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Better Than Life is a novel of science fiction comedy by Grant Naylor, two names are most popular i.e. Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, which are co-creators and writers of the television series Red Dwarf, where the novel is based. The main story was born and exploded from the Red Dwarf episode of the same name, also as the Series 3 and 4 episodes: White Hole, Marooned, Polymorph and Backwards.
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The book is a sequel to Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, and was the first Red Dwarf novel for its first edition in hardcover edition. As the first novel better than life got a best seller and was reprinted in paperback, omnibus and audiobook versions. Two additional novels, Last Human and Backwards, each made as a continuation of replacement by the authors, followed in 1995 and 1996 jointly.
Another challenge TED Talk game designer David Perry discusses the evolution of both technologies by using better life game, but its display the emotional affect of games on the players beyond the issues of physiological dopamine.
The play is short video game development in the evolution of technology is pretty incredible. The punch line is extremely emotional. Art is more real scary. Actors go through life sharing events in the adventures they choose. And they go back to what they suffered much these virtual emotionally satisfying.
The most knock-down presentation of Perry is watching film by Michael Highland, as real as your life. Highland arouses our creation of the drug game. I saw an interesting contradiction In terms of addiction, has become boring, unrewarding, banal and gray ". The reality is about as pretty as its games" However, I also learned Highland states that his concern is not that games are more equal crimson and reality, his concern is thus becoming more like a game. So my investigation in Highland is: If you enjoy the feeling of power in your hands, have as much control over your environment in the game, have life experiences affect the game, why addicts prefer to avoid, it is the only safe place for them (which means boring you will not get shot in attack). I take the video game like better life game is the powerful drug Highland game cannot disconnect from the adrenaline (every time war games, for example) or other neurochemical generating emotions, however, because "reality as "the game is always a game and therefore safe.
Better life game as real as your life
Although familiar with the scene of emotional games (keeping my research in 3D virtual games (better life game) facial movements, leaving the body gesture and other paralinguistic communication behaviors), I am simply amazed at the size likely to him by the Highland . So how better than life are the games? Highland Perry and graphics list, audio, emotion, purpose, meaning, understanding, and feeling.
I think the issue is legal when we assume that life is like a game. The common problem with some players is that there are many preferences as there are players. Even within the game types, there are preferences, also as in the game species. Life could be compared a lot to a social environment as a virtual game. Purpose, meaning, understanding, and feeling are offered by the game genre, context and self-selection acting community. As the graphics are to come, preferably, does is start looking very increased? Car windshields are made with a layer increased to allow the driver added information to the world about him, including the mechanics of his car, glasses are produced to allow the hand of diapers for free info to the world that the individual in front of it (AR glasses), not to notice the current AR app for handhelds.
How to compare better life game with real life?
"Game designer David Perry states video games of tomorrow will be at a higher level of mere fun to the next generation of players. They will be lush, complex, experiences enthusiasts – many of affecting and important to some than real life "as the video proves Highland, they already are.
Also, I'm quite happy that life is not like the game (considering that most of life has gone through at least five major cycles of extinction, I'm glad that the button is not as easy to readjust accessible by everyone in RL). Although I interpret this necessity is the mother of invention, how would you live if you were standing by a bug with better life game so download (see video below) … LOL, just kidding.
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Original recipe yields 1 - 10 inch bundt pan
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
- Rinse the rice under cold water. Drain, and cook rice in the milk over medium-low heat for about 15 minutes, or until the rice has absorbed all the milk. Remove from heat and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, beat the egg yolks on high speed until they are pale yellow and doubled in volume. Add the egg yolks to the butter mixture, blending well, and then add this to the rice. Add the orange zest and the raisins.
- In a medium bowl, beat the egg whites to stiff peak stage. Gently fold the whites into the rice mixture.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 50 minutes or until the top of the cake is golden brown and puffed up. Cool on a wire rack for at least 20 minutes before turning out. Cool completely. Serve chilled.
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I made this cake for a wheat-free friends birthday. The cake went down well with everyone. I halved the recipe and made one small round cake. I added vanilla to the recipe and iced it with a frosting made with more orange zest, the squeezed orange juice and powdered sugar - I definately recommend doing that for a zesty citrus flavour. I would make sure you allow the rice to cool properly before you add it to the creamed butter and sugar. It tastes a little like a rice pudding rather than a real cake since there are still whole grains of rice. So the texture is different but it has a delicious flavour and I will definately make this again. I may also try doing this with apple & cinnamon instead of orange. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
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My favourite! Very similar to something I tried in Bologna, Italy. I leave out the raisins and use lemon zest instead of orange, and serve it with Lemon Butter from this site. Thank you Lois!
this recipe is VERY GOOD — although i must admit i flavoured it with vanilla instead of orange zest, and i did not put raisins in it (personal distaste). / going back a few years i had searched for a recipe to make a rice cake (sometimes called a rice pie) and was not very successful until i searched the web and found this recipe. it has since become one of my very favourite and i get a ton of compliments each time i make it. / my only recommendation, make sure you use SHORT GRAIN rice (long grain does not stick together well) and if your eggs are small, consider adding an extra one (eggs are also a binding agent). / lastly, those cakes often come in a pie shell, but i prefer making a graham base (like that of cheese cakes). it adds a little sweetness but is much easier to make than dough (which i hate making). / enjoy! and never be scared to personalize like i did!
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PFW delivers a handful of late-week noteworthy quotes from Packers players with the Week 14 game against the Lions in Detroit fast approaching:
QB Aaron Rodgers on his level of satisfaction with rookie RB James Starks: "I'd like to see it first in practice, I really would. Say what you will about Ryan Grant, obviously he's a lot more appreciated in injury than in health, unfortunately, but that guy, no one can ever question his practice habits. Look at Donald Driver and Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Brett Swain. Those guys practice as well as anybody. Every day they bring it. Jermichael (Finley) became that player this season." (Source: Green Bay Post-Gazette)
Backup QB Matt Flynn on Rodgers: "He's throwing the ball extremely accurate right now and he's throwing the deep ball as well as I've ever seen anyone. I'm sure his deep-ball percentage is as good as his quick throws." (Source: Green Bay Post-Gazette)
SS Charlie Peprah on the Lions' talented roster: "They're a 2-10 team with 10-2 talent. They've been drafting high for a number of years now. For whatever reason, they're 2-10. They haven't won the close ones, but they've been moving the ball on everybody they've played and if we don't come to play we will lose." (Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
WR Jordy Nelson on the coaches keeping the players focused: "They constantly yell at us. No, it's both the coaching staff and guys in this locker room. Everybody takes it week by week. I know that's a cliché, but that's what we do. The coaches stay on us. They never let you get too big of a head. That's their job." (Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
FS Nick Collins on how good the Lions really are: "They're probably the best 2-10 team you'll ever see. They've got a lot of talent. They bring it every Sunday. They're just not finishing games. We know what we've got in front of us." (Source: Packers.com)


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---- — ST. ELMO — St. Elmo/Brownstown completed an undefeated campaign in Egyptian Illini Conference pool play on Tuesday, sweeping Centralia Christ Our Rock Lutheran in two sets.
The Eagles, who are the top seed in the EIC tournament, gave up four quick points to the Stallions in the first set, but went on a five-point run to take the lead. The Stallions tied the set, 9-9, before the Eagles pulled away.
The Eagles scored seven consecutive points, taking a 16-9 lead over Christ Our Rock and finished up a first-set win, despite the Stallions scoring six late points to lose by nine, 25-16.
SEB head coach Elise Asher said her team had eight hitting errors in the first set, after spotting Christ Our Rock four points to begin the game.
Christ Our Rock hung around to begin the second set, trailing 6-5 early on, bet the Eagles took control and a 17-10 lead – finishing the set with a 25-15 win.
"We're slow starters, which has unfortunately been kind of a mark for us lately," Asher said. "I wasn't terribly upset with it, knowing that the offense that we were running looked good."
