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LG Electronics Named 2013 Energy Star® Partner of the Year
NEWSROOM: LG Electronics USA, Inc.
CAMPAIGN: LG Energy Efficiency
CONTENT: Press Release
LG Electronics, a global technology leader in consumer electronics and home appliances, has been named 2013 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This is the second year in a row that LG has earned this coveted award for its efforts to manufacture and promote energy-efficient products to consumers.
"Environmental sustainability is a core principle for LG. As a long-time ENERGY STAR partner, LG is committed to delivering innovative energy efficient products to the market as quickly as possible and helping educate consumers on how ENERGY STAR products can save them both energy and money," said Wayne Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics USA. "We are extremely honored to be recognized by the EPA as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year and look forward to continuing our industry leadership role through our environmental initiatives."
The 2013 Partner of the Year Awards are given to manufacturers and retailers that successfully promote and deliver ENERGY STAR qualified products, saving consumers money and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Award winners are selected from the nearly 20,000 organizations that participate in the ENERGY STAR program. LG's accomplishments will be recognized at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on March 26.
"Through their commitment to producing quality energy-efficient ENERGY STAR products, LG Electronics has demonstrated their commitment to saving consumers money and protecting our environment," said Bob Perciasepe, Acting Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "LG Electronics is recognized today for this outstanding effort that has helped protect the climate for all Americans."
Over the last 20 years, with help from ENERGY STAR, American families and businesses have saved more than $230 billion on utility bills and prevented more than 1.8 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA.
In 2012, LG increased its total number of products available for sale in the United States that earned the ENERGY STAR Label – the government-backed symbol of energy efficiency – by more than 140 percent and increased its total sales of ENERGY STAR qualified products by more than 15 percent, compared with 2011.
LG also embraced the ENERGY STAR Most Efficient program, the groundbreaking new EPA initiative that recognizes the most energy-efficient products in their categories among those that have earned the ENERGY STAR label. More than 60 LG products – including the most refrigerators and washing machines in the industry – earned this coveted recognition for 2012. American consumers purchased more than 1 million LG products awarded the 2012 Most Efficient designation.
LG also invested in programs designed to change consumer behaviors, activities driving increased sales of ENERGY STAR-qualified products and enhanced employee and sales training, and technology leadership.
In 2012, LG reached more than a billion consumers with a nationwide public education and community outreach campaign about ENERGY STAR, designed to help consumers change behaviors. A key component of this effort was LG's support of EPA's new Team ENERGY STAR campaign — a Lorax-themed educational initiative designed to engage youth to get involved in cutting their energy use at home. The company collaborated with EPA and DoSomething.org on the "Team ENERGY STAR Challenge," in which nearly 500 youth submitted energy-saving stories for a chance to win prizes from LG.
LG offered consumers nearly 1,000 ENERGY STAR qualified models in 2012 across consumer electronics, home appliances and commercial air conditioning systems.
As a company that thrives on innovation and is committed to enhancing consumers' lives, LG strives to develop the most energy efficient products possible, while ensuring that consumers don't have to sacrifice performance or style. Examples of energy efficient products that LG introduced in 2012 include:
- Mega-Capacity TurboWash™ Washer: Recognized as ENERGY STAR Most Efficient 2012, this washer is the industry's largest capacity washing machine* designed to save consumers a full 20 minutes per load** – addressing American consumers' desires for saving time and energy.
- French-Door Refrigerator: Received the top rating by a leading consumer magazine for its features as well as being recognized as ENERGY STAR Most Efficient 2012 due to the design of its linear compressor.
- 3D Smart TVs: Earned the ENERGY STAR Most Efficient 2012 designation by combining smart energy-saving features such as Intelligent Sensors and power-saving modes with a cinema-quality 3D experience and the advanced interactivity of LG Smart TV.
LG's ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition is in line with other LG sustainability initiatives, including LG's corporate campus project in Englewood Cliffs as its new state-of-the-art North American headquarters designed to be a showcase for environmentally friendly design, promoting energy efficiency, water conservation and reducing carbon emissions.
The new green corporate campus is expected to be certified under the EPA's ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings Program, and LG is aspiring to achieve LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The new headquarters is also integral to helping LG achieve its industry-leading pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its U.S. operations by 50 percent by 2020 (from a 2007 baseline).
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $49 billion global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. LG Electronics, a proud 2013 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year, sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions in the United States, all under LG's "Life's Good" marketing theme. For more information, please visit www.lg.com.
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR was introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased energy efficiency. Today, ENERGY STAR offers businesses and consumers energy-efficient solutions to save energy, money, and help protect the environment for future generations. Nearly 20,000 organizations are ENERGY STAR partners committed to improving the energy efficiency of products, homes, and buildings. For more information about ENERGY STAR, visit www.energystar.gov or call toll-free 1-888-STAR-YES (1-888-782-7937).
*Model WM8000. Based on ENERGY STAR qualified, front load residential washers as published by the DOE January 30, 2013 and manufacturers' published specifications.
**20 minute savings based on AHAM HLW-1-2010 test protocol, Cotton / Normal or comparable cycle at default settings, 8lb load, front load washer only. Excludes other LG manufactured products. Excludes quick wash or other comparable cycles intended for small lightly soiled loads only.


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I am a female doctor that has been growing my private chiropractic practice since 2004. I have built my office to the best of my abilities and now would like to expand and blossom into a more professional look that includes a niche. The niche of expertise I am specializing in includes a "total body" care approach that starts from the feet up.
My chiropractic skills include treating more than just the spine. I treat the spine and multiple body regions during a session including the feet and other extremities and/or head. I choose this approach so that I may be able to reach more patients with discomforts that extend beyond the spine. Additionally, it provides intellectually challenging cases for me as well.
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Caitlin Michele Stolen as Melanie Martinez Advances for Team Adam with 'Lights' on 'The Voice'
The battle round for Adam Levine's team on 'The Voice' tonight (Oct. 9) was emotional and epic, as Melanie Martinez and Caitlin Michele delivered a soulful rendition of Ellie Goulding's 'Lights.' While Martinez ultimately won the round, Martinez was not eliminated thanks to the 'steal' button.
It was clear from the start that this battle round would be intense. Both singers are artistic, insanely talented and driven by a very strong inner passion. Guest mentor Mary J. Blige was particularly impressed by Martinez. "She looks like a little girl, but she has so much depth to her," she said.
Levine had such high expectations for them and was sorely disappointed by what he heard during their rehearsal. "Never catch yourself phoning it in," he coached them. He then went on to say to the camera, "Melanie and Caitlin had an off day – we all have off days – but I want them to both be artists … to give two hundred percent."
It's pretty safe to say that Levine's wish was granted. Their duet was seamless, blowing away every single one of the judges. "You guys don't fit under any category – each of you are your own thing. It's hard for me to know who did better," Blake Shelton said.
"That was probably the prettiest and most moving performance of the whole day … There is no right or wrong choice," Christina Aguilera agreed. "I think both of you deserve to stay here," Cee Lo Green said, but admitted to preferring Martinez due to her breathy vocals.
"You couldn't have impressed me more – I'm so over the moon," Levine began, looking genuinely pained by the idea of having to choose between them. In the end, he went with his gut instinct and decided on "the person who moved me the most from the beginning" – which was Martinez.
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Lauri Flaquer gets almost starstruck by people in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
"They're tall with long, graceful limbs, which work well for climbing over mountains of snow," gushes the owner of consulting firm Saltar Solutions, based in New York City. People in Minneapolis, Flaquer continues, "are blond, with big blue eyes that sparkle with delight—even over cheese curds."
No one is perfect. But according to Travel + Leisure readers, those Minnesotans come pretty close, ranking in the top 10 of the America's Favorite Places survey for being attractive, as well as athletic and likable. Each year, readers rank major metropolitan areas in dozens of categories, including craft beers, luxury shops, lovely parks, and good-looking locals.
In the attractive category, this year's survey results saw some shake-ups. Some of the hipster winners from last year have faded in the eyes of the T+L community, which favored cities with a tendency toward sunshine, smiling residents, and serious style.
One disqualifier, meanwhile, may be a weakness for team jerseys: the list of the 10 least attractive cities has an eerie overlap with the survey's top 10 of enthusiastic sports fans.
Indeed, "characterizing the 'look' of Pittsburgh locals is easy: black and gold," says NYC public relations exec Mary Apesos, who has family in Steel City, which did not make the top 10 for stunners. "Steelers attire can be seen in every season," she says, "while daytime mall-shopping or as eveningwear at a fancy dinner. There are no fashionistas—just fanatics."
Read on for the full results. And as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, if you disagree, make your point of view heard by voting in the America's Favorite Places survey.


