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The winners of the 2003 inaugural edition of the Hassan II Great World Water Prize were:
Director President of Agencia Nacional de Aguas (ANA) of Brazil, and
Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt.They have been honoured for their significant water-related achievements and their contribution to the improvement of water resources management.
Dr. Jerson KELMAN earned his PhD on Water Resources at Colorado State University and an engineering degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.He carried out, as a university professor, much scientific research and developed many mathematical models in hydrology and water planning, and was a member of the Electric Energy Research Centre.He led the process of putting together the legal and institutional framework for an integrated water resources management system.The President of Brazil appointed Dr. KELMAN to carry on the task of conceiving the National Water Agency and to be its first President, starting from January 2001.Dr. KELMAN conceived the River Basin Restoration Program to develop policies and institutional arrangements in the fields of irrigation, hydro-power, water and sanitation.He is a member of the steering committee of PROAGUA, a program to face the challenge of mitigating droughts in cities of the Brazilian Northeast.
Dr. Mahmoud ABU-ZEID is a world water leader. He earned prestigious engineering degrees at Cairo University and the University of California. He has assumed various progressive responsibilities from lecturer at university to research engineer, Director and Director General and Chairman of the National Water Research Centre, and since 1997, he had served at the highest position as the Minister of Public Works and Water Resources and as the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt.He has authored hundreds of research papers and articles published in prestigious journals on water resources, irrigation, drainage, groundwater and environment.He contributed to the development of practical aspects of trans-boundary water and conflict prevention by his pioneering research work on the Nile River Basin and Middle-East water.He served in many world water institutions: UNESCO-IHP, ICID, IWRA and finally was one of the three Founding Members of the World Water Council (WWC).The outstanding contributions of Dr. ABU-ZEID in water issues include not only his country Egypt but also Middle-East and Africa.
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2006 Prize Winner
2003 Prize Winners
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Disney Princesses
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It's a measure of quite how central to the Bristol scene Geoff Barrow is that wherever he wanders into the shiny new halls and walkways of Colston Hall, he's greeted with waves, smiles and courteous nods (all returned of course) like an old friend. Maybe it doesn't mean all that much; after all, he is one third of Portishead, one of the citiey's most powerful musical exports, but it's hard to imagine Robert Del Naja getting the same treatment.
The deliciously alliterative Invada Invasion is more than just a chance to wave coquettishly at Geoff, however. The recently refurbished and soon to be renamed Colston Hall is celebrating its opening with a programme that includes selections from Geoff's own label, alongside other invaders and friends.
Proceedings kick off with a raucous set from Thought Forms in the surprisingly noisy foyer area. A mix of titanic fuzzbuster riffs and post metal touches, they're an excellent start to the evening, especially when they swap bass guitar for mournful feedback laden cello. They might mine a very familiar seam, but they do it with an aplomb that's commendable.
It's with some trepidation that DiS approaches Team Brick: his experimental odysseys have left us puzzled and rather lukewarm on previous occasions. This time, he plays a more peripheral role than his usual one man band noisemanship, allowing an orchestra and choir to perform his compositions. And it's actually rather engaging; in a chin stroking rather than a foot tapping way, our man banging his drum as the orchestra swoon and sweep in a jarring manner.
Joe Volk also shows he knows how to make best use of an orchestra: his soft acoustic pluckings and cryptic lyrics balanced out excellently by swooning strings and the occasional triumphant percussion roll.
It pains DiS to not be able to say the same for his side project, Crippled Black Phoenix, who leave us very much in two minds. On record, they're an elegant and creaking cacophony, but live, they seem in yoke to the very worst type of prog. When they hit their stride, the thundering riffs and galloping drumwork disguises the overindulgent theremin wrangling and horrific Europe-esque keyboard sounds, which leave us feeling more bored than the poorly used orchestra. By the time the wailing guitar solos start coming thick and fast, we've wandered off to grab a swift half from the admirably stocked bar.
A half we have to drink doubly quick as we squirm our way into the packed foyer to catch a glimpse of Luca Mai limbering up his tenor saxophone. Zu are loud tonight. Very loud indeed. Their 'deathjazz' is a punishing implement in its own right, but through a foyer PA which appears to have been souped up right to the limit, they pummel and pound their rigid grooves right into the base of our skulls. The bass is thick and liquid, the drumwork completely astounding; and the rush of adrenalin we get when Mai starts to batter his 'horn with his hands is absolutely unbeaten all night.
It's unfortunate that Zun Zun Egui suffer the fate of overlapping with their alphabetically challenged Italian cousins: on any other night we'd have made them a must see. As it is the 15 minutes or so we catch shows no sign of erosion from a band quickly gathering up a colossal head of critical steam. Their taut Deerhoofisms wrangle with something undeniably more pyschedelic, to create a veritable carnival of sound. The best description we can come up with is 'how we want Dirty Projectors to sound'.
For a band we've seen countless times, it's hard to explain quite why we're so excited about Mogwai, but as almost anyone who's seen them will tell you, theirs is an emotional and addictive performance. Whilst tonight's set does dip a little in the middle, we can forgive them, especially when they turn 'Take Me Somewhere Nice' into a bone-rattling feedback trip, before launching into a frankly awe-inspiring 'Batcat', dedicated to Stuart's wife, who's travelled down with them on her birthday. How's that for a present?
Sometimes the best really is saved till last, and at this point DiS abandons all objectivity and starts to metaphorically slaver all over the proverbial page. Because it's been left to Fuck Buttons to close affairs, which they do so with all joy of a paint splattered wrecking ball let loose amongst drab Seventies tower blocks. The duo seem to have taken heed of critics of their previously linear live act, dotting tonight's foyer performance with repeating themes and resurgent phrases that climb out of their fuzzy whitenoise and towerblock beats. At the start we're sceptical and exhausted, by the end of a phenomenal 'Space Mountain' we're enthused and exhilarated.
All that's left to do is hunt down Barrow, and ask him if he'll do it again. "Yes, tomorrow" he chuckles, before hastily adding that perhaps that's a little ambitious. Well, quite.


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Amidst all the "iphone" and "android" and "dealzmodo" searches that send people Gizmodo's way on a daily basis, there's usually a smattering of inexplicable incoming traffic. And today's selection was particularly enjoyable:
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Today's story happened on..yes, you guessed correctly, the train, again.
I took half-day off at work and waited on the platform at 12.35, hoping that by 12.45 the train would come. Then it would take another 50 minutes, so i would arrive by 1.35, just in time for jumu'ah.
