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Maloney and Menendez Introduce Bill to End Deceptive Practices by Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) have introduced a bill entitled the "Stop Deceptive Advertising in Women's Services Act" (SDAWS), which would crack down on clinics (so-called crisis pregnancy centers) which falsely advertise themselves as a honest providers of information and services for women facing unintended and untenable pregnancies.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) have introduced a bill entitled the "Stop Deceptive Advertising in Women's Services Act" (SDAWS), which would crack down on clinics (so-called crisis pregnancy centers) which falsely advertise themselves as a honest providers of information and services for women facing unintended and untenable pregnancies. Such clinics don't provide either abortion or contraceptive services; instead they dispense medically-inaccurate and deceptive information about both abortion and birth control and often use intense pressure to get women to carry to term regardless of an individual woman's circumstances or wishes.
The SDAWS Act directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate rules declaring it an unfair or deceptive act for an entity, such as a crisis pregnancy center, to advertise as a provider of abortion services if the entity does not provide abortion services. Organizations that are not deceptive in their advertising or marketing will not be effected by this bill.
The bill has 11 cosponsors in the House. A similar bill was introduced in 2007, but never passed.
Introduction of the bill comes on the heels of a court decision this week granting an injunction halting implementation of a New York City law requiring CPCs to post signs disclosing the limited nature of their services, making sure women know for example what services and qualifications a particular center does and does not offer, and whether they have qualified medical staff on board.
According to Maloney's office, the Maloney-Menendez bill only applies to CPCs that engage in deceptive and misleading advertising, allowing a federal agency the ability to investigate reports on misleading claims in the same way it can for other products and services. The NYC signage requirement tackles this issue in a different way.
"An unintended pregnancy is an especially difficult time to encounter deception, and deceptive practices can and should be outlawed," Rep. Maloney said.
"Women shouldn't have to face the added stress of deciphering whether or not the clinic they choose offers legitimate medical services. Although I may disagree with their views, many crisis pregnancy centers are forthright and respectful– but some take a more underhanded approach to lure in women seeking abortions by using deceptive tactics that should be made illegal, and that's what this bill would do."
In a Fall 2010 article for Ms. magazine, investigative reporter Kathryn Joyce took an in-depth look at CPCs:
The deceptive tactics of many of the country's CPCs— which are estimated to total between 2,300 and 4,000 centers nationwide—have been well-documented: They often mislead women about whether they perform abortions, mimicking the style or names of abortion clinics and operating in close proximity to them. Some provide misinformation about women's pregnancy status or due date, or suggest unproven links between abortion and cancer, infertility or suicide. A 2006 congressional report requested by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) found that 87 percent of CPCs that receive federal funding provide false information—prompting both local and proposed federal legislation to mandate truth-in-advertising standards for CPCs.
Efforts to ensure "truth-in-advertising" by crisis pregnancy centers come at a time when funding for basic primary reproductive and sexual health care services are being slashed in many states.
"At a time when Republicans in New Jersey and Washington are slashing women's access to reproductive health services, it's more important than ever that women have accurate information about health services. It is simply unconscionable to interfere with women's personal reproductive choices through false advertising," said Senator Menendez.
At the same time that funds are being cut, in some states, funds taken from legitimate providers of primary reproductive health care are being re-routed by anti-choice legislatures to CPCs, not only diminishing access to actual medical services, but effectively shunting public funds to quacks.
Not surprisingly, reproductive health and rights groups applauded introduction of the bill.
"We applaud Rep. Maloney and Sen. Menendez's continued leadership in making sure women are not misled about their health-care options," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "It's time for Congress to step in and hold these fake 'clinics' accountable. Even though we may have differences of opinion on abortion, Americans value honesty in advertising. We should all agree that a woman should not be misled or manipulated when she's facing an unintended pregnancy."
"Crisis Pregnancy Centers have a long history of intentionally misleading women to prevent them from accessing abortion care," said said Sharon Levin, Vice President and General Counsel of the National Abortion Federation.
"The Stop Deceptive Advertising in Women's Services Act will put an end to their 'false advertising' and insure that women get accurate and complete medical information. Now more than ever, we need pro-choice leaders like Rep. Maloney and Sen. Menendez who work to protect women's ability to make informed choices about their health care,"
As of this writing, no information was available on whether and when the bill might proceed to a vote.
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Royal Enfield, the world's oldest continuously operating motorcycle brand, is settling into its new North American headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after a grand opening September 10.
Located in a former leather-goods factory on the high street in the city's trendy warehouse district, the classic British brand hopes to sell tradition from the hometown of that other traditional motorcycle manufacturer, Harley-Davidson.
Royal Enfield produced motorcycles in Britain from 1901 to 1970 before moving to its current factory in Chennai, India. The longest-running Bullet model harkens back to 1932, and its tank and panels are still hand-pinstriped as they were then. Aesthetically true to their roots, the single-cylinder motorcycles now feature such 21st Century upgrades as electronic fuel injection, twin-spark ignition and electric start.
Adjacent to the new corporate offices is a flagship dealership which trades upon the urbane, British Raj-chic projected by Royal Enfield. It showcases the heirloom qualities of an old-world British motorcycle with the sensibilities of the globalized, brand-conscious millennial consumer.
Are the entry-level priced, mid-sized retro bikes aimed squarely at young urban hipsters? Enfield's North American Marketing Manager Bree Poland bristles at that pigeonhole.
"I think the bikes have broad appeal, whether to a beginner rider or a seasoned, classic-bike enthusiast looking for a pure-riding experience," Poland said.
In 1964, Royal Enfield introduced its 250cc Continental GT. It was the largest-displacement bike you could ride in the U.K. without passing a driver's exam, which made it an instant success with the burgeoning youth café culture. Shrewd marketing by Enfield put racer John Cooper aboard one on a 20-hour tip-to-tail sprint across Great Britain, laying claim to the class speed record and making the GT iconic to a generation of British motorcyclists.
The new 535cc Continental GT is a faithful update of the original, but with Brembo disc brakes, Paioli shocks and a lightened flywheel. The most-powerful and most-expensive motorcycle in the Royal Enfield lineup at $5,999 MSRP, the GT price tag leaves plenty of room for further personalization through an array of accessories and options sold by the company and aftermarket.
But Royal Enfield is not just looking backward. It has hired 75 engineers in the past year to develop new products at its two recently initiated design facilities in England and India. One such endeavor is the Himalayan, a dual-sport, go-anywhere bike which takes its name and inspiration from the Nepalese tour guides which have famously ridden Enfields for years. While there are some test bikes for the media in the U.S., the tentative plan is to bring them here in mid-2017.
Enfield's formula seems sound: take all that is good about classic British motorcycles (great history, charisma and style) and leave all the bad behind (fussy carburetors, leaky cases and wispy electrics). Each bike still is equipped with a kick starter – for those uber-cool startup moments in front of your friends at the café – and an electric starter for when they're not looking.


