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The candidates for the top six positions in the ANC should make presentations at the organisation's policy conference about their suitability to lead the organisation in the positions they seek elections for. The ANC needs to make some drastic changes in the manner it manages policy development and succession management.
The ANC's policy conference deliberates on the strategic path for both the organisation and the state.
It is prudent that those who have the desire to drive the ensuing programme are openly engaged on their vision to drive this agenda.
The policy conference is the most viable platform wherein they can articulate their views and proposed means to take the organisation to a higher level.
In this way, the ANC would have established a critical link between a five-year strategic programme, and the leadership personnel to drive such an agenda.
This would enhance the quality of policy deliberations. Furthermore, it would remain the sail over clandestine lobbying and conspiracies for leadership positions.
It would also clear the suspicion over the incumbent leadership that not allowing for open individual positioning for leadership is an act of self-preservation.
This would give the voting membership of the ANC a sense of self-confidence to act maturely in both policy deliberations and succession matters.
While the ANC's policy conference is meant to determine the strategic direction of the movement, it has become the boxers' pre-fight weigh-in sessions for leadership positions. Rather than an objective reflection on policy proposals tabled, it now matters who authored such policy proposals.
Draft policy proposals are read with the suspicion of the perceived factional location of the author or group of authors. Eventually, what ought to be the ANC's policy positions and programmes are then seen as the preserve of a certain group within the movement.
One common example here is the so-called '96 project dismissively used to determine the leadership grouping led by former president Thabo Mbeki.
This leadership drove and consolidated the Gear economic policy, AsgiSA, and the African Renaissance agenda that yielded the AU and the Nepad programme.
Thus, when the '96 project was replaced by the "Polokwane project" in 2007, certain programmes pursued by the former fell off. For example: the prominence of Nepad has declined, and little is said around the AsgiSA.
These projects have not reached their life span, but rather are associated with a dislodged grouping within the ANC.
The danger in associating ANC policy and programmatic positions with certain groups is that it erodes organisational continuity.
This presents a policy development danger within the ANC. It is not the inability to produce good quality policies, but that the acceptability and continued implementation is dependent on appreciation by the dominant group at that moment. In the process, valuable resources with historical memory, experience and technical acumen are lost both to the ANC and the state.
The faction ownership and rejection of policy positions also means that policies adopted through resolutions are seen as resolutions of the winning group, and not of the movement in its entirety.
The adopted policy programmes lack the substantive buy-in and commitment by the whole organisation. At worst, it means these will equally be ditched at the 2017 policy conference, depending on which grouping will be dominant at the time.
The forthcoming policy conference's value is likely to be castrated in the following aspects.
First, it will be unable to lay foundations for the medium to long-term policy and programme planning because it will revolve around the incoming leadership for the next five years. Second, the policy resolutions to emerge from the dominant group are not guaranteed broader organisational support due to post-conference disunity, and further leadership contestation. Third, the losing factions will immediately embark on an overdrive to undermine the ensuing resolution simply because of their association with rival factions.
Fourth, informed and astute individual members will censor themselves from articulating good points in instances where such may hinder their chances at the Mangaung elective conference. Last, rather than policy principles, the ANC will increasingly revolve around dominant groupings.
The above scenario is rooted in the following context: the relationship between being in a leadership position, and access and control of resources.
This has resulted in the replacement of individual organisational commitment with lobby groups within the ANC. This is inspired by the quest for patronage.
Thus, unless the non-state sector of the economy grows fundamentally such that a better life is possible without reliance on state resources, the above will persist. In fact, the battle for leadership access and control within the ANC will intensify rather than factions parting ways to start their own political parties.
Former president Thabo Mbeki spent a significant amount of his energies discouraging grass-roots members against careerism, and yet the biggest careerism danger was, and still is, at the leadership level.
The second revolves around the challenge of leadership in an open democratic organisation within a democratic society. It is more difficult to lead an open democratic organisation in an open democratic society than a non-democratic society. According to Pamela Brill, a leading scholar of political leadership, this is because the individual members of the organisation enjoy "… the sacred value of freedom (which) enables individuals to hold many differing points of view regarding the critical issues and optimal solutions". The difference, though, in the ANC's case, is largely material driven rather than being intellectual, substantive differences.
The two above are fuelled by the ANC's lack of a succession plan and management.
The current succession management approach has only served to fuel underground lobbying, scheming and conspiracies.
The above disruptive conditions do provide a context for the ANC's forthcoming conference to emerge with some serious groundbreaking policy resolutions.
Yet it is equally difficult to perceive that indeed this will happen.
Organisational development guru Charles Handy makes two points that are essential to change: the ability to read the changing world, and thus adjust accordingly; and the courage to make what he terms "discontinuous change" – making change that has nothing to do with the past.
The current historical trajectory necessitates a major policy shift by the ANC. In fact, the movement has always risen to the challenge of major policy shift whenever historical conditions demanded such.
A few examples from recent history will suffice: the sunset clause policy position that ushered a government of national unity is a product of the ANC; the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) is another major policy product of the ANC; and Gear as a fundamental economic policy that has sustained SA's economic policy is another major policy product of the ANC.
Therefore, a major shift in ANC policy is not out of reach. The question is whether it has a leadership political will to do so.
The ANC seems still to be operating in a transitional gear when the context of both the organisation and that of the state indicates greater normalisation. The current modus operandi of the ANC both in terms of policy making and succession management was crafted and is relevant for a transitional period.
Given that the ANC is a ruling party of a modern state that requires high degrees of technical acumen and a leadership with the ability to deal with complex issues, and engage with complex constituencies, the transitional mode for both policy making and leadership succession requires major policy shifts.
One possible policy shift is that the ANC should consider the centrality of individuals who seek to ascend to leadership positions. Both the ANC and society at large are increasingly yearning for leaders who sell their vision, articulate their proposed programmes, and are individually willing to be subjected to assessment for their leadership performance.
The ANC ought to produce a policy framework, rules and regulations that facilitate a more open individual ascension to leadership positions.
The situation wherein individuals emerge from behind the scenes to assume leadership positions has resulted in some serious inconsistencies.
Nelson Mandela's presidency focused on reconciliation, Mbeki's on the African Renaissance and Zuma's on domestic issues through infrastructure development.
While these may not be bad choices, it is rather unfortunate that they become pronounced after these men have assumed the throne.
