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NowGamer: "As we quickly approach next-gen, more and more developers claim that they've "maxed out" the consoles. But just how true is that? Is this just hyperbole to get us excited about their games?"
Nooooooooooooo, why no more juice? Do PS3s run on oranges or something?
I tried putting an Orange into my PS3 and only got an orange light. :-(
Then here comes Last of Us which is going to blow them away
Dont believe stuff like this people. This is just more propaganda to get us to switch to the next gen consoles.
This is the same bs the news does that gets us thinking how they want us to.
I am having fun now and will look to upgrade when i get bored.
"Then here comes Last of Us which is going to blow them away"
Who, the feeble minded?
Please... Don't act like you ain't impressed with the last of us. People gonna hate what they don't got, or can't get lol!
"But what of Sony's PS3 which, according to the console manufacturer, was meant to have a ten-year lifespan. It's only been six years and we're hearing regular rumours surrounding the PS4.
"I haven't heard Sony talk about their ten-year lifespan for their gaming products in a while," says Divnich, "I don't necessarily know if that is even true given how rapidly technology has been evolving."
Divnich doesn't believe that the PS3 was ever really intended to last ten years, however, and that Sony has managed extremely well to keep its console relevant for five years, let alone ten.
"I think their ten-year rule is more of a stretch goal and a metaphor for their approach to building technologies that can stay relevant years after its release.
"Phones become obsolete in two years, computers in three. If Sony can continue to build platforms that remain relevant five years after release, I'd consider it a job well done.""
This has got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen a "Professional" in the gaming industry ever say. I don't even know where to start. I swear the world is suffering from an endless spell of intelligence loss. No one, with moderate intelligence, expected te PS3 HARDWARE-WISE to be a top performing console for 10. The 10 year life cycle for PlayStation systems simply means that Sony and other developers will continue to publish games, produce content, and support the console for up to 10 years. The PS4 is rumored to come out in 2013 meaning the PS3 will be 7 years old by then. Is it that hard to believe that multiplatform games will continue to be developed for the PS3 and possibly 360 seeing how they have install base of over 70 million each, and consumers still purchasing them when neither have reach the Golden $99 price point. I swear people are getting more and more ignorant each day. This is how the world ends, the ignorant will vastly outnumber the intelligent, and eventually they'll destroy the earth.
Developers keep saying that the PS3 is maxed out, then Guerrilla Games, Sony Santa Monica, or Naughty Dog release a new game....
ok here is my idea. Aliens, no the Borg are about to destroy the Earth. They send us a message that says the human race has 1 year to make ps3 run a game in 1080p 60fps and look amazing or they will blow us up. So every country and programmer on earth use trillions of dollars and man hours to squeeze ever bit of juice out of the PS3. I wonder how the game would look.
A lot of developers claim they max out consoles yet Naughty Dog always comes around with a better looking game with better AI and better gameplay. Most developers just don't ustise consoles to they're maximum capibilities it seems. Well sometimes at least.
current gen consoles have been maxed out ages ago the reason why naughty dog comes up with better games each time is because they know what to do with the power and how to make a better looking game. the lastofus looks way better than uncharted but no because it has better graphics but because naughtydog used clever lighting affects and made a more vibrant environment.
Developers need to relise that while console power is a limiting factor, creativity has no bounds. developers who blame the hardware either have ambitious ideas or have ran out creativity (which is usually the case)
I want The Last of Us, but it doesn't look like much of a step above Uncharted. It's a different sort of game and experience, but it's not a night and day difference.
Does The Last of Us look better than uncharted 3? idk..
And when I can't tell we need new consoles.
God of war spin off is not much better than god of war 3.
256mb ram over 7-8 years? Face it it's over..
I am starting to think aqueezing out more means decreasing other things. Resolution seems to be the most popular.
Once your stuck at 720p in 2012 your maxed out.
They could go back to 480p and squeeze out more juice! Yeah!
We could forget ext gen and get better ps3 graphics at 240p 24fps?
Could work. lol
Time for this quality
Every developer says they've maxed it out. Then we see that they find new innovative ways to get a little more out of it. I don't think it's truly maxed out yet.
Who cares if the PS3 has been maxed out?
It's been six years and we have only just seen the PS3's true potential with games like Uncharted 3, Killzone 3 and the upcoming The Last Of Us.
We have games like Heavy Rain and God Of War 3 looking just as great now as they did back then.
Also God Of War Ascension looks amazing.
I'm really not bothered if the PS3 is now maxed out because it's been 6 brilliant years.
2008: Yea we maxed out the consoles.
2009: We've squeezed every bit of power out of the ps3.
2010: Yup this engine pretty much maxes out the hd consoles.
2011: There's nothing left now. We've finally maxed the consoles.
2012: Yea there's not even 1% of power left.
2013: The Last of us, Beyond: Two souls, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes etc....
do PS3 games from the last 4 years look much better than Uncharted 2? so how is it not maxed out?
I have heard that before and then more amazing games come out... God of war 3 was unbelievable but the new looks better and adds the MP... naughty dog delivered an epic franchise with uncharted and look to be outgoing that with last of us... it may be that these developers know more tricks now, or that the PS3 still has more power to give... either way there are some very impressive games coming out.
Long LIVE PLAY
yes it's maxed out, PS3 games are not going to look like Far Cry 3 or BF3 on PCs,
why is PS4 in development at all if there are plenty of juices left?
Do you think Apple release new iPads etc every year because the old one "ran out of juice"? hell no
Consumers are stupid, most of them will buy anything if you slap "New And Improved" on the box
The Last of Us looks great but in terms of tech and graphics, its not much of a step up from Uncharted 2.
But, there's not many games that look like U2 or U3 for that matter so the Last of Us being a step up, even a tiny one, is a damn good thing. Shows what competent devs can still do this late in the PS3's life cycle. If it's maxed out for one dev, there will always be another to come along and push the PS3's limits a little bit further.
Yes absolutely. It's never a bad thing to be compared to U2 - one of the very best games this gen. I agree with your point
"Developers Have Squeezed Every Bit Of Juice From The (Fill in the Blank)"
If I had a nickel for every article titled this way re: one's favorite console I could've bought myself a new SuperSlim by now.
no it doesnt run on oranges. all electric devices run on smoke. once theres a short and you let the smoke out, it doesnt work anymore- thus proving everything runs on smoke
I could go for a PS3 Julius right now...
