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CHICAGO (Reuters) – This should be good news: At a time when worry about the retirement security of American workers is rising, traditional pension plans finished 2013 in their best shape last year since the financial crisis of 2008. Yet that may only be setting the table for more corporations to stop offering them.
The funding deficit of the 100 largest pension plans sponsored by publicly traded U.S. corporations plunged 57 percent in 2013, to $125.9 billion in the year-ago period, according to Towers Watson, the benefits consulting firm. (Funding is a measure of the assets that plans have on hand to pay projected obligations to beneficiaries.)
Should young retirement savers load up on stocks? Maybe not
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Millennials don't seem to buy the traditional wisdom when it comes to investing. They're the most risk-averse investors since the Great Depression, with the average portfolio 52 percent in cash, according to a recent report by UBS Wealth Management Americas.
That runs counter to what most investment experts will tell you – that young people need the greatest exposure to riskier stocks to meet long-range goals, and that equity allocations should decline as retirement approaches. That philosophy underpins the fastest-growing retirement savings product in the market today, the target date fund (TDF).
'File-and-suspend': A Social Security strategy under fire
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Are high-income Americans gaming Social Security? The Obama administration wants to go after the wealthy for "aggressive" moves to "manipulate" their Social Security claiming decisions, according to the fiscal 2015 budget released by the White House earlier this month.
The administration hasn't offered much elaboration, but a White House official, speaking on background, confirmed to me that the target is a benefit claiming strategy known as file-and-suspend – a twist on the more straightforward strategy of delayed filing to earn a higher monthly benefit down the road. Although it's technically available to anyone, the White House thinks the strategy is being used to unfair advantage by high-income seniors and wants to shut it down because of the added benefit cost it imposes on the Social Security program.
The other Social Security battle: the squeeze on customer service
CHICAGO (Reuters) – If you want to understand the fight over Social Security's future, look no further than your annual benefit statement – if you can find one.
The Social Security Administration stopped mailing annual statements in 2011 in a budget-cutting move that saves $70 million annually. The SSA rolled out an online statement the following year, but only 10 million American wage earners have signed up. That's a paltry 6 percent of all workers.
Retirement confidence bounces back, but only among wealthy savers
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Americans who owned stocks in 2013 are feeling better about their retirement prospects than they did just a few years ago. For everyone else, not so much.
The longest-running survey of American retirement sentiment shows confidence rose in 2013, the first increase since sentiment plunged following the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
Why employers are shifting retiree health into insurance exchanges
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A dwindling number of retirees get supplemental health insurance coverage from their former employers. But for those who do, big changes are afoot.
A growing number of companies are dropping single-employer group insurance plans in favor of privately run insurance exchanges, where a third party sets up a marketplace offering Medicare coverage offered by dozens of carriers, with costs subsidized by their former employers.
Why a Roth IRA for the baby would be a blessed event
CHICAGO (Reuters) – When an infant is born, the hospital paperwork for parents includes birth certificate and Social Security number applications. Soon, though, there could be another document to fill out: a Roth IRA account setup form.
That's the thrust of the Roth Account for Youths Savings Act, or RAYS Act, introduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives by Ruben Hinojosa (D-Texas).
Your Medicare card: Go ahead, leave home without it
CHICAGO (Reuters) – What's in seniors' wallets? Most likely, a Medicare card that leaves them vulnerable to scams and fraud.
It's a peculiar anachronism in this era of digital insecurity: Social Security numbers are printed on every Medicare card, and the back of the card instructs seniors to carry it with them at all times. (Medicare's identification number is called the Health Insurance Claim Number, but your HICN is your Social Security number.)
Medicare cost shifting: The next big worry for seniors
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Seniors can breathe a little easier now that Social Security benefit cuts are no longer part of this year's federal budget debate. But the other shoe hasn't dropped in Washington. That would be Medicare cost shifting.
Last week, President Barack Obama's administration ditched one of its worst retirement policy ideas, the "chained CPI" for Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs). But we still don't know if the president or lawmakers will renew efforts to shift a higher share of Medicare costs to seniors as part of budget talks this year.
Wanted: Financial advisers who aren't about to hang it up
CHICAGO (Reuters) – If you've ever thought about getting some professional help with your retirement plan, this would be a great time to get going. Financial advisers may be in short supply in the years ahead.