Courtney Howard was a part of that offense with her team-high seven kills, while Gabi Moore added six more and Emily Bone had four.
Asher said her team reached a game-by-game goal to serve well, led by Erica Behl's four aces and Bethany Oberlink's three. Behl also led the team with eight assists.
"We might have missed one serve in the match," Asher said. "We served really well."
The win completed a 3-0 run in Pool A of the EIC tournament, which started on Monday when the Eagles beat Patoka and Ramsey, each in two sets; however, the game against Christ Our Rock was the closest of the three.
The Eagles will represent Pool A as the first-place team on Friday, playing against Beecher City in a semi-final round. Christ Our Rock clinched the second-place spot, advancing to Friday's games, with a three-set win over Patoka on Tuesday. The Stallions will play Cowden-Herrick.
Friday's match-up will be the third between SEB and Beecher City this season and Asher said she feels good about her team going forward, especially with a couple days off in between.
"We're a little sluggish right now, but have two days to chew things up in practice and get some swings in," Asher said. "I feel good about our group. We just need to play within ourselves and do what we're capable of doing."
The Eagles showed what they were capable of doing by winning the EIC regular season title, entering the tournament, and improving to 17-15 with Tuesday's win.
The winners of Friday's semifinal games will play each other in a championship game afterward, so Asher said her team needs two more wins to finish the season on top. Games start at 6 p.m. on Friday in St. Elmo.
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Centralia Christ Our Rock Lutheran 16 15
St. Elmo/Brownstown: Howard (7 kills, 3 digs, 1 block), Moore (6 kills, 1 ace, 3 digs), Oberlink (3 kills, 3 aces, 5 digs), Behl (1 kill, 8 assists, 4 aces, 6 digs, 1 block), Bone (4 kills, 1 assist, 1 dig), Austin (1 ace, 3 digs), Barnick (1 kill), Walk (9 assists, 2 digs), Beshel (4 digs), Guerrero (7 digs), Kroll (2 assists)


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In Tuesdays elections, Republicans hoping to be elected across Bibb County were thrashed. In Houston County, local Democrats werent even on the ballot.
Election pundits think that may be the wave of the future, with Republicans standing little chance of winning countywide races in Bibb County, while Republican ranks increase in surrounding communities such as Houston County.
Chris Grant, an associate professor of political science at Mercer University, said Republicans are moving from Bibb County.
Clearly, Republican-leaning whites are leaving the county or theyre dying, one way or the other, and theyre being replaced with black Democratic voters or progressive whites, Grant said Wednesday. The exact opposites going on in Houston County.
Grant noted that the races for district attorney and clerk of Superior Court in Bibb County had nearly identical totals, with about 35,000 votes for the Democrat and about 27,000 votes for the Republican. Those werent far off from the presidential race, either. The exception seemed to be the race for County Commission chairman, Grant said, in which Democratic incumbent Sam Hart took about 41,000 votes to his opponents 22,000. Grant said Republicans crossed party lines to support Hart over his Republican opponent, Tom Wagoner.
Bibb County Republican Party chairwoman Suzanne Wood said thats happened before.
In Macon and Bibb County, Republicans will vote for Democrats, and I have not see any evidence that Democrats will vote for Republicans to the point that they will win, she said.
Wood has also noticed the counties moving in different directions.
I dont think a Democrat could win right now in Houston County. Its a Republican stronghold, she said.
Houston County Superior Court Clerk Carolyn Sullivan was the only person in Houston County to qualify as a Democrat four years ago. Sullivan won re-election Tuesday -- after running as a Republican, without Democratic opposition.
Sullivan couldnt be reached Wednesday. Four years ago, she talked about running for election in Houston County in 1982.
Everybody was a Democrat, she said then. I dont think Houston County even had a Republican Party then. We all just went down and registered as Democrats.
Today, the Georgia Democratic Partys web page lists the Houston County Democratic Partys chairman post as vacant. Calls to Democrats from Houston County, and the state party, were not returned Wednesday.
Aaron Hufstetler, chairman of Houston Countys Republican Party, said its possible a Democrat could win election in a corner of Houston County, but its not likely.
I dont see Bibb County changing any time soon, and I dont see Houston County changing. A lot of people are leaving Bibb County for that very reason, he said.
Hufstetler said people should look at issues, not parties, and vote for the best candidate. He admitted that he once voted for a Democrat himself -- most recently, for former Gov. Sonny Perdue, when he was running for state Senate. Perdue last ran as a Democrat 16 years ago.
Charlie Bishop, who successfully ran as a Republican for the Bibb County Commission chairmans post eight years ago, said he was aided by a winning Republican presidential candidate. He lost to Hart four years ago, when the Democratic presidential candidate won. Presidential races draw many people to the voting booths who wont normally vote -- and who are more likely to cast party-line votes for candidates, he said.
Theyll go straight down that list, if theyre a hard-shell Republican or a hard-shell Democrat.
Bishop said if he decides to make a run for political office again, hed consider changing parties. Running as a conservative Democrat might be his only route to success.
I would rather run as an independent, but its too time consuming to do that, he said. And (voters) are still going to go down the D and R list.
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Many of you have read the reports, including on this Outdoors page, concerning the surprising increase in the number of hunters in the United States during recent years.
This fact has been enthusiastically reported in just about every major outdoor magazine on the market. The most recent account that I read said that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's survey noted an increase of 1.2 million hunters from 2006 to 2011, a net gain of 9 percent.
I am not sure if it is my age or experience that arouses my suspicion regarding this news item, but I can sum up my opinion on these figures with one word.
I am sorry to be cynical and display distrust over statistics tendered by our federal government, but a lifetime of hunting and a career in natural resources law enforcement tell me that this is simply not true. Hunter numbers are not increasing and I believe that the anecdotal evidence would show that the woods are becoming less crowded.
Think about it. Did you hear anywhere near the number of shots this deer season — or the last half dozen deer seasons — that you heard way back in the late 1980s? I would bet not.
Could it be that the much-talked-about decrease in buck kill is as much a result of reduced hunting pressure as it is acorns, antler restrictions or expanded doe seasons? Maybe.
Back in the early '70s I often camped with my father and his buddies in the Dug Hill Road area of Green Ridge State Forest during the fall turkey season. That was a big event back in the day. If you stepped away from the campfire in the evening to look out across the mountain you would see a veritable string of lights from the campfires and lanterns that marked the position of other turkey hunters' camps.
Two years ago I camped in one of those same sites during the fall season and hunted those same woods for three days without seeing one other hunter. That would have been unheard of on public land four decades ago.
Ask the next natural resources police officer you see, preferably one that has gray hair, if he is as busy during deer season today as he was when he started the job and my guess is he will tell you no, he is not.
So where do these statistics come from? I believe it is a case of old fashioned home cooking of license sales numbers.
For many years, West Virginia residents over the age of 65 could hunt or fish merely on the possession of photo identification, no actual sporting license was required. West Virginia recently inaugurated the Senior Hunting License for persons who turned 65 after January 1, 2012. The DNR openly admitted this was being done to boost the license numbers to help capture (their term not mine) more federal revenue sharing funds that are based on licenses sold per state.
I have no idea how many of my fellow Mountaineers turn 65 annually, but as we of the Pepsi generation are aging I imagine it could easily be several thousand, with a corresponding boost to license sales that would have normally been lost.
My favorite numbers recipe is the nonresident fishing license. There formerly was a three-day nonresident fishing license in West Virginia. Several years ago the DNR scrapped the three-day license in favor of a one-day license. They reduced the cost accordingly so they really did not gain additional license revenue, but they did make impressive gains in the numbers category.
Here is how it works. Ten guys from Baltimore come here every year to float the South Branch during the Memorial Day weekend. In years past, those guys purchased 10 three-day licenses to get them through the trip. Those same 10 guys now must purchase a total of 30 one-day licenses to cover the same time frame. Again there is no real increase in cost to them, but the state gets to report a whopper of an increase in fishing license sales, especially when multiplied on a state-wide and year-long basis.
