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A Stockton native was awarded a badge for his efforts during combat operations.
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An incorrect name was listed in the print and initial online version of this article. The error has been corrected.
A Stockton native was awarded a badge for his efforts during combat operations.
Army Spc. Jeremy A. Forbes, a graduate of Stagg High School, received the Combat Action Badge, according to a news release from the Department of Defense's Hometown News Program.
Forbes is a combat medic with the 509th Engineer Company, 4th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
The badge gives special recognition to soldiers who are engaged with the enemy in combat operations, according to the Army. Among other requirements, recipients must be performing assigned duties in an area where hostile-fire or imminent-danger pay is authorized.
Forbes graduated from Stagg High in 2004. He is the son of Lisa Lyn Sanford and Ronald Roach of Stockton.
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Registration is open for the spring session of the Vollum Writing Program, an in-depth professional science writing course open to OHSU graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. The course focuses on the basic elements of good scientific writing, for both papers and grant proposals. It runs for six weeks, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesdays, beginning April 3, 2013. Six individual tutorials with the instructor are included.
The course carries a fee of $500 per student (unless you are in a Vollum lab or part of select graduate PhD programs). Get more information by visiting the Vollum Writing Program website.

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Overview:The low-power DIMMs for IBM System x memory options help to lower the power costs of the servers by reducing the power draw of the memory and, hence, the overall server power draw. These DIMMs operate at 667 MHz in DDR2 mode with up to 40% power reduction comparing the 2 GB DIMMs to the previous generation of 2 GB DIMMs.


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The Baltimore Orioles have purchased the contract of P Shawn Sedlacek from the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the Northern League, according to USAToday.com.
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The Associated Press is reporting the New York Mets acquired P Shawn Sedlacek from the Kansas City Royals on Monday, in exchange for P Jaime Cerda. Sedlacek was 4-11 with a 6.45 ERA for last season for Triple-A Omaha and 1-2 with a 5.60 ERA for Double-A Wichita.
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The Associated Press is reporting the New York Mets traded P Jaime Cerda to the Kansas City Royals on Monday for P Shawn Sedlacek. Cerda was 1-1 with a 5.85 ERA in 27 relief appearances over 32 1/3 innings. He has a 1-1 career record and 4.34 ERA in 59 career major league games.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — There will be an empty seat at the negotiating table when Colombians plunge into talks next week on ending a conflict that has bled the South American nation for a half century.
It's reserved for a 62-year-old economist, a senator's son and boyhood friend to a future president who is penned up at the maximum-security prison in the Rocky Mountains where the United States holds its most notorious convicted terrorists.
Ricardo Palmera's journey from the apex of Colombian society to a soldier in a peasant-based army and finally to a U.S. prison mirrors the complexity of the class-based conflict that the talks in Cuba mean to end — and the depth of U.S. involvement in it.
His commitment to reforming a society marked by deep inequities, at a time right-wing death squads were killing off such activists, led him to join a rebel force that has kidnapped and extorted, recruited child soldiers and financed itself through the cocaine trade.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, named Palmera to its five-person negotiating team fully aware the odds against his participation were long. It considers him a prisoner of war and highly values his intellectual firepower.
As a member of an officially designated terrorist organization, the former college professor spends his days in near-isolation along with roughly 440 other inmates at the ultra-secure "Supermax" federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Also held there are "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and some al-Qaida operatives. Palmera is scheduled for release in 2056, at age 106.
A rare recent image in a YouTube video dated November 2010 shows Palmera sitting in a prison conference room in yellow coveralls, speaking via video hookup to a Colombian judge.
He is bald and solidly built. His wrists are chained together. So are his ankles. And he tells the judge there are batteries strapped to one of his legs so prison guards can remotely administer a disabling electrical shock.
"I have been in complete isolation for more than five years, without being able to exchange conversation with others because I don't speak the language," he says.
Palmera is permitted direct contact only with his lawyer, a public defender, and immediate family. He gets 45 minutes of phone calls a month, which he uses to speak to his brother Jaime, to his 92-year-old mother and his 38-year-old son, Manuel, who hadn't seen his father for two decades before their eyes met in a Washington courtroom six years ago.
A daughter, Alix Maria, died along with her mother, a guerrilla, when government aircraft attacked a FARC camp. The teenager was visiting during a school holiday.
Palmera was captured in 2004 while trying to negotiate freedom for imprisoned rebels in exchange for three American contractors held hostage in jungle gulags by the FARC. The Americans were rescued four years later, along with former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.
Palmera was extradited to the U.S., then a jury in Washington convicted him and he was sentenced to the maximum of 60 years in prison for hostage-taking conspiracy, though prosecutors presented no evidence he was directly involved in the men's capture or imprisonment.
Many Colombians believe the prosecution of Palmera, who is better known by his nom de guerre Simon Trinidad, was above all a U.S. gesture of political support for then-President Alvaro Uribe, who badly weakened the rebels with more than $7 billion in U.S. aid and close military coordination.
"The U.S. government would be making a great contribution to reconciliation in the Colombian family by making Simon's physical participation at this table possible," the FARC's top negotiator, Ivan Marquez, said at the talks' inauguration in Norway on Oct. 18.
Colombia's government hasn't yet asked, so "it is a hypothetical question," said William Brownfield, the assistant U.S. secretary of state for law enforcement and counternarcotics, who was ambassador to Bogota in 2007-2010.
"We are very comfortable with where he is at this moment," Brownfield told The Associated Press.
The formal peace talks had been scheduled to start on Thursday in Havana, but the government and rebels on Tuesday announced a four-day delay. It was unclear why they decided to push back the talks until Monday.
Some Americans would certainly object at any move to free Palmera.
"He's been convicted of a crime and he needs to pay out his sentence," said Marc Gonsalves, one of the three U.S. men who became pawns in the FARC prisoner swap scheme. They were captured in February 2003 when a mechanical failure caused their surveillance plane to crash in rebel territory. They say they were on a counter-drug mission. The FARC says they were spying.
"When I was a hostage my family and my friends tried to send me correspondence. They tried to send me letters, they tried to send me things to help me survive in the jungle. They tried to find out if I was even dead or alive," said Gonsalves.
"But the FARC, including Simon Trinidad, would not allow us to receive any word from the outside world," he said. "Instead they locked me in a box. They put a chain around my neck. They pointed a rifle at my back."
Two trials on cocaine trafficking charges ended in hung juries and an appeals court found prosecution irregularities in the conspiracy case that convicted him. Even so, it denied his motion for a retrial, saying there was no doubt Palmera conspired "to detain several American citizens to be used as bargaining chips."
Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana remembers a different Palmera. The men shared the same circle of friends as university students in the early 1970s in Bogota.
"Simon always distinguished himself as the best, the brightest. He was a sharp dresser and went out with the prettiest girls," Pastrana said.
"He was the best off of all of us. He was the only one who had a credit card at that time," added Pastrana, whose own father was Colombia's president in those years.
After college in Bogota, Palmera moved back to his hometown of Valledupar on the Caribbean coast, where a semi-feudal society persisted. Peasants had little access to land, health care and sanitation.
In 1979, friends say, Palmera's sense of outrage was stirred when soldiers detained him for five days, accusing him of being a guerrilla during a roundup of people who had associated with leftist activists. The family pulled strings to get him freed. Three other men picked up in the same raid would later be killed.
Palmera oversaw the family cattle ranch and cotton crop. He and his wife, Margarita Russo, both managed banks while he taught economics at the local public university. The couple got involved in politics backing Luis Carlos Galan, a center-left politician who would later be assassinated on orders of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar while running for president.
In the mid-1980s, the FARC reached a truce with the government and formed a political wing called the Patriotic Union. The political circle in which the Palmeras were active, Common Cause, decided to join.
