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To determine the zoning regulations applicable to a site, you must first find the site on the official zoning maps. The appropriate map will show the base zone that is applied to the site. It will also show if the site is subject to any overlay zones or plan districts, and if the site contains a historical landmark or recreational trail. You then look up all the corresponding regulations in the zoning code.
You may check your zoning electronically and search by the following:
- www.PortlandMaps.com - Address or intersection.
- Search by tax numbers
- Official Zoning Maps - Quarter Section (ie 3229)
- Portland Zoning Code
Reading Zoning Maps
- Base Zones - Shown as a combination of capital letters and numbers on a zoning map (such as R5, R1, C5 or IG2). All properties within the City of Portland have a base zone. There are residential zones, commercial zones, and employment and industrial zones. View a list of base zones and overlay zones.
- Overlay Zones - Shown as lower case letters following the base zone designation. For example, an R5a zone has an 'R5' base zone and an 'a' overlay zone. Overlay zones consist of regulations that address specific subjects in particular areas in the City. View a list of base zones and overlay zones.
- Comprehensive Plan - Shown as a base zone and overlay zone in parenthesis next to the base zone and overlay zone on the zoning map. For example, a site might have the zoning of R2 (R1) with a Base Zone of R2 and a comprehensive plan zoning designation of R1. The zoning on a site may be changed to the comprehensive plan zoning designation through a Zoning Map Amendment if approval criteria are met.
- Plan Districts, Historic Districts, and Conservation Districts - The boundaries of these districts are shown on zoning maps. In PortlandMaps.com - you can find these districts listed under the zoning section of the maps page.


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By Fred Pond, MLS
Are you looking for low-cost, convenient ways to earn continuing medical education credit (CME)? Try Dana's resource-rich list of databases and websites. This list offers access to a variety of clinical and medical education resources, and in some instances, CME credit may be obtained without costly out-of-town travel and fees.
Check out the popular UpToDate point-of-care database featuring quick access to current medical practices and recommendations. In fact, as you search for answers to patient care questions, UpToDate saves the topics for a later review, and offers continuing education credit by submitting the results to the appropriate accrediting organization.
Those organizations include American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and American Academy of Physician Assistants, among others.
Activating UpToDate for Continuing Education Credit
- Visit Dana Medical Library Home page, clicking on Articles & Databases under the FIND column.
- Click on "UpToDate with CME" selection under the Clinical Databases section.
- At the prompt, enter your UVM netID and password. At that point register with UpToDate, indicating the type of continuing education you desire (MD/DO, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistants, etc).
UpToDate will keep track of the appropriate continuing education process for your professional role. Periodically, you will need to submit the accumulated credit to your professional organization.
Natural Standard
The Natural Standard database offers trustworthy information on complementary and alternative therapies, diets, exercise and nutrition. Natural Standard aggregates from PubMed, CancerLit, the Cochrane database and other trusted databases of the health sciences professional literature to create monographs and systematic reviews of supplements, vitamins and minerals, foods, and diets. At the heart of Natural Standard lies evidence-based systematic reviews, that both inform patient care and provide the content for a growing number of CE/CME topics. Providers can earn credit by reading this topics and then completing a brief quiz.
Natural Standard may not be as popular or as well known as UpToDate, but it offers an Evidence-Based Grading system that applies scientific evidence to alternative therapies. The World Health Organization has named Natural Standard "the best and most authoritative web site available on herbal medicines."
Mobile App for Natural Standard
Natural Standard is also available as a Mobile app via Skyscape, a smartphone application offering a broad array of health-oriented applications, including DynaMed, RX Drugs, and several other health sciences applications. See below for instructions to receive Natural Standard on your smartphone, making it even easier to receive CME credit while you use your mobile device to answer patient care questions.
Activating Natural Standard on your Smartphone
- Click on Mobile Apps on the Dana Medical Library Home page, scroll down to Drugs section, to reach instructions for Natural Standard.
- You will need to install Skyscape prior to Natural Standard, copying an authorization code that the company has sent you via your email request.
CME from the Journal Literature
Simply keeping current by reading professional journal articles can result in CME credit, and Dana Medical Library subscribes to thousands of journals online. Journals including JAMA, BMJ, and Pediatrics require a quick registration for access to their CME resources.
According to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), a journal-based CME activity must include reading the article, completing a learner-directed activity offered by the provider, and answering a pre-determined set of questions or completing tasks relating to the content of the article.
In this brief article, we've focused on just a few trustworthy, Dana Medical Library licensed resources that offer continuing education via the web. Call or email the Reference Desk at 656-2201 for more information on other reliable sources.


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Biorigin is a Brazilian company which mobilises knowledge and technology to promote health and quality of life. Using biotechnological processes, it produces natural ingredients for flavor enhancement, sodium reduction, shelf life extension in food market; and nutritional enrichment of feeds and substitutes for antibiotics.
It is a business unit of Zilor, a company with more than 65 years of experience and one of the largest Brazilian producers of ethanol, sugar and electricity from sugar cane.
Biorigin was founded in 2003, and in 2008 acquired the companies PTX Food Corp in The United States and Immunocorp and Animal Health, in Norway, expanding and strengthening its international presence.
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If you've exhausted federal loan forgiveness and other repayment options available to help you manage your student loan debt and are still struggling to make your monthly payments, you might be thinking about refinancing as a possible solution. But what are the risks of refinancing, and in what circumstances is it a viable option?
If you're a new educator with student loan debt, the word "refinancing" might evoke some hope. Let's take the word's face value with a grain of salt, however, and uncover the truth about refinancing, its risks and when it might be right for you.
First of all, what does it mean to refinance a loan? To put it simply, refinancing means you are moving or re-negotiating your debt for a repayment program that is more favorable. If you find that the terms (such as the interest rate or repayment plan) of your loan are not feasible for you, you can take out another loan to repay that debt. You would accept the terms of the second loan, which would assumedly be more favorable than your previous loan.
However, there are some things to be aware of when refinancing. If you've been poking around online wondering if you should refinance your loan, you are probably going to come across companies offering refinancing assistance for fees. You should never pay to refinance a loan. According to the Department of Education, you should avoid companies that advertise to refinance for you for small fees.
If you have a government loan, it's also helpful to keep in mind that you would become ineligible for federal and public loan forgiveness programs after refinancing your loan through a private creditor. You should also know that most private refinancing options don't come with the same protections that federal loans do, such as discharging your debt in the event of death, disability and, in extreme cases, even bankruptcy.
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RECESSION. A re-grant: the act of returning the title of a country to a government which formerly held it, by one which has it at the time; as the recession of Louisiana, which took place by the treaty between France and Spain, of October 1, 1800. See 2 White's Coll. 516.


