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Casa cueva rural Cuevasandalucia – Baza
An original outing with family or with friends in a romantic setting?
On a property of 8 hectares with a swimming pool heated in winter, come and relax while listening to the silence.
Set in rural country terrain renowned for it's cave dwellings, these cave houses have been beautifully restored to an exceptional standard and include all of the 21st century conveniences expected by today's high living standards.
Our Spanish cave house properties are ready-to let, ready-to-live-in yet uniquely different whether they have 1,2 or 3-bedrooms.
So if rural Spain is where you want to holiday or live, our cave houses are a must see.
Just a five minute stroll from a typical Andalucian village (Baza) with its local amenities and 60 minutes from the grandiose city of Granada and airport, this truly is Real Life Spain!
"Aurôre and Sam" will be pleased to welcome you in the historic south of Spain, in the heart of Eastern Andalusia in an area still free from intensive tourism and close to Granada.
Our lodgings are equipped with solar panels for domestic hot water as well as for warm water for the swimming pool in winter and this in order to guarantee a comfortable low cost energy for our customers during their stay.
By our activity, we also want to show that it is possible to have alternative ways to live with respect for the environment by quite simply using alternative energies and the comfort of a cueva (troglodyte house) with next to no ecological footprints.
Further information
- Rates*
€ 28 - € 35 p.p.p.n.
- Credit cards
- Breakfast
- Dinner
- Car park
yes, privacy
- Bicycles
- Pets
- Smoking
- Disabled persons
- Internet / wireless access
ok, gratis
*: Prices are estimates and are subject to change. For the most recent prices, please check the website of this accommodation.
Are you the owner of this accommodation? Manage your pages here.
Sam et Aurôre
Camino de Oria, s/n
18800 Baza
Contact owner (free of engagement)
Other holiday homes in Baza and its environs
- Cuevas Bazavista – Baza (7 km)
- Cuevas Pata Seca – Gorafe (Granada) (30 km)
- Cuevas el Torriblanco – Gorafe (Granada) (30 km)
- Cortijo La Estrella – Velez Rubio - Almeria (58 km)
- Casa rural Cortijo el Coto – Velez Blanco (61 km)
- casa viva la vida – Vera Playa (86 km)
- Casa Mar Y Luz – Vera Playa (86 km)
- Appartement in San Juan de los Terreros – San Juan de los Terreros (93 km)
- Casa Espalanda – Nigüelas (94 km)
- Cortijo Montefristy – Montefrio (117 km)
- De Beek – Alcala la Real (118 km)
- Zon en Uitzicht – Alcala La Real (118 km)
Experiences from previous visitors
Written on 8 August 2013 by bourgmestre (age 0-18)
- General:
- 1/10
- Room:
- 2/10
- Service:
- 1/10
- Breakfast:
- 1/10
- Charm:
- 1/10
- Price/quality:
- 1/10
- Total:
chemin d'accès très mauvais.
un désert pas vraiment "hospitalier". 8 hectares de "désert" dont quelques centaines de m2 un peu arborés. des chevaux, très proches, donc beaucoup de mouches.
petite piscine pas vraiment propre. chiens des propriétaires "collants".
pour visiter, il fait faire de très nombreux kilomètres pour voir quelque chose d'un peu intéressant !
bref, très bien pour des "hippies" !!!


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Runtime monitoring for node.js applications
Headless (non-UI) version of the Node Monitor app
This package provides a foundation for monitoring and controlling remote node.js applications.
It introduces the concept of a Probe - a small software component capable of exposing and controlling state within a running node.js server.
Probes are written as Backbone models, and remain dormant in your process until instantiated from remote monitors.
From the monitoring process, a Monitor class is provided to connect with a remote probe.
This package is used for writing and embedding probes into your app server, and for writing custom clients for inspecting and controlling these probes. A companion package - Node Monitor - provides a user interface for building real time monitor dashboards.
Install using npm
$ npm install monitor
Start the monitor service (standalone)
Normally you'll include this package into your own application server, but you can run as a standalone application as well.
$ npm start monitor
Observe a probe from a remote process
In this example we're using a REPL console to connect with the built-in Process probe.
