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Author: Kagome
Story: Dolores' Sorrow
Part: Dolores' Sorrow
Rating: Teens
Setting: Pre-HBP
Status: Completed
Warning: Death
Reviews: 16
Words: 5,934
Updated: July 22, 2004, 12:42pm
Dolores' Sorrow
Dolores' Sorrow
'Good evening, Dolores. Don't worry, I won't stay long.'
Otherwise . . . otherwise . . . .
'And Dumbledore sent you to bring them back?' she asked, giving a quick look at the trunk Lupin was carrying.
Dolores shrugged again. The trunk seemed huge, and she had no intention of using magic to move it. She had promised herself that she wouldn't use magic for a while, and no werewolf would change her mind. She eyed Lupin, noticing how he hugged himself to keep from shivering in the chilly wind. His clothes were old, too thin in the elbows, and patched in a few places. It was no wonder he couldn't suffer the weather, even though it was just an average August evening.
'Then do come in,' she said, opening the door. 'I will show you how I host my guests. Carry that; it's too heavy for me.' She tried to give the last sentence an offhand tone, but when she met Lupin's gaze, she realized that he hadn't believed a word of what she had said. However, he muttered a simple spell, took hold of the trunk, and entered the house.
Lupin gave Dolores a serious look, and this calmed her down. She didn't want him to go back to Hogwarts and say how weak and frightened she looked.
Dolores filled a kettle with water and put it on the stove to heat. While waiting for the water to boil, she prepared the infuser basket, counting out three spoonfuls of loose tea. Now and then she peeked into the living room, but Lupin hadn't moved at all. He was still sitting in the armchair and looking around.
As the water began to boil, Dolores realized that she was calming down. Going back to a normal activity like brewing tea had helped her regain her normal self. She put the infuser basket into a teapot, added the hot water, and prepared a tray with two mugs and a few biscuits.
McVitie's or Norfolks? Dolores decided that she would never waste Norfolk biscuits on a werewolf. He might be her guest, but she liked Norfolks too much.
Lupin took a biscuit, bit into it, and sipped his tea. He glanced at Dolores, and she noticed with disappointment that her hands were shaking. Only when she rested the mug on her lap did she discover that she hadn't yet taken off the light cyan jacket she used to camouflage herself among the Muggles. Not that it worked much, though; she had caught many of them shooting her odd looks. Who knew why?
As Dolores stood to take the jacket off, she saw that Lupin was laughing softly. She glared at him and he immediately stopped, hiding a few last chuckles by taking bites of his biscuit.
'Where are you going?' she said from the door.
'I said that you are my guest,' Dolores countered, but Lupin's eyes didn't lose their pitying look.
Lupin hesitated, but he eventually came back and sat down in the same armchair as before. He rested his elbows on his thighs, watching Dolores closely as she sat down in her own chair.
Dolores shuddered.
* * *
But Dolores looked doubtful. She had proposed this course of action, and now she couldn't speak. Remus supposed that the memory of whatever had happened to her was painful, and her experience in the Forbidden Forest probably only made things harder for her. However, Remus had reached a point of no return; he couldn't leave without an explanation.
As time passed and Dolores still remained silent, he stopped paying attention to her and listened to the harsh, rhythmic click-clack of the pendulum clock. It wasn't until the cuckoo signalled nine o'clock that he noticed any change in Dolores. She seemed to have found her courage, as her eyes had hardened and her posture had stiffened.
Dolores stood. 'I won't tell you. It's too painful for me.'
* * *
He took a deep breath and relaxed, giving another longing look at the circle in the sky. The moon shone back, grinning warmly, the mountains and lowlands on its surface looking like eyes and a smiling mouth on a pearly white face.
How many times had he dreamed of such a thing— walking under the moonlight like a normal person, enjoying the sight of a full moon rising in the sky?
He soon snapped out of his reverie, though, remembering that he wasn't there to have fun, but to observe Dolores' thoughts. This was her memory; she had to be there, somewhere, to see it.
A werewolf.
The door eventually smashed, and when the brown paw lunged through the hole in the wood, Dolores screamed with all her might. But nobody would come to help her, and Remus knew it well.
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As far as sacred properties go, it's tough to get any more holy or cherished than Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons' "The Watchmen." With Zach Snyder's new movie on the way, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment announced today that a downloadable "brawler" is in the works as well for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and should be available in 2009.
Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Production and Development for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment offered this comment in a press release sent out earlier today, "We're bringing the Watchmen universe to gamers in a distinct episodic game revealing action and combat for a great overall experience for fans. The filmmakers have been extremely helpful in developing the high-quality game story and we are working to match the outstanding visual style of the film."
The press release goes on to state that Watchmen (the game) will "delve into the characters, rivalries and challenges in a mature action-brawler." Yet, for those familiar with "The Watchmen" graphic novel, this approach seems ironic as the original source material features little action and almost no brawling at all. Central characters Rorschach and Nite Owl are featured in the new game and will deliver "visceral superhero combat."
Graphic novel fans will recall that Rorschach wasn't much of a fighter and in fact was typically on the receiving end of beatings. So, while it is heartening to see "The Watchmen" get the attention it so richly deserves, we can only hope that the spirit and social commentary present in the graphic novel will have a similarly esteemed place in Watchmen the game.

