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The actor playing Joe Dimaggio is talented but completely inappropriate to play Joe Dimaggio. I lost a lot of respect for the show with this piece of casting. Mickey Mantle, maybe. But Jolting Joe? Ridiculous. What disappointment waits in the wings to play Arthur Miller?


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Everytime you buy a Core Set product, God kills a kitten.
Master Shake: "What?! No bacon?!"
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The last couple years, Magic players such as you and I have been taken on a whirlwind tour of the multiverse, from the end of Otaria to Karn's creation gone wrong, Mirrodin, to a war in a plane that makes R&D look like they've relocated to Japan. With each new block and each new set comes a plethora of mechanics and creature types explored in different ways that represent the plane we as Magic players are exploring through playing and reading the cards or reading the novels that accompany each new set. But one question remains...
Where has the flavor gone?
That is my question. Where is the flavor in the cards? Where has it disappeared to?
When I ask this question, I know what people are thinking. They think of the artwork, the world which the art is based off of, or the flavor text and card names. No, what I'm talking about is what the cards themselves do. What I'm talking about are cards like this, that we will probably never see again:
This card was brought to my attention a couple weeks ago by my good friend, Lance. We had a discussion about flavor, and how disappointing the flavor is in cards now. Used to be that you could put an image in your head or see the flavor behind the card without the entire set it's in making it easier for you to do so. I look at this card, and I play it imagining two hordes of creatures on two cliffs separated by the raging river, unable to reach each other to do battle.
Card text: When you attack, non-flying defending creatures must be divided as opponent wishes between the left and right sides of the River. You then choose on which side of the River to place each attacking creature, and attacking creatures can only be blocked by flying creatures or those on the same side as the river
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At the beginning of your combat phase, each opponent chooses "east" or "west" for each creature without flying he or she controls. As you declare attacking creatures, choose "east" or "west" for each attacking creature. "East" creatures can't block "west" creatures. "West" creatures can't block "east" creatures.
At the beginning of your combat phase, each opponent chooses "east" or "west" for each creature without flying he or she controls. As you declare attacking creatures, choose "east" or "west" for each attacking creature. "East" creatures can't block "west" creatures. "West" creatures can't block "east" creatures.
Wizards or R&D would surely argue that they sacrifice cards and flavor such as this for functionality. To a point, I understand this. But I look at myself opening packs labeled as "Expert Expanions" and reading cards that I could understand when I was just learning how to play. Could Raging River be done in a simpler way with quite a bit of text left off? Sure it could, but the flavor of the card's ability and the life of it would be drained out as R&D stuck a needle into its jugular and began to draw it out, leaving it plain and boring. Another wacky red enchantment Anthony Alongi can get it on with, oh joy.
Back in the 50s, as you probably have heard or if you haven't yet will learn in American History is that there was a long period of conformity. When you go into the suburbs of cities you can still see it today in the cookie-cutter housing that all looks the same. Families all wore the same things, everyone had the picket-fences and the same cars. Card text has become this way. If any of you have a really old Hurricane from before Ice Age, pick it up and read it. If not, look to the right, I'll provide you an image. Do you see something different about the text? Now all cards that do damage to anything say "deals damage." Not on the old Hurricane. The old Hurricane actually says "Each creature with flying and each player suffers X damage." Isn't that cool? It's such a minor difference, but it's different and it didn't follow the rules of the cookie cutter design that has become the card text. Also, essentially, the cookie cutter has also victimized cards in each color because of the strictness of The Color Pie and the simplicity they try to forcefully put upon us in the way Magic cards are done.
Because of all of this abstraction of flavor from cards, in the end we suffer from a lack of variation. Everyone expects colors to do certain things and not do certain things, but that's not necessarily a good thing. You would never see a card such as this:
Gigantic Uber Tidal Wave - 2UUU
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Destroy all creatures and lands. They can't be regenerated.
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Because of the color pie, Blue can't destroy creatures. Would it be in Blue's flavor to produce a gigantic uber tidal wave? Yes, it would. If you had a battlefield of creatures and a gigantic uber tidal wave hit, would they survive or poof up into the air? I'm pretty sure they'd all drown, but in Magic, a gigantic uber tidal wave would merely bounce all the creatures back to their opponent's hands. The idea behind the color pie is good in theory, but because of it, we end up lacking and starving for creativity and variation. Alas, this is only one of several problems with creativity and flavor in Magic and card design.
Now we're going to explore another area where Magic is lacking: the card power in the abilities and cards themselves. When you stick the label "Expert Level" on a booster pack, what do you expect to see when you open it? My personal expectations, if I didn't know better, would be that I would be opening a pack of cards that would be challenging to use, that would make me use my mind and think about what I was doing with the cards in that pack. That'd be nice, but in reality, that's not the way it is. Magic suffers from the serious problem of having sets with 80% junk that no one but new players or rogue deckers desparate for something new will use. When was the last time you actually had to think and use your mind when you were building a deck, and weren't able to type out a decklist in Wordpad card after card; only thinking if you needed to fill a few missing slots?
