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There are some other institutes that only provide tutors who can either come over to your house to teach you or you can book live online sessions with them. You can choose the type of session according to your requirements. However, a good tutoring course should have certain essential features, which are discussed in the following section.
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Do not think that only weak candidates take the help of tutors. One-on-one sessions with experienced tutors are also taken by academically sound ones, who wish to get more practice. However, the type of session that you need will depend on your requirements. Tutoring services offered by some of the institutes that you can consider are given below.
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- http://www.testmasters.com/act-private-tutoring.html : This institute, too, holds various preparatory courses, along with providing one-on-one tutoring courses, exclusively designed for this examination. Hence, the tutors in the employment of Testmasters are also highly skilled and experienced as well. If you enroll in a one-on-one course with this institute then you will have complete freedom of choosing the location and time of your tutoring sessions. Moreover, your tutor will help you make your study plan, according to which you can prepare for the examination. Hence, if you need tutors who take personal interest in the student's progress then you can check out Testmasters website.
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Preparatory courses that have been designed exclusively for this test, sometime do not provide all the help that you need. In such a scenario, you can also take the help of an experienced tutor who will promptly identify the problem areas and help you solve them. A good tutor always boosts the morale of the student so that he or she can feel more confident about the examination. Thus, take the help of a tutor if you feel the need and prepare well for the examination. Hard work and preparation are the two most important elements that will help you fare well in the test.


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The president says the election has nothing to do with four brave Americans getting killed, but, as in 1980 at another embassy, it should — just as it matters who gave the order to stand down.
We have speculated that a reason the cries for military help during the seven-hour assault on our consulate in Benghazi were ignored was due to fears of another "Blackhawk down" incident as in Somalia under President Clinton or a repeat of the Desert One mission that crashed and burned in the Iranian desert in a failed attempt to rescue our hostages in Tehran in 1980.
After all, according to Richard Miniter's book "Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him," it was at the urging of White House adviser Valerie Jarrett that President Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden three times before finally approving the May 2, 2011, Navy SEAL mission. Her concern: the political harm to Obama if the mission failed.
As we've written, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has falsely said we didn't have real-time intelligence of the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi. The administration has also suggested it was the CIA that put the brakes on any attempt at relief or rescue.
ABC's Jake Tapper reports that a CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA Director David Petraeus, has put out a statement saying, "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate."
Someone did, and the question is who?
We know that the mortars firing at the roof of the CIA annex, where former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were still fighting six hours into the attack, were "painted" with a laser targeting device as the two repeatedly requested backup support from an AC-130 Specter gunship. AC-130s are commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to support Special Operations teams involved in intense firefights. They are deadly accurate, with little risk of harm to civilians.
The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours, more than enough time for any planes based at Sigonella Air Base in Italy, just 480 miles away, to arrive. According to Fox News, two separate Tier One Special Ops forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators. So who told them to wait?


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Tell It To Me Tuesday "If You Believe They Put A Man On The Moon"
January 27th marked the twenty year anniversary of the crash of The Challenger.
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Released in 1989, Golden Axe is a side-scrolling beat 'em up. An evil entity called Death Adder has captured the King, his daughter and a Golden Axe, and it's up to three warriors to save everyone. Each of the playable characters has different weapons and special magic spells as they battle Death Adder's henchmen.
Best time as Tyris Flare: 0:09:27 by Jason 'honorableJay' Feeney on 2012-08-15. Stream recording with live commentary available here.
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I've always had a soft spot for the Golden Axe series, having played the arcade version when I was a kid numerous times. So when the summer hit and my living room got too hot for me to use my computer for speedrunning, I started searching the SDA game list to find a side project. Not finding Golden Axe on the list sparked my interest. After a quick search on eBay and a few weeks of grinding, I finally got a run that not only breaks the 10 minute barrier, but is overall pretty clean.
Before getting to the actual run, here's a breakdown of what I know about the game:
Damage (actual stats taken from http://tasvideos.org/1064S.html)
The strongest normal moves in the game are the back attack (6 dmg) and the downward stab (8 dmg). For the magic attacks, anything under level 4 with Tyris is not worth using unless the goal is just to knock someone down. While I don't know exactly how much damage levels 4, 5, and 6 deal, I do know stage 2 requires level 4, stage 3 requires level 5, and stage 6 requires level 6 to get guaranteed kills.
