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Creation of a fully usable 1 page PSD template for the Spore fan site sporefans.com. Site will be using wordpress backend so keep that in mind.
Sporefans.com - Spore Community
Desired Color Scheme:
Black - Green - Gray - Orange
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The site will be coded for a tableless css/xhtml layout for use on WordPress, DO NOT create this site to look like a wordpress blog though. It will have the following sections, header, body(sidebar-content) and footer.
Here goes, I need a layout for my Spore fan site called sporefans.com . I will be using word press as a backend and the design is pretty straight forward. I will give you a lot of detail of how I want it laid out, its just up to you to make it all pretty.
First off, to give an idea of the style, check out
Here are a button and banner I had made, I do not have the PSD's but feel free to use that general colour for the logo or anything.
Here is the layout, I split it up into the main section
The site will not be your normal size to fit a 800 screen, my audiance are gamers that will require a 1024x rez to play the game, so you can design the site to be 950 width or similar. I just spit the design up like that so you have an idea of the major sections, you can create it all in 1 wrapper or container, but it must be in one of those. Take a look at http://wow.azzor.com/ . I would also like some type of background image that fades like that. The biggest thing im looking for is the backgrounds of all the div's and areas to flow in together nice.
1 - Logo, nothing too fancy needed, must have URL.
2 - Ad Must have space for a leader board ad
3 - the buttons there are to bring attention to major sections of the sites, or contests we might be having. So have the following buttons atleast "Latest News" "Spore Forums" "Spore Strategy Guide"
1- Nav bar - First Off, Your normal Nav bar, Main headings and link to pages.
2- Mini Nav Bar - Just a small section to place links relating to whatever section your browsing, so if they are taking a look at a strategy section, links to other pages in that section show up there
3- Content Area - This will hold either the word press news, or word press page area.
4- Ads - I would like a normal banner at the bottom of the content area, and if possible, maybe a skyscraper to the right, or a sqaure in the middle of content (250x250)
1 -Would like this to contain maybe a spot for another button or logo
2 - Latest Discussion and News - 2 areas that will have 4 or so lines of the latest news posts or discussion
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Orpheus Titan §§ Les Gentlemen Ténébreux §§ Friday 09/12/2011, 12:26
He went on vacation to a tropical island to relax and get over his depression. Bad idea!! On his return, Bikini Joe Ld is not only still down but meaner than ever before and he's got a few more tricks up his sleeve. Help the Freaks get Clint City laughing again (with the help of a few custard pies, if needs be).Bikini Joe Ld is a legendary character who is only available by carrying out missions associated with him. To obtain this character, you must unlock his last mission before January 8th, 2012.
LiquidGold777 Senior Goldz Rulez Tuesday 13/12/2011, 03:19
If you think LD mission are boring then don't do it
I like easy mission, since I have a job to do, I can only play at night, good job UR
DUC-pwnage Titan Dutch Urban Crew Tuesday 13/12/2011, 18:04
These missions are made more easy because it's the second time this card is around. So the people that didn't get him before can get him now. I just see this as an easy 10 credits
KingOfHeaven Imperator Tuesday 13/12/2011, 23:37
It's 10 free credits. Of course i'm gonna do it. They are still boring though.
and PS: you say "easy", i hear "lazy". Just say'in
LiquidGold777 Senior Goldz Rulez Wednesday 14/12/2011, 04:42
10 free "lazy" credits, good for you, that's a bless
and PS : you say "boring" , I hear "I got too much free time I don't what to do", just say'in.......
KingOfHeaven Imperator Wednesday 14/12/2011, 16:41
When should i play Urban-Rivals if not in my free time? Didn't get your point there.
Also, i have a job too, as many players here. Just because you "Like it easy", it doesn't mean easy is better. Or worse for that matter. It's just easy. And i find that kind of easy boring. As i am sure many players do.
So get out of your high horse for a bit, will you?
Yeah.. LD Missions are becoming boring. That's my opinion and feel free to disagree. Though, while i was making a constructive criticism, you were just whining about what i said. Get the difference?
Anyway, to close my point: I like how UR is always trying to innovate and bring us fresh features. Making LD Missions less boring is just one more idea where to improve.
DUC-pwnage Titan Dutch Urban Crew Monday 19/12/2011, 17:25
Missions will always be boring no matter what they try to do, there is only so few that they can do. They can only make them shorter or longer but you always have to win a round, a match or try to achieve a goal (win life, poison someone, block damage). That's all there is to it. It doesn't matter if you have to win 20 or 50 matches you can always get to it and complete the missions, and they want to make it so that everybody (even the ones who don't buy clintz) can get the Legendary characters.
LB Shippal Titan Thursday 22/12/2011, 03:26
I have always thought that they should do some missions where you really have to stretch the game to pull them off. Example: "Inflict 11 damage with a single character while only using a maximum of 4 pillz." It's not very hard to do, game mechanics wise, but it requires choosing a specific team, and setting up circumstances to get a fury off, usually. Beyond that, the opponent has to actually *have* 11 life left in order for it to matter.
These would be things where you only have to do it 1 time to complete the mission, or maybe a *max* of 5 times. That way you really have to work to do them, but if you know what you are doing, you can manipulate the game to pull them off.
I always find the most annoying missions to be the win a # of rounds with a specificcard, or winning a # of fights with a card. These ones are very time consuming. I recall one having to win 50 fights by knockout with marco, and you get like 50 clintz for it

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I am a polio case, I wear my first KAFO since 13, after the hip bone surgery. Before that I was just using crutches.
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I only started to use wheelchair since 3 years ago, where I have shoulder tear, doctor advised me to rest my shoulder, not to walk too much on my crutches.
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I design the last two KAFO, base on some sample I read on website.
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I really hate leather and all the straps, it can't really support me well. If the strap is too tight, my leg feel painful, if it is not tight enough, support is not enough too.
I hate the technician in my country too, they just want to make money, and never willing to listen to what I want. Not until I insist my design, they won't do anything really fit me. But I am still not satisfy with their workmanship.
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Hey RAFS. Thanks, the more friends the merrier, I always say!
The guitar in the background is a 1967 Jose Ramirez "Blue Label", Segovia model. One of my most prized possession, if there is such a thing! It is in poor repair, unfortunately, and needs a neck reset and fret work.
