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Right of cancellation
You may cancel your contract in writing (e.g. letter, fax, e-mail) within 14 days, without stating any reason. The cancellation period starts at the earliest after receipt of the corresponding notice, but only once the Customer has received all mandatory information pursuant to Article L. 222-17 of the Consumer Protection Act. Cancellations are to be sent to: Advanzia Bank S.A., 9, rue Gabriel Lippmann, L-5365 Munsbach.
Consequences of cancellation
In the event of a cancellation taking effect, services received by both parties and, where applicable, any benefits derived (e.g. interest) must be returned. If you cannot return the services received, either fully or partly, or only in a deteriorated condition, you must pay compensation for the value lost, where applicable. This may result in having to fulfil the contractual payment obligations until the cancellation becomes effective. Payments must be reimbursed within 30 days of sending your notice of cancellation.
Acceptance of early performance
I agree that Advanzia starts performing the contract before the end of the cancellation period.
End of cancellation information
General information based on the Distance Selling Regulations
Advanzia Bank S.A.9 Parc dActivité SyrdallL-5365 Munsbach
Tel.: 0800-8802120Fax: 00352-263875677
Register of Companies R.C. Luxembourg B109476VAT identification number LU 20992462
Main activity of the bank: The purpose of the business are banking operations and issuing credit cards.
Legal representatives: Marc Hentgen, Roland Ludwig, Gregor Sanner
Financeial regulatory authority: Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), 110 route dArlon, 2991 Luxembourg
Out-of-court complaint procedures: The Customer may resort to the complaint procedure provided for in Article 58 of the law of 5 April 1993, for the financial sector. Pursuant to this law, the financial regulatory authority is authorised to accept complaints from customers of the institutions it supervises and to deal with the complaint in view of an out-of-court settlement.
Contract language: The contract language is German.
Applicable law: Luxembourg law shall apply.
Deposit protection fund: The Bank is a member of the Fonds de Garantie des Dépôts Luxembourg (FGDL). The deposits are fully insured up to an amount of EUR 100,000. You can find the specific insurance conditions under www.fgdl.lu
Contractual features: The Bank will open a call account with variable interest rates on behalf of the Customer. Incoming payments are credited to the account, payments requested by the Customer are debited to this account. The Customer will make a binding offer to conclude a call money contract on the webpage of Advanzia Bank. The contract takes effect upon acceptance by Advanzia, subject to the verification of the Customer's identity. The contract continues indefinitely. There is no minimum duration. It can be terminated at any time without observing any cancellation period.
Prices, costs, taxes: The contractual use of the call account is free of charge. Please refer to the price list. Such investment may be liable to tax, in particular withholding tax and tax payable in the country of residence. The Customer must obtain the corresponding information and inform Advanzia Bank promptly in case he/she wishes to exercise any choice as regards his/her tax obligations.
General Terms and Conditions www.advanziakonto.com
The business relation between Advanzia Bank and its customers is determined by the General Terms and Conditions set forth below.
The Bank will open call accounts in euros for private customers that have been approved. Only one account per person will be opened. Such accounts will only be opened for persons above 18 years. Prior to concluding the contract for such an account, the Customer provides the Bank with specific supporting documents for the purposes of identification. The Bank may refuse to open such an account at its sole discretion and without stating any reason.
The Customer confirms they are acting in their own name and for their own account. Moreover, the Customer affirms and agrees to inform Advanzia immediately if they or a close family member are a politically exposed person or if they are known to be close to a politically exposed person or become one during the contract term.
1. Account keeping
Opening, keeping and closing the account are free of charge. This does not apply to court and out-of-court costs nor to costs incurred by third parties. If the Customer indicates an e-mail address, bank statements are sent by e-mail and/or made available to the Customer online. If bank statements are made available online, they can be consulted on a monthly basis. In this event, no paper statement will be sent to the Customer. Should the Customer nevertheless wish to receive paper statements by post, the Bank reserves the right to charge the corresponding postal fees to the Customer. The list of prices is available from www.advanziakonto.com. The Bank reserves the right to limit minimum and maximum investment amounts. Payments to call accounts are due daily. The account is managed on a prepaid basis only. Should there be, for any reason whatsoever, a negative balance at the Customer's request, the Bank may calculate a borrowing rate conforming to applicable rates. There is no fixed-term agreement. Transfers to the Customer's call account may only be made from a Customer's account held with a bank in the EU or EFTA countries. The Customer may dispose of the assets in the call account at any time. He/she instructs the Bank to initiate a transfer on his/her behalf to his/her bank account registered as the EU/EFTA reference account used to make the daily payments. The bank account management tasks consist in transferring money from and to the call account and in crediting interests as agreed on. A call account offers no other options. Specifically, it cannot be used or overdrawn for payment transactions (transfers, standing orders, direct debit orders, cheque cashing, etc.)
2. Interest
The Bank will pay interest accruing from the day when euro payments are made to the Customer's account. No interest is due on euro withdrawals as of the banking day of the withdrawal. Interest payments are precise to the day; interest is credited once a month. Interests are only paid for the predetermined minimum or maximum investment, respectively. The applicable interest rate is determined by the contract concluded by the Customer and the Bank. The interest rate is defined by the Bank on the basis of market conditions. The Bank is at liberty to adapt the credit and debit interest to money market rate fluctuations. Interest rate changes as well as applicable interest rates are stated in the Bank's price list.
3. Additional sevices
The Bank may offer other services with the call account. They are free of charge for the Customer.If additional services are offered which are subject to separate conditions and fees, the Customer is informed separately.
4. SecurityAll documents, assets or claims that the Customer has entrusted or will entrust to the Bank constitute ipso iure indivisible and preferential collateral in favour of the Bank to ensure the complete performance of the principal claims as well as of interests, charges and ancillary costs of all existing and/or future - including conditional and time-limited - liabilities and obligations the Customer has or will have towards the Bank. This specifically applies to claims made by the Bank towards the account holder for other products (e.g. credit card). The Bank cannot be forced to assign these assets. Should the account holder also have a credit card with the Bank, assets from the call account cannot be used to pay the balance outstanding on the credit card. Assets of the call account may serve as a guarantee for the credit card. Any decision related thereto is made on a case-by-case basis and at the Bank's sole discretion. In this case, the Customer agrees that the Bank will refrain from making any payments out of the call account up to an amount corresponding to open and due claims towards the Bank.
5. Bank notices
All information to be provided by the Bank can be made in electronic form (e-mail), via its webpage or in paper form. The Customer must therefore make sure that the Bank has a valid e-mail address or postal address and must immediately inform the Bank of any changes.
Unless otherwise agreed, the Bank will put all changes to the above-mentioned information at the Customer's disposal via the same media.
Notices served by the Bank shall be considered as delivered if they were sent to the last address given by the Customer in the manner agreed on. The Bank cannot be held liable for any damage arising from the Customer's non-receipt of any of the Bank's notices. The date stated on the copy or the Bank's mailing list shall be considered as the date of dispatch. In case a notice by the Bank is returned to the Bank with the note "addressee unknown" or "addressee moved", the Bank may keep said notice, as well as any other notices to be sent to that Customer address. In such cases, the Bank's duty to notify is deemed fulfilled, i.e. keeping the notice to be given to the Customer or storing it in an electronic data file that can be put at the Customer's disposal whenever he/she wishes. In accordance with the conditions described above, the Customer accepts the risk of receiving information belatedly.
If the Bank's notices are made available on the Bank's website www.advanziakonto.com, they are deemed to have been sent to the Customer one day after publishing them on the corresponding webpage. If one of the Bank's notices is made by referring, in one of their documents, to the webpage it was published on, such notice shall be deemed as having been sent to the Customer on the date of the corresponding document.
6. Form and execution of orders
All orders by fax, telephone, e-mail, electronic data transmission or any other means will be made by the Bank at the Customer's risk; the Customer shall bear the consequences arising from any misunderstandings or errors; this also applies in the event of orders being made by an unauthorised third party. Orders for which the manual signature was replaced by a means of personal and confidential electronic access, such as entering a personal identification number/PIN on a keyboard, or the electronic transmission of a password, such password shall be considered as the Customer's valid manual signature. The Bank will assume that the account number stated on any order to pay is correct and corresponds to that of the recipient given on the payment order.
7. Proof
The Bank's books, documents and data of any form are considered to provide probative value in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
8. Error correction
The Customer must inform the Bank of all errors that may be contained in the documents and statements issued by the Bank. If no objections are made within 30 days of sending the documents and statements, the information contained therein shall be considered as accepted by the Customer, except in cases of evident material errors. The Bank may proceed to correct the material errors at any time. Should the Customer not have received the documents, statements or other notices in connection with a particular business transaction within standard postal delivery time, the Customer must inform the Bank immediately.
In the event that the Bank has debited or credited an amount to the Customer's account, it will proceed to correct the factual error by crediting or debiting the corresponding amount.
9. Banking secrecy, data protection
Pursuant to pre-contractual and contractual relations as well as legal regulations, the Bank collects and processes the Customer's personal data for the purpose of gathering information about a Customer's identity. The Customer agrees to such information being transmitted to any partners that are necessarily involved in performing the contract. The client agrees that the Bank will use these data to perform its tasks and also, unless he/she disagrees, for the sale of its products and services. Pursuant to banking secrecy, the Bank shall treat all personal data confidentially and shall not pass them on to third parties, unless there are special legal regulations or the Customer's express request or a legally binding obligation of passing on information to third parties. In accordance with legal regulations, the Customer has a right to consult his/her personal data and have them corrected, where applicable. The Customer is entitled to authorise a third person, by means of the proxy form provided by the Bank, to make payments from the Customer's account and to obtain information about the account balance. The Customer will make his/her password accessible to the authorised person, inform the Bank accordingly and provide any further information at the Bank's request. With the power of attorney, the Customer releases the Bank from banking secrecy vis-à-vis the authorised person for the term and the extent of the power of attorney. The Customer may at any time cancel a power of attorney in writing. The Bank cannot be held liable for business transactions performed according to any such power of attorney prior to receiving written notice of termination of said power of attorney. Such power of attorney ends in the case of death of the principal or the authorised person.
10. Personal data, duty to inform
Full and up-to-date customer data are required to ensure the smooth running of the corresponding banking operations. The Customer undertakes to inform the Bank immediately of all changes of his/her data (e.g. address, e-mail address) and to provide any other information which the Bank requires as regards the business relationship with the Customer or which it has to collect for legal purposes. The Customer can refuse to pass such data on to the Bank, or can prohibit the Bank from processing the data electronically; however, this would render opening an account or continuing business relations impossible.
The Customer authorises the Bank to record telephone conversations and electronic communications and to keep such recordings, if necessary. No claims may be made for missing recordings or non-keeping of recordings in case of a dispute.
11. Termination
Pursuant to the agreements between the Bank and the Customer, for which no temporal restriction was defined, each Party may terminate the mutual relations at any time in writing (letter, e-mail, fax), without explanation and with immediate effect. When exercising this right of termination, the Bank will consider the Customer's legitimate interests.
12. Limitation of Bank's liability
In general, the Bank, in terms of its business relation, is liable towards the Customer solely in cases of gross negligence and wilful intent. The parties consider it as agreed that a person using a Customer's personal identification data is treated by the Bank as if they were the Customer. In this respect, the Customer shall be liable towards the Bank if the contract was used in a non-authorised way. The Customer shall not transmit any such information to third parties or shall immediately inform the Bank in case of loss. Any information communicated to the Customer is sent at his/her own risk. The Bank shall not be held liable for changes in customer data which were not communicated. The Bank shall not be held liable for errors that occurred when executing an order for which erroneous or imprecise instructions were received or as regards the consequences that may arise in connection with forged orders it was requested to execute. The Bank shall not be held liable in cases of forgeries and erroneous identity verifications of the documents submitted, unless there is gross negligence on the part of the Bank. Likewise, the Bank shall not be held liable if it has no knowledge of an error contained in the documents submitted, nor shall the Bank be required to check the continued validity of such documents. The documents submitted are returned at the Customer's risk. Moreover, the Bank shall not be held liable for damages arising from or in connection with any lack of legal capacity of the Customer, authorised persons, heirs, beneficiaries and assignees or the death of the account holder, as long as the Bank was not informed thereof.
13. Succession
In the event of a Customer's death, the Bank must be informed immediately by means of the corresponding death certificate. In the event of a Customer's death, the account is blocked automatically and any powers of attorney issued by the deceased in favour of third parties are cancelled. In the event that the Bank is not informed accordingly, it shall not be held liable for transactions made after the death of a Customer. To unblock the account in favour of the heirs or the beneficial owners, the Bank must be in possession of the documents regulating all aspects of the succession, as well as the written consent of the beneficial owners.
14. Contract modifications
The Bank reserves the right to modify these conditions, the type of services offered and the fee structure in order to accommodate and comply with any legal or statutory modifications, changes of market conditions or financial market usances. Such modifications are communicated to the Customer by an announcement via the Internet or by any other means of communication deemed appropriate by the Bank, such as a notice sent together with the statements or any other type of correspondence sent by the Bank. Such modifications are considered as accepted by the Customer if the latter does not object in written or electronic form within one month of any notification of the change, or if he/she does not terminate the contract.
15. Place of jurisdiction, disclaimer
All rights and obligations of the Customer towards the Bank are governed by Luxembourg law, unless expressly stated otherwise. The competent court is the district court of Luxembourg. Subject to a differing agreement, the registered office of the Bank is the place of performance of the Bank's obligations towards the Customer and of the Customer's obligations towards the Bank.
The Customer recognises that they are solely responsible for observing the laws applicable in their country of residence, especially as regards all direct and indirect consequences arising from opening and maintaining an account and the corresponding fiscal obligations. Solely the German version of these terms and conditions shall apply. In the event of discrepancies in other language versions, the German text shall prevail exclusively.
In the event that any of these provisions should be invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions thereof.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 30/8/2013 (1452 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Chocolate -- it's worthy of a food group all of its own!
Well, not really, but where does it fit?
Fruit? Technically yes, it is the fruit of the cocoa tree.
Dairy? At a push, yes. Fat? Hmmm, there is a lot of cocoa butter in it.
It's certainly not a grain or meat, but it could be a beverage.
It's definitely a dilemma. Let's just settle for the food group "delicious."
I have never settled for the ordinary, so let me push the boundaries of your taste buds on this one.
If you have not tried it yet, and it is all the rage, indulge in the following:
-- Milk chocolate (46 per cent cacao) with port or sherry.
-- Smooth dark (54 per cent cacao) with Champagne or Riesling.
-- Medium dark (60 per cent cacao) with Merlot or Chianti.
-- Extra dark (70 per cent) with Cabernet Sauvignon or Malbec or even better, sake.
Chocolate-dipped Parmigiano-Reggiano
100g (3.5 oz) Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (18-20 month old is best)
100g (3.5 oz) dark chocolate (60-70 per cent cacao)
Cut Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese into half-walnut-sized pieces.
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or in a bowl over simmering water.
Dip the cheese pieces into the melted chocolate using a fork. Let them dry on a sheet of parchment paper.
Serve as an after-dinner treat or as a cocktail with sake.