I smell the sour aroma of cooking numbers, which is probably how that survey came up with the figures showing an increase in license sales. There are no additional outdoorsmen out there. In fact, there are probably fewer, despite what our government says.
Perhaps it really doesn't matter. I just hate to be smiled at and lied to.
Dave Long is a retired W.Va. natural resources police officer and a frequent contributor to the Outdoors page.


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STEELE CREEK Christ the King, 13501 S. Tryon St., is offering Parents Night Out Summer Fun – Focusing on the Son on Friday, June 21.
Children ages birth to sixth grade are invited. There will be crafts, songs, games, Bible stories and a snack.
Drop off begins at 5:20 p.m., and children need to be picked up at 8 p.m. Cost is $10. To reserve a spot, visit http://goo.gl/XIDST.
For more information, call 704-587-0073.
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LAKE WYLIE River Hills Community Church Sunday School offers classes for adults looking for a way to grow in faith and Christian fellowship:
• Connections, 9 a.m., room 116, "Lord, You Must Be Joking" by Eugene J. Webb.
• Seekers, 9 a.m., room 208, study and discussion of Living on the Edge series: Culture Shock.
• Contemporary, 9 a.m., room 201, study and discussion of "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis.
• Fellowship, 9 a.m. RHCO, study and discussion of Genesis.
• New adult class, 9 a.m., room 102, study and discussion of "The Noticer" by Andy Andrews.
• Joy, 10:30 a.m. RHCO, will be completing a study of The Book of Ruth led by Charles Ford. Class members will present on a variety of topics this month and in July.
Call the church office at 803-831-1615 for more information or visit rhcconline.org.
VBS begins Monday
CHARLOTTE Pleasant Hill Church, 15000 York Road, Charlotte, will host an "Everywhere Fun Fair" Vacation Bible School Monday, June 24, to Thursday.
The children will "travel" to Japan, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico, where they will experience other cultures while learning about God's mission for the world and his love.
Dinner will be at 6 p.m. each night and classes will be at 6:20 p.m.
A nursery will be provided for infants and toddlers.
Adults may attend a special worship service June 27. Sign up at pleasanthillpresby.com or call 704-588-0686.
Steele Creek Bible camp begins Monday
STEELE CREEK Central Steele Creek Presbyterian Church is holding God's Backyard Bible Camp Under The Stars June 24-27.
Classes are offered for children and parents. Dinner is provided each evening.
Call 704-588-1211 for more information or to sign up.
Celebrate America June 30
STEELE CREEK Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, 15000 York Road, Charlotte, will hold a patriotic celebration at 9 a.m. June 30 with special music presented by the church choir, "I Love This Land."
Knights team with Waffle House for HOPE
LAKE WYLIE The Waffle House-Lake Wylie is joining with the Knights of Columbus of All Saints Council No. 14475 to help raise money for Operation HOPE (Helping Other People Everyday), a statewide campaign to help people with intellectual disabilities.
On July 1 from 2 to 9 p.m., and every first Monday of the month, Waffle House will donate 20 percent of its proceeds to Operation HOPE.
For more information, call 803-746-5464.
VBS planned
July 21-25
FORT MILL Lake Wylie Lutheran Church will hold "Everywhere Fun Fair" vacation Bible school from 6 to 8 p.m. July 21-25.
Registration forms available online at lakewylielutheran.org.
For more information, call 803-548-5489.
Preschool registration open
STEELE CREEK Christ the King Preschool registration is under way for children ages 2 to 4.
Registration fee costs $125 for all students. three-day class tuition costs $220 per month. Four-day classes cost $250 per month for 3- and 4-year-olds only.
The preschool is located at 13501 S. Tryon St. Charlotte. Call 704-504-1135 for more information.
Christ the King camp in August
STEELE CREEK Christ the King Church, 13501 S. Tryon St., is offering Camp Agape 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 5-9 for rising first- through fifth-graders.
Children will play games, sing songs, make crafts, hold nature activities and Bible studies. The cost is $100.
Call 704-587-0073 for more information.
Simulcast set in Steele Creek
STEELE CREEK LifeWay Christian Resources will host Beth Moore's "Living Proof Live" simulcast Sept. 14 at Christ the King Church.
Living Proof Live will feature Moore's storytelling and passionate Bible teaching.
Dove-award winning musical artist Travis Cottrell is slated to lead worship for the event.
Living Proof Live runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Tickets cost $17 online or $20 at the door, and include lunch (guaranteed by early registration).
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Council Member Mark Manna, who is challenging incumbent Barry A. Weinstein for Amherst supervisor, cashed in on a recent political fundraiser held in Snyder.
Manna reports that he raked in more than $10,000 from the event held on Livingston Parkway, an area filled with residents who are frustrated about a proposed Hyatt Place hotel being built near their backyards.
Political fundraisers are common this time of year, but this one is noteworthy because it illustrates how Manna and his supporters are looking to frame the race for Amherst's top job around the issue of development.
Weinstein last week sought to clarify his own position on the controversial development.
This won't likely be the final word on the hotel, either. Look for some passionate discussion at tonight's 7 p.m. meeting at Town Hall.


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Deep… light… powder snow! Have you booked your Alta ski vacation yet?
We did a survey here once and the results were as expected. 100% of our guests preferred getting hit in the face by Alta powder snow over any other powder snow.
Well it's that time of year again. The crisp autumn mornings have arrived and the first dusting of snow has blanketed the high peaks of Alta. All the locals should have purchased their season ski passes by now. And all the wildlife is getting ready to hunker down for the winter. Now what should you do? Book your Alta ski vacation at the rustic Alta Peruvian Lodge… of course.
We're looking forward to a great snow year and can't wait to see all the familiar faces, the new faces, and of course, all the smiling powder faces. Here at the lodge we've made a few improvements (more…)


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks ended lower for a fourth session Thursday as Wall Street expressed its distress over the still-unresolved fiscal cliff. However, the benchmark indexes erased the bulk of what had been steep losses after word the U.S. House would convene Sunday night as lawmakers try to reach a deal to break the budget impasse before the end of the year. After a 150-point fall, the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA -0.14% closed at 13,096.31, down 18.28 points, or 0.1%. The S&P 500 index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX +0.03% lost 1.73 points, or 0.1%, to 1,418.10. The Nasdaq Composite /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP -0.11% retreated 4.25 points, or 0.1%, to 2,985.90.
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Actualización técnica: la transición del cierre de servidores de GameSpy está en marcha
Publicado: on April 29 2014, 5:07pm | Autor: R* Q | Archivado en: Juegos, Social Club, Asistencia
Queremos informaros a todos sobre nuestras acciones tras la decisión de GameSpy y GLU Mobile de cerrar sus servidores internos el próximo 31 de mayo. Grand Theft Auto no se verá afectado por este cierre, pero nuestros equipos están trabajando para actualizar algunos títulos antiguos, de manera que la transición se realice de la forma más sencilla posible y se minimicen las consecuencias en vuestras partidas en línea y vuestra experiencia de juego. Gran parte de los cambios se producirán en los servicios del Social Club de Rockstar Games, como el seguimiento de estadísticas y los marcadores.
Para ver una lista con todos los cambios, visita la página de asistencia de Rockstar.
- on April 30 2014, 2:50pmWe are currently investigating issues with players receiving "The Rockstar game services are unavailable right now. Please try again later." messages when accessing jobs in GTA Online, as well as errors on the Social Club site.
Please stay tuned to our GTA Online Support page for the latest status updates at: https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200426246
Thanks all for your understanding as we work through this tech update.
A reminder that for more info, you can check out the FAQ at the Rockstar Support site: https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/203102767
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- 1 week, 1 day agoRockstar i cant find my custom jobs help please i made a very big effort on these jobs
- 1 week, 1 day agoRockstar help please i made over 50 jobs and now i cant find them help please rockstar because i made a very big effort on these jobs HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP ANYONE HELP HELP HELP ROCKSTARRRRRRRRRRRR
- 3 weeks agoHey rock so i was thinking that GTA5 should have hunting games like bears or wofls & we should have a bad ass snipers & hydraulics on cars & have a camp house & a way bigger map & when it stars to snow we should be able to drive to North Santos.
