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It's only recently that I've been able to confidently say that Adult Swim's logo is an assurance of quality when it comes to games. I still haven't gotten over how weird that is, either. "Adult Swim makes good games." Dear lord, I remember the days of Aqua Teen Hunger Force's PlayStation 2 game – Zombie Ninja Pro-Am! A kart racing, fighting, and golf game hybrid. And about 100% less fun than that sounds, let me assure you. …hold on.
Déjà vu? Déjà vu. Why, I was doing this song and dance not long ago with Super House of Dead Ninjas. I was genuinely surprised by Super House of Dead Ninjas – having written off Adult Swim as capable of nothing but producing mildly funny animated shows for very very drunk people, picking up a for-money game from them seemed like it could go either way. But it went the best way. The good way! Super House of Dead Ninjas was, despite its wacky, hilarious name, a more or less perfect little on-the-cheap faux-arcade game. It was genuinely, properly, and impressively entertaining – and I wasn't even drunk.
Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe (PC)
Developed by Andrew Morrish – Published by Adult Swim Games
So, then, heading into a similarly named "wacky" title, my expectations weren't low anymore. I had figured out Adult Swim's MO – sucker pundits in with cheap prices and stupid concepts with a retro sheen, wow them with said concept executed flawlessly. I expected nothing but greatness from Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe, and… well, give Adult Swim credit, because they know how to choose 'em: they pulled it off. Again!
Alright. I think you know the drill by now. Adult Swim makes a bunch of Flash games on their website. Entering the publishing dealie, they take one of those Flash games, spruce it up until it justifies a pricetag, launch it on Steam to critical acclaim and massive profits. They get their money, we get sweet games; everyone wins. Except Activision – who, in this fictional scenario I've concocted, sit by the freezer in their pajamas, wiping tears from their face and eating ice-cream straight from the bucket.
So what's the wacky concept we're working with this time? Well, you know those dropping-block puzzle games? Like Tetris and… um… Tetris clones? …you know those platformers like Super Meat Boy and VVVVVV? What if you combined them to make a literal puzzle-platformer? …I know, I know! That's insane! Five stars.
Yeah, no, that's the concept. It sounds entertaining. Definitely enough to hold up a free web Flash game. Trick is, developer Andrew Morrish has had to spit-shine this little concept to hold up a $7.99 asking price. Not an easy job, but the man clearly has talent, because he pulled it off. Obviously. I wouldn't have said so in my opening paragraph otherwise. Under the watchful eyes of Adult Swim Games, he's assembled the parts from the web-based original to form a game worth paying for with dollars, euros, pounds and groats. The entertainment factor is still there, but in playing it, the absurdity wears off – giving way to genuinely properly good game design and mechanics. Hooray! We win, Activision cries, so on, so forth.
So, how does the game actually play? Well. If I were to represent it as a mixture of other games you're already familiar with (since I'm a hack who uses shorthand references instead of actually writing down original thoughts, content and ideas), I would say it's like if you took the jumping, shooting and running of Super Crate Box, and took all of that, and put it in a pit, and threw a whole bunch of loose Tetris for GameBoy cartridges into the pit. Then stirred it around with a spoon made of pixel art and 16-bit bleep bloops.
Essentially, you play as a little yellow chap with a laser gun. You're basically stuck inside a block puzzle game – the giant cubes falling from the sky, forcing you to avoid them lest you get horrifically crushed, and die. It's a tough, thankless job. Luckily, thanks to your laser gun, you can demolish the blocks. There are three colours of blocks; if you shoot a block connected to a block of the same colour, you destroy both at once. That there's called a "combo". You destroys lots of blocks at once, and you get points. And little star bits. And diamonds, which you collect so many of to progress through the levels. Oh, and, um, pit of spikes underneath the blocks. So you can't destroy them all, cos you have to stand on them. See how that works?
The game's best feature by far is how smoothly it plays. Probably thanks to an unlimited framerate, jumping and shooting feels great, very light and intuitive without feeling at all weightless. The tuning done to the platforming physics are pitch-perfect down to the nanosecond, and it ensures that whether you're playing for a minute or an hour, the game is a joy to actually play the whole time. The controls work flawlessly, keyboard or gamepad, so whichever you choose to use, you'll always get the same great game feel. Hooray!
Progress comes in two flavours. One, you could collect diamonds, after which collecting so many you can go to the next stage so you can… you know. Finish the game. Then there's "levels". By collecting bits, you increase a little progress bar – when the bar fills up, you level up, giving you higher jumps and stronger attacks and basically they let you more efficiently beat up the dropping tetronimo wannabes. That's a good thing – a less good thing, is that every time you level up, things besides tetronimos drop.
Once you hit level 2, you'll start getting dangers like waves of blocks dropping all at once, or, death laser cannons, or, slippery ice blocks, or, cobwebs, or homing rockets, or, ghosts. You get the picture, yeah? Leveling up provides you with both risk and reward, giving you new abilities and dangers to overcome, and giving me the chance you use the term "risk and reward," making me seem like a bigshot internet writer who understands videogame design theory (even though I just read about the term in a fanzine once).
So that seems pretty interesting, eh? When you level up you get cool new powers and also you get a bunch of enemies and dangers to stop. Some of them you can stop by shooting blocks – the cannons will land on top of the coloured squares, and destroying the square or set of squares adjacent to it will destroy it. Hooray! Other traps you can shoot directly. Also hooray! You can grab an invincibility power-up sometimes, meaning nothing can kill you for a brief period. Double hooray! But eventually, inevitably, you will succumb to some kind of danger-type thing. A cannonball will blast into your yellow, chummy face, with absolutely no regard to common courtesy. Dick.
Okay, so, here's how it works. Get hit while you're at level 1, and you die. BOOM. DEAD. GAME OVER. GO TYPE YOUR ULTRA-LOW SCORE ONTO THE LEADERBOARD TABLE, NOOB.
If you get hit at level 2, you get a slap at the wrist and go down to level 1. If you get hit at level 3 (the highest level), you go down to level 2. …so um, yeah, when you get hit you go down a level. That didn't need to take as many sentences as it did, but as I mentioned before, I am a terrible hack. I'd be downright embarrassed, for you and the website, if I was getting paid for this. Thank god Boss Dungeon is actually siphoning money, huh?
So yeah. Assuming you don't suck, you make your way to level 3, survive all the threats and collect enough diamonds to get you to the next stage. Then cool stuff happens!
There are a handful of varied stages to unlock visit, based off of various well-worn videogame-typical environments. There's an ancient cavern, an active volcano (complete with spouting balls of fiery lava!), an icy chamber… why, there's even a haunted house, with ghosts! As you go, you also unlock new yellow chums to play as, each with a different set of extraordinary moves. Usually they're self-explanatory. Jetpack guy has a jetpack. Ninja can double-jump, and has throwing stars. There are eight characters to collect, all in all, and it adds some well-needed variety to the proceedings.
Also adding variety is the addition of challenge chambers. There's a lot of these you can unlock, and they task you with accomplishing astonishing feats of skill! It's in here where the game's true depth is perhaps properly unveiled – mastering the art of jumping over spiked pits is certainly one thing, but being tasked to do so under extraneous circumstances really puts the physics engine to the test. Good news: they hold up! And thus the challenge rooms are a welcome and pleasant diversion.