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Monaco Bay Packages
Enjoy New Year's Eve 2017 at Monaco Bay Piano Dueling Bar. Dine from the spectacular Grand Buffet. After dinner, prepare for the New Year with The Players and dance the night away. Enjoy access to many exciting, vibrant and connected NYE venues including Monaco Bay, Wild Bull Saloon, The Gatsby and Times Square on 2. The NYE Comedy Showcase is available as an add on. Join us for Kalamazoo's biggest and best NYE celebration.
Dining Packages
- The Grand Buffet
- Party Favors/Champagne
- Reserved Seating
- All Venue Access after 9pm
- Three Package Levels Available
- Admission to All Venues
- Party Favors/Champagne
- Optional Comedy Add On
- Optional Taco Bar
- Optional Coat Check
Late Night Tickets
- Admission to All Venues
- after Midnight
- Optional Taco Bar
- Optional Coat Check
- Open until 4am
Dinner Show Packages
Our Grand Buffet features a wealth of delicious options served up elegantly. Get your night started with The Players as they provide the backdrop for an exceptional dining experience.
Included in your Dinner Package…
- Hors d'oeuvres, Entree and Dessert Tables
- Party Favors
- Champagne Toast at Midnight
- Doors Open at 6pm
- Access to All Venues after 9pm
NYE Comedy Shaowcase, Late Night Taco Bar and Coat Check Options Available.
The Grand Buffet
at Monaco Bay Menu
For your New Year's Eve visit to Monaco Bay, consider elegant pre-show dining at our Grand Buffet. Our delectable offering features an array of appetizers, entrées, salads, vegetables, freshly baked breads and dessert selections.
- Charcuterie Boards: Salami, Capicola & Proscuttio
- Antipasto: Roasted Red Pepper, Fresh Mozzarella Balls & Olives
- Domestic and International Cheeses: Pepper-Jack, Colby-Jack, Fontina, Smoked Gouda, Blue Cheese Wheel
Assorted Freshly Baked Breads
- Fresh Baked Baguettes & French Batards
- Assorted Mediterranean Rolls including Roasted Garlic Kalamata Olive and Basil
- Fresh Herb Focaccia with Rosemary
- Piped Butter Display
Chavez Caesar
Freshly chopped Romaine with fried tortilla frills, roasted corn and red peppers with chili butter milk dressing.
Pear & Blue Cheese Salad
Mixed greens with pears, blue cheese, red onions, roasted nuts and honey dijon dressing.
Buffet Entrees
Roasted Prime Rib of Beef
Beef Rib-Eye rubbed with fresh sage and rosemary, roasted to mid-rare and served with Au Jus and horseradish sauce.
Chicken Duxelle
Seared chicken breast topped with a creamy mushroom Ragout.
Sesame Seared Filet Of Salmon
Salmon filet seared with sesame seeds and glazed with a garlic chili sauce.
Tri-Color Tortellini Primavera
Cheese stuffed tortellini served with sautéed vegetables and sun-dried tomato alfredo.
- White Cheddar Redskin Mash
- Jasmine Rice Pilaf
- Green Bean Almondine
- Candied Carrots
Mini-Mousse Shots
Including dark chocolate, creme caramel and raspberry/lemon.
Mini Dessert Bar and Brownie Assortment
Featuring salted caramel, cappuccino, peanut butter and irish creme.
Mini Cheesecake Bites
Drizzled with caramel, chocolate and raspberry.
Evening Packages
Enjoy access to the whole block and the multitude of offerings presented in Monaco Bay and throughout the Entertainment District.
Included in your Evening Package…
- Access to All Venues After Dinner
- Party Favors
- Champagne Toast at Midnight
- Doors Open at 6pm for The Gatsby. Please use The Gatsby entrance.
- Doors Open at 7pm for The NYE Comedy Showcase. Please use The Gatsby entrance.
- Doors Open at 8:45pm for Wild Bull Saloon, Retro Club and Arctic Square.
- Doors Open at 8:45pm for Monaco Bay and Times Square on 2.
NYE Comedy Showcase, Late Night Taco Bar and Coat Check Options Available.
Buy Your Tickets Here
Late Night Packages
Entry for late night only packages begins at Midnight. Enjoy access to the whole block and the multitude of offerings presented in Monaco Bay and throughout the Entertainment District.
Included in your Late Night Package…
- Access to All Venues After Midnight
Late Night Taco Bar and Coat Check Options Available.
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Entertainment: The Players at Monaco Bay
You know them and love them! They are The Players at Monaco Bay. Get ready to submit your requests and dance the night away to a premiere Kalamazoo nightlife entertainment fixture. The show can get raucous, humorous and a bit wild, but The Players are ready to lift you into the new year at the area's biggest and best NYE celebration.


