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Light and Bright Dining Room is Classic
A simple, sophisticated wood-and-iron table is surrounded by traditional wood chairs and Parson chairs, creating a cozy yet bright dining room. Large windows allow in tons of natural light, while the soft neutral palette is an elegant backdrop to the entire living space.
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Kitchen Desk Area With White Cabinets and Hardwood Floor
This custom-designed kitchen desk area features plenty of storage, granite countertops and a corkboard "backsplash."
Living Room With Chevron Rug and Coral Accents
Soothing beige walls contribute to this living room's calming ambiance. The color coral is put to good use here via the throw pillows and armchair, keeping the room from feeling too neutral. A chevron rug adds a quirky final touch to the space.
Chic Living Room in Gray & Neutral tones
A soothing palette of gray and neutral, this updated living space feels chic and sophisticated. Different patterns and textures add dimension and interest to the space.
Rustic Master Bedroom Suite
A neutral palette is used throughout this Texas ranch home to create a warm, welcoming environment. To create a space that is visually interesting, a mix of natural textures, from the rustic woods to the knubby fabrics, is used.
Barn Home in the County: Formal Dining Room
The formal dining room of the renovated barn home was designed to host people with it's 17 foot custom-made farm table and accented with custom wall art, as seen on HGTV's Fixer Upper.
Neutral Transitional Living Room With Striped Sectional Sofa
This beachside living room beckons with stunning views and family-friendly furnishings.
Neutral Rustic Home Office with White Chairs
The office/studio of Christina Anstead's newly renovated home, as seen on Christina on the Coast.
Tropical Blue Home Exterior with Neutral Wood Door
The natural, wood front door is a beautiful contrast to the dark blue home.
Patterned Wallpaper Updates Transitional Dining Room
A caged chandelier, textured buffet table and striped rug put a fresh spin on the formal dining room. Patterned wallpaper balances out the wainscoting and helps bring the space into the present as well.
Mediterranean Exterior in Evening
The home sits on just over half an acre of land on Carmel's Quail Lodge and Golf Course and overlooks the fourth fairway.
Modern Great Room With Reclaimed Wood Ceiling
This great room can easily accommodate a crowd, what with its open kitchen, formal dining space and nearby sitting area. Wood paneling overhead draws the eye to the mountain views and helps the modern interior feel a little more connected to the wilderness.
Neutral Family Room With Gray Armchair
Designers toned down jewel tones in this family room and replaced them with soothing neutrals, like gray and aqua. A sectional ups the amount of seating without taking up a ton of floor space.
Rooftop Outdoor Dining Room With Pergola
This rooftop terrace's meticulous landscaping, designed by Halsted Welles, feels miles away from New York City's urban jungle. And yet there's that amazing view!
Country Kitchen With Wood Island
White walls, large windows and a pretty pendant ensure that this kitchen is bright and airy for meal prep. Meanwhile, a cheerful blue accent wall, wood island and plaid stool all give the space a charming country touch.
Contemporary Whit Combined Kitchen and Dining Room
With the duplex's dividing wall removed, the newly combined floor plan brings together the kitchen and living and dining spaces for a large and open common area.
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Soft grays and whites create a soothing, spa-like environment for this master bathroom. The large walk-in shower features tile detail and adds to the light, airiness of the space.
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Designers dressed up this small bathroom with a few touches that have an elegant effect: ornate curtains, handsome wood countertops and detailed stone tiles in the shower.
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How to Sell a Home You Inherited in Memphis , Tennessee – The reality behind probate!
If you really need to sell a home you inherited in Memphis , Tennessee then you've come to the right place!
Selling a house in Memphis can be more challenging than you would think! Read on to learn how to sell a house you inherited in Memphis , Tennessee …
First of all, there is always that emotional bit of making a loved one's house ready for sale – which most likely includes depersonalizing his or her rooms and also cleaning out all the belongings… Then there is the cost of marketing the house in order to attract potential buyers.
Usually heirs get to deal with the high costs of liens and other issues. Consequently, disputes may crop up.
Therefore we at Glymph Properties have created a few points that should help steer you in the right direction, if you ever find yourself in such a dilemma. Here are a few tips on how to sell a house you inherited in Memphis , Tennessee , without having to sweat much.
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The very first step you should take is to get some professional advice. You ought to understand the status your house is in. Make sure that you verify your ownership. Seek help from a real estate attorney. Get info from other experts too. And completely utilize our blog and this site too of course. We can also give you a fair deal for your inherited local Memphis , Tennessee home if it qualifies. Fill out the form here to get started.
Next Step: Begin the probate process in Memphis
Before you embark on the selling process, your house must go through a probate. Most countries allow for a summary probate – which is just a simple process that takes a very short time and involves less legal processes. Once your house passes the probate process in Memphis , you can then put it on the market.
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The tax basis of your property is the house value on the date that the person who willed you died. The difference between the amount you realize from the sale and the value is basically the gain on which you owe the taxes.
How to sell a house you inherited in Memphis
Agreeing to sell
If you are ready to sell your house in Memphis , you can inform the executor to petition the court in order to get the "go ahead" sign and proceed with the sale from the there. Problems always arise when siblings who share the inheritance have different views – for instance others may want to sell the house while others may not be for the idea. Having "several cooks in the same kitchen" always complicate matters, so remember communication is key. When discussing a situation where everyone's opinion affects the outcome the best advice we can offer is… the words you use matter, the tone with which you say those words matter, and your body language definitely matters. Be open, be considerate, and be courteous. In either case…if and when disagreements occur, it is important to "disagree to agree". It is also important to involve your estate lawyer in this stage.
