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There are plenty of reasons to believe Bath is the city of Love – not only is the famous Pultney Bridge built by Robert Adam in 1774 based upon the Ponte Vecchio and Ponte di Rialto in those most romantic of cities Florence and Venice respectively; but Bath was chosen as the setting for mostRead more
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The Theatre Royal is one of Bath's finest attractions, and it comes into its own during the festive period. This year the newly-refurbished planks will be hosting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from 13 December until 13 January, so don't miss the chance to go along and join the fun while stay at yourRead more
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FCC Considers AT&T LTE Spectrum Conversion, Sirius Interference Solved
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A small carriers organization, though, is fighting to try to sway other commissioners to reject the deal
In an unusually cooperative spirit, telecommunications companies AT&T, Inc. (
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Unlike some mobile spectrum plans, à la
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, AT&T's plan involved applying spectrum that was designed for wireless operation. Namely, AT&T wanted to repurpose 20 MHz of spectrum in the 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Services (WCS) band to
boost its LTE (4G) offerings
The issue was that despite being purpose-built for wireless communications, the high power of LTE communications meant that the neigboring band -- occupied
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But since the the spectrum was wireless-geared, AT&T was able to figure out a solution, which the two companies tested and verfied to work. AT&T's plan is actually remarkably simple -- it will divide the 20 MHz into four blocks ("A","B","C", and "D"), each with 5 MHz. The C and D blocks neighbor Sirius XM's offerings, so AT&T promised to not use them, essentially providing a buffer to prevent interference.
The pair found that the A and B blocks could then be used safely without significant intereference concerns.
The solution leaves AT&T with half its original spectrum in the band, but considering the deployment was stalled for 15 years, it's easy to see why that's a concession AT&T would be willing to make. After all, some spectrum is better than no spectrum.
II. FCC Commissioner Loves the Deal, but Small Carriers Complain
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has plugged the compromise, with his office
Today's action is part of Chairman Julius Genachowski's continued efforts to remove regulatory barriers that limit the flexible use of spectrum, which is one way he has led the Commission towards helping address the continued 'spectrum crunch.' By unleashing 20 megahertz of spectrum now – and up to 30 megahertz in the future – the Chairman continues to leave no stone unturned when it comes to maximizing opportunities to refill the mobile spectrum pipeline that had begun to run dry over the last decade. In addition to removing regulatory barriers, the Commission continues to push ahead on innovative spectrum solutions in addition to traditional auctions, including incentive auctions, government-commercial sharing, technology-based opportunities like small cells, and freeing up unlicensed spectrum for innovations like Wi-Fi.
His office is suggesting approval, hence the repurposing will likely get the blessing of the U.S. regulatory agency.
FCC Commish Genachowski gave the repurposing compromise his thumbs up.
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The only thing standing in the way is the
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) subsidiary T-Mobile USA
, AT&T turned to
snatching up
dozens of WCS, AWS (advanced wireless services), and 700 MHz band spectrum licenses from smaller players.
Mr. Barry says approving AT&T's use of these licenses will create an anticompetitive market and limit consumer selection. He writes in
a press release
, "Allowing the largest carriers to obtain unlimited amounts of spectrum on the secondary market raises serious competitive concerns. The only way for the FCC to truly see the devastating consequences of further spectrum aggregation is by consolidating the proposed applications. On their own, AT&T's proposed license acquisitions may not seem significant, but when added together, it totals to a significant amount of spectrum."
But for his attempt to sink the approval to be a success, he'll likely have to convince the remaining four commissioners, given Chairman Genachowski's support for the AT&T/Sirius XM compromise.
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SANTA CLARA — Victor Bernardez has a broken nose, Matias Perez Garcia is wearing a smile, and the Earthquakes' body language is good heading into Saturday night's showdown against FC Dallas at Buck Shaw Stadium.
"We're looking forward to playing at home against a good Dallas team and getting another three points," coach Mark Watson said confidently.
San Jose (6-8-6, 24 points) has beaten third-place FC Dallas (10-7-6, 36) twice by 2-1 scores this season but needs to hold serve at home with road games looming next week at Seattle and Philadelphia.
Perez Garcia, basking in the glow of MLS after a pressure-packed life as a pro in Argentina, is poised to make his home debut. His road debut was a smasher. In a 2-2 draw with the Los Angeles Galaxy on Aug. 8, he became the ninth player to score in his first game as a Quake.
"We're looking for him to be that game-changing guy, and so far he's 1 for 1," defender Jason Hernandez said of Perez Garcia, who is fronting central midfielders Sam Cronin and Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi and playing off star forward Chris Wondolowski.
Bernardez looked even more menacing than usual in practice this week, wearing a mask after a nasty aerial collision in the 70th minute against Los Angeles. He had surgery Tuesday.
"Phantom of the Opera," defender Jordan Stewart joked of Bernardez's new look.
"It would take more than that to keep him off the field," Watson added. "I don't know if he feels pain. He had to have surgery from a functional point of view, but it's gonna take more than that to keep him off the field."
Bernardez seems to epitomize the grit of a back line that has overcome a turnstile of players coming and going because of injuries and national team commitments to rank among the league's best units. The Quakes have surrendered only 22 goals in 20 games, and they're 2-0-2 in their past four games with the same quartet on defense: Shaun Francis at right back, Bernardez and Hernandez in the middle, and Stewart at left back.
Goalkeeper Jon Busch is tied for second in saves percentage at 74 percent.
Stylistically, the 5-foot-5 Perez Garcia plays well in tight spaces and can slow the pace in the often frantic MLS. Hernandez says he adds another "creative eye" in the attacking third.
"He can get on the ball and calm things down," Stewart said.
Perez Garcia didn't get many touches on the ball last week. The Quakes spent much of the game under siege against a potent Galaxy attack. He's still assimilating to the squad, on the field and off.
"From the moment I stepped on the field, I enjoyed it a lot, because it's different from Argentine soccer," he told MLSsoccer.com. "I was very calm before the game, waiting for my debut. Once I was on the field, I began to touch the ball and was feeling more comfortable and after that goal, that made me feel even calmer. It was a very tough game against a great rival that has great players."
Perez Garcia's production was timely with the absence of Yannick Djalo, who is expected to miss his second game because of a strained right quadriceps. Djalo wanted to play this week, but team trainers are opting on the side of caution in keeping him out, a club official said.
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ESCONDIDO -- Residents attending public workshops Monday and Thursday in Escondido protested a coming jump in water rates that will increase the cost of living in cities throughout drought-stricken Southern California.
Lori Vereker, Escondido's utilities director, told the inconvenient truth of continuing droughts and costly water shortages at Thursday night's meeting, where her news was called "unbearable" by one business owner.
"This will force more businesses to go out," said Bernard Rubin, a homeowner and the owner of Launderland, a coin-operated laundry facility in Escondido. "It really is an almost unbearable situation."
The Escondido City Council is scheduled to vote Jan. 14 on proposed water rate increases of 6 to 19 percent that would become effective Feb. 1.
Residents will have another chance to voice their concerns about the proposed water rate increases during a discussion immediately preceding the vote at City Hall.
At Thursday night's meeting, Vereker described 400 percent increases in chemical and equipment costs to treat water and wastewater in recent years, as well as escalating costs attached to the 70 percent of water imported by Escondido.
"It is hurting people with large lots. It is hurting the agricultural community," Vereker said after one city resident complained that she tried to conserve as much water as possible, but still needed to water her trees in wildfire-prone North County.
"We believe Southern California is going to have to go through a very serious lifestyle change," Vereker said. She illustrated her report on declining water levels in faraway reservoirs and rivers that make up most of the city's imported water with a slide show depicting dramatic decreases in water levels.
"We need to get more like Australia, where we really value water and don't waste a drop," Vereker said. "We need to focus on local sources of water, including water re-use."
Vereker said that based on current projections, "We're going to have yet another year of drought with no end in sight."
Should the city exceed its allocations of imported water by not factoring in a cushion included in the proposed rate increases, rates could jump as high as 40 percent, she added.
In Escondido, the proposed rate increases would range from 6 percent to as much as 19 percent for households and businesses using more than 7,000 gallons per month.
Business owner Rubin pointed out that businesses such as his, which allow residents to use his more water-efficient washers and dryers, thus conserving more water for the city, would be penalized with those rates.
"We are put into the category at one of the higher rates, so we'll be forced to go out of business or charge higher rates to people who can least afford it," Rubin said. "We're the coin laundries. We don't use the water. The ones who use it are the residents of the town."
Escondido receives its water from San Joaquin Valley reservoirs, where court orders have slowed the flow because of declining water levels. The city also receives water from local streams and reservoirs, and from the drought-starved Colorado River, which supplies several populous states.
Throughout California, double-digit water rate increases have become more the norm than a threat in recent years. No public policymakers are projecting any reversal of that trend, especially in the wake of a 2007 report by leading scientists projecting a permanent drought by 2050 in California and other states exacerbated by global climate change.
Yet, after Thursday's meeting, Vereker said she has seen residents suspend their belief in the seriousness of the region's water problems.
"I think that people feel it is a ruse to allow for higher water rates, and that there really isn't a drought. That seems to be the pretty common opinion," Vereker said. "They haven't really had to feel the results of it."