On the eve of the policy conference, nobody really knows what the touted names for leadership stand for. It is difficult to discern their capacities and capabilities as leaders in their own right.
In the same manner that the ANC presents its draft policy documents for public scrutiny, the same (albeit limited to the organisation's policy conference) should happen to ANC prospective leaders seeking the top six positions.
Plato observed that some people get accustomed to the shadows, and translate these as reality. When these people are subjected to the actual reality, they have a serious challenge to adjust, so much so that they prefer the shadows to reality.
Is it possible that the ANC has translated the transitional period as the lasting reality?
n Hlophe is a political scientist


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Motor sports notebook: Brash Keselowski learns his words echo loudly
Jeff Gordon learned his lesson over time. So did Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth.
It's the same lesson learned by every young driver who finally achieves stardom: What to say, when and how to say it and, most importantly, how to deal with the fallout from the content.
That's the lesson that Brad Keselowski is being forced to learn.
The brash, outspoken and usually unfiltered Sprint Cup champion has been vocal about what he perceives as unfair treatment by NASCAR, even going on a profanity-tinged tirade last weekend in which he told reporters that they had "no idea ... what's going on."
He already disputed a penalty at Martinsville for pitting outside his stall, but the driver of the No. 2 Ford was left seething over harsh penalties handed down by NASCAR this week.
Keselowski and teammate Joey Logano had a combined seven crew members get six-race suspensions after inspectors confiscated an unapproved rear-end housing from the Penske Racing cars last weekend at Texas. Both of their crew chiefs also were fined $100,000, and the drivers were dealt 25-point penalties that bumped them down in the Sprint Cup standings.
Penske Racing has appealed the penalties — Keselowski insisted Friday the part in question was approved — so both of the teams are intact for Sunday's race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
"I don't think I've been surprised by much of anything the last two or three days," Keselowski said after qualifying 33rd for this weekend's race. "But I think it's really important to let the appeals process work out on its own. That's why it exists."
Hamlin could be back next week
Denny Hamlin could return to the Sprint Cup series next weekend at Richmond for the first time since a crash March 24 at California left him with a compound fracture in his back.
Slumping Franchitti wins pole
In Long Beach, Calif., Dario Franchitti won the pole for Sunday's IndyCar Series race.
Franchitti came into the weekend ranked last in the IndyCar standings and off to the worst start of his career.
NHRA fans dodge serious injury
In Concord, N.C., fans escaped serious injury when the body of Funny Car driver Robert Hight's car blew off near the finish line after his engine exploded.


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Oakleigh Girl is the mystery filly heading towards Saturday's Golden Slipper at Rosehill.
She has been not sighted on race day since being runner-up to Unencumbered in the Magic Millions Classic, which trainer Dan Bougoure openly admits for was her first and main target.
"We always had the Magic Millions as the main priority," Bougoure said. "She got there after going to Melbourne and having a couple of tough runs in Brisbane and we thought we won't see her again until winter and probably the spring.
"We sent to the paddock but, after two weeks in the paddock, she had put down 28kg, so she had done particularly well.
"So we gave her another week and decided to have a crack at the Slipper."
Bougoure has been involved with some great horses, including Falvelon, which won twice in Hong Kong.
"She reminds me a lot of him in the way she handles the travel and his demeanour around the stables," Bougoure said.
Oakleigh Girl showed how at home she was in Sydney when she completed her Slipper preparation with with a quality barrier trial at Rosehill on March 28.
"She beat Time For War in that trial and he came out and franked the form by winning last Saturday," Bougoure said. "It was just impressive and told me I had her where I want her.
"She has strengthened in that time out. I think, physically, she is strong and I think she is going better than leading into the Magic Millions."
"It was the only way we could do it really. I decided to have two trials instead of races," Bougoure said. "I didn't want to overtax her.
"If there was a suitable race in Brisbane or Sydney in [that] couple of weeks over 1000 or 1100m I would have definitely run her.
"She is ready to go with fresh legs.
"The only concern I would have [is] if the track got real slow or heavy because that's when race fitness would come into it."
Earthquake remains the favourite for the Golden Slipper but Sportingbet has pushed the Darley filly out to $2.50 after her health scare earlier in the week.
Kerrin McEvoy was happy with her final track gallop, which had been delayed 24 hours.
"We have a bit of room to move her in our market and it is not ideal going into the Golden Slipper to have any setback," Sportingbet's Michael Sullivan said.
"We take on favourites here and we are going to find the price punters are comfortable taking."
Meanwhile, Risen From Doubt had jockey Nash Rawiller up for his final hitout at Hawkesbury and impressed in the winkers.
"He's very professional and it's nice to have a confidence booster going into a big race and I got that with the gallop," Rawiller said.
McEvoy can't believe that his colt has got out to $41 in some markets.
"I can understand why he's gone out in price because his runs have been OK, but I think that's been due to the ground. The horse hasn't been able to use his turn of foot," McEvoy said
"[Earthquake's] an awesome filly and I've got a lot of respect for her but they're all beatable.
"Oakleigh Girl is the one that I'm most worried about. I think she's a high-quality filly. Even though she's going into it first-up, which is unorthodox, Danny Bougoure's a good trainer and I'm sure she'll be ready."


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A McLaren staff member who died in a sports car crash yesterday is from Sutton.
Ollie Bourton, 22, a former Glenthorne High School pupil, was in a blue Subaru Impreza during the collision on Wednesday afternoon near the F1 giant's technology centre in Surrey.
He was killed along with a friend and colleague, Darren Hayes, 19, who he worked with on the production of the McLaren road cars - the commercial offshoot of the McLaren F1 team which is based at the same site in Ottershaw.
Ollie and Darren were confirmed dead at the scene following the collision with a Ford Transit on the A320 at 12.10pm.
Darren Hayes
The driver of the Ford Transit, a man in his 60s, was taken to St George's Hospital, in Tooting, with serious injuries.
Surrey Police are appealing for witnesses to call them as a matter of urgency on 101 quoting reference P14027978.
Mr Bourton, loved cars and had studied Motorsports Engineering at Brooklands College after leaving Glenthorne.
Glenthorne Headteacher Stephen Hume said: "He was a fantastic pupil, very popular and likeable. He was much loved by staff and pupils at Glenthorne and will be sorely missed. He was a lovely lad and it's so sad to lose him in such a tragic accident.
"He was always interested in cars and was very successful at karting. He always wanted to be an engineer and that's why getting the job at McLaren was a dream come true for him. For any young man interested in engineering and cars, a job at McLaren is the plum job.