Preparing to sell
A house that belonged to an elderly person may require repairs and a bit of updating before you can sell it. You will need to get rid of everything! You can choose to hire an inspector to note down potential issues and recommend possible repairs. Although you can sell a home in Memphis "as is" you may be forced to accept a lower price, especially if your house requires extensive repairs or cleaning.
Here at Glymph Properties however, we will always give you a fair deal and help you get as much value from your inherited house as possible. We regularly buy local houses in Memphis , repair and fix them up and either rent them out or sell them to someone else looking for a great deal.
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First games with tandem starters go well
HOUSTON -- Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said the first day of using tandem starting pitchers in the Minor Leagues went well. Triple-A Oklahoma City was rained out Thursday, but Double-A Corpus Christ, Class A Lancaster and Class A Quad Cities each won their openers.
Luhnow said in February the team would use tandem starters at the beginning of the season, meaning two starters would pitch in the same game. One would start the game and be followed by the other, giving everyone a chance to get innings. Luhnow implemented the practice as farm director in St. Louis.
"I'm familiar reading box scores when we do the tandem system, and what I like to see is the five and four [innings], and we had two of those last night," Luhnow said. "We had three wins in three games, and that was good to see. Lancaster is going to continue to be a challenge because of the conditions, but it was nice to get off to a good start."
At Corpus Christi, Ross Seaton went five innings and was followed by Jake Buchanan for three innings. Jason Stoffel closed it out with an inning. Mike Foltynewicz threw only 2 2/3 innings at Lancaster, which threw a wrench into the plans. Vincent Velasquez threw five innings in his start at Quad Cities, with Joe Bircher following four scoreless.
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JAKARTA, INDONESIA — A Bengal tiger has given birth to three cubs while on a circus tour of the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, a media report said Saturday.
The 15-year-old mother, Rani, from Taman Safari Indonesia, a zoological garden in West Java's mountainous region of Puncak, gave birth to two males and one female in her cage Friday morning, the official Antara news agency said.
It quoted Suyadi, Rani's keeper, as saying the three newborn cubs were in a good condition even though their mother refused to nurse them.
"I had to bring the cubs to a veterinary clinic because their mother does not care for them," said Suyadi, who uses a single name.
Officials at Taman Safari could not be immediately reached for comment.
The report identified Rani as a "rare Bengal tiger from India."
Bengal tigers are found in the wild in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar, but conservationists consider them an endangered species.
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Oct. 15, 2010 -- Three babies born to two 40-year-old women in Europe are the first IVF babies born from eggs screened for chromosomal abnormalities using a fast new DNA test.
IVF -- in vitro fertilization -- often fails. A major reason is that implanted eggs have abnormal chromosome numbers. This is a particular problem for women over age 37, for those with previous IVF failures, and for those with previous miscarriages.
Current methods of screening eggs for chromosomal abnormalities don't help and may make IVF less successful. Both U.S. and European reproductive medicine groups advise against the practice.
Now there's a fast new way to look for abnormal chromosomes that doesn't harm the embryo. It examines DNA from polar bodies -- cells ejected from eggs during early development.
Unlike earlier pre-implantation genetic screening techniques, polar body screening does not require freezing the eggs until results become available.
In a European pilot study reported last June, the technique was nearly 90% successful in identifying chromosomal abnormalities. It resulted in a 33% pregnancy rate per egg transfer in 40-year-old women.
In the U.S., the live birth rate per egg transfer is just over 28% for women age 38 to 40, and just under 17% for women age 41 to 42.
Now the first three babies born from IVF using the new technique have been born -- a pair of twins born in Germany last June and a boy born last month in Italy.
"All the babies and their mothers are doing very well in terms of weight and overall developmental performance," says Cristina Magli, MD, of the SISMER Center in Bologna, Italy, in a news release.
While the new screening technique is a definite advance, it's just one more step in a march toward better IVF success rates, says William E. Gibbons, MD, president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine.
"We are hoping to get better and better and better at embryo selection," Gibbons tells WebMD. "This means we will be able to reduce the number of embryos transferred in each procedure, and that we will be able to reduce the multiple-birth rate. Being able to improve the efficiency of IVF and lowering IVF complications is a big deal."
The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology is gearing up for a large-scale clinical trial to evaluate the new screening technique.


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If you want to revert to a clean setup on your server, you can reprovision it, which returns it to the state of a newly purchased server.
Warning: Reprovisioning erases all of the content on your server hard drive and cannot be undone.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Servers.
- Next to the server you want to use, click Manage.
- In the Support section, click Reprovision Server. The Reprovision Server page opens.
- If you choose to, enter a new hostname and username. These values are defaulted to the current hostname and username for this account.
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Our Schools + Education Resources directory encompasses preschools, private schools, charter schools, home schools, tutors, continuing education resources, foreign language programs and much more. Use this comprehensive directory to explore the countless education resources across the Triangle.
To submit a new free or paid listing for a K-12 private school or preschool, tutoring/academic support program, foreign language program or home-schooling resource, create an account on our website and follow the prompts. You may also fill out one of our online forms to submit a free listing: For K-12 private schools or preschools, fill out this form. For other Education Resources, fill out this form. To learn more how you can place a premium or featured listing in our Schools+ Education Resources Directory, please contact our sales team. You must create an account on our website to submit a premium and/or featured listing.
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Keystone Crawfish Boil
The Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce partnered with the American Petroleum Institute for a crawfish boil at the downtown Event Centre on Thursday evening, April 18. Hundreds of letters of support addressed to the State Department were signed seeking the permit to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Black Schroeder, a journeyman welder and business agent for Pipeliners Local 798 for the state of Texas, spoke at the event (right) and posed for photos with Keystone pipeline supporters (above). Also present was John Johnson, who is running for Port Commissioner for the Port of Beaumont, and his girlfriend, Angela Sawyer (left).


