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There are only a few activities available for friends to do in Metro Manila. We usually just hang out by eating at a restaurant. However, there is a new craze here wherein group of friends or family can solve a mystery in a room. Read More
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On January 5, 2015
There are only a few activities available for friends to do in Metro Manila. We usually just hang out by eating at a restaurant. However, there is a new craze here wherein group of friends or family can solve a mystery in a room. Read More
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On November 17, 2013
While we were walking along the Fort last Sunday after dinner, we checked out the Lego Miniland. Oh boy, seeing the exhibit brought me back to my childhood. I wished I was still young so that I can enjoy every bit of the displays, the toys, everything!
I know Lego is good for all ages. However, it would be nice to have most of your weekends and summer playing lego all day long. I don't have that luxury anymore because I love to do so many things. So games with lego is out for me.
That's why I felt it was a great treat to walk around the Lego Miniland at the Bonifacio High street. We stopped by for around 15-20 minutes. I took some photos, admired most of the toys on display, and had some sentimental moments while I was at it, haha!
The highlight for me is the figurines on display. All of them were built with lego. There were community of figurines as well that looked so colourful and so lively! I'm sure every one would enjoy looking at them.
Star Wars fans would love this exhibit as most of the big lego figurines are a tribute to the franchise. Life-size Darth Vader, who wouldn't want it, right?
I think Darth Vader 'lego' version is taller than me. Take note, every single piece of it was made of lego except for the red sword. You should really check it out. My picture don't do justice. It's way prettier in person!
Of course, other popular characters of Star Wars won't be absent. They're so cute, aren't they?
I must say that the brain behind this Lego Miniland at Bonifacio High Street must love Star Wars so much that he/she even have a complete setup of Star Wars! It features popular scenes in Star Wars. Coolness galore!
Lastly, Lego is not only for boys but also for girls! Look! A life-size Olivia! This particular figurine was made of 2,000 to 3,000 pieces of lego. According to news, they completed setup of Olivia in 2-3 days.
If you feel inspired and would want to build figurines like this in the exhibit, Lego sells beginner packs as well as advanced ones.
The Lego Miniland exhibit runs from October 26 to November 24, 2013. Free entrance. You still have one more week to go. Make sure you bring your cameras and the inner child in you 🙂
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On February 15, 2012
I've been seeing tweets posted by friends sharing their scores at Temple Run. At first, I ignored them. However, more and more people are tweeting about it. I became curious! What is Temple Run and why is everyone tweeting about it?
So I checked out the link to one of the Temple Run tweets. Then I found out that Temple Run is an iOS game! I immediately downloaded Temple Run and played for a few minutes. I realized then that I couldn't stop so I played and I played till I got a decent score that I could share with friends.
Temple Run is basically just a simple game. The character you're playing, a hero, gets his hands on the treasure but has to run his way through a maze in order to get out alive. It's an endless but exciting game. If you have an iOS device, I suggest you download it. I have to give you an early warning that Temple Run is addicting 😛
Current Temple Run players can only brag about their high scores. But wait, I have some good news to Temple Run addicts in the Philippines!
Beyond the Box, an Apple Premium Reseller in the Philippines, is holding a Temple Run Tournament. They are giving away prizes for daily and weekly winners. Plus, weekly winners will have a chance to compete at the Ultimate Run where they could win an iPod Touch 32GB! How cool is that?
See Gaming Mechanics as follows (Promo runs till March 3, 2012):
No purchase is necessary, just go to any Beyond the Box branches (Rockwell & Resorts World), approach their staff about your participation to the Temple Run tournament and play your way for a chance to win cool prizes!
Posted by Nick Yap Cugtas On October 24, 2010
The game of solitaire is no doubt one of those games that gets shot down just because of all the games available out there especially to gamers. Even when it comes to card games it is often underrated just because we dont have long lines at the casinos for people wanting to play this game.
But for an old school person such as myself, I relish its simplicity, and sometimes it acts as a way to clear my mind.
It's definitely a game of patience, but mostly a game to just calm you down a bit. Heck, Solitaire is also called Patience in different parts of the United States, just not here in Michigan where I am.
But honestly, especially because we definitely live in more hectic, stressed, and busy times, sometimes a game of solitaire is just what we need to get us back to a more calm state of mind. And I still contend it's defintely one of the more nice games out there. It's a classic!
I've recently come back to this game only because I honestly don't play that much anymore, but I found myself just wanting to relax the other day, and lo and behold I came back to solitaire. If you don't know what solitaire is and how to play, first off I would have to ask where you've been, second thing is that I would implore you to go and play right away.
There are many different variations to solitaire which makes it suitable to many people. In fact, you don't really need a deck of cards because most laptops and computers already come loaded with games such as solitaire. The variation that is the most classic of them all is actually a solitaire game called Klondike, but which most people refer to as just solitaire.
In the image above, this is what we call the initial layout. The setup is quite easy. From a deck of 52 cards, you take the first card and lay it face up, then dealing from left to right, you place the next six cards face down. Then you start with the second column, with that card face up and the remaining 5 columns with the face cards down (again dealing from left to right). You continue in this manner until you get the setup shown above.
What you see in the upper right corner are your foundations which become the receptacle for the four suits of cards (hearts, spades, diamonds, clubs). Each foundation must start with the Ace then move higher up to the King. When you have filled up these foundations according to the suits, then you have won the game.
During game play, what you see in the upper left corner is where the rest of the cards are placed (those which have not been used yet for the initial layout). You deal in groups of three, such as what you see in the image above. This is the traditional way of dealing and playing Solitaire, and by far, in my opinion is the hardest. Dealing by groups of three is hard, because you don't get to use all the cards for game play right away, and can only use the top card when it is dealt, thus the two cards below the top card cannot be used, unless the top card is used first. Usually, you are able to deal indefinitely, in groups of three, until you have either won or there are no more moves to make and in which case you have lost.
But as I said, even the classic solitaire has variations, and usually these variations deal with how you deal the cards in the upper left corner to use during game play. These variations include dealing the cards one by one, having unlimited passes through the deck, limiting the passes to just one, etc.
The actual game play itself is pretty straightforward. The point is to basically build piles that are in sequential order but in order of alternating colors. You can move parts of a pile or entire piles provided that it fits the sequential order and are still of alternating colors. You can move piles into empty spaces provided that it contains a King as the base of the pile.
You continue in the manner of dealing in groups of three, filling up the foundations starting with the Ace, positioning your piles to sequential orders of cards that are alternating in color.
In the picture above, this is usually the point where the game is certain, and you basically know that you have already won. This is by far the most fun turning point in the game since you start filling up your foundations in terms of suits. You need not think of your moves any longer since at this point it's just a matter of route and you've won already.
