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- USP 7,288,740: The Examiner rejected all claims as being obvious over a combination of prior art references under 35 USC 103(a). The rejections were reversed because it was demonstrated that the Examiner had relied upon impermissible hindsight in piecing together the prior art to arrive at Applicant's invention.
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I believe that there are definitely certain kinds of pieces that will increase your chances of being a grant recipient. I base this statement on my experiences sitting on grant panels (I've sat on a lot of them). It may be one of the most educational things that a composer can do…sit for two to three days and go through several hundred applicants and try to decrease the number of applicants from 400 down to some smaller number, say like 12.
I'll give you an example of why your selection of what music to submit is important… Pretend that you're on a panel that has three days to judge 400 applications for a grant or a prize. If a panel works straight through each day, with a small break for lunch and very small breaks to run to the bathroom, you can assume that you'll achieve (under the best circumstances), about seven hours of judging (and it's best not to push this, because the ability to concentrate and think clearly, which every applicant deserves, decreases rapidly by the end of the day). Seven hours equals 420 minutes in a day of judging. If the panel has three days, that's equal to 1,260 minutes (over three days) of judging for the 400 applicants. This comes out to (divide 400 applicants into your 1,260 minutes of available time) three minutes and 15 seconds to consider the music of each applicant—a startlingly low number!
One has to wonder (and we all wonder this at various times) how anyone can judge any music from such a tiny slice of a bigger picture. It's a good and fair question, and the answer is, well, it really is not an optimal way to get a sense of any piece of music. Unfortunately it's really the only way to do a panel with a large number of applicants…and hopefully, and as is often the case with such a large load, there are several panels to whittle down the pool so that those scores which need a longer look get a chance to be seen for more than three minutes. But keeping all of this in mind, think about what you as a judge would be able to remember in a pool of 400 applicants over three days…what would stand out? By Day Three, what would it take for you to remember an applicant whose music you looked at during Day One at 2 p.m. (for three minutes)? You've looked at probably 200 other applicants since then and in order to be remembered, the particular score from the day before yesterday would have to have made a serious impression to be recalled. Miraculously, it is a regular occurrence that pieces do stand out.
The thing that makes the biggest impression for all panels is originality in terms of a composer's voice. This is an impossible thing to describe in words (if I could, I wouldn't be writing musical notes, I'd be writing words all the time), but I bet everyone has had the experience of hearing something that they were utterly taken with…something that will be remembered on Day Three, even if you heard it on Day One. In a pool of 40 applicants, when someone does something differently and does it well, if the other 39 have music that sounds a lot alike, there's no way not to notice that one individual.
There are other things that you can do to increase your chances…I sometimes tell my students to make sure they submit contrasting pieces if they have the option of more than one work…fast and slow, loud and quiet. A panel likes to see flexibility, and writing music that's slow requires different thinking and problem solving than what you encounter while writing fast music.
I've also found that longer works, which take a good amount of time to develop, don't do as well in panels. I'll use a piece of mine as an example: my "Concerto for Orchestra" is a 35-minute, virtuosic tour-de-force for a big ensemble. This work has had more success than I could have dreamed possible… premiered two years ago by the Philadelphia Orchestra, it has thus far been played by 11 orchestras (with three more orchestras doing it in the next couple of months); the Atlanta Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony both programmed the work on their opening concerts last season; and the work has recently been released on a new CD by the Atlanta Symphony (Telarc). This year I submitted this piece as part of an application to five different competitions/grants and I was rejected for every single one.
I think the piece is strong as a musical composition but I think it's too large a work for panels. In fact, for the grants where I have had the most success, I have submitted fairly short works (and I always submit an excerpt, carefully chosen to make the most out of those three minutes). Many wonderful pieces take awhile to unfold and it's rare that a panel is set up so that all of the pieces can be listened to in their entirety.
So of all the works you have written, do you have something that makes a quick and impacting impression? This should be the first thing you ask yourself when putting together a grant proposal (or applying to a competition). Many composers have written music with the idea that a particular piece might stand out in a large applicant pool (some of my more off-the-wall pieces were written with this idea in the back of my mind). I don't think you're sacrificing quality to do so…in fact, I look at it like a compositional challenge. But this also means that should you not receive a grant or a prize, it is most definitely not a measure of your worth as an artist.
I often wonder how Beethoven or Mozart would have done in competitions. The system is not ideal, nor is there any ideal way to judge such things (everyone is constantly trying to improve this process). So the composer/applicant has to ask him/herself the best way to get through the process as it currently exists. While nothing is guaranteed, there are ways to increase your chances in the grant pool.


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Pokémon Trading Card Game (video game)
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|Pokémon Trading Card Game
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|Kōji Arai
|Tsunekazu Ishihara
Shinichi Nakamoto
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Pokémon Trading Card Game, originally released in Japan as Pokémon Card GB (ポケモンカードGB Pokemon Kādo Jī Bī) is a video game adaptation of the original tabletop trading card game of the same name, which in turn was based on the Pokémon role-playing video game series. Developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo, it was initially released in Japan in December 1998, with an English version appearing in North America in April 2000 and in Europe the following December. The title features digital version of cards from the first three sets of the trading card game originally released in English by Wizards of the Coast between 1998 and 1999, as well as exclusive cards not available outside of the game.
A second Game Boy Color game, Pokémon Card GB2: Great Rocket-Dan Sanjō! (ポケモンカードGB2 GR団参上! Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team Great Rocket!), was released in Japan in March 2001. The game was not released in North America nor Europe. An addition to the sequel is the ability to choose the gender of the player character.
Pokémon Trading Card Game is a video game simulation of the original tabletop collectible card game with role-playing elements similar to earlier titles in the Pokémon series. Players control a young boy and must travel around the game world interacting with non-player characters and challenging them to card battles using 60-card decks.[6] During gameplay, the player must defeat eight Club Masters, each with a different deck representing one of the game's elemental card types, allowing them to face four Grand Masters and earn the right to inherit four powerful Legendary Cards. A total of 226 cards exist within the game, which include cards from the first three sets of the real-life game, as well as exclusive cards not available outside of the game.[7] The player is given the opportunity to choose one of three starter decks at the start of their journey, each containing Pokémon cards revolving around the three possible starting creatures from Pokémon Red and Blue. As players defeat opponents, they are rewarded with booster packs containing a random assortment of additional cards they may use in their deck, with up to four separate decks able to be saved at a time.
