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Ebooks high prices - the reasons beyind
Hi everyone
I am assuming almost everyone agrees that ebooks are (generally) way too expensive: it is common to find ebooks at the same price of the printed edition - some even hard covers! And it is also very frequent finding e-books more (sometimes even much more) expensive than the same paper books. A good example are the prices you can find at Mobipocket's ebooks and Amazon's paper books (as you know, Amazon owns Mobipocket).
Why is this?!
I have a theory: publishing houses are really not interested in the ebook market; in fact, they are afraid of it.
The reason seems quite simple: they fear that once the ebook market "explodes", the piracy will take over and (as happen with the music industry) their profits - and the industry - will free fall. So they prefer not incentivate it.
(I heard recently a well known publishing house defending - off the record - that they believe ebooks and paper books should have the same price. The SAME price!!! The same price with very diferent costs it should have been said!!! And when asked about those diferent cost, that same house said that ebooks will have bonnus features... - please, do not insult readers inteligence! - with or without "bonnus", the costs are not just little but immenselly diferent!).
I believe they are going the wrong path.
High prices will incentivate piracy - precisely what they want to avoid. It will take much longer that it took in the music industry because ereaders are expensive, a diferent experience not everyone is willing to take and the public is a very diferent one, but it will happen. And then publishnig houses will no longer dictate anything anymore...
I really do hope thinhs change fast: being able to buy any ebbok with a reasonable disconut over the printed edition: the publisher will still be able to take a bigger profit, and literally everyone would benefict.
But quire frequently I believe it won't happen in the next decade or so.
What do you think about this issue?
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I copy /paste my answer from another thread on exactly the same subject started at about the same time (might be worth putting the two threads together)
I personnally believe editors do not hate eBooks, but they're definitly scared of their books getting copied on the web if they come out. Sevreal ways to control this, they believe, is to put on DRMs and to charge a lot so that only the "good" people will prurchase them (it's a well known idiocy to believe that because you have money you're honest...) and so they can recoup the losses that will be incurred by copying.
I think one thing that might help hugely would be to make editors aware that illegal sharing of their books has started long before the first ebook reader ever came out. I don't think they're aware there are some people out there who will quite happily take the time to entirely scan/OCR/Correct hundreds of volumes. Perhaps once they realise piracy is already there (AND HAS BARELY AFFECTED THEIR SALES, OR THEY WOULD HAVE NOTICED BY NOW!), they'll stop peeing in theit pants every time the "e" word comes out.
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I've been in the publishing industry in some capacity for the last 17 years. You may be surprised to learn that the "immensely different" costs are not that immense.
Following a book through the author's writing, agent, publishing house, to store, the only pieces you remove from the printed equation is the physical paper & ink and physical distribution.
There are other comparable costs added into the equation for ebooks: licensing fees for the owner of the ebook format, fees to distribution companies (ie. Lightning Source), additional cost of reformatting for ebook vs. print.
I'd be startled if the cost difference between paper and digital was more than 5% of the book's total cost to produce at this point in time, even for the large publishing houses. In my case, working for a small publisher, it would actually cost us more per book to follow that route. As such, we release our work in open formats without DRM to minimize cost and we hope our customers respect that and refrain from widely distributing our work.
I'd be interested to hear experiences from others in the publishing field.
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Mobipocket.com isn't really a good comparison. They have a deal with the stores that license their format that they will not compete on price therefore their prices will always be higher than any other place you could buy a book. This is why Amazon uses a format that is only nominally different. Otherwise they would likely have to abide by this agreement. No more $9.99 new releases. Stores like Fictionwise are more realistic. Still, it's the publishers that have the most influence on price. If they charge the ebook sellers a high price, the only choice they have is to take a loss or pass that on to the customer.
As xianfox says, there are certain costs that must be borne regardless of format and some additional costs that come specifically with electronic format. I do think it's still a bit high considering you don't have to absorb the high return rate you have with paper distribution but I think many publishers are also trying to recoup the capital outlays they had in starting their ebook divisions. Many of them decided to start their own storefronts. I'm no expert but I don't think that's a good move for most publishers. I think it can work well for some genres like it has for Baens. I bet Harlequin's storefront gets good traffic. Publishers have brand recognition in these fields. Most mainstream fiction consumers don't know who publishes their favorite authors. They want to go to one bookstore, not hit five publishers trying to find the title they want. I can't imagine their e-commerce efforts pay for themselves. It's overhead they don't need.
An additional note about DRM: Not only would publishers save money by not paying to license proprietary formats, I think many consumers would regard the DRM-free, open format book as more valuable. Many people who are aware of DRM regard buying such files as not really buying at all. It's renting. You can't guarantee you'll be able to use it for as long as you like so it's hard to justify paying as much for it as you would a paper copy.
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But selling 10,000 paper copies costs for a lot of paper, a lot of storage & distribution. Selling 10,000 digital copies costs... negligible per copy. Cost for SETUP is high; cost to actually distribute each copy is almost nil. And once the programming has been arranged for "convert publication-ready Word/InDesign/whatever doc to ebook format" (a sensible publisher would write their own in-house code for that), it can be done in seconds for each new book.
Claiming the cost of infrastructure makes the book costs equal would only make sense if book prices spiked when when gas prices get high, because distribution costs more.
Nobody's saying ebooks should be free. Just that, with equivalent infrastructure costs, actual cost-per-book is so low that it's insane to charge the same as a hardcover book, and not really sensible to charge paperback prices.
We know what paper costs. We know it's cheaper in bulk, but some of us know those prices, too. If 2/3 the book cost goes into layout, infrastructure & marketing... there's still the issue of "no paper, no storage fee." (Hard drive space & server activity don't remotely compare to warehouse and shipping fees.)