If the komuter had an identity card, i think that it'll have 'Malay' written under the 'race' heading. Because it eventually came at 1.00 o'clock. At this rate you'll never arrive in time for jumu'ah *sigh*
I didn't know where to stop, because i didn't know of any stations close to a mosque. Close to one station, an arab guy tapped me and asked what time jumu'ah was. I told him and he gave an exasperated look. Right out of the blue, a mosque appeared past the train and this guy said 'come on, hurry hurry, we pray here' so we got out and hurried to the mosque that dropped down from the sky.
"What's your name?"
'La la, ikmal'
Never mind.
While we were walking, this man asked told me what he was doing. "I went for 11 interviews, this morning i went to INCEIF, not good..malaysia is liberali, school of liberali (liberal school of thought)"
My heart dropped 1 meter.
"To study islamic finance here is not good".
5 metres.
"Where do you work?"
My heart is now at the bottom of a deep deep well. "Ermm, i work at a bank"
"No, no, you must change. You must change your job. Allah will provide rizq for you, there is lots of riba (in the financial system)".
I mildly protested with assurances of 'yes yes we're trying to change (the system)' but i think he misheard me and insisted that i change my job.
"Where are you from?"
"Jordan". 'Amman?' "No, north of amman." Interesting. Its as if allah sent this guy all the way to bring me out for jumu'ah prayers, and tell me about the reality of my job. And from jordan too, no less. What an extraordinary twist of qadr.
Later on, he asked me to look at his work application and translate several things from malay into english. This was no ordinary man, he has a degree and a masters degree and previously worked at a bank and a securities' institution and came to malaysia to apply for a PhD.
And he came all the way to teach me that: you are sitting in a position of responsibility and you see haraam happening. try to change it and don't be content with your wealth and qualifications. Because nothing can save us from falling into a deep, deep pit of blazing flames except of allah.


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Hedonism is a minimalist lifestyle, embodied by the doctrines of self-sacrifice, selflessness, and monogamy.
Hedonism is one of the world's oldest actively followed belief systems. Although there is no certainty about the origins of this belief system, it is believed to have been started by the great Hedonist Shaman Jesus Christ in the 3rd Century. The followers of Hedonism (hedonists) live very simple lifestyles, there are few rules related to it, given that a person's lifestyle fits the following creed:
I will constantly imbibe liquor and other intoxicants, For my body be pure I will not bathe for hygienic reasons, E'en if I smell of horse manure I will always turn towards the west And in constant prayer I will pray by fucking bitches And prove myself a pla'er. And above all else, I will not put more effort into my work than required Above all else From my job I must be fired Hedonist's Creed, c. 310 B.C.E.
Hedonists not only unilaterally believe that this creed is crucial to enlightenment, but furthermore believe that there was a addendum to the creed that was meant to be written by Dr. J. Christ, although the act of writing the addenum directly contradicts the creed. It is considered a dire sin by many hedonists to even conceive what the amendment might be.
Part of what makes Hedonism appealing to many followers is that there is actually little effort involved in rituals. Because hedonism stresses minimalism in all aspects of life, most rituals involves self pleasure. Many unenlightened souls might call this "laziness", a very accurate study involving no research whatsoever suggests that they are douche-licks.
Hedonism has lately come under fire by numerous public figures. Arguably, the most fearsome of them all is Popeye the Sailor Man. Mr. Sailor Man argues that "Hedonisms is wrong, so don't yous do it." Other people who argue against hedonism include God (who actually doesn't care that much about it), Miss Piggy, and The Letter A, which today's article was made possible by. More recently, the Government has been caught using their lies to persecute Hedonism. For instance, an obviously falsified report from 1986 by the Hedonism Research Committee branch of the BRA claimed that most hedonists don't actually do much of anything. Proponents of the belief (those brave souls) claimed a tautology and proceeded to do nothing in a drunken rampage of inaction, knowing that doing anything else would only be proving them wrong.They a related to faggots.


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Shipwright::Manual::UsingFlags - Using flags
Shipwright flags is a method to make a single shipyard to support multiple variants of vessels.
Imagine you want to create a project which requires a database. There are several database types you want to support in the same shipyard, while you'd like each built vessel to only support one type. (Sometimes you have to choose one because some dists will be confused if provided with more than one type; e.g. for RT, you have to supply the database type when running ./configure).
This is a task that you can use Shipwright flags to accomplish.
For example, say you want to support both mysql and postgresql, and you've imported mysql, DBD::mysql, postgresql and DBD::Pg to the repository.
The next step is to mark dists with flags; let's use
mysql and
postgresql for this example.
$ shipwright flags -r ... mysql --set mysql
$ shipwright flags -r ... cpan-DBD-mysql --set mysql
$ shipwright flags -r ... postgresql --set postgresql
$ shipwright flags -r ... cpan-DBD-Pg --set postgresql
$ shipwright flags -r ... --mandatory --set mysql,postgresql db
Flags data is stored in shipwright/flags.yml
When building, you can then set
--flags to
mysql or
postgresql to install support for that database only.
If a dist needs this info to configure (like RT for example), you'll need to customize the build script; see Shipwright::Manual::CustomizeBuild for information about how to do this.
If no flags are specified during build, both mysql and postgresql would be installed to the vessel. Which one RT chooses to configure for depends on its build script.
If necessary, you can also specify certain flags as being mandatory. For example, you can specify that a database flag is mandatory; if no flag labelled
db is specified when invoking the build script, the first one is used as a default (mysql in this case) rather than the repository being built with no flags. This allows shipyards to support different variants or versions of a program.
Shipwright will automatically add
default to
--flags, and if a dist has no flags set (i.e. it does not appear in shipwright/flags.yml), it will be given the
default flag and will be installed by default.
Shipwright, Shipwright::Manual
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From the Michael Sragow Gets Reel blog:
The dailies and newsweeklies and entertainment shows have already set off their starters' pistols, but let's get serious: in Baltimore, as in most American cities, this year October 1 marks the beginning of the fall movie season.
That's when David Fincher's sizzling-smart "The Social Network" (with Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield) premieres in theaters nationwide. So does Matt Reeves' "Let Me In," the promising American variation on the haunting Swedish horror movie " Let the Right One In," starring Chloe Moretz (left), of "Kick-Ass," as the young vampire who befriends a lonely boy.
That same day, Baltimore audiences will start to see some of the conversation-starters already in New York, like Philip Seymour Hoffman's debut as a director, "Jack Goes Boating." And just a week later comes Davis Guggenheim's provocative and heartbreaking attack on the American educational system, "Waiting for Superman," Randall Wallace's elating racehorse movie "Secretariat" (with Diane Lane and John Malkovich), and "Never Let Me Go" (with Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield), Mark Romanek's adaptation of a 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel that I thought was unfilmable. I treasure the book, but I can't wait to see whether Romanek rose to the challenge of filming it.