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CHULA VISTA — The city is holding an electronic waste recycling event next Saturday, at the old public works yard between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the Environmental Services Division thanks to a state grant and is free. Accepted items include televisions, monitors, desktop and laptop computers, DVD players, radios, camcorders, microwaves, household batteries, fluorescent light bulbs and mercury-containing thermostats and thermometers.
Do not bring stoves, refrigerators, paint, car batteries or other hazardous waste.
The old public works yard is at 707 F St. in Chula Vista.
Library to show movies from Canada, Australia
CHULA VISTA — The Civic Center and South Chula Vista library branches will feature foreign films beginning next weekend, and running through next month, beginning at 2 p.m. The first screening is "A Simple Curve" from Canada, which will be shown at the South Chula Vista branch. On Feb. 21 the Civic Center branch will feature "Noise" from Australia.
High school district to hold series of meetings on budget
CHULA VISTA — The Sweetwater Union High School District is inviting parents, students and others to a series of town hall meetings on the budget and its impact on education. Officials will take public input for the 2010-11 budget.
The fist session is set for 6 p.m. Feb. 22 at Southwestern High School's drama room. The second meeting is 6 p.m. Feb. 23 at Castle Park High School's cafeteria. Two more meetings are planned for March. One, on March 2 at Sweetwater High School, is in the dance room next to the old gym. The last meeting March 4 is at Rancho del Rey Middle School in the cultural arts center.
Social services offered for Alzheimer's caregivers
SAN YSIDRO — Casa Familiar is looking for residents who are dealing with family members and others suffering from problems with their memory.
The social-services agency is offering free services to help caregivers deal with the emotional and physical stress of taking care of people with Alzheimer's disease and other memory disorders. For information, call (619) 428-1115.
Chula Vista canceling its next council meeting
SOUTH COUNTY — The Chula Vista City Council has canceled its next regular meeting. The council will meet again at 4 p.m. Feb. 23 at 276 Fourth Ave. Information is available at www.ci.chula-vista.ca.us.
Elsewhere in the South County:
The Coronado City Council will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday at 1825 Strand Way. Its Web site is coronado.ca.us.
The Imperial Beach City Council will meet 6 p.m. Wednesday at 825 Imperial Beach Blvd. Information: cityofib.com.
The National City City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at 1243 National City Blvd. Information: www.ci.national-city.ca.us.
Developmental Services board names new director
IMPERIAL BEACH — The San Diego Regional Center has elected Imperial Beach resident Shirley Nakawatase to its San Diego-Imperial Counties Developmental Services board of directors.
San Diego Regional Center contracts with nonprofit agencies for services such as job training and therapy for people with developmental disabilities in San Diego and Imperial counties.
Nakawatase will be on two committees: personnel and strategic planning. Nakawatase is president of Nakawatase & Co. CPAs with an office in Imperial Beach and Old Town. She currently chairs the Imperial Beach Design Review Committee.
She is active with Kiwanis International and Girl Scouts San Diego-Imperial Counites, and has served as treasurer of the Imperial Beach Chamber of Commerce and as president of the city's Boys and Girls Club and Kiwanis Club.


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The Right Soundtrack Means So Much
This post has a lot to do with Pete Hanson's previous post. I too needed a mental reboot this morning (in a big way). I wake up extremely early these days and was not ready for that this morning (following two days off). I woke up with my big- boy crabby pants on and needed that reboot. And who provided that for me on my car ride into work? My friend in need, who I should have a name for considering we're so close, my iPod.


