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Epic tale of the Biblical king''''s seduction by a pagan queen.
In ancient Israel, the sons of King David, Adonijah and Solomon, successfully repel an Egyptian invasion. Although Solomon believes in a peaceful future, Adonijah chafes at the restrictions decreed by their father to only defend against attacks by Israel's enemies. David's chancellor Hezrai finds the brothers to report that the elderly king lies near death in Jerusalem. While Solomon returns to the city, Adonijah, having learned that soldiers from the small independent kingdom of Sheba were part of the Egyptian forces, goes in search of them. Upon finding the queen of Sheba, Adonijah introduces himself as the king of Israel and proposes that they join forces to destroy Egypt. Scornful of Adonijah's arrogance and presumption, Sheba refuses. In Jerusalem, Solomon is welcomed by the daughter of devoted tribal elder Ahab, Abishag, who has grown up in the palace. The ailing king reveals that he has had a vision and calls for a meeting with the tribal elders the next day. At the palace assembly, the king declares his greatest accomplishment in his forty-year reign is the unification of the twelve tribes that make up Israel. Adonijah then arrives at the gathering, where David stuns his eldest son by announcing that God has proclaimed Solomon as the next king. Furious, Adonijah accuses Solomon of turning David against him, but when Hezrai reveals that Adonijah pronounced himself king before Sheba, the elders and the king accuse him of breaking the law and being unworthy. Adonijah insists he will never give up his rightful claim and departs the court, shortly after which David crowns Solomon king. Later, on his deathbed, David requests that Solomon build a great temple to honor God and house the covenant. After his father's death, Solomon prays for guidance and God assures him that as long as he fulfills his pledge to David, Israel will flourish. Solomon orders construction of the temple and after several weeks visits Adonijah to ask him to return to Jerusalem and head Israel's army. Although surprised, Adonijah agrees. The completion and consecration of the temple some years later finds Israel thriving and peaceful. In the land of Sheba, the queen receives notification that the Egyptian Pharaoh has called a conference of the Arab tribes out of concern over Israel's growing army. Baltor, Sheba's advisor, explains that in addition to this practical concern, the Pharaoh fears Solomon's devotion to monotheism, which threatens their own polytheistic beliefs. At the conference, when Pharaoh demands to know what size army Sheba will supply, the queen declares she will save employing the numerous forces by ruining Solomon personally. Although hesitant, Pharaoh agrees to allow Sheba and her entourage to proceed to Jerusalem alone. Solomon and his court welcome Sheba's visit, which she declares is a mission to learn from Solomon's just and effective reign. The Israelites are taken aback by the blatant display of the visitors' pagan idols, but Solomon treats the queen with great diffidence. When Adonijah visits Sheba to repeat his earlier proposal, the queen again refuses to assist him. After several days, Sheba grows frustrated at not being able to arrange time alone with Solomon, but is impressed by his judicious rulings in dealing with the daily difficulties of his people. Solomon gradually spends time with Sheba, but when the queen invites him for a private dinner, he avoids the engagement. Later that evening, however, Solomon challenges Sheba to explain the real reason for her presence in Jerusalem. Solomon dismisses Sheba's claim to be spying for Pharaoh, so the queen confesses her plan to ruin him because of his irreproachable reputation, but confesses that she has fallen in love with him. Overcome by his long-denied attraction to Sheba, Solomon embraces her. Days later, Hezrai and a high priest visit Adonijah to express their dismay over Sheba moving into the royal palace. Meanwhile, Sheba summons Baltor to demand their immediate return to their country. When the queen admits she has truly fallen in love with Solomon, Baltor reminds her of her mission and duty to her people. Sheba reluctantly agrees and describes her plan to gain Solomon's approval for a lavish religious celebration that will scandalize the elders and Israelite people. A few days later, Solomon proposes marriage to Sheba, but she indicates their religious differences make that impossible and announces her plan to return home. Stunned, Solomon demands an explanation and Sheba explains that as queen, she must oversee an annual religious tradition. Their discussion is disrupted by an assassination attempt by two men, one of whom Solomon discovers is Adonijah's lieutenant, Joab. Outraged, Solomon confronts Adonijah, who declares that the people are angered by Solomon's involvement with Sheba. The king angrily sends his brother into exile. Upon learning that Solomon has approved of Sheba's pagan celebration, the high priests meet with the king, but he insists that he has acted only out of love. Dismayed, the court prophet Nathan announces that God will turn his hand against Israel for Solomon's actions. The next evening, Sheba and her people conduct a sensuous ceremony that mesmerizes Solomon. Fearful of the prophecy, Abishag goes to the temple and pleads with God to spare Solomon, offering her life in exchange for his. At the height of the ceremony, a thunderstorm breaks out and both the pagan idol and the temple are struck by bolts of lightning. Stunned, Solomon later finds Abishag dead in the ruined temple and realizes the depth of his offense to God. The king then publicly apologizes to his priests and people, but the elders depart after declaring Israel's unity ruptured. As foretold, the land soon returns to a desert. In Egypt, Adonijah meets with Pharaoh and vows to lead the kingdom's armies against Solomon in exchange for Israel's throne. Pharaoh agrees and demands the death of Sheba for remaining in Jerusalem. Solomon soon learns of the approaching Egyptian army and, mustering those who have remained faithful to him, leads his soldiers into the desert to meet the attack. The king is gratified when Ahab joins him, pledging his tribe's support in memory of Abishag. Adonijah's superior forces quickly surround the smaller Israelite army and after a vicious battle, Solomon sounds the retreat. Adonijah orders Solomon found, but his officers report the Israelites have faded away. Impatient, Adonijah takes a small group into Jerusalem, leaving his captain to finish off the Israelites. Up in the hills, an officer reports to the weary Solomon that the surviving Israelite troops have abandoned him. In Jerusalem, Baltor tells Sheba of Solomon's defeat, but learning that the king remains alive, Sheba hastens to the temple ruins where she prays, vowing to return to her country to build a great tabernacle to honor God if he spares Solomon. The following morning, Solomon is astonished when his soldiers return to him and, abruptly inspired, he orders them to burnish their shields. As day breaks, the Egyptian captain orders the army into a final assault on the Israelites who wait on a distant hill. At the height of the charge, the Israelite soldiers turn their mirrored shields into the sun, blinding the approaching soldiers to a huge chasm lying just below the hill. After the Egyptian army has been destroyed by riding over the cliff, Solomon returns to Jerusalem in triumph. Meanwhile, Adonijah has declared himself king and ordered Sheba stoned. Infuriated by Solomon's appearance, Adonijah attacks him and Solomon kills him. The king then takes the unconscious Sheba to the temple where she revives and praises God for sparing him and Jerusalem. Repeating her vow, Sheba is gratified when God heals her injuries and commends her love and loyalty to Solomon. Sheba then reveals to Solomon that she is pregnant with his child, but insists she must fulfill her promise to return to her country. Solomon agrees and gives thanks to God for his forgiveness.