Up to two players may interact with each other using infrared linking capability built into the cartridge to battle or trade cards.[8] As players trade with one another, they are given access to a special feature called "Card Pop!", which allows them to obtain cards that would otherwise be inaccessible in the main game; this feature is not accessible in the 3DS version.[9]
Pokémon Trading Card Game was developed by Hudson Soft and originally released in Japan in December 1998 under the title Pokémon Card GB (ポケモンカードGB Pokemon Kādo Jī Bī) one month before the tabletop version debuted in English.[10] In September 1999, Nintendo of America announced that they would be releasing an English version in North America with the proposed title of simply Pokémon Card.[11] Though initially planned for release the following winter, the game, now known under its finalized title of Pokémon Trading Card Game, would be pushed back to April 2000, which website IGN attributed to the company wanting to focus their efforts on the upcoming Pokémon Stadium for the Nintendo 64.[1] The following February, the game made an appearance at the 2000 Toy Fair in New York City as part of Nintendo's "Pokémon 2000" interactive line-up along with Pokémon Gold and Silver.[12] An exclusive tabletop version promotional card from Wizards of the Coast featuring the Pokémon Meowth was included with the game.
Although Pokémon Trading Card Game features most cards from the first three sets of the collectible card game, two real-life cards are absent from the Game Boy Color version: Electrode from the base set, and Ditto from the Fossil. The cards were excluded as it was difficult to translate their tabletop effects to the video game engine, but they are replaced by game-exclusive cards of the same Pokémon (the Electrode card was later made available in Japan via an online card shop). The game features cameos from President and CEO of The Pokémon Company Tsunekazu Ishihara as "Mr. Ishihara", and musician Tomoaki Imakuni under his stage name Imakuni?.[13]
The game received a ban in Saudi Arabia because it supposedly promoted Zionism. According to Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Pokémon video game and cards have symbols that are "the star of David, which everyone knows is connected to international Zionism and is Israel's national emblem",.[14]
Pokémon Trading Card Game sold 607,193 copies in Japan by the end of 1999, becoming the 20th most-bought console game of that year in the region.[17] It would go on to sell an additional 1.51 millions copies during its first year in North America,[18] and received mostly positive reception from critics, earning an 81.25% average score from aggregate review website GameRankings.[15] GameSpot referred to the game as "a faithful and amusing adaptation of the collectible card game" calling the gameplay "addictive", but found it to be overall less satisfying than the original Pokémon role-playing games, stating that its goal of 'collecting all 226 pieces of paper' just doesn't satisfy like 'catching 'em all' can and does."[7] Others, such as IGN called the game "a blast to play" and that it offered mostly the same experience as the tabletop version "without the clutter or cost", yet acknowledged that the video game adaption could not fully replicate the original given the finite number of cards available. Though the website found its main story to be "simple and basic", and gameplay to be largely luck-based, it ultimately declared that "whether you like or hate those darn Pokémon... if Nintendo keeps making Pokémon videogames of this quality, those creatures aren't going away anytime soon."[6] GamesRadar ranked it the 50th best game available on the Game Boy and/or Game Boy Color. The staff called it an "excellent addition to Pokemon's Game Boy catalog."[19]
In a 2009 retrospective of Pokémon spin-offs, IGN retained their high praise for the game, stating "It was really kind of ridiculous how awesome this game turned out to be...if there was one spin-off [we] could ask Nintendo to reintroduce, it'd be the TCG game."[20]
Pokémon Card GB2: Great Rocket-Dan Sanjō! (ポケモンカードGB2 GR団参上! Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team Great Rocket!), released March 28, 2001,[21] is the Japanese-exclusive sequel to the original Pokémon Trading Card Game, also for the Game Boy Color. Like its predecessor, the game was developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo, and was first announced in January 2001 by Japanese website WatchImpress.[22] It includes new enhancements, such as the ability to choose the gender of the player character, a training mode to help new players, a Deck Diagnosis to rate the effectiveness of a player's deck, and a new group of antagonists known as Team Great Rocket.[22] The game features all cards from the original game, along with new cards from the fourth set, Team Rocket, as well as cards originally exclusive to Japanese vending machines and the Pokémon Trading Card Game Instructional Video Intro Pack, bringing the total number of cards to 445.
Like the previous title, players must travel across the game world challenging non-player characters to simulated battles using rules adopted from the original tabletop version. All locations from the original are present, along with a new setting known as GR Island which contains its own Battle Masters for players to encounter. By defeating a total of 16 Battle Masters on the old and new islands, players may challenge the game's final boss, King Biruritchi. Though an English release in North America was deemed "likely" by website IGN in 2001, the game has not been made available outside Japan.[22] Pokémon Card GB2 earned a 29 out of 40 score from Japanese Weekly Famitsu magazine.[23]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Pokémon Card Delayed". IGN. 1999-12-02. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ "ポケモンカードGB" (in Japanese). Nintendo. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ Vuckovic, Daniel (July 7, 2014). "Nintendo Download Update (11/7) Pokemon Trading Card Game". Vooks. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
- ^ NintenDaan (July 7, 2014). "This week's European downloads - July 10 (Pokemon TCG and more)". GoNintendo. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
- ^ Campbell, Evan (October 20, 2014). "Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, Pokemon Trading Card Game Coming to 3DS Virtual Console". IGN. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
- ^ a b c Harris, Craig (2000-04-10). "Pokémon Trading Card Game - Game Boy Color Review". IGN. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ a b c Bartholow, Peter (2000-04-10). "Pokemon Trading Card Game Review for Game Boy Color". GameSpot. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ ギフトセンター (in Japanese). Nintendo. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ 「カードポン!」でカードが増える!友達が増える!! (in Japanese). Nintendo. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ Johnston, Chris (November 19, 1998). "Nintendo Trades Pokemon Cards". GameSpot. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
- ^ "Pokémon Card Game Coming to the US". IGN. 1999-09-10. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ "Pokemon 2000 at the Toy Fair". IGN. 2000-02-09. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ おどれ! 1997~1998 [イベント・テレビなど] (in Japanese). Imakuni? Official Website. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
- ^ "Saudi Arabia bans Pokemon". British Broadcasting Corporation for the World. March 26, 2001. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
- ^ a b "Pokemon Trading Card Game for Game Boy Color". GameRankings. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ "Pokemon Trading Card Game Review". Nintendo Power. Nintendo of America (130). March 2000.
