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Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet
Balladeer
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Subject: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Tue 17 Mar 2015 - 9:15
Not sure what to think of this. I don't see anything wrong with the odd companion app., but something within me (probably a fanboy bit) revolts against the idea of seeing Mario et al. on an iPhone. And then there's the possibility that Pokémon Shuffle highlights the way things are going.
I'm not preaching doom, but it's fair to say that I'm worried.
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Subject: Re: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Tue 17 Mar 2015 - 9:41
Bandana Waddle Dee
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Subject: Re: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Tue 17 Mar 2015 - 10:03
I think this is a good thing. I don't see the problem or the downside. As they say, it will only be new, completely original games designed for the portable market. Where is the problem in that? I can only see what I have stated before and that is it is an opportunity to put their IP into more hands, a massive amount of hands, with games that do not detract from the rest of their business, one that will give them a good cash flow, with the high chance that some of the new gamers will be interested in a Nintendo dedicated console, for a full game experience. It will only grow their business.
The world as we know it is not about to end.
What about NX though - what do we think that is? A replacement for the Wii U or 3DS, or perhaps a completely new console? That is the bit that interests me.
There's a thread for that!
I guess my two main rational worries are:
1) In the short term, we'll see more free-to-play Nintendo stuff and almost throwaway games, that threaten to tarnish Nintendo and their IPs;
2) In the long term, if this is successful, Nintendo either adopting mobile approaches to their non-mobile games, or scrapping either their handheld or home console (or both) to concentrate more on mobile stuff. People have spewed about this for ages, but I dismissed it all as nonsense until this announcement. Now I'm on board the fear train.
@Balladeer wrote:
Yeah, saw that after this.
1. I don't agree, but whilst it is possible, with Nintendo, I am doubtful.
2. Yes it may see the end of a dedicated home or portable console, but I doubt it, and if it does happen, you will be as old as me when it does and I will be dead. I think the train you are boarding is defective and stuck in the Tube.
The YouTube (comments), you mean?
Tech moves fast. I'd love to not see it happen in my lifetime, but I can't be as dismissive as you of the possibility.
masofdas
Giygas
Location : VITA Island
I agree with OS on this can only see it growing Nintendo's market as how many smartphones & tablets are out there if in 1% off users then went out and picked up dedicated gaming device of Nintendo's that be a lot of people & money for Nintendo and at the end of the day there business that has been around for 100's of years. So they know what there doing.
I had to Google The Tube just to make sure my reference was correct. Damn it is hard when you are trying to make a point to a bleedin' foreigner using references they will know, so easy to get it horribly wrong.
fronkhead
Disciple of Scullion
I don't think you need to be worried at this point.
1) It'll be free-to-play, but Nintendo is involved in the planning processes for the games. In Iwata's presentation, he mentioned that the goal of this new all-encompassing platform is to grow the market for Nintendo's NX premium device, while aiming particular titles at the right audience. I think Iwata has finally realised that the value of their non-gaming software this generation hasn't been realised, because those games' core audience has moved from DS/Wii to iPhones and iPads. And stuff like Pokémon Shuffle just felt out of place on 3DS -- put it where the audience is.
Furthermore, because of these long term aims of the service, I don't think either Nintendo or DeNA will be in position to abuse consumers with the games, because they need to build a long-term relationship with their customers to ensure repeat engagement with *all* of Nintendo's products -- the entire brand is hingeing on this.
Yes, there was Pokémon Shuffle, but I'm willing to bet that was The Pokémon Company's bidding, not Nintendo's. That it's listed as being published by TPC on the eShop is telling -- Nintendo's the publisher for Link Battle.
2) As in 1), they are doing this to grow NX. Iwata maintained that their hardware-software business is still very strong and goes good numbers, and it's here to stay. They won't be diverting lots of resources away from it.
He did note that the console market is on the decline, which I believe is wrong -- PS4 going viral and both PS4/XB1 selling faster than any other PlayStation/Xbox to date proved even the harshest sceptists wrong. But he could be talking about Japan, where Wii U does small numbers, PS4 does slightly less small numbers, and Xbox One does very small numbers.
So really, I'm quite pleased with the outcome. I do see where the worry about the mobile games themselves comes from, especially as DeNA is given full access to Nintendo's IP. But again, it's a plan for the long term, so I'm willing to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt.
That's a good post, Fronk, albeit not as comforting as you probably meant it to be!
I'm still not entirely consoled about 1 - I don't want Nintendo, or indeed anyone, doing FtP without very careful balancing. I think it can work without seeming like a money-grubber, but that it's tricky. Interesting about the publisher for PS, though.
As for 2, that sounds very much like sacrificing the home console part of Nintendo, the way you put it! I reckon we've got at least another generation before that happens, though.
@oldschool wrote:
Don't worry, you got the reference right, especially 'cause I'm a Londoner. I can confirm that trains do get stuck in the tube all the time!
Buskalilly
Brush God
Location : Nagano
I really couldn't care less. Nintendo are not going to release compromised versions of their games. All we'll see are spin-offs or well suited touchscreen games which will take in some extra cash for the company and give me more options to play Nintendo games on the go. Where's the downside?
ZeroJones
I'M SO LONELY
Location : North Midlands, England
Subject: Re: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Wed 18 Mar 2015 - 20:02
If Nintendo's mobile games go down the F2P route, I will be unnerved. Far prefer what the App Store is now calling 'Pay Once And Play' games: you buy it and it's yours. As long as we get POAP games, I'm in. To be fair, even if they're F2P, I'll probably get 'em. Nintendo games are normally very well-produced and there's no reason, as yet, to believe that that will change when they go mobile.
I will probably not buy any F2P games. Unless, I dunno, the nightmare scenario happens and the next Zelda is somehow free-to-play.
Drunkalilly wrote:
Their development time, it would seem.
The_Jaster
Baby Brush God
Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
balla wrote:
I will probably not buy any F2P games.
You don't have to buy it that's why it's F2P.
The Cappuccino Kid
Kid from a To Rose
Location : East of Mombasa
Tell you what, I'd be all over the likes of Yoshi's Fruit Cart and Captain Falcon's Twister Race (from Nintendo Land) on mobile. All over it like a rat up a drainpipe.
Original stuff like they introduced on DSiWare would be good value too. When I was redownloading my eShop games on my New 3DS XL is was a bit surprised to be greeted by the likes of Birds & Bombs and Aura Aura Climber - I'd forgotten about them. But they were good.
Subject: Re: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Thu 19 Mar 2015 - 7:13
It's almost certain that Nintendo will produce the right kind of games for smartphones. All the noises they're making suggest that genuine button input games, that really don't work very well on touch screens, will not appear. Nintendo really get their own hardware to sing, so they should be able to do the same - albeit with a little help! - on smartphones.
Other points I wanted to make today include: a), they'll surely do a mixture of F2P and Pay Once And Play games, and b), whatever happens, it will get more money flowing into Nintendo's coffers. The super-ideal scenario is a sustained increase in sales for the 3DS and Wii U - that's less likely than Vinny Jones becoming President of Mensa, though.
Subject: Re: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Thu 19 Mar 2015 - 12:44
Iwata said this on the types of games In the digital world, content has the tendency to lose value, especially on smart devices. We finally found solutions to the problem. We will not merely port games developed for our dedicated systems to smart devices just as they are—we will develop brand new software which perfectly matches the play style and control mechanisms of smart devices.
And I trust Nintendo will do that, will I play any of them very unlikely as I sooner play on a dedicated games system but for casuals it could be good and might bring them into Nintendo.
@Fronk PS4 has started to turn around in Japan now it's been Number 1 for the last few weeks thanks to content like dragon quest & yakuza but it is a shirking marker for consoles in Japan where mobile & handheld seem to rule.
