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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The largest Presbyterian group in the United States narrowly defeated a proposal to divest from three companies that do business with Israel.
The Presbyterian General Assembly voted 333-331, with two abstentions, to reject the divestment plan. A second vote instead affirmed a policy of investment in support of peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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PS3 review of Skyrim and how to fix the lag issues...
Y. Huppe
on December 16, 2011
Well, I have played 130 hours so far, still 1 character, I have not progressed even 1/3 way through the main storyline and there is still a HUGE amount of side aspects to explore. I am saying this game is the ABSOLUTE greatest RPG game ever made..but some issues:
The lag does get so bad that it slows things to a crawls sometimes.
It crashes on auto-saves..so far 12 crashes (and I do think this is affecting my PS3 console since it now crashes on other games where it did not before)
The fun is endless, the quests and awards are unlimited...but to fix the above issues this is what you do:
(I have tested this over the last 23 hours of playing with a 100% success rate...so this does work)
Go into the settings, and un-check the auto-save features (3). You will need to start saving on your own more often of course, I even went back and checked the save on rest without any problems..so great, not only does it no longer crash at all...but the lag is ALL GONE...when I enter rooms or change environments (the usual loading points), it takes between 3-8 seconds only instead of 1 minute each time...so going store to store is a breeze.
My save game is 14mb, so very large...you can lower this by waiting for a total of 30 days (in a row), this will clear the entire game of dead corpses and re-spawn enemies that should be re-spawned. This will significantly lower the save size but I have not needed to do this since I no longer have any issues...
We'll see what future patches will resolve, and yes there are issues (quests being unable to be completed, quest items not leaving your inventory etc...but these are all superficial).
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- Now have played over 200 hours, had 3 crashes only since I applied my tricks, still better than crashing every time I play. You get used to saving on your own, and this overall makes the game play much faster as well
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Skyrim: Elder Scrolls V - Would you like bugs with that, Sir?
on May 21, 2014
Skyrim is the fifth installment in the popular Elder Scrolls series which has rocketted to huge popularity in the last few years thanks to Skyrim. This review will cover my experiences playing the PS3 version of the game only as it currently stands, and will not include impressions from the PC version or XBOX 360 version beyond comparison.
Defeated by the Aldmeri Dominion of High Elves, the Empire is forced to sign the White Gold Concordant, stripping away religious freedom to worship Talos: one of the nine divines in the series. This causes a civil war in Skyrim, half of which wishes to secede from the Empire. However, Dragons are also thrown into the mix as an Ancient world destroying Evil is awoken, and it's up to the main character to end it all.
As is to be expected in any Bethesda Game, the story telling is weak. It's clear that effort was put into other aspects, but not delivering a good story. But Skyrim isn't a game you'd play for the story telling either. There's no character development, no attempt to cause emotional entanglements: it's a story about going here, doing that, killing that, and saving the world. NPC's serve no other purpose than to tell you WHY things are happening, and give you your next quest marker.. not actually play meaningful roles as characters. It's rather disappointing to see Bethesda once again take this approach with their story telling.
(In contrast, the story-telling in the DLC Dawnguard is exactly what should have been done in the rest of the game. Serana has depth, personality, and a story that actually makes you care about what's happening)
Skyrim is an RPG, much like the other Elder Scrolls games. There's not much new to be had here in terms of experiences: it's very much the same as Oblivion, only vastly improved. Armor repair and weapon maintenance has been removed. Perks have been added, with their own skill trees to work on so you can customize your characters abilities. No longer are you restricted to a certain class-type in order to ensure level ups.
Much more was adding for roleplaying value. You can tamper with ledgers, chop lumber, get married, hunting and cooking (the cooking could have been more expansive) mining. You can really sink into a role here. There's a lot of quests to perform - more than was ever in Oblivion. Crafting armour and Enchanting are unfortunately mandatory skills; you need them and there's really no way around it if you want good gear.
The combat is much the same. It hasn't been improved drastically, it's still mashing one button without any strategy involved, really, but still manages to be satisfying. The animations have been considerably improved over previous games and this lends to the experience. Dragons swoop down on you randomly and try to kill you, and victory over them gives you access to some of the best crafting materials in the game (that you can't use until level 100 crafting unfortunately, which defeats the purpose of getting them early!).
Unfortunately, the Final Boss of the game is a Dragon. A dragon with a different skin, approached with the same whack-whack mentality of the rest of the game. (Dawnguard, the Vampire DLC for the game features a boss that uses a shield and heals; requiring you to use a bow to repeatedly break the shield, then fight him, he summons skeletons...Why wasn't the Final Boss more like this?)
Audio & Graphics & Performance
Now this is the section that hurts.
The audio department in Skyrim is vastly improved over previous installments. Swords no longer hurt to listen to as they clash against enemy armour. The sound is varied for strikes. Voice acting is well done in comparison to the previous games, and actually not horrible as a whole, either. The characters still lack emotion/interest in their roles when speaking, and it's rather obvious. Still the voice acting isn't bad, and the lack of these things doesn't detract from the experience as a whole. The music is no longer lazily done.
