text: Yu Spa Terms & Conditions The following terms and conditions are the standard Yu Spa Terms and Conditions and shall be incorporated into any Yu Spa Membership Agreement. Constitution Yu Spa is owned and managed by Apex Hotels Ltd, a company incorporated in Scotland, (Company Number SCO73489) and having its registered office at 32 Hailes Avenue, Edinburgh, EH13 0LZ ('Apex'). Yu Spa aims to offer a health and well being facility to its members. Apex reserves the right to vary, add or eliminate any of the particular services and facilities provided by them from time to time. Where reasonably possible, notices shall be displayed in the club notifying any changes to the services or facilities at least 2 weeks in advance. Apex reserves the right to set aside facilities with notice for any conferences, exhibitions or other social events or activities. Apex reserves the right to close or withdraw any facility with or without notice, for any period in connection with maintenance deemed necessary by Management. Membership** Use of the facilities is available upon acceptance of your membership and after a health and lifestyle consultation. Acceptance of membership is at Apex's absolute discretion and shall constitute a legally binding contract between Apex and the member upon the terms and conditions contained herein. Exclusions dates apply for membership (including over Christmas and graduation periods). The initial membership period shall be for a period of 3 months(the 'Initial Period'). A member shall not be entitled to terminate or suspend his/her membership during the Initial Period. This Agreement is personal to the member and cannot be assigned, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the member. Apex may assign the benefit of this Agreement to a third party at any time. Members are issued with a membership card which is required for entry to the club. A fee will be charged for replacement cards. Linked Members must live at the same address as the Head Member to benefit from any discount. Where Linked membership fees are paid by Direct Debit, they must be paid from the Head Member's bank account. Where this Agreement is signed by a Head Member and a Linked Member their obligations shall be joint and several. Any notice by one such person shall be deemed to have been given by both. If a Head Member ceases to be a member and the Linked Member wishes to continue to use the facilities, the Linked Member must become an individual member and pay the individual rate. Applicants for membership must be at least 18 years old. Apex reserves the right to permit entry to younger persons from time to time for sports development purposes at Apex's sole discretion. In applying for membership the member warrants and represents that he/she is in good physical condition and that he/she is capable of all forms of exercise and that such exercise would not be detrimental to his/her health. No family memberships available Under 16s are not permitted to use the spa. Membership fees are payable by direct debit and must be from the same bank account. Minimum term is 3 months. All offers are subject to availability and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers or discounts. Subscriptions The member shall pay the Joining Fee and Subscription detailed in the Yu Spa Membership Agreement. The Joining Fee is a one-off, non-refundable charge. Payment shall be due from the acceptance of membership. Monthly Subscription payments shall be made in advance by direct debit from the member's designated bank or building society account. Payments are due on the third day of each month. A Discount is available to members choosing to pay their Annual Subscription in advance in one lump sum payment. Apex reserve the right to vary this offer. Apex reserves the right to review the Subscriptions periodically. Members will be given at least 30 days notice in writing of any changes, which apply to the members as follows: Monthly Direct Debit payers must pay any increased subscription from the date at which it becomes applicable Members who pay annually in advance will be subject to any increased subscription after expiry of the year pre-paid. Rules and regulations Apex shall make the Yu Spa Club Rules (the 'Club Rules'). These are provided to members for their safety and enjoyment of their membership. A copy of the Club Rules will be provided to each member at the time of joining Yu Spa and a copy shall be available at Reception. The Club Rules form part of the Yu Spa Membership Agreement and each member agrees to abide by its terms. Apex reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership if a member's conduct is in breach of the Club Rules. Apex reserve the right to vary the Terms and Conditions and the Club Rules from time to time. Any changes to the Terms and Conditions or the Club Rules shall be posted at Reception which will constitute due notice of all changes. Lockers are provided for use on a daily basis. Apex may remove any items left overnight in a locker. These contents can be claimed from the hotel reception. Apex will not be responsible for any unclaimed items after six weeks. Guests Members must report all guests to reception. No guest will be permitted entry to the club without the members and the guest first signing the Yu Spa Guest Pass and Disclaimer which shall form part of this Agreement. Apex may, at its sole discretion, refuse entry to or eject from the club any guest not properly admitted in accordance with this clause 5. Liability Apex's liability for death, personal injury or damage to a member's or guest's property is limited to loss or damage incurred as a result of the negligence of Apex, its staff or agents. For the avoidance of doubt, Apex shall not be liable in contract, negligence, breach of duty or otherwise by reason of or in connection with this Agreement or in any other circumstances for any indirect or consequential loss. Termination and suspension if membership Either party may cancel the membership at any time by giving 30 days written notice to the other party. Apex reserves the right at any time to cancel or suspend the membership of any member in event of the following: (i) the member commits a serious or repeated breach of this Agreement and the breach, if capable of remedy, is not remedied within 7 days of receipt of a default notice, or (ii) where any monies due to Apex by the member remain unpaid 30 days after its due date for payment; or (iii) the member knowingly provides false details when applying for membership and the false declaration would have reasonably affected Apex's decision to grant the membership. If Apex terminates for any of the above reasons, they reserve the right to retain a proportion of the Subscription paid to cover any reasonable costs they have incurred as a result. Membership may be suspended for up to 3 months on medical grounds. A Medical Certificate may be required. Members will be liable to pay an administration charge to suspend their membership. Loyalty program terms and conditions Points will be awarded for treatments at Yu Spa and the purchase of Elemis products from Yu Spa. Points will be awarded for your total bill during your stay at any Apex Hotel. 500 Referral points will only be awarded after the new member has paid for a minimum of 3 months membership or stayed a minimum of 5 nights at an Apex hotel. Referral points will only be awarded for NEW members and not re-joining members. Spa members will not be awarded points for food and beverage only but are entitled to a 15% discount off food and beverage when presenting their Membership Card at any Apex Hotel up to a maximum of 10 people. Points will not be awarded for Spa membership fees. Points will not be awarded for the purchase of Gift Vouchers. Points will not be awarded for Personal Training Programmes. Group corporate membership where membership to paid for by the company / body is excluded from this scheme. 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By guest blogger Poojah Ganesh You passed your driver's test and got your driver's license. Good for you! You even got a car to drive to school and other places without needing Mom and Dad to chauffeur you around. That's pretty exciting, isn't it? But your parents worry about your safety, especially when you're driving […]
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Landa unveils larger model in line of revolutionary spin jet parts washersSource: Landa Water Cleaning Systems
The SJ-15 features a parts basket up to 32 inches long and 21 inches wide, large enough for cleaning most truck and automobile transmissions.
