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The other night, as we were watching a bit of Star Wars--the boys' favorite--Ethan asked:
"Why is it that Anakin can't get married? Why can't he have a wife, I don't understand."
Even though we've explained this a few times, I drew a breath and began to start the explanation of how Jedis must use all of their concentration to fight evil, blah blah blah....but Cameron interrupted me before I could even say a word.
"He can't have a wife because they're just too much WORK, Ethan!"
Oh dear.....
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The other night, as we were watching a bit of Star Wars--the boys' favorite--Ethan asked:
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Let $V$ be a chain complex, which is either $Z$ or $Z/2$ graded. A circle action on $V$ is by definition an action of the dga $H_\ast(S^1)$. This consists of a map $D : V → V$ , which is of square zero, commutes with $d$, and in the $Z$ graded case is of degree 1. the homotopy invariant is $V^{hS^1}= V [[t]]$ with differential $d+tD$. That is if $vf(t)$ is an element $V [[t]]$, then $d(vf(t)) = (dv)f(t) + (Dv)tf(t)$
The Tate complex is $V_{Tate} = V ((t))$ again with differential $d+tD.$
The homotopy coinvariants is the space $V_{hS^1} = t^−1V [t^−1] = V_{Tate}/V^{hS^1}$ with differential induced from that on $V_{Tate}$
Could anyone explain to me how this works? why homotopy (co)invariant is that? I am not quite familiar with homotopy (co)invariant.(but I know what it is)

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EVE Online is in the midst of a major revamp of skills and ships. I'm not really going to bore you with that background, just note that what you see if you take a trial right now is going to be significantly different next year.
There is, however, one small piece I want to discuss – because it's near and dear to my typical play in most games. As a low level player I can now still be a healer.
In EO healing ships are called logistics ships. As of this instant you have to have cruisers – specialty cruisers – and to actually get practice in the game you need to have built up a lot of skills. Basically, if you want to play a healer you have to spend three to six months NOT playing a healer, then you start as a newbie in that ability. Picture, oh WoW players, having to be a level 40 fighter before you can change to being a healer. Tank and DSP Druids till level 40 is another example. And when you change, you're at level 1. Yeah, it's that unappetizing.
So among all the changes is the introduction of healer, sorry, logistic frigates for every race. You could start playing with them in practical fashion while still on a trial account. Oh, you wouldn't be great (at first, though with time and experience and skill points I expect them to have small advantages). But you can learn how to do the job as a relative beginner.
Now I won't be jumping in during my trial period. Again, this attempt's goal will be seeing if I can earn a PLEX in a 21 day trial, thus having a long-term "free to play" game. But my favorite concept is now sitting ready if/when I accomplish that goal.
Or more accurately it will be ready. These are changes due this winter – six to eight months from now. If I don't succeed in my trial challenge I still may be purchasing entry to the game at that time – they finally hit my niche.


