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Hot damn, it's like the first season of Being Human all over again! This show finally got back to being highly emotional and exceptionally adorable. In last night's episode, each monster's curse catches up with them, and the result is sad but also kind of awesome. Because these supernatural flatmates are a lot more fun when their worlds are crashing down on their beautiful little heads.
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Lots and lots of great little moments last night. A few personal favorites include these gems: Liam's growl, "Cat" introduces herself, "dank basement wonderland," the dead girls wishing they could be "un-murdered to enabling codependent assbag," Sally's advice to "dress every moment like this is the outfit you can die in"... Honestly, I could go on. This was a well written, tight little episode. A balance of pure horror and fun.
First up, I think we're all in agreement that Erin being dead is a great thing. Who needs this character? Not me. It was the old "bringing in the baby" rule. No good can come from adding kids to television shows. So hooray — we're done with Erin and her terrible teenness. Unfortunately some of that stink has rubbed off onto Glass House Nora, but hopefully now that Aidan has basically killed himself to protect her hide, she'll be singing a new tune. That is if she can stop yelling at Aidan enough to hear his side of things.
I like Nora — really, I do — and the proposal scene is akin to "dumping treats into a cardboard box of lumpy puppies" cute. Fingers crossed that Aidan's sacrifice is enough to bring bad-ass Nora back.
The whole episode was really just a lead-up to re-infecting Josh with the werewolf curse, injecting Aidan with the vampire virus, and showing the dark side to Sally's zombie changing. Glad to see Sally's constant eating was leading up to the bigger climax of her thirst for FLESH! Her zombie pal might be feasting on cats, but we all know that will only work for so long. Also: "I'm eating cats, I have a PHD and I'm eating cats." Ha.
Bottom line: Everyone is re-screwed. And it's terrible, but also totally great, because this show has found its groove. Let this person (or team or whatever) write all the scripts forever.
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How will Aidan cure himself? Consume the bubble boy? It's an idea.
Why was Max so cool with his girlfriend being a zombie? Is he possessed by a ghost? What's up with this guy?


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Hundreds of thousands of children worldwide are thought to be working full-time on tobacco farms, suffering from toxic levels of nicotine exposure and abusive labor conditions.
Children as young as five-years-old work on tobacco farms in Malawi, according to Plan International.
In Malawi alone there are an estimated 78,000 boys and girls employed in tobacco harvesting. On average they earn 17 cents for a 12-hour day of back-breaking, bare-handed work, according to a recent report from Plan International.
Handling burley tobacco leaves without gloves, in unwashed clothes and rarely bathing, these children can absorb the same amount of nicotine in one day of harvesting that they would from smoking 50 cigarettes.
"Sometimes it feels like you don't have enough breath...You reach a point where you cannot breathe because of the pain in your chest. Then the blood comes when you vomit. At the end, most of this dies and then you remain with a headache," the report quoted one child describing how he felt at the end of the day.
"Nicotine is water soluble and can enter via the skin, so if it has recently rained, or there is heavy dew, the nicotine migrates into the water on the leaf. If that water gets on to your shirt it essentially becomes a giant nicotine patch," explained Henry Spiller of the Kentucky Regional Poison Center.
After reading the Plan report, Spiller, who has researched Green Tobacco Sickness (GTS) in children working on tobacco farms in the U.S., told CNN that the Malawi children's symptoms were "absolutely" consistent with GTS.
The Minister of Labor for Malawi, Yunnus Mussa, has denied the findings of the Plan report and told CNN their figures were "absolute trash."
According to Mussa, the government has been hard at work with UNICEF for the past two years to eliminate child labor and has made substantial progress. "No estate-owner has ever employed children age five to 14," he added.
In 2007 UNICEF estimated that 29 percent of children ages five to 14-years-old in Malawi worked, and that the majority of those children worked in agriculture.
There are more than 30,000 smallholder farmers in tobacco production and the crop contributes 70 percent of foreign exchange and 30 percent of GDP, according to the government Web site.
Figures aside, the pictures speak for themselves, showing that the danger of nicotine poisoning is real and that better regulation and monitoring is needed.
"There are a couple of things that could prevent this, like you should wash or change shirts," Spiller said, citing a study in which sweat rung out from tobacco workers' shirts contained up to 98mcg/mL of nicotine.
As well as exploitative conditions, the children described repeated physical and sexual abuse from their supervisors.
Many of the kids also complained of "sticky stuff" from the stalks that they could not wash off their hands because they had no access to soap or water, according to Glynis Clacherty, who interviewed the children first-hand for the Plan report.
"We are busy working and we don't have time to go for bathing, so we develop those sores," one 15-year-old girl told Clacherty.
The 44 children she interviewed were working full-time on both large estates and small family farms, but none were working for their own families, and 36 of them were orphans. The main reason the children gave for working was poverty: lack of food, clothing or money to go to school were frequently cited.
"A lot think it's fine for children to work. They don't see the dangers of the pesticides or the opportunity cost of not going to school," said Susan Gunn, an expert in hazardous child labor at the International Labor Organization (ILO), referring to farmers in East Africa.
"The new globalization of agriculture has a tendency to increase the demand for child labor," explained Gunn.
When you have growers that are working under contract to larger companies, in industries such as tobacco, sugar or flowers, the contract is made with the adults, who in turn use their families to reach a quota or get a livable income."
In recent years multinational tobacco corporations have been rapidly shifting farming production away from rich countries like the United States. Nearly 75 percent of tobacco production is now done in developing countries such as Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, China, Brazil and India.
Re-location to poorer states by multinational firms increases the demand for all types of labor their, not just that of children, according to Professor Margaret McMillan of Tufts University. If anything, she argues, increased investment can actually bring higher salaries and improved monitoring of abuse.
"If children are working in the tobacco fields, they are probably very poor and the alternatives could be even worse," she said. "I firmly believe that engagement by international corporations in African agriculture must happen, but they should be monitored on all fronts."
Today UNICEF, the ILO, Plan and others all remain active in Malawi, working with the government to develop links between the ministries of labor and agriculture to end child labor on tobacco farms.