I play mostly steel string acoustic and classical music. Folk, bluegrass, Bach, and some acoustic stuff (e.g. Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Jim Croce, Leo Kottke, Ben Harper, etc).
The chair is a Lasher Sport BT-MG. Custom made, one of a kind type chair. It's the best chair on the planet, IMO! Saved for ever to get it, but its been worth every penny.
Hey Matt,
I see there's a bunch of us night owls still lurking around here on CC. Your welcome. I only speak the truth. I'm portly to & have a gut from failed abdominal reconstruction years ago after my umbilicus was removed because of post-op infection from umbilical hernia repair. Glad to hear that your new uniform is much better quality then the old standard.
You have every right to be damn proud of your girls. If you don't have bragging rights no one does.
You take care too ! & Happy New Year. I hope it's a great year for all of us.
Oh, one thing. Are you bye chance going to the Veterans Wheelchair Games in Spokane this coming July? I don't know how far away Spokane Washington is from you. I hope to get to go this year for the first time. Keep your fingers crossed for me that I get to go. If you go that would be neat for us to get to meet.
Hey Bob,
Thanks for your kind words. Yeah I had to purchase a new uniform some time ago - "portly" for my quad gut. Much better quality than the old standard.
My girls are all grown now, damn proud of them.
You take care, and Happy New Year. I hope it's a great year for all of us.
I think I finally pushed the right buttons to get you on my friends list!
Have a good new year.
Hey Bob, I will give you a call after the holidays, probably friday I'll get some privacy, lol.
What's news there Bob, VA taking care of you? Hope you got my PM regarding a forum for veterans, get back at me.
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The Southeastern Conference has announced a men's basketball scheduling model for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons and a 14-team conference tournament bracket. The scheduling model and brackets were approved last week by the SEC presidents, athletics directors and coaches at the league's annual meetings in Destin, Fla.
The league's 14 members will play an 18-game schedule that features at least one game against each conference opponent. Teams will play one permanent rival, four rotating opponents that will played home-and-home each season and eight teams that will be played once each year (four at home and four on the road). Each school will play its permanent rival home and away each season.
Over the course of the three years in the current model, each school will play their permanent rival six times and each other team four times.
The permanent rivals are: Alabama-Auburn, Arkansas-Missouri, Florida-Kentucky, Georgia-South Carolina, LSU-Texas-A&M, Ole Miss-Mississippi State, Tennessee-Vanderbilt.
The 2013 men's basketball schedule will be announced in August.
The men's basketball tournament has expanded to include all 14 teams and will be seeded 1-14. The tournament will begin on Wednesday with matchups between the No. 11 and No. 14 seeds and the No. 12 and No. 13 seeds. The winners will advance to meet the sixth and fifth seeds, respectively, on Thursday. Also playing on Thursday with be the No. 8 and No. 9 seeds and the No. 7 and No. 10 seeds. The top four seeds in the tournament will receive byes until Friday's quarterfinal round.
The 2013 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament will be played March 13-17 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.
To see what the tournament bracket looks like, click here: New SEC Basketball Bracket
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Nigeria's press freedom record is on the decline.
For the first time since 2008, when CPJ began publishing its annual Impunity Index, Nigeria has made the list of the "worst nations in the world for deadly, unpunished violence against the press."
Dapo Olorunyomi, leading Nigerian journalist and editor-in-chief of online newspaper Premium Times, in an op-ed encapsulated the state of Nigeria's press as "perhaps the most dismal" since the country's return to civil rule in 1999. Citing Islamist terrorists in the North and national insurgents in the South; thieving politicians; a swelling climate of intolerance; criminal gangs sustained through official corruption, oil theft, and kidnappings; ethno-national mobs; and politically-financed terror squads, Olorunyomi says this recent wave of impunity has "finally come home to roost."
"These are the notations of impunity, the hydra-headed monster that now threatens freedom, rights, and ultimately, the democratic aspirations of citizens. In all climes, reporting events like these comes at dreadful costs," Olorunyomi wrote.
The Nigerian government has tried to downplay these facts. Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati told daily Leadership that CPJ's report is "referring to journalists caught in the cross fire of the Boko Haram activities in the North and it is in protest to the security challenges in the Northern part of the country." He said CPJ's survey "promotes sensationalism, rather than the truth" and is "not a true reflection of journalists in the country."
Abati got it wrong on several fronts.
Firstly, CPJ's Impunity Index, published since 2008, does not include cases of journalists killed in combat. It documents countries where journalists are deliberately killed in relation to their work and their killers go unpunished. It is published to commemorate World Press Freedom Day marked yearly on May 3.
Indeed, the murders of five journalists in Nigeria during the decade covered by this year's Impunity Index--January 1, 2003, to December 31, 2012 --remain unsolved. These are Channels TV reporter Enenche Akogwu in 2012; Zakariya Isa of the state-broadcaster NTA in 2011; Nathan Dabak and Sunday Gyang Bwede of the Light Bearer monthly newspaper in 2010; and Bayo Ohu of The Guardian in 2009. Nigeria is second only to Somalia in terms of Africa's worst record on unpunished journalist murders.
Secondly, Abati's assertion that anti-press violence in the country is not about the relationship between media and the authorities is wrong. In 2012, CPJ documented 143 attacks on the press in Nigeria. Government and security forces were responsible for 79% of the cases, while Boko Haram militants were behind only 16%.
Thirdly, Abati claimed that journalists practice their profession "with the utmost freedom" and with "no media repression in Nigeria." CPJ counters these claims with an invitation to Abati to visit CPJ's page on Nigeria where--among other things-- exactly a year ago today on World Press Freedom Day, I reported how police authorities locked up seven journalists at the Special Fraud Unit in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, to prevent them interviewing the former state governor and current parliamentarian, Bukola Saraki, whom police had summoned to respond to allegations of involvement in a multimillion dollar fraud.
Chuks Ehirim, the Abuja chapter chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, also weighed in on the sorry state of Nigeria's press corps, contradicting Abati. Ehirim said Nigerian journalists face recurring arrests, beatings, and detentions without trial, either at the hands of government security agents or highly placed individuals, Leadership reported.