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Mary Rogers
The disappearance and murder of Mary Rogers in 1841 became a major tabloid story for the New York newspapers. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a mystery story about it, but Mary's murderer was never identified.
Sunday, July 25, 1841, was a hot day in New York City. That morning 20-year-old Mary Rogers left the boarding house owned by her mother to attend services at her church. She returned home later that morning and talked briefly with her mother and with one of the residents, Daniel Payne, who happened to be her fiancé. Payne would later testify that Mary had outlined her plans for the day: visiting her aunt until evening and then returning home. The aunt lived nearby, only a quarter of an hour trip by horse-drawn carriage. Mary asked Payne to meet her at the nearest carriage stop that evening and escort her home.
That afternoon, the city was crippled with a severe thunderstorm. When Payne went to meet Mary at the carriage stop, he found that she had not returned from her aunt's. He surmised that she had wisely stayed at her aunt's in order to avoid the storm, and would return the following morning.
By Monday morning the weather had cleared up, but Mary did not return home. This caused her mother and Payne and Alfred Crommelin (another boarder and, coincidentally, a former beau of Mary's) to set up a search plan. The natural starting place was the home of the aunt Mary had visited on Sunday. But the aunt stated she had not seen Mary on Sunday nor had she expected a visit from her.
The three continued their search Monday afternoon, but with no success. Believing the necessary search needed more than three people, they placed an ad in the New York Sun newspaper asking if anyone had seen "a young lady (wearing) a white dress, black shawl, blue scarf, Leghorn hat, light colored shoes, and parasol light-colored." Anyone who had seen a young woman matching this description was asked to contact her mother because "it is supposed some accident has befallen her."
Mary had disappeared once before. In October of 1838, she went missing for several days. Upon her return, she vaguely stated that she had gone to visit relatives in Brooklyn, although she did not explain why she had not told anyone of this journey beforehand. Her mother now wondered if her second disappearance was a similar episode. Perhaps she would reappear soon.
Mary's Body Found in Hudson River
On the afternoon of July 28, 1841, three days after she left the boarding house, several men were walking along the shore of the Hudson River near Hoboken, New Jersey. It was a common destination for New York City residents trying to beat the heat of a fierce summer.
One of the men noticed what appeared to be a parcel of clothing bobbing in the water. Curious, a few of the men went out onto the water in a borrowed boat. The men were horrified to find that the clothing was actually the dead body of a woman floating on her back in the water. After failing to fish the body out of the water, they tied a rope under the chin of the woman and rowed to shore.
A reporter happened to be near the scene and described what was brought to shore: "...she was laying on the bank, on her back, with a rope tied around her.... Her forehead and face appeared to have been battered and butchered.... Her features were scarcely visible, so much violence had been done to her...she presented the most horrible spectacle that eye could see."
A coroner was sent for and officially recorded that: "...her face was swollen, the veins were highly distended. There was a mark about the size and shape of a man's thumb on the right side of the neck, near the jugular vein, and two or three marks on the left side resembling the shape of a man's fingers, which led me to believe she had been throttled and partially choked by a man's hand. It appeared as if the wrists had been tied together, and as if she had raised her hands to try to tear something from off her mouth and neck, which was choking and strangling her. The dress was much torn in several places...a piece was torn clean out of this garment, about a foot or 18 inches in width...this same piece was tied round her mouth, with a hard knot at the back part of the neck; I think this was done to smother her cries and that it was probably held tight round her mouth by one of her brutal ravishers. Her hat was off her head at the time of the outrage, and that after her violation and murder had been completed, it was tied on." The doctor concluded, by inspecting the severe damage done to the "feminine region," that Mary was "abducted, brutally violated by no fewer than three assailants, and finally murdered." How the doctor deduced there were three assailants was not revealed.
Coincidentally, and probably in the area because of his initial search, Alfred Crommelin happened to be in the Hoboken area and was able to identify the battered body as that of his former fiancée, Mary Cecilia Rogers.
The situation was certainly tragic, but most likely would not have generated the rabid attention it soon would if Mary had not previously worked as the salesgirl for John Anderson's tobacco store. The newspapers dubbed her "the Beautiful Cigar Girl."
Anderson's store was a popular haunt for writers; authors such as Washington Irving and Edgar Allen Poe were frequent patrons who certainly knew Mary.
The key to the broad infamy of the crime, however, was the fact that Anderson's was also a popular gathering place for newspaper editors and reporters. Having known Mary in the course of their daily lives, they were outraged by the crime and turned to their newspapers to proclaim the crime and berate the police and New York City officials for what they perceived to be an inept and lackadaisical investigation into the murder.
A Heyday for the Tabloids
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Historians have shown that Mary's death was the perfect story for the burgeoning tabloid newspapers. The more lurid the article, the more newspapers were sold. Newspapers competed with each other to be the first to publish new details of the crime and subsequent investigation, and, when no new information was appearing, the editors were not above inventing clues and scenarios to make their sales even higher.
The first conclusion the media jumped to was the presumed guilt of fiancé Daniel Payne. Although police believed he had a solid alibi for the Sunday of Mary's disappearance, the newspapers thought otherwise and proclaimed his guilt. Payne went so far as to get signed affidavits from people he encountered on the day Mary vanished, which caused at least two of the newspapers to then proclaim his innocence and passionately accuse other newspapers of falsely maintaining his guilt.
With the specter of guilt now somewhat lifted from Payne, other suspects needed to be found. The editor of the New York Herald stated that the crime had obviously been done by one of the gangs that had been plaguing the streets of the New York City area. This editor would form a vigilante group to address what he felt was incompetence on the part of the police and city officials. He called for a reward to be gathered, and soon $1,350 was raised by notables of the city asking for vital information relating to the murder and for the apprehension of the killer.
The Evening Tattler, however, wondered if Mary was actually dead, stating that Crommelin would not have been able to provide an identity to a body so brutalized.
When no further clues came to light, the newspapers slowly began to focus on other pressing news. This might have been the end of the story had not a new twist come into the tale: the alleged site of Mary's murder.
Not far from the place in the river where Mary's body had been initially spotted, a Mrs. Frederica Loss ran a tavern called Nick Moore's House.
On August 25, 1841, she sent two of her sons to collect sassafras bark for use at the tavern. Straying from their duty, the two boys crawled into a thicket and happened upon articles of women's clothing -- parts of a dress, a handkerchief monogrammed M.R., and a set of gloves. They brought it all home to their mother.
Oddly, Loss did nothing with the clothes for several days. There are two schools of thought about this. Either she didn't realize she had anything of vital interest, certainly not related to a murder investigation; or, in a more mercenary vein, she wanted to see if that monetary reward for information about the crime would increase over time.
Once she had turned the clothing over to the authorities, Mary's murder once more became the chief news story in the newspapers. Reporters and curious citizens swarmed the thicket, and many made a side trip to Loss's tavern.
Perhaps too conveniently, the discovery of the clothes near her tavern apparently jarred Loss's memory, as she suddenly had clear recollections of Mary and a companion on July 25th. She described Mary and a man with a "dark complexion" spending part of the afternoon at her tavern. They ordered drinks – liquor for the man and lemonade for Mary – and then walked out arm in arm. There did not seem to be any distress between them and they had talked during their stay in the tavern like they were friends. Nothing of import happened until that evening when Loss heard screams from nearby. Believing one of her sons was in trouble, she bolted outside only to find her son safe. She did not do anything further to investigate the screaming.
Loss's statements pushed Mary's story back to the front pages of the newspapers.
One tabloid proclaimed Loss's statement as proof that Mary had been murdered by a gang, while another argued the opposite. Some editors didn't believe Loss's statements, even going so far as saying that the deposit of the clothing was done "long after the disappearance of Mary C. Rogers." Later authors and historians would specifically be suspicious about the presence of gloves among the found clothes, as Mary's hands were gloved when her body was pulled from the river.
The Suicide of Fiancé Daniel Payne
Frederica Loss would fade from the headlines, only to be replaced by Mary's fiancé, Daniel Payne.
Payne's brother would later state that Mary's murder completely unhinged the young man. A borderline alcoholic, Payne plummeted even further into drinking, beginning with the weeks following Mary's death, when he was a prime suspect and treated as guilty by many.
On the morning of October 7, 1841, over two months after Mary's death, Payne began going from bar to bar and drinking excessively. At one point he stopped at a store and bought a small dose of the poison laudanum.
By the afternoon he was somewhat delusional, but managed to take the ferry to Hoboken. Once in New Jersey, he stopped, probably not by coincidence, at Loss's tavern, where he drank continually.
At some point he swallowed the laudanum and then staggered off to more taverns and bars. He then went outside to a bench along the river near to the place where Mary's body had been towed ashore and laid down and died. A note later found on his person read: "To the World – here I am on the very spot. May God forgive me for my misspent life."
Payne's suicide brought the murder of Mary Rogers back to the limelight. His note was cryptic enough that various newspapers proposed that it was an admission of guilt while others saw it as a statement of innocence. The more romantic editors proclaimed that his death was proof that he just couldn't face life without his Mary.
A Deathbed Revelation
The story faded from the headlines until resurrected yet again – this time by the death of Frederica Loss.
In October of 1842, one year after Payne's suicide, one of Loss's sons was cleaning a gun when it accidentally went off, injuring Loss. The wound seemed minor at first, but it soon progressed to the point where Loss was confined to bed and was slipping in and out of delirium. While lucid, she made a startling deathbed confession of what she claimed really happened to Mary.
Loss said that on the Sunday in question, Mary and a doctor arrived at Loss's tavern in order for Mary to have an abortion. The procedure was performed, but Mary died from complications. Loss stated that Mary's body was "taken at night by (Loss's son) and sunk in the river where it would be found. Mary's clothes were first ... sunk in a pond on the land of (a neighbor); but it was afterwards thought that they were not safe there, and they were accordingly taken and scattered through the woods as they were found."
Loss's confession is suspicious, not only due to her previous history of questionable admissions regarding the murder, but because the details of her final words on the matter seem to go against the coroner's initial report on the body which had concluded that Mary died a particularly violent death and had possibly been raped by multiple assailants.
Ultimately, the story would remain unsolved, but not for lack of effort. Newspapers and the police would continue to pursue the facts of the notorious murder, but to no avail.
"The Mystery of Marie Roget"
One of the interested persons who followed the case was the author Edgar Allan Poe, who would transplant the events from New York City to Paris in his 1842 detective story "The Mystery of Marie Roget." In the story, Poe believed that a naval officer had seduced Mary and then killed her after she ran off with him.
After Poe, other writers would propose a variety of theories: Mary and her companion were robbed and murdered inside Loss's tavern; Mary was murdered by former fiancé Crommelin, who was the father of the aborted baby; Mary was accidentally killed in an abortion procedure set up by her mother, who pimped Mary to boarders and men of the neighborhood; or Poe himself was the murderer.
It appears that the murderer(s) of Mary Rogers successfully committed a perfect crime. Due to contradictory witness statements and the sideshow atmosphere generated by the newspapers of the time, it became difficult to pin down the authentic evidence and to outline a realistic chronicle of what took place. But regardless of who killed Mary Rogers, the crime will not be forgotten. It inspired one of the first detective stories and also showed how the death of a relatively unknown young woman could become the stuff of headlines and everyday conversations throughout a metropolis. Countless other murders happened during the year Mary's death made the front pages, but only her murder inspired the continuing lurid and bold headlines.