Since the report came out in August, Plan International told CNN in an email that "the government has been constructive in their response and are discussing/looking to work with Plan to conduct a national survey to gauge the true scale of the issue and better enforcement of existing child labor laws."
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For CNN
Child tobacco farmers 'exposed to toxic levels of nicotine'
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I just had a guy ask if atheists celebrate xmas on twitter.. I replied that I do indeed celebrate the holidays in the context of having the opportunity to have time off work, spend time with family, give/receive gifts, eat and drink loads and generally have a nice time.. he was pretty annoyed by my response and stated that this was hypocrisy.. he also had an issue with the fact I would receive gifts from friends/family as this time of year was to celebrate Jesus birthday only.... for me to inform him I would be partaking in the holiday season, yet stating in no way religious, I was dismissed as having double standards.
Do you celebrate xmas, this holiday period? what are your thoughts? Is it hypocritical to receive gifts and partake in family dinners? Personally I take full advantage of a lovely time of year.. CHRIST does not come into it!
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Ha! A lot of people ask this .. but to me I don't see anything wrong with Christmas . it can bring a family together for one.. but as a kid I think I would have felt pretty left out if everyone in school were getting cool presents and I didn't .. that would suck.. second.. it stimulates the economy .. even if you just are stuck at work on a secret Santa ..you have to buy a present you wouldn't have otherwise you spend money…lots of people spend a lot of money during the holidays and it just great for the economy .. I don't have an issue ,if I ever have kids or even my nieces and nephews , I don't have an issue buying them presents and celebrating Xmas.. just as long as they realize that when they get older that Santa is not real ….(duh right!) no but also realize that neither is baby Jesus ..
I get together with friends and family and fortunately they're all casual-enough christians that nobody prays before we eat. I am considering celebrating in a new way, by hosting my own blasphemous "piss-mas" party. There will be cake, and everyone will be given a bible that they can piss on if they wish before tossing into a bonfire.
Personally I love xmas, its a fab time of year.. whats not to love about being off and get stuffed full of food and drink and getting/receiving presents while spending quality time with family.. I do like the idea of a blasphemous piss-mas party! I reckon that could go viral John.. haha :)
I think its Xtians who have the double standards, judging others while they pretend to have morals though won't stand for homophobia and kill in the name of God! God is not great!
first of all, christians stole christmas from the pagans. the pagans started it not the christians. if christians have the right to steal and twist holidays and stuff. so do we. they celebrate christmas. christmas wasnt about jesus to begin with. christians made it about him, as they have everything else in life.
I celebrate the holiday.
Like it has been mentioned already, the holiday comes from the pagans, and the gift giving from the Roman holiday Saturnalia. So, nothing hypocritical there. Just because we don't have imaginary friends, doesn't mean we cant spend a day off with our real ones.
I don't celebrate Christmas. No tree, no lights, no big dinner, nothing. Even the two or three Xmas cards I send out say, "Happy Holidays." I even avoid TV movies on the "Lifetime" and "Hallmark" channels. Of course, I must admit that it's mostly because they all end the same way: with snow starting to fall in the final scene. Where I live, that's what you call "carrying coals to Newcastle." It's all part of the War on Christmas I conduct in order to get Bill O"Reilly and Sean Hannity pissed off.
That being said, I do exchange gifts with my brother and his family. He and I have shared Xmas Eves EVERY year since 1938.; but there is no hint of it being religious observance of any kind.
Yes, we steal the one day a year they go to church, act like they actually like their drunk brother who just got out of jail, put up with his fat girlfriend with the tramp stamp and her six kids from different fathers. The one day they eat a lot of food, pretend they're actually good people and that they genuinely love their families, and the one day they even think about doing something that might come close to being able to see the definition of christian if it stood on its toes and used a spyglass. Damn us atheists for being genuinely good people who just want to take time out to be with our families. Guys, we're such assholes, how do we live with ourselves? I think I'll go convert, right now, just so I can be a hippocritical slave who doesn't have the responsibility of using their own mind, or making up their own holidays. Whose with me?
I don't. But my school lets out during that time. I'm not going to hang out in the parking lot during the Christmas break. I'd rather be a hypocrite. :-)
I do not celebrate Christmas in any way shape or form and actually detest the whole affair - but not because I'm an Atheist. Aside from being an Atheist, I'm a minimalist, partially because I have ecological concerns but also because I feel that 'simple living' is better. Anyway, just some personal values that I have that really do not stem from whether or not I believe in invisible sky-fairies.
This year I will be violating my own principles, though, at least in principle. I am taking some home-made wine to work to give to my colleagues and they will perceive this as Christmas gifting, to be sure. I am doing this mostly to encourage the servers to be more diligent in sourcing me good bottles for my wine making hobby (we work in a 'bring your own wine' restaurant), however, and not in celebration of Gluttonfest, as I've come to call it. The bottles are recycled and the wine is a home craft prepared from a sustainable product so I still feel I am keeping to my minimalist values. :D
Sure I celebrate Christmas. My Christmas tree with its pretty lights is exactly like the ones that were in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. I think its far more bizarre that Christians celebrate Easter, calling Crucifixion Day "Good Friday", and having some giant Easter bunny hiding chocolate eggs makes perfect sense for a memorial service. I don't go to work on Sundays either, although I'm not usually knackered from creating a world.


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For the most part there is no problem. You all know how to behave and how to treat others, so there's no point even writing out a list. We draw the line at outright cruelty! Other than that we're quite tolerant. Obviously if you behave like an idiot, then people will see you as an idiot, so it's entirely up to you.
We very rarely use these, if at all. The procedure has however been discussed. There are NO RULES to be broken, or ANY procedures to be followed. If you are deemed to be being cruel and deliberately unpleasant then you'll be banned. Periods are for 7-days, 14-days, 28-days, and then you'll be blocked completely.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 1, 2012) – Two U.S. beach volleyball teams have advanced to the semifinals of the NORCECA Beach Circuit event in Aruba, the final NORCECA event of the 2012 season.