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More than 500 available objects in a new, temporary on-campus art venue.
Iowa Memorial Union, third floor Richey Ballroom
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The space will be closed Mondays and on university holidays.
Storage of UIMA collection and gallery space for exhibitions.
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Events will take place at a variety of locations. Please see the UIMA website for information.While we envision the museum's future, we hope you'll be there to help us, whether by giving financially or volunteering your time.


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De Alba earned a medical degree at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in 2002 and completed a residency in ophthalmology at UCSF in 2008. She completed a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2009. An associate professor of ophthalmology at UCSF, De Alba is a member of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus; American Academy of Ophthalmology; Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group; Pan American Association of Ophthalmology; and Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
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The following are updates on area athletes at the collegiate level.
Eric Kleinsasser (Crescenta Valley High, 2007) Occidental College men's cross-country, senior: Racing against some of the top National Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics squads in the state, Kleinsasser led the Tigers to a third-place team finish in the Pomona-Pitzer Cross-Country Invitational when he finished second overall in a time of 24 minutes 48 seconds on Saturday morning in Claremont.
Occidental finished with a score of 78 points to easily surpass fourth-place La Verne (136) and finish behind Cal State San Marcos (38) and Westmont (61), which are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 nationally, respectively, in the NAIA. The top five individual finishers all broke the previous course record on Saturday.
Kleinsasser, who was the top scoring runner on Saturday, as race winner Sam Hyams ran unattached, and the Tigers will be back on the Pomona-Pitzer course Nov. 12 when they host the NCAA West Regional.
"I like the course for the regional meet. I think it is unconventional and a little tricky," Kleinsasser said in an Occidental press release. "I think it kind of messes with people which is what cross-country should be about."
Western Nelson (Burroughs High, 2009) Cal State San Marcos men's cross-country, junior: Nelson, another Pacific League alum, also enjoyed a strong showing at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational on Saturday, finishing just behind Occidental's Kleinsasser in third place in 25:04.70.
Cal State San Marcos bested Kleinsasser's Tigers, overall, however, securing a second-place team finish.
Nelson, a 2010 NAIA All-American in cross-country and two-time NAIA Track and Field National qualifier, has been the top runner this season for the Cougars, who are ranked No. 2 in the NAIA.
Jessica Alvarez (Glendale Community College, 2011) Southern Vermont College women's volleyball, junior: In her first match since garnering New England Collegiate Conference Player of the Week honors, Alvarez, an outside hitter, led the Mountaineers with 14 kills and 17 digs in a 25-17, 25-20, 25-14 nonconference road win over Simmons on Thursday.
Continuing the team's red-hot 17-2 start to the season, the victory was Southern Vermont's eighth in a row.
Alvarez, who graduated from Bellarmine-Jefferson High in 2008, earned the conference's weekly honor for the week of Sept. 18-24 with a pair of big performances against Williams on Sept. 21 and SUNY Cobleskill on Sept. 23.
In a 23-25, 25-17, 25-14, 25-22 win over host Williams, Alvarez posted 18 kills and 17 digs before recording 11 kills two days later in a 25-15, 25-10, 25-23 home win.
Alvarez has collected 250 kills, 44 aces, 22 blocks and 163 digs in 18 matches with the Mountaineers, who begin their conference season at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Becker.
Chris Cabrera (St. Francis 2010) Cal Lutheran football, sophomore: Cabrera helped the Kingsmen seal their first win of the season against Pacific Lutheran, 28-17, on Sept. 17. The linebacker tied for a team-high in tackles (eight, four solo and four assisted) and sacks (1.5 for a loss of seven yards) in the game.
The former Golden Knight has made a total of 11 tackles (seven solo and four assisted) in two games this season. His 1.5 sacks tie him for a team high this year with his current Cal Lu and former St. Francis teammate, Rian Younker.
Younker, a junior defensive lineman, also recorded 1.5 sacks against Pacific Lutheran for a total loss of 13 yards. He has made a total of five tackles (two solo and three assisted) this year. Three of his tackles came against Pacific Lutheran.
Cal Lutheran was 1-1, after losing to Linfield 24-14 on Sept. 10, heading into Saturday night's game against the University of Redlands, which was set to kick off at 7 p.m.


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In conjunction with the exhibit, "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War," which is on display at George Memorial Library, Fort Bend County Libraries will present a special program, "Researching U.S. Civil War Records," on Tuesday, March 12, beginning at
10:00 am, in the Computer Lab at George Memorial Library, 1001 Golfview in Richmond.
The program is presented by Daniel Sample, manager of the Genealogy and Local History Department at the library. Sample will show researchers how to trace ancestors who served on either side in the U.S. Civil War. Learn how and where to obtain copies of compiled military service records and pension-application files for both Union and Confederate soldiers. Databases such as Ancestry.com, Family Search and Fold3 will be discussed, as well as websites such as the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System website and the American Civil War Homepage.
Those attending the program are invited to tour the exhibit, "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War," which is on display in the Bohachevsky Gallery in the lower level of George Memorial Library through April 4. Drawing on recent scholarship, this exhibition encourages a deeper understanding of Lincoln's life, policies, and accomplishments.
The program is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, however, and reservations are required. To register online at the library's website (www.fortbend.lib.tx.us), click on "Calendar," select "George Memorial," and find the program. Participants may also register by calling the library at 281-341-2608, or by visiting the library's Local History and Genealogy Department.
About the Exhibit
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the National Constitution Center.