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Subject: Re: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Sun 22 Mar 2015 - 23:10
Personally, I think it is a bad idea. It has already got my friends expecting that Nintendo will move to PS4/XB1. When I say "that won't happen", they say "a week ago you swore blind that Nintendo would never make games for mobile."
Basically, IMO, any minute spent making something on mobile is a minute better spent on their own consoles.
You did tell them Nintendo have already confirmed a new console and mobile means nothing, MS & Sony have games on mobile doesn't mean either of them are bringing game to each other.
Subject: Re: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Sat 28 Mar 2015 - 16:49
Fair points. I think Nintendo will at least do F2P 'right' where applicable. Collectible Badge Center and Rusty's Real Deal Baseball at least shows that in-house Nintendo knows (and was learning!) how to do it fairly, and Iwata hasn't ruled out any particular business model on mobile, instead stating that it will all be considered on a case-by-case basis. And from a game design point of view, I think we're sorted. As Phillips mentioned, so many Nintendo-like minigames are a great fit for smartphone hardware. Iwata himself seemed very confident about the matter, having (rightfully) stated how Nintendo led the way for touchscreen games with Nintendo DS.
I'm a bit wary too if I'd be honest. While the move has the long term interest of Nintendo at heart, the results could differ massively depending on a best or worst case scenario. I'm also a bit worried that Iwata plans to have some sort of mobile game released this year. I was always under the impression that this effort was going to be integrated with NX, when everything (including this global Nintendo Network that will span PC, mobile and handheld/consoles) was ready. I'm not quite sure what a few mobile games will do to push 3DS and Wii U...
...especially when NX was announced for 2016/2017. That's the ironic part of it, I suppose. Iwata had to announce a new console/handheld because we'd all be thinking Nintendo was going mobile-only otherwise. But it's clearly going to have a negative impact on how people view the Wii U, and whether indies will even bother targeting it now that its replacement is on the way soon.
Subject: Re: Nintendo Goes Mobile, Pigs Not Flying Yet Sun 29 Mar 2015 - 7:58
@fronkhead wrote:
I don't believe the NX is the Wii U replacement at all. I am pretty sure they have made it clear it is something new, not a replacement for the WiiU or even the 3DS, which is the more likely scenario should a replacement be the actual outcome.
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Irish hopes for Tokyo 2020 boosted as Sailing HQ opens in Dun Laoghaire.
Ireland's hopes of delivering medals at the Tokyo Olympics have received a major boost with the official opening of the Irish Sailing High Performance Headquarters in Dun Laoghaire last Friday.
The first ever base for the senior Irish Sailing Team was launched on the grounds of the Commissioners of Irish Lights in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. The facility was constructed at a cost of €300,000 and was funded entirely by the Irish Sailing foundation.
Thirteen sailors from throughout Ireland will be based at the Performance Centre, which is entirely mobile. It consists of three converted shipping units with space for briefings and athlete education, a gym, gear storage and a boat maintenance area. The athlete briefing room can be shipped directly to international competitions, including the Tokyo Olympics, and will provide a base for Irelands sailing athletes overseas. Outside, there will be a boat park and pontoon for launching the boats.
Team member and Howth native, Aoife Hopkins, was in awe of the final product "I think it did cross a few people's minds that it was just three shipping containers put together. I lacked the creativity to see it myself but now it's all here, it's absolutely fantastic".
Hopkins, a European U21 Champion in 2017, is hopeful that the opening of the HQ will also lead to more people taking up the sport of sailing and bring a light to its demanding but rewarding nature "it is physical, people don't see it really but hopefully they will start to now, it is really great to be a part of though. It's a sport for all and it is a sport for life".
The new HQ will improve both training and educational opportunities for the sailors. It has been instituted with the specific aim of maximising Ireland's medal potential in International competitions and qualifying for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Speaking about the opening Rory Fitzpatrick, Irish Sailing Performance Head Coach, said "we will finally have a place we can call 'home' and for that reason alone the impact of the new Performance HQ cannot be underestimated. The environment created will allow for consistent coaching, a base for equipment and our own direct access to water, which all adds up to giving our athletes the best opportunities to reach their maximum medal-winning potential in the long-term".
Speaking to the Gazette, 2018 49er World Champion, Sean Waddilove was keen to stress the importance of team unity "before it would be a big deal if we all met up in the city for a gym session or something after all training in different clubs. Now we all train together and that will really help us improve and come together, there is competition within the group but we are a team first".
The 22 year old from Skerries has never been to an Olympic Games but was full of
confidence when asked about 2020 "we were always confident of qualifying but now with the opening of the new facility we know that we will be in Tokyo and will be in a great position to compete".
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William "Canada Bill" Jones
18?? - 1880
Canada Bill Jones was one of the greatest cardsharps in the history of gambling and is also the source of some of poker's most commonly repeated quotes.
William "Canada Bill" Jones was born in a gypsy tent, in Yorkshire, England, in the early 1800s. He later moved to Canada where he learned the popular gambling scam, three-card-monte, from veteran player Dick Cady. Canada Bill eventually became an expert at the swindle and became known as "the greatest monte sharp to ever toss the broads."
Canada Bill found that far more opportunities existed to the south and ventured to the southern US rivers for gambling action on the riverboats. When the action on the riverboats dried up, he hit the railroads, and when that scam dried up, he moved on to the racetracks.
Essential to his success was his remarkable ability to play the fool. In fact he was perhaps one of the earliest known players to play the part of the sucker to a tee, while he cleaned out the bankrolls of his unsuspecting marks. Fellow con man and friend George Devol had this to say about Canada Bill, in his book, Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi:
"Canada Bill was a character one might travel the length and breadth of the land and never see his match, or run across his equal. Imagine a medium-sized, chicken-headed, tow-haired sort of a man with mild blue eyes, and a mouth nearly from ear to ear, who walked with a shuffling, half-apologetic sort of a gait, and who, when his countenance was in repose, resembled an idiot. For hours he would sit in his chair, twisting his hair in little ringlets. His clothes were always several sizes too large, and his face was as smooth as a woman's and never had a particle of hair on it. Canada was a slick one. He had a squeaking, boyish voice, and awkward, gawky manners, and a way of asking fool questions and putting on a good natured sort of a grin, that led everybody to believe that he was the rankest kind of a sucker-the greenest sort of a country jake. Woe to the man who picked him up, though."
Canada Bill once wrote to the general superintendent of the Union Pacific Railroad, offering $25,000 a year for the exclusive rights to run a three-card-monte game on the trains. He promised to limit his victims to commercial travelers from Chicago and Methodist preachers. The railroad official politely declined the offer.
One of Canada Bill's best known gambling quotes comes from a famous gambling story about a time he spent a night in Baton Rouge. He searched all over town for some gambling action until he eventually found a Faro game, in the back of a barber shop. George Devol found him there, warned him that the dealer was cheating using a rigged Faro box, and begged Bill to leave with him. Devol asked Bill, "Can't you see this game is crooked?" Canada Bill responded, "Sure, I know it. But it's the only game in town."
One of Canada Bill's most famous quotes is: "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money." The line was immortalized in the popular movie Rounders, and has become the motto of many gamblers, poker players, hustlers and card cheats.
Canada Bill made so much money by swindling people on three-card-monte, poker, and other games, that he could have retired many times over. But ironically, he turned out to be a bit of a sucker himself, and fell victim to scams of other crooks, con men, and cheats who ran the Faro games (the most popular gambling game of the Old West, that was almost never operated on the square). Despite his lifelong winnings, Canada Bill lost it all to other swindlers and died broke, in 1880, in Reading, Pennsylvania. One of the gamblers who stood by as they lowered Canada Bill into the ground offered to bet $1000 at 2 to 1 odds that Bill wasn't in the casket. There were no takers, but one gambler within earshot said, "I've seen Bill get out of tighter holes than that before." When the western gambling fraternity learned of his death, a group of gamblers from Chicago raised money to recompense the city of Reading for the funeral expenses, and had a gravestone erected for Canada Bill.


