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SmartScore X2 Pro 10.5.4 - Music scoring/scanning, MIDI sequencer. (Demo)

Posted: 01 May 2013 02:24 AM PDT



SmartScore X2 Pro is simply the fastest way to get printed music into your computer. Band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts, and scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning. With more accuracy on more symbols than any other scanning software, SmartScore X2 Pro allows you to manipulate your music in endless ways. Transpose by key or clef. Extract parts from a score or merge parts into a conductor's score. Assign MIDI instrument sounds to parts and to contrapuntal voices. Even optimized scores maintain playback continuity. Includes precision recognition of lyrics, text and chord symbols. Spend more time with the music and less time correcting mistakes. From start to finish, SmartScore will make your work easier, faster, and a lot more fun. The demo is a fully functioning copy of SmartScore, but files cannot be saved or printed.

Version 10.5.4:
    • Improved recognition with Prodigy Engine
    • All rests (whole, half, 8th, 16h, 32nd, 64th)
    • Whole notes
    • Whole note clusters
    • Half notes
    • Half note clusers
    • Multi-measure rests
    • Less false positives
    • Piano Edition Save As.. bug fixed ("ENF not implemented).


OS X 10.4 or later

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Battery Maker Promises Green Energy, New Jobs

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:25 AM PDT

The Southern Nevada Health District has determined that salmonella caused diners at the Firefly restaurant on Paradise Road to be come sick.

Cloud Village - Screenshots

Posted: 01 May 2013 02:11 AM PDT

FEATURES
- Creativity is your only limit, build a magical Cloudling village from scratch
- Customize your village with beautiful decorations, buildings and plants
- Purchase Gems via in-app purchase to speed up the growth of your crops and village!
- Play exciting mini games like the Magical Greenhouse and Cloudling's Fishing Hole to advance your progress while building a new home
- Connect with friends through Facebook and Game Center and send gifts to your friends' villages
- Play offline... manage your village anytime without having to connect to the internet.
- Gorgeous Retina display graphics

Pocket Village - Screenshots

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:59 AM PDT

BUILD A VIBRANT VILLAGE
* Meet the happiest guys and girls in the whole world, the Pocketeers! They're handy and creative but need your help to build a fantastic little village. Make sure everyone helps out so you can create even more beautiful things and see your village grow.

RELAXING GAMEPLAY THAT KEEPS YOU HOOKED
* Fall into a Zen-like state as you immerse yourself in a cute and playful heaven. Relax and let your villagers do the work as they explore the tranquil world around them.

CREATIVE AND DECORATIVE FEATURES
* Create hammers at the workshop, paint brushes at the art shop, and even a rocking horse at the toy shop! Keep your village growing with luxury mansions, fountains, cafés and funfairs for the Pocketeers to use and explore.

GATHER, TRADE AND ACHIEVE!
* Start by getting your Pocketeers busy at the sawmill, refining wood into lumber. Next you can investigate the mysterious Balloon Trader who will buy your goods for valuable gold coins! Finally, optimize your production to enable you to build the biggest and best buildings for your Pocketeers.

HAWKEN - Screenshots

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:31 AM PDT

Brutal Mech Battles
There are two kinds of mech pilots -- the quick and the dead. Combat in HAWKEN moves fast, no matter which mech you choose. Sharp instincts and a hair trigger will see you striding over the smoking wreckage of your enemies. Thrusters give your mech limited flight, adding another dimension to your battles, and in-depth customization of loadouts gives you the flexibility to fight your way.

Own Your Experience
Assemble the ultimate fleet from a wide array of mechs, chassis sizes, and weapon loadouts. Customize them to suit your playstyle and personality, and then pilot your creations into battle. As your proficiency with each mech grows, you'll unlock bonuses that make it distinctively yours.

Dystopia Never Looked This Good
Battle across Illal, a world driven by a unique design and vision. Stalk your opponents through ruined cities or across alien desert canyons. Stunning graphics, powered by Unreal Engine 3, immerse you in the environment. The planet may be dying, but the battles never looked more alive.

