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An online organization of more than 1,500 volunteers is using 3D printers to produce prosthetic hands or fingers for people around the world who need them.

This Sunday, the group, called e-NABLE, will come together at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to further their goals of designing, printing and distributing their inexpensive plastic prostheses, in advance of an upcoming U.S. Food and Drug Administration public forum on 3D printing of medical devices.

e-NABLE founder Jon Schull, a research scientist at New York's Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for MAGIC (Media, Arts, Games, Innovation and Creativity), said the group’s prostheses are made of tough plastics and cost little to make or repair.

"Traditional prosthetics can cost more than $40,000, and our hands have been favorably compared to them," Schull told Reuters Health. "We live in a world where the standard offerings are extraordinarily expensive. In contrast, we are harnessing the power of thousands of volunteers and giving them away."

e-NABLE's printed hands cost less than $50 to produce for volunteers with access to 3D printers, but they are not as elaborate as traditional prostheses. They are based on open-source, non-proprietary designs, some of which were first developed in 2012. (Hand, finger and arm design files are available from the group here:

The collaborative approach to design has the potential to improve millions of lives around the world, said Dr. Albert Chi, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins, in a statement to Reuters Health. "Now is the time to bring these technologies and practices into mainstream medicine."

Quinn Cassidy, the mother of a five-year-old who received an e-NABLE prosthetic hand, is an enthusiastic supporter of the organization.

"My son Griffin loves his - we still need to tighten the strings on the fingers and tweak it. When he put it on, he was immediately able to pick up a ball and throw it with his left hand, something he was never able to do before," she told Reuters Health. Chi helped outfit Griffin with a prosthetic hand.

Cassidy said the prosthesis has also helped Griffin become more confident, and he enjoys showing it off to curious children.

"He's wearing it a lot. He's really taken ownership of it," she said. "It's glow-in-the-dark, so he's pulling people in bathrooms and showing them. I can see him walking a little prouder when he has it on."

Cassidy recommends e-NABLE prosthetics to other parents with children facing limb difference, partly because they are so much more attainable than traditional prostheses and easy to use.

"We did not find a traditional body-powered prosthetic that Griffin liked at all. He would not wear it and it was incredibly expensive: even with good insurance, just the co-pay was $1,000," she added. "We have pledged $50 to provide another child a 3D-printed hand."

A growing Google+ network helps connect patients to local individuals or institutions with access to 3D printers. In particular, the group is interested in building alliances with aid workers in war-torn regions, disaster zones, and impoverished communities where inexpensive and easily attainable prosthetics are needed.

Schull said he is surprised by the growing support from traditional prosthetic manufacturers. Two leading traditional prosthetic companies, Hanger and Dankmeyer, Inc., are helping sponsor the conference, billed as Prosthetists Meet 3D Printers.

On October 8 and 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a public workshop “to discuss technical challenges and solutions of 3D printing” of medical devices.

"I have to believe that they are all keeping an eye on what we're doing," Schull added. "The pictures of smiling children are so compelling. I don't know if there will be pushback from the FDA.”

Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University in Virginia, another sponsor of Sunday’s conference, said he believes the FDA should approve new innovations at a faster pace.

“Will these new innovations be allowed? That’s the big question,” he told Reuters Health. “If nothing else, we have an antiquated system of approvals.”

If e-NABLE were to begin selling their hands or make them more complex, they would need to get FDA approvals.

“Outsiders, those outside of the medical industry, are innovating faster than insiders are,” Graboyes said. “3D printing is just one example.”

At Sunday’s conference, prosthetists and parents will learn how to print and assemble 3D printed prosthetic hands themselves.

“At the end of the day, children with upper limb differences will get to try on newly-donated 3D printed hand devices for the first time and provide feedback and guidance to the attendees,” according to a statement from e-NABLE.


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Seoul furious after two soldiers seriously injured

South Korea warned North Korea Monday that Pyongyang would face a "pitiless penalty" after it blamed the Communist nation for laying two land mines that maimed two South Korean soldiers last week.

The mines exploded Aug. 4 in the Seoul-controlled southern part of the heavily-fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The two wounded soldiers had been on a routine patrol at the time. One of the injured lost both legs, while the second lost one leg.

South Korea restarted propaganda broadcasts across the border for the first time in 11 years Monday in retaliation for the mine incident.

Monday’s loudspeaker broadcasts were in the western and center portions of the world's most heavily armed border, said Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok. He said the broadcasts emphasized that the mine explosions were a provocation by the North.

In the past, propaganda broadcasts typically blared messages about alleged North Korean government mismanagement, human rights conditions, the superiority of South Korean-style democracy as well as world news and weather forecasts.

The broadcasts will further test tensions between the Koreas and likely infuriate the North, which is extremely sensitive to any outside criticism of the authoritarian leadership of Kim Jong Un.

It was unclear how long the broadcasts will continue. South Korean officials said they may take additional punitive measures depending on how North Korea reacts.

South Korea's Defense Ministry said Monday that it believes North Korean soldiers secretly crossed the border and laid the mines because the splinters from the explosions were from wood box mines, which are used by North Korea. South Korean authorities claimed that the mines were laid around a door on the South Korean side of the border that opened onto the DMZ.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a statement urging North Korea to apologize and punish those responsible for the mine explosion. There was no immediate official response from Pyongyang.

The U.S.-led U.N. Command conducted an investigation that blamed North Korea for the mines. It condemned what it called violations of the armistice that ended fighting in the war, which still technically continues because the participants have never signed a peace treaty.

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that South Korean investigators had determined that the explosion was intended to undermine joint military exercises by U.S. and South Korean troops scheduled to take place next week.

More than a million mines are believed to be buried inside the DMZ, and North Korean mines have occasionally washed down a swollen river into the South, killing or injuring civilians. But North Korean soldiers crossing the border and planting mines is highly unusual.

The explosions come amid continuing bad feelings between the rival Koreas over the establishment of a U.N. office in Seoul tasked with investigating the North's human rights record. North Korea also refuses to release several South Koreans it has detained. Things are expected to get worse next week when Seoul and Washington launch annual summertime military drills, which the allies say are routine but North Korea calls an invasion rehearsal.

In 2004, the two Koreas stopped the decades- long practice of propaganda warfare along the border to reduce tension. The practice had included loudspeaker and radio broadcasts, billboards and leaflets. In 2010, South Korea restarted radio broadcasts and restored 11 loudspeakers as part of punitive measures taken after a warship sinking blamed on North Korea that killed 46 South Korean sailors earlier that year. But South Korea didn't go ahead with plans to resume loudspeaker broadcasts at the time.

