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March 01 2011Qualcomm and Gameloft Enter Into Strategic Relationship for HD Mobile Games - Collaboration to Offer Optimal Mobile Gaming Experience on Advanced Hardware -
San francisco — March 1, 2011—Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced it has signed an agreement with Gameloft, an industry leader in developing and publishing digital and online video games, to deliver an enhanced mobile gaming experience for top Gameloft game titles, such as "SpiderMan Total Mayhem HD," "Real Football 2011 HD," "GT Racing: Motor Academy HD" and "Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus." As an industry leader in mobile processors for tablets and smartphones, Qualcomm has collaborated with Gameloft to optimize Gameloft's premier HD mobile games for Qualcomm's current and future generation Snapdragon® processors, such as the MSM®8x55 and dual-core MSM8x60.
Gameloft has successfully worked with Qualcomm to leverage the Adreno® GPU for games such as "Assassin's Creed Altair's Chronicles." With this new agreement, Qualcomm and Gameloft will look to expand this relationship across the growing Snapdragon family of processors to optimize Gameloft's premier games for Android-based devices, starting with the above mentioned four titles and potentially expanding to others over the course of the year. Qualcomm's Snapdragon dual-core CPU processors include two asynchronous CPU cores that will run at up to 1.5 GHz per core, embedded Adreno 220 GPU and advanced multimedia capabilities, including a high performance DSP for Dolby5.1, SRS and other surround sound technologies, Adobe® Flash 10 hardware acceleration, video accelerators for full HD 1080p encode and decode and support to display the games on large screen TVs using standards interfaces such as HDMI.
"We are pleased to be working closely with Gameloft to pre-optimize their impressive portfolio of mobile games for Snapdragon processors," said Raj Talluri, vice president of product management for Qualcomm. "The combination of Snapdragon's dynamic Adreno GPU technology along with the game development expertise of Gameloft will bring some of the most exciting game franchises to tablets and smartphones this year."
"We are happy to work with Qualcomm to bring a great gaming experience to tablets and smartphones powered by Snapdragon processors," said Baudouin Corman, vice president of Gameloft Publishing Americas. "These powerful devices also will help enable the development of immersive games such as 'Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD,' 'N.O.V.A. - Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance' and others. Gameloft is committed to delivering the best HD games to the Android platform and we are pleased to work with Qualcomm to take it to the next level."
For more information about the Snapdragon family of processors and Adreno GPU, please visit www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon.
Gameloft is the worldwide leader in developing and publishing downloadable video games. The company designs games for smartphones and other mobile devices, for which the number of units should exceed four billion in 2012. Gameloft has locations on all continents, distributes its games in 100 countries and has its own production studios with over 3,500 developers. Gameloft is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
About Qualcomm
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The -- -- of the -- campaign sparking new debate over the role of women voters in the presidential contest now one conservative group called the -- lobby says.
That the picture painted by the president's campaign.
Isn't reality.
And the shape and founder of the money bodies joining us today thank you so much for being here and -- big -- campaign received lots of attention.
Talking about how all of the fictional Julia.
Would be cared for.
By the government from cradle to grave.
And it.
It's -- picture it was showing that if she is not.
Place in a situation where government programs -- -- to take care for that her future that's probably why you take issue with this.
We take issue -- that for one simple fact.
Women don't need nor want the government take care of them from -- and they want to independence.
And the freedom to make sound decisions and to take advantage of the opportunities that America as it was founded was have to have -- them.
How important do you think this voting bloc is in this election women voters.
-- and independent and conservative voters especially are extremely.
Important this election.
They really will make the determining factor this November.
-- -- women are very concerned about economic issues what you're doing house and mothers particularly.
Have to realize you know and understand.
Obviously that there their roles are very important and also that they play a pivotal role in terms of making sure but budget for -- etc.
and yet.
People like yourself believe that it's really important not to.
Continue to show that government programs are.
The air for the taking and that it's important to go into for direction I think the most important thing that women voters are especially.
Concerned -- -- the selections is and is the economy mean the bottom line is is that.
We have so many problems right now there's over at the unemployment rate really the real on a -- -- fourteen point 5%.
Over 320 for a thousand women are dropping just have just dropped out of the workforce.
We a federal budget that is not we haven't had a federal budget in three years the deficit and the debt are out of control.
Women really are looking for somebody that is a strong leader and our.
One in it federal basically wanna commit to come -- and take control and the thing we can get this country how -- -- message out there.
We talked to women all the time and we just we explain to them what the real priorities are at that -- Alex -- really just asked them what are their priorities.
And the reality is is that the economy.
Jobs jobs jobs that's what they want you to hear a lot on the news about how the most important things are things are reproductive health.
Really that is not a top tier issue for women and -- the real -- -- issues are.
The economy they want to know that -- that they can.
Basically pay their bills -- the in the month for birth control.
That's great but it won't pay the bills it won't put -- on the table and it will not put gas in the car they meet job security.
And a strong economy in particular version we've been talking about today how much of -- factors that could -- I honestly think that in the real world in.
You know in real America.
There it they're important but they're not that important they're probably on the -- realist -- they're governor I mean they're really at the bottom of the list most important things are.
Or is the economy and knowing that the country is really getting back on track -- -- -- thank you so much for joining -- we can come back with you throughout the campaign and appreciate your comments thank you so much.
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By PETER HARTLAUB / San Francisco Chronicle
In terms of pure ensemble acting firepower, "LUV" rivals any movie released in 2012. Charles S. Dutton, Danny Glover and Dennis Haysbert are complemented by what appears to be half the cast of "The Wire."
Sheldon Candis doesn't get star struck directing "LUV," a scrappy coming-of-age drama – which retains its tense pull on viewers even as it unravels in the final act. The strength is in the performances and visual detail. The flaws are mostly in the script, which asks the youngest cast member to pull off a near-impossible transformation.
Starring: Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Meagan Good, Lonette McKee, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton
Behind the scenes: Directed by Sheldon Candis
Rating: R for violence, language, child endangerment and some drug content
Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Playing: At AMC 30 at the Outlets of Orange (See movie times)
The quick hit
Drama about an 11-year-old boy who gets a crash course in adult life when he spends the day with his uncle, an ex-con trying to start a new business. Grade: C
Multitalented rapper Common is Vincent, an uncle just released from prison who takes his elementary school-age nephew Woody (Michael Rainey Jr.) out of school for a day to teach him how to be a man. Vincent is trying to do right but is willing to commit wrongs to meet his goals. He studied business in prison and kept good relations with his criminal allies. It's quickly apparent that he's not prepared for the world he has re-entered.
Candis has a wonderful grasp on the characters and the Baltimore community – Vincent's trip to get Woody a suit reveals more about their relationship than any amount of narration could. Common embraces the contradictions in his performance, remaining sympathetic even when it becomes clear that the child is the better role model of the pair. ("Flowers from the earth, man – God own them," he says, after Woody questions his theft of a bouquet.)
The narrative falls apart when the audience is asked to swallow the skittish Woody's sudden transformation into a fast-thinking tough guy. He's learning to drive one moment and pulling getaway duty a few scenes later. He can't talk to girls, then outthinks a drug dealer. The operatic resolution doesn't help, offering almost none of the nuance that made the first parts a pleasure to watch.
