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- Facilitate an after-school study group for middle school students from East Aurora and Chicago on the North Central campus every Thursday from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
- Facilitate an evening study group for high school students from East Aurora and Chicago on the North Central campus every Thursday from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
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Spend your summer making a difference in the world and in the lives of kids by participating in the Junior/Senior Scholars Summer Program. You'll have the opportunity to work with students one-on-one, as well as gain some experience in front of a classroom full of students. You'll also have the chance to work with some dynamic and innovative educators who can serve as references and connections when you begin the search for your first teaching position.
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In 2003, North Central's Junior/Senior Scholars Program was named an Exemplary Practice in Higher Education by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
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Apartment for 2 people in the Latin Quarter
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In the heart of the capital and near the famous Latin Quarter you can walk in the Luxembourg Gardens, stroll along docks of the Seine or visit the Pantheon. You can discover the shops of old books and enjoy many plugged restaurants in the area. This is a very central location, ideal for access to the different attractions Parisien .
At the 1st floor , this apartment has a living room with a open kitchen and a bathroom . The apartment has lots of charm and the decoration is very nice. Completely refurbished .
- Fully equipped kitchen with ceramic hob , microwave , integrated fridge freezer, toaster, kettle , coffee maker as well as dishes , pots, cups and glasses .
- Bathroom with shower , WC.
- Living room with sofa, TV and a coffee table.
- An ironing board and iron are available
Towels and linens are provided as well as cleaning . An efficient heating system ensures a steady and comfortable temperature in the apartment.
WIFI Internet access and TV included. It's possible to book a private parking close the apartment.
From Roissy Charles de Gaulle and Orly airport you can reach the apartment directly with the Luxembourg station which is a five minute by foot .
The neighborhoof is also well served by buses that will allow you to move quickly in Paris .
For late arrivals , there is an extra charge of EUR 20 between 20h and 22h and after 22h EUR 40 .
A deposit of € 200 is required to cover any damage or repairs in the apartment. The deposit must be paid by credit card on arrival day with our mobile payment terminal (the sum in question is not loaded but "pre-authorized" like renting a car for example).
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My friends and I enjoyed our time at Jeremy's apartment. It's centrally located, close to the metro and a short walk to the RER. The area is really quiet and the apartment is very secure. For four, there was still plenty of space, and the kitchen gave us extra space to use as a group. Only downsides are that the bathroom doesn't have a proper door - definitely a necessary addition, and simple maintainence wasn't done - the shower flooded and we had to unclog the drain. Other than that, I would definitely recommend staying here when in Paris.
The apartment is perfectly located. Louvre and Notre Dame are walking just as easy to reach as the shopping in Les Halles. Since the apartment is very centrally located, it's morning already been louder from 7 clock ... But we were not to long Ausschlafen in Paris.
The apartment itself was very nicely decorated. Everything was new and clean. The kitchen is very practical and well equipped. The bed is also the couch. One could sleep very well in it.
The contact person is very friendly and everything went smoothly!
Das Appartement ist perfekt gelegen. Louvre und Notre Dame sind zu Fuß genauso gut zu erreichen wie die Shoppingmöglichkeiten in Les Halles. Da das Appartement sehr zentral gelegen ist, ist es morgens schon ab 7 Uhr lauter gewesen... Aber wir waren ja nicht zum langen Ausschlafen in Paris.
Das Appartement selber war sehr schön eingerichtet. Alles war neu und sauber. Die Küche ist sehr praktisch und gut ausgestattet. Das Bett ist zugleich die Couch. Man konnte aber sehr gut darin schlafen.
Auch die Ansprechperson ist sehr freundlich und alles hat reibungslos geklappt!
Good location, nice apartment. Wifi would be included but we received no ransom despite several reminders via voicemail ...
Bra läge, fräsch lägenhet. Wifi skulle ingå men vi fick inget lösen trots flera påminnelser via mobilsvar...
Very nice small apartment. Very well located in a street galleries. In the heart of Le Marais .. It was just great!
Sehr schöne kleine Wohnung. Sehr gut gelegen in einer Galerien-Strasse. Mitten in Le Marais.. Es war einfach klasse!
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Gorgeous apartment in a great location in Paris. A stone's throw from Cardinal Lemoine metro, walking distance to Rue Moufftard where you'll find lots of local bars, restaurants and shops. 5-10 mins walks to Boulevard St Germain.
The apartment itself is compact but feels spacious, has everything you need. Pretty internal courtyard, nice and quiet, sleeps up to 4 on the bed and fold-out sofa. Jeremy was great to deal with, made our Paris holiday a breeze. I would definitely stay here again.
Apartment conveniently located near subway stops, Louvre walk, clean, small but very functional and well equipped, the only downside is that the apartment has a common wall with the toilet of a restaurant so a little noisy at night because of the withered hand. But we had a great stay.
Appartement idéalement situé, arrêts de métro à proximité, Louvre à pied, propre, petit mais très fonctionnel et bien équipé, le seul petit bémol est que l'appartement a un mur commun avec les toilettes d'un restaurant donc un peu bruyant le soir à cause du sèche main. Mais nous avons passé un très bon séjour.
Great apartment. Very centrally located. Small but clean and new. Also, an earlier arrival and late departure time were not a problem. The only negative points: The assistant had been delayed somewhat. In the stairwell, the light switch was defective.
Tolles Appartement. Sehr zentral gelegen. Klein, aber sauber und neu. Auch eine frühere Ankunftszeit und späte Abreisezeit waren kein Problem. Einzige Negativ-Punkte: Die Assistentin hatte sich etwas verspätet. Im Treppenhaus war der Lichtschalter defekt.
We had a fantastic weekend in the apartment. It was as beautiful as the pictures. The location was top, opposite metro station, bakery bit further, bars, cafés and eateries and parking across the street. We were 5 adults and that was fine, lovely to between equally quiet to sit and relax after a fantastic Paris. Highly recommended.
