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|Rating: * * Japanese Title: PuzzleDirector: Mateo Gil Running time: 108 minutes Language: SpanishOpens June 30 at Cine La Sept in Yurakcho
At this point in time, we, as an audience, have learned to expect things from the psycho-killer genre: elaborate mutilation; a hip and queasy soundtrack; and motives that hinge on repressed childhoods and/or too many video games. So when you're confronted with the story of a band of computer-wiz types attempting to systematically destroy their city, much in the same manner one would destroy a Sim City in some elaborate PlayStation scenario, you don't exactly hold your breath. Rather, you're tempted to sit back in a plush chair, stick a cigar in your mouth and say in a bored, Hollywood drawl: "OK. Surprise me."
|Natalia Verbeke and Eduardo Noriega in "Nadie Conoce a Nadie"
Sadly, however, it just doesn't happen. "Nadie Conoce a Nadie" ("Nobody Knows Anybody," released here as "Puzzle") is a Spanish psycho-thriller that, had it come out a decade ago, would have elicited gasps and gulps and met with what we in the business call "wide critical acclaim." As it stands, this is a work that came too late for the party. All the others, movies like "Seven," "Silence of the Lambs" and "The Bone Collector," have already come and gone. We have lost the capacity to be surprised by criminals who live in a virtual world of puzzles and games. Or in this case, criminals who get their rocks off thinking up puzzles based on gothic motifs. It's gotten to the point where you wish you could be a gum-chomping Bernadette Peters for the pleasure of saying out loud in the theater: "You think we haven't seen this awreddy?"
Still, "Nadie" yields some exotic moments. The incredibly blue Seville sky, the streets dazzling in sunlight, the dark and sinister festivities of Holy Week. And it stars the Spanish prince-in-residence, Eduardo Noriega. Consider that Tom Cruise saw him in "Open Your Eyes" and immediately bought the rights for a remake. One likes to imagine Noriega when he heard this news — smiling briefly with the side of his mouth, taking a short sip from his gin glass and saying "So?"
He makes you imagine things like that. So it's fitting that here Noriega plays a self-centered, self-absorbed character called Simon.
Though talented as a writer, Simon prefers to write crossword puzzles for the Sunday paper. Simon is always being encouraged to grow up and make commitments, most of all by girlfriend Ariadna (Paz Vega), but he brushes her off. Then one night, he returns to find that someone has been tampering with his computer. There's a strange logo on the screen saver. Minutes later, he receives a phone call telling him to write next week's puzzle so that the answer to 6 across is "adversario (adversary)."
Simon confides this to his roommate, "Frog" (Jordi Molla), a teacher at a nearby college, who tells him the whole thing is probably a prank. Still, Simon puts in "adversario" and waits to see what happens. Come Sunday, a church is attacked with poison gas and Simon is one of the key witnesses. Spooked, he talks to reporter Maria (Natalia Verbeke). She introduces him to a photographer who took pictures of the incident. In one of the prints, Simon sees a scrap of paper pinned to one of the victims. On it is the same strange logo placed on his PC.
For the first time, Simon comes out of his cocoon and decides to combat this mysterious conspiracy. Maria (who has obviously fallen for him) offers to help. In the meantime, Simon finds a manuscript in which Frog confesses to having killed his father when he was 15. On the cover of this autobiography is the logo, which turns out to be the sign of devil worship. Simon confronts Frog, who denies any implication. Immediately after this, the second and third murder attacks happen in other churches, and the police start looking for Simon, who had been present at the scene in all cases.
"Nadie" is writer/director Mateo Gil's feature film debut. Gil had written the screenplay for "Open Your Eyes" and immediately got his name on the map of Spanish cinema. Apparently, when he got the offer to direct his own film, he refused many times, then caved in. His reluctance and indecision are reflected in this picture and in Simon, who spends most of the time being bewildered, overwhelmed and generally pissed off. All these things Noriega does to perfection, but there's a limit to how much you can watch him agonize in Seville cafes. Pretty soon, you start looking at the plot. And pretty soon, you realize that "X-Files" could probably do this better.


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" Manufacturer: GamePark Holdings / Type: Handheld games console "
(Note: My category request was for the GP2X in general, not just the F200. As the F100 is identical with a couple of exceptions -- mentioned in the review -- I feel justified in posting this here.)
== Introduction ==
Handheld game consoles have been popular for a very long time now. Although there were a few around as far back as the 1970s (the Microvision, released in 1979, was the first to use cartridges) the sector really took off with the release of Nintendo's Game Boy at the very end of the following decade. These days the handheld market is mostly a carve-up between Nintendo and Sony, but for those who like the idea of taking a different path there's Korean outfit GamePark Holdings' GP2X. It's not for everyone, and it has plenty of rough edges, but I love mine to bits.
GamePark Holdings grew out of a split in the original GamePark company that was responsible for the GP32, another handheld to which this might be seen as the spiritual successor. The corporate politics needn't concern us here, as they don't have any real bearing on the GP2X itself. This machine was designed from the start to be an open system that actively encouraged homebrew development, and that is perhaps its most significant feature. If you know how to program in a suitable environment, you can write games for this console; there are no lockouts to negotiate or lawyers to placate.
== The hardware ==
There are really two and a half models of GP2X. The original F100 (often referred to as "Mk1") which was black and had a rather unsatisfactory thumbstick with too large a deadzone and awkward vector positioning. This was replaced after a while by the also black F100(B) - or "Mk2" - which had a much improved thumbstick; this is my own model. Finally, there was the white F200 (the model in the category picture) which added a touchscreen and replaced the thumbstick with directional buttons. The *great* majority of software written for one will run on the others, with obvious exceptions such as programs depending on the touchscreen.
The GP2X is powered by a dual-core 200 MHz ARM processor running on a version of Linux; this choice of an open OS is a large part of what gives the system its extensibility. (It does, however, mean a 20-second boot time.) The console is powered by two standard AA batteries, whose life varies enormously depending on what you're doing. Even alkalines will last a fair while if you're just playing simple games or browsing photos, but for more complex tasks - especially watching movies - you really do need to get hold of a couple of pairs of high-capacity NiMH rechargeables. The choice of AA over Li-ion power has its pros and cons; it's largely a matter of personal preference.
There is an optional cradle (which I don't own) that adds, among other things, several standard USB ports, allowing you to attach keyboards, mice and so on: it's not much of an exaggeration to say that doing so would give you a functional, if in some ways limited, Linux computer. The DC supply is not the commonest (a thin 3V, 1A jack) but a multi-adaptor from the likes of Maplin should solve that problem. There's 64 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM as standard, but importantly there's also an SD slot allowing far more storage. (The F200 can also take SDHC cards, whereas the F100 has to use plain old SD.)
== Looks and handling ==
I actually prefer the look of the F100(B) to either of the other models, which is handy as that's the one I own! Although, like most black electronic devices, it does tend to attract dust, this isn't a huge problem and the occasional wipe with a soft cloth should keep the unit in order. The screen is a backlit 3.5-inch, 320x240 affair capable of 16-bit colour display and is satisfyingly sharp and bright, though annoyingly there are no hardware controls for contrast or brightness. As with most LCD panels, the screen is extremely hard to see in direct sunlight, but it works very well in other conditions.