Hard to explain, but definitely easy to play. Sometimes, all these games out there, the more new and very realistic games out there, the role playing games, and others, they really can be too stimulating when sometimes all you need is something to relax you. The great thing about Solitaire is that you can easily pick it up anytime and most games don't take too long, which is another reason why it's a flexible way to get your game fix.
Honestly, there really are a number of positives to playing a game of solitaire, or maybe I'm just too old school for my own good, whatever it is, I'm hoping I've converted a few of the readers out there, or maybe I've reminded some of you just how fun it can be to play.
Nick is Rochelle's fiance. A blogger, Filipino, engineer, financial adviser, former business owner, and a lover of life. He loves to read, meditate, listen to classical music, and talk current events. Boring to most, interesting to a few.
Posted by Pabs Yambot On August 9, 2010
How do you improve on Starcraft, the top selling computer game of all time? How much time do you take to develop the sequel? How do you improve on one of the pinnacles of computer games and its genre real-time strategy games? This is after all a game that has an almost universal following in South Korea, where its top players are feted like rock-stars or top footballers; a game used by the US Air Force to teach officers about crisis management, a game whose tactics is taught in UC Berkeley.
Is 12 years- an eternity in computer gaming- worth the wait? Consider, in that span of time, we've had three Philippine presidents- FVR, Erap, GMA, Noynoy, three Olympics: Sydney '00, Athens '04, Beijing '08, four football (soccer) world cups- France '98, Japan- Korea '02, Germany '06, South Africa last month. Following the Moore's law, we now have 64 times more transistors for CPUs now compared to the then state-of-the art PIII chips in 1998.
Was it worth the wait? Is it worth the not inconsiderable P 3,500 (Datablitz) price tag, for just one campaign- Terran- at that? Yes and more. Hesitant to shell out P 500 for pre-ordering, even with the dog-tag and Starcraft 2 shirt incentives, and a little surprised by the price, all these concerns, and the long wait seemed trifling once I started playing.
The campaign resumes a mere four years after Starcraft's Brood War finishes. Jim Raynor's raiders are still in a low-intensity conflict against Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. The latter considers Raynor as the #1 terrorist, evident from the TV news coverage shown between missions. Zerg, Protoss are relatively calm, but, as will be seen soon enough, this is more a quiet before the storm. Massing Zerg swarms, the scattered yet recovering and still powerful and immemorial Protoss, rumors of Xel'Naga artifacts all mean the uneasy peace will not last.
Jim, reunited with ex-con veteran Tychus Findlay, will soon be caught between Mengsk's army and fleet, fanatical, die-hard Protoss and the Zerg led by Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades. Old ally Zeratul does a surprise visit, sharing a crystal that unlocks visions, and Protoss missions. Other unlikely allies, hardened mercenaries, branching decision points in technology investments and mission choices, make this campaign much more compelling than other RTS games and provides some (albeit limited) replay value.
All 26 missions are challenging at the 'normal' level. Carrots for points made me replay several scenarios to get more points. Examples of bonus achievements include destroying a prototype battle cruiser, rescuing all isolated allies and finishing a day-night hunt (where Zergs ruled the night, Terrans the daytime) in five nights. One of the most difficult is the secret mission, unlocked in the Media Blitz mission, which pits Raynor and a select squad of marines against a top secret bio-weapons facility. Other hero led missions with Raynor, Tychus, even the Dark Templar Zeratul, make for engaging breaks from the more typical resource gathering, force assembling and defending and eventual assault.
New Terran units such as the heavy assault mechanized walker- Thor and the Macross-like transforming Viking (aircraft to walker) rounded out the Terran forces. Old favorites such as the ghost or equivalent spectre, battlecruisers and tanks make Jim or Mengsk forces more than a match for isolated or straggler Zerg or Protoss units. Protoss and Zerg units have also been updated, with the former's powerful Reaper being replaced. Kerrigan's swarm, on the other hand, has been reinforced by a powerful mind-controlling ability, able to control any unit.
One, not exactly minor concern is a Blizzard confirmed bug that can overheat graphics processing units. A workaround is available, to limit the screen refresh rate. Fortunately, I've been playing with an external fan and air-conditioning. Of the 30+ hours played, I've encountered two crashes, where my PC just froze. Barring those, wait times and performance in my two year-old Windows 7 PC was fine.
This is one of the best PC games I've played in a long while. I can recall some milestones in computer games I've played- Civilization, Masters of Orion, X-Com, Diablo, Starcraft. The latter is a landmark, and builds on top of all of the great real-time strategy games forged by Dune 2 and followed by Warcraft II.
Some critics complain of SC2 being stuck in time, of not evolving beyond the original gameplay. That's a very minor quibble. Just as Godfather 2 didn't break new ground but simply improved, polished and built on an incredible original movie, SC2 doesn't break new ground but polishes to a high sheen, updates the graphics and gameplay to the 21st century. Just as X-Com's dated early 90's EGA graphics do little to detract from the underpinning extremely addicting gameplay, so does SC2's reuse of working elements, updated after an eternity (or Blizzard has once again come up with a masterpiece. Anyone into computer games should add Starcraft 2-Wings of Liberty to his or her library.


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Joe Saunders not by the numbers
By Shannon Drayer
Some things can't be measured by statistics. We can learn a lot about a player by the statistics but the intangibles, the immeasurables need to be picked up by the eye. I know what Joe Saunders is on paper but I saw and then learned much more about him earlier this week.
At Yankee Stadium they do something somewhat odd in that they allow player/team guests to exit the field by walking directly in front of the visitors' dugout. At just about every other field I can think of on field guests are only allowed behind a rope behind home plate. At Yankee Stadium you will often see the guests stopping for a bit right alongside the dugout railing.
Tuesday while the team was stretching a family stopped in that spot and watched the players. Joe Saunders broke away from the team stretch and came up to the family and gave the mother a big hug. They talked and laughed for awhile and clearly were happy to spend time together. When I ran into Saunders in the clubhouse the next day I asked about what I saw.
"Those were friends of mine that took in some foster kids," he told me with a smile.
He seemed ready to leave the conversation at that but when I remarked about what a great thing that was for them to do he shared a little bit more of their story.
Saunders told me the children has been horribly neglected and abused and that they were discovered when the eldest brother was found rummaging for food in a dumpster.
As he told the tale it began to sound familiar. It dawned on me that this is what he was talking about. The four New Jersey children had been so horribly starved by their adoptive parents that their growth had been stunted. When authorities rescued the child found in the dumpster they believed he was about ten years old as he was just four feet tall and 45 pounds. He was 19.