A brain drain is about to hit the world of financial planning, according to Cerulli Associates, a financial services consulting firm. Cerulli reports that 32 percent of all advisers will retire in the next 10 years. At the same time, the industry isn't hiring nearly enough new blood to replace them, let alone expand the ranks to handle the anticipated surge in demand.


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Yergler Named to Academic All-America Team
Princeton junior fencer Jonathan Yergler was named to the Capital One 2012 Academic All-America Men's At-Large Team in recognition for his performance on the fencing strip and in the classroom.
The highlight of the psychology major's season was his NCAA individual championship in the epee, marking the first NCAA individual title for a Princeton fencer since 2001. Yergler was one of 15 student-athletes named to the third team Academic All-America, while 15 more nationally were named second-team and 15 more first-team.
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When Samantha McLeod was 9 years old, she set out to make her 8-year-old brother, Tyler, who is affected by autism, "normal." In doing so, Samantha learns a valuable lesson on acceptance and tolerance, ultimately realizing that being "normal" means nothing really at all. Inspired by this discovery, she pens her humorous journey in her first book, "Normal?"
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I know many Common Tablers are traveling this weekend, and others have friends and family coming into DC for the holiday. If you've got some space at your table, grill, or activity, we hope you'll speak up and invite more folks into your fun (no pressure, though, and don't worry a bit if you're only able to invite one or two friends).
Case in point: Leigh is pulling together a big BBQ at The Campus Kitchens Project (Saint Luke's Mission, at 3655 Calvert St NW DC 20007), where a big crew of volunteers will be hanging out and grilling outside and eating with the clients, so it'll be a great chance to meet the some of the folks we've been working for. Come by to join in anytime between 11:30am and 3:30pm on Saturday, July 4.
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If you visit Albania, you can find bunkers everywhere. In fact, during the forty years of the hard communism time leadered by the dictacor Enver Hoxha, 700.000 bunkers were built in the country.
Nowadays, some bunkers were destroyed while other were reused for a variety of purposes, including residential accommodation and cafés.
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Se visitar a Albânia, vai encontrar casamatas por toda a parte. De facto, durante os cinquenta anos do braço de ferro comunista liderado pelo ditador Enver Hoxha, foram construídas no país 700.000 casamatas.
Atualmente, alumas casamatas foram destruídas enquanto outras foram reutilizadas para diversos fins, incluindo-se residenciais e cafés.
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Qendra Tregtare Univers(QTU): Shopping centre
This is a new shopping centre just outside of Tirana with a few big names in there. There are bars, restaurants and a Euromax supermarket and electronics store. Also there are about 30 other shops there including Albtours, Mango, Vodafone and Union (money transfer). The centre is open 09:00 til 21:00. A free shuttle bus runs from the National Museum in Tirana central square to the centre every 20/30 minutes between the times of 08:00 and 22:00.
What to buy: All sorts of things to buy!
What to pay: depends
Smart shopping: Brand names
This shopping centre was opened in 2003 and was one of the first with brand names and designers. It has about 20 or so shops.
Opening hours from 09:00 - 20:00
What to buy: Makes include Nike, Lancome, Samsonite, Levis, Diesel and Illy caffe.
What to pay: Depends what you buy
Celiku: Souvenirs
This shop is situated next to the restaurant as soon as you cross the border from Montenegro. It is small but well stocked. I am glad I bought some souvenirs here, as we didn't have much time to look for them on the other places. The prices were ok.
Srteet vendors: Fresh fruits
Street vendors can be spoted all along the way. It is a good way to buy some fruits to take with you. We bought some oranges and bananas. I don't recall how much we payed but I am sure it was not expencive. (if you have the change, you can pay in euros.)
Tirana Food Market: Mouthwatering Food
We were to late to go the main market, but we stumbled upon fruit and Veg market. Also lots of bakeries and fish shops in the vincinity. Beautiful fresh fruit and abundance of Olives. The fruit was gorgeous. as were some of the olives we picked.
What to buy: Olives, plums, oranges and grapes really juicy.
What to pay: Very little cant remember the exact amount a few lek anyway.Related to:
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music stand: Traditional music
In Tepelene next to the hotel and Ali Pasha monument there is a stall normally playing some music so you can't miss it! From here you can get tapes and cd's of traditional music from the south of Albania.
What to buy: music
What to pay: not sure how much to pay as i didn't buy anything from here
stalls: Fancy a snack?
You will find many stalls near the coast selling things like figs and olives if you want a snack on a long journey. Also in the summer nearly everywhere there will be stalls in towns or on the side of the road selling cooked corn on the cob.
