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"YOU can't go home again," said Thomas Wolfe. However, the Irish writer Edna O'Brien does go home again and again. In this occasionally rambling memoir, she tells us that "the dramatis personae of my childhood provided the richest experience of all."
She has written more than 20 books of short stories and novels, as well as plays and biographies. Her most recent publication, the story collection Saints and Sinners, came out in 2011
In Country Girl, in typically lyrical prose, she candidly recounts the dreams, fears, loves, sorrows and joys that accompanied her journey from repressed rural Ireland to the artistic heights of London and New York.
Fans of O'Brien will enjoy the frisson of recognition that comes when her recollections mesh with the characters and events of her fiction.
She was born in 1930 into a house full of prayer books and religious treasures, with a father who gambled and drank away the family fortune and a mother embittered by loneliness and shame.
Later, while working in a pharmacy in Dublin, she began to live with Ernest Gebler, a writer almost twice her age, married but awaiting a divorce. Her father's response was to beat up Gebler and try to take her home by force while her mother bemoaned her "cruelty."
The eventual marriage to Gebler was a nightmare. He regarded her as his property, spied on her and became violently jealous of her increasing success as a writer. A divorce was inevitable, as was the grim custody battle over their two sons.
Her early novels, The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl and Girls in Their Married Bliss, published in the 1960s, were banned in Ireland. To the patriarchal Irish establishment, the notion that growing girls might have sexual desires was nothing short of "filth."
The Lonely Girl was made into the popular film The Girl With the Green Eyes.
Finally, famous, free from her marriage and financially secure, O'Brien threw herself into the glittering celebrity life of London and New York.
Robert Mitchum seduced her (at least for one night), Marlon Brando did not, Paul McCartney wrote a song for her, Philip Roth gave her literary advice and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis confided in her.
Less happily, she had a doomed affair with a prominent, married politician and the psychiatrist R.D. Laing introduced her to LSD as therapy. While she describes a bad trip in harrowing detail, she is unfashionably discreet about the politician, never even naming him.
Later, she was vilified for her apparent sympathy for nationalist terrorists during the Northern Ireland "Troubles." Here, her justification seems to amount to the argument that if both sides are barbaric, at least some credit is due to personal courage.
Perhaps as befits a novelist, she comes across as an observer, a person to whom things happen. Others initiate her relationships. Her life seems overshadowed by fears. She is fearful of her father, of horses, of driving, of thunderstorms, of swimming.
Beneath the glamorous surface lies a deep loneliness that drives her almost to suicide.
Her last chapter is called "Banquet," and, for the most part, this book flows elegantly along like an effervescent party fuelled by sparkling champagne, exciting personalities and great conversation. Unfortunately, towards the end, the book, like some parties, goes on a little too long.
The champagne goes flat, the famous names blur together, the yarns grow tedious and the storyteller loses her audience.
Nevertheless, this 83-year-old woman, who was once mocked as a "bargain basement Molly Bloom," has been recently described by the Irish poet Thomas McCarthy as "the Solzhenitsyn of Irish life -- the one who kept speaking when everyone else stopped talking about being an Irish woman."
She has earned the right to a little self-indulgence.
Once upon a time, retired Winnipeg union rep John K. Collins lived in the Irish republic and carried banned books across the border in Belfast.
Country Girl
A Memoir
By Edna O'Brien
Little, Brown, 336 pages, $30


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SAM Vokes has signed a two-year contract extension with Burnley, and there could be more Clarets committing their long-term futures to the club this season.
After hitting his 11th goal of the campaign in the FA Cup defeat to Southampton, Wales international Vokes agreed a new deal until the summer of 2017.
Manager Sean Dyche said the contract was reward for consistently good performances by the striker, who signed an initial three-year deal under Eddie Howe in the summer of 2012 but had to wait until this season for a regular place in the side.
"Sam is enjoying his football and developing as a player," said Dyche.
"We have all seen, so far, great signs of how his all-round game is improving and we are delighted he has decided to stay with us.
"I spoke to Sam in the summer and told him we wanted him to be part of what we are looking to do here at Burnley and he has responded to that challenge. He is putting in consistent performances and scoring goals and becoming the player we think he can be, so we are delighted that he is going to continue that process with us as we move the club forward."
Now, after forming a formidable partnership with Danny Ings – with the pair firing the Clarets into the automatic promotion places with 72 per cent of the team's goals this term – fans will hope the 20-goal top scorer can follow suit and put an end to transfer speculation.
"That's one down," said chief executive Lee Hoos, who is in talks with a number of current Clarets whose deals are set to expire in the next 18 months.
Ings falls into that bracket, but Hoos was reluctant to comment on individual cases.
"Danny is a good lad and he is enjoying his football. What we don't want to do is distract him," added Hoos. "We need to make sure he is concentrating on what's going on right now."
But Hoos is expecting a busy month behind the scenes as the club seeks to add to the squad during the January transfer window, and tie further existing players to new deals.
"We are working on other things. We are always trying to make sure we are looking ahead to the future. It's always an ongoing process, but it always takes two people to dance.
"But the mood in the camp - how all the players get along with each other – it's the best I've ever seen.
"The guys are working hard for each other and we want that to continue," said Hoos, who of the prospect of new arrivals added: "We're beavering away on that.
"We're trying to get one done but it would be great if we could get two.
"But we've got to get the right ones in, someone who is prepared to work hard and earn their place in the team."