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Great colour but boring movie
Maureen v.v. 2014-03-17
I watched this in hopes it would be another Ten Commandments movie. It wasn't. There were too many mistakes. It had the Star of David in many scenes.... MORE>
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OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Kenya
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CAPITAL: Nairobi
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Swahili, English
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Even if you've never been to Kenya, chances are you know what it looks like. Kenya's savanna is familiar from movies, TV shows, books, and commercials. It's the landscape many people imagine when they think of Africa.
Kenya is located in East Africa. Its terrain rises from a low coastal plain on the Indian Ocean to mountains and plateaus at its center. Most Kenyans live in the highlands, where Nairobi, the capital, sits at an altitude of 5,500 feet (1,700 meters).
West of Nairobi the land descends to the Great Rift Valley, a 4,000-mile (6,400-kilometer) tear in the Earth's crust. Within this valley in the deserts of northern Kenya are the jade-green waters of famous Lake Turkana.
In Kenya, more than 60 languages are spoken and there are more than 40 ethnic groups. Almost everyone there speaks more than one African language.
School is free in Kenya, but many children are too busy to go to classes. They help their families by working the land, tending cattle, cooking, or fetching water.
Music and storytelling are important parts of Kenyan culture. For centuries, tribes throughout the country have used songs, stories, and poems to pass on their beliefs, history, and customs.
Millions of people visit Kenya each year to see its endless savanna and the animals that inhabit it: elephants, lions, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, hippos, rhinos, and more. The Kenyan government has set up more than 50 reserves and parks to protect these animals.
People seeking African wildlife usually focus on Kenya's lowland savannas. But Kenya's ecosystems also include deserts, swamps, mountain, and forests. Each region has its own mix of plants and animals that are suited to the area's particular conditions. Kenya's highland forests are home to many animals found nowhere else in the world.
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Kenya was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1920 until 1963. Since its independence, it has been a republic, with a president, a national assembly, called the Bunge, and a judiciary.
Kenya's location between the Indian Ocean and Lake Victoria means that people from all over Africa and the Middle East have traveled and traded across it for centuries. This has created a diverse culture with many ethnic groups and languages.
Scientists think Northern Kenya and Tanzania may have been the original birthplace of humans. The bones of one of the earliest human ancestors ever found were discovered in Kenya's Turkana Basin.
Slavery is a big part of Kenya's history. During the 1600s and 1700s, many Kenyans were kidnapped and taken as slaves by Arabs, Europeans, and Americans. By the mid-19th century, slavery was outlawed by most countries, but by then, thousands of Kenyans and other East Africans had been taken to countries throughout the world.

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If you've ever owned a Nerf dart gun, you're aware that you'll eventually lose a majority of the darts after a couple of epic battles or some lazy day target practice. Nothing a trip to the store can't handle, right? Well, if you're like me, you'll have a hard time shelling out the not so insignificant funds for what is essentially little pieces of foam that you can pick up in a spool at the local hardware store for a fraction of the price.
Follow along with YouTuber freeridemtb2 shows us how to assemble Nerf Stefan darts using some poly foam caulk saver and a hot glue gun.


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On Latin Night, Jacoby Jones and partner Karina Smirnoff lead off the dancing with a salsa dance. There's a new twist this week where whichever couple scores highest on their regular dance will get "immunity" and the other couples will then dance to add extra points to their scores. It's a pain when my silly dancing show makes me use my brain.
During rehearsals, Karina has fun with a partner as strong as Jacoby, pretty much hurling herself at him so he can catch her. And sometimes she hurts him in the process. In fact, he misses a day of practice to get a massage and spend the day in ice. That first part sounds fun, but that second part, not so much.
Jacoby explains that after a football game, on Monday you have a walk-through, and Tuesday is the players' day off, but dance demands him every day.
Jacoby notes in an interview, "I love to dance, but I didn't know dancing was this serious or this intense."
Jacoby and Karina start at the top of the stage, she with maracas, him with bongos. In case you're interested in this sort of detail, he is wearing a shirt, but it is entirely unbuttoned. They get in a lift where Jacoby swings Karina around by an arm and a leg, then later she pretty much does a handstand into a cartwheel up his body onto his shoulders.
They look like they're going to repeat the "Jacoby leaps over Karina from behind" move, but at the last second, he doesn't go high enough and her head ends up between his knees, with her arms holding onto his legs. Which makes me think maybe it was supposed to be that way? I don't know. I'm sure we'll find out if it was a goof during judging or the interviews.
Len asks if that was an earthquake or if Jacoby just rocked this place. Len says he would've liked fewer lifts, and Jacoby's mom hollers at Len from across the ballroom. The camera cuts to her, and she's making the "I've got my eyes on you" gesture — and looks stunning in a white dress.
Bruno gets very excited about Jacoby's hip action and tells Karina she spends more time flying around than Iron Man. I'm too lazy to look up if the media conglomerate that owns ABC also produces the Marvel films, or if Bruno just gave the movie a plug out of the goodness of his heart.
Carrie Ann says Jacoby is so good that it's like he could "fart salsa." It just gets grosser from there, and Tom Bergeron has a "really?" look on his face.
Brooke asks a question about the farting analogy but is too prissy to say "fart." Jacoby says his grandmother told him that if he didn't fart, he could die, so he lets it out. Lovely. Brooke then asks if dance training is harder than football. He replies, "When I go back to the Baltimore Ravens, I'm gonna talk so much trash about conditioning."
Jacoby says his experience on the show is definitely going to improve his touchdown dances. The people of Baltimore hope he gets many, many chances to show off those moves.
Scores: Carrie Ann 9, Len 9, Bruno 9, for a total of 27 out of 30. Will that be enough to give Jacoby and Karina immunity? We won't know 'til all the other couples dance.
When Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough score a 29, we know for sure that Jacoby will be dancing in the second round for extra points. Boo for him not getting immunity, but yay for a chance to see him dance some more.
Jacoby and Karina are tied with Zendaya and Val for highest score in Round 1, so the couple with the highest accumulated score for the season gets to pick their dance-off competitors first. Val says, "Let's pick on someone our own size," and suggests Jacoby. Jacoby then gets to pick the dance style, and he says, "You know I'm jivin'."
Zendaya and Val dance first, and Zendaya's tennis shoes look weird with her fringed dress. For this being a dance, they weren't sure they were going to do, it's pretty good.
The song both couples are dancing to is "Good Golly Miss Molly." We all know what happened last time Jacoby got to jive to a Little Richard song. And maybe Zendaya and Val have more technique, but "Good golly" is what I think when I see Jacoby jive: "Good golly, this is fun to watch." Jacoby repeats his slide into splits move and his jump over Karina move.
After the dance, Jacoby and Val are BOTH going into splits on the dance floor. This is fun!
Bruno calls Jacoby a powerhouse. Len says Jacoby's dance was full of exuberance.
Judges' votes: All three judges choose Zendaya and Val, giving them three extra points on their score. This just means the Jacoby fan base had better get voting. I don't think he's in danger, but it never hurts to be supportive of your favorite.