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With his Springsteenian voice and rough-around-the-edges melodies, Cameron McGill has been rocking Chicago's musical scene for more than a decade. While his latest record, Is A Beast, is his fifth, McGill's still mixing it up a bit. Is A Beast was recorded, in part, using money from fans on Kickstarter and was the first with a steady backing band, What Army. In anticipation of his album release show this Friday at Schubas, The A.V. Club talked to McGill about his process, touring, and his weirdest show ever.
The A.V. Club: When you're working on a record, what's your process? Has it changed over the years?
Cameron McGill: By when we start recording, I've written most of the songs. For Is A Beast, I wrote most of the songs in the fall of 2009, and then we went in to the studio in Milwaukee in November of 2009 to start tracking. We did the basic tracks for the record—it was like 17 or 18 songs.
Then we weren't able to get back into that studio until February. So I spent time away from it for a bit, and started working on it again in February and March. We had a bunch of tours last year, and we'd be out for a month or two, and then we worked in the studio in the summer. We did another tour, and came back and finished in the fall. So, it was different than most of the other records we'd done, in terms of having that space there.
AVC: Did that space help or hurt?
CM: It helped. For this record, we hadn't played any of the songs that went in to record, which was different than how we'd done it in the past. We normally play the songs on the road, and these were all brand-new songs. We didn't have any preconceived notion of how they were supposed to sound.
That time with a record, and then time away from it, is also super intense. Juggling that and being on tour with both our band and Margot [And The Nuclear So And So's] being there recording their record at the same time … then always coming back from a few weeks on the road and driving up to Milwaukee that night, doing that for four or five days, and then we'd go off to wherever we were next. It was hectic, time- and scheduling-wise, but it was good to be in the studio.
AVC: With this being your fifth record, how do you think you've developed as an artist and songwriter?
CM: I've learned a few things compared to the first record. The studio process with this record, for instance, was the most like a live record in terms of trying to capture a band as fully as possible. The first record was more piecemeal, and there was no steady band.
I think I'd do so many things differently now. I was learning what I was doing and playing while I was listening. This band has been together now for three years, and in some ways, I feel like this is the first record we've made with this band. Some of the guys played on the last record, but we had just met—literally—in the studio, and that was the first time we played together.
So, yeah, this record felt different in every single way.
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AVC: Your press materials say you wrote this record on your girlfriend's grandfather's guitar, and that it hadn't been played in years. Is that true?
CM: My girlfriend's grandfather was a musician, and he died really young. So, she happened to have his guitar, and I played it a lot of the time. I didn't really have much of a place to live for a while, and I was at her place quite a bit, and the guitar was there. It had never been taken out of the case and had the same old strings on it that had been there forever. It felt odd, but that's what was there.
AVC: Do you think that old guitar affected your process at all?
CM: I don't think about it in terms of affecting the song, but I was happy it was there. In some ways it felt like … I guess it felt like sleeping in someone else's bed. It wasn't my guitar, and in some weird way I felt like it made different songs for me, and I was at a place where I felt like I wanted to be open to as many possible drastic changes as I could for songs and the new record. It felt right to involve someone else's actual instrument. It removes me from some place.
AVC: How often are you actually touring between your band and Margot And The Nuclear So And So's?
CM: I'm usually on the road about seven or eight months of the year. When we go out for either band, we usually have a couple of nights off, though. We have two or three on this April run we're doing.
AVC: So like 150 days a year?
CM: It's probably more than 150.
AVC: You funded part of this record through Kickstarter. How did that work out for you?
CM: I liked it very much. To me, it's a really interesting platform. There's a few of them, actually, like there's one called Pledge Music that Margot's doing. Kickstarter was just the first I heard about. I wanted to take a lot of time in terms of setting it up and figuring out how much we could ask for, and then get a good video made and figure out what we could give away. It was an enormous amount of work with fulfilling the rewards.
It did better than we could hope, though. We went over the funding limit. That was really encouraging. I was a little wary and unsure of what to expect. It does not look good if you don't make it—but if you don't make it, that might not be your biggest problem.
I wanted to make sure that we would offer things that we would want to get from somebody. It was encouraging, and it made it possible to finish this record and get it out.
AVC: Well, I thought your incentives were pretty good. How many presales did you do through Kickstarter?
CM: We did about 100 on Kickstarter. We did a few different levels, though, like an EP download. If you bought a copy of the record, you got an advance download of the record a month before it came out, so they could listen before they got the physical copy.
I tried to offer some box sets and things for the new record that I put together by hand. If I put time and money into supporting something, I would want to get something that was interesting.
Whatever band that does a Kickstarter campaign, the people that pledge are your best fans. They care about what you're doing the most, and you want to treat that carefully.
AVC: How much does your work in Margot And The Nuclear So And So's affect your solo work and vice versa?
CM: It definitely affects me. I was a fan of the band before I joined, and I've known those guys for a long time. Richard [Edwards] and I had played many shows together over the years, and I was a fan of his songwriting. Being that much closer to someone that talented is never a bad thing. Learning other people's processes and being able to talk about the craft, to me, is important.
So, in that way, it definitely affects me. I felt it the most when we were working on the record. I'd be in Chicago working on Buzzard with Margot at Engine Studios—we spent a month and a half there—and then I'd scurry up to Milwaukee and spend five hours working there, and it was the exact opposite process.
That inspiration carried over, though. It was record-making time, overall, and I was very much in that place with both my band and Margot.
Whether or not I influence them, I don't know. I try to serve the songs the best I can, on any new material and parts I'm writing, and I try to be as faithful as I can to the old parts that were written prior to my being involved.