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I am back in London, post-holiday mode getting back into work and home. In my inbox this morning there is an email from Dustin Evenson at collabits.com. They offer a mixture of free and paid (depending on number of connections, storage space requirements, and ASP-model or installed model) collaboration. This is "real-time" meeting-based collaboration in the WebEx / MSN Messenger mode, with session recording and playback. The basic free version seems to offer one-to-one connectivity without any document storage. This would be competitve with Glance, Webex, or MSN Messenger in the ASP space or VNC in the more "traditional" enterprise space.

They also have licensing models for more extensive collaborations with multiple users and the option to persist documents to their servers, which puts them into a lightweight document collaboration space, without any process management capability and with the requirement for a sharing user to have all applications on their local machines (ie it does not appear to have any capability for server-side document publishing a la Informative Graphics, eReview, or Cimmetry) - all of which come out of the CAD document visualisation space.

The technology on the client is applet-based, works with the Sun VM, and installed fairly easily on my machine (of course I already have the VM..). The offering is primarily interesting due to the free entry-level price structure and to the relatively low price-point of the multi-user and persistence-based options.

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Postby Clh » Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:14 pm

Hi.. my daughters dad is currently serving time jn prision for sleeping with a minor the girl was 15 and he was 19... we wernt together at the time.. the girl bragged about sleeping with him.. but at the end of the trail she turned around and said hed ruined her life and she wasnt the same person anymore.. this led to him reciving a year but will do 6 months prisionment and 10 years on the register..before that he didnt do much with my daughter then and when i confronted him he said he didnt want to bond with her incase he got sent down to which he did..he has recently gotten in contact and apologises for not being there for our daughter and promises to be there when hes out.. And i believe him.. however i dont know how to go about it.. do i take her to see him when hes out or will i have to contact social services as i dont want to take her there ans end up getting into trouble.. i want to go the right way about it.. im a young mum and not a clue what to do.. please any advice or suggestions would be highly appreciated, hes out in February. x

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Dear Clh

Welcome to Family Rights Group’s parents’ discussion board and thank you for your post.

I can see that you are worried about what will happen if you allow your daughter’s father to have contact with her when he is released from prison. It is positive that you are seeking advice and thinking about this now rather than waiting until he comes out. Children’s service will need to become involved if there is a possibility of contact and this will have an impact on your family’s life.

It is a good idea for you to think about the following:

• Your daughter’s father was convicted of a serious sexual offence involving a child.
• Be careful not to minimise the offence or the conviction and try not to use language which may blame the victim. If you do, this will be viewed very negatively by children’s services and may mean that you are seen as less able to think about any potential risks to your own child and how to safeguard her.
• Your daughter’s father will be on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and so will be monitored in the community.
• Being on the sex offenders’ register means that he may be seen as a person who potentially poses a risk to children.
• Any agencies working with him such as police or probation will need to notify children’s services if he is seeking contact with your daughter.
• Your daughter’s father or you can also contact your local children’s services directly to let them know when he is due out and that he would like to be involved in your daughter’s life then.
• It would not be advisable for you to arrange contact until you have discussed this with children’s services and they have assessed the situation and made recommendations in relation to this.

Children’s services’ assessment is likely to consider whether your daughter’s father could pose a risk of harm to her and how able you are to keep her safe from any risk. They may want you to agree to restrictions being placed on contact until they are satisfied that it is safe and suitable for your daughter. You might also want reassurance that her father is safe to be involved in her care. You can find out more about assessments and plans for children in Family Rights Group’ advice sheets on family support and child protection.

It is really important that you are willing to work with children’s services and show that that you are a protective parent. They will also want to know from your daughter’s father what he has done to address his offending behaviour. He will need to work with them too.

You may find it helpful to look at the Lucy Faithfull Foundation and Stop it now! websites as both contain very useful advice and information for parents about child sexual abuse. They help and support all family members affected including offenders and partners/non-abusive parents. You can also call their Freephone helpline if you would like to speak to someone.

You might find it useful to look at our advice for young parents including tips about how to work with your child’s social worker.

You are being responsible and proactive by thinking in advance about what might happen if contact takes place. It is best that this is assessed in a planned way through you and your daughter's father working with the key professionals, as discussed above.

If you have any further queries please feel free to post again or contact the Freephone advice helpline on 0808 8010366 Monday to Friday 9.30 – 3.00.

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Groups meet regularly on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month, with some exceptions, as noted on the website. Groups meet at 7:30pm in the Ben Porat Yosef Building at E. 243 Frisch Ct. in Paramus, NJ. Doors open at 7:10pm.

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This is where it all begins! The design team will pitch ideas with concept boards, hand made figures, hand made packaging, etc. These pieces are generally very primitive and do not have the quality of a production item.

Phase II - The Figure Creation

In this phase, sculptors will create wax sculpts for the action figure. They typically use a special tool to add or subtract wax from the sculpt. The wax used is a relatively hard substance and retains a fair amount of detail. The limbs are typically pinned together. From this sculpting input, a pattern drawing is made. As changes are requested to the wax sculpt, a final wax is made.

Next, a silicone mold is made from the wax sculpt and a resin will be poured into the mold to create a hardcopy. Hardcopies are also pinned together and will retain close to the same level of detail as the wax sculpt. The hardcopies can be painted to give a quick feel for what the actual production figure may look like. They are used to make final changes and for displays at the Toy Fairs.

The final wax is used to generate a hardcopy. Using a silicone mold process, resin is poured into the mold to produce the hardcopy figure. Hardcopy figures are also typically pinned together for articulation.

Once approved, tooling is made to produce steel molds for the final injection mold process. First shots are generated from the steel molds using a plastic injection mold process. In this stage, they test for fit, form, function and safety. First shots can be found in a variety of colors that may or may not match the final color scheme of the action figure. Early versions can be found without copyright markings and/or peg holes. Next, decomasters (aka paint samples) are made to assure that the final paint will match the intended design. Final engineering pilots (FEP) are generated as the last phase of the figure creation process. Once approved, the production figures will be produced in mass quantities also using the injection mold process.

Phase III - Packaging

Early conceptual designs and/or hand-made proofs are used to make a final design. Once a final design is approved, a proof sheet or card is generated. First shots and paint samples are often used to generate Engineering Pilots (EP). Engineering Pilots are generated to test the blister design of the figure. The blister is the clear plastic that is used to mount the figure to the card back. Engineering pilots may be modified to ensure that the figure and accessories are posed and layed out properly. Examples can be found mounted to a variety of card stock.

Phase IV - Quality Control
In this phase, some final changes can be submitted to the design team for quality control and final approval. These figures can be found with a paper sign-off tag taped to the card. In some cases, notes can be made to make some desired changes.


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White Cube, Mason's Yard, London

Curated by Katharine Kostyál.

White Cube is pleased to present a survey exhibition of works by Korean artist Minjung Kim at Mason’s Yard.