"He was chuffed when he got the job and we were all delighted for him.
"We had a staff meeting this morning and all the staff are incredibly saddened."
Tributes have flooded in on social networking sites.
Mike Flewitt, chief executive officer of McLaren Automotive, said: "We have been informed that we have sadly lost two hard working and extremely well-liked employees of McLaren Automotive.
"They will be sorely missed by their friends and colleagues and our heartfelt condolences go out to their families."
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The polishes are called Addiction and Vice. Keeping in concert with the "edgy" Urban Decay names, Addiction and Vice are on trend for this fall with deep eggplant purple and shimmery dirty pewter for nails.
Let's not even talk about how awesome the packaging is. OK. Maybe I should talk about it. SKULLS! SKULLS with ROSES in their EYES! I DIE! Seriously these nail polish caps are so impressive, even Mr. Sith and Darthypie admired them.
I am a magpie, so I am easily impressed by shiny things. These Urban Decay nail polishes are a magpie's delight! The finish on both polishes is super shiny and glossy. I adore the formula as it is fluid and self leveling and not too thin. I was able to get opaque coverage in two coats. The polish didn't chip or crack and I had very minimal tip wear after wearing the polish for four days straight. (Using a top coat and base coat)
As for the colors....
Addiction is a foiled silver/pewter color with a greenish tinge to it. It's not so green that it is noticeable, but it comes off as a warmer color than one would think.
As you can see in the comparison with Chanel Graphite, the Urban Decay polish in Addiction does show slightly "greener" but in all honesty, the Urban Decay polish is superior to the Chanel because it didn't chip and took fewer coats to achieve an opaque nail.
Vice is a deep eggplant reddish purple with shimmer. It's not glittery, but it has enough shimmer to provide some depth to the color. In the bottle, I see gold and red shimmer, but the gold does not translate to the nail as far as I can tell.
As you can see in a comparison with Zoya Yasmeen, the Urban Decay polish in Vice is an EXACT DUPE for Zoya Yasmeen. That means if you already own Yasmeen you probably don't need the Urban Decay. HOWEVER, if you are tired of applying three or more coats of the Zoya to get that opaque look, then you NEED the Urban Decay polish as it went opaque in almost one coat and was perfection with two coats. It was just ash shiny as the Zoya and wore just as well, with fewer coats on the nail.
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Jobless rise bucks trend
Reporter: LUCY KENDERDINE
Date online: 20 February 2014
OLDHAM has seen a rise in the number of people out of work in the town, despite the continuing fall in national unemployment levels.
The total number of people out of work in the borough in January was 5,072 - a rise of 144 on the December figure. January is the key month for temporary workers hired over Christmas to reach the end of their employment
But the figures are significantly better than the same period last year - with 2,989 fewer people out of work. Currently 3,141 men are looking for a job, and 1,931 women.
What the figures don't also show is the Dis-proportionate number of young people out of work in this Borough.
The "GET OLDHAM WORKING" initiative the council is running is clearly working then!!
Does anyone believe that it will ever get better?
Wonder if this figure takes into account the number on Universal Credit which Oldham is one of the pilot offices, they have been left off the national statistics.
how many people are there who have had their benefit suspended so they make the figures artificially lower than they should be?
Since 2012 more than 800 000 people have had their benefits suspended a ridiculous figure which equates to more than a quarter of claimants !
Youth unemployment in Oldham currently 905 people aged 18-24 claiming JSA. This represents a monthly decrease of 3.7% and an annual decrease of 59.9% (largest annual decrease across GM).
the 'unemployment figure' does not include people on disability, people who work just a few hours a week and ,as stated, ones with their benefit suspended. This figure of 5,072 out of work is a blind to cover the truth.
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AMD Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, & HD 4000 Video Cards Being Moved To Legacy Status In Mayby Ryan Smith on 4/23/2012 7:45 PM EST
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Amoro - Monday, April 23, 2012 - linkRadeon HD 4870.....It still has really good performance. I guess my wife won't know the difference anyways.
I just hope that they'll actually update the drivers quarterly or even yearly compared to the previous "Legacy Video cards". The X100 and X1000 series haven't been updated since February of 2010. Reply
tipoo - Monday, April 23, 2012 - linkI think those cards have gotten the extent of tweaking that would help them, but I'm wondering if it would be like the x1000 series on Windows 7 which I had to deal with. They can still run ok for light work, but they don't have official drivers under Windows 7, the Vista ones do work but it leads to some rare but annoying problems. So I wonder if these cards, even as new as the 4000 series, would have problems running Windows 8 in a similar fashion, or if they would get an official driver for it. Reply
dragonsqrrl - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkWow, I didn't realize the X1000 series didn't have any official Windows 7 support... that sucks. I'm sorry to say it, but this is just a lower standard of driver support than I'm accustomed to. Nvidia provides non-legacy Windows 7 driver support for all their cards since the Geforce 6. Reply
kmmatney - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkI didn't have any trouble getting an X800 working with windows 7, so I don't think the X1000 series would be a problem. The X800 plays everything just fine (at least what it is capable of) in Windows 7. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, April 26, 2012 - linkYour mileage may vary. The drivers for Vista (or even XP I think) do work, but they are not officially supported and might have some bugginess. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkI've got to say yeah, i'm really surprised by how short AMD supports their GPUs. I guess it's not terrible compared to how short Apple supports a lot of their hardware (let alone Android gadgets), but personally it's another reason I continue to prefer Nvidia if possible. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkEDIT: Guess I should add too that anymore I don't upgrade hardware that often, and a high end part from that generation would to me still be very useable... Reply
bassbeast - Thursday, April 26, 2012 - linkUhh...what more support exactly do you need? these drivers WILL work on Windows 8 if that floats your boat and the current drivers now are quite good so what more EXACTLY are they gonna do? they've squeezed just about every droplet of performance they can out of the silicon, so what is left besides bug fixes? they can't magically give them more shaders or faster buses ya know.
Personally I'm VERY happy with the HD4850 I have and I doubt I'll be switching to Windows 8 and since you can pick up the HD4850 for like $50 right now I don't see a problem. The nice thing about the 48xx chips is that they frankly still crank out the pretty and play the latest games while being affordable enough i could grab a pair of them for my two boys so they can enjoy the gaming goodness on their new PCs.