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2014 Chevrolet Spark EV: LA Auto Show
- Chevrolet expects best-in-class electric range.
- Pricing starts at $25,000 after tax incentives.
- Apple iPhone users get Siri integration.
Among the alternative-fueled vehicles debuting at this year's LA Auto Show is the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV, an all-electric version of Chevy's smallest subcompact. After several years of success overseas, the little 5-door hatchback first appeared stateside at last year's LA Auto Show, packing a small 4-cylinder engine. The Spark EV replaces that gas engine with a U.S.-built electric motor and a lithium ion battery.
While the gasoline-powered Spark and the new Spark EV look similar from the outside, flush and silver-colored grille inserts are clues to the all-electric version. Inside, the Spark EV has a pair of 7-inch color LCD screens, one of which replaces the conventional Spark's motorcycle-inspired instrument cluster. These displays provide information necessary to an electric car driver, such as remaining energy and expected driving range.
Chevrolet says it expects the Spark EV to offer best-in-class range, though the automaker did not yet specify an estimate of how far one could drive on the battery's 20 kWh of energy. By comparison, competitors like the Honda Fit EV and Scion iQ EV use around 28 to 30 kWh to travel 100 miles, so the Spark's range may be limited to just 65 or 70 miles in combined driving--or a bit more in city driving only.
The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV offers one clear advantage over the competition: very fast recharging time. The Spark EV is equipped for SAE Combo DC fast charging that allows an 80 percent recharge in just 20 minutes. The on-board charging receptacle is compatible with standard 120V and 240V chargers too.
Chevy proudly announced that the Spark's motor and driveline are built in the U.S. at GM's facility in White Marsh, Md. The motor produces 130 horsepower--a considerable jump over the 85-horse unit in the gasoline Spark--and a massive 400 lb-ft or torque. Because electric motors produce peak torque even at low engine speeds, the Spark EV will be relatively quick, accelerating from 0-60 mph in under 8 seconds.
Aside from its drivetrain technology, the Spark EV includes the latest in infotainment technology too. The familiar Chevy MyLink platform, now available in most Chevy vehicles, also brings the voice-recognition functionality of Siri to Spark EV drivers who use the Apple iPhone (4S and newer).
Priced at $25,000 after federal tax incentives for EVs, the Chevrolet Spark EV will initially be available in the U.S. only in California and Oregon, and will also be offered in Canada and South Korea. If it's successful in these limited markets, Chevrolet's latest electric vehicle will surely find its way across the rest of the United States.
What it means to you: Limited range, high costs and long recharging times are among the concerns of those considering the move from gas to electric. But as the Spark EV demonstrates, automakers are chipping away at the EV's drawbacks with every new model.
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You may have gotten excited on Monday when you saw AT&T's announcement that it was considering bringing gigabit Internet service to 100 cities, with Houston being on the list. So far, the only city that actually has AT&T's GigaPower service is Austin, and there the service is "only" operating at 300 Mbps speeds, with the promise of a free upgrade later this year to full 1,000 Mbps downloads.
The expansion that might or might not include Houston and surrounding municipalities has two big caveats. From the news release AT&T issued Monday:
"We're delivering advanced services that offer consumers and small businesses the ability to do more, faster, help communities create a new wave of innovation, and encourage economic development," said Lori Lee, senior executive vice president, AT&T Home Solutions. "We're interested in working with communities that appreciate the value of the most advanced technologies and are willing to encourage investment by offering solid investment cases and policies."
And . . .
This expanded fiber build is not expected to impact AT&T's capital investment plans for 2014.
In other words, AT&T wants cities and counties to make it easier to expand its network. Laying fiber across big metropolitan areas is an expensive and time-consuming proposition, and AT&T wants a little help.
And AT&T isn't expected to start spending big dollars on the effort this year. Upgrading to gigabit fiber is indeed a capital expense, so don't hold your breath waiting for it, or you'll be blue in the face until sometime next year, at the earliest.
Exactly what might AT&T want cities to do? In making its announcement, AT&T is following in the footsteps of Google, which unveiled plans in February to bring its Google Fiber network to 34 cities, with Houston not included. Google's plans are laden with conditions:
We aim to provide updates by the end of the year about which cities will be getting Google Fiber. Between now and then, we'll work closely with each city's leaders on a joint planning process that will not only map out a Google Fiber network in detail, but also assess what unique local challenges we might face. These are such big jobs that advance planning goes a long way toward helping us stick to schedules and minimize disruption for residents.
We're going to work on a detailed study of local factors that could affect construction, like topography (e.g., hills, flood zones), housing density and the condition of local infrastructure. Meanwhile, cities will complete a checklist of items that will help them get ready for a project of this scale and speed. For example, they'll provide us with maps of existing conduit, water, gas and electricity lines so that we can plan where to place fiber. They'll also help us find ways to access existing infrastructure—like utility poles—so we don't unnecessarily dig up streets or have to put up a new pole next to an existing one.
You can expect AT&T's wish list to be very similar.
So, while Houston is one of AT&T's candidate cities, GigaPower Internet service may not ever make it here. In fact, Karl Bode at DSLReports.com calls AT&T's announcement a "big fat bluff":
Before you get too excited, you need to understand that this is a bluff of immense proportion. It's what I affectionately refer to as "fiber to the press release."
Ever since Google Fiber came on the scene, AT&T's response has been highly theatrical in nature. What AT&T would have the press and public believe is that they're engaged in a massive new deployment of fiber to the home service. What's actually happening is that AT&T is upgrading a few high-end developments where fiber was already in the ground (these users were previously capped at DSL speeds) and pretending it's a serious expansion of fixed-line broadband.
It's not. At the same time AT&T is promising a massive expansion in fixed line broadband, they're telling investors they aren't spending much money on the initiative, because they aren't. AT&T's focus is on more profitable wireless. "Gigapower" is a show pony designed to help the company pretend they're not being outmaneuvered in their core business by a search engine company.
The ball is in the court of the 100 municipalities on the list. Will the city of Houston opt to play? Certainly, Houston didn't leap into the game when Google asked cities to compete for the initial Google Fiber builds. Will an invitation from AT&T be more enticing?
Related: AT&T says it will work with the Chernin Group investment firm to create a streaming video service that would compete with Hulu and Netflix.


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Burt F. Bacharach (pronounced /ˈbækəræk/, BAK-ə-rak; born May 12, 1928) is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick. Following on with the initial success of this collaboration, Bacharach went on to produce hits with Dusty Springfield, Bobbie Gentry and others.
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"PEDRO" the quadruped robot got a lithium polymer battery last week courtesy of eBay. I had been putting off buying a heavy and expensive large capacity LiPo battery until I had got the walking algorithms working a bit better and I could truly test the ability of the robot to take the 500g or so of a heavy battery, but now batteries are available on eBay for not as much money, I just took the plunge and bought a 3000mAh 3 cell battery pack and charger for the robot.