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A TV movie slated to premiere later this year on Disney Channel, 'High' is an action mystery about King Arthur's legacy which is coming alive in contemporary world.
A new Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) is coming out and the first trailer has just been released. "Avalon High", a fantasy drama based on novel by Meg Cabot, is featuring "Life Unexpected" star Brittany Robertson as the lead character named Allie Pennington and "Wizards of Waverly Place" star Gregg Sulkin as Will Wagner.
Allie is ecstatic when her parents, traveling professors who specialize in King Arthur's legend, tell her she will be staying at Avalon High until she graduates. She can finally join the track team, make new friends and be a normal high school student. But shortly after arriving, Allie discovers that something strange may be afoot.
While researching a term paper on King Arthur's legacy, she begins to notice some interesting parallels between the past and the present - from handsome quarterback Will, his cheerleader girlfriend, Jen, and their best friend, Lance, to Will's brooding step-brother, Marco, a quirky kid named Miles and football players who act like knights of the roundtable.
The deeper Allie searches, the more convinced she is that her school is a contemporary Camelot, and it's up to her to solve the mystery of Avalon High before notorious traitor Mordred wins again.
No premiere date has been announced but it is expected to be within this year.


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Bring the ingredients down (2 cherries) and score 20,000 points in 50 moves.
1 star: 20000 points
2 stars: 55000 points
3 stars: 65000 points
The only way to beat this level is to clear through the blocks in the middle and shoots horizontal striped candies, mix a wrapped and striped candy, or mix a color bomb and striped candy. The first block on the side columns is 3 hits, the second and third are 4 hits and the last is three hits. So clear as many blocks as you can early on and make the horizontal ones as often as you can.
Here is a walkthrough video and tips for Candy Crush Level 181
Candy Crush Saga Level 181 Tips and Strategies
- Firstly you need to open up the central area, so its a good idea to work to the edges.
- Make a striped candy by moving a piece sideways to make a line of 4! The sideways striped candy helps to blast the two side columns.
- Once you've got some play area try for combos.
- Don't go for a spotted because it just doesn't help on this level
- You 'd rather try combos and ignore the columns
- The best thing to get is a stripe with a wrapped and make sure you place it correctly for the level you want to zap
Patricia Frederick's Tips on Candy Crush Level 181
The second and third blocks in the columns with the cherries have to be hit 4 times to be cleared. Horizontally striped candies will certainly weaken these blocks, but striped/wrapped combos really are the key…they will hit 3 rows in one shot. Color bomb/striped combos will be only be effective if there are sufficient candies in those targeted rows that match the striped candy.


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How important is the gaming press for indies really?
Before you read that I suggest you take a look at this post from Ryan Henson Creighton about the marketing push for Spellirium. I always find it fascinating when indies share some stats as it helps a bit to paint a more accurate picture of what it really means to be indie.
So you're back? So do you think press coverage is overrated and possibly even not needed/required for indies? Well even if the stats posted about Spellirium seem to point to this conclusion I still think press coverage is very important piece of the puzzle when you're trying to get on the gaming scene. Once you're there it then becomes a bit less important.
Direct communication with players
In a perfect world that's what you want and should aim for. It's never been easier to set up such environment may it be with a blog, Twitter, G+, Facebook, etc. You don't need the press for that and you don't want to have too many people between you and players.
What isn't easy though is to add a crowd to make these tools useful and relevant. And that's when the press gain it's importance. You need a starting point and even though press coverage is not all there is to become successful it do provide an opportunity for people to discover you. It provides some form of credibility to what you do. I can post tweets all day long but if people don't know I have a Twitter account it won't do much good.
Press coverage is a way to tell people "hey I exist" and then they can start getting news directly from you.
So I said it gives you some form of credibility and I recently had a pretty good experience showing this. I submitted Bret Airborne to Indie Royale (provided a review copy and the usual stuff a reviewer might need) and the reply I received was "do you have any reviews from main stream sites" …
So even if they could actually check the game themselves it's still important to have received some kind of recognition from the press. Maybe they use this fairly easy barrier to set up as a way to eliminate a bunch of games out of possibly hundreds of submission. Maybe there's another reason, I don't know. All I know is that I really wish some "main stream" website would review the game. The game received good reviews so far but nothing that appeared on "big websites" sadly.
Again there's nothing stopping you from contacting directly people who could spread words about your games and it might actually work but if your name sounds somewhat familiar it might helpful.
Getting the ball rolling
This is really why you want press coverage at first. If you're lucky some people with access to a large crowd will find interest in getting news directly from you and will then share it.
The way I see marketing it's like a big control panel with way too many buttons on it. At least that's how it looks like when you start or have yet to find your "breakthrough game". The more you release games the less buttons there is on the control panel if you're trying just a bit to reach out to others. The goal is to get to that point where the "press" button disappear from the control panel. You can still put it back but it's not required.
If you're really lucky you might even get rid of the control panel and just get some attention by sneezing. Very few get to that point however so it'd be silly to put that as an objective. Just get the control panel to an understandable state and it should be fine.
Other ways
Yes there are other ways but then it depends on who you are, where you come from, what have you done in the past, who you already know. When you have no previous link with games when you start you do want the press.
For example if you've been writing about games for some time you probably already know a bunch of people that will help to get the word spread so press coverage is less important. If you're a french Canadian web developer for example you might know slightly fewer people related to the world of gaming. Just an example
Another example that might show that press coverage is less important is the game RedShirt. They are backed by Positech who already has a track record about releasing successful indie games and is helping to get the game some attention. Last I checked @cliffski had almost 5,000 followers on Twitter so when you immediately get access to this kind of crowd I'm guessing that it's quite helpful.
So while press coverage doesn't seem to provide impressive results as seen on the Spellirium post just denying it's usefulness is just taking a huge shortcut that's inaccurate.
I'd say the best thing would be to get some help from already successful indie devs but failing that the press is still relevant (and might help to get the attention of these indie devs you seek help from). And keeping in mind my Indie Royale example I can only say I'm about right about this.
I haven't talked about what kind of game one release here as of course I think we all agree that you first need a "good game" whatever this is. I don't believe in the "if you build it they will come" thing as it would be like saying that all games that didn't sell are all bad and again it seems like quite some thinking shortcut.
Back in the day I considered very important a good review by good old Game Tunnel. However, these days I don't see any equivalent – that's true also for distribution, eh. Game Tunnel (news, reviews) and Reflexive Arcade (distribution) were, in my opinion, essential to the indie scene. These days everything is so fragmented in a multitude of blogs, channels, portals, etc!


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Barbecue Sausage Bites Recipe
- 1 package (16 ounces) miniature smoked sausages
- 3/4 pound fully cooked bratwurst links, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 3/4 pound smoked kielbasa or Polish sausage, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 1 bottle (18 ounces) barbecue sauce
- 2/3 cup orange marmalade
- 1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks, drained
- 1. In a 3-qt. slow cooker, combine the sausages. In a small bowl, whisk the barbecue sauce, marmalade, mustard and allspice. Pour over sausage mixture; stir to coat.
- 2. Cover and cook on high for 2-1/2 to 3 hours or until heated through. Stir in pineapple. Serve with toothpicks. Yield: 12-14 servings.
Nutritional Facts
4 each: 327 calories, 22g fat (8g saturated fat), 53mg cholesterol, 980mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate (19g sugars, 1g fiber), 11g protein.
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"I made these for a work potluck and everyone asked for the recipe. I consider that a success! It seemed like a lot of sauce so I added both the kielbasa and polish sausage and there was still enough sauce."
"Will be making this one again! I made this for a group of ladies at a Christmas gathering. I made the sauce the day before and just kept it in the refrigerator until ready to put the dish together. Then I added the sausage and let the slow cooker do all the work. My husband loved the few leftovers, especially the pineapple."
"This is a crowd pleaser! I sometimes add pre-cooked pop-corn shrimp to it - Wonderful. I also like to put sliced brown or baby bella mushrooms in mine. Again wonderful! You can also alter kind of sausages used - I like to add sweet Italian sausage, and beer brats. If you want a something with a little kick try hot Italian sausage. Very versatile dish and leans itself to multiple version and I haven't had a variation that wasn't a hit so far! When you add the extra items item like lb of Italian sausage or shrimp be prepared to adjust the sauce accordingly. The addition of cup and 1/2 slice mushrooms doesn't seem to cause too much of a problem."
"Have made this so many times-it's so easy and everyone requests this at our get togethers."
"This dish is delicious. I've made this twice and I will be making it again. Everyone at my family Christmas party loved it."
"My husband and family really enjoyed this appetizer. I will be making this again."
"Have made this for A small party and for A large get together and always am asked for the recipe.It is delicious once you make it you will always be asked to bring it."
"I made this for a small get together. The smell while it was cooking as fabulous. Adding the pineapple at the end really sets off and makes a nice addition to this dish."
"After I brought these sausage bites to an event, one woman liked them so well that she subscribed to QC magazine."
"This is delicious! I used sweet apple barbeque sauce in it... yum. I recommend it!"


