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Next-Generation ION Lands at Computex 2010
Here at the NVIDIA 3D Experience Center in downtown Taipei, Next-Generation ION GPUs are showing how powerful small can be.
First, we're showing two new ION netbooks from ASUS, both with Optimus Technology: The 12" 1215PN and the 10" 1015PN. With up to 10X the performance of a standard netbook, ION netbooks can easily stream HD video from YouTube and more, while still delivering great battery life.
Second, this wouldn't be the 3D Experience Center if we weren't showing great 3D content on NVIDIA GPUs. We've got a new Zotac ZBOX herefeaturing the Next-Generation ION GPU connected to a 55" Samsung 3DTV, playing Blu-Ray 3D Disney clips. For the first time, ION is going 3D!
And don't forget to check out the new pint-size ION nettops here - great in a living room, hooked up to a 1080p HD TV. We're demoing Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150, Asus EeeBox 1012P, Asus EeeBox 1501P and AsRock ION2-T. And, if you're looking for an all-in-one,the Compaq Presario CQ1 is also on display - we usually hear about folks using these as kitchen and bedroom PCs because of their small form factors.
Other partners showing off next-generation ION designs at Computex include Acer, Giada, J&W, Jetway, Shuttle and more. Be sure to come by the NVIDIA 3D Experience Center and check out what's next for NVIDIA ION.
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Monitors are the perfect style barn for raising and caring for farm animals and horses. These barns have a large center aisle with protection from the weather, and an enormous amount of room for through driving with a tractor, truck, or recreational vehicle.
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The Monitor can be either a single story barn or a two story barn. The large center aisle can have cathedral ceiling, a simple storage loft, or a full second floor to store hay, or anything else for that matter. Some folks have turned this space into an office, and apartment.
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star hotel with bar/lounge and rooftop terrace
Situated in the business district, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Bourbon Hospice for the Poor, Cathedral of Naples, and Santa Chiara. National Archaeological Museum and Castel Nuovo are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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A bar/lounge, a rooftop terrace, and self parking are available at this hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, concierge services, laundry facilities, and a 24-hour front desk are onsite.
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All 33 rooms offer satellite TV, room service, and free newspapers. Hair dryers, safes, and showers are among the other amenities that guests will find.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Buono Hotel features a rooftop terrace, multilingual staff, and concierge services. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. This Naples hotel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, laundry facilities, and express check-in. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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- Number of floors - 3
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High School DxD's "NEW" episode three is a great improvement over the previous two episodes, because unlike either of them, it shows us the silver haired loli stripped of her clothing and uncensored.
Redhead's breasts are abundant as always but at least they're thankfully not hogging the screen too much in this episode – allowing her other season one companions at least a frame or two to show off their own oppai. This also gives megane a chance to have her onscreen nudity scenes as well – scenes that almost seem story relevant with how intently the camera hovers around the girl and her assets.


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Oscar Pistorius case delay: Judge calls media coverage 'scandalizing'
The murder case against paraplegic Olympian Oscar Pistorius is delayed until Aug. 19 following a hearing Tuesday (June 4) in his native South Africa. Pistorius is out on bail but faces a premeditated murder charge in the death of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.
According to a report by the New York Times, the court magistrate openly criticized media coverage of the very public murder case as a threat to the judicial system. He called the associated news reports "scandalizing" and warned of a "trial by media."
Steenkamp's family previously told reporters they have banned TV in their homes due to the media coverage of their loved one's death. Reeva's body was found behind a locked bathroom door in Pistorius' home on Valentine's Day 2013. She had suffered multiple gunshot woulds and a crushed skull.
The delay in the case was at the request of the prosecution. The hearing lasted just 20 minutes.
It was rumored just weeks after Steenkamp's death that Ryan Gosling and Charlize Theron were frontrunners to play the couple in a Pistorius biopic.
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Something quick and easy I do for bulking currently is mix heavy cream, protein powder, whole eggs and some water (to thin it out a little, otherwise it is like pudding) in a blender and drink. The fat in the heavy cream helps your body properly use the protein, and it tastes delicious. And the added bonus....only one thing to clean.
I also like oatmeal soaked in lemon juice than rinsed out. It is probably easier to clean to cooked oatmeal since cooked oatmeal becomes like concrete when it dries out.
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i love making socks. since jumping back into the knitting pool feet first (get it? socks? feet first…?) i've decided to use up some of my sock yarn stash. my sock yarn stash is modest – mostly yarn purchased when i was knitting in the super sock scarefest group on ravelry. i recently found the perfect ravelry group for my sock stash situation – the year of stash socks group! i am even being "active" on their message boards. which is not like me, but i am excited!
the whole idea of the group is to knit socks from your yarn stash – and knit a sock (or several) a month from a selected option of patterns. if all else fails, make a plain, vanilla sock. my first vanilla sock back several years ago was a pattern by the knitmore girls knit up on some zombie bbq from Lorna's Laces. i didn't mind the tediousness of it, either. it's a well designed pattern and a good base to learn from.
I made these for a gal pal whose feet are larger than mine, please note the floppy toe!
and sorry for the bad lighting. it's important to make things look artsy for instagram, you know.
it's the first of the month and i've started my descent back into socks.
this yarn is a brand called vice. i believe i bought it last year or quite possibly the year before. it's been nothing but problems for me. I have tried the yarn on two different patterns in recent memory and both times it's either felt wrong or the pattern wasn't looking right with the yarn. one sock pattern was a cabled sock and the yarn is so variegated that you couldn't see the cabling. i am giving it one more shot with its current pattern and if it refuses to cooperate – it goes the way of a vanilla sock. so far, it's being nice.
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New York Auto Show: Automakers cede ground, give users more control of dashboard, entertainment apps April 1, 2013 at 11:23 am
Automakers share access for a smaller slice of a much larger infotainment pie
Match and raise: BMW adds Siri-like voice dictation, then builds a touchpad into iDrive July 12, 2012 at 10:05 am
BMW ConnectedDrive plays leapfrog with Audi. Users who manage the potential complexity will love these new Bimmers. Sorry, iPhone users, but Apple's non-support of Bluetooth MAP limits what you can do.


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October 18-26, 2012 - 9 Nights Of Horror, Sci-Fi, Action & Cult Movies!
2011 Program
DOOMSDAY BOOK - Toronto Premiere! - Sun, Oct 21, 1pm at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
Directed by Kim Jee-woon, Yim Pil-sung, Korea, 2012, 113 mins
Principal Cast: Doona Bae, Joon-ho Bong, Ji-hee Jin
Toronto Premiere, One Screening Only
Sun, Oct 21, 1pm, Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. at Bathurst. Door Tickets from: 12pm, Seating from: 12.30pm.