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RockShow Threesome: Dog Calls 911 For Himself [AUDIO]
Okay, the dog actually called "999" but in England that is the equivalent of 911. So what does a British dog say when he actually gets and answer, find out about this, a couple of strangely named Okies and a new definition of "eat and run" next.
Boomer the dog got himself in to a mess. He was fortunate enough to know how to get himself out of a mess.
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Xbox One's August Update to Bring Activity Feed Updates, UI Changes and More
Activity feed updates and mobile purchases are just some of the new features coming to Xbox One with next month's system update.
Lawrence Hryb, the Director of Programming for Xbox Live, unveiled what to expect with August's Xbox One update on his Major Nelson website. After listening to player feedback, Xbox will be implementing these features, and some of them are a godsend. The first change is a pop up notification for when your controller's battery is low. This is much better than having to go back to the Xbox One's main menu in the middle of gameplay just to check if you need to find some Duracells.
The biggest changes of this update come from the Xbox One's activity feed. You can now share game clips in your activity feed publicly or privately in a message. You can comment, "like" and put descriptions on feed activities as well. You will also receive notifications for each of these when someone else does this to one of your activities. Players can now use Xbox.com or Xbox SmartGlass to purchase content for your games, and your Xbox will automatically download them at home and have your new items ready to go by the time you get home.
Lastly, 3D Blu-rays now play in the Xbox One. You can also stay up-to-date with your friends' activities and even turn off notifications during video playback. Expect these changes to happen in an automatic update sometime next month.


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The Board's Role in Cybersecurity
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Publicity surrounding China's growing cyber army, massive theft of information by trusted insiders like Edward Snowden, and large data breaches, such as the one experienced by Target Corporation in December 2013, all helped to elevate cyber risk to the forefront for business executives. With so much at stake—financial loss, operational disruption, competitive disadvantage, legal liability, and harm to corporate reputation—the question for corporate directors and officers is not whether to become involved in cyber risk management, but how to appropriately oversee their company's initiatives. This report offers suggestions for directors on how to carry out their oversight role.


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News Release
High Resolution "Snapshots" Detail Dynamics of a Cocaine Antibody
Information May Spur New Therapeutic Approaches to Addiction and Abuse
LA JOLLA, February 7, 2006—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have revealed for the first time a series of molecular structures of a specific cocaine-degrading monoclonal antibody Fab' fragment during the complete catalytic process—a chain of events that breaks the drug into nontoxic pieces. Understanding these significant structural changes of the antibody 7A1 could help in the development of a treatment for cocaine addiction. A monoclonal antibody is cloned from a single type of immune cell.
Cocaine-binding antibodies have shown some promise in their ability to neutralize cocaine toxicity, but their binding ability is severely impaired by high concentrations of the drug. A catalytic monoclonal antibody such as 7A1, on the other hand, has the ability to regenerate after each new dose of the drug, making it far more effective than others in metabolizing cocaine.
The study, which will be published in the February issue (Volume 14 Issue 2) of the journal Structure, was led by Ian A. Wilson, D.Phil., of Scripps Research Department of Molecular Biology and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, and Kim D. Janda, Ph.D., of Scripps Research Departments of Chemistry and Immunology and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology.
Despite intensive research, cocaine abuse continues to be a major public health problem, so far eluding efforts at developing an effective therapeutic agent to counter the craving, addiction, and overdose of the drug. To date, no treatment has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Commenting on the new findings, Xueyong Zhu, Ph.D., the primary author of the study and a staff scientist in the Wilson laboratory said, "Development of effective therapies for cocaine abuse has been a long-standing goal, and a number of medications under study do show some promise. Immunopharmacotherapy has been proposed as a way to neutralize the drug outside the central nervous system— basically soaking up the drug before it has a chance to cross the blood brain barrier—as a potentially effective new approach to treat cocaine abuse."
Using a monoclonal antibody endowed not only with high binding ability, but also with sufficient catalytic activity to metabolize cocaine, would have potentially enhanced therapeutic effects, Zhu said. This antibody could intercept cocaine in the blood stream before it reaches the central nervous system—stopping the drug cold. Because cocaine has a half life of approximately 30 minutes inside the human body, a cocaine catalytic antibody would basically have to out-run the body's natural metabolism process to have any serious impact on the psychoactive effects of the drug.
Generated by x-ray crystallography, pictures of the conformational changes that occur during the antibody's complete catalytic cycle show the molecular basis for catalysis and reveal possible mutations that could increase catalytic proficiency. This, Zhu pointed out, provides a foundation for the humanization and mutagenesis of the antibody to enhance its cocaine-hydrolyzing activity and make future human clinical trials feasible. "Given the fact that catalytic antibodies have been produced with the same levels of efficiency as natural enzymes, it seems well within the realm of possibility," he added.
To reach this ambitious goal, however, it may be necessary to explore new incremental approaches for optimizing the efficiency of such catalytic activity. Novel functional groups could be introduced into first generation antibody catalysts by multiple rounds of mutagenesis and selection to produce improvements. In essence, this would allow scientists to dramatically accelerate the evolutionary process, producing improvements in the immune system in weeks or months that previously took billions of years.
"The structural insights into antibody catalysis that we have shown with 7A1 Fab' are critical for any future improvement of effective biocatalysts," Zhu said. "One of the main goals of our lab has been to focus on catalytic antibodies that will have a direct impact on public health issues. With the snapshots of the complete cycle of the cocaine antibody catalytic reaction, we have shed new light on the sequence of events in an antibody-mediated reaction and provided a rare glimpse of the structural dynamics involved. With this information, it's possible to move onto the next step in the development of a treatment for cocaine abuse and addiction."
Other authors of the study include Tobin J. Dickerson, Claude J. Rogers, Gunnar F. Kaufmann, Jenny M. Mee, and Kathleen M. McKenzie.
Support for the study was provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and Scripps Research.
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The Scripps Research Institute, headquartered in La Jolla, California, in 18 buildings on 40 acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is one of the world's largest independent, non-profit biomedical research organizations. It stands at the forefront of basic biomedical science that seeks to comprehend the most fundamental processes of life. Scripps Research is internationally recognized for its research into immunology, molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, neurosciences, autoimmune, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases, and synthetic vaccine development. Established in its current configuration in 1961, it employs approximately 3,000 scientists, postdoctoral fellows, scientific and other technicians, doctoral degree graduate students, and administrative and technical support personnel.
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By Shawn Langlois
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In 2000, GMO market strategist Jeremy Grantham burnished his reputation by waxing bearish about U.S. stocks before the bubble pop.
He's been a relentless critic of the last two Fed chairmen, blaming both Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan for their role in creating asset bubbles by keeping interest rates at low levels. And he's at it again, with a stark warning. In this quarterly letter to clients, he accuses the Fed of trying to "badger" people into making sketchy investments just to prop stocks. So be ready for some "exciting crashes."
Good stuff. But maybe he's just another one of those guys that hates rising stock prices. Cullen Roche of the Pragmatic Capitalism blog says that a distaste for market rallies is "a perfectly common reaction, but it's also totally unreasonable and almost certainly misguided." Stocks are setting up to give more fodder for the haters today.
Key market gauges: With Wall Street buckling down for one "Big Daddy" of a winter storm, futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/9049316 YMH3 and the S&P /quotes/zigman/8751039 ESH3 are pushing higher before sunup in New York, taking a cue from a mostly upbeat session in Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150 XX:SXXP . Asia was another story, as the Nikkei /quotes/zigman/5986735 JP:100000018 backed up from its recent lofty ascent. Check out Indications.
The economy: The Labor Department reported that productivity of U.S. businesses fell 2% in the fourth quarter. Economists were looking for a drop of 1.5%. At the same time, data showed that new applications for unemployment benefits fell by 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 366,000. Still, the small decline indicates that there's been little change in a modestly improving U.S. labor market.
Earnings: Philip Morris /quotes/zigman/294903 /quotes/nls/mo MO , New York Times /quotes/zigman/235682 /quotes/nls/nyt NYT and LinkedIn /quotes/zigman/5131883 /quotes/nls/lnkd LNKD are just a few of the names posting quarterly results throughout the day. Another is Hasbro /quotes/zigman/2380080 /quotes/nls/has HAS , which hands in its first numbers since it shocked the world by trading in the Monopoly iron for a cat.
The buzz: This slideshow has been a massive click-magnet. Despise these guys all you want, but there's no denying the draw of Goldman Sachs. Here are 10 stocks, including beaten-down Apple, that the Blankfein bunch taps for their upside potential.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters /quotes/zigman/54683 /quotes/nls/gmcr GMCR is back on the radar, with its shares down big premarket after the company bummed out investors with its outlook. It's not alone in red territory, as Akamai /quotes/zigman/67451 /quotes/nls/akam AKAM , Yelp /quotes/zigman/9021597 /quotes/nls/yelp YELP and News Corp. /quotes/zigman/94858 /quotes/nls/nwsa NWSA are all feeling pressure ahead of the opening bell.
Other top-trending tickers to keep an eye on include Coinstar /quotes/zigman/63447 /quotes/nls/cstr CSTR , Costco /quotes/zigman/67728 /quotes/nls/cost COST and CME Group /quotes/zigman/107063 /quotes/nls/cme CME .
The chart of the day: This illustration from the Market Montage blog shows what happens when an investing legend steps up and says your stock is undervalued by 50%. Bill Miller, who gained Wall Street renown for beating the S&P 500 for 15 years straight, blew this big kiss to Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL shareholders. What happened after Miller's streak might cause them to rein in expectations just a bit.
The call of the day: Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners Management told CNBC last night that he's got that "summer of 1987 feeling." We can't confirm whether Kass is a big fan of the Swayze, but he clearly didn't go on cable television to open up about how he felt ahead of the Dirty Dancing premiere that year. No, he was talking about the stock market plunge. And he's getting ready for "a sharp fall" to happen again.
Random reads: While Rovio is likely heading toward an IPO that could value the company at billions of dollars, the company is about to release a new series of short animated episodes this spring based on its "Angry Birds" characters.
If you're on the fence about investing in nuclear stocks, don't be. The Fly, from the iBankCoin blog, says we could have a "brainless run" in these stocks if this guy takes the helm as the new energy secretary.
The "God made me a banker" story from Brett Arends yesterday is still piling up plenty of clicks. If you missed it, it's a good, funny — and, even better, quick — read.
There are 16 people left who were born in the 1800s. Almost half the people in the U.S. die with less than $10,000 in assets. Check out these and more interesting tidbits in The Motley Fool's "100 startling facts about the economy."
Here are just a few of the gems inspired by the Tim Geithner book-naming game that took off on Twitter yesterday. Some of the highlights include "Saving Private Giants" and "The World According to Tarp." Yet another peach:
Crime and No Punishment #geithnerbooktitles
— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 6, 2013
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CARSON, Calif. – LA Galaxy captain Landon Donovan will play soccer in 2013, but when he'll play is still being decided.
The Galaxy captain was not at the club's first practice on Monday, but head coach Bruce Arena told reporters that Donovan will play, but no timetable had been set at the moment.
We've given him a little more time off," Arena said. "He's definitely playing this year, but we're just working out a return date that makes sense for all of us…we're working that out soon."
Arena met with Donovan over the weekend and stated the he is feeling well, but needs a little more time off. Although speculation has swirled around Donovan's future, Arena admits that he was always confident that he'd be back in 2013.
"No, I thought he was going to come back. I think he just needs a little bit more of an extended leave of absence. He's got a couple of years that have taken its toll and he needs a little bit more time."
With the Galaxy's first MLS game 41 days away, when Donovan does make his return, he'll need to build his fitness just like any other player.
"He like any player needs the right time. The longer that he takes off, it'll take him longer to be ready to play," said Arena. "Generally, we'd like to see some players get three or four weeks to bring their fitness along."