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Friends made this D Street remodel work
By Zack Sherzad
Tony and Teressa Estigoy live with their daughter Emery in an adorable D Street remodel. It took serendipity to turn the tiny home into a showplace.
"We really wanted that open-the-door wow factor," Tony says. "This is a 1,000-square-foot home. How do you make it look bigger without having to blow out walls? You open it up as much as you can."
When you walk through the extra-wide front door (complete with original brass details), your eyes are drawn past the kitchen and living areas to panoramic doors leading to the backyard.
The wall of plate glass cooperates with a skylight in the kitchen to give the house a sense of size, depth and openness. The chandelier above the dining table was chosen for its thin, practically transparent visual footprint, and doesn't interfere with the long view from front door to backyard.
Teressa, an Air Force veteran, bought the house in 2012 so she could be near her parents, who live next door. The 1940s house stayed mostly original until Teressa met Tony in 2019.
"Teressa was a single mom, so it was a kid's house. Bookcases everywhere, toys and stuff," Tony says. "It was three months before she even let me in the backyard."
"Actually, it was four," Teressa says.
Tony, who sells real estate at Sotheby's International Realty, started fixing up the backyard, but the couple wasn't sure what to do with the house. Then Teressa's longtime D Street friends Cris Weber and Mollie Lyon invited them to a Christmas party.
Weber and Lyon, of design team Flax + Stone, had remodeled their own home. Tony and Teressa were so impressed they decided to have the neighbors do their remodel too.
Some might say it's a bad idea to do business with friends, but when it works, it really works. When Tony and Teressa felt overwhelmed, their faith in Weber and Lyon carried the day.
"We were moving through this whole process of trying to figure out what kind of flooring we want, what color scheme we want," Tony says. "Around the third month in we said, 'Mollie, we trust you!'"
"Which is a designer's dream," Lyon says. "We gave them options and they were saying, 'We like all of them, pick your favorite.' Really open dialogue. Where I pushed on suggestions, they took them, and when they weren't interested we moved on. Every decision was easy and solid."
Weber and Lyon's biggest challenge was marrying two conflicting styles. "Teressa is farmhouse modern, and Tony is straight modern—like bachelor pad, clean lines, industrial," Lyon says. "So how could we make this feel like a comfortable place for Tony to move into, but a family space overall? We had to find where we could do super high-end luxury things, and where we could make a cozy place for everyone to gather."
Take the fireplace. The original was a traditional red-and-white. "It looked like Santa was going to come down," Weber says. "But Mollie found this exquisite tile that was a compilation of stone and wood. It gives it a warm feel, but looks modern as well."
Though Tony has sold real estate for years, he admits the remodeling process taught him to look at houses differently—as a canvas rather than a monument.
"A lot of times you'll walk into a home and think, it doesn't have this, it doesn't have this, it doesn't have this," Tony says. "Now I say, wait—this is what it can be. Come over to my home, see what is possible. It gives my clients the visual."
Weber and Lyon say it's been rewarding to remodel another D Street home. "The block, we're like family," Lyon says. "We do pumpkin carvings, cookie decorating, Easter egg dying. We did a D Street dinner one year. Great neighborhood, great sense of community.
"A remodel is a remodel, but seeing this family come together made it all the sweeter. That's why we call this the 'Happily Ever After Home.'"
For information on Flax + Stone, visit flaxandstone.com.
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Prairie View A&M's Bernard Goldwater runs for a touchdown in the third quarter against the Rice Owls at Rice Stadium on Aug. 25 in Houston. Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images
Put some respect on the names of N.C. A&T and Prairie View A&M
Aggies beat Jacksonville State, Panthers lose on last-second field goal on opening weekend of college football
By John X. Miller	@xman1955
3:34 AMNorth Carolina A&T proved that with a new coach but the same toughness, it can compete with the likes of an FBS team like Jacksonville State. The Aggies played an impressive game Aug. 25 in the Guardian Credit Union FCS Kickoff Classic, beating Jacksonville State 20-17.
The Aggies' offense and defense played well enough the entire game to win, with quarterback Lamar Raynard throwing two touchdown passes on 12-of-34 passing, while the defense forced four turnovers.
Raynard, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) offensive MVP last season, hit Zachary Leslie for a 24-yard score in the first quarter, Elijah Bell scored from four yards in the third and Malik Wilson returned a kickoff 98 yards for a third-quarter touchdown. The 2017 Celebration Bowl champs sealed the game on a forced fumble with 17 seconds remaining.
The victory gave N.C. A&T its third consecutive season-opening win against an FBS opponent, and the first for Sam Washington as head coach. Washington replaced Rod Broadway after last season's Celebration Bowl victory.
What. A. Game! Aggies come through multiple times in the clutch to take the 2018 Guardian Credit Union #FCS Kickoff 20-17! #AggiesAllIn #AggiesDO pic.twitter.com/gB3uMdhdAJ
— North Carolina A&T (@ncatsuaggies) August 26, 2018
Prairie View, playing at Rice Stadium, battled the home team until the very end, losing on a game-ending field goal as time expired. Prairie View fell behind early in the game, but came back to take a 21-19 lead at halftime. At one point, the Panthers led by nine points after scoring 21 unanswered points before Rice forced a tie at 28-28 on a safety.
It looked as if the game was going to go into overtime as the Owls held Prairie View scoreless in the fourth quarter. But Rice escaped with a 31-28 victory, thanks to 23-yard field goal by Jack Fox after a costly Prairie View turnover.
"That's who we are," Prairie View coach Eric Dooley said. "I think they settled down [after the first quarter]. The butterflies were gone and they made the adjustments that were needed and started executing. … That turnover hurt us and really changed the momentum of the game."
Quarterback Jalen Morton, whose fourth-quarter turnover cost the Panthers dearly, had 244 passing yards and three scores. His primary receiver, Tristen Wallace, had five catches for 147 yards and a touchdown.
Prairie View plays again Sunday in Atlanta against North Carolina Central in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge at noon on ESPN.
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Florida Memorial University men's basketball coach Ansar Al-Ameen. Photo courtesy of Florida Memorial University
New coach, new initiative might be game-changer for Florida Memorial University
'Lift Ev'ry Voice' is at the center of school's plan to help uplift HBCUs
4:02 PMFlorida Memorial University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Miami Gardens, Florida, is going all out to let people know it's about the culture.
First, it launched an initiative called Lift Ev'ry Voice to inspire entertainers, athletes, authors, professionals and entrepreneurs to recommit and support HBCUs. Next, with the help of NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas, the school introduced its new head men's basketball coach, Ansar Al-Ameen. Thomas was instrumental in getting Al-Ameen to the school.
Before the announcements Tuesday, there was much suspense on campus as media, students and the university community gathered for a news conference.
During the news conference, Thomas and FMU president Jaffus Hardrick talked about the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the black national anthem. Hardrick said it was birthed at FMU by brothers John Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson. James wrote it as a poem; John put it to music.
"HBCUs are still relevant institutions, and they remain committed to educating today's and tomorrow's students and preparing them to compete in the 21st-century global marketplace or pursue graduate degrees," said Hardrick.
Added Thomas, who coached the Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks and later Florida International University: "HBCUs are just as important today as they were when they were founded in our society."
Al-Ameen, who was head coach at Prairie View A&M and an assistant at Texas Southern and Fresno State, said after his introduction: "It was an amazing opportunity just to come here. You know, I think back at all my time as an assistant, all my time working with NBA players, all my time wanting this opportunity."