I really toke some time to do this :) we will have a lot of funny
- 3 weeks, 2 days agoWhat's up its Swaggmoney gt: PerceptiveEmu xbox360 I just wanted to give a DLC suggestion . I was thinking R* could implement something into Gtao that has to do with jail time which could go also with the heist DLC . What I was thinking is instead of having cops just come "shoot to kill " you every time you commit a crime , they should actually lock you up if they are too close to the online player with that they have a time period set in the jail and prison but also have the option to do a jail break using people on the inside with them or crew mates and or fellow online players and if and after players have successfully broken free they can't get arrested right away but have to hide in the city or fight it out toward the country until you're free using every option at your disposal . As for heist players can get arrested if captured during heist but also have the same option to break out but only once team members have completed or ended the heist
- 3 weeks, 2 days agoNot able 2 play in story mode ,or online,it's 5 days now able 2 do anything ,plz help with this issues...
- 3 weeks, 1 day ago@Haterproof1973 i don't know, i haven't been able to go online for over a week now it sucks.
- 3 weeks, 4 days agoi haven't been able to play online for over a week i want to play online but it won't let me it just stays and the sky view in that's all it does please help me it sucks. the story mode works fine but when i try to go online it won't let me.
- on June 11 2014, 11:00amwell i was playing gta on 11 i think and me and my freind was driving about and all of a sudden we were teleported along with everyone else in the server there was a very large ufo our cars were gone and our weapons to i hope you find him or her sorry i could'nt find him because i didnt know who did it i was on xbox 360 thought hope you read this.
- on June 10 2014, 7:57pmI have had an issue all day today. When I attempt to join any online session I'm told that the cloud servers are unable to load my save. If you could please let me know if it is something I am missing or if it is something on your side.
- on June 10 2014, 8:00pm@Formularaven Same thing iv had all day pall thats rockstar for you
- on June 10 2014, 8:37pm@geedunk24 This is not a large issue and Rockstar has done an amazing job at making such a nice open world game. So please do not be so immature by saying that they are the worst thing in the world and that they do not know how to make a video game at every little thing that happens.
- on June 10 2014, 9:02pm@Formularaven How aboutyou messageing the top man thatbworks there and seeing if he needs a wife
- on June 10 2014, 9:13pm@Formularaven Says the kid thats got 2 members in his crew come back when you have a 100 friends on your back wanting to no why it been off all day ???????
- on June 10 2014, 9:28pm@geedunk24 My main crew is actually Kamikaze Drifters I just created this new one a couple hours ago. Sorry for the misunderstanding though, also if you are wanting to learn english a little better i will be willing to teach you to type it correctly.
- on June 10 2014, 9:41pm@geedunk24 We will be performing Rockstar Cloud Service maintenance during four windows from 6/7/14 to 6/11/14. Grand Theft Auto Online will be temporarily unavailable during some of this period, and Social Club website login and Crew content display may not be available. Players attempting to access GTA Online or save to Rockstar Cloud during these windows may experience error messages stating that Rockstar Cloud Services are unavailable. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience.
Early Saturday morning, June 7 between 12:00 a.m. (ET) and 4:00 a.m. (ET).
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- on June 10 2014, 7:07am6--10-14 first now any time someone else blows up cAR I PAY FOR IT second when i push down on directional pad i dont see peoples checkpoint race times all i see is rank
- on June 10 2014, 6:24pm@PantherzClaw1970 No online play atall yous are s**t never play any of your games ever
- on June 9 2014, 1:39pmHello I just want to report a problem with the auto ADDER has a problem with a secondary color paint because the paint back always goes black, I hope they can fix it, thanks.
Hola solo quiero reportar un error con el auto ADDER tiene un problema al pintarlo con un color secundario ya que la parte de atrás de pintura siempre se queda en negro, espero puedan repararlo, gracias.
- on June 5 2014, 1:33amhey rockstar i can't do noting no mission, no TDM , no races noting only thing to do is mess around in gta online
- on June 4 2014, 6:47pmHey R why can't i do mission today I'm trying to do a mission and its not letting me why is that
- on May 29 2014, 2:27pmWhat's happening with the GFWL shutdown?
GTA 4 is still very popular online, paticularly with the LCPDFR mod. I really would be upset, and angry for that matter, if nothing is done about this, especially considering we don't have GTA 5 to play, this is, for us PC gamers, the latest edition in the series.
- on May 29 2014, 5:29pm@saliiim I agree. But they don't care about GTA 4, they're only fixing GameSpy related problems for good PR.
- on May 28 2014, 10:16amhello, I wonder if after May 31 will be able to follow up on GTA IV level to get the trophy WANTED or due to closure of servers may no longer get? thank you very much
- on May 19 2014, 8:19pmI am having issues with missions before the update I could line up who want to shoot. Now it is really hard to line and shoot. And doing the missions are alot tougher and I can't get though the first wave, really disappointed because I love the game so much. I had went into settings to adjust my aim. but it is faded and i can not click on the aim button.
- on May 16 2014, 11:38pmPlease dont shut down Midnight Club LA. It is very fun online and all my friemds on ps3 love the game please dont shut it down!!! It would mean the world to me and 10000s more people
- on May 27 2014, 3:07pm@JaredBrody is it ending the online or the update


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The Beckley area will once again have a Chevrolet presence with the opening of Crossroads Chevrolet across from Crossroads Mall.
Spokesman Rodney LeRose, whose family has been in the car business for more than 50 years and owns Mid-State Used Auto in Beckley as well as other dealerships in Nicholas County, explains. "We think there is a tremendous amount of pent-up demand for Chevy products in the area. R.L. Polk registration data shows that Chevrolet does not have the market share presence through the area and southeastern region of the state that other makes do."
He said they expect Chevy to be in a high demand just to equal the average market penetration the brand has in other areas.
LeRose said patrons have already been exploring the models available on their lot even though the grand opening isn't scheduled until Thursday.
In fact, while finishing touches are still going on inside the showrooms and facilities, Crossroads Chevrolet has already been selling cars.
"We have been selling cars all week. I introduced myself to a couple who had just signed the papers on a Traverse and they told me they had been waiting a year for us to open," he said.
And he said it is an exciting time to be in the Chevy business as the company will unfurl 13 new models during 2013 including a Corvette, Traverse, Tahoe, Suburban and — most excitingly — the all new Malibu and Silverado.
LeRose said the first car sold off the lot was a 60th anniversary Corvette purchased by local businessman Donnie Holcomb.
And the size of the Crossroads showroom and full service facility is as large as they anticipate the local interest to be.
LeRose explained that Crossroads Chevrolet is a 38,316-square-foot facility built on nearly 9 acres.
"We knew with the demand and the excitement for a Chevrolet presence to be back in Beckley that it was going to take a very large facility to handle the volume of sales and service," he said.
The facility includes a full service department and a fully enclosed service drive.
Each car that comes through the enclosed, climate-controlled service drive will receive a free alignment check with the new Hunter Drive Through Quick Check Rack, a machine that boasts an alignment check in less than 2 minutes.
There is also a 1,600-square-foot customers lounge with complimentary coffee, vending machines, a large play area, a 60-inch TV and free wifi.
LeRose said the business will also offer a free shuttle to and from Crossroads Mall during the day.
To run this mammoth facility, LeRose has already opened with 65 employees and expects to hire as many at 90 to 100 down the road.
"We would like people to come in and tour the facility and see what we have to offer, even if they are not currently in the market for a vehicle," he invited.
LeRose also thanks his general contractor Norco Construction, of Summersville, and his subcontractors for "pulling together to get the dealership open in six months. To excavate and build a facility of this size since we broke ground in April is a pretty remarkable feat."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Charlotte Woodcarvers Club will be hosting their 2014 Showcase at the Marion Diehl Recreation Center February 21-23.