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The Optimal Duration of Equity Joint Ventures
Whilst joint ventures offer a potentially attractive form of corporate and industrial organisation, they also experience high rate of break-up within ten years from their initial formation. In this paper, we model this process not as an uncertain random event, but rather as the predictable outcome of underlying economic variables, with break-up within a finite time resulting even under conditions of complete certainty. Given the prevalence of joint venture break-ups, it is in the interests of both partners in an equity joint venture to be fully aware of their own optimal durations of the joint venture in their initial negotiations for the formation of the equity joint venture. Where the underlying economic parameters imply differences in their individual optimal durations of the joint venture, there is therefore scope for mutually beneficial agreements on a binding date for the break-up of the joint venture, and for side payments to enable this binding agreement to be reached, either as cash payments or in terms of their relative shareholdings in the jointly-owned separate company that will manage the equity joint venture. In addition, there is scope for a differential corporate tax rate on the joint venture, compared to that on the go-it-alone businesses of the two partners, in order bring the two partners' privately optimal durations into line with the socially optimal duration of the joint venture.
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When a stock hits a new high in low , readers often see one of two descriptions in IBD.
"A new high in low volume is a sell sign," readers are told. Other times, it's noted that "you can't expect a new high in strong volume every day.
Does this sound contradictory
In most cases, the difference between the first description and the second description is context.
A true sell sign is sort of like a raccoon in the attic. If you have a raccoon in the attic, that means you probably have baby raccoons in the attic. Ignore the problems, and the racket and the damage will grow.
Other sell signs are less urgent.
So, how do you distinguish between the lesser and the greater sell signs
One way to determine the nature of a sell sign is to look closely at the stock for other problems. A troubled stock seldom has just one problem. In most cases, a thorough examination of a troubled stock will find other problems that may have slipped your attention until now.
This means that if you spot a new high in low volume, you should study the chart for earlier signs of trouble.
Let's look at Precision Castparts (PCP) in late 2007 to early 2008. Suppose you bought shares when the stock broke out of a cup-with-handle base on Oct. 24, 2006, clearing a 67.39 .
The stock more than doubled in the next 11 months. But on Sept. 21, 2007, the maker of complex metal components hit a in mildly below-average trade. (1) Was the new high in low volume worrisome, or not such a big deal? This was the time to look at the chart more closely.
The stock had been consolidating since August 2007, but the pattern was late-stage and sloppy. Two weeks on the left side showed 25 and 26 point ranges between the highs and the lows (best seen on a weekly chart).
These were the largest weekly point spreads in the entire run, which constituted sell signs.
If an investor didn't sell, he or she at least should have been watching for more sell signs. They came. The stock made in below-average volume on Sept. 24, 25 and 26. (2) More sloppy action followed until the stock eventually cut under its 200-day moving average, which is usually a late sell sign. (3) From there, the stock lopped off an additional 30 points. By March 2008, it fell 42% from its 160.73 peak.


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Jonathan Toker smiles during his 116-mile race through the Colorado Rockies. Photo submitted
Malibu resident Jonathan Toker won the 2014 TransRockies Trail Race with a time of 16 hours 54 minutes 28 seconds.
The 116-mile running event takes place in the Colorado Rocky Mountains over six days. Approximately 400 runners started the race.
Toker was sponsored by his company's brand, SaltStick.
"Training in the local Malibu hills was key to preparing for the 20,000-foot climb," Toker said.


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By Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge dismissed a firefighter's lawsuit over New York City's decision to allow an Islamic cultural center and mosque to be built near the site of the September 11 attacks, a ruling his lawyer said on Monday would be appealed.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Paul Feinman on Friday granted the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission's motion to reject the suit by Timothy Brown, who survived the attacks nearly 10 years ago.
U.S. conservatives and many New Yorkers have spoken out against the proposed center in lower Manhattan near the site where the World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed.
The project generated intense national debate last year, drawing in President Barack Obama, who initially seemed to endorse the center but later said he only supported the organizers' right to build.
The judge rejected the firefighter's claim that he would be unable to properly commemorate September 11 with the mosque nearby.
"Mr. Brown's claim that his ability to commemorate will be injured, is not yet recognized under the law as a concrete injury that can establish standing," the judge wrote. "Such an injury, although palpable to Brown, is immeasurable by a court."
The preservation panel last August denied landmark status to the building that will make way for the planned 16-story, $150 million center. Construction has yet to begin.
Brown's attorney, Brett Joshpe of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), said on Monday that an appeal would be filed within weeks, an action that could extend the legal battle over the mosque for years.
"This decision fails to give appropriate consideration to first responders and others who risked their lives and lost loved ones on September 11th," Joshpe said. "If Mr. Brown does not have standing, then who does?"
The ACLJ, founded by U.S. conservative Christian preacher Pat Robertson, argued at a hearing in March that the site should be deemed a landmark because it was struck by the landing gear from one of the hijacked planes flown into the World Trade Center.
The case is Timothy Brown v NYC Landmarks Preservation, New York State Supreme Court, County of New York, No. 011344/2010
(Reporting by Grant McCool; Editing by Daniel Trotta)


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North Dakota marker reminder of historic road
HAYNES (AP) -- History is sometimes subtle. Fieldstone rubble marks where a house once stood, or wind whistles through a schoolhouse boarded up when the children disappeared.
In Haynes, history not only stands oddly upright, it's painted in garish curb-stop yellow.
This strange obelisk evokes a "What in the heck is that?" reaction, standing so casually as it does under a grove of cottonwood trees smack dab in the center of the mostly empty town. On close inspection, the thick oil paint swabbed on decades ago looks like a living thing, perhaps a lichen of a color never before seen in nature.
Haynes, for those who've not been there, is a tiny dot on the North Dakota map. It's located about seven miles east of Hettinger and enough south to make it kissing kin to South Dakota.
The obelisk marks a time when humble Haynes had bragging rights. It was where the nation's first cross-country trail for automobiles entered the state on its torturous journey from coast to coast.
The trail dates back to about 1912, or so, when "Flivvers," or "Tin Lizzies" were newfangled contraptions, frightening horses and women and causing suspender-wearing, plow-share iconoclasts to swear they'd never have one.
The Yellowstone Trail, entering at Haynes and exiting North Dakota west of Marmarth, was conceived by South Dakota businessmen to provide an east-west route to the coasts and especially to the fabled geyser country of Yellowstone National Park, established in 1872.
Chapters of the Yellowstone Trail Association were formed by forward-thinking town and country boosters who wanted to welcome these new auto tourists. They held work days, building the trail along public section lines. They cleared rocks and trees, graded a surface and put in culverts to drain rain and snow.
The old trail maps show sharp 90-degree corners, marked by signs, yellow bands on utility poles, or stone monuments like the one in Haynes. Those sharp corners have long since gentled into the curves on Highway 12 through the area.
Hettinger area historian Francie Berg says she knows of only two other stone monuments along the Yellowstone Trail's 103-mile course in North Dakota.
Both are in Hettinger; one on the corner of Main Street near the Chamber of Commerce office, where a gasoline filling station once was, and another further west in Hettinger near the C&N Cafe. Neither is yellow anymore, she said.
She said the old-timers told of taking teams of horses and wagons out to the buttes in search of rounded pieces of sandstone that had dislodged from horizontal formations.
Stood upright, daubed with yellow paint back then, these three stone monuments have endured nearly 100 years now.
The Dakota Buttes Museum in Hettinger has an exhibit that tells the trail's story and its members plan to place interpretive signs at the stone monuments. "More and more people are following the trail. We want to help them find the monuments," Berg said.
State Historical Society reference specialist Greg Wysk grew up near the trail, in nearby Lemmon, S.D., and says folks around "grew up knowing about it."
He wrote a college paper on a Yellowstone Trail bridge across the Missouri River at Mobridge, S.D., that proved to be much too low after the Oahe Dam was built.
"It was really the first named highway across the United States," Wysk said. "From Chicago west, it was very well known."
Wysk suspects other old trail markers ended up in farmers' yards, were vandalized, or were moved off section lines in later years when people no longer knew their significance.
Federal Highway Act(s) of 1916 and 1921, a system for numbering highways dating to 1925 and the Depression all contributed to the end of the Yellowstone Trail and the association, which folded in 1930.
It is somewhat ironic that the muddy ruts of the Yellowstone Trail, winding through prairies, across creeks and streams, were perfect terrain for the gas-guzzling, 4x4 SUV with hydraulic suspension and six-ply tires that might pull up to those old monuments today.
For those who have trouble even imagining that first, long-ago road, an odd looking obelisk in Haynes still stands to tell the story.