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Adding 3D to "Glee" promises a lot more than a highly realistic slushie-to-the-face sequence.
"Glee: The 3D Concert Movie" brings the series' sold-out "Glee Live! In Concert!" tour to the multiplex in multidimensional glory, and the stars are almost as excited as the fans to get a glimpse of what their whirlwind stint on stage performing favorite numbers from the show looks like on the big screen.
"I'm so excited about the movie," Lea Michele, who plays uber-achiever Rachel Berry, tells PopcornBiz. "My children in years to come will get to see it, and I'm really proud. So many people don't even know we spent this whole summer doing a tour. So they can see what all the hard work was really for."
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"Essentially what we did was take two days of shows and shot during the day onstage," explains co-star Jenna Ushkowitz, who plays Tina Cohen-Chang on the series, "and then at night they would shoot the show. So there was no stop-and-go. It was 'Do the number, we're going to shoot it, and that's it.' We only had time to do a few a day, and then we did the numbers."
The film is also peppered with behind-the-scenes sequences and brief in-character bits that the "Glee" performers shot on the fly as well. "We did do one day where the beginning of our day was close ups," adds Michele. "And it was so strange, because it was like, 'Are we filming "Glee" right now? Or are we doing a live concert?' And I'm playing Rachel in the movie, so there's a lot of backstage stuff where I am Rachel, which was very interesting for me to kind of be Lea/Rachel/I'm on my summer break. That was much more completely ad-libbed, in character, no script whatsoever."
Actress Ashley Fink, who became a regular last year playing tough cookie Lauren Zizes, said she loved the in-the-moment immediacy of performing for the live audience. "I hadn't really been many places before tour, so I loved getting to travel and sing and dance and meet the fans," says Fink, "because when you make the show it's sometimes a couple months before you see it. And so getting to sing and immediately see who we do it for and the way it affects them is just like this incredible, incredible feeling."
Michele says that while a couple of musical numbers from "Glee" episodes were reconceived to take advantage of the 3D effect, most will feel close to what the fans remember for the show, with more spontaneous energy. "I definitely think like 'Dog Days' is going to look super cool in 3D," she says. "There's some choreography that I think is going to look great. But for the most part we didn't really kind of tailor it. We just made our show and then just hoped that it kind of would go well with the 3D aspect."
"But I'm so nervous. I'm just deciding whether or not I'm going to watch it in 3D or watch it without the glasses. I don't know: Me coming at me just feels like a lot!"


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Hunter followup
Well, that was educational.
I went back to beastmaster. SV still tempts me, but it won't be SV/BM – or at least it's highly unlikely.
My pet's DPS dropped by about half, but survival (armor, health, etc) didn't make a corresponding increase. As a consequence, when using Lyallii as a tank, I had to drop my OWN dps by half. Which was hard, given my capability had gone up by at least 25%. Actually, given how often I was critting, it came closer to 35%.
Now, if my pet's doing 100 and I'm doing 125, then the respective potential changes are ~50 and ~170. So I went from 225 to… 225, all out. Or 115 if using my cat as a tank. (note my actual numbers are a lot higher, just using these for examples). OK, I could live with this if my uber trap/kite skills meant I could deal with more mobs, or deal with them more effectively. And that came up…
No. Oh, I was better. My traps lasted just a little longer. I was bit more effective at kiting, especially when IWC would actually stop the mob about 15% of the time. But with BM, I'd make my first trap, wait a bit, turn Lyallii loose on one mob, then have it shift to a second mob and start pet mend and shooting. Shortly after that mob three would realize I was there and come in to eat the trap. Move over, drop second trap, right around here the target dies and Lyallii and I shift to mob 1. Shortly after that the third mob leaves his iceberg and runs into the new one. Right around the time it breaks, Lyallii and I finish the second mob. If it's still up I wing clip the mob and run toward Lyallii till either second mob dies or my cooldown's up, and that means mob 3 is re-engaged. Third mob faces spitting kitty and pretty soon decides I'm NOT the more dangerous beastie on the floor, at which point I move to range and finish. But that's BM. With SV, two mobs on Lyallii means kitty dies.
So what happened for that pattern was start, and immediately grab the attention of TWO mobs. Trap one, plant trap, trap two, start beating on Lyallii's target. Ice one breaks, wing clip and run AWAY from lyallii. Second mob comes out of ice, drop trap to grab one, wingclip second and run toward kitty who is still killing number one – remember, lower dps AND I've not gotten a lot of support in there. So still kite two till kitty is done and grabs number two. At which point it's run back to number three (who is free soon if not already) and start the trap/kite routine once more.
In general, I could kill a threepack in ZF as a level 51 either way. With BM, I pretty much never died. With SV, I died about a quarter of the time. The reason was that Lyallii tended to die in the middle of the fight with the second mob unless both one and two were casters – not witch doctors (stupid leather armor) and DEFINITELY not if two or more were blood drinkers (warrior types).
FWIW, if I were grouping a lot I'd go SV. Between cat, traps, and kites, keeping two and even three mobs out of the way of the rest of the party till they were ready would be, well, a piece of cake, making up for my relative lack of DPS. (Or more appropriately, allowing me to open up more – to include crits – on the TANK's mob when I wasn't busy keeping extras out of the way.) I'll say it again. In the 50s, a hunter should be able to CC at least two mobs, three with stretching.
As to the rest of my lessons learned…
In deadmines, (Oh, I insist on practicing at the easy level first), I discovered that bosses break freezing traps. All the non-immobilization traps are effective, but Every Single Boss ignored EVERY single freeze trap. So, no plans that include freezing bosses. Frosting them, immolating them, exploding… all good.
I discovered that a 51 hunter can do almost all of ZF solo. I did not do the pyramid engagements (no big hydra, no waves of fools charging up the steps, no dealing with a bunch of hostile NPCs), and forewarned I didn't try to grab the basilisk that summons more and more. But if a hunter is patient and careful every other boss dies. There are a few four-pulls. I died on the first couple. Then I got smarter, and learned to kill one mob then dismiss pet then FD. And that turned it into a three-pull which was, well, I said already.
After leveling priests for so long – heck, STILL leveling yet another priest – I want to cry. There shouldn't be this much difference in ease of leveling – in ability to power through mobs. Sure, I'm about ten levels higher, but if I took my shadowpriest into an instance ten levels below me – barely green mobs – the multipulls would eat my lunch. And as for bosses – snicker.
Oh, if I get few enough interruptions, the next macro/script lesson will be today. Given the above has taken almost 24 hours to get finished….
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Having leveled a holy priest and then a hunter, I know what you mean by the difference in ease of leveling. On the other hand, you can pretty much forget about grouping outside of guild groups with a hunter while priests get random whispers "want to heal X?". I guess it boils down to: if you want to group, roll a tank or healer, if you want to solo/level roll a hunter (or a warlock).
Well, this game is always better when you have a friend watching your back. If you're a warlock or a hunter, this is always true.
The problem you have right now, is that you lack alot of the gear/abilities that makes a 70 hunter a hunter. Solo leveling as BM is mind numbing and simple… but BM is the least gear dependent hunter spec and the best for solo leveling.
MM requires AP gear to scale with since they nerfed the agility contribution to AP… there is little to no +AP gear pre lvl 60 as Blizzard never changed 'hunter' items below lvl 60 to follow the new item budget formula.
SV requires crit and agility synergy… again, you will find very little crit gear below lvl 60.
Also, steady shot is one of the defining combat abilities of a lvl 70 hunter… you won't get that for a while.
There are many misconception about MM and Surv among those hunters who have never *really* tried those specs (BRK). The problem is worsened because many that you find do not know how to make the spec perform because they've leveled entirely solo.
Your willingness to try different specs will be more useful once you get into outland and can decide which playstyle works the best for you. In 5-mans, all hunter specs can perform very well depending upon group makeup. In Kara/Gruul/Mag, all specs work well provided their synergies are used (with BM being the best on pet friendly fights). In SSC/Eye level gear, BM will start to shine above and beyond the other specs… In BT/Hyjall gear, MM starts to make a comeback due to AP scaling.
That said, I raided with a Surv hunter from Kara through Tempest Keep that put out consistent top 5 dps and buffed all physical damage dealers and physical threat generation.
But for solo leveling, it's difficult to beat having a pocket tank. 🙂