Al-Ameen, known as one of the best workout trainers in the country, is credited with coaching top players, including LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Amar'e Stoudemire, Shawn Marion, Jamal Crawford and Paul Pierce. During his career, he's been described as a no-nonsense coach whose steady diet of consistent discipline has helped transform students who were being written off into honor roll students.
"I've known Ansar for years," said Thomas, who is a close friend of Hardrick's. "I've watched his work with players. I'm positive that with these young athletes that we have here, that he'll impart knowledge and he'll impart wisdom."


Fans of the excellent BBC series Sherlock can rest assured that the recent Hollywood success of Benedict Cumberbatch and his on-screen partner in crime fighting Martin Freeman will not spell the end for the incredibly popular series. The two English actors have both recently been turning heads across the pond in major big budget blockbusters. Freeman is of course the lead in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, while Cumberbatch is not only voicing the dragon Smaug in Jackson's opus but also playing the arch villain in next year's Star Trek Into Darkness.
I don't think that's a possibility because I love it too much. Making [Sherlock] is all about availability. Martin Freeman has the same kind of pressures on him now. It's a thing of quality not quantity that show – thank God. We started young with it. We started when they meet and we still are young for those roles. There's no reason why it can't continue until we get too old.
Sherlock really has been one of the best things on UK TV in recent years and it's telling that as Cumberbatch points out, the series opts for quality not quantity. Every season so far as been just three episodes long but they are so wonderfully crafted that it was like watching three high quality crime dramas rather than your average TV detective series. And so, it's no surprise that the show's return has been hotly anticipated ever since Season 2 spectacularly came to a close in January of this year. Filming for Season 3 is due to start in March of 2013, so while a 2013 airing date isn't out of the question, all things point towards a 2014 release.
Last year it was Woman, Hound, Fall. This year's three words revealed tomorrow at #MGEITF#Sherlock Master Class.
So. The three tease words for the next run of Sherlock … Rat. Wedding. Bow.
Naturally this sent the internet into overdrive, although Moffat did warn that these words could be red-herrings designed to send you in the wrong direction. However, many have argued that 'Rat' may refer to The Giant Rat of Sumatra, though it is widely reported that the first episode back will involve elements of The Adventure of the Empty House, which was the first story Conan Doyle wrote after bowing to popular opinion and bringing Sherlock back from the dead. After the incredible cliffhanger at the end of Season 2, which I for one am still trying to figure out, this would certainly make a great deal of sense.
'Wedding' has been interpreted as a reference to The Noble Bachelor, while 'Bow' ominously has been linked to 'His Last Bow', the last chronological Sherlock Holmes story that Conan Doyle wrote and in which he finally had Holmes retire.
As it stands though, we can only hope that the next season will not be Sherlock's last. Cumberbatch's comments are certainly promising but it would not be at all surprising if both he and Freeman opted to focus their energies elsewhere once this next run of three are done. I'm personally torn between wanting the show to go out on a high and also wanting it to go on as long as possible, but for now we can only wait for more news as Moffat and Gattis release it.


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Van: euobserver op 22 december 2020
Massive consumer demand due to 'Black Friday' (27 November) and Christmas must not cost Amazon staff their health and safety, Amnesty International warned in a new report that examines working conditions at the world's largest online store.
The human-rights organisation denounced Amazon for undermining employees' right to seek better working conditions in the first months of the pandemic, notably in attempts by workers to unionise and bargain collectively.
"This festive period comes at the end of a long and difficult year for Amazon workers, who have had to fight for their rights at work in the midst of a pandemic," said Barbora Černušáková, a researcher at Amnesty.
"Amazon is facing increasing scrutiny for its treatment of its workers, and we are urging the company to step up and fully comply with its responsibility to respect workers' rights," she added.
While Amazon has publicly committed to respecting human rights through its operations, Amnesty shed light on a different reality.
In the report published last week (26 November), Amnesty said that "the company's pattern of behaviour portrays a corporate culture that is adversarial towards workers' rights to join a trade union and organise collectively".
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In Poland, several unions claimed that Amazon workers had been reprimanded for recruiting union members.
One of the cases ended up in a Polish court, which overturned the reprimand, urging Amazon to stop such adversarial action against employees, the report states.
Meanwhile, Amnesty also denounced that Amazon in the UK has been monitoring Facebook profiles of employees to know which are members of a union.
"This kind of sinister "Big Brother" behaviour is totally unacceptable, and interferes with workers' freedom of expression and right to organise," said Černušáková.
Additionally, French unions criticised Amazon for refusing to discuss health and safety concerns with them during the first coronavirus outbreak.
"During the [first wave] of the pandemic, we wanted to sit around the table to find solutions. They didn't want to have any discussion and refused a dialogue," Adrien Guellec, a member of the French Democratic Confederation of Workers, told the NGO.
However, trade union Solidaires filed a successful lawsuit on public health grounds, and Amazon was forced to halt operations temporarily and introduce more stringent health and safety measures.
French unions have also voiced their concerns about the paying out of additional 'risk premiums'.
During the first months of the pandemic, Amazon slightly increased the hourly pay of workers in the US, UK, Canada and many EU countries - including France, Germany, Italy, and Poland.
However, this extra payment was withdrawn in most countries at the end of May.
"This is a series of misleading assertions by misinformed or self-interested groups who are using Amazon's profile to further their individual causes," Amazon told EUobserver in an emailed statement.
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Amazon registered record profits this year, with many people favouring shopping online in preference to the high street, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
But for last week's Black Friday (27 November), a consumer event where major revenues were anticipated, activists launched a global "Make Amazon Pay" campaign to protest over pay and working conditions.
"The pandemic has exposed how Amazon places profits ahead of workers, society, and our planet. Amazon takes too much and gives back too little," the group said.
The German Ver.di union mobilised around 2,500 employees on Friday for a three-day strike, calling on the US giant to "ensure better protection of the health and safety of workers," German media reported.
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Bobcats Fall to Saints in Final Home Contest of 2018/19 Season
Playing in their final home game of the 2018/19 regular season, the Lloydminster Bobcats were unable to find much of an answer for the Spruce Grove Saints Saturday night at the Centennial Civic Centre.
Taking on the defending AJHL champions for the third time this month and second time this week, the Bobcats found themselves in penalty trouble which helped the Saints take control of the game with a five-goal second period.
Trailing by only a goal after one period of play despite a slow moving opening frame, the game was still completely up for grabs.
The Saints, however, used the second period and their power-play to essentially put it out of reach.
Just 20 seconds into the frame on the man-advantage, Seth Fyten found the back of the net for Spruce Grove getting a second goal past Bobcat's netminder Cale Elder.
After assisting on the Fyten goal, former Midget 'AAA' Bobcat Logan Ganie netted a goal of his own a little over three minutes later to increase the Spruce Grove lead to 3-0.
Only 42 seconds after that, the Saints found the back of the net again when Alex Dalton got the puck past Elder.
The Dalton goal did however, seem to spark the Bobcats. Not even a minute later, Hunter Lamb found a loose puck of a scramble and put it past Saint's goalie Liam McCloskey.
The Cats then jumped on a power-play shortly after, but it was later nullified after tempers began to flare and multiple penalties were called including a five-minute major for slashing and a game misconduct to Bobcat's 'AP' Ben Bygrove.
Spruce Grove would strike two more times with the man-advantage before the period came to a close and they took a 6-1 lead in to the dressing room.
In the third, Logan Ganie scored his second goal of the game to round out the scoring in a 7-1 Lloydminster loss.
The Saints went on to outshoot the Cats 48-12 in the contest.
On the power-play, Spruce Grove finished 4 for 5 with the Cats going 0-5.