Fortunately, the story had a good ending as the children were taken away from the abusive parents. Three of the four were fostered and eventually adopted by James and Amber Parrish.
"We flew them out, brought them to the park, sent them to Disneyland for the first time," Joe told me.
I asked who "we" was, assuming he was talking about his former team the Angels. I was wrong. Joe and his wife Shanel did it on their own.
Joe and Shanel were no strangers to giving back. They had done numerous charitable things in their baseball communities including hosting disadvantaged or sick children at their ballparks. They had heard about the story of the Parrish family in Joe's final year with the Angels and decided that they wanted to give them a once in a lifetime experience. They have kept in contact with the family who were guests of Joe's at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday.
There was no press release about this. If I hadn't asked, I wouldn't have known. Obviously this was about Joe seeing some old friends and giving them the opportunity to spend some time on a big league field and not drawing attention to himself. Still, as long as you know that Joe is left handed, has a home ERA of 0.94 and a road ERA of 12.54, a K/9 of 3.80 and a FIP of 5.03 you might as well know this too.
The Mariners have a good guy taking the mound Saturday in Cleveland.

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Double-murder retrial of former death row inmate begins Monday in Kitsap County
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Darold Stenson sits with attorney Sherilyn Peterson during a status hearing in Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles. -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
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The former Sequim resident — whose 1994 conviction for killing his wife, Denise, and business partner, Frank Hoerner, was overturned in 2012 — will be retried in connection with their deaths beginning with jury selection at 9 a.m. Monday in Kitsap County Superior Court in Port Orchard.
A modified change of venue was granted by Clallam County Superior Court Judge S. Brooke Taylor because a Kitsap County jury will pass judgment but he, not a Kitsap County judge, will preside over the trial.
In his ruling, Taylor cited "substantial" publicity surrounding the 20-year-old case and "inflammatory" statements by public officials.
Stenson, 60, who once sat on the state's death row in Walla Walla, will be tried on two counts of first-degree aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and Hoerner at Stenson's Kane Lane exotic-bird farm.
The state argued he had killed his wife to collect life insurance and murdered Hoerner to avoid paying a debt and to blame Hoerner for his wife's murder.
A Sheriff's Office investigation showed Hoerner had been beaten, then shot, according to court records.
Stenson said Hoerner may have shot Denise Stenson, then shot himself.
His conviction and death-row sentence were upheld by the state Supreme Court in 1997.
But the court overturned his conviction 12 years later.
In an 8-1 decision, the court ruled that photographs, including one depicting a Clallam County sheriff's deputy wearing Stenson's bloody pants with a pocket turned inside-out, and an FBI file were "wrongly suppressed" — not provided to Stenson's defense team — until 2009, long after Stenson had been scheduled to be executed.
"Stenson, in our judgment, has met his burden of showing that there is a reasonable probability that, had the FBI files and photographs been disclosed to the defense, the result of his trial would have been different," according to the majority opinion.
Kitsap County will provide a jury pool, a courtroom clerk, administrative support such as photocopying and office space for Taylor and Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney Deb Kelly.
The county Clerk's Office has called 150 more jurors than usual for trials this week due to Stenson's estimated five- to six-week trial, Chief Deputy Clerk Alison Sonntag said.
"We're just hoping we don't run out of jurors by the end of the week," she said.
"The length of the trial is as great a factor as anything because how many people can spend six weeks of their life sitting in a courtroom?"
Jurors will be paid $10 a day, which will be covered by Clallam County.
Stenson will be transported to the Kitsap County jail by Monday, where he will be incarcerated for the duration of the trial at no cost to Clallam County.
Taylor has said he hopes a jury can be selected this week and that opening arguments and testimony can begin Sept. 23.
Kitsap County Superior Court Administrator Frank Maiocco said Kitsap County will provide whatever administrative support Taylor needs to preside over the trial, including a courtroom clerk and bailiff.
Clallam County has assigned a jail officer for the trial, Sheriff Bill Benedict said Friday.
"I have other deputies who are going down as witnesses."
Kitsap County Prosecutor Russ Hauge said no courthouse law-and-justice personnel he spoke with last week could recall the last time a person was tried for double-murder in Kitsap County.
But he said the Stenson case did bring to mind the case of Brian K. Lord, who in 1974 as a 13-year-old was convicted of killing his friend's mother and received six months in juvenile detention, then in 1987 was convicted of aggravated first-degree murder and sentenced to death in connection with the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl.
Lord's conviction was overturned in 1999. He was retried, reconvicted and sentenced to life without parole in 2003.
"This brings back lots of nasty memories like that," Hauge said.
If reconvicted, Stenson, too, would be sentenced to life without parole.
Kelly said she "feels good" about the trial.
"But it's a 20-year-old case," she added.
"There are lots of problems inherent in that," Kelly said, citing witnesses' memories.
Kelly expects to call between 45 and 50 witnesses, and said she expects she will take about four weeks to present her case.
Lead defense attorney Roger Hunko of Port Orchard has said he intends to call about 40 witnesses.
He did not return calls for comment Friday.
Taylor said he has yet to schedule a hearing on a motion filed by Stenson lawyer Blake Kremer to disqualify Kelly from prosecuting Stenson.
Kremer contended Kelly was not impartial and had a conflict of interest because her mother had written an unpublished book manuscript about Stenson's first trial and Kelly did not disclose it to Stenson's defense until late August.
Taylor had subpoenaed Kelly's mother for the manuscript.
Information on if the subpoena had been satisfied was unavailable Friday.
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Cheerios swaps out cornstarch for sugar to make Original Cheerios GMO-free. Photo by Flickr user YayBiscuts123
The next time you head to the supermarket cereal aisle you may find a Cheerios box labeled "Not Made With Genetically Modified Ingredients."
Cheerios producer General Mills announced Thursday that Original Cheerios made without genetically modified ingredients, GMOs, will start appearing on shelves soon. Other Cheerios flavors, including Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and Multi Grain Cheerios, will still contain GMOs.
Original Cheerios made in Europe are already GMO-free, AFP reports, but, in the U.S., the breakfast cereal contains cornstarch from GMO corn, which the company will swap for sugar. "We were able to do this with original Cheerios because the main ingredients are oats," General Mills company spokesman Mike Siemienas told the AP.
Non-profit organization Green America started a campaign in 2012 called "GMO Inside," urging companies to make foods GMO-free.
The campaign included 40,000 posts from consumers on Facebook that asked General Mills to make Cheerios GMO-free.
"Removing GMOs from original Cheerios is an important victory in getting GMOs out of our food supply and an important first step for General Mills," Green America Corporate Responsibility Director Todd Larsen wrote in a statement on the GMO Inside website. "(T)his victory sends a message to all food companies that consumers are increasingly looking for non-GMO products and companies need to meet that demand."