So by the time these leave legacy win 8 will have been out awhile and Win 9 will be coming out and we'll probably be up to Dx12 by then and until then I can always throw another HD4850 dirt cheap for some Xfire goodness or simply wait until the 58xx or 68xx are similarly cheap so me and the boys can all be on the same level. So I don't see what there is to complain about, these chips are 4+ years old ya know and if they run in everything from XP-Win 8 what's to complain about? Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkThis is the same type of thing Adaptec does.
Dell had a few series of servers that used a remarked Adaptec SCSI controller (the PERC 2, 3, and 4 series). Adaptec up and decided they weren't going to support their SCSI products under Windows Server 2008. So, all of a sudden, these perfectly viable servers (particularly the Poweredge 2650 and 6650) were rendered unusable with the new version of Windows Server. I have about two dozen of these machines in my lab that are still quite operational, but can't be used with Windows Server 2008. We still use them for Linux testing (Red Hat and SuSE work just fine on them) but we had to spend more money to get more machines for Windows testing.
Creative Labs did the same thing with their cards when Vista came out. Cards that were still quite usable under XP were rendered useless with Vista, and thus Windows 7 as well.
This isn't unusual in this industry. Rude and cheap, sure, but not unusual. Reply
hughlle - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkIt speaks volumes for how far the game industry has progressed, or alternatively the amount of pointless graphic card releases there are, for my 4850 to be able to play everything out there without an issue. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkThe money line: " This is the best use of our resources..."
In other words, they fired enough people that they cannot maintain the promises to the gamers, and have abandoned as many as possible.
4870x2 is $159.99 on the egg right now - a result of this decision.
4890 is toast - yet it's still faster than way over half of the cards produced and sold today.
This is a lousy decision, and is no good, from an evil company groveling for dollars. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Monday, April 23, 2012 - linkhttp://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Lega...
AMD's previous legacy driver experience with their DX9 GPUs isn't inspiring. When it was initially announced, they said "legacy" meant quarterly driver updates, but when they posted the above support document, there was actually no mention of "quarterly" only "periodically". That basically left people to routinely ask them about it in comments in the blogs posts that announce monthly Catalyst releases. It seemed like when an arbitrary number of comments accumulated and months went by, a legacy driver was released, but it was not a consistent 3 month schedule as "quarterly" implied. All the while nVidia continues to support their GPUs back to the DX9.0c 6000 series to this day. I could understand AMD not supporting the vanilla DX9.0 9000 and X100 series, but the DX9.0c X1000 really should have gotten more care, particularly because the X1900 has aged better than the comparable nVidia 7900 due to the X1900's more shader heavy focus which turned out to be the right forward thinking bet.
Given how successful the HD4000 series has been and the nostalgia factor of it being the series that reinvigorated AMD's graphical fortunes, hopefully it's legacy support will be more consistent. I think 2 years of legacy driver support for DX10 GPUs makes sense. If next-gen consoles with DX11 GPUs come out late 2013, with say a year for adoption and transition, most games in 2015 will probably require DX11. So legacy support for DX10 GPUs from 2012 to the end of 2014 should cover things. Reply
Zink - Monday, April 23, 2012 - linkThe HD 6770 is still for sale and it is very similar to the HD 4870 performance wise. It would suck to have to upgrade from a 4870 because of driver issues and not performance. Reply
gevorg - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkIts called planned obsolescence. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkYes and don't forget super OC 4890, as the evil amd has. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkYeah, that's like the 1K series and Windows 7, the performance for non-gaming was fine but no official driver support. Reply
Latzara - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkThe, always, buggy drivers that have almost become, or for some have become, the staple of ATI/AMD graphics?
To me unfortunately it's completely normal to expect their drivers to crash on me on a somewhat regular basis. I'm not talking about preview/beta versions but of the complete WHQL versions that today can at least benefit from the win 7 driver crash recovery but are still crashing. If it were only my experience I would definitely write it off as my problem and that would be it but it's obviously not ...
To me a real news story would be the expansion of their graphics driver department with new experts and a real push to get their driver offering in check but I don't think I'll ever hear that.... Reply
kyuu - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkFunny. I have had zero issues with my 6950 since I built my new rig last year. Reply
probedb - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkOdd then that the only issue I've ever had with drivers and my 4850 is with OpenGL in Photoshop 6.
Instead of moaning why don't you use your time productively and go try an Nvidia card or something? Reply
Kazashi - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkWell, actually, my brother and I both have a HD 4870. His is a diamond reference card version and mine's an after market by sapphire. We (And quite a few people online from what I've seen) suffer from a few severe bugs/issues with our cards.
Firstly, for some reason, whenever we try to play any game at all that uses any graphic power, the card will crash and then the monitor will go to black, flicker and then turn back on for a few seconds after 10ish minutes. It happens repeatedly, until we quit the game. From what I could gather up from someone's explanation, whenever the card switched from 2d to 3d, it'd turn on some type of overdrive/boost function....Then turn off and then back on again. It'd throttle from a few hundred Mhz to above 600 and then back down repeatedly, making it crash.
The way how I fixed it was using Riva tuner to manually set the clock on the card to be permanently above 700 all the time, and set the fan to a fixed high setting because our cards ran extremely hot, ah and because ATI Overdrive never changed the fan speed beyond 20% on auto, regardless of the temperture of the GPU. (For my brother's anyway, his reference card ran unbelievable hot. it had to be at 70% fan to be at a bearable 65-70C idling! Mine did better, idling around 40-50C with only 40% fan speed)
Then there were quite a few issues with some games like KOTOR and artifact issues that popped up on the screen randomly every now and then (Not pertaining to overheating)
Don't get me wrong, these cards worked really well when they weren't messing up. I could play ME2 on full settings on a 1280X1024 screen with great frame rates.
We've used the 4870 cards for at least 3 years now. My brother was finally fed up with his accursed reference card and moved up to a GTX 570. I'm still with my 4870 wondering if I should stick with AMD even after all of these problems or check out a Nvidia card. But it's performing well for me right now, so until then. Reply
frostyfiredude - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkSounds like you got a bad card, or saphire messed up the whole series. Let me tell you, nVidia won't be any better, my friends with 570 and 580s aren't without their issues.