"Journalists are still being killed unnecessarily in Nigeria... Although we are happy that, today, the world will be celebrating Press Freedom Day, but I think that Nigeria will be aside, because there is nothing to celebrate here," Ehirim said.


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Updates from Dillon, Grand Lake and more
*Grand Lake's Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre has announced its 2010 summer musicals selections.
"We're excited to present what we think will be a blockbuster season and a good way to say goodbye to our beloved Grand Lake Community House." said Michael Querio.
*The shows (exact dates to come):
"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"
"Thoroughly Modern Millie"
"Always, Patsy Cline"
*The ever-busy Lake Dillon Theatre has also announced its summer selections, before which it has the previously announced "Moon Over Buffalo," "Driving Miss Daisy" and the "The Little Dog Laughed" to put up.
This summer, it will be:
June 18-Aug. 29, 2010: "Rent"
June 25-Aug. 27, 2010: "Hair"
July 2-Aug. 20, 2010: "Rapunzel" (Fridays only at the New Pavilion, Keystone)
July 15-Aug. 26, 2010: "Smokey Joe's Café" (Thursdays only at the New Pavilion, Keystone)
*Gravity Defied, which has "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"
coming up Jan. 15-31, will follow that up with "Totally Electric" from April 26-May 9 at the Aurora Fox studio theater.
*Greeley's Union Colony Dinner Theatre, which has "The Secret Garden" and "Funny Money" up next, has announced its open TBA slot will be "Annie," May 14-July 11.
And here's the rest of the dinner theater's 2010-11 season:
July 30-Sept 19, 2010: "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"
Oct. 1 – Nov. 5, 2010: "Always, Patsy Cline"
Nov. 19, 2010-Jan. 21, 2011: "La Cage Aux Folles"
Feb. 4-March 27, 2011: "The Fantasticks"
April 8-June 12, 2011: "Bye Bye Birdie"
*And the not-to-be-confused Union Colony Civic Center, also in Greeley, will present the touring production of "Church Basement Ladies" on Jan. 28.
PS: The Arvada Center has responded to last week's blog query about why its upcoming run of "A Man for All Seasons" has been more than halved, to just two weeks in February. The quick answer: It's being moved from the Arvada Center's studio theater to the mainstage. More on this decision, and its ramifications to audiences and actors, in an upcoming column.


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I had one drink. Okay, it was a huge drink. Okay, it was a huge drink with 5 different liquors in it. Okay, I had two of them. Whatever. My point is that I might have been somewhat tipsy when I decided that it would be a great idea to head back to campus and take some night photos. So that was how three grown women ended up dancing around in front of a camera on the square of a major university at 11pm at night. My 17 year old niece is considering attending this same college. This was something I thought of in the middle of our night shoot and decided to text her....
Me: Dude guess what???? I'm on the ___ campuus and I'm a tiny bit drunks!!
Her: Quit drunk dialing me you ho.
Me: Haaahaa! Uur hilaarous!!
Her: Go sleep it off loser!
Me: Im just gettingg started! All aboard the party train! Cchoo choo!
Her: B careful. Don't drink anything from strange guys & get date raped.
Me: Will du. Play on playa.
10 minutes later I texted her again.
Me: Hey Im gonna askk 4 the best place to hit a kegger. I let u know for next yr, k?
Her: Tell me ur kidding
Me: OMG some guy jst walked by w a bong in his hand!
Her: No way
Me: For reals! He prob knows where I can hit a ragin kegger
Her: Srsly, I'm concerned for ur safety
Me: Nah its alll good. Word to ur mom who is also my sister. Ha up top!
I'm pretty much the best and most responsible aunt ever, right? I should get an award for being such a great role model.
P.S. At some point in the evening some college kid drove up to us and asked if I wanted to take his picture and supposedly I said "You know it, hot stuff." and then I allegedly said "Hey, my friend here is 45 and single and ready to mingle. Awwww yeah" and possibly "Seriously dude, she can totally buy you beer. Call it trade." I have no recollection of any of this, but my friends swear that I did. Lying bitches.
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Parnell honored to wear special Memorial Day uniform
NEW YORK -- Memorial Day has extra meaning for Mets closer Bobby Parnell. With a best friend currently serving in the Marine Corps, Parnell appreciated the opportunity to wear a special uniform honoring the military on Monday night.
"I think it's awesome," Parnell said. "I think it's a good tribute to the men and women who serve this country. I think it's fun to do. It's a good gesture."
Along with the rest of Major League Baseball, the Mets are wearing caps and jerseys with an authentic military digital camouflage design, which is licensed from the United States Marine Corps. Major League Baseball will donate all of the proceeds from the sale of the caps and jerseys to Welcome Back Veterans.
"I think they look good," Parnell said. "I think it's a good blend. I'll be honored to wear it."
Monday's event continues the Mets' weekend of honoring the servicemen and women around the world. New York held its sixth annual Military Appreciation Night on Sunday in conjunction with the USO of Metropolitan New York. About 5,000 military personnel and their families attended Sunday night's game against the Braves with tickets donated by the Mets.
Before Monday's game, lieutenant JG Yvonne Zirrith of the United States Navy sang the national anthem. And Joey Falcone, a sophomore baseball player at Columbia and USMC veteran, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Falcone is the son of former Mets pitcher Pete Falcone. Joey Falcone served as a Marine Corps medic from 2004-10, and completed two tours of duty in Iraq in 2007 and '08. He also spent a tour in Afghanistan in '09.
Pete Falcone caught the first pitch from his son on Monday night.


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Has anyone noticed that in the last week graphic novel prices have sky-rocketed? Or is it just us Australian that are getting screwed over?
Prices on graphic novels for us jumped from an average of $17 for the normal sized 5 issue trades up to a minimum of $22.03.... An that's online, I saw a copy of the new Invincible trade going for $45 in a crappy comic shop the other day.... A book that up until this week was going for $16 online.
Anyone else notice this, or is it just another case of the "great beaches tax."
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NY man waives extradition to face murder charge in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � A New York man has agreed to be brought to Maine to face a murder charge in the shooting death of a woman he was dating.
Portland police say 19-year-old Anthony Pratt waived extradition Thursday in New York. He isn't expected to be brought back to Maine before April 19.