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The Jane Morris Letters
The Collected Letters of Jane Morris, edited by Frank Sharp and Jan Marsh, is such a beautifully produced and meticulously edited volume, and gives so vivid a sense of Jane Morris herself across its 570 letters, that it seems churlish to ask for more. And yet it is the book itself that prompts one to do so. For example, I'm glad to learn from the editors that Jane's handwriting is 'steady, clear, cursive ... simple and direct, lacking both "copperplate" loops and calligraphic flourishes', but I also want to see this for myself, to make my own judgements about what qualities of character might be deciphered from such writing, so surely a book as comprehensive as this might have found room for a photographic reproduction of at least one of Jane's letters.
Jane at moments holds forth to correspondents about her own craft activities – 'I achieved the design for your book cover', 'I am sending you a bit of embroidery I finished for you long ago' – and I would therefore gladly sacrifice the book's colour image of Rossetti's picture of Rosalind Howard or even one of its many Rossetti versions of Jane herself, for an image or two of her craftwork, so that we should see her as a subject rather than object of aesthetics (since transforming her from object to subject, from silence to voice, is the very point of this volume in the first place). I'm intrigued too to learn of 'two surviving letters' by Jane's sister, Elizabeth Burden, and would have liked to have them in a brief Appendix to this collection.
Still, this is indeed a wonderful tome, which leaves us enduringly in its editors' debt. Its learned footnotes also intrigue by virtue of the number of references they contain to unpublished letters by William Morris himself, which makes one suspect that Norman Kelvin's great four-volume Collected Letters may not be so definitive after all. Who, I wonder, is going to be bold and assiduous enough to gather all the Morris strays together to complete the project?
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There will be a couple of images of Jane's handiwork in my book on Jane Morris to be published in early 2013.
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Goodman: Minimum wage report should be step to unity
The first stage of the local minimum-wage hike has not created the disaster opponents predicted.
The petition-mandated ordinance called for an initial raise from New Mexico's $7.50 to $8.40, then in two more stages to $10.10. To soften the impact on businesses, the Las Cruces City Council stretched out the process, so that the minimum wage rises again in January 2017, then to $10.10 Jan. 1, 2019.
Whether that amendment was wise or unwise, it violated the City Charter, which required the council to pass the ordinance unchanged or let all citizens vote on it.
The council also directed a July 2016 "interim report," and received it Monday.
City figures tended to show growth in the gross receipts tax (independent of recent GRT hikes) and building-permit values. The figures did not purport to be precise, or to separate out different causes and effects. Critics said there was more growth in El Paso than here (implying that our higher minimum-wage hindered Las Cruces) and that $8.40 is below the $8.50 the business community proposed in a belated compromise effort during the petition/initiative process. Pic Quik owner Oscar Andrade predicted many small businesses will go under next year because of the minimum-wage hike.
The vast majority of those speaking to the council on Monday praised the wage hike and urged the council to "stay the course." The council heard sometimes moving testimony from low-income workers whose lives have improved. One anonymous server, whose letter was read by a retired minister, said that since she's now getting a small weekly check to supplement her tip income, she can take her kids to the swimming pool and even buy each an ice cream cone.
I'm no economist. I thought the protestations in 2014 were exaggerated, and I hope they are now; but we shouldn't lose sight of the value local businesses create. Although business owners often get well rewarded, they create jobs and provide appealing features of local life. (Where would I be without Milagros, Spirit Winds, Toucan, Mountainview Market Co+op, Coas, Caliches, Mascitelli's, Al's, The Big Picture, Habañeros, La Nueva Casita, Cafe de Mesilla, a host of farmers market vendors, and other local businesses?) Further, when people are collecting donations on behalf of nonprofits or causes, many visit local businesses, and some business owners give generously.
Unfortunately, some local businesses also funded the vicious and misleading campaign to recall city councilors who tried to follow the city charter on minimum wage. Those businesses deserved to face negative consequences; we are all, myself included, either too forgiving or too lazy for our own good; but then, it is a small community. We can hope some of the recall advocates learned from the defeat of that effort and the (admittedly narrow) success of progressive candidates in the 2016 election. Minimum wage was a discussion point, and the candidates who were more enthusiastic about raising it tended to prevail.
I hope businesses will back off from supporting reactionary and divisive local candidates. (Another campaign as vicious as the recall effort would deepen the political chasm. Many of us would no longer be able to find a bridge to local businesses that supported such efforts.)
But I also hope those of us with more progressive views won't write off such businesses prematurely.
For the moment, congratulations to CAFé and the volunteers who gathered signatures, and to the councilors who followed the City Charter. It's hard not to be moved by the expressions of gratitude we heard Monday.
Together, I hope we can keep all the expressed fears from coming true.
Doña Ana County resident Peter Goodman writes, shoots pictures, and sometimes practices law. Further information may be on his blog at www.soledadcanyon.blogspot.com.


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Last year around 4 million people in the UK were in fuel poverty and struggling to heat their homes. In the same period profits for the big six energy companies went up. And now 4 of the big 6 energy firms have decided to raise customer bills by an average of 9.1% with the other two expected to follow suit.
As someone who has campaigned to alleviate fuel poverty in the past I think these price increases are bordering on criminal. That is why I have written to the Prime Minister and the Energy Secretary calling for an investigation about how we got here, for the big 6's cartel to be broken up and for a regulator with more power.
In my letter to the Prime Minister I asked called on the government to investigate how the 6 main companies came to control 98% of the market, how their costs are translated into pricing and how they came to the decision to raise consumer bills by almost 10%.
When Labour came to power in 1997 there were 14 not 6 big energy firms. Because of Labour's mismanagement of the economy by 2010 there were only 6 big firms who now dominate the market. Greater competition between energy companies meant prices remained at a competitive level and customers were afforded far greater choice when searching for the cheapest energy tariff.
Now Labour wants a price freeze after they allowed a small number of firms to monopolise a once highly competitive market.
An artificial price freeze simply will not work. There is some evidence that energy companies are chasing price rises now because the fear a freeze later. Government needs to look at realistic solutions to this problem.
In my letter to my Liberal Democrat colleague, the Energy minister Ed Davey I called for a legislation to separate wholesale energy for commercial energy suppliers. The big 6 utility firms are currently engaged in the dubious practice of companies being wholesalers and retailers and selling energy to themselves at inflated prices.
Separating wholesale from retail will reduce barriers of entry for smaller firms, increasing competition and encouraging lower prices. Higher levels of competition are the most effective way to control energy prices. Threats of a price freeze only serve to drive up prices now and Labour should be held accountable for their failure to properly regulate the market during their 13 years in power.
It is incredible that the heads of the energy firms could tell MP's that prices are going up because of rising wholesale costs when not only do the firms themselves have a huge amount of control over wholesale prices but Ofgem has shown that costs have only gone up about 1.7% in the past year.
As we have seen in the last few weeks Ofgem is fairly toothless when it comes to reigning in the big 6 and their reckless price rises. That is why I have also called for more powers to be given to the energy market regulator to bring it in line with Ofwat which has the power to block increases to customers water bills.
The Government has made some headway in tackling fuel poverty such as the Green Deal and Smart Meters and the number of UK resident in fuel poverty is falling. But we are under no illusions, more action is needed.
I truly hope that the Prime Minister and Energy Secretary will put an end to energy firms exploiting the hard-working people of the UK with these completely unjustifiable price rises.


