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Monday, July 22, 2013

North America?s Top 10 Games:

Sony confirmed The Last of Us has sold 3.4 million copies worldwide? in its first 3 weeks on sale! Buyers are in for an emotional roller-coaster ride through a zombie-infested future!

Here?s The Last of Us live-action TV commercial.

Japan?s Top 10 Games:

?Mario & Luigi RPG4: Dream Adventure? launched on 3DS in Japan this week after Europe/Australia?s release last week as ?Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros.?, while America/Canada has to wait until August 11th. After 4 years in development at the ex-Squaresoft staffed studio AlphaDream (run by former Squaresoft president Tetsuo Mizuno) fans can jump into a new portable role-playing adventure.

Watch the female-Luigi-fied ?Mario & Luigi RPG4? TV commercials airing in Japan now.

Europe?s Top 10 Games:

Once again millions of 3DS gamers are flocking to a new virtual town populated with anthropomorphic animals to become mayor.

Check out the Animal Crossing: New Leaf TV commercial airing in the UK.

To recap the top games per system:

The Last of Us stays at #1 on the PS3 charts and globally.
The Animal Crossing: New Leaf is at numero uno on the 3DS chart.
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition returns atop the Xbox 360 chart.
Sid Meier?s Civilization V: Gold Edition debuts on the PC chart.
Just Dance 4 returns to 1st place on the Wii chart.
Lumines: Electronic Symphony makes music at #1 on the PS Vita chart.
Pokemon Black & White Version 2 get caught at #1 on the DS chart.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty appears on the Mac chart.
Lastly, New Super Mario Bros. U jumps onto the Wii U chart.

Sales data collected from Amazon?s US, JPN (PC) & UK / DE / FR websites.

Categories: 3DS News, DS News, Mac News, News, PC News, PS Vita News, PS3 News, Videos, Wii News, Wii U News, Xbox 360 News

About the author

By Ferry Groenendijk: He is the founder and editor of Video Games Blogger. He loved gaming from the moment he got a Nintendo with Super Mario Bros. on his 8th birthday. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and at Google+.

Source: http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2013/07/21/top-10-bestselling-video-games-worldwide-in-week-29-2013.htm

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WhatsApp (for Windows Phone)

I was shocked to read a tech news article recently calling WhatsApp the "granddaddy" of messaging: I think ICQ would beg to differ. But among messaging apps intended to save users SMS texting costs, it certainly boasts a huge user base: In fact, WhatsApp peaked at one point as the 6th most popular paid app on the iTunes store, and Onavo ranks it as the eighth most popular social app. So there's a good chance that your iPhone-toting pals will be reachable?even more so now that it's free to install. In fact, the WhatsApp's CEO claimed that it had more users than Twitter?over a quarter billion. But is all this popularity warranted? I have to admit that I'm at a loss to explain it.

One of the few benefits of WhatsApp is that you can use it to converse with your Android, Blackberry, and iPhone-using friends as well as with other Windows Phone users. That's a big advantage over the excellent yet insular iMessage iPhone app, though it's not unique among today's messaging apps. An advantage iMessage boasts, however, is that it offers a desktop client?Mac-only, of course?that lets you text iPhone users from your computer.

Setup and Signup
WhatsApp is free to install but there's a 99 cent a year subscription after the first year. I didn't see any indication of this subscription fee on the Windows Phone app store, but when I contacted WhatsApp to clear this up, they told me that the policy of one year free and 99 cents a year after that holds true for all platforms. So, apparently, after a year of using the app, it's pay up or go home.

To get started with WhatsApp, you'll need to enter your phone number, so if you have a device without cell service, you won't be able to use the app, even though it mostly uses Wi-Fi and cellular data to function. I installed and tested the app on a Samsung ATIV Odyssey. After you enter my number, WhatsApp sent my phone a text message. Happily, I just had to tap on the link in the SMS message to enter it into the app. After this, I was prompted to enter my name and choose a user picture. All my phone contacts were added, and for each of these, you can invite to use the app with an automatically generated email.

A differentiator of WhatsApp from messaging apps like Kik is that your actual phone number is your user id, rather than a username or PIN that you choose. But this approach has the side effect of limiting you to a single device and phone number. Another concern is that you're giving your mobile number to a small company that may at some point decide that a list of mobile numbers makes a good source of revenue if sold to marketers.

Connecting with my contacts proved more troublesome than for most communication services: I couldn't just search for them way you can in Skype: The Search icon on each WhatsApp page only searched within the contacts already listed on the current page, not worldwide users. And even for a contact who I knew to be on WhatsApp, and whose phone number I had in my phone contacts, the app suggested I send an email invitation to get the app, which struck me as ridiculous as well as frustrating. A simple "connect to Facebook friends" would have been more than welcome.

Interface
The app has only three swipe-by sections: Favorites, All, and Chats. WhatsApp automatically adds your Windows Phone Favorites, though I'd prefer to keep them as separate WhatsApp favorites. For a service designed to overthrow SMS, that approach may make some sense. But I'm not sure why non-WhatsApp contacts were in the All section when I couldn't message them within WhatsApp.