AVC: Do you have a weirdest or worst gig story?
CM: I have a weirdest. It was years ago, and I was playing in Boulder. It was kind of a last-minute gig at some sort of performance art show. I remember arriving and hearing something you'd never want to hear as a band that takes it seriously. Someone in white face paint like a mime asked me if I wanted to go on before or after the magician, and I about lost my shit. Like, "Neither. I don't even want to do this." It turned out to be a weird night for a lot of other reasons, too.


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While consumers regard fiber as the No. 1 ingredient to positively impact health, nine in 10 Americans are not getting the recommended daily value (DV). In fact, nearly 80 million baby boomers say they are seeking more fiber in their diets.
General Mills, Minneapolis, rolls out a line of Progresso High Fiber soups, raising the bar for taste, nutritional value and variety among ready-to-serve soups.
Varieties include: Chicken Tuscany, Creamy Tomato Basil, Hearty Vegetable and Noodles and Homestyle Minestrone -- all with no added MSG, no artificial flavors and 7g of fiber (28 percent of the DV) per serving.
This latest offering is part of the Progresso brand's ongoing focus on healthy innovations. Suggested retail price for a 19-oz. can is $2.69.


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You know you have planned a successful party at your fitness facility when each member who walks through the doors says, "What is going on tonight?" If you invest a bit of time and just a few pennies on a well-planned member appreciation party, you will see a huge return on investment in retention.
Setting the stage means a bit more than just setting a date. Once a date has been set for your event, brainstorm how you want the environment to feel as the doors open on party day. Coordinate the placement of balloons, which are the number one low-cost party decoration. Carefully place signage throughout the facility after removing all existing fliers, posters and advertisements three days before party night. Pick a color for the party and make sure it is seen in all marketing materials, invitations, staff uniforms and table decorations.
Why are you holding the party anyway? Empower the sales staff, the fitness team and the support employees by communicating your vision and ensure that all understand the purpose in planning such an event. Set measurable goals to hit in lead generation and revenue sales. Make it clear that the real theme of the night's event is to create a fitness party atmosphere that members will want to bring friends to in the future.
If there is to be a party in the house, the whole family must play. Those who have planned events over the years agree that the parties that stand out in their memories were those in which they got all departments to participate fully. Introduce yourself in each group fitness class, personally inviting students to bring their buddy to the party. (No one likes to party alone.) Decorate the group fitness studios, change formatting for the evening and create a dance-off or contest at night's end. Ask instructors to put together an instructor demonstration team and plan mini performances by the team throughout the evening.
Delegate duties and inspect what you expect. Assigning a task may be the norm, so why not have staff pick from a hat or choose a teammate to partner with when duties are assigned? Create a countdown board checking off as you go and assuring deadlines are met. At a recent successful event, staff members actually announced throughout the club when a task had been completed in preparation for the big night, including the member base in the energy that a countdown can create. Another team set up "party central" near the member check-in, assuring that with each and every towel or water handed out, members received an invitation to or a reminder of the big night ahead.
Personal invitation is the only way to go. Although the stage has been set and the halls have been decorated, remember that a personal invitation is what will bring the members in on party night. Write phone scripts and keep the message uniform. Have all staff wear lanyards stuffed with written invitations and add cardio tags inviting the regulars days ahead. E-blast, text and use social networking to assure that everybody knows the party is one they should not miss.
Take the hint from the hospitality industry and plan a station in each corner of the club. Set up refreshments and water stations throughout and include vendors, sponsors and cross marketing partners to assure expenses remain within budget. Assess the traffic patterns of your members when in the club, and highlight the areas as seen in large reception halls or party rooms.
Don't leave out the obvious. Don't forget that the party can start outdoors. Set a meet-and-greet team in the parking lot. Use dry erase boards to announce the next exciting class or demonstration. Set up simple fitness games, scavenger hunts, fitness fact tests and kids events in the day care areas.
How will you measure the night's success?
- Increased guest traffic
- Increase in group fitness usage
- Increase in personal training revenue
- Promotion of your menu of services
Has it been a while since the last party? Revisit the parties of the past, rework the ideas to fit your 2011 environment and brand, and remember how contagious the smiles and laughter were at your last success.
Ann Gilbert, executive director of fitness for Shapes Total Fitness for Women, leads a team of more than 350 fitness professionals. She is a known presenter and has received the IHRSA/ACE Trainer of the Year award. For the past 10 years, Gilbert has served as a faculty board member for the Shapes Academy, an internal educational resource for continuing education. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.


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From the brink of bankruptcy to a model for performance-based management: The story of one Yaoundé hospital
We took over the management of the obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatric hospital in Yaoundé (HGOPY) in 2014, inheriting an institution that faced chronic structural debt, obsolete equipment, and dilapidated buildings. No debt repayment plan was in place and fixed expenses such as staff salaries and benefits were extremely high.
This situation was regrettably common in many institutions across Africa which were hit hard by the economic and social crisis that resulted from structural adjustment policies implemented in by several countries, including Cameroon. Furthermore, the decision to increase health care charges adversely affected the poorest, limiting their access to health care and leading to a rise in maternal and infant mortality rates.
In response, African countries signed the Abuja Declaration in 2000, committing to earmark at least 15% of their national budget to the health sector. In addition to the goal of providing universal health care, the sector was expected to enhance the performance, effectiveness, and efficiency of its services.