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Cadillac CTS revamped: Can the brand's savior strike again?
General Motors Co.'s new Cadillac CTS, the sedan that helped revive the luxury brand when it debuted more than a decade ago, will weigh less, go faster and be more fuel efficient as the company pushes to compete against Audi and BMW.
The 2014 CTS, with a lower and sleeker look and revealed March 26 ahead of today's New York auto show, is the third new sedan by Cadillac in the past year as GM tries to bolster the brand in the U.S. and China. It's part of Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson's strategy to make Cadillac and Chevrolet the company's two pillar brands globally.
GM needs a stronger luxury brand to better compete against Volkswagen AG, especially in China, where VW's Audi brand outsold Cadillac last year by more than 10-to-1. The new CTS, which is five inches (13 centimeters) longer and has more horsepower than its predecessor, is better equipped to compete than before when it was too big for the compact market and smaller than the mid-size segment.
"We have to demonstrate that we've taken it to the next step," Mary Barra, GM's product development chief, said in an interview. "CTS's role is critically important."
The CTS, which comprised 31 percent of the brand's U.S. sales last year, has been an important vehicle for GM over the past decade. Its sharp angular styling with vertical headlights in 2002 attracted buyers, giving currency to the notion that GM could save Cadillac after it had fallen from the best-selling U.S. luxury brand in 1998.
The vehicle's quality and dependability have also been bright spots for the company. Consumer Reports in its April issue gives the current version of the car a recommended buy and calls it "as capable as its German rivals."
Positively Shocking
"It shocked people when it came out," said John Wolkonowicz, an independent auto analyst based in Boston. "It breathed new life into the brand" and helped, along with the Escalade, bring the average age of the buyer "way down. Prior to that, Cadillac was a geriatric brand."
This year's redesign, the first since 2007, comes as Detroit-based GM is trying to expand Cadillac's portfolio and make it more competitive against BMW in the U.S. and Audi in China.
The BMW 5 Series, with its 240 horsepower base engine aims to be a balance of luxury and performance, while the Audi A6 turns heads with its styling and interior comfort.
The new CTS is "going to give them three competitive sedans for the first time in, frankly, a long, long time, decades," Tom Libby, a Southfield, Michigan-based analyst for R.L. Polk & Co., said in a telephone interview. "It's another step in making it a more competitive luxury brand and moves them in the direction of the Germans."
Cadillac's Challenge
The challenge for Cadillac has been twofold: The brand has become a second-tier luxury player in the U.S. against Bayerische Motoren Werke AG's BMW and Daimler AG's Mercedes- Benz. To address that, GM developed the ATS to better compete against the BMW 3 Series in the high-volume compact segment and the new XTS to oppose the Mercedes S-Class in the large cars.
The ATS has received good reviews, winning North American Car of the Year at the Detroit auto show in January along with a slew of positive mentions: A headline in the New York Times said the ATS was "knocking on BMW's door" and Motor Trend called the new car "shockingly good."
Sales of the ATS in the U.S. have already topped the CTS and made it Cadillac's best-selling car, helping the brand's deliveries in February rise 20 percent. About 60 percent of those buyers are new to GM with the top trade-ins coming from BMW, GM said.
Luxury Dynamics
"The ATS is working just as we hoped: selling well and bringing new consideration to Cadillac," Bob Ferguson, Cadillac's global chief, said in a telephone interview last week. "The CTS, I think, will continue that."
Soon out of the gate, GM faced pricing pressures with the new cars as BMW and Mercedes battled for sales in the U.S. with big incentives toward the end of last year.
Luxury cars, especially compact cars, are largely sold through leases with attractive monthly payments, said Jesse Toprak, an industry analyst with TrueCar Inc. in Santa Monica, California.
GM in July, as it was preparing to bring out the ATS, said it wouldn't get drawn into a pricing battle and that monthly lease prices would start at around $399. By December, GM was advertising lease offers as low as $299, according to Edmunds.com, a website that tracks auto incentives.
While GM isn't saying what the new CTS will cost, it will be more expensive than the current version, Ferguson said.
Maneuvering Room
The 2013 model starts at $39,095, according to GM's website. When the car's pricing was first announced in 2001, it was priced starting at $29,990 with the most popular features taking the cost to about $35,500.
"The CTS will move us up-market," Ferguson said. "While it's moving up-market, consumers will still see it as a great value."
At the Cadillac event to unveil the new CTS, Ferguson told reporters the company expects U.S. sales of the brand to rise more than 30 percent this year.
Cadillac has less room to maneuver in pricing the new CTS between the ATS and XTS. The difference between average purchase price of the ATS compact and XTS large sedans this year so far is $12,821, according to Edmunds. That compares with a $46,210 difference between BMW's 3 Series and 7 Series and $58,708 between Mercedes's C-Class and S-Class.
'A Challenge'
"It's almost like you have three models in two categories," Libby said of Cadillac's sedans. "It is a challenge. To continue the strengthening and evolution of the brand, they have to avoid the fire sales and that will be difficult when you have three products so close to each other."
The little wiggle room is even more noticeable when it comes to monthly lease prices.
The ATS, which continues to be advertised at $299 a month, is $30 less expensive than the lowest offer for the CTS at $329. The bigger XTS is advertised with a monthly lease price of $399.
Mercedes is offering monthly lease prices for the C-Class as low as $349 while the E-Class is $579 and S-Class is $1,099. BMW is offering monthly lease prices for the 3 Series as low as $339 while the 5 Series is $439 and the 7 Series is $689.
As Ferguson deals with positioning the vehicle in the marketplace, GM designers and engineers worked to address some of the criticisms against the current CTS and to differentiate it from the ATS and XTS.
While Consumer Reports praised the handling and interior of the 2013 model, it called the rear seat "snug."
The new longer CTS provides more legroom, GM said. The car is about 1 foot (0.3 meter) longer and shorter than ATS and XTS, respectively.
Engines, Interiors
The car will be offered with three engine choices, including a new twin turbo V-6 that can get 420 horsepower, according to GM, and have magnetic ride control in the base version.
The interior will be offered in eight different styles with wood, carbon fiber or aluminum trim, GM said. New technologies include an optional automated parking assist that can self-park the vehicle in parallel spaces; automated braking that helps prevent collisions; and driver awareness systems that include vibrating pulses to alert of imminent collisions, GM said.
"This car will be a growth engine for Cadillac," Ferguson said.