None of the above is a knock against Candis and his abilities behind the camera. Some excellent artists – David Simon, Barry Levinson and John Waters – have documented Baltimore, and Candis has something new to add. Even with similar themes to Simon's work, "LUV" never feels like imitation.
Among "The Wire" alums, Michael K. Williams proves his drug dealer-robbing Omar character could have been a pretty good detective as well. And Anwan Glover, the former Slim Charles, shows once again why he's a great narration choice for any filmmaker who can't afford Morgan Freeman or Sam Elliott.


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Posted by Noga Gur-Arieh
* A group of Pro-Palestinians protested during a concert in Berlin, while the Israeli singing group, the Givatron, performed. The Israeli folk group was performing at a Jewish National Fund and Israeli House fundraiser when 10 protesters disrupted the show immediately after the first song, causing a riot and crying: "Free Palestine". The protesters included Palestinians residing in Germany, Iranians, a Spanish activist and two Israelis. They hurled JNF boxes and Givatron CDs and knocked over signs. But the performers did not let the provocateurs confuse them, and continued their performance to the applause of the audience.
* Yad Vashem Chairman, Avner Shalev was appointed by the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, to be a Vice Chairman of the International Council of the Auschwitz- Birkenau State Museum. The council was founded in the year of 2000, and was tasked with advising the Polish government on the preservation of the memorial sites at former Nazi death-camps in Poland. The Council includes 21 members from Poland, the United States, Britain, France and Germany.
* Nowadays, somewhere after Sukkot, is the time of the year when the weather goes crazy. In the natural order of the world, the summer is coming to an end by the end of August (give or take a week), and make room for fall and then winter. But our small Israel, has always refused to play by the rules. Each year during the months of September and Ocboter, no one really knows what to expect. In the past week we've had two storms that took us all by surprise, both followed by scalding hot sun. I believe there wasn't a single Israeli left dry when the sky opened up in the middle of the day, while everyone was wearing shorts and sandals, hanging out in the beach or the park…
* An archeological excavation conducted by the Israeli Antiquities Authority exposed prehistoric finds. The excavation, which was conducted on behalf of the National Roads Company prior the widening of Highway 79, encompassed an area of about half a mile on both sides of the road and lasted this past year. While digging, the archeologists found Prehistoric settlement remains that range in date from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (c. 10,000 years ago) to the Early Bronze Age (c. 5,000 years ago). The findings include a string of colored beads in a bowl, images of ostriches carved on a stone plaque and more, and are now presented in Ein Zippori site near the Sea of Galilee.
* A Boeing 787 (Dreamliner) aircraft landed at Ben-Gurion Airport for the first time this past Tuesday, with a commercial Ethiopian Airlines' flight from Addis Ababa. This progressed and highly developed aircraft originally intended to land in Israel on October 16th, but due to operational reasons, it made its first landing Tuesday morning. A special ceremony will be held next week. The spokesperson of Ethiopian Airlines said they chose to bring the plane to Israel as a gesture to their Israeli passengers who have faith in the company. The modern plane is built from composite materials and was built with a "green" vision, allowing for significant lower air pollution than other aircraft. /An Israeli family has recently founded an aid organization called "Israel for Africa", which purpose is to get Israeli and Jewish backpackers who travel in Africa to help around where needed. Voluntarily, of course. The Milo family, who founded this private organization, also donated the money to help it get started.
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October 12, 2012 | 11:19 am
Posted by Noga Gur-Arieh
Mashina is The Rolling Stones of Israel. They are considered Israel's most influential rock band, as they stand behind many of the music milestones in Israel. They have taken over the playlists in 1983, and have been making hits ever since (except of a break they took from 1995 to 2003). Their songs are all rock, moving on the scale from soft ballads to hard-rock, and I love almost every single one of their songs. The members of the band, which are considered very respectable musicians, are: Yuval Banai, Shlomi Bracha, Iggy Dayan, Avner Hodorov and Michael Benson.
I really love all of their songs, but here are my favorite two:
Ein Makom Acher (there's no other place)- Every time I listen to this song I start jumping around
Ba'Rechovot Shelanu (in our streets)
October 10, 2012 | 10:21 am
Posted by Noga Gur-Arieh
After spending eight days in Israel, as a part of the Once in a Lifetime program of the Stand With Us Fellowship organization, ten influential Instagram users from all over the world returned to their homes, carrying memories of an unforgetable trip from north to south (including a meeting with the President). In those eight days, the ten Instagramers captured every aspect of Israel, and shared their best creations with their total of three million followers. Two of the talented modern cameramen, Carli Liene (@inkedfingers), a 28 year old from Austin, Texas; and Dave Temple (@kewiki), a 36 year old from Chicago, Indiana, agreed to share some of their best work with Israelife readers. They collected what they thought captured Israel in the best way, through their eyes, for you to enjoy.
Dave, a first-timer in our beautiful Israel, sure won't forget his visit: "My time in Israel was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. The history, food, architecture, and most importantly the people, make this place one of the most incredible places I've ever visited. It is a photographer's paradise and I definitely will be back! I thank Israel for being such a wonderful host and helping me to understand more about the country. The Once in a Lifetime HD group should also be commended for acting as excellent ambassadors for Israel and showing our group that Israel is full of life and love."
The full photo albums of all ten Instagramers are presented on their pages.
October 8, 2012 | 10:30 am
Posted by Noga Gur-Arieh
* Israeli achievement at the Computer Olympics: students from 81 countries worldwide competed in Italy on various computer-related tasks such as solving complex algorithms. The level of problems the contestants solved was higher than what grad-school computer students are facing in class. The Israeli team was ranked 19, and won a total of two silver medals and one bronze medal. The US team, if you were wondering, came in first.
* Apple's flunk turns to Waze's success: Waze is an Israel start up combining GPS system with a social network. Waze's users contribute map data, and report traffic incidents, delays, police ambushes, etc. ,which can help other users find alternative routes or directions and get to their destination as soon as possible. This Israeli program initially operated only in Israel, but slowly started to grow and expand. In perfect timing, Apple's new "Maps" feature for IPhone brought frustration upon millions of users, due to bugs and errors. This lead Apple CEO Tim Cook to recommend Apple users to use competing software such as the Waze, while the issues are being fixed. This recommendation came in just in time for Waze's founders, and gave the Israeli mapping application a huge boost.
After the Red Hot Chili Peppers rocked Israel last month, we received some more great news: Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morisette will land here in December for a single performance, as a part of her "Guardian Angel" international tour. It's always great news when an international performer considers Israel in a tour, and when the performer is Alanis Morisette, the news is even greater!
* The Barcelona soccer team has recently invited former captive IDF soldier, Gilad Shalit, to attend the October 7th match against Real Madrid. This lead Hamas calling for a media boycott of the soccer club, and caused quite the shenanigans. In response, the team has invited three Palestinians to also attend the match: soccer player Mahmoud Al Sarsak, who was held in an Israeli jail for three years until being released this year following a hunger strike, along with the president of the Palestinian Football Union Jibril Rajoub and the Palestinian Authority ambassador to Spain.