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EXCLUSIVE: The Playboy Club co-star Naturi Naughton has joined the cast of Lifetime's upcoming drama series The Client List as a series regular. Based on the network's 2010 original movie, the Sony TV-produced series stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as Riley, a Texas housewife who, after being deserted by her husband, ends up running a massage parlor, The Rub, which offers more than back rub. Naughton will play a new character, Kendra, a beautiful, hard-working masseuse at the parlor. Actress-singer Naughton, who co-starred in the 2009 feature remake of Fame, played Black bunny Brenda on NBC's short-lived Playboy Club.
Naturi Naughton Joins Lifetime's 'Client List'
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Seriously? There is a pattern with the roles this young woman is scoring that I don't like.
She's had two turns as a Playboy Bunny, and now she's in a role in which she doles out happy endings? But she is playing no ordinary black girl stuck in illegal sex work, no. She is a "hard-working" masseuse. Huh??
I know that the roles are scarce for black actresses and I'm very happy to see her working, but how are these the only viable roles out there for her? What is her agent's problem? What is Hollywood's problem?
I am guessing you did not see her turn as Lil Kim in Notorious… Your panties would be more than bunched about her type-casting. They would be shrink-wrapped.
Need to talk to the agent on that one. Methinks the fact that since there is a job available, she advised her client to take it.
Ummm…this girl is not type cast. Naturi keeps doing her thing and she is a great actress who is working! Me personally, Im happy for her and I think that she deserves her success. I saw her in Notorious and she killed it…she added so much complexity to Lil Kim. Keep shining Naturi!
So Awesome! I think she is so beautiful and talented!!! She just doesn't stop working!
So happy for her…everything she does she does it well. Beautiful&talented…I think she is the next hollywood "it" girl.
Ms.Naughton might want to have her agent working on another gig. The Client List is being heavily campaigned against by licensed massage therapists. We will not rest until this proposed TV show is pulled before it even airs.


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Friday 4 November: Opening Our Classrooms To The Real World – an Academic Initiative and an invitation to parents. Dear Wynberg parents, old boys, affiliates and friends As a staff, we are constantly searching for innovative ways to bring the best possible education to our learners. Arising out of a recent strategy planning session, we […]read more
Thursday 3 November 2016: three months to the day that shook the school as flames burst through the top floor of C-Block. Now with Matric and final examinations on the go, Wynberg Media asked Mr Jacques Groenewald, Wynberg's Chief Finance & Governance Officer, to update us on the construction and refurbishment of the gutted classrooms. "The new, […]read more
Friday 21 October 2016: the annual Prefect Induction Ceremony was held in the Clegg Hall, ushering in the new student leadership for 2017. The ceremonial handing over of blazers by the outgoing prefects to the new leaders was followed by the solemn Prefect Declaration: Proudly, yet humbly, and mindful of the responsibilities I must bear, I […]read more
Thursday 20 October 2016: No fewer than six Wynberg Old Boys have seen first-class action for their respective franchises and provinces during the course of the preceding week. Travis Muller (1st XI captain/Class of 2011) and Kyle Verreynne (Class of 2015) have been in Oudtshoorn representing Western Province in a Sunfoil Three-day match vs SWD. […]read more
Concert in the Quad: Thursday 20, Friday 21 & Saturday 22 October 2016 Started only a few years ago, this has now become a very popular event in the calendar for all age groups. The concerts will take place in the Jowell Quad, from Thursday 20 October to\Â Saturday 22 October. Boys have been practicing for […]read more
PRIZE LIST – OCTOBER 2016 SPECIAL PRIZES AND AWARDS ENGLISH WRITERS' COMPETITION (Senior) – Nicholas Moss BEST SPEAKER'S PRIZE (Senior) – Tim Gertzen EPWORTH MUSIC SOCIETY PRIZE – Service to Music – Siyawabuka Sineke. Siya has been involved in every single music activity that Wynberg offers. He is a member of the Choir, Vocal Ensemble, Concert Band, Steel […]read more


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Day 1: Drive from Tana to Antsirabe. The guide will pick you up from your hotel in Antananarivo and you will start driving towards the South. As soon as you leave busy Tana, you can start enjoying the pretty views. The road lingers through the hilly terraced highland and after 70 km you will pass through the village of Ambatolampy, where you can visit an aluminium pot atelier. After lunch we will continue to Antsirabe. As soon as you enter the town the roads are buzzing with colorful pousse-pousse (rickshaw). This is the town to explore craft shops and it is also an important industrial center, mainly for its beer breweries and dairy factories. Hotel: Soa Guesthouse.
Day 2: Visit Antsirabe and surroundings. This day we will see the sights in and around Antsirabe. In the morning we will visit the volcanic lake Tritrivia. Tritrivia's waters are surrounded by steep cliffs and fringed by pine trees. Very strange fact: the water level rises in the dry season. If you like some exercise you can cycle out there with a mountain bike. Bring a picnic lunch or enjoy lunch looking over the lower Andraikiba volcano lake. In the afternoon you can visit some craft shops of your choice and take a ride in a pousse-pousse. Hotel: Soa Guesthouse.
Day 3: Drive to Miandrivazo. Today we drive towards the West and leave the highland to meet the Tsiribihina River in Miandrivazo. We will eat lunch on the road and after checking in the hotel you can explore the town and take a stroll along the river that will accompany you the next three days. While you enjoy the scenery, your guide will prepare the departure for the next day. Hotel: Le Gite.
Days 4-6: Tsiribihina river trip. We leave early in the morning after loading the canoe with our luggage, food and water. We begin our calm water river journey on the majestic Tsiribihina River, using traditional boats made out of one trunk of wood (pirogue). Those trees are endemic to Madagascar or the region. Nowadays pirogue builders are rare as more and more motorboats are coming up. The trip is slow and you can relax, but if you like some exercise you can help the boatmen peddle. Sit back and enjoy nature passing you by. The peace and quiet of the meandering river is amazing, spot the birds and if lucky the lemurs, watch the herds of zebu drinking and villagers busy at everyday chores, wave back to the children running after the canoes along the banks. Before nightfall we make our camp on the riverbank and enjoy the campfire, a good meal and a sky full of stars.
During the three days you will pass through diverse landscapes, isolated natural wilderness, reminding you how far away you are from home. At the end we pass the Gorge of Bemaraha with its steep rocks before we stop at Anosin' Ampela, a wonderful waterfall where we can refresh ourselves. We will see dense vegetation along the riverbanks, towering cliffs and baobab forests. Water birds, fruit bats and lemurs will accompany our journey. We say goodbye to the boat men in Tsaraotana, where we will be transferred by ox car to the nearby village. Two nights in tent, meals are served on the shore; Campsites on the Tsiribihina River are usually large sandbars with smooth and clean tent sites. Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner. One night in Antsiraraka Hotel: Tanamasoandro.
Day 7: Drive to Bekopaka. A 4x4 car will come to pick you up in Antsiraraka to bring you to Bekopaka. You will meet the Tsiribihina River again and cross it with a ferry to continue the road going north to Tsingy de Bemaraha. Hotel: Tanankoay.
Day 8: Visit Tsingy de Bemaraha. This enormous UNESCO World Heritage Site protects the largest of Madagascar's Tsingy limestone plateaux and its wildlife. It have built impressive walkways for the park's circuit, because of the chaotic razor-sharp pinnacles. There are cable robes, rocky steps, steel ladders and even a suspension bridge over one of the canyons.
You can also visit an underground world with caves and rivers and the majestic canyon of the Manambolo River. Beside all these landscape features there are about 100 species of birds, most notable the critically endangered Madagascar fish eagle, 60 reptile species, 20 frog species and of course lemurs. The dry forests of Bemaraha contain the white sifaka, red-fronted brown lemur and the rare grey bamboo lemur as well as nocturnal woolly and mouse lemur. Hotel: Tanankoay.
Day 9: Drive to Morondava. After a rewarding visit of the Tsingy we descend towards the South. Crossing the Tsiribihina and continuing all the way to Morondava. You will arrive in Morondava in the evening. It is a long drive, but we will visit many things along the way. We will explore Kirindy national park, with a sheer abundance of baobabs and lemurs. This is the best site in which to look for the fosa, Madagascar's largest carnivore.
Towards the evening we will visit the Baobab Amoreux, two entwined baobabs hugging each other, and the Baobab Avenue. We will enjoy the stunning sunset here, because the lowering sun casts beautiful shadows and colours on the baobab trees. After experiencing this fairytale sunset we drive the last 20 km to Morondava and check in at our beach hotel where you can enjoy some good seafood. Hotel: Trecicogne.
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The TACH Report: Here Comes the U.S. Grand Prix, New Model for Honda, USAC Turns Down, NASCAR Lashes Up
4 February 1998
King Bernie Ecclestone, head of all you survey in Formula One, has worked out a deal with Long Beach G.P. (CART) impresario Chris Pook (who is also a Brit) to handle stateside activities regarding bringing a Formula One race to the U.S. in two years. Pook worked with and held F-1 races at Long Beach 20 years ago until they got too expensive to conduct. Chances are the U.S. G.P. will not be at the Long Beach street course, but maybe at Road Atlanta, Houston streets, Vegas streets or Laguna Seca, which has an ingress and egress problem. Honda is pretty happy with sales of its CR-V line and adding a two-wheel drive version and a 5-speed manual transmission option for 1998. Prices are: CR-V 2WD LX $18,350 CR-V 4WD LX 5-speed $18,750 CR-V 4WD EX Automatic $21,050 Rumors of a merger between USAC (open wheel) and NASCAR have been laid to rest: the two sanctioning bodies could not come to agreement. Instead the venerable United States Auto Club passed a resolution to work closer with Tony George, the guy that kicked USAC out of IRL and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Big, upscale automotive event planned for the Dana Point, California area come next September 11-13: Already a very ritzy part of Southern California, a charity concours and yacht regatta will take place oceanside at the Ritz Carlton hotel, featuring 200 cars, 50 luxury yachts, a gaggle of tall ships (the Pilgrim is moored nearby), and a dynamite fireworks extravaganza. It's all to assist charities such as Child Help, USA, The Boy Scouts, Orange County Register charities and others. The honored marque for the concours is Rolls Royce, and to cater to your ears, the music of David Benoit. For your palate, two chefs directly from France will cook. Be there! Vintage car authority Keith Martin says the new Beetle is real cute and should bring a lot of money. The first ones may go at auction for twice their worth, but in one year they will most likely be discounted. IROC has announced that four more drivers have been added to this years field: Arie Luyendyck, Tony Stewart, Al Unser, Jr, and Jimmy Vasser will join the fray. The Daytona 500 is coming up, and all eyes are on Ford. Will the blue badge guys run the unproven Taurus or go back to T-Birds? The Taurus has clocked 190.609 in practice. Big recall going for GM trucks because of brake problems. When the dealer can't fix it, Generous Motors is buying them back. Tony Stewart ran in all the classes at the Copper State Classic in Phoenix yesterday: midgets, sprints and silver crown. Injured IRL driver Davey Jones was at Walt Disney World last week for the IRL race and says he hopes to be well enough to compete in the Indy 500. At Disney World only one Infiniti engine appeared. It was mounted in Dr. Jack Miller's car, and even though the good Doctor says the mill now has 60 more ponies and is 40 pounds lighter, race officials were heard over the car-to-car radios telling Miller to get out of everyone's way or bring the car in and quit. The Paris-Dakar World championship rally is over and Mitusbishi took the first four spots. In F-1 activity Damon Hill will have a very competitive team mate in the person of Ralf Schumacher on the Jordan team. Millionaire Don Panoz of Panoz sports car fame and owner of Road Atlanta has inked a pact with the organizers of the LeMans 24 hour race, which could shake up Pro Sports car and the new USRRC. We may see LeMans qualifying races at Road Atlanta. It may be called "Petit LeMans 1000". We told you about the 12 cylinder VW unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Show. This supercar may see the light of day and will be priced at $170,000...for a VW? We keep hearing from researchers that the most popular car color s green. Next time at a stoplight count the green cars. Nada, Yet, DuPont now says medium dark green is preferred by 17.5% of new car owners. White is next at 17%. Bright red is 4%.. Bill Maloney -- The Auto Channel


