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It is a very expansive and attractive resort-style property at a good price. Hardly anything, but it's in pastureland and, so, really requires a car.
We stayed in August 2010, using the hotel as our base to visit Mycenae, Epidaurus, Tiryns etc. The hotel was quiet and very well-appointed. We stayed an extra night because we liked it so much. The pool was lovely and breakfast was good. Carpeted rooms and hallways helped to make it much quieter than many other places we stayed in during our holiday. The coffee at breakfast was on the weak side, but we asked if we could have something stronger and were given espressos free of charge. (So more a positive than a negative, really).
Very friendly stuff, quiet, spacious rooms, nice garden, a good value for money
The landsacape. Poor service in breakfast time, no natural juices, no wifi to the room.
Very little worked, ie internet, door to room. Staff smelled of Body Odour!! Breakfast was revoltingly poor!!
The room was spacious and had a nice balcony, the matress and the pillows were very comfortable. I found the location excellent beceuse it was very quiet and close to the city og Nafplio (by car). The heating facility (air-condition ) in the room made a lot of noise. Since I was there only for a relaxing weekend, it would be nice if they served breakfast until 11:00.
country side , city and beach nearby, luxury, design, epidavros, tranquility
we loved this hotel, very clean, comfortable and peaceful. Not for those who want to be on the beach. Lovely pool. Breakfast is ok, not great but satisfying. Nafplion is a lovely town and worth visiting. You need a car if you want to stay at this hotel as it is about 2 km from town.
We were most pleased with this hotel. Everything was first class. No
old style hotel, big rooms ignorance of the staf
The room was large enough for five people. The staff did not speak english at all and they charged my credit card directly without asking me.
Nice view of the city, quiet location, private parking in front door. Low WI-FI signal
The best thing about this hotel are its big rooms with plenty of space. They are well furnished and clean. I loved the Palamidi Castle view also. The position of the hotel makes being there with a car an imperative. It's more than 15 mins walking away from the center of the city, and the streets around it are very steep making women walking up and down in heels virtually impossible.
Huge cosy rooms and balcons with wonderfull view!!! Kitchen where you can cook a fast meal and big enough bathroom!!! Very friendly staff!!! Good location near the center,but not in the center. less than 5 minutes by car! Parking place too. :-) Without a car maybe it's more difficult to get to the center. The road to the hotel is small. The walls are thin and sometimes you can hear your neighbours.
high speed Wifi DBL bed not available, using country side beds...
Great place. Good location with everything close. Nauplie is a great place. Nothing fancy, but everything is ok. At this price, nothing to complaint.
Charming hotel in a charming town. The hotel staff were extremely friendly and helpful. The room was very nice, very neatly decorated, and with a very comfortable bed. Great breakfast. We had a great, relaxing time. The only small problem was the proximity of kitchens for several restaurants (just across the street). But given the number of restaurants in Napflio, this is unavoidable.
The Amymone was wonderful! Beautifully restored 19th c mansion with cosy, romantic rooms, each differently decorated. Owner & staff are friendly and very accommodating. Breakfast included home-made preserves and freshly baked pastries. Nice choice for anyone, but especially good for a romantic weekend.
Clean rooms and very friendly staff
Not the largest of rooms but well presented, boutique style. Excellent location in heart of old town with parking (free) not too far away and a lovely small balcony overlooking a quiet street. Amazing breakfast brought to your room. Nothing not to like.
Difficult to find as it's actually two pensiones rather than one hotel.
I loved everything about my stay :-) The staff were lovely, the room was great and the breakfasts were amazing. I will recommend it to all of my friends! It was a little bit noisy one night with people in the restaurant downstairs, but this did not bother me very much.
Very nice town (Nafplio), good position to discover the nice surroundings. Really pretty and charming hotel, very friendly staff.
Excellent Service Noisy bed
Amymone is a stylish conversion of a Venetian building set one street back from the Harbour. Staff are very friendly and there are many nice touches. The beds are extremely comfortable and the breakfasts magnificent. We stayed in the Myrtia suite and would recommend it to anyone. In its class 5 stars.
Great breakfast with mainly homemade products, very friendly staff. Excellent decoration of rooms and lounge. The owner has a focus on the details.
The breakfast was amazing. You are a close walk to anything there. The people are very clean. I would highly recommend. The walls were a bit thin. There was only one other room filled but we could hear them moving around at night.
location is very good, nearby the center of nafplion, but very calme
This is a delightful little (6 room) pensione a few streets back from the main square in Nafplio. The rooms are modern, clean, and nicely decorated. But the best part of our stay was the help we got from Magra (sp?) who runs the place. Her English is good, and she made us feel at home. Our favorite place we stayed in Greece.
great place for families
The hotel is in the center of Nafplion. It is located in a narrow road with almost no traffic. All attractions of Nafplion are in walk distance, nevertheless it is very quiet. A small beach is also in walk distance. The hotel itself has no parking. But public parking is no problem, E.g. there is plenty of parking space in the harbour. We had the room "Blue". The room was spacious and beautiful with a small balcony. It was very tidy and clean. The staff was very friendly and helpful and speaks English. The breakfast is served at your table. We had the continental breakfast. It was plenty and had some variations over the days. So it was not always the same. Overall we enjoyed our stay and strongly recommend this hotel.
Room was larger than average and each is decorated differently. No lift but I only had to carry my suitcase up one flight of stairs so it wasn't a problem. If you have a lot of luggage it might be something to consider.
Nice location in historic part of town on a quite street. Freindly and helpful owners. Extremly nice beach within a 10min drive from the hotel. Our room had a nice view of the two castles from the balcony, although it may be the only room with such a nice view.
Very amiable atmosphere, warm decoration. Lack of a cofee/drink bar.
The staff was incredibly friendly and helpful, arriving late after hours to help us check in after our flight was delayed. There were 3 rooms available, and we could see all 3 to decide which we liked best. Each had their own unique personality, all very nice! There's a beautiful wood staircase that goes up to all rooms. It was fine for us, but could be a problem for someone with mobility issues (or very heavy luggage).
excellent location, friendly staff and clean room The room was extremely small (Attic double room). Luckily we r both thin, didnt bring suitcase and very in love...:). we were informed that this room was the only one that was too small therefore i would suggest to lower the price or maybe provide breakfast included in the price
The location is quiet but still near tavernas and shops. The room was attractive, spacious and clean and the bathroom very nice. I asked for non smoking and did not smell any smoke in the room. The best part was the wonderful caring attitude of the couple who run the pension. They went to great lengths to be kind and helpful, including helping us get gasoline during the strike.
A true pearl.
charm, service steps
This hotel was fantastic our room was the sky room with period furniture and quirky decor. the rooms were smallish but entertaining, staff were helpfull an informative with real pride in there hotel. We had the best continental breakfast ever with table service fore a change. Quite a walk to parking but all Naplio is like that
Clean, professional, excellent breakfast Although it's close to the center & waterfront of Nafplion, the hotel is actually very hard to find & even harder to reach (one has to climb over 60 stairs to reach the hotel and then onto the rooms inside the hotel - no elevator...), there is no close by parking and also no way to bring in the car to unload baggage - you have to carry it with you all the way from the parking lot in the harbor - about 10 minutes, it took a lot of time (30 minutes!) for the hot water to start flowing in the shower in the morning. We also had an hour long power outage in the night but I think it was city wide so it's not their direct fault.