What to buy: olives, figs, dried figs and sweetcorn
What to pay: cheap!
Local gifts for friends and family
I have come across a couple of shops, one in the Sheraton that sells nice little gifts to take home and one in Tirana near to the cinema, on the other side of the road is a currency exchange and ice cream shop. This was the best one with a friendly owner.
What to buy: He had lots of different gifts from jewelry to wooden hand made boxes to copper tea sets.
What to pay: Different amounts depending what you buy.
Tell everyone where you've been!
What to buy: You will probably see these T-shirts everywhere in Albania - as far as tourist souvenirs go, they and the Albanian flags are probably the best. I brought one back just so I can wear it and let everyone know where I have been!
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National Review calls Ron Johnson's Obamacare lawsuit frivolous
The conservative National Review on Wednesday called U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's lawsuit over a component of Obamacare frivolous -- a charge similar to one made by U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner that exposed a rift within the Republican Party. »Read Full Blog Post
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Ron Johnson? Is he still around? Do nothing senator.Hide replies
Who's our other Senator? What's he done lately?
It is Tammy Baldwin, a female Senator!
See, her name is so rarely mentioned that I forgot all about her.
Could it be ROJO is sucking up all of the political oxygen with his antics?
Conservatives distancing themselves from Ron Johnson.
Go figure!Hide replies
All but the lunatic fringe.
Ron Johnson is the senior senator.
Who's the junior senator again? What's his name?Hide replies
I think you are referring to Tammy Baldwin. Didn't she beat the Tommy Thompson, the "godfather" of the Wisconsin Republican Party? You remember him, don't you? He was the one that had a State Park named after him while he was still in office.
99-00 8 bill sponsored or co-sponsored
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Bils Sponsored or Co-Sponsored by Baldwin while in Congress.
You really don't like women, do you GOP?
He is probably part of the Republican War on Women
btw, did you see Johnson on with Fox's Kelly discussing this the other night?
How many times did she roll her eyes?
I lost count after four.Hide replies
Can't believe anything on "FAUX" I thought....libs are just so funny.
Tom, I hardly think that the National Review called this lawsuit frivolous. ONE OF THEIR CONTRIBUTORS DID. You make it seem like the publication took an editorial position or something. I don't believe they did.
'Tis awesome when conservative "National Review" calls #OurDumSenator, Ron Johnson's actions "frivolous".
Whoops. Typing too fast.
#OurDumSenator = #OurDumbSenator
Wow thought I would never agree with anything the National Review would say but I totally agree when they say Johnson's lawsuit is frivolous which is exactly what I have been saying.
However, the National Review is badly incorrect when they say this:
"The point, apparently, is to try to have a judge affirm that it is illegal for President Obama to exempt members of Congress and their staffs from the full financial burden of purchasing insurance through an Obamacare 'exchange,' Andrew C. McCarthy writes.
Apparently the National Review did not read the investigative report done by Politico which found that it was Republicans who didn't want to have a legislative fix but instead went to the Office of Personnel Management to have them continue to pay for a majority of health benefits. President Obama was not involved in this in any way.
So Ron Johnson is basically all on his own in this ridiculous lawsuit. No other Senators or Congressmen have joined in. Just goes to show how irrelevant Johnson is in the Senate. He is not a leader and needs to be voted out of office.
Hey Wisconsin: No Mo Ron Johnson in 2016. He makes Crazy Joe McCarthy look good. Rhis fool is a total joke.
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Opened 5 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago
#4875 closed bug (fixed)
ghc misdiagnoses a compile time error concerning parameterized types
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|Stef Joosten
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Description (last modified by igloo)
Please find the script HaskellBug.hs at the bottom of this message.
Here is how to reproduce the behaviour in two steps.
Step 1: verify that Module HaskellBug produces the following error message:
[1 of 1] Compiling HaskellBug ( HaskellBug.hs, interpreted ) HaskellBug.hs:12:22: `rel' is not applied to enough type arguments Expected kind `??', but `rel' has kind `* -> *' In the type `rel -> concept' In the class declaration for `Association'
Step 2: remove the definition of class Morphic r c and verify that the script is now error free.
You have now reproduced the symptoms.
In this situation, ghc has diagnosed an error in the definition of
class Association. This error was resolved by removing another
definition, without altering the definition of class Association.