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The Crap We Missed – Wednesday 12.14.11
"So, you said make it out to 'Fish don't tell secrets,' right?"
Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed, where Gillian Anderson's side boob turned the red carpet into an impossible mission for Tom Cruise. (Puns!) four out of five dentists recommend against whatever the hell Cynthia Nixon has been doing with her mouth, and dear God, why didn't someone get Brandi Glanville to sign this first?
Now that's a body worth a Whitman's Sampler and an autographed cap, amirite Jeter?
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Fabian Cancellara wiped out last year's bad memories when he powered his way to his second victory in the Tour of Flanders cycle race on Sunday.
A year ago, on the same 256 kms of exhausting hills and cobbled sections, the Swiss former Olympic and world time-trial champion hit the tarmac as he rode over a bottle 60 kms from the finish line in Oudenaarde.
He fractured his collarbone, forcing him to miss the "Ronde" and the Paris-Roubaix the following weekend.
Twelve months later, Cancellara timed his move to perfection, striking 14 kms from the finish line to shake off his only rival on the day, Slovakia's Peter Sagan, and snatch the laurels three years after his previous victory in the Belgian classic.
"It's just amazing. One year ago, I was on the ground and now I'm back and I won Flanders as a big favourite. It was not easy. I'm just happy, really happy," said the Swiss, now his country's best-ever one-day rider with two Ronde, two Paris-Roubaix and one Milan-San Remo wins under his belt.
Title holder Tom Boonen's season ended after the three-times Ronde winner hit a kerb after 19 kms and dropped out with groin and arm injuries.
His Omega Pharma Quick Step team announced that the former world champion had not broken any bones but it was the latest in a series of mishaps for Boonen who had a stomach bug in December, an infection in January and a crash in Ghent-Wevelgem last week.
Boonen's team manager Patrick Lefevere told Belgian sports channel Sporza: "His spring season is over."
Sagan, second in the Milan-San Remo two weeks ago, looked powerless when Cancellara attacked and had to be content with keeping Belgium's Juergen Roelandts at bay for the runner-up spot on the line.


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Unfortunately, people often get into a pessimistic mood where they can only see the failures and problems with their life. This can cause people to experience stress and its many negative side effects.
One way to become more optimistic is to take a few minutes at the end of each day to think about the good things that happened. These don't have to be big events; it could be as simple as having a good sandwich for lunch. Record three of these happy things in a notebook, which you can review whenever you need a pick-me-up.
If you practice this exercise every day, you will get into the habit of recognizing the positive events in your life and forgetting the negatives.
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How to Play MP4 Files in VLC
The MP4, or MPEG-4 Part 14, file type is used for multimedia files, such as digital video or digital audio. To play MP4 files, you would be amongst the most popular of multimedia files. It can be identified by the ".mp4″ file extension found at the end of a file name and is frequently seen in use among audio and video files that can be streamed, such as Apple podcasts. The MP4 format is based off of Apple's QuickTime container format, MOV (i.e., ".mov" files) and can be played on computers, streamed online and listened to using portable media players, such as MP3 players, like the iPod. You can play MP4 files on your computer in a number of different media players, but this article will focus on playing MP4 files on VLC, an open source media player you can download for free by visiting the website http://www.videolan.org/vlc/.
Playing MP4 files on VLC is easy. Simply install VLC to your computer, following its default, recommended installation settings for your system, then find an MP4 file on your hard drive and double click to play it. Playing MP4 files on VLC can be even easier if you click the file and drag it into the already-open player. You can also open MP4 files in VLC by clicking "Media > Open File…" in the programs top-most menu; this can accessed by the shortcut key CTRL+O.
Sometimes VLC is not the default media player on your operating system. When this is the case, sometimes VLC does not automatically play your MP4 files. If this happens in Windows, you can right click on your MP4 file and choose "Open With…" from the drop down menu. Find VLC on your hard drive and associate the MP4 file type with VLC. This will make playing MP4 files on VLC work.
If you have any difficulty playing MP4 files on VLC, you can get help by clicking the "Help" button in VLC's top menu. You can also get to the help section of VLC by pressing F1 on your keyboard while in the program. There, you will find a number of different links to help you find information.
Playing MP4 files on VLC is simple and allows you to enjoy your video and audio media in a free, user-friendly environment.
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Allow me a little background: an employer's defamation lawyers have only twice insisted I offer an on-air apology. One of those two times was the result a story involving what I regarded as Woolworths' unconscionable treatment of its suppliers.
While the apology was made through somewhat gritted teeth, no supercilious sneer was permitted – it wasn't Media Watch. I had made a careless but potentially very costly mistake in not delineating the difference between a criminal and civil legal matter, saying "committed a crime" instead of the correct "broke the law". There's a very big difference in defamation terms.
If that wasn't last century, it was close to it, so I have some history on this matter as the Business Sunday program campaigned about the extraordinary pressure Woolworths was putting on suppliers, long before the current crop of interest.
It is not impossible that our campaign had some influence in the ACCC tackling Woolworths over the particular issues that had incensed us, pressure that had led suppliers to themselves breach the Trade Practices Act.
The man running Woolworths at the time was Roger Corbett, who now chairs Fairfax, the publisher of this article. Things do go around.
Roger fought the ACCC case all the way to the High Court – and lost. When you've been on the wrong side of a defo action, there is at least some comfort in consequently being proven right about the real substance of the matter.
But despite that history and confidence that our two supermarket giants still squeeze suppliers until the pips are squeakless, I think much of the current political grandstanding and supposed consumer outrage is either misplaced or phoney.