The service could not have been better. Breakfast was plentiful and delicious. The location was really wonderful - we had quiet rooms but we were in the old town so that we were only steps away from wonderful tavernas, interesting shops and the beautiful shore. Our sons had a shower that did not work very well.
Ilion hotel is a romance place that travels you to the past...It is at a very good location in the center of Nafpio.This hotel is an art gallery!!!!
Very friendly personnel, spacy room with a jacuzzi in the bathroom, great location in the old town. The conditioner needed maintenance so badly that we literally could not sleep during the first night because of the heat in the room.
The hotel was fairly easy to locate and parking was nearby. The hotel was quiet. The double rooms were generally spacious. The walk up to the top floor was a challenge with heavy suitcases, but a great view of the castle from the terrace. Nice breakfast.
The whole experience was wonderful, from the way the building had been converted to a hotel, the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff, and the fantastic breakfast! N/A
The location was convenient to Nafplio. The hotel staff were friendly, helpful and knowledgeable about the area. I had a very relaxing stay.
Very polite and welcome personnel Delicious breakfast with handmade jams and traditional pies
The location - however most hotels in Nafplio are located at the old town. The bed had flees, my entire body is covered in bites. The shower cubicle was so small I was not able to turn when inside. The door to the single bedroom is on the staircase. The walls of the room are no more than one metre away from the edges of the single bed. I could hear everything that was being said, one floor down (reception) or up. There is no 24hr desk service. This is not a four star hotel.
Friendly staff. Good breakfast. Comfortable room with jacuzzi bath
Excellent staff, very comfort and I wish to go there again.
Nomizeis oti se filoxenoun poli kaloi filoi sto spiti tus!the hospitality is the same as your best friends in their home
The friendliness of the staff, the quiet location, the comfortable room, the good breakfasts, the sense of being treated as one of the family. No
Very convenient location, spacious rooms (very nice decoration and environment), owners very friendly and open, fruits and cakes were available for free! Product supplied for breakfast were a bit limited in variety, not many plugs (and not conveniently spread in the room), warm water was just enough for two
The room facilities were excellent,most notably the bed, which was huge and very comfortable. A breakfast with warm servings would be much appreciated.
I enjoyed this hotel very much. On my point of view hotel provides everything what traveler needs: beautiful design of the rooms, all necessary facilities. Everything of good quality and operates well. Very good service, very pleasant and friendly staff, home atmosphere and very very good owner Leonidas, who understands very well hotel business and does his best to make your stay comfortable. Thank you very much!!! I feel extremely satisfied of my choice and recomend this place to the other travelers. 1)Rooms are situated on the second floor. So, steps can be a little bit inconvenient if you have a lot of or heavy luggage. But the staff is always ready to help you. 2) Under the windows on one side of the hotel there is a taverna. If there are plenty of visitors there, it may be noisy (usually in the evening).
Very convenient location for shopping and the port of Nafplion. Lots of stairs, and pricey for a "suite". I didn't expect a pull out couch when booking a suite for 4 at that price.
Very good location, traditional sweet small balcony for smoking! very nice renovation! This hotel is really very nice but i prefer more modern decoration.
We loved the location (not that difficult to find, if you follow directions), the room was very comfortable and cute with a lot of character, and the balcony which tea/coffee was served, but most of all we loved the owners. She was the most gracious host even carrying our bags up the staircase by herself. I think the service is what makes this hotel the best! Oh and the breakfast is amazing! Best breakfast ever, and the owner bakes the most amazing pastries! Not a single thing we didn't like! Everything was perfect!
Amazing hosts, beautiful B&B style hotel with only a few well designed rooms, attention to detail, great breakfast served on balcony. Nafplio is an amazingly quaint town and this hotel was a breath of fresh air after arriving from Athens. Couldn't have asked for more. None.
brilliant hotel 2 minutes from town centre breakfast more than we could eat and a shower like no other do not be put off by size and location once inside its a different world
Beautiful hotel with a lovely staff in a great part of the town
Great Service - Owner was present every day - Very Helpful
A good welcome, help with parking in a very congested town. Traditional house, well restored and with atmosphere, right in the centre of Nauplion. Very comfortable room and we enjoyed the balcony. Good variety of choices for breakfast and friendly service. Breakfast could have started before 9 am , although I am sure they would have done this if we had asked. ( If you are visiting nearby popular sites such as Mycenae you need to be there at 8-30 before the crowds!) Although in general the breakfast was excellent , we would have liked local cheeses rather than a processed one but this was a small quibble when there was a variety of alternatives.
The location of the hotel. The home made breakfast each day was excellent and well presented. The staff were friendly and very knowledgeable about the area.
Very comfortable bed in attractive room, great bathroom, friendly owners and lavish breakfast. Location excellent an easy walk to everything in the old town. Guests might like to tell the staff in advance of breakfast if they are vegetarian - there is a lot of meat provided automatically and its a shame to waste it.
This is a wonderful little hotel. The staff is exceptional and the whole place is tasteful, restful and convenient. No.
I got the rooftop room which was had a nice terrace and beautiful views
Staff was friendly and helpful. Nice breakfast area (outdoor and indoor) with good seaview. It was relaxing sitting under the shady lemon trees.
This was a charming hotel and they provided a really nice spread for breakfast, which you could take on the lovely garden patio or in the salon with a view over town and the harbor. The owner was super friendly and helpful. I had to take the bath soaps home because they smelled so good. Only 2 complaints-- running the A/C gave the room an unpleasant sulfurous smell, although it didn't seem to bother my husband. Also, you have to haul your luggage up a street of stairs as it's not accessible by vehicle. Charming, but also tiring.
The staff were so welcoming it was like staying with friends. the location was perfect in the old town of Nafplio.
The view from the top of the house and the breakfast-room. And the personal service. The bathroom-blanket - there was some mold. And the breakfast could be more various.
Its a very nice hotel, kind helpfull people, a wonderfull view over the nice village, clean, beautifull rooms. I can imagine that the stairs to reach the hotel can be a problem for elder people who don't walk good
This hotel was the best thing about my recent trip - I can't recommend it strongly enough. It's small and welcoming, with a family-run feel to it. It's spotlessly clean and beautifully decorated. It has a fantastic view over the old town of Naufplion and a little terrace with orange and lemon trees where you can sit and relax with a cup of coffee. The breakfast buffet is absolutely delicious - local produce and everything freshly prepared. But the best thing about it is the staff - everyone was so helpful and friendly, and just really willing to go that little bit further to make you feel at home. I stayed for 3 nights and I didn't want to leave! I paid 90 euros a night, which I thought was very reasonable given the standard of service No.
Small and exclusive, quiet and cozy.
I liked the design of the room, the friendliness of our guests, the breakfast on a lovely terrace.
The Manager, Anastasia, actually upgraded us to the Amfrititi Belvedere, to provide us witrh a balcony and sea view. The hotel has great character, a beaut breakfast setting under vines, and the staff go the extra mile. The location is also perfect, for wandering the old city streets.
i loved the setting/ i loved the manager ..it was a surprise wonderful place..the stairs were a bit hard but I got help carrying my suitcase.. i highly recommend this place .. they try very hard to please..and the setting is beatuful none
Absolutely amazing view over city Nafplio and what could be better start for day than enjoy excellent homemade breakfast in terrace with such a view. Hotel staff was really friendly and fulfilled our request exactly. Hotel itself is located on steep hillside which means lot of climbing needed to old city. However, view from terrace is the gain from height. Car park was above the hotel and luggages were possible to get to hotel from there.