Pratt is charged with murder in the death of 29-year-old Westbrook resident Margarita Fisenko Scott, whose remains were discovered Jan. 17 inside a sport utility vehicle in a Motel 6 parking lot in Portland.
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John White Alexander
Date: American, 1856 - 1915
Remarks: John W. Alexander was a successful turn-of-the-century portrait painter and illustrator. He studied in Munich, and Venice, where he came under the influence of James McNeill Whistler. From 1890-1901 he lived in Paris, where his friends included Whistler, Auguste Rodin, Henry James, and other avant-garde artists. Alexander served as the president of the National Academy of Design, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and was a member of the Societe National des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was well-known for his mural work, including six lunettes in the collection of the Library of Congress. In the soft colors and tints of gray, and in his use of patterned design, Alexander reflects the influence of Whistler.


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Meanwhile, let's look at the Mercury/Pluto conjunction that's being activated today by the Moon in Aries. Mercury will be conjoined with Pluto exactly as the day progresses, and as it perfects the Moon will simultaneously square the two planets.
Reflecting on the Mercury/Pluto conjunction this morning as I was watching my daughter recognize the sunlight and moving tree branches in the wind outside the window (sorry in advance for another baby reference--they will likely keep coming!), I started contemplating the "state of the world." Global warming. Terrorism. Imperialism. Fundamentalism. Capitalism. Enough scary "isms" to make just about anyone want to crawl back up into the womb and call it a day. But then oddly enough I landed on an idea that suddenly seemed even more frightening than any of them...and that's the idea that we live in a disenchanted and cynical world.
When I was in graduate school I got to read a great deal of modern and post-modern literature, and it took me a long time to let go of a good deal of cynicism that barnacled to my soul through that period. Nothing against the literature and art of that era, but I grew tired of the notion that only "real, sober, bleak, and broken or fragmented" views of the world or reality were more mature or wise. I heard many professors praise this kind of art as having come to terms with the world "as it is," and not like the earlier romantics "wished it would be." And so for a while I threw out my inspired, romantic idealism and tried on writers like Hemingway and artists like Picasso. Writers like Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace. I was living alone at the time, in a wintry cabin in Michigan, my parents old house on my grandpa's land, and this kind of dystopic "realism" in literature became like a form of spiritual renunciation. I drank alcohol, took drugs, wrote and read book after book, and felt more and more like my rejection of false positivity in the world was more noble, more true, and somehow more reasonable and artistically ethical than people who wasted their time chasing happy endings...or what Fransen called "Narnian dearness."
Several years later, after working with ayahuasca very seriously, I had a ceremony where I finally came to terms with this period of artistic/literary cynicism. Very simply I saw a train of modern/post-modern artists all dressed in similar hipster looking outfits, men and women alike, and they were walking single file up the slope of an iceberg and then dropping one after another into the frigid black-blue waters of the ocean below, like lemmings. I heard that famous quote, "The beauty of the iceberg is that 9/10 of it is submerged below the surface," and then I realized that each of the artists I loved were drawn to the reality of human coldness, like daring explorers at the arctic circle.
Then I saw myself back in my wintry cabin, studying the same darkness, veering closer and closer to the edge of the same "purposeful" self destruction iceberg, and at first I thought "yes!" "I've also been an explorer of the darkness. Because I'm brave enough to see past the superficiality..to get below the surface." But then I remembered the drugs and alcohol, and then I literally felt the drugs and alcohol in my internal organs. And I heard a voice that said, "the means by which we see through illusions is light and truth, not more darkness." And then I vomited up something that felt like a stomach full of pain pills and liquid that actually tasted like whiskey. Even though I hadn't done any drugs in several years at that point.
Then the vision was gone and I was left with a string of insights. One, while it's true that there is superficiality in the world, false positivism, false hope, and false images of happiness or wholeness, it's also true that the only means by which we are able to discern the crookedness of those false positives is through the light of something straight and true. The Saturnine contemplation of pain and suffering is therefore deeply important...in fact it is something like an inescapable gravity, and we would be foolish to dismiss its value spiritually. By renouncing the false positivity, the endless ambitions and desires, we essentially say to ourselves, "images of worldly fulfillment mean nothing to me...they are fruitless."
However, if this renunciation becomes nothing more than a new image, a new vogue, a new style, or a new way to prop up the ego, then it's more likely we see the extra paraphernalia...things like bottles of alcohol sitting on the book case, hipster apparel, and the idolization of a broken or fragmented world. Saturn's view in a sense becomes God or an end unto itself, and we forget the light by means of which we see through Saturn's point of view in the first place. We end up marching off the iceberg like lemmings, without any recollection of the light that has illuminated the abyss below.
Somewhere in the middle of all this there exists an appreciation for happiness, joy, goodness, and wholeness while simultaneously embracing the limits, decay, and falseness of the world. CS Lewis, answering critics similar to Fransen (who criticized his Narnian dearness) said that "a heap of broken images" was itself an image that needed breaking. Lewis also wrote, "the acceptance of loss..combines itself in two "Ways," the romantic and the ascetic, the affirmation and rejection of images."
So, as Mercury and Pluto are coming together in the sky today, it's quite natural for us to be contemplating the deeper, darker, truths. It's natural for us to have to come to terms with some level of illusion or delusion that we've been entertaining. It's quite natural for secrets, deceptions, betrayal, or hidden material to come up. It's quite natural as a result for us to want to renounce elements of falseness in ourselves, in others, or in the world at large. It's quite natural for us to feel that we're living in a heap of broken promises and broken images. It's quite natural for us to feel that this is a wiser or deeper point of view. But let us not forget the light by means of which what is hidden comes up right now. Let us not forget the light by means of which the darkness offers its enduring truth and treasure. Let's not forget that this moment of revelation isn't the end game...so we can't go building a temple to falseness just because we believe it's more true. That's a bitter pill, and often the temptation of a Mercury/Pluto/Moon combination.
This morning when I thought of the bleakness of the world, I feared for my tiny little daughter. "What kind of world have you come into, little one?" Then I paused because I could see her seeing the light outside, and it made me remember the light by means of which I was asking the question. The light by means of which my fear is indeed valid and "real." And as she smiled looking at the light, the gentle fingers of the trees blowing in the wind, the sound of wind chimes clanging gently, I smiled with her.