- ^ "1999 Top 100 Best Selling Japanese Console Games". The Magic Box. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ "US Platinum Game Chart". The Magic Box. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ "Best Game Boy games of all time". GamesRadar. 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
- ^ DeVries, Jack (2009-11-19). "Pokemon Report: Cheers & Tears Edition". IGN. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ "Pokémon Card GB2 Release Information for Game Boy Color". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
- ^ a b c "A New Pokémon Game In The Cards". IGN. 2001-01-23. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
- ^ "ポケモンカードGB2 -GR団参上!- [ゲームボーイ]". Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain, Inc. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
External links[edit]
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Official website (Archived)


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The Echo previously told how Julie Bailey, of the Cure the NHS campaign, accused the hospital of "massaging" its death rate figures.
Between 2007 and 2009 Basildon Hospital had one of the highest rates of deaths amongst patients in the country, but this dropped by 8.5 percent in 2009.
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Acacia House is a terrible holiday cottage with lots of problems with it. Whitby is nice though and will go again there just not use this cottage or recommend it… Read Full ReviewClick here to view holiday offers on Expedia
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Acacia House, Whitby (Whitby holiday cottages)
If you don't mind being woken up at 5.30am every morning by seagulls pecking at the roof and you're ok with bird poo all over your car, fixing electrical faults and telling the noisy neighbours to be quiet, then this holiday cottage is for you.
This "cottage" is in fact an ordinary mid-terraced house in an ordinary residential street. Some of the other houses on the street are also holiday "cottages".
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Social safety nets and targeted social assistance : lessons from the European experience
The objective of this paper is to review and compare the performance of social assistance non-contributory income support programs for the poor within the context of the Social Protection (SP) systems in European and other advanced economies. The performance and design of targeted income support to the poor differ across the advanced countries analyzed. Yet in most European countries, social assistance can be seen as an instrument of last resort after all other components of the Social Protection system have contributed to lower inequality and reduced poverty levels. The European Social Protection systems are effective and efficient, but reforms are needed as a response to changing socio-economic conditions. Of special importance are the reforms with respect to the provision of incentives for beneficiaries to become more active on the labor market, for providers to operate to be more critical when handing our benefits by changing entitlement rights as well as the containing operational costs. After all, it is the design and adjustment to local circumstances that matter when the role of social assistance in a broader SP system has been well understood. The first section of the paper provides the background necessary for analyzing the differences in the construction of the Welfare States in the various countries. The discussion is focused on the role of various components of SP systems and illustrates the large international differences in their components and their role in alleviating poverty and reducing inequality. The second section provides details on the characteristics of the social assistance (targeted income support to the poor) programs in the nine European countries. The third section discusses the differences in the performance of the social assistance systems in terms of coverage and participation, effectiveness towards reducing poverty and inequality, efficiency in delivering the benefits, and implementation issues. The fourth section reviews the recent debate towards reforms in the systems. The concluding section draws lessons from the experiences of the European countries related to the design and implementation of Social Protection systems aimed at fighting poverty and reducing inequality.
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What Are The Requirements For EU Membership?
I see the European Union is taking on new members.
Had a discussion about this somewhere else, so I thought I would ask clarification here: ultimately, do all the present EU members have to approve for a new member to be admitted? Can just one or two nations prevent a new member from becoming admitted? Or is a majority, 2/3, or 3/4 approval?
Also, is there a stated requirement that all EU members must be actually located in Europe? Is it at least conceivable they could admit a nation that does not have part of it lying in Europe or a nearby island, (not that they have expressed interest in doing so)?
Re: What Are The Requirements For EU Membership?
the EU, like approving new members, currently has to be ratified
by the governments of all EU countries. That is, in practice, any
country can stop such decisions. Such things has happened on
several occasions. Since the number of members will now grow
even more, it has been suggested to change the rules so a
single country can no longer stop decsicions, but there is no
decision taken on this yet. I understand that some kind of
EU constitution is planned to be decided on during this year,
and that it is intended to include new rules for voting, but
that requires that a concencus on this new constitution can
be reached under the current rules, of course. Something
which not everybody believes will happen.
about this at all. Turkey wants to become a member and the
US is pressing EU to to allow them in. However, from a
purely geographical point of view, only a small part of Turkey
is usually considered to belong to Europe. What would happen
if Russia would eventually want to become a member? A large
part of Russia is usually considered to belong to Europe. I suppose
the main problem is that nobody really has a very clear idea of
what EU is supposed to be. The purpose of the union is unclear
and changes over time. Some countries, or at least politicians,
want it to eventually be a federation, while most seem to prefer
it to be a looser union of sovereign states.
1.) They must have stable institutions that can guarantee democracy, the rule of law, human rights and protection of minorities.
2.) They must be functioning market economies with the capacity to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the EU.
3.) They must be equipped to take on the obligations of membership and to adhere to the aims of political union and economic and monetary union.
Thanks, Christer and Bas.
I had a discussion elsewhere where an individual maintained that Turkey had no chance to join the EU because "geography is geography".
Your anwers have now made clear that if Turkey does not get into the EU, it will not be because it fails any geography requirement, but merely because the other EU states decide not to let it in. That is a big difference.
Thanks for the clarification, guys. :)
If I wanted to be cynical I would say that Turkey is a Muslim country...and the EU is a Christian club. No way the Christians will accept a muslim member.
But I won't be cynical. The human rights issue is far far more important than the Geography of Europe.
I keep reading in the Dutch papers about how they're going to limit the number of Eastern Europeans who can get work permits in the Netherlands. Is that true? Can they really do that? Or is it just a lot of political noise? I guess all EU countries are equal, but some are more equal than others. By the time Turkey gets in, they might find it's not worth the trouble.
Inequalities, but only at first...
When borders are opened, there is a possibility of large movement of both working and welfare dependant population from poorer to richer countries. It would be unrealistic to expect unlimited access straight away. Imagine the USA opening it's border with Mexico.
John and Rob,
America and Mexico are both part of NAFTA...But very much 2 different countries.
But the European Union is about more than just a trade agreement....taking away borders not putting them up.
The dutch protection of workers is nothing else but Apartheid.
Well I don't know the details of the Dutch policy, but we in the UK are led to believe that all the old members including us, are putting limits on Work permits and Welfare benefits.
Surely the only other way for it to work is to delay their membership until their economy is on a level to yours. I do believe that earlier membership will get them to that point quicker.
Now whether the larger Union will work at all, that's another matter....
Regarding the special rules for new member states. When
the conditions for the enlargement were taken only two of
the current member states requested an exception that
imposed restrictions on immigration from the new member states.