Open a REPL console from another terminal
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Create a monitor for the Process probe
> var Monitor = require('monitor');
> var processMonitor = new Monitor({server:'localhost', probeClass: 'Process'});
Connect with the probe, and view the properties
> processMonitor.connect();
> processMonitor.toJSON();
The monitor is a Backbone model, so you can watch for changes
> var showFreeMem = function(){console.log(processMonitor.get('freemem'))};
> processMonitor.on('change', showFreeMem);
May be freely distributed under the MIT license
See LICENSE file.
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LOUISVILLE, KY - JANUARY 5: Kyle Lowry #1 of the Villanova Wildcats shoots the ball against Juan Palacios #3 of the Louisville Cardinals on January 5, 2006 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. Villanova won the game 76-67. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
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If this column
sucks, it's not my fault …
I got stabbed in the leg by a frustrated, backup writer.
"Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks." … It's not
fair and it's not right, but if your last name is Jackson, Jordan, or
Bolton, you can't name your son Michael. You just can't. If your last
name is Holmes, you can't name your kid John. If you do, your world is
way too pure, or you're setting the standards very, very high for your
son. With that said, I respectfully request for all announcers doing
West Virginia games to just say, "Holmes makes the tackle" instead of
"John Holmes makes the tackle," as many have done so far when the star
linebacker makes plays. I don't want to go to a creepier place than I'm
already at when watching Mountaineer games.
Also known as Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth …
This just came across the wire. The seven plays each team missed out
on per game so far thanks to the new clock rules are: Handoff up the
middle for no gain, fumbled snap recovered by QB, incomplete pass
bouncing off the receiver's earhole, sack with the starting quarterback
tearing the patellar tendons in both knees, a pick six, another sack
with the backup quarterback getting carted off the field (fortunately,
with a thumbs up on his way out), and a spike to stop the clock.
But he's a
horrible human being for not being able to hold it in and needing a
"quick break" when I was interviewing him …Troy
Smith wasn't a "bad guy" for accepting some coin from a booster. Now,
everyone likes to talk about how he has changed and has become a better
person. He took a few extra benefits. That's all. There was no need to
"turn his life around" or become a better person. It's the NCAA and the
system that has to change its bizarre notion of what's right and wrong.
It's a shame he didn't guarantee a vanilla offensive gameplan that
had no hope of working … Much was made out of Nebraska DB Andre
Jones' statement "when we beat USC" before the big Saturday night game
last week. If a coaching staff needs something like that for bulletin
board material, it's not doing its job. Like it would be better if he
said, "I think we have a great chance to not stink."
Reggie Bush will be my number one if he's forced to give his Trophy
back … My Heisman ballot for this week would be: 1. Adrian Peterson,
RB Oklahoma, 2. Troy Smith, QB Ohio State, 3. Mike Hart, RB Michigan, 4.
Steve Slaton, RB West Virginia, 5. Drew Stanton, QB Michigan State. No,
I won't just always go with the skill guys, but there aren't any
defensive players or offensive linemen worthy of the top five.
The C.O.W. airing of the grievances
followed by the feats of strength
This might have been the whiniest
week of college football I can ever remember with Oklahoma and LSU fans
bombing anyone with an e-mail proof that their respective teams got
jobbed by the officials. It's a shame there isn't this kind of fire and
anger when it comes to the important aspects of our world. Yeah, there
were some terrible, terrible calls in the two big games this last week.
However, despite what many choose to believe, they didn't decide the
games. Let's make something very, very clear here. The officials aren't
biased. In today's day and age when there's so much media coverage of
the big games like the ones this Saturday, do you really, truly believe
officials would deliberately screw up knowing that they'd get nailed to
the wall for the bad calls? With that in mind, here are the ten things
that made me really, really, really grouchy this week.
10. You can't spell pout without OU
Here's a concept foreign to Oklahoma in its rage over the outcome of
the Oregon game: defense. The officials blew the call on the onside kick
and the late pass interference call, and inexcusably messed up in the
replay booth in a big way. The Sooner nation has a right to be really,
really mad, but not to the point of tormenting the poor ref who blew the call with phone calls and death threats. OU still could've won the game if it had just done
something to stop the Ducks over the final three minutes.
Maybe the Sooners can't handle the fact that they flat-out choked after
the blown call. Maybe they're looking for answers to why their
secondary, even with the bad pass interference call (that ball was
tipped) couldn't make a final stop, or why their special teams couldn't
block anyone on the final field goal attempt. You want an apology? How
about a big, fat, "I'm sorry" for your performance in the 55-19 loss to
USC in the 2005 Orange Bowl?