These two teams will now battle again on Sunday, this time from the Grant Fuhr Arena in Spruce Grove.
Puck drop is scheduled for 2:00.
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Now that the Florida Supreme Court has ordered the Legislature to reconfigure the state's gerrymandered congressional districts, and quickly, Steve and Andy want you to trust that they're looking forward to hearing what the public has to say about the matter.
Florida voters might argue that they offered plenty of input back in 2010, when a 63 percent majority approved two Fair Districts constitutional amendments that were supposed to prohibit lawmakers from designing district maps "with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent."
Except the legislative leadership ignored the Constitution and did exactly that. State senators did it again, even more blatantly, when they redrew their own districts. The Senate's lawyers admitted as much last week when they entered a consent decree in a lawsuit challenging 28 of the 40 Senate districts that political consultants created in 2012. In effect, the Senate leadership admitted that they had conspired to undermine the Fair Districts amendments.
The Legislature will be back for yet another special session on Oct. 19 through Nov. 6 to fix the Senate mess. But on Monday, in a session scheduled to go through Aug. 21, they'll be taking up congressional districts. And, as Steve and Andy claimed in an op-ed published in state newspapers Monday, they want your input. They want your thoughts. They even welcome your own notion of what a constitutional redistricting map ought to entail.
Except their staffers have been busy drawing up the map that the Legislature will most likely adopt. In secret. Which makes all that fine talk about welcoming your input and your maps seem a bit empty.
The League of Women Voters of Florida and Common Cause, the lead litigants in the court challenge to the 2012 maps, fired off a letter Monday to Steve and Andy reminding them: "During the 2012 redistricting process, the Legislature repeatedly emphasized the merits of openness and transparency in redistricting, but nevertheless made key decisions in non-public meetings, destroyed public records and undertook other actions that were directly contrary to the openness and transparency with which it assured the public it would act."
The letter warned that if the Legislature intends to conjure up its new congressional maps "outside of public view or, worse yet, has done so already," lawmakers would be both breaking their promise of transparency and violating "the Florida Supreme Court's guideline that the Legislature 'conduct all meetings in which it makes decisions on the new map in public and to record any non-public meetings for preservation.'"
Except, the Florida Legislature has already spent about $8 million in court in a futile defense of its dodgy 2012 maps. This crowd doesn't mind wasting even more taxpayer money in the sacred defense of gerrymandering.
So Steve and Andy have directed their staffers to draw up new maps in private. Though, of course, afterward, they really, really want your input.
And why would anyone ever doubt their sincerity?
Fred Grimm
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Home » News » News » House prices fall as stamp duty deadline bites
House prices fall as stamp duty deadline bites
9 Feb, 2021 | News, Property prices
Average house price is now £229,748 – £1,172 less than in December
House prices in January dropped 0.3% from December as the looming end to the stamp duty holiday reduces demand. The average sale price was £229,748 – £1,172 less than in December, according to Nationwide building society, the first monthly decline since June.
Over 12 months, prices were still 6.4% higher but this annual figure has fallen 0.9% from the 7.3% growth rate recorded in December.
Robert Gardner of Nationwide, warned that housing activity could drop "sharply" as the tax break ends on 31 March. "The slowdown probably reflects a tapering of demand ahead of the end of the stamp duty holiday, which prompted many people considering a house move to bring forward their purchase," said Mr Gardner.
To benefit from the tax break, which in England and Northern Ireland raised the nil-rate stamp duty band from £125,000 to £500,000, buyers need to complete purchases by 31 March. This deadline will be quickly followed by the end of the furlough scheme in April and an anticipated spike in unemployment to 7.5%.
Nationwide data is based on mortgage approvals and represents sales currently in the pipeline to complete in a few months' time. These buyers are starting to face the reality that they may not be able to complete in time, as the market is plagued by massive logistical delays. Sales now take five months to complete on average.
"While the stamp duty holiday is not due to expire until the end of March, activity would be expected to weaken well before that," Mr Gardner added. In the past nine months, "the typical relationship between the housing market and broader economic trends has broken down," he said. The pandemic has changed people's housing needs, causing many to move house despite the recession, which pushed house price growth at the end of 2020 to a six-year high.
Samuel Tombs, of Pantheon Macroeconomics, a research consultancy, said "Looking ahead, we continue to expect house prices to drop by about 2% over the course of 2021, provided Government policies do not change."
Mark Harris, mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, said: "The runaway housing market is starting to show the first indications of taking a foot off the gas." He added: "As we head towards the stamp duty deadline, lenders are navigating a fine line between wanting to sell mortgages versus the risk of over stretching themselves. There is a certain amount of chopping and changing on rates and products."
Jeremy Leaf, a north London estate agent, said "The market is catching up with itself as the chance of buyers and sellers beating the stamp duty deadline by the end of March recedes, even if the Government amends rules to allow contracted sales rather than just completed ones to benefit from the cut, as seems possible now."
Prices are more likely to soften than plunge, Mr Leaf said. "Those likely to miss out on the stamp duty saving due to backlogs tell us they would prefer to compromise on price rather than miss out on the property they have set their hearts on."
[Source: telegraph.co.uk/property, 2 February 2021]
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"Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women… O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?" - Esdras.
The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient size for the departing teacher's effects. For the schoolhouse had been partly furnished by the managers, and the only cumbersome article possessed by the master, in addition to the packing-case of books, was a cottage piano that he had bought at an auction during the year in which he thought of learning instrumental music. But the enthusiasm having waned he had never acquired any skill in playing, and the purchased article had been a perpetual trouble to him ever since in moving house.
The rector had gone away for the day, being a man who disliked the sight of changes. He did not mean to return till the evening, when the new school-teacher would have arrived and settled in, and everything would be smooth again.
The blacksmith, the farm bailiff, and the schoolmaster himself were standing in perplexed attitudes in the parlour before the instrument. The master had remarked that even if he got it into the cart he should not know what to do with it on his arrival at Christminster, the city he was bound for, since he was only going into temporary lodgings just at first.
A little boy of eleven, who had been thoughtfully assisting in the packing, joined the group of men, and as they rubbed their chins he spoke up, blushing at the sound of his own voice: "Aunt have got a great fuel-house, and it could be put there, perhaps, till you've found a place to settle in, sir."
"A proper good notion," said the blacksmith.
It was decided that a deputation should wait on the boy's aunt--an old maiden resident--and ask her if she would house the piano till Mr. Phillotson should send for it. The smith and the bailiff started to see about the practicability of the suggested shelter, and the boy and the schoolmaster were left standing alone.
"Sorry I am going, Jude?" asked the latter kindly.
Tears rose into the boy's eyes, for he was not among the regular day scholars, who came unromantically close to the schoolmaster's life, but one who had attended the night school only during the present teacher's term of office. The regular scholars, if the truth must be told, stood at the present moment afar off, like certain historic disciples, indisposed to any enthusiastic volunteering of aid.
The boy awkwardly opened the book he held in his hand, which Mr. Phillotson had bestowed on him as a parting gift, and admitted that he was sorry.
"So am I," said Mr. Phillotson.
"Why do you go, sir?" asked the boy.
"Ah--that would be a long story. You wouldn't understand my reasons, Jude. You will, perhaps, when you are older."
"I think I should now, sir."
"Well--don't speak of this everywhere. You know what a university is, and a university degree? It is the necessary hallmark of a man who wants to do anything in teaching. My scheme, or dream, is to be a university graduate, and then to be ordained. By going to live at Christminster, or near it, I shall be at headquarters, so to speak, and if my scheme is practicable at all, I consider that being on the spot will afford me a better chance of carrying it out than I should have elsewhere."