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Driver who hit dog should have stopped
Saturday, Aug 16, 2014 06:00 am
Monday evening at the intersection of Giroux Road and Dufferin St., we witnessed a large white SUV hit a dog who looked lost as she wandered into the intersection. The driver of the SUV callously sped on his way, not stopping to see how the severely injured dog was.
What did this driver leave in his wake? If he would have looked back, he would have seen every other car stop; he would have seen people who obviously love animals and who will rush to their aid, get out of their vehicles and run to help.
My husband jumped out of our car, ran into the middle of the intersection, gathered up this beautiful dog in his arms as she yelped in pain, carried her out of traffic to the grassy boulevard and gently laid her down there. I petted her glossy head and spoke softly to her to calm her as she succumbed to her injuries.
Her owners should know that she was surrounded by compassionate and caring people as she breathed her last, and she was not left alone to die in the street. Even in death, she was treated with dignity as someone covered her with a blanket.
Thank you to those �good St. Albert Samaritans� who took the time to care for and comfort this dog as she lay dying.
To the driver of the SUV, slow down on Giroux Road; it is still a city street, not a highway, and you share it with children and animals. I can�t help but wonder if it had been a child that you struck, would you have stopped or continued on your hurried way?
Patricia Drapeau, St. Albert


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Universal Display Corporation has shipped 8 of their wrist-worn OLED displays to the military for testing...
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That's what I was thinking...
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"The device may not have a specific purpose at this time" Hook this bad boy up to a UAV it would be like real life hacks. That and the US Army contact-lenses with FPS-like HUD would be "unstoppable!" and "god-like!". I could just see the Iraqis, Afghanes, and or Pakistanis calling our l337 troops hax0rz.... http://www.megagames.com/news/
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They've been revamping the site over at Moo. I don't like to blow my own trumpet, but when I saw my work on there, looking so good, I felt quite proud. It's mad to think of how this adventure all started, all those posts ago. I'm excited to see where else it'll take me.
Check out Moos revamp HERE (the stickers are cute TOO).
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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
The plaque marking the location of St. Paul's Central Park, now the site of a parking lot at 54 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 2014. Photograph by Paul Nelson.
The last known photograph of St. Paul's Central Park in use as a park, 1960.
St. Paul's Central Park, c.1956. Its view looks south along Central Park Place West; the former Blood mansion is in the foreground.
Aerial photograph by R.E. Nielsen of St. Paul's Central Park, c.1955. The scuffed open space is the much-degraded Central Park. Near the top, the Minnesota Historical Society and Mechanic Arts High School.
Building the wading pool in St. Paul's Central Park, 1929. The view is south-southeast. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press.
Tinted photographic postcard on paper. Its view faces northwest across Central Park toward the (then new) State Capitol, c.1915.
Looking northwest across the park, c.1900. The turreted house near the center is, or are, the Hardenbergh and Blood mansions, a double house designed by Clarence H. Johnston. To the right, at the north end of the park is the Uri Lamprey house, which predated the park. The west wing Minnesota Judicial Center now occupies that site.
Photograph of Central Park Place East, with the James Humphrey House and the Gustave Schurmeier rowhouses, c.1900.
Photograph of St. Paul's Central Park fountain, c.1898.
Looking south across the park, 1898. The big apartment building is the Macey. The steeple belongs to Central Park Methodist Church.
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ESPN.com Interview with Mike Olson
There's an awesome interview over at ESPN.com about the new Lib Tech Surfboards. There is also some great video of our shop in Seaside the day the boards were delivered, along with some other local footage including surfing down at Shortsands.
From ESPN.com
On June 21, Lib Tech co-founder Mike Olson made the drive from Mervin Manufacturing to the Cleanline surfshop in Seaside, Ore., to personally deliver the first batch of Lib Tech Waterboards. It was a big day for Olson, for a couple of reasons. You see, he used to work at Cleanline, as their ding-repair dude back in the early 1980s. You could say that's where he got his start.
Check out the full article over at ESPN.com


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Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Levi Kreis, E. Faye Butler and More in SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE at Arena Stage
Smokey Joe's Café-The Songs of Leiber and Stoller transports audiences to the golden age of rock, rhythm and blues this spring at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Director Randy Johnson returns to Arena Stage following the success of A Night with Janis Joplin (which enjoyed two runs at Arena Stage followed by a subsequent run on Broadway) to helm this Grammy Award-winning tribute to legendary songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, which originally opened on Broadway in 1995 and became the longest running musical revue, topping 2,000 performances. Bursting with hit tunes including "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Stand by Me," "Love Potion #9" and "On Broadway," Smokey Joe's Café showcases choreography by Parker Esse (Arena Stage's The Music Man, Oklahoma!) and music direction by Victor Simonson (Center Stage's A Civil War Christmas, Arena Stage's 3 Mo' Divas) and runs April 25-June 8, 2014 in the Fichandler Stage.
BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal below!
The production features the previously announced Tony Award winner Levi Kreis (Broadway's Million Dollar Quartet) and Helen Hayes Award winners E. Faye Butler (Arena Stage's Pullman Porter Blues, Oklahoma!) and Nova Y. Payton (Signature Theatre's Dreamgirls, Hairspray). They are joined by D.C.-area performers Jay Adriel, Austin Colby, Ashley Blair Fitzgerald, Michael J. Mainwaring, Stephawn P. Stephens and Kara-Tameika Watkins.
Led by Simonson on piano, the band for Smokey Joe's Café features James Davis, Jr. (keyboard, Assistant Music Director), George Hummel (tenor and baritone saxophone), Steven Walker (guitar), Dan Hall (bass), Danny Villanueva (percussion) and Carroll Dashiell III (drums).
The creative team for Smokey Joe's Café includes Set & Projection Designer Caite Hevner Kemp, Costume DesignerIlona Somogyi, Lighting Designer Dan Ozminkowski, Sound Designer Carl Casella, Wig Designer Anne Nesmith, Assistant Choreographer Jessica Hartman, Stage Manager Kurt Hall, Assistant Stage Manager Christi B. Spann and Musical Contractor Rita Eggert.
Photos courtesy Arena Stage.
Director Randy Johnson, Artistic Director Molly Smith and cast member Levi Kreis
Cast members Stephawn P. Stephens, Nova Y. Payton, Michael J. Mainwaring, Kara-Tameika Watkins and Jay Adriel
Cast member E. Faye Butler, Associate General Manager Marissa LaRose and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie
Cast member Ashley Blair Fitzgerald, Choreographer Parker Esse and Assistant Choreographer Jessica Hartman
Cast member Levi Kreis and Director Randy Johnson
Cast members Jay Adriel and Nova Y. Payton
The Cast of SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE
The Cast and Creative Team of SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE


