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Ring-a-Ding-Ding! - Part 4
The only place left to explore is the Silver Rush Gambling Hall, which is located near the Atomic Wrangler Casino. When you attempt to enter, the guard at the door will take all of your weapons from you, and there's really no way around that (unless you kill him, at which point the Van Graffs will hate you, and you'll automatically fail a slew of quests). Once inside, you won't be able to advance for the time being. Armed guards stand-by in both directions, and if you pass them, they'll open fire on you. And while you may be tempted to steal the plethora of weapons and ammunition on the shelves all around you, keep your hands to yourself, at least for the time being.
Now, there's nothing left to do but to make way towards the checkpoint that will finally lead you to New Vegas' vibrant strip, where all of the action goes down. Take Old Ben's advice and approach the checkpoint cautiously. When you do, a robot sentry will stop you. Here's where you have to make some choices. Unless your Science skill is inordinately high at this point in the game (80+), you'll have to do one of two things. You'll either need to put up 2,000 Bottle Caps as collateral to gain entry, or you'll have to flash a passport. It doesn't matter how you do this, but you'll have to make a choice between one of the three aforementioned options. If you don't have the cash necessary, and your Science skill isn't high enough, consider completing the Side Quest called G.I. Blues , the one that The King gave you a little earlier. Successfully completing that task will net you a Counterfeit Passport, which will allow you indefinite access into and out of the strip from here on out.
Once you've completed that lengthy side quest, you can speak with the King about some sort of reward. While he'll offer you Bottle Caps, you can also get him to acquire you a pass that will let you into the Strip with absolutely no problems. That's the option we went for, which is why we undertook the G.I. Blues side quest in the first place. After you speak with the King about the pass, he'll send you over to Mick and Ralph's. Speak to Ralph once inside and ask about the pass. He'll hand over the Counterfeit Passport with no questions asked. Nice!
Now, there's nothing left to do but to actually breach the checkpoint and finally get yourself into the Strip. Backtrack towards the inner section of Freeside closest to the Strip, and approach the robotically-controlled checkpoint. Speak with the robotic guard and offer up the Passport you just acquired (or get through in some other way, should you so desire it). Once your credentials have been offered, you're free to enter the Strip at your leisure. If your experience is anything like ours was, you'll see a man throwing up all over the place from drinking too much as soon as you enter. Nice!
Shortly after entering, you'll be intercepted by none other than your artificial stalker, the robot Victor. It's true that Victor is responsible for saving your life, but it's also true that Victor is just a little creepy and a little bit out of control as he follows you everywhere. Speaking with Victor here will alert you to another main mission, this one called The House Always Wins . But more on that later. For the time being, let's focus on the primary task at hand, and couple that with just a little bit of exploration (but not too much!)


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Larry King nearly lost his interview subject last night when ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean threatened to bail, accusing the CNN host of having asked too many "inappropriate" questions.
The dust-up happened after King transitioned from asking about Prejean's new book and the recent controversy surrounding a steamy video she made as a teenager to why she'd settled with the Miss California pageant after suing for libel and emotional distress.
Prejean, 22, said she would not comment on the "confidential" terms of the settlement. King tried to re-frame his question a few ways.
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"You're being inappropriate," she admonished with each attempt.
After she'd had enough of King's questions, Prejean said: "I think that you are being extremely inappropriate right now, and I'm about to leave your show," UPI reported.
"Inappropriate 'King Live' continues," the exasperated host retorted in the exchange.
The tension then came to a head after King took a viewer's phone call for Prejean, apparently in violation of an agreement she'd made with the producers of his show.
Prejean removed her microphone. Gawker described what followed as a full minute of "playing the 'I ca-a-an't he-e-ear y-o-o-ou' game," that ended with King cutting to commercial.
When the show returned King apologized for not having been clued in to the no-caller agreement.
Crisis averted, King asked Prejean what she planned to do next.
"I'm just so excited to be an author now," the ex-beauty queen answered enthusiastically, having just dethroned the King.

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[Aesop Rock]
Sulking in bulk and a half, sulk in a laugh, crash test
Figure the mixture's digging up his last breath
Grief leaf thief briefly turned chieftain
The tap water is on the waters off the waters leaking
So this is blue?
My frame reportedly sparred in garden variety burners and lost to normalcy
My terms the memoir, obligation the bookmark
Crystallize impurities to zero on the...
Autocrat derby catapult sponges, my hunches hurling murder abundance
Lunches where the city sump is pungent, (Curdling!)
Tomorrow sits on what the sin/consquence merger brings
To bubble up along the edges of precious child fantasy broken, broken
Hi, my name is Hazardous Tobacconist (Hi), hung on the brink
I purge a dirge and spit my lung in the sink
As for the product, well it's wrenched in a barren backward wasteland
Of shimmering moral tension adventuring to blossom pleasant
I've done it all, from pixie dust to cramming pins in voodoo dolls
And ninety-nine dreams linked on the shooting gallery wall
But it's like, not a wave crash similar to last or next
Heckle me not already doctored by regrets
Rain (rain)
Belligerent fragments bond massive
Usher in the pixels 'til the image burn classic
Bliss in a barrel and motivation in a basket
Imma cast it out to sea and wait for my karma to grasp it
I left my crutch over the rainbow with my riches
And I know the rat race of the bad taste once its grimace cringes
See, an iron butterfly will float if given good condition
But I'm still fishing the same worm from the same faulty position
Sorta makes you think
I'm a Tomahawk I walk alone and miss the bliss
Inside the accidental meeting of the pencil and the seedling
And the central started beating
Breathing at a rapid caliber
I doubt if her allotted grace will last forever more
Dusting off a dream to be an autopilot
Still a silent understudy. Funny how the opposite will throttle
And the different stroke and model to the prison
Is an accurate portrayal of inadequate betrayal of a wish
Gonna-wanna-coulda-shoulda-woulda didn't
Isn't it amusing choosing
Yet a plan is hibernating
Waiting till the mating dance of motivation took a fine position
Dishing only after every little kiddy has performed
I just wanna be a general he said
I just wanna, I just wanna be a general he said
I just wanna, I just wanna be a general he said
I just wanna, I just wanna be a-
I just wanna sleep, yo
Oh, Eidolon, Capitol Crush
Gallop my chariot burning and awful enigma
Sprung by the sling of David to pierce gutter bug batch prior to hatch
Dismiss it as a soul cadets' excuse to decorate maps with thumb tacks
This gold star product pushing hate boogie themes Enter the smoke screen
Blazing saddle remnants alive analyze pensive
Connect all picket fences like chain gangs linked digging trenches
To candy land image factory. Sold
Oh, I wanna be an astronaut, I got the merits and heart
And I bought a starship with hard earned money from one hour selling dreams to dummies
When they raised the lights:
Ja-ja-Jesus Christ! I've never seen so many goblins in my life! (Oh, my lord)
Migrate through the fog and then some
Dragging b*tch circuits on a short leash like organ grinder primates dancing for bread crumbs
Well, did you touch that slugger?