* The day of the recruitment to the IDF is usually far from making anyone dance. It is long and tiring, and on top of it all-it's the day you say goodbye to your free will for two to three years. That is why everyone in the recruitment center was surprised when Ran Bronstein, on his first day as a soldier, started to dance. 24 year-old Bronstein, who made Alyiah from the States in 2007 to join the IDF, took a camera with him to the first day, and captured every moment of his process of becoming a soldier. Since he couldn't hold his excitement of finally serving his country, he started to dance in front of the camera and didn't stop until the finalization of the recruitment chain. The five minute long video clip was approved by the IDF spokesperson only recently, and Bronstein uploaded it on YouTube. It's been online for about two weeks now, and has already become a hit, showing everyone that recruitment can also be a positive, fun experience.
October 6, 2012 | 11:00 am
Posted by Noga Gur-Arieh
Maya Isacowitz is an Israeli singer-songwriter, who performs in English. She released her first single, "Is it Alright" in 2011, and since, she continues to grow a mass of loyal fans, and has more and more recognition on national radio stations. In spite of her success, Isacowitz is far from being a Diva or a larger than life rock star. She stands aside of the spotlight and maintaining an image of a serious artist, while creating a hight- qualit soulful Folk-Rock-Indie music that goes straight to your heart.
Is it Alright
Rehab (a cover to Rihanna's song)
October 4, 2012 | 3:09 pm
Posted by Noga Gur-Arieh
When I read the paper this morning, I found something rather disturbing, which grew worse when I noticed no one else addressed the issue: a magazine called Family Circle held a cookie contest between the incumbent First Lady, Michelle Obama, and the opposing candidate's spouse, Anne Romney. Apparently, this has been going on since 1992, but I just heard about it today. This contest took place right before the first presidential debate, and got coverage almost as serious and profound. No one mentioned the burning issue of the matter, but I sure hope someone noticed. If not, we, as a society, have some serious problems. As the men of both houses discuss the very serious matters of foreign policy, financial situations and stability in the Middle East, the wives compete in baking. In other words: as the men compete for the title: Leader of the Free world, the women compete for the title: Best Frosting. Did someone build a time machine that brought us back to the 50's? As much as I would like to believe in that, I will have to settle for what this really is: sexism and humiliation in disguise.
Since I am not from the States, and our pre-election time runs quite differently, I might sound like a crazy person to some of you. After all, this has been going on for a decade now, and no feminist organization is yet to shut it down. So with my foreign point of view, let me tell you this doesn't look good. This contest points out the wife stereotype women fought for so long to make disappear. The only reason I can think of for why this is still going on is the cultural differences between us. To you, this is a routine campaign event prior the election. The wives are addressing potential electors who don't show interest in the debates, by making something much simpler than world peace. In a way, this is completely okay, and even admirable, because in Israel there are neither debates nor any particular interest in the wives of the candidates. Our pre-election culture is not nearly as developed as yours, and yet, I can't relate to some of your choices for what's proper for that time. Perhaps you find it right to put the fight for women's equality aside for a day, for the important effort to find the next US president. Perhaps this is the day when even the most radical feminists put down the torches, because this baking contest is a way to get more people to vote.
I'm not in any place to say if this is right or wrong in your eyes, the same way I don't like it when people put themselves ahead of us, deciding for us what the best strategy with our neighbors is. I am just sharing my thoughts with you, and telling you what I, the foreign newspaper reader, saw today.
October 2, 2012 | 10:10 am
Posted by Noga Gur-Arieh
After a week of UN speeches, I had the urge to tell you about politicians from my point of view. For several days now my mind has been occupied with a rumble of thoughts and feelings, and I figured the only way I can make sense of it all is to write it down. So who are politicians? They are people we vote for, usually once every four years, to represent us. We choose many, for various roles and parts, while only one of them is chosen to sit on top. This person is the State leader, and he/she is the best and worst of them all. State leaders have the most responsibility, and thus they are under the most pressure. They can try and handle it in a smart way, but the outcome is usually one big mess, with only us to blame.
When we cast our votes, we usually rely on a bundle of promises, packed one on top of another, creating a utopean vision that can never happen. We, the voters, are fully aware of the non-existing reliability of those promises, but choose to believe them anyway. Why? Probably because we crave those things, and by hearing our wildest dreams being realized from the mouth of a soon-to-be important person, we act like we're under a spell. Politicians have a very sharp tongue, especially during an election year. They know exactly what to say, and we listen. We are attracted to their words like a moth to fire, and eventually vote according to their speeches, and not by relying on past actions. We are forgiving, and therefore willing to give a second chance to a mouthful of promises we want to hear so badly. After we cast our vote to the greatest promiser we lay back and wait for the magic to happen. But since our State leaders are not Walt Disney, that's not possible. As time passes by, they make sincere attempts to follow their promises and make them reality, only to discover that's not possible. Then, as we wait patiently, they try to figure a way out, and spend about a year or so coming up with reasonable excuses. At first, we get angry, as we are tired of waiting for Utopia. We promise ourselves to never fall for their traps ever again, and begin to protest against our unrealized dreams. Then, as the election date comes closer, the game changes yet again.
A part of a politician's job is to make speeches. In fact, this is their primary job and the first requirement for the part. State leaders get to make the most meaningful speeches at the top of the political world- the UN. This is the one and only neutral organization which is as far from neutral as Britney Spears is from sanity. The closer the election date is, the more vague and more grandiose their speeches become. They basically stand behind the podium and throw words like "Peace", "Will not allow", "middle east", "obligation" and "friendship" to the air, without mentioning names and without actually saying anything. Then, when their job is done, our job begins, because the interpretation is on us. The day after, newspapers are filled with the finest journalists' attempts to realize what the State leader had said. At this point, each and every one of us forms an opinion based on the newspaper we read. The politician basically sits back at his/her chair, smiling to one self. Their job is done. Ours is just beginning.
One other fact about politicians is that they have selective hearing when it comes to the world's worst enemies. A leader of a hostile country, who may put the world in danger, can say a sentence which starts with "Death to all Israelis" and ends with "Let the peace begin", and the state leaders will only hear the latter. Politicians, just like the rest of us prior to elections, can also put words and actions to a complete separation. Examples? Coming right up! When a tyrant like Assad butchers his people and then poses for a family portrait for a top magazine, smiling shyly and being quoted saying things about the peace and love, politicians will take that as a statement of peace. When Ahmadinejad makes a peace sign to the camera, while building a nuclear bomb which is officially stated for the destruction of Israel, politicians will zoom in on the peace sign without reading in between the lines (or looking at newspapers' headlines).
This leads me to the next politicians' characteristic- they are naïve. Well, they're either that or they're really good actors. I personally believe that a politician who truly believes Ahmadinejad craves peace is in the wrong business. And since they obviously make beautiful speeches and have ravishing charisma, they are in the right business, meaning they honestly can't really believe in his peace and love screen of lies. A politician who says he believes peace in the Middle East will arrive shortly is naïve. Same goes for the unbelievable politicians who listen to Ahmadinejad stating he intends to destroy every last Israeli and then shakes hands with him, saying his nuclear weapon is for research. A politician saying any of those things is a politician who sits far away from here, and has no clue what's really going on. This is a politician who has a lack of understanding of just how important Israel is for maintaining of peace in the Middle East. There are far more than one politician of that kind. There are countless politicians who truly believe in fairytale peace without changing a thing, or simply by exchanging words with our Prime Minister (who is quite a politician himself). This will not bring peace, and these are NOT the people who should sit on top of the political-diplomatic ladder.