Enemy Behavior
By default, all enemies try for a surround pattern, which has 1 enemy attack from your left and right. If there are more than 2 enemies, the extras stick to an avoid pattern which keeps their z-axis positioning a certain height above/below your character. They'll still move to your left or right but won't come into attack position until you render one of the attacking enemies inactive (by knockdown or kill). If you're at a sufficient distance, enemies will go for a dash attack, allowing you to either bait them to a pit or setup a downstab. Animals can also be used as bait since all normal enemies will try to mount without dodging anything. Whoever is closest to the animal will get priority, causing others to walk in a straight line yet still dodge attacks. Dodge patterns are pretty simple (of which there are 2): enemies will move down on the z-axis if you're doing a downstab, and the avoid pattern will make an enemy increase z-axis distance if you try to move in and engage.
Enemy Manipulation
All enemies can be manipulated without a RNG getting in the way. It all boils down to your current positioning and what action you're executing. Animals can also be used to setup easy downstabs, as can forcing different spawns for enemies. While it's easy in theory, execution errors or small timing mistakes can make a fight go bad really quickly.
Enemy Annoyance (highest to lowest)
1 frame first attack, range that extends well outside of the sprite, attacks get faster and more aggressive with every stage.
Longest attack range and quick swings, each hit takes away 1 lifebar, slow movements make baiting into position hard, always come in pairs.
All attacks are very fast, first swing has a rear-back animation which shifts the hitbox away from your character (causing back attacks to miss).
Slow movements make baiting a chore, all attacks have rear-back animation, and all attacks take away 1 lifebar.
Bat-boys and Mace-men
Generally easy to handle, Bat-boys have better attack range while Mace-men have heavily accelerated attacks at later stages with a very high chance for attacks to connect multiple times (possibly a bug, highest combo I've encountered was almost 9 hits and instant death at full life).
By far the easiest character set in the game, only thing to worry about are the supporting Skeletons, with Death Bringer's Skeletons having double his health.
Bonus Stages
The first 4 stages give you a chance to fill up on your magic/health after the completing the stage. The problem with these stages is the fact that the thief patterns are random. There is nothing I can do but pray I don't get a bad pattern. This is the only spot in the game with random elements, making them the most frustrating at times.
Stage 1
No real issues with this stage, everything went according to plan. Every downstab I get is position/distance based. For the first 2 enemies I can't be any closer to them or they'll dodge. The next 2 enemies involves a spawning trick: by moving to the top right of the screen, I force the Mace-man to spawn in active rather than him running into the screen. From there I can manip him to walk down and catch both enemies at the same time. For the boss fight, I use the animal to manip a downstab on both the Giant and 1 of the Mace-men, then mount the Chicken Leg to finish things out. One good thing about using the animals is it increases the enemy aggressiveness, making them engage faster.
Bonus Stage 1
A few runs before this one, I started using dash attacks on the thieves, and it turned out to be faster. In this case it saved a little bit of time, but cost me in the end due to the random factor. I also lost out on grabbing a magic pot for the next stage.
Stage 2
Everything here goes according to plan, although a few things are as fast as I'd hoped. After 'convincing' the first 3 enemies into the pit, the Maceman I delayed slightly to make sure I could guarantee he'd go into the pit. In other attempts I've saved about ¼ to 1/3 of a second by catching him earlier in his dash attack. I also go lucky with the thief: being able to catch him with a back attack while he's out of the screen saves time since he doesn't run around like a madman (the level can't advance until he's off the screen). The last fight is fine, but I waited a few more frames than normal to make sure the magic caught all 3 enemies just after they spawned.
Bonus Stage 2
Here is one of times I abuse the hitbox/animation of the back attack to catch the blue thief while he's off-screen. Overall I had very good luck with the thief patterns here.
Stage 3
The strategy here is to knock the Maceman into the off-screen pit, then bait the other two into downstabs. It goes fine until the Amazon: I landed on the dragon and couldn't avoid getting off. The death is intentional since riding the Dragon wastes well over a minute on this stage. When I respawn, two things happened: the first thing I did was wait a bit to make sure I didn't run into the pit (the game has a tendency to buffer input at times) then the controls didn't want to respond as fast as I needed them to. Overall I lost almost 2 seconds to that hiccup. Then the controls decided to play with me again: when I tried to back-attack the second Amazon I jumped instead. I was still able to connect with both Amazons to kill the first, but the input mistake allowed the second Amazon to get into attack position and knock me down, which cost me about 4 seconds. After that I recovered and was able to successfully pull off one of the run-killing tricks: the dreaded TAS-Giant strat. Right off the bat, I have to start the run just before the game pauses to load the Giants, then I have to jump as the game unpauses, scroll the screen far enough to the right, then catch both with a downstab. This is only the setup. I have had runs that have gotten the initial downstab, but the rear-back animation for the Giants has caught me on the final downstab and destroyed plenty of attempts. The thieves could've gone better, but I was too high by about a pixel or two to quickly grab all of the pots. As for the final fight, aside from the controls botching a backstab, it's just a flesh wound.......