9. University of
Oklahoma president David Boren
Boren embarrassed the University of Oklahoma, the players, coaches, and
the game of college football with his letter to the Big 12 asking to
eliminate the Oregon game from the record books and to request the Pac
10 officials be suspended for the season. How about hollering at the team for not being mentally tough enough to overcome
an honest officiating mistake? The officials didn't beat Oklahoma,
Oregon did. It's unfortunate the Pac 10's apology and reply didn't have
the words "eat" or "shorts" in it. Which leads me to …
9. If you want to be known as a power conference, act that way
Why did the Pac 10 suspend those officials for one game? They blew a
call. It was a big call and they missed it, but to suspend them is to
cater to public opinion and try to assign blame for human error. Worse
yet, it feeds into the notion that there was some sort of conspiracy
against the Sooners. Accept responsibility and say your guys blew the
call. That's it. If Oklahoma, or anyone else can't handle it, then
that's their too bad. If the officials really are grossly incompetent,
then fire them.
8. And by the way, Taurean Henderson was in
Every coach preaches and screams over and over and over again about
going out and executing no matter what. Focus on the things you can do,
and don't let outside distractions affect what happens on the field.
That's why it's unfortunate that Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops has said
anything about the officiating in the Oregon game and not just said
"it's over, we lost", and moved on. How's this for coachspeak? Oklahoma
shouldn't have been in a position to lose late in the first place.
Stoops shouldn't be allowed to slide for saying that the officials
"chose not to (get the call right)." Officials are human, and they all
make mistakes in the heat of the moment. To hint that there was some
sort of calculated effort to make OU lose that game is wrong, dangerous,
and beneath a coach who has conducted himself and his program with
"In a game I'd love to have a chance to replay it
and do it over," said Stoops. "They get that opportunity, we don't. To
me it's just unacceptable and inexcusable."
You got your opportunity, and your D and your field goal team failed.
Try to save some shred of dignity and give Oregon some credit for making
plays when your team didn't.
8. Next time, try throwing the ball into the end zone
Enough about the picked up pass interference call, LSU fans. Fine,
so it was a curious move by the officials to pick up the flag late in
the Auburn game after claiming the ball was tipped, but be honest; the
interference had nothing whatsoever to do with the actual play. I call
it my pickup basketball rule. If you're fouled, but you missed the shot
because you missed the shot and not because you got tapped on the arm,
you don't call the foul. Sure, rules are rules, but that didn't cost LSU
the game. You don't really want to win like that, do you? Even after a
game full of lousy calls, the offense still had a final drive to win the
game, and blew it.
7. The only thing more pretentious and annoying is to use a middle
I'm taking a stand. After 2+ years of appeasing the family name and
using the Jr. after Ted Ginn's name, I'm making the call that it's fine
from now on to just call him Ted Ginn. Junior Ted Ginn Jr. ... I can't
do it anymore.
6. If you can unfocus your eyes, you'll see a pony
CBS, any chance you can e-mail us a magnifying glass to be able to
see the two point type for the score bar across the bottom of the
screen? Kudos to all the networks for starting to scale back on the
amount of visible clutter during game, but it's no good if you can't
read it.
5. VINCENT: I just wish I caught 'em doin' it, ya know? Oh man, I'd
give anything to catch 'em doin' it. It'a been worth his doin' it, if I
coulda just caught 'em, you know what I mean?
LANCE: It's chicken (bleep). You don't (bleep) another man's vehicle.
Enough with the planting flags in opponent's fields, and enough with
the jumping up and down on midfield logos. Home teams, you have my
permission to pull a George Teague on Terrell Owens any time someone's
doing the equivalent of keying your car.
4. "It's not that I'm lazy, I just don't care."
I have three TVs set up in my office with satellites, cable, DVRs,
and two computers going at once on football Saturdays. I drew the line
(at least for about 45 minutes) this week trying to find games on
something called OLN. That's the dead zone for sports that don't really
exist, not for college football.
3. NFL halftimes
The NFL is a multi-billion dollar business and the most successful
professional sports league in the history of mankind. How does it
possibly survive without 20+ minute halftimes like college football has?
