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SimCity PC
- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Mar 5, 2013
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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4512 Ratings
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Mar 5, 2013The game is great.
The servers are however constantly down, rendering the game completely unplayable. Until that issue is rectified, then this is the best I can do. Had they actually taken the time to properly speculate on how much server space they would actually need, this game would be getting an 8 from me right now. -
Mar 5, 2013I have completed everything that the game allows. Meaning I installed it and started it up. I would give it a 0 but the menu looks nice. There is no way to actually play the game so it is broken and should be avoided at all costs. I want to play BY MY SELF but it will not allow me to do so. Therefore it is broken and not worth buying.
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Mar 5, 2013critic review is just bullsh*t. DO NOT SPEND 60$ on this. The city is just TOO DAMN SMALL. Server always busy. Feel exaclty like the diablo syndrom. ANd the game just tell you what to do. you do it and that sit. We need more police car!! do it. done. We need more classroom!! do it. done. over and over again.
Mar 6, 2013Always on DRM, PAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT BUY. Sim city for me anyways is a game I come back to time and time again. I still play the Old sim cities. I am certain I will have problems with this game in future. For this to be an always online game and EA to have problems with Servers on launch is a disgrace
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Mar 5, 2013Compared to the SimCity games before this is a joke, always online DRM, you don't own your savefiles, if you have a disconnect you are kicked from the game within minutes. The game feels dumbed down, with maps a lot smaller, barely any content. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!
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Mar 5, 2013BEWARE: Forced online DRM, will you be playing this 10 years down the track like previous Sim Cities? No, you wont. And they want this, so you buy the next one. Servers go down? Well screw you, EA already has your money. DLC available from release, server side save-games. I repeat, FORCED ONLINE DRM Also, server queues at launch. Thanks for destroying video gaming and my most treasured franchise.
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Mar 5, 2013The usual "EA corporation" destroying awesome companies like Maxis. DO NOT BUY SIM CITY! Not only you need to be online at all times to play, but in a few years from now, the game will NOT be playable anymore (when they take the servers down). Do NOT encourage this practice. This is bad for everyone who likes video games if only a little.
Mar 6, 2013>Small cities (smaller than the SNES version lol...)
>Always online DRM
>Forced to use Origin
>DLCs to have access to bigger cities
>MSRP above £40 in the UK (£45), which is a complete rip off as 98% of new game release, including AAA games such CoD are released for £39.99 or less.
Mar 6, 2013It's incredible how the greed for money can ruin user experience. And those EA guys trying to convince us that DRM implemented in the game is totally alright. Seriously EA i stop buying your games you don't deserve it. YOu deserve to die as a company that kills nice IPs and gamedev companies. That DRM that doesn't allow you to play SP is just a last drop.
Mar 5, 2013a mix of smaller cities, no pre load, horribly DRM, Horrible origin.
When i first tried to play it, it didnt unlock... after i mixed that (an hour wasted) i had a 30 minute log in time...
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Mar 5, 2013So disappointed that they didn't lean from the D3 debacle and again saddle customers with unwanted DRM in the guise of connectivity-enabled features. Shame on you EA.
Mar 5, 2013I don't see any justification for giving this game a score other than zero for the following reasons:
Always online DRM
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I'm happy for game companies to make money, but to deliver a subpar game to capitalize on its name recognition should not be tolerated by consumers. Don't buy it. -
Mar 5, 2013I am giving this a score of 0 since I can't log in and play. It's a singleplayer game and its saying the servers are full. This is crazy! Did EA not plan for launch at all? It's only going to get worse as this goes worldwide. I will only give this a good review once I can actually play the game.
Mar 5, 2013I haven't purchased an EA game since Mass Effect 2. Considering the sort of feedback from the considerable majority of users have given, I want to thank them for helping to keep the streak alive. Is it really too much to ask that a game for once NOT be geared towards the lowest common denominator? It's like if every movie released in the last three years were on the same level as Jack Jill.
Mar 5, 2013DRM blows. Why do I need to be online to play in single player. Maps waaaaaaaay to small. Perhaps call the game SimVillage. Then there's DLC... oh come on I just paid for the game. EA have done it again. Yet another great series ruined.
Mar 5, 2013POS. Another example of why EA is consistently in the running for most hated company in America. I was excited to try Maxis' new Sim City, but their partnership with EA has ruined it.
Mar 5, 2013This game is disgusting. I wasted my money on it and now it is gone. I could deal with the always online drm IF the game was otherwise perfect and they allowed for a offline version to become available when they inevitably shut down the servers. Map size is too small which I have a feeling will be "fixed" by means of in game (paid) download.
Mar 5, 2013Garbage. I have purchased every single simcity on release date, since SimCity 2000. This will be the last SimCity I ever purchase. Among my top concerns: Server issues, no offline mode, tiny towns (Is this called SimCity or SimBlock?) I saw the small towns on the beta, and I thought it was just tiny for the beta.. this is absurd..
Mar 5, 2013Sigh..... Why? I could be happily enjoying this game, but I am not due to the on line requirement. This has been a single player game in the past. The on line OPTION would have pleased some people, but the REQUIREMENT is just crap.
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Mar 31, 2014I'll make it quick and simple.
It's a good game ruined by game-breaking bugs. EA has shown little interest in fixing these bugs. As a result you will end up needing to restart your city/region or accepting sacrifices due to bugs.
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Mar 5, 2013EA Origin Required, Always on DRM, Queue to play a single player game, launch day striped out DLC, small cities, dumbed down. 1 step forward in graphics, 2 steps backwards in everything else. EA, been treating games as walking wallets since '82
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Mar 5, 2013The game is terrible, very disappointed. I paid a lot of money for crap. The size of the city is ridiculous and I would take care of the city, not the sims. Sim City 4 forever...
Mar 5, 2013All i have to say is THERE IS NO SAVE SYSTEM Wtf No even in Single player mode!
ITS AN MMO with Private island and a cheat mode...
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Mar 5, 2013Don't Support Always on DRM. Never! Can't even play a game because servers are full for a SINGLE PLAYER GAME. I can't beleive that they would do this to consumers. But people are still buying the game left and right. STOP SUPPORTING DRM.