Alot of this has to do with what R&D assumes Magic players can understand. It affects much of the game, and I find it disappointing. It's like a parent and a child: Mom always knows best, right? Maybe some of the time, but I think every kid growing up realized when they got old enough that it was extremely untrue. Thing is, though, is that when Mom says she knows best, she always thinks she knows best, and she won't give that up. Becuase of this, R&D doesn't learn as well as they think they do, and they don't take opportunities to learn from their mistakes as often as they would lead us to believe.
The recent 9th Edition "Power 9th" poster hoax was an example of a time when R&D should learn something. In the two days that the poster was contained on our forum, MTG Salvation broke its old record user online count of 510 and replaced it with 753. That's a rather large margin and jump from the previous count. People wanted 9th Edition. They wanted these powerful cards that R&D continuously denies us from seeing again. I for one don't believe new players are as dumb as R&D treats them. I was a new player once, and I didn't need reminder text on every ability and space on the card to tell me what something does. That is what rulebooks are for, and that's why there are other more experienced players to answer your questions.
Regardless of what R&D tries to pass off as true, there will always, by common sense, be twice or thrice as many old players needing cards reprinted than there will new players getting treated like 5 year olds. Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars once said the following while aboard the Death Star: "Evacuate? In out moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!" I think we all know what happened next...
With the Extended rotation coming up as well as Mirrodin rolling out of T2, there's no doubt in my mind how slow both of these formats are going to be. T2 loses all the tools it had for Tooth and Nail leaving it in a pile of rubble. Mono-Blue loses Vedalken Shackles as well as other Blue cards that helped make it as powerful as it is, and the format will have lost its entire colorless-mana base that was found in Chrome Mox, Solemn Simulacrum, Wayfarer's Bauble, and even the Talismans. As for Extended, I don't have to say much about it, except that without certain cards like Brainstorm, several decks won't stand a chance against Affinity running rampant with Goblin Bidding following closely behind.
The main question is, what can we do about R&D and their lack of faith in our ability? What can you do about R&D taking fun out of the game? The answer is: not much. There are a few options, such as running a petition saying "We want X and Y in the Core Set, our reasoning being Z," or perhaps boycotting their Core Sets and expansions. The thing that speaks loudest to Wizards is obviously money.
Hasbro's 1st quarter report says "Games segment net revenues for 1Q05 decreased 22% primarily due to decreased sales volume of trading card games, mainly Duel Masters and Magic: The Gathering products." I would imagine a money-spinner like Magic needs to generate some revenue. Interestingly, the review of the Q1 report also states "This year's first release of Magic: The Gathering was not well-received and faced difficult comparisons with last year."
Also, take into consideration how important 8th Edition cards are to T2 decks. Oh wait, they're not. Perhaps if we can't do anything, really low sales will. If R&D won't do something, perhaps Hasbro will pull them into the closet by the ear and say "Get with the program and make people happy." Forcing them to do something about the disappointment they keep inflicting on us is the best way to go; All in all, to Wizards, we're all just bricks in a wall (or money in the bank, if you want to look at it that way).
Here's hoping 9th Edition will be an improvement over 8th Edition, and that Saviors of Kamigawa will rock our worlds, and that Ravnica will be a change for the better after the last two blocks. However, until then, if you really want an improvement in the product that you spend your money on, remember to kick them where it counts (in the wallet, you turd). Also, may you enjoy revisiting the days of old when flavor was rich and not the 1% fat kind.
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The Indian-U.S. workshop will identify and examine potential areas for substantive scientific and technical cooperation between the United States and India on issues related to nuclear material security. The parties involved hope that by doing so they will help to establish scientist-to-scientist contacts between experts in nuclear materials management in the United States and counterparts in India, build confidence in cooperation on nuclear security issues, and identify concrete, technically based areas for potential future collaboration, which could be the foundation for progress on the Centre.
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Well, there goes Dr. Johnson's Resveratrol business
Did any of you see the following article. Looks like this stuff may be even more suspect than many felt before this revelation. Being elevated and heralded based on faulty and altered research sort of casts a lot of suspicion and doubt on whether this stuff has any worth and value in the least. What stupidity on this researcher's part. :annoyed:
HARTFORD, Conn. A University of Connecticut researcher known for his work on red wine's benefits to cardiovascular health falsified his data in more than 100 instances, and nearly a dozen scientific journals are being warned of the potential problems after publishing his studies in recent years, officials said Wednesday.
UConn officials said their internal review found 145 instances over seven years in which Dr. Dipak Das fabricated, falsified and manipulated data, and the U.S. Office of Research Integrity has launched an independent investigation of his work.
Das, a tenured surgery professor and director of UConn Health Center's Cardiovascular Research Center, has gained national attention in recent years for research into the beneficial properties of resveratrol, which is found in red wine.
It wasn't immediately known Wednesday whether the irregularities in Das' research were significant enough to alter the conclusions, but the cardiovascular benefits of resveratrol have also been established in other researchers' work.
Eleven scientific research journals that have published Das' work are being notified of the problems, which came to light after a three-year review sparked by an anonymous complaint in 2008 of potential irregularities in his research.
"We have a responsibility to correct the scientific record and inform peer researchers across the country," Philip Austin, interim vice president for health affairs, said in a written statement about the notifications to the 11 scientific journals.