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Hello all,
I am new to the forum so please go easy with me and also new to backing up.
I would like to backup my BDR to discs and I currently have DVDFAB. I am looking to backup a BDR 50GB to 25GB in the fastest way possible but without losing lots of quality.
I was wondering whether somebody could post a step by step guide on how to go about this?
Also, if anyone has any recommendations to move away from DVD FAB that would be great. (Not sure if they're still about as the site has been down for ages!)
Thanks in advance
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BDrebuilder in High Speed BD25 mode will yield far superior results than DVDFAB. For ripping AnydvdHD is the preferred ripping option.
I assume buying both of these yes?
Ripping to HDD in full compression. Then using BDrebuilder to shrink to 25GB SL is that correct? I assume the file will end up as a .iso?
Is there anything else I need to do?
BDrebuilder is freeware. ANYDVDHD is payware. I would never create an ISO,personal choice. I don't know if BDrebuilder can create an ISO. All blueray conversions need a fast CPU. My 4.0Ghz setup takes 45-60 minutes to convert a typical movie using Highspeed BD25 mode. A "slow" computer can take 8-12 hours,it all depends on CPU speed.
AnyDVD HD is shareware.
ImgBurn to create the ISO at the end of the process if you want an ISO.
Last edited by HemLok; 11th Mar 2014 at 17:58.
Here's a few things newbies need to understand about BDRebuider BEFORE they start.
1) After you run it the first time to set it up, it creates a BDREBUILDER.INI file in the directory where you extracted everything. Please note that by default BDRebuilder CANNOT handle DTS-Express soundtracks, which may be used for audio commentaries. If you want to keep them you must manually edit BDREBUILDER.INI and put the line
some place in the file.
2) This usually doesn't happen, but sometimes if you try to shrink so that some audio and/or subtitle files will not be in the final output, some kind of bug gets triggered and BDRebuilder will produce a file too large for a single layer BD-R disc. In such cases the only fix I know of is to put the removed files back and try the shrinking again.
3) BDRebuilder still has major problems with interlaced VC-1 video and it may produce an error when trying to re-encode it. The only fix I know of, and it usually doesn't fix this problem, is to make sure that "Use X264's internal LVAF for decoding" is checked in the Setup screen. In fact, you probably should just turn this on the first time and leave it on all the time. It can be difficult for newbies to understand if they have interlaced VC-1 video when they encounter an error. When you first start the program and open your rip with it, if a video stream shows up as VC-1 and it has a frame rate of 25 fps or 29.97 fps, then you have interlaced VC-1. VC-1 seems to be more common in North America than Europe and it's not even common here, but it is sometimes used. Progressive VC-1 (24 fps) is fine for BDRebuilder.
if i wanted to "backup" a 50gb BD to 25gb, the video would be the last part i would touch.
rip the BD50 and look in the folder BDMV\STREAM and look at all the files in there. the biggest file is the main movie, if you find that it's under 25gb, you're done, that's the main movie all you need to do is use a blu-ray authoring program to recreate the BD structure with just the main movie, no re-encoding needed.
if you find that the main movie is bigger than 25gb investigate the audio portion, see if their are multiple audio streams, i've seen blu-rays with uncompressed audio along with high quality compressed audio in multiple languages, sometimes demuxing the elementary streams and only keeping the one audio stream in a good quality compressed format, in addition to removing all the extras will be enough to get you under the 25gb limit.
only if this isn't sufficient should you think about re-encoding the video and even then i would seriously consider simply investing in some BD50 media and doing a proper "backup".
if you do decide to re-encode, don't be cheap with the bit rate, calculate how much is needed to get you under the 25gb barrier and use the maximum possible. in order to maintain as much quality as possible when re-encoding to a lower bit rate consider possibly going to a slightly lower blu-ray legal resolution, for instance if the main movie is 1920x1080 and you calculate that you need to go from 30mb/s to 20mb/s in order to get in order to be under 25gb, consider going to 1440x1080 at 20mb/s instead of sticking with 1920x1080, in order to stay as close as possible to the original pixel/bit rate ratio of the original blu-ray.
and whatever you do don't allow yourself to believe any talk of some "magical" encoder that can give you the same quality as the original blu-ray at some insanely low bit rate, i know you will hear talk from some that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a video editing suite that will swear up and down that encoder X is capable of re-encoding your blu-ray at something silly like 8mb/s with the exact same quality, without sounding like a broken record just remember f it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
good video takes practice, and lots of trial and error, and even worse the settings that will produce acceptable quality with one source will produce garbage with another.
the only way you can hope to avoid that is to throw as much bit rate as possible at the encode.
So I just tried some of the methods advised here.
1. Used ANYDVD HD to create ISO.
2. Opened BD REBUILDER - Mode -> Full Backup
3. Settings -> Output Options - BD25
4. Settings -> Encoder Settings -> High Priority & High speed option BD25.
5. Mounted ISO to Virtual drive and added as the source
6. Selected Output on BD REBUILDER and clicked BACKUP.
Then the problems started...
It started extracting the audio stream however then said "FAILED TO ENCODE VIDEO" and stopped.
Any help?
Thanks in advance
[03/12/14] Checking System Settings
- BD-Rebuilder v0.46.14 (beta)
- Windows Version: 6.1 [7600]
- Working Path Free Space: 159.31GB
- AVISYNTH Version: 18.104.22.168, Ok
- HAALI Splitter: Not installed
- FFDSHOW: 4530, not recommended version
- WIN7 preferred AVC CODEC: Ok
- WIN7 preferred VC-1 CODEC: Ok
- WIN7 preferred MPEG2 CODEC: Ok
- FFDSHOW VC-1 set to "wmv9", Ok
- FFDSHOW MPEG2 set to "libavcodec": Ok
- FFDSHOW AVC set to "libavcodec": Ok
- AnyDVD settings check: Ok.
- X264: Ok
- AFTEN: Ok
- FAAC: Ok
- WAVI: Ok
- TSMUXER: Ok
- FRIMEncode: Ok
- FRIMDecode: Ok
[03/12/14] Systems Settings Check complete
Download them from the first page of the BD_RB thread.
http://www.jdobbs.net/freeware/MatroskaSplitter.exeIs he gone?
Many thanks - I have fixed the issues and rebooted and showing all as OK.
I shall do the same method now and report back.
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Jan. 20-21, 2012--Georgetown, TX--GAMA 15th Annual Swap Meet
This information is from the GAMA 2012 Swap Meet Flyer here: http://www.gamarc.org/swapmeet/GAMA_SwapMeet_2012.pdf
Georgetown Aero Modelers Association 15th Annual Swap Meet
"The Biggest Swap Meet in Central Texas!"
Friday and Saturday, January 20th & 21st, 2012
This will be the 15th year for the Georgetown Texas Swap Meet. We will be open both Friday and Saturday with an auction Saturday afternoon. Come join the biggest swap meet in Central Texas.
Plenty of free parking and approximately 100 tables for sellers while they last.
Entry: $5.00 each day admission. Spouses and children under 12 with adult are free.
Outside sellers are still required to pay the entry fee.
Tables: $5.00 Each per day. Limit of 2 per seller
Date and Time: Friday: 1:00pm to 8:00 pm, Saturday: 8:00 am to 2:00 pm
Seller setup starts at: Friday: 12:00 Noon and Saturday: 7:30 am. No entry prior to that time!
Location: San Gabriel Community Center in Georgetown's San Gabriel Park. It is on Google Maps here: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&so...ed=0CAkQ8gEwAA
Giant Scale viewing area.
Door prizes awarded throughout the event, winner must be present to win.
Raffle on Saturday, winner need NOT be present to win, drawing will be held at 2:00 pm.
Auction will be held on Saturday starting at 1:00pm. No commission taken, just a service to help you sell your items!
For more information contact:
Bob Petrinec @ 512-260-3887 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Hotel and Restaurant information available on the G.A.M.A. Web Site: www.gamarc.org
Click on Info at the end of the GAMA Swap Meet line.
If coming from Waco: Take exit 262 (Andice/Lake Georgetown) off IH35. Turn left at Williams Drive and take the
overpass over IH35 for one block to T intersection (Austin Avenue [McDonalds on right]). Turn right onto Austin Avenue
for approximately 2 short blocks to Marrow Street (across from Sonic). Turn left onto Marrow and follow the red/white RC
signs into San Gabriel Park and to the Neighborhood Building.
If coming from Austin: Take exit 261A (Andice/Lake Georgetown) off IH35. Turn right at Williams Drive and go one
block to T intersection (Austin Avenue [McDonalds on right]). Turn left onto Marrow and follow the red/white RC signs
into San Gabriel Park and to the Neighborhood Building.
In all cases: Follow the red/white signs saying: RC
SPEEDING TICKET WARNING: The speed limit in San Gabriel Park is 20 mph and I have seen a number of people get tickets. Drive slow in the park and save your money for the swap meet.
This is a great swap meet. Get there early.
See you there.
Some really sweet planes there! There is a sweet lookin hangar ultra stick 60 on one if the tables....super clean!
Another Georgetown is done.
The tables sold out quickly and the hall was full of airplanes and airplane people. I came home with several very nice kits and a couple of ARFs.
The next central Texas swap meet is February 17-18, 2012 in Garden Ridge, Texas, just north of San Antonio. The thread for it is here: https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show....php?t=1563900
It was good to meet you all at the swap meet. my $15 kit made it home to a cold wet England, good flying to you all .mark
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Brian J. Dudgeon, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA has been named chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy in the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions. His appointment begins October 1, 2012.
Dudgeon, a nationally known researcher on disability and rehabilitation, comes from the University of Washington in Seattle where he is an associate professor in the Division of Occupational Therapy. He also served in several clinical settings in Seattle, manager of Occupational Therapy at Seattle Children's Hospital and staff occupational therapist at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center.
"We are extremely pleased that Dr. Dudgeon is joining the school in this role," said Harold Jones, Ph.D., dean of the school. "His accomplishments as a faculty member at the University of Washington and his long history of national, state and community advocacy on issues related to disability will complement our outstanding occupational therapy program."
Dudgeon will take over from Jan Rowe, Dr. OT, who has served as the interim chair since 2010. During Rowe's tenure, the department created a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science program jointly with the Department of Physical Therapy and established a Tourette Syndrome Clinic.
Dudgeon sees this new position as an opportunity to discover teaching and practice approaches being used by the UAB faculty and understand the needs of occupational therapists in the area.
"I hope to learn from and effectively guide the department in preparing effective occupational therapy practitioners and researchers who can address needs in the local community and region," said Dudgeon, Ph.D., OTR. "Partnerships within the community will continue to be important to our success as a program."
Dudgeon is a NIH and CDC-funded therapist whose research has focused on spinal cord injuries and spina bifida. He has assisted on numerous national committees including the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, American Occupational Therapy Association Task Force on Human Genome Project and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Research Dissemination Committee. He served on the editorial board for the American Journal of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, and he is an active member and speaker for the American Occupational Therapy Association.
Dudgeon received his undergraduate degree in occupational therapy, master's degree in rehabilitation medicine and doctoral degree in education from the University of Washington. He was named a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association in 2003.