This proves that the definition of class Association was correct in the first place. Therefore, ghc has made a mistake. It has diagnosed
the error in the wrong location. I whould have expected an error
message like
HaskellBug.hs:23:22: `r' is applied to too many type arguments Expected <something sensible here> In the type `r -> c' In the class declaration for `Morphic'
I have taken the trouble to isolate the problem in a small script,
because this error has caused serious havoc in a large Haskell
project. Students, who were still learning about parameterized
types, have systematically been 'fixing' the wrong code, because
ghc has never pointed in the direction of the real error. In the
end, they were unable to resolve their mistake.
Besides haarvesting a frustrating experience with parameterized
types, wasting two entire days before giving up, they have turned a
large script upside down and introduced many more mistakes. That is
why I think it is important to get this fixed.
Here is the script:
{-# OPTIONS -XMultiParamTypeClasses -XFunctionalDependencies -XFlexibleInstances #-} module HaskellBug where data Relation c -- The basic Relation = Rel { relnm :: String -- The name of the relation , relsrc :: c -- Source concept , reltrg :: c -- ^Target concept } deriving Eq class (Eq concept)=> Association rel concept | rel -> concept where source, target :: rel -> concept -- e.g. Declaration Concept -> Concept sign :: rel -> (concept,concept) sign x = (source x,target x) homogeneous :: rel -> Bool homogeneous s = source s == target s instance (Eq c)=>Association (Relation c) c where source = relsrc target = reltrg class (Eq c, Association r c) => Morphic r c where multiplicities :: r c -> [c] multiplicities _ = []
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by igloo
- Description modified (diff)
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by igloo
- Milestone set to 7.2.1
- Owner set to simonpj
Thanks for the report.
GHC hasn't made a mistake as such. It's looked at the Morphic class, which tells it that Association's first parameter has kind * -> *, and then looked at the Association class, which tries to use it with kind *. It doesn't know that the first piece of information it found was the wrong one.
You can give GHC more information, which allows it to give better errors: If you add
{-# LANGUAGE KindSignatures #-}
at the top of the file, and change the class line to
class (Eq concept)=> Association (rel :: *) concept | rel -> concept where
then you get
q.hs:24:23: `r' is applied to too many type arguments In the type `r c -> [c]' In the class declaration for `Morphic'
Simon, I don't know how easy it would be to improve the error? Perhaps, assuming there is not context loop, it would be better for the typechecker to process class bodies in dependency order?
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by simonpj
Yes, I was on a plane so I started working on this. Patch coming.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by simonpj
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
- Test Case set to typecheck/should_fail/T4875
Fixed by
Try not to push this to the 7.0 branch because it'll (correctly) reject a few programs that 7.0 accepts.
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by simonpj
Oops I missed out the commit message:
Mon Jan 10 11:03:51 GMT 2011 [email protected] * Do dependency analysis when kind-checking type declarations This patch fixes Trac #4875. The main point is to do dependency analysis on type and class declarations, and kind-check them in dependency order, so as to improve error messages. This patch means that a few programs that would typecheck before won't typecheck any more; but before we were (naughtily) going beyond Haskell 98 without any language-extension flags, and Trac #4875 convinces me that doing so is a Bad Idea. Here's an example that won't typecheck any more data T a b = MkT (a b) type F k = T k Maybe If you look at T on its own you'd default 'a' to kind *->*; and then kind-checking would fail on F. But GHC currently accepts this program beause it looks at the *occurrences* of T. M ./compiler/deSugar/DsMeta.hs -1 +1 M ./compiler/hsSyn/HsDecls.lhs -2 +8 M ./compiler/hsSyn/HsUtils.lhs -3 +4 M ./compiler/rename/RnNames.lhs -1 +1 M ./compiler/rename/RnSource.lhs -11 +52 M ./compiler/typecheck/TcInstDcls.lhs -1 +1 M ./compiler/typecheck/TcRnDriver.lhs -5 +5 M ./compiler/typecheck/TcTyClsDecls.lhs -224 +139 M ./compiler/typecheck/TcTyDecls.lhs +37 M ./utils/ghctags/Main.hs -1 +1
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by Stef Joosten
Simon, thank you for this.