I've got a reference design XFX, it's got the AMD logo on the PCB and all, and the only issue I've seen in common is the heat at idle which is because 2D mode is nearly the same clock speed and voltage as 3D (I drop down 15Mhz, LOL). Reply
bassbeast - Thursday, April 26, 2012 - linkMind some advice? Change out the PSU with one you know to be good, if you don't have a spare go to your local mom&pop shop and see if he can test your PSU for you. Because I have found a LOT of those weird crashing errors with GPUs that need external power to be caused by the PSUs not giving them good clean consistent power. Doesn't matter the brand either, because every manufacturer can have one slip past QA.
So have that checked because that really isn't normal behavior for a card unless it is seriously overheating or getting bad power. Reply
jabber - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkShow me someone with hardware driver issues for graphics cards and I'll show you either someone that doesn't know how to build a PC or someone with a load of crappy junkware on it.
There is always more to such tales of woe than 'crappy drivers' especially when 98% of folks (myself included)install them month after month with no issues.
Is it the drivers or the user? Hmmmm..... Reply
retrospooty - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - link"it's completely normal to expect their drivers to crash on me on a somewhat regular basis. I'm not talking about preview/beta versions but of the complete WHQL versions that today can at least benefit from the win 7 driver crash recovery but are still crashing. If it were only my experience I would definitely write it off as my problem and that would be it but it's obviously not ..."
It is? In recent years I have had a Radeon HD 1650, 4650, 4870, 6950 and have never had any bugs or crashing issues in any games... Nor have I heard of any widespread problems. I think your PC has issues. Reply
hybrid2d4x4 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkI've had a 4870 since the 1GB versions hit the market and have never had any driver issues. What you're describing sounds like hardware thermal issues, not drivers. Check the seating of your heatsink, contact with ram and VRMs. It's true these things run hot as hell, which is why you need to have a well ventilated case. Mine idles in the high 30s with an Accelero S1 Rev2 and 120mm Scythe fan @ 800revs and the core hits the 70s at full load (RAM is ~100, VRMs ~80). Reply
bassbeast - Thursday, April 26, 2012 - linkStrange my two boys and myself are all running Win 7 HP with HD4850s and haven't had a single crash between us. You might try looking into a fabulous tool called "dependency walker" to see if you can track down the problem, as I had exactly one customer with a Radeon that had a crashing problem and it turned out to be a broken .NET update that had messed up his system. Once i uninstalled with Revo and cleaned out the original driver the new driver took perfectly and he's been hassle free ever since.
Before you go blaming AMD for a Windows crash you really should run DW and make sure its the driver and not Windows with the problem friend, as i have found messed up Windows updates can break both Nvidia and AMD drivers quite nastily. Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkVery poor show. 2000 & 3000 I can understand, but a huge number of people bought 4xxx series cards, they represented amazing value for money and still give the performance people need. Reply
haukionkannel - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkI have AMD HD1800 and I can play new games guite easily. I play LOTRO, Star wars online, civilization 5 and so on without any problems. So don't be too alarmed!
The alarming thing may be that old radeon 1800 is still fast enough to run games in 1600*1200 resolution... There is something very wrong with game grap power creep... Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkI'm trying to identify what new games you are talking about. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkAnd what card...HD2800? X1800? There was no HD 1800 Reply
haukionkannel - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkSorry. X1800.
SWTOR is guite new game. Shogun 2 allso. But I have to say that in Shogun 2 you have to give up guite a lot of eye candy ;-)
But the main thing is that you can play relative new games with legasy drivers. Reply
Wreckage - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkAs if AMD does not get enough complaints about their drivers. Reply
Golgatha - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkWhat do you expect? They couldn't even be bothered to provide WHQL drivers for their flagship 7970 at launch. Reply
redchar - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkI'm not an owner of any of those series of cards, but last I heard there were still usability problems that have yet to be solved on the drivers that those cards use. For example - flickering/screen tearing fixed yet? It doesn't even seem to be fixed on my 5000 series. And mouse cursor corruption? I haven't seen it in a while, but perhaps it's because I rarely use that computer for anything but gaming anymore. If there are problems left, which I'd guess so, it's a very poor showing to stop development without fixing all your problems.
As some people have mentioned above that their AMD cards do not experience problems - that is likely true. From what I have seen between nvidia and AMD, it's not that AMD cards are always buggy, but rather that they seem more likely to be. In my experience those who stick to single monitor and single card setups see the least issues, whereas more than a few issues exist for those who utilize dual monitor setups. As if AMD does less QC on niche setups than they should. And then there is crossfire. With slow updates to crossfire support, dual-gpu utilizing people will often be upset (Skyrim for example... called game of the year by some and yet AMD couldn't get their act together with crossfire support permenantly. One driver added it, another driver broke it, another driver fixed it... broke it.. etc, don't know what the latest working one is now, but 11.11c seems to be the most reliable recently).
I just hope that whatever driver they decide to stop on for the long period between legacy updates is one of their most reliable, as their drivers seem to fluctuate in quality - something I've not seen in nvidia or really any other company gaming or not. Reply
Targon - Friday, April 27, 2012 - linkThere are some issues with Crossfire support having bugs(SLI also has similar problems in various titles), so that might upset SOME, not getting those fixed. Most people are fairly clueless when it comes to reasons for system instability. If you don't know WHY your system becomes unstable, then it is easy to incorrectly point to the wrong place for the source of the problem.
As others have already posted, if you need one or two power connectors from the power supply, it is VERY possible the power supply itself is not delivering clean power, and that will cause the GPU to glitch. That isn't a problem with the video card or GPU, it is the power source not being good enough.
I have seen XFX 4890 cards(from personal experience) hit high temps(over 80 degrees C) and that can cause some issues. You can fault the cards for power draw and as a result heat issues, or cooling issues, or whatever, but NVIDIA has had its share of cards that run very hot as well, and if the cooling system doesn't do the job, those will also have similar stability problems.
A good reason to switch to a newer generation than the 4000 series would be for lower power draw and as a result, fewer overheat related problems. It may make more sense to just wait until Windows 8 comes out, and then get whatever new generation products come out at that point, just to make sure you don't get cut off with "DirectX 11 cards will not be supported, but 11.1 will be." types of issues. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkYou're talking to people in denial, and they will never admit amd drivers suck.
The amd forums are full of it, there is a 30 plus standing list of general bugs, and when forum polls are done about 60% have problems with their amd cards and about 43% have unsolved and never resolved problems they just live with.
This is why you have these people who try to blame everything but amd - they happen to be one of the less than half that either claim they've had no problem (more likely after they've had to fix something or hack something in or change the way they do things to manage the problem) or they do email and play one online game, or already went through endless hours of troubleshooting a year ago and don't really remember it and out of pride claim they never have had even a single crash, ever...