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text: The examples presented so far seem to show that the computation will eventually run in the IO monad. One may wonder then why do we need RWST transformer, given that the IO monad can implement both the state and writer. At the very least me need the reader transformer, which is the least demanding monad. We can do away with the reader as well, depending on the circumstances (e.g., one may use implicit parameters or implicit configurations, or just pass IORefs). The pure IO or ReaderIO solution has, besides simplicity, the advantage of being more expressive. Monad transformers, besides inefficiency, impose the rigid layering of effects, and so cannot express some useful computations. The drawbacks of monad transformers and their limited expressivity are not often discussed, unfortunately. The following code shows Jeremy Shaw's example, with both persistent and backed out state. The combinator tryC handles the exception and preserves the state accumulated at the point of exception. In contrast, tryBC undoes the changes to the state in case of exception. Both combinators have their uses. module T where import Control.Monad.Reader import Data.IORef import Control.Exception import Prelude hiding (catch) type ReaderIO a v = ReaderT a IO v type StateIO a v = ReaderIO (IORef a) v type Counter = Integer -- |Increment the counter by 1 incIO :: StateIO Counter () incIO = do cref <- ask c <- liftIO $ readIORef cref let c' = c + 1 liftIO $ writeIORef cref c' liftIO $ putStrLn ("Incrementing counter to: " ++ show c') -- get the current value of the counter getC :: StateIO Counter Counter getC = ask >>= liftIO . readIORef -- Try that preserves the state tryC :: ReaderIO a v -> (Exception -> ReaderIO a v) -> ReaderIO a v tryC action onerr = do r <- ask liftIO $ catch (runReaderT action r) (\e -> runReaderT (onerr e) r) -- Try that backs up the state tryBC :: StateIO a v -> (Exception -> StateIO a v) -> StateIO a v tryBC action onerr = do r <- ask oldstate <- liftIO $ readIORef r liftIO $ catch (runReaderT action r) (\e -> do writeIORef r oldstate runReaderT (onerr e) r) -- The run function runC :: Counter -> StateIO Counter v -> IO v runC v a = newIORef v >>= runReaderT a test = runC 0 (do incIO v <- tryC (die >> (return $ Right "ok")) (return . Left . show) c <- getC -- get the resulting counter liftIO $ print (v,c)) where -- |increment the counter by one and then die die = incIO >> error "die!" {- *T> test Incrementing counter to: 1 Incrementing counter to: 2 (Left "die!",2) -} -- the same but with backtrackable state test2 = runC 0 (do incIO v <- tryBC (die >> (return $ Right "ok")) (return . Left . show) c <- getC liftIO $ print (v,c)) where -- |increment the counter by one and then die die = incIO >> error "die!" {- *T> test2 Incrementing counter to: 1 Incrementing counter to: 2 (Left "die!",1) -}