A true state leader, the one we really need, is a person who sticks to what he believes in, even during the election year. A true state leader is the person who is willing to make a change in this world, come what may. A person who is willing to take a risk for the sake of humanity. A true state leader will not only say all of this, but actually do, and "do" is the key word. I am a realistic person, which means I have almost lost hope in such a Messiah, but deep inside, I am still looking for the politician who will bring back our belief in that profession. The most important thing we all must remember is that both the blame and the hope is on us. We must not forgive and forget like we do once in every four years or so. We must remember and face all of the wrongs and rights, not listen to polls or promises, and fight for out Utopia.
October 1, 2012 | 11:00 am
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* Moran Itzkovitch (34), an Israeli with a dream, will lift off on a hot air balloon, on a journey across five continents. Itzkovitch, along with a group of one Israeli and eight Americans, will lift off from the Gilboa in Israel on October 3rd and participate in the Israeli hot air balloon festival in the south. Two days later, they will take a boat to Virginia, US, hover over ten states, and from there fly to South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. The journey is due to last one year, but according to Itzkovitch, nothing is certain when using a hot air balloon as transportation.
* In the past decade, a contest called Junior Eurovision took place. This is a singing competition starring children and aimed for children from all over Europe. The Junior Eurovision operates in a similar way to the official annual Eurovision Song Contest, where each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and radio and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. While Israel participates in the official contest since 1973 (with three wins), an Israeli delegation was invited to take part in the Junior Eurovision this year for the first time. In our delegation there are six members, ages 10 to 14, which will try to impress the rest of Europe on December 1st.
* Research on molecules' energy in coal earned Yuval Catzanelson (18) from Israel the first prize on First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics, an international contest which took place in Poland. The Israeli delegation had 16 members, from which 12 won various prizes and honorary scrolls in various categories. This made Israel come in first place as a delegation. But Catzanelson was the only Israeli member to win first prize in one of the most important categories in the contest. This will grant Catzanelson with a month-long stay in Poland, where he will perform research on his study, and will lecture in front of important figures in Physics from all over the world.
* A race car built by a group of Israeli students from Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, came in 11th on Formula SAE competition in Italy. 42 teams of Students from all over the world participated in the competition, where students design team develop a small Formula-style race car. The team that came in 1st place this year was the German team.
* Venezuela, which has no formal diplomatic relations with Israel, signed on an agreement with an Israeli company. This may not be a friendship statement, but this deal will defiantly bring Israel to Venezuela in a form of a settlement with an Israeli twist. According to the agreement, with a 400 million dollars investment- the Israeli company will build a Moshav- a unique Israeli form of settlement, which will contain 500 residence unites, schools and kindergartens, a dairy barn, chicken coops and a closed water base.
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He's an adorable, 400-pound bundle of joy and he will soon join the growing family of animals at the Indianapolis Zoo!
An orphaned male Pacific walrus calf found off the northern coast of Alaska is scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis by Oct. 10, 2012, and if all goes well with the acclimation to his new home, he could be on exhibit for the public to see sometime later this year.
The calf is believed to have been separated from a group of about 1,000 walruses that were sighted passing the Alaskan northern slope of Barrow, Alaska, in mid-July. After the calf was observed alone for several days, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) felt it was time to step in.
At the time of his rescue, the then-250-pound calf was estimated to be 4-6 weeks old — far too young to be without his mother — and suffering from dehydration and lice. In the wild, a walrus calf commonly stays with his mother for at least two years.
Since his rescue the calf has been in the care of the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, which provides care for sick and injured marine animals. Almost immediately the calf showed a very curious personality, and the SeaLife Center staff named him Pakak (PUCK'-UK), which means "one that gets into everything" in the northern Alaskan dialect of Inupiaq (ee-NYOOP-ee-ak).
A week after Pakak's rescue an even younger orphaned male walrus rescue was brought to Seward. The two calves have been living together since late July (that's the two of them snuggling together, at left).
Walrus are very tactile and social animals, and the dedicated staff and caretakers at the SeaLife Center provided the social interaction that a walrus calf would otherwise seek from other walrus. As a result, walrus calves almost immediately adjust to human care and therefore are not candidates for release back into the wild following rehabilitation. Watch this cute video of Pakak from the SeaLife Center.
However, because the SeaLife Center is it not large enough to be the permanent home to all the wildlife it rescues, the Indianapolis Zoo was honored to be selected by the USFWS to be selected as Pakak's permanent home (Check out Indianapolis Zoo marine mammal trainer Shauna Gallagher bonding with Pakak in Alaska, at right). Similarly, the New York Aquarium was chosen as the second calf's new permanent home.
Providing a safe and healthy living environment for rescued wildlife is a prime example of how zoos help make a positive difference in animal welfare and animal conservation.
Among other wildlife rescues currently in the Indianapolis Zoo's marine mammal collection are Taz, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin; Ray, a California sea lion; Pepper, a grey seal; and Tak, a harbor seal.
After arriving at the Zoo, Pakak will go into a mandatory 30-day quarantine, which is a standard policy for newly acquired animals as a precaution to protect all animals at the Indianapolis Zoo.
Following the holding period, he will join Aurora in the walrus exhibit. Indianapolis Zoo babies are presented by Community Health Network.


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As part of the transition to agile scrum at one company I worked for some key software engineering considerations: code maintainability, test coverage, extensibility and scalability came under review. Although products were being delivered, problems were being built into them.
As an engineering team we set ourselves the challenge to start practising TDD (Test Driven Development) within a year. This goal would force better code quality and the code would be future proof as it would be designed to accommodate change.
Such a goal isn't easy to reach. If the engineers aren't used to building software in a certain way they can't just start doing TDD. There needs a period of education; engineers need to loose bad habits.
Sending the engineers on a course could be an option, however, aside from the fact there may be no budget for that, to truly progress the adoption of a sustained learning process is far more beneficial.
We set up a series of weekly hour long internal seminars. Both engineers and the business made concessions; the time of the seminar was 1.30 – 2.30, half over lunch time and half during business hours. We booked a room away from the bustle of daily working life, organised a projector and all the engineers week by week presented on topics we believed would improve their standards of coding. We started by examining design patterns, but soon found we needed to revisit the core principles of OOP (Object Orientated Programming), with particular focus on the Bob Martin's PinciplesOfOod, also known as the S.O.L.I.D. principles.
Armed with a couple of really good books – Bob Martin's book Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# is a fantastic teaching aid – and a lot of support for each other, over a period of six months we moved on to look at the TTD approach and the team's standards started to improve. After those six months, all new work had to be built using TDD. This was partly successful during the following six months because it was not so easy to write tests against legacy code bases.
A year after the comments from the contractor, the team worked on a green field project. After only four weeks the system was complete. Code maintainability, measured using Microsoft Visual Studio's code metrics tool, averaged 80 points (which is good!). Test coverage was around 50% for the entire solution, but more importantly 80 -100% in the solution projects containing the business logic (a good post for how to write good unit tests). The engineers were practicing TDD 70% of the time, hindered by falling behind schedule due to problems communicating architectural design expectations.
This is a great achievement. Now the team pair programmes most of the time, working with each other to strive for excellence. Subsequent topics for the seminars included looking at "interfacing the ball of mud" in order to create testable code against legacy systems not designed for testability. The team designed strategies for refactoring legacy systems into a testable architecture and began adopting DDD. The internal seminar is a permanent fixture, anything can be discussed, although it is best to select topics relevent to the business.