Banging on the table with an old tin cup, thin luck
I can raise the dead while the shocked settlers fled the blaze
Sprung out their bed of nails to spread the sails, racing for milk and bread
But I got (big) big plans. I ride a big boat with a big ol' motor
And I ain't really that big on helping you turn your leaf over
(Let's sing)
Bring out your dead, I got a pile sky high
(Let's sing)
Run if you're miserable, saw the planet fly by
My name is "Try to deny the magnificent doom craft my ragged soul built
And I'mma show you why this f*cking globe tilts"
(Repeat 3x)
Take me where the air is clear
I don't really know where but I know its not here and
Every little step she takes makes me spin
Cause I know I'll never have to ever sleep alone again


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Seriously, how messed up is this. Al Shabaab insurgents in Somalia (Al Qaeda's proxy in the region) are going around flogging teenagers for listening to music and watching videos on their phones. Not to mention the senseless killings and amputations.
Fighting has killed almost 20,000 Somalis since 2007, and though some semblance of order has been restored, the imposed Sharia law has banned even moderate muslims from dancing at weddings, or even playing and watching soccer. If you're having a bad day today, take a moment and remember just how good you actually do have it. [Reuters]


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Karoline Unger retired from the stage in 1843 when she married the French scholar François Sabatier. Her book of songs in autograph, prefaced by a dedicatory poem by Franz Schober in his own hand, was kindly loaned to me by Richard McNutt. Her career as a composer, such as it was, dates from the years of her marriage and her residence in France. It contains a number of French romances, but also lieder in her native language. Frühlingsglaube is typical of Karoline's simple, but amiably fluent, style.
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Carrom is a "strike and pocket" table game game popular in Southand East Asian countries. Carrom is very commonly played withinfamilies, including the children, and at other social functions.Different standards and rules exist in different areas. MegapocketCarrom brings this popular game to Android Deices. The touch basedgame controls give the players a realistic game play. You can playCarrom on it just like you own old Carrom board. There are 2 playmodes. Single player & Multiplayer. The Single player mode istime bound and in multiplayer mode you can have 2 or 4 playersaround the board. Main attraction of this Carrom game will be theeasiest control. Do simple drag and shoot control to to hit thecoins with the striker. Rules:Black coins are assigned 1 point andwhite coins assigned 2 points.The red coin or queen, is assigned 5points.Pocketing the queen must be followed by pocketing anothercoin on the same or subsequent strike.Pocketing the striker willcost you a coinHighest scorer wins the game.Features:Multiplayer onsame deviceSmooth and very easy controlsDifferent play modesFutureUpdates:Online MultiplayerMutiplayer on multiple devices
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Italian Dama (also known as Draughts or Checkers) is a variant ofthe Draughts game family played mainly in Italy and NorthernAfrica. The board game does not need special representation, aswell as, for example, the backgammon, chess or cards game. Checkersis a challenging board game that can train your logic and strategicskills. Challenge your strategic skills with this relaxing game.Features: √ One or Two player mode √ Super advanced 12 difficultylevels AI! √ On-line multiplayer with chat, ELO, invitations √ Undomove √ Ability to compose own draughts position √ Ability to savegames and continue later √ About 80 compositions/puzzles to solve √Parental control √ Attractive classic wooden interface √ Auto-save√ Statistics √ Sounds The game rules: √ White always moves first. √Men move one square diagonally forward. Should they reach the filefarthest from the player to which they belong, they become kings. √Kings can move forward or back one square, again only diagonally. √Capturing is mandatory. √ The huffing rule was removed from theofficial rules. √ Men may only capture diagonally forward, and cancapture a maximum of three pieces in a row. √ Kings move, as wellas capture, backwards; also, they are immune to men. They can onlybe captured by other kings. √ A player wins when he has succeededin capturing all of his opponent's pieces, or if his opponentresigns. √ A draw occurs when neither player can theoretically takean opposing piece.
The Sex Game (DEMO)
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Hard Level Dots and Boxes (Connect The Dots)
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Shobo: strategy board game
SHOBO™ - stab, smash and maneuver your way tovictory in this single and multi-player board game specificallydesigned for mobile social gaming.SHOBO™ is very easy to learn, but difficult to master. Gamesnever repeat themselves, and an average game takes just a fewminutes from start to finish.In SHOBO™ part of the skill comes in guessing your opponent'snext move, and every decision is deadly. Strategy and Agility.Intellect and Domination. How you play, how you survive, is up toyou!Play Single Player to train and entertain yourself, or challengeyour friends and see how you do on the leaderboard.Originally a highly successful Facebook app with tens ofthousands of players, the game's original developers have turned tomobile specialists, Leo Tech, to make a mobile version with morefeatures and plenty of exciting gameplay.
Elder Sign: Omens
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"All in all, the app is pretty fantastic" -Board Game Geek "Anaccessible and interesting game, and we recommend it for buddingstrategists and architects alike." -Pocket Gamer "Overall, Suburbiais pretty awesome. It plays well, looks good, has lasting replayvalue ... There's simply not much to complain about." -148Apps TedAlspach's city-building board game is now available for Android!The winner of the prestigious 2013 Mensa Select Mind Games awardchallenges you to manage a growing metropolis. Choose your strategycarefully as you compete against multiple computer personalitiesand your friends. Or take on the Single Player Campaign, and travelto real-life cities, each with unique goals. Build residential,commercial, civic, and industrial areas like stores, museums,airports, and of course suburbs. The market is always changing, sospend your cash wisely. Be careful not to grow too quickly, oryou'll lose both income and your reputation. Make the right movesto grow your population and you will emerge victorious! • Two toFour player Local Pass-and-Play Games • Six unique AI (computer)Personalities • Single Player Campaign through Real Cities •Interactive Tutorial, Rule Book, and Tile Reference • English andGerman language tiles, including over 50 Different Buildings •Supports devices with a 6-inch screen or larger
Chess · Play & Learn
Play chess online with millions of players around the world! Enjoyfree unlimited games and improve your chess rating with 50,000+tactics puzzles, interactive lessons and videos, and a powerfulcomputer opponent. Unlock your inner chess master today! PLAY CHESSONLINE - Challenge your friends and chat with opponents - Playreal-time blitz or daily correspondence chess TACTICS PUZZLES -Solve more than 50,000 puzzles - Adjusts to your skill level tohelp you improve LESSONS - Thousands of videos and interactivelessons from top Grandmasters - Interactive tutorials with helpfultips and highlights COMPUTER - Adjust the computer's strength -Analyze your game to learn what went wrong … AND MORE - Dailyarticles by top authors and coaches like IM Jeremy Silman - Openingexplorer helps you learn and play the right openings - Make friends& send messages - 20+ gorgeous themes for boards, pieces, andbackgrounds - Detailed performance stats and ratings - Activecommunity forum ABOUT CHESS.COM Chess.com is built by chess playersand enthusiasts who really love chess! Team:http://www.chess.com/about Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chessTwitter: http://twitter.com/chesscom YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/wwwchesscom TwitchTV:http://www.twitch.com/chess
Dice With Buddies™ Free - The Fun Social Dice Game
