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It's the future of the United States. A place where black-market and side alley deals are made for video games...a place where computers and their peripherals are high commodities. There is no Las Vegas, and Sam knows he's the one responsible for the downfall of the United States....
It started out harmlessly. A little hack to get some free neuro headsets for him and his best friend Fargas. Sam knew the hack was easy, but he still couldn't shake the feeling someone was watching. And then the invitation arrived. Neoh@ck would invite him to the elite of the elite if he could find their con. What did he have to do? Crack the firewall of the White House and find the virtual con. Sam did, and now the feds are knocking on his door.
But there is more to it than meets the virtual eye. Sam runs into Dodge while incarcerated and makes a daring plan to escape. And his escape turns into the a proposition he can't refuse, working on what he does best. One that means life or death, protection of countries and their resources and governments, and a battle against Ursula, a virtual being that wants to take control of not only the what Sam and the crew are trying to protect, but of people as well, using the only means available to her...neuro headsets.
WOWOW!!! Okay, this isn't quite a word you'd use for a review, but from the beginning I was hooked. Brian Falkner writes a YA thriller that does exactly what he set out to do - thrill the reader. A dystopian novel in a very futuristic, realistic way, Falkner writes about the dangers of the future involving technology, and one that could quite conceivably happen. Sam is one of those teens we all know...an extremely bright and talented person who walks, talks and lives for technology. He is vibrant, intuitive, and leaps off the pages as well as the other characters in this novel. The prologue will capture and the book will follow suit.
I requested a guy read on the floor of ALA...the next best novel that will capture this audience. The rep at Random House handed me this...Brian Falkner's book will too with the guys.
Junior year is upon Lani. She's been looking at the stars and tracking her horoscope and knows this year will be the best ever. She has her friends Erin and Blake beside her, and although she's not part of the Golden Circle, she is still likeable by her classmates.
Erin, her best friend, is also ready for high school, especially when she sees Jason, the guy she's been crushing on. Erin usually gets what she wants, and Lani is there cheering her on. Blake is hoping to get through his last year without any bumps in the road, and Lani is keeping his secret. Life couldn't get any better.
But then summer arrives, and as with all summers, life unexpectedly changes. Lani faces some major challenges before her senior year ever starts. And the biggest obstacle? How to tell her best friend that Jason and her are seeing each other. And Blake's secret? Oops.... Senior year isn't what Lani is hoping or wishing for, and the fates are definitely working against her.
Need some light and fun reading? This is one to pick up. It's a definite magnet for girls to want to read. What can be more taboo that dating someone's ex when the ex won't let go? Colasanti has weaved together two episodes in one life about love, friendship, betrayals, and healing. This will be one handed from one girl to another!
Ames lives a more than comfortable life....large house, private school, expensive vacations and clothes. She has her circle of friends, with Em at the center. Ames is known as the "good girl," one who never challenges the rules and does well in school. But Em has given her a taste of what it feels like to bend rules, and Ames likes that feeling.
And then her world crashes. Her way of life is completely shattered, thanks to her father and she learns the hard and fast way of what life will be like. Her circle of friends have abandoned her, her way of life given away at garage sales, and what little they have left is swept away in a tide of embarrassment to Houston, where she now lives in the projects, mucking away discarded drug needles and animal droppings in her new home. She hates her life, her parents...everyone except her little sister. And that's where she meets Marc.
Marc takes him time when it comes to approaching Ames. His attraction to her began the first time he saw her. He knows the dangers and the unfamiliar territory Ames has moved into and he sees something in her that others don't - he tests her dark song, that feeling of living on the edge, the thrill of breaking rules without attracting attention, and finds hers without ever letting her know his own dark song he plays so well...
Ames feels the dark song too and the music is getting louder and stronger the more she follows Marc into his world. And she likes it...but will what she likes destroy her and her family or rescue her from a world she knows nothing about?
Gail Giles is a master of YA fiction on the edge. She's crafted a book where readers are drawn to Ames's privileged life and the deliberately crafted downhill ride she finds herself in. Picture perfect on the outside, the dysfunctional family side is revealed to the reader in perfect literary accompaniment. Fans of her body of work will not be disappointed!
By Eva Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
Eva grew up in
In the early 10940s Eva and Miriams parents began hearing about the trouble between the Germans and Jews, but didnt think it would ever reach their small rural farming community. But it did, and on her 10th birthday, they were marched to the rail station and taken to
Josef Mengele was waiting when the trains arrived and with a twitch of his cane, he made choices that killed thousands at people at a time. But his eye was trained on Eva and Miriam because they were twins. And he needed them for his experiments
This is the memoir of a woman who tells her story of survival and torture and ultimate redemption through the eyes of her 10 year old self. Thousands of children were called Mengeles twins, but not many survived the excruciating experiments he performed on them. She and her sister were some of those few.
What a powerful read for young adults. Teens know about the Holocaust, but this is a book that will take them inside a different part of
Finn and Chloe have been best friends since fourth grade. They live next door to each other, stay at each others homes one would even say theyre like sisters, finely tuned into each others families and lifestyles. Chloe is the beautiful one, the one who everyone revolves around. Finn is more down-to-earth; a local girl who befriended the city girls when she moved in.
Now theyre juniors in high school and fast approaching what itll take to get into an ivy-league school and all the pressures that come with it. It doesnt leave the girls a lot of time, but enough time for Chloe to flirt with Dean and Finn to help her. They had enough time for them to still watch television and the drama that unfolded on the L.A. Price show when Margaret Cook came home after being abducted. The girls had enough time to plan
Applying to get into a prestigious university is one thing; getting in is another completely different beast, and Chloe and Finn know that. After hearing their counselor reiterate the fact that what theyre doing now in the small town of Colt River has no bearing on them actually getting in, and hearing as well the statistics of how many students across the nation apply and how many actually get in leaves the girls, but Chloe especially, in a spiral of desperation. And with enough time on their hands and a seed of inspiration, the girls create a scenario that will definitely make them stand out. Months of meticulous planning, and the show is about to begin
What Finn doesnt realize is that eleven days will take its toll on her. While Chloes abduction goes into full swing, Finn sees the brunt of it and the impact its taking not only on her hometown, but on individuals themselves. But how far is too far? When does it stop being a game and start being real?
A great novel from a great YA author, Corrigan puts her signature on this book. The reader is hooked on page one and the pages continue to flip until the final moment on the last page. The hook happens not only with the fullness of the character, but with the situation as well. What the main characters find fascinating, the reader sees the nightmare behind it from a classmates to a parents perspective. This is a fast paced white-knuckle book where the reader gets to live through the perpetrators actions and watch the victims emotional and mental breakdowns. Recommended. Available August 2010: Scholastic
Whit and Wisty...typical big brother and little sister. They live with their parents and life is the way it's always been - school, home, friends...until the New Order takes place. And their lives are impacted when the police come to Whit's and Wisty's house to imprison them for not following directives. The only thing they take with them? Something their parents shove into their hands - an old drum stick and a blank book. They don't understand, but these are the only things linking them to home.
Whit and Wisty are imprisoned and found guilty. Whit will be the first one put to death, and when Wisty reaches eighteen, her time will be up...if she can survive the terror they both are going through now. But before things get worse, they both discover something unique about them. The names of witch and wizard imposed on them begin to come to fruition, and both brother and sister are slowly beginning to harness this power. But is it too late?
James Patterson has dived in head-first in YA fiction, starting with his Maximum Ride series and following up with his Daniel X series, and now this (which will have a sequel if not a series behind it). A talented adult author, the resonance of his storytelling doesn't transfer across lines as clearly. Although this book had moments of jaw-clenching tension and the dystopic future of the
Alexis lives in the oldest and more unique house in town. But she can't say that about her dyfunctional family. She has a workaholic mother, a father who won't treat her like a grown-up, and a 13-year-old sister who loves and collects dolls. The only thing working for her right now is her love of photography. And that's what starts it all.