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align_image_stack [options] input files
Options: modes of operation
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Output .pto file (useful for debugging, or further refinement)"
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Align images, output as prefix_xxxx.tif
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Merge images to HDR, generate output.hdr
Options: modifiers
Verbose, print progress messages
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Approximate horizontal field of view of input images, use if EXIF info not complete
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A lot of smart people have wasted a lot of time wondering what open means. At least…in my opinion a lot of the discussion is wasted…because I don't think it's all that complicated.
It's a simple matter of priorities. You are open if your top priority is being open. If your top priority is anything else, then you're not open. You might be a big fan of open, you might even make it a high priority, but if it's not your top priority then you are open in name only. You're openwashing.
For example, a year ago the three founders of Makerbot all signed a statement that opened with this:
We make it open source so that you will have all the information about the machine. Our goal is be as open about the machine as possible! If you want to improve or hack the machine, you can do so…
Today, Bre Pettis was the lone voice who's statement opened with this:
…we are going to be as open as we possibly can while building a sustainable business.
The old team perspective was:
The possibilities that we can't imagine yet are one of the wonderful things that makes us stay up all night hacking on code, working on prototypes, and dealing with supply chain issues.
We're not big fans of anything proprietary
We've been in the "eating ramen" stage of building a business this year because we want to get as many of these out there and grow the community…
We are doing this because we are dedicating our lives and our savings and our minds to the dream of bringing the tools of manufacturing to all.
The new Makerbot perspective is:
I'm looking forward to having conversations with folks at the Open Hardware Summit to talk about how MakerBot can share as much as possible, support it's 150 employees with jobs, make awesome hardware, and be sustainable.
From a business perspective, we've been absurdly open, more open than any other business I know.
I don't plan on letting the vulnerabilities of being open hardware destroy what we've created.
This isn't the first change we've made to become more of a professional business, and it won't be our last.
That's absolutely a shift in top priorities and, to be fair, it makes perfect sense. Back before their $10M round of funding nobody knew if Makerbot would even be around in a year. But they are, and they're doing more and better, and that's all thanks to the money that was invested with them. Investment isn't charity. Makerbot didn't grow because the community gave them money in exchange for printers; Makerbot grew because they kept managing to convince professionals that they would be able to produce a significant return on seed capital.
It doesn't really matter what their original priorities were, because the only way for them to be successful now is to focus on maximizing profit. You have to play the ball where it lies.
Yes, it is possible that they could be successful while remaining devoted to open, but it would be a hell of a gamble. There aren't any relevant case-studies that I'm aware of; Makerbot is the first. New businesses, and new business models, are notoriously likely to fail. When you're just a little guy plugging away at an idea, failure isn't a big deal. When you're using $10M of someone else's money, failure becomes a real issue.
The thing is that I don't see how anyone loses. Even if Makerbot goes totally closed source, and cuts off all the old printers, the community still benefits. Whether we like it or not the community suffers as long as 3D printing remains an unknown niche for a specific subset of geeks. There isn't anything about the current state-of-the-art in open 3D printing that is inherently expensive or complicated. What is keeping it in a place where it costs too much and breaks too often is the lack of a market. Grow the market so that scale will bring prices down and quality up. That will help the open hobby community do more and more exciting things because there will be a bigger supply of commodities to work with.
And I don't think Makerbot will go totally closed source. I think what they're doing is moving up-market as fast as possible so that they can establish themselves as a brand that non-hackers buy. Believe it or not, but even most geeks get tired of wrenching on their projects and would appreciate it if they'd just freaking work for long enough to get something else done. There are an order of magnitude more people ready to buy a turn-key 3D printer than a turn-allen-wrench 3D printer. Those people are not being served by existing 3D printing companies. It would be fiscally foolish of Makerbot to ignore that market in favor of the tiny hacker market. But that doesn't mean they will abandon open source designs. I think they will keep doing open source work, it will just slip into second or third place.
They need to pay their investors back, which means they need to establish a brand and cash flow that is lucrative. The open source hobby community is not lucrative. Of course it would be nice if they would be more up front about their shift in priorities, but I suppose using corporate double-speak is part of that shift.
Give it time. The open hardware movement is still very young and, unlike software, there is no way to ignore money. You can't pay for hardware by eating cheap food and staying in front of your computer; you have to actually turn a profit. Even if Makerbot closes up like a clam, they will still have proven that a successful company can start open. Then the next hardware guys will try to stay open longer.
Also…if Makerbot goes closed source, they will just get out-innovated by the remaining open source hardware community anyway…just like the companies they're trying to beat to the prosumer 3D printing market. The only way for them to stay relevant is to stay at least somewhat open.


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We were more than a little dubious when we first heard about "Casa de MI Padre," but the trailer's here and we're pleasantly surprised.
Why Will Ferrell would want to make a film in Spanish is anyone's guess, but he convinced two of Latin America's best young actors, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, to join him in what looks to be a goof on telenovelas.
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The film doesn't have a release date, yet, but it appears to be ready, and so are we.


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Astronaut Luca wants your questions
Tweet your questions to ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano before he leaves Earth for the International Space Station in May. Your questions will be answered this Tuesday during a press conference with crewmates Karen Nyberg from NASA and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin.
Luca will have a busy time on the Space Station docking cargo vehicles, running experiments and even venturing outside on two spacewalks to retrieve scientific equipment, replace a camera and prepare the Station for the arrival of a new module.
Luca is the first of ESA's class of 2009 astronauts to go to space. From test pilot in the Italian air force to ESA astronaut in just three years of intensive training, Luca is set to soar higher than ever before on this mission opportunity provided through Italy's ASI space agency.
His Volare mission will take him to the Station in record time. In less time than it takes to fly from New York to London, the Soyuz spacecraft will take the Expedition 36 crew into space and dock with the International Space Station.
A keen jogger and science fiction fan, Luca is ready for launch and will be leaving for Russia soon for his next destination: outer space.
Question time
Before he leaves, Luca has time for one more question and answer session.
Send your questions in English on any topic related to Luca's mission. The best questions will be asked at the media conference that can be followed live on NASA television from 19:00 to 20:00 CET, Tuesday 19 March.
Post questions to @ESA using hashtag #askluca. The deadline for receiving the questions is 13:00 CET (12:00 GMT) on Monday 18 March.


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Tori Spelling's Homemade Christmas
The actress, mom, and crafter shares her holiday traditions, including two mouthwatering Christmas recipes, below.
For actress, reality show star, and mom of four Tori Spelling, it wouldn't be Christmas without making handcrafted ornaments at her home near Los Angeles. It's a tradition that the former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress adopted as a kid.
"My mom was a crafter, and holidays were our time to do it big. Then when I had kids, it took on a whole new meaning for me," she says.
She has helpers in son Liam, 6, daughter Stella, 5 ("She calls herself a 'mini-craftista,'" Spelling says), daughter Hattie, 2, and even son Finn, 1—plus husband Dean McDermott, who starred with Spelling in their hit reality show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. (Their newest reality series begins this spring.)
"We make tons of decorated ornaments out of salt dough in every holiday shape," says Spelling, who also hosted TLC's Craft Wars last year. "I'm doing them every year with the kids, so by the time they're adults they'll have all their own ornaments."
Spelling celebrated both Christmas and Hanukkah with her mom and her famed producer dad, the late Aaron Spelling, and she carries on that tradition with her family today. "I grew up in a house where holidays were about family and celebrations of all kinds. Dean and I believe in that, too, and we want the kids to experience everything."
When it comes to her tree, Spelling cherishes her new DIY tradition: "The kids and Dean and I actually cut down our own tree at a place in Santa Clarita—you take a train ride, get a wagon, and saw your own tree!"
Spelling also gets crafty with her kids in the kitchen, baking up delicious holiday dishes. She shared two of her favorites with us.
Tori Spelling's Favorite Green Beans
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 17 minutes
10 slices bacon
1/2 pound fresh green beans
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1. Preheat oven to 375°. Line a 9-by-13-inch baking pan with aluminum foil.
2. Cook bacon, in batches, in a heavy skillet over medium heat 5 minutes or until partly cooked but not crisp. Drain on paper towels.
3. Cook green beans in boiling salted water for 2 minutes. Drain, and rinse with cold water. Arrange beans evenly into 10 bundles. Wrap each bundle with a slice of bacon.
4. Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir in sugar, soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly, until sugar melts. Brush mixture over bean bundles. Bake 10 to 15 minutes until bacon is cooked through. Makes 10 servings.
Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup peanut butter
2 cups all-purpose baking mix
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup sugar
1 (13-ounce) package milk chocolate kisses
1. Beat condensed milk and peanut butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add baking mix and vanilla, beating at low speed just until blended.
2. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in sugar. Place on lightly greased baking sheets.
3. Bake at 350° for 11 minutes. Remove from oven, and immediately place a chocolate kiss in center of each cookie. Remove cookies to wire racks to cool.