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Digitalgypsy66 wrote:I haven't seen Jackie Brown since it was in the theaters (!), so I'll have to revisit it to comment. I remember liking it at the time, but thinking it wasn't anywhere near Pulp Fiction. As for downward slope, I guess I meant the other movies he "presents" or produces.
you cant compare JB to PF...its just not fair. I liked Jackie Brown a lot.


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David DeHaven, dean of Kaplan's School of Information of Technology, said it will take time to integrate gamification into all 120 courses, but the initial pilot group of 30 students has now been expanded to cover 700. "At the end of the day, we're looking to offer this to all 4,000 students in the School of Information Technology and to School of Business students as well," he said.
The decision to move forward was based on an early test employing gamification software and services from Badgeville. Badgeville offers a cloud service that can be plugged into other Web applications that exploit social and behavioral dynamics for commercial goals or enterprise digital transformation.
[ Should enterprise applications be as addictive as Angry Birds? Read Gamification: 75% Psychology, 25% Technology.]
When Kaplan offered its fundamentals of programming course in a gamified format, grades were more than 9% higher, probably because all students got reinforcement for doing the things that the most successful students do right, such as participating more actively in online seminars and forums. Whenever students were given a programming assignment -- from "hello world" onward -- they were also provided with a challenge assignment that required them to work a little harder, and 85% of the students at some point tested themselves with an additional challenge.
Most significantly, the "unsuccessful rate" -- the number of students who failed the course or did not complete it -- decreased by 15.76%, DeHaven said. The fundamentals of programming course was picked for the pilot because it is "one of our hardest courses, in terms of passing" and also a core requirement, he said. That is one course where instructors have seen sub-par student engagement. Some students might have enrolled in search of a job in IT disciplines outside of programming, so they don't see the point. Others might be returning adult students who are intimidated by the material.
Together with his faculty, DeHaven looked at the data gathered by the online courses to determine what distinguished the most successful students from the rest. "Then we asked, If you could change the behavior to promote a behavior of engagement, what would it be? My instructors came back with an incredible amount of suggestions," he said.


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The AAFP has responded to CMS' proposed rule(www.federalregister.gov) for implementing certain transparency provisions within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(frwebgate.access.gpo.gov), offering recommendations to improve the agency's final rule.
Under the proposed regulation, any gift or payment of more than $10 to physicians from a pharmaceutical or medical device industry member will be reported to HHS, which, in turn, will publish online, physician-specific aggregate reports containing that information annually.
In a Feb. 8 letter(5 page PDF) to CMS Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, AAFP Board Chair Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas, said that although the AAFP supports and values the transparency provisions, the Academy is concerned that the proposed rule, as written, could be inordinately costly.
According to Goertz, "The proposed reporting requirements create significant complexities, such that CMS estimates it will cost health care companies and health care providers $224 million in the first year and over $163 million annually thereafter to comply."
Moreover, added Goertz, the Academy is particularly concerned about CMS language regarding indirect transfers of value, and he urged CMS to specify in the final rule that only direct transfers of value constitute reportable events.
"Since the AAFP was involved in legislative negotiations that ultimately resulted in the Affordable Care Act, we are aware that previous versions of the underlying bill included language that considered indirect payments a reportable event," he said. "However, since the statute was intentionally finalized to specify that indirect transfers of value are not reportable events, the AAFP believes that CMS does not have the authority to expand beyond the scope of the law and propose policies that require in any circumstance that an indirect transfer of value be reported."
- AAFP Board Chair Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., sent a comment letter to CMS in response to the agency's proposed "Sunshine" regulation.
- Goertz said the Academy is particularly concerned about language in the proposed rule that pertains to indirect transfers of value.
- CMS has indicated that manufacturers may be required to submit partial-year data on March 31, 2013, depending on the timing of the final rule.
Other AAFP recommendations include
- establishing a uniform, national and mandatory data verification and arbitration process, structured so that physicians do not incur legal fees when defending themselves from erroneous manufacturer reporting;
- clarifying that speaker fees for accredited and certified CME programs should not be considered reportable events;
- offering supplementary examples of both reportable and nonreportable events that can occur when an applicable entity's representative meets with a medical practice;
- specifying that reporting requirements apply only to physicians who personally decide to accept transfers of value, such as group meals, from applicable entities;
- working with physician organizations to strengthen and lengthen the review process;
- specifying that reporting requirements do not apply to clinical research when funds paid to an academic institution are then "indirectly made to the researcher" and that approved clinical research that is subject to "human subjects (institutional review board) review" also is excluded; and
- making the reporting information CMS proposes to publish on a consumer website available for public comment first to ensure the data are useful and unbiased.
Goertz also said in the letter that CMS' proposed 45-day review period for physicians and other covered entities to contest any data with which they do not agree is a matter of some concern.
"For such a new and complicated program, that time frame is simply too brief for a practicing physician to access, review and then potentially appeal a detailed financial document," he noted. "The AAFP finds it unreasonable to suggest that practices must habitually find and check various CMS websites or electronic newsletters for updates on their transparency reports. Placing this unnecessary responsibility onto the practice will consume a tremendous amount of valuable time and resources that should be spent on patient care."
After publication of CMS' procedures to implement the reporting provisions -- originally scheduled for Oct. 1, 2011 -- was delayed until mid-December, CMS said(www.cms.gov) it was proposing that manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) be required to submit partial-year data on March 31, 2013, depending on the timing of the final rule. Overall, the agency has estimated that about 150 drug and biologic manufacturers, 1,000 device and medical supply manufacturers, and 420 GPOs will be required to submit information each year.