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Tiger Woods' return to golf at this week's Masters could not only rate as golf's biggest event ever. If the embattled golfer manages to win, it might rank among the biggest media events of the decade, experts said.
Coming off months of tabloid headlines parsing his admitted affairs with multiple women, Woods is facing the unenviable task of not only improving his public image, but also showing he can still play the game at the highest level.
All that should make for compelling television.
From die-hard fans to gawkers simply curious to see how the man behind the sordid headlines fares on the links, this year's Masters is drawing an unusual level of interest -- and the "Tiger bump" seems to be having a hefty impact.
"If Tiger is in contention on Sunday, that alone puts the tournament in the running for the highest-rated Masters ever," said Robert Seidman, a television ratings analyst and editor of TV By the Numbers."If it looks like Tiger is going to win, it'll definitely be the highest-rated Masters."
If that happens, Woods would only be beating himself -- he already owns the record for the most-watched golf event of all time.
About 14 percent of all TV households watched as Woods won his first green jacket at the 1997 Masters, according to Nielsen. Four years later, when Woods won again, the Masters won a 13 percent household rating.
Woods' return to golf is "surely music to the ears of ESPN and CBS, the two networks providing live coverage for this year's tournament," according to a Nielsen statement. "And while Nielsen does not project future ratings, there are some past indicators that could make this year's Masters a record-breaking event."
CBS, which is broadcasting the final rounds of the tournament from Augusta National Golf Club on Saturday and Sunday, is expecting Woods' presence to take their broadcast beyond just sports and into the stuff of legend.
Woods' comeback could challenge the inauguration of President Obama as the "biggest media event" of the past 10-15 years, Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports, told Sports Illustrated.
Seidman was slightly more sober -- but also optimistic -- about Woods' ability to boost ratings, saying the golfer's presence is typically "ratings gold for any tournament" and the dramatic return from a personal scandal will draw "people who never cared about golf at all and are now going to be at least a little bit curious."
Interest in Woods also sparked a temporary frenzy for passes to the tournament and its practice rounds, bringing a hubbub of activity to the sport known for its quiet claps and hushed crowds.
Sales of the coveted badges multiplied by five on the day Woods announced his return. Traffic to ticket-broker Web site StubHub shot up 70 percent, according to Glenn Lehrman, a spokesman for the company.
"You don't generally see one individual have this kind of effect on a particular event," Lehrman said. "Teams like the Cowboys, Yankees or Lakers have that draw when they advance through playoffs, but it's rare with an individual athlete."
Still, the stench of scandal may be tempering a total manic rush for tournament tickets.
Lehrman said the average badge price increased only 10 percent after Woods confirmed he was playing and that the mad dash for passes "gradually tapered off." Woods' absence at other major tournaments this year only reduced ticket sales by 5 to 10 percent.
Seidman noted that when pre-scandal Woods suffered a major injury in 2009 and took nearly a year off, ratings plummeted nearly 50 percent. This year, after Woods announced he was taking a break from golf, veiwership at major tournaments has been down just 11 percent, according to Nielsen.
But Seidman noted that despite the figures, ratings couldn't soar without golf's biggest headline-maker.
"It'll be interesting to see if more people will be watching if he doesn't make it to the final rounds," he said. "I don't expect that to happen.
"It takes him being in contention on Sunday," Seidman said, "to have a realistic shot of breaking ratings records."


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However, I'm a little disappointed that when it printed it left a white band on one side( see the right side). So, I'll have to play with this next time I go to print something on this paper. I think I'll have to resize to 3x5 then print it on the 4x6paper.


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6227.0 - Education and Work, Australia, May 2007
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More Australians seeking qualifications: ABS
More Australians have been seeking higher educational qualifications, with the largest increase being in Bachelor Degrees, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Nearly 2.5 million people (18% of all Australians aged 15-64) were enrolled in a course of study as at May 2007.
The proportion with a non-school qualification (such as TAFE or University) was 53%, up from 40% in 1997. The largest increase has been in people attaining a Bachelor Degree or above, up from 14% in 1997 to 21% in 2007.
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Wüsthof Classic 2-Piece Utility Knife Set
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- Summary
You'll find countless uses every day for this two-piece cutlery set. The paring knife has an extra-wide blade that comes in handy for crushing garlic and transferring cut ingredients to a bowl or pan. Use the kitchen shears for cutting stems from herbs, trimming meats or shaping parchment paper.
- Versatile set includes 4"-wide paring knife and pull-apart kitchen shears.
- Paring knife features an extra-wide spear-point blade ideal for peeling, slicing and dicing as well as crushing and transferring ingredients.
- Knife is precision forged from a single piece of sturdy high-carbon steel that resists stains and corrosion.
- Wüsthof's Precision Edge Technology (PEtec) ensures a 20% sharper blade with twice the edge retention.
- Full tang is triple riveted to the handle for exceptional durability and control.
- Knife's ergonomic handle is fade-resistant polymer with rounded edges, for a comfortable fit that feels like an extension of your hand.
- Durable stainless-steel shears come apart for easy cleaning and sharpening.
- Shears have a slip-resistant polypropylene handle with built-in bottle opener.
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- Paring knife: 4"-long blade; 3 3/4"-long handle; 2.3 oz.
- Shears: 8" long, 3.8 oz.
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- Hand-wash with warm water and a mild detergent. Rinse and dry immediately.
- Maintain the knife's cutting edge by regularly using a honing steel.
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If you're considering using birth control (contraception), you have a variety of options. To help pick the right method of birth control for you and your partner, consider the following questions.