"Mmm, Tangy!!!" LoL
well than how come ND keep improving from one game to another? i don't think any developer can max out ps3,xbox360 just because its a learning process. you look at ND for example from uncharted 1 to 3rd to now lat of us.
than you look at gears of war 1 to 3rd to now judgement
most of the top developers new tricks throughout the development period and some can be used right away other they use for their future games
And the naughty dog develops last of us ..and shows just how much tripe certain developers talk which then inturn makes you think how untalented certain development teams are if naughty dog can once again set new standards with graphics on hardware other developers Claim is maxed out!!!
shows there talents or lack thereof plus there lack of ideas thank God for david cage and the naughty dog team plus the team behind journey
Good developers talk, Great developers do.
It is just PR bull when someone says a console is maxed out with their game
To be honest, as much as I am looking forward to the last of us, I think it is not that much of a step above uncharted 3. I think Beyond is the epitimy of what the ps3 is capable of. I think it can't get any better than both games on the system. God of War asscession is also an honorable mention. I honestly think the PS3 was "maxed out" with metal gear solid 4. That game is still amazing till today.
dont forget about Santa Monica Studios :D
when naughty dog says then i will believe
They said they maxed it out with Uncharted 2.
Fact of the matter is, most dev's still haven't even reached the level that Uncharted 2 was at.
maxed out doesn't mean they cant go with different style and produce better looking games , rockstar can say they maxed out consoles with v but they still can make better looking game , it's about the idea of the game , they maxed out the idea on the console , the idea is gameplay not graphics , uncharted about the story and graphics , less gameplay in it compared to gta , you see what i mean ?. it's about what the developers focus on , they have to sacrfice a factor of the game to make the other special...
but still they have a point , this generation is over in making impressive games , games in this generation are just an upgrade to the other games in this generation , they are not a step forward because of the limit of this generation consoles ..
What Naughty Dog can do is work within the hardwares limitations. They know the restrictions and are more than capable of still producing good games within those restrictions. Give them less restrictions and their options open up.
One of the best games this year was The Walking Dead but that game wasn't great because of its technical abilities. It was very limited but the story and premise is what made it so great. Naughty Dog can make great looking games but don't expect a wide open premise from them like Far Cry 3.
i guess im wrong , naughty dog can make huge open world with pc graphics and strong story with smart AI in ps3 right now but they just don't want to make it -.-
why disagree ?. >.<..
It's a known fact that "open-world" games are extremely costly not to mention the amount of time to build one. If we were to go by ND standards, it would be within the range of GTA-type budget which requires about 5 - 7 million sales to break even.
I honestly think 3rd party devs shouldn't have the balls to talk like this lol. Especially since we're seeing crappy ports still.
Here is what they meant to say:
"We've maxed out the ps3 to the best of OUR abilities, which are in no way flawed".
^ is believable.
This goes for both ps3 and 360 btw:)...and Wii.U...but I mean why bring in the ugly duckling?
so ... if the ps3 is maxed out now and the games on the Wii U look as good as them then Wii U games will look way better in the future.
If nintendo actually invests in it...unlike how the wii was a whore for games....crap after crap...usually only first party rocked out world:)
Wii had the most garbage but your wrong. Nintendo ALWAYS maxes there systems out.
1. super mario galaxy 2- advance lighting, particle effects, fur shading, reflections, this game is just a beast on the Wii.
2. Super mario galaxy
3. Kirby epic yearn- this game has some of the most impressive animation.
4. Muramasa
5. Fragile dreams
6. Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
7. A boy and his blob
8. Monster hunter tri
9. Xenoblade
10. Metroid prime 3
U didn't prove my point right, do you even read the comments before you comment?
"usually only first party rocked out world:)"
Thank You:)
Majority of the games u named are first party:) With the exception of some that didn't use the wii hardware to it's fullest... I'll give you xenoblade though, that game was awesome.
Also don't get ART direction confused with graphics:)
You can't say that on this sight. It will get you banned LOL
I don't recall seeing any Wii U game looking like The last of Us.
I don't recall seeing any launch PS3 games that look like the last of us either. It's stupid to compare the graphics for a system at the end of its lifecycle to one that's just starting.
"It's stupid to compare the graphics for a system at the end of its life cycle to one that's just starting."
Here's the problem in your argument. The Wii U is a a next gen system. There is not one game on the Wii U (a Next gen system) that looks better than even Uncharted 2 which is on a last gen system. See the problem here? You're trying to make an excuse for a system that's being comparable to a 6 year old tech. I don't recall any PS2 game look better than Resistance Fall of man or Warhawk. Sure game graphics crap on them now but not one PS2 game looked as good as resistance and Warhawk. The best on the Ps2 was maybe Resident evil 4 or Black.
I'm sure some of you will tell me but it's harder to build hardware when we're this advanced into this gen. Umm no I can make my games look 10x better on my PC as opposed to my Ps3. There is always improvements to be made.
Next Gen is long over due already! Games just don't excite me this gen especially seeing what can be done on pc consoles need to move on to there succesor.
Console were probably maxed out a long time ago. People keep confusing art with graphics. The Last of US looks great but its mostly the art. Graphically, its not doing anything better than Uncharted 2.
You are right in terms of the amount of polygons on screen. A lot of Uncharted 3 was flat surfaces but they had some really, really, really, detailed textures and in all honesty that's fine. But graphics aren't just about the amount of polygons on a screen but there's also animation. The real push with The Last of Us, speaking technically, is the lighting and the AI.
"The real push with The Last of Us, speaking technically, is the lighting and the AI."
I agree with that. It definitely has made some advances in the AI department. My point was that graphically it isn't blowing other games out of the water the way some people say it is.
that's what im saying but i guess people just hate me o.o ...
go squeeze your selfs guys :P /s
finally, more and more people start realizing PS3's maxed out already. And maxed out doesn't mean there will be no more LITTLE improvements. It just means there won't be BIG improvements. Period.
maxed out <> no more great games
It does not matter if the console is maxed out. It is important that great games are still released before we finally can move on to next gen. ^^
If Jesse Divnich said it then I believe it. The guy has no bias for any game, publisher, developer, or platform.
Good for the developers. Question is, have they squeezed out every bit of juice from their creative story writing & gameplay developers for what they can fit within current specs?
The PS3 is alien technology
Well I guess its time to bring on.
Console Wars Generation 8: Clash of the Fanboys.
Off topic: When a cell procecessor is utilized and complemented well it can run 1.5X faster than an Intel Core i7. (Although it does not perform at the same level)
If we kept getting games that were on the same graphical level of the Killzone , Uncharted, God of War, Heavy Rain, Metal Gear Solid,..... I could care less if its out of juice.
I don't doubt it, but have they done all they can with their engines?
"I think their ten-year rule is more of a stretch goal and a metaphor for their approach to building technologies that can stay relevant years after its release.