Prayer: Help us to remember the light by means of which difficult truths are revealed or understood...so that love and light may increase in a world that needs real joy and real hope.


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Eclipse Top-level Project Release Engineering Team
About Us
The release engineering team consists of Sonia Dimitrov and Kim Moir. We provide release engineering services the Eclipse top-level project (Platform, JDT, PDE and Equinox subprojects). We also manage builds for some of IBM's Eclipse based product offerings.
Eclipse 1.0 was released November 7, 2001. Sonia joined the eclipse release engineering team in early 2001. Kim moved to the release engineering team in late 2003.
Our relationship to other developers on the team is multi-faceted. Some of our responsibilities include
- Implementing and testing new functionality in the build process. We work closely with the PDE Build and Core/Equinox committers to test new PDE build features, for example grouped builds, versioning, conditioned and packed jars etc.
- Managing the build and test infrastructure.
- Assisting developers when they wish add new plugins, test plugins, reorganize features etc. Run many test builds to ensure that the next build will complete successfully.
- Public relations - Keep the team up to date on the build schedule, milestone schedules, changes to the build etc. Often we also serve as the unofficial "greeter" to the team and redirect people to the correct contact person for their area of interest.
- Designing and maintaining feature structure.
- Build optimization
- Implementing new automation tools in our build.
- Testing, testing and testing the build process. And then testing it again.
- Although our process is automated, we do still monitor the builds, especially during milestone weeks. We also encourage quick resolution of build problems. (Gentle prodding.)
- We often provide advice to teams who are trying to build using the "Eclipse Way" on a best effort basis.
We truly enjoy working with the other developers on the team because
- Everyone is willing to share knowledge and work together to solve problems.
- People care about the code they submit and ensuring that a build is successful.
- They feed us well. (Core team - chocolate, PDE team - cake, UI team - curry).
On a good day
- We don't have to do anything build related because it just works automatically.
- This allows us to focus of fixing our bug backlog, test and implement new build functionality.
On a bad day
- Everything that possibly can go wrong does go wrong. Our lab infrastructure has serious problems and unexpected and unavoidable build problems have occurred such as a network or power outage, hardware failure or even a small flood.
Our top priority is to get a build to developers. We also minimize risk of build failure by testing our process from end to end with any change in the scripts or infrastructure. We strive for CRISP builds (complete, repeatable, informative, schedulable, and portable) that incorporate release engineering best practices.
Since we have milestone builds every six weeks, we always feel that we are working toward a release. Of course, there isn't as much at stake with M1 as there is with M5 so the later milestones are much more stressful. During milestone week, we don't usually implement new functionality into the builder because we want to ensure that the builds run smoothly as possible. However, sometimes we need to make late breaking changes in the builder to address a serious bug during milestone week. During each milestone week, we test the newest plugins in org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder by running test builds. (org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder is a subset of eclipse SDK plugins that we use to run a headless build). This ensures that we can move the plugins to the builder as soon as the milestone is released. (See the latest Platform-releng-basebuilder version.
As we ramp down toward release, we try try to reduce the magnitude of the changes we make to the builder. Also, by the very nature of the end game, as we move toward the release it requires more approval to submit bug fixes to the build.
Callisto Thoughts
Overall, Callisto was a good experience for us although there is certainly a lot of room for improvement the teams communicate and share knowledge. It was also interesting that the simultaneous release process itself was embryonic and continued to develop throughout the release but ultimately it worked. I don't think that we made any special adjustments because we are at the bottom of the stack, don't compile against anyone and we usually release milestones early on to allow others to build on us. I found the mailing list to be an effective means of communication but also spoke with other teams on IM. It was also good to collaborate with other project teams and learn from the approaches they took to solving problems. It would have been good to start Callisto submissions earlier so the platform team could have more time to implement update manager changes.
Europa Ambitions
Issues that arose in Callisto that I would hope that we would be addressed in Europa
- Bug triage - There needs to be more participation in bug triage of cross-platform issues. Very few people subscribed to the Callisto component for bug notification.
- Implementing new and existing build technology across projects - For instance, including packed jars could decrease the bandwidth utilization at eclipse.org and associated mirrors as well as significantly improve the update experience for users. The platform team introduced this technology very late in the development cycle which made it difficult for other teams to implement it in a timely fashion. What process should there be to adopt/encourage accepted best releng practices across teams?
- Versioning and implementing qualifiers - There were a lot of questions about implementing qualifiers and the core team's new versioning scheme Version_Numbering. Admittedly, it is a complicated topic. However, I don't know if there is a way to diffuse information such as this across projects in a more effective manner. Tutorials etc? Again, this is probably an issue of lack of release engineering resources and time.
- Build notification - Other teams would like to be notified by RSS feeds that our builds are ready so they can build against us, Nick has contributed this to basebuilder and we have implemented this for 3.3. builds and we have implemented it in the build but still troubleshooting some issues.
- Contributed ports - Currently we have teams that build Eclipse drops outside the build process and contribute them. They have the hardware, time and interest to build these drops. Currently the process for them to contribute the builds is not elegant, I would like to automate it more.
Facilities I wish we had
- More time dedicated to improving our build process and fixing bugs.
- Web page for new eclipse projects on suggested best practices for getting their builds started.
- I would trust other committers or active contributors help us.
Procedures to reduce stress and increase efficiency
- Incremental build (Ultimately a much faster build). See Eclipse 3.3 plan item http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_3.html and bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=154083
- More stable lab infrastructure.
- More automated tools.
Communication Mechanisms
- Communication facilities - We use email and IM for routine and exceptional circumstances.
- RSS feeds would be good to automatically notify downstream teams when dependancies are available.
- Collection of release engineering best practices so new projects get their builds working and submitted to Europa. Pointers regarding update sites, creating reproducable builds, versioning, pde build best practices, feature design etc.


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Fair warning: this video definitely has spoilers in it. Including inside jokes. So if you haven't watched The Avengers yet (why haven't you watched The Avengers yet?!), please do so immediately and then return for this video.
If you have watched The Avengers, proceed on to watch the animated version of how Joss Whedon's film should have ended.
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One in a weekly series about the Black AIDS Institute's Greater Than AIDS ambassadors, who are using their VIP status in Black America to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS and HIV testing and treatment.