As with the smaller SJ-10, the SJ-15 features a water-propelled spray bar that spins around a stationary parts basket blasting soiled parts with focused cleaning power at a rate of up to 200 times per minute. Most conventional aqueous parts washers use a parts basket mounted on a turntable that revolves slowly under stationary spray nozzles.
Because the spray bar in the SJ-15 is propelled by water pressure there is no need for an electric turntable drive motor, transmission, gears, tires, brushes and other mechanical components that traditionally create maintenance headaches.
The SJ-15 has 30 precision spray nozzles, angled for maximum cleaning power, which whirl around the parts basket only 1 to 18 inches away. The parts basket, which is capable of handling load weights of up to 350 lbs., can be removed easily from the unit.
Like all of Landa's aqueous parts washers, the new SJ-15 Parts Washer uses hot water and biodegradable soaps--instead of solvents--for enviro-safe removal of oil, grease, process fluids, stamping compounds, lubricating oils, and shavings from metal parts. The SJ-15 is expected to be widely used in engine and equipment repair shops and even manufacturing facilities where medium-sized parts can be cleaned in batches.
The SJ-15 spray bar turns on a brass spin pin with long-lasting, low-maintenance, non-corrosive Teflon seals and bearings.
The unit is made of 12-gauge steel and is powder coated with an epoxy paint for longer life. It has an extra-large 80-gallon tank capacity which means the wash water stays hotter and cleaner longer.
Among the unique features of Landa's spin jet parts washers are:
- Easy-to-remove, rectangular parts basket, which is more conducive to fitting automotive parts than the traditional circular baskets;
- Easy-to-access chip trays, with optional oil-absorbing pads, are located just below the parts basket so the 170-degrees wash water in the tank does not have to be drained in order to retrieve a stray bolt or part;
- 6KW energy-efficient calrod heating element protected in an incoloy sheath;
- Interlocking, leak-free mechanical seal on lid eliminates the need for gaskets;
- Durable lid with gas struts for easy opening and closing;
- Automatic 1-hour wash timer protects against operator neglect;
- Automatic 7-day heater timer saves energy and time by pre-heating the wash water only when needed;
- Timed auto lid lock momentarily prevents lid from opening so as to protect the operator from hot water overspray;
- 2 hp centrifugal pump for delivering hot-water spray of 35 gallons per minute at pressures of up to 48 psi;
- High-density, plastic lid handles are mounted on the side for added safety;
- Low-water shut down switch protects against damage to heating element; and
- Power and low-water indicator lights for monitoring the unit's performance.
The SJ-15 also has a number of optional components to further enhance the cleaning effectiveness and operator convenience. Among them are adjustable thermostat, automatic water fill, a variety of small parts baskets and dividers, caster wheels for easy maneuvering in a shop, cleaning solution filtration system, service tray and tools for convenience in pre-scrubbing extra tough jobs.
Landa, Inc., located in Camas, Washington (just outside of Portland, Oregon), has been a leader in the cleaning equipment industry since 1969. In 1994 Landa introduced a new line of automatic, aqueous parts washers, including top-load, front-load and conveyor models.
Today Landa distributes its line of industrial cleaning equipment via a network of nearly 300 dealers throughout North America and more than 25 foreign countries.
For more details, contact Crismon Lewis, 1-800-547-8672, Ext. 175.
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Madeira schools are taking a look at the services the district offers to its students, especially in the special needs area.
In the Madeira school district about 10 percent of students have a disability that needs some sort of attention from the school, whether it's one-on-one assistance or extra test-taking time.
While the district offers most of the services students in the district would need, some parents opt to send their children to private or parochial schools, said Kevin Wright, director of student services. ...


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There's a plea for help after a horse is attacked by dogs on a Waimanalo ranch.
Click here to watch Nana Ohkawa's story.
The handler wants to find the dog's owners to hold them accountable.
The 10-year-old-quarter horse, Roxy, was getting sedated and stitched up on Sunday.
She was looking much better than she did Friday night when she was attacked by two dogs.
"When we heard the 'boom,' 'bam,' 'boom' slamming of things we came running down. Then we found the dog and she was going nuts, nuts because she was already hurting," said horse owner June Pires.
Graphic pictures show Roxy bloody bitten on the face, mane, hoof and flank area. She was bitten more than five times.
"He grabbed the cheek, and then he grabbed the nose, and tore the nose. The vet had to lift up the nose and sew it up," said Pires.
Pires said one dog ran away, but the other wasn't letting go. An owner was no where to be found.
A veterinarian worked on Roxy for more than three hours the night of the attack.
Roxy was being trained to be a show horse but with her injuries that's come to a halt.
Pires has owned the ranch in Waimanalo for 15 years. She said recently hunters have been illegally parking at the dead end down her block and illegally hunting with their dogs through the area.
"Nobody is there. What happens? People take advantage of going up there. Nobody is going to catch them. They come at night," said Pires.
The attack has sent waves of fear through other horse owners in the area.
"Immediately, you are going to have total anxiety, total stress. What if he comes back? What if the dog that's missing ,there was a second dog, comes out in the night and the same thing is repeated?" asked Nanea Chambers.
"I don't blame the dog who was trained to kill. I blame the owners. They shouldn't have animals if they can't control them because if I had my grandkids here or my small dogs those hunting dogs would tear them apart," said Pires.
Roxy's mouth will heal in a month or so, but her full recovery may take up to eight months.
Pires wants the dogs owner to come forward and help with vet bills of more than $1,000.
The owner can be charged with having a dangerous dog. The maximum fine is $2,000 and a year in jail.