I very much like the feel of the GP2X in my hands. It sits very comfortably, and is just the right weight once you've put the batteries in; all the buttons (including the triggers on the top corners) are easily reachable without stretching. Those with particularly large fingers might consider the A/B/X/Y buttons to be a tad too close together, but that's not a problem for me. My only real complaint is that the DC power socket's placement halfway up the right-hand side does mean the plug and lead can get in the way slightly until you get used to them.
Inevitably perhaps given GamePark Holdings' lack of resources when compared to the likes of Sony, build quality is not up to the standards you would expect from the big boys. The unit doesn't feel *flimsy*, but it's certainly not the superbly engineered creation that a PSP is, for example. The power switch on the left edge of the GP2X is a good example: it does the job perfectly well, but it's slightly fiddly (you really need to use a fingernail) and it feels just a little bit loose at times. Another example is in the battery compartment: it's a very tight fit, and there's no fabric strip under the batteries to help with removal.
== Games etc ==
The user base for the GP2X being what it is (perhaps no larger than 50,000 units worldwide) it's unsurprising that very little commercial software was written for the console, and even most of that is no longer on sale. Some versions of the machine (such as mine) include a few games as standard in the internal memory, but this is not the case with all models, so don't count on it. There are therefore two main avenues to explore: the homebrew/porting scene and the emulation capability. I'll deal with the latter in a minute, but will first look at original games.
The archive at openhandhelds.org is by far the most comprehensive source of GP2X software in existence... and all of it is free! A few programs are commercial demos, but the great majority are freeware, much of it open-source software distributed under the GNU General Public License. There are well over 500 free games to try, and although inevitably some of them are pretty poor, that still leaves plenty that will reward your attention. Some of the puzzlers are particularly impressive, and wouldn't look out of place on a top-line console. Try Tilematch, for example, a great clone of the Nintendo DS game Zoo Keeper.
Although games are really what the machine is about, I mentioned that "etc" for a reason: there are quite a few applications available too. A fun paint program with strong echoes of the Amiga classic Deluxe Paint; an audio player that works like Winamp; PDF viewers; software synthesisers... and even a fully-featured version of the classic POV-Ray ray-tracing graphics program. If you *really* want to go to town, you can install Qtopia or GPE and turn your console into something akin to a true PDA. (With a bit of fiddling about, it's even possible to run programs like Opera, Gnumeric and AbiWord this way!)
== Emulation ==
The GP2X makes a really excellent emulation station. Although some of what exists for, say, the Sony PSP is more polished, the hoops that need to be jumped through in terms of downgrading firmware and so on are simply absent here: an absolutely standard GP2X with official firmware will play commercial games, homebrew games *and* emulators with no fuss. Of course there are other factors to consider when running emulated software, not least the sometimes complex legal situation, but assuming you are able to clear that threshold this is a hugely enjoyable way to emulate.
It's impossible in a review like this to list *all* the emulators that are available for the GP2X, but it's fair to say that just about all the well-known 8-bit and 16-bit console and home computer systems are catered for (even the BBC Micro, hurrah!) as well as some of the less common ones: how about the PC-Engine, the Wonderswan or the Commodore Plus/4? The most recent console emulated at full speed is the Sega Mega Drive; an updated SNES emulator has recently been released, but this is not usually capable of more than about 30-40 fps unless you overclock the GP2X in its settings (most consoles can be pushed to at least 240 MHz).
Although not strictly emulators, I'll also note here that there are interpreters available for data files from many popular PC games. There's a decent port of ScummVM to allow you to play the likes of Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky, while first-person shooter devotees will be pleased to hear that the likes of Quake and Duke Nukem 3D are playable at full speed. With most of these games, you can use the data files from the freely available (PC) shareware versions to get a taster, but will need the original CDs to play the full game.
== Multimedia ==
The GP2X can play videos, and does so very nicely, although there is one major restriction: they must be in DivX (or Xvid) format. Conversion tools are available for PCs easily enough, but it is a slight shame that you can't simply transfer across files in formats like MP4, AAC and so on. On the plus side, the console's hardware decoder will scale anything from 720x480 downwards to fit on the GP2X's 320x240 screen. (You might as well rescale earlier, though, if only to save space on your SD card.) You can choose Low, Normal or Extra Power settings; the lowest stutters horribly when confronted with more than a tiny movie, while the top one eats batteries for breakfast; I leave it on Normal most of the time.
There's also an audio player built in, though it handles only MP3 and OGG formats. (As with most aspects of the machine, there are third-party programs available that will play other files.) It's not the most exciting player around, but it does a fairly good job and sound quality is fine. Well, it is through headphones, at least: the GP2X's speakers are not really up to the job, and even at top volume remind you a little of the better class of mobile phone speakers. Do watch the volume, though: things are a *lot* louder through headphones than they are via the speakers!
The picture viewer, once again, is unexciting but functional. It can handle the usual common formats (JPG, PNG and so on) and has basic zoom and rotate options. There's no way to *edit* files using this program: that's another thing you'll need third-party software to do. Finally, there's what is very ambitiously touted as an e-book reader, but in fact is nothing more than a plain text file viewer. It does that job well enough, and it's entirely adequate for scanning through readmes, but if you want to look at PDFs then you're going to have to go the third-party route once more.
== Programming ==
I'm not much of a programmer myself, so this section will of necessity be rather short. However, if you *are* the sort of person who'd like to write handheld games but is put off by the corporate restrictions of the big players, the GP2X may even today be for you. Off the top of my head, I know that SDL, Allegro, Code::Blocks, Pygame and sdlBasic all exist for it, and I believe there are plenty of others. Some of them are still in beta, and may never emerge from it - Perl, for example - but those with the requisite knowledge should find something that works well enough for them. There are a couple of Linux terminal programs around, too, which will be useful for developers. Oh, and with the right connections you can telnet into it as well.
== Problems ==
As I said right at the start of this review, the GP2X has its rough edges. It's rather prone to locking up, for example, and not only when being overclocked. It would be an exaggeration to say it was a *common* problem, and it rarely happens once a program has successfully launched, but it's something you're likely to encounter from time to time. Volume control is a pain, too: many, if not most, games set it about right for speakers... but therefore *far* too loud for headphones. Don't put them on until after you start the game; your eardrums will thank you for it! Finally, the "low battery" light on F100 models give you literally ten seconds' notice; it's not surprising that it disappeared on the F200!
It is possible, though thankfully not that easy, to "brick" your GP2X. If this happens, it is almost always the result of a failed firmware upgrade. The console's open nature means that upgrading is not at all a difficult job, but it takes some time and a lot of power, so it's very important to do it with the machine plugged into the mains. If power dies halfway through, you may be in tOh, and with the right connections you can telnet into it as well.rouble. Many seemingly-bricked machines can be rescued, but not all of them. Frankly, if your firmware is v2.1 or above (mine has v3.0.0) I'd be inclined to leave well alone. You have been warned!
== Buying and verdict ==
The GP2X is not a particularly well-known console, and as such prices on eBay vary considerably. You should *not* pay huge "rare!" premiums for one, though, since they simply are not. With a modicum of patience an F100(B) could be yours for around the £50 mark, though you'd be unlikely to get much more than the basic console and perhaps some headphones and an SD card. (Oddly enough, boxed examples *don't* command large premiums.) An F200 in good condition (don't forget the stylus!) is likely to be more in the £70 range.