All that in two weeks in October -- a bracing relief from the summer, don't you think?
Baltimore's fall movie season comes on strong in October
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Witness: NYC officer eyed colleague for kidnap
NEW YORK (AP) — The cannibalism conspiracy case against a police officer took another odd turn on Thursday when an FBI agent testified that a New York Police Department supervisor was among the women the officer considered a potential target for kidnapping and torturing.
The testimony came amid a report that a man considered to be one of Officer Gilberto Valle's co-conspirators, identified in the U.S. case by the online name Moody Blues, had been detained but released in a separate case in Great Britain.
Returning to the witness stand at Valle's federal trial in Manhattan, FBI agent Corey Walsh told jurors that a search of Valle's computer had turned up a file with multiple photos of a woman the agent identified as an NYPD officer who supervised Valle. The government had previously introduced a transcript of a February 2012 email exchange in which Valle offered a co-conspirator a menu of women he could abduct for rape and torture.
"The second girl listed is a cop — Evelyn, 33 years old," Valle wrote.
"No I want a reg girl," the man responded.
The revelation came as the defense sought to discredit allegations that the 28-year-old Valle conspired with Internet friends to kidnap, kill and eat women, pressing Walsh on why some communications were deemed proof of a crime while others were deemed fantasies.
Defense attorney Robert Baum directed Walsh to obvious falsehoods in communications that the government has used as evidence Valle was a threat. In one, Moody Blues insisted he and Valle would need a secluded place to cook a woman alive.
"I have a place on the mountains," Valle wrote. "Nobody's around for three quarters of a mile."
Asked if that was true, Walsh testified that authorities "are not aware of a place he had in the mountains."
Valle has been held without bail since October, when he was arrested on charges of conspiring to kidnap women in a cannibalism plot born on the Internet. Throughout the trial, which began Monday, Valle's lawyers have attacked government evidence as nothing more than the reflection of a man engaging in extreme sexual fantasies with like-minded people around the world. The government has conceded that Valle never met the purported Internet co-conspirators and no women were harmed.
Jurors have heard testimony from Valle's estranged wife and from former classmates and other women who testified they knew Valle on a casual basis and never considered him dangerous. Their testimony was followed by evidence that all of them were the subjects of emails and chats describing how they could be snatched away and eaten.
One of the women, special education teacher Alisa Friscia, appeared angry and agitated as she testified on Thursday that she had worked with Valle's wife but wasn't close to her.
As for Valle, she snapped: "No, he's never been a friend!"
She was followed to the stand by police Officer Robin Martinez, a police academy instructor, who said there were severe penalties for unauthorized searches of the national police database that Valle was accused of abusing to collect information about targeted women.
"You are going to face serious trouble, including being prosecuted, being arrested, being fired," she said.
Prosecutors allege Valle's cyber co-conspirator Moody Blues told the officer he had killed and eaten at least two women. The New York Post reported Thursday that two men had been arrested in a child porn case in Britain and that one was Moody Blues.
When asked Thursday whether there had been any arrests related to the Valle prosecution in New York, local police in the southern England county of Kent said they had briefly detained two men from the area around Canterbury, the famous cathedral city about 60 miles (96 kilometers) southeast of London.
Kent police identified the men only as a 57-year-old and a 30-year-old, saying that they had been arrested a week ago on suspicion of conspiracy, child grooming and possession of child abuse images.
No charges had been filed, and police said the men have since been released on bail.
The statement said Kent police had "been in contact with U.S. law enforcement agencies in relation to this investigation" but did not go into any further detail.
An FBI spokesman in New York declined to comment.
Associated Press writer Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.


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Adreena didn't sleep well last night. That of course means, I had a bad night. I should really be sleeping right now, now that she's asleep. Tapi tak boleh pulak. O well.
It's already day 37! How time flies. 23 days left until I have to return to work. :( And it's only 7 days until my confinement period is officially over. If confinement is 44 days lah. Some says it's 40 days. Which one is right eh? Not that it matters sgt pun to be honest. I HAVE sneaked out a few times, hehe. With Shahril of course. Partner in crime. :D
On the 30th day of confinement, we went out for my post natal checkup at which I was told that I still have "byk masa lagi" to have another one before I turn 38 – the recommended age of stopping 'production'. Hehe. Adreena had her checkup with her pediatrician too at which we were told she is doing superb. She cried her lungs out kena cucuk, sampaikan the doctor commented, "Mama, your baby nangis memang volume 5 terus ye?" That's my girl alright. :).
Guess where we went after the checkup? Vacuum cleaner shopping. Haha. At Harvey Norman @ Ikano no less. :) I've been eyeing the Ergorapido since I saw one at Ngah's house. Didn't feel the urgent need for it until I become a stay-at-home-mom (albeit for only 60 days). The thing I hate the most about vacuuming is plugging the power you see, so Ergorapido is really the solution for me. Mengada2 I know, but I really hate the cables and all.
So I'm a vacuum cleaner freak now. That makes me a much happier person. :D
And kelmarin, we sneaked out again. This time to Jusco Cheras Selatan. It was our engagement anniversary. (At this point, any reason to celebrate can and will bring me out of the house, really. :) ). Looking back, if anyone were to tell me during my engagement that 6 years from then I'll be having 3 kids of my own, I don't think I would believe it, or know what to DO with 3 kids. But alhamdulillah, I am truly blessed to kinda know now what to do with 3 kids. ;). Most of the times, at least.
Here's a photo of Adreena on her 18th day on Earth. :). More will come soon, I promise.


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Right now inside Syria, Hezbollah terrorist fighters – backed by the Syrian government, Iran and Lebanon – are fighting Al Qaeda, Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood terrorist fighters – backed by the U.S., Israel, the Eurozone, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
BBC reports:
The military chief of the main umbrella group of Syrian rebels … claimed that more than 7,000 fighters of the Lebanese Shia movement [Hezbollah ] were taking part in attacks on the rebel-held town of Qusair.
The French foreign minister has estimated the number at 3,000-4,000.
Hezbollah fighters have been in Syria for some time now but their numbers appear to have grown rapidly over the last few weeks ….
Not only did the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia largely create, sponsor and fund Al Qaeda, but also two other groups fighting on the side of the Syrian rebels: Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is a proxy war.
As we've documented in detail, the U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and their allies back the Sunni jihadists against Shia Muslims. Indeed, the U.S. is involved in a religious war – between the two factions of Islam (and is actually backing the most violent elements) – as part of a geopolitical strategy to exert control over the natural gas market.
