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|Oracle® Database Recovery Manager Reference
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10770-01
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Text description of fileNameConversionSpec
A subclause that specifies one or more patterns to be used in generating new database file names based on old ones. Used with
CONVERT and
DUPLICATE as one way of generating output file names.
The rules for these patterns and how they affect file naming are the same as those for the initialization parameter
DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT. In parentheses, provide an even number of string patterns.
When a new filename is generated based on an old one, the original filename is compared to the first member of each pair of string patterns. The first time a pattern is found which is a substring of the original filename, the new filename is generated by substituting the second member of the pair for the substring that matched.
Set the
string_pattern to a value such as:
DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT = ('string1' , 'string2' , 'string3' , 'string4' ...)
string1 is a pattern matching the orignal filename
string2 is the pattern replacing
string1 in the generated filename
string3 is a pattern matching the orignal filename
string4 is the pattern replacing
string3 in the generated filename
You can use as many pairs of primary and standby replacement strings as required.
For example, when making image copy backups of tablespaces
users (with datafiles in directory
/disk1/dbs/users) and
tools (with datafiles in
/disk1/dbs/tools/), to direct the converted datafiles to
/newdisk/users and
/newdisk/tools respectively, use the
DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT pattern shown here:
BACKUP AS COPY TABLESPACE users, tools DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT = ('disk1/dbs','newdisk');
For each datafile to be converted where '
disk1/dbs' is a substring of the filename, the new filename is created by replacing '
disk1/dbs' with '
newdisk'. For example, the converted datafile corresponding to
/disk1/dbs/users/users01.dbf is stored in
/newdisk/users/users01.dbf, the converted datafile corresponding to
/disk1/dbs/tools/tools01.dbf is stored in
/newdisk/tools/tools.dbf, and so on.
Be aware of the following details:
BACKUP AS COPY TABLESPACE users DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT = ('dbs','newdbs');
would direct the image copies to
/disk1/newdbs/users and
BACKUP AS COPY TABLESPACE users DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT = ('dbs','newdbs','/disk1','/newdisk');
would have the same effect as the previous example, because the pattern '
dbs' matches the filename and there is no reason to compare it to the second pattern '
|Syntax Element
Specifies the pattern, consisting of the pairs of strings used to convert the filenames..
This example shows the use of
DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT with
BACKUP AS COPY to create image copies of the
users and
tools tablespaces from the above discussion, directing
users to
/newdisk1 and
tools to
BACKUP AS COPY DEVICE TYPE DISK TABLESPACE tools, users DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT=('/disk1/dbs/users','/newdisk1', '/disk1/dbs/tools','/newdisk2');
|See Also: "BACKUP", "CONVERT", and "DUPLICATE" for commands that use fileNameConversionSpec


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Your hotel for business and pleasure in Barcelona
The Hotel Medicis in Barcelona boasts an unbeatable location next to the Sagrada Familia and the Hospital of Sant Pau, amidst the hub of Catalan Modernism. It is a modern and functional hotel, with services designed to cater for your every need.
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Jimmy Choo Couture, the bespoke footwear business that operates as a separate company from the Jimmy Choo luxury goods brand founded by Tamara Mellon, could be in flux. A spokeswoman said Thursday that Choo plans to increasingly focus on his educational projects rather than his couture footwear business.
However, she declined to say whether the business would close. Choo is a professor at the London College of Fashion and advises on the footwear and accessories courses there. The designer plans to continue to work with his existing clients, but the spokeswoman said the company will not actively seek out more clients. It's thought the business has been affected by a fall in manufacturing in the U.K., which means it's now more difficult to source the materials for one-off shoe designs.
Choo sold his share of the Jimmy Choo brand in 2001 to Equinox Luxury Holdings Ltd., the owners of Jimmy Choo Ltd. at the time, and established Jimmy Choo Couture as a separate firm focusing on special orders. Jimmy Choo Ltd. was most recently acquired by TowerBrook Capital Partners in 2007, in a deal that valued the company at 185 million pounds, or $367 million.


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Food Cravings
Your final term paper is due the next morning, but you can't type another word unless you get a slice of hot, gooey tomato and spinach pizza. You run over to the student union, even though it will put you behind schedule.
You've gotten to the movie theater late and just found a place to sit when suddenly you have to have hot, buttered popcorn, even though you know that if you get it, you'll miss the first 10 minutes of the feature.
It's time for your menstrual cycle to begin and nothing will satisfy your midnight hunger, except chocolate ice cream. So you head out to the local convenience store on a snowy night.
Marcia Pelchat, a biological psychologist at Philadelphia's Monell Chemical Senses Center who looks at how people make food choices, says part of what characterizes food cravings is a desire so strong that you'll go out of your way to satisfy it. But beyond that researchers are hard-pressed to define cravings with any rigid scientific criteria, which makes it hard to understand how, and to what degree, they influence what we eat.
Cravings Not Tied to Nutrients
One thing seems pretty certain: They're not based on specific nutrient needs, as many people suspect. That is, if you crave potato chips, it's not because your body needs the salt they contain. If a man craves a high-protein food like steak or a burger, it's not because his body is telling him to stockpile protein for his muscles.
Craving a food for your health is "a much nicer story" than craving a food simply because you feel like eating it, says Richard Mattes, a professor of foods and nutrition at Purdue University who, like Pelchat, studies the hows and whys of people's food choices. "But the literature just does not suggest that."
Take salt cravings, for example. Mattes points out that even in studies where people were "depleted of sodium through heroic means" such as being put on diuretics, "they didn't really express a craving for sodium," a component of salt. Further, he notes, at the beginning of the century, miners who lost excessive amounts of sodium by sweating profusely during hard labor "had to be threatened with physical violence by their supervisors to get them to take their salt capsules." Even in cases of ]]>Addison disease]]>, a very rare condition in which sodium levels become dangerously low, only 15% of patients crave salt, Mattes says.
On the flip side of the same coin, Monell's Pelchat points out that Americans in general consume thousands of milligrams of sodium a day, when the body requires only about 500. In other words, the desire for more sodium far outweighs any need for the mineral.
Are Hormones to Blame?
But what about women and their desire for chocolate at certain points during the menstrual cycle? That theory is floating around.
The problem: Plenty of foods contain carbohydrates. So why aren't women craving bran flakes?
It's not that women don't have cravings around the time of their menstrual flow; that association has been very well-documented. It's just that what they crave doesn't appear to have anything to do with physiologic need. It's the same for cravings during pregnancy. Many women certainly experience them. But no one has been able to connect the dots between the foods craved and the mother's or baby's health.
Familiarity May Cause Cravings
As for why so many cravings are for chocolate, Mattes notes that's largely a Western phenomenon. "The study burning in my back pocket that I haven't done," he says, would be to look at chocolate cravings throughout the world. "I would be willing to bet that if you do a study on cravings in Asian countries, you'd find nothing special about chocolate," he states. "It's a Western-culture food."
