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Reading Horizons Elevate v7 Software Release
Four all new computer-administered assessments allow the software to more deeply differentiate instruction to match each student's needs—increasing engagement and expediting progress:
Phonics Screener
The Phonics Screener determines whether a student has gaps in his/her foundational reading skills and needs the full scope of Reading Horizons instruction, or whether a student has mastered foundational skills and needs to focus on building reading fluency and comprehension in the Reading Library section of the software.
The Phonics Screener has students spell 42 words that collectively embody each of the phonics skills taught and practiced in Reading Horizons Elevate. If a student can spell a word on demand, the student shows evidence of mastery in the phonics skills embedded in that word. If students misspell three words in a row (misspelling all of the phonics skills embedded in each word), the assessment ends.
If a student passes the assessment with 95% or higher, the "Library only" track is triggered since the student has already mastered foundational reading skills. In this case, students do not receive instruction. Rather, at the completion of this assessment students take the Reading Library Assessment to acquire a Lexile® reader measure, and then go directly to the Reading Library where they can read passages that match and stretch their current reading ability. After students earn 20 points in the Reading Library (or the points required according to the adjustable settings in the administration system), additional passages are unlocked. If a student's score falls below 95%, the student receives instruction that fills in the gaps through a targeted lesson track.
Reading Library Assessment
The Reading Library Assessment was created in partnership with MetaMetrics® and is powered by the Lexile® Framework for Reading. This assessment was developed to promote each student's reading comprehension by monitoring his/her Lexile measure throughout Reading Horizons Elevate software instruction.
This is an adaptive, multiple-choice assessment. Students read a short reading passage, followed by a fill-in-the-blank comprehension question with four options (A, B, C, and D). There are four different versions of the test (four different item banks) of differing levels (levels 1–4). All students begin with test items from the level 2 item bank. Depending on students' responses, the test will either move to higher-level/more advanced test items (levels 3 and 4) or lower-level/less advanced test items (level 1) and continue to adapt according to students' responses.
If students miss three questions in a row, the assessment ends. At the end of the assessment, students receive a Lexile® reader measure. Lexile-leveled passages that match the students' reader measures will be unlocked.
This assessment is administered three times throughout the program. The assessment is initially administered following the Phonics Screener and preceding the Diagnostic Assessment (unless the Phonics Screener is passed with 95%, causing the Diagnostic Assessment to be overridden) to serve as a benchmark and to unlock reading passages at the appropriate level. The second iteration of the assessment is administered to monitor progress in the middle of the Reading Horizons lessons (in the middle of Chapter 4). And the final Reading Library Assessment is given at the end of the program to highlight a student's complete Lexile gain from the program.
Diagnostic Assessment
The Diagnostic Assessment ensures each student is focusing on the skills that will help him/her make the most progress in reading by prescribing a targeted lesson track for each student.
To test the depth of instruction students need for each lesson taught in Reading Horizons Elevate, the assessment uses four question types, depending on student performance:
First, students are asked to spell a word. If they spell the word correctly, they move on to the next word.
If they spell the word wrong, they are taken to a fill-in-the-blank question that focuses on the same skill. If they answer correctly, they are taken to the next word and asked to provide the proper spelling.
If they answer incorrectly, the narrator reads a nonsense word and they are asked to select the correct word from three options. Again, if they select the correct answer they are taken to the next word and asked to provide the proper spelling.
If they answer incorrectly, they move on to the last option: having a word read to them, and then choosing the correct word from three options.
This process determines the depth of instruction needed for each lesson. Based on student performance on each question, students are assigned one of four levels of instruction for each lesson: Mastered, Advancing, Basic, or Beginning.
This process is demonstrated in the following chart:
This assessment also sets a student's benchmark for progress monitoring.
Progress Monitoring Assessments
Progress Monitoring Assessments are given at the end of every chapter to test student mastery of the skills covered in that unit. These assessments provide teachers with data to gauge student progress in connection to the benchmark set in the Diagnostic Assessment.
The Progress Monitoring Assessments differ from the Chapter Tests in the following ways:
- The Chapter Tests are longer and assess the material specific to the lessons.
- The Chapter Tests have to be passed with a certain passing percentage before students can move on, whereas the Progress Monitoring Assessments do not have a required passing percentage.
- The Progress Monitoring Assessments gauge growth compared to the score obtained from the original prescriptive Diagnostic Assessment and show whether students have mastered the skills relevant to a given chapter.
- The Progress Monitoring Assessments don't adapt instruction (this is done by the Chapter Tests). They contain approximately 3–5 questions (depending on the chapter).
Diagnostic Prescriptive Lesson Tracks
As demonstrated in the chart above, Diagnostic Prescriptive Lesson Tracks are assigned for each lesson based on student performance on the Diagnostic Assessment. The following lesson tracks now deliver the depth of instruction needed for each lesson:
- Skill Review provides a quick instructional overview of the lesson and the associated markings.
- Skill Summary includes a quick overview of the lesson and the associated markings, as well as practice activities.
- Skill Check is a quick assessment of the skills taught in the lesson to provide the student an opportunity to "test out" of the lesson.