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Review: Apple iPad
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I have had the opportunity to road test a brand new Apple iPad (32GB, Wi-Fi + 3G) this weekend. Playing with new toys is always fun, but this is not just any new toy. This is a toy with the power to transform an entire industry.
My friend graciously lent it to me but that won't stop me from telling you whether they just blew $928 (AUD inc GST) plus data costs or not.
Much as Apple's recent reinvention via iTunes and the iPhone has impressed me, I'm no Apple evangelist.
In the interest of providing a fair review, I declare my ownership of at least one Apple device (an iPod Touch). My partner also has an iPhone which is never more than 30 centimetres from his grasp at any moment.
I must also reveal that my relationship with Apple extends back into the 80s when I got my first computer – a hand-me-down from a family friend – an Apple ii C. It was boxy way before electronic cubes became fashionable. I credit the Lemonade Stand game for my later business exploits.
Back to the shiny new toy.
I shall confine myself to the three best and worst features of the iPad. You can google for more extensive, technical reviews elsewhere.
Here is the subject of this post:
I am an avid reader and a lover of books, so I was not expecting much more than an electronic page-turner with the functionality of my iPod Touch thrown in.
Best three things about the iPad
- You can read in bed, staying warmer than you would with a book
It is winter in Australia, which I admit is pretty lame compared to a Northern Hemisphere winter. Nevertheless, I am female and I feel the cold. With a book I need both hands out in the cold – one to hold it upright and one to turn the pages. With the iPad one hand can stay cosy under the covers as it only takes one hand to hold the iPad and flick the pages. Brilliant.
- You can travel lighter
Whenever I travel, I always end up carting a few kilos of books. I never read the entire selection, but I never find myself bored and unable to switch to a new text. The iPad takes my need for choice and uninterrupted reading to a new lighter level. This iPad has 61 books already (many which were free classics), a bunch of apps and miscelleneous media and still has more than 28 GB free.
- You can settle domestic disputes and confirm trivial questions
How many gold medals does Michael Phelps have? What is K Rudd's all new low approval rating? What is Doraphobia? These are the sort of questions that arise in our household over dinner (judge us as you will). The iPhone is great for a quick web search but the iPad is bigger and better. Here's a close up of my blog, to give you an indication of readability.
Worst three things about the iPad
- Really expensive
Maybe you have a spare thousand dollars (and the rest for data). I wish I could say the same right now. Even if I could justify spending that grand on non-essentials, would the iPad be good value for money? You could buy 48 books for that cash. If you read one a month, that's four years of entertainment. Will the device wear out in that time? Probably not but you may drop it one too many times…
- Not so easy to read in sunshine
One of my greatest pleasures is reading on our balcony or in the park in glorious sunshine. Add a picnic lunch and I'm in heaven. Unfortunately the reflective surface of the iPad is not conducive to reading outside. Added to that I can see myself behind the text – a distraction for even lesser narcissists. Thanks Apple, you've just reminded me that my hair is out of control as usual.
- The Death of the Book
Won't the sharp increase in eBooks lead to the cessation of traditional book publishing? Books might disappear! Libraries will be digitised then sold off to property developers…In the last year book publishers seem to have woken up inside a digital nightmare.
Thankfully many Australian publishers are looking for the opportunity in the new landscape rather than bracing for the end of the world.
I love books – the smell of the fresh new purchase and the well loved musty classic. The iPad cannot replace the sensory experience of reading a book. It cannot replace the feel of paper beneath fingers.
I do think we will see more people reading electronically and less books published.
The iPad questions the dominance of the book form. eReaders will reduce the number of printed books.
eReaders do not threaten publishing, rather they represent a triumph of story. I want more stories not less.
Story tellers have a new distribution channel and a new set of challenges.
The iPad is not the apocalypse. It is a new dawn.
The Verdict
Is the iPad a waste of money? Not if you can spare it.
I have read more in the last few days than in the previous two weeks. I can read on the bus, in a queue, while cooking dinner.
Not only can I read downloaded books but I can check newspapers and websites easily on whim.
I'm part way through Treasure Island, but I must return the useful device to its owner. Farewell trusty iPad.
Read well. Read often.
(C) Copyright of the author. 2010.


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Clubgoers at Chelsea hotspot Quo got a lot more Diddy than they bargained for during a live performance this week.
According to Whatspoppin.net, Diddy was performing at a party for Obie of Motion. That's when his baggy pants became a bit cumbersome and at some point, they come straight off. Looks like Diddy's been hitting the gym and the incident apparently didn't cause him any, umm, embarrassment.


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One of the most popular recipes that is visited on my site is the black bean and hallomi curry. It is also a recipe that is now close to my heart. Why? Well it was a very early recipe on the vegetarian blog and I really enjoyed all the banter it created about it being strange and wonderful…halloumi is not a common ingredient for a curry after all. It works though, and some of you have written to tell me as much and for that, I thank you. Halloumi, when cooked is succulent and juicy. It soaks up the curry juices and releases them generously with each bite. I love the depth and mellow nature of black beans and together, they are a cajoling treat.
I know it has been a while since I shared a video recipe, so I thought…why not?
Halloumi and black bean curry
Ingredients to serve 4
250g cooked black beans
125g halloumi cut into bite sized pieces
One red onion finely sliced
2 cloves of garlic minced
1 tsp minced ginger
4-5 curry leaves
125ml water
1 cup chopped tomatoes (tinned is fine)
Spices; salt to taste, 1/3rd tsp garam masala, 1tsp cumin powder, 1tsp coriander powder, 1/4tsp turmeric, 1tsp cumin seeds
1. Shallow fry the red onion until it is golden brown and then leave it to a side to cool. Once it is cooled, purée it.
2. Heat a couple of tablespoons of oil and add cumin seeds, turmeric and the ginger and garlic. Sauté for couple of minutes before adding the cumin powder, curry leaves and coriander powder, then stir on a medium heat for just under a minute.
3. Add the beans and coat them with the spices before adding the tomatoes, fried red onion purée and the water.
4. Bring the curry to a simmer before adding the halloumi cheese. Cook for ten minutes and serve hot.