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Geo Targeting and Fraud Protection Programs
Pay-Per-Click search engine traffic is a popular means of bringing qualified users to sites. Technology has evolved tremendously, allowing the targeting and tracking abilities of an engine to supply PPC campaigns with less advertising and more of a direct marketing platform. However, while the theory is sound, the traffic being supplied may not always be real. (This is why it is important to list with a reputable engine that has strict fraud detection programs). On the flip side, the same type of technology used to identify and suppress certain types of traffic can also be used for good geo targeting can supply geographically specific traffic to your site.
reputable search engine offering fraud detection programs should maintain at
least three separate and different methods of fraud detection, and should have
a strict policy of filtering those fraudulent clicks detected back to the advertiser
at no charge. The frequency cap on click traffic is one such
measure. During a predetermined period of time a frequency cap, or filter, will
reject all duplicate clicks from the same IP address that are made to the same
URL for a single query. The longer the time period, the better ROI you can expect.
frequency capping is efficient, it does not solve the entire problem. A checksum
value should also be attached to an advertisers' URL. This ensures
that any click transaction being performed on that URL is being executed in
a live search environment and not being looped by a script. Similar to applying
a checksum to the search URL, the application of a session id based on the time
of the search is also effective. This embeds an expiry time on the search URL
and will refuse any click transactions if they occur after a predetermined period
of time.
For example, if a click to your link happens 2 hours after the actual search occurred, one could safely assume that some form of caching has occurred and that the transaction did not happen in a live search environment. There are some risks for the publisher in discarding good transactions as some user sessions could run past the expiry time, yet most agree that the interest of the advertiser is paramount, and that the loss is minimal.
is Part Three of a three-part article on successful online advertising.
One addressed the question "Why Internet Advertising?"
Two covered Keyword Advertising.
North American, or English speaking countries, search engines use a final effective
means of limiting fraud activity - by discounting click traffic
coming from countries in which English is not the standard language. All ISPs
are given blocks of IP addresses to supply to their clients. The first segment
of digits on the IP address acts much like a country code and identifies which
ISP, and in which country, the IP address originates.
This is how traditional geo-targeting works and can be an effective means for eliminating fraud. When checking your log files, if you notice a lot of click traffic coming from one IP address, you can trace its origin by visiting the American Registry of Internet Numbers. After feeding the IP address into their "whois" search, it will tell you who has been assigned that IP address, whether this is an ISP or another business entity. Should the IP address not be assigned to the Americas, you can verify RIPE Network Coordination Center for all Russian, European, and Middle Eastern registries or the Asia Pacific Network Information Center.
Good filtering techniques and policies are important, but cannot act as a substitute for human intervention. No publisher has the ability to catch everything before it happens. Taking the time to review your click log files and to inform your publisher of any anomalies will help prevent further abuse and, more importantly, save you money.
On a positive note, if the search engine that you list with is able to discount clicks based on IP addresses, it is likely they have geo targeting available to its advertisers. It is quickly becoming an industry standard. Most search engines that employ a geo-targeting program for search and/or banner advertisers, notice a dramatic increase in clickthrough rates. It is akin to asking for only certain type of traffic to come to your site based on a geographic parameter. If you would like to only have users come to your site from the west coast or even a specific city, this is entirely possible. Geo targeting is the first step to directing specific types of users to your site in the future it may be able to be directed by many other types of profiles as the technology becomes more refined.
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The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights in the College of Law sponsors the Burns H. Weston International Human Rights Essay Prize each year, awarding prizes to one undergraduate and one graduate or professional school student. This year's deadline is 5pm on Friday, December 19, 2014.
Darryl Montana, Big Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas Mardi Gras Indian tribe, will be featured in an upcoming panel discussion on "Festival Arts, Carnival, and Community Development." The event is free and open to the public and will take place Wednesday, April 23, 2014, from 6-8 p.m. in Room 2520D, University Capitol Centre.
For two survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the possibility to bear witness relied on their mutual ability to take a camera, to shoot back, and edit an unprecedented representation of themselves as witnesses and survivors. Alexandre Dauge-Roth of Bates College will present "Auto-Documenting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: The Testimonial Encounter within the Cinema of Me" on Monday, Nov. 11, at 6:30 p.m. in 315 Phillips Hall.
The UI Center for Human Rights sponsors the annual Burns H. Weston International Human Rights Essay Prize, which honors the fine work of University of Iowa students and the lifetime work of Professor Burns H. Weston of the College of Law. The deadline for the 2013 Weston Essay Prize competition has been extended to December 20, 2013.
John Manning, associate professor of tuba and euphonium at the UI, introduces the Series on Arts and Rights, or "SOAR," program in this Press-Citizen commentary. John will join others on the season opener of WorldCanvass Friday, Sept. 20, when the topic is "The Arts as Vocabulary."
Jacqueline Asiimwe, a social justice and political rights activist from Uganda, will give a presentation at the University of Iowa Monday, Sept. 23, on "The Black Monday Movement: Re-energizing the Fight Against Official Corruption in Uganda." Her talk will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Executive Board Room of the University Capitol Centre, Room 2390.
The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR) will host a special forum on the conflict in Syria titled "Intervention in Syria: Law, Ethics, and Policy" from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, in Conference Room 2520D on the second floor of the University Capitol Centre in the Old Capitol Town Center.
The UI Center for Human Rights in the College of Law has released the 37th Human Rights Index, featuring alarming statistics on sex trafficking worldwide. In the United States alone, an estimated 14,500 to 17,500 women and children are trafficked into the U.S. each year, the vast majority in severe ways.
Welcome to the 2013-14 academic year! As I do at the beginning of every fall semester, I would like to share a few thoughts on the University's progress in internationalization, and some specific projects and activities for the coming year.
Summer 2013 turned out to be more exciting than normal for the law school's study abroad program. Professor Adrien K. Wing fielded several obstacles that prevented students from following their original itinerary, but in the end the new program went through as if it had been planned for months rather than days.