How does the NFL possibly take in enough ad revenue? If the big boys can
do it, then so can college football. There's nothing wrong with catering
to TV and the networks. Aren't you a happier fan with the longer ESPN
pregame stuff and all the attention going along with the big Saturday
night games? Watch a weekend of college football and watch a Sunday of
the NFL and you'll immediately realize how much better shorter halftimes
are for everyone.
2. It's true. They were on the verge of curing cancer, finding Osama,
and creating a watchable primetime sitcom before that blasted rules
committee took away their precious extra plays.
This goes out to all the coaches who can't stop screaming about the
new clock rules (clear my throat, ahem ahem): SHUUUUUTTTTT UPPPPPP.
Look, we're all with you that these new clock changes are a bit bizarre
and unnecessary, but they don't signal the collapse of the civilized
world as we know it. If you hate them so much and you want more time,
run more plays to the sidelines and get out of bounds. Have your team at
the line and snap the ball the moment the official marks the ball ready
for play. Maybe you can get your team moving a little faster to try to
get more plays in.
1. HOMER: "Mr. Burns, you're the richest man I know."
"Ah yes, but I'd
trade it all for a little bit more." …
Lost in all the
silliness over Reggie Bush's alleged ties to a sports marketing company
during his time at USC is a simple, obvious truth that no one seems to
want to acknowledge: it's the blueprint for exactly how college sports
should be run.
If it's all true, Bush got paid, USC, the USC students, and the NCAA
didn't have to give up one thin dime, and no one, absolutely no one, got
hurt in the process. Isn't this how it should work?
It's natural selection working out to perfection. The top players get
compensated for being the top players, allowing some to stay in school
if they so choose. The backup punter doesn't have to be paid anything,
and the schools and NCAA don't lose any money. In fact, they'd make more
since a player like Bush, or Vince Young, might stay in school another
year if he was fronted a few million by an agent or marketing company.
Imagine the ad revenue ABC would've brought in if VY had been playing in
this year's game against Ohio State.
My plan has always been to allow players to have agents, sign deals with
marketing companies, and do endorsement deals. Also, allow boosters to
take the money and gifts they currently give to the players under the
table and allow them put it out in the open. When I bring this up to
anyone of significance in the college football world, the first
objection is always, "then the competitive balance would completely be
skewed. The big boys would always get the top talent because they could
pay for it."
1) As opposed to now? 2) Not necessarily.
Under my plan, you know exactly who'd dominate: rich programs like
Texas, Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC, and Michigan. Who dominates now?
Rich programs who have dominated for the last 35 years like Texas,
Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC, and Michigan. But my plan is the only one
that gives the lesser programs a shot.
We could play college football under its current system for the next 759
years and Oklahoma State wouldn't be within 100 miles of the national
title game. Take some of that T. Boone Pickens money and start doling it
out to the players, and OSU is a national powerhouse in two seasons. The
same goes for Idaho, Kent State, Florida Atlantic, and all the other
little guys you can name if they can find a rich, goofy booster or
three. SMU was a powerhouse in the 1980s when it was the best pro team
in Dallas, and those days could return with the right boosters. The
antiquated and naïve notion of amateurism in college football isn't just
a myth in today's game, it never actually existed in the first place.
And there's nothing, NOTHING morally wrong with that. It's fair for the
players, it's fair for the schools, and the NCAA would have a stronger,
better product on the field.
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over Ole Miss, 2) Iowa -21.5 at Illinois, 3) (never mess with a streak)
Western Michigan -27.5 over Temple.
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In a few months, the voters of Florida will be confronted with voting on several amendments to the state Constitution.
Amendment 8, as proposed by the state Legislature, presents an example of the manner in which a political body uses "value" words to manipulate its audience Thus, the amendment refers to "religious freedom." This is a euphemism because in no way do the words "religious freedom" offer anything of the kind.
In reality the use of the expression in describing the amendment is dishonest because there is a deliberate intent to mislead people into thinking it means freedom, when it actually means something quite different.
The purpose of the amendment is to strip the No Aid Clause out of our Constitution. At present, the No Aid Clause forbids any public funds from being used to aid religious organizations. If this text is removed it will permit legislators to funnel money (paid as taxes by all Floridians) to fund religious preaching and teaching.
For over 100 years the state of Florida has maintained separation of church and state. This is embodied in the state's Constitution.