"Through repeated exposure, a food becomes preferred," Mattes points out. "Familiarity begets acceptability," and acceptability begets cravings. "You crave things that you've had positive experiences with," he explains.
"The Japanese," he says, "show a preference for MSG [monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer] in relation to the United States population. "But little is written about cravings for MSG because most of the research on cravings has been done in the United States and Canada. And in those two countries, at least, chocolate is the number-one craved food. Pizza is number two. In other words, as Mattes puts it, calorie-rich foods are "the most common" food-craving targets.
Cravings Shouldn't Cause Weight Gain
But, he points out, cravings are not thought to cause people to become overweight. When talking about cravings, he says, "you're usually referring to the overconsumption of a specific food. "Overweight, on the other hand, tends to come from small but sustained increases in food intake in the general diet."
Cravings aren't even believed to wreck weight-loss diets, at least not diets that people are able to follow over the long term. Research suggests that while people may be tempted by cravings when they first embark on a weight-loss plan, the cravings tend to wane over time. Even the initial cravings can be "tamed" to some degree, by making sure the diet's not too restrictive and too monotonous. The fewer foods a person is "allowed" on a weight-loss regimen, the more frequent—and intense—the cravings will tend to be.
If you're not trying to lose weight (or are not on a medically restricted diet that makes certain foods off limits), let the craving win, the experts advise. That will help keep it from getting out of hand. Indeed, says Mattes, "you'll probably do more psychological damage by denying a craving than nutritional damage by indulging it."
American Dietetic Association
International Food Information Council Foundation
Canadian Council on Food and Nutrition
Healthy Canadians
International Food Information Council Foundation. Available at: http://www.ific.org/index.cfm.
Last reviewed February 2010 by ]]>Brian Randall, MD]]>
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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February 23, 2012
Firefighters battle a massive fire — fueled by high winds — at the Hampton Woods apartment complex, near 67th Street and Renner Road. The fire was reported about 7:15 p.m. Thursday. Shawnee Fire Chief John Mattox said everyone got out of the building safely, but "it's only getting worse with this wind." At 9 p.m., firefighters continued to pump water on a neighboring building to prevent it from catching fire, too. Jared Thornburg, who lives in the second building, came outside when the fire was reported. "It was a tiny, little fire in the bottom apartment over there," he said. "… and it went up."
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Wind fuels 3-alarm fire at Shawnee apartment complex
High winds quickly fueled a Shawnee apartment fire from a small flame to a blaze that engulfed an entire building and threatened others Thursday evening.
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The latest trading glitch: KraftOctober 3, 2012: 3:17 PM ET
Another week: another bizarre trading glitch. This time around, Kraft's stock whipsawed in the first 60 seconds of the trading day.
After closing at $45.48 Tuesday, shares of Kraft (KRFT) spiked nearly 29% in the first minute of trading Wednesday, to $58.54. By 10:32 a.m. ET, Nasdaq, NYSE Arca and BATS cancelled all trades in Kraft that came in at or above $47.82, according to spokespersons at both exchanges.
Under Securities and Exchange Commission rules, exchanges can quickly cancel trades that are "clearly erroneous."
The bizarre trades came one day after Kraft officially started trading separately from Mondelez (MDLZ), Kraft's former snack business that includes Oreos, Cadbury chocolates and Nabisco. Kraft Foods now runs the grocery business, which includes Kraft cheese and salad dressing brands, as well Maxwell House Coffee, Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Miracle Whip.
A source close to the situation said that the erroneous order was placed by a single trading firm. Several market watchers said a trader or computer program may have simply placed an incorrect order price by mistake since Kraft and Mondelez only started trading separately yesterday.
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While the problems from this glitch appear to have been fixed quickly, Nasdaq is once again playing a lead role in a trading issue. Kraft switched its listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq (NDAQ) in June. At the time, it appeared to be a big win for Nasdaq to gain what was then a Dow component in the wake of the Facebook IPO debacle. (UnitedHealth (UHC) bumped the new, smaller Kraft from the Dow in September).
Kraft's stock traded up roughly 2.51% by mid-afternoon Wednesday. Mondelez's shares dipped slightly.


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Basic safety measures lacking at some Alameda schools
Basic safety measures lacking at some Alameda schools
Photos by Michele Ellson. Click photo for complete slideshow.
Hundreds of the Alameda Unified School District's youngest charges are on wide-open school campuses where some basic security measures aren't being followed, visits to three of Alameda's elementary schools showed this week.
"Sadly, it is not surprising at all," school security expert Ken Trump said when presented with the results of the reporter's visits.
Not one of the more than a dozen adults a reporter encountered during visits to Edison, Donald D. Lum and Ruby Bridges elementary schools offered more than a hello as the reporter wandered in and around the wide-open campuses for as long as 10 minutes. The reporter found doors to classrooms full of children unlocked, propped open or even wide open, while other security measures went untended or were outright ignored at the schools, which serve more than 1,500 students combined according to district enrollment figures.
Trump, whose Cleveland-based firm advises school districts all over the country, said that's the opposite of what should be occurring.
"Doors should be locked and unable to be opened from the outside. Visitors should be greeted, questioned, and engaged in a visitor sign-in and sign-out process," he said.
Built in 1942, Edison School offers visitors multiple points of entry, included an open entryway without a door or gate. A reporter was able to enter the school and walk into a play yard full of students without being questioned by any of the adults she passed; the door to a portable full of students the reporter tested was unlocked, while a room that appeared to be a staff room was propped open by a hole punch.
The reporter had a similar experience at Lum, where some of the hut-like classrooms front directly onto Otis Drive. A sign posted on 52-year-old campus said the school had surveillance cameras monitoring for illegal activity, but the reporter wasn't questioned by anybody during the roughly 10 minutes she roamed on and around the campus. One of the classrooms was open, with students visible to a reporter walking across the campus.
Ruby Bridges offers visitors similarly easy access; a sign on the gate through which a reporter entered said it was to be closed at all times "for children's safety." Again, none of the adults a reporter encountered while on campus questioned her as she roamed the campus; blocks away, a pair of police officers had stopped to question a bedraggled-looking man wandering the neighborhood with a sleeping bag hung off his shoulders.
Trump said that new buildings can be designed with crime prevention elements that include single entrances with locked doors and buzzers; unlike Edison and Lum, administrative offices for Ruby Bridges, which opened in 2006, are located in the front of the school and are accessed through separate, exterior doors. Offices for the other two schools are inside each building, accessible after passing classrooms.
Schools officials said they've taken the right steps to keep schools safe, and they said they will continue to meet with police and talk with community members to refine their approach to safety. A meeting to discuss safety procedures is scheduled for later this month, they said.
"We are confident with the steps we've take inside the school district. We don't want to cause mass hysteria and react," Chief Business Officer Robert Shemwell said.