It took the best part of a year to see real improvements; I don't know whether you think that is too long? I don't. It's difficult for a team to massively shift their practices whilst minimising the effect on their output for the business. The point is, if your business and team are willing to commit the time – the hour a week for the seminar – and your senior team design and constantly review a quarterly syllabus, the team will teach themselves and improve the quality of their work.


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Why Reforming American Higher Education Matters
December 6, 2004
by Candace de Russy
Virginia M. Fichera
With the new Congressional session fast approaching, debates on education will soon be heard on Capitol Hill, primarily concerning K-12 and "No Child Left Behind" in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, but also the delayed and contentious reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. As America attempts to meet formal challenges on so many academic frontiers, exactly what is the status of post-secondary education? Has it evolved throughout the past few decades to meet the exigencies of this new age of globalization, of the Internet, of expanding and integrative knowledge?
Similarly, is American higher education meeting the needs of students of all ages and of society itself as the demand for an educated citizenry imposes corresponding responsibilities on colleges and universities? Is higher education a truly high quality enterprise? Does it deliver, at reasonable cost, what it promises in its expensive advertising campaigns? Is it accountable to its many stakeholders? Or is it more and more unaffordable, inflated in value, deceptive in practice, and opaque to the scrutiny of those who support it through tuition and taxes?
It is becoming increasingly clear that American higher education must be reformed from the ground up, and that calls for change can no longer be ignored.
Traditionally, the university exists to seek the truth, to search for and profess knowledge, and to evaluate honestly the student's search for truth and knowledge. To achieve this, it must be a haven of free and open inquiry, rigorous research, and exemplary training in the major professions. Yet the ways in which our incorporated colleges and universities fall short of this ideal include: often indoctrinating rather than educating students; providing no relief from endless tuition raises (frequently imposed after little effort at reducing operating costs); no serious restraint in the compensation of top administrators and "superstar" faculty and sports coaches; no moderation in requests for state or philanthropic largesse; no external, objective arbiter of faculty, administrative, and student performance; and little meaningful transparency in fiscal, employment, teaching, or research practices (for which a quasi-cabalistic "need" for secrecy is sometimes invoked). Given these conditions, the public and its representatives in state and federal government are understandably losing patience with the increasingly burdensome and often self-serving demands of the higher education sector.
In an essay originally written in 1939 (also found in the 1977 collection of his essays entitled Reforming Education), Mortimer J. Adler declared: "Organized education is one of the largest rackets in this country…. To call education a racket is, of course, to speak metaphorically, but the comparison has point. Reforming education will have to use racket-busting techniques or it will not succeed." Almost thirty years later, with the bureaucracies of American colleges and universities more labyrinthine and secretive than ever, one may ask: Why are American colleges and universities so unresponsive to the needs of those they were founded to serve?
First of all, most are mini-cities within our cities - independent fiefdoms within states and the nation which, no matter how inscrutable their performance, lay claim to both tax exemption and ever-increasing tax subsidies. Through grants, subsidized student loans, valuable real estate often granted by government and held tax-free, and munificent corporate and philanthropic funding, they have created fortresses from which they resist demands for reform. Their appearance of vigorous competition among themselves is something of a charade, for they collude to undermine competitors by denigrating alternative online or for-profit institutions (excepting their own subsidiaries) and deploying clever, and sometimes abusive, early-admissions requirements. They even dominate the accreditation processes which perpetuate their quasi-monopoly on American higher education. They design their class schedules and degree requirements for their own convenience and in ways that seriously limit educational opportunities for the "non-traditional" student.
Throughout all of this, institutions of higher education remain largely unaccountable even to their boards. Many trustees are complicit in sustaining the myth of impenetrability, extraordinary complexity, and inevitable fiscal and physical expansion; others are "managed" by administrators who employ guileful public relations campaigns to forestall any opposition and narrowly channel their oversight.
Best of all, from their standpoint, the "insiders" stand to benefit most from the academic racket. In addition to the administrators and their staff, which have ballooned in size, power, and salary yet clamor for disproportionate compensation increases, the tenured and frequently unionized professors depend upon it for their continued existence. Participants in assorted enterprises, with the trade unions that organize their workers, benefit from construction and other ongoing development projects. Investment bankers, financial advisors, and other finance-related parties oversee billions in endowment funds accumulated by institutions that regularly fail to invest in their campuses or students. And the list of beneficiaries is ever-expanding: those working in public and private-sector bureaucracies created to manage the distribution of funds and supervise other subsidy programs, and politicians rewarded by the insiders for refusing to challenge and, indeed, for enabling the academic racket. Conspicuously absent from this list of winners are students, their parents, and taxpayers.
Exactly who is hurt by the academic racket? Aside from tuition-paying students, their parents, and taxpayers, consider the philanthropies and corporations which fund higher education in good faith efforts to provide for a more educated citizenry and ensure a globally competitive workforce, but who increasingly voice disappointment with the results. The general public is done an injustice when it trusts that the professionals on whom it daily relies - doctors, lawyers, journalists, et al. - have been trained competently by the post-secondary sector, only to discover that the academic racket has compromised the quality of their performance.
The American university, often praised for its excellence in the research laboratory, is now regularly castigated for its neglect of the classroom and attendant grade inflation. Today, the research and teaching functions of higher education are marred by the increasingly common delegation of the faculty's academic work to a caste of lower-paid employees: adjunct part-time staff, graduate students, and even undergraduates, who receive pay or academic credit for research, teaching, and grading their peers. Beneath the radar of the National Labor Relations Board, these students have the "privilege" of paying tuition to become teaching assistants who relieve the faculty of their obligations to the individual students and are thus compromised into maintaining the large lecture class, with its uneven quality, as the premier "cash cow" of the university
More broadly, the entire nation is harmed. In his recent book, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, Francis Fukuyama reminds us that "institutions matter" in the foundation and strengthening of democracies (cf. also John Fonte, "Solid States"). The institutions of higher education very much matter, for they are central to the operation of American democracy. Nearly every major profession looks to them for certification, as do the elementary and secondary education systems which bear the key responsibility for providing civic education. Indeed, the attainment of the goals of "No Child Left Behind" of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is entirely subject to the continued vagaries of American higher education, for it is the post-secondary sector which establishes the teacher-training curricula, monitors teacher certification, and delivers the courses for "professional development." So, if children and even adults in America cannot read, and if ordinary native-born citizens know far less about the history and structure of American government than the newly naturalized foreign-born, colleges and universities are ultimately responsible. Clearly, it is time to demand of higher education that "No Student (Be) Left Behind," for the academic racket has weakened American education and the American workforce, thereby eroding American democracy itself.
Yet busting this academic racket is no easy task. The interwoven constituencies are elusive, and placing the blame on any one of the groups or individuals is nearly impossible. Past efforts at reform that have focused on one or another of the problems have largely failed. Most higher education institutions in the nation today resemble a Russian matreshka doll, with layers of deeply-entrenched vested-interest groups nested one inside another. Thus, true reform, if it is to be effective, must be bold and systemic, not piecemeal. Further, reform must not only be grounded in the core values of ethics and the pursuit of truth, knowledge, and freedom which underlie the idea of the university, but also dedicated to ensuring quality, accessible, future-oriented higher education within American democracy.