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Mr Mandelson also escaped all the time-consuming paperwork
Peter Mandelson was more fortunate than than most home owners in being able to borrow from a friend to pay for his house.
Had he used the traditional mortgage route of a bank or building society, he would not have found them so generous.
Mr Mandelson would have had to be earning a great deal more than the backbench MP's salary of around Ł40,000 that he was taking home at the time he bought the property in 1996.
He would have needed an annual salary more in keeping with a high-flying company director to afford a loan of Ł373,000.
The Trade and Industry Secretary would have had to be earning around Ł115,000 to be able to borrow such a large amount from a bank or building society, where mortgages rarely exceed 3.25 times the applicant's annual salary.
His Ł40,000 salary would have allowed him to borrow a maximum of Ł130,000.
According to the Halifax, Mr Mandelson would have had to repay Ł2,818.34 every month for 25 years to pay off such an amount at the standard variable mortgage rate which is currently 7.7%.
By now, he would have paid more than Ł73,000 - most of which would have been interest on the loan.
On his backbench MP's salary, he would have been paid in the region of Ł2,500 a month after tax.
Savings galore
The low interest loan he received from Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson has saved him at least Ł10,000 in interest payments after just two years.
Mr Mandelson said the loan, made in October 1996, had always been intended as a "short-term arrangement" and that he had paid back Ł40,624.68 so far.
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I think you're misunderstanding what I meant; my comment was not meant to be praise, but rather it had to do with the effects that a relatively complex RPG with this amount of sales might have. Keep in mind how bad the AAA market has become with RPGs in the last few years. One of the few AAA companies left, Bioware, has been telling anyone who will listen that RPGs have "evolved" into piss-poor hybrids and continue to dull down/dumb down their games, all because RPGs "don't sell well" and the market has "moved on." The Witcher 2 was a really solid game, but it didn't really have the sales to make other companies take notice, unfortunately. What I mean by "savior of the AAA RPG" is not that Bethesda is some God-like, infallible entity of video games (they clearly aren't ), but that with these kinds of sales numbers and high quality of the game in general, other companies can realize that an ambitious, relatively complex RPG can absolutely be successful in the AAA market, and that you won't scare players off by making a game that has a lot of depth and a decent amount of challenge.


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Residents of Rotherham's Dearne Valley Care Centre have toasted the launch of their very own private 'pub.'
'Bar 35' comes completes with replica beer pumps, drip trays, ice buckets and beer mats and means residents can enjoy a beer and some friendly banter in the safety and comfort of their care home.
The bar area, which opened last month, has been decorated in the style of a miner's welfare club in the 60s, to encourage the residents to reminisce about their past.
It was named Bar 35 as it is nwo considered the 35th room in the home, which features 34 bedrooms.
Care home manager Josie McFarlane said: "We are close to the former mining communities of Bolton upon Dearne and Goldthorpe where the social life revolved around the miners' welfare clubs.
"The Bee Inspired programme recommends creating an environment which people with dementia can relate to and setting up a bar in the home will prompt residents to remember nights out they used to enjoy years ago.
"We have decorated it with 1960s' style wallpaper and have pictures of mines and other memorabilia from that era.
"The opening night was a huge success. We served pie and peas and had live entertainment from Bob Humble, whose wife Diane is a resident at the home.
"Residents who were able to join in had a lovely time and all looked so happy. They are already asking when we can do something similar again."
A host of future events - including a beetle drive, domino games, card games and a tea dance - are already on the calendar at the bar, which will open around the clock on request.
Residents are able to order up to two drinks a day from a range including prosecco, beer, whisky, wine and sherry bought with the proceeds of various fundraising events.
Residents' families are also encouraged to join them at the bar on their visits.
Josie added: "The idea was first discussed at a residents' meeting and has been very well received since its launch last month.
"The bar is linked to the home's adoption of the Bee Inspired programme for dementia care, which includes improving the environment for residents with memory loss.
"Having our own bar on the premises is the ideal thing for residents who want to enjoy the feeling of a night out with their visitors within the safety of their home.
"All alcohol is kept safely stored in another area of the home and brought in to the bar by staff when residents place their orders."
The bar has been set up in the home's second lounge, which was previously used as a quiet area.


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The Scarves of Peace project, organized by Karen Lohn of Grand Marais, is in need of volunteers to participate in weaving scarves.
Lohn will be in Alexandria on Thursday, May 9 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Alexandria Technical and Community College's Foundation Hall. She is looking for volunteers who are interested in participating.
An artist and author of Peace Fibres: Stitching a Soulful World, Lohn first launched the Scarves of Peace project on September 21, 2012 to observe the International Day of Peace.
In an effort to grow the project, Lohn has traveled to communities around the country to train teams of braiders with the goal of braiding and distributing scarves across the globe. Teams of braiders join fibers from six continents into the Scarves of Peace.
Scarves from past projects were sent to world leaders. In March, a delegation from Minnesota delivered Scarves of Peace to women in Iraq who are confronting violence against women.
Those interested in volunteering should contact Sonja Kuhn at (763) 360-2556 or Sonja.m.kuhn


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Well this news would certainly suck if it ends up being true. One of the best things about "Prison Break", besides all the crazy and totally unbelievable plots, was watching the oh so lovely Sarah Wayne Callies trying to make sense of it all. Now TV Guide is reporting that FOX has nixed Callies' return to the show's upcoming Season 3. Not only that, but her name doesn't appear in the credits of the first two episodes of Season 3, and that a body double was used in a single scene we did see of her (I think in the premiere episode). I'm not sure, but didn't I see Callies in the premiere episode, holding a gun to Lincoln, during the trailer for the premiere?
Here's what TV Guide said:
OK, now you worrywarts have something to wring your hands about: The Ausiello Report has just learned that after giving birth, Sarah Wayne Callies is not returning to Prison Break after all.
Shocking, right? Especially given the way the actress' manager has been insisting for weeks that her client would be back. (The words "pants on fire" come to mind.)
We already knew that Callies was MIA from the opening credits in the first two episodes and that, for the one scene in which Dr. Sara appeared, a body double was used
It seems pretty concrete, especially since TV Guide has never been wrong before as far as I know. But then someone sent this to JustJared in an attempt to refute the report:
A publicist for FOX just issued a statement exclusively to JustJared.com: "Actually — the network and studio has not confirmed that Sarah Wayne Callies has departed the series this season. Dr. Sara Tancredi plays a significant part in the storyline this year."
So the studio hasn't confirmed that Callies is gone, or why, but makes it a point to say the Sara character remains a big part of the show. Hmm. Maybe they're going to dangle a missing Sara Tancredi, make it the impetus for Michael to escape from the Panama jail or something. Then again, why does the report say she's not returning to the show?
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A 77-YEAR-OLD man had to be rescued from his home following a kitchen fire yesterday morning.
Fire crews were called to a bungalow in Seventh Avenue at 9.15am after a neighbour raised the alarm.
The man was led from his bedroom to safety by fire fighters. His home became smoke logged after a frying pan caught fire, which sooner caught the extractor hood and the rest of the kitchen.
The Red Cross Fire and Emergency Service vehicle was called to the incident to assist the man, who didn't sustain any serious injuries.
The two crews from Chelmsford wore breathing apparatus and used one hose reel to extinguish the fire by 9.30am. They then used a thermal image camera to check for any remaining hot spots.
Station Officer Graeme Williams said: "Crews were called to the detached bungalow when a neighbour raised the alarm after they noticed smoke coming from the property.
"The fire had started in the kitchen when a frying pan had caught fire which then quickly caught light to the extractor hood and the rest of the kitchen.
"The bungalow had become smoke logged and when the crews arrived the resident of the property, a 77 year old man, was in the bedroom. Firefighters in breathing apparatus entered the bungalow extinguished the fire in the kitchen and located the man and led him out of the property to safety."