It was a decision that set their future.
All across Colombia, right-wing death squads began the systematic slaughter of 3,000 Patriotic Union activists.
After two of his close associates were killed in mid-1987, "the threats began to come to all of us, to me, my wife, my children: 'Either you go or you die,'" Palmera recalls in the YouTube video.
He sent his wife and two children to Mexico but decided not to join them. He made an appointment to meet in Bogota with Jaime Pardo Leal, the Patriotic Union's presidential candidate.
But the day before the meeting, on Oct. 11, 1987, Pardo Leal was assassinated.
So Palmera wrote a FARC contact, Adan Izquierdo, saying: "What do I do? I am not leaving this country like a dog with his tail between his legs."
Izquierdo invited him to the jungle to meet the FARC's top leaders, one of whom tried to persuade him that, at age 37 and with his credentials, he was more useful as a civilian activist than a soldier.
Then word arrived of a new massacre of six activists in Medellin.
Palmera decided to stay and fight, adopting parts of the name of Simon Bolivar, the 19th century South American independence hero.
"If one is truly a revolutionary, a Bolivarian, one can't survive even a day giving speeches in public plazas," Palmera said. "That's why I'm a guerrilla."
Associated Press writers Libardo Cardona in Bogota, Colombia, and Ezequiel Abiu Lopez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, contributed to this report.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf gunmen in the Philippines have refused to free foreign hostages after two weeks of negotiations with a Muslim rebel group, which said Monday it would continue talking to the extremists.
Hundreds of rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front, which signed an autonomy deal with the government in 1996, have encamped in the foothills of mountainous Patikul town on southern Jolo island for two weeks to negotiate the release of foreign and Filipino hostages long held by the Abu Sayyaf in its jungle lairs.
Abu Sayyaf militants are believed to be holding two European bird watchers, a Japanese treasure hunter, a Jordanian journalist, a Malaysian man and two Filipinos.
The Moro rebels were not disarmed after signing the 1996 peace deal, and most returned to their rural villages on Jolo, a poor Muslim region where the smaller but more violent Abu Sayyaf also has a presence.
Moro commander Khabir Malik said his group has taken the initiative to seek the freedom of the hostages to help the government clean up the image of Jolo, where Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for bombings, high-profile kidnappings for ransom and beheadings, primarily in the early 2000.
U.S.-backed military offensives have crippled the Abu Sayyaf in recent years, but it remains a national security threat. Washington has blacklisted the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization.
Malik said he met an Abu Sayyaf militant, Jul-Asman Sawadjaan, over the weekend to seek the release initially of a Jordanian journalist and two Filipinos, who were believed to have been seized by the extremists after traveling to their jungle hideouts in Patikul's jungles to interview them in June last year. But the extremists did not show any sign that they would free their captives soon, Malik said.
Other Abu Sayyaf commanders are believed to be separately holding two European bird watchers, who were seized in February last year in nearby Tawi Tawi province, a Malaysian man and a Japanese treasure hunter in Jolo's jungles.
"It's not easy but we're doing everything to win their freedom," Malik said. "We're observing maximum tolerance, and we'll stick with the negotiations."
Malik, however, suggested the Moro forces could consider other options — including a rescue — to secure the captives' freedom, saying the Abu Sayyaf militants "can't always have their way."
Two military officials monitoring the talks said the extremists have demanded a huge ransom for the release of the hostages. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.
Malik has not mentioned any ransom demand by the Abu Sayyaf militants.


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(This is just my personal opinion so if you disagree, feel free to do so. Everything I say here is open for debate)
Learning to write your own programs isn't as easy as it looks. And for whatever reason, it's one of the first things any newbie is planning to do. Some even make very bold statements like: "Doom? I can rewrite that game with much better graphics and lots more speed in VB!" Of course, when you challenge these newbies, they already show the behaviour of real developers, saying they can't make it to the deadline and they need an additional week to get something finished.
I can still remember how I started programming. Then again, when I started programming I was already reasonable familiar with a computer. I knew how the OS worked (Windows 95) and I knew how to start and stop applications. And even better, I had a programming tool that made it real easy for me to write applications. I used Delphi back then.
Delphi is a so-called Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool. What it means is that it has some simple wizards to help you start a new project. It also has a socalled "form editor" that allows you to create simple forms in your application. My first lesson in Delphi was even a pretty complex one, which consisted of dropping a grid and a few other components on a form which would then give me an overview of some database table. I could build this application without writing a single line of code because the RAD environment allowed me to set all the settings needed for my program. Just imagine that. A newbie writing a database applicaton within 15 minutes. Not bad.
So, with the proper tools, the beginning of programming is relatively easy. And a proper toolkit is extremely valuable for people who want to start programming. However, all these tools will just allow you to do reasonable simple things and at one point you will have to start writing your own code. And that could be a bit of a problem.
So what's the best language to learn? Simple! Plain English, combined with a bit of math knowledge. If you have problems understanding the english language, you will have to improve that first, since almost all programming languages use English words all over the place. And once you have a good understanding of the English language, you can focus on the principles of programming.
Learning to program starts with understanding things like statements, loops, jumps and conditions. A statement is just a single command. A loop is used to repeat one or more statements. A jump is a way to step over one or more statements so those statements won't be executed. And a condition is just a way to decide which statement(s) the system will have to execute, depending on the outcome of the condition.
The easiest way to learn to program is by writing down (on paper) what you're doing every day. Just simply describe a simple thing like brushing your teeth, in very fine details. You'd start by getting your toothbrush. (statement) You then check if it is clean and if it's not (condition) you clean it. Then apply toothpaste (another statement) and start brushing your teeth from up and down, up and down until clean. (Loop with a condition to terminate the loop.) Of course, you could write this whole process down with a lot more details too.
The next thing to understand are procedures and functions. A function is just a special procedure that will return some value. (Others will say that a procedure is a function that does not return any value but that's just the chicken/egg discussion.) Procedures and functions are techniques that help you to combine multiple statements into a single statement. With the example above, you could say that "brushing your teeth" is a procedure because when you start this procedure, you're actually starting several other (minor) actions. And something like putting toothpaste on your brush is again a procedure. Or more like a function, though. There will either be toothpaste on your brush or the tube is empty and there's no or not enough toothpaste on it. So applying toothpaste would be something like getting the tube, squeezing it a bit and if no toothpaste comes out of it, you'll need a new tube. (And getting the new tube is again a new set of statements.
So what if you forget to write down "get a new tube if the current one is empty" in your toothbrushing manual? Well, then anyone who is strictly following your instructions will be at a complete loss. There is no toothpaste yet he must brush his teeth. Fortunately humans have common sense so they stop following your instructions. Computers, however, aren't that smart yet. Such a situation can either generate an error that the computer can handle but which probably will terminate your application. Or the system will just wait forever hoping that at one point toothpaste will magically appear in the empty tube. So this is what people generally call a bug.
When you're writing a program, there might be a lot of things that you will have to think about. If you forget to add something to your instructions (your code) then the system will get confused at some point. And you have to write code for everything you want the computer to do for you. Fortunately, many programming tools come with their own programming libraries. These libraries contain pre-made procedures and functions that you can use in your own code so you don't have to write them yourself. The use of libraries can make life quite easy, as long as you're using the right ones. (However, using the toilet brush library to brush your teeth might lead to some disgusting images and bad breath.)
So now you've learned a few basic programming principles for procedural programming. (Meaning, programming with procedures and functions.) Most programming languages support the use of procedures but there are a few exceptions. The MS-DOS batch files, for example, are just nothing more than a list of commands that are executed in some predefined order. Batch files also allow for conditions and jumps and thus it is a very primitive programming language. (And you can make a loop if you have a jump statement because you just jump back up a few statements.)