Following data submission, CMS said it then would "aggregate manufacturer submissions at the individual physician and teaching hospital level, provide them with a 45-day period to confidentially review and, if necessary, correct the data, and make the data publicly available by Sept. 30, 2013."
CMS is accepting comments on the proposed regulation until Feb. 17 and expects to publish a final rule before the end of the year.
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text: Just to follow up on this, this card seems stable in my shiny new computer, so I think it was hardware issues. I'm very happy about this, I now have 2 fully working DVB-T cards. I love linux! THANKS EVERYONE! Regards, Benjie Gillam. Benjamin Gillam wrote: > Excuse incorrect info, most of this is from memory: > > My card is a Pinnacle (PCTV?) 300i > > It has very bad DVB - lots of (mt352?) resets. It is fine for the first > 30seconds-5 minutes, and then lots of glitches creep in over a couple > minutes, until it is unwatchable and unbearable to listen to because of > the squeaky pops, and then it dies (mplayer/mythtv/kaffeine). > > This may be an issue with my computer as it does appear very unstable. I > am currently replacing it, so I may risk putting the card in and seeing > what it does in the new rig. > > Kind regards, > > Benjie Gillam. > > > Hartmut Hackmann wrote: >> Hi. Benjamin >> >> Benjamin Gillam schrieb: >>> Personally, I like this behaviour, as the digital part of my >>> digital/analog saa7134 card is quite poor, so I just use the analog >>> part, which doesn't work (well) once the -dvb module is loaded. Simply >>> add that module (saa7134-dvb) to /etc/modules to have it loaded at boot >>> time. >>> >> This should not be the case. Which card are you talking about? >> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Benjie Gillam. >>> >> <snip> >> >> Best regards >> Hartmut >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb at linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb >


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We've already called Pinball League: The World of Dr. Pickaxe one of our favorite pinball games for Windows Phone (there really aren't enough) but the popular title did have a glitch for Windows Phone 8 users, resulting in the game being recently pulled from the Store.
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The update addressed the Windows Phone 8 graphics issue and addresses a few others as well:
- A minor compatibility issue with Windows Phone 8 is fixed
- Lens flare effects for the playfield lights are implemented
- Selectable video resolution for smoother gameplay on 1st generation devices
- Resume in "Tango" (256mb) devices is now supported
- Various performance improvements
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The game always worked well for Windows Phone 7 but we have to admit that with the dual-core CPU on Windows Phone 8 devices and the enhanced GPU, the game is even smoother now, giving us some real good gameplay.
You can watch our video tour that we did a few months ago above and if interested, you can pick it up here for $1.99 with a free trial. We happen to love the pinball, so for us this was a definite purchase.
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text: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, John Burton wrote: > > BTW, has anyone bothered to calculate all the wasted cycles > > used up by check-point files? :^). > > Yup, and it is significantly less than the number of cycles that would > be wasted having to rerun 24 hours worth of processing because a machine > hiccuped and the process died... Or to emphasize the point even more strongly, it is easy enough to estimate a priori and determine empirically when it makes sense to checkpoint a process and when it makes sense not to, given that it may be moderately difficult to accomplish. Don's point about MPI jobs should not be taken lightly. Suppose one is running a tightly coupled job (one where all the nodes advance "together" and where failure of any node and the state data it contains implies failure of the overall job) that will take one month to complete on 100 nodes. Let us further suppose that (not unreasonably) the probability that at least one node will "fail" and require at least a restart during that month is essentially unity. The time required to complete the project without checkpointing is basically infinity. The time required to complete the project with a checkpoint generated once a day, at the cost of 1/30'th of a day's work (close to an hour!) is likely to be about 31 (best of all worlds, no failure) and maybe 35 (1-3 failures) days, depending on the number of actual failures that occur and how rapidly you are able to repair the downed node(s) and restart the job. BIG difference between 35 days and infinity...hmmmm This, BTW, is one of the reasons that there are relatively few WinXX clusters out there. At least some implementations and installations of WinXX (where XX is nearly any flavor you like) have reportedly had reliable uptimes on the order of a day under heavy load. If true, one would damn near have to checkpoint every fifteen minutes to get through the aforementioned computation at all and it would take a year. Even a single failure per day per 100 nodes is enough to significantly affect time of completion of synchronous tasks. Without checkpointing (and a lot of folks do run without it as it IS often a PITA to implement) one is basically gambling that one's cluster will stay up through a computation cycle, and one sets one's computational cycle accordingly, making it a form of "checkpointing". Experience and arithmetic rapidly teaches one when this is a good bet -- and when it is not. The first time you run for a month, only to have a node (and the entire computation!) crash a few hours before completion when you were COUNTING on the results to complete the paper you're presenting at a conference the following week the work to checkpoint may not seem so very much after all...;-) Last remark: Randy, you very definitely should take the time to skim through the list archives, a book or two on parallel computing and beowulfery in general, and maybe the howtos or FAQs before making hard pronouncements on what does and doesn't make sense in cluster computing. This is for a variety of reasons, and you should learn them. This is not intended as a flame, just as a suggestion. Note the following Great Truths: a) nearly anything simple has been discussed a dozen times in full detail and is in the list archives not once but a dozen times. b) a great deal that is very complex and involved indeed has ALSO been