There's an interesting logic to, "this is a new market and so we need to create an entire infrastructure for it, and we're not sure how profitable it'll be so we'll make a tiny number of customers pay for the full infrastructure costs."
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Actually, the cost to distribute each copy is not almost nil. Most publishers aren't handling this themselves. Why? The demand simply isn't there to bring on the necessary staff, additional equipment, and write the necessary software themselves.
Instead, they hire out a firm, like Lightning Source, who are charging fees to handle conversion and distribution that are in the same neighborhood as conventional printing and distribution per copy. The publishers, to a large degree, have not realized the savings yet as they haven't even built the infrastructure yet.
The Kindle is far too new to have had an influence on prices yet, but I believe that is coming. And if the fuel crisis was/is prolonged, you will see it influence the price of everything that entails physical distribution, including pbooks; it takes time for the reports to show the real impact and prices to adjust accordingly.
I have no doubt that ebooks will eventually become cheaper than pbooks, but this will take time. The Kindle--love it or hate it--is going to do a lot to speed the process up, but it will still take time. I have my doubts that this will be realized as a price drop of ebooks rather than a price increase of pbooks though due to economic and environmental influences.
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If you think it is to expensive... don't buy it. At least you have a choice with eBooks. You don't so much with "some" of the stuff I listed above.
I've said many times, I don't have a problem paying the same price for an ebook as I do for a paperback. Give any extra to the authors. Or, why not get a free ebook when you buy a pbook?
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It does not matter that distribution is handled by an outside firm, it is still reflected in the cost for the end user. All the distribution fees off, the - small - website cost on, and you have what an eBook should REALLY cost.
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Conversion costs equal to printing costs--even though short books cost less to produce than long ones because they use less paper? Where books with fancy covers cost more than plain ones?
Webhosting/marketing costs equivalent to physical distribution--
What's the digital equivalent of these costs? The digital equivalent of the difference between a hardcover and a paperback and a special collector's edition? Between glue binding and sewn bindings? Between pulp paper and glossy paper?
The high cost of ebooks has very little to do with the cost of arranging ebooks to be sold, and a lot to do with publishers knowing there's a market and not knowing what to do with it or even how to understand it.
They're terrified that offering books "too cheaply" will lose them the opportunity for millions of dollars. They're *not* terrified that offering them too expensively will drive away customers... they don't know how to acknowledge those people as potential customers in the first place.
And their business model doesn't have a slot for what happens when they make the "legit" version so expensive that the potential customers make a bootleg version for themselves, or give up on that line of books and seek out something else to read. Technology has surpassed them--amateur publications of ebooks are no less elegant and useful than professional ones, and their business plans assume that amateur-made "books" are just not as desirable as professional ones.
They don't know how to compete with amateurs. Nothing in their models requires it. They're trying to pretend that the public will *of course* prefer mainstream publishing house versions of ebooks, and therefore will just accept whatever protocols they decide on.
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Hi guys from a new arrival...
I too am astonished at the short term attitude of these publishers and this is what I posted on this topic to Teleread last week:
I am the new owner of an iPhone and have been searching for ebooks over the last two weeks to read on it. I am completely flummoxed at the pricing of ebooks and to add to that I am repeatedly coming across current newly published books where the ebook is significantly MORE EXPENSIVE than the paperback version !
What on earth is going on ? I am a capitalist and a commercial director of a hitec business. I believe in profit and as a wanna-be writer I also believe that writers must earn a fair shake.
Lets get real guys. The retail price of a book includes a significant percentage that goes to the shop owner, to cover his profits, his staff wages, his light and heat and his rent, and also to the distributor(s) in the chain between publisher and seller. This percentage is usually in excess of 60%.
I see parallels here with the head in the sand music industry that has been and will, deservedly, continue to bleed income to copiers. I see the same blind effort to screw as much money out of the readers before the inevitable explosion of e-reading occurs and before the parallel explosion of hackers who will start distributing these books free on torrent sites happens.
Is there no one in the publishing industry who can lift their head up and see the big picture ? High prices are suppressing the whole development of market. One might almost think that the publishers are PURPOSELY trying to suppress the ebook market because they feel they are making bigger profits from paper books - and it is supporting the millions of corners books shops. This would be fine - if it were not for the fact that there is an inevitable momentum in the progression from paper to ebooks. It is as strong a momentum as from Vinyl to CDs to MP3s. It cannot be stopped. It CANNOT be stopped.
Whether is be reading on the Kindle, the Sony ebook reader or on mobile phones such as my iPhone. This is the future (no not 100%, there will always be a market for paper books, but I see an 80:20 mix 20 years down the road). So the sooner the publishers get their head around this future marketing model the better.
Average decent people do not want to waste their precious and valuable time searching for illegal copies of books any more than they want to do it for their music. They have a natural tendency to want to pay a fair price. The music industry are still driving ordinary people in their millions to illegal download sites because of their crazy prices and complete lack of awareness of the added value principle.
If the publishing business goes the same route then they will find that the same thing will happen to them. Ordinary people are not stupid and if the publishers fail to wake up in time they discover a huge portion of their readers will be subscribing to torrent sites, and they will be fighting a rear guard action they will inevitably lose.
Publishers need to start now - drop prices to a sensible level, promote their writers and their own names. If they do this and pay attention to the principles of added value - they will develop a solid readership base that is happy and willing to pay reasonable prices. If they do this they will keep the torrent sites and the hackers in the shallows and will generate the maximum earnings for themselves and their writers.
I dont mind one bit paying a FAIR price. But I am not a complete fool and willing to pay 20 dollars for a book that is available on the high street for 10 dollars.
Most ebooks of leading quality writers should in my view be priced at between 5 to 7 dollars, with recent publishings of best sellers at 10 dollars. That is my absolutely upper limit and I believe it is MORE than fair considering there is NO PRINTING, NO DISTRIBUTING ! and very limited web based distribution. Only marketing remains and that is quite small spread over a decent readership. Non best sellers should be prices at approx. 5 dollars. Of course this is only my broad-brush view. Specialty sectors must be priced differently.