Location and hotel itself, the breakfast (served in room) is amazing, really amazing for old people or with handicap is not the right hotel (steps and far away from parking) I suggest also to take care more of sanitary installations, hotel is brand new but a bit of maintenance is mandatory, if not in 1 year will be distroyed


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Google has had its rottweiler chained until now, but the Android team was obviously fed up with the amount of malware in the Market and turned on the kill switch last week.
A "number" of apps which were known to report user data that could possibly be used for malicious purposes, have been taken off Android Market, and Google has used its remote kill switch to extinguish them from Android devices they have been already installed on. The Mountain view crowd has also notified the authorities about the evil software creations, in line with its " Do no evil" moto.
While it's a bit creepy that Google, Apple and Microsoft all have kill switches that can intrude in your personal smartphone space, in this case it's for the better.
The apps have been reporting back to the mothership user-specific data: "For affected devices, we believe that the only information the attacker(s) were able to gather was device-specific (IMEI/IMSI, unique codes which are used to identify mobile devices, and the version of Android running on your device)," says Google.
Still, there might have been attempts to get into more personal details, and the Android team says they've patched the vulnerabilities that existed from the Android 2.2.2 version onwards. The type of exploits hackers use is now known, and Google claims it is hard at work to prevent such malicious codes in the future.
Android's kill switch uses the same technology that allows Android Market on the web to push apps wirelessly to your device.
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It will come as no surprise to most of you that the App Store dominated the mobile markets revenue charts in 2009, but with the huge growth of Android you might not expect to see it record a second straight year of domination. Is this trend going to continue in 2011? With Android on the rise and the Windows Phone Marketplace getting the support of world's biggest phone maker Nokia, the App Store will finally meet some serious competition.
Actually, its market share slipped more than 10% from the whopping 92.8% in 2009 to 82.7% in 2010. Nevertheless, the App Store had a huge growth of 131.9% on the year. Impressive? Not as much as the growth of Google's Android Market, which skyrocketed 8 and half times to register a total revenue of $102 million and a market share of nearly 5%. But despite the popularity of the Android platform, the Android Market fails to generate much revenue so far. BlackBerry's App World and Nokia's Ovi Store actually had a bigger revenue last year – $165 and $102 million respectively. Nokia's Ovi Store will merge into Microsoft's Windows Marketplace ecosystem. Add that the Marketplace already has more than 5,000 apps, it could be a legitimate contender this year.
source: CNET
Thanks to the aid of the recently leaked Dell 2011 Roadmap, it seems that we have yet another confirmation of what the next version of Android will be called.
Looking at devices like the Dell Hancock and Millennium, we find the roadmap mentioning that the words "Android Ice Cream." Naturally, the Ice Cream moniker is fitting since it was previously rumored to be called Ice Cream Sandwich. Moreover, even Google's very own Eric Schmidt gave the strong indication of Ice Cream while speaking about meshing the best things found with Honeycomb and Gingerbread.
Now the only thing left is to see is finding a giant sized ice cream statue landing at Google's headquarters.
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Depending on where you get your stats from, Android Market has anywhere between 150 000 – 200 000 apps. Google's Eric Schmidt claimed the low end of that range yesterday at his keynote speech – 150 000, and it may be safer to stick with his story, the guy just seems so careful not to blow it out of proportion.
What's more astonishing, though, is the astronomical pace at which apps are created. In April last year we wrote that the Android platform has hit 50 000, and it has obviously at least tripled that amount since. Given the pace of new Android activations (Google claimed 300 000 a day on Tuesday), and the advent of Android tablets, dual-core or not, that amount is poised to continue growing with the same breakneck pace.
Google has one huge challenge in front of it, though – monetization. Most developers prefer to make quality apps for iOS, which should now stand at about 350 000 apps strong, because they get greater adoption rates, and clearly make money.
Eric Schmidt said that this is the next thing Google is focusing on – finding ancillary ways for developers to monetize their efforts, so as they make quality apps, instead of flooding Android Market with quickly scribbled free apps to test the water.
via AndroidCentral
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at MWC and virtually confirmed that Ice Cream (Sandwich) is to incorporate some Honeycomb features when it's officially released.
The exact words:
"Today I'll use the commonly used names. We have OS called Gingerbread for phones, we have an OS being previewed now for tablets called Honeycomb. The two of them… you can imagine the follow up will start with an I, be named after dessert, and will combine these two."
This news is in accordance with previous rumours, but there is no official timeframe when Ice Cream will be released (even a Honeycomb-powered device is not launched yet) or what version of Android it will be, although Schimdt noted that "we will be seeing a 6-month OS refresh cycle."
This is not something the Mountain View-based company is eager to discuss, but do you think this may be Google's answer to all these critics that claim fragmentation is killing Android – by creating a universal version for both tablets and smartphones? Or Ice Cream will be a smartphone-only version of Android? Tell us with your comments.
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For the many phone manufacturers out there in the world, they generally would try to make their business case to the largest wireless carriers out there in hopes of striking a deal of some sort to distribute their devices.
Unfortunately for Nokia, they might face some barriers with Verizon if they intend on reentering the US market now that they've decided to move forward with Windows Phone 7 as its primary OS of choice. It appears that Verizon's CTO, Tony Melone, is skeptical of seeing the newly formed partnership between Nokia and Microsoft having any major impact in the market right now. Specifically, he doesn't seem to think that "Verizon needs the Nokia and Microsoft relationship" since there are three primary contenders right now.
In fact, Melone doesn't agree that there will be a "three-horse race" between iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop envisions. Rather, Melone believes that the heated competition is between iOS, Android, and BlackBerry – with no indication of Windows Phone 7 making a huge impact. Granted that his attitude about Microsoft's platform isn't as favorable as one would allege, it could easily change if Windows Phone 7 starts to pick up some serious steam.
In any event, it'll be interesting to see what plan of action Nokia might pull out of their sleeves in order to win Verizon's heart – not to mention their business.
In his keynote speech today Eric Schmidt talked in Google's usual frank way about the Nokia Windows Phone. "We would have loved Nokia to choose Android and we certainly tried… The offer remains open for the future."
Now this is some straight talk. It's been just a few days since Nokia announced its deep partnership with Microsoft, and most comments were pointing out how the old fox Ballmer planted Stephen Elop at the helm to drive Nokia right into his arms, exerting pressure on Nokia's board through its largest American shareholders.
Whatever was going on behind the curtain at the time, one thing is certain now – Android definitely was an option for Nokia, but at the last possible moment (last Thursday, if you believe Stephen Elop), it went with the underdog Windows Phone.
For what it's worth, Eric Schmidt also mentioned that they still consider Microsoft their main competitor. Not Apple, nor Facebook, but Microsoft. After all, despite all the hype, Facebook still hasn't monetized its popularity, whereas Microsoft has established revenue streams and is getting big in cloud services.