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There's a show out there called, "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" Some of you may have heard of it, many others perhaps not. It's a reality TV show on NBC that features B-list celebrities, like Lou Diamond Phillips, two Baldwin brothers, and America's favorite power couple from MTV's The Hills.
It's a spinoff of a British/Australian reality TV show that has a very similar tenor to Big Brother. Yet, this one has one very big difference. The celebrities are competing for charities.
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The celebrities wear shirts that have numbers viewers can call and donate to. A list of the charites can be found on the I'm a Celebrity website. There's something about the celebrity's success being tied how much money is raised, but I neither watched long enough nor cared enough for the show to find out exactly how that worked. Some notable charities are Frances Callier's Feeding America or Stephen Baldwin's Love146, an organization that's working toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation.
On sites like this, we often talk about the power of markets and enterprise to foster sustainability, alleviate poverty, etc., but it would be unwise to discount the value and impact philanthropy has. More accurately, a combination of policy, market forces, and philanthropy is what it will take to address many of the environmental and societal challenges we face throughout the globe. And according to an article by onPhilanthropy, "Media is a powerful vehicle for making these connections."
In 2006, Warren Buffett announced he he would be gifting his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to onPhilanthropy, Buffett's donation was "not only a watershed moment in the world of philanthropy but a profoundly significant event in the public relations and media industries." It triggered a media onslaught of philanthropy reporting, raising awareness for organizations, non-profits, and other celebrity charitable giving.
Lance Armstrong's "Livestrong" wristbands are a great example of the power of making your story public.
Yet, NBC's Primetime reality TV has not received the same kind of traction. In fact, earlier this month, a pediatric cancer foundation based in Chicago rejected Patti Blagojevich's, the wife of indicated former Illinois Governer, attempt to donate the proceeds of her appearance on the show.
So then, what failed? A primetime slot on one of the nation's biggest TV networks should be a great venue to tell the stories of charities. If not the best. However, the sheer spectacle of Primetime is apparently not enough to generate the groundswell for giving. Philanthropy cannot be used to justify content (especially bad content). It's a shame, because both NBC and the public missed out on a great opportunity to do something worthwhile.


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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The Mark V Tank
The British had 60 tanks in service by the spring of 1917. Improvements were made and the new Mark IV tank was strong enough to withstand the recently developed German anti-tank rifles. The Mark IVs were used at the Battle of Messines in June 1917 but those used at Passchendaele later that year tended to get stuck in the mud before they reached the German lines. Other problems encountered during this period included poor visibility, noxious fumes and high temperatures inside the tank.
The Mark V tank became available in July 1918. It contained a new Ricardo engine that had been specially designed for the tank. With new transmission and better gears, the tank could travel at nearly 5 mph. To help the tank tackle the wide trenches of the Hindenburg Line, cribbs were carried. This was a braced cylindrical framework which when dropped in the trench acted as a kind of stepping stone.
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The Mark VIII Tank
The first tanks, Little Willie and Mark I, had proved disappointing but by 1917 saw the development of two successful tanks, the Whippet and Mark V. After the United States entered the war it was suggested that its engineers should join those in Britain to produce a new tank.
The first Mark VIII was ready in the summer of 1918. One new innovation was the separation of the engine from the crew compartment. This reduced the fire risk and helped stop fumes and heat from the engine entering the area where the crew worked. The armour protection was improved and the length increased to combat Germany's decision to construct wider trenches on the Western Front. Weighing 37 tons, the 34 ft. Mark VIII tank could cross a gap of 15 ft. The seven built in Glasgow (the rest were made in France and the United States) were fitted with Rolls-Royce aero engines.
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Galileo Ranks alongside Mother Courage and Mr. Puntila as one of Brecht's most intensely alive, human, and complex characters. In Life of Galileo, the great Renaissance scientist is in a brutal struggle for freedom from authoritarian dogma. Unable to satisfy his appetite for scientific investigation, he comes into conflict with the Inquisition and must publicly renounce his theories, though in private he goes on working on his revolutionary ideas.
Eloquent in its outcries against blind dogma and powerful in the simplicity of its storytelling, Galileo is a play that offers the confrontations of stirring drama made visible in vivid theatrical images.


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Mother's Day has normally been melancholy for me. My mother and sister died in 2006, the same year my marriage ended. After they died, my nephew moved to Kentucky to live with me while he attended college at Eastern Kentucky University.
My mother and his mother were single mothers. We weren't the Brady Bunch or the Waltons; our moms were all we had.
On 2007, Mother's Day hit on my sister's birthday, which also happened to be the anniversary of my crumbled marriage.
My nephew is an über macho guy but suddenly started crying. When he started, I joined him for the rest of the day.
No tears this year. I used the day to reflect on what a terrific role model my single mother was.
And why Mother's Day is a 365 day a year position for single mothers.
I'm surrounded by a lot of terrific single mothers. I am marrying one in a few weeks.
In the past ten years, she raised three children, became a highly acclaimed school principal and obtained a series of advance degrees and education honors.
I figured that after all that, she can tolerate my egocentric traits, or at least some of them.
My youngest daughter is currently engaged but has raised my 11-year-old grandson as a solo act. A key staff member is doing her first Mother's Day as a single mom.
None of them complain about how hard it is, they just do it. The way my mother, Ollie McNay, did.
I was too young to appreciate the sacrifices my mother made. She went from being a homemaker in a comfortable suburb to loading boxes at night in a potato chip factory.
During the day, she went to nursing school.
Once she became an operating room nurse, she had the steady income and steady career to raise us. It also meant that she worked insane hours and normally missed major holidays.
Mom wasn't a "soccer mom.†I didn't play soccer and if I had, she didn't have time to attend. She was lucky to catch a football game now and then.
Her focus was to keep us in our house, in a nice neighborhood, and to pay for me to attend a terrific Catholic high school.
The tuition was about 10 percent of her net income. I suspect she did it by juggling credit cards and all the things I tell you not to do in my book, Wealth Without Wall Street, but it put me in a position to receive a high powered education and successful career.
Thank you, Mom. I wish I had been mature enough to thank you then.
It's easy to bash on the next generation as being self-absorbed, unable to communicate and happier interacting with technology than people.
Then I see the children of the single mothers who touch me.
My fiancée's children spent the weekend fixing things around her house, doing yard work and gave her a big mother's day celebration. They truly adore her.
My daughter posted on Facebook that her 11-year-old son made her breakfast in bed. I never thought about doing something that sweet and meaningful.
My staff member and her near teenage son did a mother-son outing where he did a number of things to make his mom feel special. I would have never dreamed of spending a day, or an out-of-town trip, with my mom during my teen years.
Being the son of a single mother, I spent time feeling like I missed out.
I felt particularly isolated as one of the very few children of a divorced family in my neighborhood and schools.
I was lucky that my dad remained a strong part of my life, but divorce was a stigma that I felt every day.
Along the way, I embraced the idea that being "different†was one of the keys to my success and happiness.
It's no accident that I fell in love with a single mother. They know how to give unconditional love in a way the average person can't. Being a single mom was not really a choice. It was a decision made motivated by leaving an intolerable situation, losing most of her money and material possessions, and seeking a better life for herself and her children.
Just like my mother, it showed her that she had unique and special talents. It let her understand that she was smart, resourceful and has a work ethic that stuns and amazes people.
Like Nietzsche said, "That which does not kill us makes me stronger.â€â€™
What I know is that single mothers are stronger than I am. They draw upon strengths they didn't know they had.
It's easy to say that I missed my mother on Mother's Day. Then I realize that she is part of me and always will be. Every day of every year.
Thank you, Mom.
Don McNay, who lives in Richmond, Ky., is an award-winning financial columnist for Huffington Post Contributor. You can learn more about him at www.donmcnay.com.


