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Jeezy dedicates song to Michael Brown and speaks on his dreams being taken away... instagram.com/p/rnveUpHU1v/
I want one hundred brothers to come up here --Sharpton #michaelbrown vine.co/v/MY5rVb1i2x6
I want one hundred brothers to come up here --Sharpton #michaelbrown vine.co/v/MY5rVb1i2x6
Prosecutor Bob McCulloch and Chief John Belmar now taking audience questions. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu4hZUlCAAAlOAd.jpg
"@kevincjohnson: Jeezy in a RIP Michael Brown t-shirt right now at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater instagram.com/p/rnuDFFHUzQ/" #Ferguson
Sharpton: "we've got to have a long term strategy - we can't be mad for two weeks." #Ferguson http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu4gEBwIUAAj3rl.jpg
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Sharpton takes the podium
Young demonstrators regulating themselves. Removed someone who they say has been know to agitate crowds. vine.co/v/MY5MPpTIO9V
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"Hands up! Don't shoot!" #ferguson vine.co/v/MY5AL0Jz7AJ
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You will learn how to raise and train your dog to have very good behavior, and learn other tricks to make living with your dog much better!
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"it's been most boring and repeatable book I read. "
author is basically give advice on rising any puppy not exactly a husky. highly disappointed.
"Less than a basic puppy training book"
This is for someone who hasn't read any puppy training book ever. There is very little information in this book that is relevant to huskies themselves, and just about everything the book says about them I can find on wikipedia, everything else about dog training is available with better quality in The Puppy Primer or Don't Shoot The Dog.
It's hard to tell if he misread a word, or if the wrong word was printed and he read it anyway.
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Student Health Policies
- Parton Center for Health and Wellness
- Health Forms
- Commitment to Confidentiality
- Vaccines
- Pandemic Preparedness: Student Information Requirement
- Middlebury College Policy on HIV Infection
- Records Retention Policy
Parton Center for Health and Wellness
Parton Center for Health and Wellness ("Parton") promotes student well-being. Our medical and counseling staff are here to help students when physical, emotional, or interpersonal issues become a problem. In addition, we have a wealth of health and wellness resources to support students as they navigate a demanding academic and social schedule.
Health Forms
A completed Middlebury College Health Form is required prior to course registration. Forms are due:
- July 1 for September matriculation
- October 31 for February matriculation
Commitment to Confidentiality
Understanding Your Health Record/Information
Each time you visit Parton Center for Health and Wellness (Counseling, Health Services, and Sports Medicine), or when Parton has an interaction with a third party about you, the information is documented in a secured, password protected electronic health file that is accessible only to Parton Center for Health and Wellness staff. Typically, this record contains a summary of your presenting concerns and symptoms, physical exam and/or counseling intake, test results, diagnoses, counseling progress notes, treatment and plan for future course of treatment if appropriate. This information makes up your "health record" or personal health information, and serves as a:
- Basis for planning your care and treatment;
- Means of communication with other health professionals who contribute to your care;
- Legal document describing the care you received;
- Source of information for public health officials charged with protecting the health of this state and the nation (only under very restricted circumstances);
- Tool with which we can assess and continually work to improve the care we render and the outcomes we achieve.
You are entitled to receive a copy of your health records, or we can prepare a summary for you. Because these are professional records, they may be best interpreted by someone who is a health professional. If you wish to see your records, we recommend you review them with us so that we can discuss the contents. In accordance with state law, Parton Center for Health and Wellness retains your records for a period of seven (7) years.
Health records at Parton are confidential and are completely separate from all other College records. Students have the right to revoke or restrict authorization to share health care information, and Parton will not release any information about you without your written permission, except under the following conditions:
- As authorized or required by law (i.e., when we are presented with a valid court order requiring us to release records);
- As necessary to protect you or others from a serious threat to health and safety, or to protect property from a serious threat of damage;
- As necessary to notify parents and/or deans when you have a serious mental or physical health problem and are unable to assume responsibility for notifying others.
In addition, Parton medical, sports medicine, and counseling staff confer with one another as needed to provide integrated care for you. Parton also works with Porter Hospital and the Counseling Service of Addison County (CSAC) to ensure a full range of medical and mental health options for students; when students receive treatment at multiple offices, we exchange only such information as is needed to maintain continuity of care. Students may make requests to Parton, Porter or CSAC to revoke or restrict authorization to share such information.
Please note: Middlebury College and Parton Center for Health and Wellness are not subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and therefore are not required to comply with the various federal regulations relating to the use and disclosure of health information. Middlebury College is, however, committed to protecting student privacy. This policy should not be interpreted as creating any contractual rights and Middlebury College reserves the right to make changes to this policy at any time without prior notice.
Vermont law requires that all students submit an immunization record, including proof of:
- Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR): two doses after the student's first birthday
- Meningococcal vaccine
- Hepatitis B vaccine series
- Tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular Pertussis (Tdap)
- Varicella (chickenpox) vaccine: two dose series for people 13 and older who have not had chickenpox.
Some students, including those who travel abroad will benefit from:
- Hepatitis A vaccine series
- Typhoid vaccine
- Other travel vaccines depend on destination and can be determined at a travel visit at Parton.
Due to the length of time some vaccine series require, we recommend that all students considering travel abroad also consider receiving the Hepatitis A vaccine series prior to matriculation.
Pandemic Preparedness: Student Information Requirement
All Middlebury College students are required to develop and enter a personal evacuation plan.
Middlebury College has expanded and updated its Emergency Plan to include the threat of severe illness, including pandemic flu. Because of the potential need for a quick response to an outbreak, individuals are the only people who can effectively plan for themselves. All Middlebury College students are required to develop and submit at least one Personal Evacuation Plan. Students will not be allowed to register for their second semester of classes until they have entered a plan (via Banner Web) which includes:
- Student name, College I.D number, contact information.
- Addresses of two personal evacuation locations, preferably in different cities and with one location within a reasonable driving distance of Middlebury, VT.