- Full Instruction provides detailed skill instruction and a variety of practice activities.
Most Common Words (MCWs) Lessons
MCWs Skill Checks are now administered at the beginning of each MCWs Lesson to determine if students need to take the MCWs Lesson. If a student passes the MCWs Skill Check with 85% or higher, he/she does not need to take the lesson. A score of less than 85% will enable the MCWs Lesson.
NOTE: MCWs Lessons are the same as in previous versions of the software. Students select at least one activity for each of the three main objectives: letter-sound correspondence, reading MCWs in context, and rapid recognition.
Reference Lessons
Reference Lessons are now set as part of the default lesson material.
To coordinate with the new Reading Library Assessment, the following updates have been made to the Reading Library:
- Lexile reader measures are derived from the Reading Library Assessment
- Lexile text measures are assigned to each reading passage
- Passage reading levels have been recalibrated to correlate with the Lexile text measures
- Lexile text measures are displayed on reading passages on the student side of the Reading Library, along with the passage reading levels
- Reading Library passages are locked until students complete Chapter 2 (unless students are on the "library only" track)
- The "Library-only" option allows students who pass the Phonics Screener with 95% or higher to skip all the Reading Horizons software lessons and access the Reading Library. The Reading Library Assessment will unlock appropriately-leveled passages for each student.
- The functionality of the Reading Library is the same as in previous versions of the software.
- After students attain the required number of points (the default is 20 points), the software recalibrates the students' scores and unlocks passages accordingly.
- A second and third administration of the assessment is activated half-way through the program, as well as at the end of the program.
Level assignments for reading passages:
2.0 to 0.5 levels above a Lexile reader measure are Gold-level passages, worth three points
0.5 to -0.25 for Silver-level passages, worth two points
-0.25 and below for Bronze-levels passages, worth one point
NOTE: To understand the difference between Lexile reader measures and Lexile text measures, click here.
Adding Students
There is now a required setting to enter a student's grade level (grades 1 to adult) when the student is added to the program.
Grade level is used in the Lexile© report to indicate the target LexileⓇ measure to convey how students are measuring up in regards to College and Career Readiness benchmarks outlined in the Common Core State Standards.
Student Tracks
There are no longer Emerging, Basic, and Accelerated lesson tracks. The tracks are now set per lesson based on student assessment data.
The reports in the Administration System were updated to capture all of the data collected through the new assessment system. The following reports were updated:
Class Roll Report
The Class Roll Report provides a quick snapshot of student assessment performance, lesson progress, time spent in software, and other essential data. The data is presented in a chart and can be filtered by instructor, group, grade, or student. By clicking on a student's name in this report, administrators can view individual student data in more depth. Teachers and administrators can enter their email addresses to receive this report at set intervals.
Student Summary Report
The Student Summary Report shows a summary of a student's overall progress in the lessons, Chapter Tests, and the vocabulary and library sections of the software. By clicking on these different summaries, administrators can view more detailed data.
Library Report
The "maximum speed" a student could receive for reading a passage is in red font (passages have a capped words-per-minute target).
The report displays the date of the last time a passage was read.
Emailed Reports
Monthly reports can be emailed to teachers and admininstrators in the Advanced Settings; data can be filtered in order to email relevant data.
Advanced Settings
Under the Other Settings tab, administrators can activate a "Track Home Use Time" option. If the box is checked, students will be asked if they are using the program at home or school each time they log in. Home use time will then show up in the report.


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HALFWAY - Washington County will let the new Target discount department store open in early March as planned even though a required road leading into the site probably won't be finished until April, County Administrator Rodney Shoop said Wednesday.
The county did not want to prevent the business at the Crosspoint Shopping Center from opening on time so he waived a county requirement barring Target from stocking its store until the center's owner, Hekbel Limited Liability Corp., finished extending four-lane Massey Boulevard to Virginia Avenue, Shoop said.
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S. Fedele di Milano, tempio per belleza, e vaguezza di architettura e d'invenzione,
singolarissimo tra le fabbriche moderne, uscito dal divino ingegno di
Pellegrino Pellegrini, ed altri che a questa sono esperti […]
Giovan Paolo Lomazzo, Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scultura ed architettura, 1584.
The innovative design of the nave and façades of S. Fedele in Milan was praised almost immediately after its dedication by Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, on June 1579. The architectural and artistic program of the Jesuit church was completed during several phases of planning and construction that started in 1567 when the Society of Jesus in Milan announced their intention to build up a spot to preach and hear confessions. Leonetto Chiavone, then Jesuit rector, agreed with Carlo Borromeo, to commission Pellegrino Tibaldi (Puria di Valsolda 1527- Milan 1596), a versatile and non-jesuit artist, to designing the new building. Tibaldi's drawing plan was sent to Rome for the approval of Giovanni Polanco, the Jesuits General secretary. Once in Rome, Giovanni Tristano, consiliarius aedilicius, main architect of the Society of Jesus, gave his opinion and then the plan was accepted with minor modifications. The response signed by January 17th 1568, established that Tibaldi had to include into his project a pulpit and a single portal with a protrude jamb.