The university's health center recently declined to accept $890,000 in federal grants awarded to Das as its review was under way, and has frozen all other external funding for his lab.
Dismissal proceedings have also been launched against Das, who has been employed by the Health Center since 1984 and was granted tenure in 1993. Das could not immediately be reached Wednesday, and messages were left for him through the union representing him.
Das' other specialty areas besides resveratrol include medicines derived from plants, the molecular structure of plants and herbs and their effect on heart disease, and a nutrient found in Vitamin E that has shown promise fighting free radicals.
He also gained attention in 2009 after publishing a study that concluded crushed garlic provided protection for heart health than processed garlic.
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity received the anonymous tip about potential irregularities in a paper by Das about resveratrol and notified UConn, which set up a special review committee that reviewed six years' worth of his work.
Its report found what it called "a pervasive attitude of disregard within the (lab)" for commonly accepted scientific practices.
It also said there were so many problems and over so many years that the review board members "can only conclude that they were the result of intentional acts of data falsification and fabrication, designed to deceive."
Some examples included several cases in which data was digitally altered; data from one experiment was used to justify findings in another; and controls from one experiment were used to denote another experiment's controls, which are the unchanged factors against which experiments are compared.
Austin, the UConn health affairs vice president, said they are "deeply disappointed by the flagrant disregard" for UConn's conduct codes, but grateful that the anonymous tipster notified authorities.
"The abuses in one lab do not reflect the overall performance of the Health Center's biomedical research enterprise, which continues to pursue advances in treatments and cures with the utmost of integrity," Austin said. "We demand full compliance with all research standards and policies by our faculty and staff."
The disclosure comes less than a week after Connecticut authorities finalized an agreement with a Maine-based lab to build a genomic research facility at the UConn Health Center in Farmington as part of a broader plan to expand the medical and dental schools and boost research.
Das' research pre-dates those plans by several years, and is not directly part of the genomic research program.
Bad science makes me so angry.
Thanks for the post. Geeze.
Well, dang.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if science actually was the pursuit of truth?
I was about to take a Res. What to do? What to do?
Was Dr. Das the main researcher behind all the claims of benefits from resveratrol? I know that Dr. Johnson claims there were studies showing the benefits, but I didn't see the actual studies to which he referred.
In other words, maybe there are benefits from resveratrol?
And call me a skeptic, but I also strongly suspect the biggest benefit from resveratrol is that it doesn't hurt you to consume it.
Well it still should be a decent anti-oxidant? There have been a lot of other studies over the years that say various colored fruits and veggies have a load of nutritional benefits. Grape extract should be the same, I'd think.
It's a shame something like this has to muddy the waters when consumers just want the truth.
I just hate it when somebody in research gets some idea and then sets out to prove it:
Ah, in countries where they are known (even stereotypically) to drink a lot of red wine, like... oh... say France... they have a lower incidence of heart attack than we do in the U.S. !! I'll bet it's something in the red wine that makes the difference.
And then they pursue that bright single idea they've manufactured in their own head, and *prove* it. By whatever little means necessary. By hook or by crook... they get the study results they're after, and prove that they were right! Great breakthrough!
This is disheartening for research. It's hard enough as a consumer when it seems like one study says this, another study says the opposite (example - eggs are bad. No, eggs are good.)
I never took resv. as a supplement, but I sure have supplemented it via vino! ;)
Good to know - I was considering adding it to my supplement line-up.
I ran across Das' name many times when I researched res. Which puts it's status as a particularly wonderful anti-oxidant in question too. When will science learn that the point is not to prove what you have already decided is true???
Yep so glad I didnt buy it, I do have a multi with it in there but will consider it an antioxidant lol :doh::down:
It is unfortunate that this happened, but from a couple of articles I read, other research also found benefits from taking in extra resveratrol, so I would stop if you are already taking it. I take mine in a glass or two of red wine a night, and I'm not about to stop! :)
I actually work at UConn (it's a huge institution and I have no connection with this individual!) and this sent shock waves through the entire community yesterday. Shocking, dangerous and irresponsible :annoyed:
I drank red wine before I heard about reversatrols. I'll continue drinking it.
But I'm glad I didn't invest in supplements. What a shame that scientists would falsify data like that. But then, that's why studies are published; so other scientists can duplicate the experiments and see if they get the same results. Science isn't exact, and one study (or multiple studies by the same group) does not a science fact make.
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September 5, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2013, Jazz Alive, michael bourne, Simon Rentner, WBGO Travel
Montreal lives, breathes, and loves jazz every July, when millions of fans and hundreds of acts take over the city - and so does WBGO, especially Singers Unlimited and Blues Hour host Michael Bourne, who has attended the Festival International du Jazz de Montreal on our behalf every year for the past two decades.
Bourne was in Montreal once again this year, along with Simon Rentner and David Tallacksen, to deliver previews, day-by-day reports and more than two dozen behind-the-scenes interviews with the festival's music makers and organizers.
Miss something? You can relive WBGO's best moments in Montreal right here, and read some "bonus entries" to Bourne's Journal. And just as we did this year, WBGO Travel will take us to Montreal next year, and we hope fans and listeners will join us then as well. So enjoy the very best of FIJM 2013 - and FIJM 2014 - with WBGO!