One night, while taking photos of her house at night, Lexie thinks she sees an odd light that seems to follow her and her sister, Kasey. But was it a trick of the eye? Lexie shrugs it off and continues with her non-existent high school life, until things change from "normal" to weird.
For the first time in her life, Lexie thinks she may be falling for Carter, the student council vice-president and polar extreme of who and what she is. And the most popular girls in school? They are actually talking to her...but the most strange? Her sister Kasey. Why do her eyes change from blue to green? And when they do, her whole personality changes from little sister to evil incarnate. Pair that with cold rooms when the A/C is off, strange stories and memories Lexie doesn't understand but "remembers", and accidents that are far from accidental, and Lexie knows there must be more going on than meets the eye.
Slowly, she begins to realize what is happening to her sister. From an accident that happened long ago in her house, a restless spirit is intent on revenge. And Lexie has to prevent the possession of her little sister before she's gone for good. But can she?
Katie Alender captures the essence of a fast-paced ghostly read for YA by creating characters that counterbalance each other socially written within the genre of high-interest supernatural that seems to be prominent in YA fiction today. From enemies to romance, possession to a dysfunctional family, from revenge to love, Alender weaves a great tale that encompasses it all without bogging down the plot. This will be a book that will be read over and over - keep plenty on the shelves! Recommended.
Rowan looks back at her life and realizes how great it was. Mum was happy, Dad was home, Jack glued the family together, and Stroma, her little sister, was...well, just Stroma. But that all changed when Jack died.
Rowan looks at her life now and realizes how impossibly hard it's getting. Mum doesn't talk, eat or even recognize she has other children. Dad moved about a few months ago, Jack...well, he's dead and Rowan can't think about that because now she has to care for her six-year old precocious little sister Stroma in everything.
But one day, that all changes when a stranger with a lop-sided grin gives her a negative that he believes belongs to her. And that one act of kindess begins a chain reaction of lives intersecting, all through chance, and how one lost life impacts so many.
Rowan looks at her days and doesn't see breakfast, a beautiful concoction of lovely flowers, hot toast, oatmeal, and orange juice in a clean glass cup, but rather she sees everything floating together, mashed up, messed up, mixed up...broken soup...
What a great read!! Valentine's characters float off the pages and into your heart. Bee, Sonny, Carl; Stroma, Harper and Rowan; even Jack are enormously full characters that will grab at your heart strings and have you hoping against hope for good things to happen. This is a fast read but one that will continue to shape characters into their true selves to the very end. Highly recommended.
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Katrina lives in a part of
But Katrina has loyal friends, especially Vincent, the star swimmer at school. They've been friends forever, but things are beginning to change...
One night Katrina helps a street bum out with some hot coffee and old danish, and the next day the bum (aka Malcolm, a hot guy in a kilt!) shows up at school embarrassing Katrina with his duty to grant her deepest desire in the middle of a pep rally. And then the fun begins....
What does a person desire most? Fame? Wealth? Love? Katrina has to make some tough choices, and three little coffee beans are the only thing that can give her what she desires most. Is it revenge against the mega coffee-opolis next door? How about breaking up Vincent and his barbie girlfriend, Heather? What about Grandma's health or her rising debt?
Selfours has written a light, frothy, foamy, cup of chick lit that has some substance beneath the froth. Selfours combines elements of modern-day romance that girls crave with some fairy-tale (think Jack and the Beanstalk) mixed in, all centering around relationships and entrepreneurship. Angels, best friends, huge rats, and competition make for an enjoyable read. The message is simple: Follow the golden rule and you never know...there may be angels among us...
Something is happening to the students at Saint Opportuna High in the small town of
Emma has just moved to the small town of
Their nightmares soon take second seat to what is happening in front of them to the students at their high school. One dies in a fatal car wreck, then not long afterward, two more die...and a lot of students confess they can't sleep as well. But when one of their friends in Emma and Jake's inner circle dies, the feeling of horror and nightmare come full force right in front of them. Questions they keep asking are what is causing this? Did something from
Thomas Fahy has easily transitioned himself from adult to young adult author without "dummying down" his work. Like his first YA novel, Unspoken, Fahy's style never loses its suspense, but keeps the reader turning the pages until the finale. What readers may see when they open an adult horror suspense is still found within the pages of Fahy's YA novels, but not as openly graphic as an adult novel. But the essence is still there.... Teens who enjoy reading horror and losing themselves to the gripping nature of suspense will find this novel perfect for them.


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"Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys" is pretty terrible, the acting which has such names as Christopher Lloyd and Shannen Doherty didn't even help the movie. The film premiered tonight on Animal Planet for its Monster's Week. The film came from Asylum, a company known for its very z-rated movies.
Basically the film is about a town in Michigan that is being attacked by lampreys, so it's up to a small group to save the town. Jason Brooks ("Days of Our Lives") also starred in this z-rated wreck. He's the father that is always working, then the family bonds by killing lampreys that are attacking their new town. It's family fun night!
The dialogue is laughable, but really are we even suppose to take this movie seriously? It wasn't made to be taken serious, it was made for pure entertainment, the problem with that it was rarely entertaining. For a TV movie they really didn't mind throwing the FX in. There is one sick scene that will make this movie memorable, let's just say if you've seen it, then you know what happened to Christopher Lloyd's character. I wonder how much he got paid for that movie?
Like it's title, "Blood Lake," the movie doesn't disappoint with the bloody scenes. It was all over the 2 hour movie. The CGI of the lampreys were pretty terrible, but seeing that this is a low-budget movie, that's quite understandable. This movie is a 1 star flick, but it probably already knows that. It's good for what it is, and what it is, is a 1 star flick. It's not impressive, but if you like a lot of killer lampreys and blood, just forget about the characters!
If you want to watch a good and interesting movie about not going into the water watch "Jaws," now if you want a z-rated film then "Blood Lake," is that kind of movie. It's a movie not to be taken seriously, it was definitely made poorly just to add a little spice to Animal Planet's Monster Week. They should have stuck to documentaries instead of bad movies. It doesn't seem like a movie for the channel, maybe SYFY didn't want it?

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This is an Elvis Fans' Festival featuring an Elvis Tribute Artist contest, the Heart of the King Awards Ceremony and Concert and a Saturday night concert featuring two tribute artists performing in the same showroom where Elvis made history, the LVH (formerly Hilton) Showroom.
The Saturday concert will star Shawn Klush, who is Graceland's Official Ultimate Elvis tribute artist and the BBC's "World's Greatest Elvis;" along with Cody Slaughter, the 2011 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Contest Winner, Artist.
The event will be hosted by Elvis' closest friend, Joe Esposito.
The event is part of the ElvisFestival.com series of events, and is licensed by Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.
Festival highlights:
• July 11 - noon to 2 p.m. Elvis Tribute Artists meet in LVH lobby for photos and tour of Las Vegas; 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. , closed jam session for ETAs; 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., welcome reception at LVH Club Oasis.
• July 12 - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Heart of the King ETA Contest Round 1, Club Oasis; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Round 2, LVH Showroom; 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., Awards and Concert, LVH Showroom.
• July 13 - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Heart of the King ETA Contest Semi-Final Round, Club Oasis; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Grand Finals, LVH Showroom; 8 p.m., Klush and Slaughter tribute show at LVH Showroom.
• July 14 - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Blue Hawaii farewell party, poolside at LVH.


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This independent music festival is held over a long weekend in July or August within the grounds of a Georgian farmhouse near Huntingdon, with landscaped gardens and a lake and river. It is on a much smaller scale than most of the summer's offerings.
The emphasis at the Secret Garden Party is on the quirky and the eclectic, in terms of both musical performances (reggae, rock, funk, hip hop, dub, dance and more, with DJs playing from a treehouse stage), the storytelling, theatre, comedy and art installations, and the activities on offer, which include snail racing, rubber duck shooting and Space Hopper races.