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Boehmler looking to future of Hampton
Brook Boehmler held a victory press conference the day after being elected mayor of Hampton, an election where he defeated former mayor Diane Weldin by a hefty margin of 322 votes and out-gained her in each of Hampton's four wards and on absentee ballots.
During his speech at City Hall, Boehmler outlined his goals for improving the city and also handed out checks of $4,000 each to three local entities he claims are critical to the success of Hampton's future.
"I want to thank you guys so much for the opportunity to serve this community," Boehmler said. "I want to thank everyone for their support. I want to thank the other candidate. Without candidates, we don't have choices, without choices, we don't have a government."
"I believe in this community," Boehmler added, before introducing current Hampton Mayor Shawn Dietz, whom Boehmler is replacing. "Shawn, I want to tell you, you've brought a whole new fresh light and inspired a lot of people, a lot of younger people in our community."
Read the full article in the Nov. 13 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.


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Sunday, June 05, 2011
That's better!
I can't believe the weather we've been having. It's so un-Australian.
We're coming into winter so cooler temperatures are normal, but the wet certainly isn't par for the course.
The last time I remember a period like this was way back in the mid-eighties.
But...today was sunny so I went for a walk. Blue sky. Crystal clear air. Sunshine.
I walked around the next bay to the one I live on...
That's how it should look, not wet and gray.
The forecast for tomorrow is sunshine all day. But then the clouds and showers are forecast for the rest of the week.
7 comments:
- nzm said...
It sure is topsy-turvy right now. Here in Barcelona, we're experiencing colder weather and a lot of wind and rain when the weather should be dry and hot. Damnit. ;.)
- June 06, 2011 3:05 am
That's an amazing view you have there.
- June 06, 2011 6:13 am
what made you leave this for Dubai?
- June 06, 2011 7:42 am
- Dave said...
Nice view Seabee - still going back to DXB?
- June 08, 2011 12:39 pm
- Seabee said...
In a couple of weeks Dave. Then back here again in August.
- June 08, 2011 4:25 pm
Hi, is there an email we can use to get in touch with you?
- June 09, 2011 9:43 am
- Seabee said...
Brownbook, it's in my Profile.
- June 10, 2011 7:46 am
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Energy Journal: Oil Prices Can Go Down as Well as Up
Crude-oil futures are trading around four-month highs, driven by optimism about economic growth, a weak U.S. dollar and increasing speculation that prices have got further to rise.
The International Energy Agency's prediction of a tighter-than-expected market is looking spot on.
Brent, the global benchmark, gained 4% in January; Nymex WTI, the U.S. touchstone, ended the month some 6% higher, according to Reuters.


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Well, I saw the D&D movie today. I liked it, but I didn't come in with very high expectations. The story was extremely generic. Bad guy wants to take over world, outcast kiddy meets somewhat powerful girl, fall in love, beat bad guy. Cheeky sidekick gets smacked around and makes lots of wisecracks.
Ignoring the weak story, the movie was a lot of fun to look at, and had relatively few groan moments. Just two small cliches that I recall offhand. Well, cliched lines. The whole story is a cliche, with the exception of the dragon battle and the queen lady.
Story: Poor to fair. Sort of a cross between Star Wars and Indiana Jones, with less original plot.
Looks: Excellent. Lots of lush fields, big dragons, magic spells (the lighting/fire stuff was especially cool.), castles, dungeons. I just wish the thieve's guild maze sequence was longer.
Characters: Blah...Standard fare. Two young robbers meet young mage girl, save world. The three can beat down a squadron of the evil head mage troops. Mage girl can kick the young robber's butts in the beginning with no trouble, but is helpless against a few soldiers. Empress Savina was pretty pointless...I don't know why she even existed. The bad guys were pretty cool, acting-wise. No crappy trade federation ambassadors here. (puke)
Loose ends: Why didn't Damodar turn on Profion after he was let off the curse? The scene in Marina's cell seemed to indicate that he would. False foreshadowing, or something.
Last notes: Go see it if you're a fan of the genre. Don't expect a cool story.