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The club has been around for 32 years: promoting the art of woodcarving. They offer special classes and workshops for anyone interested in becoming a member.
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Sri Lanka 43 for 3 (Mathews 20*, Southee 2-16) trail New Zealand 412 (Flynn 53, Taylor 142, Williamson 135, Herath 6-103) by 369 runs
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After grinding out 412 in the better part of two days, New Zealand tightened their control of the second Test with an incisive spell by their seamers to nip out three wickets - the fulcrum of the top order - before stumps on the second day. A combination of poor shots and a probing line by Tim Southee and Trent Boult left Sri Lanka at 12 for 3 by the sixth over. New Zealand were just as penetrative in Galle, but the difference here was that bowlers had the cushion of runs to work with. Earlier, Rangana Herath picked up another five-wicket haul - his sixth in 2012 - to give Sri Lanka something to shout about after a tough opening day.
The New Zealand seamers managed more swing with the new ball than the hosts, but it was the straighter one that consumed Tillakaratne Dilshan. After crashing his first ball past cover, he played down the wrong line to Southee and was bowled through the gate. Two balls later, Kumar Sangakkara was surprised by a short one but went through with the hook, only to find fine leg. Mahela Jayawardene played and missed at Trent Boult, and after edging a boundary past the slips, fished at one that moved away and drove straight to Kane Williamson at gully. With the three big guns going cheaply, New Zealand couldn't have asked for a more ideal start.
After a one-sided opening day, Sri Lanka redressed the balance just when New Zealand would have entertained thoughts of posting a total in excess of 500, given the solid foundation provided by the overnight pair of Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson, who had batted nearly 97 overs across four sessions. Williamson has been praised for his temperament and ability to play spin better than his more experienced colleagues in the batting line-up. His century on the second morning was his third in his two-year career and second in the subcontinent, including a debut ton against India.
Sri Lanka's seamers did pose some questions with the new ball, getting marginally more swing than on the first morning. What Sri Lanka lacked was variety. They needed a seamer to hit the deck hard and extract bounce with the new ball.
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Williamson, overnight on 95, remained watchful. He brought up his century with an outside edge that went for four to third man, the first boundary of the morning. The pair, in the process passed the New Zealand record for the highest third-wicket stand away from home, beating the 224 between John F Reid and Martin Crowe in Brisbane.
With the pitch not taking turn, only a mistake from the batsman could have yielded a wicket. Taylor moved across his stumps to sweep Herath but was caught in front of the leg stump, ending the 262-run stand. Williamson too perished in similar manner to the same bowler and Sri Lanka removed the centurions in quick succession. There was room for another breakthrough when Kruger van Wyk missed a straight one from Tillakaratne Dilshan, with the score on 291 for 5. A score of 400 seemed a long way off, but Daniel Flynn put them on that path.
After lunch, Herath struck again when he trapped the debutant Todd Astle lbw padding up to an arm ball. There was turn and bounce on the second-day pitch, but Flynn and Doug Bracewell ensured New Zealand didn't get rolled over quickly. Flynn was solid in defense, played the ball late and pushed the singles.
Jayawardene tried creating chances by placing several close fielders. Herath bowled round the wicket to Flynn with a short leg, backward short leg, short midwicket and short mid-on waiting for the chipped shot on the on side. Flynn was careful with the sweep and focused on blocking out the spin with his defense.
Bracewell was positive using his feet against the spinners but perished after holing out to deep midwicket for 24. Flynn was happy to push the singles and give the strike to the lower order, who hung around to annoy the hosts as they looked to keep New Zealand under 400. Flynn brought up his half-century by paddling a full toss shortly before the tea break. Herath wrapped up the innings shortly after tea, trapping Flynn on the backfoot and then bowling Boult, taking him one short of equaling Graeme Swann, who leads the wicket charts for 2012 with 53.
With the early burst of wickets, Sri Lanka's thoughts had turned to passing the follow on target, which is still 170 away. The other worry for Sri Lanka was that Thilan Samaraweera had injured his finger while attempting a catch at slip and didn't come out to bat.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of a Limbaugh Debate
A partisan debate moderator might not be a bad idea in theory – but in practice?
So the Republican National Committee has made good on its threat and sworn a collective blood oath not to let CNN or NBC (or their Spanish-language subsidiaries, CNN Espanol or Telemundo) cosponsor a Republican presidential primary debate in 2016. This follows the report yesterday by my old colleague Paul Bedard that conservative yakkers Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are among the possible moderators for revamped debates. Is the RNC being clever here? Or nuts? The answer is yes.
First, the question of partisan moderators for primary debates: Is that in and of itself a bad thing? Actually, it's not. As Politico's Dylan Byers notes, Keith Olbermann – an outspokenly progressive television host, on MSNBC at the time – moderated a Democratic primary debate in August, 2007. It's not necessarily like having Limbaugh or Olbermann or some other outspoken partisan in the moderator seat in a general election debate, taking sides in a philosophical clash. In a partisan primary there's some sense, as Kevin Drum, Atrios and others have argued, in having someone or someones asking the questions who are in tune with the what the voters – partisans in this case – are interested in.
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In theory anyway. There would be a number of problems with it in practice, starting with the fact that given the current state of the Republican Party, putting Limbaugh or one of his ilk in charge of interrogating the potential presidential nominees could very well involve having a partisan taking sides in a philosophical clash. Limbaugh et al outspokenly support – nay, stoke – the fanatical, unrepentant faction of the GOP that fulminates over the ever-imminent betrayal of the party establishment and thinks the only resetting the party needs do to appeal to swing voters is to double down on the conservative ideas the voters rejected as recently as 2012 and 2008.
How would gun-rights fanatic Limbaugh approach Chris Christie's gun control record? Would Erick Erickson, implacably opposed to the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform, be able to even-handedly oversee a discussion of it with bill sponsor Marco Rubio? And so on.
A second, related, part of the idea of a Limbaugh-moderated debate is that it conflates the interests of the GOP with the interests of the conservative movement's entertainment-industrial complex. It's as basic as the free market: Limbaugh et al are in business to make money, not to win the GOP – or even conservatives – elections. Sometimes those interests intersect, but often, as when the policy preferences of their listeners sharply diverge from those of the swing voters who decide elections, they do not.
As The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf wrote in a devastating indictment of the movement conservative media after the 2012 elections:
I see a coalition that has lost all perspective, partly because there's no cost to broadcasting or publishing inane bullshit. In fact, it's often very profitable. A lot of cynical people have gotten rich broadcasting and publishing red meat for movement conservative consumption.
On the biggest political story of the year, the conservative media just got its ass handed to it by the mainstream media. And movement conservatives, who believe the MSM is more biased and less rigorous than their alternatives, have no way to explain how their trusted outlets got it wrong, while the New York Times got it right.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the tea party.]
Sure the MSM thrashed the MCM when it came to the facts, but I'll wager that the rock stars of the movement conservative media felt nary a pinch in their wallets because of it.
When Limbaugh said yesterday that he's too famous to moderate a GOP debate, Hot Air's Allahpundit speculated that a Limbaugh debate would become a distraction because it would give the left a "pretext to revisit last year's 'war on women' crapola, this time in the context of the GOP likely facing a woman nominee in Hillary[Clinton]." Perhaps. But the bigger danger isn't that Limbaugh's greatest hits might be revisited but that he might add to them in the course of the debate. Which Republican candidate wants to either speak out against the conservative icon or sit mutely by when he denounces someone as a "slut" for daring to use birth control?
Steve Benen sums up the potential problem of fanatical conservatives grilling Republican candidates while the nation – or at least Democratic ad-makers with DVRs – watches:
The epistemic closure that's helped to define the party's discourse in recent years will have an even more impenetrable dome -- far-right candidates will field far-right questions from far-right loudmouths, all in the hopes of impressing far-right voters. And if the goal is to be elected the leader of a far-right club in a far-right treehouse, all of this would seem quite rational.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Donald Trump.]