discussed a dozen times in full detail ditto. This list has been around for what, eight years now (Don?) and good archives go back for at least three or four. c) your mileage may vary; your task is unique; the only good benchmark is your own application; there is no substitute for careful thought about the parallelization process; there is no simple one-size-fits-all recipe for building a successful cluster (defined as one that does YOUR work acceptably well with something approximating a linear speedup in the number of nodes). These are all "list adages" that in summary mean that any simple rule for cluster computing is probably "wrong" -- right for THIS case, but wrong for THAT case -- which is why most of the list experts will carefully qualify their answers rather than make sweeping statements. d) In that spirit, parallel computing isn't "like" serial computing in too many ways. It is a deep and complex subject, and it is well worth your while to (as suggested) read some books by Real Computer Scientists on the subject. It's a case where there are often simple, obvious -- and wrong -- implementations of nearly any important numerical task in parallel form. It's also the case that if you don't understand Amdahl's Law (or know what it is!) and the related improved estimates associated with parallel scaling, if you don't know what superlinear speedup is, if you don't understand how and why both network latency and bandwidth are important to parallel task completion -- some of the nitty-gritty associated with homemade parallel computers to accomplish particular tasks -- you'll end up wasting a lot of the list's time having these ideas explained to you when you could just as easily read about them and learn about them yourself. One of may possible starting places (one that is free, in any event:-) is http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma. In particular, check out the online book. I'm not a Real computer scientist, just a Sears computer scientist, and I do need to update this book in the light of all sorts of recent list discussions and wisdom as well as finish it off in terms of planned topics, but even as it is it will make a lot of this stuff clear to you. There are also links to other resources including (IIRC) an online book on parallel algorithms. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Monterey Institute President Sunder Ramaswamy received the 2011 Education Award from the Monterey County Business Council at its 15th Annual Gala and Economic Vitality Awards on Saturday, February 5, at the Hyatt Regency in Monterey.
The Monterey County Business Council (MCBC) is "an alliance of business executives and professionals providing collaborative leadership to help people from business, government, education, and the community work together on countywide issues reflecting our organization's strong commitment to the environment, economic vitality, and quality of life." The MCBC issues an annual Monterey County Economic Report and sponsors a variety of local economic development initiatives and activities.
Six other distinguished individuals and companies were given awards for their significant contributions to specific economic sectors in the Monterey Bay area: Rocket Farm – Agriculture; Dr. Marcia McNutt – Research; Myron "Doc" Etienne – Arts; Granite Rock –Building; Harry Weis – Health/Wellness; and the Pebble Beach Company –Tourism.
Sunder Ramaswamy became the 13th president of the Monterey Institute of International Studies in January 2009. Over the past two years he has led a major academic reorganization, overseen the launch of a very successful new degree program in nonproliferation and terrorism studies, and navigated the Institute through its successful transition to become a graduate school of Middlebury College.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - The MIT women's basketball team closed the 2004-05 season with 62-32 loss to NEWMAC foe Wheaton College on Saturday. Karen Kinnaman paced the Engineers (4-19, 0-13) with nine points and seven rebounds. Vanessa Savas totaled 12 points and 11 boards coming off the bench for the Lyons (11-14, 6-7).
A free throw by Wheaton's Samara Audet one minute into the contest would hold for the next four minutes until she set up Courtney Riley for the game's first field goal. On the ensuing possession, Jasmin Moghbeli closed the gap by sinking a pair of free throws. Savas posted back-to-back baskets before Christa Margossian made Tech's first shot from the floor at 12:02. A free throw by Lisa Gibson was countered with a basket by Cherelle Walls, cutting the Lyon's advantage to two (8-6). The Lyons responded by going on a 21-7 run, resulting in a 29-13 lead at the intermission.
Audet opened the scoring in the second frame by nailing a three-pointer on a feed from Riley. Mary Flaherty boosted Wheaton's lead to 21 (34-13) at 18:33. MIT was able to narrow the deficit to 19 on several occasions, but the Lyon's thwarted any scoring attempts.
Jasmin Moghbeli tallied eight points and seven rebounds for the Engineers. Sharon Prange posted six points while Christa Margossian collected five boards.
Courtney Riley registered 12 points, seven rebounds, and two blocks for Wheaton. Kate Williams recorded 11 points while Samara Audet finished with 10 points and seven caroms. Kim McCormack snagged a game-high four steals.


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The 30 Greatest Rock & Roll Movie Moments
Unforgettable scenes from 'Pulp Fiction,' 'Wayne's World,' 'Almost Famous' and more
The movies have a long history of glorious rock & roll moments. Whether the story is about gangsters, lovers, warriors or vampires, the right song can jolt an ordinary flick into something loud and wild. So behold, the 30 all-time greatest rock & roll moments in film history – from Goodfellas to Hot Tub Time Machine, from Elvis to the RZA, from Lloyd Dobler to Spinal Tap to the Dude. (We're not talking show tunes here, so no "Let Me Entertain You" from Gypsy or "I'm Tired" from Blazing Saddles. And no TV, so apologies to Mad Men's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and Community's "Roxanne.") These are just a few of our favorite eruptions of cinematic rockingness. Play these movies loud.
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THE Welsh women's football team will take inspiration from Commonwealth Games boxing hero Lauren Price when they aim to land a knockout blow on England next week.
Bargoed's Price, who became the first Welsh female fighter to win a medal at the Commonwealths when she claimed bronze in Glasgow, put her football ambitions aside to concentrate on boxing last year.