An odd – though certainly not unwarranted – addition is the inclusion of a two-player, split-screen versus mode. Basically, you and a buddy take a little yellow chum each, and compete to see who can either get the highest score in ninety seconds, or just not die. You'll need a control pad for it, but it's a genuinely entertaining little mode – even if me and my brother kind of died within a few seconds trying to fuck each other over. We weren't paying attention, alright? Our competitive streak doesn't run as deep as our trolling.
The fun thing about the multiplayer mode is that, in a move similar to Tetris Battle, whenever you get a combo, your opponent is faced with a danger. The larger the combo, the less trivial the danger. So if I get a combo of, say, three squares (a feeble combo to be sure), my opponent might get a cannon on their head. But if I get a combo of thirteen squares, my opponent might be faced by a barrage of extra blocks all at once! Take that, you smarmy bastard! Oh, you're sitting right next to me. Oh, you heard me say that out loud, huh. Oh, you threw the wireless controller out the window. Oh.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that this game has a fantastic core gameplay element, executed very well, and it has all the ancillary modes needed to justify a pricetag. Addendum to that: a pricetag. It justifies having a price attached to it. I'm yet to decide, however, if it justifies the $7.99 pricetag – and it could be seen as a bit of a stretch when so many games on Steam provide about the same amount of enjoyment and polish for less than a fiver.
In a way, it certainly is. Fun-to-money-spent ratio, it's well worth it. There's such an array of unlockables and bonus content that I can't see anyone feeling ripped off; but at the same time, it's definitely not as good value as Super House of Dead Ninjas, and that game is priced at a dollar less than this. For example – the stellar chiptune-esque soundtrack composed by Landon Podbielski isn't included with the game, even though Super House of Dead Ninjas' is provided as downloadable content from within the game. It's worth mentioning, though, that aside from the gameplay content, the game truly is polished almost to a fault. The pixel art exudes charm, and the animations are all extremely well-done – smooth and high quality despite the little yellow chums basically just being… uh, well, little yellow chums.
They're designed quite well, though. They're exceedingly adorable, very cute despite basically being even less-detailed LEGO heads walking around with capes and jetpacks and facemasks. The sense of humour, while not running as deep as Dead Ninjas, is present and rather knowing (you can turn "blast processing" on and off in the menu and it does… nothing, to my knowledge). Oh. And I think it's worth noting that this game is (apart from the music) made by one guy, aforementioned Andrew Morrish. I don't know his back catalogue, but he's at least proven himself here as a name to watch for. So I think I'll be doing just that.
At the end of the day, I think the finest thing you can say about Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe is that it does everything it promises it would do. It never once lied to me, which is certainly heartwarming. Yes, it is what it says on the tin: Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe is a super puzzle platformer, deluxe.
…yeah, I just wrote that down like it was clever.
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President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Aminu Maigari declared on Sunday that the Super Eagles are well prepared to run over Iran and earn three points when both teams clash in the second match of Group F at the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals on Monday.
The game scheduled to take place in the 42,000 capacity Arena da Baixada in Curitiba will be the first time both countries are meeting at the FIFA World Cup finals.
"Our boys are ready for this task. I have been with the team all the way from London (friendly with Scotland) to their final camping in the USA and now here in Brazil.
"The spirit is good and I believe they will go all out on Monday," said Maigari, who flew with the team to Curitiba on Saturday morning.
"The presence of the Federal Government delegation, the kind words of the members of the delegation and the arrival of the NFF delegation have all boosted the morale of our team in a big way. The boys know that the Government and people of Nigeria are with them and they know what they have to do to make Nigeria and Africa proud," Maigari added.
Nigeria is the lowest -ranked team in Group F, but that will count for nothing when the African champions set sail at the Arena da Baixada, according to Maigari.
Nigeria have Chelsea midfield anchor; Mikel Obi and wing wizard; Victor Moses, Stoke City forward; Osaze Odemwingie and physical striker; Emmanuel Emenike to look up to in the must -win encounter tomorrow.
A win against Iran will put the Super Eagles in pole position to survive a tough group that also has Argentina and Bosnia and Herzegovina contending for a qualifying slot.

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The buildscripts in the SVN is availible for you to modify and build your own version of this project. (And to prove that every file on the OS image disks are under an OSI complient or creative commons license)
Oh yeah, it's also meant to be the first Wayland Live CD, and soon it will try to use Wayland instead of using X.
It's also in ALPHA so be careful!
This distribution is 3RD PARTY fan made. Yes. I am a fan of Rebecca Black.
The new ISO is released. It supports Wayland EFL, in addition to the GTK, and QT toolkits that where on the old one, and has many Wayland related fixes, and sort of works on VirtualBox, and has the experimental direct startup to Wayland.


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Softball Notches Two Wins on Day One of San Diego State Classic II
March 15, 2013
Santee, Calif. Long Beach State (17-10) notched two wins on day one of the San Diego State Classic as it defeated Massachusetts 9-1 and Miami (OH) 4-2 on Friday.
Game 1 - LBSU 9, UMASS 1
Dan Garcia opened up the third inning with a single and then moved to second after a bunt single by Shayna Kimbrough. After a sacrifice fly by St. Germain, Garcias was able to score as the 49ers went up 2-0. With Massachusetts back on offense, the first batter was hit by a Jones-Wesley pitch. She then struck out the next batter, with the next UMASS player grounding out as the runner on first advanced to second. Massachusetts then hit a single, which brought in a Massachusetts run to pull the team within 2-1.
The top of the fourth started with a pop up to the short stop by Karli Sandoval. Leilani Tupua-Tautalatasi then hit a single. Jones-Wesley came into the lineup and reached first on a fielder's choice, while Tupua Tautalatasi was thrown out at second. Ashley Holmes then singled and advanced to second on a throwing error, which moved Jones-Wesley to third. Garcia then singled to the pitcher, which brought in jones-Wesley for a run to put The Beach up 3-1.
Back in the circle, Jones-Wesley got the first batter to ground out, but walked the second. After a fly out, another batter was walked, but Jones-Wesley was able to get out of the inning without giving up a run after striking out the final batter of the inning.
Stephan started the fifth off with a single to the short stop. After a pop up by St. Germain, Tautalafua was walked, putting runners at first and second. Sandoval then flied out to left field. Tautalafua was then walked, loading up the bases for the 49ers, but Jones-Wesley flied out to end the inning with LBSU still up 3-1. Jones-Wesley then got three quick outs in the circle as the game headed to the sixth inning.
UMASS knocked off the first three LBSU batters as the Minutewomen went back on offense. Jones-Wesley struck out the first two batters, before giving up a single to right field, but was able to get a ground out to end the inning.
Stephan opened up the top of the seventh with a single to the left side, but was thrown out on a fielder's choice, which put St. Germain on first. Tautalafua then popped up to first base for the second out of the inning. St. Germain stole second with Sandoval up at bat. Sandoval hit a single to right center, which brought in St. Germain for the 49ers fourth score of the game (4-1). Emily Gregorio was then brought in to pinch run for Sandoval. Tupua-Tautalatasi then reached first on an error, moving Gregorio to second. Jones-Wesley then hit a double to left field, bringing in Gregorio and Tupua-Tautalatasi to put LBSU up 6-1. The 49er pitcher then moved to third after a UMASS pitching error. Ashley Holmes then hit a single, bringing in Jones-Wesley for another 49er run (7-1).Garcia followed with a single through the right side, putting runners on first and second.