In the end the debates-debate is ado about much less than meets the eye. As Allahpundit notes in a separate post:
The RNC's goal here isn't to strike a blow against media bias. That's window-dressing for grassroots conservatives, just as the whispers about letting Rush Limbaugh host a debate were. The point is to cut down the number of debates, which will reduce the opportunities for strong establishment candidates to make embarrassing gaffes and reduce the opportunities for strong tea-party candidates to leap in the polls with winning debate performances.
The concern about the number of debates and their effects is real and not necessarily aimed at "strong tea-party candidates" to the benefit of establishment types. Right now the likely GOP field is led by Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida – that's two tea partiers and, in Rubio, a once-and-wannabe tea partier. Cutting down the number of debates isn't aimed at crippling them but rather at minimizing the circus flare-ups from the 2016 iterations of Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann.


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I sit with a wonderful friend at lunch on a date that had been agreed upon over a month ago.
We have arranged to meet early because we anticipate the downtown crowds will arrive shortly after noon and the many conversations will make it more difficult for us to hear one another.
My friend and I exchange the usual pleasantries and he then removes a small piece of paper from his pocket.
"We always have great conversations," he says, "but today I wanted to make sure we talk about 'TRUTH.' I want to explore what it is and when it is. And I want to do this with you!"
I am flattered and a bit intimidated. Like most people, I use the word truth in everyday conversation, and I try to "tell the truth" (if I know it) when I am asked a question.
For an unclocked amount of time, we explore the word truth. I share that the rabbis of old taught: "The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is Aleph; the middle letter of the alphabet is Mem; and the last letter is Tav. And, they said, Aleph, Mem, Tav spell the Hebrew word for —TRUTH."
They further explained the beginning, middle and end of all endeavors must be truth.
"Please send that quote to me in an email," my friend requests.
The restaurant is filling up and we are so engaged in our conversation — each wanting to be truthful in even trying to understand truth — that other voices, when noticed, sound joyful and complementary rather than disruptive. My friend reminds me of the verse from John 8:32, —¦ and the truth shall set you free."
We are both quiet for a few moments and I ask. "Which truth will set us free, and does everyone want such freedom? I don't have the answer, but the question is very much alive in me."
As I rethought our conversation and how I might write about it, I found a quote by an unknown author, who suggested, "Truth is a description of reality." In this quote I find there may be multiple perceptions of truth and each genuine to the core of its reality.
There are religious truths, emotional truths, historical and scientific truths — and all are based on a reality. Yesterday's reality may fall to a new truth; and a new truth may replace an older one. Where, then, is the truth?
We look closely and intensely at one another. The maxim, "Truth shows in the eyes; lies stay behind the eyes," is evident in our respect and care for one another.
"I don't have an answer to your larger question," I say. "But I know the depth and sincerity of our relationship is based on a shared truth, and I cherish that truth and you."
We gather our pens and scraps of paper and prepare to go back to the beautiful day outside. I look at my watch and realize we have shared two hours discussing truth. More importantly, we were honest with one another.
We both understand, even without words, "Man finds God through truth."
Dr. Albert M. Lewis is rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth El in Traverse City. He is a public speaker and author of "Soul Sounds: Reflections on Life," available at www.soulsoundsbook.com. Contact him through the Record-Eagle, 120 W. Front St., Traverse City MI 49684.


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WATERVILLE, Maine --- Dale Plummer, who pitched in the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets organizations, has been named the interim head coach of the Colby College baseball team for the 2007 season.
Plummer was the pitching coach for Colby last year and helped the Mules improve by 10 wins over the previous season. Plummer's guidance also helped the pitching staff lower the team earned run average by nearly three runs per game.
"Dale did a terrific job and made a major impact on the pitching staff in just one season," said Marcella Zalot, Colby's Director of Athletics. "He is a proven coach and has a vast amount of baseball experience in the college and professional ranks. With Dale working with the team last year, it should make for a smooth transition for this year as he takes over the head coaching responsibilities."
Colby baseball head coach Tom Dexter will be on a sabbatical for the 2007 season.
Plummer was selected in the 1988 amateur draft by the New York Mets after graduating from the University of Maine. He earned the Mets' Class-AAA Most Inspirational Player Award in 1993 and that same year was honored with the Webster Award for being an outstanding minor league representative of the Mets both on and off the field.
Plummer had a 38-19 record with 29 saves in his minor league career with the Mets and Red Sox organizations. During his playing career, Plummer started the Professional Baseball Experience to administer and direct baseball academies in Maine. Plummer still runs his business and has done some individual training of young pitchers. Mark Rogers, a fifth round selection in the 2004 major league baseball draft and a Gatorade National Player of the Year honoree, worked extensively with Plummer.
Before joining Colby last year, Plummer was an assistant coach at Bowdoin College from 2001 to 2005. The Polar Bears set school records for victories in a season in three of the five years Plummer helped coach the team.
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JEFFERSONVILLE — The Clark County Council voted to send a letter to State Sen. Ron Grooms, R-Jeffersonville, in support of Senate Bill 535, which would create new rules for the creation of an airport authority in the county.
"I think he would really just like something from us, and I think this is really — it's just in support of the concept of the establishment [of an airport authority]," Council President Barbara Hollis said.
In its current form, if the county were to establish an airport authority, the bill would allow for area redevelopment commissions and the River Ridge Development Authority to send funds to the airport authority. The bill would give the county council the power of approval for the authority's budget, tax levies, bonds and leases payable from property taxes. The council voted 6-1 to send the letter of support, with council member Kelly Khuri voting against.
"We've got to have safeguards, is all I'm saying," Khuri said. "And I'm not satisfied with this."
The council approved the language of the letter after an hour-plus conversation at a Wednesday work session, but only after the letter was modified to include a reiteration of the importance of the county council having full veto power over the airport authority's ability to appropriate funds given to it by redevelopment commissions.
"Furthermore, and more importantly, the county council is in favor of a new airport authority [bill] that only allows the airport authority to implement tax rates with the specific approval of the county council and that provides the county council with complete and binding approval authority over the airport authority's budget and over all appropriations," the letter states.
"The reason that I'm passionate about that is if another entity that has the ability to set a tax rate, I don't want them to set a tax rate and then turn around and give the money to the county airport, thus circumventing the council's authority," Council Vice President Brian Lenfert said. "But if we have binding approval of their budget as if they were another county department, we could [vote to not appropriate] those dollars, thus stopping the pass-through or the go-around of the council's approval of any tax-rate funding to the airport."
Council member Steve Doherty agreed with Lenfert, stating that it was important that the spending of tax dollars be controlled by elected representatives instead of appointed airport authority members.
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Funny, if it was one of many other groups you said this about, people would barrage you calling you a biggot or racist.
You're right, I shouldn't have said such a remark about the Irish.
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Funny, if it was one of many other groups you said this about, people would barrage you calling you a biggot or racist.
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Goddamned Irish
i still think its pretty funny.
all you PC people out there need to relax.
I love Dana's reaction throws in an "f-Bomb" with common sense.
Pretty funny shit.
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White on McGregor tweet: Show some common f@$%ing sense
The UFC is attempting to distance itself from the claims of Misogyny and Homophobia constantly thrown at it by the Culinary Union; when you consider that fact, these fighter apologies don't seem so out of place.
I'd take that nose over Ronda's gigantic planet head any day.
She has a face the size of a dinner plate.
You wouldn't bang Tate, she'd bang you.
Who are you trying to lie? With or without that nose we all would be very very happy to bang her.
Who cares about the nose when all the rest is pretty damn good?
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FDA proposes sweeping new food safety rulesBy MARY CLARE JALONICK
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Jensen Farms near Holly, Colo., is among hundreds of thousands of U.S. food producers affected by major changes in food safety rules.WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens.