Throughout the festival, participation is welcomed - from creating extraordinary costumes to building art installations. Visitors are encouraged to build action camps - Action Camps can be workshops for teaching, tents and stages for talks and demonstrations, craft spaces, beautifully decorated chill out spaces, poetry corners or karaoke dens. Or you might like to create an art boat - a rowing boat that has been transformed into a work of art. The festival already has seven.
The Sanctuary offers massage, healing, dance classes, yoga, saunas and hot tubs, and camping is available in tents, campers or caravans; alternatively, pre-book 'boutique' tipis or safari tents.


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"Sea, sand, sun... My beloved Nha Trang" Top 5 Page for this destination Nha Trang by ExoticGal
Nha Trang Travel Guide: 455 reviews and 1,030 photos
I'm a long-lost child of Nha Trang. Born in Dien Khanh, a small district 15 kms from Nha Trang, still recall how estatic I was in my childhood to be taken to Nha Trang- a heaven of beautiful streets, blue sea & sky, smooth white sand, honey sunlight, lined coconut & pine trees. At 14 I came to this pretty coastal city for my high school study... And at 16 I left this place for good to settle down in the hustle and bustle of Saigon aka Ho Chi Minh City with my family....
It's been quite some time since I visited Nha Trang, and in Apr 2004, I came back there on business.... Wow, except a bit more touristy it doesn't change much (& I hope it won't forever)... . I marveled at how beautiful it is, & failed to understand why I took it for granted during my 3 years in high school....
If you're in Vietnam, be sure to drop by this place, about 400kms from Ho Chi Minh City which takes 50 mins by air & 10 hours by train. & I'm sure you won't wanna go back home (& won't ever think about the either "swashbuckling" or humdrum activities in your damn office, just as I did)...
As introduced in my Homepage, I'm an self-perceived gastronomer... Heeehehe.
& seafood in Nha Trang isn't to be missed. Three of us ate fresh squid & crabs to our heart's content and paid only USD 6 in total...
This pic was taken in Bai Dai, a long beach around 20 kms from Nha Trang, actually it belongs to Cam Ranh District, not Nha Trang. More of Bai Dai in my Off The Beaten Path tips
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Hahaha, you are joking or what? I`ve been there one time, please don�t call this stuff icecream!
Hi, i understand that the location is near Ponagar tower but do you know the exact address or the name of the place that offer this service? :)
Hello. Great page with interesting pictures .What a beautiful beach and sea are there. Greetings.
Great tips! I'll be there next month. Cheers & greetings from Kelvin, Singapore
hi,how do i go to this place?this mud bath thingy?=) where is it?thanks!
Wow, Nha Trang is a paradise beach: foamier waves than anywhere else... Just like the foams of shampoo, wonderful!
Really enjoyed your perspective! Happy travels, Blu
Just returned from Nha Trang..sure is a beautiful place and did not want to leave...will just have to go back next year.
It's nice to know that I stayed in the most beautiful street in Vietnam!
Lovely page, am thinking of going there in march this year so thank you for the tips.
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Eh we look okay so far I guess. Lucious is having a hard time staying in front of his guy
We can't get anything in the paint.
Man, Mcgee is good
The last name of Hooker really annoys me.
Campbell is solid. Gonna be a tough win.
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Man, Mcgee is good
He works so hard, gonna be hard to keep him off the court for long this year.
Going to be in a fight with these guys. They can play.
Struggling right now.
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Campbell is solid. Gonna be a tough win.
I agree. I hope we end up blowing them away, but they are a good team. I think it's going to be a tough win.
Tyrus McGee....*******.
Lucious playing REAL solid tonight.
That was a nice last 90 seconds minus that unfortunate rebound..
After the crap ISU fans gave the Hawks we will never live this down if we lose
We need about 10 Tyrus McGee's on this team. We might be a little short, but my word we'd have a ton of energy.
McGee is just everywhere
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Fake release announcements contain malicious links
MALWARE EXPERTS are warning of a wave of spam emails that pose as Iphone 5GS release announcements and lead recipients to an IRC worm.
The spam campaign clearly tries to capitalise on people's interest in the Apple Iphone the company is expected to release later today.
The rogue emails bear a subject of "iPhone 5G S has been released" and have forged headers to appear as originating from the "email@example.com" address. The body contains an image showing a transparent Iphone and a listing of the new device's alleged features.
"That's probably not what the next iPhone will look alike. However, if you get curious and click on the links, you get redirected to download a Windows binary called iphone5.gif.exe hosted under a hacked server comiali.com," warned F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hypponen.
The use of a double extension is an attempt to trick users on systems like Windows 7, which hides known extensions by default, into believing that the file is actually an image. In fact, running it does open a JPEG showing a device resembling an overly-stretched Ipad.
However, in the background it installs a hidden IRC bot based on the legitimate mIRC client. The piece of malware connects to a server in Hungary and can steal credit card details and other sensitive information from infected computers.
Security researchers point out that this is not the first, nor will it be the last time that Apple rumours get exploited by spammers. "Apple product announcements are always big news. And I think we have to accept that it's likely that whenever Apple is scheduled to reveal new technology that cybercriminals will try to exploit the interest," said Graham Cluley, a security expert at Sophos. µ
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It wasn't quite fun and games that got the phenomenon started. The Dallas area has long been, and remains, a nexus of video game development. But it was the bust-up, in late 2008, of one of its biggest gaming companies, the Microsoft-owned Ensemble Studios, that threatened to put the Bettners on a bus back home. The Miami natives had come to Dallas in the early aughts, when Ensemble was making a mint with its Age of Empires franchise. And the office perks—an arcade, a screening room—were princely. Microsoft's money made for plush digs high above Royal Lane and Central Expressway, until the company decided it was game over.
Sitting in the airless and cramped Newtoy conference room that doubles as their COO's office, the Bettners are still unsure of what happened at Ensemble. Picking over a microwaveable lunch of chicken tikka masala, Paul speculates that Microsoft's thinking went something like this: "Hey, the studio in Dallas is burning x millions of dollars every month. Why not just close it and spend that money in Redmond?"
Rather than wait to be pushed, the Bettners decided to jump, leaving Ensemble on September 15, 2008—just months before the company shuttered and to the cheers of envious co-workers. Earlier in the year, Apple had launched its app store and had made game development for the iPhone an open invitation to any and all coding geeks—deep-pocketed industry giants such as Electronic Arts as well as the so-called garage developer—who could come up with the $99 it cost to buy its software development kit. There was suddenly, Paul remembers, "incredible excitement about building games for the iPhone, and we thought we could be among the pioneers."
Absorbing the expense of a rented office space wasn't a possibility, so the Bettners carved out a corner of the McKinney Public Library, which, for almost a year, they treated as their headquarters. It was working out fine until they began Skyping with their cousin Michael Chow, a young Harvard grad they brought in as a Newtoy co-founder. "It was very quiet Skyping," Paul says, laughing about the library ruckus they made.
"Put it this way," David says. "We got a lot of random shushes."
Desperate to get to market with a product, the Bettners worked on side-by-side laptops—"pair-programming in the extreme," David says—and within two months had built and delivered to the iTunes Store something called Chess With Friends, the most obvious game they could think of that would be engaging (checkers, meh) but, most important, would fulfill their turn-based gaming concept and vision of the iPhone as a uniquely mobile and flexible gaming platform.
Seeing the fruit of their labor so quickly posted to the iTunes Store had the thrill of a checkmate, even if Chess With Friends turned out to be a bit of a fizzle. While still at the library on McKinney's town square, they set out to expand their "games with friends" franchise with the next obvious choice: Scrabble.
Or maybe it wasn't so obvious. Only a handful of months earlier, Hasbro, the toy powerhouse and owner of North American rights to Scrabble, had filed suit against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, another wily team of brother-programmers whose Scrabulous, a blatant online knock-off of the classic board game, had become a runaway hit on Facebook. The Bettners went to school on the Agarwallas' troubles. It turns out the similarity in game play between Scrabulous and Scrabble wasn't necessarily the problem. There are numerous, only slightly modified variations of the Scrabble format—games such as Literati and Alfapet—available online and at the iTunes Store. What got the Agarwallas in Dutch with Hasbro was the appropriation of the Scrabble name.