*Dice With Buddies™* Dice With Buddies is a fun, new spin on yourfavorite classic dice game! Enjoyed by millions of players, you canplay free multiplayer board games with family, friends, or newbuddies! Share the fun playing free games wherever your opponent issitting, either next to you or thousands of miles away! Roll thedice with all your friends in a fun, new social board gameexperience! Dice board games are easy and exciting to play! Take onopponents with brand new custom dice, easy-to-use interface, newgame modes, and exciting daily tournaments! Play this exhilaratingboard game from the same account on any iPad or iPhone! How to PlayDice With Buddies: In Dice With Buddies, the objective of the gameis to score the most points by rolling different combinations. Your5 dice can be rolled up to 3 times per turn to score in a category.Once a category has been used in the game, it cannot be used again.The game consists of thirteen turns. Feeling lucky? Roll afive-of-a-kind and score 50 points! Score more points than youropponent to win the game and earn rewards! This dice game has alsocalled Poker Dice because there are fun combinations like FullHouse, Three-of-a-Kind, Four-of-a-Kind, Small Straight, LargeStraight – all that resemble poker. If you love Yahtzee, Yatzy andFarkle, then you will love Dice With Buddies! Play this classicdice game anywhere with your friends and family, and prepare tohave fun! ===Dice With Buddies Features=== Dice Game Bonuses: •Finish Dice games to win in-game scratchers with a chance to wintons of bonus dice rolls. • Activate a bonus dice roll to get anextra dice roll right when you need it. Defeat the Dice Masters: •Dice Masters play back instantly in Dice With Buddies reinventedsolo adventure - take down the Dice Masters and earn amazing customdice along the way! • Conquer dozens of new levels with brand newboosts and obstacles like ice blocks, flying multipliers and more!• Join the Race for the ultimate head to head competition and earngreat new rewards! Take part in multiplayer tournaments: • Dicetournaments are a new, thrilling challenge! Dice Solitaire, DiceBingo, and Dice Stars are completely new ways to play this classicgame! Tournaments are running daily! • Play through 10+ leagues towin exciting prizes! Social Games with Friends • Play with friendsand family. Create your own family in game to group chat and sharerewards! • Multiplayer games with random opponents – play dicegames with players around the world. • Chat, challenge, andfavorite your friends with the new social buddies system!Personalize your dice rolling experience: • LOADS OF CUSTOM DICE! •LOTS OF SPECIAL PORTRAIT FRAMES! • TONS OF THEMED GAME BOARDS! Fansof card games and fun social experiences will LOVE Dice WithBuddies! Entertaining games with friends await in Dice WithBuddies! Download today and roll the dice! Please contact us firstname.lastname@example.com with questions, concerns or suggestions!Privacy Policy: https://scopely.com/privacy/ AdditionalInformation, Rights, and Choices Available to California Players:https://scopely.com/privacy/#additionalinfo-california
Real Chess
This app brings classic chess game into new dimension. Withadvanced 3D graphics you can feel all beauty of interacting withvirtual chess set. Choose to play with AI or with real opponents.Game Features: * Advanced 3D graphics; * Online gameplay. More than1 million registered users worldwide. * Matchmaking feature; * Chatwith opponents while playing online; * AI with 2400 levels ofdifficulty; * Hints for beginners - highlighting of possible moves;* Different themes of chess set; * 3D and 2D board variants; * Bothlandscape and portrait screen mode supported.
Catan Classic
Play the legendary strategy game ... anytime, anywhere. Play trueto the original board game rules, compete with up to four playersfor the most settlements, the longest roads and the largest army.Trade important resources, build roads and cities, settle theisland and become Lord of Catan! Prove your strategy skills bychallenging other Catan fans online via cross-platform multiplayer,or take on the AI with various computer opponents, each with theirown individual characteristics. Become Harbormaster, discover newislands, invest new trade goods and defeat the barbarians, vanquishdragons or build a canal with the additional expansions. Basic gamefeatures: - Play according to the original board game rules -Synchronous online multiplayer - Smart computer opponents withindividual strategies - Comprehensive tutorial - The Seafarers andCities & Knights LITE: Test the expansions in selectedscenarios. - Available languages: English, German, French, Dutch,Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese Available expansions (in-apppurchases): - The Seafarers: Play your way through the elaboratecampaign made up of 16 diverse scenarios and sail your ships to newshores. - Cities & Knights: Protect Catan from the barbarianinvasion. New gameplay mechanics add even more variety to Catan. -The new scenarios: Vanquish dragons or build a canal with the"Enchanted Land" and "The Great Canal" scenarios. - The Islands:Discover uncharted lands with a collection of unofficialmulti-island scenarios. - All-expansions set ***** Catan FAQ:Question: Why do I have to download additional files afterpurchasing? Answer: The download from Google play includes thebasic game data and a tool that will determine your device'sdisplay resolution and then download the optimal graphics data foryour device. Question: Which Android security permissions doesCatan need and why? Answer: "Storage" to write data to the SD ormove the game data, "Network communication" to download game dataand access the In App Store and "system tools" to check if Catan isalready running to resume a game. Question: I bought one of theexpansions but after an update, reinstallation of Catan or afterrestoring my phone the expansion seems gone? Answer: Don't worry;your initial purchase is already saved in your Google account.However for technical reasons you might have to select "Buy" again.Confirm and a message will tell you that you've already purchasedit. You will NOT be billed twice! Question: I lost my campaignprogress after reinstalling, updating from or when restoring myphone. Is there any way to restore it? Answer: Savegames from oldversions can usually be restored automatically. For all other caseswe've integrated a cheat code: Enter campaign mode and go to selectplayer. Enter "CatanWarp*" (* = 1–15, e.g "CatanWarp5") as yourplayer name and confirm. Exit the game via the home button. Enteryour phone's settings menu. Select applications/manageapplications/Catan/ and then "Force Stop". Restart Catan. Thecampaign can now be continued from the specified level number byselecting "New scenario *". ***** ***** Suggestions forimprovements and feature requests? Mail to email@example.com We arelooking forward to your feedback! When contacting our support team,please provide details on the type of device and Android OS versionused as well as a detailed description of the issue. Thank you! Fornews and updates follow us on Facebook and Twitter. *****
Tic Tac Toe Free
Tic tac toe free is a noughts and crosses puzzle game for 1 or 2players, play against the computer at various difficulty levels orplay with your friends and find out who is the X's and O'schampion!! No need to waste paper! Now you can play Tic Tac Toe onyour Android device for free!! Tic-tac-toe (or Noughtsand crosses, Xs and Os) is a paper-and-pencil stylegame for two players, X and O, who take turnsmarking the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The player who succeeds inplacing three of their markers in a horizontal, vertical, ordiagonal row wins the game. Tic Tac Toe Free supports one playerand two player gameplay, so you can play against a friend oragainst your Android device. Tic Tac Toe Free offers a host ofexciting features, including: Great graphics and sound effects. 4difficulty levels Easy to play Configurable player names andplayer stats. Tic Tac Toe is a great way to pass the time, whetheryou're standing in line or spending time with the kids. Get Tic TacToe Free now and let the fun begin! The game has a number ofEnglish names. Tick-tack-toe, Tic-tac-toe, Tick-tat-toe Noughts andcrosses or Naughts and crosses (United Kingdom, Republic ofIreland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa Xs andOs (Egypt, Republic of Ireland, Canada, Zimbabwe) Xand 0 (Romania) O-X (Mauritius) Twiddles and Bears (Norway) X-eO-zees and Boxin Oxen are also used. Copyright Notice! PolysoftStudios reserves all rights on all source code, backgrounds,screen-shots, icons, sound files, and images used within thisapplication.. Do not use our source code via decompilation,ourgraphic elements, our description or other resources as we willfile a DMCA request for copyright infringement with Google withoutprior warning and you risk loosing your account. Thank you. © 2015- 2019 Polysoft Studios Please forward all feedback, suggestionsand bug reports to the email address below.