Traditionally trained in Korean watercolour painting and calligraphy from the age of nine, Kim is among the few female heirs of the Dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting) movement, having studied under one of its masters, Park Seo-Bo, at Hong Ik University, Seoul. This major exhibition is the first truly comprehensive presentation of Kim’s work in the UK to date and includes paintings from series drawn from across her career, which reflect her refined minimalist language and highlight her focused exploration of abstraction and serial process.

Kim was born in Korea in 1962 but in the early 1990s, following an abrupt change in her personal circumstances, she moved to Europe, initially to Milan, where she studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Kim has since lived and worked in Italy, France and, more recently, America but continues to employ the traditional Korean material of hanji in her work. Hanji is a significant choice for the artist since it is deeply rooted within Korean culture. Much favoured by the Danseakhwa artists, for centuries it has been used not only for painting, crafts and calligraphy but also for clothing and shoes and as a replacement for glass in the windows and doors of traditional houses. Made from the dried, inner bark of the paper mulberry tree using a complex and labour intensive process, it has a tactile surface reminiscent of skin and is characteristically strong with wide fibres, allowing air and light to pass through it. In Kim’s work, hanji is often marked by burning the edges or centre with an incense stick or a candle and then superimposed, layer by layer, using a collage technique. ‘Burning came about from my exploration of lines’ she has said, ‘I could feel the power of nature in using fire, but also a different sense of control.’

Kim has described her work as ‘a visualization of Zen and Tao’ and her unique process, whereby she remains silent and of even breath when executing each mark, results in paintings with rhythmical abstract surfaces that seem to pulsate, as if the result of organic growth. In this way, Kim’s method is in keeping with the Dansaekhwa approach to painting. The term ‘Tao’, which can be understood as a ‘path’ or journey without any definitive end, relates closely to her work, which fundamentally connects mind with body and body with subject in a controlled, ritualistic manner. Characterised by their intense, conceptual focus, her canvases suggest a catharsis, harnessing the energy that results from repetitive mark making.

In several of the works exhibited Kim uses dynamic abstract compositions and bold perspectives to suggest architectural motifs. Raggi (2005), for example, is made-up of thin strips of hanji paper applied in diagonal layers, which converge into a vortex-like series of receding rectangles that call to mind the vertiginous effect of looking down a deep stairwell. Likewise, in Tension (2005), strips of hanji paper have been scorched along their edges and applied on two diagonals, meeting off-centre to create a broken, vertical line which appears like the structure of a traditional wood or straw roof. In other pieces, Kim draws the architecture of the space into the abstract field of the painting, installing two-part works across the corner of a room as with Stanza (dal nulla all'infinito (2006) and Tension(2008).

References to traditional Korean landscape painting are evident in the ‘Mountain’ series (Mountain, 2008/2009/2011): monochromatic works composed of horizontal, undulating waves of black or red ink applied to hanji paper in varying densities and shades. In these paintings, Kim builds a tonal scale by manipulating the absorption of ink – a flowing, uncontrollable medium – with minimal precision, to create the effect of an infinite mountain range bathed in light. This notion of control reflects a key aspect of calligraphy, something that the artist regards as fundamental to her practice. ‘I have to wait for the right moment for drawing some lines in ink’ she has said, ‘sometimes it takes days and weeks to find the right state of mind. Breathing needs to be absolutely under control [...].’

In the ‘Pieno di Vuoto’ series, (which loosely translates as ‘full of emptiness’), circular pieces of hanji paper, painted in bright colours and burnt to create a central hole, are applied in an overlapping fashion. This results in colourful, all-over compositions, where each element appears to jostle for its own space within the crowded picture plane. By incrementing the size of the holes each time and superimposing voids with solids, Kim traces the relationship between matter and emptiness and articulates the circle as a form without beginning or end. The multiple layers of voids in these works create, conversely, a sense of fullness, achieving what Kim has described as the ‘essence of chaos’.

This theme is also evident in the ‘Dobae’ series (dobae meaning wallpapering in Korean) but here the process of application is more organic. In these works, the hand literally creates the composition as it moves across the surface, the darker edges of each overlapping hanji circle, marked with small areas of burning and stained by glue. And, as in all of Kim’s practice, the binary presence of light and shadow, void and fullness are in continuous flux, offering a sense of poised equilibrium that connects breathing with action and body with artwork in one perfectly balanced whole.

Minjung Kim was born in Gwangju, Korea in 1962 and lives and works in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France and New York, USA. Following studies at Hong Ik University in Seoul she moved to Milan in 1991 where she studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. She has exhibited internationally including solo shows at Musée des Arts asiatiques, Nice, France (2017); Hermès Foundation, Singapore (2017); OCI Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Palazzo Caboto, Venice (2015); Oko, New York (2014); Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy (2014); and MACRO, Rome (2012). She participated in the Gwangju Biennale (2004). Her work is represented in numerous international public collections including the British Museum, London; Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York; Asia Society, New York; Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin and UniCredit Art Collection, Italy.


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    Chief7607's NBA LIVE 07 (XBX)

    [January 14, 2008 03:28:55 AM]
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    I am so happy that I have bought this game it has not fallen short of any of my ecpextations. In fact, this video game has exceeded all of my expectations. In the 2007 version of NBA LIVE the game makers added a new feature called Total Freestyle Control. This feature honestly allows me to have complete control on how I want my players to play.

    Although in the previous NBA LIVE the controls are roughly the same, but they never offerd you the ability to choose how the you want to control the basketball players juke moves. It use to be just one button for example the x button to perform a juke. But now it is a whole new world, they incorporated the use of the joysticks to perform all sorts of possible combinations for different jukes.

    Overall I think the design of the game is pretty darn good, granted that they did have years to modify and enhance it, since they are basically receiving positive and negative feedbacks of last years product and then revising and improving the game to produce a better gameplaying experience.

    Now im not saying this game is perfect, I have found a couple of flaws in this game that bug me. The first of which is what I call "glitch plays" which is common among sports games. Glitch plays basically means that there was an error in the making of the game that leaves the AI players little to no posssibility of stopping the user from scoring when using a specific play or series of moves.

    Besides glitch plays and the rather limited difficulty setting for this game the other aspects of the design of the game is just great.

    - When played in a 2 player mode this game can provide a good bonding experience between friends. The competitive spirit among friends makes the game more interesting and for people who like to talk trash excitement can also be made in the conversations formed during the course of the game.

    - Like all sports games in your a true fanatic of the sport it will never grow old on you. You may temporarily stop playing it, but eventually you will come back to it.
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    NBA LIVE 07 is part of EA sports enldess line of basketball games, also last years newest basketball game. The goal of this video game is the same as a real basketball game, to outscore your opponent within the given time.