Derek Moore's dissertation defends the possibility that Leonetto Chiavone were behind the choice of Tibaldi as architect for S. Fedele. By 1563 Giovanni Tristano was the only architectural authority among the order in Rome. He accomplished good tasks as a supervisor expert but he was not considered with the capacity of invention, boldness and versatility required for the Jesuit enterprise in Milan. It seems that Borromeo, concerned with the quality of the church to be built in his city, agreed with Chiavone that Tibaldi were named the designer for the church. Since July 1567 Tibaldi was appointed as the major architect of Milan cathedral.
Under the protection of Borromeo, Tibaldi had been focused on projects of architecture. In addition to his appointment as architect at the Duomo, his duties as official visitator and technical advisor of Carlo Borromeo in the diocese implied the proposal of the necessary changes to bring the churches into line with the Tridentine decrees.
Before building process began at S. Fedele, Borromeo called Tibaldi to work in three significant projects: The Collegio Borromeo in Pavia (1564); the canons' courtyard and residence at the archbishopric complex in Milan (1565) and the new presbytery structures in the cathedral of Milan.
It has been repeated the notion that S. Fedele is one of the best examples of Counter –reformation churches, projecting a typical Jesuit construction with a single nave and theatrical use of light at the altar. And it has been also stressed the role of Carlo Borromeo, as the patron and director of a project who pretended to transform the city into a bastion of Catholic faith in North Italy. (Haslam, 1975:131,134)
However, scholars as Derek Moore (1998), Stefano Della Torre and Richard Schofield (1994) have studied the church of S. Fedele as one of the Jesuit's enterprises more random, variable and adaptable to the urban surroundings under the practical requirements of the Society (related to their goal of obtaining the houses around the piazza based on the social networks of the order in Milan). They have argued that S. Fedele does not fit the stereotype of a Jesuit structure. When considering S. Fedele one of the first new temples built by the Society in Italian territories, it is necessary to understand its construction process in relation to the local tradition in Milan and to other projects initiated by Society, acknowledging the diversity and heterogeneity that make "the Jesuit enterprise both rich and hard to define" (Bailey, 1999: 68). For example, it's known that during mid-16th Century, the project by Galeazzo Alessi for the façade of S. Maria presso S. Celso in Milan, was admired and studied by the architects established in Milan and is more than significant its relation with the scheme of S. Fedele main façade (considering especially the portal projected, the top pediment and the even base of the first section).
More recently, historians have recovered the first ground plan for S. Fedele which was much more modest than the present. It is so interesting to note that Tibaldi had drawn a Greek-cross floor plan, instead of a wide single nave with a tribune in the east - end as was settled (Stefano Della Torre and Richard Schofield, 1994:117-119).
In fact, Tibaldi had to rethink his original project at least three times, in order to adjust the work to the space conditions and the Jesuits necessities. The second plan was for a smaller church (about a half of the size) that occupied the same area and orientation of the Old S. Fedele, which was located close to the current presbytery. In fact, this spot was determined by the urban plan of this part of the city and also, by the position of the piazza that functioned as a kind of atrium arranged Southwest-Northeast.
In the final plan for the Jesuit church, two bays divided the nave. It was built as a hall-like space destined for preaching according to the increasing popularity of the Jesuit's services. In order to get a broader nave, the Jesuits had to give up the rows of side chapels that were common in latter commissions as happened at Il Gesù in Rome. In S. Fedele, Tibaldi designed "immense niches" rather than chapels.
Another important consideration was the vault ceiling. Leonetto Chiavone defended the vault against the flat ceiling, on the basis of their acoustic. For him and in general for Jesuit architects, the vault was capital to improve the sound during mass ritual.
Tibaldi resolved a ceiling composed by two domical vaults instead of the cross vaults that appeared on the second plan. The vaults are resting on six monolithic columns of pinkish granite (migliarolo) inspired by the remains of Ancient Rome architecture, such as the central halls of the Baths of Docletian. It seems that Chiavone and Tibaldi agreed to assure the quality of the materials used and the novelty of the ornaments and details carefully designed. In fact, all the construction materials were carefully selected from Lombard quarries: the granite columns were extracted from Baveno on Lake Maggiore; the grey stone that dressed the interior is a rock from Trezzo dell'Adda and the block of stone used for the exterior revetment was a pink and orange Triassic sedimentary rock from Angera on Lake Como. The quarries in Angera belonged to Borromeo's family. (Haslam, 1975: 124).
The importance of the material selection was connected with the quality and identity of the architectural work. At a certain point, Tibaldi visited the quarry with the stonecutters to determine if the Lombard granite had the properties and dimensions for the gigantic columns.