Tic Tac Toe
The classic paper-and-pencil game, also known as Noughts andCrosses or Xs and Os. FEATURES: - lots of game modes (the classic3x3. the 3D version 3x3x3 and other variants) - 3 difficulties(easy, medium and hard) - single player, two players on the samedevice, two players online - google play games achievements -google play games leaderboards - online multiplayer RULES: - theboard can be 3x3, 3x3x3, 5x5 or 7x7 - two players playalternatively, marking one empty cell at a time - the objective(equal to 3, 4 or 5) is the number of markings to achieve in line(horizontally or vertically or diagonally) - the 3x3x3 should bevisualized as a cube (check the screenshots for some winningpossibilities) Stop wasting paper and save some trees! =)
YAHTZEE® With Buddies: A Fun Dice Game for Friends
Roll and play dice with friends in the number 1 dice game fromHasbro! A family board game classic, the addictive Yahtzee® WithBuddies connects friends for a fun, multiplayer game of dice. Callit yatzee, yatzy or even yachty, but there's only one Yahtzee! Giveit a roll and find out why millions of people have played thisclassic family game for over 50 years!Challenge friends to rolldice in the world's number 1 dice game! Yahtzee® With Buddies isthe addictive social dice game with lots of ways to play and tonsof prizes to win. Play Dice with Buddies™ opponents in this freegame with family and friends anytime, anywhere!SOCIAL DICE GAME FORFRIENDS AND FAMILY – TOP 5 REASONS TO DOWNLOAD Play Yahtzee, thenumber 1 dice game officially licensed by HasbroRoll dice and havefun with buddies in games based on the world's favorite boardgamePlay dice with board game rules that are fast and easy tolearnChallenge friends and family to roll dice and chat whileplaying multiplayer dice gamesPlay this free game for addictive funand different outcomes every time!Play the number 1 dice game andhave fun with buddies! The addictive, family game classic fromHasbro features amazing, authentic graphics – easy to learn, andfun to play, it's a social game that's fun for all ages! CLASSICBOARD GAME ON THE GO – HASBRO YAHTZEE®Play the classic family gameat home or on the road!Challenge Facebook friends, roll dice andhave fun with buddies! You can even chat as you play!Challenge anew Dice Master and score prizes, Bonus Rolls and Custom Dice indaily tournaments!Roll dice with flair: Personalize your experienceby winning Custom Dice and vanity frames! Roll dice and engage inepic dice game battles in this multiplayer online familygame!MULTIPLAYER DICE GAMES AND FUN WITH BUDDIES IN DAILYTOURNAMENTSPlay dice games with friends and prove you're the bestdice rollerMultiplayer matches where anything can happen! Play indaily dice tournaments for a new challenge with winners crowned inintense matchups!Roll dice in a social game that pits you againstskilled Masters! Heat up the competition and challenge a newopponent to a dice battlePlay dice and test your game skills. Scoreprizes, amazing Bonus Rolls and Custom Dice for a personalizedexperience!Play dice with YAHTZEE, the social game that lets youscream and shout with joy as you win – just like a real boardgame!How to Play YAHTZEE:Yahtzee is a dice game where players needto score as many points as possible, by rolling five dice to makedifferent combinations. This free dice game consists of 13 roundswith the scorecard having 13 categories. Roll the dice up to threetimes and choose which scoring category is to be used for thatround. Once a category has been used in the game, it cannot be usedagain. To get Yahtzee, roll five-of-a-kind and score 50 points, thehighest of any category. The winner is the player who scores themost points.This dice game has also been referred to as Poker Dicesince there are combinations such as Full house, Three of a Kind,Four of a Kind, Small Straight, and Large Straight which resemblethose in Poker.Whether you call it yatzy, yahtzee, yatzee, oryachty, there's only one authentic Yahtzee!Download YAHTZEE® WITHBUDDIES and play with friends or challenge new opponents fromaround the world in Dice with Buddies™! Pick up your shaker anddice and prepare to shout "YAHTZEE"!The HASBRO GAMING and YAHTZEEnames and logos are trademarks of Hasbro.© 2017 Hasbro, Pawtucket,RI 02861-1059 USA. All Rights Reserved. TM & ® denote U.S.Trademarks.
Snakes & Ladders Aquarium FREE
Check out this brand new version of the most popular board and dicegame Snakes and Ladders (in Aquarium), now available for yourAndroid device!The game play:Players spin the dice and move theircharacter for the number of steps indicated by the dice. If theyland on the lower-numbered end of the block with a "ladder", theycan move their way up to the higher-numbered block. If they land onthe higher-numbered square of a pair with a "snake", they must movetheir character down to the lower-numbered square.The first playerwho successfully arrives at the last block in an exact number ofsteps is the winner.Features:• An "all time classic" returns as amobile game: long-lasting enjoyment on Phone and Tablet isguaranteed• Easy but addictive gameplay brings fun for the fullfamily• Easy to control: Automatic or manual movement• Brand newstar fortune blocks – give the game a totally new twist!• 2 boardswith different locations for snakes and ladders (5 more in FULLversion)• Singleplayer AND multiplayer mode• HD graphics and lovelyunderwater effects• Multi-LanguageDeveloped By: Kadus VirtualDevelopment (FinalBoss)
Dr. Janggi
Dr. Janggi Janggi (including romanizations changgi and jangki),sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular inKorea. The game derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess) and is verysimilar to it, including the starting position of the pieces, andthe 9×10 gameboard, but without the xiangqi "river" dividing theboard horizontally at the middle. Janggi is played on a board ninelines wide by ten lines long. The game is sometimes fast-paced dueto the jumping cannons and the long-range elephants, butprofessional games most often last over 150 moves and so aretypically slower than those of Western chess. Sign in Google+ toenjoy online match via internet. SUD Inc.
2048 Hex
2048 like game on Hex Board, UPDATED!!!Three Simple Rules: 1 Swipe,2 Match, 3 Enjoy.3 Tile sets: RGB, Numbers, Chinese3 Modes:Classic, Triangle and Hour Glass!We are proud to present anothersmart puzzle game of highest quality.You will definitely like 2048Hex Puzzle if you like 2048 or 1024!Maximum tile is 4096.When youcollapse two 4096 tiles you get a star. Try to get as many stars aspossible.If you initially bought this game at start, we can refundyour purchase. For that please provide us with the Order Number ofthe purchase. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Laser Puzzle
Innovative, unique, free puzzle game about Lasers! Lazer Puzzle!★Laser Puzzle FREE ★Check out our new game - 2048HEXhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spiralcodestudio.hexled•Over 180 different puzzles for free plus secret levels!• Unlimitednumber of random puzzles!• You can solve puzzles in any order!•Very creative game overall• Retina support and 8-bit pixel chiptuneretro music!★ «Wow! This puzzle game provided much more than Iexpected from a puzzle game! Very much worth the download!Excellent pro work from the developers.» — Loves Good Apps ★ «Everypuzzle level makes you think. It's not about how fast you can moveyour fingers like a lot of other puzzle games. It's all in yourbrain.» — Mark Graesser ★ «Laser Puzzle is really a great freepuzzle game. Many puzzles, colorful lazers. It is much moreinteresting than Lazors or Laser Logic 3D» — Mike Beams Spell Lazerwith S - Laser! Lazer is a wrong spelling, because Laser is anabbreviation. As well as plural Lazers must be Lasers.We hope youlike Laser Puzzle Free game as much as we like making it.You areawesome!