We have had a marvelous weekend in this apartment. It was really so good as on the pictures. We enjoyed the place, metro nearby, parking at the other side of the road, boulanger nearby and many places to go out and eat. Next time we will come back.
We hebben een fantastisch weekend gehad in het appartement. Het was zo mooi als op de foto's. De locatie was top, tegenover metrostation, bakker stukje verder, leuke cafe's en eethuisjes en parkeren aan de overkant. We waren met 5 volwassenen en dat ging prima, heerlijk om tussendoor even rustig te kunnen zitten en bijkomen van een fantastisch Parijs. Een aanrader.
We have had a marvelous weekend in this appartment. It was really so good as on the pictures. We enjoyed the place, metro nearby, parking at the other side of the road, boulanger nearby and many places to go out and eat. Next time we will come back.
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That was the theme for area runners and teams Saturday at the IHSA Cross Country State Meet in Peoria. There were no state champions from the area as there had been in four of the previous six years, but several local runners turned in the best state performances in their school's history.
Marengo senior Katie Adams, who was undefeated until Saturday, could have made it four Class 2A champions in a row for McHenry County, following Woodstock's Kayla Beattie (2009, 2010) and Crystal Lake Central's Sami Staples (2011). But Adams rolled her right ankle early in the race and battled through the pain to take ninth.
Watching Adams limp around later with help from her parents or teammates, it was remarkable that she ran that well. She had beaten Kaneland's Victoria Clinton, the 2A champion, by 15 seconds at the Belvidere Sectional.
"It's just hard," Adams said. "I could have been up there competing for it."
Marengo finished two points behind Montini and Glenbard South, so if Adams had been
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Crystal Lake Central's Alex Baker was closest to a state championship, taking second in the Class 2A boys race and helping his team to fourth place. And what was Baker's best memory of the season?
"Practicing every day and the hard workouts and long mileage," he said. "Even more than the running and races, it was hanging out with the guys. I'll remember those moments even more than placing at state."
Baker's race with Glenbard South's John Wold was terrific. Those two ran by themselves for most of the final mile before Wold broke away in the final 400 meters.
Central coach Bill Eschman just grinned when asked about Baker's finish, the best in Central's school history.
"It was fantastic. It was fun to watch," Eschman said. "He pushed the pace, but Wold just ran a better race today. You couldn't ask for a better guy on your team."
There were other great performances from Staples, Marengo's Kitty Allen, Jacobs' Lauren Van Vlierbergen, Cary-Grove's Talia Duzey, Prairie Ridge's Joe Cowlin, McHenry's Jesse Reiser and Richmond-Burton's boys team.
Staples ran with Clinton most of the way before finishing fourth.
Allen, a sophomore, had a solid season capped with her best runs at the sectional and state meets. She finished 16th for Class 2A All-State honors. Woodstock's Maura Beattie also earned All-State taking 17th.
"it was pretty intense," Allen said. "It was an awesome experience coming from last year and watching it to this year and running in it. My last races have been really good."
Van Vlierbergen battled through a stress reaction in her left foot (the precursor to a stress fracture) for the last month and trained mostly in a swimming pool. Then she placed seventh in the fastest girls state meet race in history.
Duzey's 25th-place finish earned her All-State status and was C-G's best girls finish ever.
Cowlin was thrilled as he crossed the finish line in fourth place in Class 2A, the best state cross country finish in Prairie Ridge's history.
"No. 2 [Baker] and 4 for the [Fox Valley] conference," Cowlin said to his teammates, "that's right!"
Reiser, a sophomore, was as cool as they come all season, running right behind Baker and Cowlin in some of the big area races. Reiser was just as undaunted at Peoria's Detweiller Park on Saturday as he took seventh place, the best Warriors' finish ever.
In Class 1A, R-B and Johnsburg both took their boys and girls teams. Junior James Kaht really picked it up in the final 800 meters to take 19th and lead R-B's boys to a fifth-place team finish, its best ever.
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ScummVM is a game engine emulator that lets you play classic LucasArts adventure games, like The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam and Max Hit the Road, on the Linux, Mac OS, PocketPC, and current Windows platforms. There's even a version for Sega's defunct Dreamcast game console and a Playstation 2 port in the works. ScummVM works by emulating and improving upon the SCUMM ("Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion") engine that LucasArts used to run these games.
Started in September 2001, the ScummVM project caught the ire of LucasArts due to concerns by the company over ScummVM being released under GPL. As of this writing, the two sides are deadlocked over this issue. The ScummVM developers encourage users to purchase legal copies of LucasArts SCUMM games. ScummVM reads the data from the original disks or CD-ROMs in order to run the games; but, as is the case with most emulators for other game engines, pirated copies of this data work equally well.
After this interview was conducted, but before it went to press, ScummVM versions 0.50 and 0.51 were released. These new versions add support for Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2 as well as Revolution Software's Beneath a Steel Sky. In return for ScummVM's support, Revolution has allowed the project to distribute the game freely.
Ludvig Strigeus is a 22 year old computer science student by day. He lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ludvig wrote the initial version of ScummVM.
James Brown is a 20 year old programmer, living in Perth, Western Australia. He is the current Project Leader of ScummVM. In his words, "I think, because nobody else wanted to be woken up by LucasArts' legal department at 3 AM."
Max Horn is a 23 year old math and computer science student in Darmstadt, Germany. He contributed the initial support for Curse of Monkey Island as well as many bug fixes and the in-game GUI.
Torbjörn Andersson, 32, is a programmer in Säffle, Sweden. He concentrates on "fixing little things, bugs or features that may not be essential, but which make things look and sound a bit more polished."
O'Reilly Network: What's your motivation for taking part in the ScummVM project?
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Ludvig Strigeus: My first involvement was when I got an idea to write my own adventure game engine a few years ago. To be able to do this, I wanted to know about the internals of SCUMM, so I could borrow ideas from there. I got an idea in my mind that I should make an interpreter [for ScummVM] capable of playing Monkey Island 2, so I re-opened my old disassembly and started working with it.