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Spread your troops out so it's harder to be eliminated. They will try to attack through Landeplatz A or B (which each have 14 neutral) to Hubschrauber A or B (which each have 60 neutral) in order to bombard your parachutes (Casey, Jones, Mills, etc). Once they are able to do that, they will also take AA and bombard the two locations next to the parachutes from there (C1, C2, etc). So, if you aren't in position to be the one doing that, you need to spread a couple of big stacks around to make it harder to be eliminated.


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News of the Mahdi (pbuh) at the U.N. General Council
The second day of the 67th session meetings of the U.N. General Council in New York saw a number of striking addresses being made. Speeches by Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Egyptian President Muhammed Morsi made their mark on the occasion.
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad based his address on the 12th Imam Mahdi.
Ahmadinejad employed the terms; "The arrival of the Ultimate Savior will mark a new beginning, a rebirth and a resurrection. It will be the beginning of peace, lasting security and genuine life."
He then spoke of his longing for a new world not dominated by pride, and said; "His arrival will be the end of oppression, immorality, poverty, discrimination and the beginning of justice, love and empathy. … He will come so that hands will be joined, hearts will be filled with love and thoughts will be purified to be at service of security, welfare and happiness for all. … The arrival of the Ultimate Savior, Jesus Christ and the Righteous will bring about an eternally bright future for mankind, not by force or waging wars but through thought awakening and developing kindness in everyone. Their arrival will breathe a new life in the cold and frozen body of the world. He will bless humanity with a spring that puts an end to our winter of ignorance, poverty and war with the tidings of a season of blooming."
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i'm a little underwhelmed at the ML two packs to be honest w/ y'all. not that they look bad, but after all this time, i guess i was expecting better. the dark photos aren't helping any, but valkyrie in particular i was hyped about, but her hair and face seem really featureless. warpath looks great, even though i could do w/out the inferior deadpool (sorry, that old D body was a better base). winter soldier looks good, if you think winter soldier looks good. black widow is a vast improvement over the original, but she and hulk are the only two i'd say i'm still "stoked" about. we'll see.
to me, the crown jewel for hasbro continues to be galactus, who i suspect is bringing home more than one poppie this year, and even if not, he'll win at my house. again, it makes me bitter to see MU getting characters that ML still hasn't presented, like thanos and constrictor. that hurts dammit. and let's be real, ML are now done on the uber-cheap, so let's not pretend that they're "expensive" to produce. they have a bigger library of bucks than dcu, but essentially, ml is now a buck line.
for you guys buying the lil iron men armors, y'all should be as happy as a pig in starfruit.


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I've read the newest Phoronix benchmark of all kernels 2.6.24 through 2.6.29 and if you don't follow the link now, I'll spoil it for you in the next paragraph...
Okay, so besides some normal fluctuations there is a significant speed gain for OpenSSL (+99%) and the OpenCL-backed Graphicsmagick (up to +73% and +80%) and a regression in 7-zip compression (-27%).
Wow - fascinating stuff. I wonder how much potential kernel code optimization has. I still remember the extreme difference between 2.4.x and 2.6.x. I had just bought a new computer because my old one was... getting old. And I felt completely cheated. The new kernel had brought me much more increase in responsiveness and "felt performance" than the new computer (AMD Duron 700 Mhz -> Athlon XP 2500+). If I could I probably would've brought it right back to the store. Well, they don't take returns on self-build computers here.
I really wonder how much difference the intel compiler compiled kernel makes in comparison to gcc. Maybe Phoronix could compare that one, too? Oh yeah "... boost up to 40% for certain kernel parts and an average boost of 8-9% possible" quotes LJ.
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Katherine Smith teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century art on subjects ranging from public art, modern architecture, and self-portraiture to the history of photography and contemporary art and theory as well as the Art History Senior Seminar, a capstone course in which students have the opportunity to develop their own research projects as well as work on the current exhibition in The Dalton Gallery. She acted as faculty advisor to the Art History Theme House at Agnes Scott in 2005-06 and now serves as the faculty advisor for Collage, a colloquium established by Agnes Scott students in 2007 to promote scholarly exchange among students of the arts in metro-Atlanta colleges. This event takes place every spring and is open to the public; it includes both a juried exhibition and a series of student presentations on research and studio projects.
Prof. Smith's approach to teaching draws directly on the interdisciplinary nature of her research, which focuses on thinking across media. Her scholarship addresses intersections in American art and architecture from the 1960s to the present. Her recent publications include essays in Relearning from Las Vegas (The University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and in the Archives of American Art Journal (summer 2009). She is currently working on a book project about Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's sculptural practice in relation to contemporary architecture and urban design, a project for which she received a grant from The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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"A Symbolic Situation: Positioning Claes Oldenburg's Sculpture and Robert Venturi's Architecture at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College," Archives of American Art Journal, Summer 2009.
"Mobilizing Visions: Representing the American Landscape," in Instruction and Provocation, or Relearning from Las Vegas, ed. Michael Golec and Aron Vinegar (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp. 97-128.


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Please, before you pillory me for being so jaded that I've stopped caring about something so monumental as the discovery of planets around other stars, read on. My participation at a wonderful SpotOn NYC science communications event on Feb. 20, "Telling Stories with Scientists," led me into some terrific, thoughtful discussions about the value of narrative in science writing and the difficulties of incorporating those into news coverage. Not all the good conversation was confined to the event; it continued to fine effect afterward on Twitter.
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The Associated Press has a nice story on Marine Corps marksman Lance Cpl. Galen Wilson, who has wreaked considerable havoc on Sunni terrorists:
He was 5 when he first fired an M-16, his father holding him to brace against the recoil. At 17 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, spurred by the memory of 9/11. Now, 21-year-old Galen Wilson has 20 confirmed kills in four months in Iraq — and another 40 shots that probably killed insurgents. One afternoon the lance corporal downed a man hauling a grenade launcher five-and-a-half football fields away.
During a large-scale attack on Easter Sunday, Wilson says, he spotted six gunmen on a rooftop about 400 yards away. In about 8 seconds he squeezed off five rounds — hitting five gunmen in the head. The sixth man dived off a 3-story building just as Wilson got him in his sights, and counts as a probable death.
"You could tell he didn't know where it was coming from. He just wanted to get away," Wilson said. Later that day, he said, he killed another insurgent.
Wilson says his skill helps save American troops and Iraqi civilians.
"It doesn't bother me. Obviously, me being a devout Catholic, it's a conflict of interest. Then again, God supported David when he killed Goliath," Wilson said. "I believe God supports what we do and I've never killed anyone who wasn't carrying a weapon."
I think God supports what Cpl. Wilson is doing, and I know for sure we do.
UPDATE: Of course, the Democratic Party stalwarts at Democratic Underground have a different view.