The No. 1 U.S. women's team of Tealle Hunkus (Girard, Ohio) and Summer Ross (San Diego, Calif.) defeated compatriots Kirby Burnham (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Stevi Robinson (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), 22-20, 21-12 in the quarterfinals on Saturday to advance to Sunday's semifinals.
Hunkus and Ross will play Costa Ricans Ingrid Morales and Natalia Alfaro on Sunday. The match is scheduled to begin at 6:30 a.m. PT and may be live streamed at NORCECA.net. Mexicans Bibi Candelas and Martha Revuelta will play Dariam Acevedo and Tatiana Encarnación of Puerto Rico in the other semifinal.
On the men's side, the No. 1 U.S. team of Avery Drost (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Will Montgomery (Santa Barbara, Calif.) advanced to Sunday's semifinals, where it will play Saint Lucians Julian Bisette and Joseph Clercent. The match is scheduled to begin at 5:30 a.m. PT and may be live streamed at NORCECA.net.
Luis Adames and German Recio of Dominican Republic will play Mexico's Juan Virgen and Lombardo Ontiveros in the other semifinal.
The men's and women's medal matches will also be played Sunday.
Drost and Montgomery completed pool play on Saturday with a hard-fought pool play victory over Costa Rica's Julio Alvarez and Luis Sandoval, 18-21, 21-13, 18-16 in 1 hour, 2 minutes. In the quarterfinals, they defeated Aruba's Mitchell Daniel and Eargenell de Cuba, 21-19, 21-17 to advance to Sunday's semifinal.
The U.S. No. 2 men's team of Matt Motter (Encinitas, Calif.) and Derek Olson (Eugene, Ore.) won its final pool play match on Saturday over Kyle Browne and Hugh Sealey of Barbados, 21-19, 21-15. But the pair lost in the first round of single-elimination to Adames and Recio, 23-21, 21-16.
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Ars Technica did an in-depth investigation into the numbers behind the war against piracy and found that Congress might as well be telling people counterfeit goods cost the economy eleventy billion zillion, for all the truth behind its figures. The oft invoked $US250 billion and 750,000 jobs lost because of intellectual property theft have been repeated for over a decade, with virtually no research to back it up.
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Bit defeatist.
I can only point to South Africa's position last summer after three days of play. They'd just been made to follow on 400 runs short of England's first innings total. Their much-hyped attack had bowled horrendously and been plundered for runs for two straight days, and a hopeless batting collapse had seen them rolled for 200- which could have been much worse but for Ashwell Prince. Faced with batting out 7 sessions to win the match, England were massive favourites for the match and series.
South Africa eventually won the series at a canter. England won't comfortably beat Australia here, but it does show that you can't lose a five-match series in three and a half days. Every bit of pessimism, hopelessness and abuse of their team that England fans come up with this evening has been matched already by South African fans on the third evening at Lord's.
South Africa were clearly the superior side on natural talent at the start of that series. England had vastly overperformed in order to get into the position they did - batted really well on a flat deck then bowled actually quite brilliantly to knock the SAfricans over (along with one piece of luck when the only ball all match that misbehaved knocked-over SA's best batsman, Smith).
Here, Australia have underperformed and England have still come-out miles short. Australia are likely to get better; England might get better or might stay as bad (or even, heaven forbid, get worse). The only way things are going to be turned around is if England get better and Australia fail to, which is really rather unlikely, though, obviously, not impossible.
Alas perhaps ins some convoluted way picking Hauritz the Aussies caused England to forget just how much prep work their own attack needed, to dismiss a batting line up of Australia's calibre.
having sid that, if KP, Collingwood, Strauss and Co, actually knuckle down as well as Katich and co demonstrated they should, England actually pick 4/5 bowlers who can be talked of as finished articles and they perform this series could still at the very least be more competitive.
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I'll take exception to the suggestion that Australia have underperformed, because i find it hard to conceive of a better all-round batting performance.
What I'm saying is that a poor start to the series for the underdog is generally disastrous; one for the favourite is not neccessarily a problem.
Me too, but the bowling of Johnson and Siddle was way below what can be expected of them for the rest of the series - or at worst, a good deal of the rest of it. Good batting is only half of the job, and even if Australia don't bat this well again for a while (quite likely), they might well still put in a better team performance.I'll take exception to the suggestion that Australia have underperformed, because i find it hard to conceive of a better all-round batting performance.
Trouble with England picking four-five finished-article bowlers is you can't pick something which is not available. The fact that Broad and MSP are in contention at all shows how thin England's resources are. The best hope is a wholly unknown quantity in Onions. There is also some hope for someone who has in the last year of lack of fitness become something of an unknown quantity in Sidebottom.having sid that, if KP, Collingwood, Strauss and Co, actually knuckle down as well as Katich and co demonstrated they should, England actually pick 4/5 bowlers who can be talked of as finished articles and they perform this series could still at the very least be more competitive.
As for knuckling-down and saving this game, it's possible, but while replying to 450 is far from a tea-party, batting for a day with eight wickets left and 250 behind is considerably more difficult again.
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Equally England escaped at the last-ditch; South Africa played their way out of trouble. Nonetheless, England's escape was completely unexpected and in that way there was certainly similarity to the SA Lord's Test last summer.
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Okay, it's not a full range of mage powers. It's not the Force. It's not telekinesis. In fact, it's a fairly limited setup with only one purpose, at the moment.
But it is a chance to make something explode. With your brain.
A group in Kentucky hacked the setup together. It's a Star Wars Force Trainer toy, a device that senses brain activity, hooked up to an air cannon, stuck inside a watermelon. Do enough thinking, and your brain's electricity power's the setup.
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New Nano-SIM cards—the next-gen standard Apple beat Nokia to—have started arriving at carriers. Which, of course, heralds new iPhones arriving as well. Here's the message that iFun reports came along with these specific T-Mobile Germany cards:
Dear partners,
You will receive today a new generation of SIM cards for the latest generation of smartphones that come in the near future on the market. Sort your SIM card please first not in their cards in hand and give it not out to customers.We will inform you shortly about how to proceed.