Expanding
the Hawken Universe
Delve deeper into the story behind HAWKEN through media including original graphic novels, comics, a web video series, and even a feature film. The fight for Illal is just beginning.

Game of Thrones S2E5: Through the fire and the flames

Posted: 01 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT

The latest episode of Game of Thrones was, in my humble opinion, far and away the most exciting one yet. Fire, fire and more fire, fatherhood and impeccable crescendoes. Such payoff for book fans, but what do viewers think?

Let's recap and discuss. I can't wait!

We begin the episode right where the last one left off. With fire! Well, with Sandor Clegane facing trial by combat against the Brotherhood Without Banners. Thoros of Myr may be a witty, drunk sort of character, but we see the way he and his group take the religion of R'hllor quite seriously ('R'hllor' is silly and unpronounceable, so it makes sense he just gets called the 'Lord of Light' on the show). It's a particularly disadvantageous set of circumstances for the Hound, who deeply fears fire.

That we expect he should lose makes it seem divine when he wins: proof of his innocence of various crimes in service of the Lannister crown, most of which have been done by his brother Gregor. Unfortunately for Arya, the Lord of Light can't seem to be bothered to punish Clegane over the death of her little friend the butcher's boy. And he can bring back Beric Dondarrion from the dead a supposed six times, but not re-attach Ned Stark's head. Supposed heroes who claimed to love her father let their religion prevent them from delivering her justice, and plan to sell her back to her family at Riverrun. And Gendry, the only comrade she has left, has decided to stay on in the Brotherhood, as her gender and high birth form something of a ceiling for how close he feels he can get to her.

Poor Arya. All the kid has left is her "prayer" -- a list of the names of people she'd like to see dead.

The main religion of Westeros involves the "Seven", a pantheon of deity figures that represent the various faces of humanity (Father, Mother, Warrior, Maiden, Smith, Crone and Stranger). Robb Stark and Lady Talisa had a marriage that paid homage to the Seven, and that's Lady Catelyn's faith as well, although Ned Stark and much of the Northmen worship the Old Gods, as symbolized by the sap-weeping white weirwood tree we see in the season's opening. In the Brotherhood Without Banners, we see another side to the fire-centric religion of R'hllor -- we confirm it seems to conjure genuine magic, independently of Melisandre's fanaticism and apparent sorcery.

Other fanatics include Stannis Baratheon's wife Selyse, whom we meet for the first time this episode. Our introduction to Stannis' family serves to illuminate his ambivalence toward the fact he has to use the powers of the "Red Woman" to earn a crown he feels is his by fundamental rights -- his own wife is not hurt, but rather delighted by the infidelity he struggles to confess, and feels ashamed of their daughter Shireen, a sweet child deformed by a skin disease called Greyscale.

The jars of Selyse's stillborn sons, I'm fairly sure, are not in the books, and the unsettling imagery helps us empathize with Stannis' private uncertainty about having to consign his purest and most loyal friend, Davos "the Onion Knight" Seaworth, to his dungeons for the treason of speaking against Melisandre.

Speaking of fire, we see redheaded Ygritte continuing to stand up for Jon Snow among mistrustful wildlings like Orell the warg and bearded Tormund Giantsbane. She does this because she wants him, of course, and in this episode we see her get tired of waiting. Snow seems reluctant to fully sell out the defenses of his black brothers to the wildlings' oncoming assault on the Wall -- is he lying when he tells Orell which castles are manned? A thousand seems like a lot of crows relative to how badly the patchy Night's Watch has lately been struggling against the Others and one another.

It almost doesn't matter: Giving up his virginity to Ygritte is probably, to Jon, a more significant break with his old life than anything he's done so far. But what a beautiful little scene: She really, really likes and trusts him. Does he like her more than his black brothers, though?

Brienne and Jaime are delivered to Robb Stark's ally Roose Bolton, who enjoys tormenting the Lannister son by dangling details of the Blackwater battle at King's Landing. After losing everything, the idea that the woman he loves -- his sister Cersei -- might also be dead seems to render him unable to stand any longer. And there's more pain ahead, as malpracticing Maester Qyburn is engaged to try to help save Jaime's rotten stump.

