceed that number.
"He thinks he can, which is all that matters," Stafford told the NFL Network, via the Detroit Free Press. "That guy works harder than anybody I know, and he thinks he can get better, so I wouldn't put anything past him. He's a guy that can obviously run all of the routes — inside, outside — make all of the catches and is a smart football player and a really good teammate."
He also dealt with a number of injuries last year, including fingers which were injured if not broken.
So if he can stay well, and play with a better cast of talent around him, his quarterback thinks improving on his best season is possible.