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We'd like to go to Turkey next summer to have two weeks holiday. There will be relatively big number of us – 6-8 adults and 3-4 kids. People will be coming from different places – mostly UK, Russia and Israel. It is planned as a family reunion for a short time. Why Turkey? It is kind of in the middle of the triangle, besides we always wanted to visit it and never had a chance so far. I've got two main questions.
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DTE Energy catches power thieves in action
Hidden cameras used to stop electricity thieves in Metro Detroit; DTE says it's a dangerous crime
DETROIT – Electricity theft is a problem in metro Detroit, but DTE Energy has found a way to catch the worst offenders in the act.
"It's a problem, we know its a problem," said Michael Lynch, the chief security officer for DTE Energy.
Lynch said power thieves can be landlords, business owners or people operating illegal drug operations. It is his job at DTE to find the illegal hook ups and help identify those responsible.
He and his team set up hidden cameras in locations where they discover an illegal hook up, then they cut the power and watch. The camera is recording and monitored around the clock until someone tries to do another illegal hook up. The video is given to police and prosecutors.
Lynch said people who steal electricity are putting themselves and others at risk of serious injury or even death.
"It's extremely dangerous. It can cause a fire in the instance of electricity or an explosion if it's gas and these people generally don't know what they're doing," said Lynch. "The person will know a little bit about electricity, but not enough, and climb the pole and get shocked or fall or something like that and you know serious injury or death and we don't want that to happen."
Lynch took Local 4 to a barbershop in Detroit where he said power is stolen on a regular basis.
"They've never established an account. They've never attempted to get electricity legitimately and they have continued to steal," Lynch said.
Last year, DTE Energy used hidden cameras at this location. Lynch said they caught Cornelius Baragainer on video illegally connecting power to the building.
Baragainer pled guilty to his charge and received 18 months probation and 80 hours community service.
Lynch said these people charged in these crimes usually face a charge of malicious destruction of property - public utility which is a five-year felony.
Local 4 Defenders were there this week when DTE Energy cut the illegal hookup at the barbershop again. DTE said at least one attempt has already been made to make another illegal connection to the barbershop.
Since 2009, 395 people have been arrested for electricity theft in Metro Detroit.
DTE Energy also has success using reward posters for people they capture on their videos but they're not able to identify. Lynch said the community often responds because they know how dangerous an illegal electricity hook up can be to themselves and their homes.
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This is an image from the FamilySearch Wiki of a Hessen Darmstadt Citizenship City Record written in the Old Gothic script in 1800. What is the effort that exists to preserve old German script type records through photo digitization, optical characte reading to make them surname and place name searchable for Family History uses?The issue of whether or not software can be developed to read handwriting has long been under consideration. The greater issue of whether or not anyone will be left to read cursive writing in general has also received some attention, but both of these issues stem from the same historical process: languages change over time and so do the ways in which they have been preserved. My interest in languages led me to a Masters Degree in Linguistics. Although, I did not pursue a further formal degree, my interest has continued over the years and as part of that interest, I have read and studied about the translation of ancient scripts.
I am fully aware of the challenge of reading an unfamiliar script. But not only is there a problem with moving back in time, but some contemporary handwriting is so bad as to be undecipherable. For example, I can easily read 18th and 19th Century parish registers from Mexico and Spain, but have a great deal of difficulty deciphering the handwriting of some of my law partners.
Part of the impetus for developing computerized handwriting recognition processes comes from the need to process huge amounts of information, such as the mail sorting capabilities of the U.S. Post Office and other organizations. But there is currently a fundamental shift in the U.S. in this regard. Schools across the U.S. are abandoning the teaching of cursive handwriting. Many of my own grandchildren are not being taught cursive handwriting in school. I have written about this particular issue before, but there is a lot more to be said on the subject.
In a practical sense, the motivation for developing a computerized method of reading any type of handwriting depends on the commercial demand for such products. Reading old scripts has a very low priority simply due to lack of demand. If you would like an extensive introduction to the entire area of OCR here is a link to CVISION Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of file compression, recognition technology, PDF workflow applications, and document automation technology. CVISION has an extensive OCR Resource library and OCR Primer.
An interesting challenge of developing a computerized process for reading something such as the Old Gothic script is the availability of people who can read it. An even greater challenge than Old Gothic is Carolingian. Here is an example:
Of course, part of the issue is not the handwriting at all, but the old languages represented by the handwriting. It is one thing to try and decipher handwriting into modern English and quite another to try and understand Old Church Gothic or Latin. In some cases, the amount of text available severely limits the ability of modern human translators to understand the old scripts.
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I want to be a positive force: Jim
Jim article in Indian Newspaper.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ente ... 952954.cms
Terrific Article...
Glad to see he's happy in his life,
there is not item for the Scrooge Project yet, when is this coming out?
OOOOps yes there is....
It's under a Christmas Carol...
sorry about that, "just another blonde moment" Sing to "Just another day in paradise.
Positive is...
mucho better than negative. Things are accomplished with being positive.
Agree, agree, agree.....
Wholeheartedly agree.
No one can....
rechannel you, except you, you are the master of your own destiny.
I come on here for fun, keep my typing skills updated, meet new people,see how the regulars are doing, infomative, laughter, music info, and if we happen to find out the latest project for Jim that's a bonus.
I think perhaps that's what he intended fun, frivolity and perhaps bringing him in touch with people who normally wouldn't, a little PR for his new artistic endeavors and maybe there are a few more reasons we don't know.
I think it's great having you on here, we can talk all around the world to people we may never have met, it's pretty amazing if you really think about it.
i totally agree with that one.......it's amazing to think we are communicating from all over the world....the differences between usa and uk language fascinate me too....before the internet we'd never have had the chance to 'meet'.We can learn so much from each other........
haha tell me about it, I'm livin with the most negitive people on the planet, but hey, at least I get to watch their 9000 channels of TV from the time I wake up till someone gets home!
"No time outs. Only DEATH!"