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As you've probably read, the Islanders have announced that they will buy-out the remainder of center Alexei Yashin's contract. Naturally, our thoughts turn to whether or not we'd like to see Yashin here in D.C., so let's take a look at some of the pros and cons of such a move:
UPDATE (6/6, 7:16 pm): OK, I've made up (changed?) my mind and am now firmly in the "no at any cost" camp after reading this:
- He's a legitimate first-line center and more talented than anyone currently on the roster at that position.
- He will cost significantly less than other top centers on the market.
- He has some chemsitry already with Alex Ovechkin (recall the Turin Olympics).
- He wouldn't have the huge contract or the burden of the captaincy to live up to.
- A change of scenery likely would do him good.
- He's Alexei Yashin.
UPDATE (6/6, 7:16 pm): OK, I've made up (changed?) my mind and am now firmly in the "no at any cost" camp after reading this:
The rumblings around the National Hockey League was that [Ryan] Smyth would listen to the Islanders proposals, but he had no intention in re-signing there because of his disdain for Yashin and his lethargic ways.If the guy's such a disease that free agents won't even consider signing where he's playing, I certainly wouldn't want him on my team. Let someone else roll the dice - someone who can afford to swing and miss (to mix metaphors).


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Site Security Policy, AKA Content RestrictionsPosted by: Giorgio in CSRF, XSS, Mozilla, Security
A couple of months ago, Brandon Sterne of the Mozilla Security Team asked me some questions about NoScript's internals, because he was developing a Firefox add-on which involved selective script-blocking.
Looks like he finally delivered: Site Security Policy is a proof of concept for an idea proposed by RSnake and turned into a specification by Gervase Markham, known as "Content Restrictions".
A Site Security Policy is defined by the website administrator and communicated to the web browser as a set of special "X-SSP-..." HTTP headers either attached to the affected content or sent in response to a "discovery"
specifies a deny/allow list of hosts which are allowed to run scripts.
If this header is sent, no embedded script is allowed to run, and only included scripts whose sources match the rules are executed. This is an effective anti-XSS countermeasure, and could be extremely useful for so called "Web 2.0" sites featuring user-generated rich content.
lists the hosts which can or cannot send HTTP requests to a certain resource, and the "acceptable" HTTP verbs.
This can help enforcing referrer-based checks against CSRF attacks which work even if user chooses to omit or spoof theReferer
header for privacy reasons, and mitigating verb-tampering
attackswhen used to "enhance" CSRF.
limits the destinations of requests originated by the current page.
This may help mitigating data-leakage outcomes of a successful XSS attack, e.g. by preventing authentication tokens from being logged to remote hosts, but also avoiding the page to be used as a platform for CSRF attacks and blocking inclusion of unwanted 3rd party content.
declares an URL where policy violation attempts should be logged by the browser.
If you want to start applying these restrictions to your web content, you'll find a detailed yet
simple reference* with examples on Brandon's project web site.
Implementing a Site Security Policy cannot surrogate web developers' security awareness and best practices, but it's nonetheless a big step forward in making a website safer for its users.
Obviously enough, to be generally effective this technology still needs to be evangelized to administrators and coders, correctly deployed and supported in a consistent cross-browser fashion. But as soon as it gets built in our favourite browser and we begin to see badges like "Browsing this site is safer with Firefox", we can hope other vendors to join making the Web a safer place.
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Site Security Policy changed its name to "Content Security Policy", and it dropped its anti-CSRF features to focus on XSS prevention only.
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Sony's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" sped past "Insidious: The Last Key" and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" to the top spot at North American box office in its third weekend with an estimated 36 million U.S. dollars.
The action adventure comedy film has brought in a massive 244.3 million dollars in total in North American theatres to date, according to the studio figures collected by comScore. Directed by Jake Kasdan and stars Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan, the sequel to 1995's "Jumanji" follows four teenagers who are transported into the video game world of Jumanji and must work together to beat the game in order to return to the real world.
Universal's supernatural horror film "Insidious: The Last Key" opened surprisingly in second place with an estimated 29.2 million dollars in its debut. The fourth installment of the "Insidious" series from Blumhouse Productions was directed by Adam Robitel and stars Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson and Leigh Whannell. The film follows a brilliant parapsychologist, Elise Rainier, as she investigates a haunting in her childhood home.
Disney's release of Lucasfilm's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" landed in third place in its fourth weekend with an estimated 23.5 million dollars, pushing it total to a whopping 572.5 million dollars in North America to date. The film passed "Beauty and the Beast" as the top grossing film in North America in 2017 after only half a month of its debut. The eighth installment in the "Star Wars" saga has grossed around 1,205.2 million dollars worldwide through Sunday.
20th Century Fox's musical biopic "The Greatest Showman" came in fourth with an estimated 13.8 million dollars in its third weekend. Universal's musical comedy film "Pitch Perfect 3" finished fifth with an estimated 10.2 million dollars in its third weekend.


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Built during the reign of Emperor Daoguang, this Chinese temple is an exquisite representation of the period's architecture and culture.
Try delicious local snacks like savory dumplings.
Taihu Silk is a popular silk brand in the Chinese textile industry.
Climb to the top of the Ci Yun Pagoda for lovely views of Taihu Lake, the Beimayang River and the ancient town of Zhenze glowing at sunset.
Shengze is a town that is mainly dedicated to silk.
Nanxun is one of China's most charming towns.
Shengze, located along the ancient silk route, has a long and intriguing history. The Xiancan Temple temple was built by a group of silk merchants and dedicated to Empress Lei Zu, the "Silkworm Mother." Lei Zu is said to have discovered silk, and there are many legends surrounding how this came to be. The temple quickly became a place of worship for local silk farmers who still come here to pray for a successful harvest following the annual Xiaoman drama festival. The temple features classic ancestral temple architecture and has been restored to its original glory.
This shaomai offers a Shengze breakfast specialty: shaomai dumplings using sweet glutinous rice instead of the more traditional recipe of pork. Come enjoy some local delicacies!
This Taihu Silk location is both a display gallery and sales venue for its products. It highlights and sells silk artistry on the spot for visitors.
A temple has stood by the Di Tang River since the 13th Century, when the Guang Ji Temple was built at this site. The Emperor of China granted it the name of Cin Yun Temple in 1457. Unfortunately, the original structure was destroyed in 1860, and the temple was later rebuilt by silk merchants in 1924. The Ci Yun Pagoda, located within the temple complex is a must visit for its incredible history and beauty. There are several fascinating legends associated with this pagoda which is believed to be named after the Emperor Huizong's daughter, princess Ci Yun. The hexagonal structure extends over 5 floors, and features traditional elements like Nanmu pillars, copper bells on every corner and a Buddhist shrine decorated with floral motifs and exquisite carvings. The heritage complex of temple, pagoda, river and bridge exemplifies the harmony of man with nature as a cohesive whole; it is one of the best examples of religious architecture in the region.