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Mar 5, 2013Another horrible always online DRM game. I still play the original sim city single player and that game was made 20 years ago but with this new sim city EA will turn off the server making this game unplayable in a year or two, also i don't like how small the cities you are aloud do build are, theres no subways and no terraforming. I would recommend nobody on buying this game.
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Mar 5, 2013Origin only. Day one on disc DLC. Micro-transactions on a paid game. Forced always online DRM. You're the most hated company in the industry for a reason EA.
Mar 5, 2013DRM for a single player game, Plots to small, can be filled in an hour, Already paid micro transactions announced, Servers crashed at launch, no preloading, don't bother
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Mar 5, 2013If you've never played a simcity game, this is an amazing game on its own. But having played every simcity game in the franchise, this is really disappointing. The main complaint is the extremely small city size compared to its predecessors. The always-online component is not necessary.
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Mar 5, 2013Can't even get the game to download. And once I do, it appears the game will be unplayable since their servers are overloaded. I do hope they get these problems worked out, but until then, avoid it.
Mar 5, 2013Remember back when you were a kid and Mario 3 had a 30 min wait time to play the game? Well i don't ether, do not buy this game for any reason, It will be unplayable in a few years and dose not work now. Take a look at the critic reviews, they have been given a lot of money to lie to you.
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Mar 5, 2013The critic reviews are undeniable proof of "gaming journalism" being rotten to the core. This is the exact same game as SimCity Social, except you have to pay $80 before you're allowed to start paying for extras.
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Mar 5, 2013Always online DRM sucks and it is completely unacceptable that people who bought your game should have to suffer any consequences whatsoever! Massive limitations compared to the original simcity games. No subways, no terraforming, tiny map, can't build you own airport, game has been dumbed down and lots of actions are performed automatically.
Mar 5, 2013This is a disaster. EA why have you screwed the SimCity Franchise. Curse you!!
1. Always online DRM
2. No local saves
3. Buggy mechanics
4. My crap dump size is bigger than your city maps
5. FCKIN Huge login queues what??? did I buy this game to stand in the queue to play? -
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Mar 5, 2013No single player option, Tiny maps. I anticipate that you will be nickel and dime'd by microtransactions. Launch flop. It seems they've forgotten what made Sim City a good game.
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Mar 5, 2013The city size is too small. You cant 'do' anything. As some person said, i can imagine EA selling bigger plots in the future, for more money. a total rip off, considering the initial game costs so much
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Mar 5, 2013Sorry, won't accept "Always On" connection. I'll return it and state it's broken and wait 10 years for it to come out again on GOG.com. There is no reason to accept that fact that you have to sit in queue before you can begin playing a game. Nonsense.
Mar 5, 2013We waited this long for a piece of garbage like this? Thanks EA!
Don't like the interface, the tiny cities, the focus on individual sims rather than city building.
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Mar 5, 2013Everything about this game feel wrong, from the always on drm for a single player to the tiny maps, to EA's terrible product support. Its a shame but the have killed anther franchise. I was big fan before and will continue to play the older games long after EA shuts down the severs and kills this game.
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Mar 5, 2013What the is this piece of EA pls stahp. This is a bunch of bull****, most players cant even start up the ****ing game without it crashing, not to mention the fact you need to be ONLINE TO PLAY ****ING SINGLEPLAYER.
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Mar 5, 2013WARNING after doing a TON of research I have deamed this game a joke. DONT BUY IT! Im not. This is the biggest slap to the face for simcity lovers, and gamers in general since EA became a money hungry. Buy a dog or something
Mar 5, 2013Game crippled by DRM, missing a lot of content to be sold as DLC later, requires internet connection, despite being traditionally a single player game and everyone being upset with the decision. Game currently doesn't work and probably won't in the near future when they decide it's no longer profitable to run the servers. Avoid this game and this publisher.
Mar 5, 2013Map is too small very too small. This game is only game's marketing that's all Price, dlc it's a joke from EA. I hope people don't buy this game now.
Mar 6, 2013Perhaps because most cannot get on the servers to play. A complete fail from EA once again, I will not be giving Maxis my money again EA can suck my
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Mar 5, 2013This is the last time that im buying a game from EA That is a single player game an i cant load the game and the graphic is the worst ive seen in decade what a waist of time and money.
Mar 5, 2013stay far away from this one! EA has screwed game players again with this terrible game. Always online DRM, no save games, gimped gameplay and city size in favor of prettier graphics. EA and this game are everything that is wrong with the video game industry. Do not feed the beast, vote with your wallets and stay away!
Mar 5, 2013I won't even start on the mandatory online component/DRM that stuff is bad enough but what really bothers me are the tiny map sizes. Who at Maxis/EA possibly thought that would be a good idea? People said it's a limit of the beta version, but now the full game is just like that. This is NOT SimCity. This is SimVillage.
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Mar 5, 2013Unable to play due to server at capacity. In a single-player game. This is ridiculous. Simplified gameplay that does not provide as deep an experience as any of the previous SimCity games. While I'm sure that the server errors will be ironed out over time, the simplified gameplay will not.
Mar 5, 2013Send EA a strong message and do not buy this game. Always online for a single player experience is a big up yours to you as the customer. Server issues combined with the fact that they can shut it down at any time should set of alarm bells.
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Mar 5, 2013This game not worth 1199 rub (40$) permanent online, small mayor function, not even close to simcity 4. it/s like sim city social 2.0. What game will EA corporation dump next
Mar 5, 2013Always on single player... almost unbelievable! Why do companies insist on trying to tackle piracy with a nuclear bomb, when pirates get a better gaming experience in the end, and legitimate customers are left with a horrible one?
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Mar 5, 2013Always online DRM, tiny cities and no game saves. Your review must be at least 150 characters long. Your review must be at least 150 characters long. Your review must be at least 150 characters long.
Mar 5, 2013As if the always-online DRM wasn't enough, there was a queue to play single player. This is a disgrace to the SimCity franchise. The city size is a joke, probably will be DLC to get more land to build on. Don't buy this trash.
Mar 5, 2013drm store dlc social multiplayer? No thanks.
Also, the cities are so small that they are all the same, this game is dumb and just a money milker. There is no space for creativity or challenge. -
Mar 5, 2013I left a review earlier about the game it's still a ZERO but lots of people saying the negative reviews are fake on here so the game gets a bad reception. Well I say go to amazon and read the verified purchased customer reviews same stuff as here. Although amazon rates on a star system SimCity sits at a 1.3 Star rating.