Consumers vote every time they go shopping and they consistently elect their supermarkets of choice to cut costs wherever possible so that prices can be kept low or lowered.
The track record of Woolworths (and Wesfarmers' Coles is catching up) is that it splits the fruits of the supplier squeeze between shareholders and customers.
There are exceptions to the generalisation, including some egregious ones, but Australian suppliers are not particularly low cost and the supermarket duopoly is driving them to become so.
Some farmers can make money out of fresh milk that is sold for $1 a litre. If consumers care about those farmers who can't, they sure as hell aren't showing it when they go shopping.
Our food and grocery market does not function perfectly and becomes less perfect again as two players increase their market share, but it still functions, there is choice and the choice most consumers consistently make is to seek out the most convenient and low-cost method of satisfying their wants and needs.
Australian suppliers are not particularly low cost and the supermarket duopoly is driving them to become so.
There traditionally has been a lot of fat in the Australian supply chain and comfortable margins for the many players who took a feed from it along the way. The reality is that we don't need so many players, that the days of wholesalers having a nice business are numbered, if not over, and that the most efficient and productive suppliers survive while the least efficient fail.
To use another staple as an example – beer – Australia's two major brewers used to enjoy the second-highest profit margins of any brewers on earth. Coles and Woolworths set out to relieve them of a large whack of that margin, splitting it between consumers and shareholders. There was no particular reason for or good achieved by corporate life remaining easy for the beer makers.
That is part of Darwinian nature of productivity growth, the "creative destruction". And, as it turns out, the local beer market has never offered so much diversity.
There is a difference between ensuring fair practice in preventing the gorillas selfishly smashing the chimps, and restricting robust and productive market forces to play out. There might be some easy votes to pick up by rattling the gorillas' cage right now, but curtailing the most efficient operators eventually means consumers will pay for it.
As for the suppliers who are hurting, there's little comfort in knowing that they are not alone. Pretty much all Australian businesses are being forced to become incrementally more efficient, leaner and smarter. Nothing less than world's best practice will finally do. Those that can achieve it have little to fear from the big apes.
Some of us – journalists for example – are caught up in industries undergoing much more painful structural change than being squeezed by Woolworths and Coles, change that isn't resolved by simply becoming one of the top decile producers.
Suppliers at least have the chance to run their businesses with full knowledge of Woolworths' and Coles' intent. You'd be made to become dependent on either of them, you have to be prepared to not do business with them if it's uneconomic. That's much easier said than done when the weight of many jobs and large debts are on your shoulders. But that is the way it is.
For consumers who care to look, there are plenty of alternatives to the duopoly. It's your choice to make.
For what it's worth, I probably split my fresh food and meat shopping 50/50 between the gorillas and independents. And the Pascoe family super fund happily holds shares in both Woolworths and Wesfarmers. And Roger Corbett is still squeezing – you'd be surprised how little he's paying me for this.
Michael Pascoe is a BusinessDay contributing editor – at least for now.


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Planning for Data Center Energy Efficiency
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM (EST)
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Join Con Edison and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to learn how incorporating energy efficiency into data center capital planning can help you save money and respond intelligently to unexpected circumstances. Our expert panel will share their Hurricane Sandy experiences and discuss how their data center efficiency plans are impacting recovery efforts and contributing to their long term energy efficiency goals.
Representatives from Con Edison and NYSERDA will highlight resources available to NYC-based data center owners and operators including financial incentives for energy efficient equipment upgrades in information technology (IT) infrastructure.
A hot buffet breakfast will be served while you network with other data center professionals and learn how the Data Center Efficiency Program can help you reduce the payback period of your next energy efficient data center investment.
Event Agenda
8:00-8:30 Opening Reception and Networking Session
Coffee service and a buffet breakfast will be provided
8:30-8:40 Introduction and Opening Remarks
Learn about the full range of incentives for data center IT infrastructure, facility upgrades and energy study reimbursements.
- Sibbie Kurian, Energy Efficiency Account Executive, Con Edison
- Brian Platt, Program Manager, NYSERDA
- Sarah Rambacher, Project Manager, NYSERDA
- Josh Stoneman, Business Development, Lockheed Martin
8:40-9:30 Speaker Presentations with Facilitated Question and Answer
Past program participants will share their experiences with data center energy efficiency post-Hurricane Sandy. The audience is invited to ask questions to the speakers.
- Moderator: Thomas Hudgens, National Data Center Lead, Willdan Energy Solutions
- Sam Pesce, Director of Operations, Jones Lang LaSalle
- Paul Garrin, Vice President and CIO, Lighthouse International
- Carmelo Tripodi, Vice President of Technical Operations, PulsePoint
- Julius Neudorfer, CTO & Founder, North American Access Technologies
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SANFORD, Fla. - A pilot video program in Seminole County caught 67 drivers running through stop arms on the side of school buses.
Seminole County Public Schools teamed up with American Traffic Solutions of Scottsdale, Arizona to conduct surveillance on areas where a DOE survey showed a heavy amounts of school bus stop arm violations.
Stop arms are engaged when schools buses stop to pick up and drop off students at bus stops.
According to Florida law, on a two-lane roadway the vehicles traveling in both directions must stop.
On a multi-lane roadway with no barrier or paved access in between, vehicles on both sides must also stop.
On divided highways where there is median or some type of barrier like grass, only drivers behind the bus must stop while drivers on the other side of the highway are not required to stop.
