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• New low-cost competitors: Ubiquitous broadband connectivity has lowered the barriers to entry for video services. "Over the top" (OTT) online video services are eroding incumbents' subscriber bases by offering a new, although limited, video experience at a low cost to the consumer.
• Rising prices for premium content: At the same time, the premium content that consumers desire (and that distinguishes full-service TV providers) has become more expensive as media companies and cable, satellite, and telco operators bid against each other for the most popular content.
A New Generation of Video Experiences
Next-Generation Multiscreen
Figure 1. Next-Generation Multiscreen Video
Contextual and Synchronized
Figure 2. Contextual and Synchronized Video
Personalized "My TV"
Figure 3. Personalized TV
Social Viewing
Figure 4. Social Viewing on TV
Focused on the Future
Cisco Videoscape: An Experience-Centered Platform for Video Services
• An enhanced cloud to increase capabilities aligned to business needs
• An intelligent network to optimize capital and operating expenses (CapEx and OpEx)
• An immersive client approach to provide the new Cisco Videoscape experiences anytime, anywhere, on any device
• User interface: Cisco Videoscape strengthens the Cisco Videoscape platform most at the point where video providers and subscribers interact: the user experience. The platform features the multi- award-winning Cisco Videoscape Snowflake™ user interface that allows you to create customized, immersive experiences for your subscribers.
• Client software: Cisco Videoscape includes industry-leading Cisco Videoscape MediaHighway™ client software, which is widely used to bring advanced experience and interaction to set-top boxes (STBs) and connected devices.
• Security: Incorporating industry-leading, multiplatform security technology, Cisco Videoscape Security Suite includes both Cisco VideoGuard® CA conditional access and Cisco VideoGuard DRM digital rights management products. These components provide the critical, end-to-end protection you need to monetize premium content and services across multiple screens.
• Advertising: Cisco Videoscape introduces powerful ways to monetize content through addressable advertising.
• Subscriber and device management: Cisco Videoscape offers highly advanced subscriber and device management capabilities.
Built Around Your Business Needs
• Modular: Cisco Videoscape is based on modular building blocks with open APIs among all components. This lets you upgrade and enhance each component individually as your business needs change.
• Flexible: Most service providers already have installed components - for example, billing systems and video encoders - that they want to continue using as they deliver and offer new experiences. Because Cisco Videoscape components have open interfaces, you can deploy them individually to reduce costs, and flexibly insert them into your existing architecture.
• Open: The Videoscape Open API Framework offers open and modular APIs across cloud, network and client. This enables service providers to better plan, control and manage their infrastructure by providing access to essential information for interfacing with third party components, and to develop new, compelling applications.
• Fully customizable with Cisco Services: We recognize that differentiation is the key to your success.
Cisco Videoscape Offers
• First-class products: All Cisco Videoscape offers provide highly advanced technologies, including cloud and scalable web technologies, multi-device HTML5 client software, remote user interface capabilities, and security. All are customized and integrated to address a specific service provider business challenge
• Faster time-to-market: Cisco Videoscape offers are based on open, standards-based solutions, but are prepackaged and integrated end-to-end. They provide everything you need to quickly launch new services and make them a success
• An extensive and compelling roadmap: Each offer features an extensive roadmap that is tightly aligned to market dynamics. This helps to ensure that you can rapidly adjust to market changes and remain competitive
• Investment protection: Each offer expands upon today's Cisco Videoscape foundation to protect and build on your investment. And each is based on "no-regret" investments in Cisco Videoscape solutions that can be enhanced in the future through software updates
• Consistent experiences: Cisco Videoscape offers blend broadcast and broadband capabilities and give you tools to provide the same level of service across one-way, two-way, and hybrid STBs and client devices. They provide a common experience and portability across both managed and unmanaged devices, allowing you to quickly extend your brand and services to new screens.
• Transparent, flexible pricing: Cisco offers a unified pricing model across cloud, network, and client elements, as well as optional support from Cisco Capital®, which offers competitive and flexible financing to help you acquire Cisco technologies
• Service elasticity: Using modern cloud and IP technologies, you can quickly and continually adapt your video platform to meet the changing needs and tastes of your customers. Cloud elasticity allows you to introduce new applications with low upfront capital investment and scale them as demand grows
• Full customization: Cisco Services dedicates significant resources toward customizing any Cisco Videoscape offer you deploy. We can help you fulfill your vision of delivering a unique subscriber experience that integrates with Cisco's powerful cloud platform and is tailored to your unique business needs
• Cisco Videoscape Multiscreen Cloud DVR
• Cisco Videoscape Video Everywhere
• Cisco Videoscape IP Video Over Cable
• Cisco Videoscape Connected Video Gateway
Cisco Videoscape Multiscreen Cloud DVR Offer
• Catch up on their favorite shows on any device, anytime, anywhere
• Capture and manage recordings in the cloud and play back on any device
• Pause and resume content from a companion device for total viewing control
• Avoid having to skip recordings due to a limited number of tuners and limited DVR space
• Browse and watch time-shift TV content (for example, restart a live program from the beginning, navigate backward on the program guide to discover and watch content, pause live TV) on the STB or any connected device
• Add storage capacity without the need to purchase new hardware
• Combine previously installed hardware DVR and cloud DVR services with the ability to add cloud storage when hardware storage is full, as well as decide whether to record content in the home network or the cloud, in real time. Users can enjoy a seamless experience as they switch between content stored locally and in the cloud
• Grow your subscriber base and keep loyal customers happy with new capabilities and a better experience
• Remotely extend DVR services to existing customers without a costly truck roll, reducing OpEx
• Capture a broad range of content across MPEG, adaptive bit-rate (ABR), or other popular formats, directed either by the service provider or consumer
• Augment home DVRs with additional storage capacity in the cloud
• Upsell higher service tiers with more storage capacity and more simultaneous recordings, without upgrading customer hardware
• Build a modular and open foundational infrastructure for advanced applications and services
• Reuse the same video and metadata stream for multiple screens and delivery methods, with support for both ABR and MPEG transport stream (MPEG TS) streaming technologies, and a completely automated process for capturing broadcast content and repurposing it for time-shifted and cloud DVR services
• Optimize and monetize end-user experiences with powerful Cisco policy and session management capabilities
• Extend content security across STBs and unmanaged devices with integrated DRM and conditional access management, coupled with end-to-end security throughout the entire content lifetime
• Unify workflows and data center infrastructures for linear TV, video on demand, time-shift TV, and DVR, simplifying operations and lowering OpEx
Cisco Videoscape Video Everywhere Offer
• A pre-integrated, easily deployed solution that speeds up your time to market
• An advanced user interface that you can easily customize to meet your multiscreen needs
• Comprehensive metadata, content management, business rules management, and content preparation to extend the value of your existing investments
• A unified back end that consolidates content workflow, processing, packaging, and delivery for reduced OpEx
• Increased average revenue per user (ARPU) and decreased subscriber turnover with new, compelling subscriber features
• ABR streaming to provide a high-quality viewing experience over unmanaged networks
• An open system that accepts any transcoded stream, delivers across any content delivery network (CDN), and supports APIs for third-party developers to create synchronized companion-screen applications
• The ability to apply network, service, application, and subscriber analytics to improve quality of service (QoS)
• Receive dynamic contextual content on any screen
• Rapidly discover content with unified keyword global search and personalized recommendations from any source, across all customer devices
• Select on-demand content from an online catalog
• Use trick modes (pause, rewind, and fast forward) to view on-demand content
• Browse a unified user interface on all devices, including a 7-day program guide, full program synopses, "Now and Next" banner, and channel up and down navigation
• Use social TV applications to share and recommend content with friends
Cisco Videoscape IP Video Over Cable Offer
• Give subscribers an expanded choice of content and services, as well as interactive contextual experiences
• Empower subscribers to watch their favorite content on more managed devices and add unmanaged and companion devices
• Reclaim inefficient analog spectrum for new digital services
• Increase revenues with expanded linear, on-demand, and interactive offers
• Improve service velocity, with the ability to deliver new features and capabilities to your entire subscriber base
• Extend higher-tier, higher-value services across more subscribers and more client devices
• Deliver more video more efficiently
• Protect your investment with IP STBs that will have a long lifespan in your network. (Unlike digital-to-analog [DTA] converters, IP video STBs can continue to serve subscribers even as you deploy advanced services).