I think one of these was Eire, but I don't remember which the
other one was. However, although everybody else said they
would not impose any such restriction, there was a backdoor
in the treaty, saying that any member country was allowed
to introduce such excpetions later on. As time went by, more
and more member states has signalled that they want to make
use of this backdoor and impose restrictions. Note howverr that
such restrictions cannot be permanent, but only be operational
for a period of a few years. I think Germany was (one of) the
first countries to send out such signals. Then many others have
followed, inlcuding my own country, Sweden. The worries here
are that we have by tradition a very generous welfare system
and according to current law you are only required to be
employed 10 hours a week to get access to these benefits.
There is a fear amongst some politicians that some people
from the poorer of the new member countries will move here just
to make use of this. Nobody knows if this fear is jsutified or not,
of course. It seems now that the government is not getting
enough support for introducing such exceptions, but nothing
is settled yet. Anyway, the reasoning behind the suggested
exceptions is that since a large share of the EU budget will
be directed towards the new members, their economies are
expected to grow quickly and withing a few years even out
the really big differences in living standard.
Regarding Turkey, the impression one gets from media here
in Sweden, at least, is that most "experts" seem to question
if there is actually any of the current member countries who
really wants Turkey as a member but that no politician dares
to say that outright, so instead they just keep telling Turkey
that they are still not living up to the requirements for a
membership application. Interestingly, it seems noone has
tried to disqualify them for geographical reasons, which seem
to be the simplest way if they really wanted to say no. However,
this is all just media speculations. Obviously, the geography is
not considered a problem. However, as Bas said, there are still
serious issues regarding the human rights situation in Turkey.
It seems though that things have improved somewhat in that
respect since Turkey seem to really want to be eligible for
membership. I understand that although people can still be
sentenced to death in Turkey, the courts has stopped making
use of this as a first step towards harmonizing with the EU
However, since nobody seems to have tried disqualifying Turkey
for geographical reasons, we do have the interesting question
of what countries are eligible in theory. At least a part of Turkey
is located in Europe, but so ia a large part of Russia. Although
this has no direct connections with EU, Israel has since
many many years back been allowed to participate in, and
has also on several occasions won, the Eurovision song contest
which is run by the European Broadcasting Union. Does that
mean Israel could eventually be considered a European
country??? BTW, since a few years back also Russia participates,
but at least they are partially European. So if Russia would
be eligible for having some part of its soil in Europe, would
that mean that all other former Soviet republics are also
eligible for once being part of the partially european Soviet
Union?? i seriously doubt there is any clear and coherent
view on these matters.
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Question about fish oil
I hear about a lot of people taking fish oil and flax oil. When i try to look these things up i dont see where the benefit they bring to body building.
Do any of you guys here take these supplements, and what do they actually do?
Here's a link to the benefits of EFA's (Essential fatty Acids):
Thank you for the site. It answered my question on the benefits for weight lifting. I think i will probably go out and buy some fish oil caps next time i goto Vitamin World. They are pretty cheap and seem to have a lot of over all health benefits.
Any other comments on the product would be appreciated.
Atkins...4 Me
Say what you will about Atkins over priced products, not sure about the area you guys live in, but up in Canada, the stuff has just gone completely on sale (I guess since the old guy kicked the bucket!)
That's how I get all my essentials. I buy his "Essential Oils", because it's complete, high quality, and I know it's a reputable product (I've read that taking unreliable fish oils can lead to serious health problems and that it's common for unreliable brands to use fillers and bad quality fish).
Here's what Atkins product contains:
Bottle 60 soft gel capsules
Vitamin E 10 IU
Alpha Lionolenic Acid (omega 3 from flaxseed) 220mg
Docosahexanoic Acid (omega 3 from fish oil) 80 mg
Eicosapentanoic acid (omega 3 from fish oil) 120mg
Gamma linolenic acid (GLA, omega 3, from borage seed oil) 96mg
Linoleic acid (omega 6 from borage, flaxseed and fish oils) 152.5mg
Oleic acid (from borage, flaxseed and fish oils) 202.5mg
per capsule.
I take 2 a day.
Not sure I really like giving advice to someone with the screen name "WhiteNProud". If you're a skinhead, you can take the capsules of fish oils and promptly shove them straight up your @ss.
yea, whatsup with that name? :confused:
Maybe he just doesnt have a tan? And proud to not have one. I am soo not proud my tan sucks.
wow. im sorry guys if i offended anyone with my name.
I guess i should be ashamed of my european heritage?
And i'm not a skinhead, im just an Irish-German kid who is proud of where he came from. Didnt think the name would cause any problems.
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CHICAGO -- As the losses mounted for the Chicago Cubs, so did general manager Ed Lynch's frustration. Every day, it seemed, the team he put together found a new way to lose.
Lynch offered to resign in mid-May but team president Andy MacPhail thought it would be better to wait until the All-Star break to see if the season could be saved.
Things didn't improve, the team slipped farther behind in the NL Central and also became embroiled in a Sammy Sosa trade soap opera.
On Wednesday, MacPhail accepted Lynch's resignation and will now assume the GM duties himself, less than two weeks before the trade deadline.
''It was a development that evolved over time,'' MacPhail said. ''It was easy to see his frustration. I was frustrated along with him. So it really wasn't a surprise.''
The Cubs made the playoffs in 1998 as the NL wild card, riding Sosa's sensational 66-homer season, the pitching of Kerry Wood and the leadership of veterans like Gary Gaetti, Mickey Morandini and Rod Beck.
The Cubs decided to stick with those veterans the next season. And even with Wood out for the season following elbow surgery, they rolled to a 32-24 start in early June. Then came a startling collapse that hasn't been halted.
They won only 35 games the final four months of 1999. And this year; despite new manager Don Baylor and the acquisition of Eric Young, Damon Buford, Ismael Valdes, Joe Girardi and Ricky Gutierrez; they were just 39-53, 1412 games behind St. Louis in the NL Central, headed into Wednesday night's game.
''I don't know when the downfall began,'' Lynch said.
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LeoCAD is a CAD application that uses plastic building bricks similar to those found in many toys. This is the Linux port of the original MS Windows version; it uses OpenGL for the graphics and allows the creation of very large/complex models with a library of over 1500 different parts.
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Release Notes: Bugfixes, and a new GPL licensing.
Release Notes: First release.
A Fluent OpenStack client API for Java.
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Apple released an update today to its MobileMe Gallery application for the iPhone & iPod Touch which brings it up to version 1.1.1.