Bonus Stage 3
I get some decent-but-still-bad luck with the thief patterns. The first problem was grabbing the first pot from the blue thief: since I don't need magic for the next stage it means I need to hit the blue thief in the next bonus stage one more time, which increases my chances for bad thief patterns. I do get the rest of the thieves pretty quickly, but I have gotten patterns where I can catch 2, sometimes 3, of them in 1 attack.
Stage 4
A few small hiccups in this stage, but still one of my fastest times. The first mistake came from the first set of Skeletons: another damn control input not working right. At this point I've figured out how to work with the Skeletons to abuse a jump attack as best as possible: a knocked down Skeleton can easily be hit with a downstab due to their slow standup recovery times. The final fight consists of 3 rounds. I have a few hiccups, but nothing run shattering (this was actually my fastest time by about 5 seconds). I had to constantly reposition myself to avoid the 1-frame first attack that the Skeletons have, and while it is slower than what is possible, it's also the safest strat to use here.
Bonus Stage 4
Grabbing the pot in bonus stage 3 may have cost me some time, but luckily I had really good thief positioning this time around so the loss was very minimal. I did have to use an extra back-attack on the blue thief, but at least the green thief stayed close and didn't run away like they normally do.
Stage 5
Right off the bat I get to show a funny glitch: even if you're falling into a pit, the game still considers you to be on solid ground. This allows you to run into a pit and jump out. If you walk into a pit you can still do a normal dash jump for extra height. The only hiccup here is the second set of enemies: I messed up a RJA and had to finish off the Maceman with normal back attacks (getting him into the pit would've been slower). The strat I use for the Knights seems slow, but it's the quickest safe strat to use. By waiting until they get to that specific spot on the screen, I can guarantee knocking them off of the pit (which is off-screen). Unlike stage 7, the pit here is very small, so any aggressive strat runs a very high risk of a Knight, most of the time both, not falling into the pit. One of the glitches with Knights is they cannot walk into a pit, they must be knocked off of it. If a Knight walks into a pit he'll float in the air like it's solid ground (which most players notice only on stage 7 due to the size of the pit).
Stage 6
This stage consists of 2 fights, both of which go according to plan. Using downstabs against the Giant isn't viable (yet, still working on a reliable method) due to the short screen space and the fact that he can be knocked off-screen (and his recovery is quicker compared to the other Giants). Death Adder, however, can't be knocked off the screen. Combined with his really slow recovery, it becomes a downstab festival. The initial dash attack against the Skeleton forces Death Adder to become an active enemy and breaks his avoid pattern, which moves him into attacking position. I need to use level 6 magic (Dragon attack) to ensure the Skeletons are killed, and I have to stand in a specific spot to start the cutscene as quickly as possible.
Stage 7
Compared to my last effort, this level is pretty solid. Both enemies running into the screen at the start is something I'd hoped for but didn't necessarily plan for. Since it's so random when it happens (I still haven't figured out the exact way to do it every time) I dash jumped across the pit too soon. The next few Skeletons are 'convinced' into committing suicide. Then it's a pit-party as everyone else decides to find out just what is at the bottom of a Death Bringer's castle. The very last thief I rushed a bit, which made me whiff a couple of swings, but everyone else played pretty nicely. Against the Knights I decided to use a very experimental and dangerous tactic (which failed but not as bad and I thought) where I take a shot, then use a RJA to get both Knights into position quickly. Since the RJA failed (for some reason I fail against the Knights more than any other enemy) I had to regroup and hope for the best. This also shows just why I hate the surround pattern so much as the last Knight refuses to come into attacking position until I'm a specific distance away from him.
Stage 8
This fight went almost perfectly, but I do get a cheap shot from one of the Skeletons that I couldn't avoid. Whether or not they behave is all position based, and apparently I must've been a few pixels away from where I needed to be. Regardless, I still recover quickly and wind up getting the very last hit on Death Bringer on not only the last frame of my downstab, but it was also the very first frame he could be hit on (double bonus luck there).
I'm definitely happy with this run even if there are still a few areas to save time. If I had to guess, it could be as close to 9:20 with perfect luck, and getting anything under that would require TAS-style luck and execution.
First off I'd like to thank Heidman for his help in planning out sections and smacking me on the head whenever something needed to be improved.
Mary, my psychologist (and sometimes gf), is next on the list for keeping me sane while I not only got my recording setup working, but constantly beat my head against a wall.
The admins who work hard to keep this site running and get killer runs on the front pages also deserve more thanks than anyone.
Final thanks goes to you, the viewer, for watching this run and (hopefully) enjoying watching an old child favorite get demolished.