Tying these together and placing them on a Nokia Windows Phone might be as disruptive as Google throwing a wrench into Apple's quest for mobile dominance with the purchase of Android. The move is typical Microsoft – wait for a market to mature, and then go all-in, guns blazing, to take advantage of the already established best practices. Anyway, those Nokia Windows Phone renders from yesterday look cute as a button, and not formidable at all.
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As we were making our way through the endless techy mazes of 2011's MWC expo, we suddenly came across a well-performing unit of the Honeycomb-equipped Motorola XOOM, which got introduced during CES a month ago. So we thought for a second: "What does a man usually do, when he gets to a next-gen tablet running the latest and greatest mobile platform by Google?" Well, give it the hands-on treatment, of course! Only this time we didn't focus on the hardware, but instead wanted to delve just that bit deeper into the world of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, where droids are happily feasting on machine oil and scrap metal. Check the video below to see some of Honeycomb's features demoed first-hand!
Speculation is flying again around Android build 2.4. Once thought to be a major new release code named Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest story making the rounds is that Android 2.4 will be nothing more than a minor upgrade to the Gingerbread release. And it appears that Android 2.4 will be launched much earlier than anticipated. Pocket-Lint, in an interview with a ViewSonic executive, was told that the upcoming ViewPad 4-set for an April launch-would have Android 2.4 on board.
It seems that to make sure that dual-core apps made for Honeycomb devices would work on single-core handsets, Android 2.4 had to be launched earlier than expected because Android 2.3 will not be able to handle that job. So Android 2.4 will remain a "Gingerbread" release with the only change being the latter's ability to run dual-core apps on a single-core device. Keeping the same name for a minor update has been seen before with Android as something similar happened when Android 2.0 became 2.1, but kept the Eclair name.
So what will happen to Ice Cream Sandwich? Phandroid last week reported that Google is working on a code called GRI17 which is supposed to be a post-Honeycomb version of Ice Cream Sandwich and is supposed to bring to Android handsets some of the new features designed for Honeycomb flavored tablets. But the ViewSonic executive who was speaking to Pocket-Lint says that Ice Cream Sandwich will be Android 3.1 as Google splits Android into 2.x for handsets and 3.x for tablets.
source: Pocket-lint via Phandroid
Needless to say that Sprint's biggest strength right now is their established 4G WiMAX network and surging Android powered devices. With those two in mind, it's going to be their signature offering as they keep steady on their course of being competitive in the market.
From the sounds of it all, the pin dropping network is planning to have more than 20 devices that will be running off their high speed 4G WiMAX network – which obviously consists of handsets, tablets, Mi-Fi units, USB data sticks, and netbook. Come to think of it, that's arguably the right decision to make now that all new customers signing contracts will have to pay that additional $10 premium data plan with a smartphone.
In any event, the carrier is also looking to have approximately 70 percent of their upcoming smartphones being powered by Google's Android platform. Naturally, we've already seen the wonders that come out from a WiMAX enabled Android smartphone.
However, we're sure that customers are waiting for the next big thing to hit Sprint because frankly speaking, we have yet to see another device that reaches the status close to what we saw with the HTC EVO 4G and Samsung Epic 4G. Although we're still very early in the year, the competition will no doubt make it tough – hence why Sprint is aggressively making a move with Android and WiMAX.
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Villa Epecuen, Argentina (AFP) May 20, 2011
In a town all but destroyed when its salt lake overflowed over three decades ago, the desolation is surreal: from silvery-white empty houses and hotels to trees, stark and dead; and one lonely man who calls this home.
Once a lake country spa town south of Buenos Aires, Epecuen is a lagoon with a salinity level only topped by the Dead Sea. For decades, tourists visited to take its waters believing they were good for one's health.
Everything came crashing down in 1985 when a long period of heavy rains sent the lagoon bursting over its banks, and it swept over a busy small town.
"I had a bunch of cats and dogs, and they ran away a couple days before the flood and I never saw them again," Norma Berg, 48, told AFP, recalling her childhood spent here, until the flood.
"I think my pets could feel that the water was coming," Berg said, as she glanced at the rubble of the childhood home she fled.
A town of about 40 square blocks, Epecuen was submerged beneath 10 meters (30 feet) of water.
Even when the waters eventually receded, the country town, 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of the capital, was never rebuilt. Its welcoming little hotels seem frozen in time, rot and rust, glistening with the salt in which they were steeped.
Berg recalls that fateful date -- November 10, 1985 -- when the flood barely left her family and the town's 1,500 other residents enough time to grab some belongings and run.
"A lot of the locals never, ever came back; other people just died of the shock and stress of losing everything," Berg recalled sadly.
But someone did come back. One man.
"Until about four or five years after the flood, when the waters were still high, nobody came around here at all," said Pablo Novak, 81.
"I was totally alone. All day, every day," said Novak, now the town's only inhabitant.
Every day, he climbs on his bicycle and rides around surveying the eerie shells of 185 hotels, restaurants and other businesses that existed before 1985.
"I am OK here. I am just alone. I read the newspaper. And I always think of the town's golden days," of the 1960s and 1970s, says Novak. Back then as many as 20,000 people would visit every year to take the waters here.
Visitors pick up on Epecuen's spooky vibe eyeing abandoned beds from a former old folks home; dozens of stranded, toppled night tables from local hotels; and upended materials visitors and businessmen tried to pry out of the rubble to reuse as construction materials.
The town's surreal silvery cast has inspired filmmakers including Roland Joffe who in 2009 filmed the Spanish civil war-drama "There Be Dragons" here; and Argentina's Pino Solana who filmed scenes of his "El viaje" ("The Journey") locally.
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The Nabil Elderkin-directed clip sees the newlyweds getting naked and intimate on the bed and in the shower.
John Legend has released the visuals for his sweet ballad called "All of Me". Directed by Nabil Elderkin, the black-and white clip sees Legend getting intimate with his wife whom he recently tied the knot with, Victoria's Secret model Chrissy Teigen.
The five-minute video sees the newlyweds getting naked and intimate on the bed and in the shower. "Love your curves and all your edges/ All your perfect imperfections," Legend praises his wife while playing the song on his piano.
The clip concludes with real footage of the pair's wedding, which was held in Italy's Lake Como on September 14.
Teigen has taken to Twitter to thank director Elderkin for creating the video. She wrote, "Nabil was the one to first introduce john I. And 7 years later he made the most beautiful video for us. Love you @nabildo!"
"All of Me" is the third single off Legend's fourth studio album, "Love in the Future", which debuted at No. 4 on Billboard 200 last month.
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The iPhone 5s and 5c, and their new iOS 7 operating system, launched last week with fingerprint screen locks, slow-motion high-resolution video, a divisive new look and feel, and hard-to-get gold versions. Perhaps the most useful feature is flying quite low under the upgrading public's radar—unless they live in New York City.
In New York—where, as noted here previously, 40 percent of all robberies involved cellphones in 2012, and 14 percent of all crime involved Apple devices—police are handing out flyers advising people to upgrade to iOS 7, as noted by AllThingsD (via Jim Rosenberg's tweet). In the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, a parents' Facebook group is also pro-iOS 7.
Imagine being a New Yorker whose boss and IT department have requested holding off on upgrading until the corporate tools can be fixed up, but who is advised by police officers and neighbors to plug into iTunes and have at it. They don't teach these kinds of situations in Richard Scarry books. But I digress.