Cersei is fine, of course. After her father rejected her mistrust of the Tyrells, she hasn't let the issue go, and instead engages Littlefinger to help her prove the Golden Rose is plotting against the Lion. Cersei lacks the tact of most of her rivals; threats seem to be the extent of her bargaining tactics, where her brothers seem much more skillful at dangling riches and glory.

We see terrifying Olenna Redwyne as more than a match for Tyrion, eluding his strategies to reduce the extravagant cost of the Royal Wedding, an expense the Crown certainly can't afford. Recall that being unable to pay its debts to the Royal Bank of Braavos might actually cause the powerful lenders to shift its financial loyalty to a rival war effort. Tyrion could just tell his father that, one supposes, but it's meant to be his job to deal with the situation.

We already know Olenna isn't necessarily passionate about the wedding itself -- we've seen her make fun of frippery and classism. But she'd probably prefer to bleed the Crown's cash for her granddaughter's sake: Her offer to pay for half the affair seems generous, but is probably geared at making sure the wedding remains as expensive and frivolous an event as possible.

The Northmen have gotten tired of waiting for their revenge. Robb's taken too many personal detours, and the loss of Jaime Lannister as a prisoner might have been irrelevant from a military standpoint, but devastating from a spiritual one. Mad with grief and impatience, The Karstarks, of a clan of distant Stark-cousins, kill the little boys Willem and Martyn Lannister (they're the sons of Tywin's brother Kevan, if you were wondering). These poor kids were the ill-chosen captives of Robb's uncle Edmure Tully, who for some reason decided to take a mill instead of fighting Gregor Clegane.

Robb's all but lost control of every thread of his war effort, and he can't afford to lose the military power of his longtime Northman allies. But when Rickard Karstark suggests Robb is powerless to actually punish him for his ill-advised initiative, Robb feels he he has to step up, even if doing so means he loses half his army. His family unifies to advise him against executing Karstark, but Robb is loyal to the ideal of justice to an actual fault, just like his dad. He'd rather pursue that than to win the war.

We know he's making a bad, bad choice. Then again, a certain dread has overhung all of Robb's choices so far. Now his last remaining option is to go and seek support from the Frey family, who he's recently spurned against his mother's advice so he could marry Talisa instead. An ominous thematic crescendo builds as Robb moves a wolf's head strategic piece toward the Twins, the fort of Walder Frey. Ah, surely this is going to fix everything. It's all going to work out great.

Why does Jaime Lannister have no problem entering the bath with Brienne, despite her mortification? Because he's disinterested in her sexually, sure. But mainly because he knows that if he, still unwell, passes out, she'll save him. He is absolutely safe with her, because she swore a vow, and even if he mocks her for her impressively-stubborn adherence to her oaths, he knows that in spite of her resentment, she will protect him.

Oathbreaking is the highest on the list of Brienne's list of reasons to trust and dislike the famous Kingslayer. He's been seeing that aversion in the eyes of every foe and comrade alike since he stabbed King Aerys Targaryen quite literally in the back while the Lannister army sacked King's Landing, and never felt the urge to explain or defend himself until now. Maybe after everything he's been through, seeing that aversion in Brienne's eyes is too much to take, so he confides in her.

If Jaime had kept his oath to the hellish Mad King, had not been a Kingslayer, he would have been forced not only to kill his father, but also to watch the entire city and everyone in it burn to death. It was his father, the strategician Tywin Lannister, who gained access to King's Landing under the guise of aiding the Targaryens against Robert's rebels, and then promptly sacked it. Ruthlessly tactful, that. Then, the Lannisters apparently had the Targaryen babies killed. Next, Cersei's wedding to Robert Baratheon, cemeting the family's presence in the capital.

Then the King's Hand, Jon Arryn, died under mysterious circumstances. Then King Robert himself. Oh, except that was an accident.