WBGO's FIJM 2013 Interviews
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Rentner's FIJM 2013 Preview for NPR's A Blog Supreme
Bourne's Montreal Journal
Prizes for Charles Lloyd And Holly Cole
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WBGO Travel invites you to enjoy the sun, fun and music at the Newport Jazz Festival, August 2-5, 2013.
Arrive at the Newport Hotel & Marina to a Friday night welcome reception, unload your bags in your harbor view room and then get ready to hear Natalie Cole and the Bill Charlap Trio with Freddy Cole at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the original home and opening night celebration of the Newport Jazz Festival. Saturday and Sunday mornings, hop aboard the ferry for a wide variety of musical enjoyment at the legendary outdoor Newport Jazz Festival, plus food & drink voucher for the Louis Jadot Café inside historic Fort Adams State Park. Before departing back to reality on Monday, join us for a bon voyage breakfast and take in the view from the marina. WBGO will provide you with an insider's list of the best places to visit when the music isn't playing, but when it is, you will hear…
Saturday musical line-up highlights include:
• Esperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society
• Wayne Shorter's 80th Birthday Celebration
• Robert Glasper Experiment
• Gregory Porter
• Terence Blanchard Quintet
• Bill Charlap Trio with special guests Bob Wilber & Anat Cohen
• Marcus Miller
Sunday musical line-up highlights include:
• Chick Corea & The Vigil with Christian McBride, Tim Garland, Marcus Gilmore & Charles Altura
• Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra
• Dizzy Gillespie™ Big Band under the direction of Paquito D'Rivera
• Hiromi: The Trio Project with Anthony Jackson & Steve Smith
• Joshua Redman Quartet
• Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band
• Jim Hall Quartet with Scott Colley, Lewis Nash and special guest Julian Lage
Details of Newport weekend package:
• 3 night hotel stay at the Newport Harbor Hotel & Marina. Rooms are all Harbor View.
• Welcome Reception at the hotel on Friday
• Concert ticket for Friday night, 8pm at The International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino
• Festival admission ticket for Saturday & Sunday
• Meal voucher valued at $20 for food & drink at the Louis Jadot Café located on the festival grounds for Saturday and Sunday (total vouchers equaling $40)
• Bon Voyage Breakfast at the marina on Monday morning
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April 30, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: International Jazz Day, Jazz Alive, The Checkout, The WBGO Journal, WBGO Travel
International Jazz Day kicks off WBGO's monthlong celebration of global jazz, and you can join the celebration by watching video from UNESCO's April 30 concert in Istanbul, Turkey and listening to earwitness reports from Istanbul by WBGO producer Josh Jackson.
Jazz is increasingly embraced and played around the world. Last year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) partnered with the Thelonious Monk Institute to celebrate the contributions of jazz to world culture, staging concerts in Paris, New Orleans and at the United Nations in New York.
This year's UNESCO concert in Istanbul featured more than 40 musicians, including Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper, George Duke, Esperanza Spalding, Pedrito Martinez and dozens of others.
WBGO's celebration of global jazz continues on The Checkout, which airs Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m., showcases new music from this year's Jazzahead! festival in Bremen, Germany on May 7 and 14, and from South Africa on the 21st and 28th. We also have special reports on South Africa on The WBGO Journal by producer Simon Rentner, who just returned from the Cape Town Jazz Festival.
On WBGO HD2, the jazz bee, we are hosting a special round-the-clock mix of recordings by artists who appeared at this year's Jazzahead! festival, from as far away as Albania, Brazil and Israel.
And WBGO's brand-new Travel & Events series offers behind-the-scenes tours to the Montreal Jazz Festival in June, and to Perugia and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy in July.
Happy International Jazz Day - and join us every day to celebrate this music we love, in every part of the globe - at WBGO!


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Wedding: 10/26/2013
We chose Zlatko to be our wedding photographer after looking at perhaps one hundred different photographers' portfolios online. We were extremely particular about what we wanted: a photographer whose work reflected an understanding that the MOST important thing about a wedding is the fact that everybody you know and love is in a room together for perhaps the one and only time in your life, and you want to capture their laughter and tears and hugs and hilarious dance moves—and you want this more than you want to see your dress fluttering in the wind from fifty different angles. It seemed to me that every photographer's portfolio had those same clichéd shots, focusing too much on material aspects of the wedding and not enough on the family and guests. Zlatko's stood out as capturing the human element. Not that we didn't want any of the other stuff—we did—but it's a question of proportions. Zlatko brought clarity and seriousness to the task, which made us feel comfortable from the get-go. He was extremely responsive and dedicated, such that we felt totally confident that we could trust him to do the job right. We were not disappointed. He was also a really nice guy and we felt good about having him be a part of our celebration. Most importantly, the photographs were excellent. We got everything from crisp captures of twenty people shaking their booties to subtly composed shots of quieter moments of beauty at the reception. Important note: the lighting at our venue (Angel Orensanz) is very tricky—dark and colorful in a way that is wonderful yet challenging for photos— yet Zlatko somehow managed to deal with it perfectly.
Wedding: 10/19/2013
Zlatko was an absolute pleasure to work with! I would absolutely recommend working with him.