Eight months after Chess With Friends was launched, and after many hours of close consultation with intellectual property attorneys, Paul and David Bettner floated Words With Friends into the app universe—and held their breath.
"Paul and I had been working almost a year at that point, just burning through our life savings," David says. "And I was rapidly watching my bank account go down to zero."
"We both were," Paul says. "Coming in for a landing! We were literally counting the number of weeks we had to go before we had to get a job."
Like tiles on a Scrabble board, the Qs and Us mercifully aligned.
"Pretty much all in the same few weeks," David says, "we sealed a deal for seed money from some investors, signed with [game publisher] NGMOCO to develop We Rule, and Words With Friends was released. Our monetization got a little better."
Still, they couldn't afford to properly promote Words With Friends, a game that, unlike the NGMOCO-financed We Rule, they own outright. The Bettners definitely had an "oh, no" moment when, like Chess With Friends before it, their Scrabble copycat failed to gain immediate traction.
But strange things happen in the cybersphere, where Words With Friends slowly became buzz-worthy and eventually a full-blown viral sensation. The game went on "rocket boosters," Paul says, when just past midnight on October 5 of last year—three months after its initial release—pop star John Mayer tweeted to his 3.2 million followers: "The 'Words With Friends' app is the new Twitter."
Did Newtoy pounce on Mayer's out-of-nowhere endorsement? "No," Paul says. "We were too busy keeping our servers from catching on fire!"


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No doubt that this has been a very stormy year in Baltimore. We had nearly double our normal snowfall, the coldest March temperature on record, and the heavy spring rains that helped lead to the landslide off of Charles St. on April 30th (see video here) But what I have to show here goes beyond recent weather and should be filed under the aging and neglected infrastructure of our cities.
The recent closing of I-495 in Delaware because of tilted pillars has 90,000 cars a day dealing with alternative routes, but better safe emergency construction gets done, right?
With that said, here is a look at a cracked pillar supporting the elevated span of I-83 in Baltimore City, known locally as the Jones Falls Expressway, or JFX. This area of Meadow Mill is often subjected to flooding and lots of debris flowing downsteam, which apparently has taken its toll.
Karene Smith sent me the following message through my Facebook page along with these photos in the slide show. She was hoping I could help get the attention of someone who can address this, and hope this helps.
According to Karene:
I went to the first meeting of the Balto Gem Cutters Guild at Meadow Mill, which flooded last month in the great deluge. The building has been repaired. The JFX....no. The tree that is pushing against this support is as large as the JFX support, if not larger around. I'm actually worried about traveling over that section now.
As you can see, there is exposed rebar, but more worrying to me, are the many cracks that run the length of the support.
An also worrying is the fact that any runoff will now use that huge tree as lever. It's firmly on the land and juts past the support.
I am not a structural engineer. I'm just a meteorologist who shared some calculus and physics classes with some of those engineers. So as a layman, I have to say I agree with the concern. It may just be cosmetic, but this looks like it needs to be addressed.
I am trying to be cautious with my delivery, but I do hope that via my large following this can get the attention of someone that is in charge to take a closer look at this and decide how to best handle this. If anything, I would hope to have a follow up about the integrity of this and the other columns in this span. It does appear that more debris will lead to more stress, but the visible fracturing is bad enough.
If this does lead to action and emergency repair, I surely hope that it is seen with appreciation and Karene should get credit for taking the initiative to try and get the word out.
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Only 1 Speedway crash victim remains hospitalized
Published: Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 6:17 p.m.
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DAYTONA BEACH — Only one person remains hospitalized from a crash at Daytona International Speedway that injured at least 30 race fans, said Byron Cogdell, a spokesman for Halifax Health.
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The Feb. 23 wreck happened during the last lap of the NASCAR Nationwide Series Drive4COPD 300. The pileup sent Kyle Larson's car barreling into the catch fence and spraying debris into the crowd.
Of the 30 injured, seven were admitted to Halifax Health Medical Center. Two of the patients, including a minor, arrived in critical condition and have since stabilized.
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March 29, 2011
Tulane starting pitcher Kyle McKenzie is out for the season
Tulane's baseball program lost its second starting pitcher of the spring to a season-ending elbow injury, Coach Rick Jones said Monday afternoon.
March 28, 2011
Tulane's new assistant coach John Hendrick brings passion, expertise
Hendrick, a 51-year-old ordained minister who has coached for 29 years in the college and pro ranks, is a lot more like Tony Dungy than Rex Ryan. But it hasn't always been that way.
March 25, 2011
Pitchers roles are just pitching for Tulane's baseball team
A typical pitching staff is loaded with guys with labels. It has starters, middle relievers, set-up guys and closers.
March 22, 2011
Tulane football players get a special spark for Monday's spring practice
It's no secret the Tulane football team is emphasizing special teams work this spring, trying to upgrade the low-performing unit.
March 21, 2011
For Tulane football fans, on-campus stadium is key to program's future
Longtime Tulane fan Bob Segari didn't clap Wednesday as the school's president, Scott Cowen, and athletic director, Rick Dickson, gave their spiel in a townhall-style meeting about the administration's commitment to the football program.
Tulane's baseball team scores in the ninth to complete a sweep against UNO
Tulane's Bowen Woodson had one thought when he stepped to bat with the bases loaded, the score tied at 6 and a series sweep with UNO on the line in the bottom of the ninth.
March 18, 2011
Tulane women's basketball team routs Southern 61-31 in WNIT
No point for Tulane to sit back and let its WNIT opener against Southern become competitive. The Green Wave swarmed the Jaguars with a full-court press from the onset.
March 17, 2011
Tulane women's basketball team looks to impress in the WNIT
An NCAA Tournament bid slipping through its hands certainly stung the Tulane women's basketball team.
Tulane's Cowen pledges financial increase to support football, athletics
The impact is immediate. Tulane will increase the football budget by 45 percent while increasing the overall department budget by 30 percent.
Tulane president Scott Cowen tries to alleviate football frustration
Cowen took the podium at the Wilson Center in front of a somewhat skeptical group of football fans who stood or sat on chairs, some even hunkering down on the floor to hear Cowen and Green Wave Athletic Director Rick Dickson talk about the university's commitment to the program.
March 16, 2011
No. 22 Tulane beats Southeastern Louisiana 7-3
Tulane played merry-go-round in the first inning and toppled Southeastern Louisiana 7-3 on Tuesday night at Turchin Stadium.
March 15, 2011
Tulane's D.J. Ponder busy on the football field and baseball diamond
Tulane's backup quarterback is a little scruffy these days, but he has been a little busy.
Tulane brass to make presentation to its football fans on Wednesday evening
Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson and University president Scott Cowen are meeting with fans on 5:45 p.m. in the Wilson Center to go over "The Playbook" for this season's football program.
March 14, 2011
Five spring questions for Tulane football
Tulane's big names won't be creating many highlights during the team's 15 spring football practices, the first of which is today.
Tulane's baseball team beats Wichita State 3-2 in 11 innings
Wayne Crohan hit a solo home run in the bottom of the 11th inning and Tulane beat Wichita State 3-2 at Turchin Stadium on Sunday.
Tulane women's basketball team takes a realistic look at NCAA selection
The thought process going into the Conference USA women's basketball tournament for Tulane was that it needed to repeat as champions to earn a bid to the NCAA tournament and that an at-large bid was likely out of the question.
March 11, 2011
Better hitting giving Tulane a reason to remain positive
The sun might be shining today in Turchin Stadium, but a huge cloud hangs over the Tulane baseball team after learning its freshman ace, Randy LeBlanc, is out for the season with an elbow injury.
March 9, 2011
Tulane's baseball team makes progress with wins at Ole Miss, but at a cost
Tulane went 4-1 last week with series wins over Northwestern State and Ole Miss.