The necessary first step is to develop greater public awareness of those structures, processes, policies, and practices of post-secondary institutions which, to varying degrees, squander both human and fiscal capital. The reader is invited to return to Hudson's website for a series of occasional essays detailing many of the entrenched problems of American higher education: the undermining of distinguished, unbiased, and unfettered teaching and learning; irregularities in the employment and deployment of faculty and staff; and the wasteful allocation and administration of finances.
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Virginia M. Fichera is a Former Adjunct Fellow of Hudson Institute.
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Here's a look at what you need to know about Osama bin Laden, the former leader of al Qaeda.
Personal: Birth date: 1957 (sources vary: either March 10 or July 30)
Death date: May 2, 2011
Birth place: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Birth name: Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden
Father: Muhammad Awad bin Laden, a Yemeni immigrant who built a billion dollar construction company in Saudi Arabi
Mother: Hamida al-Attas
Marriages and Children: Married to Najwa (1974-separated days before 9/11), and had children Abdullah (1976), Abdul Rahman (1978), Sa'ad(1979), Omar (1981), Osman (1983), Muhammad (1985), Fatima (1987), Iman (1990), Ladin "Bakir" (1993), Rukhaiya (1997), and Nour (1999 or 2000)
Married to Khadijah (1983-1995, divorced), and had children Ali (1984 or 1986), Amer (1990) and Aisha (1992)
Married to Khairiah (1985-2011, his death), and had child Hamza (1989 or 1991)
Married to Siham (1987-2011, his death), and had children Kadhija (1988), Khalid (1989), Miriam (1990) and Sumaiya (1992)
Married to unknown woman (1996-annulled within days)
Married to Amal (2000-2011, his death), and had Safiyah (2001), Aasia (2003), Ibrahim (2004), Zainab (2006) and Hussain (2008)
Education: King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, engineering (1979)
Religion: Sunni Muslim
Other Facts: Bin Laden was the 17th of 52 children of construction magnate Muhammad Awad bin Laden, an immigrant from neighboring Yemen, who ran the construction company the Saudi bin Laden Group.
Muhammad Awad bin Laden became a billionaire by building his company into the largest construction firm in the Saudi kingdom.
Bin Laden married for the first time at age 17, to a Syrian cousin, Najwa.
Reportedly walked with a cane and suffered from kidney disease.
Timeline: 1979 - Travels to Afghanistan to join the jihad (holy war) against the Soviet Union. He remains there for a decade, using construction equipment from his family's business to help the Muslim guerrilla forces build shelters, tunnels and roads through the rugged Afghan mountains, and at times taking part in battle.
1988 - Bin Laden founds Al-Qaeda (or "the base").
1989 - The Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan. Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia to work for the family construction firm, the Bin Laden Group.
August 7, 1990 - Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, U.S. troops arrive in Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden is outraged at their presence, and soon begins to target the United States for its presence on Saudi soil near the Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina.
1991 - Bin Laden is expelled by the Saudi regime. Eventually he and his followers relocate to Sudan, taking assets that had grown to an estimated $250 million, according to some officials (others estimate a much lower value). There, al Qaeda begins to evolve into a terror network.
December 1992 - U.S. forces land in Somalia, spearheading a U.N.-authorized humanitarian plan to bring in famine relief supplies. Part of their challenge is disarming the various warlords who control the country. Prosecutors charge that bin Laden threw himself into the midst of this conflict, sending some of his followers to Somalia to train the warlords to fight the U.S. troops.


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Charles Shoes sits on the site of the original City Hall built in 1879. The ground floor housed the Fire Department's horses and equipment, and behind all that a small jail with shackles and three cells.
A new jail was built in 1916 and the remnants can be found today in the basement of Charles Shoes, like metal bars over a vent and window... and a closet-like cell for solitary confinement. And if you walk through the storage area and take a left, you can still find the stalls for three showers.
The jail eventually moved out of downtown and a fire in 1938 left the building structurally unsound. It's been renovated many times over the years and the current owners bought it in 1952... From the family that started Charles Shoes.
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PEOPLE living in a Winchester neighbourhood held an annual street party in memory of a popular local resident.
The fourth Old Highcliffe Street Party was held in Cathedral View with around 100 people enjoying the fine weather, food, drink and company.
The event last Sunday is held to remember Dennis Kimber, a retired postman, who died in 2010, aged 52. A toast was raised in his memory.
One of the organisers, Vivian Austin, said the event attracted a variety of people from one-month old twins Marcus and Lydia, 95-year-old Bob Leadbetter and an Army officer on leave from Afghanistan.
She said: "It has become a bit of a tradition now and when people move into the square, it's become a bit of a selling point to demonstrate what a great community it is!"
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text: This Clone Trooper Commander action figure was released in 2003 in the 2003 - 2005 Clone Wars toy line. Hasbro gave the figure seven joints and included one accessory (binoculars). Here is what we noticed when we took a closer look at the Clone Trooper: This Clone Trooper Commander was released in a 3-pack together with two other white Clone Troopers There were five different 3-packs available, this figure was only available in one of them The blaster is part of the figure and not removable The figure can't hold the binoculars very well There is no head underneath the helmet The neck is ball-jointed, but the helmet's range of movement is very limited The pre-posed and non-articulated legs limit the poseability The binoculars are kept in a simple unpainted white The articulation details are as follows: ball-jointed neck, 2 swivel arms, swivel left upper arm, 2 swivel wrists, swivel waist Packaging TextVirtually indistinguishable from one another, Clone Troopers are identical in physical appearance, mental capability, and stamina. Part of a clone army, they are grown in the cloning facilities of Tipoca City, a luminescent city of industry emerging from the raging seas of Kamino. Although clone troopers share the same modified genetic code, their genetic structure has been altered to make them less independent than their genetic host, and their growth has been accelerated to twice the normal rate of a human. Grown and trained specifically for military combat, the Clone Army was mysteriously commissioned ten years earlier.


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A graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine, Chou completed a neurosurgery residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and a fellowship in complex spinal surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoeniz, Ariz. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and has been elected by his peers as one of the "Best Doctors in America." Chou is a charter member of the Spinal Oncology Study Group, an international consortium of experts in the field of studying spinal tumors. He also has served as chairman and as a faculty member of spine surgery courses throughout the country.
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For those looking for a more thrilling day out, the Forestry Commission is a government agency set up to protect England's woodlands and has done an outstanding job in creating some of the world's best mountain biking trails dotted all over the country.
A list of their venues can be found online, but highlights include Yorkshire's Dalby Forest, which recently held the World Championships, and the Forestry Commission headquarters in the Lake District, home to the Grizedale northshore tracks and the infamous North Face trail.
Most of its venues have visitor centres, showers, bike hire facilities and waymarked, colour-coded trails, much like a ski resort. Some even have 'uplift' facilities to ferry you and your bike to the top of the hills.
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The Minerals Tramways Project is home to seven fantastic family-friendly trails that criss cross the Cornish countryside, including the epic Coast to Coast trail from Devoran to Portreath. There are two bike hire shops within the network: The Bike Chain Bissoe , and The Bike Barn which also has accommodation.