Cisco Videoscape Connected Video Gateway Offer
• Use your existing hybrid broadcast-IP infrastructure to deliver linear and on-demand content to the home, while using the customer's own IP network to forward it to multiple devices
• Extend your branded service to unmanaged devices in the home through a single managed gateway device, reducing customer premises equipment (CPE) CapEx
• Manage video, user interfaces, and metadata for a wide array of IP-connected devices - such as TVs, tablets, PCs, game consoles, and IP STBs - from a central point, streamlining operations and reducing OpEx
• Support full IP network delivery in the future without needing to purchase additional CPE
• Remotely monitor and troubleshoot all devices to improve operations and reduce costly service calls
• Measure audience usage to personalize your service and improve QoS
• Watch linear and on-demand content on any IP-connected device according to their own schedules, whether inside the home or on the go
• Easily install and play new devices as part of a home-network ecosystem
• Discover content faster using search and personalized recommendations powered by the cloud
• View contextual web content on companion screens for a more immersive TV experience
• Use contextual applications such as social TV to share popular content with friends, vote, and more
• Enjoy whole-home high-definition (HD) DVR capabilities to watch stored content or time-shift TV services on any connected IP device
• Simultaneously watch and record different events using any of the available multiple tuners
• Pause live TV on one screen and continue watching on another
• Watch personal content - including home videos, photos, -and more - on the main TV screen through the home network
Cisco Videoscape Suites
Figure 5. Cisco Videoscape Suites
• Cisco Videoscape Origination Suite, a contribution-grade IP media solution to support even the most high-profile, mission-critical video environments
• Cisco Videoscape Media Suite, a full lifecycle content management platform to efficiently manage and publish content across multiple screens
• Cisco Videoscape Acquisition Suite, which uses advanced encoding and transcoding tools to help you deliver real-time and on-demand media to any device, with the best video quality, based on the available bandwidth
• Cisco Videoscape Advertising Suite, which provides integrated solutions for managing, delivering, and measuring multiscreen advertising across broadcast and IP networks, for linear and on-demand content services and applications
• Cisco Videoscape Security Suite, a comprehensive conditional access and DRM security infrastructure for protecting TV services and premium content across multiple platforms and devices
• Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite, an open, intelligent CDN platform for personalized media delivery across multiple screens, protocols, applications, and networks
• Cisco Videoscape STB, a wide selection of set-top boxes that deliver a more immersive video experience, ranging from whole home HD DVRs that offer eight simultaneous recordings to cost-efficient one-way decoders. Cisco has been a global leader in deployments of IP set-top boxes and has many industry firsts, including first two-way digital set-top box, first dual recording cable DVR, first multiroom quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) DVR
• Cisco Videoscape Gateways, a single device that extends the network into the home and supports video, telephony, Internet, and WiFi services. Subscribers can access their home media, broadcast content, telephone, broadband, and Cisco Connected Life services using this one device. Because a Cisco Unified Gateway can transcode QAM to IP, you can leverage cost-effective thin clients throughout the home and support your subscribers' personal IP devices
• Cisco Videoscape User Experience Suite, which provides a dynamic, customized multiscreen experience for your subscribers, based on the award-winning Snowflake user interface
• Cisco Videoscape Client Software, including the market-leading Cisco Videoscape MediaHighway software solution
• Cisco Videoscape Control Suite, which provides advanced unified control of managed and unmanaged devices across both the IP and non-IP domains
Why Cisco?
• A comprehensive IP video architecture encompassing the enhanced cloud to expand your capabilities, aligned to your business needs, an intelligent network to optimize CapEx and OpEx, and an immersive-client approach to extend new experiences anytime, anywhere, on any device
• An open architecture. Cisco Videoscape has openness engineered into its foundations. For this comprehensive video architecture, open interfaces between components are key to delivering a modular and manageable system. Add Cisco's commitment to working with third parties to complement and enhance the system, along with flexibility in integrating components that our customers may have already deployed, and openness becomes a core capability of Cisco Videoscape
• Industry-leading content and service protection for both managed and unmanaged devices with Cisco VideoGuard, helping to ensure that you always have access to the best content and can deliver this content to more devices
• The award-winning Cisco Videoscape Snowflake user experience, which is immersive, intuitive, and unified across multiple screens
• Unmatched cloud intelligence that allows you to understand and capitalize on your customers' preferences, profiles, and interactions across multiple screens and applications
• A premium quality of experience that surpasses "best-effort" media delivery by drawing on embedded IP intelligence that extends across the cloud, network, and clients
• Industry-leading integration and support services that accelerate your time to market and improve operational efficiency
• Investment protection through a clear migration path that lets you develop and monetize new services now, while providing the foundation for advanced future capabilities
• Proven industry leadership providing innovative video back-office, CDN, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), CPE, and data center implementations for many of the largest, most successful service providers in the world
• A truly global network of service and support across five continents, with teams that speak your language and understand your specific market needs


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finally some perspective on racism in british football!
que people calling martin samuel a racist!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
The society for black lawyers is a joke.
Is it not wrong to only allow members of an organisation based on the colour of ones skin?
Perhaps next they should attempt to stop rap artists using the "N" word to refer to each other....
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I personally will complain to the police if this joke of a society carrys out their threat
the name causes me offense and it is a racist group that in itself should make the police treat it as a joke
Its a pretty tenuous link going from Strictley come prancing to EPL football, but I can kinda see the point Samuel is making.
I am not a fan of The Society Of Black Lawyers and I am completely against a Black players union, just as I would be if there was a White player union. The idea stinks.

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Christ First Praise Dance Ministry will perform a dance concert, "Break Every Chain," at 4 p.m. on Jan. 25 at Cathedral of Life Church at 4111 38th St. NW. The event is free. Please bring a non-perishable or toiletry item to support Cathedral of Life's pantry. A freewill offering also will be accepted. For more information, contact Lori Stokes at 330-493-0061.
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Prior to Saturday's match at Delta, Summit's girls' volleyball team sat at 43rd in the state. They're hoping the win will carry them into the top 36, where they need to be to not close out the season and move into the state playoffs.
The Tigers won the first two sets, 25-18, 25-22, then lost games three and four, 25-15, 25-18, before storming the win and holding Delta to 10 points in the 15-10 fifth.
"They really put the heat on them in the beginning," head coach Liz Hughes-Waddick said. "Those Delta girls were on their heels and pretty freaked out. It was awesome."
Summit won against Delta in four sets in September.
The Tigers lost steam with misserves, unforced errors and attack errors - even digging errors - in sets three and four.
"Altogether, they were pretty hesitant. They lost all their energy, lost all their gas," Hughes-Waddick said. There weren't many misserves - two and three, respectively, in games three and four - but they came at critical times, the coach said.
In the end, the winning bug took over, and the Tigers took over for the win.
Sara Metzger was the match's kill leader, hitting at .273 with eight kills and two errors. Anna Zangari came up strong on defense with 28 digs.
After the latest seven-game winning streak, the team now sits at .500 for the season, which is close to its goal of having a winning season.
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There were 58 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. At that time, there were 1,417 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Robbery: A man and a woman entered a store in the 4600 block of Da Vinci Drive about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday and grabbed a cigarette display. When the clerk tried to stop them, the woman pepper sprayed him. One of the robbers was described as a Latino man about 19 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall with a skinny build. The other was described as a white woman about 19 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall with a skinny build, a pink hooded sweatshirt and a denim skirt.