James Brown: Although the concept had been proven when I joined the project, ScummVM has always been a learning experience, and fascinating at times. Not only am I learning new techniques and methods of both programming and reverse engineering, but we get a rather unique opportunity to study the techniques of the programmers we am trying to emulate and figuring out ways to improve on their original methodology and techniques.
ORN: What languages have been used to develop ScummVM?
JB: ScummVM started off as mostly plain C, wrapped inside a few C++ classes. Soon after I took over, we switched to C++ proper.
Personally, I have no particular like for C++. I find it tends to produce "spaghetti code" by people abusing inheritance and object orientation. I prefer straight ANSI C any day. However, as we were trying to add support for many new games and platforms, the object inheritance properties of C++ do make the code a lot more readable.
For example, we have recently been working on emulation for the Curse of Monkey Island, which uses Version 8 of the SCUMM system. We decided this version was different enough to warrant implementing "version classes". So now we inherit the script opcodes and resource management functions from our Version 6 class, and simply replace the ones that are substantially different.
Perl has been used, at various times, to prototype and test various functionality. Also, we have used information gleaned from programs written by other people in the community, especially by somebody known as Serge, which were written in Delphi. And, naturally, x86 assembly, from our reverse engineering.
ORN: What code does ScummVM incorporate which the team did not originally develop?
LS: ScummVM uses SDL, which is a library that makes it easier to write cross-platform sound/graphics code.
Torbjrn Andersson: The ALSA MIDI driver is mostly
cut-'n-pasted from
vkeybd by Takashi Iwai, and that part of the
sound code is an LGPL-licensed version of MAME's
fmopl by
Tatsuyuki Satoh.
JB: We use Kreed's 2xSaI family of graphics scalers. We also use Ogg Vorbis and the MAD MP3 library to provide audio compression, mostly to make it easier to fit games onto portable devices such as the iPAQ.
It might sound somewhat hypocritical, as ScummVM is an emulator, but there is no point reinventing the wheel. It's far easier to take advantage of other existing code and concentrate on the guts of the engine.
ORN: What have been the outstanding technical challenges throughout the development of ScummVM?
Max Horn: To write a single engine that emulates the behavior of different versions of the SCUMM engine, each with its own sets of quirks, modifications and oddities.
A fix for one thing often will break five others, and sometimes you only notice this a month later, making it hard to track down the cause. Then you have to improve the original fix so it still fixes the problem without causing new ones.
JB: One of our major goals is to remain as portable as possible. We still have a long way to go, as our memory usage is quite unoptimized at the moment; several people have tried to fit ScummVM onto a Gameboy Advance, which has only 288K of actual program memory.
Given that we are dealing quite often with strange compression codecs—which, while reasonably simple to reimplement, can be hard to actually comprehend—platform specific tweaks can become a great hurdle.
ORN: What have been the unique programming challenges in reverse engineering the SCUMM engine?
LS: There's the technical challenge of analyzing an
.exe file, and reconstructing program logic from that. When a
program is compiled, the names of all variables and functions are lost. To
reconstruct those, you need to analyze the functions and see patterns to be
able to understand what the disassembly does and how it works.
Another technical challenge is the problem of supporting multiple interpreter versions from a single source code tree. Each SCUMM game uses its own version of the interpreter and expects certain things to be in certain ways. So you need to find a common denominator of features that all interpreter versions use, and then extend this with more interpreter-specific features.
I can't say that I'm completely happy with how this has worked in ScummVM during the time that I was involved with the project. Often a feature added to support a newer game broke something in older games. When it comes to game compatibility, ideally, each interpreter version in the code tree should be independent of all the other ones. But that would require too much maintenance, partly due to the fact that for each interpreter version, you would have to duplicate all functions and, thus, the code tree would grow enormously.
JB: Implementing so many different minor versions is quite hard, as there can often be major structural, if not functional changes. That makes it difficult to find common points in code for comparison.
Most game engines will have these problems, combined with the fact that, when you are dealing with interpreted engines, you never can quite be sure what tricks the scripters have done in the game code that might trip up your engine. Writing a script decompiler should be your very first step, and making sure it is flexible enough that you can correct opcodes on the fly and easily integrate changes in arguments and parameters into your in-engine interpreter.
ORN: What features which have been added to the ScummVM engine which do not appear under the original SCUMM engine?
MH: Portability to systems which the original games did not support.
LS: Upscaling filters, such as 2xSaI, that smooth the picture when viewed in higher resolutions than 320x200, which is the resolution that the actual games use. Also, ScummVM can play the Simon the Sorcerer games by AdventureSoft.
TA: Most sound files can be compressed, and the CD audio tracks can be replaced with MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. This means that the games can be played completely from hard disk, which I find very convenient since my CD-ROM sometimes sound like a hair dryer. There's at least one scene in the CD version of LOOM that was downright painful when I tried it with the original interpreter. Every few seconds the game would freeze briefly because it was looping a short background sound from the CD.
The original Sam & Max interpreter had some fairly obscure graphics glitches which ScummVM doesn't have.
JB: Most of our extra features are not exactly noticeable for two reasons: The first is purely technical. The LucasArts SCUMM engine—as well as the AdventureSoft Simon the Sorcerer engine, which we also emulate—is just an interpreter, a lot of the magic is done in the actual scripts. This can be compared to Quake, where the engine is only responsible for core functionality. And there is very little you can do to improve a 2D environment, graphically, as opposed to a 3D environment.
The second reason is more simplistic. While we are very open to some improvements, anything that affects the game play could be considered "blasphemy".
ORN: What features are planned for future versions of ScummVM?