The smith and his companion returned. Old Miss Fawley's fuel-house was dry, and eminently practicable; and she seemed willing to give the instrument standing-room there. It was accordingly left in the school till the evening, when more hands would be available for removing it; and the schoolmaster gave a final glance round.
The boy Jude assisted in loading some small articles, and at nine o'clock Mr. Phillotson mounted beside his box of books and other impedimenta, and bade his friends good-bye.
"I shan't forget you, Jude," he said, smiling, as the cart moved off. "Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can. And if ever you come to Christminster remember you hunt me out for old acquaintance' sake."
The cart creaked across the green, and disappeared round the corner by the rectory-house. The boy returned to the draw-well at the edge of the greensward, where he had left his buckets when he went to help his patron and teacher in the loading. There was a quiver in his lip now and after opening the well-cover to begin lowering the bucket he paused and leant with his forehead and arms against the framework, his face wearing the fixity of a thoughtful child's who has felt the pricks of life somewhat before his time. The well into which he was looking was as ancient as the village itself, and from his present position appeared as a long circular perspective ending in a shining disk of quivering water at a distance of a hundred feet down. There was a lining of green moss near the top, and nearer still the hart's-tongue fern.
He said to himself, in the melodramatic tones of a whimsical boy, that the schoolmaster had drawn at that well scores of times on a morning like this, and would never draw there any more. "I've seen him look down into it, when he was tired with his drawing, just as I do now, and when he rested a bit before carrying the buckets home! But he was too clever to bide here any longer--a small sleepy place like this!"
"Bring on that water, will ye, you idle young harlican!"
It came from an old woman who had emerged from her door towards the garden gate of a green-thatched cottage not far off. The boy quickly waved a signal of assent, drew the water with what was a great effort for one of his stature, landed and emptied the big bucket into his own pair of smaller ones, and pausing a moment for breath, started with them across the patch of clammy greensward whereon the well stood--nearly in the centre of the little village, or rather hamlet of Marygreen.
It was as old-fashioned as it was small, and it rested in the lap of an undulating upland adjoining the North Wessex downs. Old as it was, however, the well-shaft was probably the only relic of the local history that remained absolutely unchanged. Many of the thatched and dormered dwelling-houses had been pulled down of late years, and many trees felled on the green. Above all, the original church, hump-backed, wood-turreted, and quaintly hipped, had been taken down, and either cracked up into heaps of road-metal in the lane, or utilized as pig-sty walls, garden seats, guard-stones to fences, and rockeries in the flower-beds of the neighbourhood. In place of it a tall new building of modern Gothic design, unfamiliar to English eyes, had been erected on a new piece of ground by a certain obliterator of historic records who had run down from London and back in a day. The site whereon so long had stood the ancient temple to the Christian divinities was not even recorded on the green and level grass-plot that had immemorially been the churchyard, the obliterated graves being commemorated by eighteen-penny cast-iron crosses warranted to last five years.
Slender as was Jude Fawley's frame he bore the two brimming house-buckets of water to the cottage without resting. Over the door was a little rectangular piece of blue board, on which was painted in yellow letters, "Drusilla Fawley, Baker." Within the little lead panes of the window--this being one of the few old houses left--were five bottles of sweets, and three buns on a plate of the willow pattern.
While emptying the buckets at the back of the house he could hear an animated conversation in progress within-doors between his great-aunt, the Drusilla of the sign-board, and some other villagers. Having seen the school-master depart, they were summing up particulars of the event, and indulging in predictions of his future.
"And who's he?" asked one, comparatively a stranger, when the boy entered.
"Well ye med ask it, Mrs. Williams. He's my great-nephew--come since you was last this way." The old inhabitant who answered was a tall, gaunt woman, who spoke tragically on the most trivial subject, and gave a phrase of her conversation to each auditor in turn. "He come from Mellstock, down in South Wessex, about a year ago--worse luck for 'n, Belinda" (turning to the right) "where his father was living, and was took wi' the shakings for death, and died in two days, as you know, Caroline" (turning to the left). "It would ha' been a blessing if Goddy-mighty had took thee too, wi' thy mother and father, poor useless boy! But I've got him here to stay with me till I can see what's to be done with un, though I am obliged to let him earn any penny he can. Just now he's a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham. It keeps him out of mischty. Why do ye turn away, Jude?" she continued, as the boy, feeling the impact of their glances like slaps upon his face, moved aside.
The local washerwoman replied that it was perhaps a very good plan of Miss or Mrs. Fawley's (as they called her indifferently) to have him with her--"to kip 'ee company in your loneliness, fetch water, shet the winder-shetters o' nights, and help in the bit o' baking."
Miss Fawley doubted it. … "Why didn't ye get the schoolmaster to take 'ee to Christminster wi' un, and make a scholar of 'ee," she continued, in frowning pleasantry. "I'm sure he couldn't ha' took a better one. The boy is crazy for books, that he is. It runs in our family rather. His cousin Sue is just the same--so I've heard; but I have not seen the child for years, though she was born in this place, within these four walls, as it happened. My niece and her husband, after they were married, didn' get a house of their own for some year or more; and then they only had one till--Well, I won't go into that. Jude, my child, don't you ever marry. 'Tisn't for the Fawleys to take that step any more. She, their only one, was like a child o' my own, Belinda, till the split come! Ah, that a little maid should know such changes!"
Jude, finding the general attention again centering on himself, went out to the bakehouse, where he ate the cake provided for his breakfast. The end of his spare time had now arrived, and emerging from the garden by getting over the hedge at the back he pursued a path northward, till he came to a wide and lonely depression in the general level of the upland, which was sown as a corn-field. This vast concave was the scene of his labours for Mr Troutham the farmer, and he descended into the midst of it.
The brown surface of the field went right up towards the sky all round, where it was lost by degrees in the mist that shut out the actual verge and accentuated the solitude. The only marks on the uniformity of the scene were a rick of last year's produce standing in the midst of the arable, the rooks that rose at his approach, and the path athwart the fallow by which he had come, trodden now by he hardly knew whom, though once by many of his own dead family.
"How ugly it is here!" he murmured.
The fresh harrow-lines seemed to stretch like the channellings in a piece of new corduroy, lending a meanly utilitarian air to the expanse, taking away its gradations, and depriving it of all history beyond that of the few recent months, though to every clod and stone there really attached associations enough and to spare--echoes of songs from ancient harvest-days, of spoken words, and of sturdy deeds. Every inch of ground had been the site, first or last, of energy, gaiety, horse-play, bickerings, weariness. Groups of gleaners had squatted in the sun on every square yard. Love-matches that had populated the adjoining hamlet had been made up there between reaping and carrying. Under the hedge which divided the field from a distant plantation girls had given themselves to lovers who would not turn their heads to look at them by the next harvest; and in that ancient cornfield many a man had made love-promises to a woman at whose voice he had trembled by the next seed-time after fulfilling them in the church adjoining. But this neither Jude nor the rooks around him considered. For them it was a lonely place, possessing, in the one view, only the quality of a work-ground, and in the other that of a granary good to feed in.
The boy stood under the rick before mentioned, and every few seconds used his clacker or rattle briskly. At each clack the rooks left off pecking, and rose and went away on their leisurely wings, burnished like tassets of mail, afterwards wheeling back and regarding him warily, and descending to feed at a more respectful distance.
He sounded the clacker till his arm ached, and at length his heart grew sympathetic with the birds' thwarted desires. They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them. Why should he frighten them away? They took upon more and more the aspect of gentle friends and pensioners--the only friends he could claim as being in the least degree interested in him, for his aunt had often told him that she was not. He ceased his rattling, and they alighted anew.
"Poor little dears!" said Jude, aloud. "You shall have some dinner--you shall. There is enough for us all. Farmer Troutham can afford to let you have some. Eat, then my dear little birdies, and make a good meal!"