Shengze is a town dedicated to silk where you can buy some unique silk goods. You can also customize special silk products for your friends and relatives.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB:CAPR), a biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, today announced that the first three patients have been treated in its DYNAMIC clinical trial. The trial is being conducted by Dr. Raj Makkar and his colleagues at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles. The Phase I DYNAMIC trial, also known as the "Dilated cardiomYopathy iNtervention with Allogeneic MyocardIally-regenerative Cells" trial, will evaluate CDCs (CAP-1002) in patients with advanced heart failure. The Phase I trial is being funded in part through a grant of approximately $3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The Phase I trial will enroll 14 patients with either ischemic or non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ? 35% and New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or Ambulatory Class IV heart failure. Suitable patients will undergo sequential intracoronary infusion (triple vessel infusion) of CAP-1002 in up to three coronary territories. The primary safety endpoints will be assessed at the 1-month visit. Safety and exploratory efficacy endpoints including ejection fraction, ventricular volumes and a six-minute walk test will be evaluated at both the 6 and 12 month follow-up. It is hoped that following the successful 14 patient lead-in phase of DYNAMIC, the safety results will support continuation to a subsequent phase that includes a randomized, control cohort.
Capricor is concurrently conducting the 300 patient, Phase II ALLSTAR trial with CAP-1002 in patients thirty days to one year following large myocardial infarctions (heart attack). ALLSTAR is designed to determine safety and effectiveness at scar size reduction of CAP-1002 in patients at high risk following myocardial infarction. Phase II of the ALLSTAR trial is being funded with the support of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
DYNAMIC Principal Investigator, Dr. Raj Makkar commented, "DYNAMIC represents the next significant step forward in the study of CDCs in patients with heart disease. ALLSTAR is studying patients treated within one year of a large heart attack but not yet severely symptomatic. DYNAMIC is studying a much more ill cohort who suffer from clinically relevant, advanced heart failure. We are hopeful that these studies will provide evidence for the role of CDCs across a broad spectrum of heart disease."
Dr. Linda Marban, Capricor CEO added, "We are extremely excited to begin this clinical trial with the support of the NIH as it further advances the CAP-1002 development strategy. With heart failure affecting over 5 million people in the United States alone and the annual costs for treatment estimated to be in the multiple billions annually, there is a clear need for novel and effective treatments. In conjunction with our Cenderitide program, Capricor is well positioned in the field of heart failure."
For more information, please visit: http://capricor.com/clinical-trials/dynamic/.
About Capricor Therapeutics
Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. (CAPR), a publicly traded biotechnology company, is focused on the development of novel therapeutics to prevent and treat heart disease. The Company has two leading product candidates: CAP-1002 and Cenderitide. The Company was formed through the November 2013 merger between Capricor, Inc., a privately held company whose mission is to improve the treatment of heart disease by commercializing cardiac stem cell therapies for patients, and Nile Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative products for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. For additional information visit www.capricor.com.
About CAP-1002
CAP-1002, Capricor's lead product candidate, is a proprietary allogeneic adult stem cell therapy for the treatment of heart disease. The product is derived from donor heart tissue. The cells are expanded in the laboratory using a specialized process and then introduced directly into a patient's heart via infusion into a coronary artery using standard cardiac catheterization techniques.
CAP-1002 is currently not an approved product and is strictly for investigational purposes.
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs announced his third medical leave in the past decade, a year and a half after he returned following a liver transplant. Gwen Ifill talks with Troy Wolverton, who covers technology for the San Jose Mercury News, about why his latest departure could have such a significant impact on the business world.
Now, a CEO's departure and its potential impact.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' announcement that he will step aside because of health issues, his third such leave in less than a decade, has shaken the business world. The man behind products like the iPhone and the iPad didn't disclose the details of his illness, but he survived pancreatic cancer in 2004 and a liver transplant in 2009.
In his only public statement on the matter, Jobs said he is leaving "so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company. I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can."
Joining us to explain why everyone's watching this so closely is Troy Wolverton, who covers the tech world for The San Jose Mercury News.
Troy, I want to start out with the news this afternoon, which is that Apple apparently did a bang-up job in sales in the last quarter and broke its own records.
TROY WOLVERTON, The San Jose Mercury News:
Yes, they did phenomenally well, Gwen.
They sold a record number of iPads. They basically sold as many iPads last quarter, during the holiday quarter, as they had sold in the previous two quarters since they released the iPad. They also sold a record number of iPhones, 16.2 million. And they sold a record number of Mac computers, which is probably the most impressive things, given how long the Mac has been on the market.
With that kind of news coming out of Apple, why did we hear this not-so-good news yesterday?
Well, the timing, of course, has to do with Steve Jobs and how his health is doing.
In terms of the not-so-good news, whether — and how people are reacting to it, you know, I think that people are concerned about, not necessarily the short-term impact for Apple but the long-term impact of Steve Jobs not being with the company.
Do people consider, people in the industry consider that the health of the company depends on the health of Steve Jobs? Is it so intricately tied up in this one guy?
Well, that's kind of the, I guess, the myth maybe. Steve Jobs is Apple, in many — in many people's minds anyway.
He has been solely identified with or the embodiment of the — Apple's resurrection. I mean, when he came back to Apple in 1996, 1997, Apple was darn near in bankruptcy. It was about a month or so, according to certain accounts, from actually filing bankruptcy papers.
And Apple now is the second-most valuable company in the world, after Exxon Mobil. He's done a phenomenal job, if you just look at just that — those statistics. So, Jobs gets a lot of credit for that rebound. And people are concerned about what that means if he's no longer with the company.
He's seen as not only this guy who was a phenomenal business leader that led this turnaround but a visionary for the company who led the developments of the products such as the iPad and the iPhone that have captured mainstream America. And he's seen as a guy — a tough negotiator, somebody who can walk into the room with the bigwigs of Hollywood and get deals done.
He's seen as a very — as being very intricate to the success of Apple.
But he has stepped aside before. What happened when that happened before? What happened to Apple when he was gone in 2004 and 2009?
Well, in 2004, his departure from the company wasn't so much of a departure. In fact, it wasn't really widely known that he wasn't with the company.
In 2009, he made a very public departure from the company, stepped away from the company for about six or seven months. The company did very well in his absence. It was being managed on a day-to-day basis by Tim Cook, who's the company's chief operating officer. And the company did very well.
Tell us about Tim Cook. Who is he, and how did he keep the company rolling when Steve Jobs wasn't there?
So, Tim Cook is a — he come from Compaq. He's been with the company for something like 10 years, at — at Apple.
He is known to be very good at operations, at making sure that the trains run on time. He's known to be a very good negotiator in negotiating with Apple suppliers. He is a very competent, very good business manager.
So, what kind of a business manager is Steve Jobs in terms of hands-on development? It's one thing to have a CEO who kind of sits in a corner office and oversee things.
But is he the kind of guy who was actually saying, this is what the size of the iPad should be; this is what the next generation of the iPhone should look like?
Yes, exactly.
Jobs has played kind of this dual role. He plays kind of the big-picture role at Apple, where he takes a look at kind of the visionary products and the marketing. But he also is known for getting down and dirty with many of the products at Apple.
You know, my sources tell me that he has something like 10 things on his plate at any one time. And he approves on a very minute basis very small details about those products and insists on certain design aesthetics of those products. He makes sure that certain things look the way they look.