There is also something called functional programming which follows the same principles, but more mathematical. In functional programming, every statement is a function and the result of this function is used for the next statements. Basically, this kind of programming is extremely close to doing just mathematics. However, discussing this is a bit too complex to explain here.
However, things will become more complicated now. Ever heard of structured programming? Basically this is just a technique to make the code of a program more readable. With structured programming, you will have to see the "flow of your program". Is is popular because it's actually reducing the number of jumps that you have to write in your code. Or better, to write code without using any jumps yourself. It started with Edsger Dijkstra who actually advocated against the use of jumps in the socalled hgher-level languages. In these languages, the statement "GOTO" was used to make those jumps and in 1968 Dijkstra wrote an article called "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". Up until this day there are still people discussing if he's right or not, but it did start the new, structured way of programming.
Programming without jumps (GOTOs) means the programming language needs better techniques to skip some part of the code you write. The higher-level languages were thus created that they still do support GOTO, yet if you wrote your application well enough you would never need to use this command. It was a bit of an improvement because without these GOTO commands, applications became easier to read for the programmers. Nowadays, most people will advise you to not use GOTOs even though they don't fully grasp the reasoning behind it. (Well, Dijkstra said you shouldn't so don't!) But in the beginning it does get a bit tough to write code without this easy jump statement.
This already happened in 1968 and the programming world has involved a lot ever since. The next step was a pretty logical one. When you work with procedures, you often need to send data over with those procedures. And sometimes you need to send over a lot of information too. Of course, data was also structured in some useful ways. The 'invention' of records allowed programmers to group data together. And arrays made it possible to make lists of a single datatype. Yet a real link between proccedures was still missing...
So the next step was Object-Oriented programming. And with this technique data and code was linked together into one "object". Basically, you have some data and you have some procedures and functions that manipulate this data. To use it, you don't need to tell the procedure where to get the data that it relates to because it knows it's linked to the object. And the technique proved to be quite valuable, although not always a requirement. Many popular, modern languages are based on the object-oriented model. The whole .NET environment is just based upon objects, thus almost all .NET languages are object-oriented. The language C was also adjusted to support objects and it was transformed into C++, which basically means "C plus objects. Nowadays, the C language is seen as just a subset of the C++ language, but actually, it was the origin of C++.
Several other languages were also adjusted to support objects. The best-known of them is Pascal. The company Borland originally started with just a structural Pascal compiler until they created a Turbo Pascal compiler that supported objects in a bit limited way. They continued altering the language, improving it until they brought Borland Delphi on the market. Delphi is the name of the tool but it uses a language called Object Pascal. Delphi can be very educational for someone who wants to learn to program and who wants to learn every aspect of it. However, Borland isn't doing so well anymore ever since Microsoft started taking the compiler market with their latest Visual Studio versions and the .NET platform. When .NET came on the market for the first time, Microsoft already had their own compilers for this new environment and Borland was way behind in this development. Some people even think that the arrival of the .NET platform will mean the end of Delphi since Borland will always stay behind when new .NET technologies are developed.
So is object-oriented programming the latest technology? No, it isn't. But the newer technologies are a bit more difficult to recognise since they are all subsets of the object-oriented techniques. Things like component-based programming and of course .NET itself are making it a lot harder to come up with proper definitions for the latest technologies. Aspect-Oriented programming is one of those new techniques. IT has to do with how objects are interacting with one another. And it's a lot more complicated than just writing a few statements for brushing your teeth because you end up with a hand object, a brush object, about 28 to 32 teeth objects, a tube object and several other objects which each have their own methods to be used and they will all respond in some way making it all very interactive.
So if you still think that you want to learn to program, then keep in mind that you will have a lot to learn. Many people who learn to program get stuck at the procedural level with perhaps a bit of understanding of the more difficult techniques, yet they tend to think in a very straight line, going from statement to statement. Better-skilled programmers tend to divide a problem up in smaller pieces and will write code to deal with all those little pieces. (Dividing those pieces in even smaller pieces if needed. As a result, they end up with all kinds of little objects that are pretty interactive with one another. By linking them in a certain way, they get something to brush their teeth. If they use slightly different objects, they could build a similar program that brushes the floor. (Or the toilet.)
The biggest problem with learning to program isn't just learning some programming language. It isn't learning about how to use some library. The most important thing about programming is understanding the techniques you use. Basically, there are no good or bad programming languages anyway. Every language has it's own purpose, although many languages tend to be used for educational purposes. If you would look at a list of programming languages you would see why it's so difficult to make a good choice as your first programming language. There is just too much to choose from. But all programming languages are based upon the same principles. So if you know those principles, you should not have much trouble understanding most of these languages.
Btw, if you look at the list of programming languages, you will notice that not all of them are based upon the English language. There are a few that are based upon the French language and I think there's one based upon Jiddish. And as more countries start valuing their own language, it is quite likely that more non-english languages will be created. But even today, English is used for all the popular modern languages and many of the lesser-known ones.


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Veterans Challenge of Kinston wants to show vets a good time
Plenty of tickets are still available for the inaugural Veterans Ball, which is being put on Jan. 12 by Veterans Challenge of Kinston.
�We�re trying to encourage them to come right away and get them as soon as possible,� said Debby Guthrie, director of Veterans Challenge.
Veterans Challenge is a nonprofit, volunteer-staffed entity which recently set up shop in Vernon Park Mall. The organization is designed to provide assistance � or referrals to other agencies � to veterans with PTSD counseling, housing, employment, disabilities and more.
�Our main motto is, �promoting the health and prosperity of veterans and the community,� � Guthrie said.
Next week�s Veterans Ball is not designed to be a fundraiser for Veterans Challenge, but to give veterans, as well as active-duty military members and reservists, a chance to have fun. Each person can also bring one guest.
Tickets are $5 each and can be purchased in advance at Veterans Challenge�s office, which is two doors down from the N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles� office at the mall.
Awards will be given for the youngest and oldest veterans, and for the couple that has been married the longest. The king and queen of the ball will be crowned as well.
The event will take place from 5-11 p.m. at the Hampton Inn of Kinston. Anyone who travels to Kinston and must spend the night or weekend in town can tell Hampton Inn staff they are with the Veterans Challenge Ball and receive a discount, plus a hot breakfast.
Discounts are also available for photos taken by Williamson Photography during the event.
�(The ball is) to honor them, to have a good time and for them to have something to look forward to,� Guthrie said of veterans.
A cash bar will also be available.
�We just would really like it to be supporting be the community,� Guthrie said of the ball.
David Anderson can be reached at 252-559-1077 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at DavidFreePress.
If you go:
What: Inaugural Veterans Ball
When: 5-11 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 12
Where: Grand Ballroom, Hampton Inn, 1382 U.S. 258 South, Kinston
Cost: $5 per person
Contact: Veterans Challenge; 252-933-3540; firstname.lastname@example.com; veteranschallenge.org or �Veterans Challenge, Inc.� on Facebook


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What is wine?
Chapter 1 of Lorraine Hems' new textbook, Passport to the World of Wines, opens with this question leading into a discussion about how drinking a glass of wine means more than quenching thirst. It is a toast, a passion, an extension of friendship, and it is sometimes used to seal an agreement. The study of viniculture, world and regional specialties, service and storage, and pairings with food are part of the book that will be used for the Wines of the World class that Hems teaches.
For Hems, a lecturer in the School of International Hospitality and Service Innovation since 2001, her first book is a collection of information she has gathered from 30 years of experience in the field of wines and spirits—in retail and academia, as a certified sommelier (a professional wine steward) and as a judge for local and national wine competitions.
The book delves into wines produced in the U.S., Europe, South America and Australia. It also focuses on New York state's contribution to the world of wine.