We know the facts are very, very different.
Part of the problem is the immense fanboy denial - and when you point out the very few things you did, the response is didn't you listen to someone else - it's the power supply, etc - anything but the truth, the amd driver bundle is buggy, always has been, and always will be, period.
You have about a 50% chance of not having disturbing problems and ongoing issues when you buy any amd card. Reply
andrewaggb - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkPersonally, I've had a radeon 8500,9100,9600xt,x800pro,hd2900xt,3850,5770,6870, a couple mobility 5650's, and a c50 netbook.
For the most part very few issues. Halo PC bluescreened changing resolutions on the 8500/9100 series but that was eventually fixed and that's years ago. It didn't occur on their newer cards such as the 9600 series that was out at the time. Better than ut 2004 blue screens with the nvidia 5900xt I had that made the game unplayable.
Other than that, when vista first came out, the ati 2900xt ran way worse in unreal tournament 3 in dx11 mode than dx9 mode. My brothers had an 8800 gts and 8800 gtx and they were way faster. But the game didn't crash and I played in dx9 mode where it was fine. My brothers had a bunch of blue screens in windows vista the first few months with their 8800 series nvidia cards until nvdia got their drivers sorted out.
Rage had radeon driver issues, but it kinda had issues in general. Nvidia support was definitely better though.
I had some starcraft 2 issues at one point on radeon cards due to some setting I had changed in the catalyst control center (I don't remember what it was anymore, but it caused the protoss power circle to not render properly)
That's about it for me. To be honest I haven't really had frustrating driver problems in years. The ati halo, nvidia ut2004, and nvidia vista blue screens were the worst because blue screens are just unacceptable. I've been mostly pro ati since because when I complained to ati about the halo issue with detailed logs and all the different driver revisions etc (including those that worked and didn't work) they got info from me and fixed the issue in an upcoming driver. With nvidia they wouldn't respond and gave no indication they cared even when I submitted technical and detailed reports. That's frustrating.
'Changing the resolution in Halo while playing in the middle of a Campaign no longer results in a reboot of the machine. This issue was known to occur under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9000 series installed'
Also, I pointed out that Catalyst 3.1 or 3.2 had much better performance in a specific scenerio then their current drivers, and they fixed the regression (though they covered it up and didn't call it fixing a regression, see the performance improvements - ongoing committment to previous generation bs)
And here's one of many threads relating to the nvidia bluescreen with UT2004, I gave up waiting a bought a new video card, but it was eventually fixed in the 71.xx releases
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=182&a... Reply
m0rsh - Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - linkOkay. My next card will be from Nvidia. Wddm 1.2 is a DRIVER MODEL, it doesn't need a dx11 card. You can find wddm 1.2 drivers for the 9800gt. Reply


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Young Audiences Charter School invites prospective students and families to attend an information session at 10 a.m. Saturday at the West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., in Harvey. The new open-enrollment, arts-integrated charter school will open its doors in August at Kate Middleton campus, 1407 Virgil St., Gretna.
The school is open to any Jefferson Parish student entering kindergarten through third grade. Students must reside in Jefferson Parish. Each year, the school will add one grade, with the goal of serving students in grades kindergarten through eight by fall 2018.
Enrollment is limited to 388 students. Parents are encouraged to visit http://www.yacharterschool.org, call (504) 523-3525 for enrollment information.
Mount Carmel places in Academic Games
The Mount Carmel Academy Academic Games team won the following awards at the National Competition in Charlotte, N.C. in April: Regina Lowe, fifth-place overall Propaganda; Krisi Williams, first-place Propaganda and overall winner; junior team of Mary Margaret Monistere, Victoria LaDell, Kristi Williams, and Regina Lowe, second place overall Propaganda; senior team of Taylor Glorioso, Gabrielle Vogt, Alex Howell and Maggie Dowling, fourth place overall Equations.


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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Someone might decide to reveal his or her true feelings in the morning. Suggest talking more later in the day or during the weekend.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH As the day gets older, you'll become more dynamic and direct. How you deal with someone could vary, as you note a change in the response.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH Know that you have the power to make a change. Either act this morning or wait for several days until the Force is strong with you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You have a lot to say. Deal with a financial matter first so that you can relax later in the day. Start a conversation with a friend as soon as you can.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH It might seem as if someone has convinced you that you need to be more open. You will feel better about yourself.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Your mood will change in the afternoon. You'll go from being withdrawn to being open and carefree. This is the time to claim your power.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH People could play a bigger role in your life than usual this morning. Some even might share news you've never heard before.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH A boss suddenly could reveal his or her true agenda. You might have to choose whether to accept where this person is coming from.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Check in with an expert this morning. You might want to detach from a hair-raising situation. Take charge of your day.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Listen to news, and be direct in your dealings. A partner might keep feeding you information. Know when to pull back.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You will listen to others, but you need to respond to the issue at hand. Be prepared to detach and venture off in a different direction.


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YOUNG footballers from Winklebury Wizards raised more than £1,000 for charity by taking part in a football assault course.
Members of the club's under-10 team each covered a total of 5km while completing a range of football challenges, including dribbling between posts, hitting the crossbar and beating a goalkeeper.
They were sponsored and raised a total of £1,034 for St Michael's Hospice, with the club donating a further £200 to the cause.
The youngsters took part in memory of Anna Sadler, the mother of one of the players, Matthew, who sadly lost her battle with cancer earlier this year.
Bruce Tydeman and Mark Taylor, the team's coaches, said: "Everyone at the club wanted to do something for Matthew's mum and we came up with the idea of doing a football assault course to make things more interesting for the boys.
"Initially, we were hoping to raise around £800 through sponsorship, but the boys exceeded that easily. We are really proud of them, especially as it rained really hard on the morning of the event.
"They all really enjoyed it and everyone involved is delighted that we have raised so much money for the charity."


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A father-of-four who used to struggle to walk up a flight of stairs will run the London Marathon after shedding nearly 14 stone.
Having lost the pounds with the help of Slimming World, Michael Drucker, of Edgware, plans to run the 26.2 miles as part of the Slimming World Marathon Team to raise money for Cancer Research UK on Sunday April 13.
When Mr Drucker was at his heavies, at just under 28st, he could not put his own socks on, and faced humiliations such as getting stuck in fairground rides and breaking chairs.