Robbery: A man was beaten and robbed about 9:20 a.m. Wednesday while walking in the 2100 block of East Sonora Street. The victim was attacked from behind and sustained multiple injuries. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. The assailant was described as a black man, 20 to 21 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 175 pounds with a blue shirt, jeans and an afro.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 104 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, including four vehicle accidents, 80 medical calls and three structure fires.
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The College Club of Canton will meet Dec. 7 in the Fresco Room at La Pizzaria, 3656 Dressler Road NW. Punch bowl reception begins at 11 a.m. and luncheon at 11:30 a.m.
Noah Charlick, an eighth grader at Jackson Memorial Middle School, will perform a violin concert following the luncheon.
Cost is $20 and prepaid reservations are due by Nov. 30. Call 330-830-2109.
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MC Pope John Paul II wrote:
This is from the Gospel of Philip:
'And the companion of the [...] Mary Magdalene. [...] loved her more than all the disciples, and used to kiss her often on her mouth. The rest of the disciples [...]. They said to him "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Savior answered and said to them,"Why do I not love you like her? When a blind man and one who sees are both together in darkness, they are no different from one another. When the light comes, then he who sees will see the light, and he who is blind will remain in darkness." '
For information on this and other Nag Hammadi texts, consult www.gnosis.org. Truly, it is interesting shit ...
SneebDotCom wrote: I was reading Valis when I got into the old Nag.
futuristxen wrote: underplayed in the sense, that if you mention it to the lay christian they look at you like you've just uttered blasphemy.
And by saying he loved her more, I mean in the birds and bees guys and gals sense.
ILL SEER wrote: ok. on the gnostic tip. it is not correct to say that gnosticism was the dominant form of Christianity at one time. we have documents of the struggle between the later Gnostic form of Christianity and the original more Judaic form of Christianity. The New Testament writings seem to be from a time before the battle with Gnosticism began, especially since both sides later apeal to them. the "gospels" you quote are from a later date than the New Testament ones. now this will involve complicated arguments from both sides and i doubt that discussion is really going to change minds. to be honest i read up on it a while back but forget a lot of it. but Gnosticism is related to a more neo-Platonic Christianity than even Augustine would tolerate. these texts have been around forever, were rejected as scripture by the various groups of Christians who gathered to discuss these matters. no one is hiding them, but perhaps they haven't been emphasised for obvious reasons.
futuristxen wrote: I don't have the exact texts in front of me at the moment, and it's been awhile since I've looked at them, but Mark, and I think Matthew share quotes with a gnostic text(possibly the gospel of thomas(which is just a text of sayings)) but Thomas has the quotes that both matthew and mark have, but more. So it's clear that all 3 of these early texts are probably referencing the same older source. The question I have then is, if Mark and Matthew cut out the other stuff and Thomas left it in, or did Thomas add or what?
Quote: Markan priority which means it seems to be the earliest for several reasons incluing it is shorter, its grammar, it's more primitive theology,
SneebDotCom wrote: Hi. Did you fuckin idiot christians know that the bible has been revised by the church of england and other such albatrosses so many times that the amount of truth in the king james version is probably below 1%?
Anyone who denies that these books are factual and genuine, must therefore doubt all historical literature written in the last 3 millennia, because there is not a single historical document that has anywhere near the scientific credentials that the Bible has as being authentic
The amazing discovery in 1947 of the Dead Sea Scrolls gives unshakable evidence of the integrity and accuracy of the scriptures we now hold in our hands. The scrolls included books and portions of books of the Old Testament scriptures written 2.000 years ago. Yet when translated and compared with our Bible, they correspond exactly. Through the long intervening centuries the Bible message has retained vital accuracy.


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If you've ever thought about investing in real estate then you should not be afraid of what you can get today. Here's a closer look at what you can do when investing. You might be surprised at what you might get out of your investment plans if you look for some options that are rather useful and appealing to use for any purpose.
Prepare For the Long Term
You need to be sure that you can work with your investment for as long as necessary. You've got to really think about how the value of your property will go up over the course of several years. Real estate investing is no get rich quick routine.
In fact, you will have to keep on working at your current job if you want to invest in properties. You must be sure that you have money for your down payment and any other charges that may come with such a home. If you can buy something that grows with your cash flow then you will certainly experience a few benefits.
You should especially start early so you'll have a jump on the overall cost of getting a property ready. This is especially important considering how much that first down payment may be worth.
Remember, if you plan for the long term then you will be more likely to get lots of money in the future from rental expenses. This will certainly provide you with a special form of income that you can utilize for the future. There's no telling just how much money you could get out of it if you just stick to your guns and think about what you want to do well into the future.
Think About the Quality Of the Property
Look for properties that are good in quality. That is, they should be properties that you will find to be of a strong interest to you.
In fact, if you can find properties that are nice enough to live in and eventually convert into rental properties then you should think about those places. If you are an owner-occupant of the property you invest in then you can get a small down payment and a better financial deal.
If you buy a home and then move out about three years later to use it as a rental property then you can ensure that you'll have less of a risk on the property. The fact that you're dealing with a property that you know the ins and outs of will certainly help for your rental marketing needs too.
Does It Need Fixing? If So Then Avoid It
While homes that need repair might sound interesting, the discounts that come with them aren't as strong as you might expect them to be. You might end up spending more money on the property when the repair costs are considered than what you'd get out of profits when it's fully done.
In fact, you might want to stick with properties that are being rented by tenants as they are. This could be more useful as you'll have a property that can be managed later and still has a good amount of income coming into the fold.
Do Your Homework
Make sure you spend plenty of time analyzing every aspect of a property. It can take several months to do this but it will be worthwhile if done right.
Watch For Money Issues
Some properties have poor cash flows and are too high in risk. These include properties that might be rather cheap. They sound interesting but there are usually reasons why they are so cheap. Always avoid cheap stuff if you want to get a good deal and to avoid potential problems with homes that you are thinking about. A mid-range-priced unit is usually the best option to stick with.
Be Prepared For Real Values
You cannot be overly optimistic with the values that you are expecting out of properties. Think more about the expenses that may be associated with your home and what it will cost to renovate it before you acquire anything. Don't forget to think about taxes, possible repair costs and other expenses that you might encounter as you get a little more into the ownership process.
Watch For Local Areas
Spots with lots of foreclosures, unsold homes and spots that aren't all that busy should be avoided. These foreclosures and vacancies will easily drain the value of your home.
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Chloasma, also known as melasma or pregnancy mask, is a common facial discoloration experienced by 70% of pregnant women. This broad-spectrum sunscreen, formulated with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, blocks the sun's harmful UVA and UVB rays from reaching the skin, diminishing the likelihood of developing the condition. Ideal for all skin types, this oil-free formula has a slight tint to match the skin tone. Perfect for use during pregnancy, but can be used at any time. Free of phthalates.
Features: * Helps prevent chloasma, a common form of hyperpigmentation * Protects against UVA and UVB sun rays * Tinted formula matches most skin tones * Oil-free formula ideal for all skin types * Free of phthalates and safe for use during and after pregnancy
Fresh Start Pre-Treatment Scrub, 6.5 fl. oz.
An invigorating scrub that sweeps away old skin cells to reveal healthy skin.
- Features green tea extract and ginseng, both are rich in antioxidants
- Helps prepare skin for the application of other Belli products
- Includes the refreshing aromatherapy of peppermint oil
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Struggling with Salinger' and its demand to reveal J.D. Salinger's personal life
Photographer Michael McDermott leads off the film with a story about how, in 1979, he traveled to New Hampshire with one aim and one assignment – photograph the elusive Salinger for Newsweek. His only tip? The author receives his mail at a local post office, just across the state line, in tiny Windsor, Vermont.