In the video ATS collected of drivers in Seminole County running bus arms, it is clear that there is confusion on the law.
Some of the clips show drivers in the far lanes of the roadway driving right past the stopped bus. Many show drivers not making any attempt to even stop next to or behind the buses.
The violations found in Seminole County occurred from October 3, 2010 through November 16, 2012, but the pilot program will continue through the school year.
The cameras were placed on bus routes that service the Altamonte, Lake Brantley, Milwee, English Estats and Lake Howell areas. Placement of cameras was determined by the results of a DOE survey.
Currently, drivers caught on the surveillance systems will not be ticketed for running the stop arms but lobbyists have been pushing the legislature to create a law that would utilize school bus stop arm videos the same way as red light cameras.
A representative from ATS said the company has several pilot programs in place around the state, including Orange, Osceola, Brevard and Volusia schools.
In Georgia, ATS is already collecting video data and issuing citations on behalf of several municipalities.
The company representative said there is no charge for school districts to install or maintain the surveillance. ATS gets a portion of the fine issued to the driver.
According to Seminole County Schools transportation department, legislation was proposed in 2012 to create a law allowing drivers to be cited after being caught on camera running the bus arms.
The transportation department is presenting the findings of the first part of the pilot program at the board meeting on Tuesday.
The board would need to approve full implementation of the system if a state law were passed to allow the citations.
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hey guys. i'm doing my first smoke/bbq with my sfb today (pork ribs). was wondering if you all have found an ideal way to maintain a constant temperature inside the chamber. I need it at a consistant 225 i think. I am using lump charcoal and mesquite/or hickory wood chunks. (i'm afraid of over/under smoking too) I have NOT modded my SFB either (read from other postings). Also, curious as to the best way/time to start adding more lump and chunks to keep this temp steady for 4-5 hours. thnx!
edit: just read about the 3-2-1 method. would it be best advised for me to just wrap each rack (only doing 2) with foil or try the foil pan method?


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why is there no J2EE forum?????????
I just installed Tomcat 6 on Windows XP, can't run on port 8080 because another server on the same machine is using that...
what other port(s) can I use?
I mean for this setting....
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
redirectPort="8443" />
(and there are other port-settings too.. do I need to change those also? like

<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
I set up necessary env vars (JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME), and java/bin is already in the path.. have done Tomcat setup many times before, but now just need to know on what alternate port no. I can run it..
for this setting, Connector port="8080", tired port no. 8181... but Tomcat won't start up (console appears very briefly then disappears when I hit that startup.bat....)
thank you....
Take a look here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4756039/how-to-change-the-port-of-tomcat-from-8080-to-80
Or here: http://www.digizol.com/2008/06/tomcat-how-to-change-port-8080.html
Run it from the command line to see the error message, or look in the logs folder, tomcat will tell you what the issue is.
Run netstat -a to see what is listening on your server there.
IIRC you just need to change the first one, you probably aren't running ajp.
well, the "issue" was I just needed to know WHAT no. to use for port, since couldn't use 8080.. so read solution other person posted, last night at home.. so just for the hell of it, tried it at home, changed to port 8007, it worked fine.. but here, did the same, thing, changed port to 8007, Tomcat won't start up, so following yr suggestion navigated to tomcat/bin/ in DOS shell and ran startup.bat from there, got the following:
C:\\Program Files\\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\\bin>startup.bat
Using CATALINA_BASE: "C:\\Program Files\\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\\"
Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\\Program Files\\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\\"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\\Program Files\\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\\\ emp"
Using JRE_HOME: "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_33\\"
Using CLASSPATH: "C:\\Program Files\\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\\\\bin\\bootstrap.jar"
JAVA_HOME is not mentioned here.. only JRE_HOME, but I did not set that var... I set JAVA_HOME to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_33\
another DOS window opened very briefly then closed... server is still not running.. have it on port 8007 now...
Did you look at the logs?
The doubled slash in the classpath might be a problem too.
You might also need to run as administrator, the tomcat setup we have is on pre-modern versions of windows.
CLASSPATH is not an env var set in Windows... that's an internal Tomcat thing.. I searched for "bootstrap.jar" in all of Tomcat, found in some XML files, but nowhere with two back-slashes in front of "bootstrap.jar".. so where is that 2nd back-slash being added?
(in all the years I've been working with Tomcat I've never set classpath env var...)
not sure what you mean by "run as administrator".... (I do have admin privileges on this machine, but not sure what you mean..)
thank you...
Windows has UAC which prevents even administrative users from writing files in protected places.
Looking at your paths I think I might see the problem --- try installing tomcat outside of program files and see what happens. It is probably trying to write log files there and dying.
oh man.... thank you for yr response.. now am running it on c: drive... this is what I get when run startup.bat in DOS shell:
C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\bin>startup.batUsing CATALINA_BASE: "C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\"Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\"Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\\ emp"Using JRE_HOME: "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_33\"Using CLASSPATH: "C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\\bin\bootstrap.jar"C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\bin>
there is some improvement, as I still see the console appear briefly and disappear, but it stays open a bit longer...;-) in a about a sec. it closes..
thank you..
You should have a log in the c:\apache-tomcat-6.0.36\log folder, probably could help alot here.
oh man.. the logs dir is EMPTY....