Graphics....The PS3 can't deliver the same graphical prowess as a PC can. Skyrim still manages to look good, but the performance suffers greatly. Unlike the PC and the Xbox 360 version, it quickly becomes obvious this is a shoddy, shoddy port. If the fact PS3 users didn't have to wait months and months after everyone else was playing the DLC before they could even get it is an indication. Where do I even begin here?
The framerate often drops below ten. Within two hours of playing the game, I crashed five times. I got a fifteen minute loading screen after a death (I'm not even kidding). I crashed when I started the game for the first time and got to the character creation menu. I crashed when I got out of Helgan. I crashed when I got to river wood. The textures were constantly glitching on objects: enchanting table was shining a bright blue, purple trees, purple dragons, textureless dragons. What the hell?
I have seriously never played a game this glitchy before. I have never, ever started a game before and have had it immediately crash. I was tiptoeing through the game praying it wouldn't crash.
I love Skyrim. Anyone who glanced at my Steam profile would know that immediately. With more than 350 hours sunk into the game since its release, Skyrim managed to capture me the same way Oblivion did, but without the need of a thousand mods to make the experience bearable. The PS3 version, unfortunately, is a shoddy, shoddy port. A freak accident that Bethesda should be ashamed of. The Xbox 360 and the PC versions run smooth in comparison, with some obvious performance issues, but why the PS3 version is so much worse than the 360 mystifies me. Completely unacceptable condition to release a game in. Even with all the patches out, it's still a very, very buggy game. I can't recommend the PS3 version unless there is absolutely no other option available to you.
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Probably the most boring game I have ever played.
on October 1, 2014
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I don't know if this game is broken, if it has bugs, if it crashes, which it probably does from all the other reviews I have read. But the most important issue with this highly overrated game is that it is a pure and genuine bore. I played a few games in my time, and this piece of work is so bad I couldn't continue playing within a few hours and just took it back to the store and got rid of it. Folks, I am writing this to save you the time and money, and wish you could just try and play this thing before making a purchase to make your own decision. Right off the bat, the fighting controls that I expect from first person control games is just not here. You end up flailing your sword into thin air hoping it will make contact with an enemy, which it almost never does for some strange reason. The crossbow or bow would not aim or shoot properly, you end up running for your life with all these villagers chasing you, until they catch up and just beat you to death. You cannot escape or put up some meaningful fight. You don't get to fight any dragons or any monsters because the villagers finish you off before you even start playing. The graphics are really old school stuff, a time when programming was in its infancy, green, gray, blurry, depressing, just like the gameplay. I guess some people may enjoy this type of stuff, brings them back to those Atari times - hey an Atari game is more fun than this thing. For me, I need a little more entertainment for my hard earned cash. I'm just grateful my experience with Skyrim is over and that I fought hard to get my money back, which I did. And yes, the game did freeze on me twice at the very beginning, the reason I used to get a refund, but not the real reason I got rid of it. Good luck.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Broken on PS3
A. Plouffe
on November 23, 2011
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*REVISED EDIT* Patch 1.03 will not fix the game, it has just been announced. The 1.04 patch won't be out until 2012. Read this article from IGN [...] for more input if you don't believe me. Buy on any other system.
*EDIT* Patch 1.02 is even more broken than Patch 1.01, and Patch 1.03 is due out the week of December 5th. 3 patches in less than a month. There are innumerable articles on the internet (search "news" in google on PS3 Lag Bug Skryim if you're doubting me) or visit the technical help boards at Bethesda for more info. Officially, the US Amazon.com is giving full refunds even for opened versions of this game. I agree it plays wonderfully when you're only 7 hours in as the above reviewer is, but it breaks down. Maybe patch 1.03 will fix it, or patch 1.04?
If you haven't already noticed, the game breaks on the PS3 after about 20 hours of playtime (which on a game like this is roughly 20% of the way in). There is a patch in the works that will HOPEFULLY fix the problem but Bethesda's track record for previous PS3 games with similar issues (Fallout 3 and NV and Oblivion) seems to indicate that it will not be fixed.
If you want this game, buy it for Xbox 360 or the PC or at least wait until the patch is in and confirmed to fix the issue.
My own experience after 20 hours in was that the lag got so bad NPCs wouldn't let me do their quests, guards would run up to arrest me but be unable to interact with me so just grunt and walk away, and yes, it was unplayable.
Shame on Bethesda as this seemingly affects all units of the PS3 version once far enough in, and has been confirmed all over the net. If the patch works, I'll re-adjust my review to the proper level (which is 4 star at least, since the game would be fantastic if not broken).
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1.0 out of 5 stars
on December 6, 2011
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Here's the deal: The game is broken. Once the player's save file exceeds 6 Mb the game will start to lag horribly.
After 8 Mb it starts to crash the PS3 every hour or so. Its gotten so bad on my system that I've stopped playing out of sheer frustration. Worst of all it doesn't look like the problem can be fixed with simple patches.