Until a Norwegian 13-year-old figures out the work-around, Apple's Activation Lock feature seems like a very strong step toward mass adoption of better phone security. On retail smartphones, and units not mass-deployed by corporate IT, screen passwords are something the owner has to dig into settings to set up. When you upgrade to iOS 7 or turn on a new iPhone 5s or 5c, you are prompted to set up a passcode for unlocking your phone. That same passcode, along with an Apple ID and password (or fingerprint), is needed to turn off the Find My iPhone feature, or re-activate the phone, regardless of whether you or the thief has wiped out its data.
The Activation Lock is lodged deep in the iPhone's internals, it seems; Apple suggests on a frequently-asked-questions page that iPhone owners should remember to disable Find My iPhone with their password before handing over their phones for service.
Android, for its part, recently rolled out an Android Device Manager service for devices running newer versions of Android. It requires Android owners to head to the Google Settings app (which they might not notice otherwise) and enable remote erasure, if they want to do more than just locate/ring their device. Apple is grabbing onto a bigger opportunity: implementing better personal security defaults on their operating system that is perhaps the most consistently upgraded on devices. It's rare to say this on a mobile blog, but that just seems like a good thing for everyone (until I read the comments).


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Cost of living increases appear to be on the horizon for about 100,000 retired state workers, teachers, school employees and state police troopers.
The proposed 1.5 percent increases — the first in six years for some — c leared t he Senate Retirement Committee on Monday.
The raise must be approved by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature and the governor before it can be implemented.
Money to fund the cost of living adjustment comes from special "experience accounts" of each of the four statewide retirement systems. The accounts are funded from excess investment earnings of each of the pension systems.
State Sen. Elbert Guillory, R-Opelousas, linked together the fate of cost-of-living adjustments, called COLAs, for the four systems that serve retired state worker, troopers, teachers and school employees. U nder the change, if one group's cost-of-living adjustment fails, then the bids for all four systems will fail.
" We are all in the same canoe and we want these COLAs to be above any political games that may be played through the system," Guillory said. The measures are Senate Bill 16, Senate Bill 18, Senate Bill 19, and Senate Bill 21.
Guillory said pensions have been "eroded by time and inflation" for retirees. He said a cost-of-living adjustment is "far from a giant step," but one made possible through pension systems' prudent investments and good market returns.
The COLA s, if successful, would mean monthly increase of about $ 29 i n the pension checks of a bout 35,000 retirees of the Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. Retirees must be at least age 60 and retired for a year. It will take $105 million of the $196 million in LASERS ' " e xperience account " to cover the cost.
Frank Jobert, the executive director of the Retired State Employees Association, s aid the consumer price index has increased 1 3 percent increase s ince 2008 , which is the last retirees their pensions go up.
" The cumulative effect for six years is very devastating," said Jobert, noting the rising cost of food, medicine and gasoline.
About 6 4,000 retirees of the Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana a lso would be eligible for a $29 per month pension check increase . The increase will cost $203 million and is funded through an experience account that has a $219 million in it.
About 11,000 Louisiana School Employees Retirement System retirees would get an average $14 a month increase . The system's experience account contains $31 million and $15.9 million will be used to fund the increase.
Retired State Police troopers would received the s ame 1.5 percent increase .
The four bills now move to the Senate floor for debate.


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The motto of the United States is e pluribus unum Latin for "Out of Many, one."
There is their inscription, e pluribus unum, an unquestionable stamp of nationality and value, which they carry wherever they go.
This room's a sort of e pluribus unum, many in one; kind of a boodwar and kitchen combined.
The motto of the state holds of the church also, e pluribus unum.
These several petitions are consolidated into one, being another illustration of the motto on our coin,—e pluribus unum.
Not possessing any learning of that kind, he concluded his speech with: "e pluribus unum, gentlemen, sine qua non."
He ought to be saying 'e pluribus unum,' to match his feathers, instead of trying to work the Santa Claus graft.
As with the federation 443 of the States, so will one great music ascend polyphonically,—e pluribus unum.
On the front is the eagle, and the patriotic Latin, e pluribus unum.
e pluribus unum is stamped upon the national coin, the national territory, and the national heart.
one out of many, the motto on American coinage
A motto of the United States; Latin for "Out of many, one." It refers to the Union formed by the separate states. E pluribus unum was adopted as a national motto in 1776 and is now found on the Great Seal of the United States and on United States currency.


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AUSTIN, TX -- A Texas state senator said a video lottery system could raise $1 billion a year in taxes for the state. On March 3, Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa (D-McAllen) filed [SB 1118] that -- if passed -- would legalize video lottery games at the state's 13 licensed racetracks, as well as on dog tracks and Indian reservations.
VLTs would be licensed and supervised by the Texas State Lottery. Hinojosa said video gaming would also create more than 77,000 new jobs.
The state government projects it will be $15 billion to $27 billion short of needed revenues to pay for existing services and programs unless lawmakers raise taxes, cut spending and find alternative revenue sources.
If passed by two-thirds of the House and Senate, the proposal would be placed on the ballot, giving Texas voters an opportunity to approve or disapprove a constitutional amendment.
Other measures recently introduced into the Texas Legislature call for legalizing VLTs in charitable bingo halls and legalizing casinos.
Separately, the state Senate's Health and Human Services Committee voted 5-3 on March 8 to ban smoking in public places, including bars and restaurants, statewide. The bill [SB 355], sponsored by Sen. Rodney Ellis (D-Houston), now goes to the full Senate for consideration.


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REDLANDS - Jamie Vessey is the epitome of a first ballot hall of famer.
Her athletic resume is second to none, making her a natural for induction during today's Redlands High School Athletic Hall of Fame in the Orton Center at the University of Redlands.
"l did a lot and it wasn't too long ago," Vessey said. "We were successful and I would have liked to have won the two CIF titles when we got there. There are many athletes that can say they played in a CIF championship in front of that championship crowd."
Vessey twice played for a CIF title in girl's water polo. And the first CIF title match is a memory that will last a lifetime.
"It's pretty unreal," Vessey said. "It was my junior year and we finally made it past the quarterfinals. It was at the University of Redlands. It was so thrilling to have the game here. It was amazing."
Vessey remembers the moment the RHS track team jogged to the venue and rooted for the Terriers.
"I just remember all that anxiety of that whole day," Vessey said. "So many people were there. We had students on the concrete, the ref's had to push them back. It was a full house."
Redlands defeated Riverside Poly to reach Vessey's first CIF championship game.
"We threw the coaches into the pool, the track team went nuts," Vessey said. "The next day people came up to me and talked about it. It was an unreal feeling. It was really great."
Vessey wrote herself into the RHS water polo record books. She is fifth all time in career goals, second all time in career assists, and is the all-time leader in career steals. She holds the Nos. 1 and 3 spots for steals in a game and Nos. 2-5 for steals in a season.
"I was able to do well in water polo and swimming," Vessey said. "Even when I ran in cross country I reached the CIF prelims. I always had the chance to compete at the highest levels."
Vessey was a two-time Citrus Belt League Most Valuable Player, a four-time All CIF selection.
"My impression of the hall of fame is that it's a great thing," Vessey said. "I like reading about the inductees. To know that I'm being inducted in the same class as the Bee football team, which didn't play varsity but was a great team, is really cool to me."