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Mike Konczal suggests Paul's commitment to federalism kneecaps his ability to take on mass imprisonment:
When researchers run statistics over state-level incarceration rates, they find things like "controlling for social disorganization, religious fundamentalism, political conservatism, and violent crimes, the results show that Republican strength [in state governments]…lead to higher imprisonment rates. Statistical interactions support predictions that these relationships became stronger after greater Republican stress on law and order." States with a Republican governor and Republican legislatures show a greater increase in incarcerated populations, and that the effect is stronger in the 1990s. Institutions like ALEC were most effective at the state level in changing laws to bias towards longer sentencing. State laws are crucial to understanding the massive run-up in mass incarceration, and that is where much of the battle will be.
There's a lot to be done at the federal level, but any serious critique of mass incarceration needs to tackle the states, and the federal level will need to play a part in it.
Damon Root thinks the "state rights" position is, in some ways, fundamentally unlibertarian.


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This step-by-step article describes how to write a Perl SOAP::Lite client for a Web Service that is based on the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit or .NET.
NOTE: Microsoft does not provide support for Perl.
RequirementsThe following items describe the recommended hardware, software, network infrastructure, skills and knowledge, and service packs that you need:
Edit the WSDL FileIncompatibilities exist between the SOAP::Lite WSDL reader and the WSDL generator that is provided by .NET. Specifically, the SOAP::Lite WSDL reader expects all XSD type information to be in a namespace called XSD. These incompatibilities are to be resolved in future releases of SOAP::Lite.
To edit a .NET-generated WSDL file so that it is useable by SOAP::Lite, follow these steps:
NOTE: If the WSDL was generated by the SOAP Toolkit version 2.0, this procedure is unnecessary.
Call the EndpointAfter you have the WSDL properly formatted for SOAP::Lite, you can call the endpoint fairly simply. If the file is stored locally (as it is for a .NET endpoint), you must make sure that you are using the file:// style Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to load the WSDL. To call a simple service that adds two numbers and prints the results, use code that resembles the following:
TroubleshootingGetting the WSDL set up correctly can take a little while. You may receive error messages from the SOAP::Lite module that do not seem to be related to how the WSDL is set up and parsed. It is also fairly easy to miss an element that needs to be eliminated or replaced. If this is a major concern, you can choose to not use the WSDL capabilities and make your SOAP calls more direct. When you do this, make sure to have the WSDL file and the SOAP::Lite User's Guide available for reference so that you can make sure that the correct values are passed back and forth and that they are all named correctly.
To make sure that you completely understand the WSDL setup, you can use the Mssoapt.exe tool that ships with the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit version 2.0.
SOAP::Lite and the .NET XML Web Service implementations are part of a larger community driving interoperability between SOAP implementations. For more information on the current state of the interoperability testing, see the following Web site:
SOAPBuilders Interoperability LabFor more information on how to handle SOAP faults and complex types, see the user's guide on the following Web site:
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E3 is upon us once again, and so too are ridiculous predictions. Having exhausted every form of divination available in past years – tarot cards, coins, magic 8 balls – I was left with either the last resort of "Erotic Dice Predict E3" or to change the format up. I chose poorly.
So I'm proud to pronounce E3 Bingo, the only game where winning makes you a bigger loser! The cards will be split between the Big Three conferences of Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo and a fourth General card. The traditional Free Space will be occupied by a sure thing and victory is achieved by getting a row either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
Microsoft like to play it safe, a little too safe. Last year's "all games, no bull" approach helped make up for the previous disastrous years, but they still lag behind. Objectively, it could be argued that Microsoft have some of the best games to showcase, but the problem is most turn out to be multiplatform. They also have a habit of using doublespeak to feign exclusivity, so look forward to pointless confusion in the coming days. Expect lots of green.
"Greatness Awaits" has been the tagline for a few years now, and fans are starting to get impatient, Greatness needs to hurry the hell up and arrive already. Sony's had a comfortable lead for a while, but they've been coasting on goodwill at E3 lately, hopefully they're more proactive this year, instead of waiting for MS to screw up. Expect that panoramic shit that people watching online can't appreciate.
Okay, predicting Nintendo is basically pointless, because they don't follow any predictable course of action or business acumen ever. Where Microsoft are evil and Sony are stupid, Nintendo are crazy. Not to mention they run such a tight ship, Nintendo rarely leak, even when their upcoming game is Tentacle Hair Bukkake Turf Wars, somehow nobody mentions it. Expect presentation kind of like those kids shows that talk to the viewer.
Everything else, EA, Ubisoft, Square, Bethesda and more have showcases this year. Who knows what terrifying monstrosities they'll unleash this year? Expect cringe.
Sony today revealed that they are well into production of their newest title, the "Remastered Collection", said to be compiling the latest hits of the last five years with minor graphical improvements and framerates originally deemed "not cinematic". Bringing together hits like The Last of Us: Remastered, Gravity Rush: Remastered, Grand Theft Auto V, Resident Evil Remake HD, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Grim Fandango "Remastered", God of War 3: Remastered, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, Final Fantasy: Type-0 HD and somehow Halo: The Master Chief Collection all in one package.
God of War 3 goes from "pretty disappointing" to "pretty, disappointing".
Shuhei Yoshida announced the title last night on the disassembled stage of last year's E3 conference, "Yeah, we released the PS4 way too soon, aside from InFamous we had basically nothing planned until late 2014, which really means mid 2015 after delays" said Yoshida "we have to do something to tide people over, we tried putting gameplay into this movie called The Order but nobody fell for it" and went on to say "recycling is very important to us here at Sony, whether its recycled ideas or recycled games, we need to do something to reduce our carbon footprint after burning all those unsold Move controllers".
But this isn't just some collection of games, this is the Remastered Collection, all games will be receiving yet another overhaul of improvements. "In The Last of Us Ellie would often blatantly run around and go unnoticed by enemies, many found this immersion breaking so rather than rework the AI again we've given her a Predator like cloak during stealth segments". "For DmC we found that Dante focus tested much better when we removed all his dialogue, we also changed his default look to the Classic Dante DLC costume and replaced Kat with a giant slice of pizza"
Not in a million two years.
"We honestly have no idea what to do with Resident Evil though, it's been remade four times already, it's not like there are other hit PS1 games people have been begging to be remastered for years". "With Borderlands we just had to replace all the dialogue and text with newer memes, and the final boss is now a gigantic black and blue dress".