It should be apparent by now that this is a rather different animal from the Nintendos and Sonys of this world. If what you want above all is a "plug and play" handheld console that can offer a large range of big-name games, then forget about this and get some flavour of PSP or DS. On the other hand, if you like poking about with programs to see what happens, and are prepared to do a little work sometimes to get things going, it would be hard to find a better way to do so than the GP2X. It gets four stars here because of its irritating drawbacks, but *personally* I think it's wonderful!
== Useful links ==
GP2X file archive: www.openhandhelds.org (click on the GP2X symbol)
GP2X wiki: wiki.gp2x.org (gets spammed a fair bit, though)

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Employee donations and company matching dollars total more than $35,200
WINDSOR, ON, Nov. 29, 2012 /CNW/ - The annual employee fundraising campaign at Union Gas has raised more than $35,200 for United Way of Windsor-Essex. This exceptional contribution will help United Way continue to invest in its three strategic investment priority areas across Windsor and Essex County: supporting basic needs and independence, positioning kids and families for success, and creating thriving neighbourhoods.
"I continue to be inspired by the enthusiasm and generosity that Union Gas employees and retirees demonstrate year after year during our United Way fundraising campaign," said Mark Emmanuel, Union Gas district manager for Windsor/Essex. "We're proud of our longstanding history with Windsor-Essex and I can't think of a better way to express our thanks than by being able to provide this gift to United Way."
The Union Gas campaign is led by a dedicated and enthusiastic group of volunteers and all individual employee and retiree donations made during this campaign are matched dollar for dollar by Union Gas' parent company, Spectra Energy - doubling the community benefit.
"Union Gas and its employees continue to demonstrate their commitment to the community and United Way every year. Over the years, Union Gas has contributed almost $701,000 locally to United Way, which is absolutely incredible." said Penny Marrett, CEO, United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County. "Union Gas runs an exceptional workplace campaign through special events, incentive programs and presentations. We are very grateful for their support of United Way's Annual Campaign."
For over 100 years, Union Gas has been privileged to work in more than 400 Ontario communities. In addition to natural gas delivery services for homes and businesses, Union Gas has contributed to the province through significant economic investments, hundreds of jobs, millions in municipal taxes, energy efficiency programs, thousands of volunteer hours for community organizations, major charitable giving and sponsorships. Last year alone, Union Gas contributed $3 million to charitable organizations across Ontario, including a year-round Winter Warmth program that provides emergency relief for low-income families who have a difficult time paying their natural gas bills during the year. For more information visit uniongas.com/community.
"We're proud of our longstanding partnership with communities in Ontario and particularly happy that through the United Way campaign and programs such as Winter Warmth, we are making a difference for families in need," added Emmanuel.
About Union Gas
Union Gas Limited is a major Canadian natural gas storage, transmission and distribution company based in Ontario with 100 years of experience and service to customers. The distribution business serves about 1.4 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in more than 400 communities across northern, southwestern and eastern Ontario. Union Gas, named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and one of Canada's Greenest Employers for 2012, is a Spectra Energy (NYSE: SE) company with assets of $5.8 billion and approximately 2,200 employees. For more information, visit uniongas.com.
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According to our Daily Poll, 42 year-old Gavin Rossdale is one of our favorite celebrity dad's. It's easy to understand why after reading his thoughts on fatherhood and how little Kingston has changed his life,
"You have to relinquish all self-importance. It's not a bad thing. You don't have time to think about yourself. I used to wallow in introspection. I don't have time to be that guy now."
Gavin is kicking off a solo music career this month with the release of Wanderlust. Gavin and his superstar wife, Gwen Stefani, are welcoming their second child this summer. He recalls his lack of experience prior to Baby Kingston's arrival,
[Before becoming a dad,] "I'd been around babies 12 minutes my entire life. I didn't read any books. And we had friends of ours who were like, 'You guys re crazy, you've got to read books.'" But Gavin went on to say "It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting and brilliant."
Source: People
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Aircraft Lighting International (ALI) has received parts manufacturer approval (PMA) for its 12-mm LED lights, designed and built as direct replacements for B/E Aerospace and ALI fluorescents.
According to the Mount Sinai, N.Y.-based company, the replacement LEDs require no new wiring, no new lamp holders, no new dimmers and no new controllers. They are fully dimmable and "100-percent interchangeable with existing fluorescent lamps."
Aircraft Lighting owner Nick Michelinakis says the price begins at $15 per inch, and it comes with a three-year warranty. He adds that an 8-mm version is in the works for the Falcon 2000 and Falcon 900 series, as well as a DC version.
The LED replacement lamps are available now and Michelinakis says, "If they order it today, they'll get it tomorrow."


text: Case Study: Story Maps in the Classroom Sign in Create Account ArcUser Spring, 2013 Keywords: stories, story maps, geography, STEM, Categories: Academic Instruction Career Education Youth-and-Community Description: Incorporating Esri's story maps into the geography undergraduate senior seminar at the University of South Carolina helped students communicate results from their semester-long projects. The authors discuss the successes they had and the challenges they faced to help other instructors recognize the possibilities—and minimize the limitations—of using story maps in their own classrooms. The story map concept allowed students with varying levels of GIS and mapping experience (from none to substantial) to clearly express the spatial story attached to their projects. Story maps let educators introduce students to the concepts and techniques involved with creating a dynamic, geocentric web application. Story maps can be created using basic prepared templates that are designed entirely using the ArcGIS Online web application tools or from downloadable template files that can be easily configured and customized by editing a few simple HTML or comma-separated value (CSV) files. While the incorporation of story maps was an overall success, it was a learning experience with technical challenges for students, the instructor, and the technical staff supporting the class. Link: http://www.esri.com/esri-news/arcuser/spring-2013/story-maps-in-the-classroom


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Television Series' New Online Ad Campaign Stalks Potential Viewers
Submit personal info to help uncover a conspiracy and you'll find increasingly targeted ads 'following' you around the internet.
Television network A&E has created a creepy campaign around its upcoming 'Coma' miniseries. Upon arriving at the promotional Coma Conspiracy webpage users are asked to enter their information to help uncover the 'coma conspiracy.' In reality they are signing up for a series of banner ads for the show's nefarious 'Jefferson Institute' that become increasingly personal and targeted. You might have seen the noticeable Coma Conspiracy street ads around town recently as well.
The videos and photos up on the Coma Conspiracy site are believable high-production pieces that seem to have fooled quite a few people based on the Facebook comments posted there. Engaging internet users like this then serving them fictional 'ads' to creep them out really gets people involved and in the mood for the show, even if it is just a remake of a 1970's movie. Kudos to A&E for an engaging mainstream use for gathering personal information that really does enhance audience experience.
Check out one of the promotional videos below:


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Little Claudia McCabe was only 5 years old when she held her first blowtorch. Fearless in the face of home repair and remodeling, she came to her father's rescue as he installed a new water heater. • Since then, she has hammered and chiseled — and painted and papered — her way through life, no job too big and no prospect too scary for the Crystal Beach wife, mother and grandmother.
Her latest project, remodeling the master bathroom in her 3,500-square-foot house on Southern Bayou, was so impressive that it landed her in Better Homes and Gardens as September's featured DIYer of the month.
She took a ho-hum bathroom and breathed new life into it with a little ingenuity — and a tile cutter.
That's what intrigued the Better Homes and Gardens folks.
"We thought a lot of people would relate to the original bathroom she had," Kit Selzer, senior BHG remodeling editor, said. "She was able to take what was before her and make us kind of sit up and say, 'Wow,' " Selzer said.