I have been to many weddings where photographers and videographers are often getting in guests way and being too aggressive. Zlatko is able to capture the best moments of your wedding without you, the groom, our your guests noticing him. My husband and I wanted to get all the formal pictures out of the way and get to the party ASAP and Zlatko and his assistant were able to work quickly to capture everything we wanted without feeling like we missed anything! Generally speaking, he is a great person to work with and to be around on the day of your wedding. The quality of his photographs are exceptional and I can't wait pick out my album, but it will be very hard since I like every photo!!!
Wedding: 10/5/2013
i was VERY particular about finding a photographer. I looked high and low, and was convinced nobody would ever deliver the elegant, beautiful, timeless photos I wanted. And then I met Zlatko. I wish I could attach photos to this review so everybody could see the beauty of his work. My pictures are classic, breathtaking, elegant, and timeless. In addition, every special, intimate moment that my husband and I had on our wedding day, he caught on film, without us EVER knowing he was there. He works in the background, is completely unnoticeable, and quiet. You will NOT notice him until he delivers you these pictures that will take your breath away. Look no further, this is the best photographer you will find. And as an added bonus, he is as wonderful, sweet, and kind as they come. An absolute professional. He listens and takes to heart every one of your wishes, and will deliver exactly what you want. I have never written a review about anything in my life, but Zlatko is the exception! Thank you for all your hard work Zlatko and for giving me pictures I can cherish for a lifetime!
Wedding: 10/12/2014
Zlakto Batistich is an extremely talented photographer. We hired Zlatko for our engagement party and wedding and couldn't have been more pleased. He was an absolute pleasure to work with and captured unbelievable moments. He completely blends into the scenery of your day and will capture photos you will treasure for lifetime. He is a MUST have for your special day.
Wedding: 7/19/2014
We interviewed and then hired Zlatko to photograph our wedding on the recommendation of a family friend who had used him. He is very talented and delivered amazing shots of our special day in July of 2014. Zlatko was very organized, asked for a shot list so no "posed" picture was missed, and then melted into the background and photographed real moments as they unfolded. He captured the emotion of the event, the love in the room, the look in my eye, and the energy on the dance floor. As promised, a selection of proofs were ready a few weeks after the wedding and we are excitedly waiting for the final set to be available in the next few days. The proofs we received were just what we were looking for, and expect the rest will be just as wonderful! Zlatko is soft spoken, yet has an eye for photography that sets him apart from (and above) the rest!
Zlatko is a true professional. Quick to answer emails or phone calls, always punctual and manages to get all the pictures you need in a concise way. My daughter's one wish was to enjoy her wedding and not be tied down with pictures. Zlatko was able to get the pictures we wanted and all of us were able to enjoy the festivities. Her friends dubbed Zlatko "the stealth photographer" you never knew he was there but he was everywhere.
Wedding: 6/22/2013
I chose Zlatko because I loved the photojournalistic style of his pictures, and had also been assured by my wedding planner at the venue that he was so discreet and unobtrusive. He gave us such wonderful pictures, I couldn't be happier. Zlatko was really able to capture the energy, excitement, and emotion of the day. Even though I wanted to avoid taking too many posed photos, the portraits we did do of the families came out great and he was able to get the shots very quickly so we didn't have to spend too much time focusing on them. He was also an absolute joy to work with...always got back to me quickly and was so helpful and professional on the wedding day too. I wish I had another occasion coming up to hire him again!
Zlatko Batistich was the main photographer at our wedding and he did a fabulous job, be it posed couple and family shots or capturing the energy on the dance floor. As an amateur photographer myself, I can honestly say that his photos were outstanding and the way he took photos at the wedding was completely unintrusive. If it weren't for the photos that we received shortly after our a wedding, you would never have known he was there!
As a wedding photographer he was also very responsive to our ideas and suggestions and at every point of the process we were very glad to have chosen him. We wholeheartedly recommend Zlatko to any couple for their wedding!
Wedding: 5/18/2013
Zlatko is the ideal photographer – highly responsive, communicative, and accommodating. His photography speaks for itself and covers a wide array of shots. His calm personality is very easy to work with and he captured so many special moments while blending in with our guests. We felt that he really went above and beyond. All photography was completed and distributed within the specifications of our contract. We've already recommended Zlatko to several couples and we recommend him to you!
Wedding: 10/6/2012
Zlatko was everything we were looking for. I wanted a natural, photojournalistic style and we got that but also so much more. Zlatko's photos are an art form with the moments and emotions he captures along with the composition. We could not be more pleased with how our photos turned out. The day of the wedding, Zlatko was very polite and professional. He never invaded our privacy, instead he made us feel at ease and like we were alone in our moments. Thank you Zlatko!
Wedding: 10/29/2011
I highly recommend Zlakto to capture the moments of your special day. From the first time I contract Zlakto he was professional and calming. Before and after our wedding he was there to answer any of our questions. During the wedding he was not obviously taking pictures; he quietly documented the day. The moments that Zlakto captured during our wedding our priceless. I could not be happier with ALL of our pictures!
Wedding: 8/18/2012
I can't speak more highly of Zlatko's work. From the first time we met with him, we could tell we were working with someone with a great eye. We have so many beautiful shots to choose from we aren't sure how long it will take us to decide on the ones for our album.