"RIT has assisted and encouraged me to travel to wine regions, attend conferences, gain certifications and deliver industry training. This has led to an increase of course offerings and wonderful opportunities for my students looking to make industry connections," says Hems. "We have alumni around the globe involved in the beverage industry in sales, winemaking, graphics, marketing and more. How rewarding to have students who took an elective feel my passion, get 'bit by the wine bug' and then integrate wine in their future employment."
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13 Tales of Sonic Horror by Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Sandy J. Hotchkiss, Lissa Lia, Robert Gworek, Thomas P. Haine, Kevin Yancy, Gary Zupkas, K. Anderson Yancy
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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1. "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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5. "Silence: A Fable"
6. "The Premature Burial"
7. "The Black Cat"
8. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
9. "The Haunted Palace"
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11. "The Masque of the Red Death"
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Frankly, this is the first time that I've been upset with Audible! I've been a loyal customer for over 5 years, and I'm surprised that this recording is even availabe! There is so much wasted space filled with weird electronics and cheesy horror sounds, not to mention - advertisement to the producers website between every tale! This recording is amaturish! Spend your money or credit elsewhere!
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Dont buy. can even make out the dialog
These are a great disappointment. Too many sound effects and too little content.
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Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux: When in Rome
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux take in the sights of Rome, Italy, on Friday (June 15).
The couple continued their European vacation in matching outfits – a light grey tank dress for her and a darker grey tee for him.
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The day before, Jennifer, 43, and Justin, 40, checked out The Ritz in Paris after spending a few days in the City of Light.
The two enjoyed a romantic dinner at the Eiffel Tower after doing some shopping earlier in the week.


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Leading French Broadband Operator Free Adds GameTree TV to Freebox Revolution Set-Top Box
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 26, 2011) -TransGaming Inc. (TSX VENTURE:TNG), the global leader in multiplatform gaming, today announced the commercial launch of GameTree TV, TransGaming's innovative on-demand Smart TV gaming platform, with the pioneering top-tier broadband service operator Free.
With GameTree TV and the Freebox Revolution, a next generation set-top box launched December 14, which transforms the television experience into a fully connected Smart TV experience, customers can now instantly play on-demand games directly from the cloud. The launch puts GameTree TV at the forefront of the 'connected living room' era, giving French consumers easy access to exciting, family-friendly interactive entertainment.
TransGaming's GameTree TV platform is fully optimized for the Freebox's Intel CE system-on-chip processor, one of the most popular choices for Smart TV hardware.
"We see a bright future for on-demand gaming on Smart TV," said Lance Koenders, director of worldwide marketing, Intel Digital Home Group. "TransGaming has put itself ahead of the curve with the GameTree TV platform, which is a great example of the enhanced entertainment experiences that Intel CE-based devices can deliver."
"The GameTree TV platform adds a compelling new dimension to our entertainment portfolio, further differentiating our unique offering" said Maxime Lombardini, CEO of Free's holding company, Iliad. "Our subscribers now have access to a whole new gaming experience thanks to our partnership with TransGaming. This is a truly exciting time for home entertainment."
GameTree TV launches with 25 titles on the Freebox Revolution, such as Bejeweled 2, Garage Inc. and World of Goo, with new games added weekly. Consumers will be able to enjoy games through a variety of flexible pricing models and billed directly by Free in the monthly invoice. This simple business model means broadband service providers are able to provide consumers with interactive entertainment on demand, while achieving a sustainable value-added revenue opportunity.
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Castle of Cagliostro, The (UK - BD RB)
Marcus takes a technical look at another Miyazaki classic released this month...
The Castle of Cagliostro tells the tale of super-thief Lupin. Beginning with a thrilling heist at a Monte Carlo casino, he discovers the mountain of money he's stolen is counterfeit. Lupin traces the fake bills to the country of Cagliostro where an evil Count is generating forged money and distributing it worldwide. With partners in tow, Lupin heads to Cagliostro where he also finds a promise of hidden treasure and Clarice, a beautiful princess in need of rescuing from the Count's dastardly clutches.
Presented in a 1080i transfer, I was expecting the worst with plenty of interlacing issues and an image that would need to be forgiven a lot. I have to say, the interlacing wasn't a massive issue beyond the odd jagged edge but the fairly poor overall presentation is. The opening credits are just awful with lots of blocking, fuzzy digital noise and an overall grubby look. Thankfully this changes as the film really begins, with bright colours a sharper image and a solid but dated looking appearance. When you look closer however, the image is full of dancing grain, especially in the larger areas of blue sky (which there is a fair bit of). Additionally it's not the cleanest of prints with plenty of artefacts and flecks showing up on the screen. I haven't sat down and watched The Castle of Cagliostro since the days of video, so of course the improvements in HD are very much felt and the ageing animated feature is doing well all things considered but this title doesn't appear to have received the same love as many of the other Miyazaki movies released in HD and it reflects throughout the rest of the disc.
Both the English Mono track and the Japanese 5.1 track feel thin. The Japanese track spreads things a little wider and has a little bit more going on but it's not really a 5.1 attack like you'd hope for. Watching the film in English (as my kids wanted to see it) I have to say that the mono-ness is very much felt, with tinny sound effects, shrill upper levels and just no real oomph to anything. The dialogue is the best thing about the track as it's the only element that remains constant throughout, everything else never really sticks to a formula. Gunshots can pierce out of the centre speakers and in the same scene feel lost behind another element. Music can do it's feel good thing and have a bigger sound to it but then disappear as the volume drops right out. None of this is done in a distracting way but if you're listening out for the sake of a review, as I was, this is a track that feels distinctly flat and hollow and really ages the film.
Sadly, The Castle of Cagliostro does not get the same treatment as many of the other Miyazaki titles. Gone are any lengthy featurettes or tiny but fun EPKs (mainly due to the fact that this is a pre Studio Ghibli title I guess) and all we get is the picture in picture storyboards and the film's trailer. Oh, and a DVD copy, mustn't forget that.
The Castle of Cagliostro has never been a film I much liked. It's still got that wonderful blend of humour, simple yet effective technology and magic that Miyazaki is much loved for in his adventurous outings but this one has always felt a little too zany for my liking. I really struggle to like the characters every time that I watch it, I'm not sure why that is as they aren't massively different from Miyazaki's other creations but I've never really warmed to this bunch. The disc just about gets by on its looks but look closer and the film's age is showing beneath the pretty boosted colours. The audio is thin and off putting and the extras are only good for those who adore seeing the sketch work storyboards behind their favourite animated films.
* Note: The images below are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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I like this movie a lot, but I think I'll stick with the DVD, it looks good up-scaled by my Blu-Ray player.
Shame about the transfer, but....4 out of 10 for the movie!!???? A 4 on my scale is a bad movie and not even an OK one. Do you really dislike it that much?
Ahh those hurt
Interlacing effects rarely look worse than when they appear in animated films.
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 12th October 2012
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080i
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Japanese, LPCM Mono 2.0 Japanese, LPCM Mono 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Storyboards, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi , David Hayter
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime and Drama
Length: 99 minutes
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THE TEN: The Phantom Menace
Marcus celebrates the tenth birthday of Episode I in this new DVDActive article...
THE TEN, an all new regular feature for the all new DVDactive. But what is
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THE TENcan be anything. It can be the best or worst of movies, it can be moments that make a movie memorable, it can be ten related items or ten of the most random things ever caught on celluloid.
THE TENcan be whatever the contributors of DVDactive want to put out there and hopefully you'll like what we have to share... whatever it might be.
But where to begin? Well, with the tenth anniversary of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace on the horizon, a look at some of its highlights seemed a great place to start. After all, every saga has a beginning…
Seriously, has there ever been a teaser trailer quite as good as the one for Episode I? Has there even been one better than the theatrical trailer? In the build up to The Phantom Menace, these two trailers as well as the equally epic Tone Poem TV spots were literally like something from a Galaxy Far, Far Away, promising to bring something special to our big screens. A true event that built a mass excitement that hasn't been equalled since.