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McCabe comes by her penchant for pounding naturally. Her father, the man who gave her her first blowtorch, had a fix-it shop in upstate New York where they lived.
"I grew up around tools and band saws. My dad told us we could do anything," she said.
He apparently lived by this creed: If you fix your daughter's house, you help her for a day, but if you teach your daughter how to fix her house, you help her for a lifetime.
For over the course of that lifetime, which includes seven houses in which she raised two children, what her father didn't teach her, she taught herself.
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McCabe got the inspiration for her wow-inducing bathroom project from a hotel in Aspen, Colo. Always on the lookout for home fix-up ideas, she liked the bathroom there and knew she could replicate it at home.
Her bathroom had one large mirror over a double sink and nutmeg-stained cabinets. The hotel bath had two framed mirrors on a decorative tile wall and espresso-colored cabinets.
She didn't just admire the hotel bath, she measured and counted and sketched so that when she got home, she was able to go to work.
The 1-inch tiles had been laid on the hotel wall in such a fashion that they made arches over both mirrors.
She drew the shape of the arches on a big piece of paper she laid on the floor. Then she filled the shape with tiles. When she was done, she transferred the tiles onto the wall.
The tile design, McCabe noted at the hotel, included 4- by 9-inch tiles. When she couldn't find that size ready-made, she made them herself by cutting down standard 18- by 18-inch travertine tiles.
Piece of cake.
"I have a little tile saw. I think cutting tile is fun," she said.
Then she hung two mirrors, stained the cabinets darker and sprayed the light fixtures brushed nickel to match the faucets. Voila. $500 later, she had a new bathroom.
Patti Ewald is a freelance writer who lives in Gulfport. She can be reached at pattiewald@ gulfcoastwriter.com.


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As I remain one of the only people on the internets who isn't shoving my boot firmly up Sony's arse for copying Nintendo with PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, I thought that I would celebrate its upcoming release by looking at some of the greatest crossovers in video game history. Here are my top 5:
5. Street Fighter X Tekken
One of the most unlikely announcements in fighting game history, the unveiling of Street Fighter X Tekken had fans salivating at the idea of finally being able to let Ryu and Kazuya go mano-a-mano. While the finished product may have left out some of our favourite characters for the sake of DLC (no surprise there then, Capcom), it still mostly lived up to the hype, and we can barely wait for Tekken X Street Fighter.
4. Alien vs. Predator
Alien Vs. Predator was one of only a handful of reasons to purchase the ill-fated Atari Jaguar, and also has the honour of being the very first video game to scare me so much that I physically couldn't bring myself to play it for extended periods of time. With a soundtrack that consisted of nothing more than the dull hum of the abandoned technology in the military base you had to fight your way through as the lowly Private Lewis, there was no way that you could anticipate an enemy approaching you, making for an incredibly intense experience. Playing as either an Alien or Predator was decidedly less terrifying, but still plenty of fun as players got to assume the roles as two of sci-fi's greatest villains for the very first time.
Aliens versus Predator was released five years later, and while it was arguably a better game, nothing quite beats that initial thrill of fending off facehuggers in one of the Jaguar's only true classics.
3. Marvel vs. Capcom 2
With a cast of characters more robust than both its predecessor and successor, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is still regarded by many as the best fighting game in history. Fast, fluid gameplay, colourful sprites and a cast of 56 characters from Cable to Zangief made it a joy for both comic book lovers and fighting game fans alike.
While Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was a great game, it's a testament to the quality of MvC 2 that its sequel was a disappointment when compared to the Dreamcast classic. Also, Mega Man wasn't a fat, PlayStation 3 exclusive.
2. Kingdom Hearts
One of the best crossovers in video game history is also one of the silliest (or 'goofiest', if you enjoy a terrible pun), Kingdom Hearts sees the worlds of Final Fantasy and Disney combining for an epic adventure that has the player travelling all across the Disney universe, enlisting everyone from Donald Duck to Simba to help you on your quest to save player-character Sora's friends and Mickey Mouse.
Despite its ridiculous premise, Kingdom Hearts works far better than it has any right to, and carves out an affecting tale that does justice to both Square Enix's top franchise and Disney's illustrious legacy.
1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
While I personally prefer Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl remains the most pant-wettingly awesome cast of characters yet seen in a video game. Sure, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 lets Zangief and Hulk duke it out, and Kingdom Hearts allows you to fight alongside Simba, but SSBB allows the player to take part in the battle that every playground in the world furiously debated throughout the 90s – Mario vs. Sonic.
Aside from punching a blue hedgehog in his obnoxious mouth, SSBB also gave players the opportunity to see whether Solid Snake or Kirby would win in a fight, and also taught us that, despite appearances, Diddy Kong is a complete badass.


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I am new to RPT.I have one query.Can anyone help me out in telling what is a Transaction Time in Performance Testing.
I have a login application form to record in RPT. It has all the login credentials to give as a input,say CustID,Username,Date of Birth,Password and then on clicking the Submit button, I can login to the application.
So while recording purpose,when should I insert the Start Transaction and provide with the Transaction name.
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Pinned topic Confusion regarding the Transaction Time in Performance Testing
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Re: Confusion regarding the Transaction Time in Performance Testing2013-03-18T16:39:54ZThis is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer.Hi,
You have a choice of when to insert the Start / End Transaction depending on what you want to measure.
I would tend to type in the credentials, then insert the Start Transaction and provide with a name, then click Submit.
When the next page has completed loading I would insert the Stop Transaction.
This gives you a transaction that measures the response time of the login. The times shown in the Transaction Reports will include the think time for the page... to exclude the think time look at the Transaction Net Server Time reports.
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License plates from Wyoming and Hawaii are America's favorites, says survey.
America's most attractive license plate comes from Wyoming, a new CarInsurance.com survey finds. Wyoming's top-scoring plate features a silhouetted cowboy on a bucking bronco.
CarInsurance.com asked 2,000 licensed drivers from all corners of the country which standard-issue license plates they liked most and least, choosing five of each. Voting continues at http://www.carinsurance.com/best-and-worst-license-plates.aspx.
Nearly a third of all respondents named the Cowboy State's plate one of their favorites, and very few ranked it as unattractive. The top 10 plates were:
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2. Hawaii
3. Utah
4. Alabama
5. Oregon
6. Maine
7. South Carolina
8. Florida
9. Georgia
10. Oklahoma
Delaware led the least-attractive license plates category in a landslide, with almost half of all respondents naming it one of their least favorite. The Delaware plate features gold lettering on a field of blue, but no images. The bottom 10 were:
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43. Massachusetts
44. District of Columbia
45. Montana
46: New York
47. Virginia
48. Alaska
49. Michigan
50. Arkansas
51. Delaware
Women overwhelmingly liked Hawaii's rainbow design. Men did, too, but not as much as they liked Wyoming's cowboy.
"These plates are unique and uncommon, and their bright colors and graphic images are easily distinguished at a distance," said CarInsurance.com Managing Editor Des Toups. "Great if anyone still plays The License Plate Game."
Cheap, fast printing on vinyl has largely replaced prison-stamped metal in most states, leading to a profusion of options that states and organizations use to raise money for colleges and causes.
While those affinity plates have become much more numerous, it's still the no-cost, standard state plate that winds up on most rear bumpers.
"License plates used to be a calling card for your home state," Toups said. "The best ones still are."