And, you know, if a product doesn't — a product that is within that purview doesn't meet his specifications, it goes back to the drawing board or back for improvements.
Is it fair to assume that nobody tonight really knows what's wrong with his health this time?
Well, it's fair to assume that nobody outside of his immediate family and close circle knows exactly what's going on with him, yes.
So, what does it mean that, this time when he announced when he was leaving, he didn't say — I think, last time, he said, "I will be back in six months." This time, there was kind of an open-ended description of his departure.
Right. I think he said something like, "I hope to be back at the company."
You know, it's anybody's guess to — to know what that means. You know, at some point, it starts to get into Kremlinology, I guess. But I think that what it does mean is you kind of have to take him at his word that he does like — would like to be back at Apple, but he doesn't know exactly what his return is going to look like.
By all accounts, he is suffering from, you know, serious health problems, and he wants to spend some time with his family and — and heal up.
And, as far as we know, with the kind of numbers we saw come out of Apple today, Apple itself is in a fairly strong position to, at least for now, get by without him?
Yes. I think that the assessment of Apple from analysts and people who watch the company closely and former insiders is that the company has — you know, not only — people like to talk about having a deep bench. They have got a lot of very good and strong and competent executives at the company.
But, perhaps more importantly, they have a very deep list of products in development, and they have some very strong technology that can be built upon. And they have a very strong market presence.
You know, a source of mine basically said, you know, they could put this thing on autopilot, and it would do well for — for quite a while.
All right, Troy Wolverton of The San Jose Mercury News, thank you so much.
Thank you.
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Eleventh Hour replacement Christopher Plummer excels as oil tycoon J.P. Getty in Ridley's Scott's heavily publicized kidnapping drama, All the Money in the World.
It is ironic that the most talked about part of All the Money in the World was never originally planned and the result of a terrible scandal. Director Ridley Scott was busy finalising the music on his film ahead of an imminent and heavily promoted release date, when shocking allegations broke about one of his leads. Kevin Spacey, who had played J.P. Getty, was allegedly responsible for deeds of sexual misconduct and assault, which spanned decades and had been systematically covered-up. As more stories continued to come forward, it prompted Scott to take immediate and drastic action, to recast Christopher Plummer in this key role. A frantic reshoot over the Thanksgiving period, with a reported cost of $10 million, ensured that his gamble paid off and the film met its planned release date. Cynics would add that this move also ensured that the film acquired extensive additional media coverage.
All the Money in the World is loosely based on the 1973 kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer – no relation to Christopher Plummer) from the streets of Rome by Italian mobsters. Eager to capitalise on his status as the grandson of oil tycoon J.P. Getty, his captors demand a $17 million ransom payment to secure his safe return. However J.P. Getty has no intentions of parting with a single dime of his acquired fortune and Paul's mother, Gail (Michelle Williams) is estranged from the family with no money to her name since her divorce from Getty's son. Her pleas for help from her former father-in-law are to no avail as he publically declares that with 14 other grandchildren, he cannot pay the ransom, as it would result in all of them becoming targets for kidnappings. So instead of providing money, he dispatches his head of security and key business negotiator – ex-CIA agent Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg) to join Gail in Rome to find and retrieve Paul.
The film is adapted by David Scarpa from the 1995 thriller 'Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty' by veteran true-crime author John Pearson. The incredible and thrilling true events, feature larger than life characters and fascinating and engaging scenarios, which make it perfectly suited for adaption. A fact further demonstrated by the upcoming 10 part TV series for FX, directed by Danny Boyle, due to be released at the end of January.
Several aspects of the true story have been altered and simplified for the purposes of entertainment and some of these decisions are a disservice to the original people involved. The Kidnapped victim's father, John Paul II (Andrew Buchan) is depicted as being entirely absent due to drug addiction, which has been grossly exaggerated from the real situation, to ensure that Gail is the heroine and the drama is centred on her struggle. While the script is witty, it is at times uneven and it is not until the final stages of the film before we begin to believe that Getty's grandson is in real physical danger. We are then treated to a thrilling and suspenseful final act, which will have you on the edge of your seat and makes the earlier faults forgivable.
Christopher Plummer is easily the best thing about this film as he humanises a character that displays more affection for priceless works of art and antiques than his own family. The film excels when Getty is on screen, but this unfortunately creates an imbalance when it shifts to other aspects that have been overly simplified and lack the same depth. Michelle Williams gives an excellent performance as a browbeaten mother in visible distress as she is powerless to save her son from impending doom. While the role of Getty has received all the media headlines, the film is clearly Gail's story about ultimately standing up to her former father-in-law, whose vast fortune offers the only hope for her son's safe release.
Surprisingly, it is Mark Wahlberg who feels more like a last minute replacement in the film and his purpose as a vital employee to J.P. Getty is not entirely clear aside from him regularly repeating that "I negotiate deals". Wahlberg seems to be playing his standard Boston cop and regular guy-next-door routine, electing to don a pair of seventies style glasses as his method of serious acting when ever a scene requires more intensity.
Ridley Scott has created a visually stunning film with beautiful sets and scenery. He has found a way to ensure that the audience empathises with the ruthlessness of Getty and see his vulnerability, which is not expected from the world's wealthiest man. The pacing is excellent and it never lets us feel the agonising waiting that must have played a large part of the lengthy ordeal. Scott seamlessly flips between the action of Gail and Fletcher on the paparazzi filled streets of Rome, to Paul's growing desperation as he is being held by his captors in the barren Italian countryside. This drama is all presented in stark contrast to Getty, who continues to maintain his set business routine and life in his opulent mansion with his main distraction being the pursuit of a prized work of art.
A cynical viewpoint is whether this film would be receiving such a large amount of press and award coverage had it not been affected by the sexual harassment shake-up currently sweeping through Hollywood. Putting politics aside, All the Money in the World is an entertaining thriller with a stand-out performance worth spending some of your money on.
Fun Fact:
After Kevin Spacey was replaced by Christopher Plummer, director Ridley Scott decided not to show Plummer any footage of Spacey in character, or even tell him how Spacey played the scenes. When finished, Scott found both performances to be quite different and equally effective in their own particular styles.


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Gotham Gazette's Week in Review, Friday October 23
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK: Mayor de Blasio and other officials announce sale of Stuyvesant Town & Peter Cooper Village, via Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office; Governor Cuomo receives an award and announces planned protections for transgender New Yorkers at the Empire State Pride Agenda gala, via Kevin P. Coughlin/Governor's Office
1. Cuomo To Extend Protection For Transgender New Yorkers: At the Empire State Pride Agenda gala on Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he will take executive action to extend legal protections for transgender New Yorkers.
2. City & State Make New Moves In K2 Fight (Separately): Governor Cuomo announced on Tuesday that New York is expanding its public awareness campaign against synthetic drug abuse with ads and a 33-foot-tall billboard in the Bronx that reads "Synthetic marijuana can kill!" On the same day, Mayor de Blasio signed three measures into law that criminalize the manufacture and distribution of synthetic marijuana, commonly known as K2, intensifying the city's ongoing crackdown.