Mar 5, 2013Always-online DRM, which depends on unreliable EA servers; overly simplified gameplay (to the point where underground was removed completely); city size is small; zoning is faulty and reduced (no farms and such)
Mar 5, 2013BEWARE: Forced online DRM, will you be playing this 10 years down the track like previous Sim Cities? No, you wont. And they want this, so you buy the next one. Servers go down? Well screw you, EA already has your money. DLC available from release, server side save-games. I repeat, FORCED ONLINE DRM Also, server queues at launch. Thanks for destroying video gaming and my most treasured franchise.
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Awards & Rankings
PC Master (Greece)Jun 5, 2013Given enough patches and DCLs, SimCity might eventually become the game that should have been on its release and justify the ambiguous choices that its developers made. [May 2013]
Games Master UKMay 9, 2013Hints at great things but is limited by small cities and promises it can't deliver on. [June 2013, p.80]
Hyper MagazineMay 9, 2013There's more problems with this game than I have words. Looks great though. [June 2013, p.80]


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The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialised Countries
In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialised countries to investigate the family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Finland, and Sweden. We find that there is a good deal of variation across our sample countries in the effects of children on women's employment. We also find large differences in the effects of children on women's hourly wages even after controlling for differences between women with children and women without children in characteristics such as age and education. Among the seven countries we study here, the United Kingdom displays the largest wage penalties to children. The family gap in pay is larger in the U.K. than in other countries because of the higher propensity of U.K. mothers to work in low-paid part-time jobs but also because even among full-timers, women with children in the U.K. are lower paid relative to other women than are mothers in other countries. Why does the family gap in pay vary so much across countries? We find that the variation in the family gap in pay across countries is not primarily due to differential selection into employment or to differences in wage structure. We therefore suggest that future research should examine the impact of family policies such as maternity leave and child care on the family gap in pay.
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I soloed Garrosh on the PTR by bugging the instance into spawning him, him bugging out and never attacking.
According to your logic, that would make the world first mine.
(Didn't happen btw, in case the sarcasm was too vague, just getting my point across, and before you reply, the EU encounter is NOT identical to the Asian one, given the vast gear differences, as stated a gazillion times in this thread)
Because downtime during the night for you, would be downtime during the day for us and vice versa.
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Nearly 200,000 people were homeless and 475 confirmed dead after the Philippines' worst typhoon this year, officials said yesterday, as the government appealed for international help.
Typhoon Bopha plowed across Mindanao on Tuesday, flattening whole towns in its path as hurricane-force winds brought torrential rain that triggered a deadly combination of floods and landslides.
Erinea Cantilla and her family of six walked barefoot for two days in a vain search of food and shelter through a muddy wasteland near the mountainous town of New Bataan after the deluge destroyed their house and banana and cocoa farm.
"Everything we had is gone. The only ones left are dead people," Cantilla said as her husband, three children and a granddaughter reached the outskirts of the town, which itself had been nearly totally obliterated.
The army said it was looking for at least 377 missing people, while seeking help for more than 179,000 others who sought shelter in schools, gyms and other buildings after losing everything.
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Shell-shocked survivors scrabbled through the rubble of their homes to find anything that could be recovered, as relatives searched for missing family members among mud-caked bodies laid out in rows on tarpaulins.
Civil defense chief Benito Ramos refused to give up hope for the missing.
"There is no time limit — as long as it takes," he told reporters when asked how long the search-and-rescue effort would take.
One man was rescued after being trapped for two days under rocks and debris after flash floods swept away his entire family.
Covered in mud and teary-eyed, Carlos Agang recounted how a small community of banana and coconut farmers was devastated as Bopha unleashed a wall of water.
"It's a miracle that I survived, but I might as well be dead," he said.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III has sent food and other supplies by ship to 150,000 people on Mindanao's east coast, where three towns remain cut off by landslides and wrecked bridges, Philippine Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said.
Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman said the government had sought help from the Swiss-based International Organization for Migration to build temporary shelters to ease the pressure on evacuation camps.
"The priority is to build bunkhouses so that there will be shelter for them," she told ABS-CBN TV.
The US and Japan said they had offered emergency assistance.
Geologist Mahar Lagmay, head of a government project to map out all flood-prone areas of the country, said that while most people in the affected communities were aware of the danger, they did not know where to go for safety.
"Year after year, whenever there is heavy rain that comes to that place, there are landslides and many people die in those mountainous areas," he said.


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Back to Poros
... Georgios Castle but unfortunately it's closed! We then head back to Antisamos where we spend a couple of hours on the beach and in the sea, high, once agai is lovely and warm and crystal clear.
We arrive at the hotel and are given keys for the room next door to the one we had last week! We are still impressed with the hotel and the gorgeous view!
Tonight we will eat at Sunset ...
The final peninsula
... place, where we swim and eat our picnic.
In the evening we return to the Arhontiko restaurant and enjoy another very good meal. The family of the owners are holding a wedding reception there and we are still made made very welcome. When we are ready to leave Mama approaches us and encourages us to stay but we decline as we are pretty ...
Going north
... head out in search of a restaurant. A number are not appealing but decide to try the Arhontiko and are very pleased we did as the food is fantastic, the staff very friendly and helpful, especially Rovena who tells us she is Albanian although she has lived in Kefalonia since she was very young. The restaurant remains very quiet until 9:30pm when suddenly it becomes very busy! ...
A new destination
We leave Poros and take another very pretty scenic route to over the mountains to Lassi.
After a very good breakfast we head up the mountain road to the top of Mount Aenos, the highest mountain, as we hope that it will stay cloud free and the views will be fantastic! However.......we go through some light cloud on the way up and when we get to the the top ...
A very mixed weather day
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Who would've thought Nov. 17, 2012 could have gotten any better?
The Irish had already trounced Wake Forest, honored 29 seniors in a spectacular sendoff, and proven they could dominate an opponent at Notre Dame Stadium.
But that was only the beginning.
For one night, Notre Dame fans rallied around Baylor and Stanford, cheering on the Bears and Cardinal in the hopes they might take down #1 Kansas State and #2 Oregon.
While the Fighting Irish cruised to a win, the Notre Dame faithful were glued to their television sets, flipping back and forth between ABC (Stanford vs. Oregon) and ESPN (KSU vs. Baylor) for much of the evening.