The update features "various bug fixes" as well as the ability to download your photos in a higher resolution when using the iPhone 4 over Wi-Fi.
Despite these improvements, this little app still leaves much to be desired. Apple are yet to develop a way in which you can manage your photo galleries from your iPhone & iPod Touch. Currently you can only view or upload to galleries you have already created on you computer, and you cannot create or delete galleries from within the app.
As well as this, MobileMe Gallery is still not a universal application, so although it will run on the iPad as most iPhone apps will, it's not yet been built for the iPad's larger screen.


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Fiesta Inn Aguascalientes
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Property Location
With a stay at Fiesta Inn Aguascalientes in Aguascalientes, you'll be close to Discover Interactive Museum of Science and Technology and Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion Cathedral Basilica. This hotel is within close proximity of Teatro Aguascalientes and Encino Garden.
Make yourself at home in one of the 125 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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Don't miss out on recreational opportunities including an outdoor pool and a fitness center. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare (surcharge), and tour/ticket assistance.
Enjoy a meal at a restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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Featured amenities include a business center, express check-out, and a 24-hour front desk. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.
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Alexandria voter part of Senate recount saga
ALEXANDRIA - When Ole Nyland of Alexandria voted last fall, he did what he's been doing for the last three or four elections.
He got an absentee ballot and visited his wife, Eleanor, at Knute Nelson nursing home. Together, they went through their ballots and decided who to vote for.
Because Ole can't see very well, Eleanor marked his ballot for him. "She's pretty fussy about the ballot - she makes sure the circles are all filled in," Ole said.
Then they put the completed ballots in the mail, hoping their candidates would win and thinking that would be the end of that.
Now, four months later, Ole Nyland's ballot is among 400 rejected and disputed absentee ballots that a panel of three judges has ordered to be examined and possibly counted as part of the contested U.S. Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
A list of the voters' names on the 400 ballots was made public and Ole Nyland is the only one from Douglas County.
When the Echo Press contacted Ole on Wednesday and told him his ballot is now part of the embattled recount process, he was stunned. He was even more shocked to learn that his ballot hasn't been counted - at least not yet.
"You're kidding me!" he said. "Boy, I tell you I'd really be interested in why there is a dispute with it [his ballot]...I thought we did everything right."
As it turned out, Ole's ballot was rejected because it didn't contain a valid proof of his residence, according to Vicki Doehling, Douglas County elections administrator.
The ballot didn't contain a voter registration card, as it should, and even though the county later received the card in the mail, it still didn't contain a driver's license number or other identification to verify his address or status as a registered voter.
Doehling, as requested by the recount judges, mailed the rejected ballot to the secretary of state's office on Wednesday.
"For the voter's sake, I hope it gets counted," Doehling said. "I think our office acted properly in rejecting the ballot but it's now in the hands of the court."
The judges are expected to go through the ballots - but not necessarily all of them - next week in the Supreme Court room at the Minnesota Judicial Center in St. Paul. Fewer than 400 of the ballots may be counted if some are deemed ineligible upon further examination.
About half of the absentee ballots came from Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis counties, which heavily supported Franken in the election.
Coleman's lawyers were disappointed with the judges' decision. They wanted more ballots to be considered, which would increase the chance of overcoming Franken's 225-vote lead in the recount.
Coleman's lawyers have vowed to take the matter to the Minnesota Supreme Court. (See related story for more on the recount process.)
At this point, no one knows what will become of Ole's ballot, although he has a strong opinion about what the outcome should be.
"If there is a dispute, I would tell them who I voted for," he said. "I voted for Franken."


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He was walking down the forest when he felt a stranger was looking at him. It was his beautiful Fairy, the one he had always been trying to meet. The Fairy and the Wizard were longing to be together in the deep forest loving each other for eternity
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Fridays, from now on, will be all about music videos. We're kicking off our new feature, Video Fridays, with 10 awesome videos from TuneCore Artists. If you're interested in having your music video considered for a future Video Fridays feature, tweet @TuneCore with a link to your video, using the hashtag #TCvideofridays.
April Smith and the Great Picture Show – "Terrible Things"
JJ Heller – "What Love Really Means"
Epic Rap Battles of History : "Dr Seuss VS Shakespeare"
Lecrae (feat. Cam) – "Don't Waste Your Life"
Green River Ordinance – "Heart of Me"
Belle Histoire – "Be Alright"
HeyHiHello – "Right Here"
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A study funded by the National Institute on Aging shows that older people with HIV/AIDS may benefit from participating in telephone support groups to help combat feelings of isolation, HIV-related stigma, and depression. The study, presented at the annual National Association on HIV Over Fifty Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., and conducted by researchers at Ohio University, evaluated the effectiveness of 12 one-hour conference calls between small groups of HIV-positive people and a social worker. Study participants discussed coping with HIV disease, stress management, aging, and support issues.
"The older adults who went through the intervention said they felt they could cope better," researcher Lori Brown told The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch. Participants also reported less stress after the telephone support sessions. Lead researcher Timothy Heckman said he believes such outreach programs for older HIV-positive people are needed because most support services currently in existence target younger patients. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 11% of the nation's reported AIDS cases are in people over age 50.


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ASSAULTING two police officers on a drunken night out in Bishop Auckland has cost a teenager more than £600.
Brandon Lee Comby had been drinking in the Castle Bar Hotel to celebrate a friend's 18th birthday when he got into an argument with the bouncers, magistrates in Newton Aycliffe were told.
Prosecutor Lorraine Cooper said Comby, 18, of Stratton Street in Spennymoor, wanted to take a glass beyond the limits of the outdoor drinking area but door staff told him he had to finish his drink before he could leave.
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Comby eventually left the bar at 10pm but returned a short while later.
Door staff said he was too drunk to be allowed back in but Comby replied "I'm not drunk I have been on sniff".
He then argued with staff for about 30 minutes before police were called, the court heard.
Ms Cooper said Comby was civil one minute and aggressive the next, challenging people to fights.
He was taken to the ground but continued to kick out at the officers catching two of them in the head and face.
Comby admitted two charges of assaulting an officer, resisting arrest and using threatening words or behaviour.
Robert Willoughby in mitigation said Comby, who works at an abattoir, does not normally go out drinking and had consumed too much alcohol on this occasion.
He said Comby could not recall much of what happened but accepted he was out of order and apologised.
Magistrates fined him £400 and ordered him to pay £50 compensation to each officer, £85 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.


