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  1. The History Of WRRC
    In 1974, 4 countries (Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland) founded the European Rock'n'Roll Association - ERRA. Other countries, such as Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden quickly joined.
    When Canada became a member a few years later, the ERRA became the WRRA (World Rock'n'Roll Association). In parallel, there was also another international Rock'n'Roll group, the FMDJ, or Fédération Mondial de Dance de Jazz.
    In 1984, the two associations - the FMDJ and the WRRA - combined to form today's World Rock'n'Roll Confederation, or WRRC. At the same time, the WRRA and FMDJ were dissolved.
    Since 1992, the distinction between amateurs and professionals has generally ceased to exist.
    In the spring of 1994, the IDSF (International Dance Sport Federation) joined the WRRC as an associate member. As a result of the provisional recognition of the IDSF given in April 1995 by the Executive Board of the Olympic Committee, recognition is also granted to the WRRC.
    Rock'n'Roll has grown into a high-performance sport over the last 20 years. 31 nations now belong to the WRRC:

    France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Hungary, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Russia, Croatia, Latvia, Norway, Spain, San Marino, Ukraine, Australia, Greece.

    Extraordinary members: Singapore and Bosnia Herzegovina.

    We also have contacts with New Zealand, Argentina, Ireland, Turkey, USA, and Israel.
    Every year, the WRRC awards international championships in Rock'n'Roll, Boogie Woogie and Lindy Hop, issues international guidelines, and trains and regularly examines the assessment judges.
    The following championships are run every year: 6 world masters tournaments for couples, European and world championships for couples, formations and juniors, world cups for juniors and boogie woogie couples and the Lindy Hop world and European championships.
    The international rankings contain over 200 couples. Depending on the size of the national associations, between 20 and 2,000 couples dance in these associations in all classes including juniors and formations.
    In order to make the judges' rating systems and the competition system more transparent, the couples also dance in a knockout system against each other in the main rounds of the Master competitions.
    Public interest in the national events has increased amazingly in recent years. Almost all the important international championships have been broadcast on television since 1990. A number of sponsors are also permanently associated with the WRRC and the sport of Rock'n'Roll.
    Regulations on Advertising and Television, which were drawn up in 1989, help the WRRC to market its events, particularly in the interests of the couples dancing.


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  2. Phelios Releases a New Game, Rock and RollSubmitted by mike on Fri, 08/12/2005 - 15:49. Games

    Phelios announced the release of their new downloadable game for Mac OS X called, Rock and Roll, another addition to their growing list of games made with their own game engine, PTK.

    Rock and Roll is a prehistoric-themed game involving a caveman that has discovered the wheel. The caveman is then required to roll the wheel to a scientific congress in order to exhibit his discovery and change the course of progress and humanity. The object of the game is to avoid obstacles such as dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures while guiding the caveman to the convention.

    About Rock and Roll Site Description

    5500 years ago
    As the smartest prehistoric caveman ever, Stan the Caveman has actually invented the wheel! Yes, the next time someone calls him a "Neanderthal" hell be proud.

    Your mission is to guide Stan and his wheel to the Prehistoric Society's Annual Scientists Congress, a prestigious convention. There, hell be able to show off his discovery and influence and impact the future of mankind with it. If he gets his invention to the convention, it will change the course of progress forever. If not...well, we'd rather not think about that.

    Stan sure could use a helping hand from you, so it's time to...rock and roll!

    Screenshot:
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    Website: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

    Features

        * 24 Levels + 3 mini games
        * 3 Worlds
        * 5 Original Sound Tracks

    System Requirements:

        * For Mac: OS X 10.2 and higher, OpenGL video card
        * 128 MB or Memory
        * OpenGL Accelerator 16 M

    Rock and Roll is available for online purchase exclusively from Phelios.com for $19.95. A free demo download is also available from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

    About Phelios

    Phelios, Inc. is an independent developer offering downloadable games and software. Their main ambition is to create entertaining games for the MAC, PC and Pocket PC platforms. With very small kids to the brightest adults in mind, Phelios strives to create quality games to provide people of all ages and backgrounds with engaging game play while also providing excellent customer service and free technical support.


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  3. am always in the market to check out any racing game that comes along...and while some are good enough to garnish a pretty good review... I was absolutely impressed with this dmeo and game coming out this fall ( October '05' )In most racing demos you seem to only be able to use keyboards as your control option as they usually save this feature for the full game, but not here.The interface and options and all you can setup and add is not only nice and clean and works well, but it does not leave out much at all if anything..so I think this will please most everybody out there,as the variety of choices all work well also.I just got done playing only a small test of it...enoguh for me to say thats good.... and I will get this game sometime for sure.It recognizes your gamepad and even rumble pads right off and lists it and lets you configure it in the game options menu choices...and that is rare.The game itself runs very nice and one thing you'lll otice is the sond and effects are very well done ..and very realistic..much more so in the way the car behaves than in most I have played....The graphics can be set for many differnt modes and even allows for total advanced setup for graphics..in differing modes.. it looked good enough for me...A link is really not needed as it is offered at most sites now... ( Fileplanet,3Dgamers, or other )by ajey