In the biggest surprise of the night, the Bears dominated, winning 52-24, ending the Wildcats national title game hopes, and knocking Collin Klein from his post as the Heisman frontrunner.
At the very least, Notre Dame would be second in the country – in the driver's seat for a trip to Miami.
What we had all hoped for – a chance.
But then it got even better.
In Eugene, Ore., the Cardinal shut down the high-powered Ducks offense, but after Stepfan Taylor fumbled in the fourth quarter, it appeared Oregon might escape with its 11th victory of the season.
But Stanford tied the game with less than two minutes remaining, and after an Oregon field goal bounced off the goal post in overtime, Jordan Williamson hit a 37-yarder to pull off the upset.
In less than an hour, the championship hopes of the nation's top two teams were shattered.
BCS chaos.
Amazing. Notre Dame was about to be ranked #1 in the nation for the first time in more than 19 years.
Students rushed to Stonehenge, alums packed Finny's and the Backer, and fans across the nation celebrated like it was 1993 again.
And when they checked the news on Sunday morning, it wasn't just a dream.
#NotreDame No. 1 in USA Today Coaches' Poll with 56 of 59 1st place votes. Irish No. 1 in AP poll with all 60 1st place votes.
— Brian Hardin (@NDHardin) November 18, 2012
Irish are #1 in AP poll for 1st time since Nov. 14, 1993 (after win over #1 Fla. St.). Irish are unanimous #1, with all 60 1st-place votes.
— John Heisler (@NDHeisler) November 18, 2012
As is tradition when any Fighting Irish team is ranked first nationally, the 8-foot-tall #1 sign atop Grace Hall was lit on Sunday evening. The sign was originally placed outside Moreau Seminary after the 1973 championship football season.
In recent memory, it had been lit to recognize the national championship fencing and women's soccer teams, but perhaps never has the 11-story building been more in the spotlight than tonight – with the Fighting Irish football team standing alone as the only undefeated team in the BCS standings.
All feels right in the sports world.
But there's still work to be done. Beat SC.
- ER Jedi - Nov 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM
"with the Fighting Irish football team standing alone as the only undefeated team in the BCS standings"
Ohio State is still undefeated….while not eligible, they are still ranked in the BCS standings…
Go Irish
- Josh Flynt ('11) - Nov 18, 2012 at 8:20 PM
Actually, the Buckeyes are in the AP poll, but not the BCS. http://espn.go.com/college-football/bcs
- smashmouthdiva - Nov 18, 2012 at 8:39 PM
ND for real!
- a68domer - Nov 19, 2012 at 6:29 AM
Last night the IRISH were confirmed as #1 in the BCS. As long as the IRISH take care of business in the Coliseum, we'll get the matchup we all hoped for at the beginning of the year – IRISH vs Tide in Miami on 01/07/2013. GO IRISH!! beat Southern Cal!


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Obama Is About to Give You the Right to Unlock Your Phone
Ever wondered why you can't transfer your old phone to a new carrier? The practice, known as cellphone unlocking, is illegal. It probably won't surprise you that in the '90s, wireless carriers—who, for obvious reasons, wanted everyone to buy new phones and plans—lobbied for a ban.
As I wrote last year, this ban isn't just annoying and expensive for consumers, it's also wasteful. We only keep our phones for an average of 18 months , and when we get a new one, the old one seldom makes it to a recycling facility. Many languish in desk drawers; some end up in the garbage. That means a lot of electronic waste in landfills, not to mention the environmentally hazardous materials such as rare earths required to make all those new phones.
So it's great news that today the House unanimously passed a law that would finally make phone unlocking legal. The Senate approved the measure last week. Now President Obama just needs to sign off, which he has pledged to do.
After that, if you unearth that old phone from the desk drawer, someone might actually be able to use it.


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It was a daguerreotype, faded and silvered; but the features were those of his wife!
It consists of a metal rod, carrying at its end a silvered bead, which reflects a 'spot' of light.
His silvered head and beard moved slightly to the efforts of his brain.
Silvela bore his silvered head erect and exerted a prudent forbearance.
It was shaded by dark chestnut hair, just silvered with grey.
The silvered faceplate keeps you from seeing inside, and the suit is, naturally, a sealed atmosphere.
So to keep it from doing this the glass is silvered, making a mirror out of it.
Opposite to the lens there is placed a round-bottomed flask, silvered inside.
The Englishman traversed a shadowy wood, then went by silvered fields.
Old English seolfor, Mercian sylfur "silver; money," from Proto-Germanic *silubra- (cf. Old Saxon silvbar, Old Frisian selover, Old Norse silfr, Middle Dutch silver, Dutch zilver, Old High German silabar, German silber "silver; money," Gothic silubr "silver"), from a common Germanic/Balto-Slavic term (cf. Old Church Slavonic s(u)rebo, Russian serebro, Polish srebro, Lithuanian sidabras "silver") of uncertain relationship and origin. According to Klein's sources, possibly from a language of Asia Minor, perhaps from Akkadian sarpu "silver," literally "refined silver," related to sarapu "to refine, smelt."
As an adjective from late Old English (cf. silvern). As a color name from late 15c. Of voices, words, etc., from 1520s in reference to the metal's pleasing resonance; silver-tongued is from 1590s. The silver age (1560s) was a phrase used by Greek and Roman poets. Chemical abbreviation Ag is from Latin argentum "silver," from the usual PIE word for the metal (see argent), which is missing in Germanic.
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A positive for yesterday - on my 12 mile bike journey home, about halfway, I saw a dog loose walking down the kerb of a main road. I think it might have been a corgi.
I followed it up the road a little, and it turned down a cul-de-sac. I knocked on a few doors asking if anyone could recognise it, but no one did. I thought maybe someone could take it in and phone the RSPCA or just let me pass the burden onto them, but of the two people I saw, one was allergic to dogs, and the other one had a house of cats and barking dogs, so that probably wouldn't be the right environment.
I asked the second person to look after my bike (we chained it up to a post on her porch), I picked up the dog, and started going out of the estate and back up the road. Apparently, there was a vets office down the road, but I decided to take the dog the other way, in the direction I originally saw it running from.