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But soon is approaching us sooner than we thought.
Then it got me thinking that I haven't explore Norway enough. We've never been outside Oslo except for the weekend retreat in April last year. Other than that, nada. We haven't seen aurora borealis and never been to Bergen. They say when you're visiting Norway, there are things that you MUST do and those two are on the list.
Putting Norway aside, I still haven't had enough of Europe. There are European countries that I haven't visited. Denmark, Brussels, Croatia, Hungary, Portugal just to name a few. And we always tell ourselves that we must return back to Istanbul and London, two places that we've fallen in love so much.
If everything is going according to what H said, I have about 70 days to enjoy my life here.
It's just like what people say - too much to do, too little time.


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Quick shout out to Revolution Season Ticket Holder Thomas Offen (@moleculeboy) for taking home top honors in MLSSoccer.com's "Vine Challege" during Supporter's week. Check out the Vine below, and read the full story on MLSSoccer.com.
This is how we celebrate in New England!!!! #nerevs @nerevolution #mls #supportersweek https://t.co/kXRHCHPJUI— Thomas Offen (@moleculeboy) July 7, 2013


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Chayei sarah
"And they blessed Rebecca, and said to her: 'Our sister, may you grow into thousands of myriads and may your offspring seize the gates of their foes' Genesis 24:60
The book of Bereshit is a book of promises. In this parashah, we read how the ancestral promise made to our matriarchs and patriarchs passes from Sarah to Rebecca.
The blessings received by Rebecca here echo that given to Abraham and Sarah for multiple descendants and land in parashat Lech Lecha. Abraham makes it clear to his senior servant, whom he sends on a mission to find Isaac a wife, that although the woman must come from "the old country", Isaac must not go back but he and his wife must continue Abraham and Sarah's journey.
Throughout the parashah divine blessings are invoked, although God remains silent. The blessings that Rebecca's family give her before sending her to meet Isaac recall the image of the angel appearing to Sarah as well as God's telling Abraham that God will "bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you".
This motif of Rebecca representing the fulfilment of the blessing as it passes to the next generation is used today in the bedeken ceremony at a wedding. We bless the bride as Rebecca's family did, surrounded by those who brought her up, in recognition of her need to create a new household and a new link in the chain of tradition. We encourage the bride to be veiled as Rebecca was when she first set her eyes on Isaac. With every chupah we put ourselves in the place of Isaac and Rebecca, acknowledging our responsibility to continue for the next generation the promises made to Abraham and Sarah.
- Chayei Sarah
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- Miracle MS treatment developed in Israel
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Amateur Radio program for cleaning NASA format keplerian element files.
WWW: http://www.amsat.org
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/comms/nasawash/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install nasawash
cd /usr/ports/comms/nasawash/ && make install clean
pkg install nasawash
PKGNAME: nasawash
SHA256 (nasawash.tgz) = 0c24341be4f2fddcabd56477d527e6f0786224ecc5a71b199074db133045cf2a
SIZE (nasawash.tgz) = 6299
There are no ports dependent upon this port
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 15
MASTER_SITES cleanup.
- Replace ${MASTER_SITE_FOO} with FOO.
- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.
While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.
Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.
Checked by: make fetch-urlall-list
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
- Fix nits found with portlint
- add backup distribution
- fix bad distinfo
- Change MAINTAINER on these hamradio ports to new ports group hamradio@
Remove duplicate plist
Cleanup plist
Add OPTIONS_DEFINE=DOCS for ports with %%PORTDOCS%% in the plist.
Where possible, correct a few instances where PORTDOCS was being used
to flag stuff in EXAMPLESDIR. For some ports, mostly those owned by
ruby@, PORTDOCS is applied to pretty much everything whether it's
documentation or example.
- Stage support
- Enable staging
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- remove maintainer tags from pkg-descr
Approved by: portmgr
Approved by: bapt (mentor)
- Get Rid MD5 support
Change my MAINTAINER: line in Makfile to firstname.lastname@example.com
fix simple typo in xwota Makefile while at it.
Approved by: ehaupt (mentor)
Approved by: krion@
- Fix 'all-depends-list' target in cases if dependencies list is
very long and if some dependencies can't be added into the list.
- Fix FAM support. Make gamin the default FAM system. [2]
- Introduce new 'quicksearch' target to show only port, path and
info section of the matching ports. [3]
- Introduce new category - rubygems. [4]
- Fix stale dependencies while installing qmail slaveport and
another port that depends on qmail. [5]
- Add commentary for describes target in bsd.port.mk. [6]
Add nasawash, Amateur Radio program for cleaning NASA format keplerian
element files
PR: ports/68649
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MS plans subsidised X-Box street price, $500m promo blitz
Dirt cheap hardware, but buy lots of games?
Microsoft will subsidise the street price of its X-Box games platform, due out next year, and is planning to spend $500 million in total on making the machine a success. The $500 million will cover subsidies, marketing and support to retailers and software developers, and will make X-Box Microsoft's biggest launch ever - according to Microsoft, that is.
Microsoft's war chests tend to be just the teensiest bit imaginative, including quantities of virtual bucks that move around the columns but never quite leave the bank. In this case, however, necessity suggests that the sum is at least of an accurate order. Microsoft has already bought, co-developed and subsidised its way into the PC games market, and that process will continue with X-Box.
So you could wonder if future purchases and deals with games developers would count as part of the spend, but if they did, it's reasonable enough, and if they didn't the total X-Box promo budget could actually be said to be a lot more. Microsoft will also have to put money into retail deals in order to get the channel fired-up and selling, and natch, it's going to have to promote it via advertising.
All this will add up to a big number which Microsoft almost certainly can't yet quantify, so with some regret we'd probably best just call the $500 million claim a marketing pitch, and stick with the view that the total will be somewhere vaguely in that territory.
But the user subsidy is interesting. This admission seems to have been a Ballmer blurt at the analysts' meeting, and while it's not an unexpected development, it's worth kicking around a tad. Game console makers generally do subsidise the hardware, just like the mobile phone companies and the cable companies, in the expectation they'll make their money out of software. Microsoft has clearly been moving in this direction (e.g. with the Web Companion, which we're sure will be subsidised, like its rival from AOL), and anyway it would have to do it in order to compete with Nintendo, Sega and Sony on hardware prices.
But we've got a better grasp of the cost of what goes into X-Box than we do as far as a Playstation or Dreamcast is concerned. X-Box will have a Pentium III, custom graphics (which MS has already spent a lot on), 64 megs RAM and an 8 gig hard drive. By late 2001 you could be knocking out a pretty cheap PC based on these components, if you thought you could get anybody to buy it.