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The Florida Gators have enjoyed a rich tradition in recent years as it pertains to cornerbacks. Joe Haden, Janoris Jenkins, Loucheiz Purifoy, Marcus Roberson and Jaylen Watkins have all roamed the sidelines and assisted in locking up receivers like bounty hunters.
Under the tutelage of great defensive minds: Charlie Strong (Texas head coach), Vance Bedford (Texas defensive coordinator), Teryl Austin (Detroit Lions DC), Dan Quinn (Seattle Seahawks DC) and most importantly current head coach Will Muschamp, the Gators' aggressive, multi-schemed attacks have challenged corners to be physical, intelligent and precise.
Those three characteristics, and then some, describe sophomore CB Vernon Hargreaves III — who more than lived up to the hype that preceded his arrival in Gainesville. As the No. 2-ranked overall recruit, according Rivals 100, we all expected Hargreaves to be good. But could he end up being the best we've ever seen at the position — in the SEC?
As the old saying goes: The tape doesn't lie!
Impeccable Technique
Hall of Fame CB Deion Sanders was revered for his once-in-a-lifetime athleticism; Champ Bailey (New Orleans Saints) was seen as Sander's clone who played with a lot more physicality; Darrelle Revis (New England Patriots) may be the first to be celebrated for his technique over his athleticism (and he's a darn good athlete).
Revis' prowess has inspired this generation to focus on the technical part of "cornerbacking," for lack of a better term, much like LA Lakers' guard Kobe Bryant has inspired young basketball players to operate effectively in the mid-range game.
Hargreaves undoubtedly spent his formative years watching Revis, and it's eerie how much his game resembles the future Hall of Famer's.
At 5'11", 194 pounds, both Revis and Hargreaves are identical in physical stature. While football is trending towards the taller corner, like Seattle Seahawks' 6'3″ Richard Sherman, there's no substitute for being able to mirror routes, make smooth transitions in and out of breaks and control receivers at the line of scrimmage.
Here's a classic example of Revis' ability to control receivers purely on technique. Employing a press-man technique against a receiver running a curl route, he displayed a strong base at the line of scrimmage by having the perfect width in his stance.
He pressed the receiver with his right hand to send him towards the sideline. This is a very important aspect of the bump-and-run technique (for out-breaking routes and streaks). Sending a receiver to the sideline leaves him with very little room to operate.
Additionally, Revis came out of his transition about as perfect as he could. By positioning his body between the receiver and the ball, Revis effectively "boxed out" the receiver. While it may not seem like it from this sequence, as Revis makes it looks easy, defending the short game is about as hard as it gets — as technique trumps athleticism.
Here we see Hargreaves playing an inside technique against a slant route — wearing No. 24 like Mr. Revis. His base looks a lot like Revis', as does his ability to flip his hips during his transfer. Flipping your hips, as opposed to rotating your body, cuts down on transfer time. Furthermore, he undercuts the route by going in front of the receiver to deflect the pass.
Hargreaves in man coverage (providing a free outside release), coincidentally, at a Florida State camp. Showing how Hargreaves works in practice is significant as he's truly a stud practice player who implements those exact habits in the game. Some players are sloppy with their technique in practice and it shows at the moment of truth.
Hargreaves mirrors the receiver's deep-post route; he tracks when the receiver eyes the pass; he performs the look-and-lean technique (which calls for the corner to feel for the receiver while tracking the ball); he high-points the ball.
Case in point: Hargreaves once again gets his body into the receiver, Tennessee standout Marquez North, hits him with the look-and-lean technique (effectively shielding him from the pass) and deflects the pass at its highest point. It doesn't get much better than this for fans of great defensive back play.
"VH3" ended his stellar freshman season with 38 tackles, three interceptions and 11 pass deflections. Being the son of Vernon Hargreaves Jr., a veteran defensive coach of 25-plus seasons, has obviously paid dividends in his technique. But according to his coach, he's still eager to improve.
"He's a guy that's got a burning desire to be really, really good," said head coach Will Muschamp at SEC Media Days (h/t to Fox Sports' Knox Bardeen). "He's in the film room constantly. He's correcting himself. He's coachable. All the intangible things you want a player to be he possesses."
Those intangibles include self-awareness and leadership.
"I played pretty well last year," Hargreaves expressed. "Obviously I have to get better, and bring the young guys along."
One of the players he's undoubtedly referring to is highly touted freshman Jalen Tabor — who has the type of talent to reprise the Jenkins/Haden-like duo in combination with Hargreaves.
Those young guys should pay attention to how Hargreaves never quits on a play.
Here we see VH3 defending a broken play. All the great corners are as competitive as it gets; Hargreaves is no exception.
He gets shoved off on the transition — with the receiver initially running an out-route. You can tell he was peeved that he was "out-muscled," so he made sure he returned the favor to the receiver during the recovery process.
Additionally, he had the wherewithal to monitor both the quarterback and receiver simultaneously. While trying to catch up to the receiver, he has to eye the QB to make sure he doesn't escape out the back door. And when he decides to put his head down and run, his recovery speed is extremely apparent.
Being that he's a defensive back under one of the very best defensive minds in the business in Muschamp (who spent numerous years under the tutelage of famed Alabama coach Nick Saban — the very best), you know his tackling ability has to be top notch.
Furthermore, he's adept at off-man; he's great with area principles; his bump-and-run technique is unmatched.
But most importantly, he has the will to be great and is eager to learn. It's usually those aspects that separate the great from the elite. And for my money he's bordering on elite after only one season in college.
Now that's scary.


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I have been conducting an informal poll on cloud computing around my office and with consultants from other information technology consulting firms. I start by asking about the recent cloud computing announcements from Microsoft and other market leaders.
Everyone I have spoken to tells me they are excited about cloud computing and want to learn more about it. Microsoft's investment in development of cloud computing infrastructure makes it more legitimate and puts it in reach of more developers. Even my government customers tell me cloud computing is interesting and the shape of things to come.
Then I ask "who do you know who is using cloud computing today?" and I get a blank stare. I hear about some major customers cited by the vendors but none of my contacts knows real, live customers personally who are betting on cloud computing.
Part of the problem is that we are still waiting for the technology and the business model to solidify. Microsoft allows developers to use an early version of their offering, and the product will ship in the second half of 2009. Pricing was just announced last week, and the service will be available direct from Microsoft and through independent software vendors.
But I also hear something that sounds a bit like "not in my neighborhood." For instance, large companies won't need to go to the cloud since they already have large investments in IT infrastructure. Government will keep data onsite to protect security and privacy. The people I talk to say small business is the perfect early adopter, especially small businesses that don't want to maintain an IT infrastructure of their own.