- How the student will get to each destination.
- Whether the student would be able and willing to provide transportation to other students, and if so, how many.
- Whether the student would be able and willing to provide temporary housing to other students, and if so, how many.
The information will not be verified by the College but will be sent to every student's parent and/ or guardian at the time the information is initially entered. A student will be able to change that information via Banner Web, but changes will not be sent to parents or guardians.
While the College will require this only once during a student's enrollment at Middlebury –typically during the student's first semester – students will be able to update their plans at any time. Students will be responsible for notifying their families of any changes, and we strongly encourage students to inform anyone that they are dependent on for evacuation of that person's role in the plan.
More information about Middlebury College's response to Pandemic Flu.
Middlebury College Policy on HIV Infection
The Middlebury College policy on HIV infection was revised in 1992 by the HIV Task Force, composed of Middlebury College students, staff, and faculty. The revised policy expresses a commitment to prevention of the disease through education, outlines services available in the campus community to individuals living with HIV, and sets guidelines for dealing with HIV-related issues. Copies of the policy are available to students at Parton, the Commons offices and online on the Parton website.
Records Retention Policy
Parton Center for Health and Wellness, in order to establish guidelines for the maintenance, retention, preservation and disposal of medical records that are created or maintained by it, hereby adopts the following policy for preserving those records.
It is the policy of Parton Center for Health and Wellness:
(1) to retain medical records for the period of time required by applicable law and regulation as indicated in these guidelines;
(2) to dispose of medical records promptly, in the appropriate manner after they have satisfied their required retention period, unless they are the subject of a Litigation Hold;
(3) to preserve medical records subject to a Litigation Hold, if the records would otherwise be disposed of.
Retention Guidelines
Medical records are to be retained for the time periods indicated as follows. The medical records may be maintained in paper or electronic format, as appropriate and may be stored on-site or off-site, in accordance with the need to access the records. The creator or receiver of the medical records is responsible for retaining the record.
Some records are not subject to any retention period and can be discarded when they do not have administrative value. Other documents are not considered "records" within the meaning of this policy and need to be maintained only as long they have administrative value. Documents that are not considered "records" include: duplicate copies of correspondence or other documents, blank forms, and transitory messages used for informal communication of information only, such as voice mails, self-sticking notes and phone messages. Documents that are not "records" may be discarded when they do not have administrative value.
Medical records - Adults (over 18)
7 years from last date of treatment (graduation)
Medical records – Minors (under 18)
The longer of 7 years from date of treatment or until the patient is 25
Disposal Guidelines
Records should be disposed of promptly if they do not need to be retained in accordance with these guidelines. It is costly to manage and store records and the intention of these guidelines is to manage this process while meeting Parton Center for Health and Wellness's legal obligations. Records must be disposed of in a manner that safeguards confidential, sensitive or proprietary information contained in the records.
Litigation Hold Guidelines
The Executive Director shall be notified immediately if an employee receives notification of any claim or complaint that could lead to litigation or governmental investigation. The Executive Director will evaluate the information and communicate with the appropriate employees to assure that all evidence and records relating to the matter are preserved until the litigation or investigation is complete. No employee should discard any document subject to a Litigation Hold.


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What's the name of the main character in the anime adaptation of "Pokémon"?
If you know the answer (Ash Ketchum) and are willing to admit it, then you should have entered the "You've Got Game Show," a trivia contest at the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco this week.
The conference is both cheeky and serious. Google used the conference to announce it will allow mobile game developers to create titles that pit the owners of Android devices against their friends who use Apple devices.
The cross-platform extension, one of several features Google is rolling out this week, should help the search giant spread its reach further into the lucrative game market.


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Your prof sends you a friend request in facebook, what would you do? I just got that and had no choice but to accept the request. First option would be to put her/him on the 'limited profile' list but sooner or later they'd ask you why they can only see your 'distilled' profile while they see a detailed one for their other students! I just decided to accept the friend request without any limitations, but here're the steps I took before accepting that request:
- Go through all your pictures, remove any indecent ones (I didn't have any luckily! or did I miss some?)
- Check any comments, notes you have made in the past seven days (assumption is that s/he wouldn't look beyond that!), or within those that show up in your profile page and remove those that you don't want your prof to see (same thing goes for the bosses too!)
- If you seem to be spending a lot of time on facebook, i.e., too many comments within a short span of time, same day or same week then remove some, create gaps enough to make him/her believe that you are not a facebook addict and you do spend time doing your work as well (especially important if you are the ones 'working from home')
Now that you have added your prof as a 'friend' (fortunately mine has always been like a friend), you should:
- Not put up pictures that will make you feel uncomfortable facing her/him in the next meeting.
- Not leave any comments on his pictures, status messages and so on like you do on your other friends. Even if your prof/boss is like a 'friend', remember s/he's not your high-school buddy.
- Be careful when you leave comments on your other friends' pictures, status messages, notes etc., your prof/boss can always see those through the feeds.
- Not leave too many comments in a day or a week, or change status messages too much - don't give her/him any hint you are addicted to facebook!
Well, writing that was fun, lets see how adding my prof on facebook will be like! 😛


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@DVon18 just wanted to check in to see if your wedding change has gone smooth. Let us know when you have a chance
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Posted 27 October 2014 - 04:22 PM
I agree, hopefully everything went smoothly @DVon18. I would love to hear how your wedding went.