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Easter Egg Hunts + Other Easter Fun in Buffalo!
Easter is great because it's the first sign of spring, and it's another excuse to eat chocolate. Plus, who doesn't love decorating eggs? There's also a ton of cheap (and free) Easter events happening in Buffalo within the next few weeks -- we even found an adult Easter Egg Hunt at a winery. Yes, please!
Here's a list of the egg-cellent, egg-stravagant and egg-citing activities:
McKinley Mall
March 16
Easter events happening all day
3701 McKinley Pkwy., Hamburg
Meet Max The Bunny at B is For Books
March 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Meet Max from the Max & Ruby TV series and enjoy Easter activities
6562 E. Quaker St., Orchard Park
Breakfast With The Bunny at The Eastern Hills Mall
March 16, 10 a.m. in the Food Court
4545 Transit Rd., Williamsville
Breakfast with the Easter Bunny at The Buffalo Zoo
March 23, 24 and 30, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Must purchase pre-paid tickets.
300 Parkside Ave., Buffalo
Bunny Fest 2013 at Choco-Logo
March 23
Reserve your spot online.
141 Broadway, Buffalo
Community Easter Egg Hunt at Evangel
March 23, 10 a.m.-noon
Free and open to public. Meet in the Sanctuary.
8180 Greiner Rd., Williamsville
Egg Hunt at Clearfield Community Center
March 23, 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
730 Hopkins Rd., Williamsville
Free Easter Show & Tea Party at Pullman Memorial Universalist Church
March 23, 3 p.m.
10 East Park St., Albion
NYPA's Spring Eggstravaganza at Niagara Power Project Power Vista
March 23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
5777 Lewiston Road, Lewiston
Town of Tonawanda Egg Hunt at Lincoln Arena
March 23, 10 a.m.
1220 Parker Blvd., Tonawanda
Easter Event at Woodlawn Beach State Park
March 24, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Easter egg hunt at 2 p.m.
S3580 Lakeshore Rd., Blasdell
Make Your Own Bunny Rolls at Explore & More Children's Museum
March 29, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
300 Gleed Ave., East Aurora
Spring Egg-Stravaganza at Tifft Nature Preserve
March 29, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
1200 Fuhrmann Blvd., Buffalo
Aquarium of Niagara Sea-ster Egg Hunt
March 30
701 Whirlpool St., Niagara Falls
716-285 3575
Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
March 30, 11 a.m.
2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo
716- 827-1584 x204
21 Brix Winery's Adult Only Easter Egg Hunt
March 30, 11 a.m.
6654 West Main Rd., Portland
Adventure Landing
March 30, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
2400 Sheridan Dr., Tonawanda
Egg-cellent Easter Event at Herschell Carrousel Museum
March 30, noon-4 p.m.
180 Thompson St., North Tonawanda
Easter Bonnet Parade
March 31. Parade runs noon-1 p.m., Easter activities follow until 3 p.m.
Parade begins at Unitarian Universalist Church (695 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo) and ends at St. John's-Grace Church (51 Colonial Circle, Buffalo). Prizes will be awarded for the best Easter bonnet in multiple categories.
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Entering payments in the orders module
Entering Single Copy Sales Orders
Step 1: Do Find (ctrl F) and locate record, there should be an ID number on the media.
Step 2: Check address and activities to be sure the issue was mailed and that the address on the record matches the address on the order. There should be a MACS>SCS=Single Copy Sale activity indicating which issues were mailed and the date. If there is a major difference in the addresses, the wrong ID was used or there is no indication that the issue was mailed bring this to the attention of the supervisor.
Step 3: Click Orders on upper row of tabs
This will open the order entry page
Step 4: Click New in the upper left hand corner
This should give you a blank screen to work with
Step 5: Enter customer information-fill in the blanks as follows:
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b. Bill to ID number field=enter the bill to ID number. Most of the time the bill to and ship to numbers are the same. If not, be sure to use the bill to on this first window.
c. Purchase Order=enter the p.o. number if available, if not type in phone order for phone orders written up in MACS or mail order/fax order for those that have come by mail or fax. If it is an LTR/Smart Libraries online order use the order number on the top of the form.
d. Source Code=if there is one on the page enter it, if not type Other
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b. Tab and this will take you to the Quantity Field; enter the number of copies of the issue.
c. CLICK SHIFT AND TAB at the same time to go back to the Description Field
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Sony 13 for '13 Sale Begins Today
To celebrate the start of the new year, Sony is holding a sale on 13 select games on the PlayStation Network.
Both regular PSN users and PlayStation Plus subscribers will see benefits, though the discounted games are even cheaper if you're a PS+ member. The complete list of 13 games features full titles LittleBigPlanet Karting, as well as downloadable gems like The Unfinished Swan. Sony hasn't given an end date for the sale, so you better act fast just to be safe.
You can check out a complete list of all the games, and their discounted prices below. Let us know which games you're excited to pick up and play.
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What was the hardest Picture to draw in your Journey while drawing Berserk ?
I like that one. On a creative side too I've always wondered how much time he'd spent on the drawing vs the inking? or are the assistant inking the pages? or his he just doing them straight with ink and no pencils?
The inking is mostly done by the mangaka himselfThe Assistants are mostly drawing the background while the mangaka is drawing all characters etc.
Thanks for that info I really appreciate it. But what I was more wondering and sorry I didn't precise it before, is that Miura said (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) that he did one page/day. So if that's the case I was wondering how much he spent time with the pencil / inking if it's how he works. I am wondering cause I draw a lot too and I am just curious in his drawing process.
In his answer to question 9 : "Its because I wanted Berserk's world to be revealed just that far, not any more than that. The appearance of god in the manga conclusively determines its range. I thought that might limit the freedom of the story development." I would be curious to know in what way or how it would have limit the freedom of the story development. I'd like to hear his take on that.
We don't need Miura to answer that. By having one of your main characters have a Q&A with the god of the Berserk world, it sets limitations on that world. There's a defined order to things as a result of that conversation that Miura doesn't necessarily have to obey, now that it's non-canon.
Ah euh well thank you. But I still get a feeling he could still do what he want with this info no?
I don't remember exactly what the q&a was exactly (and that's alright since it's non-canon and I was just curious.)
How old is Guts now is definitely the most important question.Also,Is there any chance to have another Berserk video game ?What do you think about the evolution of your drawing skills ? The way it impact for example Guts design ?Can you elaborate on how things works between studio GaGa members ?We really appreciated Gigantomaxia. Can you give us one detail we don't know about Delos/Prome journey or the world itself ?What's you favorite giant robot series ?
Once you start making rules for your world, especially defining how your god works, the only way around it is retconning. Remember, the Idea of Evil talked about manipulating generations of bloodlines to create the pathway for Griffith, and affecting the dark side of human subconscious mind to shape history. These are things that are consistent with how the series works, but Miura has eliminated the specifics of how these things have occurred by removing Episode 83.Well, you're missing out if you aren't familiar with it, since it still holds up to scrutiny. You can always find the text for Episode 83 here: http://skullknight.net/idea
Any plan to release a new illustration file?
In Berserk, you have portrayed disturbing moments by holding back details such as not showing Griffith's exposed after his prolonged torture. You have also portrayed disturbing moments with overwhelming detail, Casca's rape as an example. How do you know when to inundate the audience with detail and when to hold back?
I'd ask him if there were any key parts in the story that he would have done differently with the benefit of hindsight, apart from the 'lost chapter' of course.
You sometimes have moved a page, panel, or in some rare cases a whole episode's order in the story. As well as adding panels and pages, and removing them sometimes too. Some of us are interested to know if you have a record of all the changes you've officially made and if you would release it?
Would it be rude to ask him what his favorite books or who his favorite authors/ mangeka's are? It's non-Berserk so if we had a limited set, best to strike off?
Apart from that 1 episode, I had no idea pages/ panels were moved ... this's fascinating to learn.


