пятница, 27 января 2012 г.

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Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge - Screenshots

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST

The scenarios cover every major engagement along Hell's Highway, from the surprise capture of Joe's Bridge by the Irish Guards a week before the offensive to the final battles on "The Island" south of Arnhem. The dramatic parachute and glider landings of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne, The British 1st Airborne and the Polish Brigade are all represented on some of the largest maps ever created for the series and the largest "campaign" scenario in this system to date. More than just a conversion of the old scenarios to play on the new system, the Expansion Pack represents a major update of Panther Games ground breaking classic game Highway to the Reich, incorporating numerous corrections to Maps, Orders of Battle, Unit Compositions, Reinforcement Schedules, and overall game play.

Summer Stars - Screenshots

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:46 AM PST

With more than 18 different disciplines & challenges, Summer Stars covers a whole range of summer sports. Players can prove their talent in disciplines like Triple Jump, Mountain Biking, Diving or Sprinting and become a top athlete in the career mode. In multiplayer mode, they can compete directly with up to three friends or family members on split screen – delivering a gripping "just one more go" experience. Summer Stars also leaves it up to the players to decide how far they will be physically involved in the gameplay: the game supports traditional arcade-style controls, as well as motion control via Kinect for Xbox 360, PlayStation Move or Wii.

Summer Stars lets players experience a large variety of events, special challenges and competitions at exciting venues, including London, the scene of the Summer Olympics and well-known stadiums and arenas around the world.

End Night - Screenshots

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:51 AM PST

Features:
- Free roaming, open based gameplay - You decide where to go and what to do.
- Dynamic missions and sub missions change every time you play the game
- Optimised for iPad 2 running at a smooth 60 FPS and utilising advanced MSAA for
smooth graphics.
- Loot and scrounge weapons, ammo, healthpacks and more.
- Collect infected samples to discover a cure for the disease
- Dynamic missions that change depending on your choices.
- Intuitive touch based controls make collecting, shooting and exploring fun.
- Survive the night to unlock nightmare difficulty mode

IJERPH, Vol. 9, Pages 408-420: The Role of Maternal Smoking in Effect of Fetal Growth Restriction on Poor Scholastic Achievement in Elementary School

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:00 AM PST

Fetal growth restriction and maternal smoking during pregnancy are independently implicated in lowering intellectual attainment in children. We hypothesized that only reduction of fetal growth that is attributable to extrinsic causes (e.g., maternal smoking) affects intellectual development of a child. Cross-sectional survey of 3,739 students in Nova Scotia (Canada) in 2003 was linked with the perinatal database, parental interviews on socio-demographic factors and the performance on standardized tests when primarily 11–12 years of age, thereby forming a retrospective cohort. Data was analyzed using hierarchical logistic regression with correction for clustering of children within schools. The risk of poor test result among children born small-for-gestational-age (SGA) to mothers who smoked was 29.4%, higher than in any other strata of maternal smoking and fetal growth. The adjusted odds ratio among SGA children born to mothers who smoked was the only one elevated compared to children who were not growth restricted and born to mothers who did not smoke (17.0%, OR = 1.46, 95% CI 1.02, 2.09). Other perinatal, maternal and socio-demographic factors did not alter this pattern of effect modification. Heterogeneity of etiology of fetal growth restriction should be consider in studies that address examine its impact on health over life course.

Molecules, Vol. 17, Pages 1159-1176: Primary, Secondary Metabolites, H2O2, Malondialdehyde and Photosynthetic Responses of Orthosiphon stimaneus Benth. to Different Irradiance Levels