In fact, 13 percent of respondents said a plate had inspired a vacation or relocation, citing Florida most often. The other plates that successfully encouraged vacations or relocations were Georgia, California, Hawaii and Alaska.


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In 1995, five guys from Virginia with a love of heavy metal began jamming together. They played in basements and dingy clubs, recorded demos, worked hard, built a rabid underground fan base, and eventually called themselves Lamb of God.
Now, more than fifteen years later, Lamb of God has achieved the kind of success that kids with garage bands dream about - they have sold over two million albums, made two platinum-selling DVDs, been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and have continued growing their cult of heavy metal loyalists into a worldwide community.
AS THE PALACES BURN is a feature-length documentary that originally sought to follow the band and their fans throughout the world, to demonstrate how music ties us together when we can't find any other common bond. However, during the filming process in 2012, the story abruptly took a dramatic turn, bringing the band into a Kafkaesque nightmare, when lead singer Randy Blythe was arrested on charges of manslaughter, blamed for the death of one of their young fans in the Czech Republic. What followed was a heart-wrenching courtroom drama that left fans, friends, and curious onlookers around the world on the edge of their seats.
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When Ace Tin and Sheet Metal Works, Inc. got a contract in 1996 to replace the siding at Miller Outdoor Theatre, Kathy Highsmith was thrilled. The job would give the small family business, founded by her grandfather in 1928, its biggest boost since Highsmith's dad had retired five years earlier and turned it over to his two daughters. "We thought it was a wonderful opportunity for us," Highsmith says.
Part of the major renovation of Miller that was to include a new roof, sound system and extensive landscaping, the siding work was to take about five months and be completed at the tail end of 1996 -- a perfect Christmas gift for her company, Highsmith thought. The siding, which because of exacting specifications could only be supplied by a company in Pennsylvania, arrived in August, and Ace Tin immediately started construction. Highsmith rented equipment and hired ten new employees to ensure the schedule would be met, and the first wall was finished in a few weeks. "We really geared up for it," she says.
Concerns about the siding, which had been scratched in transit, prompted a meeting in September with the supplier, Ace Tin and various people involved in the project, including several city and theater representatives. At the meeting, the supplier offered to fix any problems after the siding was installed -- even to repaint every panel, if necessary. According to Highsmith, that solution satisfied everyone present.
Unfortunately, everyone did not include Jerry Dinkins, who heads the Public Works Department's Special Projects Division and in that capacity manages the Miller renovations for the city. In November, after Ace Tin had finished three of four walls, Dinkins decided that the siding had to come down and be completely replaced. He froze all payments on the project, leaving Ace Tin unable to make payroll and stuck with thousands of dollars in unpaid bills from suppliers. Highsmith says she tried to discuss it with Dinkins, but was rebuffed. "He wouldn't talk," she says. "He wouldn't negotiate."
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Dinkins, who didn't attend the meeting at which the siding agreement was reached, sticks by his decision and says he doesn't recall any conversations with anyone but the general contractor, Mesa Southwest Construction Co. "I don't know anything about Ace Tin," says Dinkins.
Highsmith snorts at Dinkins's alleged memory loss. "That is so untrue," she says. "He knows who I am. He spoke with me personally. He wrote me a letter."
As proof, Highsmith faxed the Press a copy of a letter Dinkins sent her in December 1996. "I regret the financial burden this situation has caused your company," wrote Dinkins. "However, at this time our position stands that the metal panels will not be accepted by the city of Houston."
Dinkins shrugs off the evidence. "If there's a letter, there's a letter," he says. "I don't recall it."
The siding issue remained unresolved for months. Eventually, the supplier agreed to replace the siding, which meant that all Ace Tin's work had to be torn down. By this point, Ace was out of the picture -- financial problems related to the siding deal had left the company with a skeletal staff and angry creditors -- and another company got the contract. More than a year after the scheduled completion date, the siding is still not completely installed -- and scratches are plainly visible on the new material.
The Parks and Recreation Department announced on February 2 that the first part of Miller Outdoor Theatre's 1998 season would have to be postponed because the renovations hadn't been completed. Blame it on bad weather, says parks deputy director Susan Christian. "We had an exorbitant amount of rainfall," Christian explains.
El Nino may in fact have contributed to the delays, but people with an intimate knowledge of the situation point to poor management of the theater renovations and numerous bungles during construction as far more significant. "For them to say the problem was inclement weather is like saying that Matt Bullard is responsible for what happens to the Houston Rockets," says a source who has worked on various parts of the project. "It's bullshit."
Indeed, the aborted first part of the season is but the latest in a series of delays that go back more than three years, well before El Nino began its reign. In September 1994, Parks Department Director Bill Smith announced that $1.5 million in parks funds would be dedicated to various improvements at the theater. The following April, he outlined the specifics -- a new roof, new bathrooms, drainage improvements, a souped-up sound system -- and set a time line. Work was to commence in November, after completion of the 1995 season, and be finished by the theater's 1996 opening in March.
By August, however, the lack of movement on the project caused Miller Outdoor Theatre advisory board chairman Genevieve Rousseve to write a letter to Smith. "To date, there is no indication that any bidding has begun," Rousseve wrote. "Our board is very concerned that another window of available construction time will be lost."
At some point, the city realized that the cost of the scheduled renovations would exceed $1.5 million, and the wish list was scaled back. Construction of the remaining items didn't begin in November. More than half a year later than planned, the crews finally got under way.
The parks department has a rosy explanation, of course, just as there's a rosy explanation for anything parks-related that might be perceived as untoward. Since the scope of the work had to change because of the cost, says deputy director Beto Bautista, the process slowed down while the department tried to figure out which renovations would be done by the city and which by the Friends of Hermann Park, the nonprofit group that had devised a master plan for the entire park that included major landscaping changes at Miller. "It was really a question of how we would package the work," Bautista says.
Why that took months to determine, especially since the $1.5 million would cover less than originally planned for November and had nothing to do with landscaping, remains a mystery.
Equally mysterious is the convoluted saga of the roof, which Smith had initially noted in April 1995 would be replaced. That was a month before the warranty on the old thermoplastic roof, which had been leaking, expired. According to a roofing consultant's report several months later, "Any and all problems with the thermoplastic roof system until that time should have been corrected by the materials manufacturer."
Apparently no one knew about the warranty until it was too late. The new roof, which was supposed to take a year to build, instead went up in dribs and drabs, the completion date fading further and further into the future. Leaks were a constant problem, flooding offices and creating pools of water in the seating areas. Last year, during the Shakespeare Festival, water poured through a hole that should have been covered and doused the cast and set of The Winter's Tale in the middle of a performance, forcing its cancellation.
The roof replacement was supposed to have been coordinated with construction of the new bathrooms. But the higher-than-anticipated cost meant that the bathrooms had to be delayed until more cash became available. The roofers went ahead, though, and after they finished the job, almost half the new lid had to be torn off again to accommodate the bathrooms. Asked why the two projects weren't coordinated, Dinkins hedges. "I'm not sure," he says. "I didn't think that much of the new roof was taken off."
For someone who is supposed to be in charge, Dinkins seems unsure about a lot of the details. He first denied, for example, that the first batch of renovations was part of mayor Bob Lanier's Parks to Standard program, a fact that was common knowledge among almost everyone contacted for this story. Later, Dinkins admitted he'd been mistaken. And he says that he was unaware of the siding problems for several months after the contractor, the supplier and others had met several times to discuss the matter.