Jesuits arrived to Milan in 1563, under the command to establish a college. They wanted a space to setting up the college and the residency. Their interest was to find an old monastery with possibilities to renovating it. A church wasn't a priority at the beginning because they could preach in the Duomo and other churches as the small parish of S. Vito, with the permission granted by Borromeo. The need for a church was only a secondary issue and in fact it's not know why and when the Jesuits changed their intentions. In the letter sent to Rome with Tibaldi's designs was not mentioned the Borromeo's patronage, nor a name that assure the cost of construction. Leonetto Chiavone, played a crucial role in planning the new church. He was responsible for S. Fedele location since his friend, Benedetto Alemanni, a layman who lived in the same neighborhood, suggested the Old parish of s. Fedele as a perfect place for the Jesuits complex. Once Chiavone made his decision, he presented the plan of renovation to Carlo Borromeo.
The site selected by Leonetto Chiavone had many advantages: it belongs to the district of Porta Nuova at the center of the city; the building had a way out to a small piazza which could be adapted in order to gave the façade a significant view, and finally, it was surrounded by houses that could be demolished or rehabilitated for the Jesuits' church and residency.
The pattern of streets, intersections and the piazza around S. Fedele, gave the church its orientation. Besides, it was near to prominent buildings as Palazzo Marino and the house of Leone Leoni. This spot had put Tibaldi and his patrons in a challenge but also, in a privileged position.
Leonetto Chiavone persuaded the Milanese lay supporters to contribute with considerable funds for the building process. The municipal government gave another important contribution. Since it's arrival the Jesuits receive the support and approval of the Spanish governor, the Duke of Sessa.
Carlo Borromeo gave S. Fedele to the Jesuits on 22 March 1567. At the same time, he outlined the intention to bring the relics of St Fideles and St Carpophurus to Milan. The corpi santi of the two martyrs were brought in 1576. The relics were preserved at the abbey church of S. Gratitiano e Felino in Arona (Carlo Borromeo had resided at Angera in Arona for many years before 1560). So, it is very likely that archbishop Borromeo wanted to provide the new church of S. Fedele with the saint relics as a way to recall the beginning of the Christian church. The relics were an excellent device to link the project with the sacred history of the early church, capable to activate the memory as is described in a letter from the rector: "essendo come estinta la memoria" (Moore, 1988: 56).
Borromeo put the prima pietra at S. Fedele in July 1569. One year later from the approval. This delayed was a consequence of the lack of specialized workers. The Jesuits signed a contract with the Scala group masons, a union that holds the Lombard tradition of masons and worked in Palazzo Merino. Only this group could guarantee the quality of the elaborated stone revetment and ornamental scheme that Jesuits looked for.
Even when the General Congregation of 1558 decreed that Jesuit buildings should be neither sumptuous nor novel, with churches exception, the changes and revisions to Tibaldi's plan for S. Fedele –in order to magnify it–, continued until 17th Century. The construction process covered two long stages: the first campaign of construction went from 1569 to 1595 where the nave and ceiling was built; the second, in 17th century observed the structure of the presbytery, the apse, cupola and sacristy. In all the stages, the architects followed carefully Tibaldi's drawings. The fact that only the nave was almost entirely the innovative work of Tibaldi, inside and out, was very well known. Years later, Andrea Pozzo reminded the novelty of Tibaldi's design presenting a longitudinal view of S. Fedele's single nave on his famous treatise Perspectiva Pictorum et Atchitectorum, vol. 2 (1700).
On his final ground floor plan, Tibaldi's project managed to maintain the interior of the apse as wide as the nave, while he kept the presbytery at a minimum length because there was not enough space outside; in fact, he took advantage of the maximum possible extension of the site.
Under the supervision of the architect Martino Bassi, the revetment of the north flank was finished in 1591. He made also substantial corrections in the area of the Tribune: the apse and cupola changing its baldachin structure. Bassi proposed a decoration more related to 17th-century taste: a revetment of stucco instead of carved stone and ornamental coffering in the apse. The works on presbytery area began after 1629. The Milanese architect Francesco Maria Ricchini directed the construction. In 1633 he decided to finally build a crypt, putting an end to a long lasting negotiation with the noble locals and wealthy patrons of the church who demanded sacred tombs.
The design of the façade was by Tibaldi. It included ornaments and a lunette with a relief of the martyr Fidelis planned above the portal that was never executed. On the literature, the façade has been compared with the design of Il Gesù stressed the differences between the projects; S. Fedele façade with its single entrance, was more simply, economic and timid than Il Gesù (it had no lower wing or connecting volute forms). In this regard, S. Fedele has been compared to Michelangelo's façade model for S. Lorenzo in Florence.
Until mid 17th-century the pediment was still empty and the middle sections of the upper cornice were unbuilt (the pediment was finished by Pietro Pestagalli in 1833).
On the interior, the iconographic and functional program from the first phase of construction included only the main altar, and two on the nave with their aedicule. The Jesuits commissioned also the wooden confessionals and coretti, which are balustraded galleries that flanked the niches intended for the music makers or members of the Society, which assisted to sermons in this private areas. There is an internal corridor with spiral stairs to give access to coretti located in the nave; the two of them observed on the wall of the main entrance in the interior façade have only a decorative purpose: to preserve the correct symmetry of the rectangular space, there is no way to get inside.
Following the canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in 1622, the Jesuits planned to dedicate the first chapel on the right, empty until then, to the founder of the Society.