I passed a few people, asking them if they recognised the dog. I must have looked a right fool clutching a dog, shouting across the busy road (in some cases), but I was desperate. Like I said, I had biked about 6 miles (it was a warmish day), and now I has carrying a fairy heavy small dog up a road. No on recognised it, naturally.
The dog was very docile throughout. She kept licking my face and she didn't bark once. I did notice her paws were shaking a bit - whether I was imagining it or not, she might have been a bit nervous. I wanted to keep hold of it at all times, and not risk it running away, but I did have to place her on the ground at times so I could get a firmer grip.
So I knocked on a few doors. Of about 5 houses I checked, 3 were empty (there were cars outside, but no-one answered - the lights were off as well - I was beginning to worry that I looked like some sort of burglar), and two didn't recognise the dog. On the second of those, an old lady opened the door. I talked about what I planned to do - that is, phone the RSPCA (the vets office was a bit too far to carry it now), but she said there lived next door some people who had dogs. She offered to take the dog in so we could phone the RSPCA if it was necessary, but I said I'd take the dog further up the road, and even then, if it didn't prove fruitful, I'd borrow their phone. Along with the irrational fear in the back of my head that I didn't want to look like some sort of burglar, I didn't want to enter this old lady's home. She seemed too trusting for her own good.
I had a look next door, and there was no-one in.
I kept going though, and rang the bell of the house beyond another cul-de-sac (it may have been 2 doors away). A young woman came to the door and she gasped at the dog. In my mind, I was a bit more sceptical than I should have been, but she called one of her house mates, a young man and I returned the dog. Apparently it had escaped from the garden. We talked about where and how I came to find it, I asked if I could borrow a phone so I could phone home to say I was going to be late.
I made the call, and meanwhile, the other young man came back to me with a £5 note as thanks. I accepted it graciously (though I didn't pick up the dog and walk about for 30 minutes because I thought I'd get some money out of it), and went back down the road, and to my bike on the estate.
My bike was still there, of course, I rang the doorbell of the house, just to notify them that I'll be unlocking my bike and taking it away, told them I'd found the owners, and set off back home.
It made up for the rest of the day - I'd got a puncture on my bike and had to walk it for approximately 2 miles (by google maps). It was too early to get it repaired, so I just locked it up until I could take it in somewhere. When I did, the puncture repair cost £12, but I think they may have done something to my gears - they keep skipping. Also a bit of my sole kept flapping about on the bottom of my shoe.
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Karachi: Jul 1, 2014
Pakistani players are unhappy with some of the clauses included in the nearly 200-page new central contract documents sent to them after a long delay by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Well-informed sources close to some of the players told said that one of the biggest complaints they had was that the board had stopped the win bonuses given to the team for winning a Test, One-day international (ODI) or T20I match. "In the new central contracts players will not get the win bonus which has come as a shock to them. Because the win bonus meant that when Pakistan won a match in any format the players got a 100 per cent bonus amount of his match fees," one source said.
He said the players were also unhappy at the delay in announcing the central contracts and also over the long time the PCB took in sending the contract documents to the players. "The players got the contract documents nearly two weeks after the board announced the list of players who were given the contracts. And then ironically they all got SMS messages from the board asking them to give their consent to the contracts in a matter of two days because of tax issues," the source said.
"In the SMS's the board told the players that if they didn't gave their consent before June 30th they would have to pay withholding tax at rate of 7 per cent which had been increased to 10 percent by the government from July 1st," the source added. He said the players were also not satisfied with some clauses regarding disciplinary matters included in the new contracts.
"Some of the senior players including Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez had advised some of the other players not to sign the documents as they should first speak to the board about the dropped win bonuses in the new contracts. But Shahid Afridi and Ahmed Shahzad went ahead and signed their contracts," the source said. "Obviously Afridi and Shahzad are not the most popular players right now in the Pakistan camp for their haste in signing the contract documents," he added.
"Instead of increasing harmony amongst the players and between the players and the board the new contracts have only created more discontent and issues," another source said. In the new contracts, the board has given a 20 per cent pay hike to the players in their monthly retainers and 10 per cent in their match fees.


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Accusing Lalu Prasad of misleading the nation on the issue of Railway profits during his tenure as minister, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday that the RJD leader had been "exposed" and should apologise to the country.
"From Prasad's claim of the Railways achieving a cash surplus of Rs 90,000 crore to (Railway Minister) Mamata's disclosure of cash surplus of around Rs 8,000 crore in hand after she took over charge at Rail Bhavan, the jugglery of figures in the budget with respect to the profits is amply evident," Kumar told reporters in Patna.
Kumar said that he had always wondered how a man who "ruined" Bihar for 15 years was "doing exceedingly well" on becoming the railway minister and receiving appreciation from even the prime minister.
Alleging that Prasad had "hoodwinked and misled" the nation and the people, Kumar, a former railway minister, said it was "the biggest-ever offence" committed by any public servant in office since Independence.
"Prasad owed an explanation to the nation and people," Kumar said, adding the RJD supremo should apologise to the nation.
"A person who earned laurels and sobriquets of being a management guru and was invited by several management institutions in India and abroad for lectures for hollow claims of the turnaround by the Railways stands exposed now," Kumar claimed.


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BT has been Unify's global supplier for WAN and internet access services since 2008. The contract between us was extended due to BT's outstanding performance and flexibility, our satisfaction, and the terms and conditions offered."
- Guenther Ernst, Chief Information Officer Siemens Enterprise Communications
Unify was created in 2008 as a joint venture between Siemens AG and a US-based private equity firm. It's a global unified communications leader with a presence in more than 100 countries.
Christoph Pscherer, IT Network and Voice Services Manager at Unify, recalls: "Following the formation of the joint venture, one of the first challenges was to separate our infrastructure from Siemens AG. We had to create our own wide area network in order to do that."
In need of a single network operator with the scale and reach to support the company on a global basis, Unify chose BT.
The heart of the BT solution is IP Connect, a global MPLS-based wide area network (WAN) that connects 125 Unify locations in 35 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, North and South America, as well as a single site in Africa. Locations served include the Unify headquarters in Munich together with key sites like Irving in Texas, Boca Raton in Florida, São Paulo, Mumbai, Shanghai, Vienna, and Nottingham in the UK.