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1892 The Triangle YMCA Magazine Introducing Basketball. Presented is the first and only example we've ever encountered of the seminal publication that introduced the sport of "Basket Ball" to the world. Published just a month after the first game was played in December 1891, this January 1892 issue of the YMCA's The Triangle magazine announces the article on the cover, which directs the reader to page 144 and the historic understatement, "We present to our readers a new game of ball, which seems to have those elements in it which ought to make it popular among the Associations." James Naismith's four-page article includes a fine drawing of that first game, his list of the thirteen Original Rules and fascinating insights into the sport's early development, such as, "There seemed to be no way of compensating the opponents for a foul made. A free throw was thought of, but, after a little practice, a good thrower could convert it into a goal almost every time..." Did you hear that, Shaq? The magazine exhibits some chipping at the edges of the cover and the upper right corner of several of the pages, but the basketball section is unaffected and the magazine remains complete and tightly bound. As the very first and unquestionably the most important published work regarding the sport of basketball, the appeal is difficult to measure. And, as this is the only known example of the magazine in private hands, the estimate we provide is little more than a conservative guess. Please note that after the catalog went to print we were contacted by a collector who has a copy of this magazine, bringing the known population to two.
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The Phillies and lefty reliever Antonio Bastardo avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $1.4 million contract for 2013. Bastardo's 2012 ERA (4.33) and BB/9 IP (4.50) were career highs and likely limited his salary although it does top the $1.1 million projected by arbitration expert Matt Swartz that both myself and Corey Seidman used in projecting the Phillies' available monies under the luxury tax threshold.
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In testing the BMW 5 GranTurismo last year, I concluded it had more issues than a washed-up Hollywood starlet - the idea might be alluring, but the real thing is overweight, over-complicated and not that pretty. But somewhere in there was a very good saloon car trying to get out.
Well, here it is.
Or at least it is in the form of the first cars BMW has let out of the traps. These are the 535i and 530d, and they come with full Christmas-tree spec: four-wheel active steering, active anti-roll bars, adaptive dampers, eight-speed auto and a head-up display.
Which is all very well, but no sooner do we set off than we have to stop for a reality check. Both petrol 535i and diesel 530d are £37,000 cars even without that gear; add the options fitted here, and a number not unadjacent to £50k gazes right back at you. And guess what: 80 per cent of 5-Series sold in the UK are the 520d. A car BMW hasn't actually put into production yet. So as to what the 5-Series is like when fitted with the base engine and the real-world chassis spec, we have little idea.
Still, let's proceed with the fantasy version. Barrelling into a bumpy and ever-so-slightly greasy bend, a bit of unhelpful camber. Because the active steering is gearing-up the column at these speeds and all four wheels turn, only a short movement of the hands is needed to feed you into the curve. The car lets you know what it's up to, and a squeeze of the throttle spools up the turbo to impel you out the other end. On the way in, there's been just enough understeer to keep things predictable, and on the way out the sensation is of the back tyres just beginning to lose purchase. Everything seems to be getting the best out of everything else, and as the driver you're invited to join the fun. Given the immense amount of electrickery going on here, that's quite an achievement.
It's surprising how much more fluent the 5-Series is than the 7-Series. The 7, 5 GT and 5 share all the chassis tech (and a whole lot more), but the 7-Series in particular never feels at ease with itself. It's sometimes wallowy, sometimes clunky, sometimes both at once, and the steering can be indefinite. The 5 GT was far better, and I asked the chief chassis bod why. "Software algorithms," he said. "It's all so complicated that we keep finding ways to improve. And the 5 saloon will be better again." He was right.
The 5 gains from being smaller and lighter than the 7 (or 5 GT), but it's also simply better developed. Maybe you'll soon be able to re-flash the ROM of a 7-Series. All that said, while the active anti-roll works well, I'd still avoid the active steering option on the 5-Series, at least for British conditions. It's for Alpine hairpins and high-speed autobahn driving, at the expense of normal-speed steering feel.
But it's not just the cornering that's cup-winning. The 5-Series's ride is really excellent, both over big stuff and the sharp little zits that often upset 'sporty' saloons. And wind and tyre noise are way down.
I tested the first two engines to be released - the 535i, which is a new single-turbo Valvetronic. Its power matches the twin-turbo in a 335i - and it's said to be more efficient but doesn't quite sound as inspirational as BMW sixes used to. Economy is also helped by a new eight-speed auto 'box with full paddleshift over-ride. It's smooth and decisive and doesn't feel like it has too many ratios, unlike the multi-speed Lexus and Benz autos, which are always dithering about which gear to use.