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Stellar Wainwright leads Cardinals over Mets
Ace OK after hyperextending right knee following seven shutout frames
NEW YORK -- The Cardinals were playing back the tape, and they were kidding Adam Wainwright.
"Like a baby giraffe," Matt Holliday told him.
They could joke, because an injury described as a hyperextended right knee isn't nearly as serious as it sounds. They were smiling, because yet another outstanding start from Wainwright had propelled the Cardinals to a 3-0 win over the Mets on Tuesday at Citi Field.
Wainwright made it through just seven innings, but only because he mildly hurt the knee on the final out of the seventh. But they were seven more shutout innings, with just four hits as Wainwright pushed his scoreless-innings streak to 17 and lowered his ERA to 1.46.
"Terrific," manager Mike Matheny said. "He's pitching like I've never seen him."
Quite a statement, given that Wainwright -- who at 4-1 is tied with teammate Lance Lynn for the National League lead in wins -- has three times finished in the top three in Cy Young Award voting. But Wainwright backs it up, and so do his teammates.
"I'm more of a complete pitcher than I've ever been," Wainwright said. "Just using all my pitches, pitching to both sides of the plate, pitching up and pitching down."
And if there was any concern, Wainwright fully expects to make his next start on Sunday at Busch Stadium against the Pirates.
Initially, that didn't seem like a given after the way Wainwright lunged after a ball Chris Young chopped up the first-base line with two outs in the seventh. First baseman Matt Adams was able to field the ball and get the out, but the Cardinals' focus was on their ace, who was standing behind the first-base bag and didn't immediately walk toward the dugout.
"Slippery ground, and I was very unbalanced," Wainwright explained. "At first, you get a little scared, but as I started walking off the field, I knew everything would be OK."
He even made a half-hearted effort to talk Matheny into leaving him in the game. The manager thought better of it, and Wainwright went to the training room to get more fully checked out. The tests went well.
"They checked everything," Wainwright said. "ACL, UCL, QCL. Everything's good."
Everything was plenty good for the Cardinals, despite another game in which they scored fewer runs than they could have.
They were fortunate that Matheny decided to leave Jon Jay in the lineup, explaining that "I'm just trying to get some offense."
Jay delivered with a two-run single in the fourth inning that proved to be all the offense the Cards would need. After Jay's single, Jhonny Peralta walked to reload the bases with still nobody out. But the Cardinals hit into two straight force plays at the plate before Mets starter Dillon Gee struck out Matt Carpenter to end the inning.
The Cardinals barely threatened again. They loaded the bases with two out in the eighth, but Kolten Wong grounded out against reliever Gonzalez Germen, and Holliday drove in an insurance run with a two-out single off Jose Valverde in the ninth.
Holliday's bigger contribution came on defense, though, when he reached over the left-field fence to rob Chris Young of a potential game-tying home run in the fifth. That was easily the closest the Mets came to scoring off Wainwright, who never allowed a runner to advance to third base.
"It's hard to get on track against a guy that might win a Cy Young," said Daniel Murphy, whose bunt single in the fifth was one of the Mets' four hits (all singles). "He commands all his pitches to all quadrants of the zone, so you don't know which way he's going to go."
Matheny would agree.
"You couldn't guess along with him," Matheny said. "And he's been able to locate as well as I've seen him."
The only thing Wainwright didn't do was field Young's ball in the seventh. Even going after it proved to be a problem, although fortunately for the Cardinals, it doesn't appear it will be a long-lasting problem.
Wainwright's teammates held their breath as he walked uncomfortably off the field. It was only when the report came back that it wasn't serious that the mood changed.
"Once I realized he was all right, I was able to make fun of him," Holliday said. "It looked terrible."
It wasn't nearly that bad, and Wainwright should have a chance to add to his scoreless-innings streak on Sunday.
"When he's healthy, he's good," catcher Yadier Molina said.
He's good. Despite a scare Tuesday night, Wainwright is also healthy.