    When I first Purchased this game I was very excited because I had bought one of its predecessor, NBA Live 2004, and was very pleased with it. So you can see why I would be excited if not exhilirated to play this latest sequel to one of my favorite game.

    One of the main reasons of why I love this game is it allows you to have almost control anyone you like in the NBA, including your favorite basketball stars. The game allows you to control their movement and stats during the game and then in the dynasty mode you can also control the amount of money they make and the amount of tie they get to play.

    Despite all the little intricate things the game makers may put in the game to enhance game play, nothing can beat the experience and adrenaline rush that I get when I play this game with a buddy. This sheer excitement and humor through our trash talking and game play is truly what makes this game one of my all time favorites.
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Create your planet, build your fleet, explore the universe and FIGHT!
As the commander of your own colony you must prepare to fight for supremacy or simply fight for survival.

This massively multiplayer game allows you to create everything you need to grow your colony, build a powerful fleet of warships and attack other planets. As you battle for dominance you can choose to fight pirates, attack player planets or explore asteroids, stars and other deep space wonders looking for treasure.

- Build ships including Fighters, Corvettes, Battleships, and the awesome Dreadnaught are ready to command.

- Develop buildings such as Sensor Arrays, Plasma facility's, Research centers and Armory's.

- Attack other player planets or AI planets including the Empire and Pirates.

- Research to unlock powerful Shields, Armor and new ships through the tech tree.

- The Universe is populated with Planets, Asteroid fields, Debris, Nebula's and Stars to explore using specialist ships such as the mighty Freighter.

- One Universe, every player amongst millions of stars, no more server selection.

- Play with your friends, create alliances, top the leaderboard.

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Activision Unveils Autumn Handheld Line-Up

Activision Hits Remixed lets PSP system gamers relive the dawn of home console gaming
Activision today announced an extensive line-up of titles for the PSP, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance platforms. The list includes GUN Showdown, Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts!, Spider-Man: Battle for New York and Activision Hits Remixed, a compilation of Atari 2600 games. Check the press release for a complete list and details.


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Rusty Hearts
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"Rusty Hearts," with its advanced action features and game-play design, has received great attention of players and publishers from North America and Asia even before its closed beta testing. With this first overseas licensing agreement before its open beta testing in Korea, "Rusty Hearts" has shown its high potential in the global market. "Rusty Hearts" is scheduled to be introduced to North American players by Perfect World Entertainment at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 ("E3 2011").
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NBA Live 2004
Genre Sport -> Sport
Today's Rank 11855
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Publisher Electronic Arts
Date 2003-11-07
Publisher Electronic Arts
North America Retail Box ArtUnited Kingdom Retail Box ArtStep up your game with brand-new 10-Man Freestyle, authentic gameplay, and stunning graphics that deliver the definitive basketball experience.

- Players get total control over every player and every team -- run one-button Quick Plays, spin free in the lane for a monster dunk, or lock down the other team on D
- Play the point -- become the point guard and control the offense and defense for your team
- Enhanced Dynasty Mode lets you build a legendary team -- recruit free agents, import college players and build a championship-winning team
- Stronger AI and sharper graphics bring the 10-man freestyle game to life
- New online options let you take your game to anyone in the country -- deeper stat tracking shows you how you rank
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

All the seeds I did not plant; all the jars I did not fill

A couple of Saturdays ago, I waited around all day for a workman who did not come.  Finally, about mid-afternoon, I decided to clean out the floor of my kitchen pantry.  It was not a random choice.  I was looking for some check stubs I was missing.  I needed to find them in order to complete my 2014 taxes, due October 15 (Why do I always procrastinate whenever possible?).  I had looked everywhere and concluded the only place they could be was beneath the newspapers stuffed in grocery sacks two layers thick on the tile floor (I was saving them to compost; I didn't dare look at the dates; they could have been there for two years or more).

Also on the floor were several half-used six-packs of tonic water, some way out of date.  I found a carton of ginger ale, which I knew had to have been there since the summer my daughter spent with me while she studied for the bar exam.  She's been a public defender now for four years.  And why did I buy a two-foot tall bottle of refill hand soap?  I'd forgotten it was there, and now I don't have the original small container anymore.

I got started and ended up cleaning off all but the top two shelves.  I found three 5-lb. bags of sugar, all half-full.  I had just bought another bag (now 4-lbs. for the same price) for the hummingbirds who are all fighting and drinking me out of house and home, readying for their trip south.  Those other bags were on different shelves and all hidden from view.

Two categories of items sent me into a sort of review of certain aspects of my life.  Well, not so much that as a realization that some plans I made decades ago never came to be.  It once would have made me sad, but I really can't complain about my life - I've had many positives that have helped me with the terrible negative - losing my husband in a single moment in June 1999.

What I was reminded of in the pantry was all my plans for a sunny garden.  I had saved so many jars, all for the purpose of delivering bouquets of cut flowers to friends or shut-ins.  Long ago, I had envisioned cut flowers for every season - bachelors' buttons and ox-eye daisies in April; iris, roses and peonies in early May; coneflowers and Asiatic lilies in June; zinnias, phlox and rubrum lilies in July; rudbeckias and platycodons in August; Aster tataricus in September and daisy chrysanthemums in October, and so on.

I found several small jars of seeds - zinnias that could have been 20 years old; moon flower seeds I'd forgotten were there, and pink coneflower seeds I could probably never have succeeded in germinating anyway.  I had store packets, too - more zinnias, sunflowers, bachelors' buttons and annual asters, which I'm not sure would have grown all that well here.

Most of the jars had held mayonnaise, but I had all shapes from different salad dressings; these latter would have been for smaller bouquets.  No wonder I had no room for the sack of coffee I just bought.

It was so hard, but I put most of my "vases" in the recycling bin.  I kept the Mason jars in case I ever do any canning again.  Let's see, in 70 years, I've canned three times.  I think I'll just give the jars and rings to someone who will actually do something with them.

All the contemplating about what I didn't do led to thoughts of the basement.  The whole place is a giant hope chest.  There are headboards I bought at a second-hand store for my future beach house.  I have two tables (great shape, but need faux painting), purchased from a motel liquidation store.  Those I had for a planned house in Highlands, where we could do jigsaw puzzles and leave them undisturbed in a corner until they were finished.

At one point, after a visit to Lake Rabun, I envisioned the above tables in a rustic lake house instead.  We'd have a boat and would go water skiing.  My own daddy was good about that and ever so patient to help a friend new to skiing have success quickly.

But those second homes I saved for never materialized.  Yes, they would have been great when my children were younger and there was someone to share the headaches of maintenance and seasonal cleaning and maybe renting out.  But, I never really missed what I didn't have.