But after joining Swimming World in late 2009, he started a new eating plan and began walking around the block every night.
He gradually progressed to walking to work every day, then to running to work as he built up his fitness levels.
Mr Drucker, who now runs around 40 miles a week, said: "I wanted to show everyone that whatever their weight loss or activity goals, they are achievable."
The 48-year-old has now also become a Slimming World Consultant himself in Edgware and Golders Green.
He said: "I've lost nearly 14st but I've gained so much more. I've got a great group of new friends. I can really enjoy my family now and my health is so much better."
Running to raise money for Cancer Research UK is particularly important to Mr Drucker, after he lost his mother to the disease last year.
He said: "My mother Helen was diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and underwent chemotherapy.
"Running the marathon to support such a vital cause is so important to me. I am running in my mother's memory this year and hope to raise funds to help change people's lives for the better."
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Sunday Night Football Returns
It will be the losers of last year's AFC and NFC championship games that meet in this season's first Sunday Night Football matchup. New England will travel to Arizona to face the Cardinals on Sunday, September 11 kicking off a strong Sunday night schedule. Both teams lost in their conference championship and their offseason actions lead many to believe that both could find themselves right back in that championship game again.
There are a number of great Sunday night matchups this season, several of which that could become instant classics. Here's a look at the top matchups on 2016 NFL Sunday Night Football.
Week 2: Green Bay @ Minnesota
After the Patriots-Cardinals play in Week 1, the second week of the season offers up an NFC North showdown between last year's division champ and the Packers, who won the title the previous four seasons. The Vikings have quietly put together one of the NFL's better defenses and Adrian Peterson is still the best running back in the league.
Sunday Night Football Schedule
The Thursday Night Football schedule simulcasted on NFL Network as well as NBC:
Sept. 11: Week 1 - New England Patriots at Arizona Cardinals
Sept. 18: Week 2 - Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings
Sept. 25: Week 3 - Chicago Bears at Dallas Cowboys
Oct. 2: Week 4 - Kansas City Chiefs at Pittsburgh Steelers
Oct. 9: Week 5 - New York Giants at Green Bay Packers
Oct. 16: Week 6 - Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans
Oct. 23: Week 7 - Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals
Oct. 30: Week 8 - Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys
Nov. 6: Week 9 - Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders
Nov. 13: Week 10 - Seattle Seahawks at New England Patriots
Nov. 20: Week 11 - Green Bay Packers at Washington Redskins
Nov. 27: Week 12 - New England Patriots at New York Jets
Dec. 4: Week 13 - Carolina Panthers at Seattle Seahawks
Dec. 11: Week 14 - Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants
Dec. 18: Week 15 - Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals
Dec. 25: Week 16 - Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs
Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater continues to improve. The Packers will welcome back WR Jordy Nelson who missed the entire season last year after tearing an ACL. Running back Eddie Lacy has slimmed down and hopes to recapture some of the magic he had in his first two NFL seasons. The winner of this one will have the early inside track toward winning the division.
Steelers Play Twice on Sunday Night
The Pittsburgh Steelers, who earned the sixth seed in the AFC playoffs last year, will play twice on Sunday Night Football. They will face the Chiefs, also a postseason qualifier last year, in Week 4 and, in a game that will surely have AFC playoff implications, Pittsburgh will travel to rival Cincinnati in Week 16 (Dec. 18). The Steelers will also face the Colts on Thanksgiving Night (Nov. 24).
Another Super Bowl Rematch
The 2016 season kicks off on a Thursday night with a rematch of Super Bowl 50. Sunday Night Football will feature a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX on November 13 when Seattle travels to Foxborough to take on New England. The Patriots lost in last year's AFC title game while Seattle lost in the Divisional Round to Carolina, the eventual NFC champion. Both teams are primed once again to make another postseason run. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has shown no signs of slowing down as he heads into his 16th NFL season. New England acquired TE Martellus Bennett from the Bears to pair with the league's best in Rob Gronkowski. The Seahawks will once again have one of the NFL's best defenses. Seattle led the league in scoring defense last season.
Important Divisional Matchups to Close the Season
Four of the final five weeks of the season feature Sunday night games that will impact divisional races throughout the league. On Sunday, November 27, New England travels to New York to face the Jets. Last season, new head coach Todd Bowles guided the Jets to a 10-6 record. This year, Bowles and company want to challenge New England for AFC East supremacy. On Dec. 11, the Cowboys and Giants will square off in an important NFC East matchup and the following week is the already mentioned Steelers-Bengals matchup. Sunday Night Football ends the season on Christmas, Dec. 25, when Denver plays at Kansas City in a game between the two teams that will most likely contend for the AFC West title.
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text: McKINNEY, Texas, July 19, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Independent Bank Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:IBTX), the holding company for Independent Bank, today announced that Independent Bank Group has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Collin Bank, Plano, Texas ("Collin Bank"), a Texas state chartered bank with total assets of $204.1 million, total deposits of $161.9 million, and total equity capital of $25.8 million at March 31, 2013. Collin Bank is a full service commercial bank with one office located on the Dallas North Tollway. Independent Bank Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David R. Brooks stated, "We are pleased to announce the first acquisition following our initial public offering. Acquisitions within our existing markets are a component of our growth strategy. The acquisition of Collin Bank adds to our presence in Collin County, one of the most affluent counties in Texas. Collin Bank has a proven record of loan growth in this marketplace with a good deposit base. Additionally, the acquisition will provide us with a prominent location on the Dallas North Tollway, which will allow us to consolidate our current Plano office and lending team with the Collin Bank location and lenders to serve as a platform to grow additional loans and deposits in our Dallas/North Texas Region." Mr. Brooks continued, "We are excited about this opportunity for our company and our shareholders, customers and employees. Collin Bank customers can expect to continue to receive the same level of service that they are accustomed to at Collin Bank, with the added advantage of the Independent Bank Group resources." "We are pleased to be joining a successful and community-oriented bank group that understands the importance of our customers," said Martin P. Adler, Chairman of the Board of Collin Bank. "We view this as an opportunity to become part of a larger community bank that affords our customers additional products, a larger branch network, and the financial strength of a proven independent banking organization."


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Airport: 3.5 miles
This Hollywood, Florida, hotel offers a complimentary shuttle to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (3.5 miles) and the Port Everglades cruise port (6 miles). The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention Center is just 4 miles away. A shuttle to Miami is available for a fee.