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Radical Islamic sect, the Jama'atu Ali Sunna Lidda'awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the coordinated bomb attacks on top Nigerian newspaper house, This Day, saying the group will no longer overlook false reports in media about its activities.
In an exclusive interview with Premium Times online publication, the purported spokesman of the sect, operating under the name Abu Qaqa, said the radical organization was sick of the false information being published about it in the Nigerian and foreign media.
"We have repeatedly cautioned reporters and media houses to be professional and objective in their reports. This is a war between us and the Government of Nigeria; unfortunately the media have not been objective and fair in their report of the ongoing war, they chose to take side," Mr. Qaqa said.
He listed three falsities:
First, Qaqa refuted reports published in the media earlier this year that the State Security Service had the spokesman in custody. He claimed he is the one and only spokesman for the sect and not the man in custody, whom the sect identified as an Abu Darda.
As to the second false reporting, Qaqa said: "Another issue was the recent kidnappings in the north; we were clear with our position as a group during a teleconference with reporters but we were shocked the next day when newspaper headlines added a lot of things which I never said during that interview."
The third example, Mr. Abul Qaqa said, is the false intepretation of the sect's recent video message posted on YouTube last week.
"Another example is the recent video posted on YouTube by our Imam; I challenge every Nigerian to watch that video again. There is no place our imam either said he will crush President Jonathan or issued an ultimatum to the government in Nigeria; but nearly all papers carried very wrong and mischievous headlines."
When asked why the group targeted This Day Newspaper offices in Abuja and Kaduna, the spokesman accused the paper of spreading and promoting false stories.
He said "the sins of THISDAY are more," recalling that the paper had once published an opinion piece insulting Prophet Mohammed.
He warned more attacks targeting the media, saying "we will hit the media hard since they have refused to listen to our plea for them to be fair in their reportage".
He warned that the media remain neutral in their reporting.
"The media in Nigeria are not a problem to us if they will do their job professionally without taking sides," Mr. Abul Qaqa said.
The State Security Service claim five people, including the suicide bomber who attacked the Abuja office of the


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San Diego • Federal authorities arrested a third senior U.S. Navy official on Wednesday in connection with a massive bribery scheme in Asia involving prostitutes and luxury travel.
U.S. Navy Commander Jose Luis Sanchez was arrested in Tampa, Fla.
In a criminal complaint, Sanchez is accused of accepting prostitutes, luxury travel and $100,000 cash from a Malaysian contractor known in military circles as "Fat Leonard." Prosecutors say Sanchez passed on classified and internal U.S. Navy information to Leonard Francis' Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., or GDMA.
Sanchez's lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment.
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May 29: Winding Oak Lane residents reported finding someone's bare footprints on the floor near the home's back door. Nothing appeared to be missing.
May 29: A petty theft was reported on Montrose Way.
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June 1: A thief stole approximately $9,000 worth of items from a Shoreline Pointe home.
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Trainer Steve Margolis had intended to give Cajun Beat, his dazzling winner of the Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I), a few more days off to recover from his Santa Anita masterpiece.
But the 3-year-old Grand Slam gelding had other ideas.
Cajun Beat was such a handful in his stall that Margolis was forced to cancel the rest of his star's vacation and he took the horse back to the track on Sunday. He galloped one mile over the "fast" surface under exercise rider Loren Diego in his first training activity since he ran the third fastest Sprint in Breeders' Cup history.
"We had to get him out because he was going crazy," said Margolis. "I was just going to walk him under the shedrow today, but when we brought him out of the stall he started doing cartwheels. He chased me out of the stall yesterday."
Looking on as Cajun Beat returned to the track was John Iracane, who owns him with his father, Joseph, and Satish Sanan.
"We're still on cloud nine," Iracane said. "It was one of those dreams come true. When nice people like Steve who work hard every day are rewarded like that, it's something special."
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If you have ever used traditional shish kabob skewers, you know how unreliable and slippery they can be. All of your hard work dicing and slicing and cooking can easily end up on the ground or in the fire with one slip of the wrist. Well, not that these skewers come with a money-back guarantee, but their shape is certainly more appropriate and less likely to lead good food astray. Keep several sets on hand if you are serving both omnivores and vegetarians, or a just a really big crowd.
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A bomb went off in a crowd of day laborers in central Baghdad on Wednesday, killing eight people and inuring 28, police said. All eight people died in the Baghdad bombing were civilians, though four police were among the injured, said police Lt. Bilal Ali said.
Meanwhile, British troops drove off gunmen who attacked the Basra governor's office, apparently to avenge a tribal leader killed the day before. Members of the Bani Assad tribe attacked the Basra governor's office because they believed provincial officials were behind the killing of a tribal leader Tuesday, according to an official trapped in the besieged building.