Out on the phone's start screen, the app's live tile showed how many messages I had waiting, and banner notifications across the top of the screen let you know when any new messages come in, displaying with the first line.

Texting
WhatsApp's texting interface is clear and pleasant enough, but I couldn't change the look or wallpaper. When you send a message, it shows up with a single check mark to show that it's been sent, and then when the contact actually reads the message, this mark turns into a double check symbol. You can include the usual selection of smilies and emoji in your chats, and the message page shows you when the other person is typing?but at the top, not in the message area, which would be clearer. WhatsApp's Group feature lets you do all this same stuff, but with multiple conversants.

That's all well and good, but frankly, all of it either is par for the course or falls short of what you get in other messaging apps: Kik does a better job of indicating message status, and Facebook Messenger offers stickers that are far more fun than the standard emoticons found in WhatsApp and the rest. One thing I was really surprised that I couldn't do in WhatsApp for Windows Phone was to delete a conversation?even most phones' built-in SMS clients can do this.

Okay, now, finally, for something WhatsApp does well: it lets you record audio and video clips to include in your conversations! Kik does let you include a photo or video you shoot on the phone, but not audio alone (for that, take a look at Voxer). WhatsApp also lets you send your location, along with a small map?a nice touch not found in most competitors (though it is available in the stock Windows Phone messaging app).

And then there's the matter of stability. At one point, after leaving my Windows Phone for a while, WhatsApp displayed the word "Resuming" with the Windows Phone activity dots dancing across the screen. This continued till I restarted the phone.

What's Up with WhatsApp?
As far as I can tell, the only reason to use WhatsApp as opposed to Kik, Line, Skype, or Viber, is that people you know or meet use it. True, setup is a snap, but in terms of features, it's as unspecial as it gets. Add to this that you have to give a small company your cell phone number, and can't easily find other users, and may run into stability issues?you get the idea. Give it a pass, unless, again, it's the only thing used by your acquaintances.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/Oo4nJAIzZuw/0,2817,2422050,00.asp

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Administrators doing their jobs for schools

We would like to correct the assumptions made by the writer of the letter ?CPS rehiring staff who weren?t needed before? (July 14).

The 72 Cincinnati Public Schools? administrative employees who were notified in March, for budgetary reasons, that their contracts would not be renewed have continued to work and do their jobs for the past four months. These employees? contracts were scheduled to expire July 31. The superintendent, the CPS Board of Education and CPS staff used those four months to create a balanced budget that allowed CPS to keep most of the nonrenewed administrators. Their contracts were renewed at the July 8 board meeting.

Elizabeth Holtzapple, President, Cincinnati Association of Administrators and Supervisors

Posted in: education, Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, Regional

Tags: administrative costs, Cincinnati Public Schools, contracts

Source: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/letters/2013/07/21/administrators-doing-their-jobs-for-schools/

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Whitney, Shostak lead East to Lobster Bowl win

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Baldacci lobbies for debt action in Washington

WASHINGTON -- Former Gov. John Baldacci was walking the corridors of Capitol Hill once again last week along with former Maine Senate President Rick Bennett as part of a delegation of Mainers pushing for action on the federal debt.

Source: http://www.onlinesentinel.com/r?19=961&43=585542&44=216308631&32=10362&7=625047&40=http://www.onlinesentinel.com/sports/HIGH-SCHOOL-FOOTBALL-Whitney-Shostak-lead-East-to-Lobster-Bowl-win.html

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Football. Offseason Football injury update

An injury report was released Friday by Texas Head Athletic Trainer for Football Kenny Boyd.

July 19, 2013

An injury report was released Friday by Texas Head Athletic Trainer for Football Kenny Boyd.

The following players have been released to return to full participation:
? Junior OT Josh Cochran (lower left leg)
? Senior OG Trey Hopkins (lower left leg)
??Junior LB Tevin Jackson (right shoulder)
??Senior DE Jackson Jeffcoat (right shoulder/pectoral muscle)

The following players all had recent procedures to address lingering hip injuries. All three will be limited at the start of preseason training camp, progressively work back into full practice and are?expected to be at full speed and ready to go for the season opener on Aug. 31:
? Junior CB Quandre Diggs
??Junior WR Jaxon Shipley
? Junior S Josh Turner

Senior WR Mike Davis underwent hernia surgery recently, will be limited at the start of preseason training camp, but is expected to be at full speed and ready to go for the season opener.

Senior LB Demarco Cobbs (right knee surgery), will be out for the beginning of preseason training camp but is expected to return to practice?near the end of that session.

Big 12 Media Days are set for Monday and Tuesday in Dallas. The Longhorns will take part in Tuesday's session.

Preseason practice begins on Aug. 5.