The Tarka Trail is a 30-mile cycle path in Devon winding from Braunton to the pretty village of Meeth, utilizing an old railway line and crossing the river Torridge several times over pretty viaducts and bridges.
Named after Henry Williamson's classic book 'Tarka the Otter', the trail is well signed, and suitable for most bikes. Cycle hire is available from Braunton, Barnstaple, Fremington, Bideford and Torrington, and a location list of the wildlife you might encounter – including otters – is available online .


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And welcome back -- you know I almost -- this whole segment because I think it's a little bit dumb.
That the whole world and all the networks are talking about the big -- heard round the world the people -- making so much fuss.
Over a guy giving a speech -- in the gulf -- water because I give speeches and I often drink a gulf water lots of people do it decade during this process in the making -- big fuss out of it.
Rich Lowry from the national review wanna bring UN and you don't rich Eli here -- -- -- making a fuss over it I I kind of put it in the same category as Rush Limbaugh.
Making a fuss -- making fun of over something small their opinion columnists that's their job.
Fine but when you have your -- supposedly mainstream guys like Wolf Blitzer Chiming in this is one I have an issue what -- you think.
Yeah that's right look mrs.
Partly biased also partly just to see the Preston focus on minutia and trivia.
And you know how sensitive -- -- medium obviously I don't need to tell you had your professional -- so any any false -- -- anything strange is really highlight it.
So -- -- there's going to be a lot of attention to this.
I do think it's extremely disproportionate somewhat counted up the references on MSNBC which collectively -- all the references everywhere else -- heating.
And it's going to be you know it's something -- -- have to make self deprecating jokes about -- next several months you know he's gonna get his head handed down from SNL but it doesn't change the fact that he's greatly talented.
Do you care and an up and comer and Republican -- Thanks.
To -- it it was a disservice because say it again as it was written in some of the app icons.
This is the most of -- important speech ever made by Hispanic and no one has paid any attention of the content.
Of course yeah that's that's also typical candidate it's also an -- you know unfortunate nature of these responses today they just -- theatrics and -- got a lot of attention theatrics are almost always terrible because you cannot compete with the president and I states.
Speaking for an hour to a joint session of congress that half of which inevitably applauds.
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...media players, the PS3 as well as AppleTV (fully hacked since day one) but the player I exclusively use now is the WDTV! I even own the Sony BDP-550 Blu-Ray player and have used it once since I bought it at Xmas. The PS3 handles this and that BUT doesnt handle this and that...real confusing sometimes. The AppleTV is just pure shit minus the fact it has the wifi built in which is great...but thats it! The only way to get the AppleTV to play what you want is to hack it and even then I have found sometimes it just re sets itself. Then I have to re-do the whole hack again, very unstable to say the least. So with that said I will just stick with my WDTV and let all the others have a long deserved rest.
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My friend has the popcorn hour and from what i saw of it...Personally it seemed like very similar capabilities. Nothing too impressive to pay for the price point that it's at. 1080p seems to look about the same as the wdtv plays but maybe using it longer that I did ( just watched several movies couple times on it) other people might know better...
I also used an xbox 360 for my previous media player, but man that shit is loud as hell and trying to plug an external with a format that isn't fat32 was a pain since I had to format my external partially ntfs and hfs+. Coming from a windows user had an issue accomplishing that. No subtitle support unless its hardcoded. Only wmv 1080p format .....pain in the ass if you ask me but great for gaming...... How was the ps3 on media support? full bluray capabilities? |
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Welcome to the forum...Thanks for the info on the popcorn hour. The PS3 was a crap shoot as far as what it plays. It couldnt play mkv's only if you re encoded them into a vob. Even then if it was a 1080p rip it wouldnt play, so you needed to stick with the 720 rips. Although as far as viewing your family vacation pictures it worked really well. I find with the WDTV viewing pictures is painfully slow. The bluray capabilities are there which is nice, so you get a gaming console and a bluray movie player all in one. But as well as the XBOX the noise levels of the PS3 suck. |
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the ps3 is pretty much for games now, i used to stream xvids off it but not anymore. not a lot of extensions played on the ps3 unless you want to re-encode something. if i read correctly the popcorn hour dosent have internal wifi, you need to use a usb wifi adapter. so with that the wdtv is way more of a bargain at 99 bucks usd than the 250 usd for the popcorn hour. ssh or ftp'ing to your box is slow and painful, anyhow at least with my n network it just doesnt seem worth all the hassles. i just simply unplug my external hdd load a hd movie approx. 9gb in under 6 minutes. im happy with that.
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what I use for media playback before the wdtv was a mac mini, with Plex app
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I built a media center PC back in 2004 I think it was.
the was good, then I got an xbox and modded the hell out of it, that was better. then we got an xbox 360, that is awesome to, it can be tricked to play WMV-HD movies easily enough, so i downloaded a lot of them and burnt to dual layer dvd's. now I have the WD TV player and the video quality is excellent, but the audio is lagging, it cuts out, occasional pops in it, etc.... I guess there is no substitute for the real thing, however I choose not to spend that much cash on this stuff so I put up with it's idiosyncrasies, all of these things have limitations and downfalls... overall I am happy with it, I couldn't afford to buy the hardware let alone all the movies. |
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Munster Rugby and IRFU Referee Department have just completed their very successful joint venture to find the next generation of referees in schools within the Limerick area.
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O'Shea kicked Crescent into the lead after ten minutes with a penalty. Mid way through the half O'Shea was back on the scoreboard with a try which Garoid Lyons converted.
The Crescent center went in for his second try shortly after the break and Lyons converted and O'Shea brought his tally to sixteen with a second penalty.
Pres' never gave up and in the final five minutes Paddy Hegarty went in for a try and Conor Flanagan who had an excellent game converted and also added a penalty.
Scorers Crescent Comp:Greg O'Shea 2 tries, 2 pens, Garoid Lyons 2 cons. P.B.C.: Padddy hegarty try, Conor Flanagan con, pen.
Crescent Comp: Jason O'Sullivan; Alan Crean, Greg O'Shea, JJ O'Neill, James Beary; Garoid Lyons (capt), Ed Barry; John Tuohy, Cillian Rea, Liam McMahon, Michael O'Donnell, Jay Kavanagh; Rory Noone, James Green, Cormac Blake.Replacements: Robbie Scott, Mark O'Connor, Cian Guerin, Lorcan Russell, Tim Moloney, Eoin Parkes, Jack Hogan.
P.B.C.: Paddy Hegarty; Sandeep Walia, Paul Kiernan, David St. Ledger, Eoin Perry; Conor Flanagan, Hugh O'Keeffe; Patrick Lee, Cian Stanton, Stephen McCarthy; Chris O'Donovan, Jerry Roche; Morgan Carey, Michael Murphy, Dylan Lane (capt). Replacements: Joe Ring, Bryan Traynor, Michael Fitzgibbon, Conor Casey, Conor Murphy, Joe Logue, David O'Sullivan.
Referee: Shaun Curry (M.A.R.)
Ard Scoil Ris 17, St. Munchin's 10.
Ard Scoil Ris caused a surprise at Clifford Park with a seven point victory over St. Munchin's.
Ard Scoil Ris raced into the lead with a try from Kelvin Brown after ten minutes and Stephen Fitzgerald converted. Fitzgerald extended Ard Scoil's advantage with a penalty on the stroke of half time for a 10-0 interval lead.