Zlatko has this way about him that you forget he is in the room. And that allowed him to get the best candid shots.
I would recommend him to anyone in an instant. If you decide to use him, you won't be disappointed.
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I stayed in the non smoking room 313 this room had a wonderfull view over Harbour Room was clean and bright. Bathroom was good size where you had a bath and shower took around 2 mins to fogure out how to make shower work. Shower was a power shower with loads of hot water Breakfeast was servered up till 11am in morning and 13.00 on Sunday. Breakfest was a buffet type with a huge selection - Dermot
- Really helpful staff (one of the clerks even called friends to find a
"swedish" restaurant for us)
- breakfast was tasteful, fresh juices and delicious smoothies
- the room was small (as it was said), the bathroom as well, but a big plus was the floor heating ;)
- the hotel is just in the city center! (the central train station is just around the corner with 10 min. rides to Lund, a nice small city to visit, and 40 min. rides to Copenhagen, a nice big city to visit ;) )
- all in all: good s - Anonymous
verry nice room and the staff was serviceminded. good breakfast. - Anonymous
Excellent hotel in old building in city centre of Malmo, also close to train station. Nice explanations on history of the building, furniture and its former inhabitants. You can hear them in the squeeqy floors! Very nice breakfast room in basement (in the old dungeons). Excellent breakfast, with many choices. Also small courtyard. Some rooms have window to this courtyard, others on the street. But though in the centre, quiet area. Free coffee/thea/water in relaxing room. There is also a restaur - Anonymous
good location, friendly staff and quiet room. - Michael
Stylish hotel. Well located near the central train station. Clean,friendly staff, excellent breakfast and very comfortable bed! :-) - Peter
The view from my room, the breakfast buffé, its proximity to the city center, station and a walking distance to the harbour. - Thoiny
Well positioned, quiet, good quality, pleasant assistance and not over the top. excellent broadband, tasteful decor and a good inhouse service system that cut out over zealousness that frequently accompanies many hotels. - Greg
Location, comfort, bathroom, breakfast, everything!! For the same pricewe got a much worse room in Copenhagen - as it is only 30 minutes away,one should consider staying here. This hotel is beautiful, locationcould not be better, truely luxury for low price! - Imre
Very helpful staff. Great room, large with all facilities - attractive decor in room & public areas.
Superb location for wandering into town. Great breakfast options & service. - Anonymous
It was best location possible. Quiet and close to beach. Nice for old folk. - Sayed
Classic decoration; Kind stuff; Good location; Excellent breakfest. - Chung-han


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Image Of Biogen Idec's TECFIDERA(TM) (dimethyl Fumarate) Which Was Approved By The U.S. FDA On March 27, 2013 For Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis. (Photo: Business Wire)
Today Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved TECFIDERA™ (dimethyl fumarate), a new first-line oral treatment for people with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Biogen Idec will make this oral capsule available to people living with MS in the United States in the coming days.
Image of Biogen Idec's TECFIDERA(TM) (dimethyl fumarate) which was approved by the U.S. FDA on March 27, 2013 for relapsing multiple sclerosis. (Photo: Business Wire)
TECFIDERA has been clinically proven to significantly reduce important measures of disease activity, including relapses and development of brain lesions, as well as to slow disability progression over time, while demonstrating a favorable safety and tolerability profile.
"With the FDA approval of TECFIDERA, we will offer the MS community a treatment with strong efficacy and a favorable safety profile in the convenience of a pill – a combination we believe will have a significant positive impact on the way people live with this chronic disease," said George A. Scangos, Ph.D., chief executive officer of Biogen Idec. "Biogen Idec is committed to delivering innovative treatments and setting new standards for the next generation of medicines. We believe TECFIDERA will raise expectations for what people living with MS can achieve with their therapy."
The FDA approval of TECFIDERA is based on data from a robust clinical development program that included DEFINE and CONFIRM, two global Phase 3 studies that enrolled more than 2,600 patients. In the ongoing extension study, ENDORSE, some patients receiving TECFIDERA have been followed for more than four years.In DEFINE, TECFIDERA, administered twice daily, significantly reduced the proportion of patients who relapsed by 49 percent (p<0.0001), the annualized relapse rate (ARR) by 53 percent (p<0.0001), and 12-week confirmed disability progression, as measured by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), by 38 percent (p=0.0050) compared to placebo at two years. In CONFIRM, twice-daily TECFIDERA significantly reduced ARR by 44 percent (p<0.0001) and the proportion of patients who relapsed by 34 percent (p=0.0020) compared to placebo at two years. While not statistically significant, TECFIDERA showed a 21 percent reduction in 12-week confirmed disability progression in CONFIRM. Both studies also showed that TECFIDERA significantly reduced lesions in the brain compared to placebo, as measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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Palestinians get Unesco seat as 107 vote in favour
The UN cultural organisation has voted strongly in favour of membership for the Palestinians - a move opposed by Israel and the United States.
Of 173 countries voting, 107 were in favour, 14 opposed and 52 abstained.
In response, Washington announced it is cutting funding to Unesco. Its membership dues provide around a fifth of the organisation's budget.
The UN Security Council will vote next month on whether to grant the Palestinians full UN membership.