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Some Cassini-Huygens science highlights
One of the major highlights of the mission so far is clearly the lifting of the veil on smog-covered Titan by ESA's Huygens probe, but here are some other highlights from Cassini-Huygens.
'Spiral arm' ring and spokes
Cassini scientists studying Saturn's rings have made new findings. One of their biggest surprises is that a spiral ring encircles the planet like a spring. This unexpected 'spiral arm' feature exists in near the F ring and actually crosses the F ring's orbit.
There are straw-like clumps several kilometres long in the A ring, an oxygen atmosphere just above the rings, and evidence for slowly rotating ring particles.
'Spokes' in Saturn's B ring, as seen by NASA's Voyager spacecraft, had disappeared but by the end of August were seen again. The spokes returned earlier than expected by current models (2007), and their early return is challenging our understanding of the mechanisms that create them.
Clouds below atmosphere's surface
Cassini scientists have discovered an unexpected menagerie of clouds lurking in the depths of Saturn's complicated atmosphere. These clouds are deep in the atmosphere, about 30 kilometres underneath the upper clouds usually seen on Saturn.
They come in a large variety of sizes and shapes, including circular and donut shapes, and also behave differently from those in the upper atmosphere. They are made of either ammonium hydrosulphide or water, but not ammonia, as in the upper clouds.
Phoebe is a captured moon
Cassini returned our first close-up view of Phoebe, a crater-scarred moon. It has large landslides revealing bright water ice on crater walls and patchy clustering of silicate and organic material.
The volatile ices tell scientists that Phoebe must have formed in the outer Solar System and then was captured by Saturn's gravity.
Northern hemisphere is blue
The entire northern hemisphere of Saturn has a completely new look since the Voyager encounters. It now appears deep blue, much like the deep, clear atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune.
The shadow of the rings on the northern hemisphere probably cools it down, so the tan clouds sink to depths where they are no longer visible. Nothing like this had ever been suspected from previous observations.
Powerful lightning storms - ten thousand times stronger than on Earth - occur in huge, deep thunderstorm columns nearly as large as the entire Earth.
Enceladus has atmosphere
The tiny moon Enceladus seems to have a tenuous atmosphere which may imply internal activity.
It was first discovered in magnetic field data, but confirmed later by other data obtained during the lowest ever fly-by made by Cassini (175 kilometres altitude).
Cassini then spotted a dramatic warm spot centred on the south pole of Enceladus, that is probably a sign of internal heat leaking out of the icy moon.
Iapetus and Dione
Iapetus, the two-faced moon, has an equatorial mountain range on the dark side, that is 20 kilometres high in some places, more than twice the height of Mount Everest.
Dione's mysterious wispy terrain is revealed to be tectonic fractures.
New objects and changes in rings
Saturn's F ring continues to change. A nearby moon, Prometheus, was imaged stealing particles from the ring's strands. A new moon was discovered lying in, and causing, the Keeler Gap.
A number of objects have been found (and lost) in the F ring region, which may be transient clumps of debris. Clumpy ringlets in the Encke Gap also evolve as they interact with Pan, the Encke moonlet, and probably other local objects.
Magnetic rotation slowing down
Saturn's magnetic rotation appears to be slowing down. Measurements of Saturn's kilometric radiation, used by Voyager and Cassini to determine an internal rotation rate for Saturn, show that Saturn's rotation rate today appears to be six minutes slower than the rate measured by Voyager.
The actual slowing down of the planet is not likely, so this observation is thought to mean that the Saturn kilometric radiation might be only loosely coupled to the deep rotation rate, leaving scientists uncertain as to just what it is.
New radiation belt
A new and completely unexpected radiation belt was discovered around Saturn between the inner edge of the D ring and the top of Saturn's atmosphere.
For more information:
Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Huygens Mission Manager
E-mail: jplebret @ rssd.esa.int
Enrico Flamini, ASI Programme Manager
E-mail: enrico.flamini @ asi.it
Carolina Martinez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA
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Miley Cyrus just can't seem to avoid controversy, no matter what she does.
The 18 year-old pop star recently got some fresh ink and posted a photo of it on her Twitter page - the tattoo is a tiny equal sign on her ring finger, and Cyrus explained it means "all love is equal."
Within moments, the picture and caption sparked an online fight over homosexuality and gay marriage.Although Cyrus never actually said whether or not the tattoo was a direct gay rights statement, she has supported the cause in the past.
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"I said on [Twitter] that I believed in gay marriage because everyone should have the right to love each other," she said in a 2010 interview with Parade magazine. "I got such hate mail about being a bad person."
And it keeps coming. One critic challenged Cyrus about her tattoo on the basis that the singer is openly Christian, saying that the Bible condemns homosexuality. Cyrus responded: Where does it say in the Bible to judge others? It doesn't. GOD is the only judge, honey. God is love."
Finally, Cyrus ended her participation in the back-and-forth by simply writing: "Everyone is entitled to their opinions. "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
Selected Reading: Rolling Stone, Miley Cyrus Twitter Page, MTV


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Buttermilk built its 50-year legacy on wide-open and gently rolling trails that cater to beginners and families. Today it's famous for hosting the ESPN Winter X Games and being voted #1 by Transworld Snowboarding Magazine Reader's Poll for best park. The 22-foot superpipe in the legendary terrain park does not disappoint, as many X Games winners, Olympians and up-and-comers can attest.
|Opening date:
|December 8, 2018
|Closing date:
|April 7, 2019
|Base elevation:
|7,870 ft. / 2,399 m.
|Summit elevation:
|9,900 ft. / 3,018 m.
|Vertical rise:
|2,030 ft. / 619 m.
|470 acres / 190 hectares
|Number of trails:
|Miles/km of trails:
|21 miles /34 km
|Longest run:
|3 miles / 4.8 km
|Types of trails:
|easiest: 35%, more difficult: 39%, most difficult: 26%, expert: 0%
|Annual snowfall:
|200 inches / 508 cm
|108 acres / 44 hectares
|8, 3 hi speed quads, 1 double, 4 S3 lifts
|Lift capacity:
|7,500 riders / hour
|Uncrowded slopes:
|On average, 3.7 people per acre / 8 people per hectare.
|Best known for:
|Winter X Games, which will be held at Buttermilk through 2012!
Beginner terrain makes Buttermilk an excellent learning mountain for new skiers and snowboarders.
Unsurpassed grooming
|Best-kept secret:
|Long, wide groomers at West Buttermilk and steeper rolling runs at Tiehack.
|What's new:
|New high-speed quad up Tiehack to replace the slow double. Buttermilk Park - Snow Park Technologies-designed park including the X Games Superpipe (550 ft long) and X Games Slopestyle.
|Within the White River National Forest, 3 miles from downtown Aspen, 6 miles from Snowmass
|Parks and pipes:
|2 terrain parks: Buttermilk Park has over 100 features including a 22-foot superpipe and an X Games slopestyle course. For the beginner: Panda Pipe and Ski & Snowboard Schools Park (S3 Park)
|14,303 pillows within a 10-mile radius. For more information, please call Stay Aspen Snowmass at 888.649.5982
|Rental / Retail:
|Four-Mountain Sports at the base of the mountain
|2 Total - Bumps and The Cliffhouse
Buttermilk Mountain
Located at the base of Buttermilk, Bumps offers a wide variety of healthy, innovative dishes. The restaurant has stunning views up the mountain toward the halfpipe and jumps in the terrain park. We can provide a separate dining area for groups with buffet lunch or run an all-day tab for your guests, enabling them to get breakfast, lunch and snacks at their convenience. Reservations are required for large groups of 40 or more people.
The Cliffhouse
Spectacular views of Pyramid Peak and the Maroon Creek valley. The popular "make your own" Mongolian grill offers a huge variety of vegetables, beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, tofu and delicious sauces. Great burgers, soups and chilis. Cafeteria-style, open for lunch during ski season only.
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I'm about to draw more network cables in my home and thous need more connectors. I have a bit of problem with that. I can't find a good translation of an piece of network part. It's for the Ethernet, more specific the box you put up on the wall for the RJ45 connection. I have took some picture of it and I need to find out the English name for it. It's quite expensive in Stockholm so I want to search in the rest of the EU. Anyone got a name for it?
Here is some picture:
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Think F.A.S.T. for Stroke
Lexington Medical Center physician Dr. Francisco Albert was interviewed about stroke on WIS-TV by news anchor Mary King for a special series this month. In the segment below, he talks about how to recognize stroke symptoms and explains why timely treatment is so important.
Lexington Medical Center is a Primary Stroke Center and has received a "Gold Plus" stroke award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for excellent care of stroke patients. Learn more at LexMed.com/Stroke