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It's also important to be aware of emergency contraception — such as the morning-after pill (Plan B One-Step, Aftera, ella, others) — which can be used to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex.
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To be effective, any method of contraception must be used consistently and correctly. Contraceptives that require little effort on your part, such as IUDs, contraceptive implants and sterilization, are associated with lower pregnancy rates. In contrast, methods that require monitoring fertility or periodic abstinence are associated with higher pregnancy rates. The bottom line is that the right method is the one that you are comfortable with and willing and able to use.
The method of contraception you choose depends on your reproductive goals. If you're planning pregnancy in the near future, you may want a method that's easily stopped or quickly reversible, such as an oral contraceptive or a barrier method. If you'd like to become pregnant — but not in the near future — you may want to consider an IUD. An IUD has a quick return to fertility, but it is expensive if you are going to use it only for a short time period. If you're certain that you don't ever want to have children, you may prefer a permanent method, such as sterilization. You may find that different contraceptive options work for you at different stages of your life.
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Harvard now prepares for a weekend slate of home matches where it will take on Binghamton on Friday and St. John's on Sunday. Both matches are scheduled for 2 p.m.
Last Time Out
In Harvard's last match the team went 2-1 in doubles play and 5-1 in singles action to record a 6-1 victory over cross-town foe, Boston College.
The doubles parings of junior Andy Nguyen and freshman Denis Nguyen along with senior Jonathan Pearlman and freshman Alex Steinroeder tallied wins in doubles play, winning their matches, 8-6 and 8-1. The Eagles were able to get the best of sophomore Casey MacMaster and Alistair felton as Akash Muppidi and Alex Skinner won, 8-5.
In singles competition the Crimson got wins in the No. 2 through No. 6 positions as D. Nguyen, freshmen Shaun Chaudhuri, Henry Steer, Steinroeder and junior A. Nguyen all recorded victories. D. Nguyen downed Skinner, 6-4, 6-4 while Steer was victorious against Jonathan Raude, 6-4, 6-2. Chaudhuri, was promoted up to the No. 3 position and was victorious against Philip Nelson, 6-4, 6-2. Steinroeder was entrenched in a battle with Michael McGinnis but came up with a win, 4-1, 6-1, 6-0 while A. Nguyen upended Klaus Puestow, 6-2, 6-0. The Crimson tripped up the Eagles 6-1.
Scouting Binghamton
The Bearcats enter the match 7-10; while the squad is coming off a win a 6-1 win over St. Bonaventure. Alexandre Haggai plays out of the No. 1 spot for Binghamton and is 3-7. Both Robin Lesage and Ismael Dinia are 7-7; holding the Bearcat's best record in singles play. The doubles paring of Ruben Devos and Bastian Bornkessel maintain Binghamton's best doubles record as the two are 8-6 in dual matches.
Scouting St. John's
No. 58 Red Storm sit at 12-5 on the season and enter the contest on a two game winning streak after taking down USF and Penn, 5-2, in both matches. Vasko Mladenov has been lethal out of the No. 1 spot for St. John's as he is 10-3 in that position and 12-4 overall. Meanwhile the team of Milo Hauk and Ilija Vucic will be a handful for the Crimson as the duo is 8-2 overall, while going 7-2 out of the No. 1 position and 1-0 out of the No. 2.
History Lesson
Harvard enjoys a 2-1 advantage in the series against Binghamton, which began in 2008. The last time these two teams played the Crimson downed the Bearcats 5-2 in 2011. To make matters
Meanwhile the Crimson also holds a 5-1 series lead against St John's. Harvard took the inaugural game between the two squads in 1941, while the Red Storm won the year following. Harvard hasn't lost against St. John's since, as it has enjoyed a four match winning streak, which began with a 7-0 win in 1997. The last time the two teams met, Harvard weathered the Red Storm 4-3 in 2010.
Movin' On Up
When the ITA rankings first came out on Jan. 3, Harvard was ranked No. 70, however since that time the Crimson have impressed the ITA pundits as the Crimson has dramatically. Last week Harvard was ranked No. 16, its highest ranking in almost a decade. This week Harvard dropped a few spots but is still the No. 20 ranked team in the nation.
Impressive Start
Harvard is enjoying possibly its most successful season to date as the team has started the dual season 14-1. That is the best start it has ever had with that amount of wins. In 1966 the Crimson went undefeated (12-0) but the season ended with a singles tournament which was canceled and no other dual matches were played.
Youth Movement
It has been well documented so far this season how impressive the class of 2015 has been, and as each week passes the list of contributions for its members continues to grow. While the early triumphs of Denis Nguyen, Alex Steinroeder and Henry Steer have been a reoccurring theme, just recently a new member of the class of 2015 has emerged as consistent contributor. Shaun Chaudhuri continues to impress as he debuted in the No. 3 spot for the first time this season against Boston College.
Iron Man
Senior Jon Pearlman has been a consistent leader for the Crimson this season, giving this young Harvard squad someone to look up to. That can't be demonstrated more than his performance during the Hilton Mission Valley Spring Classic two weeks ago. Because of weather constraints the Crimson were forced to play two matches in the same day. On that day Harvard competed in nearly nine hours of tennis and it's estimated that Pearlman, between singles and doubles, played over seven hours of tennis.


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Microsoft needed a great Christmas season. After years of product stagnation, and a big market shift toward mobile devices from PCs, Microsoft's future relied on the company seeing customers demonstrate they were ready to jump in heavily for Windows8 products - including the new Surface tablet.
But that did not happen.