Am I holding my breath ? nope . . .
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Internet Texoma (in north Texas) is not far from me. They design and host Ecommerce sites for all sorts of mom and pop web businesses.
If your company can't find someone of their quality and pricing to handle distribution - then I will submit outright that there is likely embezzlement going on and you need a top to bottom outside audit right now.
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Welcome to this forum, saoir - I am a "junior member" myself.
I completly agree with you.
It is a shame such a big mistake is being made in this industry.
In the end, if publishing houses do not change their attitude, I will not feel much sorry for their fate.
Let's hope things can change in the near future. But, as you, I am not holding my breath...
Meanwhile, we'll just have to really dig in the web to find the best possible price - one that is not completly insulting.
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This makes me think you're right about "haven't even built the infrastructure yet." Perhaps haven't even thought about it.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but I'm not about to buy stock in Lightning Source.
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Royalty and Nobility
Proposed Canon
Royal and Noble Units have slightly stronger stats and Level faster than normal Units.Erf-b1-p079a Cities ruled by Royals may Pop Nobles and more Royals.
Generally speaking, Nobles have a title designating their social status, such as Duke Nozzle, Count Vinny Doombats, or Viscount Caesar Borgata. Other likely titles would be Baron, Earl, or Marquis. The word Lord has been used for both noble and caster units, but not Royal units.
Royal Ideals
King Slately LIAB Text 42 listed the following Royal Ideals implying by the ellipsis that there are more than those listed here. (presumably the missing list includes Duty) Since Loyalty is also a unit's attribute, the others may be as well.
- Honor
- sacrifice
- dignity
- decorum
- station
- ...
- loyalty
- bravery
Known Royal Units
- King Banhammer - Croaked
- Queen Jillian Zamussels
- King Saline IV - Croaked
- King County - Croaked
- Don King
- King Slately
- Prince Forthewin - Croaked (referenced in LIAB Text 33 & LIAB Text 50)
- Prince Ansom - Decrypted
- Prince Ossomer - Decrypted
- Prince Tramennis
- Prince Wonderbread - Croaked (referenced in LIAB Text 33)
- Prince Titas - Croaked (referenced in LIAB Text 33)
- Prince Victor (first son of Slately) - presumably Croaked (referenced in LIAB Text 33)
- Prince Lustrius (third son of Slately) - presumably Croaked (referenced in LIAB Text 33)
- King Dickie
- Prince Sammy - Croaked
- Queen Bea - Croaked
- Princess Cruz - Decrypted, Destroyed
Known Noble Units
- Count Vinny Doombats
- Viscount Caesar Borgata
- Archduke Ferdinand - (origins unknown) Uncroaked, Destroyed
- Duke Nozzle - Croaked
- Lady Sylvia Lazarus - Decrypted
- Duke Adam Antium - Decrypted
- Duke Lacrosse - Decrypted
- Countess Artemis
Possible Noble Units
Some, but seemingly not all, Casters have the title of Lord or Lady, and may be Noble Units.
- Lord Ace Hardware - Jetstone, Caster
- Lady Wanda Firebaugh - Faq/Gobwin Knob, Caster, Chief Croakamancer
Known Ignoble Units
- Jack Snipe - Jack (or Knave) was his title, not his name; this indicates a position of a servant. It is not a military rank or official position, however, and fulfills the same purpose of a noble title. Practically, Snipe enjoyed the same treatment as Lady Wanda Firebaugh, as both were Casters. That he is given a title at all is interesting, as it is seemingly rare; most non-noble units simply use military ranks for the purposes of hierarchy and social interaction.
Royals can probably only be created in a capital city, while Nobles can be created in any city which is part of a side led by a Royal. It probably takes longer to create a Royal than any other type of unit, though Turnamancy can accelerate this process. The social rank of a Noble probably correlates to the size of the city in which he was popped, so a Duke comes from a big city, (maybe the Capital) and a Viscount comes from a very small city. Caesar Borgata, a Viscount, is described as being "barely a Noble", suggesting that a Duke is likely to have slightly higher initial stats than a Count, who is likely to be slightly higher than a Viscount.
It's possible free will is a innate trait to Royals, as most of the non-Ruler royals are described as ornery and contrary to their progenitor's wishes.
Many Royal and Noble Characters (especially Prince Ansom before his Decryption) believe Royalty and Nobility are the signs of Titanic mandate to rule. In fact, the purpose of Royal Crown Coalition was to defend this belief against Stanley, who believes Titans favor those with the Arkentools. Since no known Royal are Casters, it may be that these two groups are mutually exclusive.


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Cops who cook: Fundraiser puts chief in the kitchen
Last Sunday, March 5, the Monticello Area Community Action Agency (MACAA) kicked off its 19th annual Men Who Cook! fundraiser at the Seasonal Cook with a special preview pairing Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo (this year's honorary chair and long-time Men Who Cook chef) with Bizou and Bang's Vincent Derquenne.
Past preview participants have included former mayor and urban visionary Maurice Cox, who learned to cook a pancetta dish, and former delegate Jim Murray, who learned to cook vegetarian pasta.
On Sunday, Derquenne taught our top cop Longo to wield a spatula instead of a sidearm. When Dish showed up, Chief Longo was carefully cutting strips of prosciutto and placing them gingerly between a half-dozen thick sea scallops. Meanwhile, Derquenne was slicing blood oranges and waxing eloquent about casual cooking.
"I just looked at what was fresh this morning," he said, keeping an eye on the slices of bread in the oven, " and there was this nice veal chop, and it was looking at me, and so..."