About those cactus dahlias above.  Those are what I would have planted at the house in Highlands, where they would have thrived in the cool mountain air.  I used to visit a dahlia garden there.  It may be long gone by now, but I thought how satisfying it would be to gather huge bouquets and give them away or decorate my mountain house in bright colors.

But, it's all okay.  I've always been one to think there's something wonderful around the next corner.  It might not be that beach house (where I would have grown gardenias and tiger lilies and zinnias) or the mountain house that would have surely had a sunny space for red cactus dahlias, but I may still use those headboards somewhere.  It's never too late to daydream.  Margaret Moseley didn't hit her stride until her 80's, and she wound up with a beautiful garden and flowers at every season.  That could happen for me, too.

I still hope to grow dahlias and zinnias and chrysanthemums and roses to give away, but I don't regret throwing all those long-collected containers into the recycle bin (although I confess it's hard for me to part with a jar of any type).  Who knows what the future will bring, and if I do end up with a sunny space some day, I'm sure I won't have trouble consuming more mayonnaise and salad dressing.

Note:  I did find that spiral of check stubs, so on to finishing my taxes - no more excuses!


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Gateway Motorsports Park is finally where it belongs – locally owned and supported by a vast community that loves motorsports. Thanks to you and thousands of passionate fans in the region, Gateway Motorsports Park is alive and full of St. Louis racing action. 2017 is going to be a fun year for us.

We know that fans today have many entertainment choices.  We want you at the track having the best time ever. That’s why we work to engage guests in a way that when you leave here, you tell everyone how much fun you had.

My team and I love the work we do here, and we are committed to bringing fans, drivers, teams, and sponsors the most exciting racing experience anywhere in the Midwest. Last year alone, nearly 1,000,000 fans crossed the gates of Gateway Motorsports Park to see professional and amateur racing at its finest.  Since 2012, we’ve brought world-class racing back to the track including NHRA, NASCAR, USAC, karting, off-road racing, and a variety of local and regional programs.

Today, you can take advantage of hundreds of events at Gateway Motorsports Park including the Richard Petty Driving Experience, the Skip Barber Driving Schools; the Gateway Kartplex, where you can ride professional karts up to 60-miles per hour; Midnight Madness and Wide-Open Wednesdays where you can bring your street car to the drag strip and test your mettle. We also host corporate and charitable events, concerts, car shows, 5K’s and much more.

We have worked hard to build strong bonds with the St. Louis racing community and they understand what we’re trying to do here.  I believe actions speak louder than words. The racing community sees our commitment to them and to the long-term health of this industry.

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A Little Trip East

When I travel, I am always curious to discover how small farmers are doing in the regions I visit. I try to go to the Farmers Markets or even to the farms themselves, if they are open to the public. On a recent trip to North Carolina and Tennessee (yes, the family reunion was afoot), I found a great reciprocal relationship between local restaurants and local farms. Each was helping the other deliver a great food experience to their customers.

Depending on the season, a restaurant will work with several local farms, picking two or three items that are currently being harvested. They will use those ingredients to create a unique dish which they feature on that night’s menu. The names and places of the farms are then displayed on the menu. Customers visit the restaurants knowing that they are supporting local businesses and that they are going to eat really well.

After doing this for several seasons, customers now specifically patronize these restaurants because they feature local farms. Patrons routinely ask which farms have contributed to that night’s meal. As the restaurants have been educating their customers about local farms, customers have come to expect great food from them. The restaurants still serve a regular menu year-round, sourcing their ingredients from multiple places, but the locally-sourced ingredients are what are pulling customers in.

I stopped at a pizzeria that was featuring locally-produced mozzarella from an organic dairy. When in season, they also included farm fresh vegetables from a different producer. In other words, they had at least something from a local farm on the menu all the time. The quality of their pizzas and the volume of patrons they had in their restaurant on a Monday night were amazing. I certainly had more slices than I probably should have.

Building relationships between growers of food and creators of cuisine can lead to a more robust economic environment for both parties. In the southern Appalachian Mountains, I found this system to be not only mutually beneficial, but quite tasty, too.


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Posted on August 21, 2017 at 8:27 am by Stephen Janes

Welcome back to the Pixelated Podcast! Justin and Stephen return to talk about some of their favorite video game stories for the week.

This week’s topics include:
Destiny 2 will not be released on Steam
Crackdown 3 delayed until spring 2018
We Happy Few gets an official release date
Mewtwo coming to Pokemon Go thanks to exclusive raids

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Thursday, 8 October 2015

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax review (Vita)

Anime mashup time!

Oh hai! Jason here with a review of Dengenki Bunko: Fighting climax (which I will now just refer to as fighting climax to make things easier). Dengeki Bunko is in fact the name of a company in Japan that prints light novels, which are heavily illustrated shortish stories with ongoing plots...basically manga but with a lot more words and fewer pictures. Many of these light novels have been turned into Anime and this creates the premise for fighting climax, a group of characters from a variety of anime all fighting it out. Kinda like Marvel vs Capcom but for anime fans.

The casts most famous characters are Kirito and Asuna from sword art online. The rest of the characters fame levels may depend on your taste and knowledge, but a certain magical index and Durarara will likely be fairly familiar while some such as Ro-Kyu-Bu! and Shakugan no Shana will be less familiar animes. The cast is pretty eclectic however with characters you'd expect to appear in a beat-em-up sitting along side characters like Kirino from Oreimo (a slice of life anime) and Taiga from Toradora (a romance anime).

So how does fighting climax play? The controls are actually fairly simple, square is a light hit, triangle medium and circle hard. The X button calls a support character that you can choose before the fight. All the characters have pretty much the same control scheme, a quarter circle in either direction plus any attack button does one of your two main special moves, a half circle on the D-pad that goes from one side, downwards and then to the other side of the D-pad combined with square and triangle launches your ultimate flashy attack of which each character has two. You can also set the trigger buttons to press either Square and Triangle, Square and circle or all three. This is useful for certain methods, for example pressing all 3 attack buttons activates your burst, which if you're in a neutral situation makes your climax gauge rise faster (...ahem), if you're attacking gives a special attack and if you're being attacked can break combos. The system seems complex at first due to having four different icons and bars charging and changing...but its simpler than it seems. However a basic tutorial would have been welcome.

In terms of gameplay modes there are two main single player modes, arcade pits you against several fighters being controlled by an entity who is taking over various worlds in a bid to crush dreams. The second main single player mode is called Dream duel and pits each character up against six other characters, however before each fight the two characters will have a chat which is a lot of fun if you're a fan of the cast with plenty of amusing references. Other than these there is of course Ad hoc and online as well as a challenge mode (survival, time attack and score attack), a bare bones training mode, and a special section to look at more info on the characters, listen to in game music etc. However this section could have had a lot more too it, and it's a shame that we weren't given more bonus material.