MH: Currently, we are working on getting the Curse of Monkey Island support stabilized. Then we will turn to fix all the regressions we introduced while adding Curse. But some other things are planned:
JB: First and foremost, our main goal is to perfect compatibility for SCUMM games as close as possible. We're considering adding the ability to replace certain scripts in the game. This will allow, among other cool things, the ability to upgrade the interface in games; for example, to replace Day of the Tentacle's "verb interface" with a Sam & Max-esque "cursor interface". This in particular has the ability to reduce the screen space the game takes, making it easier to port to some smaller platforms.
Once we have reached or at least come closer to the goal of near-perfect compatibility with all games, we might consider expanding into other similar adventure game systems. Revolution Software, being the kind souls they are, sent us the source code for Beneath a Steel Sky, asking us if we are interested in writing a compatible game engine to allow people to play it on newer platforms. This is a great move, actually having the developers of a classic game actively interested in a group developing a clone.
ORN: What advice do you have for those who want to modify old SCUMM games, or create new ones, for ScummVM?
MH: I do not know if this is a good approach. If somebody asked me this, I would probably tell them to use one of the existing, open source adventure engines, instead of trying to use ScummVM as a foundation. ScummVM contains a lot of oddities in order to emulate the original SCUMM. If I was to write a adventure engine, I would do a lot of things differently than they are done in ScummVM. ScummVM does a great job at what it was meant to do; that is, allow the use of SCUMM games. But this exactly makes it less than optimal for the development of new adventures.
TA: I haven't really given much thought to modifying the original games. There are a few games that contain copy protection screens as part of their game scripts. LucasArts's own interpreters were made to bypass these when the games were rereleased as part of collections, so we have to do that as well, albeit not always in the exact same way. But this is always done from within ScummVM. Never by modifying the data files.
If you're looking to create a game, you'd be much better off picking a development system with a well-documented virtual machine that doesn't have lots of little game-specific hacks. Having actual tools to develop the game would help a lot, too.
Trying to make a new game for ScummVM would probably be like trying to write a large program using only a disassembler. Sure, it could be done. Ordinary mortals would need a compiler and standard libraries, both of which would probably take years to develop.
Graham Nelson's Inform compiler for Infocom's Z-Machine provides a pretty interesting look at the evolution of one project for generating story files for a reverse-engineered virtual machine. Inform eventually turned out to be pretty successful. Lots of games have been written in it; the Z-Machine is well-documented; and interpreters have been written in various languages including Java, Perl and Emacs Lisp. But it should be remembered that it took at least a year or two before the compiler had evolved to the point where anyone other than Graham had used it to write a complete game.
Bottom line: It can be done but it's going to take time, and it may not be the best way to begin.
JB: Don't. While it's possible, there are many game development systems out there which are far easier to use. Unless you really want the technical challenge of developing the dozen or so tools needed for creating a game using the SCUMM system, it's really a bad idea. ScummVM was designed to play existing games, not as a platform for new game programmers. It'd be cool, but not very feasible.
ORN: Any advice for others interested in reverse-engineering a game engine, either technical or legal advice?
MH: Technically, you need a lot of patience to figure out all the small details. You maybe can get a quick start into the thing, but to get all the small details right, which make up a greater game experience, you have to spend a lot of effort.
Legally, you should be aware that disassembling engines might be illegal under the DMCA. But if you look at Exult, another open source engine I am involved with, we didn't do any disassembly for that.
JB: I have two pieces of legal advice. The first is simple: Ask. Do not expect an answer, but you would be surprised how many complications can be avoided if you can later say, "But I told you I was going to do this." Although AdventureSoft never replied to us on our Simon implementation, and LucasArts' response was a DMCA takedown notice, there may be other companies, like Revolution, who are actively interested in seeing their games playable on new platforms.
The second piece of legal advice is also the first piece of technical advice: Reverse engineer as little as possible. The biggest legal complication of reverse engineering is when you are working from a disassembly, it can be tempting to simply translate the compiler's output into code directly in your program. This is a big legal no-no. It's almost certainly copyright infringement. And it can happen by accident.
Finally, choose the right tools for the job. Reverse engineering is a difficult task. While there are some free programs out there—BIEW comes to mind, none of them yet are as easy and nice to use as the expensive commercial packages, IDA Pro and SoftICE.
ORN: So which LucasArts SCUMM game is your personal favorite, and what tips do you have to share with those playing it under ScummVM?
LS:My favorite is Monkey Island 2; after all, I made ScummVM with the purpose of playing Monkey 2.
MH: It's not easy for me to single out one favorite, as I like many of them a lot. But if you insist on a pick, I'll name Monkey Island 2. Luckily, our support for it in ScummVM is nearly perfect. It's so loaded with jokes, references to other LucasArts games, and hilariously great ideas. One of the scenes I like most is when Guybrush knocks his head, and then dreams of his parents, who appear as skeletons performing a well known song.
JB:Personally, I love Sam and Max Hit the Road. It has some of the funniest one-liners I've ever seen, not to mention puzzles which actually make sense and can be solved without a walk-through. Because it's my favorite, it works pretty well on ScummVM. My only tip is not to play the "highway" mini-game. It runs a little fast in ScummVM, and, as the only way to exit it requires actually losing, you can get stuck pretty easily.
TA: It'd have to be Day of the Tentacle. It's the only one that I was able to solve without any outside help.
Running the games seemed pretty straightforward to me, once I had read the documentation and compatibility chart. The main problem was finding somewhere to buy the games. The way things look right now, I doubt I'll ever have the chance to play the 256-color version of Zak McKracken. I guess my only tip is to buy the games whenever you have the chance.
Howard Wen is a freelance writer who has contributed frequently to O'Reilly Network and written for Salon.com, Playboy.com, and Wired, among others.
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"Picture Julie in a tight black leather cat women suit and me in a ski mask and kaki outfit... no wait... a James Bond gucci suit, pistol and all... thats much better!"
Switzerland... ahhh... nice, relaxing, beautiful, switzerland. Aside from it being insanely expensive here, we are just loving it
We are going to Paris tomorrow morning so Ill put my Swityerland entry in from there.