军棋,又名陆战棋,相信大家一定玩过。这是一款界面精美、功能丰富的军棋游戏。 1.支持人机对战,两人对战,联网对战,蓝牙、Wi-Fi联机对战。包含两人军棋和四国军棋。人机对战可选择多个难度级别。 2.两人军棋支持翻棋、布局,暗棋、明棋四种玩法。 3. 四国军棋支持四暗、双明两种玩法,可选择两种操作方式:放大棋盘或直接点选棋子。 4.可以编辑、载入和保存布局,并提供大量预置的参考布局。 5. 布局暗棋具有标志对方棋子的功能。 6.可以设置玩法细节:如由工兵还是最小的棋子挖地雷,大本营是否允许吃子等。 7. 电脑对手相当聪明,想战胜它除了需要策略,还需要一点运气。8. 蓝牙联机对战如果出现连接失败的情况,请尝试在蓝牙设置中先进行配对或者换个人创建游戏。 9.Wi-Fi联机对战需要双方接入同一个无线局域网。 10. 游戏菜单中有详细的规则说明。快来尝试一下吧! Jun Qi, alsoknown as marine chess, I believe we must be played. This is abeautiful interface, feature-rich military chess game. 1. Thesupport crew war, the two battle, battle networking, Bluetooth,Wi-Fi online game. It contains Junqi and Siguojunqi. Man-machinewar can select multiple difficulty levels. 2. support turned chessJun Qi, layout, An Qi Ming chess four kinds of games are played. 3.Siguojunqi support four dark, two-out two kinds of play, you canchoose two modes of operation: an enlarged board or simply clickpawn. 4. You can edit, load and save the layout, and provides avariety of preset reference layout. 5. Layout Anqi other landmarkpiece of functionality. 6. You can set the play details: such isthe smallest piece of mines dug by the engineers, the headquartersof whether to allow the child to eat and so on. 7. The computeropponents is quite clever, wants to defeat it in addition tostrategy, you also need a little luck. 8. If the Bluetooth onlinegaming case connection failure occurs, try the Bluetooth settingsbefore pairing or for individuals to create games. 9. Wi-Fi accessto online gaming requires both sides to the same wireless LAN. 10.The game menu has detailed rules explanation. Come and try it!
Tabuzz - Παιχνίδι με λέξεις
Το Tabuzz είναι ένα παιχνίδι λέξεων για να διασκεδάσεις με τηνπαρέα σου! Είναι το γνωστό Taboo με περισσότερες απο 1200 ελληνικέςλέξεις για ατελείωτες ώρες παιχνιδιού.Οι κανόνες είναι απλοί.Μαζευτείτε τουλάχιστον 4 παίκτες, χωριστείτε σε 2 έως 4 ομάδες καιξεκινήστε τη μάχη!Στόχος του παιχνιδιού είναι η ομάδα σου ναμαζέψει περισσότερους πόντους από τις αντίπαλες ομάδες μαντεύονταςσωστά τις λέξεις στις κάρτες στον λιγότερο χρόνο!Το ένα μέλος τηςομάδας περιγράφει την λέξη στο πάνω μέρος της κάρτας χωρίς να πειτις απαγορευμένες λέξεις taboo από κάτω, ώστε να την μαντέψουν οιυπόλοιποι της ομάδας.Με κάθε σωστή μαντεψιά κερδίζετε ένα πόντο,αλλά προσοχή! Aν πεις καταλάθως μια από τις απαγορευμένες λέξειςtaboo θα αφαιρεθεί ένας πόντος από την ομάδα σου!Κάθε ομάδα έχεισυγκεκριμένο χρόνο για να μαζέψει όσους περισσότερους πόντουςμπορεί, τον οποίο αλλάζεις από τις ρυθμίσεις στο κάτω μέρος τηςκεντρικής οθόνης, όπως επίσης και τον ελάχιστο αριθμό πόντων πουπρέπει να έχετε συγκεντρώσει μετά το πέρας ενός κύκλου γύρων για νανικήσει.Νικήτρια ομάδα είναι αυτή που θα μαντέψει τις περισσότερεςκάρτες χωρίς να λέει τις λέξεις taboo. Εσύ, το μόνο που έχεις νακάνεις είναι να πεις τις σωστές λέξεις και να κάνεις την παρέα ναμαντέψει!The Tabuzz is a word game to have fun with your friends!Taboo is known in more than 1,200 Greek words for endless hours ofplay.The rules are simple.Gather up to 4 players, split into 2-4groups and start the battle!The aim of the game is your team tocollect more points than the opposing teams guessing correctly thewords in the less time cards!One member of the group describes theword at the top of the card without saying the banned words taboounderneath, so to guess the rest of the team.With each correctguess, you win a point, but beware! If you say katalathos one ofthe prohibited words taboo will be deducted one point from yourteam!Each group has a specific time to collect as many points as itcan, why you change the settings at the bottom of the main screen,as well as the minimum number of points must have earned at the endof a cycle of rounds to beat.The winning team is the one who willguess most cards without telling the taboo words.You, all you haveto do is say the right words and make friends to guess!
New to Android for 2015! Former iTunes #1!Mastersoft's Chess gameis 100% Free and has one of the World's best Desktop PC chessengines crammed inside! * 100% Free but with one IAP if you wish toremove the adverts.* 4th in World Micro-computer ChessChampionships.* 100 Graded Levels from Novice to Grandmaster.*Coach Training Mode guaranteed to improve your game.* Rating Modethat evaluates your ELO rating and progression.* 2 Player Mode.Thisengine finished 4th in the World Microcomputer Chess Championshipsand is not available in any other Android chess game. Designed bychess champions to play like a human opponent, Mastersoft Chesswill take you from Novice to Grandmaster level! Features stunninghigh resolution sets by renowned Chess designers.Easy to play butdifficult to beat, this is pick up and play chess at its best!Aspreviously supplied by the World's biggest OEMs, and now availablefor FREE thanks to the power of the Google Play Store!PROFESSIONALREVIEWS:"It truly is close to flawless and is by far the bestmobile Chess game I have played on any platform."- PDA 247.AWARDSHPChoice Strategy Game of the YearSmartphone Magazine runnerup.Various levels, board styles and breathtaking Retina Displaychess sets combine with an outstanding World beating chess engineto offer you a great playing experience and an ever increasingchallenge.Whether you're just starting out or else a seasoned pro,Mastersoft Chess has something for you!BEGINNERSHint facilityCoachmode showing best moves and biggest threatsBuilt in coach tomonitor your progressTraining levels that dumb down your Androiddevice.Take back a move if you change your mind!Your phone checksthat your moves are allowed.Simple intuitive uncluttered interfacethat lets you concentrate on your game.NB If you are new to Chessthen please ensure that the coach is turned on in options and thatthe lowest difficulty level is selected.GRANDMASTERSA unique engineunlike any other - plays interesting and sometimes quite aggressivechess.Designed to play like a human opponent - right up toGrandmaster level!Opening Book of over 23000 moves!100% Full Chessrules including enpassant, castling etc.Thought analysis (mainline, depth and score).Setup position (including castling rights,enpassant and side to move)Move forward / backward to any point inthe current game.Includes Standard Chess Book Sets in addition tothe realistic ones.In depth statistics.ELO rating system.100 levelsof increasing difficulty.OTHER FEATURESHuge collection of stunninghigh resolution chess sets in both 2D and 3D. Makes the most ofyour phone display!Boards constructed from the real thing - Oak,Ash, Marble, Slate and more!Online play.Save and loadgames.Realistic sound effects.Adjustable piece movementanimation.Auto saving of your current game.Great for novices butwill grow with you and still offer a challenge at Championshiplevel.100% FREE!