The battery weighs just 215g, and cost approx AU$50 delivered. The charger can charge up to 5A and will do a balance charge, monitoring individual cell voltages.
Next I had to fit it to the robot, as the original design called for a larger pack slung underneath the body and neatly held in by the spacers between the side plates. The new smaller pack needed some extra holes and some plastic brackets to hold it in;
Once the battery was on and tested ok, I had to return to the firmware for the AVR micro and write some code to support turning the unit on and off via the onboard mosfet and soft on/off button. Also needed was some code to talk to the ADC chip on board which has the battery cell voltages on it, so I could implement low battery automatic cut out and (hopefully soon) viewing of the battery level remotely over the wifi link. Of course it didn't go smoothly...
Once again the usb logic analyser came in very handy in debugging the SPI comms between the micro and the AD7490 chip (16 channel, 12 bit converter). You can also see the JTAG MkII from Atmel connected (expensive gadget, but very handy for debugging AVR code).
I've also been working on the walking algorithms, and various other software and hardware bits and pieces such as improving the communications (the WiPort wifi module doesn't seem to work as well as I'd hoped - it needs really good signal strength or every now and again it will drop out for up to a second or so). Once I've got some of these wrinkles smoothed out and the walking nice and smooth I'll post some more video.


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Virtual Machine TipsAugust 15, 2006
A quick follow up to yesterday's post about Parallels. When you create a virtual install of Windows on your Mac, Parallels creates a file. Your OS, applications, and data all live within this file.
Upon installing (and activating) a fresh copy of Windows and all your various applications, make a duplicate of this file. It'll be a gigabyte or two in size, depending on how much you've added, but you can easily store it on a backup drive or DVD.
There are a few reasons to do this. If you're worried about exposing your Mac to Windows worms and virii, you now have a backup you can restore from at any point. Just move any important data out of the corrupted Windows install, delete it, and make a clone of the backup. Whether that's easier or harder than maintaining anti-virus software on your copy of Windows entirely depends on how you use it. It's easier for me, anyway, since my data lives on the Mac portion of my hard drive.
Or if you take the IE team's advice to heart and decide to maintain multiple versions of Windows for the purposes of testing multiple versions of IE (something I've yet to be convinced is necessary, by the way), you can simply clone a few copies of your backup and vary your IE installs between them.
This is all possible with Virtual PC as well, incidentally. The files are much larger, though.
The tip with backing up the disk images … that reminds me of something - it's called VServer and it is a virtual linux machine running on one "master" physical server. We're using them for a) separating several dev "machines" not to affect each other b) having the possibility of roll back the server that was corrupted to a specific "snapshot" as a whole or exhange them on-the-fly as needed.
Ah, and one thing - for IE7 standalones: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/07/26/IE7-Standalone-_2800_Updated-for-IE7-Beta-3_2900_.aspx
Hmm sounds like you need what VMWare Workstation 5.5 for PC calls the snapshot manager.
Essentially you create a base build, and snapshot. Continue working and install, say, IE6. Snapshot again.
Then, this is the neat part, you go back to snapshot 1 - and it creates a snapshot branch. Install IE7 and snapshot. You then have 3 snapshots; 1: Base Install, 2: Base + IE6; 3: Base + IE7; and you can switch between them as you like.
You can rinse and repeat this process for any number of snapshot branches. You can even branch from branches. It's all very elegant, especially when doing development work.
I wonder if the VMWare release that they are doing for Mac will support this.
Ah: A picture tells a thousand words.
If all of your files exist inside the Windows VM "snapshot," how easy is it to share those files between operating systems? Can I save a file in Windows and then open it in Mac OSX?
If you cannot share directly on the local machine, are there any problems associated with both operating systems connecting to the same network filesystem? I guess what I'm trying to ask is are both the host OS and the client OS treated as two separate entities on the network (i.e., two separate IP addresses).
I know this is not meant to be a support forum, so I apologize for asking so many questions. However, I'm planning on getting a MacBook before too long, but rely on both some Windows-only apps and some Linux-only apps for work (currently, I dual-boot) and this seems like a pretty nice one computer solution which will give me a pretty slick OS for playtime as well.
You don't need to maintain multiple copies of Windows to test in legacy version of IE. There's some funky hacks that have been made to run them stand alone. I haven't tested them yet under Parallels, but when I had a 2nd box running windows, I had versions of IE 3, 4, 5, 5.5 and 6 able to be installed in harmony.
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The way that Parallels does sharing is that you set up shared folders that can be seen by mac and pc sides. And yes they do show up as seperate IPs on the network; it's pretty neat, 'cause I run a test web server on the mac, I can access that just by typing the mac's IP address into the PC side.
Thanks SteamSHIFT, that is exactly what I wanted to know.
Now, I wonder how well subversion would handle the snapshot backups. I guess that it would see it as binary, but subversion's binary diffing seems pretty decent. A daily commit would give you something close to VMWare's Snapshot Manager that Mark Allanson mentioned for free. I already use this method as a way of syncing my files between three machines as it is.
@ Jonathan
Funny I was wondering pretty much exactly the same thing!
Has anyone using Parallels experienced better results by disabling the 'acceleration' feature?
I have been using Windows without the accel and it works better… anyone has any feedback on this?
You write:
"…Whether that's easier or harder than maintaining anti-virus software on your copy of Windows entirely depends on how you use it."
I would never *EVER* run Windows without some kind of anti-virus software.
Unpatched and unprotected, Windows is vulnerable from the moment it starts up and is connected to the Internet. Without opening attachments, or Outlook, or even IE.
Mac users who run quite happily (if maybe unwisely) without such protection should be particularly warned about the importance of keeping Windows up to date with relevant Critical Updates from MS; as well as some kind of AV software, even something free, like AVG from Grisoft:
I've been on a Macbook Pro since about May, and as a web developer, I too agree that its THE best tool we could ever have.
If you're looking for an easier way to test in IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 I'd highly suggest installing Ubuntu and IEs4Linux package.
Ubuntu is really easy to install and manage. And installing this package is cake.
I run both Parallels and Q ( http://www.kju-app.org/kju/Q ) for when I need Windows.
I run Parallels while in a closed network and/or need the full speed of the computer.
If I think there is *any* chance that my Windows install could be compromised I run Q and put up with the performance hit.
Q gives you the choice to not save the current session (much like Virtual PC did only free) leaving you with an unmodified Windows install.
Keep in mind though that Q is an emulator so performance is considerably slower than a Parallels virtual machine. This is not so great a problem when checking websites – starting up and launching IE is slow but a page refresh is not so bad.
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Thanks for the tip John, just installed Ubuntu, and indeed it runs real easy.
Hi guys! I'm messing around in RoR and Django and they have their webservers running on localhost:port. That works like a charm in Safari but how can I access those servers with IE6 through Parallels?
Having heard recently about parallels, I tried it out 2 days ago.
A programmer recommended VMPlayer which is totally free. I thought to goo the easy route and evaluated the trial of the former on top of XP and installed a Linux Distro from within a Virtual machine, and liked what I saw.