The long-overdue regulations are aimed at reducing the estimated 3,000 deaths a year from foodborne illness. Just since last summer, outbreaks of listeria in cheese and salmonella in peanut butter, mangoes and cantaloupe have been linked to more than 400 illnesses and as many as seven deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The actual number of those sickened is likely much higher.
The FDAs proposed rules would require farmers to take new precautions against contamination, to include making sure workers hands are washed, irrigation water is clean, and that animals stay out of fields. Food manufacturers will have to submit food safety plans to the government to show they are keeping their operations clean.
Many responsible food companies and farmers are already following the steps that the FDA would now require them to take. But officials say the requirements could have saved lives and prevented illnesses in several of the large-scale outbreaks that have hit the country in recent years.
In a 2011 outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe that claimed 33 lives, for example, FDA inspectors found pools of dirty water on the floor and old, dirty processing equipment at Jensen Farms in Colorado where the cantaloupes were grown. In a peanut butter outbreak this year linked to 42 salmonella illnesses, inspectors found samples of salmonella throughout Sunland Inc.s peanut processing plant in New Mexico and multiple obvious safety problems, such as birds flying over uncovered trailers of peanuts and employees not washing their hands.
Under the new rules, companies would have to lay out plans for preventing those sorts of problems, monitor their own progress on those safety efforts and explain to the FDA how they would correct them.
The rules go very directly to preventing the types of outbreaks we have seen, said Michael Taylor, FDAs deputy commissioner for foods.
The FDA estimates the new rules could prevent almost 2 million illnesses annually, but it could be several years before the rules are actually preventing outbreaks. Taylor said it could take the agency another year to craft the rules after a four-month comment period, and farms would have at least two years to comply meaning the farm rules are at least three years away from taking effect. Smaller farms would have even longer to comply.
The new rules, which come exactly two years to the day President Barack Obamas signed food safety legislation passed by Congress, were already delayed. The 2011 law required the agency to propose a first installment of the rules a year ago, but the Obama administration held them until after the election. Food safety advocates sued the administration to win their release.
The produce rule would mark the first time the FDA has had real authority to regulate food on farms. In an effort to stave off protests from farmers, the farm rules are tailored to apply only to certain fruits and vegetables that pose the greatest risk, like berries, melons, leafy greens and other foods that are usually eaten raw. A farm that produces green beans that will be canned and cooked, for example, would not be regulated.
Such flexibility, along with the growing realization that outbreaks are bad for business, has brought the produce industry and much of the rest of the food industry on board as Congress and FDA has worked to make food safer.
In a statement Friday, Pamela Bailey, president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents the countrys biggest food companies, said the food safety law can serve as a role model for what can be achieved when the private and public sectors work together to achieve a common goal.
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Food safety advocates frustrated over the last year as the rules stalled praised the proposed action.
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ATHENS -- Chris Wilson and Will Friend talk about their units in different ways. Wilson is cheery and talks about playing an elephant if he could. Friend is gruff but blunt, saving his laughter for regretful moments.
But these two Georgia assistant coaches were facing similar challenges a month ago. And they have succeeded in pretty similar ways.
There are a lot of reasons that the Georgia football team has won three games in a row, including two wins over top-10 teams, after a season-opening loss at Clemson. But one difference stands out the most between that loss and the next three games: the way the Bulldogs have played at the line of scrimmage, on both sides of the ball.
Wilson coaches Georgias defensive line, which was gashed in the second half of that Clemson game. Friend coaches the offensive line, which had an even worse game.
Since then, theyve both turned it around. The run defense is the surprising strength of Georgias defense, which otherwise has struggled. The offensive line has been remarkably better in the wins over South Carolina and LSU.
I tell my guys, Weve gotta outplay our opponents defense every week, Wilson said. And thats what it came down to last week, and the week before, and the week we didnt win, against Clemson. It was that same thing.
Georgias offensive and defensive lines each had a little to do with that, but the contrast between the first game and the next three is stark:
Run defense: Clemson averaged 4.3 yards per rush. In the ensuing three games, Georgias opponents have averaged just 3.0 yards per carry.
The offensive line: Clemson sacked Aaron Murray four times. The line has given up just three sacks during the past three games, and two of those were to South Carolina, a pretty good mark considering the talent there, namely Jadeveon Clowney.
Georgias own running game, another measure of the offensive line, has statistically been about the same, but in that Clemson game any success was largely the result of tailback Todd Gurleys brilliance. In the wins over South Carolina and LSU, there was an obvious improved push by Georgias line and better holes to run through.
We have a great offensive line, said sophomore tailback Keith Marshall, who had enough room to rush for 90 yards in a game in which Gurley got hurt.
It remains debatable whether that offensive line is truly great -- or even good. But it has been better, as has the defensive line, for the same two reasons: substitutions.
Eight different players saw action on the offensive line in Saturdays game, and nine played the week before against North Texas. Friend used six different lineup combinations, part of a strategy this year to push players by using playing time as a carrot.
Its hard to pinpoint one reason why they played better. But whatever it is, Georgia has benefited greatly.
They need to know that theyre always competing, Friend said after Tuesdays practice. Were not where we want to be, and weve gotta have some competition to get us to the point to try to get close to that.


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Did fans of Devil May Cry destroy the brand by not buying the reboot?
Capcom has lowered the sales forecast for DmC, its new Devil May Cry reboot, from 2 million units to 1.2 million units.
Over at MCV, Ben Parfitt laments this poorer-than-expected showing, calling it all "very sad."
Here's Parfitt:
It's potentially a sad end to a tale brought about very much by the fans themselves. Anyone who played Devil May Cry 4 must surely of seen how desperately the IP needed an injection of new ideas and modernisation – which is exactly what the skilful Ninja Theory achieved.
Yet the fans revolted because Capcom dared to reinvent its IP for the 21st century and dared to change the colour of Dante's hair. It's really very sad.
A headline suggested by a colleague: "Devil May Cry fans destroy brand out of spite." That about covers it.
This is interesting to me.
On the one hand, Parfitt is absolutely correct. Thanks to fans not buying the game, it sold worse than expected. When you strip away motive, all that remains are cold, hard numbers.
On the other hand, this whole "fans destroy brand out of spite" line is funny only because of how spiteful it sounds; the "fans revolted because Capcom dared to reinvent its IP [...] and dared to change the colour of Dante's hair" bit has me chuckling audibly.
I hear quite often when we enter the turbulent waters of "entitled gamer syndrome" that fans should stop complaining and vote with their wallets.
If you don't like it, so the advice goes, quit whining and just don't buy it.
I certainly think the most effective possible protest in a capitalist economic system is to vote with one's wallet, though I have no problem with vocalizing complaints alongside said protest.
Yet here we have an example of that very self-same thing happening right before our eyes, and now it turns out that voting with one's wallet is actually akin to destroying a brand out of spite.
It's almost—almost!—as if some people think game publishers are entitled to sales regardless of whether or not customers particularly care for the product.
Whatever the case, this hardly spells the end for the Devil May Cry brand, though it may cause Capcom to reconsider just how far afield they've taken the series. If so, the fans will have won a small victory. After all, many of them believed DmC itself was the destruction of a beloved brand.
I'm not sure I agree with that entirely—I had fun with DmC which I thought was an entertaining, if somewhat average, game—but I do think the Devil May Cry we got would have been better as a new IP entirely, or a spin-off, rather than as a reboot. As a new IP I think we could have enjoyed it as something new rather than simply compare it endlessly to something old.
DmC is a game filled with untapped potential. I'd love to see another Devil May Cry game with the same graphics, the same imaginative settings, but with more of the original game's atmosphere and depth-of-combat.
Oh, and to answer my own question (from that headline way up yonder)—in a word, yes. Fans are to blame. That's how this crazy game is played.
Honestly it doesn't matter if it was about Dante's hair or not. It wasn't of course, it was about gameplay, tone, and storytelling changes, but idiots dead set on demonizing the people who, while acting well within their right, decided to not buy the game and perhaps vocalize their disappointment in one way or another, will never stop.