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Nyko iPod Movie Player To Hit Stores In November
Posted by Devin Categories: Accessories, Home Entertainment, Movies, Portable Audio / Video
Ever since the iPod was released, companies from all over have come out with various gadgets to further enhance Apple's top selling portable music player. Nyko has come up with a device to help turn your iPod into a movie player. That's right, come November you'll be able to fill up your iPod with as many movies as you can, then watch them on the go with the Nyko Movie Player. The player is expected to retail anywhere between $200-$250 and will feature a 3.6" high resolution screen, 2 headphone ports, a video-out port allowing you to view your movies on any TV, and a video-in port giving you the ability to record directly from your television. As you can see, the iPod plug right into a slot beneath the control panel.
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Logitech's Wireless Bluetooth iPod Headphones
Posted by Devin Categories: Accessories, Portable Audio / Video, Wireless / WiFi
In a move that isn't really all that surprising, Logitech has commercialized the wireless, Bluetooth enabled headphone that was once exclusive only to the HP iPaqs. This new, lightweight set, which will retail for about $150, is for use with only the Apple iPod. It features iPod controls on the headphone unit itself, and an internal, rechargeable battery(that is not removable) which is said to fully charge in 2 1/2 hours. Not willing to spend so much money on something you don't know much about? Check out CNET's review here.
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World of Warcraft Gets Even Bigger
Posted by Rob Stevens Categories: Internet, PC, Role Playing Games
World of Warcraft has reached an absolutely mind-boggling number of users: over two million players for what was deemed by many to be a niche genre. But not satisfied to rest on their laurels, Blizzard has a lot of new features in store. More specifically, the next patch promises to include improvements to the much-maligned Honor System, as well as Battlemasters, NPCs that can allow a player to enter the recently added Battlegrounds from a city, instead of travelling to the location of the Battleground.
There was also a progress report of sorts from Shane Dabiri (Ordinn to WOW forum-goers), which discussed a myriad of topics, including the astronomical growth of WOW (a near 10-fold increase in realms offered over six months), and confirmation of the inevitable: an expansion for World of Warcraft is indeed in the works. "Some have asked about an expansion and what it might hold. I wanted to let players know that it is in the works, and we'll release details as soon as we can." If you have yet to venture into Azeroth for yourself and spend hours on end slaying the merciless Murlocs, now seems as good a time as any, assuming you have no children, family, or personal life to speak of.
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A Unique Cave House For Sale
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If you have an extra 109,000 Euros lying around - that would be just a tad over $132,000 USD - you may be interested to know that you can buy a lovely cave that has been turned into a habitable home in the province of Granada, bread oven included. Seriously, what's not to like about living in a cave? I mean, aside from having crappy cell reception and weak WiFi.
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Swapless Emulation on PSP 1.5
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It was only a matter of time, but the fine folks at Killer-X and PSP-Dev have finally managed to get homebrew and emulation code running on PSPs with the version 1.5 firmware. Until now, would-be hackers would have to quickly swap Memory Sticks out of the PSP, increasing a chance that you could damage your rather expensive storage cards. This latest exploit allows everything to run from a single card, making this sort of grey-area gameplay open to far more people. If you're running the 1.51 or 1.52 firmware versions on your PSP, you're still out of luck until Sony's digital signature is cracked, or some other loophole is found (like downgrading the firmware).
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JVC Everio MG20, MG30, MG40, MG50 Camcorders Ditch the Tape
Posted by Rob Stevens Categories: Cameras, Portable Audio / Video
Ever since MiniDV camcorders were released, I've wondered to myself how long it would be before someone like Sony released a camcorder that recorded to an internal hard drive, instead of old-school tape. You can make the tape as small as you want, but it's still tape.
Surprisingly, JVC is the one making the leap into the 21st Century, with their Everio line of camcorders with internal hard drives instead of digital cassette tape. It's worth noting that JVC has done this once before, but used a 4GB CompactFlash form-factor MicroDrive, hardly a unique move. Now they're using larger disks, finally giving the world (and us) a reason to take notice.
These second-generation Everio units feature either a 20GB or 30GB hard disk (likely the same drive included in Apple's iPod), and record MPEG2 video (DVD quality) directly to the hard drive, 4.5 hours for the 20GB unit, and 7 hours for the 30GB. Rudimentary editing features allow random access to the stored video (including setting chapters, rearranging footage, etc), and remote playback lets you attach the camcorder to a TV and operate it like a DVD player.
The two higher-end units (MG40 and MG50) have 1.33 MegaPixel CCD sensors, allowing you to take digital photos in JPEG format at up to 1152 x 864. The lower end units (MG20 and MG30) are limited to 640x480. Photos can be stored on a separate SD memory card, or logically on the internal hard drive.
Oddly, such a high-tech camcorder lacks a FireWire interface, opting for USB2. It does, however, support PictBridge, so you can print those tiny photos on any photo printer supporting the PictBridge interface.
The Everio line will launch in August, with the MG20 (0.3 MP, 20GB) coming in at $800, and the MG50 (1.3 MP, 30GB) coming in at $1000. The MG30 (1.3MP, 20GB) and the MG40 (0.3MP, 30GB) will each be $900, letting you choose whether storage space or the sensor resolution is more important to you. I'm betting that by September, someone will have cracked open one of these bad boys and have tried sticking a larger drive in it.