But she began the current World Cup qualification campaign as a key part of the Welsh national team and her former teammates cheered her on to success in the ring earlier this month.
Now Price will be watching as Wales face group leaders England at the Cardiff City Stadium next Thursday (kick-off 7.05pm) looking to secure a play-off spot for Canada 2015.
"I was chuffed to see how well she is doing," said Wales manager Jarmo Matikainen as he named his squad for next week's crunch game.
"We watched the semi-final as a whole team in Scotland; it was really an event and everybody was carried away with how well she was doing.
"Lauren has been a fantastic person to work with and she has done really well in football.
"She is doing well in other sports too and it is up to her to make the decision of what is the best thing for her.
"I knew the Commonwealth Games was her main target.
"She was with us when we started the campaign against Belarus in Cardiff, but we already knew her focus was turning towards the Games.
"She is a fantastic person and I hope she will continue to play football as well.
"But whatever she does she will do well and I wish her all the best."
Matikainen says his players, led by star turn Jess Fishlock, will be inspired by Price's success.
"When she did not make the final, we thought about bringing her into the squad for the Scotland game; it would be brilliant to see her," he said.
"It was a good team bonding event watching her. Everyone knows Lauren and everyone likes her. She has been part of the national teams for quite a few years and she is such a professional it was a great event for everyone to see."
Wales squad: Sophie Dando, Nicola Davies, Rhian Cleverley, Nicola Cousins, Kylie Davies, Loren Dykes, Carys Hawkins, Sophie Ingle, Helen Bleazard, Georgia Evans, Jessica Fishlock, Josie Green, Michelle Green, Angharad James, Sam Quayle, Sarah Wiltshire, Natasha Harding, Hannah Keryakoplis, Megan Wynne, Nadia Lawrence.


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Zac Brown Band's 'Uncaged' Album Debuts at No. 1
Zac Brown Band's third studio album, 'Uncaged,' just hit stores on July 10, and this week, it tops Billboard's all-genre Top 200 albums chart.
'Uncaged' tallied up 234,000 copies sold — a good deal more than the 220K industry sources predicted, according to Billboard. With their latest album topping the charts, the Georgia-based band now has all three of their albums currently in the Top 20. Their first record, 'The Foundation,' holds strong at No. 19 and their sophomore project, 'You Get What You Give' is at No. 16.
Also continuing to blaze its way up the charts is the band's first single from 'Uncaged, "The Wind.' This week, the tune sits at No. 16 on Billboard and No. 15 on Mediabase / Country Aircheck.
When they're not busy burning up the charts, Zac Brown Band is burning up the road on a busy touring schedule, with dates booked in California, Wyoming and North Dakota this week. Click here to see a full list of dates where the band will be performing this summer, including their annual Southern Ground Food and Music Festivals taking place in Nashville and South Carolina this fall.


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Our policy regarding the use of computers for your exams is offer you the option of taking your exam on a laptop AND receiving extra time to complete the exam. Students who do not have a laptop computer can still take their exams on a lab computer, however they will NOT be able to receive extra time for their exams. This policy applies only to those exams for which the professor has given permission for students to use a computer.
All ESL students (that is, those LLM or EXC students who did not receive their LLB in English) will be rescheduled to take all their exams in room 170. Each one of you will receive an email telling you exactly which date each of your exams will take place. Unless they have an exam conflict, students who are NOT ESL students will NOT have their exams rescheduled and will NOT receive an email.
Room 170 will therefore be populated both by EXC and LLMs taking exams on their laptops and by EXC and LLMs handwriting their exams. We will make every effort to separate the exam takers so that handwriters are not disturbed by laptop exam takers.
Commencement for the Class of 2007 is Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 2:00 PM at the Arie Crown Theatre, located inside McCormick Place's Lakeside Center (east of Lake Shore Drive) at 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL. A reception will immediately follow the ceremony on the Lakeside Terrace.
All Graduates must meet on graduation day promptly at 11:45 AM in the Student Robing Area. Caps and gowns will be distributed at this time. You will also receive instructions on the commencement proceedings, including the processional. There will be refreshments provided for you.
Theatre doors will open to guests at 1:00 PM. Please note that if your guests arrive with you at 11:45 AM, they will not be seated until the guest doors open at approximately 1:00 PM. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis (general admission). Likewise, all children over the age of two will need a ticket to the ceremony unless they will be sitting on an adult's lap. All strollers should be checked in the coat check as there will be no room for them in the theatre. Coat check will be provided outside the Theatre at no charge.
The ceremony should last approximately one hour and a half. A reception will immediately follow in a reception near the theatre. The ceremony and reception typically last a combined total of three hours.
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All kentlaw.edu student accounts will terminate in July 26, 2007 after the July 2007 bar exam. December graduates e-mail accounts will terminate at the same time. The Alumni Relations Office automatically assigns each graduate a kentlaw.alum.iit.edu e-mail for life. This is a web-based e-mail address that is housed on a server at IIT. Details regarding set up and further instructions about this are forthcoming.
Keep in touch! The best way to keep in contact with your LL.M. and Exchange student classmates and friends is to visit the Chicago-Kent Office of Alumni Relations and join the Alumni Online Community.
Come celebrate your graduation with your favorite international faculty, your fellow LLM and Exchange student classmates and the staff of the OILP! The party is at VENUS and starts at 5:30 pm after the graduation ceremony, on Sunday May 20, and there will be great food and drinks! Please feel free to bring your family. The address is: Venus Greek-Cypriot Cuisine, 820 W. Jackson. Click here for a map. Join us as we celebrate your time in Chicago!
