The iPod classic features an updated design on the digital media player you already know and love. Some of the new bits include a sleek all-metal enclosure, a massive increase in storage space, a thinner body, and a brand-new user interface featuring Cover Flow. Cover Flow allows you to easily browse through your music collection by flipping through each album's cover art using the Click Wheel. When you find the album you want, you can flip it over for the track listing. Just like you'd do with a real CD or vinyl. Connects to a PC or Mac through USB (using the dock connector) Charge Time - about 4 hours (2 hours fast charge to 80% capacity) Audio Support - AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, & 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, & AIFF Photo Support - Syncs iPod-viewable photos in JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG formats Video Support - H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats Unit Dimensions - 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.41 Unit Weight - 4.9 oz. Color - Black
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #6 in Consumer Electronics
Size: 80 GB
Color: Black
Brand: Apple
Model: MB147LL/A
Released on: 2007-09-05
Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
Display size: 2.5
Features
iPod classic puts your entire music and video collection in your pocket with up to 160 GB of storage
An enhanced interface offers a whole new way to browse and view your music and video
Cover Flow technology lets you use the patented Click Wheel to flip through your music by album cover
Beautifully redesigned, iPod classic features a sleek, new all-metal enclosure
2.5-inch display; measures 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.41 inches (H x W x D), weighs 4.9 ounces
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Amazon.com Product Description With 80GB or 160GB of storage, iPod classic gives your music and video room to move. It also has plenty of energy (up to 40 hours of audio playback), good looks (a sleek, all-metal design), and a great personality (a brand-new interface with Cover Flow). In other words, iPod classic makes an ideal companion.
Cover Flow If a picture says a thousand words, think of what all the album art in your collection might say. With Cover Flow on iPod classic, you can flip through your music to find the album you want to hear. Use the Click Wheel to browse music by album cover, then select an album to flip it over and see the track list.
With 80GB or 160GB of storage, iPod classic gives your music and video room to move. View iPod classic dimensions.
Up to 40 hours of audio playback in the palm of your hand. View larger.
Music Use the Click Wheel to adjust volume, navigate songs, browse in Cover Flow, or explore the Music menu by playlist, artist, album, song, genre, composer, and more. Want to mix things up? Click Shuffle Songs. iPod classic makes your music look as good as it sounds, thanks to its big, bright, color display.
Movies Buy movies from the iTunes Store and you can sync them to your iPod classic to watch anywhere, anytime. The gorgeous 2.5-inch display makes your movies pop. And iPod classic keeps you entertained for up to 7 hours. Long flight or darkened room? Adjust the brightness for even more video playback time.
TV Shows There's always something good on iPod classic. Browse thousands of episodes of your favorite TV shows on the iTunes Store, buy them for just $1.99 each, then sync them to iPod classic. Watch last night's episodes this morning, or buy a whole TV series and play a pocket-size marathon.
Podcasts The iTunes Store features thousands of free video and audio podcasts, including indie favorites and offerings from such big names as ABC News, Comedy Central, ESPN, PBS, NPR, and many more. Browse and subscribe to podcasts, then sync them to your iPod classic. You can even play video podcasts on TV using an optional Apple component or composite AV cable.
Audiobooks The digital shelves of the iTunes Store are stocked with thousands of audiobooks--including exclusives like the entire Harry Potter series--so you can catch up on your reading wherever iPod classic takes you. iPod classic recognizes where you left off and bookmarks your place. You can even adjust the reading speed to suit you.
Games Put hours of fun at your fingertips. iPod classic comes with three games--Vortex, iQuiz, and Klondike--and you can download more from the iTunes Store for $4.99 each. All iPod games are designed specifically for the iPod interface. And all of them look great on the 2.5-inch color display.
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The Daniela is a high performance road bike that Bianchi has custom built specifically for female riders while still featuring Bianchi's T-cube technology to make these bikes every bit as strong as the boys bikes. The Daniela is a quick and agile bike that features a quality Campagnolo Veloce gruppo with quality Mavic Aksium ...Read More
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Rummy is a group of skill-based card games. These card games are best played with two to four players. Playing Rummy is fun and is considered the worlds' third most popular game.
The objective of Rummy games is to be the first to dispose of all the cards in your hand. This is done by picking up and discarding cards, while forming the cards in your hand into melds.
The winner of a tournament is the first player to accumulate the highest amount of points, or the last player to stay in the game without being eliminated by exceeding the elimination target score. Scoring charts exist for each of the Rummy card games available.
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The Rummy card games are played by 2-4 players. Each player is dealt a set number of cards. The objective of the game is to be the first to dispose of all the cards in your hand, by melding them all and laying them down on the table.
The play itself consists of the following elements: A turn begins by drawing a card from either the stock or discards pile and must end by discarding a card onto the discard pile.
There are two types of melds:
A set consists of 3 or more cards of the same rank:
or
A run consists of 3 or more consecutive cards of the same suit:
or
This play structures enables a variety of cards to circulate around the table, helping players to complete their melds.
Although varied among the many games, all of the Rummy card games contain a certain scoring chart. The winner of a single ring game is the first player to dispose of all his cards.