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[There is] growing concern in the US that the conflict in Syria is morphing into a complex regional war by proxy.
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Hezbollah and Al Qaeda fighters edging closer to full scale confrontation
Syria's conflict is often described as a "civil war," but that is only true insofar as it has yet to spill over into another country on a large scale or draw in too many different forces. But it is the quintessential proxy war, with the Alawite (an offshoot of Shia Islam) Assad regime backed up by Shia allies Hezbollah and Iran, as well as Russia and China.
The Sunni rebels are supported by the Islamist rulers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, as well as the U.S., France, Britain and others.
In December, Syrian rebels [i.e. Sunnis] burned down a Shiite mosque in northern Idlib province. Fighting between Hezbollah and Jabhat al-Nusra is being waged closer and closer to the Zeinab shrine. Shiite villages are coming under attack by militants who praise Osama bin Laden and Sunni villagers are being slaughtered by regime loyalists. Sectarian fighting has already leaked across the border into northern Lebanon. [For example, Syrian rebels - Sunnis - apparently shelled Shiites inside neighboring Lebanon.] The stage has been set.
"When Hezbollah and Israel are both actively fighting in the same third country," writes Ramy Khoury, a professor of international affairs at the American University of Beirut, "and Iran and the United States are both actively warning about their determination to act to protect their allies and their interests in that same third country, it is time to make another pot of coffee and make sure you have plenty of fresh batteries at home for your transistor radio."
All people of good faith are calling for an end to all foreign soldiers and foreign weapons in Syria … be they from Iran, Lebanon and Russia, or the U.S., Israeli, Saudi Arabia and Europe.
Of course, the U.S. has been arming the Syrian opposition since 2006.
Indeed, American neoconservatives planned regime change in Syria 20 years ago … and considered carrying out acts of violence and blaming it on the Syrian government as an excuse for regime change was discussed over 50 years ago by British and American leaders.
But the answer is not to send more arms to "our" terrorists to fight "their" terrorists . The answer is for all sides to stop pouring gas on the fire, getting all foreign troops and arms out, and letting the Syrian people sort it out.


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IoshkaFutz wrote:The church's view of yoga as a means for relaxation or to improve concentration is about the same as her view for strawberries to make the taste buds tingle. But if from a purely physical thing it becomes an ideology and enters the moral sphere, then she makes objections where she considers matters objectionable.
Might be the church does not want Easterners to be granted their due.
You will find that Eastern religions are the ones that don't give Eastern men and women their due... and not by a long shot. Castes, cow veneration, suttee, ancestor veneration, or in the case of Islam insane-belief... do NOT give any man, no matter his geographical location, his due. No religion has given man his due better than Christianity. What is man's due? Morality and reason and a certain equality (not to be mistaken for today's egalitarianism).
The church's view of yoga as a means for relaxation or to improve concentration is about the same as her view for strawberries to make the taste buds tingle.
Well,chanting names of gods or concentrating upon somethings while meditating is similiar to idolatry and Christians are supposed to be free from idolatry.I dunno why then did the Catholic Church deify pagan gods in Latin America as saints.
Well ,what was caste to Hindus class is to Europeans.This is what was stated by Europeans themselves of those periods.Class is justified by the scripture in Christianity.God himself said that 'I created the rich and poor'.'All the silver is mine,all the gold is mine' says the lord.By ipso moto silver,gold and other things must belong to Christians right? Word caste is also Portuguese in origin.Castes
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cow veneration.
To manufacture 1 kg of beef,you need 7 kgs of grain.To manufacture pork,chicken etc, it does require lesser amounts of grain.The U.S senate/congress itself stated that India escaped civil strife thanks to veneration of vegetarianism.In the middle ages of pure Christianity,only kings and soldiers ate beef.
Your darling dio smartly said that I will get cheap beef and other non-vege diet if vegans do not eat it.She then pitches against abortion(saying that let us feed those fetuses that we are aborting to people of third world countries yuk yuk yuk) in a different thread ignoring the fact that her attitude means lesser number of souls for her master above.
No more reprehensible than heretic burning,witch burning,pagan burning,scientist burning,persecuting surgeons,low class woman burning etc.suttee
I saw in the discovery channel that Italians are quite proud of their ancestral heritage(I think it was Justine Sharpio, who was a Jew.She also said that in the U.S crimes of chattel slavery are being covered up.She was uneasy while taking coconut toddy in Kerala amidst Indian males.She supposedly took a piece of Jewish fort stone/brick with her while she was a kid confessed repented for having done that when she re-visited Israel.ancestor veneration
THHuxley also keeps Roman artifacts with him.He mentioned about having phallic artifacts(also saw in the colosseum scenes of the Gladiator) in his collection which were used as a means of warding of evil while entering houses(somethiung which the Irish do till this date with garlic etc).Cross is also a fertility symbol of ME.Catholic Church also 'Christianised' pagan festivals,trees,idols resembling Isis of Egypt etc and holidays.
Define these things.It is stated in this forum that less than 1% of all the Christians have read the Bible even though it was the most published book in all of history followed by Mao's Red book or vice versa.So how exactly are Christians most reasonable based on the Bible?morality and reason


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How's this for an influential science fair project: Last year, Ohio seventh graders Casey Gittelman and Eleanor Bishop investigated how well children and adults could distinguish candy from medicine. This past October, Gittelman traveled to the American Academy of Pediatrics national conference, held in Boston, to present the results. In a nutshell, they found that one in four of the children, and one in five of the teachers had difficulty distinguishing between pills and candy, with SweetTARTS mistaken for Mylanta, and SweeTARTS for Tums, among others. In addition, the girls looked at how people stored their medications. "Only about 10 percent said they stored their medicines appropriately," said Gittelman. "If people did keep medicines locked up, it would prevent a lot of unintentional ingestions."
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Money Talks
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You've heard all the buzzwords: global marketplace, global network, global this, global that. Yes, the world is getting smaller, and these days, no one blinks an eye when an American boasts of doing business with China, marketing a product in the Ukraine or setting up shop in the land down under.
By the same token, foreigners are coming to the United States in record numbers to do business and study. In the 1995-96 school year, 453,000 foreigners attended a U.S. college or university, compared with just 154,000 in 1974-75. And that's not counting the hordes of business executives who traverse the Atlantic or the Pacific each year to do some wheeling and dealing American-style.
Sometimes the only thing standing between a foreigner and the American dream is the perplexing English language, with its fast-changing slang and impossible pronunciations. What other language has so many pronunciations for a single letter? For native English speakers, it's no problem, but for the rest of the world, it can be a real tongue twister.