Just who was supposed to oversee the project remains in doubt. A number of chiefs supposedly managed the construction, including several city employees in addition to Dinkins, private consultants and the contractors, but asked to identify who or why something went wrong, fingers point frantically in various directions.
Whoever was responsible for the project, the lack of movement on the renovations almost resulted in disaster. Last June, the city held a groundbreaking ceremony featuring the mayor, Public Works Department Director Jimmie Schindewolf and other top brass. Half an hour after they left, a severe windstorm kicked up. Because the siding issue was still in limbo and the job remained half-finished, the wind caught some unsecured panels and pulled off several sections, punching holes in the roof and scattering sheet metal everywhere. "If it had fallen while they were there," says one attendee, "Somebody would have gotten badly hurt."
Even with all the snafus, Dinkins and other officials stated early last year that the theater would be substantially complete by October 25, just after the season was over. As the year progressed, though, and the endless delays mounted, the deadline seemed impossible to meet. Still, the city scheduled a private fundraising gala starring the Pointer Sisters on that date, insisting that the theater would be ready on time. "It was more than unrealistic," says a source familiar with the project. "They had their heads up their ass."
Parks department deputy director Susan Christian says that the date was chosen because it was the first available weekend after the 1997 season, and because the city wanted to celebrate Miller's 75th anniversary before the calendar year ended. She neglected to mention another important reason that date was chosen, and why it remained so hard and fast despite the evidence that the theater wouldn't be anywhere near ready -- October 25 happens to be Bob and Elyse Lanier's wedding anniversary. "It was a gift for the mayor and his wife," says a gala participant.
Partly because a number of temporary measures had to be taken to stage the gala in the midst of construction, expenses for the grand party went through the ceiling. The Pointer Sisters' $60,000 fee plus numerous pricey requirements didn't help either. In fact, though Christian claims to have raised $50,000 for the theater during the gala, others laugh at the number. "The city lost its shirt," says a source with access to the numbers.
Christian first admitted that in calculating the proceeds, she failed to subtract the costs, which totaled about $100,000. Perhaps because throwing a private mayoral anniversary party at taxpayer expense wouldn't sit well, she later changed her story, saying that the city actually raised $150,000 from private donors and therefore netted the $50,000. Despite a request to document her claim, however, Christian did not do so by press time.
After the gala, another five months remained before this year's opening. Rather than speed up construction, the various crews have plodded along at half-speed, much to the dismay of observers. And though rain did slow the renovations, basic measures to deal with bad weather, such as the use of heavy-duty construction mats for muddy grounds, weren't taken until late January. At this point, even the revised opening date in late May is in question. "I don't know why [the mats weren't used earlier]," says one worker. "They should have been there in November."
The city even delayed the announcement that the theater still wouldn't be ready by the opening of the current season on April 3 until two months before. Though all but one of the shows have been rescheduled (Cinco de Mayo has been moved to September 14), many of the groups had invested a lot of time preparing for their events and were thrown for a loop by the postponement. "It was devastating, I'll tell you that," says Carolyn Franklin, executive director of HITS Unicorn Theatre, which will have to stage its production next November. "We were already in rehearsal. I had a superb cast, and now two of my principal characters will be going off to college. I think it's a shame."
Kathy Highsmith of Ace Tin thinks it's a shame as well. Since the city left her holding the bag on the siding, the company has been on the verge of ruin and may have to file for bankruptcy soon. "We ended up losing about $150,000," says Highsmith. "Fifteen people lost their jobs. Believe me, I have very bitter, hard feelings.
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During a Thursday appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Grey's Anatomy alum Katherine Heigl opened up about the "beautifully serendipitous" adoption of daughter Adalaide.
"This was fascinating because we started the adoption process again and we thought we were going to adopt internationally. It's a pretty long process. It can take years," she said her initial plans to find a sibling for Naleigh, 4, with husband Josh Kelley.
While the couple adopted Naleigh from Korea, they opened up their search this time around.
"And then we started exploring because we had heard that Korea had gotten very hard to adopt from, and China had a very, very long waiting list and I was like (taps wrist), any day now," she continued
As it turns out, they found a match within the U.S. this time around.
"And so we started exploring the idea of domestic adoption – just exploring – and then my lawyer called and said, 'There's a birth mother and she's due in four weeks and she's all yours if you want her,'" the Knocked Up star said.
Katherine said the immediacy of their adoption news came as a surprise to her musician husband.
"He thought it was going to be a few years, and that we were going to end up with more of like a 9-month-old or 10-month-old, and he looked at me and said, 'You're telling me in a month we're going to have a newborn?' And I said, 'Yes. It's perfect timing, don't you think? Look we're both here, we're not working. This is great. We can spend time with her,'" she shared.
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Christoph Moritz to leave Schalke
Schalke midfielder Christoph Moritz will leave the Royal Blues at the end of the season in order to gain more playing time, general manager Horst Heldt has said.
Moritz, 23, is in the last year of his contract and a move to Mainz is believed to be his preferred option.
"We were in talks [over a new contract] for nine months," Heldt explained. "He believes that he will get more playing time when he moves."
According to Mainzer Rhein Zeitung, Moritz will sign a contract at Mainz until 2017.
Mainz general manager Christian Heidel said the deal could be negotiated in the January transfer window.
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Moritz, a Germany Under-21 international, has only played 23 games due to injuries since his first season with Schalke in 2009-2010.
This season, the defensive midfielder has played just over 20 minutes in three substitute appearances.
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Here is another card I made with Bloomin' Beautiful and better pictures of the previous two (daylight pics), and finally the supplies. All use Bloomin' Beautiful stamp set. Cardstock: shimmery white, soft sky, kraft, old olive, vellum
ink: soft sky, bashful blue, old olive, close to cocoa, chocolate chip, jet black staz on
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cardstock: watercolor paper, certainly celery, so saffron, pretty in pink, whisper white
ink: close to cocoa, chocolate chip, certainly celery, old olive, pretty in pink, regal rose, so saffron, basic black
accessories: soft subtles eyelets, very vanilla taffeta ribbon, microbeads, crystal effects
other: corner rounder punch, horizontal slot punch, spiral punch
cardstock: naturals white, ruby red, old olive
ink: basic black, old olive
accessories: silver brads, hedgepodge hardware, poly twill old olive ribbon, pure color pencils, white gel pen, crystal effects
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Escaped monkey attacks 2 kids in Fremont
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:18:50 GMT —
A small monkey attacked two children and ran wild for hours Thursday in Fremont, police said.
The two girls were around nine years old and suffered scratches, according to Fremont Police Chief Tim Wiersma. Wiersma said the girls should be okay.
The grivet monkey, which is about the size of a raccoon, figured out a way to unlatch his leash and run away from his owner on Hickory Street, Wiersma said. Police fired two rounds at the pet monkey during a nearly three-hour pursuit that ended with the owner capturing it around 6 p.m.
The owner was cited with allowing an animal to run at large, which Wiersma said is a minor misdemeanor with a fine of up to $150. The animal spent Thursday night with its owner, who did not come to the door when WNWO's Michael Henrich and Michael Melchiorre knocked.
Wiersma also said this owner has been cited for the same offense one time before, when the monkey escaped and scratched a different neighbor, but the department's hands are tied. The police chief said he would like to see some sort of exotic animals law put in place to avoid these types of incidents.