Water polo seemed like a natural tuneup for the swimming season, which Vessey excelled at as well. She won two individual CBL titles and two CBL relay titles in each of her four seasons. She was the team MVP in her freshman season and reached the CIF consolation finals in her sophomore and junior seasons.
When she was done swimming Vessey registered a four year CBL undefeated record in the 200 freestyle and the 100 butterfly.
Vessey was somewhat of a veteran in water sports by the time she reached high school. She competed in recreational basketball, softball and track. But it was the pool in her back yard that helped the most.
"It was a natural to go into swimming," Vessey said. "A water polo club started and I said I might as well as try that too. I enjoyed both."
Vessey got married last month. And today's Hall of Fame tour of the high school will be her first in years.
"I have not been on campus in a long time," Vessey said. "I've never been in the hall of fame. I think that is really going to be pretty exciting. It's going to be a cool feeling."


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The ring
Sunday 21 September 2008
Above: the ring, made by Sean, my sweetheart of nine years and given to me one week ago, on the beach at Ashbridges Bay, at midnight, while the remnants of Hurricane Ike whipped by.
The awesome Michele, who counts metalworking among her many talents, had invited him by her studio to learn some of the craft and create a piece of jewellery that day. Acting on a deep impulse he decided to make this for me - knowing that even though I never wear jewellery, I'm a big DIY nerd, and if there was one thing I'd never want to take off, it would be something made by his own hands. He made me a freaking ring. For about three days I couldn't look down at it without starting to cry again.
It was pitch black. We had to use the light from my cel phone to see it. We sat with the hot winds buffeting us, eating pretzels and watching birds fly backwards. And then we got caught in a sudden downpour as we pedalled up Woodbine*, and ate terrible
Brekwiches at an all-night coffee shop. I spent equal time crying and laughing my head off.
The long and the short of it: we are engaged. Life just got a bit stranger and much more wonderful.
* Oh, did I mention? We got bikes a few weeks ago. It's been great, and the wounds from our respective first accidents are almost healed!
Friday 16 May 2008
A quick summary of an eventful season:
I'm settled into my new position as web maintainer for Evergreen, an organization focused on environmental education and community-based greening initiatives. It's a fine bunch of people, and the work feels much more worthwhile than almost anything I did working on the "agency side".
We've been dropping into Don Kerr's studio every few weekends to record the new Flickershow album - we have ten songs in progress, with vocals, guitar, bass and drums complete on almost all of them and keyboards on about half. I'm currently working on the trumpet arrangement for a recent song called "Mute". We've also played a whole pile of gigs, most notably busking in front of Pages Books on Queen St, and a swell gig for Earth Hour which included an hour-long, completely acoustic songwriters' circle.
Sean and I spent a few days in San Francisco last month - he was there to attend a couple of different conferences, and we got to visit his sister, her partner and their two black cats (it seems to run in the family). I spent several days walking all over the downtown area, and up to Fort Mason, where I visited the Long Now Foundation's museum and shop. Spent many hours checking out every sound-related exhibit at the Exploratorium. I came home with far too many books, and a new pair of shoes - my old pair having disintegrated completely after several dozen hills too many.
Much more to come - more musical experiences; several books to discuss; and my obsession with ruins continues.
2007 wrap-up
Sunday 13 January 2008
The dust's settled on 2007 at last, and does it ever feel like a new year now. Here's a few highlights, including some stuff I didn't write about the first time round:
January: Spinglobe moves into a brand new office in a neat building in the east end. One of the first projects is a music video for the Mahones. It's a takeoff on that Fellini scene where la Saraghina dances the rhumba on a Mediterranean beach - except it's January, on Ashbridge's Bay, and the warm spell of the previous week is most definitely over. We should have called the production Minus 8½. We freeze our collective asses off, but the video ends up looking pretty darn fine.
February: Played in the band for a musical revue put on as a fundraiser by some friends - my first time playing Broadway style is a fun challenge; I stress way about it more than I have to. Reconceived long-running audio drama idea as a podcast; later in the year would reconceive it again as a comic. Expect it to morph into a novel, a musical extravaganza and finally a series of haiku in 2008.
March: In the studio with Ellen Carol to record bass tracks for her new CD, produced by Don Kerr. Restarted work on Flickershow CD; we get some solid demos done and some cool results on a trip-hoppy new song called "Hold Up Donny". It doesn't last, however; I end up firing myself as producer later in the year. If all goes well we'll be recording with Don in 2008.
May: Played with Flickershow at the Sammy Sugar Day Festival, the kickoff for Ellen's fundraising bike tour of Eastern Canada. Finally launched a site for Presonance, a collaboration with Rezo Largul.
June: Attended OpenCities, an "unconference" about the convergence of civic engagement and the open source movement. Among the topics are the waterfront revitalization, public space, DIY electronics and public art, dancing in the streets. Coincidentally, the next day, Flickershow played at Pedestrian Sundays, a monthly car-free event in Kensington Market (other events occur in Mirvish Village and on Baldwin Street); our first outing with keyboard player Rich.
Later in the month, Sean's mom comes up from Pennsylvania for a visit. Tuesday we're at work while she takes it easy; she's out having a smoke on the front porch when lightning strikes a tree two doors down, and a gale-force gust of wind tears off branches for several blocks. We return home to find our street a maze of police tape, tree limbs and downed power lines. Neighbouring streets are almost unaffected. "I didn't do it," she pleads.
July: Played Newmarket and Brampton - our only out-of-town gig prior to this was our TVO appearance taped in Parry Sound. First steps toward developing an analog-to-MIDI interface using that splendid new toy, the Arduino.
August: Cottage outing with co-workers. Lots of laughs, plenty of good food and drink, and some cool photographic exploration of natural forms and painting with light.
October: A week from hell. Two or three clients go through reorganizations, and a number of key projects go on indefinite hold. Contractors removing a cellular tower break a sprinkler pipe and flood part of our office. None of this registers, however, because our co-worker's 21-year-old brother has just died in his sleep. Things are very quiet for several days.
November: Two good friends of ours invited us to play a song at their crazy cabaret-style lesbian wedding. The only question was what to wear. (As MC for the evening, Sean had no such dilemma, since they'd put him in a rather lovely kilt and feather boa.)
At the end of the month, a beautiful, awe-inspiring, mad trip to Marrakech with Sean, his mom and stepdad, and a new friend, the irrepressible and energizing Katie. We stayed in the heart of the medina, a maze of winding alleyways full of people, tiny shops, mopeds and stray cats. A handful of local kids kept asking for money; Sean juggled for them instead (years ago he did it for a living in Dallas) and became an instant hit. Later, we drove through the Atlas Mountains to ride camels into the desert and sleep in a tent. Beautiful country, lots of wonderful people. And occasional strange family moments.
December: The partners make the tough decision to sell the company to a bigger firm. Some of us move over, the video business splits off (taking on the name Robotnik Films), and I start looking for work. I'll miss the place, and I'll miss working with the Spinglobe crew. But it's a huge opportunity, both to find work in a field that's important to me and to have some actual free time again. Here's to the new year!
Rerun: Five things
Wednesday 6 December 2006
That "five things you might not have known about me" meme is going around the blogs lately, so what the heck - here are my answers, previously published elsewhere (except for #4).
