VEDIT Newsletter for VEDIT 6.21, September 2011 (Part 2)

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(Part 2 of 2 of our Newsletter)

Minecraft
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You might be familiar with the "Minecraft" phenomena - a game where
you build worlds with structures consisting of everything from basic
blocks to complex logic circuits. We have been running a Minecraft
server which has become one of the more popular ones with huge worlds
of structures.

* Over 150 users
* 8 worlds with portals for moving between them
(New users limited to two worlds to prove their "good intentions")
* Over 1 million blocks placed
* Snapshots/backups made every 1 to 4 hours in case destructive users
access a world

Here is an album of screen shots from our worlds:

http://greenviewdata.imgur.com/

And a couple of YouTube videos created by our users:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Z5AIUgr5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1XGvrXvKk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPK3rGo-cw

Our Minecraft server became popular after our Minecraft office prank
video hit YouTube: (Over 100,000 views so far.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_FG1av56JQ

If you are a Minecraft gamer, I hope you will join our server at:

mc.greenviewdata.com

(If not already a Minecraft gamer, you need to purchase a license at
www.minecraft.net and download the software. You can then run the
software with any Minecraft server.)


Hep-C Fund
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Long-time VEDIT users may recall my charitable efforts over the years,
such as fund raising bike rides for the Make-A-Wish foundation that
some of you contributed to. In order to give back a little to the
medical research that has so helped our family, my wife Debbie and I
started a charity several years ago to raise awareness and help find a
cure for Hepatitis C. This serious disease affects 4 million
Americans, the vast majority of whom are unaware of it until they have
liver failure. Over 10,000 Americans per year die from it and it is
the main reason for liver transplants. (One of the photo album's
pictures is of an "awareness" billboard we ran.) We funded one
completed study and a current research project at the University of
Michigan. We also provided seed money to a project at the University
of Miami. Our goals is to provide seed money to research projects that
might then qualify for Federal grants. We are considering expanding
our efforts to also include liver cancer. Our charity's website is:

http://www.hepcfund.org

If Hepatitis C research is something you would like to support, please
make a donation (via Paypal or Google Checkout) at:

http://www.hepcfund.org/donate.html


Final Words
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Well, that pretty much brings you up to date on everything related to
VEDIT. While we still promote our Software Subscription Plan, you may
have noticed that I didn't mention any "upcoming" features. Obviously
I have a list in mind, but I know it will change rapidly as more
users become active on our new forum. Speaking of the new forum, we
haven't yet used its Blog function; we also plan to post user written
articles on the News page. I'm certainly open to suggestions on how
the forum, news and blog would improve your VEDIT experience. Instead
of emailing me, I would prefer to see suggestions posted on our forum.
This lets me determine the level of interest and often the best way to
implement it.

As always, you are welcome to email me at ted@vedit.com or call our
main number 734-426-7500. (As this is a relatively new number, you may
want to update page 1 of any printed manuals you have.) Please note
that while our support staff answers the phone 24/7, currently only
Tony Taylor and I can answer complex VEDIT questions.

Personally, my family is doing well; our two daughters are enjoying
their careers and big-city living in Denver and Chicago. On a lighter
side, I like to say that every father should take their daughter drag
racing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojw_D5Yww0E

I still bicycle and the company still supports the Ann Arbor Velo
Club and other community bicycling projects:

http://www.greenviewdata.com/community/

Thank you again for your support!


Ted Green


Greenview Data, Inc.
8178 Jackson Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Phone: 734-426-7500
Email: sales@vedit.com or support@vedit.com

[pal]

This seems to be one of the automatically generated spam messages that are posted here now and then.
Is someone deleting these?

[mrvedit]

This seems to be one of the automatically generated spam messages that are posted here now and then.
Is someone deleting these?

Now deleted and user banned; more of us have the login to clean up the forum now.
Ted.