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FarmVille 2: Country Escape
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** "FarmVille is back and this time, it's portable" – TIME **
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- CRAFT a variety of baked gourmet goods like classic country apple pies
- HARVEST farm fresh crops of your favorite fruits and vegetables
- CUSTOMIZE your own farm for charming country living
- COLLECT hidden and rare items as you discover a new coastal farm
- NURTURE and raise a wide variety of adorable animals like your very own farm dog
- EXPLORE a new FarmVille story filled with special farm adventures
- BUILD a lush family farm by the coast so all your friends can visit
- FISH with your fellow farmers and sell your catch at Pike's Landing
- GARDEN by the beautiful blue ocean as you decorate your farm with flowers and fresh produce
- TRADE and chat with friends or play anonymously with people from all over the world
- ESCAPE to the coast and then connect to your Facebook farm to send free water
- EARN daily rewards with the Mystery and take a spin at the Prize Wheel
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After being locked away in the moon for centuries, Nightmare Moon is set free and spreading night across Ponyville! Only Twilight Sparkle and her friends can free Ponyville from her grasp and bring light and friendship back to the land. Help them rebuild the town and reach their dreams in exciting quests!
* Your favorite ponies are here: Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack and more!
* Make your Ponyville the most magical place in Equestria and explore Sweet Apple Acres and Canterlot.
* Play fun mini-games with your ponies: Ball Bounce, Apple-Picking, Magic Wings, Telescope, Crystal Mine and Equestria Girls Dance game!
* Interact with your friends and feel the Magic of Friendship!
* Enjoy official TV show voice talents featured in the game!
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Virtual Villagers: Origins
Care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. Fleeing from a volcano eruption, your little villagers find themselves stranded on a mysterious new island. They need to become farmers, builders, scientists, parents and make decisions about unpredictable 'island events'! Guide their day-to-day lives and help them explore and restore their new home. As your village grows and prospers, your villagers become curious about their mysterious new island home and the secrets it holds. HOW WILL YOU LEAD YOUR TRIBE?
You are hired in a chain restaurant to serve clients as fast as possible to earn money and even tips for yourself. Take orders from your customers and make a recipe among sandwiches, garnishes, desserts and sodas. The more you will play, the more ingredients will appear in the fast-food !
Take up the challenge and try the Career Mode to cope with a higher difficulty each day of the year!
Work from Monday to Saturday and reach your goal to get more money and new ingredients for the service. Then if you are a great employee, you will even unlock a lot of achievements!
Time is money!
Try also to do your best in the Time Attack Mode to collect a maximum of coins within the time limit!
This time management game will definitely entertain and challenge you and your family!
Features of Burger:
-Ingredients' list : bread, meat, lettuce, tomato, cheese, onion, cucumber, mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, bacon, fish, muffins, ice creams, french fries, potatoes and sodas
-More than 300 levels and 40 achievements for burger's maniac
So come play Burger and become the master king of burgers!
Candy Crush Saga
Join Tiffi and Mr. Toffee in their sweet adventure through the Candy Kingdom. Pass level 50 to unlock Dreamworld and escape reality alongside an owl named Odus. Switch and match your way through hundreds of levels in this delicious puzzle adventure. Isn't it the sweetest game around?
Take on this deliciously sweet Saga alone or play with friends to see who can get the highest score!
Candy Crush Saga is completely free to play but some in-game items such as extra moves or lives will require payment.
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Candy Crush Saga features:
● Tasty candy graphics that will leave you hungry for more
● Unwrap delicious environments and meet the sweetest characters
● Helpful magical boosters to help with challenging levels
● Complete adventurous levels and unlock treats
● Easy and fun to play, challenging to master
● Hundreds of sweet levels in the Candy Kingdom - more added every 2 weeks!
● Leaderboards to watch your friends and competitors!
● Easily sync the game between devices and unlock full game features when connected to the Internet
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Family Farm Seaside
◆◆◆Over 60 Million people already build their own farm in the world! ◆◆◆
Family Farm Seaside is a beautiful and fun farming simulation from the makers of the hit Facebook game, Family Farm. Farming doesn't have to be hard, the simple controls and touch interface allows anyone to start playing in just seconds. Plant, grow and harvest your crops with just a tap on the screen. The beautiful graphics and sound effects provide a fun and entertaining atmosphere for all ages. Family Farm Seaside includes over 200 unique products your farm can produce. Complete farming missions and sell your crops to become the best farmer around!
• FREE to play
• Become neighbors with farmers from all over the world
• Plant, harvest, and process over 200+ unique products
• More than 100+ achievements to complete
• Daily orders for you to fill with your farm products
• New missions updated regularly with fun new features
Tired of playing by yourself? Invite your friends and add them as your farming neighbors. Challenge them to a race and earn over 40 achievements. So come along and move to the Seaside! Install now!
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• This app requires active internet connection to play, please make sure your device is connected while playing.