3. Federal Court Upholds SAFE Act: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the New York SAFE Act on Monday, keeping in place signature Cuomo gun regulations which were passed in the wake of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
4. Stuyvesant Town Sold: This week, the Blackstone Group, a Wall Street investment firm, reached a deal to buy Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, a 11,232-apartment complex near the East Village. As part of the deal, 5,000 units will be preserved for middle-class families. The deal was negotiated with the de Blasio administration, City Council Member Dan Garodnick (who wrote this Gotham Gazette op-ed with his thoughts on the deal), and other key stakeholders.
5. De Blasio Moves On Bail: In the aftermath of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder on Tuesday evening, Mayor de Blasio and others are scrutinizing the processes by which the alleged killer was still on the streets given a long criminal record and recent arrests. De Blasio is calling on the state to change its bail laws: as he and allies such as City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito ask for elimination of bail for low-level nonviolent offenders, they also want to see judges allowed to consider the dangerousness of someone facing charges when setting bail.
- 38 female firefighters in New York City's over 10,700-member force.
- 43% of Assembly housing chair Keith Wright's congressional campaign has been funded by real estate interests regulated by his committee.
- 5,485 classrooms in New York City are overcrowded, according to data from the teachers' union - a 15% drop from last year.
- $21.1 million increase in spending by lobbyists to influence Governor Cuomo and state lawmakers in the first six months of 2015, bringing the total spent so far this year to $130.9 million.
- 28 separate incidents of rape behind bars were reported by Rikers Island inmates last year - though the city Department of Corrections failed to inform the NYPD about any of them.
- It was a good week for Governor Cuomo and gun control advocates as a federal appeals court upheld key components of New York's SAFE Act.
- It was a bad week for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, each of whom saw legal setbacks as they approach their separate corruption trials, set to begin early next month.
- Around this time last year, on October 23, 2014, Dr. Craig Spencer, who had just returned from treating Ebola patients in Africa, became the first person in the city to test positive for the Ebola virus, sparking fear and urgent efforts to contain the spread of the deadly disease.
- Around this time 7 years ago, on October 23, 2008, the New York City Council voted 29-22 in favor of extending the term limit on the offices of Mayor and others to three consecutive four-year terms, allowing then-mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for office a third time (and win) in the 2009 mayoral election.
- Around this time 20 years ago, on October 19, 1995, the Metropolitan Transit Authority approved a fare hike of 25 cents, bringing the single-ride fare to $1.50.
- Around this time 51 years ago, on October 22, 1964, New York City Mayor Robert Wagner and the City Council reached agreement on a plan to raise the city's minimum wage to $1.50 an hour - the highest in the nation - though it was struck down later that year, on the grounds that state law prevented cities from increasing the wage on their own.
Spurred by Buffalo Billion, Reformers Look to Fix State Business Subsidies, by David Howard King
In Effort to Ensure Sound Education, City Battles Student Homelessness, by Colin O'Connor
As Healthcare Landscape Changes, City Hospital Authority Charts New Path, by Christian Zhang
One 'Raise the Age' Story at Center of Push for Legislative Action, by David Howard King
Participatory Budgeting Grows in NYC - Why Isn't Every Council Member Doing It?, by Colin O'Connor
The Future of Stuyvesant Town & Peter Cooper Village, by Council Member Dan Garodnick (opinion)
There is Nothing Innovative About Displacement, by Tarry Hum (opinion)
- WNYC's Robert Lewis and Data News Team put together an in-depth series on "The Hard Truth About Cops Who Lie."
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Early in Full Bore's development, we thought that we had painted ourselves in to a corner visually. We had a look that we liked, but the clean easy-to-read block visuals that we favored while making an arcade game quickly became boring to look at when transplanted into open world. Locations were in danger of looking indistinguishable from one another because we were limited in the kinds of visuals we could produce. Arrangements of blocks can only go so far to create a memorable world when the player can only see 300 at time. But we liked our distinct look; we needed something new to help define our areas, and that something was lighting.
About this Article
This write-up is meant a conceptual tutorial- I will go over everything that needs to be in place to do lighting in Full Bore but I will not be getting into specific implementation details. My hope is that anyone reading this who is familiar enough with their tools (be it C++ or Unity or what-have-you) will be able apply some or all of what I've written here to their own games. For reference, Full Bore was written from scratch in C++ and has both Direct3D and OpenGL back-ends, but a tool or engine that gives you decent control over your rendering pipeline should be able accommodate this technique. Of course, I have no experience using higher-level tools like Unity so please do as the internet does and tell me how wrong I am in the comments!
First, here's a quick look at what it being rendered behind the scenes in Full Bore:
The previous three images (click to embiggen) combined with a list of lights and their properties, are used to produce a final image:
For those of you familiar with graphics programming this is pretty much a bog-standard deferred shading implementation like you would expect to see in a modern FPS game. For those of you just getting started with graphics programming this is reasonably radical departure from the more textbook method, so there are few things that need to come together for this particular technique to work. First off…
Your Art Workload Just Doubled (Kinda)
In a 3D game, normal maps are used to add extra detail to models without the expense of adding in extra geometry. In a 2D game, Normal maps similarly let us pretend that the scenes we're making have depth so that we can light things in a way that reveals extra surface detail. In Full Bore just about every sprite in the game has a normal map.
It is possible to make all of the normal maps you need by making a greyscale height map and then using the NVIDIA Texture Tools for Photoshop or this excellent GIMP plugin to compute the resulting normal map. These plugins all blur the source height map at some point so small per-pixel details are usually obliterated or obscured, but if you're working on a higher resolution game like, say, Escape Goat 2, computing normal maps from height maps could very well be all you need.
But what if you are working on a low-resolution game? Full Bore's art is particularly low-res, so many normal maps are computed and then hand-tweaked or completely hand-drawn, and in order to do that we had to develop a good understanding of what, exactly, is encoded in a normal map.
Understanding Normal Maps
Mathematically, a normal map encodes a 3D vector that describes the direction that pixel is facing into the red, green and blue color channels. However, looking at a normal map you may notice the image shows some human-comprehensible surface detail. If you separate the color channels of a normal map out this becomes even more apparent. From a purely visual point of view, a normal map is the combination of a shape lit from the right or left by a red light, from above or below by a green light, and from head-on by a blue
light. The numbers are still a bit important, so, to rephrase:
- The Red channel indicates the horizontal angle of the surface. 127 is neutral, and the extreme values are facing right or left (which extreme is which direction is up to the programmer; in Full Bore 255 is facing right)
- The Green channel indicates the horizontal angle of the surface. 127 is neutral, and the extreme values are facing up or down (in Full Bore 255 is facing up)
- The Blue channel is a bit different. It indicates to what degree the surface is pointing towards the viewer. 255 is pointing straight at the viewer, while 127 is pointing perpendicular to the viewer, and 0 is pointing directly away from the viewer.
For sanity's sake, be sure familiarize yourself with how to turn editing and visibility on and off for color channels in your image editing program.
Building Normal Maps in Parts
When computing normal maps from height maps, high-detail and low-detail areas will look better when computed with different filters.