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Best hotels & accommodations in Edinburgh
We list the best hotels in Edinburgh as recommended by travel experts from CNN, Lonely Planet, Frommer's, Fodor's, New York Times and more. All hotel recommendations have been referenced with customer reviews, and we only listed places that have at least a 4 out of 5-star customer review rating.
Best cheap hotel in Edinburgh: Point A
Best boutique hotel in Edinburgh: The Raeburn
Best luxury hotel in Edinburgh: The Balmoral
Best hostel in Edinburgh: Castle Rock Hostel
Prestonfield House, Edinburgh
Lonely Planet + 3 more
"If the blond wood and brushed steel of modern boutique hotels leave you cold, then this is the place for you. A 17th-century mansion set in 8 hectares of parkland, Prestonfield is draped in damask and packed with antiques."
Hotel du Vin, Edinburgh
New York Times + 2 more
"This boutique hotel in the city center is just a few minutes' walk from nearly every tourist site. Each room has a custom-made sleigh bed and a hand-sprung mattress, but the hotel's best feature might be the ultra-cozy, tartan-carpeted whiskey "snug," a cozy room, all too tempting on a gray Scottish day."
Featured in New York Times' 36 Hours in Edinburgh.
Sheridan Guest House, Edinburgh
"Flowerpots filled with colourful blooms line the steps of this little haven hidden away north of the New Town. The eight bedrooms (all en suite) blend crisp colours with contemporary furniture, stylish lighting and colourful paintings, which complement the house's clean-cut Georgian lines."
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How much does a night in a hotel in Edinburgh cost?
If you want to stay in a 3-star hotel in central Edinburgh, you would be looking at an average price of $150 per night. For 4-star hotels, the average price is around $220 per night. For a 5-star hotel in central Edinburgh, the average rate is around $310 per night.
What is the best budget hotel in Edinburgh?
If you're looking for an affordable hotel, then check out Point A Edinburgh. It's an excellent budget hotel offering great value for money. It's in a good location, it's been recommended by travel experts and the hotel has excellent customer reviews. You should also check out our list of the best cheap hotels in Edinburgh.
What is the best boutique hotel in Edinburgh?
You like some luxury but don't like famous chain hotels. If you're looking for the best boutique hotel in Edinburgh, you should check out The Raeburn Hotel. It's a very cool hotel that has been highly recommended by travelers and experts. For more cool hotels, check out our list of the best boutique hotels in Edinburgh.
What is the best 5-star hotel in Edinburgh?
If money isn't a problem and you're looking for a luxury hotel in Edinburgh, then go for The Balmoral. The hotel offers excellent service, it's in a top location, it has been rated very highly by previous guests and renowned travel critics have recommended it. For more 5-star hotels, check out our list of the best luxury hotels in Edinburgh.
What is the best hostel in Edinburgh?
Looking for a good and affordable private room or cozy dorm in Edinburgh? Check out Castle Rock Hostel. The hostel has been highly rated by backpackers. Also check out our shortlist of the best hostels in Edinburgh, it's based on thousands of reviews from backpackers.
What are the best areas to stay in Edinburgh?
The best areas to stay in Edinburgh are: Old Town/Royal Mile, New Town, Stockbridge, Morningside/Brunsfield or Leith. Please read our extensive guide about where to stay in Edinburgh. It offers a great overview about each area, including the museums, attractions and other things, as well as the best place to stay in each area.
Which Edinburgh hotel serves great breakfast?
Try Sheridan Guest House if you're looking for a delicious breakfast at a hotel in Edinburgh. It has excellent guest review ratings for its breakfast.
What are the best things to do in Edinburgh?
There are a lot of things to do in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas, including day trips, attractions, museums, sightseeing tours and many other activities. Here's our list of 3 things you should definitely do when you're in Edinburgh:
Underground Vaults Tour
Visit the vaults beneath Oldtown in Edinburgh, dating back to the early 18th century. Your guide will tell you about murders, witches and the people who inhabited this supposedly haunted location. Price: $19. More info.
Loch Ness, Glencoe & the Scottish Highlands Tour
Head for the Highlands, whether in search of the Loch Ness Monster or just a scenic day trip from Edinburgh. After pickup, relax on the bus and listen to the guide's entertaining commentary. Price: $64. More info.
Harry Potter Magical Guided Walking Tour
Take a magical walking tour of Edinburgh and discover the city where the world of Harry Potter was conceived. Test your knowledge with an audio-visual quiz, find out your Hogwarts House, and visit Tom Riddle's grave. Price: $17. More info.
More things to do in Edinburgh
About Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland is an iconic city with a unique and fascinating history. Located on the southeastern coast of Scotland, this city is both beautiful and diverse, with castles, monuments, parks, and an array of cultural activities. As the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh has a charisma that draws in travelers from all over the world.
Edinburgh is a city of great historical significance, from its earliest beginnings as a hill fort in the Iron Age to its more recent status as the capital of Scotland. The city has been an important trading center for centuries, with its location at the end of the Firth of Forth providing a natural harbor. Edinburgh's history didn't begin in earnest until King David I of Scotland declared the city his capital in the 11th century. Since then, Edinburgh has been the seat of power in Scotland, and it's also been the focus of many battles and wars.
In the 13th century, Edinburgh became a center of culture and learning, and the University of Edinburgh was established in 1583. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Edinburgh flourished as a commercial and intellectual hub and was a key player in the Scottish Enlightenment. In the modern era, Edinburgh has become a significant tourist destination for visitors worldwide. Its stunning architecture, from the grand palaces to the cobbled streets, attract visitors from all over.
This city also hosts many festivals and events, such as the Edinburgh Fringe and the Military Tattoo, which highlight the city's rich cultural heritage. Edinburgh is home to some of the country's most impressive galleries and museums, showcasing everything from the Scottish Crown Jewels to the National Museum of Scotland. This city also boasts numerous historical sites, like Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse, as well as many other buildings of architectural and historical importance. In addition, Edinburgh has a long and proud tradition of political activism, with many of the city's inhabitants advocating for Scottish independence and social change.
From its impressive medieval architecture to its modern developments, Edinburgh has something for everyone. Visitors can explore its history and culture through a variety of museums and galleries, as well as live performances. Edinburgh Castle is perhaps the most iconic symbol of the city, and the views from its walls are simply breathtaking. The castle is a popular tourist attraction with visitors who come to explore its many rooms and rich heritage.
On the Royal Mile, visitors will find a range of attractions, including Holyrood Palace, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, and St. Giles Cathedral. Edinburgh is also home to many parks and gardens, with the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh being one of the most popular. Other parks of note include the Meadows, Princes Street Gardens, and Inverleith Park.
As well as its historical attractions, Edinburgh has a lively nightlife scene and plenty of bars and restaurants. This city is home to a great selection of shops, boutiques, and a host of galleries and theaters. For those interested in outdoor activities, Edinburgh has a range of beautiful beaches, as well as hills and mountains to explore. Visitors can also enjoy a range of water sports, with sailing and kayaking being very popular.
Overall, Edinburgh is an incredible city with a rich history and culture. Brimming with attractions and activities to suit all tastes, from those interested in culture to the more adventurous explorer, Edinburgh is truly the shining star of Scotland.
Whatever your interests are, there are plenty of things you can do in Edinburgh! Get to know the city even better by reading our guide about the best areas stay in Edinburgh.
If you like our list of the best hotels in Edinburgh, then you should also check out our selection of the best accommodations in Glasgow or the recommended hotels in Manchester.


Maurice Manning is a former politician and historian from Co. Carlow. He was appointed Chancellor of the National University of Ireland in 2009. He was a member of the Oireachtas for 21 years, serving in both the Dáil and the Seanad. He has written several books on Irish history and the Kilderry Files is his second book in the Peter O'Donnell detective series.