The current main altar and marble pavement were installed during 19th Century. Beyond the many constructive phases described, S. Fedele presented late subsequent changes as result of historic facts, the more important modification was done after IIWW when the piazza was bombed. Nowadays, the church is still in use under the Jesuit administration.
Key questions
Does S. Fedele belong to a "pervasive Jesuit architectural style"? Can we say that the scheme of the constructive process of S. Fedele was according to a Jesuit's 'way of proceeding', I mean, the result of the imposition of a corporate strategy deeply rooted in the foundation of the Society of Jesus?
It reflects the ideals of the Counter Reformation churches built under the impulse by Carlo Borromeo?
Can we consider this building as a product of a local tradition taken into account that it was adapted to its urban surroundings from the very beginning?
Scholars had discredited the idea of the Jesuit style; nonetheless, Jesuit foundations are noticeably different from those of other orders. Is it possible a comparison among Jesuit churches and what happen within the American establishments?
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. "'Le style jésuite n'existe pas': Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts" in The Jesuits. Cultures, Sciences and the Arts 1540-1773, editors, John O'Malley, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, 39-89. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Della Torre, Stefano and Richard Schofield. Pellegrino Tibaldi architetto e il San fedele di Milano. Invenzione e costruzione di una chiesa esemplare. Como: NodoLibri, 1994.
Haslam, Richard. "Pellegrino Tibaldi and the Design of S. Fedele, Milan". Arte Lombarda 42/43 (1975): 124-153.
Moore, Derek. "Pellegrino Tibaldi's Church of S. Fedele in Milan: The Jesuits, Carlo Borromeo and religious architecture in the late sixteenth century" PhD dissertation, New York University, 1988.
Pedrocchi, Anna Maria. "Il coro della Chiesa di San Fedele in Milano". Arte Lombarda 65 (1993): 89-92.
Robertson, Clare. "Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit Taste" in The Jesuits. Cultures, Sciences and the Arts 1540-1773, editors, John O'Malley, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, 134-144. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.


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- The main application calls the Game Constructor.
- The XNA Framework calls the game's Initialize method.
- The XNA Framework calls the game's LoadContent method.
- The XNA Framework calls the game's Update method.
- The XNA Framework calls the game's Draw method.
- Steps 4 and 5 are repeated many times each second.
- If the application closes then a call is made to UnloadContent.
We can clearly see that the game loop exists and that the update and draw methods are the places for our game logic and graphics drawing.
Bringing Something Up on the Screen
If you're not already excited about game programming maybe you will be as soon as you see more than a blue background screen. To get started we need to create or import a few images (see Figure 3):
- The actual track - I borrowed the track and took screenshots from the existing VW Lupo Cup game for this article.
- An image of any size with a black background and another one with a silver background (these can be easily done in your preferred painting program).
- An image of a nice car that you'd like to drive around.
If you don't want to create these on your own, feel free to download the source code for this article, which includes all of the images used.
We have to import these images into the project's content subfolder (another new feature of the XNA Framework 2.0) where all the content files should be. Your Solution Explorer should look like the one in Figure 4.
The next step is to show the background and a scoreboard to display the player's name and current and best lap time. To do this we start by defining some instance variables that will hold our textures of the track and scoreboard - where we also need two rectangles that define the size of the scoreboard and its border:
Texture2D scoreBoard;
Texture2D scoreBorder;
Texture2D track;
Rectangle scoreRect = new Rectangle(50, 450, 120, 70);
Rectangle scoreRectAround = new Rectangle(45, 445, 130, 80);
The next step is to code the LoadContent function and load the images. We use an image with a black background for the scoreboard and surround it with a gray border to make it look nicer not forgetting our real background, the track itself. We do this simply by telling the 'Content Pipeline' to load our textures (from the Content subdirectory). The XNA content pipeline is used to load 3D objects (that you've exported from Blender or 3DStudio), textures (this is exactly what we want to do), effects (light, bump mapping), or Microsoft Cross-Platform Audio Creation Tool (XACT) projects. This kind of different content can be created with many different tools and saved in many different file formats. Using the content pipeline built to import most of the common file formats, this content is processed automatically into a managed code object that can be loaded and used by XNA Game Studio games on Windows and the Xbox 360 at runtime (all our content files are compiled into .xnb files and our audio files are compiled into .xgs, .xwb, and .xsb files for the actual sound project, wave bank, and sound bank content).
// TODO: use this.Content to load your game content here
scoreBoard = Content.Load<Texture2D>("Black");
scoreBorder = Content.Load<Texture2D>("Grey");
track = Content.Load<Texture2D>("Track");
Now before we test our cool game we code the draw function, where we simply draw the track, the border, and the actual scoreboard - in that order - so that everything appears on the screen. This is done in a sprite batch because by using it we send a single draw call to the graphics card.
If we did it without using a sprite batch we'd put a load on the gaming machine that would slow things down and maybe result in an unplayable game since all the drawing commands are sent separately to the graphics card every time we draw something to the screen - and that's the last thing we want.