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Each week, dear readers, I go searching for the most amazing and mind-blowing automotive wallpapers the Internets have to offer. Sometimes it takes hours of scouring for the right one; sometimes, I just know when I've found it.
The latter was definitely the case when I stumbled upon this great shot of a Volvo 242 plowing through a rally course, its front end turned towards the camera as if to say, "All-wheel-drive is for pussies."
They may not be as sophisticated as some of Audi's offerings, but the rear-wheel-drive 200 series remain popular as rally cars even today thanks to their turbo engines and overall toughness.
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Trion Worlds has announced it will be closing its San Diego studio and relocate operations for Defiance and End of Nations to its Redwood City, California headquarters.
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Silent Hill 5 Interview: Jason's Philosophy, Jacob's Ladder, and Pyramid Head
Despite his clear appreciation of horror, I have to admit, I'm still skeptical about Allen's Silent Hill--the first American-designed entry to the series. It does look great on the outside, a combination of logical improvements and strict adherence to series code. But as a long-time fan, change is more scary than any monster. And like the fog-dowsed town of its namesake, a brief glance wasn't enough to reveal anything significant.
Hoping to calm my fears, I pulled the developer aside at the end of the night. We briefly went over the approach he and his team have had to facing this daunting project, with topics including visual style, Eastern horror, composer Akira Yamaoka, and other filmic influences.
Shack: Playing the game, I was struck by how visually similar it is to the previous titles, right down to the font of the text.
Jason Allen: Absolutely. I'm really conscious of the fact that we are Western developers of something that has been [started] somewhere else, and I wanted to maintain some common threads.
Aesthetically it may seem like, "Why would you dumb down something to make it look like last generation?" But I think it's really important that that particular style and look repeat, because I think that's part of the experience.
Shack: You mentioned the difference between Western and Eastern horror in your presentation, and how you've approached it..
Jason Allen: I think the thing about Silent Hill is, I've played all the previous games, but even when I started development, I would say it took me a good three, three and half months to get what Silent Hill is, properly. To understand maybe the.. the ingredients, that make up the experience.
And I was using the example earlier: let's say you have a Westerner that commits adultery. In the West, his wife would put him on Jerry Springer, we'd all point the finger at him and say, "You're a terrible, terrible man." The kids would disown him. That's how it is.
You go back to traditional Japanese culture, through all the generations, and family is everything. Shame is something that is to be avoided at all cost. If you have the same situation, it'd never be spoken about. The family unit would stay together, but they wouldn't deal with it. There would be this oppressive silence in the house, but they wouldn't deal with it. On the surface outside to people they would present basically the same family.
Now if you deal with their children, they've got their foot kind of in the West, kind of still in the East. So they've got some of their older heritage, but also some of the ideals from the West. In that sense, they're like, "We want to talk about what's going on, but we don't want to do it directly." So they do it subtly.
So the example I give is this: If you went into that house, you'd see pictures on a table, pictures of their children, facing to the east. Which is where the family started--the sun rising and all that. But the father would be facing west, because he's the past. So it's displayed, it's there, but you have to be subtle to notice it.
I like to raise questions in gaming, but not answer them, because I prefer the fans to discuss on the forums. You throw them a bone, and the next thing you have tens of thousands of posts, "Is it this, is it that?" They want to know the answer, but I'm not going to tell them. Because I think it's more interesting for them to try and discover what they think it could be.
Read on for Allen's thoughts on tighter control, the film Jacob's Ladder, and his experiences working with Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka.
Shack: The controls are obviously much tighter than in the past.
Jason Allen: It was one of the things that I first addressed when I went on the project. They were asking me, "Do you want to stick with a rail-based camera, or do you want to go for more of a free-form?" And I said one of the frustrations for me, as I say, at its heart [Silent Hill] is a mystery game, right? And you're trying to solve that, so a lot of it is exploration.
I don't want it to feel like, "Hey, it's just a run and gun, I can go through it and just shoot."
Shack: How have you gone about balancing the combat with the faster controls?
Jason Allen: It's a lot of play-testing..
Shack: Faster enemies?
Jason Allen: There is that. We have some enemies--the one you saw with the ribcage, it's called Smog. It wasn't clear from the capture, but we use him as a kind of blocking character. So that you put him in really tight spaces, because he has this area of influence cloud within the--he was designed around glowing embers, wood and charcoal. So he has that coloring on him, he has these blisters on him that pop and change color. So what you're seeing is kind of a smoke effect around him. If you get too close, you get in that cloud, and you have almost like a struggle mechanic.
So the area of attack is one thing. The way they surprise you. They obviously fight in numbers as well, we're not dealing with singles. It was very important that we could have a fluid way to switch [between targets]. And obviously, we do have ranged weapons in the game, and I'm limiting the amount of ammunition that you're getting. I'm still balancing that stuff today--the game's not out til September, but I'm still tweaking.
But that's one of the things, I don't want it to feel like, "Hey, it's just a run and gun, I can go through it and just shoot." We have neat little tricks with the weapons, certainly with the ranged weapons, that you can do to force monsters into stun earlier than you would normally. But you have to know where they are, you have to find those.
I always felt at its heart it was a melee-based game, so the lion's share of the combat is really melee-based. We do have ranged weaponry, but I think the visceral nature of contact with melee makes it feel more tense. Once you step away from a creature, the tension drops down a lot. Unless they're charging at you.
Shack: You also mentioned earlier that Ridley Scott's Alien was an influence. How about the film Jacob's Ladder?
Jason Allen: Oh sure.
Shack: It's been cited as an influence on past games in the series, but I mostly bring it up because of the military element in Homecoming.
Jason Allen: Absolutely. It's very much--it is actually one of the things we talked about earlier. For example, character introduction--sometimes when you play games, a new character comes in, boom the spotlight goes on, the creature comes out, you see them in all their glory. As humans, we categorize and we label, and that's how we store and understand what it is. We go, "Okay, I'm seeing the Gecko in Metal Gear. I can see how it walks, how it runs, and I can potentially see how it might have limitations, because I can view it and think that way analytically."