-- Austria, ahhh....
Arriving in Austria, on the early morning train from Budapest, we both exhaled a deep sigh of relief. Hungary was great but the heat, non-english speaking locals and slight frustration from some of the local hassles were getting to us. It was a big relief once we heard the sound of proper english coming from our train conductors mouth as we went from Vienna to Salzburg, our midway point from Budapest.
"Passport? Why the hell would you need a passport in the middle of Austria!" said the smiling austrian train conductor as I handed over all of my documents to her from our train cubicle
These were the nicest words we had heard in days...
-- Salzburg
Always taking word of mouth over guide books, we decided to head straight to Salzburg rather than Vienna as our friend had suggested. We hoped that Salzburg would have enough to make our 3 day stay enjoyable, luckly, it did.
One hill top castle... check,
Enough Schitzel to make you go blind... check,
Numerous music concerts... check,
One bed and breakfast nestled in the Austrian hills... check!
More than enough... and to put the cherry on top, we arrived right in the middle of the Salzburg Music festival!
-- The Vienna Mission
With military precision, a well planned ( ok maybe not all that well planned..
** For best effect, if you have the sound track for mission impossible handy, play it in the background as you read this. Humming the sound track will produce the same effect.
( Picture Julie in a tight black leather cat women suit and me in a ski mask and kaki outfit... no wait... a James Bond gucci suit, pistol and all... thats much better! )
"Beep, Beep, Beeeeep, Beeeeeeeeeeeep" sounds Julies alarm.
Grunt.. Groan...
"5:15AM" flashes menacingly on the watch.
Grunt.. Grunt... Groan...
"Damn... we have to get going!" I say relunctantly
** Start theme song here.
-- 5:30 am
The sun isnt quite out yet when the taxi screeches to a halt in font of our bed and breakfast. Already waiting outside, we jump in.
"To the train station" we grunt to the driver.
-- 6:00 am
Train leaves from Salzburg station to Vienna, luckly, with us on it.
-- 9:30 am
3 coffees later, the train arrives in Vienna... With only a half a day in Vienna for us to see the sights we decide that a city tour is the best plan of attack.
-- 9:45 am
Tourist agency convices us that their 30$ bus tour is the best in the city, but it leaves in 20 minutes
-- 9:50 am
We both part with 30$ and get our tickets from the agent. Food and toilettes are now very neccessary before the tour leaves... in 10 minutes!
-- 9:55 am
An impressive high speed stop at the subway for a sandwich to go.
-- 9:58 am
An even more impressive high speed stop at the toilette and one great locked European toilette cubicle escape show by Julie.
-- 10:00 am
The tour guide meets us at the front doors of the train station. 10am on the button...
"What timing
-- 10:01 am
Realize that we have lost the precious 30$ tickets for our tour.
-- 10:05 am
Frantically search every nook, cranny and orifice on self...
"Damn! No tickets!" We both say simultaneously while staring blankly at each other.
-- 10:10 am
An excrutiating re-enactment of the previous 30 minutes takes place in our heads.
-- 10:15 am
An even more excrutiating re-enactment of the previous 30 minutes takes place in the train station with our guide
-- 10:20 am
A pride swallowing, painful decision to part with yet another, now even more precious, 30$ each for 2 more tickets.
-- 10:25 am
Off to the 120$ bus tour of the city.
"This better be one good tour!"
-- 11:45 am
Visit to the habsburg palace...
-- 11:55 am
"OOOOooooo.... "
-- 12:15 pm
-- 13:30 pm
Visit downtown Vienna...
-- 13:35 pm
"OOOOooooo.... "
-- 13:40 pm
"AAAAaaaaa.... "
-- 14:00 pm
Tour is finished... Vienna sights have been conquered... Now to get back home...
-- 14:05 pm
Decide to take 2:21pm train back to Salzburg
-- 14:10 pm
Metro Tickets..
-- 14:15 pm
Metro Map...
-- 14:20 pm
"Run!!! Stop that Train!! Out of the way old hag!"
-- 14:21 pm
Into the sunset, the train to Salzburg chugs its merry way back home...
Exausted, heads still spinning, and Julie, in dire need to get out of her catwomen suit, we both spend the evening watching "The Sound of Music" and crash out early...
-- Salzburg, the rest...
The rest of our site seeing in Salzburg took a much, much, much slower pace ( thank god )
After an inspiring 8pm Organ recital in a big old baroque cathedral we caught a late night train to Switzerland and here we are... actually currently with one foot out the door on the way to Paris.
Luc and Julie


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Happy Ides of March!
I just can't help myself.
I went to a high school, actually the oldest public high school in the country, where a "classical" education was not only valued, but required. We took four years of latin (it used to be six years, then five years…) and learned all about Julius Caesar and his downfall on the Ides of March. We learned about the brothers, Romulus and Remus, and how Romulus literally stabbed Remus in the back. As much as I hate on my high school, I secretly sort of love these geeky holidays.
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CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake Police Department is asking for any information about a robbery over the weekend.
At 12:23 p.m. on Saturday, March 2, a subject entered The Cash Store at 1125 S. Route 31, and demanded money. The subject did not display a weapon, authorities said, but he threatened the lives of the store employees.
The man took an undisclosed amount of cash before fleeing the scene in what is believed to be a dark colored Dodge Mini-van or Durango.
He was described as black male, 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 230 pounds. He was wearing a gray pull-over hooded sweatshirt, blue denim carpenter style pants, tan work boots, a black knit mask, and black gloves.
Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and filing of criminal charges against offenders.
Tips can also be texted anonymously to "TIP411" (847411) with the keyword "TIPCLPD" within the text. Crime Stoppes does not use caller ID.
Anyone with information about the crime, can call Crime Stoppers at 800-762-7867, or the Crystal Lake Police Department Investigations Division at 815-459-4481.