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As most of you know, I attend quite a few healthcare IT conferences. This is aided by many great conferences coming to my hometown of Las Vegas. Next week this happens again when the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) happens in Las Vegas. If you thought HIMSS was big, you should attend CES to see what big really is. CES is insane. It's so large that I think that Las Vegas is the only convention city that can support its size. CES takes over both the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Sands Convention Center and that's just for the official show.
I've been attending CES ever since I moved to Las Vegas about 7 years ago. At first I mostly attended CES to enjoy the "circus." I'd just walk onto the CES show floor and get lost in the flashing lights, incredible products, showy booths, and just about everything else you could imagine on an exhibit floor. It was always a fun experience and I'd always happen upon something healthcare IT related in my wanderings.
A couple years ago, CES started to create essentially mini-conferences within the larger CES conference. One of those focuses was healthcare IT and was called the Digital Health Summit. Since those small beginnings the digital health portion of CES has grown into a really interesting place to see various consumer health IT products.
The Digital Health Summit is broken into two areas. First, they have the educational programming piece which is 2 days of digital health panels. You can see the full Digital Health Summit agenda here. One thing I love about the Digital Health Summit is that it's not the regular healthcare IT speakers. In fact, in many cases it is people who you won't find at other healthcare IT conferences you might attend. So, you're guaranteed to hear some different perspectives on healthcare IT that you hadn't heard before. Plus, they bring in big names like Arianna Huffington, Sanjay Gupta, and Deepak Chopra MD.
The second part of the Digital Health Summit is a section of the CES show floor that is focused on digital health. Each year I've attended the Digital Health section of CES has grown larger and larger. It's usually an interesting mix of devices, exercise equipment, healthcare companies (like United Health Group), and other amazing healthcare technology (like the Genetic sequencer at last year's CES). I even found an EHR company at CES one year. It seems that healthcare devices are really coming into their own this year and so I expect the exhibit hall to be stock full of the latest medical devices.
I'm sure I'll be tweeting from CES on @ehrandhit when I find cool things. Plus, I'm sure I'll capture a picture or two of the craziness that is CES (like the guy last year who was doing double back flips on a trampoline wearing skis).
If you're going to be at CES, let me know. I always love meeting people at the event and enjoying the craziness together.


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Lace Shoelaces
Lace Shoelaces – For the Frill of It
It seems I'm always getting requests for shoelaces made of actual lace. They look beautiful in wedding shoes, and they add a frilly look to granny boots, brogues, oxfords, sneakers…actually I think by definition it's safe to say that lace shoelaces add a frilly look to any pair of shoes.
Wedding Cotton Crochet Shoelaces
Several months ago I went on a search for lace trim that was suitable for shoelaces, and this cotton crochet style in white and ivory was the first I found. I'd actually tried crocheting shoelaces by hand, and while that worked nicely for my own shoes, it was way too time-consuming to try to do the same for my customers. As soon as I started offering this style, many of my bridal customers opted for these over the popular organza styles. Certainly I make the majority of these shoelaces for wedding shoes. (Click on the pictures above to view these shoelaces at the Ribbon Shoelaces shop.)
Lacy Lace Shoelaces
Until a couple of weeks ago I hadn't been successful in searching for more delicate looking lace that could handle the task of lacing up shoes. Finding quality wholesalers in an ongoing challenge, so I was thrilled when my sister-in-law shared one of her favorites that just happened to carry this beautiful nylon lace in white and black. While the black obviously isn't intended for bridal shoes, it has infinite possibilities with other shoes. I'm excited to hear what my customers have to say about these since I think they might just surpass the crocheted laces in popularity! (Click on the pictures above to view these shoelaces at the Lost In Lace shop.)
More Crochet Shoelaces
And that same new wholesaler also offered some crocheted lacing material in a variety of colors rather than white and ivory. Since these are brand new to my offering, I'm starting with a nice brown lace that's more versatile than the other colors, but I expect as these start to get noticed by my customers, I'll be back to get all of the other colors too. (Click on the picture above to view these shoelaces at the Lost In Lace shop.)
I don't think I ever would have pursued lace instead of ribbon without the requests from several customers. One advantage to being a small business owner is the ability to quickly react to customer feedback and meet their needs. These lace shoelaces are a great example of how customers can get what they want simply by asking, and I'm always so glad when they do. 🙂 Ann Louise


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Wendy Williamson, Ph.D., is a nationally sought-after speaker in the areas of general personal training education, medical exercise service and post rehabilitation. She was recognized by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) in 2005 and 2006 as one of the top three personal trainers in the nation. A contributing author of the 2008 Advanced Health and Fitness Specialist – ACE Training Textbook, Williamson routinely writes and reviews national certification testing criteria for personal trainers. She has an extensive track record in teaching and curriculum development and is the owner of Williamson Fitness Consulting. Williamson continues to provide hands-on post rehabilitation training at Genesis Health Clubs in Wichita, KS.
When working with a multitude of clients, your trainers must understand that each and every person is different.
I remember a woman who at the age of 72 came into a health club to begin an exercise program. The inexperienced trainer didn't do an assessment and put her on a balance board right away without any physical support. The lady fell, broke her ankle and sued the company.
I have a 76-year-old client who has the ability to stand with one foot on the balance board and perform a cable row exercise. She has had two knee replacements and one hip replaced. Theoretically, she should have a difficult time performing a one leg and arm row on a balance board. However, she began exercising with me four years ago, and she progressed to this level over time.
A certified, educated and talented personal trainer should have the ability to provide an exercise program design that will progress their clients in reaching their goals whether they are increasing their ability to play a sport, correct a dysfunction or recover from an injury or disease.
One of the most important components in a program design that offers progression in training is starting with an assessment. Regardless of the condition, whether it is someone who has had a hip replacement or a heart attack or an appendectomy, the components of the program design varies. Their beginning point of exercise is different. Much lies in understanding their physical condition and progressing them slowly based upon their capabilities.
Once your trainers complete an assessment, they must determine the exercises needed to progress the client to the next level because not all exercises are effective for all people. They should design the program understanding the risks, dangers and safety factor.
You must educate the new fitness professional to map the fitness floor. They should score each piece of equipment for safety and level of progression with numeric values one to four. (Value one would be relatively easy and very safe, and value four would be challenging and difficult.) They should then list as many exercises as possible that can be performed using the accessories (bands, balls, etc.) or machines, then score them one to four. Now that the equipment has been scored for safety and progression, the fitness professional has several hundred exercises from which to draw for program design.
For new employees or inexperienced fitness professionals, try providing them with a case study for which they offer a program design and defend that program plan. Once the case study is completed, have the case study progressed three times.
Based on the program that the trainer offers, a fitness director or manager will immediately know if the fitness professional is ready to begin seeing clients and prescribing program design and progression. If they are not, have them work with a mentor for several days or weeks, and repeat the case study process within a timely manner.
Even if the fitness director/manager is not in complete agreement with the program design or progression, if the fitness professional can justify why they prescribed a respective plan, then all can learn and understand the varied ideas and/or options.
The cookie-cutter approach to program design does not work and will certainly not allow your trainers to advance in their careers. Through appropriate and successful fitness assessment, program design and progression, fitness professionals will earn their keep, reach goals, maintain retention and be extremely successful. It takes time, practice and diligence, not to mention lots of experience and personal attention. We must keep the "personal" in personal training so that each client is addressed individually since people truly are all different.