// TODO: Add your drawing code here
spriteBatch.Draw(track, new Rectangle(0, 0, track.Width, track.Height), Color.White);
spriteBatch.Draw(scoreBorder, scoreRectAround, Color.White);
spriteBatch.Draw(scoreBoard, scoreRect, Color.White);
Note that we haven't coded anything in the update function so far because we don't have any game logic yet. If we run the application we see nearly the same thing as in Figure 1 - only the cars are missing and there's no text on our scoreboard. Fine, but what's a racing game without any players? OK, let's create the cars and put them on the starting line.
The first object we should create now is a player class. It's always good to have a class with the player-specific values. You might think that's unnecessary, but it's not. The more you work on a game the more features you want to build into the application. For example, in the beginning you might only have a player name and the laps driven, as well as the current position (x, y coordinates and rotation) of the car. Later on you might want to keep the track record and current points if you stage some kind of championship season, or - even simpler - the keyboard should be configurable, and so on. You can see my current player class in Listing 1 (I'm quite sure that this will be far bigger by the time you read this article).
Another class we need is the LevelHandler class (see Listing 2) that holds configuration options for different players (the default keyboard layout for each player) and for each of our levels (even if we implement only one track this time) the starting positions of the cars and their initial rotation - if you compare my car image and Figure 1, you'll see that the car is facing right, but we want to drive clockwise, so the car should face left - and we'll need different color for each car.
We have to add additional instance variables to our game class so we can bring the car up on the screen. The car has height and width like a real car, but in our world we can easily rescale our car - for example, if the image of your car is way too big. And last but not least we'd like to have four players (or cars) in the game who we hold in an array (we could also use a collection or list, but the garbage collector on the Xbox 360 works differently than Windows - it uses the compact framework here - and the foreach loop could create additional overhead that we don't want and don't need - on top of which we don't add or remove players dynamically so an array is perfect).
int carHeight;
int carWidth;
double carScale = 1;
Player[] players = new Player[4];
Using the LevelHandler class we initialize our players in the LoadContent function. Each player becomes an index needed to map the player to a joystick. We load the texture for the cars and define the initial starting position and rotation of the cars. Our cars should have different colors and maybe the keyboard should be used, so we need keys for accelerating, braking, and steering. See Listing 3.
Note the code in the comment. If you use it, you'd be able to control all the cars all at once with the cursor keys.
Now, when the players are initialized, the only piece missing is to actually draw the cars. And I bet you've figured it out already, the next code snippet goes into the draw method (just before the call to the spriteBatch.End() method):
foreach (Player player in players)
new Rectangle((int)player.carPosition.X,
(int)player.carPosition.Y, carWidth, carHeight),
new Rectangle(0, 0, player.car.Width, player.car.Height),
player.color, player.carRotation,
new Vector2(player.car.Width / 2, player.car.Height / 2),
SpriteEffects.None, 0);
If you run the game now you'll see the cars appear next to the start line. Perfect? Well, not really, the cars aren't moving and don't react to any keyboard or joystick input. This means we have to change the position of the cars depending on the elapsed time and rotate accordingly to the keyboard input from the player. To get our hands on the keyboard or game pad state is a single function call for each. But of course we have to do it for every player. For now the cars always move the same distance. There's no acceleration or braking yet. See Listing 4.
NOW it's really cool when we start up the application. The screen pops up, the track is there, four different cars appear and they start moving and moving and.....whoops! They're off the track and move off the screen (one good thing is that if you use the cursor keys (or joystick) the gold car reacts to your input). Damn, and we've done such a good job up to now, but here's the problem. We need to detect when the cars are leaving the track or when one car is crashing into another car - which means some kind of collision detection. This will be the facility we're going to add to our racing game next month, I hope you like what we did up to now. (See Figure 5) But wait, one thing we still want to do together is fill in the scoreboard with some useful information. We need to create a new spritefont by right-clicking on the Content folder and choosing New Item under the Add menu. We give it the name Courier New.spritefont. This adds an XML file to our project describing how to build a texture map for the new Courier font (it's a good idea to change the size to 10 point type or it won't fit into the scoreboard rectangle) and as with all content this file will also be compiled into a xnb file. To use the font we need another instance variable.
SpriteFont font;
And again, since it's content, the content pipeline should hold the information about the font, and we need to load it and fill our instance variable in the LoadContent function:
font = Content.Load<SpriteFont>("Courier New");
Last but not least we have to draw the text, in other words the player's name as well as his current and best lap time and the number of laps he's driven. First we need some coordinates for where the strings should be drawn, so we add either instance or local variables to the draw function:
int x1ScoreBoard = 55;
int y1ScoreBoard = 450;
int nextLineScoreBoard = 15;
Finally the actual information has to be printed out, so we add the code within the draw function within the foreach loop for the players as shown in Listing 5.
Now hit F5 and, voilà, we see the time running, but as with programming in general it's the same here. Finish one thing and another problem pops up or did we already implement how a car moves across the start or finish line? Again, this is something for next month.
Suggested Reading
Well, this really depends on whether you're completely new to C# and game development. If you're looking for more information on game development in general the book series Game Development Gems is great. If you want to dive deeper into the XNA Framework in general a very good place to start - besides the usual MSDN help content, which has very interesting tutorials - is the creators.xna.com web site where you'll find a lot of samples, starter kits, and, even better, a forum where the pros are watching and helping people out.