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|Does anybody remember The Golden Floppy?
Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
I'm a person from the olden days, trying to help somebody who has contacted me with some research: The Golden Floppy was the original Allegro game competition, concluding in January 1999. I was amongst those taking part, as was Max Monahan, and the various official materials were hosted at the old canvasnet.com/allegro site, which is not archived. I'm pretty sure we voted to pick the winner, but not certain. I recall very little else.
Did anybody else here take part? Do they remember who did? Who won? Does anybody recall any additional details on the rules — how long did the competition run for, were there any requirements beyond the product being an Allegro game? Any other details at all?
Member #358
May 2000
Ha - if you find out please let us know, I also want to know who won the Golden Floppy now!
It was about a year or so before I joined Allegro. My first of the Allegro competitions was Trent Gamblin's "size hack". (And I'd have no idea who won that either.)
Member #5,034
September 2004
I was able to find an entries list, but I believe it's for AGC2: The Golden Keyboard, since your entry is Anarchy, instead of Prelude to Anarchy
I also found a link to jtris, which claims to have won AGC, but doesn't say which.
I'm pretty sure Arron Shutt's (Version8) (the competition organizer) entry into The Golden Floppy was Warp Space.
It took an hour of research, but I've found the winners!
For posterity:
1Best Game 2 3 Operation Black Sun - Joerg "Sharky-X" Rueppel 4 5 Best Non-Game using Allegro 6 7 No non-game entries were submitted and therefore no-one won this award. 8 9 Best Use of Allegro 10 11 Ghettica Galaxy - Sulea Cosmin 12 13 Best Use of Graphics 14 15 Operation Black Sun - Joerg "Sharky-X" Rueppel 16 17 Most Innovative Developer 18 19 Operation Black Sun - Joerg "Sharky-X" Rueppel 20 21 Best Use of Audio 22 23 Operation Black Sun - Joerg "Sharky-X" Rueppel 24 25 Most Promising Newbie Programmer 26 27 Chess Guess - Max Monahan 28 29 Best Remake 30 31 JTRIS - Guan Foo Wah 32 33 Best Original Game 34 35 Chess Guess - Max Monahan
1Here's what you can win by entering the Allegro Games Competition... 2 3 1. A trophy 4 5 Don't get too excited. 6 7 The Allegro games trophies were going to be a floppy disk sprayed gold and sealed in epoxy resin. The problems I found with producing these is that my casting doesn't produce anything that I would like as a trophy. Believe me - you don't want to see the results! 8 9 The awards trophies are CD-ROMs with all of the entries on it, and a label showing your name, your entry and the award you have won. Its not just a prize, its functional as well. 10 11 You can be the envy of your fellow contestants with an one-of-a-kind CD-ROM which you can treasure forever. 12 13 The new first prize trophy is a keyboard, sprayed in gold and suitably customised. This will be awarded to the person whose entry wins the Best Game Award using Allegro. Truly a prize well worth the effort - so get out there and start on your entries now! 14 15 2. A GIF for your website 16 17 Impress your fellow Allegro users with a swish graphic that will last for an eternity on your web site..well until the server disk crashes anyway... 18 19 3. The respect of your fellow Allegro coders 20 21 Perhaps this one is a bit subjective... :-)
11) All entries to the competition must use the Allegro Game Library. 2 32) Shawn Hargreaves should be credited within the software (as per the Allegro swapware agreement). 4 53) Each entry should be easily identifiable as have been created using Allegro, either by the CTRL-ALT-END key combination, by the use of datafiles etc.. 6 74) All entries to the competition must be complete versions and stable. This means that all features supplied as part of the entry are fully functional, and the entry can be run on any PC without problems. 8 95) Entries are permitted from either individuals or a development team. 10If the entry is on behalf of a development team, a leader should be nominated as a contact. All members involved in the development are to be listed on the documentation supplied with the entry. 11 12Individuals or teams can supply more than one entry to the contest , but each must be separately registered. 13 146) All entries must be created by the entrants. 15 167) In order that the contest is fair to all, Programs completed before the 28th February 1999 cannot be entered. Software still in development on this date is eligible for entry. 17 188) All contestants, either as a individual or a team must register to enter the competition. Registrations are by E-Mail, as described on the register page on this site. 19 209) This registration must be performed on or before the 31st January 2000. Registrations after this date, unfortunately will not be considered. 21 2210) Nominated judges are not eligible to enter the competition. They are not permitted to have assisted in any entry, no matter how small their involvement in the development. 23 24This rule does not apply the development of the Allegro library itself! ( At least three of the judges have written code for Allegro! ) 25 2611) Entries can be either downloaded from a webpage or sent through the post. 27 2812) An entry from a web site should be zipped using a PKZIP compatible compression utility, and small enough to make downloading possible within a reasonable time. Passwords and access information must be supplied (if required) to access the site. If the entry is larger than 1 MB, then a postal entry is recommended. 29 3013) Postal entries must be supplied to the address given. 31 3214) No responsibility is taken for any entry lost or damaged in the post. 33 3415) Any entries which are damaged, corrupted, virus infected etc, shall be inadmissable. 35 3616) All entries should be received by midnight on the 29th February 1999. Any entry received after this date will not be admissible. All entries are to be supplied with the requested submission information, installation instructions, and full operating instructions. The submission information is detailed on the submit page on this site. 37 3817) Copyright of any entry remains with the entrant throughout the competition. 39 4018) After the competition, all entries supplied by post will be destroyed. Individual entries cannot be returned. 41 4219) A panel of judges will be used to asssess the entries. These will be selected from elected volunteers or invited candidates of sufficient experience. Judges should not be related to, or have an bias towards any competition entrant. 43 4420) The winners will be notified by E-Mail, and the results of the competition will be displayed on this web site. 45 4621) In order to receive their trophy by post, the winners will required to supply an address. This address will only be used for that purpose. 47 4822) The judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Any attempt by an entrant to influence the judges by bribery, intimidation or blackmail etc, will result in disqualification. 49 5023) The competition organisers reserve the right to change any or all of these rules at a later date.
That was quite a nostalgia trip. I recommend clicking around where you can. The colors alone make it all worthwhile.
Peter Hull
Member #1,136
March 2001
Does anyone remember Thomas Harte?
Great to see you back! (even if it's only briefly..)
Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
There's no reason why anybody should remember me, I think; I used Allegro for probably the better part of a decade but the Skater demo, which I see survives in Allegro 5, is probably the only thing I contributed back.
Thanks to relpatseht for unearthing all that information! I have no recollection whatsoever of having entered the follow-up competition — but since it overlapped with my first year of university I suspect it wasn't very active in my mind. That's my excuse. Nothing to do with the close proximity of middle age, I'm sure. Sometimes I'm at "wait... didn't I already wash my hair?" but I'm still a distance from "wait... didn't I already eat lunch?".
Member #7,536
July 2006
Of course I remember him! I don't know how, or from what, but the name is definitely stored in distant memory!
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October 2010
I remember T.H. for giving good advice on several issues I was interested in back in 2000-2 or so, but I was only reading the forums at the time.
Edgar Reynaldo
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May 2007
I remember you. You were here in my early days, about a decade ago.