With the data now coming it, it is clear the market movement away from Microsoft products, toward Apple and Android products, has not changed. On Christmas eve, as people turned on their new devices and launched their first tweet, Surface came in dead last - a mere 2% compared to the number of people tweeting from iPads. (Kindle was second, Android third.) Looking at more traditional units shipped information, UBS analysts reported Surface sales were 5% of iPads shipped. And usability reviews continue to run highly negative for Surface and Win8. Including CNNMoney's well thought out article about why transitional products like Surface have an inherent, likely insurmountable design failure.
PC sales declining
This inability to make a big splash, and mount a serious attack on Apple/Android domination, is bad news for Microsoft especially because we now know that traditional PC sales are well into decline. Despite the big Win8 launch and promotion, holiday PC sales declined over 3% compared to 2011 as journalists reported customers found "no compelling reason to upgrade." Ouch.
Looking deeper, for the 4th quarter PC sales declined by almost 5% according to Gartner research, and by almost 6.5% according to IDC. Both groups no longer expect a rebound in PC shipments, as they believe homes will no longer have more than 1 PC due to mobile device penetration, a market where Surface and Win8 phones have failed to make a significant impact or move beyond a tiny market share. Users increasingly see the complexity of shifting to Win8 as not worth the effort; and if a switch is to be made, consumer and businesses now favor iOS and Android.
Microsoft's monopoly over personal computing has evaporated
From 95% market domination in 2005 share has fallen to just 20% in 2012 (IDC, Goldman Sachs.) Comparing devices, in 2005 there were 55 Windows devices sold for every Apple device; today explosive Apple sales has lowered that multiple to a mere 2 (Asymco). Universally the desire to upgrade Microsoft products has simply disappeared, as XP still has 40% of the Windows market - and even Vista at 5.7% has more users than Win8, which has only achieved a 1.75% Windows market share despite the long wait and launch hoopla. And all future market growth is coming in tablets, which are expected to more than double unit volume sales by 2016. Microsoft is in a tough spot.
These trends mean huge challenges for Microsoft.
Microsoft makes more than 75% of its profits from Windows and Office. Less than 25% comes from its vaunted servers and tools. And Microsoft makes nothing from its xBox/Kinect entertainment division, while losing vast sums in its on-line division (negative $350M-$750M/quarter). No matter how much anyone likes the non-Windows Microsoft products, without the historical Windows/Office sales and profits, it's hard to see how long Microsoft can remain sustainable.
What can we expect next at Microsoft?
Missing the market shift to mobile has already forever tarnished the Microsoft brand.
No longer is Microsoft seen as a leader. Instead it is rapidly losing market relevancy as people look to Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, Facebook and others for leadership. The declining sales and lack of customer interest could lead to a tailspin at Microsoft not unlike what happened to RIM. Cash will be burned in the struggle to save what Microsoft sees as the core of the company.
Is failure already inevitable? Steve Ballmer played "Bet the Company" on the long-delayed release of Win8, losing the chance to refocus Microsoft on other growing divisions with greater chance of success. Unfortunately, competitors already had enough chips to simply bid Microsoft out of the mobile game - and Microsoft's ante is now long gone - without holding a hand even remotely able to turn around the product situation. Now Reuter's reports on a new book by a former Microsoft exec challenging the quality of Ballmer's leadership from the inside.
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Vegetarians have long known a Thanksgiving secret the rest of us are reluctant to admit — it's all about the side dishes.
Think about it. Once you've taken the obligatory slice of turkey, a dutiful spoonful of gravy and maybe haggled a bit over the dark meat, what you really want is more stuffing. More mashed anything. More syrupy sweet potatoes. And definitely more pie. Pie of any kind.
"Absence of turkey can be a very positive thing," says New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman, whose upcoming book, "VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00," is dedicated to learning to make do with less meat. "Most people have roughly 360 dinners a year that have 'absence of turkey.' We eat it on Thanksgiving because we're supposed to."
But if you take the bird off the table, is it still Thanksgiving? You could go with Bittman's preferred solution — get an inflatable turkey as a mock centerpiece — or follow the advice of chefs who have made vegetable cookery an art form. Approach the holiday as the celebration it is, they say, and turn all your creative juices onto the vegetables and grains.
Offer dishes that are rich in flavor and fat, and, if you really need an anchor for the meal, create another dish as a centerpiece.
"Choose one of the bigger vegetables and make something out of it," says Amanda Cohen, chef-owner of the New York City restaurant Dirt Candy, and author of the cookbook of the same name. "Take cauliflower and spend a moment. Smoke it, season it, batter and deep fry it. Bigger pieces of vegetable are really going to replicate the idea of a centerpiece."
Acorn squash or sugar pumpkins stuffed with wild rice or other grains, carrots, celery, onions, nuts, dried cranberries and a tiny dice of hickory smoked tofu also make a flavorful, celebratory main dish, says Diane Morgan, author of two books on Thanksgiving and a new volume on root vegetables called "Roots" (Chronicle Books, 2012). A lasagna of sliced sugar pumpkin layered with ricotta and crumbled fried sage, she says, also offers an impressive make-ahead dish that will have you forgetting there ever was talk of a turkey.
With the centerpiece nailed, proceed as usual. Surround that dish with all the traditional sides — stuffing, mashed potatoes, those gooey sweet potatoes and roasted Brussels sprouts. You want gravy? Make it with a stock of roasted root vegetables, Morgan says, and pour it all over your potatoes. Use as much butter, salt and cream as you normally would on Thanksgiving, knowing that those are the elements that put the "comfort" in "comfort food."
"Fat is the operative word," Bittman says. "You can make a really great stuffing with a lot of butter. Creamed onions, creamed spinach. Of the things people think of when they think of Thanksgiving food, only the turkey is really meat."