Rebounding key as Tulane takes on Southern Miss in C-USA Tournament
Kevin Thomas is just beginning to understand Tulane's basketball frustrations with Southern Mississippi.
March 4, 2011
Tulane to begin weekend baseball series at Ole Miss
Tulane carries a five-game winning streak into this weekend, but it expects the competition to pick up.
March 3, 2011
Tulane snaps 12-game slide, defeats Houston 80-77 in a men's basketball game at Fogelman Arena
Tulane snaps 12-game slide, defeats Houston 80-77 in a men's basketball game at Fogelman Arena.
Tulane scores fifth-straight win
Tulane claimed its fifth consecutive victory Wednesday afternoon against Northwestern State off of 11 hits as Tulane plied a four-run fourth inning into a 5-2 victory at Turchin Stadium to gain a mid-week series sweep.


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Brandy Shoots Down Pregnancy Rumor
"BRANDY NORWOOD REPORTEDLY PREGNANT…BUT…WHO'S THE DADDY????" writes MediaTakeOut, which needs keyboards without cap keys.
According to MediaFakeOut, Brandy refused champagne at the L.A. premiere of BET's "The Game" on Friday, prompting an "insider" to claim she may be pregnant.
"Terrence [from BET's 106 & Park, her current BF] was with her all night. And he would turn down the [champagne] for Brandy. It was almost like he didn't want her to drink . . . I'd bet she's pregnant," the so-called insider told MTO.
But that's not all.
The blog then taunts, "Who's the daddy???" alleging that another "trusted insider" reveals Brandy was "giving booty calls to her ex, rapper Flo Rida as late as a couple of months ago."
Brandy, however, took to Twitter to quickly blast MTO for the false report.
The singer tweeted, "Media takeout is a hilarious! Now I'm expecting a child? WOW!!! Please check out the story for your morning comedy..lol"
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Stacey Solomon proudly showed off her new born baby Leighton this week, as she spoke of her speedy delivery.
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Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) painting - Covered Bridge, Waterville, Vermont. Oil on canvas board. Circa 1960. Size: 16 inches x 20 inches. Estate stamped lower right and on the reverse, together with the estate inventory #084. Excellent condition and recently cleaned. Offered in an antique lemon gold frame. On the verso is a descriptive Clarke Galleries 1991 Summer Exhibition label, which is signed by Jack Curtin, Executor of the Estate of Thomas R. Curtin. In this birds-eye view looking down into the valley at Waterville, VT, in winter, Thomas Curtin has used a pastel palette of pink, lavender, blue, green and brown to reveal the covered bridge nestled within the surrounding hills. Curtin was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He studied at the prestigious National Academy of Design and Art Students League, both in New York City. Here Curtin found a mentor and friend in the artist John Carlson by whom he was greatly influenced. Curtin spent much time painting on Cape Ann in the coastal communities of Gloucester and Rockport, and he became affiliated with the North Shore Artists Association, where he became friends with Emile Gruppe and Aldro Hibbard. Beginning in the mid-1940s, Curtin began to spend part of his summers in Vinalhaven, the legendary island of painters on the coast of Maine. In 1957, Curtin moved to Cambridge, Vermont, where he continued his landscape painting 'en plein air.'


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TSS U, please weigh in. Give the suits the benefit of your wisdom...Who do you want to see Martinez fight next? (Hogan Photos)The suits at HBO got some splainin' to do.
You may recall that the network's reward for Sergio Martinez' Fighter of the Year performance in 2010 was (a) forcing the middleweight champion to forego his mandatory against Sebastian Zbik, effectively getting Maravilla stripped of his WBC title, and then, in defiance of all logic, strong-arming Martinez and promoter Lou DiBella into a fight against the immortal Ukrainian Sergiy Dzinziruk, whom HBO insisted would be a more competitive opponent.
We hold little brief for Sebastian Zbik, but it's hard to see how he could have been a more unworthy opponent than Dzinziruk. From the opening bell, Martinez treated the WBO junior middleweight champion with utter disdain, battering him from pillar to post for the less than eight rounds Dzinziruk managed to remain erect. Martinez not only thoroughly out-jabbed (147-80) a boxer whose stock in trade was supposed to be his jab. Martinez knocked down Dzinziruk, who had never before been off his feet as an amateur or as a professional, five times in all before referee Arthur Mercante intervened on humane grounds to stop the one-sided rout at 1:43 of the eighth.
Martinez, who also presumably retained his WBC "emeritus" title, was rewarded by becoming the organization's second "Diamond Belt" champion in running his professional record to 47-2-1. (Dzinzurik, who retains his Body Odor 154-pound title despite suffering his first loss, is now 37-1.)
For all the heroics he displayed in his stirring wins over Kelly Pavlik and Paul Williams last year, Saturday night's win at the Foxwoods Casino was undoubtedly Martinez' most impressive win – not because of the opponent, who didn't offer much opposition at all, but because he beat Dzinziruk at his own game while thoroughly imposing his will upon him throughout the evening.
After dominating the first three rounds behind his jab, Martinez scored the first knockdown of the evening in the fourth when he drove Dzinziruk to his haunches with a left and then caught him on the top of the head with another left, causing the Ukrainian's knee to touch the canvas just long enough to elicit a count from Mercante.
The second knockdown, a round later, was more emphatic, as Martinez landed two successive right-left combinations to drop Dzinziruk on his backside just before the round ended.
Dzinziruk managed to stay on his feet through the sixth and seventh rounds, but in the eighth Martinez followed a jab with a hard left to the jaw that sent him down again. Dzinziruk arose somewhat shakily, and was shortly dispatched to the canvas yet again by another right-left combination. Mercante allowed the fight to resume, albeit briefly, when Martinez caught Dzinziruk with a short right (he was already on the way down when Martinez missed a sweeping left and then landed another right) the referee took him into protective custody.
The Argentinean champion (fighting for the first time in eight years without trainer Gabriel Sarmiento, who withdrew from his corner on three days' notice, citing mysterious "personal problems) afterward called out both Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. He will get neither wish, and may have cemented his position as the fighter nobody wants to fight. As spectacular as Martinez' performance may have been, if there was a lesson to be drawn from all of this it is that HBO should henceforth let promoters promote and leave the matchmaking to the matchmakers.
Ireland's Andy Lee, who went into his bout against Scotsman Craig McEwan touted as a prospective future opponent for Martinez, didn't do much that was likely to frighten the champion, and had to rally from the deep hole he had dug himself on the scorecards to score a come-from behind tenth-round knockout.
Lee, who had beaten McEwan in their amateur days back in Europe several years earlier, dominated the first round, wobbling the Scotsman and bloodying his nose.
"It was probably the worst thing that could have happened," said Lee. "I thought I could take him out after that, and kept loading up, trying to knock him out with one punch." McEwan, who seemed emboldened by each succeeding round, was consistently backing Lee up as he won the next five rounds in succession. Lee, who seemed confused and dispirited during this interlude, looked as if he were sleepwalking. Having surrendered so many rounds that he had pushed himself to the brink ("I knew I was losing the fight, but I told myself 'if he's going to beat he he's going to have to kill me," said Lee later), Lee eventually began to punch in combinations, and in the ninth dropped McEwan with a right-left combination.
Although HBO's Jim Lampley would describe Lee's coup de grace as a "career-saving punch," going into the tenth two of the ringside judges had the fight even at 85-all, as did The Sweet Science. McEwan was already on rubbery legs when Lee landed a huge overhand left. Referee Steve Smoger waved it off at :56 without a count, but McEwan remained on the canvas for nearly a minute. Lee is now 25-1, McEwan 19-1.
incredible... never in my wildest dreams did I think Dzinz would have been so overwhelmed... even though he was landing at will, Martinez couldn't even feel his punches... Dzinz applied his razor jab with telling effect but Martinez jab was like a hammer... wow.. I have to give it to Martinez.. he is P4P fighter.. he'll never get Floyd or Pac into the ring so can we see Martinez vs Pirog now?