Veal chops weren't the only thing looking at Derquenne; about 10 people had gathered at the Seasonal Cook to see the Chief and Chef, some taking notes, others asking questions.
"This is just a fun type of cooking to do," Derquenne told the group. "The kind of thing you can do with friends on a Sunday and watch a football game at the same time." You got that guys? At the next big game, whip up some stuffed scallops and veal chops for the boys!
The main event in April showcases the efforts of over 50 local amateur chefs, and includes a silent auction and music by Metanoia. As usual, all proceeds go to MACAA programs that help low-income families in and around the Charlottesville area.
"It sells out every year," says MACAA's Jeff Sobel, "...and it's really fun. There's great food, dancing into the night, and it all goes to a great cause."
Indeed, for Dish to recommend food cooked by architects, politicians, and policemen, it better be for a good cause! For information about tickets to the April 1 event, visit avenue.org/MACCA or call 295-3171, ext. 3045
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As was recently reported, Thai restaurateur and Outback Lodge co-owner Eddie Keomahathai opened his fourth Thai '99 restaurant on Route 151 in Nelson. Keomahathai is well known for his existing string of Thai restaurants on Fontaine, behind the Carmike Cinema, in Lynchburg, and now in Nelson.
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"Oh, we're just a little place in the woods," May laughs. "People come here and they say, 'I don't believe it... what is this place doing in the middle of the woods?"
May laughs easily and a lot, which put Dish instantly at ease. She's amused that the big city paper is calling and can't seem to gather her thoughts. Finally, she tells Dish to come for a visit.
"You come see me, sweetie," she says. "Come taste the food. And we'll treat you right, you'll see." Normally, Dish doesn't put much stock in such talk, but something tells us a trip down 29 South might be in our future.
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In December 2014 the Sustainable Seas Trust facilitated the launch of South Africa's first six Hope Spots - False Bay; Cape Whale Coast, Knysna, Plett, Algoa Bay and Aliwal Shoal. No sooner had the invitations been sent and the publicity posters released when a cry rang out from the public asking why their area of choice had not also been included in the initiative while others asked why Hope Spots were necessary, were the 22 South African Marine Protected Areas not sufficient in sustaining the future of our South African sea?
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are usually in wilderness areas, where the government authorities do a wonderful job of caring for nature. This is where the public is allowed to go to unwind and enjoy nature. Such parks are well managed which means that the authorities protect the areas by placing restrictions on what visitors may or may not do. In general the public is permitted to do little more than visit, learn and enjoy the wonders of the pristine wilderness areas. Though, in special circumstances they can be allowed to be honourary rangers, help with education and scientists can get permits for research.
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South African Hope Spots however are defined as places where people are encouraged to make positive contributions to improve the environment, their quality of life and their economy by caring for nature and people.
The first six South African Hope Spots are near cities and towns and focussing on developing caring communities where people are living. This means you can make a difference (with your daily lifestyle choices and brings improving the environment into to your home, your neighbourhood, your schools, your business and public areas. Dr Sylvia Earle, the architect of the Global Hope Spot Movement, argues that unless you know and understand you cannot care, so the development of caring communities depends on education and knowledge.
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The onus is primarily on government authorities when it comes to sustaining MPAs, for the greater good of the environment and indeed the country and its people, whereas Hope Spots calls for a more civically-minded approach. But are MPAs and Hope Spots completely separate from one another? No, each of the six South African Hope Spots includes an existing MPA area. The pristine MPAs promote pride and appreciation and serve to encourage local Hope Spot initiatives by showcasing the wealth of biodiversity that exists in these wilderness areas, as documented by a wealth of research studies conducted in these areas where human access is restricted or limited.
In launching the Hope Spot initiative it not only became clear that the research findings are not always reaching the public domain and serving to inspire hope, but it also became apparent that research teams were often not aware or familiar with other teams' findings. Hope Spots aspires to bring existing research into the public domain, available to the public, the authorities, the business chambers, the clubs, societies and even the universities and schools, in forms that are readily understood by all who need to use the information, it also encourages citizen science initiatives and Hope Spot initiatives could well also afford researchers the opportunity to collaborate and form a more holistic picture of environmental health of a particular area.
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Ikhaya Lethemba (Home of Hope) as the South African community-driven Hope Spot initiative is known, stems from Dr Earle's call, as expressed in her award winning wish, upon every one of us 'to create a campaign to ignite public support. She argued quite correctly, that people caused the global environmental and climate crises and people will also need to clean it and that we are better placed than ever before in human history to do so. We have at our disposal knowledge, technology, scientific expertise, understanding and resources and now need to apply our minds, develop the will and move forwards.
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Embattled MP Craig Thomson declined an offer to surrender himself to Victoria police, which led to his arrest in NSW relating to 150 fraud offences, police say.
But Thomson's lawyer disputes this, saying his client was only invited to travel to Victoria for an interview.
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The NSW fraud squad assisted Victorian police in his arrest.
Head of the fraud squad, Detective Superintendent Colin Dyson, has seen the Victorian warrant.
"I believe from reading the warrant that he was invited to travel to Victoria to surrender himself prior to Christmas," Det Supt Dyson told reporters outside Wyong Police Station.
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Thomson's lawyer Chris McArdle said the police version of events was "completely untrue".
The request for his client to travel to Victoria was to attend an interview, not surrender to police, he said.
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"This is something out of the Roman colosseum; this man's been thrown to the lions," he said.
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Amnesty International issued a report asserting that Mexican police have failed to take the necessary actions to investigate the abductions and brutal murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico. According to the report, there have been "njustifiable delays in the initial investigations... and a failure to follow up evidence and witness statements which could be crucial." More over, "failure of the competent authorities to take action to investigate these crimes, whether through indifference, lack of will, negligence or inability, has been blatant over the last ten years," the document charged.