1. When I was a kid, I drew quite a bit. My dad had a box of old, unused forms for tracking lab samples of plant material, which were my standard drawing paper for years. There were two sorts: white, legal-sized ones and heavy, green-tinted ones with a perforated section at the bottom (there was a serial number that you could stick in the bag with the smelly bits of collected leaves).
To me, the functional side of the paper was the blank side. And it seemed really weird to me that anyone would draw on anything else. I drew pictures of the house, the cats, and some incomprehensible comics - the detachable section at the bottom was roughly Sunday-comic sized - about talking mugs and bunnies that spent all their time falling into water and yelling at each other.
2. A couple of years ago, I was Purple for Buddies in Bad Times' Pride promo photos.
3. I talk to cats in made-up languages in addition to English. I sometimes use something like the peculiar dialect of "cat talk" spoken by everyone in my SO's family, particularly when talking to Gomiya (her name is actually a form of address used when speaking to a cat; a more formal version is "Gohdemiya"). I think my personal cat dialect is also influenced by an old George Booth cartoon in the New Yorker called "Ip Gissa Gul" ("Ip Gets A Girl") which was written in a made-up caveman language (I also find myself addressing dogs as "Huppy dod!" sometimes). Tarquin I talk to in something reminiscent of Inuktitut. I have no idea why.
4. My nickname in middle school was "Fish", for reasons known only to the maybe three or four vaguely in-crowd kids who started calling me that. The only thing I can think of is that my last name has a similar rhythm to the word "mackerel".
5. I owe a lot of my understanding of musical chords and chord progressions to a program I had for the Commodore 64 when I was in high school called Instant Music. The flip side of the disk had a whole bunch of example songs in different styles from rock history, all rendered in binky three-voice synthesis, and the book that came with it had a helpful rundown of chord types. The interface was horrible without a mouse, but I soldiered on anyway, even after my joystick died (I jammed its wires into an old calculator and used that as a controller instead).
Time off
Thursday 27 July 2006
On the way home, we decided to take a detour back to the turnpike, and found ourselves zig-zagging back and forth along the country roads north of Philadelphia while I tried to tell from my hastily-printed Google map whether this or that road ever hooked up.
"This way. No, whoops, not this way." We pulled a U-turn, and I studied the map some more. "Trouble is, at this scale, none of the roads on this map have names."
I looked up. The road to which we were now returning was called "Street Rd".
We'd spent Sunday in midtown Manhattan, and ended up wandering idly through Central Park. There was a sort of roller rink set up near the southern end of the park, and we watched for a while before continuing on. In the distance, from the top of a hill, we could hear more music. "Oh, this sounds more like Eli's kind of thing," said Sean. A few steps later I realized who it was: Konono No. 1.
I'd been kicking myself for missing their show at Harbourfront a couple of weeks earlier. And now, here they were, playing for free, in Central Park. My companions found it a little monotonous, but I danced like a goof.
A few hours later, I realized that in all my bouncing I'd really done some damage to joints in the balls of my feet. Again. It's Thursday now, and I can still barely walk. No more dancing until this gets fixed. Waah.
But that was probably about the only bad thing about the weekend. We saw family, we relaxed, we bought books, we ate good food, we learned stuff.
Pride again
Friday 4 July 2003
Went to Pride on Sunday. It felt good (I got teary-eyed as always; this time it started with all the 'just married' couples)... and perhaps a little less commercial this year. Either it was the way they'd grouped things, or the fact that a number of sponsors couldn't come through, but the floats-to-marchers ratio seemed to be down. We ducked out a bit early and had an amazing lunch at Biryani House - it relocated to a great big location on Wellesley about a year ago from its little hole-in-the-wall on Roy Square and it's still kickass. Which makes a grand total of one restaurant along the entire Yonge Street that Sean has deemed worthy of eating at. :D
People seemed less freaky this year - fewer people in drag, fewer people in outlandish outfits. I felt a little isolated, but glad to do my part in upping the oddness quotient (faux-leather skirt, fishnets and heels, and no makeup - no attempt whatsoever at 'passing' like last year). Walking toward Buddies we passed a couple of high-school looking kids, one of whom muttered "Faggot" behind our backs. I didn't feel threatened, not in that environment, and I didn't feel hurt at all… just sad for him.
One of the signs that I'm getting older: a growing tolerance and empathy for an age cohort I never used to be able to stand. With some distance between me and the age I've left behind, it's getting easier to forgive things like that, and see both my behaviour and the behaviour of other people with a lot more perspective. That kid? I doubt he'd have said anything if he'd been alone - it was merely to impress upon his friend that, fuck no, he wouldn't have anything to do with some fag who wears a skirt; how disgusting! If it's true that such sentiments arise from fear of one's own desires, that kid's setting himself up for a hard coming-out. And even if he isn't gay, he's got a lot of mental untangling to do. Ah, well.
Kelly's show was a bit of a fiasco, through no fault of his or the bands. Great pre-show interview with him; they're are all swell folks. And then, minutes before they were set to go on stage and plug in, the rain that had been threatening all day hit with gale force, leaving everyone huddled under tents. Nevertheless, they played a great four tunes before the rain started up again, and the audience really got into it, especially during the ska-inflected take on "Ball And Chain". Heart-stopping moment mid-song as the wind caught a tarp and dumped a bathtub-load of water right onto the bass amp. No one was electrocuted, thankfully.
We headed home from there, as I was absolutely freezing and regretting my choice of footwear. We didn't get to hang out with anyone besides the band, or go dancing or drinking… but it was pretty satisfying all the same.
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More Beck Added to 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World' Soundtrack's Deluxe Edition
Beck's Sex Bob-Omb contributions to the "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" soundtrack were already in the public record, but the 22-track Deluxe Edition will go a step further to include even more Beck performances and an exclusive "Black Sheep" video by The Clash at Demonhead. It's like they're just slowly letting this collection of tracks swell until it reaches critical mass with the fabled two-disc version that director Edgar Wright hinted might be on the way.
For now, the Deluxe Edition is as big as it's going to get as an exclusive on iTunes. There, Beck added performances of "Summertime," "Garbage Truck" and "Threshold," though "Summertime" is the only one that you can buy and listen to immediately.Here's the full rundown of what's going to be on there:
"Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World" Deluxe Edition Soundtrack
01 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "We Are SEX BOB-OMB"
02 Plumtree: "Scott Pilgrim"
03 Frank Black: "I Heard Ramona Sing"
04 Beachwood Sparks: "By Your Side"
05 Black Lips: "O Katrina!"
06 Crash and the Boys (Broken Social Scene): "I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad"
07 Crash and the Boys (Broken Social Scene): "We Hate You Please Die"
08 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "Garbage Truck"
09 T. Rex: "Teenage Dream"
10 The Bluetones: "Sleazy Bed Track"
11 Blood Red Shoes: "It's Getting Boring by the Sea"
12 Metric: "Black Sheep"
13 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "Threshold"
14 Broken Social Scene: "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl"
15 The Rolling Stones: "Under My Thumb"
16 Beck: "Ramona (Acoustic)"
17 Beck: "Ramona"
18 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "Summertime"
19 Brian LeBarton: "Threshold 8 Bit"
20 Beck: "Garbage Truck" [Bonus Track]
21 Beck: "Threshold" [Bonus Track]
22 Beck: "Summertime" [Bonus Track]
23 Black Sheep (The Clash At Demonhead) [Bonus Video]
The atmospheric guitars accompanying Beck make his new track really kick. Unfortunately, one of the coolest Scott Pilgrim-inspired tracks, "Knives Chau Luvs LCD" by Blackball False, Truth! does not appear on the ever growing tracklist. Maybe by the time it reaches boxed set proportions that will change, though.