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The E. Haldeman-Julius Collection
E. Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951)
Sir Allan Lane (left), founder of Penguin Books, Ltd.,
visits E. Haldeman-Julius, editor of the Big and Little
Blue Books, at his Girard, Kansas, farm.
This collection contains the private library, correspondence, business records, and realia of E. Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) and his wife, Marcet Haldeman-Julius (1887-1941), with a nearly complete collection of their publications, the Little and Big Blue Books, newspapers, and magazines. Manuscripts approximate one-third of those known to exist, the rest deposited at the Lilly Library (University of Indiana) and the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. The collection is completely processed. Literary rights are held by the publisher's estate.
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A book of condolence has been opened by Coleraine Borough Council for long term serving councillor, Alderman James McClure, who sadly passed away last week.
Mayor of Coleraine, Councillor George Duddy, said: "James McClure was very well known and respected throughout the Borough.
"He served the people of Coleraine tirelessly for thirty seven years as a Councillor, Mayor and Deputy Mayor while serving on numerous committees.
"By opening this Book of Condolence we are giving the people of Coleraine and beyond the opportunity to extend deepest sympathies to James' family and show how much he was thought of by us all.
"If anyone would also like to send letters of condolence to James' family, I would be more than happy to receive these at Coleraine Borough Council's, Civic Headquarters in Cloonvain and I'll ensure his family receive them - he will be sadly missed.
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Decision makers
- Federal Communications Commission
- National Geographic Channel
Take Doomsday Preppers off the air for slaughtering live animals.
This is important because I do not support the senseless killing of innocent animals, nor do I want to be shown this on primetime television. Tonight, December 4, 2012 I saw I live goat being killed by a man and what looked to like his 10 year old son, with his other 4 year old son watching. They slit the goat's neck while it screamed. A few weeks ago I also watched a man decapitate a live chicken with his children watching. We all pay for our cable and should not have to witness blood and guts of live animals when a show is on doomsday prepping, not killing anything.
There's something wrong if you can't swear on TV, but you can see a live animal crying in pain and it's neck opened wide and blood and guts all over the place. I'm horrified, angry, and sad. Please join me in making TV safe for everyone. This is not appropriate television for the masses.
*WARNING* This is horrifying and will make you feel sick and disgusted. Watch at your own risk.
View the episode here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dviQLJf9cSY Go to 24:18 on the timeline.
*UPDATE* Found a new link to another video. Hope NatGeo won't be cowards and take this video down as well. If you do I'll just find other links.
National Geographic took the video off Youtube citing copyright infringement. It's still out there and you still aired this content on national TV. Disgusted!
- Federal Communications Commission
- National Geographic Channel
Take Doomsday Preppers off the air for slaughtering multiple live animals on TV and issue a public apology statement. The general public shouldn't have to see this when they are trying to be entertained. Blood, screaming, anguish and senseless killing have no business being on my TV in my living room.
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Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake
READY IN: 45mins
Recipe by looneytunesfan
From Taste of Home
Top Review by cookin mimi
WOW!! This was a really good dessert!! I made it today and it was a big hit. Really tasty! I did make one modification, I put a chocolate ganache type topping on it. It is a definite "make again" recipe! thanks for sharing.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (12 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 (9 inch) chocolate cookie pie crust
- 6 chocolate-covered cherries
Directions See How It's Made
- Drain maraschino cherries, reserving 2 teaspoons juice. Cut cherries into quarters; set aside. In a small mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar and reserved cherry juice. Add eggs; beat just until combined. Fold in chocolate chips and reserved cherries.
- Pour into crust (crust will be full). Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool on a wire rack. Serve with chocolate-covered cherries.


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Spin Master Toy Transforms from Helicopter to Jet
When the chance for him to try the new Spin Master Air Hogs Switchblade came along, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get him into the hobby. The Switchblade is part helicopter, part plane. It takes off by rotating like a helicopter, but once it's up high enough, you hit the Morph button to cause the wings to align--and it then flies like a plane.
Once you remove the Switchblade from its box (which includes, naturally, those annoying wire-ties), resist the urge to throw away the packaging. One part of the Switchblade looks like packaging material, but you'll need it to assemble the launch base; I had to retrieve it from the trash.
The remote control requires eight triple-A batteries, which are not included. Once we got the batteries installed, we began to charge up the Switchblade. It took about 30 minutes to charge, which gave us time to read the instructions.
We first attempted to fly the Switchblade in our backyard. This was a bad idea; the heli-plane needs to be flown in a football field or larger area. In the backyard, the Switchblade took off from its launching base, but as soon as we morphed it into the plane, it flew into the trees.
At the football field, my son let the Switchblade lift off high into the air. When it was about 20 feet off the ground, he hit Morph. The Switchblade's wings aligned into place. While it did this it dropped down a few feet and then leveled itself.
Using the right joystick, my son was able to steer the Switchblade left and right. He quickly learned that the best way to control the Switchblade was to give it constant throttle in order to keep it in the air and also to give it tiny control inputs. Pushing on the right control too drastically would cause the Switchblade to spin to the ground.
This toy really took a beating. We crashed it into the ground at least 10 times, but there was little damage: some dents in the wing, but nothing that would affect its flight.
My son really enjoys the Switchblade. "It's fun to learn to fly," he told me. Not being afraid to damage it seems to make all the difference in the world.
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Chrono Trigger (SNES)
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SummaryTime! There's so little and so much of it...
The GoodReleased at the twilight of its prolific home system's life, Chrono Trigger was created by an all-star team assembled by the big names of Square and the makers of Dragon Quest. To this day it remains one of the most beloved Japanese RPGs - and one of the few that gained considerable respect from the more hardcore PC-centric people of the West.
Chrono Trigger was obviously put together with a lot of thought and care. Everyone likes time traveling, and the designers made an excellent decision by turning it into a concept that serves the story as well as the gameplay. It makes the game particularly tight and cozy, since no convoluted plot devices are longer needed to justify the motley setting, and hopping from location to location doesn't feel stale in the least. In Western RPGs you need time to adjust and get used to one large location; but Japanese RPGs are merry kaleidoscopes of self-sufficient areas, and Chrono Trigger understood it, embraced it, and turned a weakness into a strength through the power of its design.
As the game opens up, you learn to appreciate the subtle touches with which it tries to challenge the genre's major weakpoint - linearity. Chrono Trigger is by no means a free-roaming game, but it does give you some very interesting choices. You can, for example, go and fight the final boss even before the "required" plot events have been completed. Depending on the time of that decision the game will reward you with a different ending. It is so cool and simple that I'm surprised how come other games haven't thought of this.
At a certain point, the player has to decide whether to kill an important character or to let him join the party; at another point, he has to rescue the main character, but he can also choose not to do so and to confront the final boss without him. After the game is finished, a New Game+ option becomes available: keeping all the items and the stats from the previous game, you are whisked to the beginning and can choose to fight the final boss very early in the game (which was previously impossible because the characters were much too weak), adding more possible endings to the list.
The game makes a great opening statement by eliminating one of the most annoying building blocks of the genre - random battles. The rest of the gameplay is simple, elegant, and effective. Each party member has unique skills (called "techs") and magic. After spending some time fighting together with another character, he or she learns "double techs", which are possible to execute only when both characters are ready to perform an action. If three people have learned appropriate single techs, they can learn an even more powerful triple tech, which requires all three characters to be available. It is interesting to experiment with different party members and try out various double and triple techs. The game is very fluent, locations change all the time, regular enemies are not annoying, and due to finite encounters there is always plenty of time for exploration once an area is cleared out.
The heroes travel through seven different time epochs, witnessing pseudo-historical events and participating in various conflicts. They visit the Stone Age, with its cavemen and anachronistic dinosaurs; Ice Age, where the Earth is deserted and the world is controlled by a race of mysterious magicians; typical medieval fantasy with their noble knights, kings, and queens; a grim, dark post-apocalyptic world of ruins, where humanity dwells in isolated "domes" and the planet is possessed by an evil outer force, and so on. The variety keeps the game constantly fresh and is complemented by a good plot with fleshed-out characters and a few really nice twists.
The BadThere is a definite "light" edge in the game that may not be to everyone's taste - the characters lack the immediate emotional impact of their Final Fantasy brethren, and you won't encounter certain "grown up" topics that were more or less seriously treated in its great contemporary. I can imagine the game can be qualified as "childish", but I'd rather go with that than the pretentious pseudo-philosophical material the genre grew to like with time.
I'm therefore fine with the setting and the plot, but I'd appreciate more challenge and perhaps a bit more depth in basic gameplay mechanics. I feel that Chrono Trigger could have been more open to experimentation and irregular features. The small size of the overworld maps is an alarming symptom to me: locations are accessed with too much ease, and you can't get lost. The dungeon-like areas themselves also tend to be too neatly arranged, too well-measured. Most items are placed too conveniently, and resource management plays next to no role. You won't even need to discover the game's optional content because techs can be learned very quickly and battles won with minimal effort.


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Luke Tipple Capture Interview
Video: Luke Tipple on His "Unique" New Show, Capture; It's Being Compared to The Hunger Games!
Host and marine biologist Luke Tipple stopped by to tell us about his adventurous new show on The CW, Capture. Many people have even compared it to The Hunger Games. He shared what it was like to actually swim in the open water with sharks and told us all about his cool Shark Week project. He's a brave man.