"Phones become obsolete in two years, computers in three. If Sony can continue to build platforms that remain relevant five years after release, I'd consider it a job well done."
Its freaking called a "business plan"
you do know what the hell that is right?
its 10 years support cycle , because that is the way Sony has their once again "business plan" set up for playstation product cycle's, you know you have to have one of these "business plan's" made when you talk to know , umm maybe venture capital firms, OR INVESTORS!
WOW stretch goals? that's like calling Microsoft Windows OS support business plan support cycle of 10 years for each copy of windows a stretch goal!
it's not about graphics ... it's about gameplay
Lolz..looking at bethesda...hmmm yah i think they squeezed their balls while deeveloping their games on the ps3
David Cage PS3 Still Very Powerful!!!!
I think people should determine that first!
God of War 2 is the best looking game on the PS2. God of War: Ghost of Sparta is the best looking game on the PSP. God of War: Ascension will max out and be the best looking game on the PS3.
I know a lot of people think The Last of Us looks amazing but if you look at the actual gameplay they've shown it doesn't look any better than Uncharted 3. God of War: Ascension has been in development for a far less amount of time so by the time we see what the final code looks like in the single player it is going to blow everything else away! Remember how average God of War 3 looked at E3 then the final game came out and almost looked a generation ahead, expect a similar improvement for God of War: Ascension.


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Richmond 3 at buzzer lifts E. Carolina over Weber St, 77-74
OGDEN, Utah – The odds all season have been against East Carolina.
Nothing was different Tuesday night in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship.
The Pirates were playing on a court where opponent Weber State had won 14 straight. They were dealing with a raucous crowd of more than 10,500. And former Wildcats star Damian Lillard was in the house, staying over in Utah after his Portland Trail Blazers faced the Jazz on Monday night.
None of it mattered when Akeem Richmond hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to lift the Pirates to a 77-74 victory.
"We don't have anybody on our team that's better at shooting the basketball than Akeem Richmond," East Carolina coach Jeff Lebo said. "He has over 100 3s on the season, and makes tough ones in tough environments. He nailed it."
The win capped the best season in school history for the Pirates (23-12), who tied a school record for wins in a season set by the 1953-54 squad.
"We're a program that has not had a lot of tradition or a lot of history in basketball," said third-year coach Lebo, who has guided a team that hadn't had a winning season from 1998 to 2010. "It's been a fun, enjoyable season for us, something these kids will always remember."
Weber State can only think about the one that got away.
The Wildcats led 71-65 with 2:52 remaining but allowed East Carolina to close on a 12-3 run.
Weber State (30-7) had a chance to pad its late lead but had trouble at the line, making 9-of-19 free throws overall and just 3 of 8 in the final 2:52.
Miguel Paul led East Carolina with 23 points and Maurice Kemp added 20 for the Pirates.
Scott Bamfort led Weber State with 19 points, and Frank Otis and Davion Berry had 16 apiece.
The loss was Weber State's first at home since Dec. 15, a 10-point setback to Brigham Young. The Wildcats had won 34 of their last 35 at home.
"It hurts to know that we put ourselves in a position to win; we just didn't finish it," said senior Bamforth, who eclipsed Lillard as Weber State's 3-point king this season. "We had such great support from our fans tonight and it's disappointing we couldn't win it for all the people that have supported us. We just came up a little short."
Richmond, who scored only six points on the night, found nothing but net on his shot off a pass from Paul.
Overall, East Carolina hit 6 of 16 3s but shot 59 percent from the field. The Pirates also hit 11 of 14 free throws, ultimately the difference in the game.
"It's amazing," Richmond said of hitting the winner. "It wouldn't have happened without Miguel. My guy had left me because Miguel had been torching them all night in the paint. They had to do something — had to guard him or leave me and they decided to leave me. I wasn't really shooting the ball as well. I guess they decided I wasn't going to make it."
The Wildcats seemingly took charge after a layup by Berry, Kyle Tresnak's follow dunk and another dunk by Tresnak gave Weber State a 71-65 edge.
But Kemp started the comeback with a 3-pointer, Paul sank two free throws and Robert Sampson got the basket, not goaltending call, to tie it at 72 with 1:19 left.
Sampson's dunk with 38 seconds remaining put East Carolina up 74-73. Berry would make 1 of 2 free throws with 17.3 seconds left to tie it at 74. That was plenty of time for the Pirates to work the ball to Richmond.
Afterward, Richmond acknowledged sneaking peeks at Lillard during the game and wanted to talk with the NBA rookie of the year candidate afterward.
Instead, it was time to cut down the nets.
The Pirates had never won a Division I postseason game prior to this season. They sweated out a 66-65 win in the first round against Savannah State before cruising to double-digit victories over Rider (75-54), Loyola-Maryland (70-58) and Evansville (81-58).
They figured this one would be tough.
"The odds were against us but we had a lot of support back home," Richmond said. "And we worked for it, changed a lot of things. We had to bring this back to Greenville."

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Lighting the darkness: Candlelight vigil marks Child Abuse and Neglect Awareness month
PLYMOUTH — Members of the community gathered at the Marshall County Department of Child Services office in Plymouth Tuesday night to participate in a candlelight vigil to raise awareness for child abuse and neglect.
The event was hosted by DCS and Marshall County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate).
During the vigil in which attendees held candles or pinwheels, the focus was on raising awareness of this issue. April is child Abuse Awareness Month and similar events are held in communities.
Director Michael Carroll was on hand to address the crowd and Mayor Mark Senter read a proclamation in support the vigil and raising awareness in the community.
According to information provided by Kittrell, CASA volunteers devoted over 1038 hours to helping the abused/neglected children in Marshall County last year.
"In Marshall County, we had 72 children at the end of November of 2012 identified as abused or neglected, and CASA was able to serve as advocates for 52 of them in 2012," she said.


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1888 Syracuse Stars Base Ball Club Team Cabinet Card with Moses Fleetwood Walker
Starting Bid - $2,500, Sold For - $7,638
Exceedingly rare and historically significant team cabinet card of the 1888 Syracuse Stars featuring Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first black ballplayer in Major League history. Graded 50 VG/EX by SGC. The formal studio cabinet-card photograph pictures thirteen uniformed members of the club posing together, including Walker and Robert Higgins, another black ballplayer who had joined the Stars the previous season. Each of the players is identified in white lettering in the foreground as part of the photo. The name of the photographer, "Ryder," is printed on the cabinet-card mount and on the reverse with elaborate advertising for the studio. This is one of only two known team studio cabinet photos of the 1888 Syracuse Stars (both of which have been handled by REA over the years). It is interesting to note that a remarkably similar photo of the 1888 Syracuse Stars (taken at the exact same time and place, with players in very slightly different poses) appears in Sol White's significant and informative book, History of Colored Base Ball, published in 1907 (White's book is the single most important reference work known regarding the early history of black baseball). This extraordinary cabinet card was discovered relatively recently, in late 2007, by a Syracuse antique dealer sorting through a collection of miscellaneous (non-baseball) cabinet photographs. To find such an important and previously unseen cabinet card, let alone by chance, is truly remarkable! It was sold by REA in May 2008 auction, and has been consigned to this auction directly from the original purchaser at that auction.