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Tiger Woods synonymous with winning at Firestone
AKRON, Ohio – No one is more at home on the South Course at Firestone Country Club than Tiger Woods.
The No.2 player in the world, the only three-time winner on the PGA Tour this year, has won the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational a record seven times on the tree-lined South Course.
"I look forward to playing it," Woods said with a big smile Wednesday on the eve of the third WGC event of the season. "This is one of my favorites. It's straightforward. It's right in front of you.
"There are no tricks, no hidden things."
Woods won the Bridgestone in 1999-2001, 2005-07 and 2009. In 48 rounds here, he has broken par 31 times and averaged 68.3 strokes.
"Everyone pretty much knows he won almost every year since 2000," defending champion Adam Scott said. "You just know that. And obviously when you're talking of Tiger, it doesn't matter where you go, you think he's a factor starting the week. But certainly it's not something that you're thinking about while you're out playing. Your mind should be on the job yourself.
"But I guess at times certain guys have success on certain different courses, but probably none more so than Tiger and this one."
Adding punch to Woods' status as the pretournament favorite is his success before every major played this season. Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational two weeks before finishing in a tie for 40th at the Masters; he won the Memorial two weeks before finishing in a tie for 21st at the U.S. Open and he won the AT&T National three weeks before finishing in a tie for third at the British Open. Next week is the PGA Championship, the last major of the year.
"I feel very comfortable where I am at because everything is progressing," Woods said of his season up to now. "This year I've taken the steps headed in the right direction and shot better scores and been more consistent. When you make changes like I've made in my game, it takes a little bit of time, and things are starting to click in now.
"And to have three wins this year, it's headed in the right direction."
Woods faces a formidable field that features 49 of the top 50 players in the world, including top-ranked Luke Donald, Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy, reigning Masters champion Bubba Watson and British Open winner Ernie Els.
But with a win this week, Woods would ascend to another place he feels right at home — atop the official world golf ranking. Woods, who has spent a record 623 weeks at No.1, including a record 281 consecutively, can overtake Donald for the top spot. Woods has to win and Donald finish no better than solo third.
"Well, it would be nice to get back there because obviously it meant that as far as I had dropped, to build my way back up to this point. … I've had some wins, I've had some very high finishes, I've been consistent," Woods said. "That's how you get to be one of the top players in the world. To be ranked as low as I was and then come all the way back to, as of right now, No.2, that's pretty good."
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By Sgt. Karl Williams
1st Cavalry Division public affairs
Once Cav, always Cav. Once Greywolf, always Greywolf.
For the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division's command group and family readiness support assistants, it's more than just a catchphrase - it's a pledge of support they make to their soldiers.
With their regular trips to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio to visit their wounded soldiers, the "Greywolf" command team lets their wounded soldiers know that pledge will continue even when they have been reassigned to the medical center.
During a Thursday trip to San Antonio, the group offered encouragement and support to wounded soldiers there who were once assigned to the 3rd Brigade.
"Today's visit was phenomenal," said LeAnn Volesky, wife of Col. Gary Volesky, the brigade's commander. "It's unbelievable how well our guys are being cared for here. With improvement to facilities and the level of care, we know our guys are receiving the best possible care."
When Spc. Victor Rivera, who was injured in 2007 in Iraq, found out that members of his former unit were visiting, he put on his Stetson.
Rivera recalled his confinment to a wheelchair, and said that phone calls from Lori Carpenter, the brigade's family readiness support assistant, and visits from Greywolf soldiers gave him strength and encouragement while rehabilitating.
"It's great to have someone come down from the brigade to visit us," said Rivera, who is assigned to Brooke's Warrior Transition Unit, but still wears his 1st Cavalry patch. "It's a reminder that we are not alone here. We're still part of the Cav family and that boosts your morale."
Though Rivera and other wounded soldiers are assigned to the medical center, they can wear their former units' patches and other organization-specific items like the cavalry Stetson.
It's important that the brigade keeps in contact with former soldiers because it allows them to give feedback on former commanders, Carpenter said.
"It also helps the soldiers downrange to know that their injured buddies and families here are being well cared for," Carpenter said.
Cpl. John Hiland has been at the medical center since 2007, and said the visits are a "godsend" for him because he considered the brigade his family.


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hahaha yeah man don't drink that shit.
go for some Dancing Bull from California
or Jean Bousquet from Argentina. both are fucking amazing for only 12 bucks.
if you like lighter wine, less body, check out some of the 7 dollar sangiovese's from Italy. not bad at all.
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true but watching isn't tasting.
t.w.c ftw
this is how we do it in australia.. well at least how i do it
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Hahaha, fuck goon I can't stand it, only time I go there is when others have it. But the new Vodka goonies are fun.
Plus lols at the Rockstar Beer how gay.
Schooners where I live in Aus are 15 oz 425ml and a pot is 10oz 285ml. I WIKI'd it
P.S I started drinking and shit when I was 17 lol. And all I wanted to do was plumbing, I knew what I wanted to do. TAFE was just a social event for me and trust me I was passing A's and B's but I couldn't be fucked. I really could not be bothered to waste my time doing school work.
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carlton draught and goon. switch that goon to port then ya rollin on dubs. Plumbing is some pretty simple shit. Unblocking my toilet cant be that hard. Im studying hospitality. Which is mainly bartending. I just wanna get the skills and work in as meny different places as possible. No matter what ya do you gotta put in work
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Drinking some James Boag's Prem Lager...Also had some cascade larger as well.
20x250ml bottles of cheap french lager £5.88 for the lot, aint to bad, not that you can taste lager much cos its so chilled, but ok for predrinks on a night out...drinkin one right now
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And hows that going!? I'd wanna be a bar tender if I wasn't doing plumbing haha.
I got mad wasted on Friday, I started about 3pm and ended at 5am. Can't recall how much I drank. I had over half a bottle of vodka, a 6 pack and then after that I was out in the city and well I dunno from then on.
4 pines stout is fucking lovely.
i cant believe you guys wanna be bartenders, in england, its like minimum wage job nearly everywhere, i love the work, but it barely pays the bills, id like to run my own bar, but bartending on its own in the uk ya cant make shitttt most places
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bartending is alright. Im doin a full time certificate in hosptality which includes alot more shit. Liquors a small part. Bartenders here get paid decently but it depends where ya work. Im keen cos i can get a job overseas pretty easy when i finished. Drinking Crumpton oaks cider. Its top notch booze. If ya can get it get you some. Nils if ya wanna get into it just do a short course threw tafe. Thats is more then enough to work at ya local pub
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Picked up some 30 pack for $30..$1 can isn't bad value and still 375ml.
fuck they sell them in cubes. Nice 7 dollars less then west end draught. keep me eyes open
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sippin some red stripe
Put the imported beer down. go to your nearest store and get you a long neck carton or cube of West End Draught
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Namagunga Primary Boarding School is located in Namagunga Parish, Mukono District in Uganda. It now has a population of 1,082 pupils, 36 teachers and 72 support staff.
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