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Richard Christy Of Charred Walls Of The Damned Takes A Turn On The Oath [AUDIO]
I had the pleasure of talking to Charred Walls Of The Damned drummer Richard Christy on the October 8 edition of The Oath.
Not only is Richard a badass on the drums, but he just happens to be a part of the Howard Stern Show and as you would expect a very fun guy to interview. I don't know how he does it but he manages to balance his music and radio career perfectly so that fans aren't denied new music from Charred Walls Of The Damned.
We focused on his music in the interview and talked about the new album Cold Winds On Timeless Days, his hectic schedule and whether or not we can expect to see CWOTD out on the road here in the near future.


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Spry. This morning I scoured the news for something good, and finally found (in The Times) the story of Christina Clum, who left the corporate world to become an urban flower farmer. Her own backyard in Brooklyn "is the size of a postage stamp and it doesn't get good light." So in February 2018, she put the word out to other Brooklyn residents about planting flowers in their yards. The exchange would be simple: They would get to enjoy the flowers, and then she would cut them and sell them through her company, @spryflowerfarm. She now grows in five backyards.
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1 packet of puff pastry
5 – 6 tomatoes, as ripe as possible, diced roughly with the majority of the seeds removed
10 – 12 black olives, finely chopped
Shredded Parma ham (or other dried meat)
Mini mozzarella balls (or shredded mozz)
Handful of basil leaves, roughly torn up
Strong cheese, such as Red Leicester or vintage cheddar, finely grated
Fresh rocket (or oregano, thyme or similar)
Plain flour
Vegetable oil
Serves 2 as a main course, 4-6 as a snack/starter
Preheat the oven to 200 C.
Flour your worktop well and roll out the pastry to fit the size of a large baking tray. Place it carefully on the baking tray and brush all over with the vegetable oil.
Dress the pastry to 1 centimetre from the edge with your toppings, starting with the tomatoes, then moving onto the olives, basil, parma ham and mozzarella. Sprinkle the grated cheese over the top and place in the oven to bake for 20-25 minutes, until the edge of the pastry is golden brown.
Remove from the oven, cut into large slices and sprinkle with the rocket before serving.


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It's Not Easy Being "Green"
According to Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, an estimated 6,600 tons of waste are generated each day in U.S. hospitals and almost 85% of that waste is considered non-hazardous such as paper, cardboard and plastic containers. These facts are what led Lexington Medical Center to create programs and initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint in the community. In 1993, Lexington Medical Center started a hospital-wide recycling program, which began on Earth Day that year. The hospital recycled approximately 100,000 pounds of cardboard, paper, newspapers, glass bottles and tin cans during the first year. Last year, Lexington Medical Center recycled more than 885,000 pounds of municipal waste at its main campus – about 30% of its total waste.
Lexington Medical Center has become synonymous with quality "Green" initiatives. The hospital was first recognized in 2003 by the Business Recycling Assistance Program and received its "Best Industry Recycling Program." Other awards have included Paper Recycler of the Year, Outstanding Air Quality Business of the Year, Best Overall Environmental Program and South Carolina Smart Business Recycling Award. Most recently, the hospital became a Lexington County Green Certified Business.
"We're proud of the staff that is helping Lexington Medical Center make such impressive progress with our environmental initiatives," said Mike Greeley, vice president of operations at Lexington Medical Center. "As one of the largest organizations in Lexington County, we feel it is our obligation to set the right example when it comes to environmental stewardship."
In addition to its recycling programs, Lexington Medical Center built the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified medical office building in 2008. This designation comes from the U.S. Green Building Council, which sets the standards for sustainable site development, energy efficiency, conservation of materials and resources and indoor environment quality. The "green" medical office building has several important eco-friendly characteristics such recycled construction materials, energy-efficient roofing and windows, and improved building insulation.
This month, Lexington Medical Center celebrates its 40th anniversary. We opened as a small county hospital on January 6, 1971. Today, we've grown into a modern medical complex with state-of-the-art technology and an unsurpassed culture of caring. Each day this month, we'll share a story from our hospital's history book.


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Five Ohio State football players, including star quarterback Terrelle Pryor, were suspended for the first five games of next season after the NCAA determined they took improper benefits last year.
The sixth-ranked Buckeyes, who face Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl Jan. 4, will be without Pryor, who was expected to challenge for the Heisman Trophy, star running back Dan "Boom" Herron, wide receiver DeVier Posey, offensive lineman Mike Adams and defensive lineman Solomon Thomas for nearly half of next season. Those players, all juniors, were nailed for selling awards, gifts and university apparel and receiving improper benefits in 2009.
Pryor, according to the NCAA, must repay $2,500 for selling his 2008 Big Ten championship ring, a 2009 Fiesta Bowl sportsmanship award and his 2008 Gold Pants, a gift from the university.
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"We were not as explicit with our student-athlete education as we should have been in the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years regarding the sale of apparel, awards and gifts issued by the athletics department," athletic director Gene Smith said in a statement. "We began to significantly improve our education in November of 2009 to address these issues. After going through this experience, we will further enhance our education for all our student-athletes as we move forward."
"Once a student-athlete understands a violation has occurred, they must immediately come forward to report it," he said. "That did not happen, so the additional one-game penalty was imposed."
Selected Reading: NBC Sports, ESPN, The Columbus Dispatch.