• Please note that this is a standalone version of Family Farm, and will not sync or connect to your Facebook farm.
Farm Town™: Happy Day
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Experience the quiet charm of rural life and feel like a real businessman! ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Good Day Everyone! This is the Top Farm!
You will have the opportunity to grow a variety of crops, hay , vegetables, fruits, and berries on your farm ville. Equip and develop your farm craft, take care of the cute pet, animals and help your neighbors farms. Prepare your farm to hayday. Gather resources and open up production to bring your farmville to prosperity. Craft various useful things and dozens farm craft items. Plant beautiful flowers and collect them in to bright bouquets. Repair steamship and invite funny tourists to nearby city, make them happy and enjoy the gifts from them.
But that's not all! In this game you will have ability not only to build your farm - the whole nearby city and city ville will depends on your success.
Enlist the support of your friends, and create your own distribution network, help the development of the city and provides residents with supplies and ... Who knows, maybe it is you who will one day become the mayor of hay Farm Town! Farm Town will create your own farm story, hay day coming to your farm. Leave township, go to the country and do farming!
Welcome to the exciting game about the life of a villager near the town of.
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Plants vs. Zombies™ 2
Play the sequel to the hit action-strategy adventure with over 30 Game of the Year awards. Meet, greet and defeat legions of zombies from the dawn of time to the end of days. Amass an army of powerful plants, supercharge them with Plant Food and power up your defenses with amazing ways to protect your brain.
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100 Million Downloads – This app has received more than 100 million overall downloads.
Winner: Best Mobile Game at E3 – Game Informer
Winner: Best Mobile Game 2013 – Mashable
Winner: Game of the Year 2013 – Slide to Play
Game Features
Meet Fire Peashooter, Pepper-pult, Bonk Choy, Laser Bean, Pea-nut, and the prickly Homing Thistle: Just a few of the powerful new plants that will defend your lawn through time. Go toe-to-missing-toe with dozens of new zombies including Troglobite, Swashbuckler Zombie, Chicken Wrangler Zombie, Jetpack Zombie, Wizard Zombie, Mermaid Imp and Weasel Hoarder – the wiliest zombie of them all!
Choose your plants wisely for each level and plot out your winning strategy. Use Plant Food to supercharge your plants when you need it most. Freeze, flick and zap zombies off your lawn, using your fingers with simple touch controls.
Defeat endless zombie waves in Vasebreaker, the #1 mini-game from Plants vs. Zombies. Use smashing power-ups like the Butterizer, X-Ray vase vision and more.
Battle zombies to win sprouts, then plant them in your very own Zen Garden. Tend to it carefully and be rewarded with extra BOOM in your blooms.
Take on Zomboss at the end of each new world. He's coming for you with a host of diabolical inventions designed to challenge your best defenses!
Unlock ultra-challenging endless levels in every world — Pyramid of Doom, Dead Man's Booty, Big Bad Butte, Terror from Tomorrow, Arthur's Challenge, Tiki Torch-er and Icebound Battleground.
Stumped about where to go next? Consult your Travel Log to embark on exciting Quests created just for you. Complete Quests and level up by earning points and prizes.
"Plants vs. Zombies 2 is a must-download." —CNET
"Not just good, not even just great, but an instant classic." —NBCNews.com
Language Support: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese
• Requires Android 2.3 (Gingerbread); ARMv7 1.0 Ghz or higher; 1 GB of RAM
• Features may vary by mobile device
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Farm Heroes Saga
From the makers of the hit game Candy Crush Saga, comes Farm Heroes Saga!
Switch and match the collectable cropsies in this fantastic adventure. Join forces with the Farm Heroes to stop Rancid the Raccoon from spoiling the precious farm lands. Switch and match three or more adorable cropsies to drive Rancid away for good! A farmtastic adventure filled with mixed fruit madness! Scrummy!
Farm Heroes Saga is completely free to play but some in-game items such as extra moves or lives will require payment.
Farm Heroes Saga Features:
● Gather all kinds of cropsies to win the level before you run out of moves.
● Easy and fun to play, but a challenge to fully master.
● Acres of luscious levels to complete and marvellous magic beans to collect.
● Take on your friends to compete for the best score and see who can switch their way to the fattest onions ever!
● Rechargeable boosters, extra moves and special power-ups to help with those challenging levels.
Play through hundreds of levels of strawberry switching, carrot crunching chaos to help our Farm Heroes save the day! Have you got what it takes to be the next Farm Hero?