Moses Walker's professional career began in 1883 when he signed with the Toledo Blue Stockings, a team in the Northwestern League. The following season, Toledo joined the American Association, a Major League that formed in 1882 as a rival to the National League. Thus, with Toledo's entry into the American Association, Walker became the first black player in Major League history. Later in the year, his brother Weldy also joined the club. The following season the Toledo club folded due to financial problems, thereby ending the Major League careers of both Walker and his brother. They would remain the only black players in Major League history until Jackie Robinson debuted with the Dodgers in 1947. Walker continued to play ball in a number of integrated minor leagues over the next few years; however, the overt racism of the time, of both fans and players, soon led to the abolition of integration in organized baseball. The most important event leading to the ban on black ballplayers in organized baseball occurred on July 14, 1887, and involved Walker. On that date the Chicago White Stockings, managed by Cap Anson, were scheduled to play an exhibition game against Newark, whose members included Walker and another black player named George Stovey. Anson, baseball's reigning superstar at the time as well as an affirmed racist, would not allow his team to take the field unless Walker and Stovey were removed from the lineup. Anson's influence at the time was so great that his demands were quickly met by the Newark club. On that same night, galvanized by Anson's defiant stance, team owners voted to adopt a new resolution that would ban the signing of any new black ballplayers. Organized baseball's "Gentlemen's Agreement" to not allow black ballplayers to play in the same leagues as white ballplayers evolved overnight into an accepted formal policy, supported by the most powerful ruling forces of organized baseball. Walker, who left the league in 1889, would be the last black player to play in the Major Leagues until 1947.
Walker joined Syracuse in 1888 and played with the team for two seasons before the "Gentlemen's Agreement" effectively ended his career. One of the main reasons the club signed Walker, aside from his obvious talents as a catcher, was due to the problems the club experienced the previous season regarding black ballplayer Robert Higgins. Higgins was a talented pitcher who joined the Stars in 1887, but he endured harsh treatment from his teammates. During his second start with the club, on May 5th in Toronto, the fielders intentionally muffed balls in an effort to have Higgins taken out of the game. The team lost 28-8 (twenty-one of the runs were unearned) and the following day the Toronto World newspaper made note of the farce by issuing the headline "Disgraceful Baseball." The Sporting News offered a different headline: "The Syracuse Plotters." On June 4, two of the Syracuse players, outfielder Henry Simon and pitcher Doug Crothers (neither of whom is pictured in the offered cabinet), refused to appear in the official team picture with Higgins. Crothers, whose refusal was punctuated by a fist fight with team manager Joe Simmons, was initially suspended for the year. He was briefly reinstated before being given his outright release on July 2nd. Simon was not punished for his action, but, as the local papers noted at the time, he was far more valuable to the team than Crothers and thus his offense against Higgins was overlooked. Simmons didn't return as manager the following year, so the Stars turned to Charlie Hackett, who had managed the all-black battery of George Stovey and Fleetwood Walker the previous season at Newark (where Anson took his "defiant stance"). Hackett realized that Higgins would feel more comfortable pitching to a black ballplayer, so he brought Walker with him to Syracuse. The move obviously paid off, as Syracuse won the International League championship in 1888. The following season Higgins grew weary of the racial unrest and left the club at midseason. Walker finished the year but, like all other black ballplayers, was banned from organized baseball the following season. The short period of integration had officially ended.
The photograph (5.25 x 3.75 inches) is marked by varying degrees of clarity and contrast, apparently as made. Fortunately, the left side of the photo, featuring Walker and Higgins, remains crisp and clear, and the image of each player remains beautifully preserved. The mount (6.5 x 4.25 inches) is bright and clean, with just a slight hint of foxing on the reverse, and is overall in Excellent condition. There were very few integrated professional baseball teams in the nineteenth century and photos of such clubs are extremely rare. Further accounting for their rarity is the fact that often the white players of the team refused to sit for a team photo if any of their black teammates were included (as happened with the Syracuse Stars in 1887). The fact that this photo pictures Fleetwood Walker, the most prominent and historically significant black ballplayer of the nineteenth century (as well as his black teammate Robert Higgins), makes this one of the most important nineteenth-century baseball team cabinet photographs in existence. Encapsul SOLD FOR $7,638
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) Louis Delmas and Cliff Avril were on the practice field, looking healthy after a much-needed open date for the Detroit Lions.
Jahvid Best still can't play, but he's at least eligible to come off the physically unable to perform list next week.
The Lions are on the mend - physically, at least. It remains to be seen whether they can improve on their 1-3 start this weekend at Philadelphia.
``It's not health anymore,'' center Dominic Raiola said. ``It's just a matter of doing the right things. There's no excuse.''
Delmas hasn't played yet this season while recovering from left knee surgery, but the defensive back has been practicing lately and could give a boost to Detroit's secondary. Avril had to leave the Lions' loss to Minnesota two weekends ago because of a back problem, but he too seems fine now.
Not everyone is at full strength. Corey Williams, who is coming off knee surgery, stood off the to the side at the start of practice Tuesday. Tight end Brandon Pettigrew wasn't on the field at all during the portion open to reporters.
Coach Jim Schwartz didn't elaborate on Pettigrew's condition other than to say he's day to day.
Meanwhile, Best has been on the reserve-physically unable to perform list all season because of concussion problems, but he's eligible to return as early as next week. Whether he'll be able to is still an open question.
``He's going through some return-to-play protocol,'' Schwartz said. ``Those aren't done by the people here. Those are done by independent neurologists and everybody else. The only thing we can do is wait for their opinion on it. ... The next step is getting him cleared and then it would be off PUP and then practicing before any decision would be made of when he'd be ready to play.''
Best showed promise as a rookie in 2010 and started six games last season, but he hasn't played since a loss to San Francisco nearly a year ago.
``He's in better shape now than when he was a rookie. He's physically stronger. He's smarter in our schemes, done a really good job being at meetings and those kind of things,'' Schwartz said. ``This isn't a guy that's been on vacation for the last couple months. This guy's worked extremely hard. But we try not to get ahead of ourselves. He's doing what he can. When he gets clearance he'll be back.''