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Gibson Les Paul Signature - produced between 1973 and 1978 - is a semi-hollowbody guitar. Now, some would say a semi-hollowbody Les Paul was an oxymoron because a Les Paul by definition should be a solidbody guitar. I think it's this breaking the rules attitude that appeals to me. However, it could have been even more bizarre. I seem to remember seeing pictured in a guitar book many years ago, a Gibson Les Paul Jumbo acoustic guitar with cutaway and pickup (single, I think). Now surely that couldn't be further away from the Les Paul ethos? (And I need to find a picture of one of these!)
The Signature differs also in that its controls consist of volume, treble tone, midrange tone, and in/out phase switch, and it has two output jack sockets - high-impedance on the guitar's top, and low-impedance for recording on the rim.
Most Gibson Les Paul Signatures were finished as gold tops - this is one of the rarer sunburst models, of which there were only 84 produced, and this example is currently being offered for sale on eBay with a Buy It Now price of £2,995.
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What do patients think about the Open Payments program?
At least half of patients in study indicated they wanted to know if their doctors receive industry payments.Read more >
At least half of patients in study indicated they wanted to know if their doctors receive industry payments.Read more >
January 22, 2019
While doctors of optometry are certainly Americans' primary eye care physicians, it could be argued that the profession is heading toward a more encompassing primary care model. The distinction is in optometry's role in diagnosing, managing and treating systemic as well as ocular conditions.Read more >
January 17, 2019
Ever suspected a patient of biting their tongue or outright lying? A recent study tells the bitter truth that as many as 4 out of 5 patients withhold information that could affect their care.Read more >
January 17, 2019
2018 AOA Eye-Q Survey: Although most Americans know UV radiation can be harmful on overcast days, less than a third regularly wear sunglasses on those days.Read more >
January 16, 2019
The AOA's chief public health officer outlays a road map to the future of optometric care for patients with diabetes.Read more >
January 14, 2019
Proposed reforms include scope expansion in states.Read more >
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GloucesterCast 2/14/14 With Joey C and The Rabbit
Second Podcast In Two Days With The Rabbit (Audio is messed up from 5:20-9:34) so fast forward it to 9:34 to get back to the audio. We're taping with a simple iPad so I don't have my editing tools.
Topics: People who use coupons at restaurants and don't tip on the full amount, The Rabbit chatting up 23 year olds on the beach (and how that went), results of the snow shoveling poll, thanks to Kim Smith, Sista Felicia banging out the Valentine recipes, LMGTFY, Shout Out To Nephew BJ, De-Clawing Cats vs Cutting The Vocal Chords Out Of Yapping Dogs, The Bear Necessities.


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HBO cancelled "The Life & Times of Tim" a year and a half ago, seemingly ending the comical life and times of the animated anti-hero, whose malleability usually spells his downfall.
But amid some very un-Tim-like pushback, HBO reversed course, leading to the show's return Friday after a too-long hiatus.
The move marks a victory for fans of the loser – and one of the latest heartening cases of a quirky comedy with a small, but devoted audience rising from the ash pile of forsaken shows.
"Tim" follows in the cartoon footsteps of "Family Guy" and "Futurama," both animated programs that made great comeback-from-cancellation journeys. Even more encouraging, the recent news of the TV return (via Netflix) – and impending movie debut – of "Arrested Development" shows even in this increasingly segmented entertainment age that fans of shows straddling cult and the mainstream are occasionally heard.
No one listen much to Tim, whose mild protestations quickly give way to acquiecing to the stronger, louder personalities that surround him – spurring turmoil at work, home and even in the refuge of his favorite bar. Over the last two seasons, we've seen him become mired in compromising situations with his boss' wife and daughter, inadvertently lead boy scouts into a life of crime and get stuck holding an elephant while playing wingman at an animal rights protest.
The twentysomething office drone is one of the funnier examples of the comedy of the awkward, territory expertly trafficked on TV by the likes of Sarah Silverman, Larry David, Louis C.K. and Ricky Gervais.
Unlike his older flesh-and-blood contemporaries, Tim generally doesn't instigate or seek conflict. He's an unconfident, more-passive-than-aggressive pawn who seems resigned to a fate of being buried under scorn as events absurdly escalate out of his control.
In the new season, Steve Dildarian's milquetoast creation loses his job as a cubicle dweller at the ominously named Omnicorp, and gets involved in a seedy strip club, where, as a preview suggests, he's left to beg for his life. It's unclear how Tim will muddle through his new travails, but we're glad his show beat the odds to survive at least one more season. Check out this preview of Tim's extended lease on life:
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Two weekends ago, while my wonderful husband stayed behind with our three little men (thank you sooooo much, babe--you are the best!), I surprised my mom with a weekend getaway to the Windy City--one of her favorite spots on earth.
Shane and I had been planning this trip for her for several months. I knew that she wasn't into the idea of a big 50th birthday bash, so I had the idea of taking her somewhere instead. It was actually Shane's idea to take her to Chicago, because he knows how much she loves it there. So, I decided to plan the trip for one month before her actual birthday, to throw her off. I am TERRIBLE at keeping surprises, and I didn't want to let the cat out of the bag early and ruin everything! I knew it was likely that I would drop some sort of comment, and she might begin to put the pieces together....so I picked the weekend of October 6. The sooner I could get it out, the better!
Shane and I had it all planned out--we were going to come home EARLY from our date night, and tell her to go home and pack her bags--that we were leaving for somewhere special in the morning! But, FORTUNATELY, it didn't work out exactly like that.....
It just so happened that WBGL was giving away tickets to see one of my mom's all time favorite artists in concert--Steven Curtis Chapman. I have always loved him as well, and the Wednesday night before our big weekend, in the car, the DJ came on and stated that the first caller who could unscramble the following three song titles was the winner! I immediately began dialing (right--like I had a chance at actually getting through, let along winning?) and to my surprise, I got through!
Then--just my luck--my stupid 'never-more-than-one-bar-at-a-time-connection cell phone' disconnected me! No Service, it said. I couldn't believe it. So, I sat there, listening to the lady who got through right behind me. I was disappointed....until I listened to her totally flubbing the answer! I knew that she had no clue, so I picked up the phone and dialed again...and got through again! AND, the DJ picked up the phone and I WON THE TICKETS!! You talk about disbelief....my family sat and listened to me on the radio while I answered the questions correctly and won four great tickets to the concert and three free CD's!
So, plans had changed....when mom came for date night, I got to surprise her instead! I arranged for babysitters for the boys (THANKS Emily and Rebekah, if you are reading this!) and we headed out to dinner at the Olive Garden and then the concert. She was in disbelief, to say the least. She couldn't believe the concert, let alone the fact that I was telling her to pack her bags!
On Michigan Ave (see the street sign above her?)
We had an amazing time! It was so great getting to spend time with my Mom--just the two of us! We don't have a ton of quality time like that anymore, and it sure was special.
Mom--you sure don't look or seem your age! The years keep improving you! I love you, and Happy 50th!