For win-versions better upgrade to 2.2 beta, before building any VM)
I still couldn't understand though, if Parallel Tools is a MAC only addon,or available for windows version as well.
Most Ideally instead of just bookmarking,I would have done what Dave suggests. No win hosts at all and win2k/xp guest OSes as VM only and clone, wouldn't like to connect any windows machines without
a Firewall Router that has at least DHCP and NAS.
@Jonathan Wagner
I found I had to implement NAS which does the file-sharing entirely separate from any local machine through SAMBA/CIFS protocol, if I wanted a multi OS network. Since this is an entirely separate story it doesn't matter wether you access your files from a VM or a real physical machine. There are many cheap solutions around, like NSLU2 from Lynksys for example.
Two caveats:
When accessing from MAC OS those ready made firmwares don't implement SAMBA in a very nice way,
since Shares loose their permissions and can not go above 700, which makes this pretty useless for local
development.(placing Site Folders on a share)
On Tiger then a Share mounts nicely without enabling those Protocols and opening holes , while happily
having its own native Firewall in Stealth mode
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Elle Fanning stars in the short film 'The Likeness,' which depicts an all-too-real look at life with an eating disorder.
The eight-minute film, which was created by acclaimed cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, pans over a horrific house party, with each room portraying very thin women in odd positions: one lying bent over in a drawer, another lying naked on the floor. None focus on the camera. Prieto, whose cinematography credits include 'Brokeback Mountain, 'Argo,' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' made the film with his 19-year-old daughter Ximena, who suffered from anorexia when she was a young teenager.
'The Likeness,' which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, stars Elle Fanning as a young girl suffering from bulimia. Halfway through the film, while in the bathroom at the party, she looks at herself in the mirror, only to see a distorted face staring back at her. As she goes to tear her skin off, she screams -- quietly at first, then inaudibly the second time. She then runs to the toilet and gets sick.
While the film is deeply haunting and difficult to view, the Prietos believe that it is important to share this intimate look at eating disorders in order to foster discussion and get rid of the stigma surrounding the disease. In addition, Lynn Grefe, president of the National Eating Disorders Association, believes the film can show people how unimaginably difficult and serious living with an eating disorder is, which will hopefully raise awareness and allow people to get help faster.
However, those who are currently suffering from an eating disorder are not encouraged to watch the film, Ximenia says. "I definitely would say if someone is in the midst of dealing with an eating disorder, it's triggering," she told Today.com. "You'd have to be in a somewhat stable place to confront this emotion."
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The summer of Paul McCarthy in New York continues with a must see exhibit at the Chelsea location of Hauser & Wirth in Manhattan. Collaborating with his son (!!!!), the 18th Street gallery has been transformed by their joint exhibit "Rebel Dabble Babble." The giant gallery features a mock 'behind the scenes' look at the alleged relationships that took place during the making of the movie "Rebel Without A Cause." What you will see as you enter the gallery are movie theater sized projections of different scenes of sex acts, arguments, love fests and lots of disturbing images that will stick with you long after you've left the exhibit. The gallery was not fond of the use of photography, so let me try and set the scene for you: In the center of the gallery, the "movie sets" reside and on the walls of the gallery and inside the sets, the scenes, not in chronological order, are projected. When you get to the back room, you see a ton of still photos from the movie that the McCarthy's have made.
Actor James Franco is in some of the scenes, playing James Dean– naturally. If you click to enlarge the second photo, you will see him shoving something up another guy's ass! This exhibit is not for the squeamish or easily offended, and as I am neither of those things, I loved this exhibit and recommend you open your mind and check it out as well! These pictures do not do justice to the experience you will have in person, so make sure to visit Hauser and Wirth, located at 511 West 18th Street in Manhattan.
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Now you've seen the picture, you're wondering, where are the holes in these vegan doughnuts? Here's the short answer: I didn't have a doughnut cutter.I spent all of Sunday morning in stores that sell baking tools trying to find one, but the only specialty store in my area that would possibly stock it was, unfortunately, closed. And since I'd already started the dough, I couldn't wait any more.So I did what I've done when I made doughnuts in the past, which isn't often. I used a cookie cutter. A regular round one, about 2 inches across.These are yeasted doughnuts so they have a mildly sweet, yeasty flavor combined with a soft, fluffy texture that's quite wonderful.
I used soft tofu instead of eggs in this recipe, and I used a mix of canola oil and vegan "butter" instead of regular butter.
This is my final entry for Sweet Vegan, the event I'm hosting this month (gosh, I did eat too many sweets this month!). I want to take the opportunity to remind all of you cooks and bakers out there to send in your entries before end of day Oct. 31. I am out of town the next four days, but I'll post the round-up before the end of the week.
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- 1 cup warm water
- 4 1/2 tsp active dry yeast
- 4 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 4 tbsp vegan "butter" like Smart Balance's vegan version or Earth Balance vegan butter
- 2 tbsp vegetable or canola oil.
- 2/3 cups sugar
- 3/4 cups of soft tofu
- 2 tbsp almond milk
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Mix the yeast and water in a bowl and let it stand until the yeast is frothy, about 5-10 minutes.
- Add 1 cup of all-purpose flour and stir in until smooth.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow it to rise in a warm place, around 1 hour.
- In a large bowl, beat together the vegan butter and oil in a stand mixer or with a hand mixer
- Add sugar and beat in until fluffy and light.
- Add soft tofu and almond milk and beat about 3 minutes.
- Add vanilla, salt and beat in until well-blended.
- Add the remaining 3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour and the flour-yeast mixture and beat in until the dough comes together.
- Move to a greased bowl, turning over once to coat with oil.
- Cover tight with plastic wrap and place in a warm place for about 2 hours until the dough has risen to about twice its size.
- Punch down the dough, cover with a plastic wrap, and place in a refrigerator about 3 hours. The dough will continue to rise.
- After 3 hours, turn out the dough on a lightly floured surface, and roll to about 1/2-inch thickness.
- With a doughnut cutter or with a cookie cutter, cut out doughnuts and place them on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Allow the donuts to rise until about doubled in size, 1-2 hours.
- Heat oil in a frying pan to 365 degrees. A thermometer for deep frying is invaluable in helping you maintain a perfect frying temperature so the donuts don't absorb oil but just cook in it.
- Drop the donuts in one or two at a time, and cook both sides until golden.
- Dust with powdered sugar and serve.


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Silver Centre (UK) Ltd is obliged to offer our customers free take-back of their WEEE
on a like-for-like basis when they buy a new Electrical or Electronic product from us.
For example, if a customer bought a new battery charger from us we would accept their old battery charger and prevent it going into a landfill site by disposing of it safely. Customers must return their WEEE item to us within 28 days of purchasing their new item. Should customers choose to post their WEEE item to us, they have to absorb the postage themselves.
Under the take-back scheme for all portable waste batteries, you can return your waste batteries to our business premises in person (please do not post). Alternatively, you are strongly recommended to find your local recycling facility at www.recyclenow.co.uk.