The 49er offense kept rolling after a triple by Kimbrough brought in two more LBSU runs, putting Long Beach up 9-1, which caused UMASS to make a pitching change. With the new pitcher, Stephan flied out, ending the inning. Jones-Wesley struck out the first batter, got the second to ground out, and ended the game with a fly out for her ninth win of the season (9-6). The junior recorded her eighth complete game, while notching eight strike outs.
Game 2 - LBSU 4, Miami (OH) 2
Both teams failed to score a run in the third or fourth innings, but the 49ers were able to get some offense going in the bottom of the fifth as Stephan started the inning with a single. St. Germain then singled as Stephan moved to third. Tautalafua then hit a single, bringing in Stephan for a run. Miami made a pitching change, but the 49er bats were still hot as Sandoval then hit a single, bringing in St. Germain for LBSU's fourth and final run of the game.
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The total market for external controller-based disk storage was US$3.8 billion in the first quarter, Gartner said, down 11.1 per cent from US$4.2 billion in Q1 2008.
The analyst group attributes the fall to the economic downturn and longer sales cycles.
Gartner analyst Phillip Sargeant notes that while total vendor revenue has dropped by 11.1 per cent year-on-year, storage capacity rose by some 26 per cent in the same time frame.
Sargeant says the storage market has become so competitive, storage vendors are "offering discounts of between 40 and 70 per cent."
Added to this, he said, the cost of raw storage continues to erode - with the cost of high-end fibre channel and SAS storage dropping at 20-25 per cent and cheaper alternatives like SATA-based storage dropping by 30 per cent.
Sargeant said many users have simply put off or delayed a number of their projects due to the tight economy.
"When the economy rebounds I expect the storage industry to do the same," he said. "There will always be the odd project that will require massive amounts of storage, [but] I'm not seeing a whole lot at this time."
EMC continues to dominate the market with US$879 million of revenue for the quarter and roughly 23 per cent market share, followed by IBM with 11.1 per cent, Hitachi/HDS with 10.6 per cent, HP with 9.8 per cent, Dell with 9.2 per cent, NetApp with 8.5 per cent and Sun Microsystems with 4 per cent.
The Gartner report does not include software and services revenue - nor does it include the OEM revenue EMC earns from Dell and Fujitsu Siemens or HDS earns from HP and Sun Microsystems. No mention is made in the report of the OEM revenue NetApp earns from IBM.
Sargeant said several vendors continue to mask how much of their revenues are attributable to OEM sales.
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The latest version of the naughty-but-nice vocal acts that nimbly straddle pop, R&B, and hip-hop, 3LW (Three Little Women) are part 'round the way girls and part li'l sisters. Along with hot beats, this trio has sass and attitude, which often count more than actual vocal ability. But these gals can sing, even if it's often in that somewhat whiny, plaintive tone so beloved in contemporary R&B. As might be expected from their finger-waggin' smash, "No More," much of 3LW's thematic fixation is on boys and their shortcomings. In fact, a good subtitle for this engaging and strong debut might be "more songs about boys and pagers," since it seems that the little women spend most of the CD tracking down loser men with various electronic devices. As is the case with most of these contemporary girl groups, though, 3LW are no victims. On the remix of "No More," which features Nas, the girls display a gritty, mature determination that might be worth exploring on their next effort. Amy Linden
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The Ever Funky Yoo Hotels to Open Spin-Off Brand, Yoo2, in Rio De Janeiro Next Year
Got plans for the holidays next year? YOO Hotels & Resorts do as they expand into South America with their "diffusion" lifestyle brand YOO2. The campaign kicks off in Rio de Janeiro with the opening of YOO2 Botafogo in December 2015.
This sounds like the start of something big, with a newly formed alliance between YOO Hotels & Resorts and Intercity Hotel Group, who will manage all YOO2 hotels in Brazil. We hear there are up to seven in the works, but could there be more?
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Soon 'YOO' Can Kick Back In Style When Aqua Boracay By YOO Opens Next Year
Looking for a hot beachfront getaway that will knock your socks off, and quite possibly the cell phone right out of your hand? Check out Bulabog Beach on the eastern shores of Boracay, Philippines, a small and heavenly island that is gaining momentum as the next "it" beach destination. And guess which seriously stylish hotel group will open the first branded resort on the island? "YOO" guessed it, it's YOO, whose design-driven brand will debut later next year as Aqua Boracay by YOO.
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5 Design Hotels That Will Make Leaf-Peeping Less 'Basic'
Nothing like 269 pieces of modern art by 36 local artists to light up, so to speak, a former tobacco warehouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Autumn is officially upon us and for most of the eastern U.S., the temperatures are getting cooler while the colors are getting hotter. Fall foliage expeditions have always been popular (some may call it "leaf-peeping") and the scenery each year is never quite the same, as Mother Nature ultimately decides the color palette.
Yet, some of the regular hotel options along the fall foliage trail are rather "basic". You know, a little too much pumpkin spice and not a lot of actual pumpkin.
So we've decided to break away and seek out some less ordinary hotel options.
Here are five hotel picks for this season, each with its own story to tell.
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The Watson in Adelaide, Australia is More Than Elementary
When pinning places to go on your next vacation, hopeful travelers might be surprised to find that Adelaide, Australia is a perfect destination to explore a budding art scene and stay in a new hotel. The city has witnessed a few new hotels enter its borders, but The Watson will be the coolest addition to an otherwise sleepy city.
The Watson is the brainchild of Art Series Hotels (the folks behind Melbourne's The Olson, The Blackman and The Cullen.) Planning to open next week, the hotel will offer up 140 suites, an in-house restaurant and fitness center. If you just need to provide this cool address to friends back home, a few long-stay apartments are available as well.
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Funky Friday: You've Done The Ice Bucket Challenge, Now Do The Ice Bar Challenge
Enjoy vodka IN the rocks amid 20 tons of ice art that make up the Ice Kube Bar, reputed to be the first and only ice bar in the French capital.
Welcome to Funky Friday, a new segment we're trying out which features one photo that we think singularly expresses a hotel's inner psyche. We look for, and often find, a lot of wacky, wild and wondrous designs that seem to have one thing in common: a Type A personality. So why not have a bit of fun as we all wrap up our week by taking a quick look at some hotels that quite frankly, want our attention.
Welcome to Funky Friday, a new segment we're trying out which features one photo that we think singularly expresses a hotel's inner psyche. We look for, and often find, a lot of wacky, wild and wondrous designs that seem to have one thing in common: a Type A personality. So why not have a bit of fun as we all wrap up our week by taking a quick look at some hotels that quite frankly, want our attention.
Ice hotels come and go and they don't come cheap as we have seen in the ICEHOTEL design suites. Well, put your plastic away because for a mere €25 (for three drinks) you can chill out in Paris—yes Paris-- at the Kube Hotel's seriously cool Ice Kube Bar. Whether or not you took the ice bucket challenge, and we commend you if you did, a visit to the Ice Kube Bar is a must see when in Paris.