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:00 AM PST

The resource availability hypothesis predicts an increase in the allocation to secondary metabolites when carbon gain is improved relative to nutrient availability, which normally occurs during periods of low irradiance. The present work was carried out to confirm this hypothesis by investigating the effects of decreasing irradiance on the production of plant secondary metabolites (flavonoids and phenolics) in the herbal plant Orthosiphon stamineus, and to characterize this production by carbohydrate, H2O2, and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels, net photosynthesis, leaf chlorophyll content and carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N). Four levels of irradiance (225, 500, 625 and 900 µmol/m2/s) were imposed onto two-week old seedlings for 12 weeks in a randomized complete block design experiment. Peak production of total flavonoids, phenolics, soluble sugar, starch and total non-structural carbohydrate ocurred under low irradiance of 225 µmol/m2/s, and decreased with increasing irradiance. The up-regulation of secondary metabolites could be explained by the concomitant increases in H2O2 and MDA activities under low irradiance. This condition also resulted in enhanced C/N ratio signifying a reduction in nitrogen levels, which had established significant negative correlations with net photosynthesis, total biomass and total chlorophyll content, indicating the possible existence of a trade-off between growth and secondary metabolism under low irradiance with reduced nitrogen content. The competition between total chlorophyll and secondary metabolites production, as exhibited by the negative correlation coefficient under low irradiance, also suggests a sign of gradual switch of investment from chlorophyll to polyphenols production.

Polish MPs wear Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:01 AM PST

The streets of Poland have erupted in protest on the eve of the country's signing onto ACTA, the secretive copyright treaty that is being rammed through many European Parliaments this year. Members of Parliament showed up for work wearing Anon-style Guy Fawkes masks to show their disapproval.


After the signing, protesters rallied in the Polish cities of Poznan and Lublin to express their anger over the treaty. Lawmakers for the left-wing Palikot's Movement wore masks in parliament to show their dissatisfaction, while the largest opposition party — the right-wing Law and Justice party — called for a referendum on the matter.

Poland signs copyright treaty that drew protests (via JWZ)

(Image: downsized thumbnail snipped from a photo by Alik Keplicz/AP)

Daily Sudoku - January 27 - Easy

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:11 AM PST

The key choices may seem unusual, but the navigation has to avoid key presses that are reserved for the browser, for example we couldn't use CTRL+1 to highlight all squares that contain a as this is opens the first window in Firefox, nor SHIFT+P as it is reserved for printing, etc.

Man jailed 7 years for fatal assault over poker game

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:11 AM PST

Hua Kim Chye, 51, was on Friday jailed seven years after he pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide for killing Mr Tay Chai Huat, 59.

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Scunthorpe photographer faces down abusive security guards at Golden Wonder factory who want to enforce imaginary law against taking pictures from the public pavement

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:42 AM PST

In this video, Hamst, a proud resident of Scunthorpe who enjoys taking photos of local landmarks for the Visit Scunthorpe site confronts two very nasty security guards for the Golden Wonder factory. The guards are furious that he is taking pictures of the factory from the public pavement and they shower him with threats and abuse (at one point, one of them encourages a colleague to run him down with a car). They cite imaginary laws that prohibit taking pictures of private buildings from a public place and repeatedly threaten to sic the police on him.

Hamst keeps an admirably cool head through the whole ordeal and is generally a model for how one should behave when corporations' representatives make illegal demands on photographers shooting in public places.

Golden Wonder Security (Thanks, Roach McKrackin!)

Chief ACTA Eurocrat quits in disgust at lack of democratic fundamentals in global copyright treaty

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:27 AM PST

Kader Arif, the EU "rapporteur" for ACTA (a copyright treaty negotiated in secret, which contains all the worst elements of SOPA, and which is coming to a vote in the EU) has turned in his report and resigned from his job, delivering a scathing rebuke to the EU negotiators and parliamentarians, and the global corporations who are pushing this through:

I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.

As rapporteur of this text, I have faced never-before-seen manoeuvres from the right wing of this Parliament to impose a rushed calendar before public opinion could be alerted, thus depriving the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens' legitimate demands."

Everyone knows the ACTA agreement is problematic, whether it is its impact on civil liberties, the way it makes Internet access providers liable, its consequences on generic drugs manufacturing, or how little protection it gives to our geographical indications.

This agreement might have major consequences on citizens' lives, and still, everything is being done to prevent the European Parliament from having its say in this matter. That is why today, as I release this report for which I was in charge, I want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this masquerade.

European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA (Thanks, David!)

PostScript: Leave me out of the game

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:06 AM PST

I read that the Adelsons have given Newt Gingrich another $5 million for his campaign, a drop in the bucket of what a person apparently needs to run for US president now days, but a huge help in keeping the right-ofright former Speaker of the House on center stage in the bid for the Republican Party's nomination.

