Encarta Opening

[Matilda Equiluz]

Ihad looked forward to seeing the headliner, Dashboard Confessional, but I had never listened to or heard of the three other bands that were the opening acts: Hot Water Music, The Get Up Kids, and Thrice.

Dashboad Confessional can be classified as contemporary alternative rock, while the other bands fell into the hard rock and punk rock genres. Unlike previous concerts I have attended, this audience was not satisfied with listening to the live music and enjoying the lead singers vocals or the cutting edge of a lead guitar solo.

Much to my surprise, the audience was quick to begin crowd surfing and "moshing" at the onset of the opening act. Ironically Hot Water Music's music wasn't the heavy metal of Metallica or the post-punk hard rock of Guns and Roses. It was just a bit of rock 'n' roll, leaning more toward the roll. But the behavior of the crowd seemed like it was borrowed from a Limp Bizkit concert.

The mood was established quickly. Teenagers and college level students were jumping and slamming into one another, creating a mosh pit. The action of the crowd did not stop, it grew more intense, more violent as more people joined in. Soon the entire floor level of the concert center was one giant "pit."

The mere fact that "mosh pit" had a proper definition is interesting. Head banging and slam dancing go all the way back to the 1980s. Today's mosh pit is merely a designated area for slam dancing, which is when two people aim to "slam" into each other using only their torsos.

Imagine hundreds of bodies slamming up against one another creating waves in the crowd as the audience appears to sway from one direction to another. From a distance it appeared to be safe, but throwing one's body onto another is not exactly healthy behavior.

The question posed is why do moshers take the risk? How can they intentionally create an atmosphere that is potentially dangerous? Is it the thrill of breaking all the rules and being totally free? Or do moshers simply feel that this is the best way to entertain themselves at a concert, creating an interactive experience with the band. Have other concert goers, who simply appreciate the lyrics and the musical experience, been missing out for the past two decades?

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Encarta was a CD-ROM based encyclopedia and dictionary published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. It was birthed in the pre-Internet 1990s and was used as a digital reference, most commonly for work and school projects. The program contains articles, pictures, illustrations, videos, sounds, and animations. Encarta eventually met its demise because it couldn't compete with free online encyclopedias like Wikipedia.

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The LRM File Extension has two different file types (mostly seen as the Encarta Class Server Learning Resource File format) and can be opened with two distinctive software programs, with the dominant related application developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Encarta software). The majority of LRM files are considered Data Files, but they can also be Game Files.

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Sometimes your installed version of Microsoft Encarta won't support your Encarta Class Server Learning Resource File file. Installing the latest version of Microsoft Encarta from Microsoft Corporation is recommended. Most of the time your Encarta Class Server Learning Resource File file was created by a newer Microsoft Encarta than what you have installed.

Once you open the program, Encyclopedia Britannica 2007 makes you choose content for either adults, tweens up to age 14, or elementary school kids. The Change Library button lets you switch at any time. Britannica 2007 opens to a browser-like page with back and forward arrows and an alphabetical list of topics on the left. We find Britannica's Explore button less effective at encouraging your mind to wander. By contrast, Encarta's opening screen forces you to choose a subject off the bat, which can feel more natural for browsing subjects.

Each age-appropriate version of Britannica 2007 organizes data similarly. Enter a query into the search field, and Britannica attempts to guess what you're typing. As you look up subjects, their related articles, images, and videos stack up along the left, and Britannica arranges results within central tabs so that you can interrupt lookups, then revisit them later. Keyboard shortcuts work, such as Ctrl-W (in Windows) to close a tab. We like that you can add bookmarks and jot and save notes within encyclopedia entries. Also helpful is the BrainStormer, which maps topics in spiderweb-like forms to display the subjects connected to your query.

Elementary users open the digital Britannica to a photograph of an "animal of the day" but also a lot of text. By contrast, Microsoft Encarta splits its encyclopedia between two distinct tools that you open separately, with the peppy Encarta Kids targeting ages up to 12. Kindergartners reared on a TV diet might be turned off by Britannica's more sober interface, but brainy kids from ages 6 to 10 can explore everything from aardvarks and Absaroka to Zapata and Zuni. Britannica also offers help for grade-school science fairs and interactive instruction in mathematics. However, Microsoft Student 2007 provides even more math help.

Encyclopedia Britannica 2007's Timelines provide a Flash-animated walkthrough of a chosen subject from ancient to recent history, but we found their cursory explanations to be shallow for adults and sometimes odd for kids. For instance, the main event for 2006 within the Elementary interface is a two-sentence blurb about the election of Liberia's first female president, with a photograph of a fist raised in a crowd and no image of her face.

The expertise of Encyclopedia Britannica, whose authors include Nobel laureates, is apparent in the depth of articles about history, mathematics, science, and the arts. The DVD packs in everything from the print volumes in addition to some 8,000 extra articles and another 8,000 Book of the Year articles. Unlike with Wikipedia, you shouldn't need to second-guess the truth of Britannica's words; however, given the 24/7 nature of the wired world of information, Britannica's resources for current events can be lacking. For instance, when we clicked Read More from the timeline write-up about Hurricane Katrina, it only linked to an article about Louisiana. A Wikipedia lookup of Katrina, by contrast, brings up more than 866,000 words packed with news and controversy. However, searching via text for Hurricane Katrina within Britannica retrieves a few decent pictures, a weather pattern video, and--most relevant for research--recent Book of the Year articles providing MLA, APA, and Britannica style citations. Britannica also displayed old information about Pluto, although the software links to some 166,000 articles online. Unfortunately, clicking the Updates button didn't feed us today's news that Pluto is now a "minor planet." Britannica.com's newsfeeds from the New York Times and the BBC may retrieve more-recent results. Plus, you can always mark up articles with your own notes.

Among other resources within Encyclopedia Britannica 2007 are its rebuilt pop-up dictionary and thesaurus from Merriam-Webster. Britannica's Atlas button connects to political and physical views of the world, but it was sometimes clumsy for us to navigate. For geographic and demographic details, the Atlas is most helpful when you select a location from drop-down menus. You can click the GeoAnalyzer link for a great Web page to create charts comparing countries' statistics, historical timelines, and more. It's too bad that the small maps shown within Britannica's installed articles aren't integrated with the Atlas or the GeoAnalyzer.

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