But going back to your point about Jacob's Ladder, yes, most certainly, because we have strong parallels in the military theme, we don't know if he's dead and it's his death throes--
Shack: And as you said, Silent Hill can be a metaphor for purgatory..
Jason Allen: Absolutely. You don't know. I don't want to answer that. I don't even know if I have the answer to that. It's just a point of view. My perspective may be wrong, but I think it's like: beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and mystery is also. You go through, you experience it, and you form your own conclusions--and because we don't answer them, you might be right. You don't know.
Shack: What has it been like working with [Silent Hill 1-4 composer] Akira Yamaoka?
Jason Allen: It's been great. Obviously there's a language barrier, and they do bring translators over, but his English is very good, he's getting better all the time. I can see that just through the duration of the project, how much more comfortable he is using English than he was.
He's been over probably 12 times. Obviously it's not a short flight for him, and you can imagine the jet lag. But he's fantastic. He'll give us 20 tracks, and we'll say, "This is what we're kind of thinking for this particular piece," and we'll go through it and I'll say, "You know, maybe change this," and he's more than open to changing anything, so it's really a painless process. It's been great. And it's nice to have that continuity toward previous games as well.
Shack: Multiple endings?
Jason Allen: Yes. Yes.
Shack: And I noticed Pyramid Head in the presentation--
Jason Allen: Really? Are you sure? [laughs]
Shack: Just out of the corner of my eye. [laughs] Any comment on his role in the game?
Jason Allen: I leave it up to you to play and find out.
Shack: Thanks Jason.
Silent Hill: Homecoming is headed to stores this September, on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.


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What's it like visiting Switzerland as a young Swiss who lives abroad? Here are some impressions from youth at recent camps run by the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad. (OSA/swissinfo.ch)
Around 130 young people were in Switzerland to take part in camps ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad. For some of them, they have never lived in the country, and neither has their Swiss parent, or parents. Joining a Swiss abroad summer camp is a way in to the psyche of Switzerland.
The young people are taken around the different language regions of the country, visit areas of cultural and historical significance, and find out about everyday life here.
Groups of young people were given cameras to explore the issues of nature, tourism, sport and politics.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 20, 2012) -
Kestrel Gold Inc. ("Kestrel" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:KGC) is pleased to announce that, further to its press releases dated September 12, 2012, October 29, 2012 and October 31, 2012, it has completed the final tranche of its non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement").
Pursuant to the final tranche of the Private Placement, the Corporation issued 1,100,000 units ("Units") of the Corporation at a purchase price of $0.10 per Unit for gross proceeds of $110,000. Each Unit consists of one (1) common share in the capital of the Corporation ("Common Share") and one half of one (1/2) Common Share purchase warrant of the Corporation ("Warrant"). Each full Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) Common Share at a purchase price of $0.20 per Common Share exercisable on or before one (1) year from November 19, 2012, (the "Closing Date"), subject to earlier expiry in certain circumstances.
If at any time prior to the expiry of the Warrants the trading price of the Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") exceeds $0.35 for a period of 30 consecutive trading days, the Corporation may, in its sole discretion, within five (5) days after such an event, provide notice (a "Notice") to the warrant holders of early expiry of the Warrants. The Notice would provide that the Warrants would expire at 3:30 p.m. (Calgary time) on the date which is twenty one (21) days after the date of the Notice.
The Private Placement was conducted on a non-brokered basis. Pursuant to the Private Placement the Corporation issued an aggregate of 3,650,000 Units for gross proceeds of $365,000 and paid or issued to certain arm's length finders an aggregate of $17,200 and 172,000 finder's warrants as finder's fees. The Corporation intends to use the net proceeds of the Private Placement to fund a portion of its exploration activities with respect to its mining properties in the Yukon Territory and for other general working capital requirements.
All Common Shares, Warrants, and any Common Shares into which such securities may be converted issued pursuant to this final tranche shall be subject to a four (4) month hold period ending on March 20, 2013. The Private Placement is subject to final approval by the Exchange.
Mr. Kevin Nephin, the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Corporation purchased 400,000 Units pursuant to the Private Placement. As a result of his position as a director and officer of the Corporation his purchase constitutes a "related party transaction" pursuant to Policy 5.9 of the Exchange Corporate Finance Manual - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("Policy 5.9"). Exemptions from the formal valuation requirement and minority approval requirement of Policy 5.9 are available as the securities of the Company are not listed or quoted on any of the markets specified in Policy 5.9 and the fair market value of the related party transaction is less than $2,500,000. Consequently, the Private Placement is not subject to the valuation and minority approval requirements of Policy 5.9. The board of directors of the Corporation approved the Private Placement. The Company did not file a material change report more than 21 days before the expected closing of the Private Placement as details of the Private Placement were not settled until shortly before the closing of the Private Placement.
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The Adcom GFP-555 was my first 'high end' preamp. I loved this pre, it did everything right! It was a minimalist piece with real world circuitry. Paired with my Adcom GFA 555 amp, it was marvellous. :-) I bet the 565 was even better, but I don't see how. I wish I would have kept it for my second system in my office. Thanks for posting, brings back good memories.
Adcom GFP-565 preamplifier
I'd like to correct a potential misunderstanding (a dealer I know was even confused) regarding Adcom's current product line. Although the physical appearance of the GFP-565 is virtually identical to Adcom's older GFP-555 preamplifier, the 565 bears absolutely no internal resemblance to the 555, and as such it is not an updated GFP-555. Adcom is preparing a completely redesigned GFP-555, called the GFP-555 II, which will retain the physical appearance and $500 price tag of its predecessor. By retaining the same case, front, and rear panels used in the GFP-555 for both of their new preamps, Adcom has been able to put all of their money into the circuitry of these new products, rather than spending some of it retooling the mechanical parts. I firmly agree with this philosophy.