Lee was losing so badly we stopped switching over fromthe Martinez card to watch his fight after the 8th... I just assumed he lost by TKO. Lee looked as if he was hanging by a thread as his Irish opponent threw punches in bunches...landing a good percentage of his shots...Lee looked so tired and was getting so sloppy we assumed he would be the victim of a TKO..... we went back to watch Wolak finish off Foreman who appears to have seen better days. Foreman is a fight who promotes a scientific approach to boxing while Wolak applies a non stop pressure beatdown with short not-to-heavy combinations... Foreman had nothing to keep the busy Wolak off him and he never held up his right glove to block the multitudes of Wolak's short over hand lefts that were landing at will (like one every 12 seconds)... Wolak isn't a hard puncher either but he began to put his body behind the blows in the final round and had Foreman noticably hurt... I was wondering when his corner was going to stop the massacre and they did before the next round as Foreman couldn't continue.
Disrespectful underrating of Dzinziruk. Had you been watching both fighters instead of swooning over Martinez' natural glory, you would have seen an extremely accurate, sharp counterpuncher, with a dynamite jab he was able to time and land crisply on Sergio - who's defensive and technical weaknesses would have cost dearly if Dzin had more power. Sergio is a phenom, and he's getting better, mostly in terms of confidence, counterpunching and effective power. But Dzin was a highly disciplined and intelligent opponent, who could be seen to makes several effective adjustments....until he got creamed by those lightning counters. It was a power differential that made the fight what it was. Sergio will be a b-tch of a challenge for anyone, but the guy has some glaring weaknesses that should be an enticing puzzle for the right fighter to solve.
Great. Now Dzinziruk can go back to the agency they dug him from, maybe go through a name change and become the opponent for the next, next big thing.
Spot on Mort... strength was the deciding factor in this bout....if Dzinz had bit more,.. the way he was tagging Martinez... the fight could have turned out differently... still you have to give Dzinz his respect... he countered effectively,... pressed forward and got up after 4 of 5 knockdowns......this after having been as inactive as he was over the past 5 years.
I saw a middleweight-size Doc Wlad K in Dzinziruk. Unlike Doc Wlad, Dizzy -- I mean Dzinz -- couldn't buy luck. I ain't hatin!' Holla!
@Radam......except for the crushing one-punch KO power in either hand, the ability to control the distance and fightspace, and to stun an opponent into complete lack of motivation with the jab. But other than that...oh yeah, the fact that Dzin is a southpaw, yes, they are both pale Ukrainians in their mid thirties. Unmistakeable resemblance. Practically clones.
Dzin is in his mid-30s! He looked so kid-like. Dude must have some good stay-young-looking genes. Apparently no how-to-fight ones. Hehehehehe! I got it! He needs to grow in a division that is full of tomato cans, marshmellows, stiffs, fat-arses and big-foots [sic], bad-balance, slow-moving tallies with bad bones. After this copy, the next time that I will discuss one of those greatest B-minus fighters of all times is after I read what the outstanding TSSU masterweaving scribes spit. [YUP! And, of course, I gotta hear da Fe'Roz holla.]
I dared the talking heads to mention the nowaday top fighters. They musta' fo'got da heavies. I was gettin' my on Hip-Hop holla at Showtime like a muthatalka' and textin' and flexin' at HBO like a muthastalka.' Danggit! But I didn't get any luv for the K-bums -- I mean bros/docs/boxers. But my HBO boy Max spitted da luv about Da Manny, Da Money May, Da Filipino Flash and Da True-and-only Middleweight champ Martinez. Holla!
Saturday night's win at the Foxwoods Casino was undoubtedly Martinez' most impressive win – not because of the opponent, who didn't offer much opposition at all, but because he beat Dzinziruk at his own game
So Martinez played no game? LOL. While it is downright pathetic and desperate to start mentioning Martinez with Pacquiao and Mayweather, boxing should embrace Martinez for what he is; an entertaining and highly skilled boxer who's willing to take on anybody. I'd like to see Martinez with Pirog or Danny Jacobs. I'd also like to see him drop back down and expose or validate Saul Alvarez. James Kirkland will be an intriguing match as well. A whirlwind fighter like Kirkland is tailor made for Martinez, but Kirkland's non-stop pressure is the real world equivalent of "button-mashing" in videogames, and just as tough to beat.
The game is so full of optical illusions. In 2010, Sergio Martinez doesn't destroy a drunk, but gets by him with a not-a-lopsided decision, kayos a hyped-up long, tall, bum, wins knockout of the year and boxer of the year; and now 2011, he's stripped and ripped of his alphabet sanctioning organization title belts and given WBC Diamond one that he cannot lose, thus making him champion for eternity, and he shut downs and yo-yo whup a green, robotic softy in eight rounds, and fanfaronades believe that SM is SUPERBAD! WDDF! I got some breaking news for ya. NYET! Da sucka has had more magic working for him than Houdini could have ever dreamt of. But SM has no Bundini or Dr. Dean. SM's trainer didn't even work in SM's corner in the last bout. The trainer sent his little brother.
There is a storm on the way in Kansas. And SM is no Dorothy. She had the ruby slippers, Toto, the Scarecrow, the tin man, and the cowardly lion in the Land of Oz with her. SM won't have a single ally in that squared jungle with him. He musta fo'got! I think that he was hit with a hard shot. And the joker is a bit dazy. Or maybe straight-up CRAZY! Sergio Martinez is one of these nowadays New Jack fighters. He does all type of stupid jive that looks effective, good and speedy to the uneducated eye. In no shape, fashion or form, can he compete with Money May, Da Manny or even Miguel Cotto. They will turn that boxing ring into an enchanted squared jungle of endless surprises, optical illusions, mass confusion and extreme whup-arse for SM. Those who don't know oughta get off that size-and-reach myth. Yea, thoughts and eyeballs will often blind one of knowledge. The munchkins -- Money May, Da Manny and Miguel -- know how to strug like peacocks and soar like eagles. Not more do I need to say. Have a good day. Or night, depending on your site. Holla!
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It looks like that BlackBerry Gemini we saw last month will not be officially called BlackBerry 9300, but BlackBerry 8325.
A live picture with the Gemini 8325 has just been spotted over at BGR.
Unfortunately, it's not the best shot around (quality wise), so we can't see the new smartphone in all its glory.
Anyway, the 8325 looks like a mix between the (now old) Curve 8300 and the new and sleek Curve 8900.
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The Kiln Club is plating up turf with surf in an aquatic theme show, so they describe. We have seen a lot of paintings so far this summer, and it is good place to keep cool at the Torpedo Factory Scope Gallery. I see more potters working in the studio in the summertime than I see printmakers, for instance. Maybe they enjoy the comfortable cool studio and the nice wet clay.
"Alexandria, Va., July 28, 2014 -- Surf's up as primo pottery with cool aquatic variations anchors the Kiln Club show at the Torpedo Art Center's Scope Gallery.
Pottery is watery as glazing mimics glassy surfaces and waves of texture take a vessel into unchartered waters. Find fluid forms and pier at mud fashioned into marine-themed, mondo creations.
Beachware is a must for any Summer cupboard! Before heading to the golden sands, equip beachfront interiors with something splashy. Raku-fired vessels topped with a natural driftwood accents add tradition and high-end taste. Frosty crystalline glazes of frothy white, cobalt blue or misty green mimics sea glass at the water's edge.
Something is pretty fishy with octopi winding tentacles around a vase, goldfish serving as the spire for a turquoise lidded jar and tableware dotted with schools of minnows. A wine chiller is encircled by golden carp with textured, stylized waves. A sculpted fish detail arcs over an angled vessel in sandy tones.
Today's best catch could be sushi plates with fish silhouettes, a server with alabaster dogwoods floating on a deep teal background or a dramatic boat centerpiece to float candles in.
And that just skims the surface as organic grooved spirals echo wistful whirlpools in trays and bowls. Aqua glass pools in dishes and ceramic-framed mirrors.
Artists are taking the plunge, riding the creative wave, incorporating figments of the sea using imaginative mussels and for a perfect sail."