Now, what's considered a stumbling block to foreigners has opened a wealth of opportunity in the States for schools that teach English as a second language (ESL).
Learning The Lingo
Sure, most foreigners can learn English in their own countries, but simply hitting the books is far different from speaking, understanding and doing business with fast-talking natives. Learning the language in an English-speaking country takes top priority with many foreign business executives and students. And thanks to the near-worldwide appeal of the American culture, American English edges out the snootier British English and all other variations.
"American English is definitely the most popular among people who want to learn English. Most people who want to study English want to come to the States," says Ellyn Levine, owner of the English Language Center in Boston. Levine has been in the ESL business since 1978 when she opened her first school in Los Angeles after being laid off from teaching English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
"I really liked teaching, and I didn't want to ever get laid off again. And the only way to avoid that was to be my own boss," says Levine, echoing the sentiments of thousands of other business owners. The teacher's former colleagues at UCLA began referring their international students to Levine's center, and her business was underway.
Seeing an increasing demand for ESL, Levine began adding more schools in 1990 and today has four locations, two of them in the Boston area, the others in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. Levine's business, which brings in more than $5 million annually, isn't the only ESL school on a growth track. "Back in 1990, there were only a few ESL schools in Boston," says Levine. "Now there are about 15."
ABC's Of ESL
Talk about a booming business. "The market's potential is endless," says Gail Raimi Dreyfuss, adding that about three-quarters of people worldwide aren't native English speakers. Dreyfuss founded the Wisconsin English Second Language Institute (WESLI) in Madison, Wisconsin, with husband Jeff in 1981.
At WESLI, which is conveniently located near the University of Wisconsin, most ESL students generally fall into one of two categories: college-bound students and business executives. "We both had Ph.D.s in linguisitics, but we couldn't find two university jobs in the same city," says Dreyfuss. "We decided to start an English school and did all the teaching ourselves. By sheer luck, we got 50 students when we opened."
Today, WESLI has so many students and so much business, the Dreyfusses don't have time to teach anymore. That task is left to a teaching staff of 35.
Some ESL entrepreneurs may have linguistics backgrounds, but you don't need a related degree or even a license (except in a few states) to open an English school. Just ask Joe Stipek. He got his first taste of teaching English as a tutor to business executives in France in 1988.
Upon his return to the United States, he took a job with an ESL school in Texas, and in 1991, he and his wife purchased the school and began expanding it. Today, Intensive English Institute (IEI) is based in Portland, Oregon, has six locations nationwide, about 400 students and 50 teachers, and brings in about $5 million in annual revenues.
As for why Stipek wanted to purchase that first school, "I saw that the industry was expanding--there's a huge increase in the number of foreign students coming to the U.S.--and with the right marketing, I knew IEI could expand as well."
Know The Rules
Finding clients for ESL schools requires a lot of get up and go. Traveling overseas to meet with study-abroad agencies, colleges and universities ranks high on the marketing to-do list. Some ESL schools use agents in foreign countries to cull clients, while others advertise in foreign publications to get the word out to potential students.
Smart marketing, yes, but unfortunately, that isn't always enough to seal the deal. Other factors over which ESL school operators have little control can come into play. Uncle Sam's immigration policy has a hand in the success or failure of ESL schools on American soil, as does the exchange rate of the dollar and relations between the U.S. government and foreign countries. All these factors can stand in the way of even the most effective marketing plan.
"We have two battles when it comes to getting students: promotion in foreign countries and getting the State Department to issue student visas," says Stipek. "In both those areas, we have little support."
While American ESL school owners struggle to overcome these obstacles, their competitors are gaining on them. And the competition isn't the other school down the street. "Our greatest competition isn't other American ESL schools, it's ESL schools in Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia," says Stipek.
In those countries, regulations on student visas are decidedly more lax, allowing more foreigners in and therefore more potential ESL students. And some foreign countries go beyond that, actually setting up marketing offices abroad to entice students and business executives to use their countries' ESL schools. That's tough competition for Americans who scramble to find agents abroad who will pitch in on the marketing front.
Stipek, along with other ESL operators, is determined to make headway. As a member of the Executive Board of the American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP), Stipek is in ongoing discussions with the U.S. Departments of Commerce and State to establish commercial offices and ESL trade fairs overseas and to relax the requirements for issuance of student visas.
If their efforts are successful, it could mean an explosion in the ESL market--and it could help start-up entrepreneurs such as Donna Scriven, who recently put out her ESL shingle. Scriven, who taught ESL in Italy, Spain, Chile, Portugal and Costa Rica, is now hoping to do the same on her own turf.
Her company, English a la California, brings one to three students at a time into her home in Kentfield, California, and offers formal grammar and listening activities in addition to a daily breakfast for about $100 a day. "One of my former students said to me, `Only $100 a day! A Spaniard would expect to pay that much just for the hotel,' " says Scriven, whose first students arrived this summer.
Pricing an ESL program depends on several factors: the length of stay, whether or not housing is provided, and extracurricular actitivies such as sightseeing. At IEI, prices average $1,500 plus off-site room and board for an eight-week program that focuses on the academic aspects of language acquisition, not on sightseeing.
But at Levine's English Language Center, where tuition costs $1,000 to $1,500 for two to four weeks plus housing, sightseeing activities are a big part of the program. Depending on the school location, her students head to New York City, Disneyland, Universal Studios or Magic Mountain. "That's what's unique about my schools," says Levine. "We do everything. We never say no."
Like most ESL schools, Levine's caters to individuals and groups, including some unique students who need rather specialized vocabulary. Levine's English Language Center shot basketball terms at Vlade Divac of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets and coached a class of Boston Bruin recruits from Eastern Europe on hockey lingo. You can bet they learned the most important words to any athlete: "Show me the money."
Speaking Of Which . . .
- There are 24.5 million foreign-born people in the United States.
- 13.8 percent of adults speak a non-English language at home.
- 5.76 million adults rate their ability to speak English as "not at all" or "not well."
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Want To Know More?
- The American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP) promotes ethical and professional standards for ESL programs and lobbies on behalf of ESL schools. AAIEP gives its seal of approval to qualified programs. Call (215) 895-5856.
- The Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET), a nonprofit organization, is the only national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education for accrediting intensive English programs. For information on the accrediting process, call (202) 955-1113.
- The National Association of Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA) offers workshops, publications and an annual convention for ESL teachers. Call (202) 462-4811 or check the NAFSA Web site at http://www.nafsa.org
Frances Huffman, a freelance writer in Pacific Palisades, California, is a former senior writer for Entrepreneur.