Yet another bluetooth headset: the RAZR H3
Posted by Sparky Categories: Accessories, Cell Phones
So it looks like Motorola has come out an upped the ante for sleek sexy bluetooth headsets. They have announced a RAZR styled H3 headset that will come out in a sleek black package. They are also announcing the H700 and the H300, two other small headsets with either a boom mike style or an over the ear clip and radically different styling. It's interesting how bluetooth headsets are fast becoming fashion statement of tomorrow like cellphones are now. I've reviewed Motorola headsets before and found their sound quality to be quite good so I'm eagerly looking forward to having a chance to check this one out in all its infinite smallness.
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Sony Buys Rights to The Matrix, DC Comics MMORPG
Posted by Ian Adams Categories: Corporate News, Internet, Role Playing Games
Last Friday, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) — the company behind MMORPG giants Everquest and Star Wars: Galaxies — announced on Friday that they have purchased the rights to The Matrix Online. (Previously held by Warner Bros.) According to SOE, Matrix Online players will not see any changes in the game or subscription pricing, however they will need to re-register with SOE and submit their billing information while agreeing to SOE terms of service, user license, privacy policy, etc. Everyone who successfully re-registers will be able to continue playing with current characters with all of their equipment. Additionally, players will have to create a Station ID to continue playing Matrix Online. For some players this may spell trouble, as customers who have been previously banned from the Station service will not be able to continue playing The Matrix Online, even if they have been playing since the game started in March with no transgressions.
During these negotiations with Warner Bros., SOE also managed to purchase the rights to make an MMORPG based on the DC Comics universe. Details on what the new DC game will be like and on which platforms it will run are practically non-existent at the time of this writing, however the game could give superhero MMORPG City of Heroes a run for its money once the game is released, which SOE hopes will be around late 2007.
"Expanding our fans' ability to participate in the DC universe through a great online game is a terrific step forward for DC Comics," said Paul Levitz, President & Publisher of DC Comics. "We look forward to working with our colleagues at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and the talented folks at SOE."
"Our goal is to deliver quality content and consistently advance our key properties within the online games space," said Jason Hall, senior vice president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. "We've done just that with The Matrix Online. Because of our compelling work in developing and launching that game we can now move it over to the leaders in the MMO space, SOE. We look forward to working with SOE to enhance our overall services to massively multiplayer online gamers for The Matrix Online and a new DC Comics game."
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Matrix Online FAQ on the Sony Acquisition | TheMatrixOnline.WarnerBros.com
New N-Gage QD Accessories En Route
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Despite being pilloried in both the press and gaming communities, the Nokia N-Gage QD is a great (and most importantly, cheap) smartphone. At E3, Nokia unveiled some accessories that look to improve the platform, including the problem of having a smartphone platform where the expandable storage and game cards use the same slot. These new add-ons are all due in the second half of the year.
Unfortunately, each accessory has some strange drawback or flaw, and perhaps shows that the N-Gage just isn't fully up to the task of being what Nokia envisions the platform as. Let's take a look at what they've come up with.
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A WOMAN suffered a brain haemorrhage just a month after being told there was nothing wrong because part of her scan results were missing.
Bosses at Royal Blackburn Hospital later sent mother-of-four Hasina Ganchi a letter that said a section of a CT scan was unavailable due to a 'computer failure'.
Had it not been for this failure, radiologists would have seen she had a brain aneurysm.
The hospital trust has since apologised to the 42-year-old, who said she had suffered headaches for more than a decade, saying it was 'likely' that diagnosing her aneurysm would have prevented the haemorrhage.
Mrs Ganchi, of Deganwy Avenue, Blackburn, had a CT scan at the Haslingden Road hospital last July.
She said she was told everything was 'okay', but in the August while working at the family-owned takeaway, Funky Fried Chicken in Whalley New Road, she collapsed.
The family has had to close the business while it deals with Mrs Ganchi's condition.
Mrs Ganchi, who is married to Noor, said: "I have had headaches for 10 to 12 years but I was never referred to the hospital for an x-ray or anything. The medication kept going up and up and they said it was all sorts of things, such as depression."
Mrs Ganchi who had the scan on July 5, was taken to Royal Preston Hospital after her collapse in August and scans showed she had had an aneurysm, a swelling of blood within an artery or vein.
An official complaint was lodged against Royal Blackburn and the Ganchis met hospital chiefs earlier this month.
She said: "We wanted to keep a record of everything said in the meeting so we asked for them to record it and send us a copy.
"But when they sent the CD, it was blank. It just added insult to injury."
Mrs Ganchi said she was still suffering severe headaches, but the cause has never been diagnosed.
She said: "I can't do things that I used to do and I am not myself."
In a letter sent after that meeting, radiology manager David O'Brien said after the first scan, it was decided a second scan with an injection of dye was needed and undertaken. However due to computer problems, the findings of the second scan were not placed on her report.
He said: "When you had a further scan in August the radiologist referred back to your previous examination and noted that images demon- strated a 4mm aneurysm in the middle cerebral artery.
"While it is not possible to say with absolute certainty whether or not identifying the aneurysm earlier would have prevented you suffering the haemorrhage, this is a likely possibility. Please accept my sincere apologies on behalf of the directorate and indeed the trust for this system failure and for any additional suffering and anguish it may have caused."
He said procedures had been put in place to prevent it happening again.
Chris Pearson, Chief Nurse at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "Patient confidentiality is of the utmost importance to us so we are unable to comment on individual cases.
"It is always disappointing when a patient feels it necessary to speak to the local press about their treatment. Improving the patient experience is a key objective for the Trust and all feedback is welcomed, acted upon and learned from. We take complaints very seriously and always try to deal with them in a timely and sensitive way. We investigate all complaints thoroughly.