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The Insomniac's Walk
Overcast skies make the moon's illumination a milky cataract; his jacket collar is pinched to his throat to fend off the chill.
He wanders the field at night, when sleep won't come. When the mind is filled with questions unanswered and he needs the expanse of night just to cope. Focus.
He stops to admire the old oak in winter strip, which is black against the spray of clouds. He thinks it looks like and arteriogram, dark limbs and branches the veins and capillaries, the sturdy trunk an aorta.
Life flows here, courses in the silence. He spins, wraps his arms around himself, stops.
And raises tear-streaked cheeks to the gloom.
The Insomniac's Walk
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine has hit the big screen and done well despite the problems most fans have had with the feature film. The next-gen versions of the game based on the movie has finally given fans a Wolverine game they have asked for, for years. However, with the Teen rating slapped against the PSP version, does it deliver the same ferocity as the next-gen version, or does it hinder the experience way too much?
The story loosely hits on the movie's plotline. A lot of the important aspects are there, telling some of the events of Wolverine's history before his appearance in the first X-Men movie, how he got his adamantium, his "relationship" with Victor Creed (a.k.a Sabertooth), and the crappy version of Deadpool the film had as well, apparently for consistency. The game is told through flashbacks, similar to the console version of the game, except here you find yourself strapped to a chair while Stryker erases your memories you are reliving. Doing it this way doesn't detract from the overall elements of the story they were trying to tell in the game, but I have to admit, the difference in presentation puzzles me. Not only is the presentation different, but it is also important to point out that the PSP version of the game gives you extra levels not seen in the movie or the next-gen version of the game. These levels, Japan most importantly, feasibly set the stage for what the movie's sequel could be about. If you are a fan of Wolverine's adventures in Japan from the comics, these levels will undoubtedly make you happy.
As you dive into Logan's memories to experience the story, you will find yourself fighting off villains that represent the environments. Meaning, if you are in the jungle, you will square off against native-looking adversaries, and if you are in military type areas, you will face soldiers in various aspects. After your initial introduction to the types of villains, you will face thousands more. This is the first factor that helps the game quickly become mind-numbing. Even the semi-boss battles become repetitive clone battles. I understand the importance of having clone minions to face throughout the game, but even for semi-boss battles there should have been a little more variety. It's very similar with how the missions are setup. Every mission has a main objective, which is usually has you going somewhere to find a certain character to take out and then you get a second objective, which is usually surviving the levels without dying or something to prove to yourself that you are indeed Wolverine. However, it all seems designed with a "keep it simple" mentality.
For example, in the next-gen version of the game, you can upgrade Wolverine as you see fit, adding elements to his attacks to assist you naturally in the way that you play the game. However, in the PSP version this RPG element is removed. You can still level up, but it functions more like an award system than an RPG aspect. As you progress, and once you have achieved certain goals in the game, you are awarded the skills and upgrades automatically. This could have brought an extra element to the game in order to change the pacing to give players just one other thing to do.
Another example of keeping things simple are the controls for Wolverine. Your light and heavy attacks are just two buttons. This is very reminiscent to God of War: Chains of Olympus and every other Kratos-Clone; it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, which is a good thing. Keeping this part simple is actually one of X-Men Origins: Wolverine's strengths. I mean honestly, who wants to play a Wolverine game that is overly complex? You just want to slash enemies until they are dead. The quick kill option is also simplified from the next-gen versions, reducing it to a button appearing over the enemies head in very rare instances. Unfortunately, there is an extreme fault. The fact it is on the PSP without the second analog stick causes this adventure to be camera-locked, which means there are way too many times I couldn't see what was going on. Even though there were no problems other than seeing the killings, there was still a few times I found myself dying needlessly because of the camera.


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It can be hard sometimes to wrap our arms around the messy, contradictory, miraculous and mundane State of Israel. But it was easy for my family to wrap our arms around the skinny shoulders of Gilad Schalit.
When my kids and I visited Israel a few years ago, we stopped by the protest tent his parents had set up outside the prime minister's house. Truth be told, it felt like making a shivah call.
We bought T-shirts bearing his solemn face and tied bits of coloured ribbon on our knapsacks. We shook hands with Gilad's father, and in my halting, stilted Hebrew, I told him that we in the Diaspora hadn't forgotten his son, that we were praying for his boy.
And we were.
We set a place for Gilad at our seder, a plate and an empty chair at a crowded table, to remember the Jew who wasn't there, who at the very best, was wasting away in a Hamas-created hell.
My teenage sons, just a few years younger than Gilad, and our guests debated the ethics of trading one soldier for hundreds of terrorists, murderers with blood on their hands, men who would potentially kill innocents again.
"What are they talking politics for?" asked an elderly guest.
"Dad, they're talking Torah, they're discussing pidyon shvuyim," the obligation to ransom captives, explained his daughter.
And then came the amazing day when Gilad emerged from Gaza, not in a coffin like so many other Israeli POWs, but on his own unsteady legs, blinking as he surfaced from the darkness.
It was not surprising then, that I took my kids to hear Gilad speak when he came to Toronto last week.
"You know, Gilad made a lot of mistakes when he was captured. We learned about it at camp," said my 13-year-old daughter. "But I still think we should go hear him."
And so last week, we stood with 3,000 other Jews and gave Gilad a heartfelt standing ovation.
But sometimes the emotional punch to the gut comes when you least expect it. For me, it was not hearing Gilad speak.
It was deeply satisfying to see him healthy, worlds away from the pale and emaciated soldier released two years ago.
He looked younger than I expected and ill at ease. He remains an unlikely icon, a man reluctantly thrust into the vortex of politics and publicity. But he was gracious in thanking us for remembering and praying and advocating for him during his captivity. And he persevered, stumbling through his 10-minute speech, much of which sounded as if someone else had written it.
But the emotional kick came from an unexpected quarter, from the bravery of Jason Kimelman, whose sister, Marnie, was killed in an explosion on a Tel Aviv beach 23 years ago.
I had completely forgotten the gut-wrenching local twist to the story – that one of the terrorists accused of murdering the Toronto teenager was included in the ransom for Gilad Schalit.
It was agonizing for Jason and his family to realize that the man who had murdered Marnie would soon be free, but their compassion was boundless.
I felt tears welling up as Jason described the day he learned his sister's murderer was to be included in the prisoner swap. And how his family, after some reflection, reached into some hidden depth to give their blessing to the deal, to allow Gilad to walk free of blame or guilt.
Marnie's sunny smile, a girl forever 17, was projected on screens around the synagogue, as her brother spoke. Gilad had volunteered to serve in the IDF, the family reasoned. And if they could help bring him home, they would.
In the end, controversies aside, we witnessed some amazing things. We saw a young soldier literally return from the dead. We heard him say he will never forget his five years of captivity, but he will be starting university soon. And we saw a man who suffered a grievous loss give his blessing to that soldier.
It was an evening where we saw that heroism comes in many forms. Not a bad night's outing.