The majority of victims, usually workers at US-owned assembly plants and factories known as maquiladoras, were raped and strangledtheir bodies left in the Chihuahua desert. Mother Jones stated that while Amnesty International is holding the Mexican government responsible for improving the investigations of the murders, other groups argue that the United States and Mexico should work together to solve these crimes because the murders are occurring in a region where American companies are benefiting from the labor of these women.
Amnesty has reported that over the last ten years approximately 370 women have been murdered, 137 of which were sexually assaulted prior to their death. Seventy-five bodies still not been identified.
Media Resources: Amnesty International report Mexico: Intolerable Killings; New York Times 8/11/2003, 8/12/2003; Mother Jones Daily Online 8/13/2003
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BATON ROUGE — After carrying the majority of voters from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes in Tuesday's election, Republican U.S. Reps. Bill Cassidy and Steve Scalise will return to Washington, D.C., for another term.
BATON ROUGE — After carrying the majority of voters from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes in Tuesday's election, Republican U.S. Reps. Bill Cassidy and Steve Scalise will return to Washington, D.C., for another term.
Cassidy, a Republican from Baton Rouge, earned 79.4 percent of the electorate, or 243,594 votes, in the 6th Congressional District, which includes northern Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, according to complete but unofficial returns from the Secretary of State's Office.
Scalise, a Republican from Metairie, secured 66.68 percent, or 192,406 votes, in the 1st Congressional District, which encompasses portions of Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Terrebonne parishes.
In separate interviews Tuesday evening, both men said they have a firm grasp on local issues and are prepared to begin working on them immediately.
"I've spent a lot of time down there," Cassidy said from his election-night party in Baton Rouge. "I understand the importance of Port Fourchon, of Houma being a hub for work in the Outer Continental Shelf, the boat-building industry on the coast, the Dyslexia Center at Nicholls State. I'm ready."
Scalise said by phone that his seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on which Cassidy sits, will be "invaluable" to the region, adding that his knowledge of issues in his home base of Jefferson Parish is transferrable.
"The policies I pursue won't be any different," Scalise said. "I've been working on issues related to the coast and oil and fishing for years. Now it's just a lot more area to cover."
Both men will serve a two-year term that begins in January.
Their elections signify a major political shift locally, since the Terrebonne-Lafourche region has for generations been represented by a single congressman.
While voters have gotten to know the men as candidates over the past year or so, Joshua Stockley, political-science professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, said many are still eager to see how they actually legislate.
"That's the learning curve," he said. "But they both have a general understanding of the issues important to coastal communities. They understand coastal restoration, the economies of sugar and shrimp, and oil and gas."
Last year's redistricting process cut Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes in half and purged them from the 3rd Congressional District, currently represented by Congressman Jeff Landry of New Iberia, who was forced to run against fellow GOP incumbent Congressman Charles Boustany Jr. of Lafayette.
The new 3rd Congressional District will be anchored in southwest Louisiana and Landry, after representing Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes for two years, will face Boustany in a Dec. 8 runoff after receiving 30.04 percent of the vote or 93,524 votes to Boutany's 44.68 percent or 139,113 votes.
Aside from Terrebonne and Lafourche, Cassidy's 6th Congressional District picks up all of Livingston and Pointe Coupee parishes and portions of Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. John the Baptist and West Baton Rouge parishes.
He was challenged by two other candidates from Baton Rouge, Libertarian Rufus Holt Craig Jr. and Richard "RPT" Torregano, who has no party affiliation.
Craig garnered 10.50 percent of the electorate, or 32,200 votes, while Torregano earned 10.11 percent, or 31,014 votes.
Scalise was challenged by four candidates, Gary King, a New Orleans Republican; M. V. "Vinny" Mendoza, a Ponchatoula Democrat; David "Turk" Turknett of Galliano, who has no party affiliation; and Arden Wells of Ponchatoula, who is also unaffiliated.
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Treasured for its storied collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, esplanades and soaring fountain, Florida Southern College is making room for six more structures inspired by the famed architect. These new structures will be small — only about 5 feet high and 3 feet wide. Unlike other Wright designs, they are not meant for humans.
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These new structures will be small — only about 5 feet high and 3 feet wide. Unlike other Wright designs, they are not meant for humans.
Rather, the six domiciles built mostly of custom-made concrete blocks will provide shelter for almost 100 feral cats living on the Lakeland campus.
It would be incorrect to call them cat houses, college officials say. The preferred terminology is cat cafe, a place where the wayward felines can kick back for a drink and some chow.
The cafes, designed by a New York architectural firm that has done renovation work on several Wright buildings at FSC, will double as shelter. The Alpha Chi Omega sorority will supply food and watch over the cats in partnership with SPCA of Florida as part of its commitment to control Polk County's feral cat problem.
"We think it's good for the community," said Terry Dennis, FSC's vice president of operations, who is working with Rodda Construction Inc. to build the cafes designed by Jeff Baker of Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker Architects of Albany, N.Y.
Wright, who died in 1959, left the private college with the largest collection of his designs at any one location — 12 — but he envisioned 18 buildings, including what he called a "usonian" home for faculty housing.
Using Wright's original usonian design, FSC, with monetary assistance from Lakeland and Polk County, is building the Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center. It will include a gift shop and a tourism kiosk with information on other local attractions. Baker has incorporated leftover block from its construction into his cat cafe designs.
"They were looking at this as a real fun thing to do," Dennis said of Baker and his firm. "It's another thing our tour guides can point to."
Construction, he said, is scheduled to begin any week now, or as soon as Baker completes the blueprints.
The Lakeland-based SPCA recently obtained $50,000 in county funding to help control an estimated population of 300,000 stray cats. Its trap, neuter and release program is controversial, however, especially with bird lovers and conservationists.