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Get an overview of this hotelArt Deco hotel with free breakfast and 24-hour fitness center
Located in the heart of Brooklyn, this hotel is within 2 mi (3 km) of Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, and Pratt Institute. Brooklyn Academy of Music and Brooklyn Heights Promenade are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
A 24-hour fitness center, a 24-hour business center, and a meeting room are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a 24-hour front desk, limo/town car service, and free newspapers are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 56 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. Comforts include Egyptian cotton sheets and down comforters, and guests will also appreciate thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Best Western Plus Arena Hotel1324 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn NY 11216
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Hotel Amenities
High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This hotel offers access to a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Event facilities measure 400 square feet (37 square meters). This Art Deco hotel also offers a 24-hour fitness center, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Best Western Plus Arena Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space size (feet) - 400
- Conference space size (meters) - 37
- Elevator/lift
- Free breakfast
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 5
- One meeting room
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Porter/bellhop
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 56
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Year Built 2010
Family Friendly Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Free toiletries
- Free weekday newspaper
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Down comforter
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Flat-panel TV
- Free local calls
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Individually decorated
- Individually furnished
- iPod docking station
- Iron/ironing board
- Microwave
- Phone
- Pillowtop mattress
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Satellite TV service
- Shower/tub combination
- Slippers
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A complimentary continental breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10 AM.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time ends at 5 AM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 25 years old.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Only service animals are allowed
No rollaway/extra beds available
- Deposit: USD 250 per stay
- Breakage deposit: USD 250 per stay
Optional extras
- Early check-in fee: USD 75
- Late check-out fee: USD 75
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This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Up to 2 children 16 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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Dice sets, especially 7-piece RPG dice sets. Everything from metal dice sets and stone dice sets to pearlized and magma dice sets. Also includes other sets of dice such as 10d6 crystal dice sets.
Synthetic Blue Cat's Eye Stone 14mm Dice Set and Bag$38.50
7-Piece Blue Goldstone 14mm Set$39.95
Stone Dice Blue Jasper 14mm Set and Bag$38.95
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The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team looks for its first 2-0 start since 2006-07, as it heads to Ames, Iowa, in search of an upset over Big 12 foe Iowa State on Tuesday night. The Islanders blasted Huston-Tillotson in the season-opener last Friday, 79-45.
• Senior Zane Knowles had a monster night in the opener, posting his first career double-double with 12 points and 18 rebounds. The 18 caroms were the second-most in school history.
• Junior John Jordan was named Preseason First Team All-Southland Conference by the league's coaches. He opened 2013-14 with 21 points, six rebounds and six assists.
• The Islanders took part in a 10-day, four-game tour of Italy in August, a trip that allowed them 10 extra days of practice prior to the tour.
• Redshirt sophomore Jake Kocher had a triumphant return to the court on Friday, going for 10 points, six rebounds and four steals. He missed all of last season after having double labrum surgery.
• A&M-Corpus Christi is 0-1 against Iowa State, the only matchup a 86-64 loss in the Islanders' first season of 1999-2000.
• Though Coach Wilson has his most experienced team with the Islanders, only five players have more than one year of Division I playing experience (Ali, Knowles, Jordan, Douvier, King).
The Islanders and Iowa State have met just once since A&M-Corpus Christi became a Division I program. It was just the 10th game in Islanders lore, and resulted in an 86-64 win for the Cyclones. Marcus Fizer scored 28 points and had 17 rebounds in the win for Iowa State.
John Jordan is only a junior for the Islanders basketball team, but he's the most experienced player on the roster and one of the favorites for Southland Conference Player of the Year. The Houston native was named Preseason First Team All-Southland Conference by the league's coaches.
He showed his worthiness for that selection in the Islanders' season opener. The Houston native scored 21 points and added six rebounds and six assists in just 25 minutes of work.
The honor is no surprise when looking at the numbers that the 5-foot-10 Jordan put up last season and has amassed in his two-year career. Jordan was second in the league in assists (5.5 per game) despite the fact that the Islanders only shot 40.6 percent from the field. He was 12th in the league in scoring at 12.8 points per game.
Only two players in the nation – South Dakota State's Nate Wolters and Louisiana-Lafayette's Elfrid Payton – had better numbers than Jordan in points, assists and rebounds last year. (See chart below.) His 5.5 assists per game placed him 39th in Division I.
Jordan has already etched his name in the school record book. He broke the school record with 138 assists as a freshman, then bested his own mark with 159 as a sophomore. With 297 career assists, he is already half way to the school record of 493, held by Brian Evans.
Jordan is also someone who is rarely seen on the bench. He averaged a Southland-leading 36.6 minutes per game and is on pace to enter the career top 10 in minutes.
The Islanders' most physically notable player is without question senior Zane Knowles. The native of Nassau, Bahamas, stands 6-foot-10 and 240 pounds and is expected to be a force inside for the Islanders this year. He has improved significantly in the weight room, and his soft touch around the basket should help him be a scoring force inside.
He showed up in a big way in the season opener, scoring 12 points and snaring 18 rebounds for his first career double-double. The 18 rebounds matched the second-highest total in school history, and were the most for an Islander since Corey Lamkin grabbed 18 at Air Force on Jan. 21, 2004. It more than doubled his previous career high, as his prior best was eight boards vs. Lamar on Feb. 7, 2013.
A year ago, Knowles was just hitting his stride when an injury against UTSA sidelined him for the next five games. He got back into form later in the year, and matched his career high with 12 points against Southeastern Louisiana in the second-to-last home contest of the season. He averaged 9.3 points and 3.5 rebounds in the last four games of the year, shooting 17-for-26 (.655) in that span.
Knowles came to the Islanders after a year at Pearl River (Miss.) Community College and a season at Grambling.
Though Knowles was the ringleader, several other Islanders had strong games on the glass. Six players snared at least three boards and 12 of the 13 players who logged minutes had at least one rebound. The 53 rebounds for the team were the most by an Islanders squad since Ronnie Arrow's crew snared 53 against Longwood on Feb. 4, 2006. The plus-20 rebound margin was the highest for A&M-Corpus Christi in the Willis Wilson era.
In addition to the other newcomers, the Islanders will have a welcome face back in the fold that was missing last season. Redshirt sophomore Jake Kocher, who sat out 2012-13 after double labrum surgery, was back in the starting lineup on Friday night.
His return to the court was a triumphant one, as Kocher poured in 10 points to go along with a career-high six rebounds and four steals. He was 4-for-5 from the field in 20 minutes of action.
Kocher played in 29 games as a freshman, averaging 3.2 points, but the main attribute he provides for the team is a toughness and work ethic that goes well above the norm. He is also one of the team's top outside shooters – an attribute that the Islanders struggled in last year.
In 2011-12, he did most of his damage down the stretch, including a career-high 15 points in the season's penultimate game at UT Arlington. He averaged 4.6 points in 17.0 minutes over the season's final seven games. He is the city of Austin's all-time leading scorer from his days at St. Michael's Academy.
The Islanders' 34-point win over HTU in the opener was the most lopsided win since a 90-42 win over Texas State on Jan. 18, 2007.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the stat sheet from Friday's win over Huston-Tillotson is how evenly the statistics were distributed for the Islanders. Ten different players registered field goals in the contest, while 12 different players – Marcus Ellison the lone exception – pulling in rebounds. Eight different players registered assists, with John Jordan's six leading the way.
Within the Southland Conference, most fanbases are used to seeing Northwestern State change all five players at once – a tactic Mike McConathy has used there for many years. But the Islanders used that tactic against Huston-Tillotson and also showed it for much of the four games in Italy. Coach Wilson hasn't formally set on the strategy, but against HTU, the starting group consisted of Jordan, Knowles, King, Kocher and Jeff Beverly. The second quintet was Hameed Ali, Cole Martinez, Jelani Currie, Brandon Pye and Dale Francis.