No. It doesn't matter because even if the only difference between this DMC and the ones before it was Dante's, we would still be in the right for not buying it. Why? Because we're the customers and that's how capitalism works. We can be as winy, demanding, and hard to please as we damn well please and we should still be treated like every word we say is gold. Anyone who says differently has never worked in any other industry because for some reason, insulting would-be customers for the Company's own development mistakes or failed marketing campaigns is par for the course ever since Bioware decided everyone who didn't like ME3′s ending was 'entitled'
What are we entitled to? A product we think is worth our money? Guess what? That's our choice to make, on our own prerogative and if we want to base that around something as shallow as a hair color change, we can because we're the customers and we're always right.
Considering your propensity to respond to other journalists/critics/entertainers I was awaiting your response to this specific man. This is essentially the continuation of the debate that began with ME3 over whether a game belongs to its creators or to its fans and you were very on the dot with your coverage on that. I'm glad to see that you're still keen as a journalist and I can't wait to see how things develop.
There's a reason for that. I used to blog for a few metal webzines ages ago when I was a dumbass teenager who had no idea what being a "journalist" meant. My docs got spilled out when people didn't like what I had to say about their favorite albums, but that was all I and my "colleagues" had to worry about back then, as there wasn't this "culture" (I just don't know what else to call it) involved with writing.
I feel like it's not done in video games because of how fragile it is as a business. For the longest time, various different websites were your only source of information, and it would trickle out in an agonizingly slow manner. Now, though, you have YouTube and hundreds of amateur producers putting up content everywhere that it's easy to come to a consensus without Kotaku, Giant Bomb or Destructoid involved at all. This basically puts those sites in a position where they have to create content independent of actual journalism, and it's where these inflammatory opinion pieces and, in the case of a certain few content slumlords, personal attacks against other writers seems to come from.
It easily gets pretty ugly, and I have no doubt it'll get uglier as competitors rise who aren't from the insular community of self-designated "journalists" attached to the Escapist, D-toid, Giant Bomb, Kotaku and company.
Wow…Ben Parfitt is nearly COMPLETELY out of sync with the reality of what happened with this game. A LOT of gamers made their feelings known about the changes to the main character LONG before the game passed the point of no return and then this gentlemen, who writes for a games magazine, blames the poor sales on 'fans' who did NOT buy the game? WTF? When has ANY company blamed 'fans' not buying a game, out of spite no less, as being the reason a game did poorly in the market.
If a game sells POORLY, it just might be due to the fact that something about the game, kept people from buying it. Maybe the game just plain sucked. Maybe the art style of the game was attractive to only the developers. Maybe it rebooted a series that the fans felt didn't NEED a reboot. If developers make a game that NO ONE wants, how are the FANS to blame?
True, developers SHOULD be able to make the games they want, however, and company that makes a product, where the fans give you feedback that the art direction, game style, reboot, path, etc.., that the developers are working is NOT one that the fans wanted nor asked for…then as developers, maybe you might want to rethink what you are doing. You are making a game…one that you hope makes enough money to keep investors happy and keeps your studio up and running. Any developer that loses sight of this, is a developer that may soon find itself shuttered.
There really is NO surprise that this game is selling less than expected…the reviews were not that favorable…at best it is a decent game. I have read reviews where they stated that the game may have been better as a new IP. Did Dante NEED to be re-imagined? I think not…imagine if Nintendo re-imagined Mario…shaved his mustache, made him look like this Dante, and then re-imagined the game as a 3rd Person Shooter…something tells me that Nintendo fans would be in an uproar and the game would tank and would be nearly as a big a money loser as E.T. was for Atari.
Sometimes a re-imagining CAN work…but sometimes you just stick with what worked before, and see if you can't bring something new to the tried and true.
It really has happened. I didn't think it would happen, but it has: someone has actually said that by not buying something they don't want, consumers are actively hurting a game company.
I can't even imagine how many franchises I have attempted to ruin by not buying games in those franchises. Finally, after not buying the other DMC games either because I had no interest in them, my previously unknown goal has been reached.
Getting real tired of these uppity publishers and their entitlement issues. They are not entitled to my money, or anyone elses.
Well fans of DMC did make the choice to not buy DmC so I guess if you look at it that way yeah they are at fault for low sales… but that sort of logic is messed up to a normal person, "game journalists" might be a different case.
another day, another journalist throws their hat into this debacle and publicly humiliates themselves by throwing mud at fans of the DMC series. Seriously, as much as CAPCOM is well within their legal rights to do what they want with their properties, it's also within consumers' rights to say "no, I'm not interested, it does not look good" and deny a company a sale. I do indeed like fun games, which is why I did NOT buy DmC as I thought it was completely average and I do not reward mediocrity. And that's BEFORE getting into the sheer contempt NT had for the source material and fans of Dante. I reward GOOD titles like Dishonored, Fire Emblem: Awakening, X-COM, Kid Icarus: Uprising, and Metroid: Other M, not this. I'm going to save my time and money for things that look far better.
also, I think this serves as an interesting study is what makes a character popular. We didn't just like DMC because of its tightly-honed gameplay, we also LOVED Dante as a character. The guy serves as an antidote to all the "serious" protagonists and narratives that have been plaguing gaming as of late due to people being in a rush to act "grown up." If Dante had been invented in this era he almost would come off as a slam to more monotone and dour characters like Marcus Phoenix and Kratos. Say what you will about Dante, but he was clearly a character designed as being FUN, something NT didn't get.
I just don't see this reboot sticking. With numbers that are estimated to be the lowest in the series, I just can't see CAPCOM trying to keep this going when it blew up in their face. We'll probably be seeing old Dante and maybe even Nero back soon
As a hardcore DMC fan…this was a nightmare of a game for me. Warning, some spoilers below.
- Over 20% of the game was cut scenes…and really boring, crappy ones half the time. I could've done without another scene of Dante delivering a smug, droll, brainless one liner at everyone. Dante felt flat and shallow and boring as hell.
- Short. At best, if you do everything, take a break to pee, have a shower, and make dinner, its seven hours of playtime with zero replay value. There's only FIVE bosses, compared to the 13-15 of previous games.
- Dumb downed combat and difficulty. Ranks are easy to cheese with the ability to constantly aerial juggle everything you wander across. The enemy AI is as complex as a sack of bricks, the only challenge comes from the blue enemies, and thats only because the angel weapons are so-so at best.
- Graphics are on par with the old DMC games, and that's not a damn compliment. Everything either has an annoying red haze/blur everywhere or a blue one. Poor art direction everywhere. Scenes are poorly framed, the colors and scenery are mushed together with little detail and distinction. The only visually interesting level was the night club boss.
- Terrible story with Mac truck sized plot holes. Somehow Dante lives in a trailer in the dead middle of an amusement part. He answers the door naked and nobody in the crowd around his trailer even blinks. Somehow Mundus managed to not kill Dante as a kid, despite the "legend" of nephilim being so well known. Making Dante more "human" by making him…completely not human at all. Somehow Mundus doesn't know about Virgil despite Dante and he being TWINS. Mundus caring about his off spring despite being "immortal". Dante somehow not being sighted and detained during the opening cinematic. The fact that Dante feels more like the director's self insert than the Dante of franchise past.
If you care about female characters, this game gets even worse. Kat's "backstory" – a ploy so gross and over used that even comic books have stopped using it. Her co-dependence on Virgil and her all too eager willingness to martyr herself for him. Lilith and what happens to her. Just…Lilith period. The strippers and the opening cinematic.
The above, Mr. Parfitt, is why your game is flopping.


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Art director and commercial artist Michael Evans is the genius behind the short making-of video called Naturally Risen, which follows Mangieri from dough-making to pizza-baking. Backed by a great Tommy Guerrero instrumental. You'll find the homage on Evans's site: divisionofsafety.com/NATURALLYRISEN. [via Pizzablogger via pizzamaking.com]
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