麻雀昇龍神 [無料麻雀]
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EMPIRE BRASS: 'The Sounds of Christmas' featuring Elisabeth von Trapp
TORRINGTON >> The Warner Theatre welcomes North America's brass quintet Empire Brass presenting "The Sounds of Christmas" on Thursday, Dec. 20, at 8 p.m.
This seasonal concert will feature Elisabeth von Trapp, granddaughter of the legendary Maria and Baron von Trapp, whose story inspired "The Sound of Music."
The five musicians that perform as Empire Brass have all held leading positions with major American orchestras and perform over 100 concerts a year in cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington, London, Zurich and Tokyo. With their best-selling recordings on the Telarc label they have introduced an even larger audience worldwide to the excitement of brass music that ranges from Bach and Handel to jazz and Broadway. They are equally at home in the majestically antiphonal works that Gabrieli composed for St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice and the exuberantly show stopping tunes that Richard Rodgers and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote for Broadway.
Singing professionally since childhood, Elisabeth has enthralled audiences from European cathedrals to Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center. Tickets for this concert are $20.50, $35.50, $45.50 and can be purchased by calling the Warner box office at 489-7180 or online at www.warnertheatre.org.


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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Community Board from hell opposed to development outside their district
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The construction of the Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island will bring traffic and pollution to Astoria, where the only bridge to the island is located, Astoria Community Board members said during its meeting Tuesday night.
The community board however has little say over the development plans because the project is located within the area of Manhattan Community Board 8.
"They [Manhattan Community Board] are getting a beautiful building and we are getting all the garbage," said Vinicio Donato, Community Board 1's chairman.
Construction will start in 2014 and the campus will open its doors to the first students in 2017. It will take another 21 years to complete the campus, which will eventually host 2,500 students and sprawl over 2-million square feet.
Astoria Community Board members said they are worried that the university, both during its construction period and once it is operational, will bring too much traffic, pollution and noise to the neighborhood, especially in the area surrounding 36th Avenue where the bridge is located.
When has CB1 ever been against development? Or are the players just upset that they aren't getting a piece of the action for this one?
"We've heard all these beautiful stories about the project many times," said George Stamatiades, a board member. "If you are only expecting a six percent increase in the volume of traffic coming through our community, there won't be that many people on that island."
That came from Mr. UPZONING. UPZONING. UPZONING?
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Yes there will be many more cars coming and going where before you only had the Goldwater hospital workers driving to work in shifts.
Maybe it's time to ban cars on Roosevelt Island.
- Saturday, November 24, 2012
Carolyn Maloney said our community is one of those that gets the most money of any neighborhood.
Shame we only have a big hole to show for it. But hell, the folks from Long Island can cut a few minutes travel time.
But who is complaining? The Dutch Kills Civic Association has lots of support from the politicians.
I would like to invite them over to see the floor show 5 feet from my son's bedroom window in the hotel room next to his.
Good work George! Thanks for bringing in those politicians and their money to help your community.
The civics from all around NYC should come here and study your record. I am sure they will find it most interesting.
- Saturday, November 24, 2012
Stamatiades is ticked because this will effect development on Vernon Blvd.
Now the community has to put a restriction on waterfront development (Sandy, what Sandy? this is the community board from hell remember?) to accommodate development elsewhere.
Playing around with the timing of one traffic light to handle Suna's three 40 story 'public access job-creation project' will not work with the additional Roosevelt Island plans.
They might have to do some real traffic management studies.
- Sunday, November 25, 2012
Sure, a great place for science...right in the middle of a river with only one bridge off and on the island.
Just ask all the research scientists about their work that got destroyed by the hurricane ... just a few hundred feet away in Manhattan.
Time, money, careers wasted.
- Monday, November 26, 2012
They shoudld gave built the campus at Sunnyside Yards or Flushing Meadow. Why do they always treat Queens like we are not good enough?
- Monday, November 26, 2012


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Intercultural Competency: Becoming Global Citizens
Intercultural Competency: Becoming Global Citizens (CLPR 352) is a "must" for every student returning from study abroad. This one-credit on-line seminar will give you the opportunity to
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- Intercultural Communication (COMM 114 or 407)
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- Cultural Anthropology (SOC 104)
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- Any language course at the 202 level
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Every week our cardiologists review the most recent advances in cardiovascular medicine and select news to share with you. Here you will find summaries of some of the latest research news about peripheral vascular disease. Share these articles with your friends and family via social media, print items you'd like to discuss with your care team, or add them to your toolbox to read later.
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Study highlights the benefits of exercise and sports in middle-aged adults, as well as CPR training.
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Finnish study assesses the effects of Vitamin D and strength training in women prone to falling.
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Antiarrhythmic medicines help return the
heart to its
normal sinus rhythm, maintain the rhythm after it has
been achieved, and/or reduce the heart rate while you are in atrial
fibrillation. These medicines stabilize the heart muscle tissue.
Antiarrhythmics such as amiodarone or sotalol also slow the heart rate by
blocking impulses that pass through the
AV node in the heart.
Antiarrhythmic medicines are used to
atrial fibrillation to a normal rhythm or to maintain a normal heart rhythm after a procedure to stop atrial fibrillation.
Your doctor may recommend these medicines if you:
Antiarrhythmics are used carefully, because they can cause dangerous side effects.
Doctors may
recommend the "pill in the pocket" approach for people with paroxysmal atrial
fibrillation. With this approach, you can take a single dose of an
antiarrhythmic drug when you feel palpitations instead of taking the medicine
every day. For some people, this stops atrial fibrillation episodes. It may
also reduce medicine side effects and the need to be seen in the emergency room
or be hospitalized. But not everyone can use this treatment. Before you can
take the "pill in the pocket" approach, your doctor will want to make sure that
you do not have any other heart disease and that your heart's electrical system
is normal.
Antiarrhythmic medicines help return the heart to its normal rhythm
and keep atrial fibrillation from returning. These medicines might help relieve symptoms such as palpitations or shortness of breath.1
Some antiarrhythmic medicines raise your risk of having a dangerous arrhythmia such as ventricular
tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. Your doctor will check you closely while you take these medicines. The risk of side effects might be greater if you have severe
heart disease.
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Heart symptoms such as:
Severe allergy symptoms such as:
Antiarrhythmic medicines can cause less serious side effects that may go away after taking the medicine for a while. Call your doctor if these side effects continue or if they bother you a lot.
Call your doctor if you have any side effects from amiodarone. Side effects may include:
Call your doctor right away if you have:
Call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of heart failure, such as:
Other side effects of propafenone may include a change in taste, such as metallic taste in your mouth.
Other side effects of sotalol may include a slow heart rate.
See Drug
Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in
all systems.)
Antiarrhythmic medicines might interact with many other medicines that you might take. Tell your doctor all of the medicines that you take. Be sure to include nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and natural supplements.
Grapefruit juice can affect some antiarrhythmic medicines such as sotalol. Ask your doctor if your medicine is affected by grapefruit juice and if you need to make any changes to avoid problems.
For more information, see Grapefruit Juice and Medicines.
If you take amiodarone, your doctor will check you carefully for side effects to make sure you can take the medicine safely. Talk to your doctor if you have any side effects or
any concerns about taking amiodarone. Because amiodarone can cause serious side effects, it is typically used for people who have severe symptoms when other medicines have
Dronedarone (Multaq) should not be used by some people who have heart failure, because it can cause serious problems, including death. If you have heart failure, talk to your doctor about whether this medicine is safe for you.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
CitationsLane DA, et al. (2011). Atrial fibrillation (chronic), search date June 2011. BMJ Clinical Evidence. Available online: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.