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By Jennifer Newell
May 3rd, 2018 | Last updated on December 17th, 2018
Rhode Island Gambling and Poker Laws
Known by the nicknames The Ocean State and Little Rhody (I vastly prefer the latter), Rhode Island probably isn't thought of by many as The Poker State. But thanks to the innovation of online poker and the recent expansion of regulated gambling in Rhode Island, poker is gaining a strong foothold with players in the state. That foothold, and where it might lead, is the topic of this Rhode Island Guide to Online Poker, which will also touch on the legal and political issues surrounding online poker and gambling in general.
Guide to Online Poker in Rhode Island
While any number of online poker sites take customers from Rhode Island, not all of them offer the same quality of experience. To save you from finding out the hard way which Rhode Island poker sites are worth your time and which are better left unplayed, we polled our writers, staff and some readers to generate this (regularly updated) list of the top online poker rooms:
Poker Sites Open to Players From Your State
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Can I Play Online Poker in Rhode Island?
There are basically two steps to getting online to play poker for money from Rhode Island. The first is to create an account, which is a blissfully simple affair requiring little more than an email and a minute or two of your time. The second is to deposit money into that account, which is a slightly more complicated, but still relatively quick, process. You'll have a number of choices for funding your online poker account, but the two with the highest ratings among Rhode Island poker players are Visa and MoneyGram.
Rhode Island Gambling & Poker Laws Summarized
Type/Code
State Code Section(s)
11.19; 11.50-51; 41.1-4; 41.7; 41.9-11
Definition of Gambling
Includes, but is not limited to, pool-selling, bookmaking, maintaining slot-machines, roulette wheels or dice tables, and conducting lotteries, Policy, Bolita, or numbers games or selling chances in them.
Definition of Prohibition Gaming
Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, set up, put forth, carry on, promote, or draw, publicly or privately, any lottery, chance, game, or device of any nature or kind whatsoever, or by whatsoever name it may be called, for the purpose of exposing, setting for sale or disposing of any money, houses, lands, merchandise, or articles of value, or shall sell or expose to sale lottery policies, purporting to be governed by the drawing of any public or private lottery, or shall sign or endorse any book, document, or paper whatsoever, for the purpose of enabling others to sell, or expose to sale, lottery policies, except as authorized, shall be deemed guilty of a felony.
Definition of Permitted Game of Chance
The game commonly known as "Bingo" or "Beano" or substantially the same game under any other name, or a raffle or lottery.
Online Poker/Gambling
There was some discussion of online poker in 2014, but there have been no bills introduced then or since in the state legislature.
The Twin River Casino is the only racino in Rhode Island to offer live poker with cash games and tournaments.
The racetracks in Rhode Island were allowed to install video lottery terminals in 1992 and table games like poker in 2012.
Both houses of the Rhode Island legislature passed a bill to legalize sports betting in June 2018.
A bill to legalize daily fantasy sports did not pass in 2017.
Other Forms of Gambling
Bingo and raffles for seniors and charitable organizations, lottery, keno, jai alai, horse racing and on-track pari-mutuel wagering.
Rhode Island Gambling Law and Online Poker
Understanding how Rhode Island law treats online poker requires you to first understand how the law handles gambling in general. That's the aim of this section of our guide, where we'll first outline the core things you need to know about Rhode Island gambling law and then link you to the full text of the law for additional research.
Below you can find the basics of Rhode Island gambling law:
Gambling law in Rhode Island is complicated by a number of factors. The first and foremost: there is no direct definition of gambling (or similar term).
We can glean some sense of what lawmakers intended from "Forms of gambling prohibited," which disallows:
"any lottery, chance, game, or device of any nature or kind whatsoever, or by whatsoever name it may be called" (Section 11-19-1). The section does not address participation in such activities; rather, it prescribes a felony charge for those who "
directly or indirectly, set up, put forth, carry on, promote, or draw" prohibited forms of gambling.
There is a surprising severity to be found in some parts of Rhode Island law. For example, the crime of "Inducing others to visit a gambling place" – defined as to
"on any pretext whatsoever, invite, entice, persuade, or induce any other person to visit any house, room, or other place kept for the purpose of gambling, with the intent that that other person shall at that place engage in gambling or playing at any game of chance, for money or other valuable consideration" (Section 11-19-20)
carries a jail term of one year.
Similarly, the seemingly harmless crime of "frequenting gambling place," which entails no more than to "frequent any gambling house or place where gaming is practiced or carried on, not in the performance of official duty and not being the landlord of that place entering to view the premise" (Section 11-19-21) – brings up to a whopping 30 days in jail.
For a fuller sense of how the law in Rhode Island could apply to online poker, visit the links below to access a searchable version of Rhode Island state law.
Will Rhode Island Regulate Online Poker?
While gambling expansion is always something of an uphill fight, there do seem to be some positive signs for those who would like to see state-regulated online poker in Rhode Island.
We've heard regular chatter of an interstate partnership involving Delaware and Rhode Island, for one thing. For another, the state – at least some parts of it – seem more than willing to embrace more regulated gambling (additional details on that below). Put it all together and Rhode Island starts to look like a state that could launch regulated online poker well ahead of the average state in the U.S.
Rhode Island Gambling Facts
Regulated gambling options in Rhode Island run the gamut, from commercial casinos to pari-mutuel betting to charitable gambling (raffles & bingo) to the state lottery. The one major type of regulated gambling that you won't find in Rhode Island: tribal gambling facilities.
Rhode Island does not leave any room in their law for so-called "social gambling," but it's difficult to gauge the enforcement interest of the government when it comes to private games such as a home poker tournament.
Regulated Online Gambling in Rhode Island
There aren't any forms of state-regulated online gambling in Rhode Island, but that situation could change over the next year. Read more about the state's chances of regulating online poker in the section above.
The public approval of table games at the Twin River casino in November 2012 generated a ton of local and national interest, and – at least to some – represented the latest salvo in a dangerous regulated gambling race between Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Not all recent attempts at expanding gambling in Rhode Island have met with success; in fact, as voters in one part of the state approved more gambling, voters in another shot it down . We expect that trend of push-and-pull to continue in Rhode Island for the next several years, with opponents and supporters of regulated gambling expansion continuing to do battle on the hyper-local and state levels.
Additional Resources for Rhode Island Gambling Research
BallotPedia: Rhode Island Question 1 (2012) . Get the full story on the 2012 ballot measure that allowed gambling expansion at Twin River in this comprehensive overview from BallotPedia.org.
Rhode Island State Police – Charitable Gambling Unit. Enforcement of the charitable gambling laws in Rhode Island falls to this unit of the State Police. History, FAQs and the basics of legal charitable gambling.
Twin River Casino . Rhode Island's largest regulated gambling operation (by most measures). Complete details on available games, related news and so on.
About Jennifer Newell
Jennifer began writing about poker while working at the World Poker Tour in the mid-2000s. Since then, her freelance writing career has taken her from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and back to her hometown of St. Louis, where she now lives with her two dogs. She continues to follow the poker world as she also launches a new subscription box company and finishes her first novel. Jennifer has written for numerous publications including PokerStars.com and has followed the US poker and gaming market closely for the last 15 years. Follow Jen on Twitter
Disclaimer: The information on this site is my interpretation of the laws as made available online. It is in no way meant to serve as legal advice or instruction. We recommend that you seek legal advice from a licensed attorney for further or official guidance.
Sources & Citations For This Article on Rhode Island Online Poker
State of Rhode Island General Laws
Rhode Island Legal Guide
Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation – Gaming
Rhode Island Department of Public Safety – Charitable Gaming
National Council on Problem Gambling (Rhode Island)
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