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Going full pelt for style
You don't really need me to tell you that fur and faux fur are having yet another fashion moment since you can hardly turn round in any store, from Harvey Nicks to H&M without seeing a real or fake pelt adorning a coat, sweater or jacket.
Fur paced the catwalks in London, New York, Paris and Milan, with fur stoles, collars, trims or entire jackets, gilets or coats seen at Fendi, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, Marc Jacobs, Diane von Furstenberg, Burberry, Gucci et al. Not to be outdone, the High Street has produced its own take on fur, though, unlike the designer versions which often use real fur, the pelt is exclusively fake or faux, to give it its more aspirational nomenclature.
For fur to look right this season, it has to have a distinctly retro feel, alluding to the 1940s, 50s and early 60s, or have a harder-edged, 1970s feel. Anything else looks merely functional, which is fine if you are wearing fur merely to keep warm, but not so good if you want to be seen to be rocking a trend.
Two disparate fashion eras are evoked by the short fur jackets around now: there's the 1950s/early 1960s style short fur jackets - the kind your mother or grandma wore to barmitzvahs and weddings in 1958 - in which you can work the still hot Mad Men/Marilyn Monroe vibe. These are available in M&S's Per Una and Autograph ranges, and in every vintage shop. And then there are the altogether funkier 1970s-style fur jackets. These are cropped, collarless and fastening-free and therefore wildly impractical, but the distillation of rock-chick glamour.
A coat with a fur collar or fur spilling down the front will also demonstrate your fashion savvy. At Topshop, which has gone, ahem, full pelt for fur, the best fur-trimmed coats include a a fitted, porridge-colour coat with fur collar (£110); a black evening coat with faux fur cuffs (£220) and a fur-trimmed "coatigan" at £120 and a tweed, faux fur collar baby it calls a "boyfriend" coat, though quite how a "boyfriend coat" can be lavished with fur is unclear.
Notably beautiful fur-trimmed coats for those on "minted" budgets include a trench with fur collar from Marc by Marc Jacobs (£475) at Matches, and a Dolce & Gabbana knit coat with Mongolian fur (£1,465 at Browns).
Fur also works well as a trim on cardis and sweaters: East has a shapely little cardi with detachable faux fur collar at £79, but the definitively divine - if ruinously pricey - piece of fur-trimmed knitwear, is a black ribbed cardi with lavish fox fur trim by Lanvin (£3,650 at Browns).
If you prefer the versatility of a tippet or stole, River Island vies with Topshop for best selection, most under £28. Oasis and M&S have them, too, and Fenwick, W1 has them in brights at £79.


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May 6, 1999
Doctors, Lawyers and Other Jewish Women
When she was 16, KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour was captivated by her studies with the Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich. "Yiddish is magic," he told her. "It will outwit history."
Seymour took his words to heart. Of late, she has been doing her part to help the mamaloshen survive. In 1995, she and KCRW teamed up with the National Yiddish Book Center to create "Jewish Short Stories," a National Public Radio series read by actors such as Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum. The program was a peculiar excursion in time-travel: back to the days of golems and rebbes and schlemiels all living together in the shtetl. Yiddish, apparently, worked its magic: At least half the NPR network ran the program, including markets as unlikely as Coos Bay, Ore., and Bozeman, Mont. KCRW sold well more than 1,000 cassette sets of the series.
This year, the program is back by popular demand, and because Seymour wanted to bring the series into the postmodern era.
"This is a darker, edgier series," says Seymour, adding that a Sholom Aleichem story explores the suicide of one of Tevye's daughters.
Once again, celebrities agreed to work for the union base rate of around $11 an hour -- perhaps because of the Yiddish yearnings latent in Ashkenazi DNA. William Shatner, Richard Dreyfuss and Ed Asner signed on, as did directors Arthur Hiller, Jeremy Kagan and Claudia Weil. "Chicago Hope" star Hector Elizondo, of Puerto Rican heritage, said that he was drawn to the series because he has converso blood.
The 18-part series, dubbed "Jewish Stories from the Old World to the New," includes stories and novel excerpts by authors such as Bernard Malamud, E.L. Doctorow, Saul Bellow and Max Apple. It also includes a number of works by women writers: Allegra Goodman's "The Four Questions" humorously explores the conflict between three generations of American Jews; Pearl Abraham's "The Romance Reader" focuses on a restless Chassidic woman; Leslea Newman's "A Letter to Harvey Milk" examines the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and his lesbian creative-writing teacher.
Ironically, Seymour, who has created Mexican and Korean short-story programming for KCRW, says the only critics of "Jewish Stories" have been...Jewish. "Some people fear that publicly celebrating our Jewish heritage will excite anti-Semitism, which is ridiculous," she says.
To buy a CD or audiocassette of the series, or for programming information, call (310) 450-5183 or (800) 292-3855.
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Dell 1610HD Value Series Projector
About this itemFrom class rooms to boardrooms, the Dell 1610HD Value Series Projector delivers brilliant visual displays with brilliant value.
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Exceptional Brightness & Contrast: 3,500 ANSI lumens (max) brightness and high 2100:1 typical (full on/full off) contrast ratio help to ensure that your presentations retain their impact in a wide variety of rooms and ambient-light conditions. 2000 WXGA (1280x800) native resolution with native 16:10 aspect ratio offers superb image quality with up to 30% more pixels than XGA (1024x768)1 and high-definition viewing at 720p. Equipped with DLP® and BrilliantColor™ technology, the 1610HD Value Series Projector will amaze audiences with deep, dazzling colors and sharp image quality. A diagonal 362" maximum projection size at 32.81 feet (10m) (projector-to-screen distance) helps to ensure that all your ideas play on a grand stage.
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New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJCF) purchased the 9,400-acre Franklin Parker Preserve in 2004 to protect its unusual concentration of resources, which include rare plant and animal species, pristine streams, and wilderness forest. In the midst of five major State land-holdings totaling over 200,000 acres, the Preserve is an important open space connection, providing trail linkages and passive recreation. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has supported the purchase of the Preserve and holds a partial ownership interest.