Via Tracy Griffith at the Kiln Club
Take a tour of some of the potters and pottery from the featured exhibit. See the slideshow.
Laura Nichols (Pig Pen Pottery) talks about berry bowls on her website. I agree with her that berry bowls are a tremendous asset, especially in the morning. Clean your strawberries, sliced or whole, rense berries and the residual water drains through small holes that is caught by a saucer designed for that purpose. Berry bowls can also be used as collendars. I use mine to rinse herbs.
Jeff Watson has been throwing clay since the 1970s. Jeff makes truly functional work that is most enjoyable.
"The pots I make are functional, usually thrown on the wheel and sometimes altered, and are of stoneware or porcelain. Forming the pot is the part of the process that I most enjoy -- actually feeling the wet clay slide through my hands, the pot taking shape from the pressure and gestures of my hands. I tend to like simple glazes and fire pots in a gas-fired kiln to about 2400 degrees."
Tracie Griffith is a writer and a potter. Her work is especially artistic. You must see her Chinese painting style on her website as it is splendid.
Donna Downing produces little collectables among other things. We have covered Donna and her displays at the Lee Arts Center: http://www.examiner.com/article/donna-downing-fun-and-functional-pottery-lee-arts-center
Bev Andrews describes her work.
"The possibilities afforded by clay are endless. I love to experiment with different forms whether thrown on the wheel, hand built, or both. I like combinations that reflect both the antique and contemporary."
The Kiln Club show runs July 28 to August 31, Monday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Thursdays open until 9 p.m. The Art League show runs April 9 to May 5, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays noon to 6 p.m. with Thursdays open until9 p.m. The galleries are located at 105 North Union Street, ground floor, Alexandria, VA. 22314. For further information call the Scope Gallery at 703-548-6288 or visit www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/scope and www.kilnclubwdc.com
Kiln Club is an organization of more than 90 Washington D.C. area artists working in the clay medium. Juried members exhibit themed shows every other month at the cooperative artist-run Scope Gallery in Alexandria's Torpedo Factory Art Center.


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Even after the rocket established its primacy as a method of accessing space, Gerald Bull of the Canadian Armament and Research Development Establishment began a life-long struggle to use guns for cheap access to space.
In the 1950's Bull pioneered the use of gun-fired models as an economical approach to study supersonic aerodynamics. The model was fitted with a wooden shell, or sabot, that matched the diameter of the gun barrel. After leaving the barrel the sabot would fall away and the model would continue, with high-speed cameras recording its behaviour in flight.
By 1961 Bull had expanded his concept and obtained a $10 million joint contract from the US and Canadian Defence Departments for a High Altitude Research Program (HARP). This was to prove the feasibility of using large guns for launch of scientific and military payloads on sub-orbital and orbital trajectories.
For long range shots a range was established at Barbados, where the payloads could be sent eastward over the Atlantic. A surplus 125 tonne US Navy 16 inch gun was used as the launcher. The standard 20 m barrel was extended to 36 m, and converted to a smooth-bore. In 1962 - 1967 Bull launched over 200 atmospheric probes to altitudes of up to 180 km.
By this time relations between Canada and the United States were strained because of the Viet Nam war. Canada terminated the project.
Success Rate: 100.00%. Launch data is: incomplete.
Status: Retired 1966.
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Forcing bulbs indoors is a process by which you get the bulbs to flower earlier than they would if planted in the garden. When forcing, bulbs are potted, then subjected to darkness and temperatures near freezing for several months to mimic outdoor conditions. When there is sufficient root growth, they are brought gradually into the heat and light as if they were emerging on a balmy spring day. Some bulbs, like Amaryllis and Paperwhite Narcissus are not hardy outdoor bulbs and do not need to go through a cold period to force them into bloom.
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Keep all bulbs away from apples or pineapples which give off ethylene gas that inhibits flower formation.
(Kafir Lily) In warmest areas, Cliviacan grow outdoors. Plant 18-24" apart in partial shadein well-drained, acid to neutral soil. Grows 18-24"tall. Blooms February-May. Hardy in zones 10-11, other must plant inside. Indoor Culture Clivia is an excellent potted plant. Plant with the root system just below the soil line inrich, well-drained soil. After planting, Clivia shouldnot be disturbed. It is happiest when rootbound. Provide bright, indirect sunlight and good air circulation. Keep the soil moist; feed regularly. In November, when growth slows, water less frequently. Clivias canbe moved outside to a shady spot for the summer.
The pre-potted, pre-cooled Crocusbulbs will bloom in their attractive pot within two tothree weeks after arrival. Simply water the bulbs threetimes a week. When blooming starts, keep the CrocusPot in the coolest part of the room away from radiatorsor direct sun. You can prolong flowering by keepingthe Crocus in a cool room at night. When theflowers fade, water bulbs only once every two weeks. When the weather warms in spring, remove the bulbsfrom the pot and plant outside. They will lie dormantduring the summer and winter, then bloom again inthe garden for your enjoyment the following spring.
(AmazonLily) Plant the bulb in a rich, open soil mixture, 3-4bulbs per 8" pot. Leave the neck of the bulb exposed. Mist frequently to maintain high humidity. Grow inbright shade with a minimum night temperature of65-70°. For several weeks, lower the night temperatureto 55-60° and cut back on water until the leavesdroop. Go back to regular night temperature andwater generously. This induces flowering, which willoccur in several months. Keep the plant potbound forbest flowering. Do not repot more than once every 2-3 years. Grows 20-24" tall. Hardy in zone 10.
(Blood Lily) Plant the bulbs in 6" containersas soon as they arrive in the spring. Set thebulb in well-drained potting soil so the bulb tip is atthe soil surface. Place container in a sunny to partiallyshaded location and keep soil moist, but not waterlogged. Leaves and the flower stem will appear within12-16 weeks after planting. Remove spent flowerstem after blooming. In the fall, start withholdingwater and allow foliage to ripen before removing. Store bulb in container in a cool, dry, frost-free locationover the winter. Do not repot. They grow andbloom best when pot-bound. Then, in the late spring, bring container into a cool, sunny location and beginwatering. New growth will appear and the growingcycle starts all over. Grows 10-12" tall. Blooms 12-16weeks after planting. Hardy in zones 9-10.
(Amaryllis) Amaryllis thrive whenthey are potbound. Choose a deep pot that is notmore than 2" wider than the bulb. Using good pottingsoil, plant the bulb so that the upper 1⁄3 of the bulb isabove the soil level. Water thoroughly, then place in full sun at room temperature (65-70°). Water onlywhen the soil feels dry to the touch. It will bloomwithin 6-8 weeks. After the flower fades, cut downthe flower stalk. Continue to water. Fertilize once amonth. During the summer, plant the pot and bulb inthe garden. In September, bring the pot and bulbindoors, and start withholding water. Let foliage dry. Store in a cool dark place with no water or fertilizerfor 8-10 weeks. In mid-November, add some freshsoil and start re-watering.
(Lily) Use only bulbs that have been precooledfor pot culture. Make a light, porous pottingmixture for lilies using 2 parts sandy loam, 1 partsphagnum moss and 1 part sand. Large, deep pots areessential. Plant 3 bulbs in an 8-10" pot. Deep plantingis important. Put the pots in the greenhouse orbright sunny room immediately. Lilies need day temperaturesof 68° or less and night temperatures of 40-50°. Do not force at temperatures higher than 70°. Fertilize with a 5-10-5 liquid fertilizer when the budsfirst appear and then 14 days later. Plants will flowerapproximately 30 days after the buds first become visible. You can then increase temperature for fasterblooming or decrease temperature to slow thegrowth. The forced bulbs can be planted after bloomingin your garden for added years of pleasure.