The winner of a tournament is the first player to accumulate the highest amount of points, or the last player to stay in the game without being eliminated by exceeding the elimination target score.
Rummy History
Rummy is a family of games that share a similar structure. All these games include a similar game play pattern that consists of drawing and discarding a card during each turn. This is done in order to help players meld the cards in their hands into sets and runs. A set is a three or four cards meld of the same rank. A Run is a three or more consecutive cards of the same suit.
The origins of the Rummy games go over a couple of centuries back. There are several versions that outline the development and beginning of the Rummy games. Some of them trace the origins of the Rummy phenomena back to the late 19th century, at New York. Other versions trace the origins of the game to the Orient. The Chinese Mahjong game is based on the same element of drawing and discarding cards as well as many other Chinese card games that go back to the 18th century.
Another version attributes the origins of Rummy games to Spanish comminutes who immigrated west. The Spanish card game bearing the name of Conquian strikes a great resemblance to the Gin Rummy game and is considered to be the ancestor of all the modern Rummy games. Gin Rummy itself is said to be invented at New York during the first decade of 20th century. The common assumption regarding the origin of the name for Gin Rummy is concerned with the alcoholic drink. The Gin Rummy game was quickly adopted by the Hollywood elite during the 30s and become most popular ever since.
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Entrance to the catacombs is through a plain black door in a small building that can be easily missed while walking by it. On entering you will pass a notice (mostly ignored by visiting tourists) which states that flash photography is strictly forbidden. After descended a long spiral staircase, you will enter a small gallery displaying drawings, photographs. On leaving the gallery, you will enter the dark and damp area of the tunnels themselves. Along the way, there are signs stating when that particular area had been excavated.
There is no definitive map of the underground quarries, but it is estimated that there is about 300 kilometres of galleries, under the 5th, 6th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 20th districts. with the most extensive part of the labyrinth being located under the 5th, 6th and 14th districts, and is thought to be about one hundred kilometres in lengh.
Some areas of the Catacomb walls are covered in graffiti dating from the 18th century. There is evidence that during the 19th century, families actually lived in the catacombs. In 1871 a group of monarchists were killed by communards in one of the chambers. During World War II, members of the French Resistance used the system of tunnels to hide out in, while at the same time in another part, German soldiers constructed an underground bunker (not part of the catacombs tour). Unofficial visits to the underground quarries of Paris are not permitted, especially as some areas can be very dangerous. However, secret entrances are scattered throughout Paris, accessed through the sewers or metro tunnels. There are also a number of manholes that lead into the catacombs.
The bones began accumulating in the catacombs in 1786, just as momentum for the Revolution was building in Paris. Land was becoming increasingly scarce and at the same time the cemeteries were becoming overcrowded. So the government of the time made the decision to move the remains of the dead to the empty limestone quarries, so freeing up the land presently being used as cemeteries for other use. While moving the remains from the cemeteries, no attempt was made to identify or separate individual bodies, but the bones were marked with a plaque specifying the cemetery they came from and the year when they were moved. The work was completed in 1860, by which time an an estimated five to six million skeletons had been relocated.
At the end of the eighteenth century, Paris was greatly overcrowded, flooded with far too many people who had come seeking work or adventure, for it was a fabled city in those days: a place of learning and elegance and fashion. But there was also a great deal of filth, disease and death, and the influx of new people, often bringing new diseases, filled the city cemeteries to overflowing. In areas such as Les Halles, the cemeteries were so overcrowded that proper burial was impossible. Corpses were flung down and covered with a shallow layer of earth which was swiftly covered by more corpses, until the ground of the cemetery bulged nearly twenty feet from the surrounding pavements. The whole neighbourhood stank with the charnel reek of the rotting dead, and the very air became diseased, creating yet more corpses. François Pontrain, the last gravedigger at the cemetery of Les Innocents, was said to have buried 90,000 bodies in 35 years. It became impossible for the people of Les Halles to keep milk, and wine spoiled in the casks. The sheer weight of all the corpses in Les Innocents caused the wall of a cave beneath it to collapse in 1780, destroying many homes and crushing the inhabitants. And so, in 1785, the State Council ordered that the cemetery of Les Innocents be destroyed, and converted into a public market.
It was unthinkable that the remains be destroyed, so they had to be moved. The cave which had collapsed beneath Les Innocents led into a whole system of chalk caves which spread for kilometres beneath Paris and beyond. Caves in the area known as the Tombe Issoire had been used before for burials: the area was consecrated, and some of the orders of the Knights Templar had tombs down there. It seemed a fitting place to store the remains from Les Innocents, so on April 7, 1786, the new ossuary was consecrated by the Vicar General of the Archbishop of Paris, and the transfer of bones began that very night. At nightfall, covered wagons for the poor, and funeral chariots and catafalques for the rich left from the cemetery for the ossuary site. The disinterment and removal took 15 months, but it went so successfully that it was decided to do the same with all the other parochial cemeteries, thus creating more land for buildings. Over the next seventy years the underground bonepiles stacked up until at the end of the nineteenth century nearly eight million corpses lined the caves under Denfert-Rochereau, and more ossuaries had to be created in caves at Montparnasse and Montrouge. Unofficial ossuaries also came into being as places to put 'problematic' corpses, such as those left over from the second wave of the French Revolution. With nearly 300km of tunnels beneath the city, there was still plenty of space.