When I was watching the XNA Tour here in Europe (Vienna), one guy in the audience said to a friend, "Imagine what great games we would have built if we had these tools when we were young." Well, this guy was as old as me and he clearly grew up with a Commodore C64 and an Amiga like me (so the time he was talking about was close to the Stone Age - at least that's what my younger readers will say) and the great times he was talking about include titles like Summer/Winter Olympics, Ghost and Goblins (damn, it really was a cool time). But, back to XNA, I don't want to give you the wrong idea. I agree that game development is a lot easier today than it was 10 or 15 years ago, but one now has to be more of a graphics designer than a programmer. You see that in this article. It's easy to paint a track and cars on the screen (the content pipeline is great and the Draw method the place to code) and even making them move isn't a problem (the Update method is the place to code that), but think about it, how much time does it take to draw the different tracks? And this is the real challenge today. One needs a good idea and super-sexy graphics. If this isn't available you're sure to fail (I know that this isn't always true, but it is most of the time). Anyway, I hope you like what we built here and next month we'll continue with our racing game and you'll be able to have a real race with your friends. See you then.
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I want to have a calculated field that tells me the sum of quantities in every item selected in the payment wizard, not the dollar amount. When the calculated field entry box comes up it only lets you enter the name of the payment wizard field but I want to drill down further to count. Can this be done?
In the sample shown, if someone were to register say 2 individual shooters and 2 armed service shoots I want it to give me the number 4 for for total shooters.
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Starting from scratch and growing the small business is not an easy job.Everything needs to be decided by yourself or a small team of your business.Sometimes its get uglier when you don't have any idea about that thing nor experience.Sometimes entrepreneurs have to make critical business decisions based on gut feelings, your entrepreneurial instincts, and even wild guesses.Risk taking is good for the new business venture, but it depends on how much (ROI) Return on investment it can give.Bigger is the risk much greater will be ROI.
So today I'm going to share most simple and effective ways to make better business decisions and grow your startup or small business steadily and Rapidly.
MAKE BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS with THIS 3 TOOLS
Project Management
For every project to complete successfully with customer satisfaction project management will play the more significant part.So in the 21st century, there are the number of tools available.Let's discuss one or two here,
Capterra, provides thorough reviews of business-oriented software, has ranked Microsoft Project as the most popular project management software, As the application currently used by more than 22+ million users worldwide and growing.
Data Visualization
It is as important as project management as it helps to visualize all the data so that we can understand easily and plan the future decisions according to it.
The Data visualization helps in making key decision-makers in a number of ways.Such information will help to create multi-page spreadsheets and monotonous reports,Small, Growing, Big business owners can now use advanced software to display this data through computer imagery also in 3D . Not only does this simplify the process of comparing statistics, but it also presents the data in a simple imagery that is easily evaluated by all levels of staff of you company.
Predictive Analytics
Predictive Analytics, as the name suggests, it is the process of using past data to forecast future trends, occurrences and events that help in future to your business. Almost all small businesses and enterprises have already using it to plan new and upcoming projects, to assess the profitability of new concepts.
IBM's Watson supercomputer is the first non-human contestant on the popular game show "Jeopardy,"
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Break down major decisions into steps
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The Making Of A Young Entrepreneur
August 1, 2013
Hosted by Chris Efessiou
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"A lot of kids today don't do better because they don't know they can," says 11 year old Gabrielle Jordan Williams. Gabrielle and her mom and manager Marcella Mollon-Williams, will discuss her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 9 when she founded the company Jewelz of Jordan, and will explain some of the challenges she faced being a young entrepreneur and how she overcame them. She will also talk about her book, The Making of a Young Entrepreneur: A Kid's Guide To Developing The Mind-Set For Success and discuss her career as an inspirational speaker. Join us on Thursday, August 1, at 3 PM PT–6 PM ET to listen to Gabrielle's story and ask them your specific questions.
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Straight Up with Chris: Real Talk on Business and Parenthood will be a light-hearted show discussing serious issues aimed to encourage, inspire, teach and support parents in applying their business skills to the business of parenting and personal relationships. It will also discuss the use and usefulness of proper parenting skills as training to entering or re-entering the workforce. Chris along with his guests will share unique principles, how-to's, ideas, methods, expertise, humor and personal experiences to best serve the needs of the listeners. You will have an opportunity to suggest topics that you want us to discuss and as a result our show will always be relevant to you.
Chris Efessiou
Chris Efessiou is an entrepreneur, business leader, international speaker, mentor, professor, father, and author of the highly acclaimed book "CDO: Chief Daddy Officer."
In the past 20 years Chris Efessiou has founded, co-founded, developed, and managed multiple successful enterprises—all the while being a committed and present single parent.
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Oil Rallies for 4th Day in a Row, Natural Gas Jumps
Crude oil rallied for the fourth day in a row on the New York Mercantile Exchange Thursday on the US Department of Energy EIA's inventory report. Settling just below $72 a barrel, oil has nearly erased last week's fall from a high of $75.