So if Microsoft went for a serious subsidy, the street price would be 'pretty cheap PC minus X,' where X is the subsidy level. This alone might not be enough to take out Sony, but we have here another blurt. Games division senior VP Robbie Bach reveals that it'll link into WebTV and MSN services, and while this is again logical beyond the point of obvious, it gives Microsoft a potentially huge advantage.
Microsoft can put out a PC-like (minus the crashes, we trust) device at ultra low prices that leverages the company's existing online and software assets, and that stands a chance of becoming the standard home gaming/communication/Internet appliance. It'll be out well in arrears of rivals from the existing console companies, but they have a lot of ground to make up, considering the cards Microsoft already holds. ®


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text: Tags: IEC Studios, Lowrider Girls, Shanna Corrina Shanna Corrina Extras Part 2 from Lowrider Girls – courtesy of IEC Studios Here's the rest of our exclusive set of Shanna from her shoot with IEC Studios. If this didn't temporarily fill you Shanna fix…then we'll drop even more! Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogleTumblrPinterestLinkedInRedditPocket Related Published: August 3, 2010 Categories: Exclusive, Features, Magazines, Updates Tags: IEC Studios, Lowrider Girls, Shanna Corrina


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Kirby Mass Attack artwork
|Dedede Resort
|A place in
|Tropical island
|King Dedede
|Common enemies
|Battybat, Big Dice, Big Gordo, Big Ice Blucko, Big Mummbon, Big Stickle, Big Waddle Dee, Blipper, Blish, Cakefloof, Dart Soarar, Dice, Ducky, Eelongo, Electro Blipper, Gate Squid, Glub, Glutbulb, Gobchomplin, Gold Waddle Dee, Goldfish, Gordo, Ice Blucko, Ice Noserunt, Jellifrizz, Mossy, Mr. Hook, Mech Geg, Mummbon, Octotzo, Roguemole, Skully, Soarar, Squister, Starepole, Stickle, Waddle Dee
|Tortletummy, King Eelongo, Steelsnapper, Star Block Waddle Dee, Freezy Rex, Hamsturr
|This island is King Dedede's favorite resort. Waddle Dees keep the place locked down tight. Watch out for the bombs they lob from out of nowhere!"
|— Daroach • Kirby Mass Attack
Dedede Resort is the third island in Kirby Mass Attack, coming after Sandy Canyon and before Volcano Valley. There are twelve stages in all, including a boss stage. The boss of the area is none other than King Dedede, as the island's name implies.
General Information
Dedede Resort is a tropical island resort named after King Dedede. It is a lovely resort with many undersea wonders and ocean wildlife. There are four domes where visitors, like Kirby, can play fruit fetching games. The first dome lets the player try to grab bubbles with prizes inside, namely apples, bananas, melons, and Maxim Tomatoes. The second dome features a special game where the player launches Kirby balls into holes to win fruit. The third dome has the player ride on a star to collect fruit while avoiding the Gordos. The fourth and final dome features a game where the player must grab fruit cards from Soarars, without grabbing Soarar cards. Proceeding the domes is a sunken ship that was abandoned for years. Although it's a tropical getaway, there are also some icy, snowcapped areas where Dices and Freezy Rex thrive. In the center of the area lies King Dedede's hideout.
Stage 1
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 1
Number of medals: 3
Kirby enters a Dedede game hut. An autocannon launches him onto a platform in the sky where a game begins. Bubbles containing fruit, bombs, and other items descend and the player must quickly discern which to grab and avoid. This is an effective way to collect more Kirbys, as a Maxim Tomato and several melons are offered.
Stage 2
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 5
Number of medals: 3
The Kirbys enter a Dedede game hut. An autocannon counts how many are in the group and brings them up to a pachinko board. A power meter slides up and down on the right side of the screen. The player must tap the cannon to fire his/her Kirbys into the pockets of the machine. Three pockets contain medals, four contain Maxim Tomatoes, and one contains a skull--this pocket will devour the Kirby that lands in it. When the player fills all beneficial pockets or runs out of balls, the game finishes.
Stage 3
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 2
Number of medals: 5
The Kirbys enter a Dedede game hut. An autocannon launches them to the shore so they can mount a star to surf on. With a flick of the stylus, the player can make the star jump, allowing the Kirbys to collect airborne items, dodge enemies, or fly off ramps for some hang time. If the star hits a Gordo or a Big Gordo, a Kirby will be lost. A rainbow bubble appears at the end, unlocking Stages 5 and 7.
Stage 4
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 1
Number of medals: 3
The Kirbys enter a Dedede game hut. An autocannon launches them to an area where a game begins. Soarars fly overhead carrying cards--most of the cards depict Dart Soarars and a few depict fruit. If a fruit card is grabbed, Soarars will fly through carrying items; if a Soarar card is grabbed, Dark Soarars attack. After the Kirbys have grabbed four cards, the game finishes.
Stage 5
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 8
Number of medals: 5
The Kirbys explore an undersea cavern, fighting currents and squid enemies as they go. At a certain point, the Kirbys must choose to follow an upper or lower path. The upper path is a gauntlet of Squisters and Gordos, ending with a battle against Tortletummy. The lower path is fraught with Eelongos and whirlpools, ending with a battle against King Eelongo. Following the lower path leads the Kirbys to a switch that unlocks Stage 6.
Stage 6
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 8
Number of medals: 5
The Kirbys take a stroll across the shore and periodically go for brief swims underwater. Glubs, Octotzos, and Roguemoles serve as frequent enemies. The Kirbys fish for Stickles midway through the stage. Toward the end, the heroes enter Steelsnapper's territory and battle him. The unique Gold Waddle Dee is hidden in this stage. A rainbow bubble appears at the end, unlocking Stages 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Stage 7
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 8
Number of medals: 5
The Kirbys enter a sunken shipwreck. Puzzles inside often revolve around turning cranks to raise or lower the water level. Blish are common threats. The stage ends with a battle against Star Block Waddle Dee.
Stage 8
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 5
Number of medals: 5
The Kirbys enter a snowy area. They sculpt ice statues, melt snowmen with torches, and get caught in a big, rolling snowball. The environment is cold and harsh; on top of icicles falling from the glacial ceiling, certain enemies--Dice, Big Dice, Ice Blucko, and Big Ice Blucko--are able to KO several Kirbys in a single attack.