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BEIJING -- President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline he set, but he said he hoped to still achieve that goal sometime next year.
Obama refused, however, to set a new deadline.
In an interview in the Chinese capital with Major Garrett of Fox News, Obama said he was "not disappointed" that the Guantanamo deadline had slipped, saying he "knew this was going to be hard."
"People, I think understandably, are fearful after a lot of years where they were told that Guantanamo was critical to keep terrorists out," Obama said. Closing the facility, he added, is "also just technically hard."
Obama came to office pledging to shut a detainee facility that had become a symbol for prisoner abuse at the hands of American officials. He signed orders to shut the military prison by January 2010, but White House officials quickly encountered resistance from members of Congress opposed to moving prisoners to U.S. soil and from other countries they had hoped would accept detainees.
There was also a tangle of legal issues involving what to do with suspected terrorists who had been tortured in prison in a way that jeopardized the integrity of the evidence against them, or who for other reasons could not stand trial.
Last week, the administration announced that it will try five Guantanamo prisoners -- including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-declared mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- in federal court in New York. The fate of dozens of other detainees remains in limbo.
Guantanamo is a sensitive subject in China, where Obama conducted the television interview shortly before wrapping up a two-day visit. The United States has refused to release some ethnic minorities, known as Uighurs, back to Chinese officials for fear that they will be tortured. Several Uighurs who had been detained at Guantanamo have been sent instead to Bermuda and Palau after being cleared as non-combatants.
Despite the slow trickle of prisoners out of the facility, Obama insisted in the interview that the facility will be shuttered eventually.
"We are on a path and a process where I would anticipate that Guantanamo will be closed next year," he said. "I'm not going to set an exact date because a lot of this is also going to depend on cooperation from Congress."


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I copied this from Shady's description of Spike on the 365 Project. Shady, I hope that is okay. I don't think I can copy the picture because of copyright rules. But I thought I would put the text here so we can hold Spike and his meowmie in thoughts and prayers.He is in sick bay, he has a UTI, is on antibiotics for 10 days.
Spike is not your average house cat, he's fine until you need to handle him, then he turns into a 10lb bundle of hissing, spitting, growling tasmanian devil.
It took me two hours to catch him last night, my house is open concept and that involved blocking entry ways and a whole bunch of running around.
He's well behaved otherwise, but only will let you touch him with your feet..I dont know what happened along the way but none of my others are like that..I hope that the antibiotics do the trick, because I dont have the option of treating him for something chronic..I dont know what will happen if that occurs..
Spike is 12.
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Can you trust your toaster?
You know what really bugs me? DVD players who think they know better than me. You know what I'm talking about. You put in a movie, you sit down, you press PLAY. Do you get your movie? No: you get long seconds, maybe minutes, of swirling menu graphics and copyright warnings. When you try to skip through this, up flashes up a little red circle with a cross through it, or the words "Operation Not Permitted," or something similar.
"Not permitted"? Who is my DVD player to tell me what's permitted? It's my player, isn't it? When I say "Skip," it should say, "How far?" I mean, I'm not trying to break the law here. If I was, I could understand my DVD player having some moral qualms. But I just want to watch my movie.
(It's the copyright notices that really annoy me. First, there's something nuts about a legally purchased movie forcing you to sit through stern copyright lectures every single time you watch it, while a pirated version helpfully jumps straight to the action. Some DVDs even display copyright warnings in about two dozen different languages, giving you ample time to digest the, say, Swahili version, before leisurely moving on to Romanian. But even the full-motion copyright notices are bad. Australia has one with a pumping soundtrack and some crazy MTV-inspired camerawork—you know, so the kids will pay attention—while on-screen some naughty teenagers download movies. It takes them about four and a half seconds. I tell you what, if it took four seconds, I'd be doing it all the time. Especially if someone played a cool song while I did it.)
Apparently we are rushing toward a future in which control of technology is not handed over to us when we buy it, but retained by the companies that originally made it. Your DVD player, your computer, and your high-definition television seem to be on your side, but they're really sleeper agents, with secret loyalties to their corporate masters.
There's something called High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) sneaking in everywhere, and the plan is this: at first, it does nothing. But once it's in enough homes, along come movies and television broadcasts that only play on HDCP-enabled equipment. Because that old non-HDCP television set can't be trusted, you see—it might be doing what you want, instead of what the industry wants.
There seems to be no point at which an anti-piracy measure is deemed to cause more trouble to legitimate customers than it's worth. For example, Australian commercial TV almost always run late, often by as much as ten or fifteen minutes, and the reason, according to one of the networks, is:
"Precise start times would allow people to burn DVDs of our programs like crazy and push them out over the internet."
So millions of people are inconvenienced every day in order to make it slightly harder for eight guys with beards to burn copies of Battlestar Galactica.
I don't have a DVD player any more. At least, not a typical one. I built a computer with MythTV and a DVD drive and hooked it up to my television. When I tell this puppy to skip, it skips. Loyalty. That's the thing.


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Forex trading won't always stay steady all of the times and we always need to be prepared for anything worse that might just happen. If we want to make a good income in this business, then we need to specially watch the weekend's position. As for the reason, the chance of open gap is very high compared to ordinary days trading. I won't say things like open gap won't happen in ordinary days trading as well. They might be if a high news impact just suddenly got released.
As for the open gap in the weekend, every traders will need to watch out for the possible jump. And as how to check it, you need to check the news on the saturday and the sunday. If you find a breaking news or a high impact news, then there is a chance the market will open in a big gap whether it's going upwards or even downwards.
Here's the example:
You might think again about closing the position over the weekend or just hope to earn even more money from the gap.
But let me tell you something, even if you used stop loss in this kind of event, it won't work at all if the gap is further than your stop loss.