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In Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, armed clashes erupted between police and assailants in three predominantly Sunni Arab neighborhoods, police Lt. Col. Abdul-Karim Ahmed Khalaf said.
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Also Wednesday, a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol north of Hillah, killing three troops and wounding four, police 1st Lt. Osama Ahmed said. Hillah is a mostly Shiite city about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
On its part, the Iraqi army general command said order had been restored in the Shiite holy city of Karbala following street battles the day before between security forces and followers of anti-American cleric Mahmoud al-Hassani, which left 12 dead, including two Iraqi soldiers. The clashes erupted after police raided the cleric's office, ostensibly looking for weapons. Security forces rounded up 281 people in the wake of the clashes, the army statement said.
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The Contemporary Youth Orchestra will have a concert in the Waetjen Auditorium on Saturday, Dec. 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. For further information on this performance, call (216) 687-5019.
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The community festival SLC Nerd will return for a second year and be held April 20 at The Complex in downtown Salt Lake City from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Tickets are $10. It is an all ages event. Tickets are available in advance at SmithTix.com, PartyTix.com, or at the door the day of the event
"We really want to try and not fall into being a clone of other similarly themed types of events," said Ben Fuller, one of the producers and founders of the Festival. "The goal is to be more accessible, more inclusive and more affordable, and to deliver as much of that as possible with a touch of personality."
This year the festival is getting a lot of sponsorship and support from local businesses like Night-Flight Comics and Epic Puzzles and Games. In addition to providing prizes, they are also using their connections to help bring in local and nationally know geek celebs to participate. This includes the participation of New York Times Best Selling Author and Marvel Comics Writer Marjorie Liu (courtesy of Night-Flight Comics) and New York Times Best Selling Authors Tracy and Laura Hickman and their multi-talented musician daughter Tasha Joan (courtesy of Epic Puzzles and Games).
"Also performing will be Wasasquatch – the Bigfoot Rock & Roll Music Experience, a high-octane band of Cryptids that present a family-friendly evening of stadium-style rock in a high energy and fun atmosphere," according to Fuller.
The centerpiece of this year's festival will be the VoxNerd, which, according to organizer Craig Nybo, is "our geeky take on the more staid and serious events like TEDTalks and Ignite!." The VoxNerd will have 12 "certified" SLC Nerds each give a presentation of 10 to 15 minutes about something for which they are passionate.
Fuller added: Included in this years' presenter line-up are Iron Dragon series Author Paul Genesse discussing the best way to tame a Dragon, local author and educator Jaleta Clegg sharing her secrets on how to raise 8 geeky children, and Orem resident and Comic Book Editor for the IGN.com website Benjamin Bailey talking about his thoughts on how Comics can become a thriving new industry in the digital space.
More info can be found at www.SLCNerd.com.
Here is the story I did last year on the first SLC Nerd:
To be considered for admittance to Saturday's first SLC Nerd, you must first answer these questions at the door:
1 » Do you speak the languages Sarati, Tengwar or Klingon?2 » Recite Roy Batty's speech at the end of "Blade Runner."3 » What early bootlegs of Hong Kong action flicks by Tsui Hark do you own?Of course, I am only kidding. You don't have to be a nerd to attend Salt Lake's version of Comic-con at The Complex on Saturday, March 24. But you might improve your chances of winning the "Magic: The Gathering" card game if you are one.SLCNerd is a first-of-its-kind gathering for nerds, geeks and the people who love (or tolerate) them, with the event produced by Gangrene Productions and sponsored by Kaysville software-development and digital media service company mediaRif, the people behind the independent Gangrene Film Festival and other unique enterprises. "It's a big prom for nerds," said Ben Fuller of mediaRif.The idea for this one-day festival came when Fuller and company mate Craig Nybo agreed that all those who believe George Lucas never should have given Greedo a gun needed a fun event to congregate and celebrate fans who have evolved from an underground subculture of Table Top Miniature Wargames into the mainstream.Organizers aimed to create a family-friendly event where geeks and nerds would engage in their own day-long versions of the Geek Show Podcast, with live bands performing amid comic books, game tournaments and a Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Benefit silent auction. "It's a day for Ben to be happy," said event emcee and "Monty Python" buff Jon Clark (a music-playing comedian whose guitar is stickered with the battle cry "Real Ewoks Don't Blink").Fuller, Nybo and Clark are self-proclaimed geeks who know that "table-top gaming" isn't another term for ping-pong, and who can distinguish between geeks and nerds. "Geeks revel in things they are passionate about," said Fuller, an aficionado of obscure comic books. "Nerds are trapped by it.""A geek would haze the nerds," added Nybo, a zombie fanatic whose favorite current TV show is "The Walking Dead." He was quick to say that both geeks and nerds are invited, as well as those who don't consider themselves in either camp.The organizers are excited about the event lineup, which includes The Utah Improv All-Stars, the Utah Rocket Club, The Hello! Sweetie Podcast hosts, and Larry Correia, New York Times- bestselling author of the "Monster Hunter International" series, the Grimnoir Chronicles , and the fantasy thriller Dead Six . Correia will play an exhibition game of "Legend of Five Rings" with the Writer Nerd Game Night Group."Security" for the event will be provided by Real Life Superhero Red Voltage and his allies in the Black Monday Society, and attendees are encouraged to dress up as their favorite anime characters or a Steampunk outfit, or anything else that strikes their fancy.As for the question of the estimated ending time of 11 p.m., after the event begins at 2 p.m.: Doesn't that seem excessive?"For a lot of these people, nine hours of Dungeons & Dragons is nothing," said Clark, who knows. His wife and daughter are addicts of the game, which isn't as bad as it appears, he said. Clark hasn't had to see a chick flick in years.