$14 Regular Ticket, $24 Double Feature Ticket with LLOYD THE CONQUEROR at 3.45 pm. Buy Advance Tickets Online Here until 11
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Winner of Fantasia Film Festival's Jury Award for Best Feature Film, this trio of apocalyptic tales features the rise of sentient robots, a zombie virus outbreak and an asteroid on a fatal collision course with earth. Co-directed by acclaimed Korean filmmaker Jee-woon Kim (I SAW THE DEVIL, THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE WEIRD, A TALE OF TWO SISTERS)
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"A spellbinding filmic experience….the quality of all the stories in DOOMSDAY BOOK is high…. this film shouldn't be missed!" - Ain't It Cool News
"A worthy addition….fans of Korean genre have yet another solid entry in the careers of two of its most sterling talent." - Sound on Sight
"Doomsday Book is a fine anthology for fans"- Twitch
Official Selection - 8 International Film Festivals including Fantastic Fest, New York Asian Film Festival, London, Fantasia, Sitges
Winner - Best Feature Film (Jury Award) - Fantasia Film Festival
A zombie outbreak! Self-aware robots! A meteor on a collision course with the Earth! Such doomsday scenarios may seem like old hat, having already been trotted out in a bevy of Hollywood blockbusters, but thanks to the remarkable efforts of two of Asia's biggest genre directors and a powerhouse cast of Korean A-listers, DOOMSDAY BOOK manages to spin these tried and true tales of gloom and doom in refreshingly original directions, conjuring a perfect storm of earnest drama, crowd-pleasing comedy, and enthralling spectacle.
Yim Pil-Sung (HANSEL & GRETEL) kicks things off with "A Brave New World" an endearing epic examination of a zombie epidemic with plenty of satirical bite. The social commentary continues in the second chapter "The Heavenly Creature", but director Kim Ji-Woon (A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, I SAW THE DEVIL), compliments it with an arresting moral dimension as he speculates the potential apocalyptic effect of a machine achieving enlightenment. Finally, both directors bring it home together with "Happy Birthday" a riotously funny comedy about familial bonding in the wake of an Armageddon of Michael Bay proportions.
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Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Jeremy Ball, 13 min, Canada, 2012
A young woman ventures into the wilderness to fulfill a rite of passage, but stumbles into the graveyard of an ancient world.
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Toshiba Satellite A350-12J
SpecificationsNotebook: Toshiba Satellite A350-12J (Satellite A350 Series)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T6400
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 16.0 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 3kg
Price: 750 euro
Average of 2 scores (from 3 reviews)
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite A350-12J
Source: Reg Hardware
If you like your laptops nice and shiny, Toshiba's new Satellite A350-12J will go down a treat. Not only do you get a glossy black chassis with a lid that's surprisingly smudge-resistant, but the keyboard is also coated in the stuff. It's not something that will appeal to all tastes, and we found it felt very odd to type on. If you can get used to its shiny and somewhat slippery keyboard, the Satellite A350-12J is a solid notebook that performs reasonably well as long as you're not into gaming. The problem is that there's nothing that really makes it stand out from the crowd, and at this price we had hoped to see some form of discrete graphics.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/04/2009
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: IT Reviews
As far as first impressions go, the Satellite A350 from Toshiba certainly gets the thumbs up. The all-black chassis looks smart and it feels like a solidly built piece of kit. At just under £600, the Satellite A350-12J represents good value, but we do have our reservations. The glossy keyboard, for example, appears to be a case of style over substance, while the lack of Bluetooth and Gigabit LAN are two surprising omissions in a £600 laptop. And considering its movie-watching credentials, it's a shame Toshiba couldn't find room for a remote control.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/21/2009
Rating: price: 70%
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Choosing a laptop to replace an aged desktop PC used to be a straightforward choice of deciding whether you wanted a mid-sized portable with a 15.4in screen or a hulking behemoth with a 17in screen. Now, however, with manufacturers gradually making the move from the traditional 16:10 displays to the 16:9 ratio, you can add 15.6in, 16in and 18.4in to the list. The Toshiba Satellite A350 sits slap bang in the middle of this bunch. A gleaming physique and a glossy 16in display, but elsewhere this Toshiba fails to excite
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 67%
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45, GE45 and GS45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T6400: Entry level dual core processor based on the Penryn core with only 2 MB level 2 cache and a low clock speed.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
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It's called lazy creativeness. Sir.
So, we've lost the most experienced players in round one, and both of them innocent to boot.
Let's look at the odds again shall we?
At the start we had 4 new players and 6 that played before. If Sir did at completely random draw on the killers, there are 45 possible combos (first choice can be done out of 10 people, second out of 9. You've got 10*90 = 90 combinations but have to divide by two to weed out the doubles (Jan+Dot/Dot+Jan is the same combination).
Out of those 45 combinations, there are:
4*3/2 = 6 pairings of two newbies
6*5/2 = 15 pairings of two veterans
6*4 = 24 pairings of a fresh blood/rusted old fogie platter.
Making it most likely that we had a sassy young assassin under the guidance of a bloodstained mentor.
However, we've got some more information now. We're down to 4/4.
There are 8 people left, so 8*7/2=28 pairings.
Still 6 pairings of two newbies,
Also 6 pairings of two veterans
and 4*4 = 16 pairings of one of each.
How does this help us in voting? Well, it helps a bit. It's most likely (16 out of 28, 57%) that we've got a mixed bag in the killers. One old, one new.
If the killers' plan is to weed out the experienced players and wreak havoc in the aftermath, the innocents should try and do their best and keep them in, right? That's why I plan on voting out a new player this round.
Big Daddy and Bikkit aren't posting. For Bikkit, that's par for the course. Big Daddy is an unknown. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's innocent.
Del's crazy, we all know that, so if she's a killer I'd rather keep her in to mess up the other killer's head
So that leaves Raisindot and Simstars.
Open call to Raisindot and Simstars: convince me of your innocence! Best excuse wins not getting my vote


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In 1965 dérailleur gears were banned and the riders were limited to two gears. The race was won by Dutch first-year professional Gerben Karstens who chose gears of 53x16 and 53x15, covering 246km at 45.029kmh, a record. Gear limitation was judged a failure when the 1966 race ended the same way as in 1964.
Between 1974 and 1987 the course was reversed and the route constantly changed, the race sometimes known as the Grand Prix d'Automne and sometimes by the names of the start and finish towns. For many the event lost its character as the race was run between Tours and Versailles (1974-75) Blois and Chaville (1976-77 and 1979-84), Blois to Autodrome de Montlhéry (1978) and Créteil to Chaville (1985-87). In 1988 the race reverted to its original Paris-Tours route with the organisers realising the sprinters should have a classic of their own.
The wind can often be hostile from the southwest; in 1988 Peter Pieters averaged just 34kmh into a headwind (the slowest for 57 years). However, when the wind is behind the riders Paris-Tours becomes the fastest classic, Erik Zabel winning in 2003 at 47.550kmh. It gave him the Ruban Jaune or "Yellow Riband" for the fastest speed in a classic.
The record for the most victories in Paris-Tours is three, held by Gustaf Daneels (1934, 1936, 1937), Paul Mayé (1941, 1942, 1945) and Guido Reybroeck (1964, 1966, 1968) and Erik Zabel (1994, 2003, 2005).
Eddy Merckx never won Paris-Tours; he should have triumphed in 1968 but handed victory to team mate Guido Reybrouck, pulling out of the sprint, as a thanks for his help earlier in the season. An almost unknown German, Erik Zabel, took his first big victory at Paris-Tours in 1994. Zabel became a great sprinter, winning the Tour de France green jersey six times. He won the race again in 2003 and 2005. In recent years Jacky Durand, Andrea Tafi, Marc Wauters, Richard Virenque and Erik Dekker have all won solo or from a small group, denying sprinters a chance in their own race. Virenque had just returned from a drugs ban. He broke away with Durand shortly after the start and stayed away despite Durand's dropping back just outside Tours.