I must have watched these trailers at least a hundred times. They absolutely capture the right level of excitement and are just pure Star Wars magic. Every line is a classic: 'Loss of communication can mean only one thing... Invasion!', 'I sense much fear in you', 'You believe it's this... boy?', every frame was like something no other movie could offer at the time and frankly both of these trailers should be considered the way to do trailers the exact right way.
Now, I'm not a Menace basher, so don't mistake this selection as a pop at Episode I only being good for forty five minutes. These forty five minutes are featured for the sheer amount of Lucas crammed into the roller coaster ride of an extended introduction to the new prequel era of Star Wars and the speed it flies by at.
In three quarters of an hour, Lucas throws out a ludicrous amount of Star Wars action. We're in space, we meet our first couple of proper Jedis, one of whom is a younger Obi-Wan Kenobi. We are introduced to our first batch of aliens, the Neimoidians, we see a Sith Master, we get a battle droid scrap with some Droidekas as a side order. We get to see two skilled Jedi. Seriously that alone is still loads to take in for any Star Wars fan and the stuff Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan do with their sabers in the first battle are still some of the coolest Jedi moments ever.
It doesn't stop there though. We meet a Queen (the future Mama Skywalker), our Jedis stow aboard an invading ship and visit our first new planet, Naboo. We see a seemingly good guy version of Palpatine, there's an invasion army, we meet Jar Jar Binks ('Meesa called Jar Jar Binks'), who despite a few motion issues still holds up as some incredibly impressive CGI work from ILM. Then we get our first breather, a little trip under water to Oota Gunga to meet the Gungans and Boss Nass ('Weesa no like tha Naboo'), but before we can get too comfortable we're off again in a Bongo avoiding giant fish and Godzilla sized monsters. 'There's always a bigger fish'.
Reaching our next location, Theed, our Jedi, along with their new Gungan friend, save the Queen and her entourage. 'Yous guys are bom-bad'. Once again there are some awesome saber skills. Then we get a faceoff with some battle driods ('I'll handle this') with even more of that sweet saber action and we're back off into space in a shiny royal starship, where we meet an old friend, R2-D2, for the first time, who goes outside the ship, saves all aboard and sees us on our way—and all that's over simplifying these opening events. At the time, having this as the first forty five minutes of new Star Wars in sixteen years was one hell of a way of throwing us all back in to the deep end of universe we love.
Now I'm not saying this is the best forty five minutes in movie history, hell I'm not even saying it's the best forty five minutes of a Star Wars movie, but it's a hell of a way to introduce you to the Star Wars galaxy and every time I see it, it still blows me away.
Taking a few steps back and going for a slightly more personal selection. The Jedi master Qui Gon Jinn pulls a lightsaber move at (40:39) that has always struck me as ludicrously cool.
After entering into a little skirmish with a handful of battle droids, Qui Gon slashes a Battle Droid in half and with one fluid motion turns his saber off and slides it onto his belt then without blinking, casually lifts his arm and uses the force on two more approaching droids. It's the tiniest of moments in the grand scheme of things but it's one of those things I've always adored in the Phantom Menace and just had to be included in this article.
Turning the action up to eleven, what would a listing of Phantom Menace highlights be without the Podrace. Lucas gets bashed for everything he ever does post Empire Strikes Back but there's no denying that he can do this sort of stuff in his sleep better than most directors can do on a keg of Redbull.
Everything about this set piece is awesome. The designs of the pods, the aliens piloting them, the course itself, with its jumps, its bumps and its nasty canyons. You get the nice touches with the Tuskens, the whiz by with the Jawas and the sound mix on a good 5.1 system has always been jaw dropping (bring on the HD mix Mr. Lucas).
The Podrace is genuinely a classic Star Wars event and it's great from the first Jabba spit, through 'diddi crash it?' right up to the 'crowds are going nuts' Skywalker win. That kid really must have Jedi powers.
'How feel you?' Getting to the meat and potatoes of this first chapter in the bigger Star Wars story, we come to the scene that starts the dark side ball rolling.
Anakin being testing by the Jedi Council is handled with just the right amount of Star Wars drama. I love the look and lighting of this scene, the orange of the sunset adding a warm glow to the important moment, despite playing off of the coldness of the Jedis' attitude. I love Anakin's little 'What's that got to do with anything?' pop at Yoda when being asked if he misses his mother but Yoda breaking into the speech 'Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering' is classic Star Wars stuff and made all the better that it echoes Vader's speech to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back.
Generally I don't much like the Jedi Council scenes in Episode I, but this scene stands out enough to warrant a mention. If only the dialogue wasn't delivered by such a rubbish looking Yoda puppet (which thankfully should be changed to CGI the next time we get a proper Phantom Menace re-release).
I'm a sucker for movie homages and in-jokes and The Phantom Menace if full of 'em. Of course there's the Lucas re-cycling of dialogue 'I've got a bad feeling about this' etc and there's the joy of spotting vehicles and faces from the Original Trilogy but Lucas threw another batch of items for us to have fun with—the Easter Eggs. From the expected 1138 reference (on the back of a droid) through the (and I'm yet to be convinced) Indiana Jones watching the pod race to the slightly less obvious but still brilliant 'It's working... It's working' E.T Anakin dialogue, there's loads. Some of which I've included here:
No matter how much bad press Menace gets, there's one thing that we can all agree on. DARTH MAUL IS A LEGEND. He literally owns every scene he's in just by standing there and when the Sith apprentice does move we just sit back in awe. Bad has never been this damn cool.
Stand out moments for me begin with his first appearance as a hologram ('Not for a Sith'). That badass stare, those folded arms, you know this character is going to be special. Following that you get the only Maul dialogue scene and then his arrival on Tatooine in one of the top three best ships in the Star Wars Universe, the Sith Infiltrator. Him stepping out of that red interior is great, but still not as great as slightly later on when he drives off on his speeder which is just brilliant. The way he disappears out of sight off the ledge is effortlessly cool and just as you have enough time to think 'What?', he re-appears, dust cloud behind him travelling off like the smoothest biker ever.
But then of course there's the obvious one. Maul just standing behind the slide doors as the Duel of Fates kicks—it's still every bit as exciting as it was the first time. Off goes the hood and then comes the saber ignition and of course the always great second blade. I'll go into the actual Jedi/Sith three-way a little later on, but Maul behind the energy barriers looking at Qui-Gon like a caged animal ready to fight, Maul blocking Qui-Gon's attack as captured in the screen caps as well as stabbing Qui-Gon and turning to fight Obi-Wan before his fallen master has even hit the ground is just the red and black sugar sprinklings on an already perfect cake.
Okay, here is where I lose a batch of you (if I haven't already). I don't and never have had a problem with Jar Jar Binks. I will admit out of the handful of cuts I'd make to Menace the Binks is involved in a few (the lake dive being the biggest eye roller of the lot) but generally I like Binks' involvement in this first adventure.
Firstly I have a lot of affection for some of his throw away lines 'Weesa go under water now okiday', 'Diddie crash it?' and 'Weesa going hooooome' are great and his 'Steady, Steady' to the Gungan army behind him is genuinely a moment I love. Okay, so there's a few too many 'How Wude''s and maybe the constant tomfoolery in the closing Battle of Naboo is a little overcooked, but I don't take this personally. He's generally no more annoying than C3-PO was in the prequels and I for one feel that there could have been a lot more growth in the Jar Jar character if the hate hadn't become such a big deal so early on. Don't get me wrong, Jar Jar isn't my favourite thing about Menace, not by a long chalk, but it just wouldn't be the same without him for me, despite the many claims to the contrary.