While not a comprehensive review of security at the Island's elementary schools - some of which may follow different safety protocols - the visits were intended to provide a snapshot of security measures in practice at the schools and also the relative ease of access. A reporter did not undertake similar reviews at any of Alameda's middle or high schools.
Copies of the district's emergency plan and a school safety plan were not provided despite a reporter's requests for those items. Administrators at the San Francisco Unified School District posted a link to their plans online hours after the shootings occurred on December 14.
Kirsten Zazo, the schools administrator charged with managing the district's safety plans, said school staff is supposed to be identifying people who shouldn't be on campus. And she said classrooms that face out toward the public should be locked at all times, a policy that's followed "at most school sites."
"It's everyone's responsibility to ask the question, 'Why are you on campus and where are you supposed to be? Welcome to our campus. Who are you and how can I help you get there?'" Zazo said.
She said interior classroom doors don't need to be locked, though she said a discussion about that policy will take place at the safety meeting being held the end of this month; that meeting will also include a school-by-school review of potential vulnerabilities, Shemwell said.
Zazo said that fire codes complicate their ability to lock some schools' exterior gates. State fire code permits fences and gates on school grounds to be locked, though it requires schools to provide enough space to get students out safely. State education code requires the gates to be accessible to public safety.
Zazo and Shemwell said the district doesn't want to overreact to the Newtown shootings and that they need to consider safety measures for the long term. They said the district is trying to strike the right balance between making campuses safe and making them welcoming places for students and the communities they are integrated into.
"Your ability to walk on the campus is very much a part of the culture we live in and expect in Alameda," Shemwell said.
Zazo said that prior to the shootings, some school districts had begun removing fences and other security measures because they detracted from school security, rather than improving it.
"We could make all of our school campuses little tiny prisons with fences all around them, an extreme degree of lockdown. It is a balance that the community has to weigh in and talk about," said Shemwell.
Shemwell noted that a shooter was able to get into Sandy Hook Elementary School despite the fact that the school's exterior doors were locked and that it had a secure entry system. Security experts told The Alamedan that those safety enhancements, while not preventing the massacre, probably saved lives.
"In that case, the school was completely locked down, and there was surveillance around the site. It's just a matter of, how prepared are you for those particular situations," Shemwell said.
He said the district is focusing efforts on building relationships with students to prevent and gain information about potential incidents, and that its training and drills – including a 2011 "active shooter" drill at Alameda High School that included city and county law enforcement, district staff and hundreds of students – far exceed what other school districts are doing.
"Handfuls of (districts) that go to that degree. Here in Alameda, we did go to that degree. We're able to learn and prepare for and pass along that info," Shemwell said.
The Alamedan visited three school campuses to assess security at the schools. Schools were selected in an effort to represent schools in different geographic areas of Alameda and also schools of different ages. A reporter spent between five and 10 minutes on each campus during a recent school day, spending additional time to review the physical plant of the campuses spread across two visits. The Alamedan's review was not intended to be a comprehensive review of security at Alameda schools, but to provide a snapshot of security at some schools.
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There's really no getting around it: many, many games are about violence, and sometimes it can be a bit much. Kill this, kill that, kill this until it all feels the same, like mowing a lawn or stomping an anthill. We've written a ton about it. But violence can also be incredibly powerful and interesting. Let's talk about that.
I don't think violence in games is inherently bad—or even played out—by any means. Bigger budget games tend to rely on it a little too much, obscuring potentially more interesting parts of vibrant worlds with thick, sickening splashes of red, but that doesn't make it a dead end. Could we use more variety in games, a few more neat ideas without guns? Absolutely. I hope to see the day when we have it, too.
Taken on their own merits, however, violent games and violent mechanics can produce some incredibly meaningful, provocative, or just downright entertaining moments. Here are some of the best. First, my favorite (SPOILERS AHEAD).
Snake Eeeeeater
The game? Metal Gear Solid 3. It's the final battle against main character Naked Snake's arch-rival and beloved mentor (1960s Facebook status: it's really, really, really complicated), The Boss. The whole thing takes place in this field of flowers that swirl in the wind like tiny, raging tornadoes. They change from feather-white to blood-red underfoot, punctuating each and every impact with the brutality of bones breaking, the mournfulness of blood running in snow.
I've just realized I could spend a whole lot of time talking about video game flowers here, and for everybody else's sake I'm going to stop.
What makes this moment so incredible isn't the fight itself (though the way the close-quarters fisticuffs tie back into both the game's core mechanics and Snake/The Boss' relationship is a huuuuuuge thing) but rather what happens after. When it's all said and done, The Boss lies beaten and broken on the ground, and she asks Snake—her pupil, the closest thing she has to a son—to kill her.
She tells him he's wonderful and hands him a gun.
And then it stops being a cut-scene. When it happened to me, I understood what was going on immediately. I had only one option: pull the trigger or just stand there. In my own mind, I was really shaken. Metal Gear Solid 3 did a great job of making The Boss a complicated, empathetic figure and—without spoiling everything—this whole situation was unfair and terrible for her. It felt wrong. It felt gross.
But in that moment, after being Snake for so many hours and witnessing so many things, I felt an almost complete one-ness with his mindset. In that moment I knew his inner conflict, fear, sadness, and anger, but also his sense of duty—one instilled by The Boss, no less. A lot was changing in him, and this was a huge last straw for his belief in who he was working for, why he did the things he did, but right then and there he had to end it.
I didn't hesitate. The moment control returned to me, I pulled the trigger. At the time I had never played the game. I didn't know if maybe there was some kind of moral-choice-type thing going on, if maybe waiting would yield an alternate ending in which Snake didn't kill The Boss. It didn't matter to me. That wouldn't have been true to Snake or The Boss or other characters or the events that had transpired or what I'd seen or done or any of it. I was Snake. Nothing else mattered. So I pulled the trigger, the gunshot rang in the otherwise perfect silence of the scene, and my heart snapped in two.
That is, in my opinion, the single best trigger pull in all of video games. Because god damn.
That, however, is just one example of violence as an incredibly meaningful thing. Here's a selection of gaming's best violent moments according to developers who, themselves, have used violence in really interesting ways—or avoided it in their own games entirely.
Guns Don't Kill People Except When They Do
Walt Williams, writer of Spec Ops: The Line which famously put military game violence under the microscope to very powerful effect, cited a moment from Fallout 3's early goings in which acting like A Video Game Character produced some shocking results:
"My favorite violent moment comes near the beginning of Fallout 3. You've just acquired a gun and are sneaking out of the vault, when you come across the Overseer scolding his daughter. He has his back to you, giving you a perfect opening to shoot him in the head. Which I did, expecting nothing to happen. This being a video game, and the Overseer being an important character, I expected him to turn around and attack me. Or, at the very least, fall to the ground unconscious, until his health regenerated. But nope, I pulled the trigger and blew a hole in the Overseer's head. He died instantly. His daughter, covered in his brains, ran away in terror. Unsurprisingly, our friendship wasn't quite the same after that."