The Remastered Collection is set to release later this year, though recent leaks suggest it might be better to hold out as Remastered Collection: Complete Edition HD may be in the works.read
You Know what else needs to go? Intros. You know what a list blog is, you're smart, I trust you.
(No, I'm not being lazy...)
Tailing Missions
You know what I love to do in my openworld games built around traversing the environment in fun non-restrictive ways? That's right, very slowly following someone as they obey all the rules. Waiting for them at red lights, watching them stop to have conversations, staying perfectly still and not pressing anything because every button does something that "draws attention", starting all over again because you got too close or too far away, nothing frustrating about tailing missions, no siree!
Worst Offender – Assassin's Creed: Tailing missions are one thing, but Assassin's Creed forces you to wrestle with its "stealth" mechanics while doing it, and insists that you must keep your target on camera at all times, and that you get close enough to eavesdrop, next thing you know you're in a bush creeping on Gorge Washington and wondering what the hell happened to this series.
Overindulgent Shotgun Reload Animations
I think everybody who plays shooters has at some point considered the potential of more in depth reload mechanics, like what if reloading early wasted the rest of the clip instead of magically adding the spare bullets to your total? You'd have to manage your ammo consumption and fight your OCD need to reload after firing one bullet. But I can only assume these mechanics turn out to be too frustrating in practice since no one has implemented them. That is, except for the shotgun.
There we have to watch the lavishly detailed animation as you slide every individual shell into the gun, most current games even let you interrupt the animation in emergency situations to fire off the shells you've already loaded, tactical depth and resource management all in the middle of a shootout! Sounds fun? I agree! Except it's only shotguns, making them a massive crutch compared to other weapons. Why can't every weapon have this depth? There's an entire boss fight in MGS3 dedicated to the boss figuring out how fun this could be. Seriously, half of Ocelot's best quotes are about how much fun it is to reload guns. Let us do it!
Worst Offender – Every Shooter I guess: I mean, it's not going to be racing games.
Stun Waggle
For the unfamiliar, which might be everybody since I just made up this term, stun waggle is when your character is grabbed or incapacitated and the game forces you to violently jiggle the analogue stick to regain control. A nice idea in theory, your brain associates the left stick with movement and shaking it is a nice way to represent the struggle to break free or snap out of a daze, much like shooting with the shoulder buttons – it should just feel right.
The problem? It's going to break my damn controller! It has already! More than once! Let us mash a button or something instead, anyone who's familiar with character action games knows all too well about the dreaded "CLACK CLACK CLACK" sound that counts down the lifetime of your analogue stick.
Worst offender – Platinum Games: As if having to buy new a console to play each of their games wasn't bad enough, having to buy a new controller for new game+ is pushing it.
Ambient Muffle
A little trick games are pulling these days for immersion is to smother sound depending on where it's coming from in relation to the player. It really draws you into the experience if you're wearing headphones or have a decent sound system, it really takes you out of the experience if you have to turn on subtitles or stop and turn the camera at whoever's talking so you can actually hear what they're saying.
Worst offender – Naughty Dog: "What's that Ellie!? You had a really insightful comment about the tragedy of the human condition? Sorry, I missed it because I'm down the hall looking for scissors in this toilet!"
Openworld Padding
Wow, it even feels like a waste of time to explain it at this point but you all know the drill. Kill the bad guys and get to the big thing so you can climb it or liberate it to unlock part of the map which unlocks sidequests that get you more weapons so you can get more places and climb more big things etc etc etc.
It's ironic that openworld games, whose selling point is freedom and emergent gameplay, have become the most formulaic and predicable in the last few years.
Worst Offender – Ubisoft: I don't think I even need to buy any of their games in 2015, I've basically played them all already.
Next-Gen Flare
Okay, maybe it's just me but I've had a next gen console for about two months and I'm really having trouble...seeing things, or rather, seeing everything, all at once, all the time, flashing, brightly, in my eyes, my eyes you guys, my eyes hurt so much. It's a symptom of every new console generation, everybody wants to show off their shiny new graphics, but this generation is especially obsessed with lighting effects.
Bright explosions, flashy effects, bloom lighting, all have been turned up to eleven, even a muted game like Abe's Oddysee had remade into a blinding lazer show. Hell, Dying Light's main selling point seems based around recreating the "Ah, crap, the sun's in my eyes!" experience.
Worst Offender – InFamous Second Son: I'm going to find whoever came up the Neon powers and follow them around with a laser pen for a week. Aside from burning Delsin's silhouette into the back of your eyelids, they start to impede the gameplay flow, Neon (and the other power I won't spoil) are so visually loud and dazzling that it becomes difficult to tell if you're even hitting your targets anymore, especially during night sections.
Fishing Minigames
Oh my God this is so boring stop doing it! It's literally just standing in place and waiting for a button prompt, unless it's one of those advanced fishing minigames which somehow become extremely stressful by introducing reeling mechanics and line breaks.
Worst offender – Japan: I suppose an island nation would enjoy their fishing, but it is beyond me why every Japanese game with even a semblance of freedom or openness insists on including a fishing minigame. God help you if it's the kind that requires you catch a certain type of fish that can only be found in a certain part of the map which requires a certain type of bait that is only sold by a certain merchant if you want to unlock the True Ending.
Zelda Pacing.
Pacing is important, and a steady pace can be difficult to maintain for any game over eight hours. Usually the best way to achieve this is to set up a long term goal and guide the player there with smaller, achievable short term goals. Zelda games however, and those who take inspiration, take this to a ridiculous extreme, where short term goals become massive road blocks that plague you at every turn. While fundamentally similar to any other progression blocker in gaming, Zelda Pacing brings with it a persistent feeling of being set back or delayed, a continuous shifting of the finish line, and a weight on the shoulders. When you finally complete something it turns what should be a feeling of accomplishment into exasperated relief. As an example, let me explain a personal stand out moment from our Worst Offender – Darksiders 2.