'We'll handle this.' Two Jedi vs. a Sith. That's the way to end a Star Wars movie. I remember the first time seeing this on the big screen and just grinning like a school kid at the many, many elements that took Star Wars lightsaber action and put it in the hands of fully fledged masters.
First off, it's the sheer speed of it all. The lightning fast moments between moments that makes the entire event so memorable. Not only do you have lightsabers cuttings through the air like never before, you have Maul force throwing things to open doors, Obi-Wan doing jedi jumps or Qui-Gon delivering Jedi back hand punches to knock back a skilled Sith.
The energy and sheer thrills just continue to grow as the battle progresses. After Maul drops Qui-Gon, the excitement builds as we wait eagerly for that energy barrier to drop so Obi-Wan can take on Maul. If the speed so far wasn't impressive enough the saber battle takes another jump in pace and the duel between these two is still as mind blowing ten years on as it was the first time I saw it back in '99. The sabers fly at almost untraceable speeds, there are back flips and a saber getting cut in half and it just raised the bar on everything we'd come to expect from the Star Wars lightsaber battle. It's just Star Wars at its most exciting.
Of course it's not just what we're seeing. The Duel of Fates score pushes it all further into classic territory with the choir and the instruments making this all the more epic and even though I miss the to and fro of dialogue in the Original Trilogy's lightsaber duels, what do these guys really have to talk about anyway?
The last shout out is for those lesser spoken about elements of Episode I; those faces in the crowd and those little moments that just don't get enough love. So here goes.
The Neimoidian with his eyes and mouth sealed up, TC-14, 'I've got a bad feeling about this', Driodekas, Padawan braids, Qui Gon's saber going through a door, Sio Bibble, Jar Jar's ear flip on Tatooine, Watto 'Letame take you out back', 'Little bitty accidenty', Captain Tarpals 'Here taken dissen one', Lott Dodd, those little droids that walk past the background while the Neimoidians talk to Sidious, all the astromech droids that were lost trying to repair the hyper drive, Ben Quadrinaros, Pit Droids, the little critter Jabba flicks off the balcony, Sebulba 'Poodoo', Watto again, Maul's Probe Droids, Maul's Speeder, C-3PO, Shmi, Watto again, the second pod race lap, Yaddle (man she's weird), the Wookies that cheer in the senate, Yarael Poof, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Plo Koon, Palpatine's little Mr. Bean-esq tongue poking out after he tells little Anakin he's be watching his career closely and after he tells Padme he's been voted in, the tubby Gungan, Panaka shooting out the window, the Gungans coming out of the mist, the unloading of the Battle Droids, the Gungan who gets blasted to atoms saving Jar Jar, Padme's little slip after telling Nute Gunray his occupation has ended and the Vader breaths at the end of the credits. You all played your part and I salute you.
So there we have it. A celebratory look at probably the most debated Star Wars movie out of the bunch. Personally, I love it more now than I did ten years ago and I was big fan then. It's not perfect, it's not the best of the saga and it's got its fair share of problems but taking this wander around ten years on, I miss the excitement that it brought and the enjoyment I've had with the many re-watches and debates over its impact since.
Happy Birthday Phantom Menace and may Lucas grace us with a Blu-ray edition soon.
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Speaking of goals, I was reading an article on the amazing Diana Nyad, the 62 year old swimmer from LA, who failed in her third attempt to swim the 103 mile stretch from Florida to Cuba. She did not fail from a shark attack, or from exhaustion (after 40 hours of swimming she was actually getting stronger) but due to jellyfish stings that could have proven lethal if she received another.
She said something that struck me about her focus while she swims that can be applied to goals in general. She remarked that her thoughts were not consumed with the beaches of Key West, Florida that she was planning on hitting, but instead her thoughts were focused on what she had control over at that moment and that by focusing on the "here and now" she would end up at her destination. Obviously she knew what her goal was, but knowing that she had to put "one foot in front of another", or in her case, "one stroke in front of another", and focus on the little victories, she would have success in her bigger goal.
Each of us who have health or exercise related goals can learn from this perspective. Often as I train athletes, I hear frustration about some of these longer term goals that they have, whether it be hitting a time in a 10k, completing a marathon or even obtaining a desired goal weight. Little goals along the way help to obtain the bigger ones and are important to have in place as markers. I thought about what direction to take this post in and thought that I could talk about the virtue of patience or consistency or discipline, all of which are important, but instead I chose to concentrate on "Spicing up your Exercise Journey".
As you travel towards your exercise or health related goals know that it does not have to be the result of strictly traditional approaches to exercise. These are probably the most convenient and therefore the means in which you plan on utilizing the majority of the time, but as you accomplish little goals along the way (2 days in a row without soda, running 5 miles without stopping, losing 3 pounds, etc.) reward yourself with a new form of exercise that will help break up the monotony of your main form of exercise and yet still let you walk away from it knowing that you chose to spend part of your day exercising.
As I searched for some of these different ideas I liked some of the more practical approaches that were suggested such as: actively playing with your children, breaking up your exercise routine into 10 minute segments, getting up and moving every hour at work, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, using the hand baskets at the grocery store and doing arm curls while you shop or parking in the farthest parking spot so you have to walk farther. These are great, but I knew there were some more creative forms of exercise that were available and I hit the jackpot when I found several lists of creative workouts on Google. I omitted some that I didn't quite get like Equestrian Yoga and Hot Tub Treadmilling, others that seemed a bit crazy like Mountain Unicycling (isn't regular unicycling hard enough?) and finally any activities that involved not having any clothes on, which there were several of! Below you will find 104 different potential ideas that will get your heart rate going, burn some calories, put a smile on your face and get you one day closer to accomplishing that big goal.
2. Stunt pogo sticking
3. Tree climbing
4. Mountainboarding
5. Unicycling
6. Practicing Jedi Skills (the Jedi Workout)
7. Walking on water
8. Picking up litter around the neighborhood, town, park or beach
9. Playing video games (Wii, Dance Dance Revolution, etc.)
10. Fruit picking (not too slowly!)
11. Volunteering (Try fitness oriented charities)
12. Fire juggling
13. Drumming
14. Bouncing with Spring-Soled Shoes
16. Ropeless jump roping
17. Sit and Be Fit
18. Kite Surfing
19. Virtual horseback riding (or iGalloping)
21. Pogo sticking
22. Parkour
23. Tricking
25. Dancing your way through your favorite musical
26. Hula Hooping
27. Playing tag
28. Joggling (juggling while jogging)
29. Roller Hockey
30. Roller Derby
31. Leaf pile diving (includes raking!)
32. Gladiator Workout
33. Finding online workout videos
34. Wearing weight loss shoes (or sandels)
35. Playing capture the flag
36. Water balloon fights
37. Snowshoeing
38. Bicycling on Water
39. Squirt Gun Fights
40. Pillow Fights
41. Underwater Rugby
42. Underwater Soccer
43. Synchronized swimming
44. Hop scotching
45. Riverboarding
46. Marco polo
47. Slip and slide
48. Playing touch football
49. Snow kiting
50. Giving the dog a bath
52. Baton Twirling
53. Sledding
54. Hacky Sacking
55. Making snowmen (BIG ones!)
57. Walking in place while watching tv
58. Boot Camp Workout
59. Swimming with Porpoise Flipper
60. Learn Self Defense
61. Geocaching
62. Orienteering
63. Window Washing
64. Cleaning the garage
65. Clean the attic
66. Landscape the yard
67. Doing laundry
68. Trampolining
69. Inflatable jumping castles
70. Swinging
71. Playing Twister
72. Cheerleading
73. Canyoning
74. Bouldering
75. Snowkiting
76. Skysurfing
77. Belly dancing
78. Circus Skills (Look for circus schools)
79. Gardening
80. Riding a Scooter
82. Walkling (juggling while walking)
84. Street luge
85. Arm wrestling
86. Stability balls
87. Rock Climbing
88. Sandboarding
89. Sea Kayaking
90. Ice climbing
91. Exotic Dancing (link 2)
92. Laughing (laughter yoga)
93. Karaoke (with a lot of dramatic dance moves!)
94. Dodgeball
95. Frisbee Golf
96. Ultimate Frisbee
97. Long boarding
98. Car washing for charity
99. Beach combing
100. Sand dune climbing
101. Samurai Sword Classes
102. Extreme clowning
103. Sumo
104. Laser Tag
Happy Exercising,
Josh and Kristin
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|Curt Schmitt and Useful Beauty
'Wabash instilled in me the science of studying oneself in the context of greater concerns,' Curt Schmitt says, and that practice shows shows when Schmitt describes his work: 'High tech has defined 21st century life, and our thirst for the new is outpaced only by our dispensing with the old. By contrast, there seems a solid place in this increasingly high-tech world for lasting objects, hand made from organic materials.'