We see how tortured Jaime still is by the fact he had to break that vow, and how traumatized he is by the things he had to do and see under Aerys. Most of all, the condescension of moral Ned Stark stings. The books show Ned frequently recounting his sense of apprehension at arriving at King's Landing after the Lannisters sacked it to find Jaime sitting in the throne room. On the Iron Throne, in fact. The memory of Jaime in that weaponized chair seems to have been instrumental in sowing Ned's mistrust against the Lannister family, and in bringing him to King's Landing to try to support King Robert. Yet we learn even though King Aerys' madness was poisonous to the city, Jaime still tried to warn him about his own father, even if taking his head was not something he could have done.

Honorable Ned never asked him though, simply judged. "By what right does the wolf judge the lion," he curses bitterly, a brilliant quote that illustrates the rampant Lannister pride, ruthlessness, as something of an understandable expression of a moral code that simply favors victory -- but is no less moral than a sanctimonious, slavish devotion to imperfect ideals of honor. We see that Brienne has heard him, judged him anew, when she forgets all modesty to rush to him and calls for help when he faints.

Margaery has assured Sansa that as queen, she'll have the power to make a wedding between Sansa and Loras Tyrell happen. In the books, Sansa is disappointed to find out she's intended not for Loras (who joins the Kingsguard and thus, like Jaime Lannister, avoids marriage via the station) but for his much less-appealing brother Garlan. But the fact Sansa wants to become a Lady of Highgarden remains the same, and for the show's purposes involving Loras is not only simpler, but more dramatic.

Loras will fulfill his family's request even though he's not interested in woman. How did his handsome young sparring partner detect his predilection? Well, Littlefinger must have told him, as the young man was a spy sent to find out what Tyrell plot might be underway. When Littlefinger invites Sansa to finally escape King's Landing with him, a friend of her mother's, and she declines, he has confirmation that the Tyrells have already gotten her to collude with the idea. Sansa seems thrilled that Littlefinger doesn't look likely to insist on upsetting her secret plans, but she doesn't know is that when he says, "I hope you know I'm your friend," what he means is, "don't worry, you're not going anywhere, anyway."

We see a highly-satisfied Cersei at her father's side, positively glowing at finally having brought proof of the Tyrells' scheming to their dear old dad. That Tywin's plan to thwart the Tyrells by marrying Sansa to Tyrion instead absolutely mortifies her little brother only seems to please Cersei more. Tyrion knows how terrorized Sansa is already, and how disappointed she, barely older than a child nursing fantasies of courtly lords, will be in him as a husband, and protests. Tywin insists. He always insists.

Cersei hardly has long to gloat, either. Though she's proved her usefulness at court to her father and saved their family's grip on the crown, Tywin still plans to wed her to Loras Tyrell, to bring the rival family in line and to quell the "rumors" about Cersei and her brother. Her horror at being used as a "brood mare" again is palpable, gutting. Mean, aggressive Cersei is one of the show's least-likeable characters, but is nonetheless empathetic, a victim of her father's system with even less fortune than her brothers, by virtue of her gender and the mistakes her desperation tends to sow.

Some of the best dramatic moments in the entire series have come from Cersei stricken, calling tremulously for her Dad. When Tywin stages a last-minute rescue of his family at the end of the Blackwater battle of season two, we see her fling aside her suicide plan, forgotten at the first sight of Dad, rising to her feet with the soft cry of "father." In this stunning episode finish, she is begging again, her hard protest giving way to naked, broken pleading -- "don't make me do it again, please," so soft, so sorrowful.

Game of Thrones would be an entirely different narrative if rooting for the Lannisters to simply be stamped out of King's Landing like an infestation were an easy decision. Yet it is possible to respect Tywin, to feel Cersei's pain and anger, admire Tyrion or Jaime's complex, deeply-personal morality in the face of suffering.The house of the Lion is the red, beating heart of this series, and just when you find yourself wishing most fervently for the tide to turn against them, you end up feeling a little sorry that you did.

I think appreciating the Lannister family is among the most interesting choices one can make in the favorites-picking "war" that Game of Thrones encourages in readers and viewers. The narrative is not always sensible reading. It's not always brilliantly-plotted; it's neither literature nor high art. But it's most intriguing feature is the way it exposes systems within a society, and how systems handicap some and privilege others, affecting their value systems, mobility and the framework of their choices for life. It presents an idea that's obvious when you think about it, but radical in the context of a fantasy story or a hero tale -- that morality is in large part relative and dependent on context.