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Buildings, Vol. 2, Pages 33-42: The Potential for the Use of the Occupants’ Comments in the Analysis and Prediction of Building Performance

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:00 AM PST

The authors investigated the occupants' perceptions of 47 commercial and institutional buildings worldwide. These investigations involved the personal distribution and collection of a questionnaire survey seeking the occupants' perceptions (scored on a 7-point scale) of some 45 factors: Operational; Environmental (including temperature, air quality, lighting, and noise); Personal Control; and Satisfaction (including design, needs, comfort overall, productivity, and health). Occupants were also invited to comment on nine of these factors. While it has been suggested that in the ideal situation the occupants would have no complaints about their indoor environment, the aim here was to discover the real situation—in particular the proportion of occupants who were prepared to make a comment, the general nature of the comments (positive, negative, or balanced), and whether these correlated with the occupants' perception scores. On average, 34 per cent of respondents took up the invitation to make a comment. As anticipated, the greater the number of positive comments, the better the perception score, and vice-versa. However, it appears that it only required around 20% of the comments to be positive for the perception score to exceed the mid-point of the seven-point scale, whereas 65% or more of negative comments were needed to go under that point. This paper details the nature of the correlation between the occupants' comments and the corresponding scores for a range of building operational and indoor environmental factors and speculates on their potential for the analysis and prediction of building performance from the perspective of the occupants.

Songbird 1.10.2 - Versatile open-source music and media player.. (Free)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



Download the Songbird player and rock your mobile. Take your music with you, share playlists with friends, watch video, find out when favorite bands play your town, and discover new tracks by hot new artists.

Music - Sync your music on your PC, smart phone or MP3 player. Listen to streaming audio and Internet radio.

  • Playlists: Build smart playlists, filter and sort your music instantly.
  • Downloads: Download and purchase music from popular MP3 sites, including 7digital and Last.fm. Available add-ons accelerate downloads for fast, reliable service.
  • CD Ripping: Get your tracks from your CD collection to your Songbird music library quickly, with our CD Rip add-on.
  • Audio formats: Supports MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, WAV formats.
Video -Video comes to Songbird with crystal clear clarity, and seamless playback, on the go, on supported media players.
  • Video formats: Supports H.264, Windows Media Video, MPEG4 formats.
Photo - Take your memories with you on your player or smart phone.
  • Picture formats: Supports BMP, GIF, JPEG, and PNG formats.
Devices - Songbird now supports the latest generation of smart phones and media players.
  • Transfer: Auto synchronize or manually drag-and-drop files on MSC (Mass Storage Class) and MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) devices.
  • Smart load: Intelligently load files depending on available space on the device.
  • SD cards: Transfer files to and from device SD cards.
  • Transcode: On-the-fly transcoding converts files to play on supported media players.
Add-ons - Enhance your media experience with hundreds of add-ons that can add features, integrate services and customize Songbird.
  • Feathers: Customize the look and feel of Songbird with Feathers.
  • MediaFlow: Browse your collection by flipping through album.
  • mashTape: Bring songs to life for a 360° experience. Load YouTube videos, Last.fm artist biography, Wikipedia discography, GoogleNews updates, and Flickr photos.
  • Last.fm: Discover new music.
  • Want more? Add your own service or features using the Songbird open source developer's platform.
Media Management - Manage your media simply and easily with Songbird.
  • Sync: Sync your Songbird library to and from iTunes. Set up watch folders to keep Songbird in sync as your media changes over time.
  • Manage media: View and organize media by category such as genre, artist, or album. Edit and view track metadata in various tag formats.
  • Downloads: Automatically download tracks from the Web directly into Songbird.
  • Album art: View and add album art.