KTLA's popular Los Angeles morning news anchor, Michaela Pereira, doesn't remember a singular incident that prompted her to get tested for HIV/AIDS, but her frequent bouts of "newscasteritis" have kept the issue top of mind.
What is "newscasteritis"?
Whether it's a tree falling on someone's car or a rare disease someone gets, I always consider what that would have been like in my life, and it's made me think of things in a very different light. When we give the latest statistics on HIV/AIDS transmission, talk about the new numbers being found in America or the new infection rates among African American women, I pay attention. I can't say I don't know, because I'm telling people.
Since you already have a platform to tell people what's happening, what prompted you to get involved in the Greater Than AIDS campaign?
Because of what I do, the welcome mat is often opened to me, and I take advantage of that to stand up and say something important instead of hearing the sound of my own voice.
It's easy enough for you to talk about HIV/AIDS -- that's what you do -- but yet it's so difficult for people within our community to talk about it. Why?
I wish I knew: Is it shame? Is it anger? Is it denial? Is it frustration? Is it the fact that in our community, we feel as though we aren't heard? I don't know. I've asked myself that, and I've talked about it with my friends. I don't think any of us fully understand. All I know is I spend time thinking about that, and then I push that aside and think about what we can do.
What can we do?
Talk about it. I remember, post-9/11, I was in the back of a cab and the taxi driver and I were both still kind of reeling from what had just happened in New York and at the Pentagon, and we talked about it. He was a Muslim American and I am a Christian Canadian, and we're on very different sides of the world if one wants to look at division. But we talked. And it was one of the most compelling, impactful conversations I've had because it was difficult.
How can we make this difficult conversation easier?
If it's just a casual conversation, that's somewhere to start; and maybe that conversation is overheard by someone else who writes a blog about it that's read by someone halfway across the country who writes a letter. It's like a virus, but a good virus.
And like a virus, that can start with one person ...
It starts with me. If one person makes a change in their life, think of all the people around them that it will then affect. Because the opposite is also true: If one person doesn't make a change, think of all of the people who can be infected around them. So the reverse can be very powerful.
What does it mean to you to be "Greater Than AIDS"?
"Greater Than" is such an excellent tagline. I remember learning about those greater-than and less-than symbols in elementary school and thinking, "That is really amazing!" It was comparative, and I remember how impactful that was to me as a child. The fact is that, however symbolic, it is a powerful statement. It goes back to that one person. It feels a bit like David versus Goliath. But I back David every time.
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist, author and documentary filmmaker.


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Description: Letter from M. A. DeWitt to sister, Junia Roberts Osterhout. DeWitt's letter was composed of varied news of the family. The letter ended with Mitt informing Junia that a gift for Junia's daughter, Gertrude, would be arriving in time for Christmas. Included is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. J. P. Osterhout."
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The Greek gods were a humanoid species, possessed of powerful psychokinetic abilities, that once visited the Mediterranean region of ancient Earth around 2700 BC. These psychokinetic abilities made these beings appear god-like to the simple shepherds and tribesmen of early Greece, and so these beings were worshiped as the Greek gods as they resided on Mount Olympus.
Humanity gradually outgrew the need of these gods until they were only memories. Unable to survive without the love, admiration and worship they thrived on, the aliens departed Earth to eventually settle on Pollux IV.
In 2267, the USS Enterprise encountered the species on Pollux IV, where the last remaining god, Apollo, attempted to force the crew of the ship to worship them once again. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
Songs of praise to the Greek gods and accounts of their deeds were included in the Homeric Hymns. (TNG: "Darmok")
Greek godsEdit
- Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and sexual desire
- Apollo, god of music and medicine
- Artemis, goddess of hunting and Apollo's beloved sister
- Asclepius, god of medicine and healing
- Athena, goddess of wisdom
- Atlas, a Titan
- Hephaestus, god of fire and the forge
- Hera, queen of the gods
- Hermes, messenger of the gods
- Pan, god of the shepherds
- Zeus, king of the gods; father of Apollo and Artemis
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In the Star Trek: New Frontier novels Being Human and Gods Above, it is revealed that not only the Greek gods but also those of Egyptian and Norse mythology were part of the alien race who visited Earth, and that despite Adonis' belief that they had all perished they did survive.
See also Edit
|Greek gods
|Aphrodite • Apollo • Artemis • Asclepius • Athena • Atlas • Hephaestus • Hera • Hermes • Pan • Zeus
External link Edit
- Beings at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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Morgan thrilled with chance to lead off for Tribe
OAKLAND -- Nyjer Morgan arrived to Spring Training as a long shot to open the season on the big league roster with the Indians. On Monday, the outgoing center fielder was in the leadoff spot for the Tribe's Opening Day lineup against the A's.
Morgan was honored to have the chance to begin Cleveland's 2014 campaign.
"It means a lot," Morgan said. "A lot of hard work put me here. The hard work doesn't stop. I have the opportunity to go out there and make something happen for the boys. I'm just going to stay within my game and do whatever I can to help this organization."
Morgan, 33, signed a Minor League contract with Cleveland in January and came into camp as a non-roster invitee during the spring. An injury to starting center fielder Michael Bourn, who is on the 15-day disabled list with a left hamstring issue, cleared Morgan's path to the Opening Day roster as a reserve outfielder.
Indians manager Terry Francona weighed a variety of options for the lineup's leadoff spot, but settled on Morgan due to his blend of speed and on-base ability. Francona said the fact that Bourn is progressing well, and might not be shelved for too long, also played a role in the decision to go with Morgan.
"Nyjer showed us some of the things he can do," Francona said. "And in a short span, he can do some things offensively that maybe can sway a game in our favor. And, it doesn't upset the rest of the lineup. If I thought Bourny was going to be a month or something, then maybe you start mixing and matching."
Morgan spent last season with Yokohama in Japan, where he posted a .294/.434/.795 slash line in 108 games. In six Major League seasons with the Pirates, Nationals and Brewers, Morgan hit .280 with a .341 on-base percentage and .364 slugging percentage in 583 games.
Morgan said he likes the look of Cleveland's lineup.