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Parker Library on the Web
Parker Library on the Web offers users online access to high resolution digital images of more than 550 manuscripts at Corpus Christ College, from the 6th century through the 16th.Expand
Within the Library is one the best collections of extant Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; a large collection of key Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts, and a magnificent collection of English illuminated manuscripts. The manuscripts are described and annotated, with references to relevant editions, translations, and other literature. The web site also includes on-line tutorials on searching the collection and in viewing results.
Subjects: Comparative Literature, English and American Literature, History Middle Ages 400-1450
Patrologia Latina
The Patrologiae Latina (Series Latina) offers influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature. The Patrologia Latina Database (PLD) contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).Expand
The main chronological sequence of authors in Migne's Patrologia Latina covers the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in A.D. 200 through Pope Innocent III (d. 1216). AD. However, Migne did incorporate medieval texts written after 1216 where these were traditionally attached to an earlier work, often as a commentary or an introduction to it. Texts, as well as notes and other glosses, Migne's column numbers, and the original printed indices (in four volumes) are also included as part of the Patrologia Latina Database.
Subjects: Classics, Archives and Primary Sources, History Middle Ages 400-1450
Patrologiae Graecae
The Patrologiae Graecae is a collection of the Greek writings from the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. The Patrologiae Graecae Database contains over 160 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Graecae (1857-1866).Expand
The collection includes both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century.
Subjects: Classics, History Middle Ages 400-1450, Religion
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Indexes genealogy periodicals. Also referred to as Ancestry.Expand
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Supported by the Ministére de l'éducation nationale, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche and l'université Lumiére Lyon 2, PERSEE is similar to JSTOR in providing full text in pdf format to back issues of hundreds of prestigious journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (including a moving wall of three to five years depending on the journal). PERSEE is free of charge and the first phase of the project includes the following journals:Expand
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Subjects: Comparative Literature, French Literature and Language, History Early Modern 1450-1800, History Middle Ages 400-1450, History Modern 1800-, History World
PERSEUS Digital Library
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world....The classical foundation has paved the way for literary and historical collections ranging from the English Renaissance to the American Civil War, and Greek tools became a foundation for the development of resources in Latin, Italian, and Arabic.Expand
The project continues to explore new ways of presenting complex resources for electronic publication.
Subjects: History Early Modern 1450-1800, History Middle Ages 400-1450, History Modern 1800-, History World
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Provides access to scholarly journals published by major university presses. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.Expand
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From a single interface, researchers can access over 810,000 ebooks and 1,350 imprints from more than 650 publishers. On average, 100,000 newly published titles are added each year from leading publishers to help libraries build dynamic collections that meet the unique needs of their community of researchers.Expand
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Unless you are a big aficionado of electric bikes, A2B is probably not a brand you've ever heard of. But they actually launched one of the first electric bikes, or e-bikes, nearly four years ago. Dubbed the A2B Metro it was quite well received at the time but at £2500 was quite pricey as well as fairly bulky, tipping the scales at a hefty 37Kg (about twice the weight of a conventional bike). Since then the company has gone through a number of changes, including new ownership (it is now owned by Indian scooter firm, Hero-Electric), a complete re-branding, and a shift towards manufacturing its top end bikes in Germany.
Still available, the A2B Metro has been renamed the Octave and there's also a foldable electric bike, the Kuo, which at 19Kg is the lightest in the range. At London's South Bank, A2B also announced six new models ranging in price from £1400 to a very pricey £2699. Included in the line up is the stylish retro looking Galvani (see Tech Digest review here) and the superfast 28mph Shima.
New models:
Shima (£2,450 – Spring 2013)
Galvani – Male and Female (£1,450 – Spring 2013)
Ferber (£1400 – Spring 2013)
Entz (from £2699 – Autumn 2013)
Ørsted (£1899 – Autumn 2013)
Obree (£2199 – Autumn 2013)
For more information on the range head to A2B's website
To find out more about the e-bike market head here.


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Rescue on Fractalus!
Activision's 1st release from Lucasfilm
Hear what Jeff Minter says: "One of my all-time favorites... Stunning, solid 3-D visuals. The most amazing impression of flight through mountainous terrain. Look out for this one. I think it's ace." ZZAP 64
Contributed by Pseudo_Intellectual (60372) on May 23, 2013.
Your fellow pilots have been shot down on the very hostile planet of Fractalus. Flying your Valkyrie Fighter', you scour the planet in search of your comrades, while the enemy pursues you. The mother ship is signaling; you're running out of time. You've never faced a challenge as tough as this before.
Contributed by Xoleras (66813) on Jul 22, 2004.
Can you get to this pilot before his time runs out?
Jet through the cavernous canyons of Fractalus - in panoramic realism. Your fellow pilots are waiting desperately for you. But so are the vicious Jaggi aliens. You never know what's going to turn up - or where - until it happens...
Rescue on Fractalus!
A 3-D flight fantasy behind Jaggi lines.
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Locked Into the Cloud
By Emily Maxie
You probably know from personal experience how tough it can be to change from one service provider to another.
Think about the last time you changed your Internet service or gym membership. It was probably a pain, and there's a reason. Most vendors don't want you to have a seamless transition from their product to a competitor's.
But you might not know that some less-trustworthy vendors build roadblocks specifically designed to lock customers into their service. They make it hard for you to switch vendors so they can raise prices or change policies without worrying too much about losing customers — a practice called "vendor lock-in."
Vendor lock-in happens with cloud computing just like it happens with other service providers. Some cloud service providers intentionally make it difficult to transition off their platforms. And the stakes are even higher if the vendor has access to your members' data.
What's Your Exit Strategy?
When your credit union first adopts a new technology, it's easy to overlook the problem of vendor lock-in. After all, you're choosing the vendor because you like them and you want to use their services.
With a cloud service, you can become more efficient, reduce costs and improve your member experience. But once it's time to renew your contract, the vendor in question might have raised their prices or changed their policies. If that happens, you need to make sure you can make a change without affecting your data or your member relationships.
Having your credit union's mission-critical systems and data at the mercy of a third- party vendor doesn't make sense, especially in this type of scenario.
Beware of Proprietary Technology
Some cloud-based software companies use proprietary technology to lock credit unions into using their products. It might be possible to transfer to a different system, but the process can interrupt member services and can be costly.
Most types of software have some kind of proprietary nature, but credit unions need to make sure the end result of the technology isn't proprietary. If it is, you risk the possibility of that coming back to bite the organization in the long term, potentially years after you may have ended a relationship with a vendor.
Think about electronically signed documents as an example. If your credit union gets documents signed online with a particular e-signature vendor, you want to be sure that those e-signatures can be proven in court even if you don't have a relationship with that vendor anymore.