Our products have been marked with the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol shown below:
It means that such items should be disposed of separately from normal household waste so that they can be recycled.
The amount of WEEE we throw away is increasing by around 5% each year, making it the fastest growing waste stream in the UK. Should the UK is WEEE not be recycled, many of them end up in landfills, where the lead and other toxins they contain can cause soil and water contamination. This can have a harmful effect on natural habitat, wildlife and also human health.
In fact, many electrical items that we throw away can be repaired or recycled. Recycling items helps to save our natural finite resources and also reduces the environmental and health risks associated with sending electrical goods to landfill.
Let us work together to build a green and sustainable UK!


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Management Project Wins Statewide AccoladesSOCORRO, N.M. May 9, 2011 – A New Mexico Tech student project from the management and computer science departments is one of 10 statewide awards from the N.M. Small Business Assistance program for 2011.
|Dr. Dean Wilkinson (center) displays log books that cover one year's worth of paperwork required by the federal government to report the chain of possession of contolled substances. Software developed by New Mexico Tech students will eliminate the hardcopy records. At left is Tech professor Dr. Frank Reinow. At right is state Rep. Don Tripp.
|Dr. Frank Reinow (left) and Rep. Don Tripp (right) presented a 2011 Innovation Award to Dr. Dean Wilkinson at Animal Haven Veterinary Clinic in Socorro.
A team of management and computer science students, working with Animal Haven Veterinary Clinic in Socorro, have nearly completed a package of custom software and tablet-like hardware to make it easier for clinic staff to track and log controlled drugs from inventory to patient dispensing.
Dr. Frank Reinow, management instructor, accepted the award at a special banquet in early April. He and state Rep. Don Tripp III presented the award to clinic co-owner Dr. Dean Wilkinson on May 3. Tripp has long been supportive of the Small Business Assistance program (and is a New Mexico Tech graduate, as well).
"I thought the students did an extremely good job because they designed this thing from scratch," Reinow said. "They didn't use any kind of existing applications."
Rep. Tripp said the national laboratories enjoy a deduction in gross receipts tax (sales tax) from the State of New Mexico. In exchange for the deductions, the labs provide funding for the Small Business Assistance program.
"It's been a very viable program over the years," Tripp said. "It's one of the things the government does that works well."
Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories both participate in the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program. The program pairs students with private companies. The overarching goal is assessing technology needs of firms and providing input for solving problems. The program funds dozens of projects each year. New Mexico Tech has participated for the past two years, and has been recognized with an Innovation Award each of the past two years. In 2010, Reinow and another team of students were honored for their work with Intor Inc., a Socorro manufacturer of optical thin films.
The students working with Animal Haven developed an inexpensive digital solution to replace a time-consuming and cumbersome manual recordkeeping system. To comply with federal regulations, veterinary clinics must keep copious records of their medications. One year's worth of logs is contained in a six-inch thick binder.
The project team initially was Jessica Stringfield, John Franks, Holly Priestley and Adam Troemner during the spring 2010 semester as part of Management 462: Systems Risk and Decision Analysis. They assessed the market for available electronic medical records programs –many of which are expensive and are only partial functionality. They then began software development using SQL.
"This started out as a one-semester project," Reinow said. "But it turned into a significant undertaking in terms of time and effort."
Franks and Troemner continued the project in the fall 2010 semester as part of another Reinow course: IT 482: Secure Systems Design Project Course. Now, Franks is finishing up the final product. Franks is putting the finishing touches on the graphic-user interface. The finished product will be delivered to Animal Haven within a few weeks.
Troemner said the project gave them an excellent real-world experience.
"In most homework assignments, you assume an imaginary client," Troemner said. "This project forces you to interact and to enter a real business environment. We're not working in a vacuum."
Dr. Peter Anselmo, Management Department chair, said these Small Business Assistance partnership programs showcase the capabilities of Tech students.
"Tech provides a uniquely rigorous and stimulating student environment," Anselmo said. "Our unique Management of Technology program, where students gain engineering knowledge that complements their Management training, gives our students the unique skill set necessary to succeed in a commercial context that is defined by technology."
"The labs are interested in working with universities," Reinow said. "The purpose is to reach out and work with local small businesses and help them develop."
Tripp said he's impressed with the product that the students have created. He hopes other veterinary clinics can benefit from the new software package, and that New Mexico Tech can benefit from commercializing the application.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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Here's what you need to download the official Sony Xperia T3 D5106 stock ROM (firmware) flash file onto your computer. You can then flash the firmware with the flashing tool that's made to work with your device in mind.
The people working in smartphone repair centers were the first ones to know about flashing tools, as they often used them to help fix common mobile device-related problems. Since then, these flashing tools have become available on the Web for anybody to use. Now you can solve the same kinds of issues that were once left up to those repair centers: bootloops, soft-brick situations, software errors, software bugs, update errors, so forth, by downloading the software onto your computer at home. What's more, installing the Sony Xperia T3 D5106 flash file is an easy task, thanks to the flashing tool's user-friendly interfaces that usually require just one click before the flashing is underway.
Most third-party developers who create tools for helping you customize your devices—the teams that work on custom recovery images, rooting applications, et cetera—recommend sticking with custom software if you've already changed the system partition or installed a custom recovery on the smartphone or tablet. If you are to go back to stock Android on the device, though, they recommend flashing the firmware yourself instead of accepting the over-the-air updates. This is because OTAs can create unexpected behavior since they're often only patching over existing software instead of completely replacing it.
The flashing tools such as the Sony Mobile Flasher tool are always computer applications. On most occasions, these apps are relatively small files and won't take up much hard drive space.
You can sometimes have a choice of what flashing tool you want to use to flash the Sony Xperia T3 D5106 firmware file. You can flash Stock ROMs with tools that work for either the system chip found in the device's hardware, the firmware file type, or on occasion, apps that are designed to work for a particular manufacturer.
Download Sony Xperia T3 D5106 Firmware Flash File
File name: Sony_Xperia_T3_D5106_18.1.A.2.25_1285-5295_Customized_US
Android Version: Android 4.4.4 (KitKat)
Firmware File: Download flash file
How to Flash Sony Xperia T3 D5106 Stock ROM Using Sony Mobile Flasher
1. Download the Sony Xperia L1 USB driver and install it onto your computer.
2. Download the Sony Mobile Flasher application that is made to work with your operating system brand in mind—i.e., grab the version for Windows if your computer is running Windows.
3. Download the Sony Xperia T3 D5106 stock firmware package onto your computer and then extract it by right-clicking on it and then choosing the option to extract it from the menu.
4. Follow the setup wizard until you have successfully installed the Sony Mobile Flasher tool on the computer.
5. Open it up and look for the "Flash" button.
6. Browse the computer for the firmware file that you have downloaded and extracted and then upload it to this location, making sure you have selected the actual firmware file and not just its folder.