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Former stars in awe of Mo's career, farewell
Past big league giants turn to superlatives in describing closer's accomplishments
Jim Thome never gave in at the plate. And why should he have? Taking command during each at-bat resulted in 612 career home runs, not to mention 1,699 RBIs, a career .956 OPS and, most likely, a plaque in the Hall of Fame when he becomes eligible for consideration.
No matter who the pitcher was, he stood his ground.
Unless that pitcher happened to be Mariano Rivera.
"I faced a lot of guys in my career, and ... I was always the guy. I tried to control the box. I tried to dig in. I wanted to create an aura when I got in the box that it was mine," Thome told MLB.com.
"Well, with Mariano, it was the reverse. I was backing off. Or I was up. And if you get up on the plate, then you're done. I can envision it in my mind right now. His cutter's coming in and you're thinking, 'OK, OK, OK.' And then those last inches, it just bites on the trademark on the bat or on your knuckles. I can envision what his cutter looks like and to me it's singlehandedly the most devastating pitch I've faced."
Brad Lidge earned 18 career postseason saves. Nobody has more.
Except for Rivera, of course, who nailed down 42 postseason victories for the Yankees.
"I felt like I was in the postseason all the time in my career. I was extremely lucky to be on great teams. But I'm like so far behind him it's crazy," Lidge told MLB.com. "There's a bunch of us [Dennis Eckersley, Jason Isringhausen, Robb Nen, Mark Wohlers] gapped up, and then there's him. It doesn't even seem like he's playing the same game we're playing because of how far ahead he is of everybody else in the postseason."
Former big league stars like Thome, Lidge, Eckersley and John Franco aren't easily impressed. They're used to being the best of the best. But even they grasp for superlatives when talking about Rivera, whose illustrious career ended with the Yankees' final game Sunday. Even they marvel at his longevity and consistency.
Franco knows as much as anybody about the special pressure of being a closer in New York. He spent most of his career with the Mets while piling up 424 saves, fourth all-time and the most by a left-hander.
"He's just a special guy, man. A special person. These types of players come along [rarely]. And Mariano was one of those. He just had a special makeup where, year in and year out, he was at the top of the game. And not only that, he did it in a city where every game is tooth-and-nail and they watch what you're doing," Franco said to MLB.com.
Eckersley was struck by how Rivera's composure during his farewell tour this season matched the way he handled even the most nerve-wracking ninth-inning situations when a game, or even an entire season, might be on the line.
"He must be exhausted, you know? I've been amazed at how he's handled himself his whole career, so calm and collected, the whole Sandman thing. ... I just saw him the last trip in Boston. All the ceremonies, all the accolades, meeting with fans and still having to pitch. I don't know, it's beyond me. I'd have a hard time pitching after that many ceremonies," the Hall of Famer said.
"I don't think there's been that many people who have gotten the accolades for a career that he has. I went through that with Ozzie Smith one year in St. Louis, with Reggie Jackson one year. I was even there with Yaz [Carl Yastrzemski] 30 years ago. And I don't think anything even touches what they did for Mariano. To me, it says everything. He's special. It's more for him than what he even did. It's about the person -- that's what they're celebrating."
As a hitter, Thome still has a hard time believing Rivera could have had so much success throwing basically one pitch. Even though everybody knew what was coming, they still had a devilishly difficult time hitting it.
"It's amazing to me how he's gone about getting guys out with one pitch," Thome said. "It might single-handedly be the best accomplishment in baseball. He's the most devastating one-single-pitch pitcher that I've ever faced in my career. Hands down. And I've faced some great ones.
"I always heard this about him. He'll throw to your feet. And then when he sees guys starting to back off, then with two strikes he'll throw that backdoor cutter that's out over the plate and it freezes you. Because here he is throwing a lefty in, in, in, in, in. And you're backing off and he throws -- boom -- on the outer half and you're done. You're just done."
"It surprises me, but you know what? Location, location, location," Franco said in agreement with Thome. "He was great in locating that cutter and then he'd run that ball up to the top. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he was so cool out there. That's why he's the greatest."
As a closer, Lidge shakes his head at how Rivera was able to be so consistently good for so long.
"He's a once-in-a-lifetime player, I think," Lidge said. "Maybe even once in the history of baseball. And I would say this: I have absolutely no doubt there has never been, and there will never be, anyone close to as good as he was. Because it's baseball. You can't do what he did for 20 years. I mean, you just can't do it. I don't know how he did it. I don't believe it's physically possible for anyone else.
"When closers come up and they throw hard and they do really well for the first few years, every single one of them at some point will face a time when his velocity will go down and they'll have to come up with other stuff. Some can do that fairly successfully. Some can't. I know when my velocity went down I had a real hard time competing just because I only had a fastball-slider. But Mariano's velocity and the pitch he throws, it's not really a factor for him. To think that that's physically what he was able to do, no one will be able to do that again.
"And I would also say this: I think he is one of the top 10 most valuable players in the history of baseball. It's very hard, obviously, to compare him to a Mickey Mantle or somebody like that because he doesn't play every day. But when you think about what he meant to the Yankees franchise and how many World Series they won when he was there and how, in my opinion, they wouldn't have been able to do it if he wasn't the guy at the end of the game. Maybe they would have won half of them. Then you kind of realize [how integral he was]. It would be hard to mention him in the same breath as a Babe Ruth or Ted Williams. But in terms of value to a team, I think he's as valuable as anybody who ever played."
Thome made one other concession to Rivera. If a hitter is going well, he tends to use the same bat. It just makes sense. But if he was facing Rivera, the slugger would often leave his gamer in the rack.
"I never wanted to take my best bat that I used," Thome explained. "Because I knew it might be done."


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Apple has named David Rice, author and former National Security Agency analyst, as its new director of global security, it was reported today.
Details about Rice's position are unknown, but he is expected to begin work at Apple in March, according to AllThingsD.
Rice, a former NSA analyst and security officer for the U.S. Navy, has spent the last few years as the director of The Monterey Group, a computer security consulting firm in Salinas, Calif. He is also the author of, "Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software" and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. With his work at think tanks and in the national eye, Rice is a high-profile hire -- much like Apple's hire of Ivan Krstic, former head of security of "One Laptop Per Child" and Window Snyder, former security chief for Mozilla.
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While Rice has a reputation for putting corporate officers at ease, but he has also been a supporter of a "bug tax," or a tax on companies who release software that need fixes -- the more frequent or severe, the higher the fee. In the past, he has also been openly critical of Apple's security.
Perhaps Apple is really attempting to find a head of security who will be proactively patrolling against security flaws. Someone who can give users a relatively bug-free experience and solidify Apple's global reputation.


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The Southern Folklife Collection is pleased to announce our first exhibit and program of 2014, "Lard Have Mercy! 30 Years of Southern Culture on the Skids." The exhibit opens Friday, March 14, 2014 at 6PM on the 4th floor of the Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. The exhibit opening will be followed by a concert at Historic Playmakers Theater featuring none other than Southern Culture on the Skids. Both events occur in conjunction with the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) taking place March 13-16 at UNC-Chapel Hill.