Posted 28 October 2014 - 10:50 AM
- Hi Ladies! Well I'm married!!!! We ended up moving the entire wedding to Sandos Cancun Luxury Resort and I could not have been happier. I was really nervous as I had my heart set on Cabo, but it turned out just as imagined. We were able to keep our same date and Miriam, their wedding coordinator, worked with Lupita and myself to transfer everything over for me. We only had 6 guests change their minds so we ended up with a total of 43 people. Our wedding day was perfect. The hotel was beautiful, the food was great, the staff was super friendly and helpful. Several of our guests and us plan on going back in the future. Our photographer, Bradley Fraser from Cabo ended up flying himself to Cancun to capture our wedding. He is a little pricey, but I highly recommend him. He was so great to work with. If you need ANY help please let me know I would love to help you make your day as wonderful as mine was. An update though on Finisterra, they are opening Nov. 1 and the place looks fabulous. I have been following them on facebook. I will write up a full review with details later, right now I am trying to catch up on two weeks out of work :-/
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I also added a few photos here http://www.bestdesti...evon-seth-2014/
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I also added a few photos here http://www.bestdesti...evon-seth-2014/
Beautiful, glad everything worked out!
Married on 2015/01/21 at the Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya with 43 guests in attendance
Planning Thread - http://www.bestdesti...s-riviera-maya/
Wedding Pictures http://www.bestdesti...ra-maya/page-36
Wedding Review http://www.bestdesti...31#entry1885600
Posted 29 October 2014 - 08:47 PM
@DVon18, your wedding turned out BEAUTIFUL! I am so glad everything turned out just how you wanted it. Congratulations!
Posted 31 October 2014 - 03:23 PM
Wow...everything looks so beautiful!! I am so glad it turned out perfect for you!!! What a good news story!!! Thanks for updating us and sharing!!
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hi ladies.. i came across this resort and really loved the location and wedding packages. can any of you give me any reviews on your wedding and experience. my Fi and i have set a budget and i have found that some of the resorts extras are off the wall. were deff want to wed on april of 2016..... @MichelleT do you have any honest feed back you can give me about your day??
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The new Fluenz F2 is the fastest, most powerful version yet. It is the direct result of hundreds of thousands of user hours, built upon their feedback and suggestions to enhance both performance and aesthetics. From small changes to a variety of great new features, F2 delivers a Spanish learning experience far superior to anything else out there.77% (15)
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Discover Spanish through the power of a great teacher with the comprehensive 1+2+3 program. The Fluenz custom-made approach guides you in English every step of the way through the challenges of Spanish, while immersing you in the beauty of the culture.
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Fluenz's unique approach is currently being used by elite units of the US Navy, senior personnel at the UN and UNICEF, executives of Fortune 500 companies, and students at Harvard Business School and other leading universities.
How Fluenz gets you there:
A real on-screen tutor who guides you every step of the way.
Using English explanations so you never get lost.
Immersing you in the culture of the language.
f2 is the newest version of Fluenz, containing hundreds of small yet significant improvements over all prior versions of the program. f2 is a hybrid Mac/Win system which can run directly from the hard drive, offering superior audio and video quality, more powerful tools for targeting the areas where you need the most work, and enhanced navigation to give you complete control over the learning process.
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This comprehensive program will guide you through Spanish in 90 sessions that take up to two and a half hours each to complete. Each session is led from beginning to end by a tutor who guides learners step-by-step with explanations, strategies, tactics, and tips to help English speakers reach a level of conversational Spanish in the least amount of time.
The Fluenz Difference
Designed by recent graduates of Harvard, Brown and Cornell, along with veterans in language learning and high technology, Fluenz addresses the critical issues for adults and teens to reach fluency: 1) clear explanations in plain English, 2) the motivation only a great teacher can provide, and 3) hundreds of hours of focused practice specifically tailored to help English speakers master Spanish.
No Substitute for a Great Tutor
Fluenz offers a great teacher to challenge and inspire you. Instead of matching pictures with Spanish words over and over again, fluency can be reached more quickly by having someone actually explain to you in English how the language works. That's why every Fluenz session is built around a tutor who leads you through the learning process.
Adults Should Be Taught Like Adults
Linguistic research shows that adults learn languages differently than children. Adults really benefit from having clear explanations of how the language works. Instead of focusing on childlike phrases such as "red apple, green apple," Fluenz has you ordering food, giving directions to a taxi driver, making hotel reservations, and handling a wide range of other real-world situations right from the start.
Custom-Made For English Speakers
Cookie-cutter approaches based on matching pictures and words follow the same script from language to language. But using the same script to teach both Spanish and Swahili doesn't make sense. Each language is unique, and each one presents its own unique challenges to an English speaker. For example, it is impossible to understand the difference between the critical Spanish verbs "ser" and "estar" without an explanation in English. Fluenz makes a difference because a real tutor guides you along a path specifically designed for you to learn Spanish.
Three Steps Towards Fluency
With Spanish 1+2+3, you'll start out by building a strong foundation in how the language works from pronunciation to grammatical structures. Right away, you'll learn how to form useful questions and statements ("The check, please"), and from there you'll begin to construct more complex sentences in a variety of situations, using the past, present and future tenses. The third level of the program takes your Spanish to a whole new level, enhancing the complexity and subtlety of your speech with in-depth work on reflexive verbs, verb complements, conjugations, functional expressions, and extensive vocabulary that greatly expands the range of conversations you can engage in with Spanish speakers. You'll be introduced to more nuanced tenses, like the present progressive and conditional, that give your Spanish more flexibility and fluidity, and with this you'll move beyond canned phrases to being able to participate in natural, unrehearsed conversation.
How It Works
Fluenz Spanish is organized around one-one on tutoring sessions that each take up to two and a half hours to complete.
How Fluenz Begins
The Fluenz tutor begins each session with a brief introduction. This provides an understanding of how the new material will take you a step closer to fluency, while immersing you in the cultural context and the experiences of everyday Spanish.
Introducing useful, everyday language
This is followed by a realistic conversation between native speakers that uses all the words and structures to be learned in the session. These conversations place you in the most common, everyday situations right from the very beginning.
Immersive one-on-one tutorial
Immediately after the conversation, the tutor presents a full tutorial explaining in detail and in English how every single new word and structure works. Beyond in-depth explanations, these tutorials offer strategies, tactics and personal experiences that give you valuable insights.
Workout to fluency
After each tutorial, the program turns to over a dozen different types of increasingly challenging workouts that cover reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These workouts reinforce and expand your communication at the same time.