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Hotel Skeppsholmen Stockholm Is a Country Hotel Hiding in the City
Looking at the above photograph of the front yard and entrance to Hotel Skeppsholmen, you'd be forgiven to think it's somewhere in the scenic Scandinavian countryside rather than a 20-minute walk from Stockholm's Old Town.
Its split personality is a result of its setting on the tiny island from which the hotel takes its name, which is almost entirely parkland, and the 18th century buildings that have been converted into the hotel. We spent an overnight at Skeppsholmen on a short visit to the Swedish capital – read on to see what we found.
Check-In: we arrived at the hotel by taxi, having taken the Arlanda Express from the airport to the city's central station. Big mistake: it cost us $35 for the short journey, and bus no65 does the same journey for a few dollars. Given that a return on Arlanda Express alone is $65, we made sure to save the cab fare on the way back. Check-in was quick and easy, and we were on our way to our room in a few minutes.
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The Thief Hotel Will Steal Your Anglophilic Heart With Its Brit Suite
The Broom Suite
It always seems to come as a surprised to us highly reticent, self-effacing Britons that other nations dig us – especially since we are a nation of inveterate travellers, always off on our long weekends and citybreaks to escape Broken Britain™.
But dig us they do, and the latest place to show its Britophilia is the Thief Hotel in Oslo, which has just unveiled two suites which it describes as "a homage to British design, art and culture". Luckily there's not a Union Jack inside – this is sleek, classy and understated Britain on show.
One is, fittingly, called The Brit Suite, and is entirely furnished with hand-made Conran (as in Terence) loot. The other is The Broom Suite, which gives the furnishings over to Lee Broom, this latest generation's Conran, for his first hotel project. British photography and art by Bryan Ferry (yeah the real Bryan Ferry) and Sarah Hardacre complete the Anglocentricity. As you can see, this is sleek and stylish Britain on display - not a Union Jack in sight.
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Welcome To Croatia's Newest Beach, At Rovinj's Hotel Lone
Nothing says summer like a beach club – at least, that's what Hotel Lone in Croatia thinks. A trendy hotel (it's a member of Design Hotels) in Rovinj, the Lone opened its pool area last summer, and has now launched a club, Mulini Beach, to join it.
As you'd expect from the kind of joint that has a concept store selling the work of local artists, it ain't your bog standard beach club. Instead, there's almost a lido feel to it, with a white stone and concrete platform arcing out into the water, surrounding a manmade pebble beach – the first in Rovinj, no less (not that Croatia exactly needs manmade beaches, having one of the greatest coastlines in Europe).
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Hot To Trot And Kid-Friendly: Praia Verde Is A Trendy Parent's Dream Hotel
Are you a parent who prides themself on being cool, not frumpy? Does your heart sink if you check into a family-friendly-but-mediocre resort? Do you have too much self-awareness to run the gauntlet of wrathful looks if you chance it with the kids in a trendy place?
If so, you need to get to Portugal. Specifically, Praia Verde, in Castro Marim, on the eastern coast of the Algarve. It's the latest property for the Design Hotels portfolio, and it's family friendly. No, apparently that's not a contradiction in terms.
The all-suite property opened in April, and goes for a look that will complement, rather than dominate the landscape: a low-rise building with neutral colors and natural materials – wood, slate, even straw – to keep the focus on the outside, even when inside.
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Inside The 1888 Hotel, An Alternative to Sydney's Corporate Hotel Scene
1888 Shakes Things Up With a "Cozy Industrial Vibe"
Focusing on being Instagram-worthy as it does (and handing out free nights if you have 10,000 followers or more), Sydney's 1888 Hotel better be bringing it in the looks department. We showed you how to get the lobby (or yourself) into the frame, and are following up today with a closer look at how the rest of the hotel measures up.
1888's Pyrmont location puts you just on the "other" side of Darling Harbour, to the west of Sydney's CBD. A stroll across the pedestrian bridge will take you into the city's core in 15 minutes, or you can take the scenic ferry route and sail underneath the Harbour Bridge before you dock at Circular Quay.
Getting to the hotel from the airport is easy enough: hop on the express train to the city's Central Station and change to the monorail, get off at Convention Centre (you buy the monorail ticket on the train), enter the parking garage and take the lift up to the fourth floor, exit on the other side, and 1888 is right in front of you. The red brick building (formerly a wool-storage facility) certainly looked pretty against the backdrop of bright blue Sydney skies when we arrived.
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Sydney's 1888 Hotel Looks Good Enough to Frame
And you can get yourself easily in the picture: just step behind the frame (or 'Selfie' space as the hotel calls it) that hangs from one of the wooden beams in the lobby of this wool-storage facility turned hotel in Sydney's Pyrmont district, snap away, tag it #1888Hotel and it will appear on the screens near reception.
Since we know you'd much rather look at hotels than us, we'll let the lobby itself have its close up, which has various seating areas (including a small restaurant section), a living tree, and a set of glass elevators that take you up through the four-story atrium to one of the 90 bedrooms.
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A 'Wander'-ful Design Team Interprets a Chinese Fairy Tale at The Mira Moon
The Mira Moon in Hong Kong is 100 percent hotel haute couture and we all look good in it. This hotel unabashedly shows off its own sense of style and we, as the guests, become the necessary accessory.
In case you're not sure what we're talking about, this is the sister hotel developed by the Miramar Group, after the Mira Hong Kong, another visual journey (and hide-out for NSA leaker, Edward Snowden.) We think they may have outdone themselves with this one.
The hotel takes its name from the traditional Chinese "Moon Festival" which is celebrated in the Autumn. This is a festival of good fortune, honoring the Goddess of Immortality who has inspired many a Chinese fairy tale. It has also inspired a dream team of designers, who took this happy fairy tale and turned it into a one-of-kind, high fashion boutique hotel. Who else could pull this off better than Wanders & yoo?
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AVADirect Clevo W880CU
SpecificationsNotebook: AVADirect Clevo W880CU
Processor: Intel Core i7 720QM
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Display: 17.3 inch, 16:9, 1920x1080 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 3.9kg
Price: 1800 euro
Sold in: Anglo-America
Reviews for the AVADirect Clevo W880CU
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For most, the Clevo W880CU is overkill. Everyday tasks are just as easily performed on machines less than half the price, while the gaming experience can be ostensibly similar on significantly more affordable rivals. Nonetheless, with its combination of sturdy build, quietly confident styling and hardware not just sufficient for today's breed of high-end games but titles around the corner too, we can't help but find the W880CU appealing. Niche, certainly; expensive, undoubtedly; but the Clevo makes perhaps the strongest case to date for bypassing a traditional desktop PC.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/02/2010
Rating: price: 50% performance: 70% workmanship: 80%
Source: Wired Magazine
The W880CU also suffered from instability that, while not quite massive, was serious enough to force us through several reboots during testing. Merely playing a DVD managed to crash the computer in colorful fashion, and the whole machine vibrates dangerously when a disc is spinning. A collection of sporadic, random error messages didn't instill additional confidence, either.
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Mobile Fermi GPU comparable to a lower-clocked desktop GTX 465. Due to the 100 Watt TDP (including board and memory), the GTX 480M is only suited for large laptops.
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» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
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Type of food--- Japanese food/ toppings that we know of and love + the hot dog (America's loved food next to hamburgers)
Service--- You order at the cashier and pick it up yourself. No leaving tip at the table or asking for the check. The food comes out pretty quick though!