We want to know what you think. What sort of animals should be off-limits as pets? What should happen to exotic animals that end up attacking people? What should happen to the owner if an animal keeps escaping? Share your thoughts and join in on the conversation at WNWO's Facebook page .


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Haneda Airport Discount Train Fare
New Special Ticket Pack: PASMO and Haneda Airport Access
- New offer for foreign travelers only!
- Convenient access from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) to central Tokyo and Yokohama via the Keikyu Line
Keikyu Corporation, which operates train lines connecting the Tokyo gateway of Haneda Airport to central Tokyo and the Yokohama area, has announced the release of a convenient discount ticket package to foreign travelers utilizing Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) for use in transit between the airport and central Tokyo or Yokohama.
Foreign travelers purchasing a 2,600 yen PASMO card receive a 200 yen discount when accessing Haneda airport via Shinagawa station, and a 280 yen discount when accessing the airport via Yokohama station.
PASMO is an IC card-based passenger ticket that can be used on over 100 transportation facilities in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including JR and other railways, subways, and buses. This card also includes a convenient e-currency feature. (For more details regarding PASMO, please see: http://www.pasmo.co.jp/en/).
Available June 1, 2011 – March 31, 2012 (To be issued in limited quantity of 5,000 sets. Ticket set will no longer be available once quantities run out.) This ticket set is intended for sale to foreign travelers visiting Japan. As such, customers will be asked to present their passport upon purchase.
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Friday, May 27, 2011
2011 Worldwide Uchinanchu Taikai Caravan Group
2011 Worldwide Uchinanchu Taikai Caravan
Governor Hirokazu Nakaima Comes To Hawaii !
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 , 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Place: Hawaii Okinawa Center, Legacy Ballroom
The 5th Worldwide Uchinanchu Taikai Overseas Caravan group will be visiting Kenjinkais in Canada, New York, Los Angeles and their last stop: Honolulu!
If you are interested in participating in the 5th Worldwide Uchinanchu Taikai in October, please join us on Wednesday, June 8th at 7 p.m. The Caravan group will be ready to share information about the Taikai and will also show the DVD of the last Taikai that took place five years ago. It is their hope that their visit and sharing will create excitement and enthusiastic participation in the Taikai. With the talented and famous Daiichi Hirata in the midst of the Taikai Caravan group, we can expect an exciting "finale"! So, see y'all on June 8th !
Please contact us if you will be attending and if you will be traveling to the Taikai with the Naka's Travel Service 5th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival Tour to Okinawa. If you are not connected with a tour group and are traveling independently, please call the Hawaii United Okinawa Association at 676-5400 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to let them know of your attendance.
Roster of Taikai Caravan Group:
- Governor Hirokazu Nakaima, Okinawa Prefecture
- Kiichiro Miyagi, Governor's Secretary
- Hidetoshi Chinen, Governor's Interpreter
- Daiichi Hirata, Director General, Dept. of Culture, Tourism & Sports
- Tae Tengan, Deputy Taikai Chair
- Yasuhiko Yogi, Chief of Taikai Participant Coordination Section
- Matthew Anderson, Coordinator for International Relations
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Hiroshima Navigator
The city of Hiroshima, in western Japan, has redesigned the Hiroshima online sightseeing site "Hiroshima Navigator" (www.hiroshima-navi.or.jp/en). It features information about sightseeing spots, information about accommodation, shopping, restaurants and more.
With six beautiful rivers flowing through it, Hiroshima is called the City of Water. The origins of the City date back to 1589 when Mori Terumoto, a feudal lord, built Hiroshima Castle (also referred to as Rijo, or Carp Castle) at the large delta of the Ota-gawa River. (The current castle was reconstructed after the original was destroyed by an atomic bomb during the war.)
Because the delta resembled a large island, the area was called "Hiroshima," or 'wide island' in Japanese. The town was the seat of the Mori and Fukushima families, and later of the Asano, who laid the foundations of Hiroshima's further development as the most lively castle town in western Japan.
Upcoming events in Hiroshima:
Hiroshima established the Hiroshima Art Prize in 1989. The purpose is to recognize the achievements of artists who have contributed to the peace of humanity in the field of contemporary art, and through contemporary art aim to appeal to a wider world and the spread the "Spirit of Hiroshima," which seeks everlasting world peace. This prize is awarded once every three years. The winner of the eighth Hiroshima Art Prize is Yoko Ono. An award ceremony will be held in July. At the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, a special exhibition about Ono will start from July.
The Peace Memorial Ceremony is held on Aug. 6 every year. The ceremony starts at 8 a.m. Many visitors come to the peace memorial park to attend the ceremony in early morning. At night, a Lantern Floating ceremony will be held. Originally, lantern floating is an event to mourn for the departed souls. But in this Lantern Floating ceremony, participants float their lantern not only to mourn for the souls of the victims by A-bombing, but also to promise to make efforts toward the realization of world peace.
In late October, the Hiroshima Food Festival will be held in Hiroshima Castle and the Central Park featuring various foods from all over Hiroshima prefecture. Many stalls are opened at the site. From the end of October to the end of November, the fall foliage is at its finest in Hiroshima. Miyajima is famous for foliage sighting as is Hijiyama park and the Mitakidera temples and in the northern part of Hiroshima scenic areas such as Sandankyo Gorge and Taishakukyo Gorge.
See the Naka's Travel Service Japan Tours page for information on package tours to Hiroshima and other parts of Japan. There is more information about Hiroshima on the Hiroshima Navigator page at http://www.hiroshima-navi.or.jp/en/ or from the Japan National Tourism Organization page at http://www.japantravelinfo.com.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Japan is Open for Business - Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga wants you to visit Japan!
Two months following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, officials are now spreading the word that the island nation is safe for visitors traveling on business and pleasure. "The health and safety risks to areas beyond the 50-mile evacuation zone, and particularly to Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama, nearby U.S. military facilities … and to prefectures which are outside a 50-mile radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are low and do not pose significant risks to U.S. citizens," the most recent travel alert from the U.S. State Department says.
Lady Gaga has been supportive of the country since disaster struck: After participating in the "Songs for Japan" charity album and donating the proceeds of the sale of her "We Pray for Japan" wristband, she will visit the country in June to perform at the annual Video Music Awards. "I am writing about Japan, not only because we did the Japan bracelet and to highlight the way that pop culture can be used to provoke change, but to create awareness and not allow the media to perpetuate falseties about the conditions in Japan, so we can say everything's OK, everyone's rebuilding," she says. "Go to Japan, it's safe, continue to support the relief efforts but know that it's only 0.1 percent of the country that was affected and that we're doing more harm to Japan by staying away than by going. Enjoy their beautiful cities and landscapes. Always looking forward and not looking back, never operating from a place of fear."
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Travel Guard Launches World Unluckiest Traveler 2 Contest
Travel Guard North America is launching "World's Unluckiest Traveler 2: The Rescue" contest on Memorial Day.
The public can share how one kind person saved their day while traveling. In the business of helping correct travel mishaps, Travel Guard knows first-hand how one good deed can turn a travel nightmare into a dream come true. So whether someone came to the rescue in an emergency, a flight attendant personally carried a passenger's bag, or a traveler gave up their airline seat to a fellow passenger, Travel Guard wants to hear about these random acts of kindness.