"There's a lot of firepower in there," he said. "From top to bottom, everybody is the right piece of the puzzle to help keep everything in motion from last year. As long as we can all just do our little part to make this team successful, I think we're going to have a lot of success."
As for his role going forward with the Tribe, Morgan said he is not getting too caught up in the details.
"I just plan on just showing up every day with a smile on my face," Morgan said. "I'm just so happy to be here and I'll be ready to go any time my name is called."


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Everyone needs to grow up. Twee tearaways Los Campesinos! discovered this on the recent Hello Sadness, and Sheffield indie darlings Standard Fare have followed suit. Describing Out of Sight, Out of Town, bassist, vocalist and now PhD student Emma Cooper says: "We're starting to see how we fit into the wider world and how we feel about this." Coming far from awkwardly singing about 15-year-olds on debut The Noyelle Beat – where critics drew comparisons with their Cardiff-formed counterparts - Standard Fare have become a band who've found themselves, or at least one that's heading in that direction.
With maturity, comes an air of pessimism. Thematically, Cooper speaks from experience, often looking back cynically at past foibles and questioning certain decisions. Gone is the air of youthful naivety, and replaced with uncondescending wisdom, you'd do no worse than listen. Delivered with an untreated crackle – flitting between Kate Jackson's seductive pitch and the soft-spoken dulcet of Allo Darlin's Elizabeth Morris – she has a wry dig at immaturity on 'Darth Vader' ("You get too emotional / You're lost in your own turmoil / You're still not five years old"). On The Cribs-ish jangle of 'Dead Future' she combines with guitarist Danny How's boyish delivery to question life's monotony ("Why are we hanging around a little longer than I wanted to stay?"). She sternly lectures about a cougar fetish on 'Older Women' ("Why do you throw away your years like someone wanted your tooth? / There's no money underneath the pillow upstairs / No fairy who cares"). Finally, such struggles are domesticated during 'Half Sister,' a nostalgic recollection of family disputes ("It must be 20 years since I last saw you now / throwing up cherryade in my father's car").
Out of Sight, Out of Town's maturity doesn't make it any less fun though. Alan Smyth's production often makes the LP sound like a bedroom jam, all rickety melodies and low end sound, whilst the addition of violinist Brad San Martin (of One Happy Island) and violinist Emily Gunn (of Nat Johnson & the Figureheads) adds a noticeable thrash of rambunctious density. 'Bad Temper' loses itself in trademark Los Campesinos! unorganised vibrancy circa-We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed. '051107' lifts the modest trumpet melodies from a Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly track. Finally, closing track 'Crystal Palatial' combines the bass line from Allo Darlin's 'Dreaming' with a jamboree of barnyard violins. Yee haw!
On 'Crystal Palatial' Cooper enters a state of adoration: "We met again a month later / I got her flowers." It's a reminder, that while Los Campesinos! have greeted adulthood with a bitter and acidic after taste, Standard Fare have approached it with accepting subtlety. With so many LC! references, it's easy to see Standard Fare as a poor man's version. That's for from the truth though. With Out of Sight, Out of Town, they're moving further away from the comparisons and firmly into their own light.
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We called more than 70 top authorities on health and wellness, and asked each of them the same question: What are the most important things a woman can do to stay healthy?
After weeks of taking notes and poring over research, we're passing the information on to you: a list of the 76 smartest tips, from the tried and true to the brand spanking new. Your strategy: Pick five this week. Implement. Next week, five more. The week after that--well, you get the idea.
Know your body composition. A study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that 25 to 30 percent of young women with a normal BMI (19 to 25) still carry excessive body fat. The easiest way to check your body composition is with bioelectric impedance analysis, available in many gyms and doctors' offices.
Know your family's health history. Quiz the hell out of relatives, then down- load everything you learn to your M.D. Need help coming up with a list of questions? The U.S. Surgeon General's Family Health Portrait offers easy instructions.
Know your cancer risk. The American Cancer Society's Great American Health Check asks a few questions about your personal and family health history and then generates a list of recommended screening tests, plus tips on how to reduce your health risks. (We were told to nix the second margarita at happy hour and cut out the Cadburys.)
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World-famous bucking bronc, Midnight, headed lineup at first National Western rodeo
Midnight, the world-famous bucking bronc, headed the lineup at the National Western's first rodeo in 1931.
Midnight was big, black, powerful and intelligent. His lightning-like leaps kept him champion for 14 years.
He was considered the best in the business, not because he was mean or a man killer, but because he seemed to understand that it was a game. No man bucked from Midnight was ever trampled.
In his 1936 Denver Post obituary, it was told how at a Nebraska rodeo a cowboy was thrown from Midnight and knocked unconscious. Midnight stopped bucking and trotted over to him. Spectators held their breath while others screamed, but Midnight merely nuzzled the man before trotting off to the corral.
He was a crowd pleaser and performed at every big rodeo in the United States and Canada. Earl Thode, Doff Aber, Eddie Woods and Paddy Ryan were a few of the rodeo champs who tried to ride him.
Midnight was never counted as successfully ridden during his career. It was claimed that Pete Knight, a world champion bronc rider, rode Midnight at Cheyenne Frontier Days sometime in the 1930s. But Verne Elliott, Midnight's co-owner and producer of the biggest rodeos of the time (including the 1931 rodeo at the National Western), said no cowboy ever put up a qualified ride on Midnight "except when he was sick."
In 1933, Elliott retired Midnight to his ranch west of Platteville, Colorado. Three years later, Midnight died at age 20. He was buried and a headstone erected. In 1966, Midnight was reburied on the grounds of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City along with his companion bronc Five Minutes to Midnight.
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On July 4, Remember to Keep Your Republic!
As America celebrates its independence, even we foreigners who live here have much to celebrate. (I'm a Soviet‐born naturalized Canadian who's lived in the United States my entire adult life—finally got my green card three years ago—and like most immigrants, do a job Americans won't: defending the Constitution.)
Indeed, those of us who voluntarily chose to come here very much appreciate all that native‐born Americans take for granted: the rule of law, equality under the law, self‐government whose very limitation protects liberty, freedom of speech and religion, property rights, and enforceable contracts. It is these things that have allowed the United States to become the land of opportunity—which is why it's so heartbreaking when the rule of law is undermined, self‐government debased, and individual liberty subverted such as has been the case throughout the entire ObamaCare debacle.