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Loren KittPrincipal Clarinetist Loren Kitt is a native of Washington State and a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. Before joining the National Symphony Orchestra in 1970, he performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic and served as principal clarinetist of the Milwaukee Symphony from 1966 until 1969. He has been professor of music at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. Among Mr. Kitt's solo performances are the Washington premieres of Roque Codero's Mansaje Funebre and Messaien's La Transfiguration de Nôtre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, performances of the Copland Clarinet Concerto (with Copland conducting), Debussy's Rhapsody for Clarinet, and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major.
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hajhouse wrote:
> So all AMD64-supporting boards are ECC-capable, then?
Hrm, well, the motherboard maker has only to tweak a few bits in BIOS, and
run traces to all 72 pins on the dimms. I wouldn't rule out a non-ecc capable
amd64, but it's much better than the intel situation where you have to buy
a more expensive north bridge to get ECC.
Every motherboard manual I've seen refers to a list of certified compatible
Dimms, tyan, supermicro, and asus anyways. I'd check that list. Seen ECC
listed there without any kind of foot note that says [without ECC
functionality] would be a very good sign.
Keep in mind that it's often hard to find ECC dimms that are unregistered,
seems like most dimms are non-ecc and non-registered, or ecc and registered.
> Linux wotan 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> Try 'modprobe ecc'.
> '
root@orca:~# uname -a
Linux orca 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 21:16:35 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@orca:~# modprobe ecc
FATAL: Error inserting ecc
(/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/char/ecc.ko): No such device
[ 161.803445] ECC: monitor version 0.14 (Oct 10 2001)
[ 161.803458] ECC: Unknown device 1022:1100.
[ 161.803463] ECC: Unknown device 1022:1101.
[ 161.803466] ECC: Unknown device 1022:1102.
[ 161.803469] ECC: Unknown device 1022:1103.
[ 161.803472] ECC: Unknown device 1022:1100.
[ 161.803474] ECC: Unknown device 1022:1101.
[ 161.803479] ECC: Unknown device 1022:1102.
[ 161.803482] ECC: Unknown device 1022:1103.
[ 161.803485] ECC: Can't find host bridge.
No workie 8-(.
I'll investigate further.
The box above is a dual socket dual core opteron (socket f/ddr-II).
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NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have gained new insights into an extinct South African creature with an intriguing mix of human and apelike traits, and apparently an unusual way of walking. But they still haven't pinned down where it fits on our evolutionary family tree.
It will take more fossil discoveries to sort that out.
The human branch of the evolutionary tree, called Homo, is thought to have arisen from a group of ancient species called australopithecines. The newly studied species is a member of this group, and so its similarities to humans are enticing for tackling the riddle of how Homo appeared.
It's called Australopithecus sediba (aw-STRAL-oh-PITH-uh-kus se-DEE-bah), which means "southern apmoree, wellspring." It lived some 2 million years ago, and it both climbed in trees and walked upright. Its remains were discovered in 2008 when the 9-year-old son of a paleoanthropologist accidently came across a bone in South Africa.
A 2011 analysis of some of A. sediba's bones showed a combination of human and more apelike traits, like a snapshot of evolution in action. That theme continues in six papers published online Thursday by the journal Science, which complete the initial examination of two partial skeletons and an isolated shinbone.
Jeremy DeSilva of Boston University, lead author of one of the papers, said the fossils reveal an unexpected "mosaic of anatomies."
DeSilva said he has no idea how A. sediba is related to humans, noting that the different traits argue for different conclusions.
Among the new analyses, the ribs show the creature's upper trunk resembled an ape's, while the lower part looked more like a human's. Arm bones other than the hand and wrist look primitive, reflecting climbing ability, while earlier analysis of the hand had shown mixed traits.


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risk you may be on to something. an ice cube up the butt might help.
chubs def a great movie. val kilmer's second best movie. with tombstone being the best, of course. i lift in my university gym and everynow and then in my buddies garage. yea, this injury sucks. not exactly the type of injury you brag about.
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OS X Support Essentials (Apple Pro Training Series)
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Mountain Lion (Mac OS 10.8) has matured remarkably quickly. As has now become the norm, printed guides, tutorials, reference books and introductions of all sorts have appeared equally speedily in the months following Mountain Lion's release. Indeed, we have already reviewed Galen Gruman's "Bible" (Wiley).
Most of these titles reflect the fact that, good and stable though it is, Mountain Lion has few startling or groundbreaking aspects. It hardly contains enough new features to fill a substantial book of its own. So it is with this Mountain Lion volume in the Apple Pro Training Series, OS X Support Essentials, by Kevin M White and Gordon Davisson.
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Model making was a semester long class that not only fussed on the craft and techniques of model making but also the methods of designing using models. The class carried through the entire design process from site analysis models to section detail models to a final presentation model.
The concept of this design was inspired by the Hulk. The two personalities of Bruce banner are bonded together by their only mutual element:, the purple pants. This duality between chaotic and calm is represented in the building form as well as a moving element that transforms the building.
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'Jon & Kate Plus 8' finale doesn't address divorce rumors
The season finale of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" does little to dispel rumors about a possible divorce, only addressing Jon Gosselin's problems with being in the spotlight. In fact, the show leaves many questions up in the air, including whether or not the TLC show will return for a fifth season.
TLC does its best to tease viewers for the finale, with an announcer claiming, "It's all been leading up to this" and footage of the Gosselin couple -- parents of two sets of multiples -- bickering and then admitting, "We're kind of in an odd place" and "It's been really difficult." Odd place? Like, a crossroads in your marriage, perhaps? What's difficult? Keeping your marriage together?
In the episode "Family Outing," Kate Gosselin is in charge of entertaining the kids -- first at a painting studio where the kids make artful messes and later at a touch museum. She's on her own because Jon is staying at his mother's house, helping her out since she broke her foot. All told, Jon is gone from his family for eight days -- one day for every child he's fathered.
As most fans know, he was in the news recently when reports and photos surfaced on the Internet depicting Jon getting drunk and partying with co-eds in Huntingdon, Penn., where his mother lives. It's possible that these nights of revelry coincided with his stay with her as her foot mended.
Throughout the show, Jon and Kate use the interview room to reflect on what is going on in the episode. This episode, however, the interview portions feel out of place, as if they were filmed later and added in only after the rumors about Jon partying, kissing other women and wanting a divorce popped up.
Check out the Jon & Kate Plus 8 family photos.
In the end, a whole lot of nothing is said, except that Jon isn't terribly happy about not having a regular job that gets him out of the house ("That's not me") or being in the public eye so much.
"I'm glad [the show] is popular, but it's hard being on this side of the camera ... and then trying to live your life," confesses Jon during the closing interview. "We don't have privacy at all. When I go out, people photograph me. It's tough for me. I can't just be Jon; I have to be 'Jon & Kate Plus 8,' which is a really hard thing for me. I'm still coming to grips with that."
Naturally, Kate has an opinion about it all. Despite all the challenges and invasion of privacy, she's still gung-ho about the show. She enjoys the perks and loves working from home.
"We're ready for Season 5 ... we think. [But] Jon feels frustrated," she says, before turning to address her husband. "I think recently, the thing that you are struggling with is that now we cannot go back. So we're in a difficult place. We have some ironing to do."