7. Click on the "Flash" button.
8. Start with the Sony mobile device turned off, and then connect it to the computer with its USB cable while holding the "Volume Down" button.
9. The flashing should now begin automatically.
For a more detailed guide with screenshots, you can check out the how to flash Sony Xperia firmware article.
Important Notes
Back Up Your Data: You should always back up your data before you begin flashing new firmware files to your Sony smartphone or tablet. All of your pictures, music, videos, documents, etc. should be still on your device after you have updated the firmware, but you may need to restore the contacts and applications from a backup.
Wipe Cache and Factory Reset: Some people claim that taking a factory reset isn't necessary after updates, but at the very least you should wipe the system cache after installing new firmware. This way you can help eliminate any performance issues and battery draining bugs. Taking a factory reset is the best way of avoiding common problems many users face after applying software updates.
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Why didn't anybody think of this before? It's a festival... in an abandoned air base. Brilliant. Tonight, the eerie experimental sounds ringing out over Bentwaters Air Base in Suffolk seem to fit their surroundings, and the place that once existed as a bastion in America's efforts in the Cold War is an incredible backdrop for some weird and wonderful musical creations.
Faster Than Sound, an event encompassed by the wider happenings of the Aldeburgh Festival, takes place every year at the former RAF base in coastal Suffolk. The main setting – an old engine testing room called 'The Hush House' – has long been disused and silent, but tonight it is beautifully lit so that it's hard to imagine it was meant to be used for anything else. Classical and electronic musical forms soundtrack the evening, often married together at various points and channelled through four surround sound speaker systems. It feels more like a rave, like we shouldn't be here - there's no corporate sponsorship evident or heavy-handed security anywhere to be seen.
The line-up was stronger in its inaugural years of 2006 and 2007, boasting Venetian Snares, µ-ziq, DAT Politics and Throbbing Gristle between them. This year's event is less of an all-star-cast, but still welcoming the relatively big names of 4AD's Jóhann Jóhannsson and Warp's Plaid onto the bill. For £10 though, no one's complaining, not least when you consider its unique setting and ambitiousness of the set-up. Faster Than Sound isn't about the big names; it leans more towards personal discovery, where the lesser known, even virtually unknown artists, are the ones that can impress the most.
Each artist on the bill performs for an average of ten minutes, before reappearing at various points in the night with different collaborators. As the sun begins to set outside, the proceedings begin, and the first notable performer DiS manages to catch is Tim Exile, whose cluttered breakcore sounds like a Normandy beach on D-Day through the multi-channel speaker system. He's incredible, but something tells me it wouldn't be as good through your average PA system. Visuals for the evening are provided by Quayola, whose calm looped-nature videos create a beautiful juxtaposition with Mira Calix's scatterbrain electronica. Of course, whilst there is much chin-stroking and folded arms amongst the audience for most of the night, by the time Plaid's twisted IDM fills the hanger, the audience unfold their arms, stop using big words and start to dance.
The highlight of the evening is undoubtedly a mysteriously named installation called 'The Bunker', situated a quarter of a mile away from the main event. Rather than openly advertising the installation, those intrigued enough by its vague mention on the programme have to figure out and track down the balaclava-clad man driving a Land Rover (pictured, below) up and down the runway. Upon arrival at the bunker, we're greeted by more shadowy figures in guerrilla attire who lead us into the old, dark concrete building. We make our way haphazardly through the rooms of dusty cold-war relics towards the echo of music. We find its source in a dimly lit room reminiscent of an old jazz club with small tables and candles, wherein two women – one with a cello and the other set up with a microphone and laptop – create the most incredible dream-like ambient soundscapes. Their names we don't know, as there seems to be no information on the programme or on the internet about them anywhere, probably to add some mystery to the proceedings. After five minutes we're being bundled back into the Land Rover by the masked curators towards the main hanger. Only a few select people get to see their performance, as the majority of people we spoke to after greet us with a bemused "wut?" when we proposed the question as to whether they'd seen the secret installation.
This is an event that deserves to expand, and there's consensus amongst its attendees that they'd pay extra for a bigger line-up and more installations besides. Despite its few shortcomings, Faster Than Sound is the wind of change in a quagmire of mediocre festivals, mediocre bands, and mediocre settings. More festivals will be like this in the future, and they'll be better off for it too.
David J Morgan
Official Faster Than Sound website here


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Half-Life 2 Headcrab Plush
Don't try this at home, kids.
- Plush headcrab from the video game Half-Life 2
- Will make you want to attack Gordon Freeman
- Can be killed with a crowbar
G'day! So what we have 'ere is a genuine plush headcrab, straight from the New Mexico desert. Called headhoppers by some, these beauts are one quarter size of the real thing. See the four legs underneath it? The front two are the business ends with the plushie claws, and the back ones help this creature from falling backwards from the weight of its head!
And speaking of the 'ead, the mouth features all kinds gruesome detail underneath, and its big fangs are enough to scare off plushie predators. Crikey, those are some serious teeth! Of course, it's just a stuffed critter, it couldn't possibly harm anybody, least of all ME, the Headcrab Hunter, and it's a wee bit too small to actually fit on me head. I'll show how harmless this plushie is by tossing it on me head now, it certainly won't... MUST KILL GORDON FREEMAN...
Product Specifications
- Plush headcrab from the video game Half-Life 2
- Will make you want to attack Gordon Freeman
- Can be killed with a crowbar, but you just paid good money for it!


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LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA.—Doctors told Charlie Beljan he was in good enough health to leave the hospital Saturday morning, but perhaps not to play golf. With his job on the line and his name atop the leaderboard for the first time, Beljan ignored the recommendation and was glad he did.
One day after a panic attack so severe that he struggled to breathe and feared for his life, Beljan managed just fine in the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic. Despite a pair of early bogeys, and one nervous moment when he felt his chest tighten, he had a 1-under 71 that gave him a two-shot lead going into the final round at Disney.
Suddenly, the 28-year-old rookie has a chance to do more than just keep his card. He's one round away from winning on the PGA Tour.
"I honestly didn't think I was going to get through it," Beljan said. "I just stayed strong."
He stayed overnight in the hospital — with his shoes on for most of the night — and only got about an hour of sleep. This is the final PGA Tour event of the year, and Beljan is at No. 139 on the money list. Only the top 125 keep their cards, and Beljan likely would need to finish around 10th.
Beljan said he started to feel some of the same symptoms from Friday as he approached the turn. He ate a sandwich, tried to calm himself, and back-to-back birdies to start the back nine certainly helped. He closed with six straight pars to reach 13-under 203.
That gave him a two-shot lead over Brian Gay (67), Josh Teater (67) and Charlie Wi, who was tied with Beljan until two sloppy bogeys at the end for a 70.
"It's nice to be able to walk around and smile," Beljan said. "Yesterday, I was hanging on for my life."
When last seen at Disney, Beljan was gasping to draw a big breath and sitting in the fairway to wait his turn to hit. Paramedics followed him around the back nine after a spike in his blood pressure. After signing for a 64, Beljan emerged from the scoring room strapped into a stretcher and was loaded into an ambulance.