The story that wins as voted by the public will be awarded a $10,000 "Hero's Vacation." Travel Guard is also encouraging the public to spread the love by sharing their favorite stories of travel good deeds via Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. For more information on the contest starting May 30th 2011 and a full set of rules and regulations, visit http://www.TravelGuard.com. See the Naka's Travel Service travel insurance page for online quotes for information about ensuring your peace of mind with TravelGuard.


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A jury found a San Jose after-school teacher guilty of molesting nine young girls Tuesday afternoon, a conviction that could send him to prison for life.
Keith Woodhouse, 27, was convicted on 30 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14. The girls he had touched inappropriately were enrolled in day-care programs run by Child Development Centers at Trace and El Rancho elementary schools.
The girls testified against him at the trial, which lasted about five weeks at Santa Clara County Superior Court.
"They were very courageous in testifying in court several times," said Luis Ramos, the deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case. "These girls really trusted in this man and he took advantage of that trust."
Woodhouse's attorney at the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office could not be reached Tuesday for comment.
Ramos gave much of the credit for convicting Woodhouse to San Jose police Det. Erik Martin and the department's Child Exploitation Detail.
"It was by far the biggest case of my career," Martin said, "but the greatest credit should go to the girls who went through the stress of telling this to strangers in the courtroom. It had to be tough on them."
Even before the trial started in August, the families of the nine girls began filing civil lawsuits against the day-care provider and a church that employed him earlier. According to attorney Bob Allard, who represents seven of the families, the Child Development Centers had failed to check Woodhouse's background adequately and supervise him properly.
Contact Joe Rodriguez at 408-920-5767 and follow him at Twitter.com/JoeRodMercury.


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ADHD: I'm Down the Rabbithole. Again.
Ok. That's it. I'm down the rabbithole again.
The more I learn about ADHD, the more complex and interconnected everything gets. I'm totally overwhelmed by the plethora of theories, webinars, tools, and tricks of the trade.
Not to mention the amazing, fascinating, infuriating, and fabulous personalities representing a myriad of contrasting, conflicting, and concurring opinions available through blogs, articles, Twitter peeps and peeping twits (including those who randomly steal and re-post my writings without so much as a by-your-leave).
Today's frustrating fiasco
I started this morning writing today's blog post, a simple homage to good ADHD parenting. One thing led to another, and before I knew it I was reminiscing about my own childhood mothering versus the talented ADHD moms I've come to know and love since my diagnosis.
Today's blog post took steroids while I was on a pee break and blew up into a two-parter.
Today's blog post took steroids while I was on a pee break and blew up into a two-parter. That's when my voice-activated software crashed. Again.
Software (and user) meltdown
Even my word processing software couldn't save me: even though I save obsessively, my recovered documents only proved that the technology got distracted and wandered off to a matinee while I continued to blather on for no apparent reason. Simply put, I lost half my work and had to start over.
This has been happening since I – wait for it – installed the newest, 100% improved, better-than-you-could-even imagine version of my Dragon Naturally Speaking software which wires was working service sibling serviceably well before I made the ill-advised move of "upgrading."
That's what I get for not listening to my gut. Not only does the program crash every time I use it, when it "works" it writes things like: Italy-bitchy when I dictate: itty-bitty.
Ok, maybe itty-bitty is out there, but "write" consistently turns into "rate;" and "attitude" turns into "ADDitude" unless I turn into Eliza Doolittle at one of her more onerous elocution sessions with the indomitable Henry Higgins. Not fun. I'd definitely rather dance all night than spend my time correcting an already out-of-control blog post by having to manually spell or type every fifth word.
Software rant over. We will now proceed with my initially-scheduled complaint about my inability to be petty (cute, DNS, very cute) pithy. (I had to type that last word all by myself.)
Time for drastic measures
So that does it. It's time to implement a drastic measure I've been thinking about for some months now (ever since I finished writing my upcoming book, ADHD According to Zoë). (Why, yes, that was a flagrant bit of self-promotion. Good eye.)
Writing that book ruined me on many levels. Not only did I have to dig deep into memories I thought I'd put behind me, but I'd just hit my stride on writing the short form genre of blog posts when my book contract came along (400- 800 words versus 60,000 – 85,000 for a book manuscript).
I'm ruined.
Or maybe not…
So here's the deal: for the next five weeks, I'm going to pick one ADHD symptom, trait, or dilemma per week. Then I'm going to pick one teeny-weenie sub-topic and fixate on that for 400 words. No more, no less.
And just to get the creative juices and adrenaline flowing, I'll set my time for two hours.
I have no idea what kind of writing this will result in.
I don't have time to ruminate about that now. I've already reached 570 words.
Tomorrow: let's start with hyperfocus, shall we? And we'll see what sub-topic I can come up with. I'm open to suggestions, so fire away until Friday. Next week, who knows? Maybe we'll cover self-flagellation.
Kessler, Z. (2013). ADHD: I'm Down the Rabbithole. Again.. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 26, 2017, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/adhd-zoe/2013/04/adhd-im-down-the-rabbithole-again/


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I'm really stuck on this Matlab question. It's Uni stuff which I've
almost completed save for one question and I reeeaaaalllly need you
guys' help on this thing.
Anyway, I've been given to Matlab functions, impheat and expheat:
function [u,tau]= impheat(ndiv,nstep,r)
%impheat implicit finite difference solution of 1-D heat equation
% [u,tau] = impheat(ndiv,nstep,r);
% input
% ndiv # of spatial subdivisions
% nstep # of time steps
% r implicitly defined timestep k=r/(ndiv*ndiv)
% output
% u solution vector
% tau final time
% Last modified 2 November 2006
% Copyright (c) 2006 D.J. Silvester
fprintf('subdivision parameter : %g\n',h)
%%%% define and plot initial condition
axis('square'), pause, hold on
n=length(u); tau=0; k=r*h*h;
fprintf('timestep : %g\n',k)
%%%% loop over the timesteps
for step=1:nstep
gamma=-r; alpha=1+2*r;beta=-r;
hold off
title(['Implicit FD Scheme: r is ',num2str(r)])
xlabel('x'), ylabel('temperature')
function [u,tau]= expheat(ndiv,nstep,r)
%expheat explicit finite difference solution of 1-D heat equation
% [u,tau] = expheat(ndiv,nstep,r);
% input
% ndiv # of spatial subdivisions
% nstep # of time steps
% r implicitly defined timestep k=r/(ndiv*ndiv)
% output
% u solution vector
% tau final time
% Last modified 2 November 2006
% Copyright (c) 2006 D.J. Silvester
fprintf('subdivision parameter : %g\n',h)
%%%% define and plot initial condition
axis('square'), pause, hold on
n=length(u); tau=0; k=r*h*h;
fprintf('timestep : %g\n',k)
%%%% loop over the timesteps
for step=1:nstep
for i=2:n-1
hold off
title(['Explicit FD Scheme: r is ',num2str(r)])
xlabel('x'), ylabel('temperature')
and I'm supposed to combine these two functions to give an
implementation of the Crank-Nicolson scheme.
I've tried soooo hard to do it and am now just resting my head on my
table and crying.
If anybody can help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you! xxx
I won't do your homework for you, but I will give you a hint.
The Crank-Nicolson (no H) scheme is as follows
For a system of ODEs, u'=Au
separate this as
This means that you take a half-sized explicit-time step and then a
half-sized implicit time step.
All you have to do is alternate between your implicit and explicit
function calls.
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