The secondary has been hit hard by injuries. Chris Houston missed two games because of a sprained left ankle, and rookie Bill Bentley missed one because of a concussion. They're back now.
Avril, who was sidelined in the second half against the Vikings, was one of several players who missed some practice time last week - with no game to prepare for. Now he's ready to chase Michael Vick and the Eagles around on Sunday.
``Feeling good,'' Avril said. ``I practiced, feeling good and ready to get rolling.''


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Because I wanted to make SSMS Tools Pack as solid as possible for SSMS 2012 there are no new features only bug fixes and speed improvements.
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Blue Crane
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The Blue Crane is a silvery bluish-grey crane with extremely long dangling tertials (wing feathers), nearly touching the ground. This tertials are often mistaken for tail feathers. It has a fully feathered head, which does not have patches of red skin as most other crane species. It is a relatively small crane, with a height of about 117 cm and a weight of 5.1 kg. The crown, forehead, lores and anterior cheeks are very light grey, sometimes almost white. The Posterior cheeks, ear coverts and nape are dark ashy grey, with feathers loose and lengthened ("cobra-like" profile). The feathers of the lower foreneck are elongated and pointed, the neck is bluish grey. Both upper and under parts are bluish grey. The wings are grey or bluish grey, blackish near the tip and the tail is blackish to black. The legs and feet are also grey or black. There is no marked sexual dimorphism.
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that the blue crane is South Africa's national bird and appears on their 5c coin? There were also several South African postage stamps diplaying the blue crane.
|Name (Scientific)
|Grus paradisea
|Name (English)
|Blue Crane
|Name (French)
|Grue bleue, Grue de paradis
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Grulla azul, Grulla de paraíso
|Local names
|Afrikaans: Veldpou
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|CMS Status
|Appendix II (as Grus paradisea) Included in AEWA
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|Southern Africa
|Short, dry, natural grasslands, pastures, cropland and fallow fields, only occasionally using wetlands
|Wild population
|Approx. over 25,580 individuals (2007) (Red List IUCN 2011)
|Zoo population
|163 reported to ISIS (2006)
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The cranes are regarded as a threatened taxon which are key indicator species. The Blue Crane is a good species in particular to build capacity and expertise for application in the breeding of the more endangered Wattled Crane and others. Furthermore, the Blue Crane, South Africa's national bird, is one of the three crane species found in South Africa and it is therefore an important educational exhibit bird. It is also a striking crane and makes for an imposing exhibit.


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Please comment briefly on whether or not you have exposed a roll of film in the last six months...and whether or not you might plan to in the coming months!
I haven't touched a roll of film in 4 years and don't intend to use film again. I think Kodak is wasting resources in developing new film products and should devote their efforts to digital technology.
I don't think film will ever be totally dead. Some one out there will still want to express themselves in film. Want proof? There are still folks out there using antique techniques such as glass plate, pinhole, and other long gone technologies. And, oh yes, I still own film cameras and have frozen film in the freezer.
Digital Photography is a gret new medium , but I do not think is there completely with film type SLR's. I haven't gotten rid of any of my Nikon SLR's , which inludes the N90 S through the Nikon F5 . What I really was quite happy abput was that most my lenses were compatible with the new Nikon digital SLR's and i did hnot have to go out and mortgage my house to get new lenses for my D70, D200 , and D300 .
Even though my professional photography has been all-digital for the past three years, I still prefer to shoot B&W, color negative and color transparency films in three formats for my artistic image making.
Although I primarily switched to digital a few years ago I still like the film "look" even when scanning my older slides and negatives whether medium format or 35mm. I definitely will try the new Ektar film.
The conversation of Film vs Digital must also include the Camera. There are some Film Cameras that I've used for 40+ years that I know I'll always get the photograph with. Their dependability have earned my respect. Digital Cameras get the job done but I have no passion or commitment to them.
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It's kind of difficult to really figure out what the important changes are - I actually own a copy of eComStation, but I'm not really an OS2 expert, nor do I really know what the pressing faults were with version 2.0 that needed fixing with version 2.1. I do understand a few, such as AHCI support and the updated boot logo and wallpapers (no, really?). Another change which is obviously quite important is AiR-Boot, a small x86 bootloader which resides entirely in track 0 of the hard drive and is operating system-independent. This allows eCS to be installed on Windows 7 systems.
eComStation comes in three versions, namely Home & Student, Business Edition, and Server Edition. The Home & Student version can be installed on one machine, while the Business edition allows for up to five installations. The Server Edition adds the IBM Warp Server for eBusiness components so you can setup a server environment.
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Is it a good or bad idea to insulate house walls if the exterior is brick and the interior is plaster?
Dear Angie:
Is it a good or bad idea to insulate house walls if the exterior is brick and the interior is plaster? It's been recommended that we insulate our walls. The house was built in the 1940s. The interior walls have some very fine cracks, not a lot, but a few. We're concerned about what could happen if the plaster is drilled. And we're wondering just how much energy would be saved, as we have a high efficiency gas furnace, Energy Star windows and doors, and R38 insulation in the attic.
- Colleen D., Seattle
Dear Colleen:
Congratulations on the steps you've taken to make your home more energy efficient. You've invested a lot of time and money already in so many different ways, but if you have uninsulated exterior walls, you likely haven't fully sealed your home's "thermal envelope."
Adding insulation in plaster walls with a brick exterior can be a challenge, especially if there are large cracks in the plaster. Chances are you'll need a professional to address any large cracks before and after the job.
An experienced insulation professional should enlist the help of a good plastering pro. Together, they should be equipped to handle most retrofit scenarios.
I recommend you talk to three insulation companies in your area with good reputations and enlist their advice. Ask how they would handle your situation so you're sure they have the experience and skills needed for the job.
As for how much energy you save, adding insulation to those walls could make a significant difference and pay for itself within the first year or two.
Because you're clearly investing in making energy efficient improvements to your home, I recommend you have a professional energy audit done.
An auditor - one who is independent and doesn't sell insulating products or other products or service - will perform an unbiased evaluation of your home's energy usage and where you're losing that energy. He or she can tell you which walls should be insulated and which shouldn't and provide data supporting the savings from making those changes.
Energy audits can cost from $300 to $800, depending on the scope of the testing, but many utilities offer discounts, rebates or incentives to have an audit done. Seattle City Light, for example, offers discounted audits to its customers.
If you have combustible appliances, be sure your auditor performs combustion safety testing to ensure the changes you make aren't sealing up the home so much that carbon monoxide backdrafts into the home.