NJCF has partnered with the US Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to protect and restore 2200 acres of wetland habitat through the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP). Formerly one of New Jersey's largest cranberry farms, the Preserve contains 1100 acres of wetland agricultural fields and miles of canals and dikes. This water control system has transformed natural wetlands into highly modified agricultural environments, which cannot revert to native wetland communities on their own – altered water flow and compacted and leveled soil must first be repaired.
Through the Wetlands Reserve Program, NRCS has purchased an easement on the Preserve for $4.4 million that forever protects the land for conservation purposes. NRCS will also provide financial and technical assistance in the amount of $1 million to restore the disturbed wetland habitats. Canals will be plugged and dikes will be breached to allow the water table to once again fluctuate on a natural cycle rather than one dictated by agriculture. Native plants will recolonize from nearby habitats and germinate from seeds that have lain dormant for decades.
In some cases, NJCF and NRCS may augment natural revegetation. Current plans call for 150 acres of Atlantic White Cedar reforestation. An increasingly rare Pine Barrens community, less than 20% of historic Atlantic White Cedar forests remain. Natural regeneration of cedar trees is unlikely due to poor germination and heavy deer browsing.
The Wetlands Reserve Program is a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service goal is to achieve the greatest wetland functions and values, along with optimum wildlife habitat, on every acre enrolled in the program.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the bog turtle as a threatened species in 1997, citing habitat loss as the primary factor behind its decline. Prior to wetland protection laws being enacted in NJ, bog habitats were drained and filled for agriculture or development. Today bog turtle wetlands are generally protected from primary impacts, but still continue to be lost by changes in vegetation, e.g., natural succession and the encroachment by invasive plants. Bog turtle habitats are ephemeral wetlands that require ecological disturbance in the form of grazing, periodic flooding or fire and clearing to maintain conditions conducive for the bog turtles various life histories.
The Conserve Wildlife Foundation (CWF) was one of three organizations in NJ to submit requests for funding under a national call for proposals in May, 2005. The CWF proposal was one of only two selected for funding nationwide. The objective of their project is to restore and maintain bog turtle habitats at two wetland sites in Sussex and Gloucester counties that have been altered by ditching and the colonization of woody vegetation and invasive flora.
The CWF restoration plan for the Sussex County site entails clearing of woody vegetation on 4.5 acres, restoring hydrology through the construction of ditch plugs on 4 drainage ditches and installing 5,000 linear feet of high-tensile fencing for long-term habitat maintenance using livestock grazing.
In Gloucester County, the Foundation proposes to restore the natural flow of groundwater in a heavily modified wetland that is currently used for growing hay. This will be accomplished by installing plugs in the extensive network of drainage ditches onsite and following this up with establishing a native limestone fen plant community.
The Conserve Wildlife Foundation will be awarded $43,350 over a three year period to complete this work. The project began in October 2005.
May, 2005 - Kurt Munkacsi and Nancy Jeffries are committed to wetland restoration and wildlife habitat on their farm in the Pinelands of Burlington County, New Jersey. They are so committed in fact that selling a 40-acre easement to USDA under the Wetlands Reserve Program, restoring wetland habitat on 20 acres of blueberry fields, and constructing two ponds was not enough! They recently undertook additional wetland restoration enhancements on the farm. The 2005 enhancements include new vernal pools, new macrotopography work and new native plantings for wildlife.
Kurt and Nancy work in the music business in New York City. They are enthusiastic about the wetland restoration and wildlife habitat on their farm. Kurt regularly walks the fields, wetlands and woodlands in search of local wildlife. Since the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) project began, he has observed several state threatened or endangered species including the Pine Barrens tree frog and the Northern pine snake. Recent wetland enhancements should provide more opportunities to view the rare amphibians and reptiles of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
As seen in the photo above, flooded blueberry plants are beginning to give way to native pitch pine, Atlantic white cedar, red maple and black gum trees soon after wetland hydrology has been restored. The vernal pool at the Munkacsi–Jeffries property seen here on the right is surrounded by native volunteer wetland vegetation two years after construction. The site was a former blueberry farm bisected by drainage ditches which were plugged to restore hydrology.
New wetland construction was completed in the winter of 2004 to restore an old stream channel where a straight drainage ditch was constructed over 100 years ago. This site will be fully flooded in late spring 2005.
The photo at left shows an area of hydric soils, drained for hay and pasture production, that was restored to an emergent wetland by constructing a low berm and installing a water control structure. This Morris County site will provide habitat for waterfowl, wading birds, reptiles and amphibians native to the area.
Through the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), the Natural Resources Conservation Service provided assistance to convert the out-of-use pasture to wetlands. More...
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Novelist Denise Hamilton rides the bestseller charts with dark and personal 'Damage Control'
By Carl Kozlowski 09/15/2011
As an LA Times reporter, Denise Hamilton had a knack for digging up some of the most unusual stories in Los Angeles. In her current career as a crime novelist, she applied her writing skills to craft a string of critically acclaimed national bestsellers centered around a Times reporter named Eve Diamond before taking a turn into noir fiction with her 2008 novel "The Last Embrace" and as the editor of two successful editions of "Los Angeles Noir" short-story collections.
But as a lifelong resident of the City of Angels, Hamilton has seen plenty of dark moments occur, even in some of the city's most beautiful places. For her latest novel, a stand-alone thriller called "Damage Control," Hamilton dug deep into her memories of beach parties gone wild as the launching point for the tale of Maggie Silver, a PR whiz who finds that her latest client, Sen. Henry Paxton, is not just a government official looking for a way to spin the fact that his cute, young female aide has been found dead in his office. He's also the father of Maggie's long-estranged best friend from high school. And that fact forces Maggie to confront the darkest secrets of her life while discovering that everyone around her has plenty of their own.