Paris-Tours is the only race (in which he participated) that Eddy Merckx never won.
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2012 Competition
The Perils of Growing Up Flat-Chested is the quirky coming of age the story of Katya, a sixteen year old girl determined to improve her bust size before a study date with her science lab partner.
The Perils of Growing Up Flat Chested was filmed entirely on location in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania by a talented assembly of filmmakers living right here in Pittsburgh. The film features SAG Actress, Irene Choi, who is known for her role as "Asian Annie" on NBC's Community and James Wolpert.
The film was captured on the beautiful Arri Alexa digital cinema camera which give the film an incredible dynamic and cinematic look.
Check out a quiet moment with the crew on their last day on set!:
The Perils of Growing Up Flat-Chested - Behind the Scenes from Yulin Kuang on Vimeo.
Check out the production blog!
Click here to see pictures from the set of The Perils of Growing Up Flat Chested!
About the Competition Winner Yulin Kuang
Yulin Kuang will be graduating this May from Carnegie Mellon University, where she has spent the past four years studying screenwriting and film. She has written, directed, and produced a number of short films, as well as collaborated on two webseries projects: Zombie College Musical and TVTropes.org's Echo Chamber. Her senior thesis film, "First Kiss", was a finalist in the 2011 Steeltown Film Factory Competition and will premiere later this spring. Yulin spent this past summer interning in television production with the Disney-ABC Television Group, and currently serves as an executive member of the CMU Film Club. Working in film production has given her the opportunity to explore the many neighborhoods and outer boroughs of Pittsburgh, and she is incredibly grateful to have had this diverse city as a playground for the past four years.
STEELTOWN FILM FACTORY 2nd Place Winner:
Christopher Preksta
ECHO TORCH (Revision 1)
Original Script: ECHO TORCH
A photographer discovers a special light, the ECHO TORCH, which can both reveal and harm paranormal spirits.
STEELTOWN FILM FACTORY 3rd Place Winner:
Scott Peters & Anthony Poremski
ESCAPE FROM ST. QUENTIN'S (Revision 1).pdf
Original Script: ESCAPE FROM ST. QUENTIN'S
Danny, the ten year old mischievous genius, attempts to escape from St. Quentin's Church during Sunday mass to play football with his friends. In order to get out, he'll need to trick his overbearing parents, avoid the death stare of the nun, and wiggle through a tiny window in the church's storage room. With his cunning and artful preparation he may have a chance unless unexpected complications sideline him for all eternity...or at least another hour.
STEELTOWN FILM FACTORY Quarter Finalists Scripts:
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Nathan Hollabaugh
DUPLEX (Revision 1).pdf
Original Script: DUPLEX
A young woman obsessively stalks a man she encounters at a neighborhood coffee shop.
Mason Radkoff
BEGINNING CHEMISTRY (Revision 1).pdf
Original Script: BEGINNING CHEMISTRY
A neighborhood loner helps a young science nerd solve a bullying problem, only to receive a larger gift in return.
David Safin
THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT (Revision 1).pdf
Original Script: THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT
Scott Frobel is given an odd birthday present from his brother's girlfriend, and said present sets in motion a chain of events that ends with its giver in the hospital with amnesia.
Jamie McGovern
APPLE JACK (Revision 1)
Original Script: APPLEJACK
A young woman struggling with motherhood hunts the mouse terrorizing her home.
Evan Mull
MARCELLUS MORGAN (Revision 1).pdf
Original Script: MARCELLUS MORGAN
A tall tale telling Texas lease-hound for a fly-by-night natural gas explorer meets his match when he comes to small town Western Pennsylvania.
Yulin Kuang
PERILS OF GROWING UP FLAT-CHESTED (Revision 1).pdf
Original Script: PERILS OF GROWING UP FLAT-CHESTED
A flat-chested, 16-year-old girl is intent on seducing her science lab partner.
Jarrett Fisher-Forester
BAR QUIXOTE (Revision 1).pdf
Original Script: BAR QUIXOTE
A meek man named Donnie spends his nights in The La Mancha Lounge reading adventure books & keeping to himself. Until one night, when he gets to live out his knightly fantasies with the help of a magical mixed drink.
Michael Rubino
LAST WILL AND LAUNDROMAT (Revision 1).pdf
Original Script: LAST WILL AND LAUNDROMAT
Andi didn't know her recently deceased grandfather, Arnold Kennelmeyer. He may have been present for all 27 years of her life, but this gruff, cigar-chewing veteran didn't want much to do with his family. Not one to mourn out of obligation, Andi decides instead to do her grandfather's laundry on the day of his wake. While at the laundromat, the ghost of Arnold pays her a visit and tries to make up for years of not communicating with his granddaughter.
Megan Morrison
BLUE TEDDY AND GREEN TEDDY GET REMARRIED (Revision 1)
Original Script: BLUE TEDDY AND GREEN TEDDY GET REMARRIED
Upon receiving a recorder for her seventh birthday, Isabelle solicits the wisdom of family and strangers about divorce. From the Children's Museum to the police station, Isabelle's adventures show the process one little girl goes through in order to understand how relationships grow and change. Although supportive of Isabelle's quest, her pre-occupied family soon realizes they too can learn something about how to relate and love.
Robert Podurgiel
STUDIO 7 WRESTLING (Revision 1)
Original Script: STUDIO 7 WRESTLING
A wrestling match goes very wrong when the ring collapses, and a boisterous fan and her grandson become tangled up with some very big wrestlers.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bethenny Frankel's rumored development deal with Telepictures (a division of Warner Brothers) for her very own daytime talk show may be further along than anyone thinks:
The Telepictures produced pilot tapped the former Real Housewives of New York star to host an advice-based talk show that began taping earlier this month. Sources have also confirmed that fellow Telepictures talk show host and producer Ellen DeGeneres is involved with the project.
Shocking ? Not so much.
Last month, when I profiled Frankel for our Celebrity 100 issue, I heard her recycle a canned line to Don Imus that I'd read before–in The Hollywood Reporter: "I want to be on TV in a format where I can have a longer conversation with my fans rather than 140 characters on Twitter."
Two weeks later she spoke the same phrase to FORBES reporters in our third floor library. "A talk show?" we asked, well-aware of the rumored-yet-unconfirmed Telepictures deal.
Telepictures' Laura Mandel held her cards close: "We don't comment on any development activity," she told me.
Frankel only smiled.
According to a source close to the reality television mogul, no confirmation has been made on the project–or will be for some time, leading be to believe that Frankel's trip to Los Angeles for the FORBES Celebrity event last week may have set off some bells and whistles for the Hollywood press.
I'll keep my ear perked up for this one–as well as what such a daytime deal could net Miss Bethenny over the next twelve months. If this $100 million dollar Skinnygirl is bound for billionaire territory, this could be just the ticket.
"What's the point of being on TV if you don't have something to sell?" she asked me this Spring. "Nothing. There is none. There is no point."
Oprah moved millions of dollars of other people's product. Here's hoping Bethenny can move billions of her own.


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Square Enix's FF13 was a controversial title to a number of longtime fans of the flagship series. Much has been made of its heavily linear area designs, overly long tutorials, shallow world, and its twitch-centric combat system. To more than a few, for a game expected to carry the series forward, it seemed to be heading in the wrong direction.