For now, the family will take its usual hiatus from filming the show and then reevaluate whether a Season 5 is in the offing.
Jon adds, "We may be back, we may not ... It's tough. It's difficult for me."
"And I'm very happy," chimes in Kate.
"And there's the conflict," sums up Jon.
It appears that Jon, who hadn't counted on the price of fame, should just live by the same piece of advice he's always telling his kids: "You get what you get and you don't get upset."
What do you think? Did the finale answer any questions? Do you want a fifth season or should they just stop while their marriage is still intact?
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Yesterday's 7-4 vote in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee against a ban on the sale of rapid-firing assault weapons and its subsequent 6-5 vote against requiring adults to keep guns locked or out of the reach of children was an insult to every thoughtful Marylander. Together, the two votes amounted to an abrogation of responsibility by the committee majority.
At the same time that the Senate committee was caving in to pressure tactics of the National Rifle Association, the House of Delegates was standing up to the NRA and other pro-gun interests, voting by a strong 80-55 margin to ban future sales of assault weapons. They recognize that the proliferation of assault weapons plays into the hands of criminals, especially those in the drug trade, as Baltimore Del. Elijah Cummings noted in his eloquent and moving speech to delegates yesterday.


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Medallion Found By West Salem Man
In a tunnel, under the highway...
Was that where you would have looked for the Oktoberfest medallion? Paul Hoch of West Salem checked in a tunnel near Hixon Forest today, and found the medal on the fifth day of the hunt. This is only the second year Hoch has tried to find the medallion.
Clues pointing to Losey Boulevard and the Boy Scout headquarters led Hoch to the medallion's hiding place. The reward for finding it is 500 dollars, and tickets to the Festmaster's Ball.


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MODERATOR: Joining us now from Cal, head coach Lindsay Gottlieb and student‑athletes Layshia Clarendon and Talia Caldwell.
We'll begin with an opening statement from Coach Gottlieb, and then we'll take questions for the student‑athletes.
COACH GOTTLIEB: I credit Louisville, who obviously has been really hot and they outplayed us in the second half and did enough of the things that they do well to win the basketball game.
What I said to our team in the locker room is that we can be disappointed about a half a basketball that we wish we had back. We could be disappointed to not be playing on Tuesday night because we really wanted to be playing on Tuesday night.
But I'm going to think about that for two minutes, and for the next 10,000 minutes I'm going to think about what this group did for the University of California, I think forever the legacy they will have left from this year; that when you come to Cal, you play for the person next to you, you play with a lot of character, you work really hard, that you make the name on the front of your chest the most important thing even if you're really, really talented.
And I'm just so grateful that we got to play into the second to last possible day you could be playing a game. And we had a pregame meal today and we got to do walk‑through and all of the stuff just being together, and I'm really sad that we're not doing that on Tuesday night, but that I wouldn't trade this team for anything, even though we're disappointed about a half, and I think our seniors set that tone, and I think the whole team did that this year. And we're going to fight really hard for it‑‑ to keep it that way because of Layshia and Talia and Eliza and Tierra and what whole group did this year.
MODERATOR: Thanks, Coach. Questions for the student‑athletes.
Q. To Layshia, from your perspective, where was the game lost from what you could gather?
LAYSHIA CLARENDON: I think maybe midway through the second half. It's hard, the game's so fast, but there was a stretch where they were really throwing a lot of junk at us, and 19 turnovers is high for us. We just turned the ball over. We were kind of getting lost and they were making a lot of baskets, picking up momentum.
So I think we just‑‑ the turnovers killed us a little bit and they kind of took momentum. But like Lindsay was saying in the locker room, we were still up 6 points; we still had a chance to win the game even though we were not playing our best basketball.
So just I think the turnovers and there was kind of a shift and they hit some shots and got momentum.
Q. Talia, what changed inside in the second half?
TALIA CALDWELL: I think the junk defenses and we had to mix up things and‑‑ I don't know. We just didn't get our hand on a lot offensive rebounds we normally do, kind of bounced off, a little sloppiness inside. Yeah.
Q. Layshia, could you walk us through the last two minutes, because you were shooting upwards of 67 percent at points during the first half, and then during those last two minutes it seemed liked you couldn't buy a basket. Did things just go cold or was it something specifically they were doing on defense? And from the perspective of a player on the floor, could you just run us through those last couple minutes?
LAYSHIA CLARENDON: I think, for one, we weren't getting stops on defense. So a lot of the first half I think you guys saw us get out, we got to run a lot. The second half they were scoring so much we had to ‑‑ our pace really slowed down, we had to go against their press, kind of work in every single time, and it seemed like we were shooting really low at the shot clock because it took us so long to get down there.
And the last two minutes, I think a little panicked. I think we just didn't get the ball inside as much. And maybe credit to them, throwing the traps, kind of getting us rattled, getting us back on our feet a little bit.
Definitely their press and their defense we didn't get a chance to run at all because we weren't getting stops.
Q. Layshia, could you‑‑ you gathered the team and spoke‑‑ it looked like you were speaking to them at the end of the game when you were huddled together. Can you just share with us your feelings and if you're able to, like your coach, put what this teams has accomplished in perspective, or is it too painful right now?
LAYSHIA CLARENDON: I can do it. I told them: Don't hang your head for one second. Not for one second. Because we've just come to far, done too much. That was my biggest thing.
And like Lindsay said, two minutes, it's hard to let it go. It's going to hit you maybe now, maybe later on the plane, maybe when you get back. It's going to hurt definitely because we new there was mistakes. It wasn't like we just played someone who's flat‑out better and just literally beat us. We made a lot of mistakes ourselves. So that's where the hurt kind of comes in.
But there's‑‑ just when you look at this team, you think about this team, I just can't help but smile because what we've done is beyond amazing. Like she said, we've affected so many people and just to see all the good that's come out of it, all the positive, all the love, and, like she said, the legacy we're going to leave.
And I think it's another positive note that we weren't just some Cinderella team who made a run this year. Like this is what Cal basketball is going to be, like we set out to make this program known. And I think that's one thing we've done, and we've done it from a point of love, loving each other, from the point of having fun or from the point of dancing.
So when you look back and see that's a legacy you left, yes, it hurts to lose, but like that's pretty awesome. I don't think a lot of people get to do that.
Q. Talia, can you talk about the last couple minutes? You guys these last few games, South Florida, the Georgia game where you might not have been up or you were in a bad spot and you guys kind of played through it and managed to pull it out, were you feeling‑‑ even when you look up at the scoreboard and you're down by 3 with 30 seconds left, were you feeling like you guys were going to pull this out?
TALIA CALDWELL: Definitely. I had complete faith that one of those three were going to go in every time, even when Mik shot the second one, I thought, That's going in.
The whole bench, we always believe in whoever is out on that court. So, yeah, it never was like the game was over. We were like, okay, as long as there's a second on the clock, even Brittany Boyd pushing it at the end, we're going to keep fighting.
MODERATOR: Thank you, ladies.
We'll continue with questions for head coach Lindsay Gottlieb.
Q. Lindsay, could you go over the various hurts that Brittany had during the game? Seemed like a back and then a hand. What was going on with her?