Look wise the game is good quality for the most part, the only real issue on the vita is the slightly jagged edges of the characters, but that's nit picking. The backgrounds are a bit uninspired with only the sonic the hedgehog stage being especially interesting (the games made by Sega) but I didn't notice any slow down even when things became hectic. The game benefits from all the Japanese voice actors providing voice work for the characters to add a little bit of authenticity to the whole package.

So who is this game for? Well if you're somewhat inexperienced when it comes to fighting games then fighting climax is a pretty good starting point. The fact that all the characters controls are the same means you can focus more on learning when to use the characters attacks rather than how to do them. Each character is still pretty individual, but the player will only have to learn what their attacks do rather than memorising button combos. The game also contains some of the complexities of more advanced fighting games with its variety of bars that need charging up and icons that indicate if you can use certain attacks. The flip side is that hardcore fighting fans may find things a bit basic. If you're fond of fighting games and anime then there's a lot of fun to be had with fighting climax. If you're just a fan of anime or just a fighting game fan then this is still worth a go. Personally I'm not a beat-em-up guy but have played fighting climax for many hours over the past few days. You'll come for the'll stay for the gameplay.

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Christmas market in Oberhausen
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Christmas market in Oberhausen

At Christmas, the CentrO in Oberhausen is transformed into a fairytale world of twinkling crystals, colourful baubles, sweet-scented pine and spectacular fairy light displays. In the squares outside Europe's largest shopping and leisure complex, you will find three different Christmas markets with over 150 festive wooden huts: the Alpine Christmas market, Santa's Village and the elves' market.

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17 Nov – 23 Dec 2017

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Shared hosting or VPS hosting: Which is Better for the Professional Photographer?

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Shared vs VPS Hosting for Photography Hosting

Virtual Private Server, in short, VPS hosting, also known as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) hosting, is one of the most exciting new trends in the web hosting world. VPS combines the best features of shared and dedicated server hosting. On the one hand, you get as close to your own machine as is possible without actually having one, right down to your personal operating system (often with “root” access) and percentage of allocated CPU and other system resources, at a cost significantly below that of a dedicated server. One consumer hosting forum user reports seeing costs as low as $10/month.

Overall, VPS hosting represents a great value. Is it a good enough value for the professional photographer to shell out the extra expense? That depends on a lot of factors. Here are some questions to ask yourself if you are considering this option:

Better Protection But Not Bulletproof

While the appeal of a virtual private server is obvious, it should be remembered that this privacy is still virtual. This shields you against a lot of what would normally be a drawback of a shared server, but not everything: there is still one computer trying to service everyone, one CPU (or set of CPUs) that all of the instructions are going through. No matter how the balancing is handled, at some point there is going to be a bottleneck: if something goes wrong with how the instructions are handled, the advantage of your “private” server disappears. And of course a virus or denial-of-service attack won’t likely care that you are “virtually” on a different server (not that these are all that likely these days: web hosts are well shielded against them. But this is a cat-and-mouse game that never entirely ends).

Do you really need this type of upgraded hosting plan?

A photography web site usually does not involve an intense amount of resources or databases that a standard, shared, web host can’t handle. Unless you are using some complex slideshow or presentation software, likely your site is pretty straight-forward. And even moderate surges of interest in your site are things that the average shared server can handle well, again, assuming that there isn’t some complex CGI or other programming associated with it.

Is cheap worth it?

On top of that, note that if a web host is offering a very cheap VPS solution, it brings into question how many users they are hosting on that machine. Beyond a certain point, the number of users can be so prohibitively high that it runs the risk of negating the very advantages that it is supposed to be offering. Some hosts can be pretty secretive about this information: push them for an answer. It’s not like you don’t have a choice of hosts to go to that will tell you this if they refuse.

All that said, Virtual Private Servers are still a popular choice for the professional photographer who needs more oomph than they would get from even a high-end shared hosting account. Double-check to make sure that you really do need that; but if you do, this is a fast growing service that can give you just what you need.

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The palladium-catalyzed arylation of olefins, universally referred to as the Heck reaction, has received increasing attention in the past decade because it is a selective method for the formation of new C-C bonds in a single operational step [1]. However, as with all homogeneous catalysts, there are separation, regeneration and reuse problems. These problems are of environmental and economic concern in large scale syntheses where large volumes of hazardous wastes and high production costs are of great importance. These problems can be minimized by carrying out the reactions using heterogeneous catalysts which can be more easily separated from the reaction mixture [2].The heterogenisation of existing homogeneous palladium catalysts in a way that maintains the advantages of the homogeneous catalyst (activity and selectivity) is an important challenge. In recent years, the development of such catalysts has attracted significant interest.Nanoparticles and stabilized nanoobjects are promising candidates for applications in catalysis and nanotechnology. An important issue when dealing with nanoparticles is to achieve protection of the particles against aggregation without disturbing the desired properties [3].From commercially available Pd/C, Pd was found to leach into solution and to perform homogeneous catalysis. Interestingly, almost all dissolved Pd0 species can readsorb onto the surface of the carbon support after completion of the reaction. Evidently, such a pseudo-heterogeneous catalyst would fail in a continuous reactor. Ordered mesoporous structures (such as MCM-41 and SBA-15 [4] ) with regular channel structures and pore diameters in the range of 2 to 30 nm, their easy separation from the reaction mixtures, and their relatively high surface area, would seem to be ideal for forming a scaffold in which three-dimensional dispersions of metal nanoparticles could be supported. Furthermore, because the majority of the nanoparticles are usually formed inside the channels of ordered porous materials, the support prevents agglomeration of metal specious.


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Sides Still Far Apart in an Extension for RB Jacobs

According to today’s New York Daily News, the Giants and Brandon Jacobs still appear to be far apart on a contract extension, and it looks as if a deal will not get done by the opening of training camp on July 24th. The paper says that the two sides have been talking, but “nothing is close and nothing is expected to get done before camp starts.”

Jacobs, a fourth-round pick out of Southern Illinois back in 2005, rushed for a team high 1009 yards and four TD’s last season as the Giants made an historic run to win the Super Bowl. Last year was his first full year as a starter, as in two previous seasons he had only rushed for 99 yards in 2005 and 423 yards in 2006.

It is likely according to sources that the two sides will keep talking, and a deal may be reached into training camp or at some point during the season. Jacobs did get dinged up last year, as he missed five regular season games, but has proven durable otherwise playing in 31 of 32 games the previous two seasons.

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Visit any training ground of an elite football club and you will be greeted by a playground for the super-rich, with carparks dominated by the finest motorised machines available to man.

The latest suped-up sports car is the most expensive plaything a footballer can lay his hands upon, and garishness knows no bounds in the training complexes of professional teams.