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At the end of the session, the Fluenz tutor returns to offer a conclusion, along with the kind of inspiration only a human teacher can provide.
The Path to Fluency 1+2+3
1. Build a Strong Foundation
Fluenz Spanish begins by teaching how to form questions and statements that are useful on day one, and that share the same word order in English and Spanish (i.e. "The check, please," "I want this dish"). The Fluenz team felt this was more relevant than phrases such as "The horse is jumping," found in other programs. For example, after only the first four sessions of level one, learners are already able to have effective conversations in a restaurant.
2. Describe Location and Directions
The program then shifts to describing and asking about location. In this way users can learn the basics of how crucial verbs work while advancing their vocabulary related to transportation and travel. Instead of memorizing words and pictures, Fluenz users actually get to understand how questions and phrases such as "Where is the hotel?" and "I'm going to the museum" both work and are used in everyday life.
3. Gain Confidence With Your Verbs
Verbs are the action words of language. In Spanish, verb forms change depending on whom they refer to, resulting in an infamous number of conjugations. Because passive memorization won't do, Fluenz thoroughly covers Spanish verbs by emphasizing the most useful ones, explaining in English how they work, and providing plenty of practice to make sure you can use them when you really need to.
4. Employ Spanish Possessives
Another great structure that can easily be understood by English speakers is the formation of Spanish possessives ("The hotel's restaurant," "The museum's entrance"). Using possessives is a simple way to add precision and sophistication to your Spanish.
5. Valuable Descriptive Terms
Because language without description lacks life and color, Fluenz puts great emphasis on how to add this important dimension to your interactions. Plus, when traveling through a country, nothing is going to be more helpful than "bigger," "smaller," "less expensive," and those other adjectives that both make sense to English speakers and are easily used in forming sentences.
6. Building Blocks of Sophisticated Communication
Since the key to fluency in Spanish is being able to use all of the most common parts of speech, Fluenz covers a wide range of central grammar issues. From pronouns and prepositions to word order and commands, you'll be able to correctly form complex sentences and express yourself with solid, confident Spanish.
7. Understand Directions and Transportation
Giving and receiving directions is both a way to continue building the essential tools of Spanish communication and a way to develop the skills anyone traveling will always need. Fluenz creates a path that gives English speakers complete control over the critical vocabulary and structures for asking questions, indicating directions, negotiating transportation, and explaining locations.
8. Easily Handle Numbers and Time
After thorough workouts enabling learners to talk about location with ease, Fluenz makes sure you master numbers and, therefore, time. From counting up to 999,999 to telling the time, Fluenz users gain control over a wide range of time-specific communication. Once time and location are joined, it becomes possible to form complex questions and statements in a variety of situations, such as planning trips or making appointments.
9. Confident Shopping and Negotiation
Throughout the program, your ability to interact in shopping situations is steadily improved. Fluenz works on the critical verb "to want" in the very beginning, and soon enough you learn how to ask about prices, make comparisons between different items, and express exactly what you're looking for. By the end of the program, you'll be able to handle shopping, price negotiations, and purchasing situations with ease.
10. Conquer Irregular and Reflexive Verbs
Spanish verbs often present the greatest challenge to English speakers, but with clear explanations and focused practice, you'll not only be able to understand the most common verbs but also use them effectively yourself. The conjugation of irregular verbs in the past, present and future tenses takes your Spanish to a new level of sophistication. At the same time, reflexive verbs, which don't exist in English, can add a whole repertoire of action to your speech.
11. Make Plans with Conditions and Possibilities
Fluenz gives you the tools to make detailed plans, whether a lunch date with a friend, a business meeting, or travel abroad, using the nuanced tenses and adverbs that allow you to express condition and possibility. The program focuses on the uses of "I would like" and "I might" to form expressions of possibility. The incorporation of conditional sentences using "if," as well as the introduction of new vocabulary pertaining to a variety of activities, will give your Spanish the precision and flexibility needed to handle almost any arrangement.
12. Discuss Family and Describe People
As your Spanish becomes more complex and flexible, conversations will move from basic needs and wants to sharing personal stories and background. Beyond telling stories, however, the vocabulary used to describe family can translate into a multiplicity of scenarios and give you the capacity to describe people whether looking for someone in a restaurant or talking about your favorite movie star.
13. Express Opinions and Preferences
From dining situations to making plans with friends, being able to express your opinions and preferences is a key component to everyday language. The program introduces the verbs "to believe/think," "to prefer," "to wish," and the expression "it's true that..." will empower you in shopping situations ("I prefer the blue one"), making plans ("I think we should go tomorrow if it isn't raining"), and discussing an endless number of topics from politics to sports ("I wish I could play tennis, but I think I'm a good soccer player").
14. Spanish for the Workplace
Fluenz is currently being used by public health professionals, executives at Fortune 500 companies, priests of Spanish-speaking parishes, senior personnel at the UN, firefighters, social workers, lawyers, and law enforcement officers. Fluenz Spanish is also used by elite units of the US Navy in Virginia. Whether your work engages in the Spanish-speaking communities of the US or takes you on business to Latin America or Spain, Fluenz equips you with the tools to handle scheduling, negotiation and formal conversations, while providing you with the strongest possible foundation in the language from which to expand your vocabulary to suite your field of expertise. Most importantly, you'll be learning how to engage in conversations from day one, which means you can start using your Spanish in the workplace right away.
15. Speak Naturally Wherever You Go
Spanish is a beautiful, vibrant language. Once you've established a foundation in how the language works, it is time to add more life to your Spanish by expanding not only your vocabulary, but also your comfort with a variety of familiar expressions and sentence structures. As the program progresses, you'll discover the conjunctions, interjections and adverbs that make your Spanish flow naturally. Spanish 1+2+3 is not just about "getting by" in a language; it is about giving you the tools to hold conversations with multiple verb tenses, the relevant vocabulary and the confidence to engage what you know in a real-life setting.