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Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries (RIL) is said to have finalized Samsung as a partner to source the Korean conglomerate's long-term evolution (LTE) technology platform for its much-talked about bundled data & voice services over high speed 4G networks across the country.
The game-changer deal that is set to shake up the Indian telecommunications market is not just restricted to Samsung's technology but goes far beyond as Samsung has agreed to offer entry-level 4G smartphones at a little over $100 (about Rs 5,500) for use with RIL's voice and high-speed internet services, said a source close to the deal. A 3G-enabled Samsung phone can be bought for around the same price today. The entry-level smartphones are likely to be sold with data packages starting at as low as Rs 100, said the source, adding that even high-end smartphones will be made available at minimum down-payments and the equated monthly installments (EMIs) will be incorporated in subsequent bills at a 0% interest rate.
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Jill Dupleix on how clever cheating and a less-is-more approach produces terrific results in the kitchen.
One thing I know is how to boil a potato. You cover the potatoes with cold water, bring the water to the boil and spear one of the spuds with a thin bamboo skewer so that the skewer sticks out of the water.
To find out if they are cooked, you just pick up the skewer. If the potato comes with it, it is not yet cooked. If it slips off, it's perfectly cooked. Simple, yes, but it took me years of stabbing potatoes to refine it.
It doesn't matter how often you cook or how long you've been doing it, there is always something new to learn. It's one of the most levelling things about cookery and, at the same time, one of the most stimulating.
What else have I learned? That food tastes better when it is light and fresh and cooked in the simplest possible way. That 70 per cent of good cooking is good shopping. That fast food is rubbish but fast cooking keeps the flavours fresh, the colours bright and the nutrients intact. And that no dishwasher can cope with chunky bits. Chunky bits are evil. All chunky bits must go.
I call my food philosophy getting away with it - by which I mean getting away with less time, less work, less fat and less bother.
My life is screamingly busy and I need to know there is something delicious to look forward to at the end of the day, so I cook simple, everyday food based on great ingredients. I think it's an Australian thing: I want fresh, light, sunny, healthy food but I am not prepared to grow old cooking it.
Being a self-taught cook, I have learnt through trial and error. Loads of errors, in fact, which is a bit of a trial. My food is everyday home cooking, so it is tested in an everyday home kitchen rather than a gleaming test kitchen. (When I say tested, I mean whoever is around sits down to eat it. And, if we don't like it, you never get to see it.)
I am a great fan of doing less to food and am an accomplished cheat. Fresh, unprocessed food is great but fresh ingredients are only important if they taste better than the alternative. Otherwise, give me dried pasta, canned anchovies, olives, pesto, prosciutto and other so-called processed foods.
But there are some foods we process too much, for example, chopping and shredding herbs, salad greens and soft cheeses instead of just tearing them into bits with our fingers.
I am not into fancy styling and I hate decorative food, because good food can't help but look good on its own. Decorating and moulding food is what you do when you don't like what you have in the first place. Building risotto in the shape of a mountain, for instance, does not work, because risotto should never be so dry that you can make a mountain out of it.
There are various issues facing today's food-lovers that will not go away. Health is the biggest: I think we should aim to leave the table feeling better than we did when we sat down.
Celebrity diet regimes are a modern evil. If you believe all those magazine headlines that promise eat more, exercise less, feel great you will end up fat and unhappy. The best advice is the most prosaic: eat less but well and exercise more. Bad food is a bad habit and habits can be changed. Then good food becomes a habit, too.
I am quite sure I have learnt more than this but much has been forgotten, because I go straight from the stove to the table and stay there carousing all night. Wasn't it Marilyn Monroe who said "I'd be really intelligent, if only
I could remember everything?"