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Bloated starfucker Piers Morgan finally gave his long-awaited testimony before a British commission investigating phone hacking today. While there were no Perry Mason moments trapping Morgan in one of his numerous transparent lies about his tenures at the News of the World and Daily Mirror, he was at least exposed as having a conveniently spotty memory.
Morgan leaned on "I can't remember" or some variation repeatedly during his grilling before England's Leveson Inquiry, which was conducted via video link by merciless barrister Robert Jay. Morgan was evasive, diffident, pissy, and smug as Jay repeatedly tried to get him to admit the obvious and inescapable truth that he was well aware of the phone hacking that went on at the Daily Mirror under his nose.
Here's a video compilation of Morgan repeatedly claiming to be unaware of the most basic narrative facts of his professional career. Highlights: Asked if his two memoirs are accurate historical documents, Morgan stutters, "Well, that's a moot point." And if you're wondering how many of his reporters the average newspaper editor keeps track of, the answer is five percent. According to Piers Morgan.


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After several years of advocacy by Consumers Union and other consumer organizations, California law has now been fixed to ensure that early retirees in California (people age 55-64) will not have to put their family homes at risk if they receive health coverage through Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program serving lower-income consumers. The law goes into effect January 1, 2017. Here's why that matters.
Nearly all Americans are now required to have health coverage or face a tax penalty under the Affordable Care Act. When consumers who sign up for coverage through the state turn out to be eligible for Medi-Cal, they are automatically ineligible for subsidized coverage through our Exchange, Covered California. The problem was that, for consumers age 55-64, California law said that getting Medi-Cal also meant the potential loss of the family home.
The federal government sets the rules for how much states can collect from consumers who receive Medicaid benefits. While it requires states to recover the cost of nursing home care paid for by Medicaid, it also gives states the option to also collect the cost of general medical care – hospitalizations and doctors visits – by placing liens on the homes and savings of those 55 and older. Until recently, California was one of only 10 states that had opted to take advantage of this additional "estate recovery program" to collect more than is required by the federal rules – meaning that low-income people in California who enrolled in Medi-Cal did so at the risk of having their homes and savings seized after their death.
Seniors 55 and older were being forced to choose between getting needed basic health coverage through the Medi-Cal program and leaving the family home to their children, and some chose to forego coverage and care rather than taking that risk. Consumers Union and other advocates argued that this policy undermined the Affordable Care Act by discouraging those 55 and older from applying for coverage, and leaving them at the mercy of the private market without financial assistance – often an unaffordable option – causing increased risks to their health and family finances.
Fortunately, California's new budget bill will eliminate this form of estate recovery, a win for lower-income Californians who start receiving benefits at or beyond age 55. With this change, the state can no longer recover the cost of general care from those enrolled in Medi-Cal from age 55-64 who pass away on or after January 1, 2017. This bill will make it possible for many seniors to get access to needed coverage and care, and we applaud California lawmakers and Governor Brown for taking this step to increase fairness in the healthcare marketplace!


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By BGEA Staff • September 3, 2013 • Topics: Money
The Bible actually says a great deal about money, and we shouldn't be surprised at this, because God is concerned about everything that concerns us, including our money.
The Bible actually says two very important things about money. First of all, it warns us about its dangers. When money becomes the most important thing in our lives, then it becomes a danger to us. Greed takes over, and before long we don't care who we hurt or what rules we bend as we pursue money. Money and things become more important to us than people, and more important even than God. Jesus warned, "No one can serve two masters…. You cannot serve both God and money" (Matthew 6:24).
The second thing the Bible says about money, however, is that it can be good. When we see it as a gift from God, and we ask Him to help us use it to help others and support His work, then money becomes something good instead of something evil.
Don't fall into the trap of living only for yourself and for the things of this world. Instead, open your heart and life to Christ, and put Him first in your life. Then commit your abilities and your future to Him. Let the Apostle Paul's words to his young friend Timothy be your guide: "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil…. But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness" (1 Timothy 6:10,11).
Wow I knew it but I just got new revelation about this and money is not that important but God doesn't want us lack but when we do receive a blessing from the LORD all glory goes to GOD.
I would to thank you for having this question answered cause I felt I learned from I always thought a out money I always thought just money money and I feel that it's not just money thank you Martha graciano
If you really trust the lord your GOD and obey his commandment you wou'nt do any thing that will hurt him and so to say if your source of getting money is CLEAN without no stain,and no cheating
I have known that scripture, 1 Timothy 6:10, 11, for most of my life. I have no desire to be rich. I do want to use the income God has blessed me with wisely and prudently. I stay financially strapped and in debt. I need help to change this pattern
this was a good word for me because that's what I always pray is that god would bless me with money to help others I already help all the peoples that I can with what I have pray for me that I can do more
This is a most difficult issue. I wrestle with it every day. I pray about my continued ability to earn money. I don't know why I worry about it so much as I know God will take care of me and my family.
This is so encouraging for me… Thanks
A lot of people miss-quote this passage as "Money is the root of all evil" in order to entice people to give up thier money for evil causes….usually themselves.


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Business and governmental organizations are not budgeting for costs to fix hidden problems that remain in applications after they are operational, according to a report on software quality released by CAST, a company specializing in software analysis and measurement.
The CAST Report on Application Software Health highlights trends in five system quality characteristics — security, performance, robustness, transferability and changeability — across technologies and industry segments. Structural quality refers to the engineering soundness of the architecture and coding of an application rather than how well it meets a customer's requirements.
These characteristics are critical because they are difficult to detect through standard testing, yet they are the defects most likely to cause operational problems such as outages, performance degradation, breaches by unauthorized users or data corruption, said Bill Curtis, chief scientist and senior vice president of the CAST Research Labs and director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality.
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Transferability refers to the ease with which a new team can understand the application and quickly become productive working on it. Changeability refers to an application's ability to be easily and quickly modified.
"The purpose of the 2011 Worldwide Applications Software Quality Study is to provide an objective, empirical foundation for discussing the structural quality of IT applications and the extent to which they suffer from structural flaws," Curtis said.
"What we found were numerous problems that should have been addressed prior to deployment," he said. "It's little different from ignoring termites that are destroying the structure of your home."
The study is the largest ever conducted and used automated analysis to measure the structural quality of 365 million lines of code within 745 IT applications used by 160 companies throughout 10 industries, Curtis said.
Big technical debts
Using data drawn from the automated structural analysis, CAST made a conservative estimate of what should be fixed, focusing only on those issues critical to business cost and risk.
"Our findings, although conservative, revealed an average technical debt of $3.61 per line of code," Curtis said. "A significant number of applications examined in the study — nearly 15 percent — had over a million lines of code, which means even the smallest of those contains over $3.6 million in technical debt."