Colors and textures also add interest to the meal. Vary these. If you're making traditional mashed potatoes, Morgan says, maybe cut your sweet potatoes into spears and roast them. Use a number of different techniques — roasting, braising, stir-frying — to cook your green vegetables. Instead of pureeing the squash, cut it in half and roast it for a more dramatic presentation.
"Then it's a large canoe shape on the plate," Morgan says. "That makes for more interest than these piles of things on the plate that all appear as side dishes."
And, of course, pull out all the creative stops, exploring the different textures and properties you can coax from each vegetable. At her restaurant, Cohen often incorporates different components of a vegetable in a single dish. She adds corn and whipped corn to corn grits, makes pasta out of pureed broccoli then tops it with stir-fried broccoli, and tops a carrot risotto with carrot chips. "You get a flavor explosion on your plate with this one vegetable," Cohen says.
And finally, don't for a minute think a vegetarian Thanksgiving somehow breaks tradition. When the settlers and the Native Americans met back at the start of all this, it was to celebrate a bountiful harvest, the crops that had been successfully grown.
"It's overwhelming how many great things are in season now that we can use for a beautiful vegetarian meal," Morgan says. "That's what we're celebrating. It's that same celebration of the harvest of all these things that have been underground for a while."


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Making cool stuff with ScriptableObjects
I'm Matt Schell, the Senior Screencaster on the Online Evangelism team at Unity. I make stuff in Unity and teach others how to do it via our Twitch channel and on YouTube. I've produced some online video training using ScriptableObjects and thought it would be cool to put them together in a blog post, along with a few related Unite talks by people much smarter than me, and so here we are!
I had been programming in Unity for a decent amount of time before I learned about ScriptableObjects. I would not call them something that beginners urgently need to know when getting started. When I did learn about them, however, I got ScriptableObject fever. I really began to use them a lot. They offer an interesting set of tools to extend your programming toolkit in Unity and helped me to think about certain architectural problems I'd been having in my projects a little differently. Overall, I find them to be very helpful.
So what are they? To quote the manual "A class you can derive from if you want to create objects that don't need to be attached to game objects." This is a good start, I'd add to this that they allow you to create objects which are assets which can either hold custom data or execute code.
One example would be to create a custom asset that holds all the statistics for a given enemy type. Say you want to change the maximum speed of all those enemies. You could simply edit a single value on our ScriptableObject asset, as opposed to having those values stored in the public fields of a MonoBehaviour attached to an enemy prefab or prefabs. This can help with both the centralization of data and version control. These values also persist after being changed in play mode, since we are changing a value on an asset.
Another way that we can use them is to create assets which hold executable code. An example of this is seen in the video series below showing the Pluggable AI System. All of the pieces of code which compose the AI behavior are stored in ScriptableObject assets, which you can then configure and combine in the Inspector, without writing additional code.
I learned about ScriptableObjects and was inspired to begin using them by watching my colleague Richard Fine's excellent Unite talk on the subject "Overthrowing the MonoBehaviour Tyranny In a Glorious Scriptable Object Revolution". For a ground-up primer on what they are, how they work and some example use cases, I highly recommend you check it out. Also that title, wow.
One of the use cases that Richard demonstrates in this talk is a pluggable AI system with different 'brains' that can be plugged into AI tanks. I thought this concept was really fascinating and dug into his public source code to see how he had put it together. Once I understood the pattern I thought it would be really interesting to create a variant of his idea. I wanted to also allow the configuration of those 'brains' and the creation of variants and styles of behavior using a similar 'pluggable' approach. The result is my own Pluggable AI With Scriptable Objects Live Training Session. I won't claim to have improved on Richard's work or idea, but I very much enjoyed creating the system and I have used it in some personal projects with results I am happy with. Adding a nice Editor Window or Inspector to enable easier, more elegant editing and configuration would be a way to make it even more beautiful. I hope to be able to do this someday in the future (maybe) ((no promises!)) :)
The Pluggable AI system is, I think, a nice example of the 'modular code asset' style of using ScriptableObjects, but importantly, ScriptableObjects can simply be used as custom data containers as well, to great effect. I used them for this purpose to create a similar pluggable architecture, in my Text Adventure Live Training series. Creating a Text Adventure game in Unity is, of course, massive overkill. You don't need a powerful 3D engine to make such a game, but I found it to be a very fun programming exercise and many folks who follow our content on YouTube seemed to enjoy it as well. This project provided a nice opportunity from a teaching perspective to present some ideas about architecture and patterns, including the use of ScriptableObjects, that I think would have been difficult in a more visual style of game. In this case, I used ScriptableObjects to create custom data asset types for each 'room' in the game. I also used them to create each item, possible action, and action response. This meant that if I was on a team with a programmer and a game designer, for example, the programmer could create custom asset types, and then the designer could create instances of those types, for example, rooms, and populate them with descriptions, exits, and interactable items, all via editing in the Inspector. I thought this was a fun idea and a neat option to build an architecture in which all the pieces of your game could avoid becoming tightly coupled together in written code, allowing non-programmers to interact with it more readily. I wouldn't propose to say that this is the only or even the best way to structure such a system, but certainly that it wasn't the worst and it was fun to make, think about and work with.
The last video I wanted to share and talk briefly about is the newest. It's a video of a talk at Unite Austin by Ryan Hipple of Schell Games (no relation!) I recommend watching Richard Fine's talk first, before watching Hipple's talk since Hipple makes reference to Fine's and builds on some of the fundamentals Fine has laid out. I find myself very inspired after watching this talk to try out some of the concepts that Hipple describes.