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A list of bentos no. 1 to 30 featured so far on Just Bento. continue reading...
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There are also several post with "also-ran" bentos, with brief descriptions and photos. Follow this link for the "also-ran" bentos.
Or to see all the bentos posted on the site follow this link for a list in reverse chronological order.
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Keep in mind that all calorie counts are approximate, since portion sizes may vary.
Most of the complete bentos (the numbered ones) are around 500 to 600 calories or lower. They can easily be made bigger or smaller just by increasing the volume of each component. (I frequently show larger "Guy" variations.)
The capacity of "1 cup" varies from country to country, in a maddening way. In the U.S. it's about 240ml (236.588238 ml); in Japan it's 200ml; in the UK it's 436ml. I use 240ml (standard U.S. cup measure) as an approximimate middle ground, especially for rice. If you are very concerned about every single calorie, it's best to invest in a good kitchen scale.
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Raptors centre Jermaine O'Neal was a scratch again last night because of a bruised right knee.
"I'm day-to-day," O'Neal said with a shrug before last night when asked if he will play tomorrow here against the Orlando Magic.
For coach Jay Triano, no O'Neal meant a huge hole in the shot-blocking department with Yao Ming in town.
"Jermaine's been a big clog for us in the inside, but Andrea (Bargnani) guards the post pretty well," Triano said. "He'll have a tough job ahead of him tonight. If they elect to put Yao Ming on (small forward) Jamario Moon the way they did last year, we'll deal with that, but if they put him on Andrea, we'll try to keep him away from the basket."
Yao knows enough English by now to guest on The Simpsons and to trade quips with reporters last night when he said his command of the language was down to paying good money for lessons. But he knows enough not to fire the opposition up.
When asked about the Raptors' recent struggles, he was complimentary of Chris Bosh and O'Neal.
"This is a tough league and you never know," Yao said before the game. "One night can change everything. We respect they are a very good team with a lot of talent."
Yao's arrival attracted plenty of attention last night, with at least 20 members of the local Asian media covering the game. When he first arrived in 2002-03, the Raptors needed 52 extra credentials.
Yao's newly created charitable foundation was put to the test this summer when a massive earthquake struck Sichuan and Gansu provinces in China. Yao wants to build more sturdily constructed schools in the area.