Technical debt represents the effort required to fix violations of good architectural and coding practices that remain in the code when an application is released. Technical debt is calculated only on violations that the organization intends to remediate.
Curtis said that more than one-third (35 percent) of the violations discovered in the study result in damage to business by adversely affecting the security, performance and up-time of application software.
Winners and losers
Other notable findings from the study included:
The executive summary of the 2011 CRASH Study is available online here.
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The irony is overwhelming. Several years ago i heard the saying - "If carpenters built houses the way software people wrote software, thew first woodpecker to show up would have destroyed civilization". and now the software has 'termites'. It shows that most software 'engineering' is nothing like engineering. It's back yard mechanics pretending to be engineers.
This is not news. The Government has a bad habit of developing proprietary, custome built applications when an off the shelf item will work as well, or many times even better. They have rigid and overly complicated structures. If they do any further work on the software after it is deployed, it is usually to add some features that Management has decided they want, and very seldom are there any bug fixes involved. At least within the Navy, they also have DOS and Cobol based applications they want new systems to interact with. They rarely phase out dated applications, but instead add new ones and try to make them work together. They have at least 4 different financial systems that I am aware of, some of which don't communicate with each other, requiring the same data to be manually input multiple times.
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Katy Perry debuts her new pink hair as she runs to a convenience store on Monday (August 1) in Los Angeles.
The 26-year-old entertainer and voice of Smurfette began the pinkifying process a few days ago, telling her Twitter followers, "I have been dying my hair since 10pm! Good GOD let me get to my destination tonight! #beenblack #beenblue #beenhotginge #beenblonde #now…"
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temsi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
This contest is for the design of SuperHeroSource.com. This is a brand new site that will sell super hero related costume items like Batman, Superman, Supergirl, Catwoman, IronMan, Spiderman, etc. The shopping cart I will use is Magento (http://www.magentocommerce.com). This is a FUN project so someone with a lot of creativity is needed to come up with the design. Having a love for comic books and super heroes will help too!
Site will sell similar products as http://www.buysuperherocostumes.com, but this site design is horrible and dated looking so please do not mimic this. I just want to let you get an idea of the products we sell. The site should have a nice slick Web 2.0ish feel.
You can make it masculine but not too much. Target audience is male but it will also include women's products so nothing super dark please.
HAVE FUN! This is a fun project. You MUST have a lot of creativity to come up with a design for this. :)
Design should be submitted in PSD format. In the future, all design changes and such will be done through you so expect repeat business from me.
1. Color scheme is up to you. For example, Superman colors of blue, red, yellow is a nice gender neutral color combo but still gives the superhero feel. Please choose a color combination accordingly.
2. I've always envisioned a kind of generic superhero as a mascot for the website. Something like this:
He would be on every page in the banner, to the side, etc. doing something like flying, lifting something, pushing text blocks etc. Something funny and interesting everytime you see him on the different site pages. Please try and incorporate a generic supehero mascot like this into the design so we stand out from our competitors. The letters "SHS" or something on his chest would be nice but whatever you can think of to brand him as our site's mascot will be fine.
4. Site will use Magento shopping cart. You may see live sites here:
or even get ideas for design elements from the Live Demos of Magento templates here (please do not copy any of these, this is just to get ideas of the layout and flow):
5. Design requires 5 pages. I am not a Magento expert but it seems like it runs on 5 main pages. Home page, Product Listing page, Item page, Info page (for putting plain text info like about us, contact us, privacy policy, etc.), and Checkout page.
If you go to the Template Monster link here:
there is an option to demo each Magento template there. That way you can see and navigate these pages I am talking about. I think once you physically navigate one of those, you will have a better idea of how the layout should be. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Here are some real websites that use Magento so you can also get a feel for navigation here:


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The Nikon SU-800 Wireless Speedlight Commander is Nikon's compact, portable wireless commander that unleashes the full potential of Nikon's Creative Lighting System. The SU-800 functions as a wireless commander for the SB-R200, SB-910, SB-900, SB-800, SB-700 and SB-600 Speedlight units.Key Features:
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As the U.S. harvest gains momentum, growers should consider "locking in" the loan deficiency payment or LDP on their cotton while it is still in the module or in trailers, a National Cotton Council economist says.
In recent years, most producers have waited until their cotton was ginned - and prices have generally moved lower - before requesting an LDP or placing their cotton in the marketing loan. But, that may not be a good strategy in 2000, according to the NCC's Mark Lange.
Speaking at a meeting of the American Cotton Producers in Raleigh, N.C., Lange noted that if cotton prices should continue to rise on reports of drought and heat damage, the increase could have a downside for U.S. cotton growers.
"You need to keep in mind that a Cotton Outlook A Index of 66 cents per pound essentially eliminates any LDP payment," said Lange, the NCC's director of economic services. (With the A Index at 66 cents, the adjusted world price will be above the CCC loan rate of 51.92 cents, thus ending any marketing loan gains for U.S. producers.)
At the time Lange spoke in Raleigh, the A index was at 61 cents a pound. Since then, world cotton prices have been strengthening because of concerns about the effects of drought and high temperatures on the U.S. crop.
"It looks like we are going to go through some ratcheting up of world prices over the course of this harvest period," he said. "It could well be that you need to remind yourself and your ginner that when cotton goes into the module, you can lock-in your LDP on that cotton.
"We might be in a situation where the A Index is rising during this harvest, and it might be to your advantage to secure the LDP rate while the cotton is in the module. Your county FSA office has forms that you need to fill out to take care of this."
Lange noted that although New York cotton futures have been trading at a level that is considerably higher than last year at harvest, the increase won't completely offset the potential loss in loan deficiency payments.
"Thus, the net cash value on a per pound basis is likely to be lower than it was last year," he noted. "Hopefully, for some of you, there will be a few more pounds available than last year, but they are likely to be sold for a lower net price."
While speculators appear to be focusing on weather conditions in the U.S., some good things have been happening for cotton on the world market.
World carryover In its August forecast, USDA said that the world carryover stocks declined by 4 million bales to 40.1 million bales at the end of the 1999/2000 marketing year July 31. It projects that world mill use will rebound by more than 4 million bales to 91.2 million for the year.
"That 91-million-bale number makes me nervous," said Lange, "because it includes nearly 21 million bales of mill use by the Chinese. I think the Chinese are using a lot of cotton, but I'm not sure they're using enough to push this up over 91 million bales. But, it is up significantly from where we were before."
For the 2000/01 marketing year, USDA is forecasting that world mill use will increase to 92.2 million bales and that world cotton stocks will decline nearly 5 million bales to 35.2 million. That would put stocks down by more than 9 million bales in two years.