Version 1.10.2:

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

  • Playlist and track sync with Android devices has been improved.
  • Added official support for Google/Samsung Nexus S, Samsung Galaxy SII, HTC Evo 3D, and Galaxy Nexus.
  • The issue with WMA tracks not being playable after updating to 1.10.1 should be resolved.
  • When creating a Smart Playlist with the criteria of "Playlist is Library", Songbird no longer crashes.
KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES IN 1.10.2
  • Songbird may crash while mounting a device. ( bug 22960)
  • The blue dots that indicate tracks on a device that are not yet in the main library may not display until the line is hovered over. ( bug 23711)
  • Video recordings transferred from devices may have a generic name and metadata inside Songbird. ( bug 23826)
  • Removable storage in phones (mostly Samsungs) is not always detected if the phone is connected while Songbird is running. ( bug 25336)
For more details, see full changelog



Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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iAlertU 0.77 - Remote controlled motion-sensitive alarm for MacBook.. (Free)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



iAlertU is the first of its kind of alarm system for your Apple MacBook computer. Basically iAlertU is a car alarm for your Apple Mac. iAlertU uses the built in accelerometer and other sensors to trigger an alarm and the iSight camera to capture an image of the thief. iAlertU can be configured to email details of the alarm event to a specific email address. In addition to this you can tell iAlertU to execute an Applescript when the alarm goes off. Some people use this to generate SMS alerts. With v0.71, the developers of iAlertU added a new interface that can be used by an external, authenticated application to control iAlertU, request photo's, and other information captured by iAlertU. The first such application is uAlertMe, an iPhone app available on Apple's app store (for more information, visit the developers webpage at http://www.pkclsoft.com/pkclsoft/ualertme.html).

Version 0.77:
  • Prevent arming without a valid disarm password.
  • Optimise the interface to uAlertMe so that connections are quicker.
  • Fixed an intermittent problem that could prevent photos
  • being included in emails or displayed on the Camera tab of the preferences panel.


Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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VueScan 9.0.78 - Scanner software with advanced features.. (Demo)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:59 PM PST



VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is easy to use, and has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers.

Why should you use VueScan?

  • Easy to use - just run VueScan, press Preview, adjust the cropping, then press Scan
  • Accurate colors - uses ICC profiles and IT8 calibration
  • Powerful - dozens of advanced options
  • Faster workflow - can edit one image while the next image is being scanned (most scanner software won't let you work with one image while another is being scanned)
  • Simple to install - installing VueScan changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function.
  • Award winning - 2002 "Best Utility", Mac Addict Magazine
The list of supported scanners is available here

The list of supported digital camera RAW files is available here.

You can improve your Optical Character Recognition (OCR) results if you download a dictionary containing common US English, French, Dutch and UK English words. Put this file (vuedict.dat) in the same directory as the VueScan program. You can choose the language using the "Output|OCR text language" option.

Version 9.0.78:

  • Improved 'Filter | Restore colors' option
  • Increases saturation of colors if necessary
  • Fixed problem with some newer PIE and Reflecta scanners


Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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Growl 1.3.3 - Notification system for OS X apps.. (Commercial)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:26 PM PST



Growl is a notification system that allows any application to send it a notification, and then it displays it. You can (for example) be notified that you have new email, or that a download completed.

Version 1.3.3:
  • Growl now works correctly on case sensitive file systems.
  • All of the preference selections should now show up in the toolbar.


Mac OS X 10.7 or later.

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Future World Orchestra: Desire (1982)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:10 PM PST


A modern electronica duo can only dream of being as good as Future World Orchestra. [via Robert Popper]

Back to the Cubeture: Era 2

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:09 PM PST

[Platform: Flash] No one sent Edible Castle the memo that sequels are supposed to be derivative and rushed. Instead, not only does new point-and-click adventure Back to the Cubeture: Era 2 feature the same excellent voice-acting, cheeky humor, and quirky art as its predecessor, but it's five times as long and offers a much more non-linear experience. This is pure silly fun, so box yourself into your seat and enjoy it.

Trendy Emo

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:25 PM PST

This beautiful girls loves the emo style. She has a rich wardrobe which you can take advantage of and pick up the best outfit for her. Make sure she looks stylish and fabulous, and don't forget about her nice accessories!

Adventures of Veronica Wright

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:05 PM PST

Veronica finds mysterious amulet and a strange letter from her great great grandfather, embark on a fun point n' click adventure to unravel the mystery.
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