(Paperwhite, Chinese Sacred Lily, Soleild'Or) These tender Narcissus are not hardy outdoorsin most areas, and for indoor forcing do not need acold period. Plant the bulbs in any potting soil withthe top just above the surface. Water well and keepthe soil evenly moist. Place the pot in a sunny window. Flowers will appear within 4-6 weeks. Forcedtender Narcissus are treated like annuals. Once theyhave finished blooming, they are discarded. However, in frost-free areas, these Narcissus can be grown outside. Hardy in zones 8-10. You can also grow these bulbs in gravel, stone, sand, marbles, or other material which serves to anchor theroots. Use a decorative, shallow container without adrainage hole and place the bulbs so that the lowerthird of the bulb is covered with gravel or whatevermaterial you have used. Add water to a level of thebase of the bulb. Narcissus grown in this mannerneed a lot of water, every day.
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The NFL Playoffs 2014 divisional playoff games are this weekend, and tonight's schedule features the Patriots vs the Colts in a game that will be on TV and available via NFL live stream video, according to a Nov. 11 Christian Post report. The winner between the Indianapolis Colts vs. the New England Patriots will play next weekend in the the AFC Conference Championship Game.
The Patriots vs. Colts kickoff is at 8.15 p.m. EST tonight. These two teams never met up during the regular season, so it should make tonight's game even more interesting to watch for NFL fans. Will Andrew Luck and the Colts end up on top, or will it be the more experienced Tom Brady and the Patriots that play in the AFC championship next weekend?
The Patriots are better rested since they did not have to play in last weekend's Wild Card games like the Colts did. Brady has played in 24 postseason games with a record of 17-7. Meanwhile, Andrew Luck has played in two postseason games. He's won one and lost one so far. Clearly the Pats are favorites in this game, but it is possible that the Colts will pull of an upset win in these NFL playoffs.
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Walt Disney (DIS)
Q4 2012 Earnings Call
November 08, 2012 5:00 pm ET
Lowell Singer - Senior Vice President of Investor Relations
Robert A. Iger - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Member of Executive Committee
James A. Rasulo - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President
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I will now turn the call over to Mr. Lowell Singer, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Mr. Singer, you may begin.
Lowell Singer
Okay. Thank you, Ellen, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Walt Disney Company's Fourth Quarter 2012 Earnings Call. Our press release was issued about 45 minutes ago and is available on our website at www.disney.com/investors. Today's call is also being webcast, and we will post the webcast and a transcript of the call to our website later.
Joining me in Burbank for today's call are Bob Iger, Disney's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Jay Rasulo, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Bob will lead off, and Jay will make some comments, and then of course, we'll be happy to take your questions. So with that, I'll turn it over to Bob, and we'll get started.
Robert A. Iger
Thank you, Lowell, and good afternoon, everyone. I'm very happy to report that Disney has delivered yet another record annual performance, driven by improved results in each of our businesses. In the fiscal 2012 year, Disney achieved record revenue, net income and earnings per share. Net income was up by 18% for the year on a 3% increase in revenue, and our earnings per share adjusted for comparability were up 21% over last year.
I'm also very pleased with our fourth quarter results, which were primarily driven by growth at Cable Networks and Parks and Resorts. Net income grew by 14%, and revenue was up 3% for the quarter. And our EPS for Q4 adjusted for comparability grew 15% to $0.68. These results once again demonstrate our ability to grow earnings in the near term while investing for the long term, and we're obviously proud of our performance.
Before I get into the highlights of fiscal 2012, I just want to mention the tremendous creative resurgence we are seeing at Disney Animation. Building on the success of Tangled, our newest release, Wreck-It Ralph, just had a phenomenal opening weekend, bigger than any previous Disney animated movie. With $58.6 million in domestic box office so far, Wreck-It Ralph continues the creative momentum that started with our acquisition of Pixar. Pixar deal brought us more than just great Pixar movies. It also reinvigorated our entire animation pipeline led by the great team of John Lasseter and Ed Catmull.
Looking back, fiscal 2012 was a great year for Disney by every measure: creatively, financially and strategically. Marvel had a fantastic year, capped by the extraordinary success of The Avengers, which became the world's third highest grossing movie of all time, a global phenomenon and an incredibly important franchise for us.
Pixar also generated a great deal of value for us this year from the opening of the phenomenal Cars Land to transform Disney California Adventure into an extraordinary park, to the opening of BRAVE, which became Pixar's 13th consecutive movie to debut #1 at the box office.
We opened 2 new lands in Hong Kong Disneyland, completed the first phase of our historic multiyear expansion of Fantasyland in Walt Disney World and made significant progress in Shanghai to keep development on track to open by the end of 2015.
With the addition of the Disney Fantasy last March, we've now more than doubled our cruise business, and this year, we were named the #1 large cruise line by readers of Condé Nast Traveler magazine.
ESPN was a strong contributor for the year as well, adding Wimbledon to its world-class sports lineup, along with higher ratings, ad sales and affiliate revenue. ESPN also solidified its position in some critical sports, including college football and basketball and major league baseball.
Disney Channels worldwide continued to be an important brand and business driver for our company, reaching approximately 425 million homes in 167 countries. In 2002, we introduced Disney Junior and Disney XD to new markets around the world and also launched our first over-the-air Disney Channel in Russia.
We also completed our strategic acquisition of UTV, making Disney India's leading -- making Disney India's leading film studio and TV producer, as well as one of the country's leading broadcasters, reaching more than 100 million viewers every week.
And looking ahead, our Shanghai development is moving into an exciting phase as the construction work starts to define the shape of things to come and our vision starts to become reality. We look forward to completing our Hong Kong Disneyland expansion, which should only enhance the park's current strong performance. And we're also very excited about the ongoing Fantasyland transformation at Walt Disney World. It's the largest expansion of the Magic Kingdom since that park opened more than 40 years ago, and it's going to be pretty spectacular.
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January 28, 2013
The upcoming Women in Aviation, International Conference will provide opportunities for new and recurrent training when its 24th Annual Conference convenes in Nashville, Tennessee, from March 14-16, 2013. The Conference is to be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.
Aircraft Dispatcher Part 121 Recurrent Training is offered on Wednesday, March 13 and Thursday, March 14, 2013, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Current dispatchers or individuals interested in a career in aircraft dispatcher will want to attend a two-day, 16-hour recurrent training course presented by Airline Ground Schools. The course includes flight planning, Boeing 737 systems, Part 121 regulations, emergencies, dispatch resource management, weather theory, weather products and services, navigation, practical dispatch applications, international operations and more.
In addition, Airline Ground Schools will provide each participant with a graduation certificate and a CD of all the PowerPoint presentations. The fee for the Aircraft Dispatcher Recurrent Training is $495 for WAI members and $595 for non-members.
Pilot Proficiency: Pilots will have the chance to sharpen their skills with the SAFE Pilot Proficiency Project. This is a cooperative effort between the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators, Redbird Flight Simulations, and WAI, and will provide free Redbird simulator training sessions on a first-come, first served basis. Participants can choose from eleven challenging scenarios that address key safety of flight issues. Each one-hour session will include a 15-minute pre-briefing, 30 minutes in the simulator, followed by a 15-minute debriefing with a certified flight instructor.
Aircraft Maintenance: The Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance is sponsoring FAA Maintenance Recurrent Training on Thursday, March 14, 2013, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. (Registration opens at 7:00 am.) This education maintenance seminar meets IA Renewal requirements and provides career development advice. Participants receive a certificate of completion to present to their local Flight Standards District Office. This seminar is also open to those interested in pursuing or upgrading a maintenance career.
Secure online registration is available at www.wai.org/13conference, and varied registration options exist. Student rates and military rates make the Conference more affordable. In addition, WAI offers an "Accompanied Child" rate. Conference attendees may register for a full package, a one-day package or simply for specific events. Onsite registration will be available as well.
Women in Aviation, International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing networking, mentoring and scholarship opportunities for women and men who are striving for challenging and fulfilling careers in the aviation and aerospace industries. For more information, contact WAI at 3647 State Route 503 South, West Alexandria, OH 45381, Phone (937) 839-4647; Fax (937) 839-4645 or through www.wai.org.
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