The first diesel on sale is the 530d, which real-world matches the 535i for performance, though you don't get the fun of revving it so high. It costs a mere £10 more, and will save a third of your fuel bill and go a third further between fill-ups.
But if you're counting, the miracle will come in summer with the release of the 520d. It has 184bhp and will do 0-62 in 8.1secs - and is rated at 56.5mpg. Those sadly obsessed by the company-car latter can feel elevated beyond the Mondeo/Passat hordes, and derive added smugness from the knowledge they're being so tax-efficient.
So it's fair to say the 5-Series is undergoing a serious return to form. The last one suffered from unhappy first-generation versions of several technologies: iDrive, run-flat tyres, active steering. All those are better now. The design of the old one was pretty controversial too, especially the scowling face and brutally unwelcoming cabin. It didn't seem to want to be your friend.
The style of the new one is eager to please, but I suspect it might be accused of blandness. Still, the detailing, especially the head- and tail-lamp clusters, is a delight. The smart details and lovely quality run throughout the inside too, and the ergonomics manage to be progressive but not scarily intimidating. A longer wheelbase means it's roomier in the back than it used to be. As if that matters: when do you ever see cars like this with an adult in the back? From the rear seat, the 5 GT is the one to choose. For drivers, it's definitely this saloon.
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"I was crying every day for two years straight after that and, I was in denial, I was like, 'No, he didn't do that. This didn't happen,'" Joel, the only offspring from Billy Joel's marriage to Christie Brinkley, said in an interview airing Friday on 20/20. "It's, it's like a form of...you're not well."
But, despite that heartbreak, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter says she was definitely not trying to kill herself when she accidentally overdosed on homeopathic aspirin in December.
"It ended up making me feel kind of sick, and then I panicked and I was just not thinking clearly," Joel said. "It kind of bothers me, that the press calls this an overdose. And I take full responsibility for what I've done. But at the same time, I wasn't trying to kill myself. I have a flair for the dramatic, OK, I'm an artist. I'm a performer. Did I actually want to die? Absolutely not. I was not suicidal."
Joel did end up undergoing intensive therapy at the behest of her model mom and idol dad.
"I knew with my mom that she was feeling the pain I was going through," she said. "I mean she's just such a compassionate, empathetic woman...And my father, he has such perspective, he was like, 'You got to see outside of this. You're an intelligent, talented, beautiful woman.'"
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"Fat Momma, Fat Momma, I'm here to save the day. Fat Momma, Fat Momma, I'll take your food away."
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Major Victory in Season 1, Hyperstrike in Season 2.
- The above-mentioned Fat Momma in-show. In one of the final episodes, the remaining three contestants had to convince an elementary school class to be inspired by their hero persona, and then the kids of the class had to stand behind their favorite. Fat Momma gave a heartwarming speech about learning to love yourself for who you are, and more than half the class got behind her.
- Game Breaker: A late challenge in the second season involved bonding with children and using the knowledge they were taught in school to solve some puzzles. The guy who failed? Parthenon, who was a teacher, and therefore didn't need the children's help.
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- Wangst: Fat Momma in Season 1, and Whip-Snap in Season 2, both teeter on the edge between angst and wangst, especially Whip-Snap.
- Whip-Snap's wangsting got her eliminated - Stan Lee's final speech to her basically said, "If you can't deal with your own problems, you have no business being a superhero on top of it." He ought to have made the obvious comparison to Spider-Man, noting that (at least when written well), Peter Parker actually works to solve the problems amidst his superhero life, rather than crying about it every damn time (at least when he's not selling his soul to Satan to fix the problem for him).
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POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) C.J. Tuckett rushed for 289 yards and two touchdowns to lead Weber State to a 40-14 victory over Idaho State on Saturday.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Boise State scored on its first offensive play Saturday and never looked back in a 42-14 victory over Colorado State.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Anthony Drmic had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Derrick Marks scored 18 points as Boise State defeated Oakland 88-80 on Tuesday night.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Derrick Marks had 16 points and eight rebounds as Boise State defeated Texas Southern 81-63 Sunday in the season-opening contest for both schools.