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Little update; had the hour with a personal trainer, and he put together a program for the gym. Lots of lifting going on now. Every part of my body has muscles that ache now, but its all for a good cause. Weight drops as slow as ever but i am determined. The nice thing is that the one hour CrossStep improved dramatically. A month ago i would manage in one hour 7 kilometers = 4.34 miles, now i get in on hour 9 kilometers = 5.59 miles. Maybe with my next update i will drop below 110 kg, i keep you up to date....

Though we reported previously that directors like Guy Ritchie had been offered the chance to take on this project, THR is now saying it's Noam Murro who will be getting the offer this week to direct Xerxes, the upcoming spin-off from Zack Snyder's 300. Murro is an Israeli director whose feature debut was the indie Smart People, however he's already attached to direct Die Hard 5, when/if that ever happens. Additionally, the project has been retitled from Xerxes (the original Frank Miller graphic novel title) to 300: Battle of Artemisia, to connect it more with the first movie. The aim is to shoot Artemisia in a similar style as 300. ...read full story at First Showing.net

Alan Cameron (born 1938) is a British classicist, Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University. Cameron gained a BA from Oxford University, and his MA in 1964. He has taught at Columbia University since about 1977. In March 1997 he was awarded the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship. Alan Cameron is the author of the recently reviewed The Last Pagans of Rome. Philip Matyzak had the chance to ask him a few questions... ...continue to the Interview with Alan Cameron

The team discuss the daily routine of troops in the ancient world when garrisoned, through examples found at Vindolanda we investigate sickness rates of soldiers, the freedom they had whilst not on duty and what would happen to them if they could no longer serve. Dur: 40min File: .mp3 http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehistorynetwork/01_Daily_life_in_camp_and_on_campaign.mp3

...another great story from Der Spiegel about something you usually dont read on other news sites... There are more than 700 curious tunnel networks in Bavaria, but their purpose remains a mystery. Were they built as graves for the souls of the dead, as ritual spaces or as hideaways from marauding bandits? Archeologists are now exploring the subterranean vaults to unravel their secrets. At least 700 of these chambers have been found in Bavaria alone, along with about 500 in Austria. In the local vernacular, they have fanciful names such as "Schrazelloch" ("goblin hole") or "Alraunenh

Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard MilesBook Review by Melvadius This 521 page book by Richard Miles, a specialist in the history of Punic, Roman and late antique North Africa, is claimed to be

I find it interesting... ...so what do you guys think of this? http://www.kickstart...cational-card-g

..oh, interesting we here (Austria) dont have that, normally supermarket have it all... (the bigger the store the bigger the variety)

what does off-licences mean? btw.here some info about the town on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

The European Union trademarks authority has permitted a German firm to register the brand name "Fucking Hell" for a new beer, much to the irritation of the Austrian village of Fucking. In English, the term "Fucking Hell" is just an expletive used to express irritation or surprise. In German, it could refer to a light ale from Fucking in Upper Austria, because "Hell" is a term for light ale in southern Germany and Austria... ...full story at Spiegel Online

Women may have accompanied male Vikings in those early invasions of England, in much greater numbers than scholars earlier supposed, McLeod concludes. Rather than the ravaging rovers of legend, the Vikings arrived as marriage-minded colonists. "Although the results presented here cannot be used to determine the number of female settlers, they do suggest that the ratio of females to males may have been somewhere between a third to roughly equal," the study concludes... ...read the full article at USA Today

...hi vtc, yeah its a lifestyle change more than anything else, the process is much slower than expected, but to be honest much more fun too...

...little update, shed a bit of weight but nothing to brag about. The fun part will be tomorrow as i won an hour with a personal trainer at my local gym, i hope he knows what he is doing...

Move aside "Spartacus: Blood and Sand", it's time for a real Spartacus movie. Graham King's GK Films has announced via Twitter/Variety that they're developing a new feature film called Spartacus, that will focus "on the rebel leader who took on the Roman Empire for 2 years." It will throw out all the other fictional storylines (*ahem* Starz) and "rely instead on more historic facts of Spartacus as a revolutionary." The project is actually on a pitch they acquired from 300 co-writer Michael B. Gordon (also credited for the G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra story). However, no director is attached and the project is developing in the early stages... ...read the full article at Firstshowing.net

NN, that was pretty neat! nice guitar work!

...on Google + was a discussion about this and someone summed it pretty well up... I think the Borders bankruptcy isn't essentially about the book business. In fact it's much more closely tied to the real estate business. Borders had a ridiculously expensive portfolio of stores: huge spaces on glitzy corners with long-term leases (and an average of ~8 years still left on the lease, per store) that they couldn't walk away from, even as the fundamentals of their business changed beneath them.

...the thing is, by trying to do something good, you might create something worse or completely unintendent, for example maybe witout Hitler most of Europe were still communist maybe not, maybe the americans would have never gotten out of their economic depression without the second world war, maybe this maybe that, no way you can change on tiny detail and not be faced with a totally different world...

...aside from the causality paradox, changing just a tiny thing can cause such huge shifts in developement, just thinking of my own life, how often how tiny details changed the whole course of my life, so i would say 99% of the time the goal to alter a historical event to get a certain outcome would be totally unpredictable, think of your own life is all i am telling, its impossible to predict... cheers chris

The world's most famous ancient coin is expected to fetch more than

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...first i thought its from the Onion... http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/07/tea_party_manatees_against_bible_jurassic_park.php

very intereresting paper from Thomas Grane, PhD, postdoc Classical Archaeology The SAXO-Institut University of Copenhagen The Roman Iron Age of Denmark covers the period roughly from the birth of Christ to the end of the 4th century AD. As elsewhere in the Barbaricum, this period is marked by the massive appearance of Roman objects mainly in the form of silver coins and tableware in bronze, glass and silver. But the region was also influenced by a number of technological and intellectual advances through the contact with the Romans. Regarding daily life, we see an increase in the size of farm animals, and new species such as cats and chicken appear, as well as a range of new crops. Research of Germanic textiles has shown an inspiration from Roman design. In the 2nd century AD, Germanic writing appears for the first time in the form of runes used in a way known from the Romans, as owner

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