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All over the US, from small towns to major cities, it looks like the tipping point has been passed and the long awaited Green movement has finally taken root. New and old alternative technology enthusiasts are founding innovative companies, reinventing our manufacturing sector, and just possibly regenerating our sorely compromised democracy in the process. By deliberately harnessing local market forces in service of the economic, social and political changes that the Greens have been championing for years, a new generation of leaders is redirecting our society toward sustainability and stewardship. But this welcome implementation of the old slogan "Think globally, Act locally" is threatened by trade agreements which contain provisions that restrict the ability of local communities to creatively manage growth and adapt to the challenges of global warming.
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*Some semester abroad programs for Fall 2007, are no longer available as the Application Deadline has passed, however some of our partners are still willing to accept our nominations so if you think you may want to study abroad in Fall 2007, see Dean Lazar as soon as possible. Credits transfer as pass/fail instead of grades at your option. You must notify the registrar of your choice within 2 weeks of starting your semester abroad. Click here for more information.
This year for the first time Chicago-Kent will be able to send JD students on exchange either to Chongqing or Beijing China.
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· International Buisness Transactions: U.S., European and Chinese Perspectives
The program begins with an orientation program in August. The semester begins in September and ends in December.
Please click here for a fact sheet and more information about the CUFE program in Beijing.
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We are interested in submissions exploring political, philosophical, and legal questions related to international human rights, in an effort to create a more thoughtful polity better able to make informed choices about ethical foreign policymaking.
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Hope College students are teaming up with Golden 8 Ball Billiards to raise money through a national program to help send lifesaving anti-malaria bed nets to those most in need in Africa.
The student band "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" will present a benefit concert at Golden 8 Ball Billiards on Saturday, April 26. The concert will follow a benefit pool tournament, scheduled in support of the same effort, that the local pool hall will be hosting earlier in the evening.
The activity is scheduled in conjunction with a nationwide effort organized by the United Nations Foundation's "Nothing But Nets" (NBN) Campaign, a global, grassroots drive to prevent malaria, to commemorate the first-ever World Malaria Day (April 25, 2008) and to encourage individuals to take action.
The doubles tournament will begin at 7:30 p.m. The concert will begin at 9:30 p.m. Admission to the event will be $3, with all proceeds going to NBN.
The concert, which will begin with opener Stephen Tracy, a freshman from Oak Park, Ill., will feature Hope students Patrick Crumb, a sophomore from Zeeland; Bob Flavin, a junior from PalosHeights; Colin Hoogerwerf, a sophomore from Holland; and Ross Reynolds, a sophomore from Coppersville. The band members are also members of a student NBN group named the "Phelps Philanthropists" whose goal is to raise $200 for fighting malaria.
"We are excited to have Golden 8 Ball Billiards and Hope College students join us in our efforts to raise awareness about malaria and to send nets and save lives," said Elizabeth Gore, executive director of "Nothing But Nets." "Throughout April, 'Nothing But Nets' is teaming up with millions of Americans like these to take action to help us cover a continent with life-saving nets. By joining together we can make a difference in the lives of children in Africa."
Although malaria has been eliminated in the United States, it still kills more than one million people each year - most of whom are children in Africa. Every 30 seconds a child in Africa dies from malaria. Bed nets are one of the most cost-effective and simple methods of preventing the spread of the deadly disease. The "Nothing But Nets" campaign provides concerned individuals an easy, tangible way to get involved in the global fight against malaria. A $10 donation is all it takes to purchase and distribute a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net and educate the recipient on its proper use.
"Nothing But Nets" is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Inspired by sports columnist Rick Reilly, tens of thousands of people have joined the Campaign that was created by the United Nations Foundation in 2006. Founding campaign partners include the National Basketball Association's NBA Cares, The People of the United Methodist Church, and "Sports Illustrated."
To date, the campaign has raised more than $18 million from more than 60,000 individuals, and has successfully distributed more than 700,000 nets. Additional information about the "Nothing But Nets" campaign is available at www.NothingButNets.net/WorldMalariaDay.
Golden 8 Ball Billiards is located at 254 S. River Ave. in Holland.


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Damn, Askold.
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Aww, you guys rock. I feel the love... and the pitchforks and torches. Tingly!
Toddlers get too much exercise, they wouldn't make good veal.
Double post, but the HYPE TRAIN was too strong. So, there's rumors of the standard Space Marine power armour version (Mark VII Aquila) is to be replaced by a Mark IX version pretty soon. If it's true, I really hope it's a bit more sleeker than the massive PAULDRON fetish designs Games Workshop's done so, as it'd make a nice change of pace.
I have more pleasant things to focus my attention, time, and resources on than Gamergate or the Gamergate thread, such as pouring hot sauce in my eyes, lemon juice enemas, and imagining being eaten alive by fire ants.


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Oil is a fossil fuel.
It was formed from chemicals from ancient living things.
To make the chemicals in oil, the temperatures and pressures needed to be just right.
The oil (and gas) will only stay in the reservoir if there are suitable structures in the rocks:
The carbon compounds from the plants and animals have been trapped for hundreds of millions of years.
They have been burned to make carbon dioxide in a very short time.
The amount of carbon dioxide in the air has changed very quickly.
Diagram of how oil is made
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