In this case it helps to split the height maps into layers and combine them post-normal-filter.
Lastly it is possible to merge normal maps in an image editing program with mostly correct results. This lets you do things like add detailed noise to a smooth normal map, or merge different shapes.
In order to do this, you have to do the following:
- Make 2 copies of the normal map you are merging in.
- In one, replace the whole blue channel with 50% grey, in the other, replace the red and green channels with pure white.
- Set the red-green layer's blend effect to "Overlay", and set the blue layer's to "Multiply"
- Tweak levels as needed
By now should have enough to get you started making your own normal maps, so now…
You Need To Render Things Differently
Well, you don't need to, but directly rendering sprites with normal mapped lighting severely limits the number of lights you can have on the screen. To get around this limitation, Full Bore uses deferred shading, a technique more often seen in 3D games but also one perfectly suited to what we're trying to do here. When doing deferred shading, rendering happens in two stages.
First you write all the information you need to run your light shader into one or more frame buffers, this can be accomplished efficiently by using multiple render targets and appropriately written shaders (how exactly you do that depends on what library or tool you're using.) In Full Bore, every texture has a corresponding normal and luminance texture which lines up exactly with the original color texture, so when a given sprite is drawn out, it's trivial to draw the other data to the appropriate frame buffer by doing another texture lookup. The set of three screenshots near the beginning of the article show what Full Bore's 3 frame buffers look like.
Second, to actually light up the game, you use your frame buffers as textures to draw your lights. Oh, did I not tell you?
Surprise, Lights Are Geometry Now
Your light shader can only be executed by drawing some geometry to the screen. There are a lot of different ways that you can go about doing this but there is some common ground.
- The light geometry needs to represent the shape of the light you're drawing, and have appropriate UV coordinates. In Full Bore we compute the UV coordinates in the shader by diving the vertex position by the screen size. This cuts down on GPU bandwidth usage.
- Each light needs to, at least, know where the light is being emitted from. Embedding this in the geometry data is wasteful, so you will need to send this, along with color/brightness/etc in a shader uniform or as part of your geometry instance data.
- Even in a 2D game, each light will have a "height" above the screen. This parameter is useful because it behaves like you would expect it to: low lights predominantly light up edges, and high lights light things more evenly.
- Though the cost of drawing lights is low, they will be your biggest performance killer. Make sure the geometry is an appropriate shape and only as big as the area that will be illuminated, and, naturally, cull any lights that aren't visible.
Arranging lights in an aesthetically pleasing manner is a subject for another article, but it's safe to say there is a lot of interesting stuff to play with once you have a working lighting system.
And that's the basics: you need to make a lot of normal maps, and you should probably use deferred shading for rendering your lighting. Have at it!
Plea for Feedback
I've tried to keep this as non-platform-specific as I can, and I am sure that has created some blank spots in my explanations. Please feel free to ask me questions in the comments and I will update the article as needed. If there is any interest I can write about Direct3D or OpenGL implementation details, just be sure to let me know!
12 Responses to Lighting a 2D Game
Tyler Wright says:
Great post! This gives me a lot to think about. I'll do more research to figure out what I'm missing, but I didn't understand the deferred shading process very well, or what the luminance texture is. But it gives me a great starting point for research, so thank you for a great contribution!
Deferred shading is a pretty complicated topic that I didn't want to get in to too much detail about because it gets very implementation specific very quickly. It's definitely what I consider the better method for lighting a 2D game but if you have a strictly constrained number of lights it's not necessary. The main reason to use deferred shading is so that performance scales better when you have a lot of lights. When you don't use deferred shading, you need to draw your whole scene multiple times. This can be as bad as one-scene-draw per light depending on how complicated your shaders are. With deferred shading you render all of the information your lighting shader code needs up front, so each light you render executes your lighting code once for each pixel that is actually lit by that light. It's a pretty classic performance-flexibility trade-off. I've never found a single deferred rendering writeup that I was happy with so maybe I should write a followup….
The luminance map I completely forgot to mention. Right now, it's just a self illumination map, for things like computer screens and such that should not be effected by external light very much or at all. Very simple 😀
Gerald Howes says:
I am trying to get 2D deferred lighting into my OpenGL engine. I have had little luck as everything is xna or 3d. Could you please share how you did this for your game and maybe give code samples? Thanks
Using deferred rendering for a 2D game is actually simpler in a lot of ways, but a tutorial for a 3D game is still very applicable. You can ignore the steps where you generate the normal and position g-buffers- Instead, in order to supply normal data for sprites, you use multiple Frame Buffer Objects and shaders that write your diffuse and normal textures to those FBOs. You can then use those FBOs as textures when you draw the lights. Full Bore's rendering code is caught up in an abstraction framework, so any code I tried to simply post would be confusing. Once the full game is released, bother me, and I might be convinced to make a proper sample.
Ehab Subahi says:
I saw a video about the game on youtube and i was impressed by the lighting.
it is Awesome. I wanted to find out how you made it and a quick google search led me here. great work guys.
Paul Geraskin says:
Thank you for such interesting post. It would be interesting how you implemented lighting.
Going to play your game on IndieGameStand. 🙂
Yop says:
I made a quick test using your assets here => http://www.yopsolo.fr/wp/2013/12/24/as3-2d-lighting-with-colormatrixfilter/
For this test I don't use AGAL (aka Flash shader language) but a regular bitmapfilter
Oh wow, that's awesome! I'm glad you were able to make good use of my sample data.
James says:
Very interested in the light geometry in the picture. is the radius fall-off an exponential interpolation between the max radius and the min radius? would love to see the for-loop code for that piece specifically.
The falloff is computed in the shader on a per-pixel basis. The two contributing variables are that pixel's distance from the light which is being represented by the geometry and the angle encoded in the normal map for that pixel.
If you look at the shader here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinn%E2%80%93Phong_shading_model
the diffuse component of the light (in Full Bore's case, the only component) is the dot-product of the surface normal and the light vector:
float NdotL = dot( normal, lightDir );
I think that in Photoshop terms that would make the falloff spherical.
Ralph says:
Hey, really great article. I actually have one quick question, though.
I notice some of your background tiles are meant to repeat, obviously. However, while the tiles themselves are visually the same, their normal-mapped versions may not be.
For example, in the normal image above, you can notice some tiles have a bevel applied to them since they're at the edge of a wall. However, these same tiles which are not at the edge do not have this bevel.
I'm just wondering if this is done manually. Do you just have 9 versions of each repeatable tile to account for the 9 different positions in could be placed in (top-left, top-middle, top-right, etc…)? Or is it somehow done with code?
In case I fail at explaining, only the top one has a bevel applied: http://i.imgur.com/3rvooZW.png
Sharp eye with the bevels. Thankfully, it's automatic!
The shader that lays down tiles takes 3 sets of UV coordinates, one for the base tile image, one for the damage texture, and one for the bevel. The damage and bevel images are made of two parts, a greyscale image that applies the Photoshop "overlay" blend effect to brighten or darken the tile color, and a normal map that is blended with the original normal map. The key here that because the bevel adjustment is not your typical alpha blending operation, it has to happen in the shader when you are drawing the original sprite. Overlay blending is simple, but you have many options with Normal Map blending; see http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/blending-in-detail/ for details.