Email is the most obvious to move to a service provider, but there are objections there as well. Where does a great deal of confidential information reside? Email, naturally. Which server outage would cause the greatest disruption at your company? Email again. I only know two companies who outsourced email. One is happy and one swears never again.
I also heard objections about potential legal issues for commercial customers. What happens when a company is involved in a lawsuit? Who guarantees that proper record retention policies are followed? Would law firms themselves be good customers for hosted computing services?
As a headline in the Washington Post this morning said, the outlook for computing is cloudy. It will take time to find out whether that means cloud computing is for you and your organization.
InfoStrat's thoughts on digital transformation, marketing automation, customer relationship management, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly CRM), government contracting, customer service and more. For breaking news, follow me on Twitter @jamestownsend and for more depth see the InfoStrat website at www.infostrat.com
Monday, November 3, 2008
Cloud Computing Excuses
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To record the film's dramatic score, Shawn worked with George Lucas' legendary Skywalker Sound (the production house responsible for the Star Wars films) and the San Franscisco Symphony. He scored the 3-D, fully animated, feature length film using SONAR with an 82-piece orchestra and real NASA-discovered space sounds.
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ULA Successfully Launched Delta IV GPS IIF SV-1
- Celebrating 50 years of launch for one of the most successful rocket programs in US history
"We congratulate the Air Force and our mission partners on the successful launch of the first of the new generation of GPS satellites," said Jim Sponnick, vice president, Delta Product Line. "Today's launch comes just one week after the 50th anniversary of the first Delta launch and was the 13th mission success for the newest Delta launch vehicle, the Delta IV. The partnership between the Air Force and the Delta team has resulted in the successful launches of many national security missions directly supporting our troops on the battlefield. Launching the first of the next generation of GPS satellites is a great way to start our next 50 years."
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GPS IIF SV-1 is the first in a series of next generation GPS satellites, and following its nearly three hour, 33 minute flight, it joined a worldwide timing and navigation system utilizing 24 satellites, in six different planes, with a minimum of four satellites per plane, positioned in orbit approximately 11,000 miles above the Earth's surface.
During the past five decades, the Delta family of expendable launch vehicles has achieved one of the most successful flight records of any rocket currently in use, with a success rate of 95.7 percent. The Delta II, since its first launch in February 1989 has an incredible 98.6 percent success rate. The December 2009 launch of the NASA WISE mission was the 92nd consecutive successful launch with the Delta II system. The Delta IV, making its debut in November 2002, continues this legacy with 100 percent mission success for its 13 missions in the last eight years.
"Our ULA team is proud of the Delta success record and the contributions it has made to scientific exploration, national defense, and economic prosperity," Sponnick said. "Delta has been so successful for the last 50 years because of tremendous support from our government mission partners as well as our outstanding suppliers and commercial customers."
Delta launched some of America's most famous and successful missions. NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, along with the Phoenix Mars Lander, were launched by Delta. Additionally, NASA missions such as Mars Odyssey, Messenger, Dawn, GLAST and THEMIS all began their journeys on a Delta. Numerous national defense missions, the recent GOES series of weather satellites and all current operational GPS satellites on orbit were launch by Delta.
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Miley Cyrus on Jennifer Lawrence's Puking Story: 'That Never Happened'
Say it ain't so! Is it possible that Jennifer Lawrence's amazingly hilarious story of throwing up in front of Miley Cyrus at an Oscars after party just isn't true? Well, despite J. Law's account of the event, in which the 'Wrecking Ball' singer told her to "get it together," Cyrus has spoken out on Twitter to deny the claims.
In a tweet that has since been deleted, Cyrus reportedly responded to a fan who sent her a link to an article about Lawrence's appearance on 'Late Night With Seth Meyers,' which is where she infamously described the embarrassingly hysterical tale. In the alleged tweet, Cyrus simply replied to the fan, saying "That never happened." Though she quickly deleted it, nothing on the Internet ever truly gets deleted, and people were able to grab a screenshot of the tweet, which you can see here.
So, is it true that J. Law didn't actually throw up in front of Miley Cyrus, and in her drunken state may have confused her with another celeb? Or was Cyrus just referring to the part where she, according to Lawrence, told the actress to "get it together"? We may never know, but we have to say — we much prefer J. Law's version of events, embellished or not.
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A few years ago on Family Guy, Peter Griffin was contemplating a quiet evening at home.
"We'll stay in tonight, pop some popcorn and watch Jimmy Kimmel try," Peter said.
Jimmy Kimmel has gone from trying to flying.
ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live moved from midnight to 11:35 p.m. last week, putting it in direct competition with The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC and The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. For one week at least, Kimmel was the ratings winner.
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Following last week's potentially inadvertent leak of the Dead Space 3 logo – that will most probably change before release – we now have a slew of new rumors and scuttlebutt about Dead Space 3, and how it may be trading in dark and narrow hallways, for bright and open environments.
The rumored leak comes from Siliconera, who claims to have a mole in Electronic Arts that has been reporting news of Dead Space 3.
Apparently, Isaac Clarke will crash land on a frozen planet named Tau Volantis in DS3, and survival horror gameplay will take place in extreme white-out blizzard conditions. Enemies are now referred to as "the hive mind," with no reports of them having anything to do with necromorphs, or the marker.
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"Early in Dead Space 3, Isaac crash lands on the planet. He believes he may be the only survivor and makes his way to an abandoned waystation, which he uses for shelter from the snowstorm. There he finds a survivor who is severely injured. Isaac speaks to the near dead comrade who reveals there are other survivors that trekked off to another facility. One of them is Ellie, a key character from the original Dead Space game. Isaac grabs a snowsuit and heads into the blizzard.
Later in the game, Isaac reunites with Ellie and a new character named Jennifer. The trio scale a mountain, but Jennifer is reluctant to do so. She's a tech type excited over finding a codex and plans to reverse engineer research by a group called Rosetta to gain access to it. As they climb up the mountain, they hear a howl from below, but cannot spot what kind of creature made the sound." - Siliconera
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Just moments after Georgia's Courtney McCool finished her floor routine on the last day of competition at the NCAA Championship, her teammate Grace Taylor dismounted the beam with a huge smile on her face.
"I'm standing on a chair and I'm trying to see her across the gym, and she does the most beautiful routine," said McCool, a former U.S. Olympian. "I run around all the way to the back of the beam and just hug her to death."
The gymnasts knew they couldn't control the outcome, but wanted to perform to the best of their ability a day after the Gym Dogs' captured their fourth consecutive national title in late April.
By the end of the night, McCool was named the national floor exercise champion and Taylor was named the national balance beam champion. They added another trophy to their collection with the individual honors.