COACH GOTTLIEB: Her back tightened up at one point. She got some treatment on it. And then she jammed her finger pretty badly. I don't know if it's broken or not, but kind of got the finger caught on a play underneath the basket.
Q. Lindsay, could you talk about the differences in the halves? Seems in the first half in terms of rebounds, points in the paint, everything was going your way. And your inside game obviously wasn't as effective in the second half.
COACH GOTTLIEB: Sure. So when I said I'm only going to think about the game for two minutes, that was kind of a lie (laughter).
Maybe every single play, two minutes each I'll think about.
It's interesting, like a stat sheet doesn't always tell the story of the game, but I think this one does. We didn't score in the second half. They totally affected our pace. We had a hard time‑‑ we shot like 60 percent in the first half, and we had a hard time breaking them down and getting the looks we wanted in the second half, and so then we didn't get inside touches.
I thought we tried to go to the boards just as strong the second half. I don't know if there was some kind of foul calls early on that that sort of changed the tone of it. And I didn't know that we were doing anything differently, but it felt a little different.
And off of our inability to score they got some good open looks in transition. They made some nice adjustments, moving Slaughter to the 4 at one point. And then when they would score, we had a hard time attacking their presses cleanly as we would have liked to.
Q. Coach, you'd mentioned just a few seconds ago Slaughter. Do you care to elaborate at all on just how she did? I think her stats kind of stand out there.
COACH GOTTLIEB: Sure. Any time you shoot 60 percent from 3 and hit six of them, it has a huge impact on the game.
When I say the stat sheet kind of tells the story, they did what they do a little bit better than we do what we do. All the kind of categories play out the way you thought they might. We got 17 offensive rebounds and turned that into 14 second‑chance points. We had 32 paint points to their 18.
But we committed 19 turnovers and they scored 22 off of our turnovers, and they made eight 3s, six by Slaughter.
So the stat categories are all exactly how you thought they could be if you were analyzing the game beforehand. They just did their thing in the second half a little bit better than we did our thing in the first half. And we couldn't‑‑ even then we could have made a play or two or gotten a stop or two at the end and still won the game.
Q. Can you talk about the decision to bring Mikayla to shoot those 3‑pointers? Obviously she hadn't been in the game.
COACH GOTTLIEB: Yeah. So with 30 seconds to go we were down 3, and we definitely weren't saying we have to go for a 3. But we really wanted to run a play that gave multiple options. I wanted to the ball in Layshia's hands, I wanted Layshia to be either the creator, the decision‑maker, the shot maker, one of those things.
And we have a play that is kind of an end‑of‑game situation play that gives multiple looks at 3s, but the only looks aren't 3s. And it kind of made that decision to say, all right, we'll put one more 3‑point shooter out there simply because we weren't getting low‑block touches. It's not like I could have said, okay, let's go right to the block with Gray, Gen, or Talia. That wasn't really‑‑ they weren't making that readily available. So we put the extra 3‑point shooter out there to maybe extended the defense, and I thought our best look still might be Layshia to the rim. But it kind of gave that option.
They did a really good job off the first on‑ball with Layshia to kind of step it up and then came off of a flare and then it was going to go back to Layshia on the other side, but two people went with Layshia, and Mikayla ended up with wide‑open look. I mean, I'll take that look.
Q. Lindsay, as soon as the half started, you guys had a couple turnovers and they went back down and they hit a couple shots and all of a sudden you go from 10 to 5. Was that a concern as you get things‑‑ as things started?
COACH GOTTLIEB: Definitely. I thought we had pretty good luck early on. Talia got the ball, could have finished, maybe got fouled, wasn't called. I thought we should have gone up 12 right then. Then they come right back down, hit a 3. So all of a sudden it's 7 instead of 12 in my mind and I think we turned it over again and they scored.
Sure. It's set the tone. You always want to start out‑‑ well, that being said, it was a concern, but I didn't feel like we couldn't counter‑punch. But it was not a very good start to the second half.
Q. Lindsay, mentioning the stat sheet, does that include your free‑throw performance? All season long you've been a mediocre free‑throw shooting team. Is this an example where it really caught up with you do you think or not?
COACH GOTTLIEB: The free throw thing that sticks out the most is that they took 19 free throws and we took seven. And usually by the way that we play we get to the free‑throw line a whole lot more. Now, it might even out because we don't make as many as the opponent in terms of the point differential, but the thing that jumps out to me the most is, yeah, 1‑for‑7 is a terrible percentage, but more so that we go to the free‑throw line seven times and the opponent goes 19. That's just what is uncharacteristic of us.
Q. Lindsay, the fouls really seemed to pick up in the second half. Did that affect how you would have liked to have used your personnel, especially when people had three and four fouls?
COACH GOTTLIEB: Didn't affect the rhythm of the game. I thought we‑‑ letting them score affected the rhythm, I thought our kind of inability to sort of push the tempo the way that we did really affected the rhythm, and I thought that there was a whistle like all the time affected the rhythm of the game.
I didn't think there was necessarily one chunk of time where we were like, oh, we have to sit a particular player for a long, long time. So in that sense. But I definitely feel like it ended up being a factor in the second half, just in terms of how it played out.
MODERATOR: Great. Thank you, Coach.
COACH GOTTLIEB: Thank you.
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Personality is a major thing for any relationship. In fact, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a couple, a person who would want a guy or gal who has no or who had a bad personality. Funnily, this example can be used as an effective analogy for buying (and selling) a house.
When you have a house you want to sell, one way to make sure you can place a check sign beside the marketability side of your list is to make sure you give your house personality. Little human touches her and there is what is necessary for this. Valentines can be the perfect holiday excuse to add personal touches. Use fresh bouquets of flowers, arranged artfully around the house, to add to a lovely and lived-in look. These will even last past the love month as they can be dried, placed in bowls as potpourri and further add to personality as country charm.
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The Klahoose First Nation is a First Nations government located on Cortes Island at the northern end of the Strait of Georgia in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The Klahoose are part of, with their neighbours the Sliammon, Homalco, whose territory is on the mainland and K'omoks, the larger grouping of the Comox people, which is a subgroup of the Coast Salish. Their ancestral tongue is the Comox language.
The Klahoose First Nation is a member government of the Naut'sa mawt Tribal Council. Main community is on the east shore of Cortes Island, on Fork Indian Reserve #7, approximately 30 km from Campbell River, between north-central Vancouver Island and the mainland. (10 reserves on 1,357.6 hectares.)
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Bay Area FreeBSD User Group had two presentations during their July 2014 meeting. In the following videos, Craig Rodrigues discusses libvirt and bhyve integration, while Adrian Chadd talks about upcoming RSS enhancements to the FreeBSD network stack. Press play below to tune in:
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This short tutorial will show you how to get Bhyve, or BSD Hypervisor, configured and running on FreeBSD 10.
Bhyve(BSD Hypervisor) is an Open hypervisor developed on FreeBSD with features like EPT and Virtio. It is built in to FreeBSD from Version 10.0
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OUR OPINION: Something new to pay for college
April 15, 2012 at 5:51 pm in Grand Forks Herald
University of California-Riverside students have developed a proposal that could upend the way Americans pay for college educations. Continue Reading
April 15, 2012 at 5:51 pm in Grand Forks Herald
University of California-Riverside students have developed a proposal that could upend the way Americans pay for college educations. Continue Reading
I'm not sure why this is being presented as a "future, ONLY way to pay for college. Why can't both funding models co-exist. They state that, "Parents no longer would be able to pay tuition in full, a practice that lets rich students graduate debt-free." Why is this considered bad? I sense a philosophical viewpoint in the author of this article that disturbs me. Why are we asked to look down on those who pay out of pocket as compared to those who get loans to pay for this?