Here, GMF takes a closer look at the favourite vehicles of some of the game's most prominent figures...

David Beckham

Becks has had to rein in his extravagant spending on cars somewhat since his family has grown over the years, with the former England captain now favouring practicality over velocity.

The LA Galaxy midfielder can be seen cruising the streets of Hollywood in a custom made Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, a somewhat more mature purchase then his younger days.

This is not to say the 37-year-old did not splash big to buy his 'Roller', with a fee of £350,000 the value of Beckham's car before he spent thousands more on modifications.

Earlier this year, Beckham sold five of his cars - worth more than £500,000 - that were gathering dust on his rarely used estate in Hertfordshire.

Steven Gerrard

Gerrard, like most of his contemporaries, can boast a wealth of cars in his collection, but is known to favour two in particular.

The Liverpool and England captain is a particular fan of his Bentley Continental GT - a popular choice among players - which can accelerate from 0-60 mph in under five seconds.

Gerrard has also fulfilled a childhood ambition with the acquisition of a Porsche 911 Turbo, which has a value of almost £150,000.

Lionel Messi

Messi's position as the finest player on the planet is one seemingly unquestioned, and the Barcelona star can also claim to have a fine taste when it comes to cars.

The Argentine superstar is clearly a keen speed freak, and can count a number of Ferraris in his collection, the most prominent of which is his silver F430 Spider.

Messi is also a fan of 'muscle cars' - evident in his ownership of a Dodge Charger SRT-8 - which can hit a top speed of over 170mph, although he may be tempted to trade it in with Messi Jnr on the way.

Cristiano Ronaldo

The Real Madrid star caused uproar of sorts when he was papped driving his high-spec Lamborghini Aventador around Madrid with his son perched on his lap.

That wasn't the only time Ronaldo has run into trouble with his £200,000 Batmobile-inspired car, having seen it towed to safety after breaking down on the way to celebrate teammate Pepe's 29th birthday.

Among his collection of over 20 cars, Ronaldo also owns the fastest roadcar on the planet - the £900,000 Bugatti Veyron, which is capable of reaching a top speed of 268mph.

Wayne Rooney

Having made a name for himself at the age of only 16, Rooney's exploits on the road have been followed ever since he was first able to get behind the wheel.

Then at Everton, Rooney treated himself to a Ford as his first car before becoming more extravagant as his career progressed and he joined Manchester United.

The England striker is now more likely to be seen in his favoured Aston Martin Vanquish S or a sleek Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, although may be advised to leave the roof on these days following his expensive hair transplant last summer.

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About G.J. Gardner Homes Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, CO - G.J. Gardner Homes, a leading international custom home builder, has expanded it’s service area by opening a New Home Design Center in Old Colorado City, Colorado, right in the heart of Colorado Springs. Unique to the building industry, the award-winning, Australian-based company has expanded internationally through franchising, with the Colorado Springs office owned and operated by Caleb Snider. Caleb was brought up in the construction industry, and knew from an early age he would pursue that profession. After serving in the U.S. Army Infantry for five years, he moved to Colorado Springs and sought out a company whose values and vision matched his own. Finding that fit in G.J. Gardner Homes, he purchased the exclusive rights for El Paso County in 2016.

Snider Custom Homes is owned and operated by Caleb Snider.

Snider was drawn to G.J. Gardner Homes because of their quality craftsmanship, sustainable design and the opportunity to provide clients with complete customization of their dream home. Snider explains it this way: “I aligned myself with G.J. Gardner Homes as an owner builder because I didn’t want to just build houses. I wanted to build homes—tailored and designed to each of my client’s wants and needs.” Colorado Springs and the surrounding area are seeing widespread growth. Snider’s team understands the market, and is building homes across the county in both developed communities and rural lots.

G. J. Gardner’s Five Star Performance Guarantee offers homebuyers a system of checklists and on-site inspections throughout the five major stages of construction. At the completion of each stage, clients are invited to the job site to personally inspect the progress of their dream home and approve the work completed before moving forward.

“We have nearly 100 existing home plans, and can customize anything that the Colorado homebuyer wants in their new home. Our objective is to go above and beyond our clients expectations by building their home on-time, on-budget and exactly to their specifications,” says Caleb.

Understanding that building a custom home is the biggest investment most people will ever make, Snider is proud to be a local G.J. Gardner owner builder. With a high level of professionalism and personalized support, Snider and his team are dedicated to delivering results that exceed home buyers’ expectations.
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Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. Declares a Special Dividend of $11.85 Per Share

$1.05 Billion Represents Accumulated Earnings and Profits Allocated to GLPI In Connection With Spin-Off From Penn National Gaming, Inc.

| Source: Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc.

WYOMISSING, Pa., Jan. 3, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (Nasdaq:GLPI) (GLPI or the Company) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a special dividend to shareholders in connection with its previously announced intention to qualify as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in 2014 following its separation from Penn National Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq:PENN) on November 1, 2013.

The special dividend of $1.05 billion, or approximately $11.85 per share, will be paid on February 18, 2014 to shareholders of record on January 13, 2014. The amount of cash to be distributed will be $210 million, or 20% of the total distribution, with the remainder to be paid in shares of GLPI common stock. Although the Company does not anticipate the need for a further dividend to complete the purge of its historical earnings and profits, if the Company later determines that a subsequent dividend is necessary to qualify as a REIT in 2014, it would expect to declare and pay an additional dividend of earnings and profits no later than December 31, 2014.

Each GLPI shareholder will be permitted to elect to receive the shareholder's entire entitlement in either cash or GLPI common stock, subject to the 20% aggregate cash requirement. Shareholders of record on the Record Date will receive an election form providing for a choice of all cash or all shares, which must be completed and returned by the close of business on February 10, 2014. Shareholders electing cash will receive all cash unless the aggregate amount elected by all shareholders is in excess of the 20% cash requirement, in which case, cash will be allocated on a pro rata basis to such shareholders with the balance in shares. Shareholders electing all shares or failing to make an election will receive all shares unless the 20% cash requirement has not been met, in which case those not making an election will receive cash on a pro rata basis until the 20% cash requirement has been met. If the 20% cash requirement has not then been met, cash will be allocated on a pro rata basis to those electing shares. The Company currently estimates the share component of the dividend to be approximately 0.25 additional shares per current GLPI share; however, the actual number of shares to be distributed will be determined based upon shareholder elections and market factors.

Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. will serve as the Company's Election Agent and Disbursing Agent.