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Who says Waka can't get his paper up and stay all the way turnt up?
This feature is a part of Complex's "Triple F Life" Week.
Waka Flocka Flame has only one rule: Do whatever you want to do. It's what he tells a hired videographer on the set of the music video shoot for "I Don't Really Care," the Trey Songz–assisted second single from his sophomore album, Triple F Life: Fans, Friends, and Family. The videographer, who's trying to capture behind-the-scenes footage as part of Warner Bros' Waka marketing blitz, wants to know if it would be OK to record the six-foot-four rapper getting his dreads touched up before shooting the first scene?
The question arises because—before sitting down with his two-person hair team—Waka went on a minute-long rant about how he's not really the kind of dude who gets his hair "dipped up." He'd rather rock out with it the way it is. But, alas, this is show business, and Waka relents. Still, he tells the videographer: "If you want to slap a girl's ass, Do it. Do whatever you want."
It's a chilly spring night at this warehouse on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia. If it wasn't for the faint but persistent smell of weed, the police squad cars circling the block like buzzards, and the parade of tour buses blocking traffic so they can fit like Tetris blocks into the parking lot, you wouldn't know that one of the world's biggest rap stars is gearing up to shoot a music video. But here he is—white Tee'd, dreadlocked, and ready to work.
After his hair is right, it's time for wardrobe. Waka and his 1017 Bricksquad crew—consisting of his road manager and assistants, his brother Wooh Da Kid, producer Southside, and rapper B-Hoody—move into a larger space that's been transformed into a sort of green room/dressing room for the night.
His stylist and her assistant have all the outfits for the video ready, hanging on a chrome clothing rack beside a wooden table that holds an array of expensive European sneakers. A pink-and-black silk cardigan anchors the first ensemble presented to Waka. It looks like Versace—something Rick Ross or Tyga might wear. Waka pauses, looks at his stylist, and shakes his head. "Nah, I ain't doing this," he says.
His stylist tries to reassure him that this is what's cool now, and besides, the first set-up is being shot in front of a black seamless backdrop. He needs to wear something that will "pop." Waka won't hear any of it. "This shit is a hell no," he says.
The wardrobe standoff brings the shoot, already running behind schedule, to a standstill. A decision needs to be made quickly. For what seems like the fifth time in an hour, a producer comes into the dressing room to tell Waka he's needed on set immediately. Ignoring his pleas, Waka concentrates on the wardrobe rack.
The producer tries again, telling Waka that he needs to be on set in 15 minutes. Snapping out of his silk-cardigan daze, Waka focuses his attention/anger on the producer—who's really just trying to do his job. "Aye, bruh," Waka says to all in attendance. "Someone tell this man to get the fuck out of here before something happens to him." The room falls silent and everyone turns to look at the producer. Befuddled, and no doubt slightly nervous, he retreats back to the set.
Before sitting down with his two-person hair team—Waka went on a minute-long rant about how he's not really the kind of dude who gets his hair 'dipped up.' He'd rather rock out with it the way it is. But, alas, this is show business, and Waka relents.
The room remains quiet as everyone waits for Waka to cool down. The videographer asks whether he should stop recording. "Hell yeah, motherfucker," Waka snarls. "What you think?" The videographer puts the camera down and takes a step back as Waka lets out a laugh. "Nah, I'm just fucking with you," he says, breaking the tension.
The mood in the dressing room is once again light. Waka returns to going through clothes with his stylist and settles on a white leather vest with BSM—signifying his crew, 1017 Brick Squad Monopoly—emblazoned on the front and back. He throws this on over a black T-shirt and dark denim and makes his way to set.
Halfway through the first set-up—a black seamless with light flashing every which way—the crowd that was once intensely focused on Waka's performance turns around. Even Waka himself briefly loses focus. Trey Songz has arrived. After the end of his take, Waka walks through the crowd excitedly to dap the multi-platinum R&B star. They compliment each other's jewelry and Trey soon joins Waka on camera.
Contrary to what MTV's Making the Video might have you believe, making music videos is a long, arduous, and altogether boring process. If you're not actually working on the video, you'll find yourself sitting around bullshitting, waiting for the producers to call lunch. Of course things can be more eventful with an artist as popular as Waka. You're likely to see a couple stars pass by to say what up and show respect.
Tonight, Houston, Texas' own Trae Tha Truth comes through with his son, and Young Money's Lil Chuckee hangs around for the most of the shoot. But the biggest star to grace the soundstage is Waka's mentor, close friend, and labelmate Gucci Mane.


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Update: We've just run benchmark tests of the 8800GTS in Crysis under Windows XP with DirectX 9.
Also worth noting is that we've carried over our Crysis test results from when we had both an 8800GTX and Ultra in our lab. You will find these results on page 18.
*Knock Knock*
As I wander over to the door on a typical Tuesday afternoon I'm greeted by the usual fellow, a courier! With a box in hand and PDA for me to sign I was expecting what was just going to be another run of the mill sample.
Generally speaking, I see who it's shipped from and remember what exactly it is before I put it in a pile which has an imaginary "To Do" sign above it; but this was different. The name written on it was unfamiliar to me, so I open the white box not knowing what to expect and low and behold, there is a note!
Below that note was a graphics card, and not just any old graphics card, oh no! This is the highly anticipated 8800GTS 512MB G92!
The only other item was a CD which had drivers on it. This is the story of the new G92 based 8800GTS, so sit back and be prepared to be taken on an adventure of fast graphics cards and even faster results.
Clearly I had a mission ahead, and of course have chosen to accept!


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Social Security Not Entitlement
Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 12:00 a.m.
The article "Sequestration Will Have Effects On Polk Services" [Feb. 27] includes the phrase "entitlements like Social Security and Medicaid."
"Social Security benefits" should not be an umbrella statement to imply that the Social Security retirement benefits are charitable "entitlements," such as SSI, food stamps, WIC, etc.
I was forced to pay into the Social Security system through payroll deductions. It was not a voluntary opt-in.
Yes, I am "entitled" to get my money back, plus interest, when I retire, but it is in no way to be considered a charitable dispensing of monetary funding to the needy.
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- The Beaches Negril Resort & Spa All-Inclusive plan includes roundtrip shuttle service mornings, afternoons, and evenings to a companion resort, Beaches Sandy Bay, one km (less than a mile) away, where guests enjoy access to all facilities, including restaurants.
Hotel Overview
What to Expect:
- Originating in Jamaica, the Beaches chain of child-friendly resorts caters to families, couples, and singles by offering activities day and night and facilities designed for all ages, from toddlers to grandparents. The resort features classic island architecture, blending fine woods and polished marble with the dramatic detailing of stone arches and hand-painted, domed frescoes.
Amenity Highlights:
- Graced by almond and palm trees shading hammocks and furnished with thatched shades and tent pavilions, a (1,400-foot) beachfront provides sunbathing and fun-and-games space on sugar-fine, nearly white sand. Two pools, one measuring (10,000 square feet) and the other (2,500 square feet), offer freshwater alternatives to the sea. The Pirates Water Theme Park encompasses (18,000 square feet) and features two water slides, a lazy river, and a splash deck.
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Airport:Sangster International Aiport MBJ
The Beaches Negril Resort & Spa offers guests nine different room and suite categories, each boasting custom-crafted furnishings and modern amenities. The resort's classic island architecture harmonizes beautifully with the stunning tropical setting and provides accommodations for families of all sizes.