"Why is this my favorite violent moment? Because 1) It's a perfect moral choice. You have a gun and you have a target. What do you do? Most players didn't even realize it was a moral choice, myself included. Which is crazy when you think about it, because what else did we think was going to happen when we shot a man in the back of the head? Which brings us to the second reason I love this violent moment. 2) It defied player expectations simply by having the world react in a realistic way. I shot a man in the back of the head because I wanted to see what would happen. The outcome I got was also the one I least expected: he died."
"That is a brilliantly designed moment of violence. It reminds you how fake most game violence actually is and how dangerous it can be to thoughtlessly wield a gun."
Nothing Says Karma Like A Knife To The Face
Luftrausers and Nuclear Throne (among many others) developer Rami Ismail, meanwhile, pointed out that Call of Duty—now frequently picked on for being a meaninglessly gratuitous explosion-fest, video gaming's Transformers—has used violence quite creatively in certain moments.
"I think my favourite violent moment is in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which is interesting as it is literally 'a violent moment' amongst a sea of stabbings, shootings and explosions. It's not the airport shooting, though, which I felt was extremely contrived. I think in many ways, the resolution to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 always stood out to me."
"While most 'kills' in games are simply points to score or obstacles to progression, General Shepherd had made things much more personal in a way only games can: by betraying your trust, leading to the demise of someone you were playing."
"So the whole sequence of pulling a knife out of your ribcage to throw it into his face meant a little bit more than just a point scored. I think it's one of the few times where I jumped out of my chair, threw down the controller and shouted at my screen for a non-multiplayer kill in a video game."
"Violence can be human, it can be personal, it can be emotional, it can be important. It can be used for good or for bad. It can be used for radical notions, or to stop those notions."
"Killing Shepherd was all of those, and that's what makes it a remarkable moment."
It's A Dwarf Eat Dwarf World
JP LeBreton, lead on Double Fine's Spacebase DF-9 and former lead level designer on BioShock 2, argued that some of gaming's best violent moments are the unexpected, non-scripted ones nobody else gets. In games like monstrously detailed simulation Dwarf Fortress there are no storytelling tricks or tropes. Just experiences. Just tiny lives playing out—and sometimes also tiny deaths.
"I really like Tim Denee's illustrated recounting of two epic Dwarf Fortress sessions, Bronzemurder and Oilfurnace, which both end in horrible violence.
"I love these stories specifically because the violence hasn't been crafted by an author to shock me, to wring sympathy from me, to spice up a dull stretch. We have zero assurance any of these poor dwarves will survive, and this is exactly what allows their lives to take on meaning—meaning we must discover ourselves, undirected, through the act of playing and story-making, mining for meaning in the vast mountainsides of possibility."
"The real genius of Dwarf Fortress is less in its simulation of individual drops of water than in its choice of specific dynamics to model, which mesh like gears to capture aspects of human experience, however humble or strange. This is rich territory for games to explore and I'm always happy to see more work being done in this direction."
Maybe I'm Just A Monster
Robin Arnott, creator of one of the most soothing, non-violent games I've ever played in SoundSelf, offered an especially surprising example: The Sims. Yes, you can be violent in that game. Extremely, perhaps even frighteningly violent if you know what you're doing.
"I played the original The Sims a lot. My grandpa was dying, and I think I used that game as a sort of a coping mechanism. I spent a lot of time modding it and creating new items for my sim-people to buy."
"But one of my favorite things to do was torment them like ants under a microscope. I built a swimming-pool moat around one of my sim playthings, leaving him just enough room to look in the four cardinal directions. I was punishing him for some minor domestic failure, like leaving his dishes out too long. He would piss himself and wave at me for my attention—'I'm hungry!' 'I'm tired!' But I left him to starve while his lovers, friends and children acted like nothing was wrong. They had garden parties while he slowly decayed into a tombstone."
"I don't know why such cruelty gave me such joy. Maybe I'm just a monster."
Ganon Would Like Some Aspirin
Alex Preston, whose Hyper Light Drifter is a hack 'n' slash action game that also wrestles with notions of disease and sickness, closed things out with another moment of violence used to drive home a point. One from a Nintendo game, of all things, because violence doesn't have to be "realistic" to be great.
"The head stab from the final battle of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker remains one of my favorite moments, violent or otherwise. It was brutal, surprising (though still inline with the narrative) and impactful. It read as an incredible punctuation point to an already incredible adventure."
So now it's over to you, dear readers. What are your favorite violent moments in games? It could be anything—a story that really hit home with you, something crazy that happened in a multiplayer match, or something somewhere in between. Let's talk about it!
TMI is a branch of Kotaku dedicated to telling you everything about my adventures in the gaming industry (and sometimes other offbeat and/or uncomfortable subjects). It's an experiment in disclosure, storytelling, interviewing, and more. The gaming industry is weird. People are weird. I am weird. You are weird. Why hide that? Let's explore it.


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Shea Salinas' nifty chip shot helped Philadelphia get their first road of the season on Saturday, and was the the overwhelming winner of the AT&T Goal of the Week for Week 10.
Salinas, who picked up his first goal of the season in the Union's 3-2 win over the Dynamo, received nearly 61 percent of the votes, easily topping Michael Stephens' early volley in the Galaxy's 2-0 win over Columbus (19 percent).
A gorgeous touch shot by Colorado's Conor Casey against Seattle came in third (14), followed by Chivas USA's pairing of Justin Braun (3) and Maykel Galindo (3).
2010 AT&T Goal of the Week Winners
Week 10: Shea Salinas, Philadelphia Union (Watch here.)
Week 9: Dominic Oduro, Houston Dynamo (Watch here.)
Week 8: Danny Mwanga, Philadelphia Union (Watch here.)
Week 7: Logan Pause, Chicago Fire (Watch here.)
Week 6: Chris Wondolowski, San Jose Earthquakes (Watch here.)
Week 5: Fredy Montero, Seattle Sounders FC (Watch here.)
Week 4: Lovel Palmer, Houston Dynamo (Watch here.)
Week 3: Marco Pappa, Chicago Fire (Watch here.)
Week 2: Kenny Mansally, New England Revolution (Watch here.)
Week 1: Javier Morales, Real Salt Lake (Watch here.)


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Lazio to Rome Day Pass
includes: skip the line tickets for the colosseum + Palatine hill and roman forum, a parking spot in the city centre, hop on hop off bus ticket valid for 1 day and 20% discount on everything you want to visit in rome (st. Peter, borghese, vatican museum and much more!)
For many Rome does not need an introduction. The city is one of the most popular cities to visit in the world. So many highlights which are a must to visit like the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Vatican, the Spanish Stairs and so much more!
A lot of people who are enjoying their holiday in Lazio (the area around Rome) often take the effort to travel to Rome for a day or more. But Rome is a hectic city as well. There are many waiting lines for museums while you only have limited of time. Attractions are not located on walking distance. Traffic is hectic and parking expensive and difficult to find.
