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CMC carries adult spelling bee competition

By Stella Davis Current-Argus Staff Writer CARLSBAD They were head-scratching words, but in the end, Carlsbad Medical Center’s adult spellers were the last team standing - and holding the trophy for winning last week’s adult spelling bee competition.

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Celebrating non-electronic gaming

With one flick of her wrist, Oksana Kyva rolled the dice and carefully placed her robber on a coloured square on the board.

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Owen Pallett Plays His Heart(land) Out At The ICA

Musician Owen Pallett (whom we interviewed about his latest work last week) won some major points with his audience last Tuesday at the Institute of Contemporary Art by dismissing the fact that Pitchfork recently gave his newest album, Heartland , an 8.6 rating . They called it a slam dunk, teased Pallett’s accompanist, Thomas Gill, grinning. Shut up! said Pallett, then laughed and kept …

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Lost Journal: Mastering Zork on the Apple II Plus

About a year ago, I became the luckiest kid I know, when my dad brought home an Apple II Plus personal computer. He and several of his fellow engineers at IBM negotiated a group rate so each of them could tinker with this latest and greatest piece of technology.

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Rumor: Turbine-Warner Bros. deal worth $160 million?

Filed under: Biz , MMO Last night’s surprise (and extremely late) news story on MMO game developer Turbine being acquired by Warner Bros . has now yielded some more info, according to the Boston.com web site (Turbine is based in Boston). According to their unnamed sources Warner Bros. paid $160 million to purchase Turbine. That amount includes “sums to be paid to Turbine shareholders in future …

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