Like the GTP-400 tuner/preamp, the GFP-565 combines the design talents of Walt Jung and Adcom's product-development director C. Victor Campos. The 565's main amplification circuitry and power supplies were designed by Walt, while component selection was a collaborative effort. Walt's contributions involve far more than the fine-tuning of existing circuitry, since the phono preamp and line-level stages employ unique circuit topologies which he developed. Walt's reputation as the foremost authority on the use of IC op-amps in high-performance audio circuitry is further reinforced by the GFP-565 preamp, in my opinion.
Victor Campos brought his rare talents for realizing a first-class design through the final stages of production without compromising the performance along the way. In fact, the production version of the GFP-565 is, if anything, slightly better than the pre-production prototype I first evaluated. As has been the case with other Adcom products, the 565 is completely American in design, and although the main printed circuit board is manufactured in the Far East, final component assembly and testing are done right in East Brunswick, NJ.
The GFP-565 was designed to satisfy purists, who normally demand as simple a signal path as possible, as well as those audiophiles in need of a full-featured preamp. These two seemingly contradictory requirements were addressed by supplying the 565 with three sets of outputs. The bypass outputs are intended for the purists (among whom I include myself). No tone controls or filters corrupt the signal path when the bypass outputs are used, but the balance control is still operational. The bypass outputs are also direct-coupled, eliminating any possibility of sonic degradation normally associated with coupling capacitors.
The bypass outputs still allow the use of an external processing loop, so they are not absolutely purist in the sense of minimizing every possible switch contact. A mono switch and loudness contour are also available when the bypass outputs are used, but the contour switch and its associated filter components are connected to a tap on the volume control, so these components and switch contacts are not in the signal path. Like the GTP-400, the loudness contour's characteristics are based on the studies of Robinson and Dadson. The contour characteristics are gradually reduced as the volume control is advanced, but the circuit should be switched out when listening at normal volume levels.
Similarly, the mono switch does not actually place contacts in the signal path; it simply connects the left and right channels together. A few purchasers may wish Adcom had included separate left/right mono switching, helpful for playback of the double-duration mono CDs from Rodolphe Productions. However, if you purchase the 1953 Clemens Krauss performance of Wagner's Ring (footnote 1), which you should if you love this music, you'll receive a free L/R mono switchbox. Although the switchbox is a cheap, flimsy affair that you'd never want to leave in your signal path, the box could easily be connected to the 565's external processing loop, to be switched in only when necessary. Plans for constructing such a switch have also appeared in Audio Amateur (footnote 2).
For those in need of the tone controls, two additional outputs providing those features are included. The normal output is capacitor-coupled with a high-quality film device, whereas the lab output is direct-coupled. The tone controls provide boost or cut below 300Hz and above 3kHz, with a minor side effect on information between those two frequencies. A high-cut filter is also provided via the main and lab outputs. The filter characteristic is very gentle, being only 2.7dB down at 20kHz. This might be just enough high-frequency cut to remove some of the "edge" from a cheap CD player, but I would hope that anyone purchasing the GFP-565 would be using sources worthy of its own performance.
Six inputs are provided on the GFP-565, including phono, CD, tuner, tape 1 and 2, and video/aux. Separate selector switches are provided for listening and recording, and since two tape outputs are also included, tape copying in either direction is possible. The 565 does not have an infrasonic filter for the phono preamp. I asked Victor Campos why he had dispensed with this feature when it had been included on previous preamps, including the GTP-400 and the GFP-555. Victor said that he believed that any infrasonic filter compromised the sound quality of the phono preamp. The GTP-400 and GFP-555 contained the filter because of the fact that these less expensive preamps would probably be used with cheaper turntables which generate more infrasonic noise.
The 565 will probably be used with more expensive turntables which do not suffer from this problem. Of course, this still does not address the record-warp issue, but the GFP-565 does not become unstable when fed a large amount of infrasonic information from a warped LP. When I compared the 565 to the Audio Research SP-11 II (more on this later), I found that warped LPs played through the SP-11 II caused visibly greater infrasonic movement of my woofers than the same discs played through the 565 at the same playback level. The SP-11 II contains a switchable infrasonic filter.
The circuitry in the GFP-565 is based on IC op-amps, but their implementation is rather sophisticated. The ICs used in the 565 are specially selected devices bearing Adcom's own part numbers. Both the phono preamp and the line-level stage employ high-current, low-output-impedance IC buffers within the feedback loop. These IC buffers are not op-amps, instead being unity-gain devices designed to work with an op-amp to form a complete gain stage. The op-amp's output feeds the input of the high-current buffer, which in turn drives the feedback loop and the next stage of amplification. This configuration allows the op-amp to provide the necessary gain without being affected by the loading of the next stage. The IC buffers are externally biased for pure class-A operation, and each device is mounted on a small aluminum heatsink.
The implementation of the buffers in the phono preamp is rather unusual. The gain of the phono preamps is accomplished with an ultra-low-noise IC op-amp. A low-noise op-amp will not, however, produce a silent phono preamp unless the RIAA equalization network has very low impedance at high frequencies. In any feedback-based RIAA preamp, the noise level will ultimately be limited by the impedance of the RIAA feedback network. Adcom uses an RIAA network with an impedance of approximately 250 ohms at high frequencies, whereas most other IC-based phono preamps have an impedance of 1k or higher, which in turn results in a higher noise level. So why do other manufacturers use a high-impedance feedback loop when they could optimize the noise performance by lowering the impedance? Very simple. Few, if any, IC op-amps can supply enough current to drive a low-impedance RIAA network while still maintaining low distortion.
Adcom's high-current IC buffer makes the use of a low-impedance RIAA feedback network possible. The op-amp provides the necessary voltage gain, with its output feeding the input of the buffer. The buffer, in turn, drives the RIAA network, with plenty of current to spare. The result of all this is the quietest phono preamp I have ever encountered. The low output impedance of the IC buffers in both the line-level and phono stages also improves dynamics by an order of magnitude over what the op-amps could achieve by themselves. The output stages of the IC op-amps are also operated in class-A, not with the common pull-down resistor technique, but using a more sophisticated current-source arrangement. All integrated circuits are soldered to the PC board, eliminating contacts in the signal and power-supply lines which result when IC sockets are used.