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Toyota ShareLunkers 491, 492 Come from Lake O' the Pines, O.H. Ivie
ATHENS — James Hollis held the Lake O' the Pines record for largemouth bass just six days before Carl Clark of Marshall went fishing there.
The ink was still wet on Hollis's record when Clark bested it by nearly two pounds with a fish weighing 15.13 pounds caught March 26. Clark was fishing with a red Rat-L-Trap in five feet of water. His catch was 22 inches in girth and 25.25 inches long; she is now Toyota ShareLunker 491.
The March flurry of ShareLunker entries continued the next day at O.H. Ivie Reservoir, where Brian Hall of Bronte weighed in a tournament-caught 14.22-pounder that narrowly missed becoming a new lake record there. Hall was using a Zoom Brush Hog in nine feet of water.
"Lake O' the Pines was way overdue to produce a ShareLunker," said Tim Bister, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Inland Fisheries biologist who manages the fishery on the lake. "One of the reasons we're seeing these fish is the prey fish present in the reservoir. Largemouth bass have an abundance of threadfin shad, gizzard shad and various sunfish species as forage. The reservoir also has a lot of submersed aquatic vegetation. Largemouth bass grow fast in Lake O' the Pines."
Lake O' the Pines has also been stocked with Florida largemouth bass since the 1980s. "Recognizing the potential of Lake O' the Pines to produce trophy-sized bass, we began stocking Florida largemouth bass again last year," Bister said. The lake will also receive a portion of the spawn from this season's Toyota ShareLunkers.
"I grew up around Lake O' the Pines and have been fishing it since I was 15 or 16 years old," Clark said. "I love it. The fish are getting bigger every year."
In the case of the two ShareLunkers caught from the lake so far this season, make that every week.
Brian Hall was fishing in a Bassin' Bunch tournament on a very windy day in West Texas when Toyota ShareLunker 492 picked up his bait. "I've caught a lot of big fish out of Ivie-it's really coming on for big fish," he said. "I've caught a couple of 10s, but this is my biggest fish by far. When I got her in the boat, I could hardly stand up. My nerves were pretty much shot."
Hall's fish was 21 inches in girth and 26.5 inches long. It missed becoming the new lake record by about a third of a pound.
O.H. Ivie now leads in the number of ShareLunkers this season with four. Hall's fish is the second of the season from the lake to weigh more than 14 pounds.
Nine fish have now been entered into the ShareLunker program during March 2010. That list includes four 13-pound-class fish, four that weighed more than 14 pounds, two in the 15-pound class, and the current leader for big fish of the season, a 16.17-pound fish from Caddo Lake.
The race to Toyota ShareLunker 500 is now eight fish away from the finish line. In addition to all the usual prizes of a fiberglass replica of the fish and ShareLunker clothing, the angler who catches No. 500 will receive $500 per pound plus a G. Loomis BCR854 GLX jig and worm rod and a Shimano Curado 200E7 casting reel loaded with Power Pro 30-pound braided line. "It's every angler's dream and every fish's nightmare," said Bruce Holt, former G. Loomis president.
Anyone legally catching a 13-pound or bigger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between October 1 and April 30 may submit the fish to the Toyota ShareLunker program by calling program manager David Campbell at (903) 681-0550 or paging him at (888) 784-0600 and leaving a phone number including area code. Fish will be picked up by TPWD personnel within 12 hours.
For complete information and rules of the ShareLunker program, tips on caring for big bass and a recap of last year's season, see tpwd.texas.gov/sharelunker. The site also includes a searchable database of all fish entered into the program along with pictures where available.
Information on current catches, including short videos of interviews with anglers, is posted on www.facebook.com/sharelunkerprogram.
The Toyota ShareLunker Program is made possible by a grant to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation from Gulf States Toyota. Toyota is a long-time supporter of the Foundation and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, providing major funding for a wide variety of education, fish, parks and wildlife projects.
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The Polivoks is the most popular vintage Russian synth made in the early 80's and it was among the first synthesizers produced in the USSR. It's purely analog with two voices of polyphony, two oscillators each with triangle, square, saw, two types of pulse waveforms and one noise generator, the levels of which are controlled via the internal mixer. Although the oscillators can become unstable and difficult to tune, the Polivoks is well suited for making screeching sounds and thunderous bass. You can also connect an external audio input for processing through the Polivoks' switchable dual-mode band pass/low pass filter and LFO sections. The LFO, or "Modulator" offers triangle, square, random and noise waveshapes and can be applied to the oscillator level and pitch or the filter cutoff. There are also two ADSR envelopes for contouring the oscillators and filters.
Polivoks had been produced since 1982 by the Formanta electronic factory (one of the biggest at the time); it was sold exclusively in the USSR. Polivoks has its own unique electronic components including a reliable keyboard (49 notes F to E) made with magnetically controlled contacts and DIN sockets for its three outputs and one input. Its synthesis modules consist of independent circuit boards, which is convenient for maintenance and repair. In addition, Polivoks is housed in an original rugged aluminum body of uncommon design with handy controls.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Dozens of runners showed up to Three Layers Cafe in Springfield on Tuesday night to honor the bicyclist who died in an accident with a SUV early Sunday morning.
The runners said they wanted to remember Jared Bynum, 30, with a jog through his favorite part of the city.
"What happened to him is so unbelievable. [He was] always so supportive of everyone in the group. He's an elite athlete, was an elite athlete," said Katrina Papillon.