Here, a given faction might find no relevance in the storybook ideal of "the right thing". With an expansive and complicated system exposed, we can empathize with the idea that all most people are able to do is the right thing for them, within the limitations they're given, and that maybe that's heroic enough. Whether intentions are good or ill almost don't matter in a world where fire licks at one edge of the map and cold ice crumples the other.

What was your favorite part of this exciting episode? Yes, I did gloss over the lovely bit where Grey Worm reinforces his fealty to Daenerys, but if you couldn't tell, I was too busy feeling sorry for bad guys this week. Love your discussions in the comments each week. Please, please no spoilers related to any weddings or prospective weddings mentioned in this post. No colors, no initials, nothing. Thank you.

    

Crimes & Punishments - Screenshots

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:21 AM PDT

Unlike the previous adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in Crimes and Punishments you will not be a mere spectator during the detective's investigation. It is now your turn to truly become Sherlock Holmes and lead your own investigation-actually, your investigations, as 8 captivating cases await you! Murders, disappearances, spectacular thefts, and other investigations will bring you to the cutting edge of the detective genre and these cases will be the bread and butter of this game, written in the pure tradition of Conan Doyle's novels. Each case offers real freedom to players, who will have to make important moral choices instead of simply enforcing justice by the book. All decisions have an influence in the game and affect your character's reputation in addition to having realistic, sometimes unexpected, consequences. You will have to bear the weight of your choices, as Crimes and Punishments offers an exciting system of actions/consequences that forces players to think before acting by giving true depth to every decision they make.

Adventure Park - Screenshots

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:16 AM PDT

KEY FEATURES
- Build the theme park of your dreams! Play in campaign mode or start a free game on one of the 8 different maps.
- Roller coasters and more! Offer visitors at your park many sensational attractions (e.g. free-fall tower, big wheel). Create spectacular rides with the intuitive, grid-free coaster building system and choose from different types of coasters. Your park's visitors will be thrilled!
- Adventures make people hungry and thirsty! Build an appropriate infrastructure in the park, with food stands, souvenir shops, and appropriate service personnel (e.g. gardeners) so that your guests always feel comfortable.
- A top manager always has everything under control! If you keep an eye on all the processes in your park, and manage them adeptly, your park will be a success. The comprehensive management system is intuitively structured, and it offers challenges even for experienced players.
- A lively park where there is always something going on! A variety of different objects for the park, including statues, lamps, fences, rocks, and plants, provide you with many options for decorating and beautifying your park.

World Torch Challenge 2013 - Screenshots

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:08 AM PDT

The running game requires fast reflexes, good concentration and stamina, can you get the gold medal? The virtual World Torch has dynamic fire effects that won't burn your hands! Carry the flame and show your support for all sporting events and concerts!!

Black Gold - Screenshots

Posted: 01 May 2013 12:54 AM PDT

Powerball Winning Numbers for 04/27/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

3 - 23 - 48 - 54 - 55 Powerball 5

Powerball Estimated Jackpot for 05/01/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

Annuitized: $165 Million Cash Value: $107.7 Million

Mega Millions Winning Numbers for 04/30/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

21 - 30 - 34 - 39 - 49 MegaBall 43 Megaplier 3

Mega Millions Estimated Jackpot for 05/03/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

Annuitized: $126 Million Cash Value: $95.8 Million

Lotto Texas Winning Numbers for 04/27/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

14 - 21 - 23 - 26 - 42 - 46

Lotto Texas Estimated Jackpot for 05/01/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

Annuitized: $6 Million Cash Value: $4.27 Million

Texas Two Step Winning Numbers for 04/29/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

10 - 20 - 32 - 33 Bonus Ball 16

Texas Two Step Advertised Jackpot for 05/02/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

$825,000

Pick 3 Day Winning Numbers for 04/30/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

2 - 5 - 4 Sum It Up = 11

Pick 3 Night Winning Numbers for 04/30/2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT

3 - 4 - 1 Sum It Up = 8
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