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The Quality Inn & Suites Airport/Cruise Port South provides airport and cruise shuttles and complimentary breakfast. The hotel has an outdoor pool and a poolside bar.
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Quality Inn & Suites Airport/Cruise Port South offers shuttle service to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades cruise port (limited hours). This Hollywood, Florida hotel has a 24-hour business center, assistance with currency exchange, and laundry facilities. Complimentary wireless Internet access and complimentary parking are available for hotel guests during their stay. Extended parking is available for a fee. A complimentary deluxe continental breakfast buffet is served daily in our breakfast dining area, and coffee and tea are complimentary in the lobby 24-hours a day. The hotel also has an outdoor pool and a poolside bar.
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Television in common areas
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- 24-hour business center
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- Free newspapers in lobby
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- Number of floors - 4
- Total number of rooms - 190
- Free breakfast
- Elevator/lift
- Free cruise terminal shuttle
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Train station drop-off (surcharge)
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- Free self parking
- Year Built 1987
- Smoke-free property
- Outdoor pool
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- Outdoor pool
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- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
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- Pillowtop mattress
- Premium TV channels
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- Air conditioning
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- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- In-room safe (surcharge)
- Free local calls
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
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A complimentary deluxe continental breakfast buffet is served daily in the breakfast dining area
Nearby Things to Do
Quality Inn & Suites Airport/Cruise Port South has an outdoor pool.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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- Roll-in shower
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at 2 AM
Minimum check-in age is 21
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 3 children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 10 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Deposit: USD 150.00 per stay
Optional extras
- Extended parking fee: USD 10.00 per night
- A late check-out fee will be charged
- In-room safe fee: USD 2 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
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Luis Alberto Urrea and Piers Vitebsky were recently named winners of the 2006 Kiriyama Prize. Urrea won in fiction for his novel The Hummingbird's Daughter (Little, Brown) and Vitebsky won in creative nonfiction for his book The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia (Houghton Mifflin). The winners split the $30,000 award.
Sponsored by Pacific Rim Voices, a nonprofit organization in San Francisco, the annual prize honors books published in the previous year that "encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations" of the Pacific Rim and South Asia.
The finalists in fiction were Karen Connelly for The Lizard Cage (Random House Canada), Amitav Ghosh for The Hungry Tide (Houghton Mifflin), Yiyun Li for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House), and Jess Row for The Train to Lo Wu (The Dial Press). The finalists in nonfiction were Gail Lee Bernstein for Isami's House (University of California Press), U Sam Oeur for Crossing Three Wildernesses (Coffee House Press), Oyama Shiro (translated by Edward Fowler) for A Man with No Talents (Cornell University Press), and John Vaillant for The Golden Spruce (W.W. Norton).
The judges in fiction were Lauro Flores, James D. Houston, Gish Jen, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Gail Tsukiyama. The judges in nonfiction were Janet Brown, Sally Ito, Laura Lent, Kathryn Olney, and James Rosenthal.


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Square Enix had a very Final Fantasy-heavy E3 showing, with news about Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, new media from Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster, and the reveal that Final Fantasy Versus XIII is now Final Fantasy XV. The studio also had surprises in store, including the announcement that Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Director's Cut is going multiplatform and that the next entry in the Kingdom Hearts series is well underway.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, the studio's upcoming revamp of their MMO Final Fantasy XIV, was announced for a 2014 release for PS4. With PC and PS3 gamers getting it this summer, Square Enix stated that they are in talks with Sony about plans to ensure that PS3 owners will be able to transition their accounts to the PS4 version at launch. Aspiring beta testers can sign up on the official site.
The PC and PS3 versions will launch on August 27, with the PC version carrying an MSRP of $29.99 and the PS3 version an MSRP of $39.99. A special Collector's Edition will be available at the Square Enix Online Store for both PC ($69.99) and PS3 ($79.99). After the initial 30-day trial, the game's subscription fee will kick in, with the cheapest plan running $12.99 a month.
The series proper will continue with Final Fantasy XV. Previously titled Final Fantasy Versus XIII, the fifteenth entry in the main line will be available for PS4 and Xbox One. Since development began, the game has been expanded to take advantage of the new technology on offer from the next-generation consoles. To help satiate fans, a trailer was released showcasing First Production Development Team's work thus far. The story follows the aftermath of an assault by Niflheim on the Kingdom of Lucis, with the kingdom in ruins and Crown Prince Noctis joining the fight to liberate his homeland.
The other Final Fantasy projects, X|X-2 HD Remaster (PS3, PS Vita) and Lightning Returns (360, PS3), are on track for release later this year.
Kingdom Hearts also had a strong showing. The studio led off with Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix, and followed with news that fans had been waiting to hear: the development of Kingdom Hearts III. Remix is a compilation of Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, Re:Chain of Memories, and HD versions of the cutscenes from 358/2 Days. Kingdom Hearts III, the next major entry in the series, will feature a "mature" Sora searching new Disney worlds for the seven guardians of light and the "Key to Return Hearts" with Donald and Goofy in order to stop Master Xehanort. Riku, meanwhile, will accompany King Mickey in his quest to find previous Keyblade wielders.
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix is scheduled to launch on September 10 for $39.99. Kingdom Hearts III has not been dated, but it will be available for PS4 and Xbox One.
Eidos Montreal revealed that Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director's Cut, previously exclusive to Wii U, will be launching for 360, Mac, PS3, and Windows PC later this year. To compensate for the lack of a GamePad to utilize some of the new touch- and second-screen features, PS Vita and SmartGlass will be supported. Gameplay content includes Tongs's Rescue mission and the Missing Link downloadable pack integrated into the main campaign, overhauled boss fights, refined balance and combat, and improved AI, as well as graphical enhancements and eight-plus hours of developer commentary. Deus Ex: The Fall, the recently announced Android and iOS follow-up to the Icarus Effect novel, was also on show.
Check out our review of the Xbox 360 version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution for more info.
Other titles on show were the upcoming Thief reboot from Eidos Montreal, the supernatural action-procedural title Murdered: Soul Suspects, and a new iOS release, Bloodmasque. The latter has an especially interesting feature that allows players to take a picture of their face and used it within the game's character-customization system. Bloodmasque will be available this summer for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
Official Site(s): Square-Enix.com – FFXV, FinalFantasyXIV.com, KingdomHearts.com, and DeusEx.com