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There would be few Good Living readers without a little piece of Jill Dupleix lurking on their shelves - with 12 cookery books under her diamante belt.
These run from her ground-breaking New Food (1993) and the updating of classics in Old Food (1998) to the CD/cookery book compilations she wrote with her husband Terry Durack, Allegro Al Dente (with Ronnie di Stasio of Cafe di Stasio) and Hot Food Cool Jazz (with Simon Goh of Chinta Ria).
Dupleix and Durack moved from Melbourne to Sydney in 1994 and edited The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide for six years before moving to London.
Her latest book Very Simple Food (Hardie Grant) features her trademark fresh, simple recipes and her own food photography. London's Time Out magazine called it "Tasty - very tasty" and hailed Dupleix as one of the country's top cookery writers - part of the recent wave of Australian chefs and food writers whose fresh approaches have started a revolution in British recipe-writing.
Nigel Slater of The Observer called her truly inspired and inspiring and kitchen legend Robert Carrier said she is one of the finest palates he knows. In 2002, the British Guild of Food Writers presented Dupleix with the British Cookery Journalist of The Year Award.
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GLENDORA - Former students of fired gay Catholic school teacher Ken Bencomo plan to protest in front of St. Lucy's Priory High School on Thursday.
Brittany Littleton, 23, of Beverly Hills, a St. Lucy's graduate, said hundreds of people have said they plan to attend the event.
"The most amazing outcome would be for St. Lucy's to retract their decision and offer Ken his job back," she said.
Bencomo, 45, a Rancho Cucamonga resident, was fired on July 12, less than two weeks after he married his partner, Christopher Persky, in a civil ceremony in San Bernardino. The ceremony was featured in a news article.
Bencomo's attorney, Patrick McGarrigle, has said school personnel were aware of the teacher's sexual orientation and even met Persky long before the wedding, but did not take action until after he got married.
Bencomo taught at the all-girls school for 17 years.
McGarrigle said his client is overwhelmed by the support he has received from former students, parents and others.
"He certainly hopes that the rally is peaceful and the school takes stock of the depth of the message that these students seem to be expressing," he said.
Organizers plan to gather at Sierra Madre and Grand avenues at 9 a.m. and march up and down Sierra Madre Avenue past the school.
"I do expect it to be primarily St. Lucy's community and there will be people from outside as well," said Littleton, an aspiring actress and model.
Abigail O'Brien, 19, of Upland, also a former St. Lucy's student, hopes the event remains positive.
"I expect everyone to be respectful," the Northern Arizona University student said. "It's just to show these people we love Mr. B and that he should still be there."
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Published by Leisure Books
Psychopaths are always a fun topic to read about, especially those of the fictional variety. It's pretty difficult to make the life of someone who gets their kicks from kinky sex and boiling skulls dull, but somehow Mistress of the Dark manages to nonetheless.
The entire novel is pawned off as journal entries of Abigail Barnum, a girl from a small town in upstate New York who breaks away from the confines of her hic life and makes the move to the Big Apple, searching for adventure and maybe a new start.
When we first meet Abby, she's just started working at a fetish club called Ooolala, which draws it's clientele by displaying the undergarments of famous people and hosting live drag queen shows. She takes a job there as a waitress and soon befriends a girl named Vicki. Together the two of they seduce a young man named Brad who moves in with the girls, and the three of them take up a life of work during the day and getting wasted and trying out new sexual adventures by night. One night Brad goes too far and Abby has to kill him, and while Vicki is passed out she chops his body up and disposes of it in pieces around New York.
Luckily for Abby, she kept her own place while living with Brad and Vicki, so she has sanctuary when things go south as a well as a place to display her collection of skulls and corpses. Pretty sick stuff, if you think about it, it's too bad Giron doesn't make any effort to make Abby any more interesting than a normal city girl in her 20's (obsessed with her body, drugs, and dancing) who occasionally murders people and keeps their bodies around for her strange menagerie.
Throughout the book Abby's interest in regular customer Jimmy becomes more and more dangerous, and it's pretty clear it's not going to end well. She makes a habit of breaking into his apartment when he's away, stealing his underwear and linen, masturbating on his bed, then acting like nothing's out of the ordinary when she sees him at work. The problem with this plotline, which is the bulk of the story, is that it just doesn't resonate as anything other than the mad ramblings of someone who's obviously batshit insane. How much of her recounting of what goes on can even be relied on as being fact when you take that into consideration?
If the capsulated reviews of Giron's previous works at the front of the book are any indication, she's actually a very talented writer in her own right, which does occasionally does show through the dull goings-on of Mistress of the Dark, specifically in some of Abby's dream sequences. For the most part, however, the book comes off as an attempt by someone with little to no skill for storytelling to recount a tale that's supposed to both titillate and horrify at the same time. Unfortunately, much like the similar works of Edward Lee, after the first few illicit descriptions of lesbian sex and dismembering, it fails to do either.