I'd argue that both approaches could co-exist. Somewhat like buying or leasing a car. Either pay up-front or lease with 5% per year over 20 years.
Would this ruin the economics of their proposal? Those who expect to make higher salaries would tend to opt to re-pay. Could the lower-paying degree programs no longer cover their costs with only 5% per year for 20 years?
Interesting concept and worth considering. I just think it could co-exist with a modified (less government support for loans) version of today's funding model.
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This idea has some merit but forcing those who could pay for the costs now into this program will just result in them leaving the state and attending college there. Remember the "rich" have the resources to go to any state to attend college. They do not have to sign up to payout for 20 years after graduation. But their leaving will just drive up the costs for those remaining.
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" Under their plan, California colleges would be "free" — that is, the schools wouldn't charge tuition at all."
I've noticed that over the years people have come to believe that when they incur no out of pocket expense for something it's "free." It isn't, of course. Someone else is paying for it. As for this plan, what mechanism needs to be instituted to make sure the students actually meet their pledge? To whom do they submit their tax forms to substantiate their income claim?
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Well 5% of income over 20 years really isn't free, so that statement is just plain false. That is a good thing, because we don't tend to value things that are given to us. That is one reason my kids will graduate college with student loan debt. Makes them work harder in school so they CAN get a job becuase they will have obligations that need to be met.
There are also lots of little problems to be figured out.
1.) How do you motivate students to actually finish? Is it 5% if you finish in 4 years, 6% after 5 years, 7% after 6 years?
2.) What about those who start and don't finish?
3.) What about those who finish, then choose to become full-time parents?
4.) They claim most people will have more than one occupation/career in their lifetime. For those who change careers, who pays for the 2nd degree? Is that now 10% of salary?
5.) What about master's degrees? PHDs?
6.) What about bankrupcy?
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Everything old is new again.
Welcome to Indentured Servitude, the debt of the future.
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One disturbing thing about the idea is that the connection between the value of the purchase and the cost has been broken. Two people can take the same classes, learn the same thing, get the same diploma and pay drastically different amounts for the same thing. The cost is now based on the income of the purchaser and not on the value of what has been purchased. What motivates the seller to provide a quality product? The more I think about it, the less I like the concept.
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I would imagine that this sort of system would not appeal to students majoring in disciplines which offer next to nothing after graduation: gender and race studies, the Humanities, Fine Arts. While the STEM subjects, with their high starting salaries, have an advantage.
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Other way around? If you're in a discipline where you don't expect a decent paycheck–your college tuition will be five percent of nothing.
You're on track to be a pro athelete or highly-paid professional–you'd prefer to pay the "real" cost rather than 5% of multi-million-dollar salaries.
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An athlete is likely on scholarship, so pays nothing anyway.
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Have to answer this before I leave. My point was that a STEM major will have a much higher income and thus the 5% won't affect his standard of living as much. So if he starts at 100K, he'll still have 95K after paying the university. A Feminist Studies major is pretty much doomed to 25K, which leaves 23,750.
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Don't let NitWhitty win Gene. You have many more friends than foes on here.
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Softball Drops Series Finale to Marshall, 6-1
March 30, 2013
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Despite outhitting Marshall (23-12, 9-3 C-USA), 6-3, the University of Memphis softball team (14-25, 3-9 C-USA) allowed two home runs to fall 6-1 Saturday afternoon.
Marshall took a 3-0 lead in the second inning after Shaelynn Braxton drove in a run off a single to left center before Alysia Hively added two more runs for the Herd with a two-run shot to left field.
Marshall extended its lead in the third with Kaelynn Greene drawing a walk and stealing second to put herself in scoring position. A sac bunt moved Greene to third before she scored on a sac fly to right field for a 4-0 advantage.
Memphis got on the board in the fourth to cut its deficit to 4-1. Cierra Mangum reached base on a fielder's choice and advanced to third after a single to left center by Ellen Roberts. With one out, a groundout to second by Wheeler Hill drove in Mangum and advanced pinch runner Hannah Harrell to second. However, a groundout to third base prevented the Tigers from adding any more runs in the inning.
Marshall stretched its lead in the bottom of the frame with a two-run home run by Braxton to give the Herd a 6-1 lead.
In the final three innings of play, the Tigers were limited to just one hit as they dropped their eighth-straight game. Andi Williamson improved to 22-11 on the season, finishing with seven strikeouts and allowing six hits and three walks. Roberts (7-16) was handed the loss for Memphis. Roberts led the Tigers at the plate, going 2-for-3.
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Larry Tripplett, who owns seven McDonald's restaurants in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, received The Children's Circle Award by the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford, 520 Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto.
Tripplett volunteers with many nonprofits. He served as a past president of the board of directors for the Menlo Park-based Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula and delivers dinner every Friday evening to each person staying at the Ronald McDonald House. This is the second time Tripplett has won The Children's Circle Award.
The nationwide chain of Ronald McDonald Houses provides accommodations and support for the families of children who are facing life-threatening illnesses. Tripplett, a former high school principal, has also served on the advisory board for the Stanford University School of Education and currently works as a mentor for students at the East Palo Alto Academy High School, a small charter public high school in Menlo Park established by a joint venture of Stanford University, Aspire Public Schools and Ravenswood City School District.
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(Dec. 2, 2013) -- UTSA will host award-winning author Leonard Pitts Jr. at "He Forgot. That was how it Started," a presentation based on his novel Before I Forget, which describes the difficulties faced by three generations of black men grappling with their complex roles as fathers and sons. The presentation, scheduled at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 6 in the UC Ski Lodge (UC 1.01.00) will be followed by a book signing from 11 a.m. to noon.
Pitts' 35-year career includes time as a columnist, radio producer college professor and lecturer. Currently, he is a news columnist for the Miami Herald. His column runs on Wednesdays and Sundays.
He received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a three-time recipient of the National Association of Black Journalists' Award of Excellence, is a five-time recipient of the Atlantic City Press Club's National Headliners Award and is a seven-time recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade Award, in addition to receiving many other honors.
Pitts is the author of Freeman (Agate Bolden, 2012); Before I Forget (Agate Bolden, 2009); Forward From this Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009, Daily Triumphs, Tragedies, and Curiosities (Agate Bolden, 2009); and Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood (Agate Bolden, 2006).
His Dec. 6 visit to UTSA is sponsored by the UTSA Consortium for Social Transformation, Department of English, Black Faculty and Staff Association, UTSA Registered Student Organizations, National Pan-Hellenic Council and Inclusion and Community Engagement Center.
Copies of Before I Forgot are available at the UTSA Bookstore.
To learn more about Pitts' upcoming book signing, contact Cassandra Porter at 210-458-4844 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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> SUPER!Center benefits
> SUPER!Center locations
> PLUS offices
> For all branches and services visit the Secretary of State Branch Office Locator
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> For all branches and services visit the Secretary of State
Branch Office Locator
> PLUS offices