Room Amenities:
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes
- Cable/satellite TV
- Ceiling fan
- Child care (in room, surcharge)
- Climate control
- Clock radio
- Coffee/tea maker
- Complimentary toiletries
- Cribs (infant beds) available
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board
- Non-smoking rooms
- Premium TV channel(s)
- Rollaway beds
- Television
- Voice mail
- Wake-up calls
Property Amenities
Styled like a British Colonial mansion's grand sitting room, the Beaches Negril Resort & Spa open-air lobby features green and maroon walls, marble floors in cream and rose, tall windows, a recessed dome ceiling painted with a sky scene, and a carved-wood door from an Indian maharaja's palace.
Enclosing a garden courtyard with gentle waterfall, a two-story European spa in a rose-and-lemon-chiffon building with red tile roofs provides a tranquil ambience of wood ceilings, candlelight, orchids, and lemon-grass scent for massage, body wraps and scrubs, facials, paraffin treatments, waxing, hair braiding, and hair and nail care. The spa features special services-for-two, including one with a two-person spa tub in an alcove graced by orchids and candles. Other features include a Vichy shower and women's and men's saunas, relaxation lounges, and small nude sunning courtyards (surcharges).
A children's camp and nursery offer supervised care and age-group activities for infants and children to age 12. The camp features air-conditioned playrooms, a toddlers' pool, an expansive playground, miniature golf, pool tables in an open-air pavilion, and two air-conditioned video-game rooms. Trained nannies can provide after-hours child care for up to three children day and night (surcharges).
Teens and 'Tweens' will have just as much fun in their own dedicated night club. Liquid At Beaches Night Club is a cool place to visit when the sun goes down with themed entertainment nights and guest DJ's.
Organized family activities at pools and on the beach are available all day, beginning with a morning power walk and including hat-making lessons, Latin dancing at a beach bandstand, "aqualympics" competitions, and parent-child scavenger hunts. After-dark activities include staff-presented shows in an amphitheater, karaoke, singalong piano gatherings, jazz and reggae sessions, clown and magic shows, and fire dancer/limbo extravaganzas.
An open-air fitness center offers free weights, cardio and weight machines, and an aerobics area. A round spa tub surrounded by a wood deck provides soaking space for 10 in a quiet courtyard outside the center. Other resort facilities include three coin-operated laundries, an Internet-access kiosk (surcharge), and an open-air space containing slot machines. A gift shop sells liquor, snack foods, sundries, and beach and resortwear. Language translators are available on request for non-English-speaking guests.
The majority of amenities and activities at this resort are included in the room rate; guests will not be charged extra for most amenities and activities (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Airport transportation (complimentary)
- Arcade/game room
- Bar/lounge
- Beauty services
- Business services
- Currency exchange
- Dry cleaning service
- Fitness equipment
- Hair salon
- Internet access in public areas - high speed
- Internet access in public areas - surcharge
- Laundry facilities
- Medical assistance available
- Multilingual staff
- Nightclub
- Parking (free)
- Parking (secure)
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant(s) in hotel
- Sauna
- Security guard
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Supervised child care/activities
- Swimming pool - children's
- Swimming pool - outdoor
- Tour assistance
- Translation services
- Wedding services
All Sandals, Beaches, and Royal Plantation resorts are nonsmoking in any enclosed areas. Examples are bars, restaurants, lobbies, conference facilities, retailfacilities, and nightclubs.
Smoking is permitted in all open areas and designated rooms.Extra-person charges apply.
Complimentary rollaway beds and cribs (infant beds) are available and should be requested at the time of booking.
Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests made via this Web site cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
A no-tipping policy applies at the resort only. A modest gratuity per piece of luggage is suggested for airport luggage handlers.
The resort has a 100 percent cancellation, no-show, and short-stay penalty. Because unforeseen circumstances arise, travel insurance is strongly recommended.
Guests also have access/privileges at Beaches Sandy Bay. However, parents must note that the supervised children's program/services will only be available at the resort where they are personally staying (they cannot drop kids off at a resort where they are not staying).
Upon check-in, guests will be asked to tender a credit card to activate their room folio. All purchases (except those paid for with a credit card) at resort outlets will be signed to the room folio. Cash will not be accepted for incidental charges at any resort outlet.
If a credit card is unavailable, a cash deposit must be left at the front desk/concierge in order to activate the room folio. Travelers' checks will be treated like cash and therefore can only be used at the front desk.
- Pets not allowed
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Beaches Resorts create culinary experiences that takes one on a global journey of delectable discovery. With
numerous distinctive types of cuisine, one can discover sumptuous regional specialties, with each one
delivering a new cultural flavor.
Dress code:
Resort Casual – dress shorts or jeans, swim wear must be covered, no bare feet.
Resort Evening Attire – Dress pants for men, shirts with sleeves and collar, dress shoes.
The majority of meals and beverages plus gratuities at the following restaurants, snack spots, and bars are included in the room rate for the Beaches Negril Resort & Spa (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
The Mill RestaurantIndoor dining International Buffets with made to order items. Dinner dress code: Resort casual.
ArizonasTex-Mex cuisine in a casual setting. Occasional live entertainment. Dress code: Resort casual.
BBQ ParkEnjoy delicious wraps, burgers and freshly baked Jamaican specialty pastries in this refreshing outdoor venue. Nonsmoking. Dress code: Resort casual.
Cafe De ParisAn ideal spot to enjoy an espresso or cappuccino along with your favorite pastries. Indoor and outdoor dining. Dress Code: Resort casual
Dino's PizzeriaEnjoy savory and sweet gourmet hand tossed pizzas made to order and baked crisp in the wood burning stone oven. Dress Code: Resort casual.
Kimono'sJapanese cuisine prepared at table. Full-service bar and tea room. Nonsmoking. Reservations required. Dress code: Resort casual.
StewfishFeast on Jamaican seafood right on the beach. Dress code: Resort casual (bare feet are allowed) No smoking.
SweetiesOffering an assortment of soft-serve ice-cream, freshly baked cookies and specialty cupcakes. Dress code: Resort casual
The VenetianDine on mouthwatering Italian cuisine served a la carte. Dress Code: Resort casual. No Smoking. Reservations required.
Main Pool Bar
Piazza Pool Bar
Theatre Bar
The Venetian Bar
Stewfish Bar
The majority of recreational activities detailed below are included in the room rate for the Beaches Negril Resort & Spa (scroll up to the All-Inclusive details section for more information).
The resort features a toddler's pool and two swimming pools, one measurings (10,000 square feet) and the other (2,500 square feet), each with swim-up bar. A waterpark includes two long spiral water slides, a lazy river with tubes, and a splash deck.
Watersports included in the All-Inclusive Plan include kayaking, Sunfish and Hobie Wave sailing, windsurfing, kneeboarding, water skiing, banana boating, scuba diving trips, and snorkeling. Scuba-diving certification courses and night dives are available (surcharges). Land sports include tennis on two lighted hard-surface courts, basketball, soccer, cricket, croquet, bocce, shuffleboard, horseshoes, beach and pool volleyball, and miniature golf.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
- Aerobics
- Basketball
- Bicycle rentals
- Bird watching
- Fishing
- Golf - miniature
- Golfing
- Helicopter/airplane sightseeing
- Horse riding/rental
- Jet skiing
- Parasailing
- Playground
- Rafting
- Scooter/Moped Rentals
- Snorkeling
- Tennis
- Volleyball
- Water skiing
- Windsurfing
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PHIL LACIO AKA P DAWG wrote: I think I really like Sage over Buck's production
from got up this morning to this new stuff
prolyphic81 wrote: I have video of my performance, as well as everyone else. The videos will be used somehow, somewhere and posted/uploaded for viewing.
Sage Francis wrote: Hot. I'm going to wait for those before I lay out my full SXSW experience. We'll make it part of a bigger announcement or newsletter since I don't think any media made their way into our event. Kanye strikes again.
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Sage Francis wrote: Thanks, man. I'm loving House of Bees. I think maybe that needs to be our group name.


