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UI Developer : Insomniac Games

Gamasutra 

If defining, refining and finding meaning in the way things work to improve user experience is your jam, read on! Insomniac Games is looking for a skilled UX designer who’s passionate about creating intuitive UI that contributes to compelling gameplay experiences and player engagement.  This individual will be working closely with the UX/UI Lead, as well as the Design and Art teams. This role typically works on things that include in-game HUD and player messages, frontend and pause menus, tutorial sequences... Читать дальше...

Software Engineering Manager: Pixelberry Studios

Gamasutra 

We are looking for a talented Engineering Manager to lead development at Pixelberry for our hit mobile game “Choices: Stories You Play.” You'll work with the best interactive fiction game team in the industry, with the many on the team working together for over 10 years. You would be responsible for the development team delivering performant, well built, stable features to players across the world. You would lead projects by architecting features, managing their development and testing, and getting them shipped. Читать дальше...

The Four-Corner Drill

Basketball Conditioning Tips and Basketball Drills 

The goal of the four-corner drill is to perform it in the shortest amount of time possible. Start in one corner of the court and sprint to the opposite baseline. Now, slide as you would when you are on defense against another player to the corner. Back pedal to the starting baseline and finish by sliding across the starting baseline. Do not cross your feet when you slide. Be sure you are facing down court during the entire drill. Recover for 90 seconds between repetitions.

For more Basketball tips... Читать дальше...



Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Headed Home After Open Heart Surgery

People.com 

He’s back!

Arnold Schwarzenegger is on his way home after undergoing open-heart surgery, his representative Daniel Ketchell confirmed on Twitter Friday.

Update: @Schwarzenegger is headed home! https://t.co/QWeG8C82M7

— Daniel Ketchell (@ketch) April 6, 2018

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The actor, 70, took to social media himself for the first time on Monday after it was revealed he had an emergency operation following complications that arose during a planned heart valve replacement. Читать дальше...

Leo DiCaprio and much younger gal pal sneak off to Japan

New York Post 

Looks like things are heating up between Leo DiCaprio, 43, and model Camila Morrone, 20 — the alleged couple was spotted touring Japan this week with pals. While Morrone has been posting Instagram photos from the trip of her and her mother, Lucila Solá, 41, and model pal Isabella Peschardt, Leo has been left out...

2nd round highlights at the Masters

SB Nation: Toronto Raptors 

Below are highlights from Day 2 at Augusta National.

Players are winding their way through Augusta National during the second round of the Masters on Friday. There’s a cluster of golfers near the top of the leaderboard, setting up what seems likely to be a dramatic, wide-open weekend in Georgia.

Masters updates on Friday

7:44 p.m.: The second round comes to a close, and your leader is Patrick Reed who smoked the first nine then cruised home to grab the 36-hole lead.

6:50 p.m.... Читать дальше...

Trump's lawyers are reportedly getting him ready to face Mueller

BusinessInsider.com 

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

  • President Donald Trump's lawyers are said to be having informal meetings with Trump to prepare him for a potential interview with special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the Russia investigation.
  • That development comes from two people familiar with the situation, including a White House official who shared the information with CNN on Friday.
  • The early talks are an indication that a sit-down between the president and the prosecutors investigating... Читать дальше...

2018 NHL draft

SabreSpace: Message Board 

Preliminary Prospect Rankings are now coming out.  

Craig Button released his yesterday:

http://www.tsn.ca/craig-s-list-defenceman-dahlin-leads-draft-class-1.847739

You are seeing more and more Dmen under 6'0 on these lists.

Kids I will be keeping a close eye on this year are:

1) Adam Boqvist - Swedish RHD. Arguably the best player in this years Ivan Hlinka Tournament.  5GP 1G 7A  (lottery pick)

2) Bode Wilde - RHD US National Team Dman who will be attending Harvard this fall. Читать дальше...

Suspect bites off cop’s finger while inside police station

New York Post 

A suspect chomped off part of a cop’s finger inside a Brooklyn police station Friday night, law enforcement sources said. The officer lost the tip of his left middle finger during the bloody encounter inside a holding cell of the 69th Precinct station house in Canarsie at about 6 p.m., sources said. The cop was...

13 Worst ‘Trading Spaces’ Designs, From the Sob-Inducing Fireplace to Straw-Covered Walls (Photos)

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

In honor of the triumphant return of TLC’s “Trading Spaces,” TheWrap looks back at some of the worst designs from the show’s original run, from hay glued to the wall to furniture nailed to the ceiling. Straw walls Hildi Santo-Tomas was always “Trading Spaces'” biggest provocateur. Eventually even the homeowners knew to steel themselves if she showed up as their designer. Never content to simply paint the walls, Santo-Tomas aimed to think outside the box — way, way outside. And perhaps the epitome... Читать дальше...

Stewart-Haas starting top 3 in Texas after short qualifying

Times Union 

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Kurt Busch got a little more aggressive in the first round of qualifying, and it paid off with a pole at Texas Motor Speedway. Busch and his Stewart-Haas Racing teammates Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer will start in the top three spots in Texas after a weather-shortened qualifying session Friday. "The thought that weather was in the area, it hadn't crossed our minds, but yet you've got to play all three rounds as smart as you can," Busch said. "I think round two, we would have picked up even more speed. Читать дальше...

California Assembly staffer quit amid harassment probe

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Assembly has released documents showing a high-level staffer resigned this year during an investigation that found it likely he sexually harassed female employees. The documents released Friday detail allegations Rodney Wilson was visibly drunk and slurring his words when he made sexually suggestive comments to and leered at two Assembly employees. The records show Wilson resigned his job as chief of staff to Assemblyman Tom Daly in January after the Assembly began investigating the allegations. Читать дальше...

The Latest: Texas starts border deployment with 250 troops

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on states deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border (all times CDT): 6:50 p.m. Texas has started sending troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, with 250 members of the National Guard expected to deploy within the next 72 hours. Brig. Gen. Tracy Norris, commander of the Texas Army National Guard, announced the deployment Friday. Norris said state and federal officials were still determining what the responsibilities of the Guard members would be, but that... Читать дальше...

Trump troop request creates opening for governors to say no

Times Union 

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — President Donald Trump's plan to deploy National Guard troops to the Mexico border has drawn resistance from some governors, most of them Democrats, and the law he invoked creates an opening for them to turn him down, officials said Friday. But so far, three of the border states with Republican governors have endorsed the plan, and two, Arizona and Texas, quickly announced troop deployments. The Democratic governor of the fourth border state, California, has been silent on the issue. Читать дальше...

Trump troop request creates opening for governors to say no

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — President Donald Trump's plan to deploy National Guard troops to the Mexico border has drawn resistance from some governors, most of them Democrats, and the law he invoked creates an opening for them to turn him down, officials said Friday. But so far, three of the border states with Republican governors have endorsed the plan, and two, Arizona and Texas, quickly announced troop deployments. The Democratic governor of the fourth border state, California, has been silent on the issue. Читать дальше...

Basketball trainer Turner making name for himself

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

It was June of 2013 in Charlotte, N.C., when trainers at a Stephen Curry basketball camp noticed a 10-year-old named Danny Gerber. They noted the San Francisco lad’s footwork, fundamentals and shooting form. They asked where he learned it all. With that one inquiry, the trajectory of Packie Turner’s life and career went unexpectedly and organically soaring. Turner, a former do-everything guard at Holy Names University, had been tutoring Gerber and others like him the previous year. Читать дальше...





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