"When you look back, it's one of those fuzzy moments like, 'Did that really happen?' " Taylor said. "It's pretty surreal."
Nine months later, the juniors are preparing for the 2009 season, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday when the preseason No. 1 Gym Dogs host West Virginia at Stegeman Coliseum. However, McCool and Taylor aren't anywhere near championship-ready.
McCool discovered she had a stress fracture in the navicular bone of her left foot in November and has been on crutches for the past six weeks. A recent MRI revealed the stress fracture is healing, but McCool will be on crutches and in a boot for a few more weeks.
Last Friday, Taylor's best preseason was halted by a back spasm. She is listed as tentative on floor for Friday, but will most likely be out of the beam and bars lineup.
"Grace is very strong mentally. She works so hard," McCool said. "We totally block out pain. We know that we can get through it. We're not going to sit there and say, 'Oh, we hurt. Woe is me.' There's no point in self-pity."
McCool, who has been limited to just swinging on the uneven bars, is expected to get back to training beam at the beginning of February. She has a goal in mind of getting back on the competition floor by the time Georgia competes against Florida on Feb. 28.
Even though she will miss most of the regular-season meets, McCool has been keeping an upbeat attitude. She has rearranged her schedule to get in the gym early to practice on bars. During practice, she has been acting as a coach and a team motivator.
"She's so positive about everything," said Georgia coach Suzanne Yoculan. "She's just jumped in there and has taken to a new role. She really has contributed a lot to our improving. She's just a great spirit in the gym. She's never been down about her injury."
Another thing that has helped McCool and Taylor get through the tough times is their strong friendship.
Taylor and McCool first met each other as young teenagers competing in elite gymnastics and both committed to Georgia.
As freshmen, both were learning to juggle school and gymnastics. While Taylor was adjusting to going to school after being homeschooled as a child, McCool was struggling with learning the team aspect of college gymnastics.
But the duo could relate to each other in the gym.
"We'd be done with practice and Courtney would stay," Taylor said. "I would stay after with her. I wanted to be like Courtney. ... We hit it off and we hung out with a lot of the same friends. She was always the bold one who would go and meet new people. I would tag along behind her.
"We just connect in the gym. I respect how intense she is about gymnastics," Taylor said. "She really makes me a better gymnast. I don't know what my experience up until this point would have been in the gym if it weren't for her."
Yoculan began to see Taylor and McCool's bond strengthen last season.
"They feed off each other a lot in the gym and outside the gym," she said. "They have the unspoken relationship where they can just look at each other and know what the other one is thinking. You can see that a lot during competition."
When Taylor and McCool are both healthy, they have a goal of attaining a perfect 20 on the balance beam. It would require flawless routines - a 10.0 - out of each of them on the same night, but they believe it's possible.
"All you can do is strive for perfection," Taylor said. "And as a team if we strive for perfection, there can be no regrets."
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By Joe Haggerty
There were moments during the middle of the long, monotonous hockey season when Nathan Horton didnt seem to be much more than a bigger, slightly more enigmatic version of Michael Ryder.
That seemed to be the case when he endured much of December and January mired in a stretch of 20 games with only one goal, and exhibited little emotional spark while the Bruins attempted to breathe life into Marc Savards game alongside Horton at the center spot.
There may have been some connection between Hortons slump and Savards struggles to find his game before another concussion knocked him out for good, but there was also little fire in Hortons belly at that point.
That has changed into a raging belly inferno since the All-Star break with Horton growing the snarling attitude and willingness to intimidate thats such an integral part of the Bruins collective team personality. He hasnt talked as much lately before and after games, but hes letting his speaking on the ice tell the bone-rattling story.
Id like to stand here and say I know whats going to happen in the playoffs, but well have to wait and see, said Claude Julien, asked what he was expecting out of Horton once the postseason bell dings. But hes come around in the second half of the year. His whole attitude and approach to the game has gotten better and better. I have no doubt in my mind that hes going to be fine.
Hes playing with an attitude, and that attitude has been with him for a while now. You saw Horton today in a game that a lot of people would have called a meaningless game. Im not worried about him. I think hes ready and excited for the playoffs.
Julien hypothesized it might be that Horton is finally adjusting to the Boston environment or growing into his role with the right kind of organization, and that he sees it with a quality Bruins team.
Horton seemed to say the exact same thing after crashing, banging and scoring out on the ice to lead the Bruins to a 3-1 victory over the Senators at TD Garden.
To play 80 games here in Boston, where hockey is the world its been a special year for me, said Horton. Ive enjoyed it. Theres some downs and some ups, and Im looking to continue the ups. I think everyone is here.
It seems Horton really started to see it when he knocked out Edmonton Oilers forward Theo Peckham with one right-handed haymaker at Rexall Place while also notching a goal, and Horton has continued ramping up for the playoffs with that attitude ever since.
Its not always about scoring. Its about being THERE and being in the play and being involved, and hard to play against, said Horton, stressing the there part of his thoughtful sentence. All the little stuff that really matters, thats what its all about. Its nice to score and its nice to help your team out. But when youre not doing that, youve got to do something to help your team. Thats what Im trying to do, and thats what Ill continue to do.
Its allowed Horton to pile up 14 goals and 25 points in his last 30 games, and paved the way for his game-winning power play goal and the extended round of fisticuffs with Zack Smith in Bostons victory over the Sens. Hortons 26th strike of the season on Saturday afternoon was a little bit of big-bodied perfection as he and Milan Lucic camped around the net, and the right wing simply pounced on a Zdeno Chara rebound near the left post.
Horton couldnt corral the puck for a quick forehand wrist snap, but calmly collected it for a backhand before flicking it into the open net little more than a minute into the second period.
It seemed to be meaningless game No. 81 of the season with the Bs playoff situation secure, but it was clearly important to goaltender Tim Thomas shooting for the NHL record for save percentage in a season.
It shouldnt have been important to Horton, but he played like Mark Recchi or Chara had already whispered in his ear that playoffs had begun.
The Horton fists started flying directly in front of the Boston bench, and Julien admitted the violent nature of the uppercuts and roundhouse rights concerned him with the playoffs only five days away.
Smith got the best of Horton in the opening seconds of the fight, but Horton kept throwing bombs rather than hugging and heading off to the penalty box. That was a pretty good indication the quit button no longer exists in Hortons game.
It happened right in front of me and I wasnt moving much and saying hopefully this ends soon and they go their own way, said Julien of a violent skirmish that left Horton with bumps and bruises along with a bloodied nose after the game. You cant take away the attitude and the approach hes had to the game. Hes playing with a burr and give him credit for that.
I didnt want to take that away from him.