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Hi everyone, Im 2 days into the course now which im doing part time, 2 evenings a week. Its great so far, a great group of students and the tutors are nice too. Lots of forms to fill in etc at the begining but great once you get into the real learning. We had a RUSSIAN lesson! yesterday, the first of four, to learn what its like for students to be thrown into an english foreign language lesson were everything is in that language, and they possible dont understand the script of the language. Actually learnt some russian and got some good ideas about teaching methods and what works and what doesnt. Have to write a journal of the whole experience which is marked at the end of this part of the course. Hope everyone else signing up for this course enjoys it too. I think there is a lot to learn but it will be very interesting and rewarding to train in a job that is as useful as this. Id love to know how you get on with your tesol courses too.
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RoA: Blade of Destiny HD - Launches In A Broken State
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny Remake launched in a broken state. The developers have released a few patches, but the damage is already done as they say. Incgamers has a new article covering this topic if anyone is interested in reading more.
We've been alerted to a rather large amount of problems with the game's launch version on Steam. The first alarm bells should start ringing when you notice that Realms of Arkania apparently only has one achievement right now – called "Testing achievement" – but the problems run far deeper than that.
A weighty thread on RPG Codex (and an equally weighty number of complaints on the Steam forums) indicate that the game has more problems than you can shake an RPG at, ranging from boring ones like regular crashes, placeholder text, and untranslated text, through to slightly more entertaining ones like "many NPCs have holes in their heads", "save game randomly deletes itself", "all weapon models look like crossbows", and "you start with infinite money, which randomly resets to normal during gameplay." Entertaining as long as you haven't paid for the game, anyway.
As those complaints are based on the early German release, some of those problems may have been fixed by now (the "Day One" patch apparently fixes the possibility of savegames being corrupted after a fight), but the patch schedule on the official forums doesn't bode particularly well for its current state.
The patch scheduled for today, for instance, will apparently "fix random crashes" and "fix half-translated character screen" while one due tomorrow will "continue to remove placeholder [text] based on community reports."
Even without this, things still don't look particularly great. I've embedded a YouTube video of the game below, but for maximum amusement skip to 3:17 to hear the narrator struggle with poorly-translated text.
Information aboutRoA: Blade of Destiny HD
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
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1 - Take out battery, duh.
2 - Put it back in, duh.
3 - Hold vol up&down + pwr
4 - Vibrant Logo will appear / when the Vibrant logo flickers off keep holing on to those 3 buttons.
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WELLFLEET -- In summer, the vast majority of cars barrel right past, carrying tourists bound for an early-bird lobster special, an evening of nostalgia at the Wellfleet Drive-In, or the raucous night life of Provincetown.
Slow down or you'll miss it, on the left, just past the drive-in and the Eastham-Wellfleet town line as you're heading north on Route 6. It's hard to believe the small sign and narrow lane can transport you to a 1,100-acre sanctuary.
Cape Cod's seasonal clam shacks, T-shirt shops, and art galleries are being shuttered now, but the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary is definitely still open for business.
"Everyone is always impressed with the wealth of programs we offer in the fall," said Bob Prescott, sanctuary director since 1982. "But that is just on the public side; it's only half of the schedule. We also have lots of groups taking tours this time of year."
Wellfleet Bay is one of 41 sanctuaries operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. It was established in 1959 after the then-366-acre property was purchased from the estate of Dr. Oliver L. Austin, who founded the Austin Ornithological Research Station there in 1928. It became one of the most active private bird-banding stations in the world.
The property is three times larger now, thanks to acquisitions, and provides 5 miles of trails that allow one to explore eight distinct habitats. Its birding heritage is going strong, with more than 260 bird species recorded. Fall is an excellent bird-watching season, as hundreds of migrating shorebirds pass through, along with many unscheduled visitors.
"The nor'easters bring all kinds of birds who get blown out here accidentally," Prescott said. "They often end up staying a few days until they find their way back on course. We get a lot of vagrants, like that hawk on Martha's Vineyard." (In what some bird watchers consider the most significant bird ever found on Martha's Vineyard, a small European red-footed falcon caused a huge stir when it turned up in August at the Katama Airfield.)
Though summer is now well in the rearview mirror, fall and winter provide many opportunities to explore nature other than birding.
The upcoming week's schedule is typical: tomorrow evening the sanctuary will host a showcase of aerial photography of Cape marine life by a local fish spotter. Birding programs are slated for Friday and Saturday, and a seal cruise off Chatham's Monomoy Island and a kayak trip on the Bass River are planned for Saturday, along with a seminar on sea turtle strandings.
Next Wednesday will bring the third in a five-part series on "The Top 5 Beaches on the Outer Cape" as chosen by sanctuary staff, featuring an afternoon walk on Coast Guard Beach in Eastham. Sanctuary staffers also run programs at 15 local schools and host an after-school nature club.
The sanctuary and its staff make few concessions to weather. In fact, the more unpredictable the weather, the greater the likelihood of activity and rare occurrences.
"We have found that a lot of our visitors don't mind at all if the weather is a little wild," Prescott said. "Those of us who live here tend to take the Cape for granted a little, but for our visitors, this is a way for them to connect to the coastal environment, and if it has a rough edge to it, that's OK, too."
Along with the birds blown off course, sea turtles often lose their way, most stunned by the cold water. The sanctuary has established a network of more than 100 volunteers who monitor Cape Cod Bay beaches. Last year, 89 sea turtle strandings were recorded.
Beginning next month, when the water temperature of Cape Cod Bay nears 50 degrees, sea turtles, reptiles whose body temperature is determined by the environment around them, become cold-stunned. Their blood circulation and other body processes slow down, they are unable to swim, and they are at the mercy of the wind and currents.
The turtles are recovered and brought to the sanctuary, where they are measured, slowly warmed, and given initial treatment before being transferred to the New England Aquarium.
"We generally don't keep the turtles here more than 24 hours," said Prescott. "We basically do first-step triage, clean them up, and then transport them to Boston."
The sanctuary often seeks help getting the turtles from Wellfleet to Boston around Thanksgiving. "We have found that banana boxes actually work best" for transporting the creatures, Prescott said. "Sometimes when people help by bringing a turtle to the aquarium, they get a behind-the-scenes look at the aquarium. It's ideal for a family."
Along with the deer, foxes, and coyotes who call the sanctuary home, there is a pair of otters who, as Prescott tells it, "seem to have adopted us." The otters "are nocturnal, so they generally get up late in the evening, but one of our members recently spotted one of them at 4 in the afternoon."
Fall visitors will probably see a lot of sea ducks, Prescott said, "eiders and scoters, along with golden plovers and a lot of marsh hawks. One thing people don't expect when they come out here is our fall foliage. The Virginia creeper and the poison ivy both turn a bright red."
The dominant color in a couple of weeks will be orange, when the sanctuary hosts a Haunted Forest Oct. 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. Guided walks through a forest decorated with jack-o'-lanterns and luminaries last about an hour, and the displays along the trail are alternately spooky and silly. Visitors are encouraged to wear costumes, and reservations are required. The cost is $8 for Massachusetts Audubon Society members, $10 for nonmembers, and $8 for children 12 and under.
The sanctuary offers popular field schools during the summer, and the 2005 schedule of four-day and weeklong courses is expected to include nature photography, field ornithology, nature in watercolor, and coastal ecology by kayak.
These programs are generally limited to 10-15 people; summer programs also afford the option, on a limited basis, for housing at a nearby cottage. The 2004 cost was $250 for the week, $125 for the shorter courses. The list of courses offered will be firmed up shortly after the New Year.
"It's important to get in the loop," Prescott noted. "Audubon members always find out first."


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Stars Wars Theme Cake
This is my first decorated cake! I made this in December 2010 for my boyfriend and his best friend 25 years old birthday! They are big fans of Star Wars so I decided to make them out of fondant as chibi characters! It was a simple chocolate cake with buttercream icing, the cake was covered with fondant as well as the decorations were made with fondant.


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Seeing this picture over at The Mag this week reminded me of something that happened in The Bicycle Arms at the weekend. A bunch of us were having a drink or two around the log fire when my friend Rosey looked in the direction of two embracing love-birds, and chirped "Get a bed" She thought she'd just said it to herself, but as usual when Rosey refuels with chardonnay, words always come out a little louder than intended. "Shoooosh" giggled Sally. "Everyone's looking at you and in any case, the expression is get a room!" "Well" said Rosey, "they should get a bed-room then" We couldn't understand why she was being uncharacteristically prudish; after all, she was never one to worry about embarrassing us when she was dating Smacker Sam a while back.
Anyway, she went on to tell us how awkward she felt the other day when she was at the Tate Gallery in London, and rounded a corner to be faced with Rodin's sculpture The Kiss which bore an uncanny resemblance to the pose being adopted by the amorous couple at the adjacent table. Still unable to fathom out why she was being such a prig, I delved a little deeper. It seems that she was actually with a group of children from her school in her role as classroom assistant when at The Tate, and a couple of the little blighters suggested that the naked female form was Miss Rosey and the man headmaster Mr Rolls! "Ten year olds can be so unkind" she said "and anyway how do they know what I look like in the all-together?"
We all agreed that she should actually be flattered by the suggested likeness, and a few minutes later she was laughing about the unfortunate event. "I wonder if Mr Rolls does look like the chap in the sculpture?" she mused as a grin spread across her face. "I wonder". " No Rosey" shouted Gareth "Don't even think about it!"
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VIDEO: Boogat Pitches in for Movember with New Track & Video
The past few months have been very busy for Montreal's trilingual MC Boogat. Aside from spending countless hours in the studio preparing his first full-length Spanish album to be released in the new year, Boogat also took some time to help the Movember campaign by recording a brand new song with Washington D.C. Tropical Bass producer G-Flux. Check out the video below!
This funky digi-cumbia, entitled 'Moviembre' is a musical salute to the manliest of manly things…the mustache! Boogat spits fuego over a sizzling sonidero beat, celebrating the sexiness of the mustache in all its hairy glory!
The accompanying video, directed by Mariano Franco, is a vibrant and colorful nod to the cheekiness of the song. Both song and video are meant to support the efforts of Movember in a fun way. Part of the proceeds of the song sales will go to support Movember Canada and their initiatives.<
Since its humble beginnings in Melbourne Australia, Movember has grown to become a truly global movement inspiring more than 1.9 million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas to participate with formal campaigns all over the world, including Canada. In 2011, over 854,000 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas around the world got on board, raising $125.7 million CAD.