Ideal for Communicating Wherever People Speak Spanish
Fluenz Spanish 1+2+3 provides a comprehensive understanding in the fundamentals of the Spanish language and develops, step-by-step, the vocabulary, flexible sentence structures and verb forms to engage in unrehearsed conversations wherever you find yourself speaking Spanish. Fluenz has been successfully used for work, travel and in local communities.
Great Audio CDs and Exclusive Podcasts
Audio CDs: Spanish for Your Car or iPod
Moving beyond typically dry and hollow language learning tapes, the Fluenz team engaged two professionals who could communicate the richness and emotion of Spanish. Fluenz Spanish 1+2+3 comes with three audio CDs that feature the voices of Hollywood actor Edgar Ramirez, HBO Latin America star Ivan Loscher, and Fluenz tutor Sonia Gil.
Fluenz Podcasts: Download to Learn on the Go
Continuing a tradition at the Fluenz Lab, Fluenz Spanish offers exclusive podcasts made by the same team that created the interactive program. These downloadable podcasts supplement the training work offered by the audio CDs, while providing a more informal, relaxed window into the world of Spanish and the actual learning of the language.
The Fluenz Navigator: Your Essential Phrase Book
Fluenz Spanish also comes with the Fluenz Navigator, a useful quick-reference guide for travelers with all the most critical words and phrases for getting by abroad.
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This Mac comes pre-installed with OS X Snow Leopard, but you can order a free upgrade to OS X Lion via Apple's OS X Lion Up-To-Date program for a limited time (depending on the date of your purchase).
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If you purchased a new Mac with OS X Snow Leopard from Amazon between these dates, you must enter your order from the Apple Online Store by August 19, 2011. Purchased After July 21, 2011
If you purchased a new Mac with OS X Snow Leopard from Amazon after the official OS X Lion release date (on or after July 21, 2011), you must enter your order within 30 days of the date of your purchase.
Learn more about the OS X Lion Up-To-Date Program and enter your order at Apple.com.
The MacBook Air with 11.6-inch screen (see larger image).
Key Features
Flash Memory Storage
By replacing the standard spinning hard drive typically found in laptops (as well as desktop PCs) with flash memory, the MacBook Air delivers an almost instantaneous boot-up when you open the display, as well as faster application launches and snappier overall performance. Additionally, Apple has shed the enclosure that typically surrounds flash memory (usually about the same size as a standard hard drive), thus giving it a smaller footprint and helping to decrease the size of the MacBook Air.
Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad
With the addition of the smooth, glass Multi-Touch trackpad previously found on other MacBook models, the MacBook Air makes it even easier to navigate Mac OS X and your software applications. You can pinch, swipe or rotate images on the display screen with the brush of two fingers, or add more digits for a four-fingered vertical swipe to open Expose and quickly glance at all of your open windows.
Integrated FaceTime Webcam
You'll be able to easily connect with friends, family, and business colleagues using the MacBook Air's FaceTime camera, which is integrated into the thin bezel above the display. And with Apple's FaceTime application, you're not limited to video chats with other Macs--you can now make video calls to iPhone and iPod touch users (Wi-Fi connection required for mobile users).
The spacious, full-sized keyboard (see larger image).
Intel Core 2 Duo Processing
Combining fast processing speeds with power-saving features, the Intel Core 2 Duo processor provides greater multitasking performance by combining two independent processor cores while also reducing power requirements and saving on battery life. This Intel Core 2 Duo processor has a 1.4 GHz processor speed, fast 800 MHz front-side bus (FSB), and 3 MB L2 cache. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will deliver better overall performance.)
High Performance Graphics
Powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics card, the MacBook Air allows you to view flawless video in full screen HD and play the latest games with fast frame rate. It's a great match to editing video masterpieces with iMovie and managing your photos in iPhoto, and it comes with 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM that's shared with main memory.
11.6-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution
Up to 5 hours of wireless productivity plus up to 30 days of standby time
1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3 MB on-chip shared L2 cache and 800 MHz frontside bus.
128 GB flash memory storage
2 GB installed RAM (1066 MHz DDR3; supports up to 4 GB)
NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor (with 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory) for an outstanding everyday graphics experience.
Built-in FaceTime camera for video chatting
Wi-Fi wireless networking (based on 802.11n specification; 802.11a/b/g compatible)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) for connecting with peripherals such as keyboards, mice and cell phones
Two USB 2.0 ports with networking using optional Apple USB Ethernet adapter
Mini DisplayPort output port with support for DVI, VGA, dual-link DVI, and HDMI (requires adapters, sold separately)
Built-in stereo speakers along with omnidirectional microphone, headphone minijack
Full-size keyboard
Multi-Touch trackpad for precise cursor control; supports inertial scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, three-finger swipe, four-finger swipe, tap, double-tap, and drag capabilities
Dimensions: 11.8 x 7.56 x 0.68 inches (WxDxH)
Weight: 2.3 pounds
What's in the Box
11.6-inch MacBook Air, 45W MagSafe power adapter, AC wall plug, and power cord, Software Reinstall Drive, printed and electronic documentation
Limited Warranty And Service
The MacBook Air comes with 90 days of free telephone support and a 1-year limited warranty, which can be extended to 3 years with the AppleCare Protection Plan.
Installed software
Mac OS X Snow Leopard is an even more powerful and refined version of the world's most advanced operating system. In ways big and small, it gets faster, more reliable, and easier to use. New core technologies unleash the power of today's advanced hardware technology and prepare Mac OS X for future innovation.
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard (includes iTunes, Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools, and more)
iLife '11 helps you do more with photos, movies, and music than you ever thought possible. In iPhoto, you can browse, edit, and share your photos in stunning new full-screen views. Create epic Hollywood-style movie trailers from your home video in iMovie. And GarageBand gives you everything you need to make a great-sounding song--including tools for keeping your song in perfect rhythm and guitar and piano lessons.
iLife (includes iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD)
AppleCare Protection Plan
Because Apple makes the hardware, the operating system, and many applications, the Mac is a truly integrated system. And only the AppleCare Protection Plan gives you one-stop service and support from Apple experts, so most issues can be resolved in a single call. Extend the complimentary service and support on your Mac to 3 years from the original Mac purchase date with the AppleCare Protection Plan. You get direct telephone access to Apple experts for technical questions, and you get global repair coverage--including both parts and labor--for your Mac and select Apple peripherals.