You're told you need to reach the Well of Souls and to do this you must contact the Lord of Bones who is reached by climbing Serpents Peak to summon the Eternal Throne which itself turns out to be a giant traversable dungeon. But just before the throne room you're stopped by The Chancellor who says you must go to the Gilded Arena and fight the Arena Champion before you can get an audience. So you go to the Arena and are told you must assemble three Animus Stones to summon and fight the Champion, after this you can finally talk to the Boner Lord who won't grant your request until you find his three Dead Lords. Aside from having their own dungeon, EACH, one even demands you find him three Lost Souls before he agrees to go with you and I don't know what happens after that because that's when I deleted the game, realising I was on a sub-sub-sub-subquest. Keep in mind that these five to six hours of hoop-jumping are all for the purpose of getting someone to just talk to the protagonist properly and let him know what he's actually supposed to be doing.
Honourable Mentions
Death blur: Making it really hard to see what's killing you by drowning out colour and smearing the screen with blood, this is literally the worst possible time you could obscure someone's vision in a game.
Audio tapes and notes: What was once an interesting way of fleshing out characters is becoming a crutch, aside from the believability of everybody constantly writing and recording their actions and leaving it scattered everywhere (err, aside from social media), notes and audio tapes are becoming exposition dumps, telling us what they should be showing us.
Co-op integration of single player story mode: If you aren't a Souls game you aren't doing it right.
The word "Badass": Come on, stop saying that, people are watching, you're embarrassing yourself.
Piles of furniture blocking staircases: Once you notice it you can't un-notice it. This is especially prevalent in post-apocalyptic settings, as though "duck and cover" was at some point replaced with "push your sofa halfway up the stairs".read
At first games were held in contempt, a toy for children and nothing more, and to an extent they were right, but gamers and the medium grew up together and came into their own. When the moral guardians told them they were sick or pathetic they held our ground and proved them wrong. When the Jack Thompson's of the world blamed tragedies on gaming they were told where they could shove their baseless accusations.
Basically what I'm getting at is that gaming has had a lot of shit flung its way, and today is no different, except the shit-flingers are coming from within, and their audience is sick of it. Now I'm not going to warn you about the gaming "boogie men" or "conspiracy", boogie men are scary and conspirators are smart, these people are neither. These are the more hilarious examples of what we've had to put up with for the last few years, the reason there was so much animosity built up for games journalists who push political correctness, the other four thousand straws before the one that broke the camel's back if you will.
Blonde Shepard: Don't judge a woman by her looks unless we do.
EA, realising the large fan following FemShep had garnered, decided to revamp her default character model for inclusion in ME3 promotional material, however EA was also aware that the unpleasable wasp nest that is the Bioware fanbase would hate whatever they came up with anyway and decided to leave it up to the fans for vote for their favourite themselves. Some people in the game press took issue with this, drawing comparisons to a "beauty contest", some might consider this silly considering we'd already had two games to get to know this character, and that nobody would be forced to use this model since the it would only be the default in a game with a character creator. But lines were drawn, it was wrong to boil the glorious Commander Shepard down to just appearances.
That is, until the blonde won the vote...
"Blonde Bimbo" "Barbie faced personality vacuum" "that is the face of a woman who cares more about her glue-on nails and handbag Chihuahua" these were the accusations levied at the chosen winner, who is still exactly the same person she was before. The issue of voting on appearance was dropped in lieu of badgering the world for not choosing the "right" type of girl, it was simply unthinkable that Shepard could become an example of "western world Caucasian beauty" (coughunlikeMaleShepcough).
EA went into damage control mode and announced "Phase 2" of voting, now for hair colour, and it was fine to vote again, so long as you made the choice that made her look like the old default they were going to import anyway, and so we ended up with a hastily pallet swapped Femshep who looked like she bleached her skin and had a terrible dye job. But would blonde prejudice ever rear its ugly head again? (Spoiler alert: yes, it's number three).
E3 2014 Panels: Not enough crippled minority lesbian presenters.
Polygon's Danielle Riendeau took exception to this year's E3, the problem, in her eyes, was that there were more severed heads than female presenters, and by "more" she meant "two", there were two more severed heads, and considering the games shown included Mortal Kombat and an Assassin's Creed about the French Revolution I'd say that's coming out pretty well. In Polygon's eyes the lack of women or "people of color", because it's still the 50's apparently, "sends a message". Is that message "Most of these people are the company's executives giving a talk at a trade show"? Is it "Many minority execs are from non-English speaking countries and can't go on stage"?
Nope, just "sends a message", which much like it's cousin "problematic" is code for "I want to call this racist but don't have any real substance to do so"
Most peculiar though, was the complaint that too many presenters were "white, male and able-bodied", speaking as a disabled person this is an incredibly odd statement to make considering that (1) not all disabilities are visible, and (2) maybe being disabled might impede someone's ability run on and off stage while giving several impassioned speeches for upwards of an hour. But then, that would imply that Polygon actually gives a shit about disabled people instead of looking progressive.
Far Cry 4 Boxart: Return of the Aryan oppressors
Far Cry 4 was accused of racism after the reveal of its boxart, many claimed the image evoked (and therefore, wholeheartedly endorsed) white supremacy, cultural eradication, and just for good measure, homophobia, it's an awfully bright suit after all. Personally, I think making a bunch of loaded accusations based on stereotypes like that seems kind of...well racist, but the best part? Nobody in that art is white. In fact, we knew next to nothing about the game at the time the art was released, but that didn't stop anyone making wild accusations, most of which were based around dyed hair.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds it hilarious that those most eager to scream racism literally couldn't recognise an Asian when he was staring them in the face, not to mention sitting on a Buddhist statue in the Tibetan mountains while stroking another Asian on the head.
Far Cry 4 at E3: Silence is sexist
Sticking with Far Cry 4, narrative director Mark Thompson was questioned at E3 2014 by Kotaku's Nathan Grayson about what he would have done differently "If you had been able to work with a playable woman character in Far Cry 4", Thompson declined from answering, no doubt feeling that he was being asked a leading question that Kotaku could twist into a manufactured controversy. Thompson was wrong however, Kotaku didn't even need an answer to begin the manufactured controversy.
"Ubisoft Refused To Talk To Me About Women" was posted soon after, an article that spends ten paragraphs describing literally anything but the topic at hand, the sights, the sounds, the smells, at one point Loony Toons, anything to make it look like anything actually happened. Ubisoft's refusal to answer leading questions on a hot button topic was all it took for Kotaku to conflate them with the issue.