One astute commenter on a Bruins message board said that there isnt a lot of Sunrise in Hortons game these days a pithy allusion to Hortons career of underachievement with a Panthers team that never made it to the playoffs.
That seems to be completely by design as Horton is recreating himself into the player everyone around him thought hed always be: a 6-foot-2, 225-pound pile of furious hockey rage on the ice with an easygoing smile and unending supply of politeness off it.
Four of Hortons seven fighting majors have taken place since the victory over the Oilers 20 games ago, and the smoldering fire has also manifested itself into a healthy intensity within his own dressing room.
Less than two weeks ago Horton sensed there was a tad too much sleepiness at a practice session following a loss, and authored resounding hits on Patrice Bergeron and Dennis Seidenberg in the corner to help intensify the drowsy proceedings.
It worked that afternoon and its been working over the last two plus months for Horton and the Bruins.
That leaves only one question: will it keep working for Horton and the Bruins in the playoffs once the lights come on?
It appears the 25-year-old isnt going to leave any of that up to chance, and is stepping away from the passivity thats dogged his hockey game in the past.
The nasty, mean and angry Horton is all over the ice these days throwing punches, trading shoves and lighting lamps, and thats exactly the guy Boston needs now that a pivotal playoff run is on the doorstep.
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Non-Partisan Association commissioners of the Park Board are taking on the challenge of choosing a spot for Vancouver's "love locks" where they won't get routinely removed.
Commissioner John Coupar said on Thursday that earlier, the locks — used typically by lovebirds, who inscribe their names onto the lock, click it shut and toss the key — had earlier been found on the Burrard Bridge but were removed by city crews.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (UPI) — A U.S. researcher says the sweet first kisses of courtship may provide important information on mating to both men and women.
Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said for men the kisses appear to provide data on a woman's estrogen level, The Daily Mail reported. That would let them know where the woman is in the fertility cycle.
"Men like sloppier kisses," she said.
Women, on the other hand, may be getting unconscious information on whether a potential partner has an immune system different from theirs. Marrying someone with complementary immunity could lead to healthier offspring with a broad range of disease resistance.
Fisher reported on her research at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago.
"I think that is just the beginning of what we are going to find out," she said. "This is just the tip of the iceberg. We are going to find many other mechanisms we unconsciously use to size up a person's biological traits."
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PORTLAND, Ore. — One man has been arrested after a stabbing in SE Portland's Foster-Powell neighborhood that sent one man to hospital with traumatic, but non-life threatening injuries.
Nantharath Thilavanh, 51, is charged with second degree assault for allegedly stabbing his associate, 49-year-old Sergey Evan Feodoroff, outside the Fred Meyer supermarket bottle return.
Police found Feodoroff with a stab wound to the chest in the 5100 block of SE 76th Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Thursday night and determined the two men, who knew each other, had been arguing over some money.
Thilavanh was located in a neighboring apartment and taken into custody without incident, police said.
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King of New York rap Nas has shaken off his detractors and is provoking a debate about cultural survival.
Nas knew what he was doing when he named his new album Hip Hop Is Dead It's a given that the imminent release of a Nas album can be counted on to cause the usual excitement and anticipation among rap fans.
But the intriguing title has caused them to wonder that little bit more about what he's going to come up with this time. After all, it's his eighth album. Additionally, as Hip Hop Is Dead is his first release for legendary rap label Def Jam, the title becomes slightly more provocative.
"It came from just like the talk of the streets for the last five or six years, or since Big and Pac died. Also, outside of Biggie and Pac dying, the rap game got so big and there was so much money, we kinda lost what it was all about," Nas says of his new album's ethos. "We kinda forgot because there's so much business, so many sharks and so many lies that it's been dead for a while."
It's not as if this kind of talk is new. Most older heads in New York (especially those from the Bronx or Harlem) will recall that many rap fans were bemoaning hip hop's death when Big Bank Hank ripped off Casanova Fly's (aka Grandmaster Caz of pioneers The Cold Crush Brothers) lyrics on "Rapper's Delight" all the way back in 1979. Then, when hip hop first rose to prominence in the early Eighties, many misguided rock critics predicted it would only last a few years. And while Nas raises valid concerns and acknowledges there's a lot to be done, even he's still hopeful the situation can be turned around.
"I think hip hop is really strong right now, regardless of people who don't care about the culture or who don't care about the era of Kool G Rap," he offers. "I think it's still a strong music scene and it's already lasted longer than the predictions of the haters. So I think it can only get better and hopefully it'll happen soon. Hopefully I can be a part of that."
According to Nas, rock and R&B are dead too. "Yeah, absolutely, rock and R&B too," he says emphatically. "I think that people don't really know how to trust their own creativity because of what it is with radio and it's a business, it's a big business. I mean, it is what it is, I'm not trying to fight the system. I'm just saying what I'm saying."
Nas really doesn't like what modern radio has become. On Hip Hop Is Dead's title track he promises to "put an extended clip inside of my AK" so that he can "roll to every station, murder the DJ". Not literally, of course. Besides, Nas seems far more calm and content these days. Maybe it's married life. He's been married to leftfield soul singer Kelis for just under two years now. But when it comes to Kelis, he seems to have taken a leaf out of Jay-Z and Beyoncé's book. Asked about married life, he simply says: "It's good, man... it's good," but refuses to elaborate.
Against all odds, he and Jay-Z seem like good friends these days. When Jay-Z played the Royal Albert Hall at the end of September, it wasn't exactly surprising when Nas ran onstage and performed a few favourites. He'd done the same thing a few days earlier at Wembley Arena. But that didn't lessen the impact.
Jay-Z's curiously named "I Declare War" concert last October, which saw New York's two biggest rappers perform together for the first time, was a good moment for hip hop. "I thought about how it would help me give off the right type of message," Nas recalls. "Doing it in that way would give it the right type of spotlight, in the right circumstances. What's better than two black men reconciling, you know what I'm sayin'? Reconciling in front of the hip-hop community -- I thought that would be the best way to convey my point of view."
A few months later they publicly killed their beef. The alliance of sorts was made official when Nas signed to Def Jam in January. Jay- Z has been president of the Island Def Jam Music Group since the end of 2004. Their first collaboration, "Black Republican", leaked on the net, will appear on Nas's new album.
It was very different in 2001 when Jay dissed Nas on "Takeover". In true hip-hop fashion, Nas struck back with the devastating "Ether". The beef unquestionably lit a fire in Nas and he hasn't put a foot wrong since. Stillmatic, the album "Ether" appears on, shows the veteran MC in much better form than he was on Nastradamus,. God's Son, which appeared a year later, is arguably even better, while 2004's Street's Disciple is a double album full of old-fashioned boom-bap hip hop and brilliant experiments like "Bridging the Gap", Nas's duet with his father, the jazz trumpeter Olu Dara.