But SPCA obtained private funding to trap the campus cats and spay or neuter them so they can no longer breed, said Randa Richter, the nonprofit group's volunteer and community involvement manager. The cats also will be given shots for rabies and distemper, and tagged with a chip for identification, she said.
Members of Alpha Chi Omega will maintain the cafes and SPCA will tend to the cats' health needs until the population dwindles.
The sorority's 58 members will raise money to pay for cat food and other supplies, said Larissa Town, 19, an FSC freshman and vice president of philanthropy for Alpha Chi Omega.
"Right now they (the cats) are kind of on their own," she said, and dependent on student good will, which varies at times. "They're feral, so they're afraid of us. They're not aggressive or anything. They're skittish."
The cafes, to be spread across FSC's scenic campus, will be "tucked away for the safety of the animals," Town said. "They're actually pretty adorable."
Dennis said the collaboration with college, SPCA, architect and builder has kept the cost of designing and constructing the cafes minimal. "I'm not foreseeing any issues with where's the funding coming from," he said.
Because of their wild nature, the campus cats stay hidden for much of the day, Dennis said, and venture into the open at night in search of food. The hope is that the cafes will restrict them to specific areas.
Feral cats tend to be territorial, he said, and FSC's colony is not likely to welcome strangers, so once the current population dies out, the problem should be solved.
"The population over time will go down on its own," he said.
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Anthony Bright, who graduated in June, had an idea of what he wanted to do when, as a student in the graphics arts program at the Warwick Area Career and Technical Center, he entered a class contest to design a sign for the imPossible Dream. Anthony is autistic and, as a child, played on the imPossible Dream playground. He thought of the playground as a dream and when it came to designing his work, which he unveiled Thursday at the foot of the road leading to Toll Gate and the imPossible Dream, "I started thinking of children." Once selected, the center's construction trades students built and installed the sign. Anthony painted it. Anthony expects to take some online courses before continuing his education in graphics arts. The sign is not only a welcome addition for imPossible Dream president Diane Penza, but also a tangible manifestation of what students facing challenges can achieve. "Every child can learn and here's an example of it," said acting Superintendent and Special Education Director Richard D'Agostino. Pictured with Anthony is his mother, Debra, and his graphics arts teacher Jann-Rogers Gartner. Gathered at the sign are graphic arts students and school officials. (Warwick Beacon photos)


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Jonathan Vilma Takes NFL Bounty Matter Back to Federal Court
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jonathan Vilma is again asking a federal judge to overturn his suspension in the NFL's bounty probe of the New Orleans Saints.
In papers filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans on Monday, Vilma says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell engaged in a "farcical review" of his previously vacated disciplinary action before reaffirming the Saints linebacker's full-season ban last week.
Although Vilma has an appeal pending within the framework of the NFL's labor agreement, the linebacker argues that Goodell has continued to abuse his power and demonstrate bias, leaving no hope for a fair process that would respect Vilma's "industrial due process rights."
Vilma also asks U.S. District court Judge Ginger Berrigan to bar Goodell from handling any further action in the bounty matter and appoint a neutral arbitrator.
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Well, as anticipated, the 100-year-old mystery package opened today in Norway didn't hold the Blue Star diamond that was lost when the Titanic sunk in 1912. Neither did it contain the big knife or pea suggested as possibilities by Norwegian schoolchildren. What it did contain, however, is a trove of curiae, a slice of history and a healthy dose of delightful anticipation.
In front of a crowd that included Princess Astrid of Norway, the mayor of Norway's Sel municipality (wearing a dashing necklace, I might add) cut the ropes on the package, which was supposedly sealed in 1912 and delivered to the town of Otta's mayor in the mid-to-late 1920s. Curators from the Gudbrandsdal museum then took the reins, unwrapping the brown paper package to see what was inside.
Inside the package? Surprise! Another package! Inside that, much to my dismay, was not an increasingly small series of packages leading to a pea. Instead, the interior package contained a number of fabrics in the color of Norway's flag – "from the King," said one of the package openers. Under the fabric the curators found notebooks, newspapers, a letter, a small drawing, some community council papers and other bits of paper.
Among the newspapers were clippings from 1914 and 1919, suggesting that perhaps the package had been added to after it was originally assembled in 1912. Still, the curators confirmed that the package contents were indeed from the first two decades of the twentieth century.
"This is like gold to us museum folks," announced the female opener, speaking in English.
"Well, the package didn't solve our financial problems," said Sel mayor Dag Erik Pryhn, alluding to the ancient stock certificates some hoped the package would contain. "But our history got richer."
For better or for worse, the unveiling came as part of the 400th celebration of a battle in which the townspeople of Otta defeated Scottish soldiers hired by Sweden during its war against Denmark-Norway. As a result, the package caretakers were ushered off stage to make way for more celebration and entertainment, asked kindly to return to the stage later with a summary of what its contents reveal.
And so, after 100 years, we're forced to wait a little longer to find out just what may lie inside. If the dates on the newspapers are any indication, as @seanhfitz suggests, they just may hold instructions for building a time machine!
Update: The curators returned to the stage without the secret for time travel. Instead, the package contents seem to be primarily concerned with the construction of a monument to celebrate the victory in 1612. The notebooks and newspapers contain ledgers and accounts of donations given to fund the memorial.
"It's interesting to see how small amount of money was given," said one of the museum curators. "Some people are giving half a dollar and some are giving a dollar."
One of the newspapers, from August 1, 1914, mentioned that the people of Sel were "afraid the money was going to be used for something else." Another paper contained the lyrics to an old popular song that is now used as a march in Norway.
The curators pledged to take the papers back to the Gudbrandsdal museum, where they will be put on display in glass cases, for all to see.