One concept that I found very interesting was the idea of putting variables, like for example a single float value, into ScriptableObjects. We can then create assets out of these ScriptableObjects. The image below shows an example of this. The Player references a ScriptableObject asset which contains a single float variable, for example, containing the Player's health. The other systems in the game reference this asset and get the current value from it, as opposed to referencing the 'PlayerHealth' component directly via code. This allows for the objects to all be coupled together in the Inspector instead of via hard-coded references. I was so taken with this idea that I asked Richard Fine if he saw some hidden down-side to it and he said that besides the fact that you'd have to make sure you reset each value via script manually (probably upon exiting play mode), it seemed reasonable.
Personally, I really like the aesthetic of having lots of little objects you plug together in the Inspector. It seems, to me, less failure prone. I feel like it will also cause me to write less bad spaghetti code, which hard links all kinds of systems together in grotesque ways (something I am sadly prone to do). Of course I recognize that these kind of architectural decisions are highly aesthetic and almost religious in people's desire to believe that theirs is the best, so of course, your mileage may vary. I for one have already been moving in this direction in my personal game project and so found this to be quite a cool idea. Maybe I'll report back after I've tried it, or incorporate it into some upcoming material in my role as an Online Evangelist.
Generally speaking, if you're at the stage where you're moving from creating small demos and prototypes into something larger destined for release, I think it's a good idea to understand what ScriptableObjects are and how they can improve your workflow and architecture. I know that using them myself has allowed me to move away from doing a lot of gross, hacky-feeling things in my own projects and move in a more modular, elegant direction. Or so I think! What are your experiences with ScriptableObjects? Do you love them? Hate them? Please post a comment below, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.
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Harry12月 15, 2017 9:44 pm
I still have a hard time understanding what ScriptableObject is. I don't understand how it works since it's not a Monobehaviour script and how ScriptableObject interacts with GameObjects and other ScriptableObjects.
All Unity videos and tutorials on the subject doesn't help a lot :(
Jeff12月 21, 2017 8:27 pm
They don't interact with game objects inherently. They exist as assets in your project files, just like scenes and materials. You can reference those assets from other scripts, just like any asset. They can just be containers of data, which can be customized in the inspector, or they can have functions and logic in them as well.
Pete12月 1, 2017 6:09 am
Hey I was thinking today, Scriptable objects might be a cool way to keep a global palette for you game? Does that sound like it might work?
Matt Schell12月 1, 2017 9:31 am
Yes, definitely, a palette is data and SOs are great for storing most types of data. Give it a try!
Mario Prawirosudiro11月 26, 2017 3:35 pm
One of my biggest grievances against Unity is how it needs things to be attached to a game object. This threw me off when I first started Unity, and while I got used to it over time, I've always wished that this would change.
A job well done, Unity. Keep 'em coming. :)
Matt Schell11月 27, 2017 1:11 pm
Thanks Mario, glad you enjoyed the post. I think ScriptableObjects are a cool way to not have every single thing be a component, but still work the way Unity 'wants' you to and not do crazy workarounds.
Alan Mattano11月 23, 2017 8:55 pm
More live training video (are so lovely) or C# Developer Courseware about ScriptableObjects?
Matt Schell11月 27, 2017 1:10 pm
Thanks Alan! Yes, I will be doing more live training on ScriptableObjects in the future, but no scheduled date at the moment. Glad you have enjoyed the past sessions :)
Ciro Continisio11月 23, 2017 10:59 am
Great article, Matt! ScriptableObjects need more love!
Matt Schell11月 27, 2017 1:12 pm
Thanks Ciro :)
Tikkub11月 22, 2017 9:31 pm
One important thing to keep in mind while working with SO:
-Changes made while playing in the editor are saved.
-Changes made while playing in a build are not saved.
ScriptableObject are assets. Once you created a build, the assets in the build cannot change.
By experience, i'm using ScriptableObjects only as configuration files (to store data that are not changing) not to save data.
Also if you want to change the data in your ScriptableObject while playing but want a reset when exiting play mode there is a simple way. Because ScriptableObject are UnityObject you just have to create a copy at runtime with "ScriptableObject copy = Instantiate(myScriptableObject)" and work with this copy at runtime.
Really interesting. I was wondering why Variable and ReferenceVariable do not dispatch an event like "OnChanged". For example, when a FloatVariable value is change it could invoke a UnityEvent (or Action). A VariableReference could listen that event and dispatch the same one. The point would be to avoid script that need to update when a variable is change to check in an Update method. Using a UnityEvent inside a VariableReference would allow to select the callback right from the editor.
Does that make sense ?
Ryan Hipple11月 21, 2017 9:40 pm
We do exactly that in our internal version of this! It allows for things to busy monitor (in an update loop) or subscribe to change events..
TJHeuvel11月 23, 2017 4:19 pm
That makes a whole lot of sense :) But this presentation was only a short demo, this would be a great addition.
David11月 21, 2017 9:19 am
I love ScriptableObjects. I also only learned about them from Richard's talk that you mentioned in the blog post. Ryan's talk was also brilliant.
I have been working on an eerily similar approach to the modularized data. For anyone interested or willing to contribute, check out the links below.
Forum Post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/referenceablevalue.505389/
BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/nobrainerinteractive/referenceablevalue
laurent11月 20, 2017 11:17 pm
SO are great but suffers from low visiblity, essentially moving the spaghetti mess from VS to the unity editor. VS has good tools to show class interconnections, if you're the visual type of person.
As a designer I find the unity editor lacking those tools. At least fix that "Find References In Scene" bug (# 970903).
Kyle Gillen11月 20, 2017 10:50 pm
I have actually been experimenting with a shared data approach, same as in the blog, and am surprised I overlooked the use of Scriptable Objects. Cool idea!