For most of the night, he felt 99 per cent sure he wouldn't be playing.
But with the comfort of knowing that he was physically fine, he went back to his hotel for a shower, breakfast and headed to the golf course. Despite being nervous that another episode could strike again, he was steady for so much of the day.
Now comes the hard work.
Beljan's wife, 7-week-old son and mother-in-law were flying in from Phoenix for the final round. He has long dreamed of how cool it would be to have his family come onto the green to celebrate his first PGA Tour win.
But there's a long way to go.
Beljan had a three-shot lead — he wasn't aware of this until late Friday night in the hospital — going into the third round, and that was gone before he stepped onto the fourth tee. Sunday will get under way with 11 players separated by three shots.
That included Sea Island winner Tommy Gainey and Camilo Villegas, winless in four years, along with Robert Garrigus, who won at Disney two years ago. The group at 205 included Vaughn Taylor, who like Beljan is making a last-ditch effort to keep his card.
Beljan was simply thrilled to be playing.
"They released me this morning . . . saying that they thought I was good enough maybe not to go play golf, but at least to leave the hospital," he said before his round. "I'm making the decision to come out here and play. Who knows if we'll last two holes?"
He made it all the way around, though the golf was shaky at the start.
Beljan showed off his power on the opening hole when he was behind a tree 183 yards from the hole. He hit a pitching wedge straight up and over the tree, with enough on it to reach the green. He three-putted from 50 feet, however, and then dropped another shot on the par-3 third with a three-putt from about 25 feet on the fringe.
His only other bogey came from a bunker on the 12th.
Several players made a run at him — Wi, Gainey among them — and Charles Howell III was right in the mix. Howell was one shot out of the lead until driving into the water on the 17th to make triple bogey, and then making bogey on the last hole to finish five shots behind.
About the only stress Beljan showed was on the 17th, screaming at his ball to "Go!" as it flirted with the water, and it barely got over. He walked slowly, trying to manage his nerves and his anxiety, at times lingering some 40 yards behind the other players in his group.
Beljan said a variety of blood work and other test showed nothing wrong with him. He figures the problem is between the ears and jokingly said, "I need help." This all started about three months ago when he fainted on a flight home from the Reno-Tahoe Open as he was going to the bathroom. Since then, Beljan said he has had a half-dozen panic attacks, usually in controlled environments when he can settle himself down.
This one came on a golf course, and it spiraled out of control on Friday.
It worked out for him Saturday, and he now has only five hours and 18 holes of golf in front of him, along with nearly a dozen guys trying to catch him.


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Klocwork has announced availability of Klocwork Solo, a downloadable Java static source code analysis (SCA) tool that automatically identifies critical bugs and security vulnerabilities in Java source code quickly and accurately. Additionally, Klocwork's newest product ships with a built-in ability to understand code being developed for the Android platform.
Klocwork Solo is fully integrated with the Eclipse IDE and provides the following capabilities:
- Automated detection of more than 200 different security vulnerabilities and quality defects without the need to run or generate test cases;
- Ability to identify issues specific to Android mobile device development, including a range of issues that can cause runtime failures, such as null object references, resource leaks and usage of already freed resources;
- Persistent analysis results which allow for tracking of issues over time, thus maximizing productivity.
"The market for mobile applications is exploding, driving up the demand for more effective developer productivity tools that enable developers to write better code" says Klocwork's Mike Laginski. "Klocwork Solo was designed to address the specific needs of the individual Java developer. Now developers can access our enterprise-grade Java SCA capabilities via an easy to use, downloadable tool."


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Time for Tea! Modern Teacups, Mugs & Saucers
These beautiful ceramic mugs, teacups and saucers are perfect for enjoying a favorite cup of tea or coffee. I love the modern lines and minimal palette. Food and drink always seem to taste better in pretty dishware, especially when the inside showcases a white glaze or porcelain. The white surface allows you to enjoy the richness and robust color of your drink even before you taste it.
Shown above from left to right:
- Layout of featured items.
- House of Rym "Just My Cup of Tea" Cups or Saucers from Huset, $18.00
- Marimekko Kaunis Kauris Mug from Huset, $23.00
- Color Dipped Mug from Poketo, $28.00
- Graphic Pattern Mugs from Poketo, $12.00
(Images: As credited above)


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GSW Hoops Fan wrote:Blackfoot wrote:Durant was "bad" for his team in his first year and second year. You are comparing a rookie/sophomore to a seven year veteran at this point. Harrison Barnes is posting negative value, but he undeniably has potential. Monta Ellis has been in the league for seven years now.
I feel like you wouldn't make argument A and B during a game, you know, when actual bench players are against a teams starting five. Once there is enough minutes the argument becomes moot. We have a sample size. Seven years worth of a sample size.
We don't need to use +/- to show why Monta Ellis is a bad player.
We all saw Monta could not play defense. This is not a well-kept secret. Monta Ellis is the fifth worst defensive guard in the league. Is that positive value to a basketball court? No, not really. His true shooting percentage is now 486. If you don't like true shooting percentage his field goal percentage is 405. Three point percentage is 206 and he takes three 3pointers a game. Does he help a team on the glass? No, not really. He can't rebound and he doesn't help with rebounding.
What exactly does Monta bring to the table and how do you guys feel he brings winning basketball to a team? Because I am hard pressed to find what he does well in an actual game. This is an actual question. I want to know why you think Monta is a good player.
There is the obvious. He can score. He can create his own shot.
Then there are the other things which you seem to ignore or discredit. He is a good shot creator for himself and for his team mates. He is averaging 5.6 assists per game out of the SG position.
If you look at this years top assists among Guards he ranks 24th:
http://www.nba.com/statistics/player/As ... 1&splitDD=
If you take out the PG in that group, and only leave SG, he would be #1. All the people ahead of him on that list are PGs.
He is a good on ball defender in the wings (not in the post). His bad defensive habbits usually are when he is a help defender he looses his man or doesn't rotate when he should.
His rebounding for a guard is middle of the pack, not as bad as you suggested. His shooting percentage is down this year, but he was known for being a excellent mid range shooter.
Look, like warriorsstepup pointed out, he isn't a Max contract SG, but he is a darn good one skills wise. You make it seem like a team would be better off without him then with him, which is not true. Even last year in the national spot light he was considered a very good gaurd:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/8298 ... ds/page/34
I feel like we are going in circles. We'll just disagree on disagreeing since agreeing on disagreeing didn't seem to work....
Assists per game is a horrible way to judge how someone can create shots for his teammates. Especially when he has the 8th highest usage rate in the NBA. He has the ball the 8th most in the league. More than Harden, more than Durant, and more than Dwade. That's a ball hog and the five assists a game is very unimpressive.
And if Bleacherreport agrees with you that's a pretty damned good sign that you are probably wrong. Bleacher report is garbage. The Bucks would be better off without him. And they'd be better off without Jennings too.