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If you live in one of the country's metropolitan centers, you probably know Equinox. For the rest of the world, Equinox is a super posh club gym that caters to the wealthy and fabulous. That's not to say it's not a good gym, in fact, by most accounts it's a fantastic place to workout.
Today, Equinox launched a confidence campaign. Basically it's an effort to inspire you to get your lazy ass to the gym and get into the kind of shape that will give you confidence. To support the campaign, the company created Equimatic, a Facebook app that works a little bit like Instagram, framing uploaded pictures to look like a polaroid, and giving them a bit of a vintage blur filter. The hope is that confident people from around the world will upload pictures on the Equinox Facebook page, showing off their confidence and sending those pictures to friends and family.
Maybe it's just me, but I hate getting pictures of my super-fit friends with their shirts off, but that's probably just because I'm out of shape. And maybe that's the point. To inspire the people around you to work for a body that will give them the same kind of confidence you have.
The best part of the campaign is that anyone who uploads a photo to the Equinox Facebook page will be eligible for exclusive Equinox rewards. If you're feeling extra fit, and feel like flaunting it to a few of your closest friends, check out Equinox Equimatic on the Equinox Facebook page.
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War in Syria Pushes TV Productions to Abu Dhabi
With civil war raging in Syria, the country's TV producers are trying to recreate Damascus-like set locations in places such as Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. But it's not easy. WSJ's Bill Spindle reports via #WorldStream. (Photo: Getty)
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The story of Mashiroiro Symphony primarily takes place in the fictional town of Kagamidai (各務台), which consists of two distinct districts dubbed the "Old Distrct" (旧市街 Kyū-shigai), which primarily contains traditional housings resided by upper class families, and the "New District" (新市街 Shin-shigai), which is generally inhabited by working class families. The town also houses two private academic institutions undergoing a merger: the Yuihime Girls' Private Academy (私立結姫女子学園 Shiritsu Yuihime Joshi Gakuen), a notorious upper class girls' academy nicknamed Yuijo (結女), and the Kagamidai Private Academy (私立各務台学園 Shiritsu Kagamidai Gakuen), a coeducation school which Shingo, the protagonist whose role the player assumes, attends. As part of the merger, students from both schools are selected to participate in a test class at the Yuihime Academy campus, an act which is initially opposed by the female student body.
I thought the merger of the school was unique compared to a lot of other harem in that they usually throw one guy into all girls school and we watch what happens. This time, it's the MC his guy friends and other girls from his school that are transferred as a test group of students to the girls' school.
There honestly isn't anything else here that hasn't been done before. From the accidental groping, to sports competitions, to the fluffy ball-shaped cats, it is nothing new. Will I still watch it? Yup. Other than Ben-To and BokuTomo, this season is kind of lacking to me.
So, what are your opinions on the show?
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Let's see. I think I've seen this anime before.
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Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi
Seriously. Enough already. I don't mind harem but this is tew much.
If the 4th episode doesn't get better, I will drop this, like I did to Maken-ki, Phi Brain and Tamayura.
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Seriously. Enough already. I don't mind harem but this is tew much.
If the 4th episode doesn't get better, I will drop this, like I did to Maken-ki, Phi Brain and Tamayura.
The game is better "a bridge to the starry skies", i prefer picking my girls and seeing my adult secnes as result choice not a rushed project however I will just Marathon after the series is over.
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Forced story
overused love cliche
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alright stuff but the plot isn't original so it won't go anywhere with ratings but it is an alright watch
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Sadly It's nothing new.
(◕ᴥ◕し) Did you know? I draw all my Avatars.
Show is pretty boring. Most of the characters feel like card board, and the main character is so nice it makes me want to puke.
Only good thing is the main girl, for some reason I really like her as the main love interest, all the other girls are really boring/obnoxious.
Also, what the hell is that stupid cat/rat/rabbit thing supposed to be? Please god somebody kill it...
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I watched the first episode to give it a chance and I wasn't really impressed in all honesty, it was cliched and boring, the style gets five stars though.
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I really like this one its got so many cute girls
I really like the hair in this show. It's not the best hair I've seen this season, but it isn't bad. I keep watching it hoping for a windy day.
I am a cage in search of a bird.
i like the anime even though it has been done before, so iam still going to watch it
I like it, and since I pay for the service I might as well watch it.
I have to agree on it's been done a Dozen times, and as of yet I haven't seen anything New. It is OK to watch if you just want something to watch as it does have nice art. I don't believe it will surprise anyone with a grand plot twist or surprise ending, Just Cute story.
well sure its nothing new, but theres something that makes me watch it
perhaps its the fact that i dont mind the main male character.. and normally i hate them
A bath? Really? Hmm...I want to like this show, but she begins the series as a man hater and then...ends up in the bath tub with him? Then they cut to the Nuko Club room and the fact that they took at bath together, naked, is abruptly blown off?!? Doesn't make sense.
Hmm...maybe high school has changed since I was there...
A decent episode with an abrupt ending.
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A few days ago Google launched a new service called Google Contributor, « an experiment in additional ways to fund the web » as stated on the welcome page. Basically, this service lets you pay a monthly contribution between $1 and $3 and will remove the ads on the partners' websites you're visiting and display a nice picture or a thank-you note instead.
Here's a few thoughts I had about Contributor. I tried to figure technically how it's implemented on the first partners and I think that it explains a lot of things.
You don't need to deliver only Adsense to benefit from Contributor, in fact Google is also acting as a "proxy" for other ad networks (it's called a passback, when you don't hit the first ad network you reach the next one and so on). So the main requirement is to use Google on top of every ad zone you serve on your website, which is basically letting Google know every ad network you use instead of just being a simple ad network amongst the others.
This also explains why the zones don't disappear: When you're a "Contributor", you have a specific Adsense cookie, so the publishers don't have to detect you as a Contributor, it's only Google that detects it and then block the ad calls and displays something nice instead.