Ryan Meagher opened Munchin's account with a penalty but Ard Scoil hit back with a try from Joe Cannon which Fitzgerald converted.
Munchin's began to take control in the final quarter and were rewarded with a try from Mark Long which Meagher converted.
Despite further pressure by Munchin's the Ard Scoil Ris defence held firm.
Scorers Ard Scoil Ris: Kelvin Brown, Joe Cannon tries, Stephen Fitzgerald 2 cons, pen. St. Munchin's: Mark Long try, Ryan Meagher con, pen.
Ard Scoil Ris: Brion Moriarty; Joey Walshe, William Leonard, Shane Fenton, Oscar Lyons; Stephen Fitzgerald, Robbie Deegan (capt); Killian Bracken, Jack O'Halloran, Kelvin Brown; Frank Bradshaw-Ryan, Daniel Wixted; Joe Cannon, Josh O'Halloran, Paul Obande.Replacements: Michael Casey, Adam O'Brien, Ben Sexton, Gavin Farrell, jack English, Niall Goggin, Gordon Brown.
St. Munchin's: Mark Long; Shane King, Jake Elliott, Colin Duggan, Luke Kennedy; Ryan Meagher, Dylan O'Dwyer; Dean O'Neill, Luke O'Halloran, Sean Duffy; David Begley, Ezra Nugent; Eoghan Brennan, Stephen Collins, Ben Kilkenny (capt).
Replacements: Sean Ryan, Jordan Prenderville, Daniel Cinnamond, Dylan O'Sullivan, Eric Mulcahy, Shane Halpin, Jonathan O'Hanlon, Adam Reddin.
Referee: Will O'Connor (M.A.R.).
Rockwell 0, Castletroy College 20.
Castletroy College advanced to the semi finals with a deserved win over Rockwell at Clanwilliam Park.
Full back Conor Linehan opened the scoring with a penalty for Castletroy after eighteen minutes. Two minutes later John Fox touched down under posts and Linehan converted for a 10-0 lead.
Linehan made it 13-0 on the stroke of half time with a penalty.
Wing forward Pat O'Kane scored their second try on forty five minutes and Linehan converted.
Scorers Castletroy College: John Fox, Pat O'Kane tries, Conor Linehan 2 cons, 2 pens.
Rockwell: William Coffey; Ryan Deeleman, Oisin Leahy, Liam Casey, Lukas Kaminski; Ben Reilly, Joss Murray; Killian Farrell (capt), Sean McNulty, Denis O'Connell; John Smyth, Tim Brophy; Jack Brophy, Eire McCarthy, James Feehan.Replacements: Cormac Looby, David O'Dwyer, Luke Hickey, Luke Keating, Sean Hayes, Cian Flavin, Fionn McCann.
Castletroy College: Conor Linehan; John Fox, Cian Malone, Paul Butler, Rhys Joyce; Mark McCarthy, Rory Cunningham; Conor Humphreys, Robbie Sweeney (capt), Jack Tierney; Jack O'Neill, Robert Larby; Pat O'Kane, Darragh Kennedy, Ronan Murphy.Replacements: Lee Ivory, Jeffrey Deegan, Eoghan Fitzgerald, Kevin Quigley, Ian O'Connor, Ronan Phelan, Stuart Hoare.
Referee: Brian Twomey (M.A.R.)
C.B.C. play Glenstal Abbey in the last quarter final on Thursday 4th March at Temple Hill, kick off 3.00pm.
The draw for the semi finals which are scheduled for Wednesday 16th March –
Crescent Comp. v Winners C.B.C. / Glenstal Abbey.
Ard Scoil Ris v Castletroy College.
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I can't say enough how much I ADORE her, and now I love her even more for this. She's 150% right. It's not about Molly or Partying. Study, be good, do good, then you are good.
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She has handled this with such grace and poise, I give her so much credit. I can't even imagine what it must be like to go through this.
This is amazing! Even though I hate guns and hunting, I think this is a super awesome story and props to her for still being so active! I'm assuming someone is with her so she has safety first. She IS 98. HA!
Aw, this is so sweet. Obviously the tattoo part might make you squirm a little bit, but seeing him w/ his family is adorable. He's one of our favorite DILFS (er and baseball players). ;)
UPDATE! Looks like his daughter Scarlett is a model, living in NYC, AND on Instagram! She's gorgeous and looks like the perfect combo of her mom and dad! Check out this pic we found...although it's not current, it's one step closer!
I came across this amazing article wishing Sixteen Candles heartthrob Michael Schoeffling, who played dream guy Jake Ryan, a happy 53rd birthday! FIFTY THREE!? Are you serious??? Sure it makes us feel old, but the real question is (and what the article did amazingly) was ask, WHERE IS MICHAEL SCHOEFFLING!?
I have read reports that he was a teacher in Northeastern, PA (near Wilkes Barre, where he's from), then other reports say he was in Western PA working as a carpenter, another report said he was in Marlton and another said West Chester. However NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE! It's like he disappeared! People say they heard he married a model, has two kids, but again, NO ONE KNOWS!
Hopefully this article will open up the conversation. WHERE IS JAKE RYAN and how can we find him!?
I was hoping that Bradley and Suki finally broke up, but NOPE! It's Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel AND Madonna and her 25 year old dancer boyfriend Brahim Zaibat!
I'm really upset about the first one. I LOVE Taye and Idina! They have been married for TEN years (and have been together almost TWENTY! They met when they did RENT together on Broadway!) Her rep confirms:
"Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs have jointly decided to separate at this time," the 42-year-old actress' rep said. "Their primary focus and concern is for their son. We ask that you respect their privacy during this time."
As for Madonna, I mean she's 55 and he's 25. Can't really say I'm surprised it didn't work out. Her rep confirmed it to E! News, but didn't give a reason. Of course some are speculating "busy schedules" for the split.


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Hope everyone enjoying the snow in the UK (well apart from the ice which I properly slip on about 100 times or so )
Now I would really like it to go away for next year and get a bit warming
Is it bad in other places of the UK the area I live not to bad but still could be better
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No, I'm not enjoying it at all! I hate the white sh*te. I have trouble getting out of my estate because the council don't clear it or grit it. Yet they still take my money every month (for what - I've never been entirely sure). I hit a pothole on one of the multitude of unrepaired roads near me a few nights ago - blew the tyre out. Thanks guys (so where does my car tax go, out of curiosity?). Everything stops. Getting anywhere or doing anything is difficult. I'm spending a fortune on gas central heating, to which I'm being held ransom. I feel like I'm living in a third world country. Maybe if you're eight years old and you've got a sledge it's great. I'm not and I haven't. Good news is, it's getting warmer (well, less cold). Bad news is, it's going to rain forever. Give me a break!!!
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Rep. Paul Ryan on Tuesday joined a growing list of Republicans who want Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to step down over rampant problems in the launch of Obamacare's HealthCare.gov.
The 2012 vice presidential candidate was on a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon helping fellow Republican and Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli make the case against a Medicaid expansion in the state championed by Cuccinelli's opponent, Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
Cuccinelli has already said that Sebelius should step down. When Ryan was asked if he felt the same way, he responded: "I do agree with that."
"This rollout has been a fiasco," the House Budget Committee chairman said, and "not just because they have bad tech," but because the entirety of the law is flawed.
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