Accessories and Related Products
Apple USB Ethernet Adapter
The Apple USB Ethernet Adapter is a simple, one-piece external adapter that plugs into the USB 2.0 port of your MacBook Air to provide 10/100BASE-T performance. Simply plug your Ethernet cable into the RJ-45 connector--no external power is required. It's small, light, easy to install, and even easier to use.
Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter
The Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter lets you connect an advanced digital monitor, such as the Apple Cinema Display, to your MacBook Air.
Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter
Use the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter to connect your MacBook Air to a 30-inch display that includes a DVI connector, such as the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display.
Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter
The Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter lets you connect a standard analog monitor, projector, or LCD that uses a VGA connector or cable to your MacBook Air.
Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive
Compact and convenient, the MacBook Air SuperDrive connects to your MacBook Air with a single USB cable and fits easily into a travel bag. It lets you install software and play and burn both CDs and DVDs, including double-layer DVDs.
Time Capsule
Back up a lifetime's worth of memories with Time Capsule, a wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X. It's also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with simultaneous dual-band support. Choose from 1 TB and 2 TB models.
27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display
The stunning 2560-by-1440 resolution, built-in camera and speakers, and easy connectivity of the 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display add up to a viewing experience unlike any other.
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I won't lie, this article was brought about by two others I just read this morning: Should the Oilers go after Jordin Tootoo? by Jonathan Willis at Oilers Nation, and Why GMs Overpay for Bottom Six Players by the Leafs Nation's own Danny Gray.
Before you close your browser thinking "this idiot is going to suggest Tootoo to (to to to) the Leafs", don't! I will do no such thing. By the end of the Oilers Nation piece, where Willis pointed out Tootoo's crazy playoff tirade, I was quite positive that I wanted that guy as far away from the Leafs as possible. Not that I really care about players who say dumb things, but Tootoo really seems like a bit of a risk when you don't need to take one for a player of his skill level.
If Alex Semin said that stuff, I'd just look at highlights of him taking wristshots and all would be forgiven. But Tootoo? Too-shitty.
Willis did point out, however, that Tambellini and the Oilers may be seeking a "character guy":
"Tambellini's been clear all down the line that he's looking for a certain type of player, character-wise, and I'm not sure that Tootoo fits."
This got me to thinking about Colby Armstrong, and how, perhaps, he might fit with the Oilers. It didn't really end well, and now here we are
It seems like a perfect scenario, right? Tambellini is a bad GM and may want a guy like Armstrong who's Mr. Character, Burke needs to unload a 3 million dollar loaf of bread, so let's sign the papers.
This would probably make sense if Burke and Kevin Lowe didn't almost set up WrestleMania in a woodshed or whatever. But since that bridge is likely burned (or punched in to pieces), it's unlikely these two teams would lock up for a trade.
I haven't taken a hard look at Edmonton's situation, so this type of move may not be realistic for them since they don't want to take on much money to fill out a fourth line, and they certainly don't want to give up assets for it. I suppose the only way it seems reasonable is if they see Armstrong (as we did) as a versatile player who can bounce around the lineup. I'm sure someone with extensive Oilers-knowledge will let me know if that isn't the type of player they're looking for, despite the character factor. Either way, between their weird lineup and the Lowe/Burke feud, we can probably kibosh the Armstrong to Edmonton rumors before they start.
We can't just give up that easy though, this is a fanbase that ran Bryan McCabe out of town. It can't be too difficult to get Armstrong on a flight out before October. And maybe Lombardi too.
It would probably be nice to find a team in the same mindset that the Capitals were in when they gave Joel Ward 3 million dollars per season last summer. And that's probably a bit much to be honest – Armstrong only has a year left, Ward signed for four.
There are other clubs around who have third line-type players with contracts expiring this summer that could also be potential targets. I'd use "suitors" but I don't think it really applies here.
Any teams that you think could express interest in Armstrong?
For discussion's sake, I took a really quick look at CapGeek and noticed that Anaheim have both Blake (4M) and Hagman (1.5M) off the books this summer. They've bailed Burke out in the past, so there's that. They want to save cash for their big players going to UFA next summer, but again, only a year left for Armstrong so that doesn't really matter.
Langenbrunner's 2.75 million is expiring in St. Louis, so I guess it's possible that they take a look.
These guys I've mentioned grabbed about 20-30 points each this past season, which is about where Armstrong is supposed to be if he plays a good chunk of the season.
I guess what scares me the most isn't that there won't be interest in Armstrong, more so that Burke really doesn't want to trade him and clear out the cap space (loyalty and "good in the room" and stuff like that). You might think "is this really worth worrying about?" Well yes, because as everyone knows Armstrong will take a spot from a Marlies player who can do just as good of a job (who couldn't, really?) next season, and he'll make 3 million dollars doing so.
Three million that could have went towards a bid on Parise, Semin, Suter, whoever. Three million that could have allowed a trade for help in net. The Leafs' bottom six is now a pit of poorly spent money and it probably doesn't need to be.
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Arms is very good despite not loving it at first but the more you play the more you see the small details that make it more complicated than a quick go might make it appear.
Despite newer games [Splatoon 2] getting more attention, from me and the media, I have a feeling that Arms will always be good fun for quick blasts on multiplayer. With more characters incoming and hopefully more arms too then this can be kept fresh for a long time yet.
It's also a good game to download from the store as you can just play a few matches between other games with ease.
Arms gets a proper training mode and more in latest update
7 months ago
inFamous: Second Son review
|Metro 6/10 Edge 7/10 EG 7/10. Three good review sites extracted from the general junk of metacritic. If they all review it at about the same score than that is what the score is. And out of those three Metro is the most reliable and the lowest!