Trading on the NYMEX Thursday saw crude oil close at $71.94 a barrel. Buying was encouraged by a larger-than-expected drop in crude oil inventories reported by the DOE.
While the EIA reported that the week prior to Labor Day weekend saw a larger-than-expected drop in crude oil stocks on lower imports and higher demand, the products market saw a build in both gasoline and distillates.
"You had friendly crude and unfriendly product numbers in the weekly reports, and it showed up in the price," said Bill O'Grady, the chief markets strategist at Confluence Investment Management LLC, an investment advisory and management firm based in St. Louis. "Crude had a pretty good day, gasoline and heating oil not so much."
Officially ending the summer driving season in the US with the holiday weekend, the market now looks to heating oils to supplement demand for crude oil. A large build in these products helped to squash any bearish moves oil may have made on the crude draw.
"To get gasoline inventories rising right into your holiday weekend is actually statistically a little unusual," O'Grady commented. "Usually, you would have tried to move that gasoline into the system already; so now your gasoline fundamentals look really lousy, and now you're out of the driving season."
Nonetheless, a weakened dollar and strong day on Wall Street helped to push the price of oil up 63 cents from yesterday's close.
"You had a big drop in crude stocks, primarily due to a drop in imports, and that helped the market to some extent," O'Grady explained. "The other surrounding issues were supportive, too. You had a good day in the stock market, that weakened the dollar, and that tended to help crude prices, as well."
While products inventories rose, the draw in crude oil along with outside economic data contributed to a rally in oil prices.
"The big story fundamentally was the bifurcated weekly report -- bullish for crude, bearish for other stuff," O'Grady said.
Decreased Oil Imports
Typically, the amount of crude oil being imported into the US dips at this time of year, but it is usually due to delivery disruptions in the Gulf of Mexico caused by tropical activity. Obviously, that is not the case this year because a hurricane has not yet entered the Gulf of Mexico this Atlantic hurricane season.
"You get a hurricane in the Gulf, even if it doesn't hit anything, it'll disrupt flows of imports because if I'm trying to put an oil tanker into the loop, if the waves are too choppy, I can't do it," O'Grady explained. "What's unusual this time around is this stuff has been swinging 200,000 or 300,000 barrels a day for no apparent reason."
O'Grady said that the market may just been caught up in strange timing issues, that lately one week will show imports down and then the next, they are up.
"Typically, the way I look at the market is on a four-week moving average; it kind of smoothes out the bumps, and on a four-week moving average basis, imports are still falling," O'Grady disclosed. "But on a week-to-week basis, you can explain these big swings in crude oil inventories in part due to imports."
Furthermore, US refineries are readying for scheduled yearly maintenance programs.
"Refineries usually do maintenance in the fall, and we'll see some refineries reduce output, just cleaning up," he added. "That will tend to drop oil consumption because when they're doing maintenance on these units, they're not processing crude."
The big question many have is: Does this recent rally foretell rising crude prices long-term? O'Grady doesn't think so.
"I don't think this is the beginning of a major correction in crude oil inventories; I think it's just a one-week fluke," he concluded.
Natural Gas Makes Major Gains
After trading at seven-year lows for a number of weeks, the price of natural gas has been able to sustain a four-day rally, as well. Today, the price of natural gas jumped 42 cents to settle at $3.256, the highest it has been since starting the October contract.
"The big story frankly today was natural gas; it's just been on a big tear the past two or three days," O'Grady said. "You just had a slightly better-than-expected inventory report -- it wasn't fabulous, but it does show you the market has gotten pretty oversold."
O'Grady revealed that he received calls every day asking whether natural gas is a good buy because the price has dropped so low.
"I think you have people who want to own it because they think it's really, really cheap, and against a lot of relative measures it is," O'Grady explained. "Still, it looks like we're going to end up with about 3.9 trillion cubic feet-plus in inventory by the time the winter starts; and boy, if you don't have a cold winter, you're really going to be choking on this stuff."
The natural gas market has been plagued by extremely weak fundamentals. A record inventory in the commodity has combined with diminished industrial and domestic demand to push the price of natural gas to historic lows.
"There is some hope: Goldman Sachs came out this week and argued that you're going to see a pick-up in industrial demand, and you'll probably see some," O'Grady continued. "I don't really see industrial demand coming back that strongly, but you've got a lot of interest in natural gas, and I think that helped it a lot. There's hope that maybe the worst of this is over."
However, O'Grady said that the market may have just experienced a large amount of short-covering. Traders have been buying out of the commodity en masse, which has helped to push the price.
"You are going to see some pick-up in industrial activity, and that will help -- I just don't think it's probably going to be robust enough to push this market much higher than it's already gone," O'Grady concluded. "The moves have really been impressive, but I don't think that it's going to have legs."


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BIGSSS has a clear mission to foster sound empirical research and acknowledges that all research activities carried out by BIGSSS members should respect fundamental ethics principles, including those reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000/C 364/01). These principles include the need to ensure the freedom of research and the need to protect the physical and moral integrity of individuals.
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