FF13-2 wants to change all of that. Or at least head back in a direction that won't burn as many bridges behind it. Boasting a new story packed with all of the ludicrously beautiful visuals that HD televisions squee with delight over, Square Enix took much of what was criticized about the first game by focusing on hammering out the rough edges.
It's not the first time that they've followed up on one of the series' major chapters in this fashion as FF10-2 can testify, but it is probably the first time that the changes aren't so much experimentation as they are a belated do-over of what didn't work as well the first time around.
FF13's heroine, Lightning, is on the cover but she or her friends won't be saving the world this time. At least not directly. The story takes place three years after the events of that game and centers instead around her sister, Serah, and a time traveling youth named Noel from the future who arrives to help her find Lightning. History has been changed and everyone thinks that Lightning disappeared at the end of the final conflict. As Serah and Noel discover later, that's only the beginning of a plot that threatens to destroy their world and time itself.
As a time traveling yarn, 13-2's story takes a lot of liberties with its Chrono Triggerish gameplay cast around a story hopping from one era to the next. There's no butterfly effect cascading down and changing its protagonists as 13-2 keeps things fairly simple to keep the story moving forward especially when no one thinks twice about two people jumping about and bending history.
All of this also plays into the refreshingly open areas of the game, a big change over FF13's boxed-in tunnels. FF13-2's "world" is further separated into distinct time periods centered around those areas and a hub called the Historia Crux is where the player will travel up and down the timeline as gates are unlocked via "artefacts" (FF13-2's spelling).
The main story follows a string of areas from beginning to end, but there are extra "side" zones that act as huge dungeons that can also be unlocked for a little extra story, new "fragments" to recover that can unlock "fragment skills" such as being able to jump further, and more opportunities to find and collect monsters for your party.
The original heroes from FF13 make cameo appearances throughout the game, but it's mostly centered on the snappily dressed adventures of Serah and Noel. Keeping up with who is responsible for what can be a little tricky and the game gets off to something of a slow boil, but it eventually begins to pick up later on as events begin rushing together to make better sense of what is actually going on. Parts are peeled back over the course of the game so while certain things make little sense early on, FF13-2 thankfully delivers enough material to sort through it over the course of the game though there are still a few oddball holes that are left.
Both Noel and Serah are clearly defined, though they don't tend to stare too deeply inside of themselves to flesh their characters out. Much like the game's handling of time travel, characterizations tend to be brief and to the point which can be refreshing but awkward when things turn sugary with JRPG-styled melodrama before standing back up again as if nothing had happened.
Taking a page from other RPGs, FF13-2 also pulls in party conversations between Serah and Noel as they make observations about the world around them. Expanded dialogue choices present the illusion of being able to fundamentally change the direction of events in specific instances, but they mostly exist only to change the attitude of a particular story piece or character with items as a reward. It's as if the designers wanted FF13-2's choices to have the same kind of impact that BioWare's Mass Effect or Atlus' Radiant Historia do, but then held back on going any further.
If you weren't a fan of FF13's combat system, the changes are welcome ones in the right direction though the fundamentals remain largely the same. So if you hated its automated feel, don't expect this to make you a fan overnight. It still emphasizes speed mashing through each battle until your team lays apocalyptic waste to whatever is in front of them. One nice change is that when your leader goes down in battle, it won't end the fight as it did in FF13, along with being able to now switch between them. It's a small slice of common sense that urges a second chance and players might be surprised at how much of a relief this is.
Serah and Noel have their roles defined under Paradigms which determine your party mix as it was in FF13. Switching between Paradigms on the fly during battle changes their roles changing the party's battle strategy whether it's digging in defensively right before a smashing attack or going on the offensive to dole out spell-driven damage in a short amount of time to stagger an enemy. In heavier battles, quickly swapping between Paradigms feels as if the system wants you to embrace the glittery onscreen action. The designers have also tweaked the swapping by dropping the animation sequence that delayed the change from one paradigm to the next as it did in the last game smoothing out the experience. It's not something that appeals to everyone, but while the changes don't reinvent the system, they do polish what is already there to make it less cumbersome and more casual in its ease of use.
Almost as if the designers knew that the hardcore RPGers will dive into grinding anyway, FF13-2 also tries to save them time with a faster leveling scheme and a simplified Crystania system which focuses more on a straightforward path for all roles. Crystania Points, or CP, are earned in most every battle and go towards role upgrades. But with the number of points dropped at nearly every encounter, especially within certain areas, grinding is almost an afterthought as Serah and Noel buff up on an almost constant basis.
Now that they're doing the work of everyone else, they have to. Serah and Noel are the only two party members in the game aside from whatever monsters are captured. So as a result, they have a stack of roles that they can level up through that others were often better at in FF13. They're not completely identical; both don't have exactly the same set, or number, of skills in every role which promotes a bit of careful planning over simply feeding CP to them blindly. Upgrades start out reasonably cheap and slowly scale over time, though the values never became insane even after my Serah and Noel had mastered three roles at the maximum level of 99. Powergamers will find FF13-2 an appealing, casual leveling paradise.
In addition to picking out which roles to develop early on, bonuses can also be unlocked upon completing a Crystania level such as new roles to dive into or extra attribute points further testing the player's choices. While it can be easy to make a few mistakes because it doesn't exactly tell you how big of a bonus you might get, the system makes it easy to get over them thanks to how quickly you can develop both heroes with a grinding side trip. Casual players intimidated by spreadsheets of statistics from other RPGs will find that FF13-2's upgrade system a friendly experience that can keep things simple by asking them only to pick a role and push a button.
A Pokemon-like system is also introduced allowing players to collect monsters to use as a third party member. These can even be swapped out on the fly via the Paradigm system. As with Serah and Noel, monsters have their own roles but these don't change. Instead, players can feed them items to improve their statistics or even other monsters to inherit certain attributes such as a higher resistance to fire. It's an addition that makes combat a little more interesting by pursuing a beastly menagerie, though I only used a tiny handful of monsters in my own playthrough. For those that want to scratch their collection itch, however, it's another activity that will be deeply appealing.
Battles in FF13-2 revert to random encounters versus being able to see your foes like in FF13 and actually makes sense within its convoluted story when monsters pop in out of thin air and disappear the same way, though some might still see this as a step backwards.
When enemies appear, a "Mog Clock" starts ticking down giving you time to run away, hit them first for a surprise attack, or be dragged into the fight anyway when it runs down. It's a decent system, though the frequency of the battles in some areas can get repetitive. There was one especially boring grind through one zone that threw trash mobs in my way at an almost constant basis until I reached a certain point, something that felt as if it served no other purpose than to waste the player's time.
Despite having a nice, flashy, and polished system to draw from, the most of the fights still felt as much as they did in the last game: passive experiences relying on only one or two roles especially after my party became powerful to the point where they could sleepwalk through most fights. QTEs have been added to the occasional battle, such as against the bosses, and successfully doing these not only helps in battle but also rewards the player with decorative items for their monsters at the end. Failure just means you'll miss out on the goodies – and extra damage.
Still, on the Normal setting, most encounters were fairly simple to get through with little challenge, though specialty encounters floating around can still humble a reasonably powerful party. And like the last game, they're still a remarkable waste of tactical 3D space that other games such as FF12, Namco Bandai's Tales series, or even Dragon Age: Origins have used to their advantage as well as that of the player's. It's remarkable how often the party clumps together to make themselves appealing targets for area attacks.