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The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to help educate investors about the SEC's rules and regulations related to stock suspensions. The federal securities laws allow the SEC to suspend trading in any stock for up to ten business days. This bulletin answers some of the typical questions we receive from investors about trading suspensions. A list of companies whose stock is currently suspended, or which have been subject to an SEC suspension, may be found here.
The SEC may suspend trading in a stock when the Commission is of the opinion that a suspension is required to protect investors and the public interest. Circumstances that might lead the Commission to suspend trading include:
The SEC cannot announce that it's working on a suspension. We conduct this work confidentially to maintain the effectiveness of any related investigation we may be conducting. Confidentiality also protects a company and its shareholders if the SEC ultimately decides not to issue a trading suspension. The SEC is mindful of the seriousness of suspensions, and carefully considers whether it is in the public interest to order a trading suspension.
The SEC will not comment publicly on the status of a company when the ten-day suspension period ends because the company may still have serious legal problems. For instance, the SEC may continue to investigate a company to determine whether it has defrauded investors. The public will not know if the SEC is continuing its investigation until the SEC publicly announces an enforcement action against the company.
Furthermore, when an SEC trading suspension ends, a broker-dealer may not solicit investors to buy or sell the previously-suspended stock until certain requirements are met. Before soliciting trades or resuming quotations in a stock that has been subject to a trading suspension, a broker-dealer must file a Form 211 with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") representing that it has satisfied all applicable requirements, including those of Rule 15c2-11.
Among other things, Rule 15c2-11 requires broker-dealers to review and maintain certain documents and information about the company, including:
No broker-dealer may solicit or recommend that an investor buy shares in a stock that has been subject to a trading suspension unless and until FINRA has approved a Form 211 relating to the stock. If there are continuing regulatory concerns about the company, its disclosures, or other factors, such as a pending regulatory investigation, a Form 211 application may not be approved.
However, limited or "unsolicited" trading can occur in a stock that has been subject to a trading suspension after the suspension ends but before a Form 211 is approved. This may allow investors to trade the stock when a broker or adviser has not solicited or recommended such a transaction. Even though such trading is allowed, it can be very risky for investors without current and reliable information about the company.
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LOS ANGELES -- David Lee was going at full speed and with all engines roaring; it just happened to be in the wrong gear and moving into all the wrong places.
How did the Warriors' power forward start Game 1 against the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday?
Turnover, turnover, turnover, turnover (in the Warriors' first four possessions), got his shot blocked, was whistled for a free-throw lane violation, then got pulled from the game after less than three minutes had elapsed and the Warriors trailing 8-1.
Along the way, Lee took a deep breath and offered a heartfelt apology to coach Mark Jackson.
"I just said, 'Sorry for a few early mistakes, I'm kind of going a million miles an hour right now,' " Lee recalled Sunday before the Warriors' practice at UCLA. "I said, 'I'll settle in.' He said, 'I have no doubt about that.' And then I was able to settle in and play one of my better halves of the year, I think, in the second half, against a tough opponent."
Yes, he did, and that, in large part, is how the Warriors ended up with an upset 109-105 road victory that put them in some control of this playoff series with Game 2 set for Monday at Staples Center.
And it's exactly how Lee will have to play if the Warriors are going to stay in control, which is what got Lee so revved up in the first place.
In the first healthy playoff series of his nine-season NBA career, and with Andrew Bogut injured, Lee is matched up against Clippers star Blake Griffin, and Lee is considered by some (me!) to be at an extreme disadvantage.
If Lee gets destroyed in this series, the Warriors will have almost no chance.
Just like in the first three minutes Saturday.
But when Jackson put him back into the game, Lee got rid of the jitters and started taking advantage of Griffin's foul trouble and the Clippers' determination to stop Stephen Curry.
Lee sliced to the basket, got the ball from Curry, then either finished strong or dished to open teammates while the Clippers scrambled to recover.
Defensively, Griffin was throttled by his foul trouble but also was less than effective in the late going against Lee on the post.
Suddenly, Lee was winning the power forward matchup. And the Warriors were winning the game.
"I know he's excited about the opportunity to be healthy and be playing," Curry said of Lee. "So he probably was amped up.
"But once he settled in, obviously he played amazing."
Lee ended up with 20 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists -- almost all coming in the third and fourth quarters.
That's the Lee plus-and-minus: He can put up numbers and occasionally his defense can drag down the Warriors' chances.
But when he's a "plus" player on both sides, he balances out everything and meshes beautifully with Curry.
In this series, with Bogut out, the Warriors desperately need a "plus" Lee performance. He can force Griffin to exert energy on defense and he can limit Griffin's swoops to the rim.
What can Lee do in this series? He can shut up his critics (me!) for a while by showcasing his talents exactly when they're most necessary.
This could be the reverse of the Warriors' first-round victory over Denver last season, accomplished after Lee was injured early in Game 1.
This season, Bogut is the key piece missing, and Lee is possibly the Warriors' second most valuable weapon against the Clippers, behind only Curry.
"This is his first real shot at contributing on the floor in a playoff atmosphere," Curry said. "I think that's all he's concerned about.
"I don't think he's worried about the critics or criticism he's received or that we play better without him, all this other nonsense."
Lee doesn't need to use the criticism as motivation, because if he plays well, all of that gets wiped out automatically.
Play well, his team has a great chance to advance, easy as that.
"No, not motivation," Lee said of the critiques. "I'd love to feed into it, but right now I'm literally going out, trying to do what I can do, I've got a very difficult matchup.
"I thought I did a pretty good job of taking care of it in Game 1. Tomorrow night's going to be another battle and I know he's going to come to play and so are the Clippers."
On Saturday, I saw Lee in the Warriors' locker room 90 minutes before the game and I could tell he was itching to blast off.
He had too much energy, too much motivation, too much everything to harness early on.
But then he did harness it -- now he's totally into the series, playing exactly like the Warriors always said and wished he could.
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Day Three of the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley festival was filled with many memorable moments.
Just ask the approximately 35,000 fans that filled the Napa Valley Expo center to capacity on Saturday. Some will rave about the two marque main stage acts -- Kings of Leon and Jane's Addiction -- while others will talk of the bands that went on earlier in the day.
Here are my top five moments from Day Three:
Best Coast -- The SoCal surf-pop opened the main stage at 12:30 p.m., performing in front of the few fans who had managed to arrive on time to the festival. Vocalist Bethany Cosentino was fighting the after effects of the previous day's party. "I have to admit, I am the most hung over I think I've ever been," she said to the crowd. Ironically, it might have been the strongest Best Coast show I've seen to date.
Carolina Chocolate Drops -- I bet the band's digital downloads spiked, at least in the Napa region, immediately following this set. The group wowed attendees, many of whom were likely enjoying their first taste of the Chocolate Drop's old-time string-band repertoire, which is based on the traditional music of the Piedmont region of the Carolinas.
Dwight Yoakam -- The toughest decision of the day was whether to watch Bad Religion or Dwight Yoakam, two top talents with overlapping set times. I voted Yoakam and was mighty glad I did. Sure, Bad Religion is a legendary punk group. Yet, nobody delivers the twang quite like Yoakam. His set was filled with terrific country tunes, including "Little Sister," "Streets of Bakersfield" and "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere." This "Honky Tonk Man" rules.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros -- OK, I need to be more specific: The band's terrific version of the hit "Home" was a highlight of the day. The rest of the group' set, however, was paisley nonsense.
Iron & Wine -- I hadn't seen this indie-folk rocker, whose real name is Samuel Beam, in ages. So it was a treat to hear the talented troubadour sing such nuggets as "Low Light Buddy of Mine" and "Tree By the River."
The inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley festival comes to a close on Sunday. Those planning on attending the last day should definitely catch the Secret Sisters, Charlie Musselwhite and Mavis Staples.
Follow Jim Harrington at http://twitter.com/jimthecritic, www.facebook.com/jim.bayareanews and http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/category/concerts.