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Member #1,881
January 2002
Thomas Harte: Miss ya buddy.
Specter Phoenix
Member #1,425
July 2001
I remember TH from when I first joined A.cc.
Upon doing a Google search for Arron Shutt, creator of AGC, I found this article from 1999.
[Off-topic rant incoming....]
This is the biggest thing for me as to why Allegro's popularity has dwindled.
SDL has Ryan Gordon that is the face and focal person for the library. Ask him something and he replies or gives you a location to look.
SFML has Laurent Gomila.
Allegro has....? I've seen some say Shawn Hargreaves, not realizing he hasn't been connected to the library in years. Some have named Matthew Leverton, not realizing he is the web master of A.cc and not really connected to Allegro.
I see the occasional Laurent interview pop up, Gordon is more vocal as he does Panels and seminars praising SDL and Steam. While that 1999 article is the first one I can think of seeing for Allegro. I got into Allegro because I stumbled upon Operation Spacehog, asked Peitz about how he made it and advice, where he directed me to A.cc
I think, for Allegro's popularity to get back where it was, it is going to take much more than an occasional mention on sites like Slant or an announcement of a competition from time to time. Someone has to become the face of the library, be vocal, write articles, answer questions, etc.
An author had tried to spark interest in Allegro via Game Programming All In One, and apparently something happened where the author views this community as volatile and the library as a niche library that doesn't warrant a new book for it.
We have the wiki for A.cc, but outside that we no longer have Loomsoft or any of the other former helpful sites. After more googling, most Allegro references I can find are to Allegro 4.2.2 (about 2009 or so) and nothing newer.
I fondly remember Operation Spacehog, KQ, Fenix Blade, Helicarrier (of course I'm partial as I beta tested it), Monster 2 (again bias as I beta tested it), and a few other games I played from the Depot. It's a shame there aren't more modern made games to showcase the power of Allegro to put it back on equal footing with SDL/SFML as viable otpions for video game production.
"Can't a man even talk to himself without being interrupted?" -Krull(1983)
Member #12,636
March 2011
@spectorphenix, well, I think I agree more or less with you. I am more like the left ring finger if Allegro than the face. You know, sometimes useful, often overlooked... Maybe the role of face would be more something for you?
As for the community, I find it very stable. If small. The crowd from 1999 is gone, but it makes sense. Then, learning C and Allegro was perhaps the easiest way to make pro quality games. Allegro5 is generally just as easy to use as the previous versions, but you still need to learn C, and that not so easy. Nowadays there are plenty of engines, even open source ones with various scripting languages that are far easier to program. Think of Godot, Renpy, Love, Blender Game Engine, etc.
I think most amateurs who want to make games would probably prefer not to learn how to program. These days that is more or less possible. They are no longer our customers. Our target group are (beginning) programmers who would like to make games or similar applications. To convince them, we should keep improving Allegro5, write wrappers for various programming languages, add-ons, like, say GUIs, etc.
I vaguely remember the Golden Floppy, I was in my 20ies then. How time flies!
Specter Phoenix
Member #1,425
July 2001
Doing more searches for Arron Shutt and AGC revealed a lot of users whom disappeared whom also ran sites that no longer exist. It's sad to see so many sites suddenly die with and have no clue what the former creators are up to now....like Barry Gillhespy [yes I know that isn't his real name, but still makes you wonder what they are up to now].
In '99 I was 17 as I turned 18 in '00 like four or so months after I graduated high school, though I never came to this site til '01.
"Can't a man even talk to himself without being interrupted?" -Krull(1983)
Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
Oh wow, Thomas Harte and Peter Hull!
Welcome back, guys 👋
Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
I remember TH! I used to hang on his every word!
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Member #270
April 2000
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Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
Bruce Perry said:
I remember you, Thomas.
No need to relitigate that, I hope; I believed a thing to be cancelled that I wanted to happen so I took independent action, and in my haste I misjudged the community effects of doing so. I was young, I learnt from it.
That last sentence was the theme of my time with Allegro.
Member #3,110
January 2003
RetroHack, I never got a chance to join that.
Specter Phoenix
Member #1,425
July 2001
Seems there were a lot of compos that are no longer active.
"Can't a man even talk to himself without being interrupted?" -Krull(1983)
Member #2,229
April 2002
Funny, I was just discussing SpeedHack'99, I still have many of the entries and source for that, being the packrat that I am. Good times. Aaron was just a little younger than I am, not by much though, like 5 years. Wow. We're all aging rapidly!
I just threw up a zip with the source I have from SpeedHack '99 for someone else.
I vaguely recall the golden floppy.
Member #3,861
September 2003
I remember you, piece of scum. How can we forget you ? You're the one who forgot us.
You whooped nearly a decade before popping back up here, for my own and best pleasure. I missed you.
Now my dear, let me ask you: What happened between 2009 and 2011 that made you away from posting the next (nearly) ten years ?
Anyway I'm happy to see you back.
And ....
"Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours"
Bruce Perry
Member #270
April 2000
Thomas Harte said:
No need to relitigate that, I hope; I believed a thing to be cancelled that I wanted to happen so I took independent action, and in my haste I misjudged the community effects of doing so. I was young, I learnt from it.
I think I was younger, wasn't I? Although perhaps not that particular occasion, I definitely had some bad moments, way worse than yours - and in general, I always saw you as someone who knew what he was doing and could spell
Speaking of relitigating, you went into law, didn't you? What area of law did you go into?
I didn't remember The Golden Floppy at all - a little before my time and I guess it wasn't still talked about by the time I joined the community. The second SpeedHack (2001) was my first competition and is a fond memory for me.
Neil, did you know Matthew has the entire SpeedHack history hosted here in theory, including downloads?
Samuel Henderson
Member #3,757
August 2003
I don't recall it as I started lurking around allegro.cc a couple of years after 1999.
Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
GullRaDriel said:
Now my dear, let me ask you: What happened between 2009 and 2011 that made you away from posting the next (nearly) ten years ?
Bruce Perry said:
Speaking of relitigating, you went into law, didn't you? What area of law did you go into?
No, I merely studied law. After graduation I went into publishing, eventually in law and in London. Then there was a global recession so I jumped not necessarily of my own volition into iPhone development, being a then-ascendant industry for which I was qualified. I went over to San Francisco to hang around startups but that's difficult when you're a foreigner for a variety of visa-related reasons so after a few years I moved over to New York and scaled up my target company ambitions. I was on the periphery of Google's virtual reality team for a couple of years but I've recently jumped ship and am now working for a Wall Street firm, connected to low-latency trading. Conclusion: I'm the worst.
MiquelFire said:
RetroHack, I never got a chance to join that.
If you want to run a new one then I wholly endorse the title 'RetroHack 2: For Old Times' Sake'.
Stray observation though: the 2002 competition modelled a fictional late-'80s machine. So, one of maybe 15 years prior. The equivalent offset today would be the original XBox. Or the original RetroHack. How can it be that a twenty-year old such as I am now looking not too far ahead to forty?
Member #12,636
March 2011
Heh, are you taking in the dough? If you feel guilty I can set up a Patreon account and let you fund me for developing Allegro.
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