Another great use of Scriptable Objects is in editor code. With normal windows you cannot save the state of your configuration when using a tool without using Player Prefs or some other method. So if you want to re-use the tool to perform some action in the editor at a later date (after you have closed and reopened Unity), you have to re-configure the tool. However, you can write custom inspectors for scriptable objects implementing the same logic as in editor windows, and you get a place to save configuration data for free. You can then duplicate those scriptable object assets and make small changes to run the tool with a slightly different configuration.
Dino Suvalic11月 20, 2017 9:25 pm
I use ScriptableObjects for mostly anything that needs to be stored in a centralized location. Most recently I took advantage of the fact that you can use them as persistent polymorphic objects. I created an Event System which can be used for AI (similar to your example), or just as a GUI friendly drag and drop scripting option. It makes use of a bytecode pattern, and the fact that ScriptableObjects instances can be serialized inside of a scene (!!) to create scripted sequences of events. I find them incredibly useful and hope to see more features brought to them overtime.
Will Supinski aka Dumbfire11月 20, 2017 7:04 pm
YAAAAS! My current project has reached a phase where the spaghetti-code nature of it led me to look for a better way and I ALSO found Richard Fine and Ryan Hipple's talks super useful! I particularly like the brain/destruction examples Richard has and Ryan's event system using scriptable objects. The thing I find very confusing about nested scriptable objects are how they are handled differently between the play mode editor and after compiling??? Another thing I find confusing is I noticed that Richard Fine's example essentially uses a singleton pattern in order to load up the scriptable objects and access them from the UI but then Ryan Hipple's talk goes heavy-rant style into the horribleness of singletons… I wonder how should UI scriptableObject data… like PlayerName be accessed if not from singletons using scriptable objects?
The thing I am working on now is extending the Ryan Hipple event system and listener to become kind of a SceneFlowManager – where a series of events happen and then trigger resulting actions (code). For example, scene loads – pop the default player info User interface – then player saves – fire up the networking code and find a nearby game to join – then after player chooses server, launch into the game. Ideally I could handle this flow via a scriptable object so that I can have lots of different flows per different scenes and I can make changes to them quickly later.
Anyway, I love the blog article and hope to see more on scriptable objects in the future.
laurent11月 20, 2017 10:10 pm
I haven't used one singleton yet. For playername and other things like these, I keep a StringValue SO, reference it in all the components that need to know the name, and the one component that updates it from SteamDotNet simply writes to it.
Now what you end up with is either update loopy thing to check for change :( or out of synch clients :(( so to solve that I added an event that gets invoked when the varibale gets set. Now those components that absolutely must be in synch with the variable just have listen to the playerNameChanged event.
Ryan Hipple11月 21, 2017 10:02 pm
I have developed a deep hatred of singletons over the years. In reality that hatred probably comes more from experiencing an overuse of the anti-pattern rather than the problems inherent to singletons. To that end, I do not believe that any one pattern should be used to solve all problems, including this.
The last few projects I shipped made no use of singletons and I do not see myself going back. Identifying a problem to solve and then matching it to the best solution should always be the decision process for game architecture. Relying on crutch solutions like singletons may seem like the fastest solve at the time, but you will pay for it later.
To address your scenario, how does UI look up a SO variable if not with a singleton, I would suggest giving the UI script a public (or private serializable) StringVariable field. In the inspector, point that field to your PlayerName SO.
Dumbfire11月 30, 2017 7:18 pm
Hey Thanks! I had not quite understood the usefulness of your variable SO pattern and hadn't implemented it. I'll give it a try. =D
Ryan Hipple11月 20, 2017 5:41 pm
Thanks for the post, Matt!
I do have a solutions regarding the resetting of the value when playmode stops. The samples I put together for the presentation are simplified versions of what I put in games. To make sure play-mode changes do not get saved back to the assets, you simply make a RuntimeValue field that you access from other scripts. RuntimeValue can be initialized from Value when it is accessed or synced up in editor time with an OnValidate call if you want to get a little fancier. I freaking love OnValidate.
This way, you do not see all of your assets change every time you play in the editor.
laurent11月 20, 2017 10:14 pm
we'd love you forever if you extended your example with OnValidate (I thought that thing is only called when a change is made in the inspector :\)
Oh by the way, what's your favorite way of saving game state? Let's say you make an RTS and the player hits the save game button (totally random example not at all based on what I am doing ;)
"I would not call them something that beginners urgently need to know when getting started."
Yes, but right after they get started, I think they should learn about them.
There are so many benefits about using them, and they are an important tool in unity's tool set for making games.
To learn how to use an tool it is important to… use it! And I wish more and more future unity's tutorials include scriptable objects in them.
That's my opinion anyway.
Isaac Surfraz11月 20, 2017 4:56 pm
Used scriptable objects as intelligent databases for ages, and more recently have been playing around with using them in place of variables that will be referenced by more than one object.
While its a nice way to do things, it relies on:
– You making an editor script to reset values + track initial (startup) values
– Intelligently tracking changes, as a change to the data will affect all links to it
– Accidentally deleting the asset literally removes the variable from every script that references it
Ultimately I think that if you will take this approach, you need to fully buy into it, otherwise its cumbersome. But if you struggle to link systems together cleanly and coherently, I recommend trying this approach!
Anthony Uccello11月 20, 2017 2:43 pm
When I first learned about these a few years ago my world turned upside down. I tried so many systems to keep track of data (JSON, XML, CSV, SQL) and they were all a huge chore with many hangups. Scriptable objects are a god send and lets me directly store model data including complex entities like Sprites (without hardcoding a path but rather a direct link to the object). Thank you thank you thank you!!!


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