Maximise your precious time for your visit to Rome by organising everything in advance. Simply order your Lazio – Roma City Pass online and you're ready for all that this wonderful city has to offer:
• Skip-the-line entrance to the amazing Colosseum (you can purchase St. Peter Cathedral or the Vatican Museum with 20% discount using the discount code). Palatine Hill and Roman Forum are included.
• Park your car in the city centre of Rome
• See more of this sophisticated Roman hotspots with Hop-on, Hop-off bus flexibility. Hop on and off at the highlights you want to see.
• 20% discount on everything you want visit in Rome like the St. Peter´s Basilica, Vatican Museum, Borghese Gallery, Castel San Angelo and much more!
How does it work?
1) Select the date you want to travel to Rome.
2) Select the amount of adult and children.
What is important to know?
You can determine your own schedule. The Lazio – Roma City Pass includes open tickets for the Colosseum so you can decide what time to go. The parking spot will be close to the Colosseum so the most logical would be to start your trip visiting the Colosseum. But that is not necessary because from the Colosseum the Hop on Hop off Bus will departure as well. So you can start with a visit to the many highlights Rome has and hop on and hop off where you want.
After your reservation we will inform you about the procedure and the exact location of the parking garage, we will inform you how it works when you skip the line at the Colosseum and where you can find the Hop on Hop off Bus. The Hop on Hop off Bus also stops again at the Colosseum so at the end of the day you can pick up your car and departure back to your accommodation.
You will also get a discount code of 20%. So you can purchase the tickets for the St. Peter Basilica, Vatican Museum, Borghese Gallery and all the rest online with your discount code. We will explain you after the reservation how this works.
What is included?
- Skip the line tickets for the Colosseum
- Audioguide for the Colosseum in English, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian
- Hop on Hop off Bus tickets valid for 1 day with audioguide in many languages
- Parking spot valid for the entire day near the Colosseum
- 20% discount on everything else you want to visit in Rome (see the list beneath to see what is included)
- Everything will be send by email.
- You will skip the line and save a lot of time which you can spend enjoying Rome
- You will save a lot of money
- No stress in Rome but use Hop on Hop off Bus tickets to hop on and off at the highlights you want
- Start your city trip relaxed: park your car in Rome and don´t spend hours to find a parking spot
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The Lazio – Roma City Pass is everything you need for your visit in Rome!
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Vatican Museum + Sistine Chapel
Borghese Gallery
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Thermea of Caracalla
Castel San Angelo
Pantheon, Trevi Fountain & Baroque Rome Tour with guide
Papal Audience with Pope Francis
Catacombs Tour
Vatican Gardens Tour
Cupola Tour
Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition
St. Peter´s Prison
Via Appia Bike Tour
Rome Highlight Bike Tour
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Studies suggest that diet can reduce stress levels, irritability and promote calmness. Further, it has been reported that unhealthy meals can increase stress levels. Another study indicated that students under examination stress showed significant increase in food intake, high fat and sugary snacks, which can be counter-productive.
Further, increased stress creates a greater need for certain essential nutrients such as water soluble vitamins Vitamin B, C and minerals such as zinc. The levels of vitamin C can fluctuate depending on the degree of physical and emotional stress.
Nutrients such as vitamin C, B6, zinc, magnesium, potassium, pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) and amino acid tyrosine are required for synthesis and proper functioning of adrenal hormones the most important stress fighting hormone. By following some simple tips, we can help be calm.
Eat smaller, frequent meals to ensure a steady stream of energy and have a calming effect on the brain. Choose adequate amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables like amla, citrus fruits, tomatoes, green peppers, green leafy vegetables, kiwi, broccoli, and strawberries to ensure good vitamin C status. Greens are good in particular .Vegetable and fruit smoothies are great too.
Minimise intake of white flour, white rice, sweetened beverages and sugar. Choose whole grains such as oats, barley, brown rice, whole wheat and quionoa , pulses, nuts and seeds, low-fat dairy, seafood, lean meats, green leafy vegetables and wheat germ to ensure adequate intake of vitamin B and zinc.
Avoid junk food and poor quality fat (hydrogenated- trans fats).
Snack smart on fresh fruits, dry fruits, honey coated nuts, seeds, roasted whole grains, soups, salads, hot chocolate, almond milk or yoghurt, to prevent swings in blood sugars and cravings.
Most importantly, stay well-hydrated. Green tea, jasmine tea, cammomile tea help calm the mind.
Take tea, coffee and caffeinated beverages including colas should be consumed in moderation. In excess, they can reduced hydration and increase irritability. Try to take plain or lemon water if you have taken too much of tea or coffee .
For those looking for memory enhancing techniques, nourish your brain with healthy food rather than gulping memory pills. Memory boosting nutrients include antioxidants like vitamin A, E and C found in natural foods like eggs, carrots, broccoli, fish, nuts, green leafy vegetables and fruits. They reduce the cell damage in the brain. Ensure that you get enough magnesium in your diet through greens, whole grains and seeds. Limit sugar intake as it increases the bodys magnesium requirement.
Omega 3 fatty acids found in fish, mustard oil, mustard seeds, methi, urad dal, rajma, soybeans, lobia, walnuts, bajra, and flaxseeds (alsi), chia seeds are good for brain, skin and heart health.


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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team has voted juniors Helene Neuhaus, Erin Massey and Kellen Power as its 2013-14 captains. At the team's annual banquet, the teams also voted on the Most Memorable Performance of this past season and Athlete of the Year.
The Blue Devils voted senior Allison Rasile as Athlete of the Year. Rasile's reception of the award is based on her performances not only at the Northeast Conference Championships but also her performances in dual meets throughout the season. Rasile became the "go to" swimmer, anchoring many relays throughout the season and yielding outstanding performances.
One of Rasile's outstanding performances came in the final leg of the 800 Freestyle Relay at the NEC Championships. She erased a 2.5 second deficit to win the race for Central by half of a second.
The 800 Freestyle Relay at the NEC Championships received the team's vote for the Most Memorable Performance as it was considered by the team to be the most exciting race of the championship. After Wagner and Saint Francis University built a substantial lead, Central came from five seconds behind to win the race. Neuhaus and senior Katie Lang held strong throughout the first two legs of the race to keep the Blue Devils close enough to allow senior Taylor Friedmann and Rasile, who swam two of the fastest 800 relay splits in CCSU history, to come from behind and close the race with a win.
Watch the Blue Devils win the 800 Free Relay.
With the loss of several highly-decorated seniors, Neuhaus, Massey and Power will lead the Blue Devils next season as they look forward to returning strong to the NEC Championships.


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In its design, unified endpoint management (UEM) is a single tool with the appropriate levels of productivity and security functionality needed to support your entire environment of smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Expanding beyond the high-growth MDM and EMM markets, UEM is growing at a staggering rate of 38.2% per year and expected to surpass $7 billion in 2022, according to MarketsandMarkets Research. The top reason: "The need for a single UEM solution that can manage traditional and non-traditional endpoints," the researcher says.1
What Can UEM Do for You?