Source: http://onlyfans.cstv.com/schools/tex/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/072013aac.html

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Sony offers INR 5K discount on Xperia Z/ ZL for your old smartphone

After Samsung (Apple and BlackBerry too), Sony has started exchange offer for its flagship Xperia Z and ZL smartphones. The company is giving an assured discount of INR 5,000 if you trade-in your old phone. We don?t have a list of eligible phone for trade-in right now but we will update the post as soon as we get hold of it, till then you can visit you nearest retailer to learn if your old phone is eligible for Sony?s Big Xperia Xchange offer or not. Sony Big Xperia Xchange offer

Sony is also bundling a free case worth INR 1,990 with every Xperia Z purchase and snap-on cover worth INR 1490 with Xperia ZL. ?This is not all; the company is offering 12 or 6 months EMI plans for these phones without any processing fee at select stores.

According to the company, the exchange offer, which went live on July 15, is valid until August 15, 2013. After getting discount as a part of exchange offer, you will able to get new Sony Xperia Z for INR 33,790 or lower (depending on your old phone) and Sony Xperia ZL for INR 30,690 or lower.

To remind you, Sony Xperia Z and ZL were released in the country earlier this year and come with 5-inch full HD display, quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 13MP rear camera and 2GB of RAM. Sony Big Xperia Xchange offer

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Abbas delays decision on peace talks, Kerry to fly home

By Ali Sawafta

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian leaders put off a decision on Thursday about restarting peace talks with Israel, with most saying Israel must first meet their terms before negotiations can start, a Palestinian official said.

President Mahmoud Abbas had gathered fellow PLO leaders in Ramallah to discuss his meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry this week. Kerry, who had extended his stay in the region in the hope of progress on resuming peace talks that stalled in 2010, will return to the United States on Friday.

No decision emerged from the Palestinians' gathering, one official who attended Thursday's meeting told Reuters, and Abbas formed a committee to present a formal response to Kerry's peace push on Friday.

"Most PLO officials who attended the meeting described Kerry's offer as not sufficient for resuming negotiations with Israel," said the official, Qais Abdel-Karim.

The main sticking point seemed to be a Palestinian demand that Israel agree to negotiate on condition that the borders of a future Palestinian state would be based on boundaries drawn before a 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose rightist coalition government includes parties that back Jewish settlers on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, says he wants to start peace talks immediately, but without preconditions.

"There is a general tendency among PLO officials to reject resuming negotiations before Israel recognizes the 1967 borders as a base for the peace process and for it to end settlement activity," said Abdel-Karim.

Kerry has given no details on where he believes the two sides might give ground, though he said after meeting Abbas in Jordan on Wednesday that differences had narrowed "very significantly".

KERRY TO FLY HOME FRIDAY

Earlier on Thursday, the State Department had said there were currently no plans to announce a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks and a senior U.S. official later said Kerry would fly home on Friday after consulting both sides again.

It was unclear if Kerry would see the parties in person on Friday or consult them by telephone.

"It is appropriate and encouraging that there is such a serious debate about these issues," the senior U.S. official said in a brief emailed comment as the Palestinian discussions continued. "We understand that there are many strongly held views and appreciate efforts to find a basis to move forward."

Making his sixth visit to the region since March, Kerry has not spelled out his proposals. But his efforts won the notable endorsement of the Arab League, which said they "provide the ground and a suitable environment to start negotiations".

Kerry has highlighted a 2002 offer made by the 22-nation League to make peace with Israel in return for a Palestinian state broadly inside borders that existed before Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in 1967.

An Israeli official, briefing anonymously, said Israel had agreed to a new wording on future border negotiations. However, a Netanyahu spokesman denied there had been any change in Israel's position.

ARAB SUPPORT

The Arab League confirmed this week that it was willing to consider swapping some land on either side of the 1967 borders, bringing it closer to Israel's position. Israel says the old borders are indefensible and that some West Bank settlement blocs should be incorporated into Israel.

Abbas, whose peace strategy is opposed by the Islamist group Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip, has sought Arab League support in the past to engage Israel. It was not clear if Wednesday's endorsement gave him enough political cover to resume talks.

Hamas's leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, called Kerry's efforts "a waste of time".

Abbas had convened senior members of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and his Fatah party in Ramallah, hub of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and seat of his U.S.-backed self-rule administration.

Before Thursday's meeting, Palestinian officials seemed pessimistic. They appeared to allude to reports that Kerry's formula lacked any mention of stopping settlement construction but might include a reference to Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state - something they never have accepted.

Negotiations, which have ebbed and flowed for two decades, last broke down in late 2010, after a partial settlement halt meant to foster talks ended and Netanyahu refused to extend it.

Palestinians familiar with Abbas's thinking speculated he might now forgo the call for a settlement moratorium given a recent slowdown in housing starts issued by Israel's government, though it may still be painful to roll back his previous demand.

(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed in Amman, Noah Browning in Cairo, Allyn Fisher-Ilan in Jerusalem, and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Writing by Dan Williams, Ari Rabinovitch and Arshad Mohammed; editing by David Stamp)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/abbas-delays-decision-peace-talks-kerry-fly-home-215800952.html

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