You also need to be sure those documents are valid even if the vendor goes out of business. And this concept holds true no matter what cloud software you're working with.
One way to protect your credit union is to make sure you use software that adheres to industry standards. Common, established standards give you the assurance that the technology you're using is compatible with other similar vendors' offerings. Most importantly, these standards ensure that a third-party expert can interpret the data you get back from the vendor.
4 Steps to Avoiding Vendor Lock-In
It's critical that credit unions take control of the decision-making process and pick a vendor that places a priority on data flexibility.
It can be hard to figure out whether a vendor is trustworthy or looking to lock you into their technology. Here are a few steps you can take to avoid vendor lock-in.
1. Read the fine print of the vendor's policies. If you're unsure of anything in the policies, ask your IT department or your legal team to take a look.
2. Ask the vendor directly how they would facilitate moving your members' data out of their cloud storage repository.
3. Ask if they can digitally shred your members' data from their servers. If so, make sure their systems comply with digital shredding standards set by the U.S. Department of Defense.
4. Look for technologies based on trusted third-party standards. This gives you the assurance that your data will still be valid decades into the future.
What if I'm Already Locked In?
As you read this, you might have come to the disturbing realization that you're already locked in to a software vendor. The easiest course of action is to say, "Oh well," and keep on using that vendor, but that can be very dangerous. Every time you use that vendor's services, the cost of switching vendors increases.
Here are four simple steps to end the vicious cycle of vendor lock-in:
1. Revisit your contract. If you're able to break your relationship with that vendor, do so as soon as possible. If you're stuck in your contract for a certain period of time, go ahead and plan your strategy so you're ready to get out of the relationship as soon as your contract is up.
2. Pick a new vendor. Use the tips above to find a vendor that won't lock you into their technology.
3. Ask how to migrate off your current systems. Chances are that your new vendor often gets new clients from their competitors. Ask for their advice in switching off your current systems.
4. Make the switch. It probably won't be easy to make a switch, after all, that's the point of vendor lock-in. But making the switch will be critical for your credit union's future.
Emily Maxie is marketing director at SIGNIX in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Christian Bale & Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Critics' Choice Awards 2013
Christian Bale and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have a laugh at the 2013 Critics' Choice Awards held at Barker Hangar on Thursday (January 10) in Santa Monica, Calif.
The actors both enjoyed themselves throughout the live broadcast, and Christian was joined by his beautiful wife Sibi Blazic.
"Annie tore the strap on her dress, but luckily I had a pin :o)," Joe captioned a photo of him and Anne Hathaway, wearing a HitRecord.org pin, on his Facebook.
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Loved it - that's a Namtars Lair purist run. <3
I'm not at all sure you could've won (understatement), but there were things you could do. I think sticking with the platemail for too long was an issue considering your god options, finding Taurog tat late was really misfortunate, but you could've really used the TT potions to great effect. Also picking up Tiki's Edge Earlier, with converting a few items, would've let you use the popcorn for greater benefits, so Yendor could've been used to greater effect. Getting rid of the Platemail would also mean you can get use of GETINDARE, and all that.
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CAM Software Adds Helical Passes
NCG CAM v13 incorporates helical machining passes as a new feature.
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NCG CAM v13 incorporates helical machining passes as a new feature. According to the company, helical passes are generated from a set of horizontal slices that cut through the surface geometry. The created profiles are then joined in a continuously descending ramp, which follows the surface data between the profiles. Helical passes can be used for semi-finishing and finishing, and are said to reduce the witness lines between Z-level passes and promote consistent load when using waterline passes.
The software release enables circular holes in the triangulated model data to be capped, including holes that span across different surfaces. A circular planar patch can be created at the upper limit of the hole, or a patch that follows the surface edge can be generated for holes that pierce a 3D form. Both methods use a detected-holes plan and enable either the top or bottom, or both ends of the hole to be capped for smoother machine motion.
Optional origins enable single points to be converted to datum points, which can then be passed as inputs to machining plans when required for post processing. Users can save single or combined sets of transformations through the edit transform dialogue for re-use in another plan or database. The results of enabling the "shaft profile" now can be exported as .csv files, and the data used as a template to turn a custom toolholder with minimal workpiece clearance. The "tapping with chip break" feature enables users with compatible machine tool controllers, such as Heidenhain Cycle 209, to implement a chip break within the tapping cycle. Lollipop and dovetail cutters for five-axis machining are now supported. Improvements have also been made to the rest finishing and waterline linking strategies.
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Previously on The Bachelor: Twenty-five women from across America came to California to audition for the role of first mate to Captain Bob. A freak storm washed ten weeping women overboard on the first night, followed shortly thereafter by the drowning deaths of five more. The remaining ten women then voted for whom they believed to be the most and least seaworthy of Captain Bob, with Meredith winning an interminably long date that was only made longer by the fact that her grandmother had just kicked the bucket. Kelly Jo, Misty and Mary dressed in jammies and sang sea chanteys in a farcical group date. Captain Bob swabbed everyones decks.
Captain Bob dates Castaway LeeAnn
Bobs first date of the episode is with LeeAnn. He rides to the Bachelorette house in a gorgeous vintage limo and ponders the significance of the shipmates voting LeeAnn least compatible. Bobs voice-over says that he wants to make sure LeeAnn is who he thinks she is, and that the ladies voting her least compatible makes him think that there is something he doesnt know. Well, what do you know? I didnt realize that there was anything that could make Bob think.
First Mates Compatibility Quiz Question 1: When Captain Bob shows up for a date wearing a white shirt and a silvery white tie, you should tell him he looks like -A. your knight in shining armor.B. the captain of your heart.C. one sexy seaman.D. a big round life raft.
Suddenly, the rapid report of gunfire echoes through the house. No, wait, thats only Bob knocking on the door. The boy has a heavy hand. LeeAnn comes down to greet her beau and snootily reminds the other girls not to wait up for her. Okay, for those of you who watched this episode, raise your hand if you exclaimed, It took her an hour to do that! After all the time spent with enormous curlers in her hair and all the teasing and blow-drying and help from Karin, LeeAnn clips her brunette locks back in a barrette. Her normal style. I just laughed my rear end off over that. The girl must have a lot of bad hair days.
Bob and LeeAnn are whisked away to Long Beach, the home of the Queen Mary. Bob is looking forward to a romantic evening on the water, even though the Queen Mary is in dry dock and wont be sailing anywhere with only one of her three engines remaining and that one is just for show. All the twinkling lights in the background, which by day are industrial yards, add to the romance. LeeAnn, feeling like Cinderella without the humility, tells Bob that she is shocked that she was voted least compatible. Its at this point that the producers give us a brief montage of those who voted against her.Kelly Jo: For least compatible, I vote for LeeAnn.Meredith: LeeAnnMisty: LeeAnn is least compatible.Mary: Im voting for LeeAnnAntoinette: (a weepy sigh during which she holds up her LeeAnn card)I could just watch that Antoinette clip all night. Its really funny.


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Grub is short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader. It's a boot loader package from the GNU Linux project and allows you to choose which operating system or specific kernel to boot into.
I have linux (Fedora 14) as only OS in my laptop. However, in order to install Samsung Galaxy update via its tool (Kies). I use gparted free some disk and installed Windows XP (SP3). After this, the boot loader for linux was lost. Here are steps for restoration
1. boot up using ubuntu liveCD
2. open a terminal, sudo apt-update grub #install grub as it's not installed on the livecd
3. sudo grub
4. find /boot/grub/stage1
hd0,0 # linux installed at sda1
5. root (hd0,0)
6. setup(hd0)
to add boot item for windows (my windows installed at sda2
title Windows XP
root (hd0,1)
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