Also, Look forward to my next article "Kotaku Refused To Talk To Me About Their Hand In The Rwandan Genocide"
Dragon's Crown: Breasts Exist.
Game Journalists didn't like when Dragon's Crown, a game with hyper-stylised art inspired by everything from Renascence art to Walt Disney, had the audacity to exaggerate the female form. The character, drawing from the likes of Jessica Rabbit and the Swords and Sorcery trope of the buxom sorceress, was given impossibly large breasts, which is unacceptable at random intervals in the games industry. No effort was made to see where the character drew inspiration from, most ignored that almost everybody in the game is heavily caricatured, or as Penny Arcade's Tycho put it "The only characters here who aren't fucking mutants are the Elf and the Wizard". Once again, it seemed like they didn't care about the issue so much as that they could make it an issue, and the game was brushed off as the product of the artist's juvenile fantasies.
...which is nonsense because anyone who's played a Vanillaware game knows George Kamitani is an ass man.
Lara Croft's PG rated traumatic experience.
Remember that time we had month long discussions over whether or not it was okay to depict sexual assault and rape in a videogame and then it turned out the scene in question was a guy touching her leg about a second before Lara killed him? That may have been blown a little out of proportion.
Starcoon: I don't even
A group of students in the Netherlands made a browser based game about a racoon travelling to the stars, they called it Starcoon. "Cultural differences – we have them" said Kotaku's Mike Fahey as he imposed his cultural standards on some foreigners, insinuating that a portmanteau of "star" and "racoon" was racist. The developers eventually changed their name to avoid any discourse, which Kotaku used as fodder to write about why the Washington Redskins should change their names.
If you're a game journalist and you're wondering why your audience has suddenly turned on you, it might have something to with years of bullshit artificial controversies like this, and lines such as "We're told all the time that the average age of gamers is getting older, but their emotional maturity and concept of life in a pluralist society seems to be stuck somewhere around the freshman year of high school. On average, it's a demographic no more sophisticated than a meathead sports fan." thanks Owen Good of Kotaku Australia, we'll get right on that!
Any other words with antiquated racial connotations we should watch out for? Cocoons? Spades? The colour black? Halloween is right around the corner, can I still say spooky? What about the sambo, a type of gourd found in –oh for fuck–
Sambo: let's keep racism alive so we can fight it.
Scribblenauts is a game in which any word you enter will appear in game, including the sambo, the name of a type of fig leaf gourd found in Spain which resembles a watermelon. As it turns out "sambo" was also an outdated racial slur for black people in America, and black people liking watermelons is also an old-fashioned stereotype, when connecting all the dots togther it soon became quite evident that 5th Cell did not sneak 1800's racism into their videogame.
"Racial Term in DS' Scribblenauts?" – Protip: when a game journalist uses a title with a question mark at the end there's a 90% chance they won't answer that question. Bonus tip: if you need to dedicate over half your article to an American history lesson explaining why the name of a foreign fruit might be construed as racist – it's not fucking racist.
Quiet: Shhhhhhh
Hideo Kojima said (in his poor grasp of English), that he's been designing characters with cosplayers and figurines in mind, but expressed concern that he'd made Quiet too "erotic" to cosplay, either because the outfit is uncomfortable or because it would be hard to go around public events dressed like that. Somewhere along the way this got twisted into meaning that Kojima was making all the characters sexier so that he could perv over cosplayers.
Expect to hear more about Quiet in the future. You see, Quiet is the perfect character for the games press, she's scantily clad, potentially a victim, and most importantly, she can't speak for herself. Because at the end of the day, much like everything else here, it's not really about her, it's not about what she's like, what she thinks, or what she does. It's about them. It's about earning brownie points for how progressive look, it's about "enlightening" the audience who don't know any better. All those accusations, all that outrage, and the character hasn't even opened her mouth yet.read


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Call for Tenders: ENTR/09/006 - The Lead Market Initiative and Sustainable Construction
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Texting, blogs, Facebook, gaming and instant messages might seem, to some, to be just more reasons to stare at a computer screen.
Thinking like that is so 2008, any middle schooler will tell you. Now a study that looked at the online habits of 800 teenagers backs them up.
Researchers in the study, titled the Digital Youth Project and conducted primarily at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, found that in our increasingly technological world, the constant communication that social networking provides is encouraging useful skills. The study looked at more than 5,000 hours of online observation and found that the digital world is creating new opportunities for young people to grapple with social norms, explore interests, develop technical skills and work on new forms of self-expression.
"There are myths about kids spending time online — that it is dangerous or making them lazy," says Mizuko Ito, lead author of the study, which will be the basis of a forthcoming book, "Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning With New Media." "But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age."
Co-author Lisa Tripp, now an assistant professor at Florida State University, says technology, including YouTube, iPods and podcasting, creates avenues for extending one's circle of friends, boosts self-directed learning and fosters independence.
"Certain technical skills in the coming years are not going to be just about consuming media," she says. "It is also going to be about producing media. It is not just about writing a blog, but also how to leave comments that say something. Learning to communicate like this is contributing to the general circulation of culture."
That means anything from a video clip to a profile page is going to reflect the self-expression skills one has, so teens might as well practice what will say who they are.
Social networking also contributes greatly to teens' extended friendships and interests, Ms. Tripp says. While the majority of teens use sites such as MySpace and Facebook to "hang out" with people they already know in real life, a smaller portion uses them to find like-minded people. Before social networking, the one kid in school who was, say, a fan of Godzilla or progressive politics might find himself isolated. These days, that youngster has peers everywhere.
"This kind of communication has let teens expand their social circle by common interests," Ms. Tripp says. "They can publicize and distribute their work to online audiences and become sort of a microexpert in that area." The study found that young people's learning with digital media often is more self-directed, with a freedom and autonomy that is less apparent than in a classroom. The researchers said youths usually respect one another's authority online, and they often are more motivated to learn from one another than from adults.
Parents, however, still have an important role to play when it comes to tweens, teens and social networking, the researchers say. They need to accept that technology is a necessary and important part of the culture for young people and, other experts say, be aware of with whom the teens are communicating.