In this 225th year of the Constitution—Cato will celebrate the anniversary at our Constitution Day Symposium in September—we all need to remember that our founding document, the codification of that grand experiment in self‐government which began on July 4, 1776, cannot protect our liberties if we do not act to enforce it. Benjamin Franklin explained that what the Framers has created was "a Republic, if you can keep it." How do we keep it? A quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson is the perfect response: "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
How will you demonstrate your vigilance? I'll be doing so by speaking briefly about my favorite Federalist Paper, number 51 ("If men were angels…" at the Alexandria Tea Party's Fourth of July Celebration. Hope to see you there, in person or in spirit!


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RNC votes to block CNN, NBC from hosting debates
BOSTON (AP) -- The Republican National Committee approved a resolution Friday to block two television networks from hosting GOP presidential primary debates.
Friday's vote affirms RNC chairman Reince Priebus's threat against CNN and NBC unless the networks dropped plans to air programs about possible Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton. The vote was unanimous.
Priebus said CNN has "an obvious bias."
"That's a network that won't be hosting a single Republican primary debate," Priebus declared, receiving a standing ovation from Republican activists from across the country gathered for the committee's summer meeting in Boston.
In a statement, CNN said a division of the company planned to air a documentary about Clinton in 2014.
"The project is in the very early stages of development, months from completion," the CNN statement read. "We encouraged all interested parties to wait until the program premieres before judgments are made about it. Unfortunately, the RNC was not willing to do that."
Even before the Clinton dispute, Republican leaders favored plans to have fewer presidential debates with more friendly moderators. They believe their 2012 presidential candidates spent too much time beating up on each other in last year's monthslong primary season, contributing to Mitt Romney's loss.
"Our party should not be involved in setting up a system that encourages the slicing and dicing of candidates over a long period of time with moderators that are not in the business of being at all concerned about the future of our party," Priebus told reporters.
Democratic National Committee spokesman Michael Czin criticized Friday's vote.
"Instead of modifying their policies to actually present smart solutions for middle class families, the only thing the GOP can unite behind is a plan to continue to limit the audiences -- and voters -- to whom they will communicate," he said.


text: Sun King song Here comes the Sun King. Ev'rybody's laughing Ev'rybody's happy. Here comes the Sun King. Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon. Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol. Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel. "Sun King" Song by the Beatles from the album Abbey Road Released 26 September 1969 Recorded 24–25 July 1969,EMI Studios, London Genre Rock Length 2:26 Label Apple Records Writer Lennon–McCartney Producer George Martin Abbey Road track listing 17 tracks Side one "Come Together" "Something" "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" "Oh! Darling" "Octopus's Garden" "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Side two "Here Comes the Sun" "Because" "You Never Give Me Your Money" "Sun King" "Mean Mr. Mustard" "Polythene Pam" "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" "Golden Slumbers" "Carry That Weight" "The End" "Her Majesty" "Sun King" is a song written primarily by John Lennon, but credited to Lennon–McCartney and recorded by the Beatles for their 1969 album, Abbey Road. It is the second song of the B-side's climactic medley. Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication. Sun King (Abbey) Octopus's Garden / Sun King [Transition] (Love) ©1969 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.


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PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced support for the next-generation HEVC (high-efficiency video coding) H.265 codec. With a flexible software-based architecture, video processing solutions from Elemental offer support for the new codec via a seamless software upgrade. The bandwidth efficiency associated with the adoption of HEVC promises to greatly expand delivery of high-quality, high-resolution video over bandwidth-constrained networks.
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) members gave the new standard first-stage consent late last week. HEVC/H.265 is the product of collaboration between the ITU Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). H.265-capable consumer devices are proliferating, with estimates from the Multimedia Research Group that one billion such software-enabled units shipped in 2012. The Cisco Visual Networking Index forecasts that Internet-based video consumption will grow twelvefold each year through 2016, at which point 1.2 million minutes of video content will cross the network every second. As massive amounts of video data distributed over the Internet consumes more network capacity, HEVC/H.265 offers bandwidth efficiency gains between 30 to 50 percent as compared to the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 standard.
HEVC/H.265 enables pay TV operators, broadcasters, mobile providers and other content distributors to deliver higher-quality content at reduced bit rates over constrained networks while decreasing the capex spending associated with multiscreen video distribution infrastructure. With HEVC, service providers can also reduce backhaul and core network transit costs associated with multi-platform video distribution.
To achieve this level of efficiency, the HEVC/H.265 codec requires up to 10X more processing power for encoding compared to H.264 and relies on software capable of more complex decisions and tradeoffs across a wider array of decision points. Elemental has deep experience developing video codecs from open specifications to full implementation using general-purpose programmable architectures (GPUs and CPUs). Easing the transition to H.265 within legacy MPEG-2 and H.264 infrastructures, software-upgradeable solutions from Elemental can incorporate new compression approaches much more quickly than existing fixed hardware encoding and decoding platforms, such as ASICs and DSPs (digital signal processors).
"The computational intensity of HEVC lends itself perfectly to the processing performance advantage available with graphics processing units," said Keith Wymbs, VP marketing at Elemental. "Video processing software from Elemental delivers H.265 content at very low video bit rates to a wide variety of viewing devices, creating ubiquity that will richly reward content providers, broadcasters and consumers."
Elemental H.265 encoding exhibits bandwidth reductions of up to 50% compared to H.264. Elemental software is format agnostic and enables interoperability with applications and standards vital to multiscreen infrastructures, such as the integration of H.265 into MPEG-DASH workflows featuring H.265-decoding-capable DASH players. H.265 support will be commercially available in Q2'13 on Elemental flagship platforms, including Elemental® Live and Elemental® Server, which deliver high-quality, high-efficiency video processing required for streaming live and on-demand video to any device. H.265 reference streams are available from Elemental today.
Elemental will demonstrate concurrent H.264, MPEG-2, and H.265 encoding on a single Elemental® Live system at NAB in April. Elemental will also present a webinar on the topic of HEVC for multiscreen video on February 7. To register for the webinar, click here. To learn more, please click here to visit Elemental's H.265 microsite and download the Elemental H.265 whitepaper.
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