Public visits to the ossuaries started in 1814 and were popular with thrill-seekers, but in 1830 the catacombs were closed to visitors, partly because of vandalism, and partly because they were still connected to the rest of the cave network, and many visitors, wandering off, got lost. When the catacombs were re-opened by Napoleon III most of the entrances to the cave system from the 'official' section of the catacombs at Denfert-Rochereau were sealed, and the caves shored up to make them safer for visitors. You can still tour some of this section: the entrance to the guided tours is opposite Denfert-Rochereau métro. It's dark, incredibly cold, and the ceilings are claustrophobically low. Water drips constantly down the walls in places, gradually fossilizing the skulls which line the walls, grinning at you with foul yellow teeth. Black chunks of human bone grind under your feet. The atmosphere, and the smell, of the remains of seven million dead Parisians is quite indescribable. For a look, take Kevin Kelm's virtual guided tour at http://triggur.org/cata (in English).
Of course unofficial visits to the caves and catacombs have a history as old as the caves themselves, although they've been a lot harder since 1995, when (supposedly) Algerian bomb threats led to the sealing of unofficial city entrances and a crackdown on unauthorised urban explorers. Access now is usually from outside the city, and explorers have to watch out for the tunnel police, who can spot-fine you huge sums. The tunnels are mostly unlit, fairly dangerous, and protective clothing is a good idea, but they're amazing: eighteenth-century revolutionary graffiti, discarded nameless bones, traces of habitation during several wars - and a feeling of exploration and discovery you don't get from the official tours. Some of the unofficial explorers, or ktaphiles, have detailed maps of the cave system. For more information and a good account of a visit through the 'real catacombs', visit http://infiltration.org/catac... (in English) There are a few other sites run by ktaphiles, mainly in French.
Phil Ivey is considered the best poker player in the world. He won 5 WSOP Bracelets before his 30th birthday. He won 1 WPT Championship. Phil Ivey plays online exclusively at Full Tilt Poker. Phil grew up in New Jersey, where he started his pro poker career in Atlantic City. Phil won his first World Series of Poker title at the age of 23 when he beat Phil Hellmuth and Amarillo Slim in the Pot-Limit Omaha event. Two years later in 2002, he won three more WSOP titles. Phil also won two Bellagio tournaments, one World Poker Open tournament, two Commerce tournaments, and has made his share of World Poker Tour final tables.
2005 was a good year, with two more WPT final tables, a second place finish in the WSOP Circuit Event at Harrah's Lake Tahoe, and the addition of his fifth WSOP bracelet in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament. Phil won $1 million for his first-place finish at the Monte Carlo Millions tournament. Amazingly, only 24 hours later, he won an additional $600,000 for his first-place finish at "The FullTiltPoker.Net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo."
In January 2006, Phil received three incredible honors, being named Player of the Year by All In Magazine, Bluff Magazine, and the UK Gaming Awards.
Most recently, Phil placed second in the Omaha Hi/Lo event and third in $50,000 HORSE event at the 2006 WSOP. With these two events, he was able to cash for more than $800,000. In February 2008, Phil won his first-ever WPT Championship, taking down the title at the Los Angeles Poker Classic. It was Phil’s record-setting eighth appearance at a WPT final table, and the victory moved him into the top-10 on the all-time tournament money list.
Away from the felt, Phil can often be found on the greens near his Las Vegas home where he lives with his wife.
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Almost 8 years of lies, supression and media manipulation by republicans in the white house have preceded the nomination of Barack Obama, and it occurs to me that he is anything but a "business as usual" kind of guy. He generates excitement and hope everywhere he speaks his very populace message of change, new beginnings and reform of a broken US foreign policy and a disheartened people.
No more Bush is a given at this point. Can we elect this man of change? I hope so because he is happening just at the correct time in our history. McCain is weak, old and gives the appearance of a guy who will not dare change anything. I am not inspired by McCain in any way, and I used to be a republican. I emphasize "used to be".
Bush lied to the American people. He said there were WMD in Iraq, and there were none. He got away with the biggest con job in our history, and never was impeached. How is that possible? I cannot stomach that guy, and I believe history will say he was one of our worst presidents. He has left us a legacy of debt and broken hearts. He is a con man.
I pray Mr. Obama is for real, or our country will fall apart. We need a real leader, not a con man who loves big oil. We have another millionaire oil man in the White House. What happened to us? Clinton was a big goof, and Bush was devious and cunning. Bush Sr was ok, and I wish he had served a second term. If that had happened, Bush Jr might never have come out of the woodwork.
We can bounce back as a nation, but we must not elect another "business as usual" guy. We must elect Obama and hold him to his promises of a better more respected United States of America. We need to complete the mission we started out on back after 911, before Bush hijacked our country and our troops. Let's find and prosecute bin ladin as we should have done in the first place.
I will pray for our country as always! Today is a day of new hope and beginnings!
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