At about 7:30 a.m. Sunday, Bynum was riding east in the right-hand lane near the intersection of Nocatee and Crosswater parkways when a SUV driven by 21-year-old Shannon Brink struck him.
St. Johns County investigators said that stretch is a limited-access freeway where non-motorized vehicles are not allowed to ride. Bynum's friends told Channel 4 the loss of the cyclist has been a hard wake up call about the dangers of cycling on the side of the road.
"It's always a concern of cyclists," said Ron Porter. "Some roads are more friendly to cyclists than others."
"It's just getting more dangerous around here and people don't notice. I've gone out a lot by myself, and after this, I'm going to stick to the group stuff. It's just too dangerous out there," said Darren Bickle.
Bynum's friends said bicyclists are safer when riding in groups on streets that have low speed limits.
"You always hear stories about how unsafe it is. I'm sure like some of us we know it comes with risks. All I can say is be careful," said Paul McRea.
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Does Fort Wayne student population affect self-storage prices?
Colleges and universities located in or nearby Fort Wayne include Indiana Institute of Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, University of Saint Francis Fort Wayne. College students often need storage during summer and winter breaks and can drive prices up during these seasons.


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This article was published 27/11/2012 (1728 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Is it just us, or is everyone in this city experiencing an unexpected explosion of backyard bunnies?
Along with a thick blanket of snow, our backyard is awash in a sea of bouncing bunnies -- big ones, little ones, medium-sized ones.
Normally, this would not be a hare-raising problem. For years, everyone at our house has lived in relative peace with these long-eared interlopers.
On occasion, my wife, She Who Must Not Be Named, will curse the carrot-craving invaders when they penetrate the defences she erects each summer around her vegetable garden, but she isn't one to fret over a few extra grey hares.
As for our two main dogs -- a sandbag-shaped basset hound named Cooper and an overstuffed miniature wiener dog named Zoe -- they are only marginally aware of the bunnies' existence.
From time to time, they pay lip service to the presence of a bunny, giving half-hearted chase for several seconds until they are distracted by something their tiny brains find even more intriguing, such as a stick or an empty potato-chip bag blown into the yard by a gust of wind.
My point is, the bunnies have had it good for years. Having grown up with no serious predators, I suspect it is encoded in their DNA to ignore the marginal threat the complacent canines that ineptly patrol our backyard pose.
But this sea of tranquillity has been thrown into chaos by the arrival of Mr. X, an emergency backup dog we inherited six months ago. I am not entirely sure what kind of dog Mr. X is, but one thing is certain -- he has a singular passion for chasing bunnies.
The thing is, Mr. X -- my wife and daughter refuse to let me besmirch his reputation by revealing his real name -- is barely larger than a rabbit himself, but what he lacks in size, he makes up for with the heart of a lion and the damn-the-torpedoes attitude of a charging rhinoceros.
I became aware of Mr. X's bunny-chasing proclivity the other morning when, as per our normal ritual, I accompanied all three dogs outside to allow them to perform their daily ablutions, so to speak.
I was standing there, shivering in the last remaining shards of my ratty green bathrobe and the flip-flops I keep at the back door, when, suddenly and without warning, a bunny hopped out from behind a tree.
Our main dogs, naturally, were oblivious, but Mr. X, his tiny brain on high alert, immediately gave chase, dashing through the snow in pursuit of the startled bunny.
At this point, I should mention that foremost among Mr. X's attributes is speed. He is like a small, furry bullet fired from a gun. As the two docile dogs and I looked on in horror, Mr. X rocketed after the bunny, darting behind a tree, unleashing a burst of even more bunnies, all of which scattered in different directions, all of which Mr. X tried to pursue at the same time.
Fearing the outcome of his bunny blood lust, I gave chase, my ratty bathrobe flapping in the icy breeze, my flimsy flip-flops sinking into the frozen snow, my heart pounding like the drummer for a heavy metal band.
"STOP, MR. X! STOP!" I shrieked at the top of my lungs.
Awoken by the bunny-related backyard brouhaha, my cranky daughter hopped out of bed and, clad only in pyjamas, ran out the back door to investigate, only to slip on a patch of ice on the concrete steps, fly through the air and land with a painful thud on the snow-covered stone patio.
"Are you OK, sweetheart?" I screeched in a display of fatherly concern as the chase continued.
"Arrrrrggghhh!" is the sound that came from my bruised offspring as she flailed on the snowy ground.
It was at this point, a defiant Mr. X, ignoring my pleas and my daughter's groans, trapped one of the slower bunnies in a small thicket beside the back gate. In a bid to prevent the imminent demise of Peter Cottontail, I hatched a rescue plan.
Racing to our kitchen, I grabbed a gourmet doggy treat and thundered back to the scene of the looming bloodshed, where I hollered the only word Mr. X understands. "TREAT, MR. X!" I bellowed. "EAT THE TREAT INSTEAD OF THE BUNNY!"
When he glanced up with longing in his eyes, I hastily scooped up the wiggling Mr. X and, accompanied by my disgruntled daughter, trudged back into the warmth and safety of our home.
After restoring the blood flow to my frozen feet, I graciously decided to give all three dogs a treat, which is when I read the label on the package and, to my horror, discovered the main ingredient listed on the doggy snacks was (cue eerie music) "rabbit."
Yes, by accident, I was the one who gave Mr. X a taste of his elusive prey.
Which explains why we had such a bad hare day.


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