This is a historic day, said Palestinian deputy Minister of Antiquties Hamdan Taha, beaming from ear to ear in Ramallah.
Unesco membership may seem a strange and short step to Palestinian statehood. But leaders here see it as part of a broader push to get international recognition and pressure Israel. They see it as a warm-up for a more important vote next month when the UN Security Council will decide whether to admit Palestine as a full member state.
The US has veto power at the security council and has threatened to use it. It had no such power at Unesco so instead lobbied hard to try and force the Palestinians to back down. It will likely cut all US funding for Unesco - $70m a year, or 22% of its annual budget.
But Unesco members seemed to put politics before money, clearly voting in favour of the Palestinian bid. This was a failure of US power, one Palestinian official told me.
The victory will give a boost to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He lost ground to his rival Hamas when the Islamist movement secured the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit two weeks ago.
Membership of Unesco - perhaps best known for its World Heritage Sites - may seem a strange step towards statehood, says the BBC's Jon Donnison, in Ramallah, but Palestinian leaders see it as part of a broader push to get international recognition and put pressure on Israel.
This is the first UN agency the Palestinians have sought to join since submitting their bid for recognition to the Security Council in September.
"This vote will erase a tiny part of the injustice done to the Palestinian people," Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki told the meeting of the UN educational, scientific and cultural organisation in Paris, after the result was announced.
Widespread applause greeted the result of Monday's vote in the chamber, where a two-thirds majority is enough to pass a decision.
The BBC's David Chazan in Paris, where Unesco has its headquarters, says Arab states were instrumental in getting the vote passed despite intense opposition from the US.
He says that in an emotional session, China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa voted in favour of Palestinian membership, while the US, Canada and Germany voted against and the UK abstained.'No shortcuts'
A US law passed in the 1990s allows Washington to cut funding to any UN body that admits Palestine as a full member.
"We were to have made a $60m payment to Unesco in November and we will not be making that payment," state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists in Washington.
Unesco Key Facts
- Created on 16 November 1945
- Composed of 194 member states and eight associate members
- Aims to encourage international peace and eradicate poverty by collaboration among nations via education, the sciences, culture, communication and information
- More than 2,000 staff from 170 states
- Budget for 2010 and 2011 was $643m (£401m), contributed by member states
- General conference - Unesco's primary decision-making body, comprising all member-states - meets every two years
- Executive board of 58 member-states meets twice a year
Earlier, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the Unesco vote was "premature and undermines the international community's shared goal of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East", while US ambassador to Unesco David Killion said it would "complicate our ability to support Unesco's programmes."
Israel called the vote a "unilateral Palestinian manoeuvre which will bring no change on the ground but further removes the possibility for a peace agreement".
"The Palestinian move at Unesco, as with similar such steps with other UN bodies, is tantamount to a rejection of the international community's efforts to advance the peace process," a foreign ministry statement said.
Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been stalled since last year over the issue of Israeli settlement building.
The Israeli statement also said Israel would be considering further steps regarding its co-operation with Unesco.
Palestinian UN Statehood Bid
- Palestinians currently have permanent observer entity status at the UN
- They are represented by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)
- Officials now want an upgrade so a state of Palestine has full member status at the UN
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|Step Left Forward, Pivot ¼ Right, Cross Left Over Right
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Gameplay Movie
Check out the rhythm action of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy on the TGS 2011 show floor!
after seeing this i dont want it anyomore....
I think I'll pass.. sorry.
why does this game exist? square enix can't need to expand the ff licence they have ssssssoooooooooooo mang games already
WTF I just saw?
Maybe I'm missing something and being too judgmental, but this clip makes Elite Beat Agents look like an epic
"Clang, clang, clang clang" doesn't sound like any Final Fantasy tune I've ever heard...
What? Just no. Never will this game be as good as all the other final fantasy games
Wow this looks like garbage. If I want to listen to FF music I'll go to YouTube.
A SE's OST database with rhythm mini-games attached ^_^
Oh! I get it! I think you have to play along with the rhythm! Then the stylus has to follow the lines shown on the top screen. I get it! Looks fun!
Is this even a game? I can only hope this is S-E's way of testing the 3DS mechanics...for you know, an actual FF game, upon which then I probably will buy this new handheld system.
um... what the hell is this?
Sadly this is the Square Enix we now know
So this is what the 3DS caters to.... *oh man*
I can' believe that square enix, of all companies would make a game like this, although Final Fantasy music is really awesome.
Eh? This looks like something you'd find on the app store for an iPhone. :S
Looks too easy,hope that it also uses all of the 3DS' buttons too.
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OT- NBA Player Jason Collins admits he is gay
How long before an NFL player does the same? How do you think it would be perceived in the locker room ?
Not to be harsh, but to me this feels like a non story. Old guy, FA, good chance he wasn't getting a job next season anyway. I dunno, it doesn't feel any different than a retired player coming out to me.
Actually, I think that's a good move by him because he's a horrible center that can now say people don't want to sign him because he's gay!
John Amechi and Collins can go spoon. Two washed up garbage C that come out to get their names back in the news.
What a ******.