The long and short of it is this; imagine if Bret Easton Ellis wrote American Psycho without any social satire and no grasp of characterization, and you're pretty close to what Mistress of the Dark is like. If Abby had come off in the least bit sympathetic it might have been more effective, but throughout she just seems like a typical whinny, confused 20something who just happens to be more dangerous than most. Do yourself a favor and seek out some of Giron's earlier work, I'm sure it's far more interesting.
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 6, 2009
North Korea wants to placate key benefactor China by offering to return to disarmament talks and it is unclear whether it really intends to give up its cherished nuclear deterrent, analysts said Tuesday.
Leader Kim Jong-Il told visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao late Monday the North is willing to return to six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations -- on condition it first holds talks with the United States to improve "hostile relations".
Some analysts expressed scepticism about the North's conditional offer to return to six-party dialogue, almost six months after it quit the forum and announced it would restart its bomb-making programme.
In May it staged its second nuclear test, incurring tougher UN sanctions supported even by close ally China which hosts the talks. South Korea, the United States, Japan and Russia are also members.
"North Korea's conditional offer to return to the six-party talks was a face-saving diplomatic gesture for China," Yu Ho-Yeol, a North Korea expert at Korea University, told AFP.
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"Its focus is not on dialogue."
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"Given the North's recent strong statements about the need for its nuclear programmes, I find it hard to believe it's ready to give them up any time soon."
The North has long been unenthusiastic about the six-party forum and has pressed for bilateral talks with the United States to end the nuclear standoff.
John Feffer, of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, also believed Kim's remarks aimed to please China.
"Of course, North Korea recognises that China is the country most invested in the multilateral process," Feffer told Yonhap news agency. "So it will tell China what China wants to hear, namely that multilateral negotiations are important."
The six-party talks "are the price North Korea is willing to pay to sit down with the United States face-to-face and work out the broad outlines of an agreement", Feffer said.
Washington says it is open to bilateral talks, but only to coax the North back to the six-party forum.
Denny Roy, of the East-West Center in Honolulu, told Yonhap he expects the special US envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, to meet the North Koreans in either Pyongyang or Beijing soon.
"I don't expect, however, that once they begin, those negotiations will be any easier than before," he said.
"The North Koreans are ready to test their resolve by threatening to go back to hostile and provocative behavior if Pyongyang does not get its way in the upcoming talks."
Yang Moo-Jin of Seoul's University of North Korean Studies was more upbeat, saying he expects the North eventually to return to six-party talks.
"North Korea, first of all, wants to see something that can be seen as a sign of the United States dropping what it calls a hostile policy," he told AFP.
"It may want to have four-party talks -- grouping both Koreas, the United States and China -- to end the Korean War. After that, it may want to return to the six-party talks."
The 1950-53 war ended without a formal peace treaty.
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"The nose conjures ripe lemons with hints of lime flesh and pomelo rind spiced by a faint dusting of powdered ginger and a distant rosemary sprig..."
Proceeds from the sale of each bottle of Salus wine support brain health research.
Tasting Notes
2015 was yet another superb growing season despite some of the challenges we faced with periods of high heat and low humidity. Another warm and dry winter lead to what is becoming the normal 'early' budbreak which was primed and boosted by fortuitously timed February rains. The return to warm and dry early spring pushed us through flower and fruit set before the cool spell that affected others, so we saw healthy and normal yields which were left higher in the Chardonnay blocks to mitigate what we expected to be a warm summer and to continue our stylistic migration toward more freshness and brightness in these wines. The heat train was indeed full steam ahead throughout the summer giving us yet another early start to and compact window for the Estate Chardonnay harvest beginning 6 days earlier than in 2014 but extending throughout the remainder of August and into early September. The grapes were picked in the cool early mornings to maintain their freshness, natural acidity and delicate flavors. We utilize traditional Burgundian winemaking techniques, while respecting the unique quality of the fruit our vineyard delivers. The grapes are hand sorted, whole cluster pressed and then barrel-fermented. We nearly completely restricted malo-lactic fermentation to preserve acidity and crispness, but chose to allow a small percentage to go through it for a bit of increased texture and to balance the slightly higher acids. Finally, we aged this wine on its lees for ten months in a roughly equal parts 'regular' and large format barrels again with regular 'batonnage' during the first seven months only in the regular format barrels to optimize the aromatic freshness of the wines.
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Wine Profile
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Harvest Dates: August 15 - September 11, 2015
Fermentation: 100% Barrel Fermentation
Barrel Aging: 10 months
Oak: 51% new, 49% used
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