The lack of commercial and radio-friendly tracks meant it hasn't moved as many units as God's Son or Stillmatic. "The frame of mind was blood for blood, it was a battle... not literally blood," Nas hastily clarifies. "But from a lyrical standpoint. So it was on and poppin'. It was just some crazy shit cooking. It was some crazy shit. But it was good 'cos it wasn't like some of these guys today. It was real shit."
When he talks about, "some of these guys today" Nas is referring to 50 Cent and Harlem's most famous crew, The Diplomats, or Dipset, headed by Cam'ron. 50 had a go at Nas, and Kelis, on 2005's "Piggy Bank" and again on "Window Shopper". Dipset have been taking shots at him ever since he told Cam'ron, publicly, to step up his game, live on New York radio. But so far Nas has managed to rise above it all and not respond. Something unheard of in hip-hop circles. Good on him.
"Sometimes I feel like doing something, but it's not necessary. It'd be off-balance. They're only talking the way they talk because they're opportunists and they're trying to figure out how to have a name. It's a little bit -- actually it's way too -- obvious, and I don't want it to make me look wack, along with some other wack shit. If this shit was coming from a real place, you know, if I could feel this shit then I would have no choice. But because I don't feel that shit I don't even pay it any attention."
Nas has always had this progressive and conscious side to him. Which makes it all the more strange that his last two shows in London have seen trouble of the worst kind. In 2004, when Nas played The Forum in Kentish Town, the doors were literally broken down during a mini-riot. Some patrons were robbed for their tickets as they tried to get in. Then, early last year a show at Brixton Academy was brought to a swift halt when some idiot thought it would be fun to let a gun off inside the venue. Nas seems resigned to the fact that that's how it is sometimes. "I think these things happen. I think nothing is perfect. Sometimes it happens. But I'm still very excited to come over here and put on a crazy show."
Unlike many of the rappers he mentions on "Where Are They Now?", another track from Hip Hop is Dead that has surfaced on the internet, he's survived all the different eras and trends of the past 15 years. "My goal was to always do it like the ones who did it before me, the ones that inspired me," he says. "I never planned to be around this long. But you know, I'm still here."
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DUBAI, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates central bank has confirmed it will not impose limits on mortgage loans without consulting commercial banks, after an attempt to introduce such rules triggered fierce protests from the banks.
It is the third time in the past year that the central bank has introduced regulations designed to reduce risk in the banking sector, only to back off from enforcing them after meeting opposition in the business community.
The incident raises questions over authorities' regulation of banks as the UAE recovers from Dubai's corporate debt crisis of 2008-2010 and seeks to avoid the boom-and-bust cycle that plagued its real estate market in the past decade.
A circular sent to commercial banks by the central bank late last month, and seen by Reuters, said mortgage loans for foreign individuals should not exceed 50 percent of property value for a first purchase of a home, and 40 percent for subsequent homes. Caps for UAE citizens were set at 70 percent and 60 percent.
But UAE state news agency WAM on Tuesday quoted central bank governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi as saying the circular would not be enforced and was merely intended to help banks prepare for eventual rule changes which would reflect their feedback.
"There is no such system regulating real estate financing for individuals. This is now a proposed system to be issued after consultation with the banks," WAM quoted Suweidi as telling Abu Dhabi television.
The central bank intends to introduce regulations covering the mortgage market but only after six to nine months, and there are no current discussions on possible percentages for mortgage caps, he added.
The central bank's climb-down was first reported in comments attributed to Suweidi by Al Ittihad newspaper on Monday.
Last month's central bank circular was met by a storm of protest, with bankers complaining they were not consulted and that the rules could hurt banks and slow the UAE real estate market's recovery from its 2008-2010 crash.
The Emirates Bank Association, the industry's lobbying group, met last week and agreed to submit formal proposals to the central bank to water down its rules.
The controversy recalled two previous climb-downs by the central bank. It announced last April that from Sept. 30 last year, banks would have to limit their exposure to state-linked entities. Some big banks were above the limits when the deadline passed, and in December, the central bank announced it was suspending the rules while it consulted banks.
Similarly, requirements for banks to hold a certain proportion of their assets in liquid instruments were announced last year and then suspended.
The central bank does not publicly discuss its decisions and it is not clear why it has backed down from enforcing regulation. Suweidi, who began his career in Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, has been in his position since 1991; last November, top Abu Dhabi banker Khalifa Mohammed al-Kindi became the central bank's new chairman.
The UAE and particularly Dubai are financial centres for the entire Gulf, so commercial bankers have considerable influence.
Also, there is likely to be some debate within the government over how much regulation should be allowed to slow economic growth. Dubai depends more on its banking sector and real estate market than Abu Dhabi, which has huge oil reserves.
A UAE commercial banker, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of his remarks, said the central bank was now trying to save face after causing confusion among bankers and their customers with "unilateral and arbitrary directives".
Mortgage caps are the right way to keep speculators out of the UAE's property market but the original circular was too harsh, said Fadi Moussalli, regional director at global real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
"The law sends the right signal to the market as it aims at limiting the brutal ups and downs of prices, but we feel that the first draft was too quick, too simple and too harsh." (With additional reporting by Stanley Carvalho and Mirna Sleiman; Editing by Hugh Lawson)


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In some areas of the country, the report of a cougar near homes ("Cougars prowl near Upper Chetco School, Pilot, May 15) would incite a public cry to mobilize the U.S. Marines to track down and kill the offending animals.
Not so in Curry County, where, it appears, most residents don't panic about the presence of cougars, nor the occasional hungry bear or feisty raccoon.
The cities and towns of America's Wild Rivers Coast are islands of humanity surrounding by some of the most pristine wilderness. Part of living in paradise is living with wild animals.
As far as we know, there have not been any recent reports of someone in Curry County being attacked or even having a close call with a wild animal. There were, however, several cougar attacks on livestock and a pet dog in Curry County in 2001. Those cats were subsequently hunted down and killed.
Overall, it seems that our communities have a good record of avoiding or dealing appropriately with the potential conflicts that can arise when human development encroaches on the natural world.
When wild animals encroach on human territory, some demand the threat be eliminated immediately. But, fortunately, that call is answered by others promoting methods that can and should be used instead of killing.
Yes, a cougar should be killed when it has proven to be a threat to livestock, pets and humans.
No, they shouldn't be hunted or killed wholesale.
Looking at the area's history of wildlife/human interaction, we believe there is no need to lock up our children and stay off the hiking trails andndash; and out of our own backyards.
Reason, not raw emotions, should prevail when living in the natural world that surrounds us.


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