There are 17 edge images for different tile arrangements and 6 sets of edges used in the game. Full Bore's image data is unpacked if you want to check it out. Check out FullBore\images\tiles.png and FullBore\images\tilesnormal.png


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Minutes of the Annual Meeting
July 14, 2007
New Orleans, Louisiana
I. Introduction
The 2007 annual meeting of the Innovative Law Users Group members was held at the Hilton Riverside Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana with 53 members attending. Breakfast and breaks were provided courtesy of Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Katrina Piechnik, ILUG Chair, called the meeting to order and thanked III for the provision of breakfast and snacks. She then provided a Past ILUG Chair Tom Baker with a special gift of appreciation for his assistance to the Chair over the past year.
II. Minutes
A motion was made, seconded, and members voted to approve the Minutes of the 2006 annual meeting in St. Louis. These minutes had been distributed to members prior to the meeting via email and were also available via print copies at the meeting itself.
III. Chair Report
Katrina provided a summary of this year's activities. There is a new and improved ILUG logo and website. A survey of the membership was conducted, there is a new ILUG mentoring program (mentors are still needed), and there was a significant bylaws change allowing for electronic distribution of official ILUG communications. Additionally, there was a very successful ILUG lunch in San Jose during the Innovative Users Group Annual Meeting with 152 members attending.
IV. Officers
Katrina introduced the new Vice-Chair, Amy Moberly (California Western School of Law) and the new Treasurer, David Burch (Loyola Law School -- Los Angeles). The incoming Chair, Sarah Boling, was unable to attend the meeting. Katrina then officiated over the "swearing in" ceremony for David and Amy by means of a very amusing oath. The ILUG officers for 2007/2008 are:
- Chair: Sarah Boling, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Vice-Chair: Amy Moberly, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California
- Treasurer: David Burch, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Katrina thanked all of the candidates for their willingness to run for office. Katrina then passed the confetti envelope to Amy and presented gifts to Amy and David. Special thanks and a gift of recognition was also given by proxy to Martin Wisneski of Washburn University, the ILUG Webmaster.
V. Treasurer's Report
As the outgoing treasurer, Phyllis Post, was unable to attend the meeting, the incoming treasurer, David Burch gave the treasurer's report.
VI. Bylaws Committee Report
Emerita Cuesta of the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida gave the report of the bylaws committee. Other committee members include Elizabeth Moore of Loyola University - New Orleans and Lucinda Harrison-Cox of Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. The committee focused on composing new bylaws that would prescribe how the ILUG would handle tied votes. There was also a change to Article IX of the bylaws allowing grants to defray the cost of a hotel room for an ILUG officer at the AALL Annual Meeting.
Balance July 6, 2006 $ 3,799.18 INCOME 2006 Dues $ 280.00 2006 Luncheon payments $ 285.00 2007 Dues $ 4,840.00 2007 Luncheon payments $ 480.00 TOTAL INCOME $ 5,885.00 EXPENSES 2006 Luncheon $ 1,131.07 2006 Annual meeting A/V $ 571.64 2006 IUG/ILUG Luncheon subsidy $ 810.91 2007 IUG/ILUG Luncheon subsidy $ 1,071.35 State (Calif.) & Federal taxes $ 516.94 2007 Annual Meeting deposit (AALL) $ 100.00 2007 Luncheon deposit $ 544.00 Mailings $ 200.67 Bank Service Fees $ 100.00 Administrative Fee $ 65.00 TOTAL EXPENSES $ 5,111.58 Balance July 5, 2007 $ 4,572.60
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2007 ILUG Agenda
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. — Registration and Breakfast
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9:00 - 9:30 a.m. — Business meeting
- Chair Report
- Election Results
- Treasurer's Report
- Bylaws Committee Report
9:30 - 9:45 a.m. — III company presentation #1
- State of the Company
Sandy Westall (Innovative Interfaces, Inc.)
9:45 - 10:15 a.m. — III company presentation #2
- News from Innovative
Sandy Westall
- Transition from RLIN to OCLC
- New Services from Innovative
- ShareLaw update
- Other news of interest
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10:30 - 11:15 a.m. — ILUG member presentation #1
- "Mystery Solved: How to Make Sense of Load Profiles!"
Richard Jost (University of Washington)
11:15 - Noon — III company presentation #3
- Introduction to Encore
Dinah Sanders (Innovative Interfaces, Inc.)
Noon - 1:30 p.m. — Lunch
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- Mother's Next Door (Thanks to Elizabeth Moore from Loyola)
1:30 - 2:15 p.m. — III company presentation #4
- Let's Go Pro, an Introduction to WebPac Pro
Dinah Sanders
2:15 - 2:30 p.m. — Break
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- "What's Wrong With Search Results (and what do we do about it)"
Mary Strouse (Catholic University of America)
- Comments on Search Results
Dinah Sanders
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- Printing in 2007, New Features and Capabilities
Sandy Westall
OBS-SIS III Systems — Roundtable Discussions Agenda
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- Webpac/WebPro/Webbridge/Metafind
- Cataloging/URL checking/Record Loads
Mary Strouse, Leader
- Systems/WAM
Tom Baker, Leader
- Acquisitions/Serials/ERM
Pat Callahan, Leader
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Today I was installing Skype for Business October 2015 CU on my lab and ran into an error, the error itself did not say much about the problem, all it reported was "there were error during the installation process. For details, see the log file at…."
So I opened the log file "Skype_patchinstallerlog" and start searching for the word "error", and saw in the end of the file that the error came from the server.msp component
Usually you should just go to the installation log file location of Skype for business located under:
But I wanted to see if the server.msp log file will give me any information about the error, which came out to be just a waste of time because it told me to check the log files under the temp location 🙂
"Error 29024. Error 0x80004005 (Unspecified error) occurred while executing command 'C:Windowssystem32\WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe'. For more details, check log file 'C:UsersADMINI~1.LYNAppDataLocalTempLCSSetup_Commands.log'"
Anyway, went to the path of the installation log files, opened the latest one and found the problem, it was related to Install-CsDatabase, apparently I did not have enough "recommended" free space to install the update, according to Microsoft, you need to have at least 32GB of free space before attempting to install the update of the database….
Because it is a virtual machine, I increased the size of the partition to 100GB, and tried the installation again and walaaa, it worked.


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"I take what is mine."
An old foe comes back into the picture. Gilly meets Sam's family. Arya faces a difficult choice. Jaime faces off against the High Sparrow.
Have a look at the official episode photos here.
"Blood of My Blood" is Jack Bender's second and final episode this season. It's also Bryan Cogman's first round as writer this season, which is something I think we've all been looking forward to.
Cian: The confrontation on the steps of the Sept of Baelor is something that pretty much all of the pre-season trailers hyped up. Whatever else ends up happening, I'm just looking forward to the grand unveiling of Mace Tyrell in all his feathered-helmed splendour. I also can't wait to see the show's version of Randyll Tarly. With Bryan handling his introduction (in what seems to be a dinner scene, nonetheless!), I'm sure it will be very memorable indeed.


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