"We are already seeing a tremendous reduction in world stocks," says Lange. "We all know what tightening of the world stocks to use ratio means to prices, and we are tightening it both ways. We're pulling down stocks and we're seeing increases in demand."
The other important development is that China is doing the stock reduction, he noted. "Those of you who read newsletters know that most of the U.S. merchant community believes there will be significant sales of cotton to China sometime in the new crop year."
China, in fact, is quoting new crop cotton for export, and most merchants believe that the People's Republic could sell 500,000 to 700,000 bales of that cotton in this crop year. "But, they also think that this kind of stock reduction means there will be purchases by the joint venture mills in China certainly by next spring.
"I would caution, however, that none of these merchants have sales on the books," he said. "They are selling some Pima to China, but there are no significant sales of upland cotton."
Lange said he also has qualms about USDA's prediction of 92.2 million bales for 2000/01. "It may not be quite that good because that includes 22 million bales of prospective mill use in China, and I'm not sure they're going to spin that much.
"They are consuming a lot more cotton than they were two years ago," he noted. "That's because of the big policy change in which they lowered the price that the Chinese textile mills pay for Chinese cotton. It has been a tremendous stimulus to the mill use of cotton in China."


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Winning the NBA scoring title during the 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2004–05 seasons, Iverson was one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history, despite his small stature (listed at 6 feet, 0 inches). His regular season career scoring average of 26.7 points per game ranks sixth all-time, and his playoff career scoring average of 29.7 points per game is second only to Michael Jordan. Iverson was also the NBA Most Valuable Player of the 2000–01 season and led his team to the 2001 NBA Finals the same season. Iverson represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the Bronze medal. He also played for the Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons and the Memphis Grizzlies, before returning to the 76ers for part of the 2009-10 season.
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While Motorola was the first to unveil their Android 3.0 XOOM Tablet, T-Mobile was the first to actually share some Android 3.0 love by releasing some "First Look" videos of several redesigned Google apps running on Honeycomb with their sneak peek of the upcoming T-Mobile G-Slate.
If you've been following all the Honeycomb news over the past few weeks, you've probably seen bits and pieces of the video clips below. T-mobile's Android 3.0 videos show off the basic home screen UI, Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Books, the new tabbed browser, and fully functional video chat with GTalk.
Talking with Motorola yesterday, we learned that the Android 3.0 SDK will be released within the coming weeks, though the first Honeycomb tablets will not be making their debut until mid February. Hopefully, Google will release the SDK far enough in advance that app developers have enough time to tweak their apps to take advantage of the new features offered inside Android 3.0.


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Malaysia Airports Amplify Marketing Drive in Routes 2007
23 September 2007
Stockholm, 23 September 2007 - In its continuous efforts to market KL International Airport (KLIA) and other airports in Malaysia to international airlines
worldwide, Malaysia Airports is participating in the 13th World Route Development Forum 2007 (ROUTES) in Stockholm, Sweden from September 23-25, 2007.
ROUTES is the largest networking event which gathers airport and airline network planners from around the globe.
The event reflects the growing importance of commercial relationships between airlines and airports. This year s Routes in Stockholm is set to have the biggest turnout with more than 2,000 delegates from 120 countries representing 600 airports and 300 airlines from around the world, including major, regional, low cost, start-up, cargo and IT/charter airlines participating in the 3-day event.
Malaysia Airports delegation is led by its Chairman, Y. Bhg Tan Sri Datuk Dr Aris Othman, and its Managing Director, Y. Bhg Dato Seri Bashir Ahmad, as well as representatives from Tourism Malaysia, Malaysia Airlines, Express Rail Link (ERL), Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) and KL Airport Services (KLAS). Y.Bhg. Dato Abdul Hakim Borhan, Kuala Lumpur City Mayor is also attending this event.
Malaysia Airports delegates would have their hands full attending to the various business meetings and hospitality programs that have been scheduled at this World Route Development Forum.
This year s Routes will also see over 250 senior industry leaders will attend the inaugural Routes Leaders Forum at International Fairs to discuss key trends and challenges affecting aviation industry and to further strengthen industry partnership and cooperation.
Dato Seri Bashir Ahmad is also scheduled to speak at Routes Leaders Forum, where he is one of the panels to discuss the topic Stretching the Low Cost Model on Sept 24, 2007.
The Routes Business meetings would start on Monday, September 24. This year, Malaysia Airports participation at Routes 2007 is considered even more important as it prepare itself to host Routes 2008 in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian delegation members are all set to impress the Routes communities of the exciting Routes 2008 destination - Malaysia Truly Asia .
Malaysia Airports hopes to achieve its objective in wooing more airlines to Kuala Lumpur and the other four international airports namely Penang, Langkawi, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching and also other domestic airport in Malaysia. The marketing strategy for Malaysia Airports this year is aligned to Destination Marketing which emphasizes on Malaysia as the preferred destination for travelers. Malaysia Airports is expected to meet up with more than 40 airlines in Stockholm.
Dato Seri Bashir said: "Our primary aim is to sell KLIA and our other international airports, but to do this, our marketing strategy is to showcase Malaysia as a fascinating and unbeatable destination. As an airport operator, we will emphasize the benefits of flying to Malaysia, particularly on the incentives that we offer to new airlines."
Malaysia Airports has won the bid to host the World Route Development Forum in Kuala Lumpur in 2008, scheduled to be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC). Malaysia is the first Asian country to host this event, breaking the annual tradition of giving the host job to a European country.
Dato Seri Bashir Ahmad said: "As Malaysia will host 2008 edition of Routes, we are taking this opportunity to observe and learn to further enhance the delegates experience next year and in the meantime, promote Kuala Lumpur as the host for 2008. Furthermore, KLIA will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year, so of course, next year s Routes will be more special to us and we would like to ensure it leaves memorable experiences."
Malaysia Airports expect Kuala Lumpur's Routes to welcome about 2,800 delegates, which will be the biggest attendance for Routes.
He added: "We are looking forward to meet up and continue discussion with potential airlines in Routes in our continued efforts to encourage them to fly to Malaysia. It is hoped that with the collective efforts of Malaysia Airports and our partners, our presence at Routes here will be rewarding and I believe this is an excellent platform for Malaysia Airports to fast-track our marketing efforts to attract more new airlines in offering their services particularly to KLIA and the other four international airports."
Malaysia Airports confirmed partners for Routes 2008 are Malaysian Tourism Promotion Board, Malaysian Airline System Berhad, Express Rail Link Sdn. Bhd., Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Sri Sutra Travel, Petronas and KL Airport Services.


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Papa don't lay that shit on me, it's just about to make me sick."
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