So technically the first partners probably don't have a way to identify their contributors and display some specific content for them (or even know who they are). I guess they'll eventually provide a simple API with a JavaScript SDK to have this info.
The main advantage of Contributor over Readability is that it's built on Adsense and is a reversed logic: They make you put your ads as usual and provide a way to remove them in exchange for a small fee, whereas Readability or even Flattr want to force publishers to remove every ads first, then promote their contribution system.
I also saw some reactions about this being a competition for AdBlock.
First, the AdBlock users probably won't notice the Contributor page because it's blocking AdSense, so I don't think a lot of AdBlock users will abandon the plugin in favour of Contributor. Also I think a lot of AdBlock users don't want to pay anyway for big websites like the first partners (Urban Dictionary, The Onion, ScienceDaily, wikiHow, Mashable, Imgur), but it could change in the future for smaller, indie publishers.
If you want more, I recommend David Chartier's opinion about Google Contributor and why he's excited about it.
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Charlotte, NC – Gerald Henderson scored 24 points and provided the go-ahead basket in the final minute in leading the Charlotte Bobcats to an 88-83 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
Josh McRoberts added 12 points and 16 rebounds, and Kemba Walker netted 17 points with 10 assists as the Bobcats snapped a three-game slide.
Damien Wilkins paced the Sixers with 20 points, while Dorell Wright and Evan Turner chipped in 14 apiece in the loss.
Jrue Holiday was an abominable 2-of-24 from the field for Philadelphia, which was trying for its first four-game winning streak of the season.
"It was just one of those nights," Holiday said. "They played good defense around the basket, but a lot of shots were just in and out."
With the score tied, 80-80, Walker dribbled into the paint and sent a lob to McRoberts for a go-ahead slam with 1:36 remaining.
Holiday missed his 16th straight shot at the other end, but got his own rebound and put in a layup to tie things again.
After Wright created a turnover, Wilkins made 1-of-2 at the foul line, only to have Henderson answer with a jumper with 33.9 seconds to go. Henderson then stole the inbounds pass from Turner and went in for an uncontested dunk, before another Holiday miss essentially sealed the outcome.
"We're just trying to compete and finish the season right," Walker said.
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Coyotes End Jackrabbits Magic at Summit Tourney
It's called March Madness for a reason, and a matinee on Monday afternoon between South Dakota State and South Dakota added to the month's pageantry.
South Dakota lost to South Dakota State in the women's championship game last year, and was 0-2 against the Jackrabbits this season.
SDSU, on the other hand, had never lost at the Arena in sixteen games at the Summit Tourney.
What would happen this year?
The magic continued for the Coyotes, and Jackrabbits dominant run came to a end.
Coming off a thrilling 96-94 win in the quarterfinals against Western Illinois, USD carried their momentum into Monday's match-up by knocking off the Jackrabbits, 72-58.
USD head coach Amy Williams talks about how her team was able to continue their surge into Tuesday's championship.
"Our kids are excited to still be playing, and then to go against the Jackrabbits, we were hoping for another opportunity to against that team. Today was the day, and we just felt like it was our time."
It was definitely the Coyotes time, as from the start, they were ready for the Jackrabbits.
In the first half, USD built an early lead by establishing a low post presence led by senior Polly Harrington. Harrington was like a magnet inside, making everything she put up, and grabbing offensive rebounds.
The Jackrabbits inched closer when senior Steph Paluch hit a three to make it 24-18, but USD's Bridget Arens answered with back-to-back buckets inside to go up 29-18.
Getting closer to halftime, the Jackrabbits continued to get frustrated on offense, and Arens was at it again. The freshman had a big basket, and then her second effort in the paint made it 37-23.
The Coyotes led the Jackrabbits 37-25 at half. SDSU had a chance to make it a ten-point game, but missed shots inside, and a bad pass was costly for the Jackrabbits. SDSU's poor shooting from the field didn't help (29.2% from field, 22.2% from long range), either.
SDSU chipped away at USD's lead early in second half. The Jackrabbits got within ten points, but Harrington was big, again, as the Coyotes built a 47-29 lead with about sixteen minutes in the game.
It was simple as this, the Coyotes were making shots, and the Jackrabbits were not, and even when SDSU did, USD answered. With about twelve minutes to go, Nicole Seekamp made it 54-31, and the Jackrabbits would have to make a run, sooner rather than later, if they were going to get back into the game.
The Jackrabbits did just that. Kerri Young made four straight points, and USD was making poor decisions. SDSU got within 56-43 with 7:50, thanks in part to a 12-2 run.
But this time, USD wasn't going to waver. At the 5:11 mark, Seekamp had a big drive, and the Coyotes lead was back up to 62-45. Megan Waytashek answered, but the rest of the way, the Jackrabbits couldn't finish at the basket.
When the final horn sounded, the Coyotes beat the Jackrabbits, 72-58, and their students where chanting, "Our house!"
Williams says it was pretty sweet to beat SDSU.
"It means a lot. It's something that a lot of our girls that are from this area kind of grew up understanding that rivalry and to be able to get this win against the champions of our league and reigning champions of this tournament, today was a big win for our program."
Seekamp paced USD with 19 points (13-of-14 from free throw line), while Harrington added 18 points. Arens had 12 points. Sophomore Tia Hemiller contributed eight points, but her presence at the point offensively, and defensively was an X-factor for Coyotes.
Leading the charge for SDSU was Wayteshek with 20 points. Paluch had 14 points, and Young, one their bright spots, had eight points.
SDSU's historic and magical run unfortunately came to a close, but next year will have a chance to start a new run at the new Events Center.
The Coyotes will play the Denver on Tuesday for Summit League Championship, have a chance to make the NCAA tournament in their second year in Division I.
On Tuesday, Williams hopes her team can continue to play great basketball.
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