For IT and security leaders: Reduce spend on new technology investments; speed up deployments; cut down on the number of human resources tasked with management; simplify migrations; strengthen security and policy enforcement; leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive technology; manage user identity and access to corporate apps and resources; reduce risk through advanced threat detection; deliver remote control for smartphones, tablets and laptops.
For your end users: Increase flexibility to use their devices of choice; reduce risk if they lose a device; simplify their enrollments; ensure they are using current versions with the latest patches; benefit from faster, more reliable access to their work, apps and data—at any time, from any location, on any device.
For your enterprise: Reduce costs (Capex and Opex); support bring your own device (BYOD) programs; empower a more mobile workforce; securely enable new technologies such as IoT and wearables; move to a cloud model to enhance and support agility, responsiveness, accelerated development and business transformation.
Choose Your UEM Wisely: A Top 10 Checklist
Of course, not every UEM solution is created equal. Many, in fact, will not be quite as adept at delivering maximum value to your organization. What should you expect? Here are the top 10 items to look for in your UEM investment:
- Single console management, reducing dependence on point solutions to address endpoint and mobile security.
- Support for any device type,e., smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, wearables and IoT.
- Support for all OS versions—everything from legacy (Windows 7, which is facing end of life in 2020) to the latest (Chrome OS, HoloLens).
- Secure container for email, contacts, calendars and separation of data from personal device content.
- Unified application catalogs offering one app catalog across all supported devices and OSes.
- Simple over-the-air enrollment and patch and update management for low-touch, no-touch laptop and desktop deployments.
- Identity and access management with single sign-on.
- Mobile threat management for devices, apps and the network.
- AI/cognitive insights and contextual analytics.
- Management and security for specialized use cases, such as wearables, ruggedized devices and the IoT.
A UEM that Checks All the Boxes
IBM MaaS360 with Watson is the first and only UEM solution that delivers on all the criteria outlined in the top 10 UEM checklist. MaaS360 provides consistent visibility, manageability, security, reporting and analytics across all endpoints—whether through MDM APIs or traditional client management—delivered from a single management console.
MaaS360 offers the added advantage of being exclusively a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. That means you can get up and running faster, shift to a more predictable—and lower—cost model, minimize your management footprint and ensure that endpoints are always running the latest software version, including updated code as platform vendors release expanded APIs.
MaaS360 is yours to try free for 30 days. Gain full production access to its best-in-class cloud platform, begin enrolling a broad assortment of devices, and start familiarizing yourself with the features and functionality that the industry-leading cognitive UEM has to offer. Try it today and experience the difference by visiting IBM.com/MaaS360.
1 "Unified Endpoint Management Market: Global Forecast to 2022," MarketsandMarkets Research, March 2018


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O Savior, Thou Who Healed the Sick
1. O Savior, thou who healed the sick
And caused the blind to see;
O thou who cured the leper's plague,
Wilt thou attend to me.
2. O Savior, thou who tamed the storm
And walked upon the sea;
Wilt thou who calmed the waves and winds,
Please calm the storms in me.
3. O Savior, thou who taught the wise
And hushed the Pharisee;
O thou who sees and knoweth all,
Lend sight, I pray, to me.
4. O Savior, thou who with two fish
And five small loaves of bread
Provided for a multitude,
May I by thee be fed.
Text: Kaimi Wenger
Music: Kaimi Wenger
Artist: Wenger
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: New Era
Composition Date: 1992-08-01
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Marquette and VCU Dominate Second Round March Madness Buzz
After a pair of thrilling second-round games, Marquette and Virginia Commonwealth University top Sunday's mRank, Mashable's social media buzz-tracker for March Madness.
Both teams played frenetic, up-and-down games Saturday — with Marquette moving on to the Sweet 16 and VCU getting knocked out of the tournament — and the excitement had the web atwitter through Sunday, according to our mRank tracking system. Conversations across Twitter, Facebook and blogs are aggregated to produce mRank scores between one and 100 for each March Madness team each day of the tournament. Sunday's rankings span late Saturday evening through Sunday evening.
Marquette shot to number 1 on the heels of its win over Murray State, while VCU — last year's tournament darling and Final Four Cinderella — ranked 2 as people followed its last-second loss to Indiana.
Sunday's top 10 was filled out by a mix of teams participating in second-round games that happened both Saturday and Sunday. Wisconsin and Florida State both came in behind VCU, while Florida finished fifth. Florida and Marquette face off Thursday in what promises to be a wild Sweet 16 match-up, so that game should generate loads of social buzz.
Indiana, the team that edged out VCU with a short jumper in the closing seconds, tied for tenth-place in our rankings.
Duke — a school much of the Internet loves to hate — finished just ahead of Indiana — notable because the Blue Devils actually bowed out on Friday with a huge first round upset loss to tiny Lehigh. Lehigh's star C.J. McCollum couldn't lift his squad past the second round, but did reap social media rewards of his own by gaining some 3,000 new Twitter followers since the tournament began.
Take a look at the Top 10 Below:
What teams got the most buzz in your social networks? Let us know in the comments.
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Get Tickets to See The Chew Live
New show dates beginning in September will be available soon! Stay tuned!
"The Chew" is taped Tuesday-Thursday at 9AM and 12:15 PM. Confirmed ticket holders must arrive at the studio at least one hour prior to show time at 30 W. 67th Street (between Columbus and Central Park West). We operate on a first come, first served basis, as ticket distribution may be in excess of studio capacity.
To request tickets you must be 14 years or older. For more of The Chew's ticketing policy, visit here.
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The Chew Ticket Policies
Ticket Demand
Your only notification of ticket availability will be to receive a ticket confirmation email from The Chew Audience Department. (All invited ticket holders will receive their ticket confirmation and all necessary show day information via email approximately 2-3 weeks prior to show time. Only those who receive their ticket confirmation and email us back with their RSVP will receive their ticket(s) at the studio door on show day.)
Audience Age
All audience members must be at least 14 years of age. Special themed shows or segments may include a younger audience with prior approval. All minors are required to have a parent or guardian sign a studio release prior to studio entry.
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Anyone looking for tickets on show day must pick up a standby number from a Chew Audience Associate between 7:30 a.m. & 8:00 a.m. at our audience entrance, located at 30 W. 67th Street. Shows tape Tues-Th
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The Chew studio is located at 30 W. 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.
Please go to the MTA Web site and NY Waterway Ferry Web site, or the NJ Transit Web site for up to date information. Carpool information and HOV restrictions are listed along with added service schedules for LIRR, METRO NORTH and NJ TRANSIT.