About Gaming and Leisure Properties

GLPI is a real estate investment trust ("REIT") for United States federal income tax purposes, whose primary business consists of acquiring, financing, and owning real estate property to be leased to gaming operators in "triple net" lease arrangements, pursuant to which the tenant is responsible for all facility maintenance, insurance required in connection with the leased properties and the business conducted on the leased properties, taxes levied on or with respect to the leased properties and all utilities and other services necessary or appropriate for the leased properties and the business conducted on the leased properties. GLPI is the first gaming-focused REIT, and expects to grow its portfolio by aggressively pursuing opportunities to acquire additional gaming facilities to lease to gaming operators, which may include Penn. GLPI intends to diversify its portfolio over time, including by acquiring properties outside the gaming industry to lease to third parties.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements can be identified by the use of forward looking terminology such as "expects," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "may," "will," "should" or "anticipates" or the negative or other variation of these or similar words, or by discussions of future events, strategies or risks and uncertainties. Such forward looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about GLPI and its subsidiaries, including risks related to the following: the ability to receive, or delays in obtaining, the regulatory approvals required to own and/or operate its properties, or other delays or impediments to completing GLPI's planned acquisitions or projects, including GLPI's ability to qualify as a REIT or maintain its status as a REIT; there being no need for any further dividend of historical accumulated earnings and profits in order to qualify as a REIT in 2014; the ability and willingness of GLPI's tenants, operators and other third parties to meet and/or perform their obligations under their respective contractual arrangements with GLPI, including, in some cases, their obligations to indemnify, defend and hold GLPI harmless from and against various claims, litigation and liabilities; the ability of GLPI's tenants and operators to maintain the financial strength and liquidity necessary to satisfy their respective obligations and liabilities to other third parties, including without limitation obligations under their existing credit facilities and other indebtedness; the ability of GLPI's tenants and operators to comply with laws, rules and regulations in the operation of its properties, to deliver high quality services, to attract and retain qualified personnel and to attract customers; the availability of and the ability to identify suitable and attractive acquisition and development opportunities and the ability to acquire and lease those properties on favorable terms; the ability to diversify into different businesses, such as hotels, entertainment facilities and office space; the access to debt and equity capital markets; fluctuating interest rates; the availability of qualified personnel and GLPI's ability to retain its key management personnel; GLPI's duty to indemnify Penn in certain circumstances if the spin-off fails to be tax-free; changes in the U.S. tax law and other state, federal or local laws, whether or not specific to REITs or to the gaming or lodging industries; changes in accounting standards; the impact of weather events or conditions, natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other international hostilities, war or political instability; other risks inherent in the real estate business, including potential liability relating to environmental matters and illiquidity of real estate investments; and other factors described in GLPI's Prospectus on Form S-11 filed on October 4, 2013, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). All subsequent written and oral forward looking statements attributable to GLPI or persons acting on GLPI's behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included in this press release. GLPI undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statements contained or incorporated by reference herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward looking events discussed in this press release may not occur.

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Vical Announces News Release and Conference Call Schedule for 2013 Financial Results

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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq:VICL) today announced that the company will report financial results for the three months and twelve months ended December 31, 2013, before the opening of trading on Wednesday, February 12, and conduct a conference call and webcast to discuss the financial results and provide a company update at noon Eastern Time on Wednesday, February 12. The call is open on a listen-only basis to any interested parties. The company will provide details on independent and partnered development programs in the conference call and webcast.

Conference Call

To listen to the conference call, dial in approximately ten minutes before the scheduled call to (719) 457-1035 (preferred), or (888) 510-1765 (toll-free), and reference confirmation code 7863802. A replay of the call will be available for 48 hours beginning about two hours after the call. To listen to the replay, dial (719) 457-0820 (preferred) or (888) 203-1112 (toll-free) and enter replay passcode 7863802. The call also will be available live and archived through the events page at www.vical.com.

Invited participants may ask questions during the conference call. Others may submit questions before the call by e-mail addressed to ir@vical.com or by fax to (858) 646-1150. Submitted questions will be screened for appropriateness and general interest. Selected questions received with sufficient notice before the call will be answered as time permits at the end of the call. For further information, contact Vical's Investor Relations department by phone at (858) 646-1127 or by email at ir@vical.com.

About Vical

Vical researches and develops biopharmaceutical products based on its patented DNA delivery technologies for the prevention and treatment of serious or life-threatening diseases. Potential applications of the company's DNA delivery technology include DNA vaccines for infectious diseases, in which the expressed protein is an immunogen; and cardiovascular therapies, in which the expressed protein is an angiogenic growth factor. The company is developing certain infectious disease vaccines internally. In addition, the company collaborates with major pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies that give it access to complementary technologies or greater resources. These strategic partnerships provide the company with mutually beneficial opportunities to expand its product pipeline and address significant unmet medical needs. Additional information on Vical is available at www.vical.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Forward-looking statements include statements about the Vical's focus, collaborative partners, product candidates, and development status. Risks and uncertainties include whether any product candidates will be shown to be safe and efficacious in clinical trials; the timing of clinical trials; whether Vical or its collaborative partners will seek or gain approval to market any product candidates; the dependence of the company on its collaborative partners will succeed in marketing any product candidates; and additional risks set forth in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements represent the company's judgment as of the date of this release. The company disclaims, however, any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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Membership in the GMC Mountainaires is open to all owners of the classic motor coach manufactured by General Motors during the period of 1973 to 1978. The VIN number of these coaches typically begins with the letters TZE.

Most of our members reside within a 500 mile radius of Denver, Colorado, and most of our rallies take place within that radius.

Membership Application

Mountainaires must also be members of our parent organization, the Family Motor Coach Association. FMCA provides many benefits to our club, including insurance. FMCA holds an annual convention at which GMC Motorhome owners nationwide congregate. One of our members is designated as a chapter representative to FMCA, and keeps us up-to-date with developments there.

Prospective members should review the Chapter Bylaws.

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ID-100111054Most parents feel guilty not giving there children candy at parties or other occasions.  You also probably have relatives or friends that make you feel you are depriving your children of their childhood by not giving them candy.   Well for all the candy lovers, Non GMO Candy not only exists but tastes great!  Most children don’t even notice the difference.  Look for organic candy that uses real fruit extracts like YumEarth Organics Organic Pops.  YumEarth Organics states that the candy they produce is free from chemicals, pesticides and dyes.   Guilt free candy great for special occasions.   Its a good idea to carry organic candy on you so that when you have the peer pressure around at parties to give your children chemical candy you can offer them yummy organic candy.  Maybe offer some to the parents trying to make you feel guilty so they can taste the difference.

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Rebroadcast of Goldman Sachs Conference Call to Announce 2008 Second Quarter Results

An audio rebroadcast of our conference call to announce second quarter 2008 results is available from this Web site or by dialing 1-800-642-1687 (U.S. domestic) or 1-706-645-9291 (international) Conference ID 47688028.

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