Contact Sources
American Association of Intensive English Programs, (215) 895-5856, http://www.outfitters.com/com/aaiep
English Language Center, (617) 536-9788,
English a la California, e-mail: email@example.com, http://www.4english.com
Intensive English Institute, 8335 S.W. 22nd Ave., Portland, OR 97219, http://www.iei-usa.com
Wisconsin English as a Second Language Institute, (608) 257-4300, http://www.wesli.com


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Billie Jean King celebrates 40th ahead of 70th
NEW YORK (AP) — For Billie Jean King, 70 is the new 40.
The tennis great, who turns 70 in November, has been celebrating the 40th anniversary of equal prize money at the U.S. Open, the formation of the WTA tour and her victory against Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes" match.
King was 29 when she accomplished those feats in 1973. On Tuesday night, PBS will highlight her career with the national premiere of "American Masters: Billie Jean King."
The series' first profile of a sports figure focuses on the professional tennis tour's start amid the women's movement and features interviews with Gloria Steinem, Chris Evert, King's doubles partner Rosie Casals and her brother Randy Moffitt, a former pitcher for the San Francisco Giants.
Thanks to King's efforts, Serena Williams earned a check for $2.6 million — the same as Rafael Nadal — for winning the U.S. Open.
Here's a five-part Q-and-A with King, who these days is giving tips to young tennis players Sloane Stephens and Victoria Duval:
Q: You received about two-thirds less in prize money for winning Wimbledon in 1968 compared with Rod Laver. What kind of leverage did it take to get equal prize money at the U.S. Open in 1973?
A: The U.S. Open was way ahead of its time, actually, compared to how long it took the other three majors to come around (Wimbledon last in 2007). We did it quietly, behind the scenes. There were two sponsors who said they would make it equal — they would put in the money to make up the difference. I said, "Now we're talking, because now we're talking business."
Q: Why were sports an effective way to express what the women's movement was about in the 1970s, especially the tennis match you won against Riggs?
A: I talk about feminists, how they were all from the neck up in the '70s. This was not from the neck up, it was the whole body. It's very important for people to trust their bodies. It was the first time women started to think about all of themselves, instead of just their brains. It's really about their physicality. Sports are very different from other performing arts because you can't rehearse, you have an opponent and you sweat.
Q: You wanted the men's and women's tours to team up in the 1970s. Why do you believe the WTA managed to flourish and become a successful global enterprise that now offers $118 million in total prize money for 54 events in 33 countries?
A: I think because we had to and we showed that there is a market for women's sports. This wasn't really about me and the few of us, this was about the future generations. We had great early leadership.
Did I want the men and women together to have one voice? Absolutely. But the men rejected us and that's life and so you go to Plan B. Everybody pulled together eventually and we made it happen.
We also have a mentoring program, which I think is really important for the women. I do a power hour, two sessions every U.S. Open. They bring in a lot of the young players, our future top 10 or 20. We talk about the history, we connect. As rookies, they have to learn the history of the WTA. All of those things combined add up to the cohesiveness that we have as women athletes in the WTA.
Q: What are your thoughts on gay rights in Russia and a possible boycott ahead of the Sochi Olympics?
A: You have to ask the athletes and whatever they decide. I've talked to some of them and they're trying to figure out what's best. They believe in no discrimination at all, in anything, especially sexual orientation.
I'm not the athlete trying to go there and win a medal in the Winter Olympics. I can't walk in their shoes, exactly. I personally, as an athlete, would be very happy not to go to protest. But am I doing more good by going and being there or doing things with it or am I better off not to? That's always the challenge.
The LGBT community, it's the civil rights issue of the 21st century, at least the first half of it. We're at the tipping point.
Q: Could you have imagined the accomplishments in your life?
A: I knew as a youngster I wanted to be No. 1 in tennis. I knew by 12 my platform would be tennis, but my real life was going to be wrapped around equality and social justice. I felt like I had a tremendous sense of destiny.
As King points out in the documentary, "I know I'm very idealistic. I'm off the charts on it. But that's OK — I think that's what keeps me going. I've been yelling and screaming that I've got one big thing left in me."


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Australian store leaks new Nikon D600 camera
- 13 September, 2012 12:40
Australian discount electronics retailer Ryda.com.au has published a listing for the as-yet-unannounced Nikon D600 digital SLR, leaking the camera's details before an official release.
• Australian prices confirmed for the Nikon D600
<b>UPDATE: </b>Nikon has now officially announced the D600. Click here to see the full press release.
The Ryda Web store shows a listing for the Nikon D600 camera in a body-only configuration, with no bundled lens, for a $2699 price. Nikon Australia does not release recommended retail pricing for its products, but instead lets retailers choose pricing at their discretion.
Industry rumour site Nikon Rumors believes the Ryda listing is not credible. The site's founder believes the store is jumping the gun before the official announcement, to secure pre-orders from eager fans: "Their price is not correct. This is not a leak, they are just guessing and trying to get some traffic."
The D600 will sit below the recently-released D800 and D800E in Nikon's digital SLR line-up; it's the cheapest and most basic full-frame digital SLR ever to be released by the company. It's a legitimate successor to the long-selling D700 digital SLR, which was released in July 2008.
If Ryda's web listing is to believed, the D600 has a 24.7-megapixel full frame imaging sensor in Nikon's FX format. A 39-point autofocus system, 4fps continuous-shooting burst mode, and 'small and lightweight body' are other selling points.
Ryda's web team have posted their thoughts on the D600's release, and their expectations of pricing and release date:
As you may or may not be aware on the 13th September 2012 Nikon will be releasing what we are willing to call 'the best new camera to market in a decade'. For too long now full frame DSLR cameras have been extremely expensive and for the semi amateur or enthusiast all but out of reach. Nikon recently released the Nikon D800 DSLR camera and we have not been able to keep up with demand and at the time we called it the best camera to hit the market in many years.
The company says they don't have many details to share with customers yet, but will update the site as an official announcement is made:
We don't have a lot more information at this time but will make it available along with Nikon authorised imaging and videos as soon as they become available.
We are fairly confident of being able to supply stock of this camera within 7 days but if the release of the big brother to this camera the D800 is any guide you would want to have your order in very quickly.
NOTE: The price suggested above is only a guide and we do not believe the new Nikon D600 will exceed the price displayed what we are hoping is to reduce it considerably.
PC World has contacted Nikon Australia for comment.
Update: Nikon has officially announced the D600. The full press release follows:


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Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics.