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Virtual Families 2
The sequel to the smash hit is finally here!
Adopt a little person from the thousands of choices of little people who live inside your computer. Help them choose a mate, and start a family! Encourage them to work in their chosen career to earn money for necessities and luxuries. Expand and renovate the house. Make it your Dream House and shop for tons of items: make a nursery, a music room or even a game room! Help your little person get through the challenges of life and shape their personalities with all sorts of upgrades, from boarding school to career counseling and many more! Along the way, there will be many different random events to respond to, all of them adding unexpected elements to the daily routine of life. It is a virtual pet, and a family for you to take care of. Experience the drama of Virtual Families 2: Our Dream House!
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Snoopy's Sugar Drop Remix
- Master over 200 levels of mouthwatering, candy-matching fun
- Create candy combos by switch and swapping colorful confections
- Use special candy pieces and electrifying powerups to smash away candies even faster
- Clear levels to uncover classic PEANUTS characters: Charlie Brown, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Sally, Linus and more!
- Activate eye-popping special effects and deliciously delightful sound effects as you speed your way through puzzles
- It's easy-to-play, lip-smacking fun that will send you into total sugar-shock!
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Smurfette's Magic Match
What's New
• 30 new Smurftastic levels (131 – 160)
• 5 new outfits for Smurfette
• Bug fixes and lots of performance improvements
- Help Smurfette save the village!
- Swap puzzle pieces to match three or more Smurfy objects at a time to clear pieces and complete levels
- Line up four or more Smurfy objects in a row to unlock powerups
- Make your way through 160 Smurf-tacular levels
- Use powerful Smurfy boosters featuring your favorite characters to breeze through levels
- Sync with Facebook to track your progress against your friends
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is ripe for recognition. By Aaron Ladage
While the rest of the world tries to evaluate every micro-success and mini-failure in life by the day, the hour and the minute, vintners have known for centuries that the perfect measure of quality is calculated by the year.
Any more than 365 days, and you begin to lose perspective. Any less, and you're just guessing.
If the Appleseed Cast were a bottle of wine, 2004 would've been a very bad year. A bitter harvest for a band that had seen so much success from its previous vintages.
Just a few years earlier, the Southern California-turned-Lawrence four-piece was at the top of its game. After releasing two volumes titled Low Level Owl in the latter half of 2001, Chris Crisci (vocals, guitar), Aaron Pillar (guitar), Marc Young (bass) and Josh Baruth (drums) were introduced to a whole new set of fans and critics, all of whom raved over the band's newfound love for the experimental.
Before 2001, Appleseed Cast was an emo band from California. After relocating to the Midwest and releasing the Owl albums, it was "America's answer to Radiohead" or at least that's what a handful of critics said.
To capitalize on their successes, the band members quickly fulfilled their five-album contract with Deep Elm Records by releasing Lost Songs in 2002. Early the next year, the band signed to Tiger Style records, an up-and-comer at the time, and released Two Conversations.
That's when everything started to sour.
Unlike the band's previous albums, Conversations wasn't the smash hit that it was expected to be. Some even said the album lost much of the creative ground that its predecessors had gained. But worst of all, Tiger Style dropped the band from its roster, citing financial problems.
"It was a money thing with Tiger Style," says Pillar on his cell phone from a tour stop in Portland, Oregon. "I think it just wasn't really financially viable for them to keep putting out records. Initially, it wasn't that big of a deal because we were like, 'OK, we'll keep going,' but it was pretty bad timing because we'd had a pretty depressing tour."
Without any help from the label and with some nasty issues with women and alcohol bubbling just below the surface Pillar says the band lost its momentum.
"There was really no support, and I also had some really wacky personal stuff going on, and I couldn't really concentrate on the band at all," he says. "We just sort of ended up taking eight months off, which is really not a great idea to do when you're in a band."
While Pillar was working through his demons at home, another problem was brewing within the band's ranks. Baruth, for what Pillar and Crisci describe as "undisclosed personal reasons," quit the band.
"It just wasn't working out," Pillar says. "Between the four of us, the band was very dysfunctional. Personally, I just don't think we were really clicking."
If life were an After School Special, this would have been the rock-bottom moment in Appleseed Cast's history. In a way, Pillar says, it was, but it also gave the band a jumping-off point.
"It sucked to have that kind of period of time off, but I think in some respects, it was sort of a rebirth for all of us," he says.