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6 Great French and Italian Rosé Wines Under $16
Our hunt for great-tasting affordable wine.
Gone are the days when pink wine was poo-pooed. People get it now: it's not Boone's Farm, and it's not sticky sweet. Sure, there are still skeptics out there, and there are still bad rosés, but over the past decade or so, rosé has made the well-deserved shift onto the radar and into the wine glasses of the mainstream. Rosé can be fun and fruity rather than complex and intellectual, but, as with any quality wine, there's still hard work and serious intention behind it.
Here's what you need to know...I'll keep it light, I promise. Despite what we learned in art class, pink wine is not the result of mixing red wine and white wine (except in very specific circumstances and regions, but I won't get into that). Basically, rosé is made just like red wine, but the juice from the grapes doesn't sit in contact with the grape skins for as long. Red wine gets its dark color and mouth-drying tannins not from the grape itself, but from the skin—that's were all the pigment is. After crushing the grapes, the liquids and the solids hang out together; it's called maceration, and the longer it happens, the darker the color. For rosés, it's often just a matter of hours. Rosé usually macerates at cool temperatures to preserve the wine's more delicate fruit flavors. So you have a wine with a hint of tannin and the fruit flavors of a red (cherry, strawberry, blackberry), but the light body and refreshing acidity of a white—the best of both worlds, you might say. Many of the better-known rosé regions started making the stuff because they had an abundance of red grapes, but needed a cool, refreshing wine to combat the steamy summer heat—Provence, for example.
These days, rosé is produced in pretty much every wine region in the world, from Chile to Austria, Spain to California, and is made using pretty much every red grape you can imagine. That being said, for high-quality options that are still reasonably priced, I usually look to the places that have been making it for the longest.
This brings me to my second important point: most rosé is meant to be drunk young. It's not usually aged, and it usually doesn't spend time in oak barrels (there are, of course, exceptions.) This is part of the reason rosé is so light and refreshing, and also part of the reason it can be so affordable. The longer a wine, red, white, or pink, spends taking up space at the winery, the higher the price tag—it's like paying rent. Since rosé can be in and out of there in a flash, it's a relative bargain.
If you frequent wine shops like I do (all for educational purposes, of course) you may also notice that those pink bottles are on and off the shelves in a flash, too. Most rosé isn't meant to last from year to year (again, it's light and fresh, which makes it perishable), so each vintage is released in the spring, heralding its arrival by spreading those roseate hues—from ballerina blush to bubblegum pink—across the wall of wine at your local liquor store. Like summer tomatoes or fall leaves, rosé is seasonal, and once this year's vintage is out, last year's is no more. This ephemeral nature makes it all the more alluring, and it also means now that spring has fully sprung, it's time to dip into the 2012 rosés. Drink them while you can, as if you needed an excuse.
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There are tons of worthy pink wines out there, and I tasted my way through 11 options from the 2012 vintage that sell for under 20 bucks. While all were perfectly chuggable, especially if you happen to be sitting in the sun somewhere, these were my top six, all $15 or less.
Maculan Costadolio Rosato ($15) is from the Veneto province in northern Italy, but it's made entirely from an unlikely candidate—Merlot. It has a beautiful pale coppery-salmon color, and a decidedly savory aroma. It does have a little bit of tropical fruit, but it also smells like celery seed, dusty earth, and chalk—think of banging chalkboard erasers together, if you're old enough to remember doing that. It also has a creaminess somewhere between butterscotch and burrata cheese, which made me think it would be perfect with a Caprese salad.
San Giovanni Il Chiaretto Valtènesi ($15) is also from northern Italy in the Lombardy region, but this one is made with indigenous grapes: Barbera and Sangiovese, which probably sound familiar, and Groppello and Marzemino, which may not. Its cool packaging and bubble-gum pink color definitely make it stand out, and it smells like tart strawberries, rose petals, and watermelon. It has a waxy character, too, and taking a sip reminded me of eating one of those Nik-L-Nip candies—the sweet, fruity juice on your tongue with just a touch of wax on your lips. The fruit is balanced by sharp acidity; this one would be perfect with spicy food, especially Thai.
Argiolas Serra Lori Rosato Isola dei Nuraghi ($15) is from Sardinia, and the intense color and smell of sun-baked stones definitely evoke the Mediterranean. It's made from a blend of cool indigenous grapes: Cannonau, Monica, Bovale, and Carignano, which, incidentally, is the same grape as France's Carignan. It has a fruity core: wild berries with just a touch of watermelon Jolly Rancher. It also has a warm-spice accent, like cinnamon and mint. This one would be perfect with smoky barbecue.
Pichard Jourdan Chinon Rosé ($15) is from the Loire Valley in France, and if you know the wines of Chinon, you're probably familiar with the earthy, savory reds made from 100 percent Cabernet Franc. The rosé is made from the same grape as the region's flagship wine, and has some of the same flavors you'd expect from the red—green pepper, parsley, menthol, and a touch of barnyard funk—but in this pretty pink wine they're balanced by strawberry-rhubarb pie and candied cherries. I'd drink it with a salad topped with fresh goat cheese and dried cranberries.
Moillard Les Violettes Cotes du Rhône Rosé ($13) is another example of a pink wine from a renowned red wine region. The wine, which was made from an equal-parts blend of Grenache and Syrah, smelled bright and grassy, like gooseberries, grapefruit, and narcissus flowers. Truer to its red roots, there's a little bit of tannin and a good amount of acid on the palate, and it tastes like citrus, with just a tad of stink. It reminded me of Camembert cheese rind, so why not try it with some?
Domaine de Fenouillet Rosé ($15) from Ventoux in Southeastern France is one of my perennial favorites, and the 2012 vintage is no exception. It's made from Cinsault, Grenache, and Syrah, and if you like earthy wines with a little bit of funk, this is the rosé for you. It smells like barnyard, but with a bright, herbal, eucalyptus thing underneath, kind of like walking into a steam room (in a very classy spa, of course). It tastes like crushed raspberries, and is straightforward, but unique and delicious. This one could totally stand up to grilled pork tenderloin or even a burger.
About the Author: Rebeccah Marsters develops recipes and works as an associate editor for Cook's Country magazine in Boston. She likes learning about food, wine, and spirits almost as much as she likes eating and drinking—all the better if she can do both at the same time.
Maculan Costadolio Rosato, San Giovanni Il Chiaretto, Pichard Jourdan Chinon Rosé, and Argiolas Serra Lori Rosato Isola dei Nuraghi provided as samples for review consideration. 11 rosés were sampled for this piece.
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