FF13-2's segmented world is still beautiful to behold. There's no question that Square Enix's artists can consistently pound out visually stunning venues from their imagination factory, especially when it comes to the rendered cinematic work underlining key moments within the storyline. At the same time, though, some of the in-game cuts come off as clumsy seconds with twitchy clothes and NPCs that randomly walk in and out of a scene, sometimes into the main characters, or who talk to themselves in the background.
Cocoon and Pulse are alive with vibrant, bursting color and melancholy greys where needed within detailed backdrops peppered with roaming NPCs. Much of the world design is loaded with eye candy with a city whose Rabanastre-like vastness makes Mass Effect's Citadel look like a tiny apartment complex, though everything still relies on an overdose of invisible walls to keep players from going where they aren't wanted and not every door is an invitation to something else.
Hidden goodies, side quests, and additional opportunities to pry loose a little side story material from the game indulge the more open approach of each zone. NPCs provide "side jobs" such as finding certain items or retrieving others, but none of these have any direct bearing on the story other than in rewarding you with items that are range from being useless decorations or one of the 160 "fragments" that lie scattered throughout the game that shed more light on the background lore of FF13-2.
Using Mog, Serah's Moogle buddy, hidden trinkets can be revealed from invisible pockets of time or retrieved from far away by throwing him at them. If anything else, it's an extra activity for completionists to play with especially if they're looking for more Wild Artefacts to open certain gates and expand their own timeline playground.
FF13-2 also has many puzzles set up as mini-games to go through which are a lot of fun and can often be tough challenges, though like the wandering NPCs during its in-game cinematics, can be awkward for simply being there. Walking into a "paradox" event of swirling energy can shunt the player into a series of different tests such as eliminating a number spots in a set order on a giant clock face, for example. Fortunately, the story-based ones tend to be easier so as not to overly frustrate players.
Stores are also back in the game in the form of a wandering shopkeeper named Chocolina whose bubbly greeting isn't as grating as some parts of the forgettable soundtrack can be. She's everywhere and provides the only real storefront that the game gives the player. And for the most part, her inventory is relatively barren. If you're hoping for a return of weapons variety, armor, and other things, it's not in this sequel.
The accessory system has also undergone another change that seems like an unnecessary attempt to inject a layer of complexity into a system that fared just fine without it. Accessories are now tagged with slot numbers that tell you how many they take up. Serah and Noel start out with a paltry 50, though with further Crystania improvements, this can go up to 100. Items can often require 25, 55, or even 100 slots to be equipped pushing the need to focus on what to gear up with. It's a bizarre change that doesn't have much of an explanation as for why it's there other than to restrict equipment in a forced attempt to lend depth to the gameplay.
Crafting has also been gimped so if you liked it from the last game, FF13-2 gives you little to work with now that the focus is on breeding your monster corps instead. There are a few times that I actually used the system, but with so few options to pick from in comparison to FF13's vast workbench, it doesn't leave much to play with.
A casino has also been added in, but it won't even score as a footnote on a flyer for FF7's Golden Saucer. There are only two games available to players: a moody slot machine and chocobo racing. Card games are also teased, but as the game told me, that's coming in as DLC which seems to be a refrain that FF13-2 seems poised to deliver on. I played a bit of slots before becoming bored and breeding, raising, and racing chocobos seemed about as numbing as it was to me in FF7 – though there was much more to pick from there. Instead of winning casino coins for the prizes, I just ground up what I needed in gil and traded that in for the requisite coins.
FF13-2 is not the shortest Final Fantasy anyone might play, but at 45 hours, it didn't take me nearly as long to get through this adventure as it did with FF13. And that was after doing a number of side quests, grinding up a bit, and unlocking extra time periods to explore. If I had gone straight through instead, I might have been able to shave five or more hours off of that score so your mileage may vary depending on how much of FF13-2's world that you want to explore.
Yet there's a hollow feeling to reaching the finish and part of it has to do with the controversial ending. There really isn't one, only a promise to follow up later on with what might possibly be the real conclusion to this story later on leaving it leaving an empty pit that a lasting sense of completion should have filled in.
It probably wouldn't have been as bad a pill to swallow (movies have been doing what 13-2 has done for ages) if it didn't feel like a cheap advertisement for DLC. Here, it comes off as the kind of stunt that storytelling shysters tease their audiences with – not something that a powerhouse like Square Enix would lower itself to doing.
Yet up to that point, the game duly delivers a solid, entertaining experience – if you can tolerate the mechanical feel of its combat to appreciate what it does better. FF13-2 manages to hit the biggest criticisms leveled against its namesake with varying degrees of success, yet the overall picture that each change colors in easily set it apart as the better game. Every tweak has been engineered to provide as fluid an experience within its relatively loose and open approach leaving what had previously gone awry inside the closed world of its predecessor far behind. Despite the shortcomings, I found myself enjoying this game more so than FF13.
The fixes also suggest to newcomers leery about FF13 to play this instead especially since it summarizes everything making going back an even less appealing option along with putting more options into players' hands early on as opposed to the hours that it took there.
Character development still blurs both Serah and Noel into relatively similar positions after a certain point, the story can sometimes leave players as lost as often as it clips the timeline into fragments, and the weak ending threatens to act as cannon fodder for FF13 haters. On the other side of that chocobo fence, the journey to get there isn't without moments imbued with the sense of wonder and kinetic joy that its climactic battles and tragic twists can still bring.
For fans that are already put off by FF13's world and its characters, the improvements giving it a new coat of pixels may still not be enough to convince them to return. But for those that dare to step back into the worlds of Cocoon and Pulse, it's hard not to get the impression that this was the game that FF13 should have been.
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Ladybugs are said to signify luck - get lucky on Halloween when you dress your little one in this cute as a bug's ear Itty Bitty Lady Bug costume. The absolutely adorable costume hasleg snaps for easy diaper changes, a darling hood with antennae and detachable wings, plus slip-on booties with skid…
What's up, doc? Everything will be looking up when you dress our little one i this clever and officially licensed Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny baby costume - it's a classic. Be sure to take pictures because this is one for the photo album.
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Explore worlds unknown or simply startle the average earthling in this Deep Space Blue Alien child costume. This classic costume, (only one costume included) featuring a blue hooded robe with metallic trim and signature pale blue, bald bug-eyed mask, is truly out of this world!
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'Blue Bloods' Season 4, episode 17: 'Knockout Game' causes expectant couple's tragedy and moreAdd to Favorites | Blue Bloods
A personal tragedy can affect someone in unforeseen ways.
Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) got new proof in "Knockout Game," Friday's (March 14) episode of CBS' "Blue Bloods" written by co-executive producer Brian Burns and directed by Robert Harmon, who also worked with series star Tom Selleck on most of the "Jesse Stone" TV movies.
The story opened with expectant parents Mike and Stephanie Rose (guest stars Josh Segarra and Rose Hemingway) taking an evening stroll and discussing possible names for their child. Suddenly, a gang of youths came rushing up behind them and one punched Stephanie in the face, felling her. A panicked Mike cradled her and screamed for help.
Frank (Selleck) already had concerns about the so-called "knockout game" being practiced randomly throughout the city's boroughs. As he struggled to determine factors linking the attacks, he ordered the NYPD to reach out to informants for any potentially useful information.