"I grew up in LA and spent a lot of time on the beach, going to parties in my teens, during college and in my 20s," says Hamilton, speaking by phone from her Glendale home. "It's beautiful with beautiful bodies, but to me there's a dark side to that world of endless summer and the cult of the body and the idea that you could lose yourself in that and 20 years later you're an alcoholic and a drug addict and have skin cancer and life has passed you by. We export the glamour of beach life to the world, but when you listen to the Beach Boys there's a lot of dark stuff in the lyrics, and that's what this book is really about."
Denise Hamilton will discuss and sign "Damage Control" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Call (626) 549-9420 or visit vromans.com.
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Change for Marietta post commander
MARIETTA – It is a new year and an exciting new set of challenges for Lt. Carlos Smith, the new commander at the Marietta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The move will be a big change for Smith, 39, who previously served as a sergeant at the Canton Post.
"I come from an urban area and this is a very rural area. While the mission is the same, it is going to be quite different," he said..
The biggest adjustment, he said, will be learning how to best serve the members of the small community.
And though Smith stepped into the new position less than a month ago, he already has some goals he would like to accomplish.
"I'm very community minded. I want our patrol post to be more involved in the community," he said.
Specifically, Smith hopes to expand community education programs such as the Community Shield program, which provides training for members of the general public how to identify possible criminal behavior on Ohio's roadways and then alert the Patrol by dialing #677.
Smith is filling the vacancy left when former post commander Mary Pfeifer took a position as the patrol's commander for License and Commercial Standards at the end of November.
Pfeifer had been post commander for 14 years in Marietta.
"People down here seem to really want the post to be here," Smith said,
"They appreciate what we're doing. To me, that's a testament to the previous post commander. It shows me that these guys already have the right vision."
That is good news for Smith, whose favorite part of the job is simply serving the public.
"To me it's seeing that smile on a stranded motorist's face when you stop to help them get gas, or give them a ride, or help them fix a flat tire," he said.
Smith's started with the OSHP in 1998, after serving almost five years in the United States Air Force.
An unlikely incident sparked Smith's desire to be a trooper, he said.
"I was driving home from Wright State and I got stopped by a trooper. He was just very, very professional," said Smith.
Though the trooper issued him a citation, his demeanor left such an impression on Smith that he decided he wanted to pursue a career in the OSHP as well.
In his career, Smith has spent time at the Jackson Post, the Massillon Post, the Wilmington Post, the Medina Post, and most recently the Canton Post, where he will be missed, said Trooper Otis Smith.
"He's very charismatic, easy going, helpful, just real easy to work with. His presence will be missed," said Otis, who has worked with Carlos throughout his 11 years with the OSHP.
For now, Smith is commuting almost two hours one way to Marietta from his home near Canton.
"I like the commute. It lets me clear my head and reflect on my day," he said.
However, he does not plan on getting too used to the lengthy drive. Carlos, his wife, and their five children plan on finding a permanent home in Marietta in the spring, after his children are finished with the school year, and after his wife, Carrie, graduates Malone University with a degree as a nurse practitioner.
"They had the chance to visit the post once and they are excited about being closer to their cousins. My wife's family is from outside of Athens," he said.
As for future plans: "I plan on staying in Marietta as long as the community will have me. We plan on making a great impact here," he said.


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20 Of The Best Pictures From the 223 Day of Resistance Rallies
Yesterday, there were about 75,000-100,000 people (That's the estimate I'm being given. It's hard to be more exact than that because we haven't heard from all the organizers yet, not every rally had a news story, and there were apparently a number of last minute rallies added that we didn't have listed) who went to roughly 150 Day of Resistance rallies across 39 states. Rand Paul cut a video for the event at the last minute and there were tens of thousands of dollars worth of guns and ammunition that were given or raffled away. Additionally, to the best of our knowledge unlike the Occupy Movement, there were no arrests, rapes, murders, or attacks on the police. It was just law-abiding Americans who love their country and 2nd Amendment rights, peacefully gathering to exercise their Constitutional rights.
Here are 20 of the best pictures from the very first Day of Resistance rallies.
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PS: Special credit goes to the people who attended the Salt Lake City rally. They were supposed to have the biggest rally of all, with thousands of people in attendance, but a blizzard piled on the snow and killed their numbers. On the other hand, it also made the pictures from that event look like out-takes from Red Dawn. So, what they lost in numbers, they made up in sheer visual awesomeness.
PS #2: Special thanks goes out to Dustin Stockton who came up with the idea of doing the rallies along with Western Representation PAC and The Tea Party.net which both put a lot of muscle and money behind the event to help get it off the ground. Among others, Tiffiny Ruegner of Women Warrior's PAC, Jerri Ann Henry, Kellen Guida and Jared from The Looking Spoon (who did a lot of the graphics you saw everywhere) also did a lot behind the scenes to help make the event successful.
PS #3: You can see my speech from the Conway, SC Day of Resistance here.
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Mbah a Moute played at UCLA with Timberwolves All-Star Kevin Love, including a trip to the Final Four in the 2008 NCAA Tournament.
"We are excited to acquire a solid veteran player in Luc Mbah a Moute," said Flip Saunders, Timberwolves President of Basketball Operations. "Luc is known as one of the premier defensive players in the league with an ability to guard multiple positions. He adds a lot of energy, grit and a high basketball IQ to our team. We thank Derrick for his contributions to our organization and wish him well in Sacramento."
Williams was drafted No. 2 overall in 2011 but behind Love, there were precious few minutes for the 6-foot-8 forward. He was the highest draft pick in team history, but never adapted the game of a small forward as former general manager David Kahn envisioned.
Last month, Minnesota picked up the $6.7 million option on Williams' contract for next season.
Mbah a Moute is signed through next season and is owed $8.87 million. He was traded for the second time this year on Tuesday, going to Sacramento for two second-round picks from the Milwaukee Bucks on July 9.
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