The network supports a wide range of traditional business applications, as well as product development traffic, document management systems, and inter-site IP telephony. To safeguard quality of service five different classes of service are used, assigned to ensure that the appropriate priority is given to each data packet.
BT also supplies Unify with its gateway to the internet, and provides managed security and secure remote access services on a global basis. The whole network is proactively managed by BT.
Christoph Pscherer says: "Overall the service is very reliable but if ever there is a problem BT usually takes action before we even know about it. BT always keeps us well informed of the situation using a variety of email, SMS, and voice messages."
Unify recently investigated the potential of WAN optimisation. With demand for bandwidth growing all the time, making better use of the existing network would help avoid the cost of increasing core bandwidth.
BT proposed its Connect Acceleration WAN optimisation service featuring Steelhead® devices from Riverbed Technology. This managed solution, which has been deployed at key network nodes, combines data compression and data reduction techniques and has already reduced WAN traffic by 76 per cent.
With much less data passing over the WAN, Unify is delivering greatly improved performance. That means faster application response times leading to greater efficiency, better productivity, and enhanced customer service. Meanwhile, buying costly additional bandwidth has been avoided.
"We have been very pleased with the service BT provides and, with the initial three-year contract term coming to an end, we recently opened negotiations to extend the contract until 2014," confirms Christoph Pscherer. "As part of the new agreement BT has committed to deliver year-on-year cost savings of up to 12 per cent."
Having a single global network supplier has administrative benefits too. Christoph Pscherer concludes: "We no longer need to worry about network technology, because BT does that for us. The managed service frees us from the burden of day-to-day issues, allowing us to concentrate on our core business."
Differential service categories
To security cost effective WAN deployment, each site was assigned a standard of service dependent upon business need. There are three categories of service designated silver, gold, and platinum. Silver sites have a single connection to the IP Connect network, gold sites have a single connection with back-up circuits, and platinum sites have full redundancy. Each has its own SLA and there's a range of access speeds from 500kbps to 450Mbps.
Secure internet access
High bandwidth Internet Connect Global internet access services enable connectivity for the whole company through BT hosted data centres in Munich and Atlanta. At these locations BT provides the proxy servers supporting internet access, protected by BT managed firewalls. BT also provides Unify domain name server (DNS) and mail relay services globally.
Flexible working
With a diverse global workforce, many of who are fully mobile, the ability to work flexibly is vital. Around ten thousand Unify people have the BT MobileXpress secure remote access service. It enables secure VPN connectivity to the Unify corporate network from wherever there's an internet connection, anywhere in the world.
Early warning
BT provides a single point of contact service desk and a wide range of regular reports that demonstrate SLA performance. Of particular value is the Connect Acceleration report as this includes network statistics that provide early warning of potential network bottlenecks.
Core BT Services
- BT IP Connect global, MPLS- based platform serving 125 sites in 35 countries
- BT Internet Connect global
- BT Compute data centre hosting services
- BT Managed Firewall Security, DNS, and mail relay services
- BT MobileXpress secure remote access
- BT Connect Acceleration featuring BT provided and managed Riverbed Steelhead® WAN optimisation technology
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Speaking on behalf of Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, the president of the dicastery, Bishop Vasquez said family associations are an urgent need today, in order to promote the true identity of the family.
The Church cannot put families on the same plane as the individual or the State, he stated. "The natural family, which is the source and treasure of society, must be sustained at every level," he said.
Bishop Vasquez also recalled several passages from Pope Benedict XVI's recent encyclical "Caritas in Veritate," underscoring that only the family "can guarantee an authentic education in human values, because it ensures altruism and temporal continuity, which are essential in education."
"Only the vocation to paternity and maternity can transmit a responsible education in responsible procreation, which brings with it the necessary union between personal and social ethics through a harmonious existence that only the family can offer," he added.
Moreover, only the family "can serve as a counterpoint to the current global economic crisis, because at its center it is a source of social solidarity and civil progress," the bishop said.
The World Congress of Families is an international pro-family network of organizations, experts and people of good will from more than 60 countries whose purpose is to defend the importance of the family as a social institution. It was founded in 1997 by The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society in Rockford, Illinois. Previous sessions of the congress were held in Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004) and Warsaw (2007).


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After a forgettable weekend being swept by the Phillies and scoring only 5 runs in 3 games, the Washington Nationals are headed to Miami, where the Nats' Stephen Strasburg will be taking the mound. Strasburg is hoping to end the Nationals' 4-game losing skid in what will likely be one of his last starts this year, despipte the Nationals' probably making the playoffs.
For those of you unfamiliar with "Stras" and his current situation, here's a little bit of background: The Washington Nationals drafted Stephen in the first round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft out of San Diego State University. Stras had two years of collegiate pitching experience and was part of the 2008 US Olympic team that lost to Cuba in the Beijing Olympics. He was the most closely-watched pitcher in draft history, and when the Nationals signed him ($15 million for 4 years), great things were expected of Strasburg.
So the kid gets to make his Major League debut in June of 2010 and is an instant sensation. He struck out 14 batters in his debut on June 9 and 32 batters in his first 3 Major League starts. The guy was practically unhittable! Well, in August of that year, Stephen ends up tearing a ligament in his throwing elbow, which required Tommy John surgery (a procedure where they take a ligament from somewhere else in your body or from a cadaver and attach it to your elbow). This surgery requires a lot of rehab – usually a year or so.
So in August of 2011, Strasburg made his comeback by starting a rehab assignment with the single-A Hagerstown Suns (a game that my husband and I attended). Stras made 5 other minor-league starts and moved up to the majors in September, where he pitched 24 innings in 5 starts. Strasburg was doing OK; his elbow had healed nicely and big things were expected from him for the 2012 season.
So how has Strasburg done this year? Pretty well, thanks. The rightie is 15-5 so far, with a 2.85 ERA and 183 strikeouts in 145.1 innings pitched (leading the National League in Ks). Stras was named to this year's All-Star team, and he has even had one home run as a batter. Now here's the big dilemma: Because of his recovery from Tommy John surgery, Nationals' General Manager, Mike Rizzo, has said since the beginning of the season that he is going to pull Strasburg after reaching a limit of 160 or so innings. This is what they did to Nationals' pitcher Jordan Zimmermann last year after having had the same surgery in 2009. Zimmermann was pulled last August and no one seemed to notice. However, because the Nationals are in first place in the NL East and are more than likely going to the playoffs, this is, by far, the most heated debate going on in the DC area today (despite being an election year).