  4. have recently started using COSMOMC for carrying out parameter estimation and found it extremely useful and versatile. However, there are few things I am unable to understand and am facing some problems. Kindly give me some suggestions.1) I would like to do a COSMOMC run with only the WMAP TT data excluding the TE data which as I understand means putting "num_cls" equal to 1. Accordingly I changed the value of "num_cls" (wherever it exists) but it gives an error "MCMC could not start after 1000 tries....." What is going wrong? Am I missing something!2) I would also like to run COSMOMC but with a scale invariant power spectrum fixing the spectral index, ns (=1). I tried fixing the value in power_tilt.f90 as well as fixing ns parameter values to 1 in 'params.ini' but none of them worked.3) I would like to change the CAMB part to use my own set of inflationary parameters so as I understand I have to replace the power_tilt.f90 routine with my own routine (primarily the scalar and tensor power parts of it). Which are the other files which need modifications. Also I would like to know where in the CAMB part do you fix (or you vary) the value of scalar to tensor power amplitude. I have read the FAQs and readme sections as well.Kindly give inputs/suggestions. Thanks.


  5. I released v3.0 of cmbeasy today. The main changes are in the graphical user interface: plotting and printing of confidence regions (both one and two dimensional) is now much more sophisticated. Some minor flaws in the scientific part have also been corrected (mostly concerning some specific dark energy implementations). I did write a general fluid perturbation class but didn't include it yet. If some people are interested let me know then I'll know if it's worth polishing the class for a release or not. You can find the packages on http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/


  6. A true story of LIES, DECIEPT and UNDERHANDEDNESS by DELL Lets see where to begin.... I get my new dell laptop (inspiron 6000) 20 days after they promise it would be there within 7 - 10 days. I pour more than 10 gigs of personal data into it from my work computer, configure it to work like I like it etc and within two days of it's arrival, the computer dies! just powers down and won't turn on, not a pulse left in this little dell. I spent two hours with tech support in INDIA, the lady is not exactly a nice person like you would expect. The lady had me take the entire computer apart hard drive, DVD player, RAM, keyboard and some other stuff I don't even know. By the end of it all , the machine still won't work. I ask for my money back and she says that the computer has to be sent back in working condition to get my money back so they have to send me a new one and then I could send it back for my money back, I'm so tired by now, I just agree with them. So the new laptop arrives as expected 5 days LATE! Then I call them to return the machine and she says it has been over a month since I ordered it so I can't return it for my money back, while their policy clearly says that it's 30 days from the time I recieve it, I bring that to her attention and now she says I received it 33 days ago, when I know I only recieved it 25 days ago!! So there is the first LIE. Then she says they will make an exception in my case but since there's nothing wrong with the computer, I have to pay for shipping and handling! thats over $150 CDN. Now I'm pissed, turns out if I had asked for my money back the first time (like I had) I wouldn't have had to pay shipping. So I tell her what the Indian lady said to me but this woman doesn't believe me! then she appologizes for being misled and lied to but she can't do anything about it! I tried over and over again to explain to her the whole story, but all she can tell me is to sell the computer to someone else to get my money back! is this chick for real? Is DELL for real? I now know that the only way they make money is by selling cheap machines that don't last and by LYING AND CHEATING their customers. So the moral of the story is DON'T EVER BUY A DELL! if you do, don't say you haven't been warned. Thanks for listening to me rant and rave.. hope this didn't happen to you to. Greetz


  7. My harddrive just died. I heard the death sound of the click, click, and the harddrive spin down. Not to worry, there was nothing important that I cannot replace on the harddrive. What is sad is that harddrive was the largest harddrive I had 124GB of space. I basically used it to store ripped movies and downloaded TV shows. Now that I no longer have that harddrive for storage space, I need another. Fine. I have another harddrive that has 147GB of space, one of those new SATA drives. Sometime in transit while moving last month, the pins on the SATA harddrive became bent and a few torn off the drive itself. Basically, I seem to be un-able to access the contents of the harddrive. Now, my questions, finally. 1. When a harddrive is dead, what exactly is not working: the platters and bearings stop (spinning), the logic board is no longer functional, or the connexion between the logic board and the platters discs non-functional? 2. If only the platters and bearings stop working, then can I extract the platters from the SATA harddrive and transplant to replace the platters of the dead harddrive?I'd be glad for all the answers...


  8. I have a brand new computer running Windows XP 512 MB RAM, Compaq Presario 1.4Ghz Celeron. I am connected to the internet with Comcast in Fremont. Web sites pages are slow to open up. The performance problem occurs on many different sites, so I suspect the problem is on my end -- either the computer or my internet connection. It often takes several seconds to open up a link. What can I do to fix this? I am not one to be picky about speed, but net browsing is so slow that I don't feel like using the computer any more. I've heard some people say that anti-virus sw can slow down net browsing. The computer was pre-loaded with Norton Internet Security, but I don't know if that is the problem. I don't think I have a virus since it is a brand new computer which has always been running the virus protection software.Thank for all the answers!


  9. Well, my favorite game is probably age of empires 2. It combines great playability and it works also on older computers. I played this game all my childhood and maybe this is one of the reasons too. But ofcourse there are many other good games on our planet like Americas Army, which i free and can be downloaded from their website. thats what i think!!

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