Stage 9
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 6
Number of medals: 5
The Kirbys a plunged into Freezy Rex's icy realm. As the dinosaur chases them, they must dodge enemies, break ice blocks, and maneuver through the cave as quickly as possible. The Kirbys finally drop Freezy Rex into a pit and escape.
Stage 10
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 5
Number of medals: 5
The Kirbys venture through a castle completely made out of sweets. There are several paths open, each one leading to a different experience. The Kirbys can bounce off springy objects, eat through cotton candy, and swim through soda. Hamsturr guards the castle's exit. A rainbow bubble appears at the end, unlocking the Boss Stage.
Stage 11
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 7
Number of medals: 3
Big Birdee flies the Kirbys up into the Teetering Tree, an unstable tree that sways back and forth as the weight inside it changes. Rhino Beetles cling to the tree's bark and indicate when it is in danger of collapsing. The Kirbys must frequently shift from one side to the other while climbing lest the tree crash, KO'ing everything inside it. At the end, the Teetering Tree dies collapse, but Big Birdee rescues the Kirbys and takes them into the clouds.
Boss Stage
Number of Kirbys required to enter: 1
The Kirbys combat King Dedede, who attacks with bombs, his hammer, and Waddle Dees.
- The first sign in Stage 3 depicts three tiny images in its lower right hand corner. One of these is a character portrait of King Dedede from Kirby Super Star Ultra.
- Unused sprites found in the game's data suggest that Stage 8 of Dedede Resort was intended to have avalanche hazards. A small warning signal would appear before the snow swept through.
- Early splash screens reveal that Dedede Resort was originally planned to be divided into two levels: Dedede Land, which presumably would have encompassed most of Dedede Resort's stages seen in the final game, and Frozen Field, which presumably would have encompassed Stages 8 and 9 from the final game alongside other icy stages.[1]
- Dedede's Resort's music was rearranged as the music for Swept Out to Sea in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse.
Related Quotes
|This island is so tropical, yet you can ski as well. No better place for a getaway, I guess."
|— Daroach • Kirby Mass Attack
|Dedede Resort has a castle that King Dedede had built. It's supposed to be beyond tacky."
|— Daroach • Kirby Mass Attack
|I used to steal the hearts of young ladies by the seaside here. But that was long ago, before King Dedede came to spoil its shores."
|— Daroach • Kirby Mass Attack
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One local baker is finishing up the final touches of her latest creations for the 25th Annual Carr Center Cake Auction.
Owner Beth Hayes of "In Good Taste Bakery" on Putnam Avenue said she made 14 cakes for it this year. She said some range from really simple designs to others that are very intricate.
"Sometimes they come in and know exactly what they want and that's great and other times they're really not sure and we work together to figure it out and come up with something really cool," she said.
Hayes said she enjoys seeing all of the cake submissions and how creative other bakers get. She said most importantly it's about being able to give back to the community.
"It becomes less about me and more about them once I hand it over so it's a lot of fun to see their reactions, but passed that, I like the fact that it becomes theirs," said the Owner.
A public viewing of all the cakes for the People's Choice Award will be held on Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Colony Square Mall. The actual auction will take place on Thursday and Friday and be broadcast live on AM 1240 from 8:15 to 6 p.m. It will also be streamed on our website.


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The Great British Store Cupboard Challenge: Cooking with Herbs
– January 2015 –
Happy New Year and WELCOME to a new Cooking with Herbs challenge; this month, I would like to offer you a Store Cupboard challenge, and ask for recipes that not only use herbs of course, but also make use of those essential store cupboard essentials and basics, such as salt, pepper, garlic granules, sauces, chutney, pickles, spreads, stock cubes, curry powder, curry paste, relishes, flour, sugar etc etc……..it's that time of year when the store cupboard really comes into its own, and I always like to have a well-stocked cupboard/pantry.
Before I declare the challenge OPEN, do take a look at a piece I wrote for Rural Mums, all about MY basics and essentials in a Rural Store Cupboard:
Lavender and Lovage – Rural Store Cupboard Supplies
The Rural Larder & Pantry:
- Tinned chopped tomatoes
- Tinned kidney beans
- Tinned sweetcorn
- Tinned tuna
- Tinned salmon
- Baked beans
- Custard powder
- Assorted jams (Usually home-made)
- Assorted chutney and pickles/relishes (Usually home-made)
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Soy sauce
- Porridge oats
- Assorted stock cubes
- Tinned fruit
- Tea and coffee
- Cocoa
- Lentils & assorted pulses
- Rice
- Tomato puree
- Sugar – white, light brown & dark brown
- Flour – plain white, self-raising white, plain wholemeal
- Bread Flour – assorted types
- Yeast – dried quick action
- Pasta – assorted packets
- Cooking oil (Olive oil and rapeseed oil)
- Vinegar (malt and wine vinegar)
- Lemon juice
- Honey
- Marmite
- Golden syrup & black treacle
- Dried mixed fruit
- Condensed milk & evaporated milk
- Mustard powder
- Mayonnaise
- Salad Cream
- Salt & pepper
- Dried milk powder
- Assorted Dried Herbs & Spices (Such as: Oregano, Sage, Thyme, Bay, Cumin, Coriander, Ginger, Mixed Spice are essential)
- Curry Powders
- Fresh garlic
- Onions
- Potatoes
This month I also have a PRIZE up for grabs, for the recipe that my guest judge decides is his or her favourite! I have this book and love it:
The Great British Storecupboard Cookbook
Also, do take a look at last month's AMAZING round-up of recipes here:
Sugar & Spice Cookbook! A Virtual "Round-Up" Recipe Book for Cooking with Herbs
Guidelines how to enter:
1. Post your recipe url to the Linky at the bottom of the appropriate month's challenge, including your email and the title of your recipe or post.
2. Display the Cooking with Herbs badge (as shown above and below) to the relevant recipe post, with a link back to the monthly challenge post.
3. Add as many recipe links as you like, there is NO limit!
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All quotes by Barbara Perry
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"I know that these players would like to be here. But this sort of stuff happens with injuries and a long season."
"The Court could decide the Bush appeal is moot. The Court is always concerned about overstepping its bounds, and the Justices could decide that in the period since they agreed to hear the case, the facts have changed such that the case is no longer alive."
"She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, greener and better place to live. In fact, much of our community's recent success can be attributed directly to Janie."
"Under his direction, Salisbury implemented key programs to enhance and promote the central business district."