Xbox One closing monthly US sales gap on PS4
can you see how pathetic you are?
In Theory: 1080p30 vs 720p60 - could next-gen let us choose?
Correct. Extremely gullible.
It might be a little better but it is still shit. If you are happy with the PS4 then you are gullible.
Nothing about the PS4 shouts quality on any level. I never get the love for the PS4 as it is under-powered and too expensive. At least the PS3 had ambition and power despite the difficulty in untapping it at first.
Sony have taken an easy route and people applaud them for a cheap and obvious design. Why they are selling consoles, MS and Sony, this weak for over Ł299 is just greed.
Definitely not on rails
|A beautiful piece of journalism that matches the tedium of playing Fable 3 with words.
Dark Souls 2 Achievements list leaks
|"Snagging", it should have been 20g for fingering the king's ring.
We've got another 2500 Hearthstone keys to give away
|First PM gets a key.
Sony's wider problems heap pressure on PS4
In our hearts like a blood clot.
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag review
The Stanley Parable dated for next week
|I think Mr Matulef's naked pussy shot profile is very disturbing.
Digital Foundry vs. Resogun
|Looks good.
PlayStation 4 bundle includes Killzone, Camera, second DualShock
|This bundle looks to be good value and worth an order as the camera pretty much comes for free.
Xbox One FIFA bundle was not a reaction to E3 criticism
Still overheating I see! You're going to go blue-screen soon. And then who'll be sorry.
Whisper it, but Xbox One is finding its stride
Or maybe just mad as demonstrated by beginning a sentence with haha... Does the ellipsis indicate a break in the laughter or just the end of your mental stroke.
Are you a girly-man? You sound like you have PMT.
EA makes some Online Pass content free on Xbox Marketplace
The price you pay in the shop for second-hand games is THE price. They may think second hand games are expensive but it will hardly be a shock. You can look in the shop and see the prices for yourself.
This is how Xbox One game trade-ins will work, apparently
Footballers sometimes get sold on with the original club getting a percentage of the deal.
Well my opinion is that the consumer should act responsibly in what he/she buys. You cannot keep demanding prices go so low that an industry cannot sustain profits, and more so if the things they make are of value to you.
You can't keep getting better and better for less and less. Something will break.
Buy fewer games but buy them new. It serves everyone better in the long run.
But ultimately, you are right, and I think the current attitude of the market will decimate the industry until all you have is FIFA and COD and then a few left-field indie hits.
Unless the console makers step in to correct what is in their best interest to correct. So I applaud MS for taking this ballsy move as clearly it isn't going to be popular but I think it is necessary and the right thing to do.
It could well be that games are too cheap at the moment. In terms of inflation and in comparison to SNES games they are too cheap if we use that as a metric. So maybe they need to sell these games cheap but then use the second hand market to subsidise the long tail of necessary sales which at the moment is too short; and is the sole profit of cex or Game or whoever.
No-one wants to pay more but games have never been so cheap and add to this consumers high expectations for high end graphics, sound, and innovation it's a big problem for the industry.
Yes, far too high. Though I saw Far Cry 3 for under Ł15 the other day; so getting better.
But the idea is we get the disc from the shop, at the marked price to play it, so shops can compete to gain our custom. XBL is a monopoly and so charges what it likes. This way is fine. It will allow for competition.
This is an excellent system. If the price is not too prohibitive for the retailers. As to be competitive they will have to give us more for the game we hand in if they sell it for more. It could in balance be no more or less than now. The margins, which current shops, make on second hand games is too much at the moment. They deserve this measure for being greedy in the past. And the money will, some of it, return to the developers which will help them invest in new IP.
But of course the same old posters sing the same old tired songs. MS are innovating a lot with this system. In all kinds of ways. It will be interesting to see Sony's response, as I'm sure they will do something if not quite using this system to do it.
Xbox One's Kinect will talk back to users ala Siri or Knight Rider - rumour
It sounds OK to me. But it has to be a fluid switching of voice, gesture and controls to work as a complete system. I think it will do alright and as for all the complaints, which are more likely, and in the majority, coming from a vocal fanboy element there is nothing much to worry about for MS. To sell a 100 million consoles, the people on these types of forum hardly represent a single percent, I think the features will entice normal people on board more than the "tin hat" brigade try to make out.
But it has to work well - or it will be a fuck up.
Super Stardust spiritual successor a PlayStation 4 exclusive
|Does it really need a new system to make a lightweight game like this? It's a vita game. And not even as good as geometry wars 2; now that is a quality game.
Civilization 5: Brave New World due in July
Oh dear! Oh dear! And is 1984 about the Indians who died in Bhopal.
Also "usage is usually used" - a thesaurus is a beautiful tool.
Saturday Soapbox: Christopher Nolan has ruined video games
Just because Nolan is name-checked in marketing doesn't mean much. Marketing always tries to shoe horn the latest greatest thing in to their product whether it fits or not.
You could argue though that cynicism is being too heavily introduced into games. The old games could be dark but weren't cynical with it. It all becomes very world weary and depressing without an injection of charm and fun and whimsy which games excel at by default. Even Nintendo seem to have lost their touch in this direction recently.
Games need to become less like cinema and more like games again. The quiddity of gaming is fun and if you lose that it becomes something else.
Destiny: Bungie unveils its shared-world shooter
"Everything you do in life is more fun if you do it with your friends, everything you do in life is more fun if there are other people around doing the same thing with you."
So it's official they do circle-jerk.
With Project Godus funded, Peter Molyneux can finally get some sleep
It's not that it is not newsworthy but is it worthy of so much news?
Far Cry 3 patch will allow you to tailor the HUD/UI
Oh and the game designers aren't to blame for the ever present UI it's the testers. :) Testers don't tell the developer how to make his game they just log bugs and errors. They can suggest things but the producer makes the call.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 review
I can almost smell the blood gushing out your nose as you wrote this.