At a hospital, Danny and Maria (Marisa Ramirez) tried to get information from a distraught Mike. He was too shaken to be of much assistance, then was shattered when a doctor told him Stephanie had lost the baby.
Still with nothing to go on the next day, the detectives visited an informant known as Third Person Thorpe (guest star Sharrieff Pugh). Indeed referring to himself in the third person, he told Danny, "Thorpe's in the dark on this one, man" -- until his lady friend was threatened with arrest for drugs Maria found. Suddenly, Thorpe came up with a name for them: his cousin, Willie Hayward (guest star Julito McCullum), cited as "the dummy running the knockout game around here."
Finding Willie at a bar, Danny and Maria chased him when he tried to bolt out the back, then used special persuasion to get details from him ... tossing him in their car trunk and driving him around until he agreed to talk.
After asking Garrett (Gregory Jbara) to appeal to the New York press to stop giving the knockout game attention, Frank wasn't happy to find on his desk a letter recommending the promotion of Officer Timothy Doherty (guest star John Behlmann) -- which he already had rejected. Henry (Len Cariou) had enlisted Garrett to put it in front of Frank again, so it was time for a father-son chat at home.
Henry was a "drinking buddy" of Doherty's father, and the two of them had conspired to help secure the promotion, something Frank wanted no part of. "I don't work that way," Frank maintained, saying he didn't approve of earlier regimes that "valued greased palms over an honest rise up."
Nonplussed, Henry asked Frank whether holding someone back professionally because of the same "hook" -- or personal connection -- for which someone might be promoted "isn't just as bad."
Erin (Bridget Moynahan) frantically ran late as her day began, the cause being Jack (guest star Peter Hermann), her ex-husband who secretly had spent the night while their daughter Nicky (Sami Gayle) was away. Erin was concerned Nicky would come home and find Jack there, but he wasn't remotely as worried, pulling Erin into a shower he was in no rush to finish.
As Danny and Maria brought Willie into the precinct for questioning, they found Mike Rose waiting, and wondering if Willie was the man who had attacked his wife. Danny tried to talk down the clearly vengeful Mike, then interrogated Willie, who admitted to being a knockout-game participant. He maintained he wasn't Mrs. Rose's assailant, though, and he had the alibi of having been at a Knicks game that night.
Visiting Mike later, Danny found him painting the baby's intended nursery as a possible form of "closure." Danny also spotted red-paint footprints from Mike's work boots while trying to get information on the attack again. Stephanie then entered and said she recalled one of the youths saying, "You're up, Moses."
Danny reasoned aloud that it probably referred to Moses Caldwell, a known drug dealer in the area. Trying to determine Moses' whereabouts later, Danny found he'd hit a dead end, literally: Moses had just been found in an alley, fatally shot. And when he went to the homicide scene, Danny saw something troubling on the ground ... red-paint footprints from work boots.
Garrett apologized to Frank for doing Henry's bidding, but the matter wasn't resolved yet. Garrett had put the recommendation letter on Frank's desk yet again, believing Officer Doherty deserved the promotion. "Are we going to have a problem here?," Frank asked. "We already do," Garrett replied, accusing Frank of being inflexible.
Frank summoned Officer Doherty to his office to inform him the promotion had been denied, and the young cop mentioned he knew their fathers had been in cahoots on it. Doherty added that he wouldn't want his career advanced that way anyhow, and that he knew Frank had made commissioner on his own, without his father's help. "I know I have a long way to go," Doherty noted.
Erin was less than thrilled when Jack showed up at her office, sporting flowers ... and suggesting they tell Nicky they'd started seeing each other again. Erin replied she wasn't sure, especially since she also wasn't sure she wanted to reunite with Jack completely.
Returning to the Rose residence, Danny strongly advised Mike to get rid of the work boots, prompting Mike to start confessing to having gone to find Moses. "Just stop talking!," Danny shouted, explaining he wasn't there to question Mike again -- though he might have to later.
The weekly Reagan-family dinner proved tense, with Frank and Henry still at odds over Officer Doherty, and Danny preoccupied with the Rose case. Not identifying himself as the subject, Danny talked about having inner conflict over what to do with evidence, and Jamie offered that the cop in question "took the oath" and had to abide by it. Frank added that if the cop was that torn, "Maybe it's time for a career change."
That was all Danny needed: He then went back to the Roses' and arrested Mike for Moses' death.
Still, he sought Erin's help after taking Mike's statement -- in which Mike claimed Moses' gun "just went off" as the two struggled -- and Erin felt a grand jury would rule in Mike's favor. Which it ultimately did, though Danny reminded Mike upon delivering that news to him and Stephanie, "This could have gone the other way."
Things did go the other way for Erin and Jack, during dinner at a restaurant they used to visit on special occasions. Erin thought it might be one, since she was ready to recommit fully to their relationship ... but when she suggested he move back in, Jack hesitated.
"You want just the fun stuff, the easy stuff, like when we were kids," she told him with familiar resignation as she got up to leave. "You're breaking up with me?," her ex asked, startled. "Yes. Yes, I am," she replied firmly, then kept walking.
Frank brought Garrett a bottle of liquor as a peace offering, and revealed he had decided to promote Officer Doherty after all. "I just wanted to thank you for bringing him to my attention," Frank said, then asked how the New York media was responding to the request to downplay the knockout game.
Garrett confirmed that he had made his case to all concerned, and reflected that if another incident occurred -- which both men hoped would not -- "We'll know if we have friends in this."
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LBSU Tennis at Cal State Fullerton Rescheduled Due to Weather
Jan. 25, 2013
LONG BEACH, Calif. - No. 39 Long Beach State has rescheduled its match against Cal State Fullerton for Thursday, Jan. 31 at 2 p.m.
The match, originally scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today, was called off due to weather.
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As a PSU fan, we were pleasantly surprised by Conaway's result at 133.
As a PSU fan, we were pleasantly surprised by Conaway's result at 133.
I thought 157 would be closer. Nice job by Alton.
Jacob Schlottke---Gone too soon, and the world is a little less bright because of it. RIP, brother.
One, two, Evans is coming for you...
That is pitiful. 52out of a possible 60, guess it could have been worse
I thought 133 ,141 ,157,and 285 were winnable or at least -Murphy was 15-5 ,Roach 12-5 (2X Flo champion) Walsh and chalfant.---close
You know, I think I would rather be a man than a god . We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.
I got to the match just after 125 started and by the end of 141, I could only think one thing- IU has to fire Goldman. My apologies to any Indiana fans who still like the guy, but it was bad to watch (and remember, I am a fan of the team that won). Megaludis definitely broke Duca, which isn't all that surprising, but it looked like Duca was moving in slow motion when he went over. Even after the pin was called I couldn't really believe that had worked. Worse than that was Murphy. Conaway (we don't think) is anywhere near Megaludis right now, but Murphy looked like he didn't want to wrestle after the first period.
Pearsall is decent on top, but I was surprised that Roach kept letting him lock up the same cradle.
It looked like their guys just absolutely packed it in for the first three matches. After that, it got better. I realize that there were more pins, but AA is a true pinner and Ruth was no surprise either. Dylan's match with Walsh was pretty good. BUt otherwise, they just looked like a team that wasn't ready to wrestle.
A couple other thoughts:
Taylor looked like hell walking on and off the mat, so I'm guessing he is pretty sick.