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The application layer provides application programs that a robot can execute. Examples of application programs include those needed to perform such prescribed maneuvers as avoiding obstacles while moving from a specified starting point to a specified goal point or turning a robot in place through a specified azimuthal angle. Each robot is provided with application software representing its own unique set of commands. The software establishes a graphical user interface (GUI) for exchanging command information with external computing systems. Via the GUI and its supporting interface software, a user can select and assemble, from the aforementioned set, commands appropriate to the task at hand and send the commands to the robot for execution. System software that interacts with the R4SA software at all three levels establishes a synchronized control environment.
The R4SA software features two modes of execution: before real time (BRT) and real time (RT). In the BRT mode, a text configuration file is read in (each robot has its own unique file) and then device-driver-layer, device-layer, and application-layer initialization functions are executed. If execution is successful, then the system jumps into the RT mode, in which the system is ready to receive and execute commands.
One goal in developing the R4SA architecture was to provide one computer code for many robots. The unique executable code for each robot is built by use of a configuration feature file. The set of features for a given robot is selected from a feature database on the basis of the hardware and mechanical capabilities of that robot. Recompilation of code is straightforward: modifications can readily be performed in the field by use of simple laptop-computer development and debugging software tools.
This work was done by Hrand Aghazarian, Eric Baumgartner, and Michael Garrett of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The software used in this innovation is available for commercial licensing. Please contact Karina Edmonds of the California Institute of Technology at (626) 395-2322. Refer to NPO-41796.
This Brief includes a Technical Support Package (TSP).
Robust Software Architecture for Robots (reference NPO-41796) is currently available for download from the TSP library.
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More travellers to and from China helped Sydney Airport to record a 4.7 per cent lift in passenger traffic in November, the airport's majority owner
MAp says international passengers at Sydney Airport rose by 4.3 per cent in November, compared with the prior corresponding period.
Meanwhile, the number of domestic travellers increased by 4.9 per cent.
MAp chief executive Kerrie Mather said Sydney Airport recorded "solid growth".
"Particularly pleasing was the strong performance of the Chinese market, which was driven by additional weekly services by Air China, China Southern, China Eastern and Cathay Pacific," Ms Mather said in a statement.
She said Chinese inbound travel to Sydney grew by 32 per cent and Australian outbound travel to China increased by 39 per cent in November 2010, compared with the same month a year ago.
MAp Group owns 74 per cent of Sydney Airport and also holds stakes in Copenhagen and Brussels airports.


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More Dudley children achieved five or more GCSEs graded A* - C, including English and Maths, than ever before, according to national performance tables published today (Thursday February 23).
The results showed 59.7 per cent of Dudley pupils achieved five or more GCSE grades A* - C, including English and Maths. This is up from 56.1 pre cent, making these results the best ever.
Councillor Tim Crumpton, Dudley cabinet member for children, libraries and lifelong learning, said: "These are impressive results, which clearly demonstrate how hard our young people and schools are working. It is a tribute to the professionalism of our teachers and we are working hard with them to get all of our schools to the same standard.
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Are You a Shopaholic?
Since so many of you consider shopping a form of therapy I thought you could benefit from a new test that determines whether or not you're considered a shopaholic. Since compulsive buying is linked to low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and stress, it's a good idea to determine if you should be leaving those credit cards at home!
As we all know, there's a difference between buying and over-the-top spending, which has the ability to wreak havoc on your life. Those who are considered compulsive buyers spend money on things regardless of the need for them or what's in their bank account, and according to Kent Monroe, a marketing professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Compulsive buying is an addiction that can be harmful to the individual, families, relationships. It is not just something that only afflicts low-income people."
To see what this test entails,
This shopaholic test includes six statements, and the subjects are asked to answer on a 7-point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree.
- My closet has unopened shopping bags in it.
- Others might consider me a "shopaholic."
- Much of my life centers around buying things.
- I buy things I don't need.
- I buy things I did not plan to buy.
- I consider myself an impulse purchaser.
Those that score 25 points or higher would be considered shopaholics. While there needs to be more research to properly identify this diagnosis, this test is a pretty good start. So to all of you that consider shopping a great way to clear your head or relieve stress, tell me, do you consider yourself to be a compulsive spender? Or do you think you have your shopping completely under control regardless of your emotional state?


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Kobe's Korner
Latest Kobe's Korner Podcast
UFC 190 Photo Gallery
The Cage Report reporter Alina Parau and photographer Roger Tang were on location in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night during UFC 190: Rousey vs. Correia. Watch the photo gallery from the weigh-ins and the fights below.
Aldo releases statement, pulls out of title fight
After some encouraging news that it was only a bruised rib, UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo officially pulled out of UFC 189, which will take place on July 11th in Las Vegas, after releasing x-rays to prove his injury is in fact a broken rib.
Aldo also released a statement bashing his would-be opponent McGregor and somewhat mocking the interim title now up for grabs.
Check out the full statement, released by Aldo, below:
For three months, I trained three times a day. I invested my time and money, bringing training partners from Brazil and other countries, to do the best training camp of my life so I would be ready to defend by belt for the eighth time on July 11. Unfortunately, I fractured my rib during a training session, which I can prove from an official medical report, and besides trying my best to fight, I was forced the other way and that made me really sad. Only I, my family, coaches and teammates know how hard I worked to represent Brazil again.
My decision was made in respect to the UFC and the fans that today see me as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. I couldn't fight without being 100 percent physically and with a rib injury that could get worse if I got hit in the ribs. Many people told me to fight anyway because of the money I could make, but I wouldn't sell myself for any money, no matter how much. I fight for love and I do it for my country. Money comes in second place, it's like a shadow: when you try catching it, you can't, but when you move forward, it follows you. Money ends some day, but legacy and things you do becomes part of the history, and that's what I value the most.
I'm the UFC champion since April 2011, defended my belt seven times in four years, and will do it for the eighth time in 2015, an average of twice a year. And I'm not even mentioning WEC, a Zuffa-owned company, like the UFC, where I became the champion in 2009 and put my belt on the line twice in less than a year. That why I can't agree with UFC's decision to have an interim champion in my division citing the five opportunities that I couldn't defend my belt.
If those fights had occurred, I would have done 12 title fights in four years in the UFC, an average of three fights a year, something that no other UFC champion did. A UFC champion rarely does three title defenses in one year. So that can't be the main reason why they are creating an interim title, but the UFC is a private company which I work for, so I can't complain about its decision, but I can't say I agree either.
As of my opponent, who told me to step up and fight like a man, I can't say anything about a man that imitates a TV series character (Travis Fimmel, from Vikings). That's really who he wanted to be, because he's probably ashamed of being who he really is, so he imitates his lines, his style and this actor's tattoos. He's an artist, but not from martial arts, but cheap comedy. It's disrespectful with the actor, and with real athletes. He should look for a stage and not an Octagon. The Octagon is my kingdom and there's place for only one king, which is me. If he wants to participate, he can be the joker he already is.
If he beats Chad Mendes, the only thing he will have is a toy belt to show his friends, drunk in his country's bars, because that's what an interim belt represents to me: a toy. I am the champion.
McGregor will now face Chad Mendes for the interim title.
UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Romero – Staff Picks
Tonight's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Romero event takes place in Hollywood, Florida, and will play free on Fox Sports 1 (main card – 10pm) and Fox Sports 2 (prelims – 8pm). Below you can see The Cage Report's staff picks.
All staff members have Machida (22-6) beating Romero (9-1), Carlos Junior (4-1) beating Gordon (7-3), and Santos (10-3) beating Bossé (10-1); Paul, Alina, and Rob agree on Larkin (15-4) beating Ponzinibbio (20-2) but Roger has the underdog Ponzinibbio taking the win. Paul is the only staffer picking Makashvili (7-1) winning over Dias (22-3). Make sure to watch the fights tonight to find out who will win.
Middleweight – Lyoto Machida vs. Yoel Romero
Paul: Lyoto Machida
Alina: Lyoto Machida
Roger: Lyoto Machida
Rob: Lyoto Machida
Welterweight – Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Lorenz Larkin
Paul: Lorenz Larkin
Alina: Lorenz Larkin
Roger: Santiago Ponzinibbio
Rob: Lorenz Larkin
Middleweight – Antônio Carlos Júnior vs. Eddie Gordon
Paul: Antônio Carlos Júnior
Alina: Antônio Carlos Júnior
Roger: Antônio Carlos Júnior
Rob: Antônio Carlos Júnior
Middleweight – Thiago Santos vs. Steve Bossé
Paul: Thiago Santos
Alina: Thiago Santos
Roger: Thiago Santos
Rob: Thiago Santos
Featherweight – Hacran Dias vs. Levan Makashvili
Paul: Levan Makashvili
Alina: Hacran Dias
Roger: Hacran Dias
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The oil fields of tomorrow
Treehugger points us to two stunning, government-funded animal-product innovations: in Japan, "a one-hour heating and pressuring process allows cow faeces to produce vanillin, the main component of the vanilla-bean extract," and meanwhile on the other side of the world, "a Wisconsin company has successfully tested technology that converts cheese waste into ethanol," for your new green biodiesel auto.
Obviously both of these processes could be made a lot more efficient, environmentally-friendly, and humane by removing the cow from the equation entirely, not to mention various biohazardous issues. But that wouldn't subsidize the cow husbandry industry, would it?
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