Anyway book an appointment with the doctor Monday morning he may be able to medicate you and stabalise your mental illness. It's worth a shot but it may be too late.
After 70 days awaiting trial, jailed ArmA 3 devs refused bail
I thought I had clicked on the wrong thread reading these comments. Off-topic isn't even close to describing this thread. We need a moderator to apply the rudders I think.
And why the hate on the Greeks in general. It's very disappointing to see that nasty side of human nature that wants to believe that other people are bad and lazy and the problem. It's that kind of attitude that elects tyrants. I'm sure most of these comments are just people off-loading their daily frustrations. Try masturbation it's more private and less shameful.
Face-Off: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
|I wonder if we will get, literally, as many dicks and arseholes in this comment section as we did the last one. :)
Editor's Blog: New Editorial Policies
|SO you were corrupt before, taking bribes, PR/advertising, freebies, and trips and felt the pressure, if not directly asked, to up-score games in your reviews. But now you feel you must change your ways. So the last COD review was done in a way you believe made you score the game more highly. OK, but nothing to applaud here. This should have been done day one because now you cast aspersions on your past reviews in the light of a revised policy.
Editor's Blog: Lost Humanity 18 Aftermath
Who cares! Politicians, businessmen, judges, police, everyone is bought or on the payroll of someone elses influence. It hardly matters on games reviews as (a) you can get public feedback and if things are bullshit it soon becomes apparent (b) It's only an opinion anyway. You know what you like better than anyone. (c) Often you can play a demo anyway to see if it's your kind of thing.
People complain about the media and then amp every nothing into a soap operatic drama. It's hurricane Sandy in a teacup. You can make it matter but it doesn't.
Forza Horizon review
So now we know what happens when a whiny fanboy takes one cock too many up his hungry ass. And that's a metacritic 87% view. Indisputable.
Dust: An Elysian Tail Review
It makes sense to dial down the difficulty to get the game finished and write the review by a deadline but a little unfair to be judging the game on being too easy when you can change the difficulty anytime within the game.
Zen Pinball 2 PS3, Vita release date announced
|I would consider getting a vita for this. 26 zen tables has a lot of life and depth to it. I'm always playing the XBLA version, it's my go to game when other games don't appeal. I can play the Wolverine table forever.
Mafia 3 heading to next Xbox, PS4 - report
I agree that is a perfectly reasonable expectation; if you are mentally retarded.
Minecraft 1.7.3 update is out now
|Why do you have a redneck serial killer doing the patch round up?
Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 release date announced
|It gives it legs to sell for the whole of next year without feeling you have the old version. A cheap marketing trick.
Ubisoft discusses next-generation game budgets
:) It's just a snide dig at people who add too much biography into arguments that demand none!
I am married too but If people who have time on their hands want more games then why not? My way of life has no bearing on what other people may or may not want. That shouldn't really baffle you :)
Just because you don't use something *gasp* doesn't mean someone who's younger, and hasn't ruined their life with a wife and child, might not play more games!!
So you spend just over 17 mins a day on gaming and wonder why people are complaining about lack of games. And you "guess" just a "guess" you say that people may play games for different amounts of time. Has that just occurred to you? A sudden epiphany that your arsehole isn't the new Copernican revolution ;)
Global Xbox 360 sales down nearly 50% year-on-year
Strict definitions are all well and good but first how accurate is the data for an economy the size of the UK to determine whether things have gone up or down a fraction of a percent. Accounting by firms is so complex and profits so distributable across other parts of an organisation and are often left hanging across two tax terms as to be very hard to nail down with any precision.
But it is clear if you run a business that costs are increasing wholesale without a pick up of sales to balance things off. Unless you are Apple we are very much in a recession and the terms that determine this are precise but the data is being massaged by the government and other organisations to paint a rosier picture than is really being experienced. Remember it's in business and governments interest to keep a fake picture that is positive than a real one that is negative.
It's was considered "common" knowledge before Enron that the American companies were cooking the books and inflating the US stock market. But as people, in general, were benefiting there was little political will to discourage it. If you want conspiratorial theories maybe the markets were deliberately crashed to bury the evidence of these fraudulent procedures.
If you go back in time, say late 2004, and put money on MS outselling Sony by 2012 it would have been seen as a ridiculous outside gamble. Only one winner was predicted when the consoles were announced.
Nintendo and Microsoft are the real successes of this generation. Nintendo by virtue of revenue and getting the Wii to be a desirable product (years ago) and Microsoft by the increase of their brand as a credible alternative to Sony, in fact, these days the xbox is seen as the more complete gaming package. With more sales in units and in software.
Given the success of the Playstation 2 and it's total domination of the games scene this is a remarkable achievement for MS. By contrast Sony have made error after error and if they repeat just a fraction of the errors of this generation in the next one then Sony are a spent force.
Plus when the xbox, which seems the most likely, breaks the Ł100 barrier then sales will accelerate and it may well top 100 million units sold.
The evenness of this generation is a good thing if you want competition. But even this seems irrelevant nowadays as software companies tend to ignore individual strengths of the systems and make a product that runs approximately equal on both systems. So they may as well have the same specs. The only difference here is in user experience through the UI and online architecture. Again Sony are behind the curve when they would develop home but have no cross-party chat. Why not try and get the basics right before you try the ambitious stuff.
Why the Magic of Independent Stores Should Never Be Lost
|Ram Electronics on Fleet High rd. Now that was an indie shop from the mid-eighties. They even made their own (popular) joysticks and RAM expansion packs for the Spectrum.
Fez Review
Sony bracing for biggest annual loss in a decade
If you look closely he's a bit paler in the second photo. That's the one where he's looked at his accounts.
Xbox 360 entertainment app usage surpasses online gaming
Well XBLA is good and the lineup is varied and interesting if you are tired of FPS's and racing games. Worth having a 360 for, especially with Trials evo out soon.
Microsoft patents Gaming Helmet for Xbox
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