FROM: Port Authority/Penn Station
SUBWAY: Take the 1 train uptown to 66th Street. Head to street level, walk north on Columbus Avenue, turn right onto W. 67th Street, and walk 1/2 block (toward Central Park) to our studio
BUS: Take the M104 uptown to 65th. Walk north on Columbus Avenue, turn right onto W. 67th Street, and walk 1/2 block (toward Central Park) to our studio
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SUBWAY: Take the shuttle (S TRAIN) to 42nd Street and transfer to the 1 train. Take the 1 train uptown to 66th Street and follow walking directions from above
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*Parking garages are located on 66th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West.
Over the George Washington Bridge /off of Henry Hudson Parkway
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When coming out of the tunnel, take the exit toward W. 40th Street. Turn right onto W. 40th Street, and then turn left onto 8th Avenue. Head uptown to Columbus Circle. At the traffic circle, take the third exit onto Central Park West. Head uptown and turn left onto W. 66th Street. Parking garages will be on the left side of the street.


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The Apple Watch Series 4 is fundamentally redesigned and re-engineered to help you become even more active, healthy and connected.
- Built-in GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
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- Automatic workout detection
- 16GB storage capacity
- Water resistance up to 50 metres
- Rechargeable lithium-ion battery
From the curved corners of the larger, all-new display to the architecture of the S4 chip, every detail has been thoughtfully considered. The Apple Watch Series 4 has always been uniquely personal. And now it's even more powerful.
The largest display yet
The display is the defining feature of Apple Watch and Series 4 pushes it further than ever. The challenge was to make it bigger without noticeably increasing the size of the case or compromising the battery life. Narrower borders enable a viewing area that's over 30 percent larger, while the new LTPO display technology improves power efficiency, helping you get through the day on a single charge.
Sweat, surf and swim-proof
Apple Watch Series 4 is water-resistant to 50 metres and tracks both pool and open-water workouts. Turn the Digital Crown to eject water from the speaker using a burst of sound.
Keeps an eye on your heart
The optical heart sensor has been part of Apple Watch from the beginning, allowing you to quickly check your heart rate. Now it can also detect if your heart rate falls below a specified threshold for a period of 10 minutes when you appear to be inactive, triggering a low-heart-rate notification.
Built with your heart in mind
Apple Watch Series 4 regularly monitors your heart throughout the day, so you can check your heart rate at any time and keep track of your heart's performance. What's more, if it detects unusually high or low heart rates, it alerts you, even when you don't feel symptoms.
Fall detection
With the improved accelerometer and gyroscope, Apple Watch can detect that you've fallen. When an incident like this occurs, a hard fall alert is delivered and you can easily initiate a call to the emergency services or dismiss the alert. If you're unresponsive after 60 seconds, the emergency call will be placed automatically and a message will be sent to your emergency contacts.
Made to motivate
Understanding all the ways you move throughout the day is an essential part of living a healthy life. Apple Watch shows your daily movement in three simple metrics: Move, Exercise and Stand. Together they make up the Activity rings that track your progress all day long. The goal is to close your rings each day.
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New Brewery Opens in WNC
Colorado-based Oskar Blues opens its first East Coast brewery in Brevard, N.C. on New Year's Eve.
Oskar Blues is known for its colorful cans of Dale's Pale Ale, Old Chub and other brews.
This is the first brewery to open in Transylvania County.
"We sell almost 40 percent of our beer east of the Mississippi," said Head Brewer Noah Tuttle.
Tuttle said the owner of Oskar Blues loves to mountain bike in Western North Carolina and when it came time to expand east, Brevard was an obvious choice.
"It being a small town, kind of having the same vibe where we started at, having it be an area that can really benefit from having a new company, having jobs opening up," Tuttle said.
About a dozen local people have already been hired to work at the new brewery and more hiring is planned in the future.
Oskar Blues also plans to open a restaurant in Brevard.
In its first year of operation, the company expects to make 40,000 gallons of beer at its new brewery in Brevard.


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Founded by online gaming vets Chris Chung and Rick Lambright, Seattle-based startup Motiga aims to revolutionize mobile gaming using its scalable, cloud-based mobile game server technology, the Motiga Infinite Context Engine (MICE), which allows small development teams to create a wide range of real-time mobile multiplayer games faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Motiga will be at PAX this weekend, showing off the first game developed using MICE, Tinfoil Fez's The LeftOvers.
"Traditionally, creating server infrastructure for a real-time multiplayer game requires a sizable team of highly skilled server developers," said Lambright. "MICE makes it easy to create real-time multiplayer games for mobile devices. The fact that The LeftOvers is created by a team of three developers is a testament to the ease of use and robustness of our technology."
With Chung having served as the chief strategy officer for Trion Worlds and the CEO of NCsoft West and Lambright's 16 years creating MMO servers (from Castle Infinity to LEGO Universe), I'd say if any two guys were going to make mobile online gaming easier to develop, it's these two guys.
If you're attending PAX this weekend, be sure to give The LeftOvers a look over. We'll try and do the same.
You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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Richard Keogh has admitted his disappointment at his omission from the Ireland squad for the crucial World Cup qualifiers against Sweden and Austria.
The 27-year-old Derby defender marked his first start for Ireland with a goal in the 4-0 friendly demolition of Georgia in June, but did not even make Giovanni Trapattoni's provisional squad for Friday night's clash with the Swedes and Tuesday's trip to Vienna.
He told the Derby Telegraph: "I am disappointed not to be in the squad, to be honest. I feel like I have started the season well and when I went away with Ireland last time, I thought I did well.
"But that's football and I can only keep doing what I'm doing. I'm sure if I keep playing well for Derby, I'll get back in there.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed. I think my form over the past three seasons has been consistent enough to be in with a shout.
"But it will give me a chance to recharge my batteries (during the international break) as I've played a lot of football."
Trapattoni has had to contend with a series of problems with defenders since naming a 29-man party, with Sean St Ledger having withdrawn through injury and Stephen Kelly for family reasons, while full-back Marc Wilson has been nursing an ankle problem.
But when the Italian called for a reinforcement, it was Bristol City's Greg Cunningham who got the nod to join up with the squad earlier this week.


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iTunes and You
A high-performance automobile is little more than an interesting amalgam of metal and plastic if it's missing tires and fuel. Sure, given the proper slope (and, perhaps, a helpful tailwind), that car is capable of movement, but the resulting journey leaves much to be desired. So, too, the iPod is a less-capable music-making vehicle without Apple's multitrick media manager/player, iTunes. The two—like coffee and cream, dill and pickle, Fred and Ginger—were simply meant for each other.
To best understand what makes the iPod's world turn, you must be familiar with how it and iTunes 9 work together to move music (as well as pictures, videos, and games, in the case of some recent iPods) on and off your iPod. In the following pages, you'll see just that.
Getting the Goods
"Eep!" I hear you squeep. "I've never used iTunes or owned an iPod. I have no idea how to get music into iTunes, much less put it on my portable music player. What do I do?"
Relax. I'm not going to tell you how to put your music and movies on your iPod classic or nano until you know how to assemble a music and movie library.