"Lard Have Mercy" traces the history of Chapel Hill's "Legendary Bards of Downward Mobility," Southern Culture on the Skids (SCOTS). Formed in 1983. SCOTS embody a raucous, sleazy, good-natured, good-time take on Southern traditions and traditional music playing a unique hybrid of Americana, surf, R&B, rockabilly, and swamp pop, driving fans into ecstatic, sweat-drenched paroxysms of joy.
Featuring photography by Kent Thompson and Michael Benson as well as instruments, posters, recordings, and other ephemera from the SCOTS collection in the Southern Folklife Collection.
Events are free and open to the public but seating is limited. Concert Tickets will be available via Memorial Hall Box Office (919) 843-3333 the week of March 3rd. More information about the concert below.
Ticket booth opens: 6pm
Doors: 7pm
Concert: 7:30pm


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You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim
The first time you heard the chorus of "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," you no doubt immediately wondered why Jim Croce left out "And you don't rasterize in software if you're trying to do GPU-class graphics, even on a high-performance part such as Larrabee." That's just common sense, right? It was obvious to me, anyway, that Larrabee was going to need a hardware rasterizer. But maybe Jim knew something I didn't, because it turned out I was wrong, and therein lies a tale.
First, though, let's back up a step and get some context.
Parallel programming for semi-parallel tasks
In A First Look at the Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni), I presented an overview of Larrabee, an upcoming multithreaded, vectorized, manycore processor from Intel. It may not be entirely apparent from that article, but the LRBni contains everything you need to do a great job running code that's designed to be vectorized, such as HLSL shaders. But what about tasks that aren't inherently scalar (in particular, where the iterations aren't serially dependent), and that at the same time can't be efficiently parallelized in any obvious way, and for which the usual algorithms aren't easily vectorized?
In the process of implementing the standard graphics pipeline for Larrabee, we (the Larrabee team at RAD -- Atman Binstock, Tom Forsyth, Mike Sartain, and me) have gotten considerable insight into that question, because while the pipeline is largely vectorizable, there are a few areas in which the conventional approaches are scalar, and where some degree of serialization is unavoidable. This article takes a close look at how we applied the Larrabee New Instructions to one of those problem areas -- rasterization -- in the process, redesigning our implementation so it was far more vectorizable so it took advantage of the strengths of Larrabee's CPU-based architecture. Needless to say, performance with the Larrabee New Instructions will vary greatly from one application to the next -- there's not much to be done with purely scalar code -- but diving into Larrabee rasterization in detail gives you a good sense of what it's like to apply the Larrabee New Instructions to at least one sort of non-obvious application.
To avoid potential confusion, let me define "rasterization": For our present purposes, it's the process of determining which pixels are inside a triangle, and nothing more. In this article, I won't discuss other aspects of the rendering pipeline, such as depth, stencil, shading, or blending, in any detail.
Rasterization Was the Problem Child -- But Less Problematic Than We Thought
When we look at applying the Larrabee New Instructions to the graphics pipeline, for the most part, it's easy to find 16-wide work for the vector unit to do. Depth, stencil, pixel shading, and blending all fall out of processing 4×4 blocks, with writemasking at the edges of triangles. Vertex shading is not quite a perfect fit, but 16 vertices can be shaded and cached in parallel, which works well because vertex usage tends to be localized. Setting up 16 triangles at a time also works pretty well; there's some efficiency loss due to culling, but it still yields more than half of maximum parallelism.
That leaves rasterization, which is definitely not easy to vectorize with enough performance to be competitive with hardware. As an aside, the Larrabee rasterizer is not, of course, the only rasterizer that could be written for Larrabee. There are other rasterizers for points and lines, and of course, there may be other future rasterizers for interesting new primitive types. In fact, I suggest you write your own -- it's an interesting problem! But as it doesn't have a more formal name, I'll just refer to the current general-purpose triangle rasterizer as "the Larrabee rasterizer" in this article.
The Larrabee rasterizer was at least the fifth major rasterizer I've written, but while the others were loosely related, the Larrabee rasterizer belongs to a whole different branch of the family -- so different, in fact, that it almost didn't get written. Why? Because, as is so often the case, I wanted to stick with the mental model I already understood and was comfortable with, rather than reexamining my assumptions. Long-time readers will recall my fondness for the phrase "Assume nothing"; unfortunately, I assumed quite a lot in this case, proving once again that it's easier to dispense wise philosophy than to put it into action!
Coming up with better solutions is all about trying out different mental models to see what you might be missing, a point perfectly illustrated by my efforts about 10 years ago to speed up a texture mapper. I had thrown a lot of tricks at it and had made it a lot faster, and figured I was done. But just to make sure, I ran it by my friend David Stafford, an excellent optimizer. David said he'd think about it and would let me know if he came up with anything.
When I got home that evening, there was a message on the answering machine from David, saying that he had gotten two cycles out of the inner loop. (It's been a long time, and my memories have faded, so it may not have been exactly two cycles, but you get the idea.) I called him back, but he wasn't home (this was before cellphones were widespread). So all that evening I tried to figure out how David could have gotten those two cycles. As I ate dinner, I wondered; as I brushed my teeth, I wondered; and as I lay there in bed not sleeping, I wondered. Finally, I had an idea -- but it only saved one cycle, not two. And no matter how much longer I racked my brain, I couldn't get that second cycle.
The next morning, I called David, admitted that I couldn't match his solution, and asked what it was. To which he replied: "Oh, sorry, it turned out my code doesn't work."
It's certainly a funny story, but more to the point, the only thing keeping my code from getting faster had been my conviction that there were no better solutions -- that my current mental model was correct and complete. After all, the only thing that changed between the original solution and the better one was that I acquired the belief that there was a better solution -- that is, that there was a better model than my current one. As soon as I had to throw away my original model, I had a breakthrough.
Software rasterization is a lot like that.
The previous experience that Tom Forsyth and I had with software rasterization was that it was much, much slower than hardware. Furthermore, there was no way we could think of to add new instructions to speed up the familiar software rasterization approaches, and no obvious way to vectorize the process, so we concluded that a hardware rasterizer would be required. However, this turned out to a fine example of the importance of reexamining assumptions.
In the early days of the project, as the vector width and the core architecture were constantly changing, one of the hardware architects, Eric Sprangle, kept asking us whether it might be possible to rasterize efficiently in software using vector processing. We kept patiently explaining that it wasn't. Then, one day, he said: "So now that we're using the P54C core, do you think software rasterization might work?" To be honest, we thought this was a pretty dumb question because the core didn't have any significant impact on vector performance; in fact, we were finally irritated enough to sit down to prove in detail -- with code -- that it wouldn't work.
And we immediately failed. As soon as we had to think hard about how the inner loop could be structured with vector instructions, and wrote down the numbers -- that is, as soon as our mental model was forced to deal with reality -- it became clear that software rasterization was in fact within the performance ballpark. After that, it was just engineering, much of which we'll see shortly.
First, though, it's worth pointing out that, in general, dedicated hardware will be able to perform any specific task more efficiently than software; this is true by definition because dedicated hardware requires no multifunction capability, so in the limit, it can be like a general-purpose core with the extraneous parts removed. However, by the same token, hardware lacks the flexibility of CPUs, and that flexibility can allow CPUs to close some or all of the performance gap. Hardware needs worst-case capacity for each component, so it often sits at least partly idle; CPUs, on the other hand, can just switch to doing something different, so ALUs are never idle. CPUs can also implement flexible, adaptive approaches, and that can make a big difference, as we'll see shortly.