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From 12 February 2014 to 28 March 2014
New Media Installation
Exhibition opening and artist's presentation:
WED, 12 February 2014, at 7 pm
Free entrance
Aksioma Project Space
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
From 10 October 2013 to 9 March 2014
Virtual Biopolitical Agora
an Anti-entertainment Interactive Movie
In frame of CREATIVE CITY INTERNATIONAL FAIR / CIBELES 2013.
Fair opening: THU, 10 October 2013
Exhibited at Stand 8.
Plaza de Cibeles, Madrid, Spain
See DemoKino
Thursday 13 March 2014 at 19:00
In frame of Radical Naming Strategies in Art and Politics.
Marco Deseriis: Improper names: Collective pseudonyms and multiple-use names as minor processes of subjectivation (Lecture)
Janez Janša: NAME Readymade
After lectures, Q&A with authors
No Space
67 West St #304, New York, USA
See NAME - Readymade
Tuesday 11 March 2014 at 19:00
New Media Performance
In frame of Kul abonma 2013/14.
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
Krekov trg 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia
See Optolyth


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Fire Emblem: Awakening • Page 2
Fire Emblem: Awakening US release delayed, retailers suggest
Fire Emblem: Awakening hits the 3DS's eShop in the US on February 4, but reports suggest the physical release may lag a few days behind.
Puddle, Ikachan, Fire Emblem Awakening round out North American eShop offerings
Puddle, Ikachan, and Fire Emblem Awakening are just a few of the titles being offered by Nintendo through eShop and Virtual Console in North America this week. While Fire Emblem Awakening won't be available through the service until February 4, there are plenty of other things to help you pass the time. Hit the break […]
Fire Emblem: Awakening character progression trailer released
Fire Emblem: Awakening has a new trailer available, which shows you how the game's character progression system will work. The game contains 40 classes which can be changed using certain items and weapons, and you can also upgrade to a higher class. Fire Emblem: Awakening is out on February 4 in North America on 3DS […]
Fire Emblem: Awakening continue to unveil character profiles
The Nintendo 3DS Facebook Page has a chain of posts revealing character profiles and artwork for the upcoming release of Fire Emblem: Awakening.
Fire Emblem: Awakening trailer focuses on player classes
A character classes trailer for Fire Emblem: Awakening has been released. It shows some of the over 40 classes player can choose from in the game. Classes can be changed using certain items and weapons, and can also be upgraded to a higher class. The game is out on February 4 in North America on […]
Fire Emblem: Awakening receives teasing US trailer
Fire Emblem: Awakening has once again been teased by those crafty folk over at Nintendo. An official US trailer has released, providing a 40 second mix-and-match of cutscenes and gameplay from the upcoming 3DS adventure.
Fire Emblem Awakening demo now available on North American eShop
A demo for Fire Emblem Awakening has landed on the North American eShop for 3DS. It doesn't stop there, though, as Nintendo has other offerings available. Head below for your weekly update.
Fire Emblem: Awakening has dual-track voice work
The US version of Fire Emblem: Awakening features both English and Japanese voice acting options, according to Siliconera. The 3DS exclusive RPG hits the US – in both eShop and hardware bundle editions – on February 4, and arrives in Europe in April; it's not yet confirmed what language options the PAL version will support.
Fire Emblem: Awakening 3DS bundle announced for US, Canada
A Fire Emblem: Awakening 3DS bundle has been announced by Nintendo of America for the US and Canada. Announced overnight through Twitter, the hardware bundle contains a cobalt blue 3DS with the game's logo etched on it – same as the one released in Japan back in April 2012 – and the game itself is […]
Fire Emblem Awakening DLC, StreetPass and SpotPass detailed
Details on Fire Emblem Awakening features such as StreetPass and SpotPass have been released by Nintendo of America.
Fire Emblem: Awakening will launch on the US 3DS eShop
Fire Emblem: Awakening is getting a retail and digital simship, according to a new listing on the 3DS eShop. Visit the listing on your handheld to see some new, 3D screenshots. The Intelligent Systems RPG arrives in the US on February 4, but you'll have to wait till April to get it in Europe. Check […]
Fire Emblem: Awakening trailer teases the masses
Fire Emblem: Awakening releases on February 4 in North America and in April in Europe for 3DS, and Nintendo has released a teaser trailer to whet your appetite. Have a watch below.
Nintendo Direct Europe narrows release of key 2013 titles
Nintendo Direct Europe is playing now and it's going so fast my fingers are nearly worn down to bloody stumps. But there's good news too, as Nintendo has narrowed release windows and issued dates for a selection of its Wii U launch window titles, and 3DS launches – including Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Castlevania: Mirror […]
Nintendo Direct NA - Pikmin 3, Luigi's Mansion, Fire Emblem dates confirmed
The North American Nintendo Direct presentation discussed Nintendo the firm's 2013′s Wii U and 3DS release slate. Get the details below.
Fire Emblem: Awakening gets orchestral gameplay trailer
Fire Emblem: Awakening is heading to Nintendo 3DS, and the game has received a new gameplay that shows off cut-scenes, grid movement, combat and more. Check out the action below.
Crashmo, Ikachan, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, others release dates confirmed for North America
Release dates for 3DS titles Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Crashmo, and others have been confirmed by Nintendo for North America. Since it's nice to have release dates all in one place, we've posted the schedule for you below.
Nintendo Direct: Liberation Maiden, Mutant Mudds DLC out today on NA eShop
Suda 51's Liberation Maiden has been released today on the North american eShop alongside the promised DLC for Mutant Mudds. Fire Emblem Awakening and Animal Crossing: New Leaf is also on the way early next year. We have trailers for many of the games shown during the presentation for you below.
Fire Emblem Awakening: retailer posts 2013 European release date
Fire Emblem: Awakening will release across Europe in January, according to a product page posted by online retailer Zavvi.
Fire Emblem: Awakening will release in the west
Nintendo has confirmed that Intelligent Systems' tactical RPG Fire Emblem: Awakening is on the way to the US.
Fire Emblem: Awakening sells through 81.63% of debut stock
Media Create has reported that Fire Emblem: Awakening sold through 81.63% of its debut shipment in Japan. The firm attributed the success of the title to being heavily promoted, as well as the updated character designs and new game systems. Awakening debuted at number one on the charts, moving 242,600 copies during its first week. […]
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