Monica Vila, founder of theonlinemom.com, an online resource for digital-age parenting, says parents need to set parameters just as they would "at any other playground." "This kind of study puts a lot of facts behind the value of social networking," Ms. Vila says.
It is up to parents to monitor what is being expressed, she says. She recommends that parents "have a presence" in their child's online social network. That doesn't necessarily mean "friending," communicating and commenting, but it does mean having a password or knowing who your child's online friends are. One Fairfax County mother of a middle schooler, who asked that her name not be used to protect her daughter's privacy, says she was skeptical at first when her daughter wanted a Facebook page.
"I was hesitant for all the reasons we hear about, such as how it could bring in unwelcome visitors," the woman says, "but eventually I realized that this is the main medium for kids keeping in touch. It has gone from e-mail to IM to texting to Facebook in such a quick progression. [Social networking] is like the modern-day equivalent of the lunch table. If you are not on Facebook, then you are not in the loop."
The woman says she stays in the loop because she knows her daughter's password, and her daughter knows her mom can access her page whenever she wants — and can see who is there and what they are posting.
A few rules: no putting your exact whereabouts on your status update, and be aware of who is tagging you in a photo because if that photo contains unflattering behavior, it could come back to haunt you. Also, the mom has a Facebook page of her own, although she is not yet among her daughter's 100-plus friends.


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Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC)
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Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (born ca. 49 BC) was the son and only child of consul Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Aemilia Lepida. His mother was a paternal relative of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. His paternal grandmother was Porcia Catonis (sister to Cato the Younger).[1]
As a young man Lucius was a renowned and devoted charioteer, perhaps to the point of obsession.[2] He was betrothed in 36 BC, at the meeting of Octavian and Mark Antony at Tarentum, to Antonia Major, the daughter of the latter by Octavia. He was aedile in 22 BC and consul in 16 BC. After his consulship, he served as governor of Africa from 13/12 BC. He was later probably the successor of Tiberius in Germania, where he commanded the Roman army and crossed the Elbe, during which he set up an altar to Augustus, and penetrated further into the country than any of his predecessors had done.[3] He also built a walkway, called the pontes longi, over the marshes between the Rhine River and the Ems River. For these achievements he received the insignia of a triumph. He died in 25.
Suetonius described him as "arrogant, cruel, notorious and extravagant,"[4] and records numerous instances of his disrespect, to censor Lucius Munatius Plancus, to a proconsul of Africa, to a legate of Illyricum.[2] In his praetorship and consulship he brought Roman equites and married women on the stage to perform in pantomimes, which rankled because in Rome acting was considered to be low-class. He exhibited shows of wild beasts in every quarter of the city, and his gladiatorial combats were conducted with such excessive bloodshed that even Augustus was obliged to put some restraint upon them.[5][6]
He had three children with Antonia Major: Domitia Lepida the Elder, consul Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was first husband of future Empress Agrippina the Younger and biological father of the Emperor Nero, and Domitia Lepida the Younger, who was mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina, third wife of the Emperor Claudius and Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix.
- ^ Smith, William (1867), "Ahenobarbus (9), Lucius Domitius", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 86
- ^ a b Syme, Ronald (1996), "Domitus Ahenobarbus, Lucius (2)", in Hornblower, Simon, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ Tacitus, The Annals 4.44
- ^ Suetonius, Nero 4
- ^ Cassius Dio, liv. 59
- ^ Marcus Velleius Paterculus, ii. 72
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Archbishop John Myers of Newark has denied reports that the Vatican appointed a coadjutor archbishop to the New Jersey archdiocese because of his mishandling of sex-abuse complaints.
"Absolutely not," Archbishop Myers replied when asked whether the criticism he has faced was a factor in the appointment of Bishop Bernard Hebda as his coadjutor. He added that the appointment was made "at my request."
The archbishop said that he had requested a coadjutor because he saw a need for help in light of the many activities planned for the Newark archdiocese. He declined to elaborate.
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Even by Mainers' standards, this winter has been a bitter one with sub-zero temperatures by night and single digits by day. Indeed, most of the eastern half of the country has been bit by the brutal cold. But what is driving the Polar Vortex south so much this year?
The Arctic Oscillation (AO) quantifies the magnitude of atmospheric pressure over the North Pole. AO has a positive phase and a negative phase:
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The positive phase of AO is categorized by relatively low pressure toward the North Pole. THis lower pressure allows jet stream winds to remain strong and mostly zonal; that is, no big ridges or troughs in the jet stream, overall. This pattern, in turn, prevents frigid air from making much southward progress into the mid latitudes.
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The negative phase of the AO is the exact opposite of AO+. Pressure near the North Pole tends to be relatively high with weaker jet stream winds, accompanied by large ridges and troughs in the jet stream (amplified pattern). These weaker winds allow the frigid air to penetrate southward in conjunction with troughs in the jet.
Much of this winter has been spent under AO-, resulting in a southward migration of the Polar Vortex. It just so happens that one of the troughs in the jet stream set up over the eastern half of the country, bringing the Plains and Northeast to the Gulf Coast a healthy dose of cold temperatures.
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For the past five months Arthur Manjourides, 66, has been hitting the road every Sunday for a fast walk/run around Boston. Despite the cold and snow this winter, Arthur kept up his weekly commitment with one goal in mind – to finish the Boston Marathon.
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For the past five months Arthur Manjourides, 66, has been hitting the road every Sunday for a fast walk/run around Boston. Despite the cold and snow this winter, Arthur kept up his weekly commitment with one goal in mind – to finish the Boston Marathon.
On April 21, Manjourides made his way down along the 26.2 mile historic Boston Marathon course with thousands of other runners, fulfilling that goal only one year after a heart attack changed his life.
"The idea of running 26.2 miles had never even crossed my mind one year ago," says Manjourides. "But after the heart attack I realized I had to make some changes."
Now Manjourides is 45 pounds lighter and more active than ever. "I feel better than I did before the heart attack," he says.
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Manjourides said he had no symptoms of heart disease. When he woke up at 2:30 am with a searing pain in his shoulder he thought he had torn his rotator cuff. When the pain spread to his other shoulder, he knew he should go to the hospital.
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