Forfeiting a weight seemed unusual, especially since Wright isn't really a Kilgore-like animal that can break people, but I'm guessing they felt it was necessary.
My favorite part of the night - Chalfont was slowing down in the third, as they were walking back to the middle after an OB call, he made a fist and punched himself in the jaw. Gotta love the self-motivating face punch!
I am worried that Dylan couldn't ride Walsh at all. Okay he got the RT point but that was b/c he had 5 TDs. Walsh was up & out usually with 10 seconds. I am concerned about that.
Leblanc looked like he took a page out of Dake's book & was backing up the a lot. DT finally imposing his will with his hand control & got the tilt at the buzzer to get the Bonus. Liked that!
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Couldnt believe DT barely majored Leblanc..
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Like I said above, watching him walk to and away from the mat, he looked like he felt terrible. He looked like himself for about 90 seconds of the match. LeBlanc did nothing other than tie up his elbows from neutral, but it was enough to nearly shut down the whole match.
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Today we're enjoying some midsummer messy play with a sunshine sensory tub!
Midsummer messy play :: solstice sensory tub
Messy play always brings a smile in our house, so we thought we'd add a little midsummer fun with a sensory tub full of sunshine colours.
I often lay out a cloth or towel when we're setting up a messy play area, as it seems to work well to concentrate the mess in one area, and it makes clean up that much easier – just gather up the cloth and pour any stray materials back into the tub. Today we used a gorgeous orange and gold piece of fabric.
You don't often need to buy in things especially for a sensory tub – just use what you have. We've talked recently about how important it is to have lots of loose parts available for children to use in their play, so today I just sent the kids off to hunt out anything sunshine coloured. They found tubs, cups, cookie cutters, bottle tops and lids, paper plates and a big sponge.
I filled the tub with lemon scented rice, yellow split peas and some oricchiette pasta (left over from our autumn play dough trees). This gave a great combination of textures to the sensory play and as all the materials are dry and uncooked, we can store them away at the end of the playing and re-use them many times.
You never know quite how the children will play with a sensory tub. At first they often like to simply scoop and pour the materials, to enjoy the feel and sound of it.
Very often their little animal characters will make an appearance…
but today they were full of surprises, and set up 'A Romantic Meal' that my husband and I were invited to share! They put flowers on the table, picked some herb salad from the garden, set out napkins and even put on some music for us to listen to. I do love my funny, creative kids!
More messy play ideas
If your children love sensory tubs I think they might like:
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Kids ditching Nintendo 3DS in favour of tablets as go-to gaming devices
The children have spoken and it's a damning day for Nintendo as the majority prefer to game on tablets rather than on the dedicated 3DS. This is the first time tablets have overtaken Nintendo's 3DS as the most popular personal games unit owned by UK children.
Tablet gaming has been an ever improving and fast growing platform that threatens to leave handheld consoles in the landfill with dedicated nineties handhelds like Double Dragon and Golden Axe.
In a study by Futuresource Consulting it was found that 44 per cent of UK children between ages 3 and 12 own a tablet – 30 per cent of those aged 3 to 4 even own one. The older kids are more into smartphones with 25 per cent of 9 to 10 years old owning one and 46 per cent of 11 to 12 years olds owning one.
Parents, according to the study, spend over £100 a year on mobile fees for their children. Is that more than they'd spend on 3DS games? Maybe not but you certainly get a lot more games for your buck on tablets and phones.


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NCAA Game Summary - Coppin State vs. Bethune-Cookman
(Tuesday, March 12th)
Final Score: Bethune-Cookman 89, Coppin State 78
Norfolk, VA (Sports Network) - Adrien Coleman scored 28 points and Kevin Dukes added a season-high 22 to lead Bethune-Cookman to an 89-78 victory over Coppin State in a MEAC Tournament first-round clash.
Javoris Bryant also had a big day for the eighth-seeded Wildcats (13-19), who advance to a quarterfinal matchup against No. 1 seed Norfolk State on Wednesday, pulling down a game-high 10 rebounds to go along with 19 points.
Bethune-Cookman trailed 33-32 at the half, but shot 57.1 percent in outscoring the Eagles by a 57-45 margin in the second period.
Taariq Cephas finished with 27 points for ninth-seeded Coppin State (8-24), with Andre Armstrong netting 17 in the loss.


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Television Network Tour Stop Informs Students
Posted: May 3, 2013 at 5:25 a.m.
Broadcast and film students from Rogers and Heritage high schools learned about national television Thursday.
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Part of the C-SPAN bus tour is to recognize winners in the C-SPAN StudentCam competition. Next year's theme will be announced in July and is open to middle and high school students. This year 75 winning documentaries were aired on C-SPAN during April. The competition offers prizes between $250 and $5,000. For more information visit www.studentcam.org.
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16th European Conference on Information Systems at the J.E. Cairnes Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway
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IT artefacts based on auto-id and sensor technologies – often summarised under the notion of "ubiquitous computing" – pose a new challenge to the field of IS research. Price decline and constant miniaturisation allow for embedding digital functionality into a growing number of physical objects, which eventually changes the way we make use of and interact with information systems. As a consequence, companies hope for significant efficiency gains in manufacturing and logistics processes due to improved data acquisition accuracy, complete visibility of supply chain operations and an overall reduction of error-prone manual tasks. On a societal level, however, privacy risks and consumer fears of these emerging technologies have increasingly been voiced.
The purpose of this track is to provide a forum for investigating applications and impact of ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, etc. on organisations, business processes, products/services, employees, and consumers. The focus will be on economic, behavioural and technical issues related to the use of the technologies. Potential authors/researchers are encouraged to submit papers that study new, emerging or existing issues in ubiquitous computing, or analyse the implications of applications pertaining to real-world occurrences.
- Strategies for technology evaluation and implementation of ubiquitous systems - Business value of ubiquitous computing technologies - Business models for smart products and services - Consumer perception and acceptance of ubiquitous computing - New models of human-computer interaction for smart objects - Ethical and trust issues in ubiquitous applications - Application scenarios in corporate business processes - Frameworks and models for the analysis of internal and inter-organisational impacts - Systems integration and data management - Practical use of RFID and sensor data in enterprise information systems - Security mechanisms for ubiquitous information systems - Technology diffusion and the role of standards - Case studies of real-world deployments in logistics, manufacturing, maintenance, etc.
- Oliver Guenther, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Travels of Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan Muslim whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta. He was born on February 25, 1304. He started his travel in 1325 with the intention to perform Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). His travel lasted about 29 years in which he traveled an equivalent of about 44 modern countries. He visited many places in North Africa, West Africa, Turkey and Eastern Europe, Arabian Peninsula, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China.
Ibn Battuta returned from his travels in 1354. On the request of Abu Inan Faris, the Sultan of Morocco at that time, he dictated an account of his journeys to a scholar named Ibn Juzayy. This travelogue is known as 'Tuhfat al-Nuzzar fi Ghara'ib al-Amsar wa-'Aja'ib al-Asfar' (A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling). Commonly, it is simply referred to as the 'Rihla' or 'The Journey'.