So is Mike Rizzo right in pulling Strasburg before the season is done? (The way it looks now, Strasburg probably only has 2 or 3 more starts left). This is where many ardent Nationals fans have their definite opinions. I, however, ardent a fan as I am, am very indecisive as to what the right thing to do is. Those who agree with Rizzo think that Strasburg is an investment that needs to be managed carefully (like that stock you may have bought in Facebook – don't you feel stupid now?). If he pitches too much too soon after surgery, he could injure his shoulder or suffer from fatigue next year (Jordan Zimmermann, in this his first full season since his surgery, is starting to exhibit signs of exhaustion, and they will definitely need him during the playoffs). The Nationals have plenty of pitching depth in the minor leagues, and with other excellent starters like Gio Gonzalez (who is having a Cy Young-type of season), they should be fine in the playoffs.
On the other side of the debate are those (like my husband and my friend Bernie) who think it's preposterous to sit the guy out during the playoffs, an event that DC fans have been waiting for since the team moved here from Montreal in 2005. If Strasburg is shut down and the Nationals don't make it too far in the playoffs, the 2013 season will be a long one, and it will be full of high expectations. The Nationals will be under the type of pressure under which they've never been, and if they don't make it to the playoffs in 2013, a lot of the bandwagon and casual fans will lose interest. It's a "now or never" attitude that many Nats fans have – pitch him now or we'll never ever be in the playoffs again!
Some people have even opined that because the world is going to end on December 12 according to the Mayan calendar, he should be allowed to pitch because he's not going to be back next season anyway. I had to laugh at that one! Others have said that Strasburg should be shut down now and then brought back in October. That may work for a veteran pitcher, but remember, this guy is only 24 years old and is still learning how to pitch in the Majors. You don't just sit there for a month and then be expected to perform at your best right away.
So what do I think? As a former Athletic Trainer, I understand Mike Rizzo's argument. He has been crystal clear about Strasburg's pitch count since Spring Training, and he has not backed down from his decision. He also gets credit for being up-front with the media and with fans, which is something that GMs are not normally known for doing. But then again, I am a very competitive person (ask my husband, who knows how cranky I get when I lose in "Seinfeld Scene-It"), and I of all people really really want the Nationals to go on to the World Series. Does one guy make a difference in a 25- or 40-man roster? I'd like to think not. Plus the Nationals have a very strong bullpen, so even if the starters can't get it done, the bullpen can save the day. It's not like I'm neither here nor there about it – that would mean I didn't care. I'm just weighing the pros and cons and just can't come up with a definite opinion. I bet Stephen Strasburg will be shut down, and us fans are just going to have to accept it. Here's to the last six weeks of the regular season, and to the Nationals hanging in there (with or without Strasburg) and making it to the playoffs. The best of the season is yet to come!
About the Author
Written by Marien Hornyak
I was born and raised in Puerto Rico but have lived in the continental US for 22 years. I have a BS in Athletic Training and a MEd in Sport Management, where I did my thesis on "The History of Baseball Litigation." I am a wife, mother of 2, and self-proclaimed "Baseball Nerd." My favorite baseball players include Roberto Clemente, Kirby Puckett, and Iván Rodriguez.


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Games Design Student at Plymouth College of Art, England & Aspiring Environment Artist
A group dedicated to indie and standalone game development.
This is a group for all developers using the Unreal Developer's Kit. Open for all commercial, non-commercial and personal projects!
A group for the people of The United Kingdom on ModDB. Jolly good isn't it?
The Unreal Tournament 3 Developers Group is for teams that have chosen Epic's new Unreal game to base their mod on.


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Teacher argues against proposed code of conduct
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Another sticking point in the bill was around the introduction of a code of conduct to replace a code of ethics.
Jules Nicholas, a teacher with more than 16 years experience in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, said a code of conduct was not needed.
"We already have an aspiration code of ethics that we value and set high standards for us in the profession.
"I'm a teacher with three teenage children and expect that the teachers who appear in front of my children will adhere to the code of ethics.
"Do we really need a code of conduct? Are you saying that you don't trust the thousands of teachers that work in the thousands of classrooms every day in the thousands of schools?"
I'm amazed anyone can argue there is no need for a binding code of conduct.
The chair of the soon to be scrapped New Zealand Teachers' Council, Alison McAlpine, said the new council would need greater powers to discipline teachers than it currently had.
"The new professional body should have the power to cancel a teacher's registration for competence reasons."
Under the proposed amendments, a teacher's practising certificate could be cancelled but not a registration, although that could be done in matters of serious misconduct.
That needed to be changed so the new body could cancel registrations based on incompetence, McAlpine said.
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Koss RUK 30K Noise Isolating In-Ear Stereophone, Black
"I tested it with Dr.Chesky's Binaural album and Depeche Mode flacs. What I like most is of course bass response..it is more than enough, maybe a bit exaggerated, aggressive. Overall, I am really satisfied this excessive response in some genres.The only real problem it is prone to loudness noise of the record.. Maybe this is because the drivers are too sensitive. I am not that high end..." --ajlan
The Plug Earbuds
"i hate when they do that. i was using kdx100 & kdx200 for nearly 1 year and i did spent a stable $120 for the two. now i'm realizing actually the $15 ruk30 and $7 plug weren't much worse. kdx200 was a little different from ruk30 at least, but comparing plug to kdx100 just hurts... this was something i was expecting after ruk30 vs kdx200 comparison but god knows i wasn't expecting a totally..." --vaziyetu
RedGiant A03 Ossicle Dual Driver In-Ear Headphones with Remote
" ****The following is riddled with hyperbole and flowery, long-winded writing; if you're not interested in any of these things, please skip to the SUMMARY section, or close down your internet browser, slam your mouse down in disgust, and curse me. Also, the pictures are again taken with a sub-par camera, as my camera has been undergoing numerous maintenance changes. What is..." --tomscy2000
Koss KDX100
"i spent the year 2014 with testing budget earphones and koss company never disappointed me. buying kdx100 was undoubtedly my best decision. it was kind of unplanned because my intention was to find something better than ruk30; and kdx200 as the pricier one, was looking like a better target. but i decided to give a chance to this one. because it was looking very different..." --vaziyetu
Koss KDX200
"Pros and Cons section pretty much explains everything. i advice you to read my updated ruk30 review first to get an idea about this earphone: http://www.head-fi.org/products/koss-ruk-30k-noise-isolating-in-ear-stereophone-black/reviews/11943 there is not much to talk specifically about kdx200 here. it shares nearly the same driver with ruk30 and costs 3 times more while offers..." --vaziyetu
RedGiant A00 Malleus Solid Metal In-Ear Headphones
" At around $65 USD (but also priced just over $40 USD in Taiwan), the entry-level Malleus is an economic tour-de-force. It does come with a much sparser set of accessories than the A03, with no felt carry case, no extreme bass-sealing tips or silicone elastomer rings (according to RedGiant, both may be included in future revisions), but it doesn't mean RedGiant skimped on the Malleus. ..." --tomscy2000
NCAA Virginia Cavaliers SportBuds Headphones
SportBud headphones by Koss are molded in the colors of your favorite NCAA team, including their collegiate logo This 2 pair pack of ultra-lightweight in-ear SportBuds is perfect for music on the go You get both home and away colors This dual portable stereophone unit includes a see-through, compact, wind-up spool carrying case for easy storage and protection when not in use 4-foot straight...