1. Reports of Olympic Village As Giant Orgy Greatly Exaggerated | United Kingdom
The UK's Daily Mail, as is their wont, contributes front line reporting over the weekend on the after dark comings and goings (and comings!) of libertine Olympians.
The intrepid Tom Wolfes at the Mail would have you believe the Olympic Village has devolved into a orgiastic wade pool of unrestrained carnality—all those lithe bodies in form-fitting one-pieces gone berserk with lust, tweeting pictures of themselves dressed only in Olympic-branded bathrobes or as Olympic-branded firemen—burning through "a record 150,000 condoms (50,000 more than at the last Olympics)...15 each for the duration of the 17-day Games...[or] enough to keep [South Pacific island nation] Tuvalu's entire population going for a year or more."
But really, as truly is its wont, the Mail overpromises in order to grab more readers. As the maxim goes, the less sexy truth will out, and the paper relents that the hottest it gets is an American-founded book club, currently enjoying Nicole Krauss' The History Of Love.
"We just train, sleep and relax," said Namibian wrestler Sem Shilimela, as quoted by The Mail. "I play around on my laptop but rarely go down to the bar. I mainly stay in my room."
2. A Walk-Off Loss: Runner Ditches Race, Gets Thrown Out Of Games | Algeria
Yet another Olympian has received a harsh penalty for failing to give his all in an event. Algerian runner Taoufik Makhloufi has been barred by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after he refused to finish his heat for the 800m. Makhoulfi was not up to anything nefarious though. He simply didn't want to run in the race because he wasn't supposed to be entered in it to begin with.
According to SportLive.com, Makhoulfi's team forgot to withdraw him from the 800m race by the appropriate deadline, meaning that he had to participate in the qualifying heats anyway. Makhoufli lined up in the starting blocks, ran to the back straight of the track, and then simply stopped running and walked into the track's infield. The IAAF saw this refusal to compete as grounds for excluding Makhoulfi from the rest of the Olympic games.
This is very bad news for Makhoulfi, who won the 1500m semifinal by defeating world champion Asbel Kiprop. As it currently stands, Makhoulfi's punishment would prevent him from competing in the 1500m final, a race in which he would no doubt be a serious threat to win gold.
However Makhoulfi could be reinstated in time for Tuesday's 1500m final if he can get a medical certificate from a local doctor, which, you know, doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
3. Father of the First Saudi Woman to Compete in the Games is Suing Twitter Trash-Talkers | Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's first-ever female Olympian, judokan Wojdan Shaherkani, lasted just 82 seconds before she was eliminated from the Games by Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica. Her presence at the Games was nonetheless a monumental milestone for women's rights in Saudi Arabia, and in London, she left the mat to a standing ovation.
She wasn't received quite as well on Twitter, and now her father is going to do something about the racist, sexist and otherwise insulting messages about his daughter.
The Saudi Gazette reports that Shaherkani's father plans to sue all those who defamed his daughter on Twitter in advance of or after her fight. (The paper actually says he "vowed to" sue them, but he retained a lawyer, so it seems likely that this vow was more than just shaking his fist at the heavens.) "I have sent an urgent letter to the Minister of Interior Prince Ahmed Bin Abdul Aziz with copies of all attacks made on Twitter," Ali Seraj Shaherkani told the paper.
It may seem odd for Americans that one could effectively argue that Twitter users using defamatory language against a public figure are guilty of a crime—after all, Allison Schmitt probably couldn't win a case against the legions of tweeters who think she's "retarted"—but as we've seen in Great Britain and during Euro 2012 this summer, there is precedent for prosecuting those who transmit racist or threatening messages about athletes over social media. In Wales, a student spent 56 days in jail for tweeting racist (and generally insensitive comments) about Fabrice Muamba, and this article from the Guardian has a good rundown of court cases stemming from abusive tweets.
Note: We searched Twitter and the tweeters seemed to be united in support of Shahrkani, but perhaps if we could read Arabic, we'd see otherwise.
4. Removal Of Taiwanese Flag Hurts "Taiwanese Feelings" | Taiwan
The country of Taiwan, despite being independent from mainland China for the last 63 years, still has to make concessions so as not to anger its powerful enemy. For example, at the Olympics it competes as Chinese Taipei (instead of its formal name Republic of China) and flies a very different flag made especially for the Games.
In an attempt to further mollify the Chinese, the Taiwanese Sports Affairs Council and Tourism Council sent out "friendly reminders" to London-bound travelers to leave their official Republic of China flags at home.
The travelers themselves were unimpressed: "I guess this is what people would call 'self-castration'," Alain Chen told the Taipei Times.
But Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou seems to finally be tiring of all the concessions. After a Chinese complaint led the Taiwanese national flag to be removed from a row hanging over London's Regent Street, Ma denounced the move as "unwise," adding, "the removal of the national flag has...hurt the feelings of Taiwan's people."
5. Show Jumper Upset Over Horseshit Decision | Canada
Canada's equestrian team suffered an unexpected setback 20 minutes before the start of yesterday's team jumping preliminaries when Victor, the horse of show jumper Tiffany Foster, was banned for "hypersensitivy" in his front left hoof, according to the Globe and Mail.
The team protested, offering to take Victor out of stall to walk around and prove his fitness, yet the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) refused, saying their decision was final, and could not be appealed. "It's insane," Canadian rider Eric Lamaze said. "It's a joke."
This left team Canada with three riders, while the other teams had four and were able to drop their lowest score. The last time Canada was forced to use three horses, at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, they took home the silver medal. This time around, despite the disqualification minutes before competition, they were able to advance to Monday's final in sixth place.
Canada's main gripe is with how the examination of Victor was performed. Foster insists wouldn't do anything to jeopardize her mount's well-being. According to the Calgary Herald, Victor's "injury" was discovered with a thermological exam-a highly sensitive infrared imaging procedure.
Rider Torchy Millar called for the FEI to reconsider the way it makes such important decisions: "This is like getting a scratch on your finger and the referee saying you're unfit for competition. Every rule needs to be applied with a sense of balance, perspective and common sense. To me, and compatriots from other teams, this seems to lack any balance at all."
Kate Bennert, Isaac Rauch, Dan Gartland, Max Lakin, and Tom Ley contributed to this article.
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Von den Entwicklern von netKar Pro wird es 2012 eine von Grund auf neu erstellte Rennsimulation geben.
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Rome, 23rd December 2011 - Kunos Simulazioni is pleased to announce the development of a new racing game for Windows PC. The release is expected within 2012, with the title of "Assetto Corsa".