Drummer Nathan Richardson formerly of Coalesce and the Casket Lottery replaced Baruth, which gave the band the heavier edge that Crisci says it had been seeking.
"For a while, especially while writing Two Conversations, we wanted to bring out a little more intensity than we were able to, and Nate really facilitates that," Crisci says.
With Richardson onboard, the band members hooked up with producer John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Explosions in the Sky), packed their bags and headed for Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. The sessions marked the band's first in a studio outside of Lawrence since its debut album, The End of the Ring Wars, which it made while still in California.
"We really wanted to get away to record, too to go somewhere and not be distracted by everything at home," Crisci says.
"Before, we'd go home and go out to the bar or something, and this way, it was like we just had to work," Pillar adds. "We'd never actually stayed at a studio we'd always been in Lawrence, so we could drive home at night."
Congleton also forced the band members to record the album together at the same time, something they had never before tried.
"We recorded everything live, and for me, it's funny that we had ever done it the other way before," Pillar says.
The result is Peregrine, which hit stores on March 21. Although there are a few traces of the band's early work, a haunting, ethereal feel permeates the album.
"I think it may have come out a little more surreal than we were anticipating," Crisci says. "When we came out with the first roughs, it was a lot more spooky than I thought it was going to be."
"We actually wrote a lot more songs than we normally have completed before we go to the studio," Pillar adds. "I think it just kind of became more of an album, as opposed to maybe an album based around a couple of strong songs."
But will Peregrine be enough to get the band back on track?
"My fingers are crossed," Pillar says. "I think it's the best-recorded, most-together record we've put out, so I think it's got a lot of things going for it. I think the label is doing things a little different than we've had in the past, so everybody feels really optimistic about it."
It's still too early to tell, but with a new bandmate, a 50-city tour and an impressive album on the shelves, 2006 could be the year that the Appleseed Cast finally makes it to the top shelf.


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I'm feeling knacked so just more random brewer's notes again today.
This week I've been reading "Draught of Contentment", a history of Courage. There's a reason, but I won't go into that now. It's odd reading about the breweries absorbed into the Courage group over the course of the 20th century. I've seen brewing logs from many of them. Hodgson's Kingston Brewery, Camden Brewery, Beasley, Russell's Gravesend Brewery, Noakes, and Kidd. It's a log from the latter where I found this:
A weird mix of international events and more mundane happenings at the brewery are recorded. This is a good sequence:
June 21 New Dome for old Copper
June 28 Peace signed
July 1 Brewery Yard paved
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Lavaflow 7 is sited on 5 acres of dense Ohia forest, which is filled with the type of vegetation that takes over after a lava flow. Built upon the rocky remains of a 1955 lava flow on the slopes of
Eagle Ridge Residence is a Low-Impact Home on Orcas Island
The L-Shaped Eagle Ridge Residence features a combined living-kitchen dining area at the corner with a study and master suite in one wing. The other wing consists of a storage area and a studio, which
Jungers Culinary Institute is a State-Of-The-Art Cooking School in Oregon
The Jungers Culinary Center for the Cascade Culinary Institute was opened for the Fall 2011 semester. Located on the southwest side of the Bend, Oregon COCC campus, the culinary school is aiming to be one
Gridshell's Parametrically-Designed Canopy Shades Masseria Ospitale Restaurant in Lecce, Italy
The Masseria Ospitale structure was parametrically designed through a collaborative effort between Gridshell and CMMKM Architettura e Design. The project design team included Sergio Pone, Sofia Colabella,
Crumbling Stone Barn Renovated Into Rammed Earth Ihlow House in Germany
The original stone barn has been renovated with a new addition that takes the place of a former timber addition. Designed by Roswag Architekten, the new addition is formed from rammed earth on the ground
Off-Grid Nomad Shelters Provide Relief from the Sun for Tourists in Italy
The 2010 coastal architecture project for seaside facilities competition for the Sardinian coast asked for new structures and facilities for tourism and recreation in the area. Filippo Taidelli Architetto
NBBJ Unveils Striking Biosphere Greenhouses for Amazon's Seattle HQ
Amazon's new Seattle campus will revamp three blocks in the Denny Triangle area in between South Lake Union and the commercial core. The plan calls for three 37-story towers complemented with lower
Snohetta's Eggum Tourist Stop Celebrates the Norwegian Landscape with Local Materials
The Eggum Tourist Stop is located in the middle of the E10 Lofoten route on the north side of the archipelago. The rest area has a car park and service facilities with views of the water and surrounding
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