When: Sunday
Where: Napa Valley Expo
Tickets: $139; http://bottlerocknapavalley.com


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"The Walking Dead" has been at the top of its game in recent weeks, delivering one tense and taut hour after another. Sunday's episode, "When the Dead Come Knocking," was no different. It's just a damn shame that next week brings the midseason finale.
But we'll think about that later. Sunday's hour begins in the not-so-peaceful environs of Woodbury. Red neck Merle has abducted Glenn and Maggie and has them bound with duct tape to wooden chairs in separate rooms. Merle is about to interrogate Glenn, but first he wants to recall that fateful rooftop incident in Atlanta, where he was handcuffed to a pipe by Rick and abandoned by the group.
"People wouldn't do that to an animal," Merle snarls.
Glenn explains that they attempted to come back and retrieve him, but Merle wants none of it and wonders what's going on with T-Dog, that "big ol' spear-chucker" who had been on the roof with him.
Glenn tells him that T-Dog is dead and Merle, the tender-hearted soul that he is, says, "I hope he went slow."
And then the interrogation: Merle wants to know where his brother, Daryl, and the rest of the group, is. Glenn won't tell him. Merle then positions a knife, very precariously, against Glenn's mouth and repeats his demand. But Glenn head-butts him, leaving the red neck with a bloody nose.
Merle recoils for an instant, gathers himself, and then proceeds to turn Glenn's face into his personal punching bag, delivering one vicious hit after another. In the room next door, Maggie can hear it all, wincing in anguish with each punch.
After the opening credits, we cut to the prison yard and pick up where last week's episode left off: Michonne, bloody and woozy from her battles with Merle, is poised at the fence and surrounded by a clot of walkers as a bewildered Rick looks on. Michonne gamely starts to stab and be-head the animated corpses, but there are too many and she's too weak. She passes out and the remaining walkers close in on her.
Rick, now joined by Carl, fire away at the zombies with their guns and rescue Michonne. But she stubbornly tells them, "I didn't ask for your help."
Later, inside the prison walls, Michonne, is still wary of this man and this group. But she witnesses their compassion when Daryl triumphantly returns with Carol. The woman who was previously presumed dead embraces her comrades and expresses her misty-eyed sympathy for Rick, the new widower. Then she takes his baby daughter into her arms. It's a tender, touching scene that stands out even more against the violence we've been witnessing.
Rick tells Michonne that he'll have the doctor tend to her wound, give her some food and send her on her way. But first, he wants to know how she found his group. She explains that she saw Glenn and Maggie being abducted in town by Merle -- the same "SOB" who shot her. And then she tells them about the weird little place called Woodbury and of the "charming Jim Jones-type" who runs it.
That, of course, prompts Rick and Daryl to get a rescue team together. The plan is to have Michonne take them to Woodbury and retrieve their friends. But first, Rick has a little heart-to-heart with Carl. It's the first time he and his boy have spoken about the night Lori passed away.
"I did what I had to do," Carl explains.
"I know," Rick replies. "And I'm sorry. No one should have to go through that."
Then their talk turns to the baby. Carl reminds his dad that she still needs a name, that Daryl has been calling her "little ass-kicker." Rick wants to know if Carl has any ideas and he speaks lovingly of his third-grade teacher -- a woman named Judith.
"That's a fine name," Rick says. "Judith it is."
Meanwhile, back in Woodbury, Merle has turned Glenn's face into a bloody pulp, but Glenn remains defiant. His friends will be coming to save them soon, he says, while slyly lying about how many people are in the group. Glenn's courage is somewhat surprising -- and very admirable.
A frustrated Merle decides to change strategies. Now, he brings a hungry walker into the room and locks him up alone with Glenn, who apparently is about to become lunch. But Glenn doesn't want to be munched on. He scrambles to evade the walker, while still bound to the chair. Stumbling about, he repeatedly rams the chair into a wall until it starts splintering into pieces. Finally, he drives a sharp, busted chair leg into the walker's eye. My, how Glenn has toughened up. Don't mess with this guy!
While all this has been going on, the Governor has taken Andrea to meet Milton, who is conducting weird experiments in a room full of lovely paintings and peaceful music. There, lying in bed, is an elderly man named Mr. Coleman who is in the final moments of a long-running battle with prostate cancer.
Milton has asked Mr. Coleman, who can't speak above a whisper, to confirm the names of his wife and children (when he displays their photos) by raising his hand off the bed. Milton then explains to Andrea that he wants to ask Mr. Coleman those same questions in the moments after he dies and begins to re-animate. The idea is to see if early-stage walkers retain any kind of trace memory.
Andrea is skeptical. "When they turn, they become monsters," she says. Everything else is gone. And then she's stunned to learn that Milton has never witnessed a reanimation. Clearly, this nerd doesn't get out enough.
Meanwhile, the Governor has huddled with Merle about the interrogation and he's concerned that Maggie and Glenn know Andrea. He wants to question Maggie himself, and for a while, it appears that he's playing good cop to Merle's bad cop.
He removes the duct tape from Maggie's arms and speaks in soothing tones. This whole thing has been one big misunderstanding, he says. Just tell us where your friends are and we'll set you free. Maggie says she wants to talk to Glenn, but the Governor nixes that idea.
Then things get creepy and perverted. He orders Maggie to shed her shirt and if she doesn't he'll bring Glenn's severed hand to her. Maggie disrobes down to her bra. "Go on," he says, and she removes her bra.
The Gov calmly sheds his holster and approaches her from behind. He fondles her hair for a moment ... and then slams Maggie's head into the table.
"Do what you're going to do," she says. "Then go to hell."
The Gov thinks about it briefly, then reconsiders. Instead, he takes Maggie into Glenn's room. He announces that he's through playing games and points his pistol directly at Glenn's head. This prompts a terrified Maggie to finally reveal that their 10-person group has taken refuge at the prison. The Governor finds it hard to believe that 10 people could have cleared that entire facility. He locks Maggie up with Glenn and then goes to ponder his next move.
Meanwhile, in Milton's laboratory, Mr. Coleman has croaked and has begun to reanimate. Milton poses the questions to the walker-to-be and he swears that the man tried to raise his hand, but couldn't due to the bed-strap restraints. He wants to remove the straps. Andrea warns against it.
"He'll lurch," she says.
Clueless Milton removes the straps anyway and, sure enough, the walker lurches right for him. But a quick-thinking Andrea saves him by planting a knife into the walker's spongy head.
Now, the Governor is huddling with Merle again. He thinks Maggie and Glenn have lied about the number of people in their group. And if his hunch is right, it means a pretty "sizable force" has moved into their backyard. Moreover, he's concerned that Merle's brother, Daryl, is part of that force and could be out there searching for Maggie and Glenn.
"Blood is blood," the Gov says. "It makes me wonder where your loyalties lie."
Right here, Merle assures him.
The Gov., of course, is right about one thing: Daryl (along with a few others) is on his way there. On the advice of Michonne, the rescue party has abandoned their car about a mile or two outside Woodbury to make the rest of the trek by foot. They're forced into a brief detour to a hunter's little cabin when a horde of walkers shows up. The hunter, a cranky old man, raises a loud fuss after they barge in and pulls a rifle. Rick tries to talk him down, but Michonne shows the group just how ruthless she can be when she drives her sword through the man. They toss his corpse out the front door to appease the zombie throng and then quickly escape out the back.
Cut to Woodbury: The Governor is back home when a distraught Andrea shows up, in desperate need of a drink. The Governor asks: "Did Milton find what he was looking for?"
"No," she replies, before falling into his comforting arms.
"Hey, it's all right," he says in those creepy/soothing tones of his. "It's all over now."
But, of course, he knows it isn't. His eyes gaze off into the distance as he undoubtedly contemplates the major conflict coming his way.
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