It's a pretty big deal. Even if he is an older FA, he's still technically the first active athlete in one of the major sports to come out. No other NBA/MLB/NFL/NHL player with aspirations of continuing playing next season has done so.
He knew he'd get a lot of attention, both very supportive and very ugly coming his way now. It's pretty ****ed up, in my opinion, to immediately disparage a guy doing something nobody else in the history of these major sports has had the balls to do. At the very least, read his well-written, thoughtful article explaining his decision. Good for him.
It is generally accepted that between 4% to 10% of any society is gay. I'm sure that percentage crosses the line into any sport or league out there. That means a conservative estimate is that there are 67 gay players in the NFL.
Sad that this is even considered news - IMO it should be who cares...
meh, it's a non story really.
he's on the last leg of his career and was never a top tier player.
most will just dismiss it was a scrub player coming out.
i personally don't care what orientation a player is. can he help my team win? if so then welcome aboard.
Edit: And I would add that the fan reaction of "it doesn't personally matter to me who a player is attracted to so why is this a story?" missed the point entirely. You may have been a-ok with having a black player on your favorite team pre-integration, but when it is still a major taboo among much of the culture it is a big deal. And carries risk for that person crossing the barrier.
I'm not a big NBA fan, or someone who really knew Collins before today, but it's silly to filter the newsworthiness of an event through its personal impact on yourself.
Best ball handling big man in the NBA, can take it to the hole with the best of them, isn't afraid to drive it to the hole, even when it is one on three, displays aggressive man to man coverage and loves nothing more than setting a hard dick and roll for his teammates.
Those NBA players are all whores anyway, they will sleep with any one or thing. Look at what MJ was tagging back in the 80's.
I bet this guy is the most popular player on away games for those who don't have a ship in every port.
That's terrific Collins, but you're still a bad center on a bad team.
to be completely honest i am sick of this story about gay pro athletes. if athletes want to come out as gay, then come out as gay. stop with these ridiculous puff pieces and stories about them maybe coming out. either do it, or shut the **** up about it.
So...Basketball is not the only thing he sucks at :)
It will only work if a player like L James admits he was gay. Teams will have no chioce but to sign him for his talnet. J Collins will never play for a team again
Matthew Shepard was killed because he owed his meth dealer.
Just wait, as soon as some other player says something stupid, that will be the media's "proof" that America is homophobic & racist.
Yeah, because those two guys were major stars just a couple years ago. Yeah. That's totally it.
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I dont care who it is, as long as they don't repeat the debacle that was USF1 - or repeat what Hispania put Senna and Chandhok through at the start of this season! Coming to a full F1 race without having turned a single wheel in testing! Wheel nuts coming off, tyres coming off at full speed, and car not even completing 1 or 2 installation laps! What a joke!
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By James Brumley
NEW YORK ( StreetAuthority) -- Did Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) recently commit an error in judgment?
It's tough to be critical of one of the world's greatest value investors, but even the best of the best can occasionally get caught up in the hype and forget the disciplined rules that earned them their fortunes in the first place.
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From Good to GreatDollar stores and deep-value retailers such as Dollar General, Family Dollar (FDO) and Dollar Tree (DLTR) are new, but they really didn't reach their full stride until 2008. Prior to that time, consumers for the most part felt rich and acted rich, and didn't want or need to shop for bargains. But once economic Armageddon struck, many consumers quickly made the switch and started shopping at these deep-bargain stores in order to save their hard-earned money. And the numbers verify it. Between 2005 and 2007, Dollar Tree's bottom line grew by an average of 15% per year. Since then, its net income has expanded by a little more than 31% per year on average. Dollar General's earnings growth since 2007 has been even more phenomenal. The company moved from what was essentially a break-even year in 2007 to per-share earnings of $2.37 last year, which isn't bad for a stock priced at roughly $46. Before 2008, Family Dollar's average annual earnings growth rate was 6%. Since then, it has averaged 23%. By all accounts this is exactly the kind of growth investors love to see from the companies in which they've invested. And this new bargain-focused paradigm apparently is here to stay -- even during a stronger economy -- supporting this industry's earnings. So why do I say Buffett and Combs likely made a big mistake in buying shares of Dollar General? Because the stock wasn't even close to being cheap when they bought it. Although the earnings growth from this group of retailers has been red-hot for the past four years, the underlying stocks have appreciated even faster -- perhaps too fast. Take Dollar Tree, for instance. Annual earnings now are 138% stronger then they were in 2008, but the stock has gained nearly 300% between then and now. As a result, the price-to-earnings ratio has soared from a palatable 16.4 at the end of 2008 to the current 23.5. And Dollar Tree isn't alone. Family Dollar is the same story. Although EPS has grown from $1.66 in 2008 to $3.40 for the past four quarters as consumers have become loyal to the stores, the stock's price grew nearly 200% during the past four years. And while the trailing P/E of about 18.6 makes it the cheapest among the three stocks in question, that's still an unusually high P/E for a retailer. Dollar General wasn't a publicly traded company in 2008, but just for reference, earnings of 47 cents per share in 2008 swelled by an incredible 400% to reach $2.37 last year. Since Dollar General went public in late 2009, the stock has roughly doubled, while income has only been 81% higher. The trailing P/E has moved up to a pricey 19.5.
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