The phono input is a fixed-gain circuit designed for use with cartridges whose outputs are 2mV or higher. The designers deliberately avoided making an all-purpose phono preamp with switchable gain for low-output moving-coil cartridges. I can't argue with this approach. A phono preamp circuit should really be designed for a single gain setting; doing otherwise will invariably result in compromised performance. You can't optimize a phono preamp for high-output cartridges, throw in a switch and resistor, and expect the preamp to perform equally well with low-output cartridges. An optimum preamp for low-output cartridges requires a circuit topology tailored for that purpose. My experiences with audiophiles who use low-output cartridges is that most have their favorite step-up devices anyway. [This runs counter to my experience.Ed.]
Footnote 1: Reviewed by RL, Vol.11 No.8, August 1988.
Footnote 2: Galo, Gary A. "New Compact Disc Technologies" in "Ask TAA," Audio Amateur, August 1989.
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Chosen in the NHL draft's second round, with the 53rd overall pick, by the Tampa Bay Lightning
Freshman (2012-13) Stats
Made collegiate debut against Bentley Oct. 27 ... Collected first collegiate point on assist in 5-1 loss to Yale Nov. 3 ... Picked up an assist against Union Nov. 9 ... Netted first collegiate goal in a 4-0 win over RPI Nov. 10 ... Scored a goal against Northeastern Dec. 29 ... Tallied a goal in 6-5 overtime upset of No. 8 Boston University Jan. 9 ... Had an assist at No. 12 Dartmouth Jan. 12 ... Posted a goal and an assist at Brown Jan. 19 ... Collected an assist Jan. 25 against Clarkson and handed out two helpers a night later against St. Lawrence ... Dished out two assists in 7-4 win over No. 11/13 Boston University Feb. 11 in Beanpot consolation game ... Added another two assists in 4-1 win over Colgate Feb. 15 ... Picked up a pair of helpers in 6-2 win over Clarkson Feb. 23 ... Scored the game-winning goal in 2-1 win over Dartmouth March 8 in first round playoff series opener.
Before Harvard
Four-year letterwinner in hockey and soccer ... Attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Greely High School and Brewster Academy ... Named the Boston Globe's New England Athlete of the Year for hockey and soccer ... Earned USHR Prep Player of the Year honors in hockey and the Gatorade New Hampshire Player of the Year in soccer ... Holds the single-season and all-time soccer scoring records at Phillips Exeter Academy ... Team captain in both hockey and soccer as a senior.
Relay for Life volunteer ... Uncle, Tom Hubbard, and cousins, David and Robby Griffin, graduated from Harvard ... Also enjoys fishing, hiking and watching movies.


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PHOENIX (Monday, February 04, 2013) -- A self-styled Phoenix pastor and his wife who gained notoriety in 2012 for a well-publicized zoning battle involving the home-based location for their religious services, have been sentenced along with the man's brother for offenses related to AHCCCS fraud, Attorney General Tom Horne announced today.
39 year-old Michael Salman, his 34 year-old wife, Suzanne Salman, and his 37 year-old brother, Frank Salman, were sentenced to probation in Maricopa County Superior Court last week. They will also pay fines and restitution.
"I am pleased with the outcome of this case," Horne said. "When people commit fraud against a state agency that is designed to provide assistance to those who are truly in need, it is those taxpayers and people who really need the aid that get ripped off. These kinds of schemes will not be tolerated."
Michael and Suzanne Salman lied about their household income to the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) and received health insurance benefits through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) for themselves and their children.
Between 2008 and 2012 the Salmans submitted false information regarding their household income on applications for AHCCCS benefits and also submitted false statements about their employment with Bureau of Merchant Services – an entity whose initial board of directors consisted only of Michael and Suzanne Salman.
Between May 2007 and March 2012, Frank Salman misrepresented his income to DES in order receive AHCCCS health insurance benefits for himself, his spouse and his children. He also reported to AHCCCS that he was employed by NBMS.
Prior to sentencing Michael and Suzanne Salman paid AHCCCS full restitution of $73,808.92. Michael Salman pled guilty to one count of Theft, and one count of Forgery, both class 4 felonies, and was sentenced to three years probation for each count. Salman was also ordered to pay a fine of $9,200.00 and complete 40 hours of community service. Suzanne Salman was sentenced to six months probation and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service.
Frank Salman, paid AHCCCS full restitution of $45,304.16 prior to sentencing. Frank Salman pled guilty to one count of Theft, a class 6 felony and was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to perform 20 hours of community service.
This matter was handled by Assistant Attorney General Beverly Rudnick. This case was investigated by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System's Office of the Inspector General.


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Freecom has launched what it calls the 'world's smallest' 3.5-inch desktop hard drive – with the 'Hard Drive XS' offering up to 1TB of storage.
Freecom's drive has apparently been designed in collaboration with Belgian designer Sylvain Willenz, who apparently likes black rectangles that look a bit like external hard drives.
Perhaps more importantly from a tech point of view is a rubber grip that minimises vibration, no fan, meaning quiet operation and a weight of 860g.
The drive has a Turbo USB2.0 connection and is designed for both home and professional users.
Space, the final frontier?
"With the explosion of Web 2.0 applications and new media – from digital photos and 'home videos' to downloaded music and TV programmes, computer users are running out of places to store their data," said Axel Lucassen, co-founder and executive senior VP of product line management and marketing.
"Whether at home or in the office, space is one of the things we value most.
"The compact and stylish design of the Hard Drive XS takes up less room in your bag and looks sleek on your desk, but also provides plenty of extra storage for your data".


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It can load data from arbitrary text-based formats (for example, any tab-separated or comma-separated file) or Xml, or directly from a GPS receiver. It can display the data (as map view using openstreetmap images and as altitude profile), edit this data (for example delete points and ranges, sort waypoints, compress tracks), and save the data (in various text-based formats). It can also export data as a Gpx file, or as Kml/Kmz for import into Google Earth, or send it to a GPS receiver.
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