RedGiant A04 Incus Solid Metal In-Ear Headphones
Durable construction and a powerful sound signature make the Incus a perfect choice for your daily use in-ear headphone. A solid cast zinc-alloy shell directs the energy from the tuned 12mm drivers into producing thick, rich bass instead of flexing or vibrating the housing. The solid build and sound quality offered by the Incus make it a go-to tool worthy of even the most discerning audio...
Koss KEB 40
These earbud headphones feature an isolating ring that seals out external distractions so you can enjoy your favorite music as it was meant to sound. The headphones include 3 sizes of ear cushions for a comfortable fit.
Koss KE29-R RUBY NOISE ISOLATING EARBUDS WITH IN-LINE VOLUME CONTROL
The KE/29 is lightweight with an in-the-ear design for deep bass and listening to music on the go. The KE/29 features a dynamic element that is positioned just outside the ear for extended frequency response of 15-20,000Hz. The KE/29 includes small, medium and large silicone ear cushions for a customized fit to enhance isolation when you want to eliminate ambient sounds that interfere with the...


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Thank you for visiting the website of Faith Lutheran Church. Please consider visiting us in person. You are invited to grow with us as we seek strength for our daily living.
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We gather together as God's people each Sunday Morning to worship at 10:15 A.M. We invite you to join us to hear God's Word and receive his gifts.


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Fun four player fighter Lethal League coming to more platforms
I got introduced to Lethal League by Ben Pack, who did our review of the unique fighter last year. Up to four players mash a ball around the stage. The ball gets faster and faster after each hit and is the only thing that can knock out opp... read


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17 January 2013 Last updated at 07:14 GMT
A woman in Portland, Oregon had to endure a four-hour rescue operation in freezing conditions after getting herself stuck in a tiny space between two walls.
She had been walking on the roof over a gap between two buildings when she fell into the 30cm space.
Firefighters eventually freed the woman by using heavy-duty saws to cut through one of the walls.
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Arthritis and Rheumatism |
Arthritis and muscles04/24/2007 |
What types of arthritis affect the muscles, making them feel stiff, burning and heavy? My calves felt this way for several years. Then it spread to my thighs, and shoulders. I have troble lifting my legs to put on slacks, in the mornings, even if I am sitting down, because of the stiffness and heaviness in my leg muscles. Recently my shoulder muscles are feeling stiff and heavy. My leg and shoulder muscles do not hurt too much, except then I use them. Then they feel sore.
There are many diseases or syndromes where joint and muscle pain is part of the symptom complex. Based on a combination of history and physical exam, your physician may be able to narrow the search into certain categories, such as joint disease/arthritis with radiating pain, mechanical muscle problems with concomitant arthritis, or inflammatory muscle or systemic inflammatory diseases. An example of each in respective order: osteoarthritis of the hips causing radiation of pain into the thighs towards the knees; rotator cuff tendonitis causing pain in the upper arms; polymyalgia rheumatica producing proximal girdle pain.
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The ever-popular Publishers Lunch website has just released an entirely free e-book, Buzz Books 2013 Spring/Summer. It's filled with 488 pages of pre-publication excerpts from 28 different titles that are due to be released during the upcoming spring/summer seasons. (A small number of the book's sneak previews have very recently been published.)
The e-book offers an even mix of fiction, nonfiction and YA literature, and the authors whose work is featured within include some pretty big names: Michael Pollan, Chip and Dan Heath, Meg Wolitzer, Kate Atkinson, Joe Hill and Sarah Dessen, to name a handful.
The book's introduction, written by Publishers Lunch founder Michael Cader, explains the impetus for the book and its freebie distribution:
"This spring/summer edition of Buzz Books coincides with the annual industry event known as Winter Institute. Now a major launch point for the spring and summer seasons, 500 independent booksellers gather to meet over 70 authors [at Winter Institute], who sign pre-publication galleys and discuss their forthcoming books informally with bookstore owners. But up until now, most of that industry buzz has stayed in the room with that small group of lucky booksellers.
"Now everyone," Cader writes, "can share the same access to the newest voices the publishing industry is broadcasting for the next season."
Ready to grab a copy for yourself? Head on over to this page for an EPUB version (for Nook, Kobo, Sony or Apple devices), or click here for a MOBI file (for Kindle e-readers). Net Galley members can click here for a copy.


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I was born in Durban, South Africa in 1941, studied theology at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (now the University of KwaZulu/Natal), and at Durham University in England.
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Hammel Winter Basketball
The Hammel Community Center will present the N.Y.C.H.A. Basketballl Tournament tentatively featuring teams in the following divisions: 11-under and 15-under will play every Tuesday in February and 13-under and 18 and under will be played every Wednesday. All teams will be co-ed.
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Socioween VII
Sat 10.27.12We throw banging Halloween parties. Socioween is a tradition, running 7 years now. Thounsands of dollars are spent and millions attend. Or 20 attend. One of those. This year, I set up a photobooth in my office. It took a photo every 10 seconds. Here is 5 hours of costume fun crammed into 3 minutes.