According to Historian Ross E.Dunn in 'The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the fourteenth century':
"The book [Rihla] has been cited and quoted in hundreds of historical works, not only those relating to Islamic countries but to China and Byzantine empire as well. For the history of certain regions sudanic west Africa, Asia Minor or the Malabar coast of India, for example, the Rihla stands as the only eye-witness report on political events, human geography, and social or economic conditions for a period of century or more."Ibn Battuta records the start of his journey in the following words :
"I set out alone, having neither fellow-traveler in whose companionship I might find cheer, nor caravan whose party I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me, and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries [of Makkah and Madinah]. So I braced my resolution to quit all my dear ones...and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests. My parents being yet in the bonds of life, it weighed sorely upon me to part from them, and both they and I were afflicted-with sorrow at this separation."On feeling of homesickness, Ibn battuta writes:
"At last we came to the town of Tunis.... Townsfolk came forward on all sides with greetings and questions to one another. But not a soul said a word of greeting to me, since there was none of them that I knew. I felt so sad at heart on account of my loneliness that I could not restrain the tears that started to my eyes, and wept bitterly. But one of the pilgrims, realizing the cause of my distress, came up to me with a greeting and friendly welcome, and continued to comfort me with friendly talk until I entered the city, where I lodged in the College of the Booksellers."
Following are various excerpts from his travelogue that are quite interesting as they provide an eye-witess account of the various cultures of that era:
"The baths at Baghdad are numerous and excellently constructed, most of them being painted with pitch, which has the appearance of black marble. This pitch is brought from a spring between Kufa and Basra, from which it flows continually. It gathers at the sides of the spring like clay and is shovelled up and brought to Baghdad. Each establishment has a large number of private bathrooms, every one of which has also a wash-basin in the corner, with two taps supplying hot and cold water. Every bather is given three towels, one to wear round his waist when he goes in, another to wear round his waist when he comes out, and the third to dry himself with. In no town other than Baghdad have I seen all this elaborate arrangement, though some other towns approach it in this respect."
"The hens and cocks in China are very big indeed, bigger than geese in our country and hens' eggs there are bigger than our goose eggs."India:
"Betel-trees are grown like vines on can trellises or else trained up coco-palms. They have no fruit and are only grown for their leaves. The Indians have a high opinion of betel, and if a man visits a friend and the latter gives him five leaves of it, you would think he had given him the world, especially if he is a prince or notable. A gift of betel is a far greater honour than a gift of gold and silver. It is used in the following way: First one takes areca-nuts, which are like nutmegs, crushes them into small bits and chews them. Then the betel leaves are taken, a little chalk is put on them, and they are chewed with the areca-nuts."
"The variety and expenditure of the religious endowmentsat Damascus are beyond computation. There are endowments in aid of persons who cannot undertake the pilgrimage to Makkah, out of which are paid the expenses of those who go in their stead. There are other endowments for supplying wedding outfits to girls whose families are unable to provide them, and others for the freeing of prisoners. There are endowments for travellers, out of the revenues of which they are given food, clothing, and the expenses of conveyance to their countries. Then there are endowments for the improvement and paving of the streets, because all the lanes in Damascus have pavements on either side, on which the foot passengers walk, while those who ride use the roadway in the centre."
Makkah (Mecca):
"The Meccans are very elegant and clean in their dress, and most of them wear white garments, which you always see fresh and snowy. They use a great deal of perfume and kohl and make free use of toothpicks of green arak-wood. The Meccan women are extraordinarily beautiful and very pious and modest. They too make great use of perfumes to such a degree that they will spend the night hungry in order to buy perfumes with the price of their food."


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"I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use. [My designs] will have more of a rock star look to it."–Luscious Olympian swimmer/star of my fantasies Ryan Lochte on what he may do after he snags a few gold medals.
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Five Star Quality Care is closing two skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities in Mills County – Glenwood-based Park Place and Pacific Place located east of Pacific Junction.
The Massachusetts-based owner and operator of the two facilities announced the closures last week. Combined, Park Place and Pacific Place treat nearly 100 adult residents with physical or intellectual disabilities and employ over 250 workers.
More than 300 people, including dignitaries from Iowa and Nebraska, attended the dedication ceremony for the opening of the U.S. Highway 34 - Missouri River Bridge Oct. 22 at the AgriVision complex near Pacific Junction.
The four-lane bridge links Interstate 29 in western Mills County with U.S. Highway 75 south of Offutt Air Force Base in Sarpy County, Neb.
Four collisions at the intersection of 195th St. and Highway 34 within 40 hours of Thursday's opening of the Highway 34 westbound overpass and redesigned Interstate 29 interchange in western Mills County left two people hospitalized with serious injuries and Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) officials taking extra measures to prevent future accidents.
A motorcyclist being pursued by the Iowa State Patrol was arrested and transported to an Omaha hospital after crashing the stolen bike in Mills County shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23.
Chad Larsen, 36, of Council Bluffs crashed in the ditch of the eastbound lane of U.S. Highway 34, approximately one-half mile east of Highway 275 (Tabor turnoff). He attempted to flee on foot but was apprehended and arrested after climbing over a barbed-wire fence and falling down repeatedly while trying to get away through a nearby farm field.
Kenny Spencer admits he never envisioned his career in professional football leading to a prominent role on a reality TV show or personal friendships with rock-and-roll music legends Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS fame.
Spencer, a 2005 Glenwood Community High School graduate, is the place kicker for the LA KISS, an Arena Football League (AFL) team partially owned by the two band members from KISS and the focus of the 10-week 4th and Loud docu-series that began airing in August on Tuesday nights on AMC (9 p.m. CDT).
Fremont-Mills completed a Corner Conference baseball sweep of Stanton Thursday with a 12-3 victory.
Fremont-Mills scored three runs in the first inning and piled on to their lead from there. The Knights (8-2 overall, 7-0 in the conference) scored two more in the third and four more in the fifth to take a commanding lead.
Stanton scored late, but it wasn't enough as the Knights completed the sweep.
Brock Hansen went 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI. Lane Goodman meanwhile went 2-for-4 with a run scored and two RBIs.
Nothing was going to stop Kay Glynn from attending this year's Iowa Senior Games.
Certainly not surgery.
Glynn wasn't about to let previous surgeries keep her out of competing at the games. In 2013, Glynn had her hip resurfaced. A longtime osteoarthritis sufferer in her hip, Glynn got the surgery done late in the summer to alleviate the pain. Last year, Glynn tore her ACL, requiring another surgery.
"It was back to surgery and I had to wait for another six months," she said.
Sioux City East built a 7-1 lead after four innings to turn away Glenwood in a non-conference baseball Friday in Sioux City.
The Rams (11-8 overall, 9-6 in the conference) found themselves down 3-0 after an inning and 7-1 after four before trimming the lead to 7-5 with a four run fifth. But the Black Raiders responded with three runs in the bottom of the frame to extend their lead.
The Glenwood softball team dropped four games last weekend at the Ankeny Softball Invitational.
The Rams (11-8 overall, 9-6 in the conference) struggled to put runs on the board in the tournament that featured stiff competition but head coach Tom Horton thinks the competition can help his team heading into the post-season.
June 17 – A vehicle driven by Andrew Brant of Pacific Junction was eastbound on Coolidge Road when the vehicle left the roadway and went across an empty parking lot, striking a building. No injuries were reported.
June 12 - Faith Felos of Glenwood reported a burglary and theft.
June 18 – Michael Rupe of Glenwood reported a burglary and theft.
June 26 - Kelly Hall of Omaha reported a domestic abuse assault.
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