I'll start with music. You have three ways to get tunes into iTunes:
- Recording (or ripping, in today's terminology) an audio CD
- Importing music that doesn't come directly from a CD (such as an audio track you downloaded or created in an audio application on your computer)
- Purchasing music from an online emporium such as Apple's iTunes Store
The following sections tell you how to use the first two methods. The iTunes Store is a special-enough place that I devote all of Chapter 5 to it.
Rip a CD
Apple intended the process of converting audio-CD music to computer data to be painless, and it is. Here's how to go about it:
- Launch iTunes.
Insert an audio CD into your computer's CD or DVD drive.
By default, iTunes tries to identify the CD you've inserted. It logs on to the Web to download the CD's track information—a very handy feature for those who find typing such minutia to be tedious.
The CD appears in iTunes' Source list under the Devices heading, and the track info appears in the Song list to the right (Figure 4.1).
Figure 4.1 A selected CD and its tracks.
Then iTunes displays a dialog box, asking whether you'd like to import the tracks from the CD into your iTunes Library.
- Click Yes, and iTunes imports the songs; click No, and it doesn't.
If you decided earlier not to import the audio but want to do so now, simply select the CD in the Source list and click the Import CD button in the bottom-right section of the iTunes window.
iTunes begins encoding the files via the method chosen in the Import Settings window (Figure 4.2 on the next page), which you access by opening iTunes' Preferences window (choose iTunes > Preferences on a Mac or Edit > Preferences on a Windows PC), clicking the General tab, and clicking the Import Settings button. By default, iTunes imports songs in iTunes Plus AAC format at 256 Kbps. (For more on encoding methods, see the sidebar "Import Business: File Formats and Bit Rates" in the next section.)
Figure 4.2 iTunes' Import Settings window.
Click the Music entry in the Source list.
You'll find the songs you just imported somewhere in the list.
- To listen to a song, click its name in the list and then click the Play icon or press the spacebar.
Move music into iTunes
Ripping CDs isn't the only way to put music files on your computer. Suppose that you've downloaded some audio files from the Web and want to put them in iTunes. You have three ways to do that:
In iTunes, choose File > Add to Library.
When you choose this command, the Add To Library dialog box appears (Figure 4.3). Navigate to the file, folder, or volume you want to add to iTunes, and click Open. iTunes determines which files it thinks it can play and adds them to the library.
Figure 4.3 Navigate to tracks you want to add to iTunes via the Add To Library dialog box.
- Drag files, folders, or entire volumes to the iTunes icon in Mac OS X's Dock, the iTunes icon in Windows' Start menu (if you've pinned iTunes to this menu), or the iTunes icon in either operating system (at which point iTunes launches and adds the dragged files to its library).
Drag files, folders, or entire volumes into iTunes' main window or the Library entry in the Source list.
In the Mac versions of iTunes, by default you'll find songs in the iTunes Music folder within the iTunes folder inside the Music folder inside your Mac OS X user folder. The path to my iTunes music files, for example, would be chris/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music.
Windows users will find their iTunes Music folder by following this path: yourusername/My Music (XP) or Music (Vista and Windows 7)/iTunes/iTunes Music.
You can use the same methods to add compatible videos and movies to your iTunes Library. (For more on what makes those videos compatible, see the sidebar "Working with Supported Video Formats" later in the chapter.) Those videos will most likely appear in the Movies playlist in the Source list.
I say most likely because there are a few exceptions: Videos specifically designated as music videos appear in the Music playlist, videos designated as TV shows appear in the TV Shows playlist, and video podcasts are filed under Podcasts in iTunes' Source list. See the sidebar "Tag, You're It" later in this chapter for information on how to apply those video designations.


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Bergthal Mennonite Church (Corn, Oklahoma, USA)
Bergthal Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite), Corn, Oklahoma. In 1894, two years after the Arapaho-Cheyenne Reservation in Oklahoma had been opened to settlement, a group of Mennonite families from Pretty Prairie, Hoffnungsau, and Alexanderwohl communities of Kansas moved into this locality. These pioneers had their first meetinghouse near the present site of Shelly schoolhouse, but by 1901 the church had enlarged to such an extent that three separate congregations were created—Bergthal, located two miles (three km) west and three miles (five km) north of Corn, and 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Clinton, and later Herold and Sichar. The 1953 membership was about 86. All of the families from the Pretty Prairie community returned to Kansas so that in 1953 most of the members had their connections in the Hoffnungsau and Alexanderwohl communities in Kansas.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 280. All rights reserved.
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Remy scored his first goal for his new club in Saturday's 1-1 draw with West Ham, with Jay Bothroyd and Junior Hoilett edging Cisse out for a space on the bench.
The 31-year-old links up with former Portsmouth manager Alain Perrin, who is in charge of the Qatari side.
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Even in an age when media is increasingly streamed to mini boxes like Roku and Apple TV, a disc player is still a must-have for those who already own a cache of discs. Thankfully, all Blu-ray players double as streaming-media boxes, too, so you can have your cake and eat it too.
To that end, the Samsung BD-F5900 is an affordable machine ($120) that offers almost everything you need in a disc player and a "smart" set-top box, with overall performance being a standout. This is the quickest player CNET has seen up until this point with the trade-off being that it also uses more electricity in its fastest, Quick Start mode. You do get to choose between pure brawn and power-saving brains, though.
Picture quality is very good and the interface is uncluttered and easy to use. The player comes chock-full of features and many of them are quite useful. In essence, it gets most everything right.
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From the earliest CD players to the latest Blu-ray players the designs haven't changed that much: a disc drawer on the left side with controls on the right. Cosmetic touches go in and out of fashion -- drawers that cover the fascia of the player, trapezoidal shapes -- but the basics are the same. While Samsung did experiment with pebblelike players, the BD-F5900 is back to the basics, though with a couple of twists.
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The remote control is compact but features plenty of shortcuts and commands. The directional pad is a little cramped, and it's easy to hit Exit instead of Left or Right. The Netflix shortcut is welcome.
The F5900 comes with a gaggle of features that rank from mandatory all the way down to "use once and forget about."
This player fits in the middle of Samsung's Blu-ray lineup and offers better value than the one below it (the BD-F5700). The BD-F5900 reviewed here has a better suite of apps (compared with just 11 on the F5700) and adds 3D playback as well.
The apps offered by the F5900 range from Netflix to Amazon Instant to YouTube; the only major item that is missing that other players have is NHL. The player doesn't have HBO Go, but the onboard Web browser supports Flash, so adventurous techies can try their luck on the Web.
As an aside, if you choose to go further up the line, the only additional feature the $10-more-expensive BD-F6700 offers is 4K upscaling, but I'd wager the scaler in your very expensive 4K TV would be better than the one in a $130 Blu-ray machine.
Back to the F5900: it also includes screen mirroring through AllShare Cast (Intel WiDi 3.5) and a ridiculously fast Quick Start mode (0.5 second). The F5900 has a dual-core processor, and as a result the Samsung is surprisingly zippy.
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