General info
Title: Assetto Corsa ®
Developer: Kunos Simulazioni
Publisher: Kunos Simulazioni
Distribution: Digital delivery
Official website: assettocorsa.net
Format/Platform: PC Windows Vista/7 32/64
Genre: Racing simulation
Release date: 2012
"Assetto Corsa" is an Italian term, meaning "race prepared", which echoes the passion of every racer in their quest for pure automotive performance.
Therefore, it's an appropriate title for this racing simulation for the Windows PC dedicated to motorsport and the automotive world. This simulation game is set to include several kinds of vehicles: Road cars, GT cars, LMP prototypes, track-day cars, as well as modern and historic single seaters.
Version 1.0 will feature several tracks, including some of the most famous locations in motorsport. These tracks have been reproduced using laser scanning technology, which maps every bump and characteristic of the track. This allows the software to realistically reproduce the behaviour of the car when pushed it to its limits.
Assetto Corsa is the first video game that will use the new "AC Engine" developed by Kunos Simulazioni: the AC engine is a new software technology based on Microsoft DirectX11, designed on the basis of the know-how accumulated by the development team, that thanks to the recent experience with Ferrari, has worked as close as you can get with the highest profiles of motorsport and is now developing a software platform capable of meeting the needs of racing enthusiasts, videogame players, professional real and virtual racers.
The concept for "Assetto Corsa" was born in 2008, and developed in parallel with the team's more public projects. The new technology was never intended to be an evolution of the netKar PRO line, but more like a completely new approach to simulation software, based on the lessons learned in ten years of activity in this field.
In addition, the positive reviews gathered by Netkar PRO and Ferrari Virtual Academy have provided the informations needed to create a new racing game that will meet the expectations of the community and sim.racers: real cars, real tracks, various game modes, a complete and satisfying single player experience, with the chance to customize the game with cars, circuits and contents made by the community itself.
Assetto Corsa - Main features
-DirectX 11 graphics engine
-Advanced physics model
-Accurate car dynamic modeling
-Innovative artificial intellicence algorithms
-Multiplayer races over the Internet
-Fully customizable graphical user interface
-Immersive 3D sounds
-Official licensed cars (single seaters, Production, GT, GTR, historic F1 and GT cars, prototypes, and so on )
-Official licensed tracks modeled using Laserscan technology (modern, historic, closed tracks, open courses)
-Extensive support for user created mods
Assetto Corsa is a new PC-based racing game for Windows, expected to be released in 2012. Assetto Corsa is being designed to provide a very realistic driving experience, with single player and multiplayer options, officially licensed cars and tracks developed using Laser scan technology, and the highest level of accuracy possible in reproducing real world motor racing environments. Also, Assetto Corsa will allow for considerable customisation and modification, in order to satisfy the expectations of professional simracers, gamers who prefer to approach the driving experience more progressively, and hobbyists who just like to collect lots of cars and tracks.
Assetto Corsa takes advantage of the experience acquired by the Kunos Simulazioni team with the development of netKar PRO and FerrariVirtual Academy, both titles being notable as two of the best in the genre for their advanced physics model and vehicle dynamics. Our R&D office, located just inside the international racing circuit of Vallelunga, allows the team to develop the game with the cooperation of real world racing drivers and racing teams. The Assetto Corsa physics engine has been designed and coded from the ground up, using practical knowledge acquired from working closely with the elite of motorsport in order to engineer the best possible accuracy of physics and tactility of feeling. A physics engine like this begs to be used with officially licensed content: As such, Assetto Corsa will include renditions of international circuits, global car brands, racing prototypes, historic cars, single seaters and some of the most iconic cars ever built, providing a complete, and exciting,racing experience!
Every day simracing enthusiasts write to us asking for us to add support for modding and customisation to our products. We recognize that in the simracing community there are a lot of talented people able to recreate cars and tracks with accuracy and passion, often to a better standard than commercial products. As such, we have decided to design Assetto Corsa as a modular simulation system that allows players to express themselves at their best by creating the mods they desire. Therefore, within Assetto Corsa the interface, overlays and the core software are designed to be fully customizable allowing additional mods made by the simracing community to enhance the simulation, allowing it to thrive. Can't find your favourite car or track? With Assetto Corsa, you will be able to make it yourself! Also, Assetto Corsa will include several racing, practice, and competition options in order to satisfy any need for fun and entertainment.
During the development of Assetto Corsa, we will be collecting videos, pictures and writing a development diary. Soon we will be sharing with the community "The Making of Assetto Corsa"development blog: From here you can follow us to discover how we develop Assetto Corsa, look inside our facilities, and behind the scenes at some of the most famous racing circuits and car brands. See for yourself the hard work and skill that goes into the production of a racing simulation.
Assetto Corsa is an independent project fully funded entirely by Kunos Simulazioni. Like you, we are driven by a passion for racing games and motorsport. We have re-invested our resources and funds in order to remain independent, since we believe this is the only way to produce a genuine simulation. Assetto Corsa will include official licensed contents (like car brands and race circuits) reproduced using Laser scan Technology. Official licensing and Laser scanning put a heavy demand on a small independent development team like Kunos Simulazioni in terms of the money required.
From December 1, 2011, all earnings from the sales of netkar PRO and our royalties from Ferrari Virtual Academy sales will be re-invested to acquire licenses for cars and tracks in addition to those that will be included in the version 1.0release of Assetto Corsa.
About Kunos Simulazioni
Kunos Simulazioni is an Italian software house formed by a team of people strongly motivated by the passion for motorsport, who cover several responsibilities: game engine programming, sound and physical modeling, vehicle dynamics, graphic representation of cars and race tracks reproduced using innovative technologies.
The R&D office, located inside Vallelunga racing circuit, allows the team to be in touch with the drivers and teams hosted on the track during private tests and race weekends; this gives the chance to acquire data from the racing teams and feedback from the drivers who test the simulation software. The chance to receive different opinions and feedback, rather than rely on a "testimonial drivers", can produce a more truthful input and provides a significant advantage in creating a highly realistic driving simulation.
Following this strategy, over the past three years, Kunos Simulations has acquired extensive know-how, which allowed the development of a new improved physics model that will surpass the already critically acclaimed engine behind our productions "netKar PRO" and "Ferrari Virtual Academy".
The opportunity to have a "domestic" circuit not only provides a smart comparison of simulation algorithms, but also allows the team to contain costs of research and development: the careful management of costs is essential, being Kunos Simulazioni an independent studio whose birth and growth is based exclusively on the professional resources of its founders and the revenue generated by its productions.
With the launch of "Assetto Corsa", the team is back in the game, investing its resources in carrying out an ambitious new project with the aim to become a milestone in the virtual world of racing.
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