Check out the forums for the full story.
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on February 10, 2012
Platform for Display: PlayStation 3
Edition: Standard
I waited until I played close to 100 hours before writing a review on this game. For what is worth, I played the vanilla version (I did not get any of the patches or obtained latest PS3 firmware update). My experience has been similar to those who have installed all patches so far. The game does not deserve more than 1 star for the following reasons:
1. During my game play I experienced 5 crashes (3 hard ones - had to turn off/reboot my system and 2 soft ones - was able to get to XMB menu). The last crash was a hard one and for a moment I thought it fried (YLOD) my console. On Bethesda's forum some players have reported that indeed their PS3 console did fry while playing this game. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. This on its own would have made the game a 1/5, but read on.
2. Lagging has been more of a nuisance. While I only play 3-4 hours at a time several days a week, the lagging was noticeable. I reduced it by turning off all auto saves and resting in-game often.
3. To the 100 hours of game play, and another, say 15 hours or so, of looking at loading screens. Because I shut off the auto save (to improve game performance), I am forced to save every 10-15 minutes of game play (takes close to 1 minute when it saves). You will look at loading screens for some time when fast traveling to locations, entering cities, entering houses, entering caves ... well you get the idea.
4. Broken quests: I have been unable to complete some quests, as the game does not acknowledge when I have all required tasks. In other cases, after completing the quest, the quest still remains in the menu as not finished.
5. BORING QUESTS: maybe I'm missing something, but I found a number of quests to be boring - they felt like a chore: go get this helmet from cave X, go gather the ingredients required to make Y; go kill this person/dragon/monster at location Z, force the different factions to come to a mutual agreement, etc.
6. No noticeable point to playing a good character or on any hard levels. Your actions don't appear to have any negative aspect on you (like Fallout 3 or Red Dead Redemption did). Whether you steal, kill innocent people, or whatever, as long as you are not killing a NPC, game doesn't care. Furthermore, given the bugs listed above, it makes little sense to play on any other level save the easiest.
7. I didn't bother getting companions, a horse, or learning magic. From reading other players' complaints, it seems when you fast travel to certain locations companions don't always teleport and many issues have been reported about using magic.
8. Graphics are not great, acceptable at best. Some areas reminded me of the early versions of Doom (remember that game?) where the walls were these tiny colored squares - yup, they're in Skyrim too!
The things I did like about Skyrim? It has a great music soundtrack, it has the ability to create an amazing atmosphere and being able to customize your character was a nice touch too.
Conclusion: Others have reported fewer issues on the XBOX360 and the PC versions. Yet again PS3 owners get the cold shoulder. Worse, there's a chance the game may fry your system. Not impressed at all. Feel free to disagree, but for all the great things Skyrim has to offer (and which would have made it a perfect game), they pale in comparison to the bugs, glitches, broken quests, game-breaking freezes and frustration encountered. 1/5 stars.
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The reinvention of the pharmacist's role comes at a critical time for Walgreen, as it vies to keep its customer base. The company has so far been unable to reach a new contract with the pharmacy benefit giant, Express Scripts. At the same time, Greg Wasson, the chief executive, is trying to remake the company into a national provider of health care services.
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Review every tab and click on the type of treatment. Never seen this before from WAG until today. I think this is the new WAG Health & Wellness now.
Seems like this website was just released if im correct.
Smoking gun to me.
There have been over 1000 exemptions granted under The Affordable Care Act. These groups, of which 40% are unions, are not required to purchase coverage in the pool. Many more are expected to be granted before the priviledge expires.
I agree that MD's are part of the problem, and patients have a huge role in controlling healthcare with both smoking and obesity as very topical and largely controllable contributants to cost. You can also add in the enormous costs of litigation at every tier in the cost pyramid, though no poilitician has the gonads to take on tort reform or the ABA K Streert lobby.
As for your snarky remark about my incessant posting on message boards... this is like my third post since well before Christmas. I am not the other posters that the intellectual eunichs like ivan.paduski constantly claim me to be.
Yank, my discourse was intended as an indictment of all participants in healthcare. Yes, Walgreens and all pharmacy retailers included. I included physicians and patients also. The root cause though & the most responsible parties (outside of Washington) were the insurance companies. You would put PBM's on a pedestal, but they are just opportunists like everyone else. PBM's have helped control costs. While doing so, they have lined their own pockets. The political machine has a use for PBM's in trying to control costs, but only because they just don't know how to throw the insurance industry out of pharmacy care. Many in congress have been aware of the cause of escalating costs for 3 decades but they let it get out of control as they just couldn't refuse the outrageous bribes of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the insurance industry.
Regarding Obamacare the wording clearly requires everyone to be a part of the pool, not just offer them the opportunity. That is not the best way to deal with The hospital emergency dept. woes you speak of. Emergency rooms should not be required to treat regardless of ability to pay.
You, by the way, are the one who needs to get out more. I'm not the one posting incessantly on message boards.
dbl_dbl, check the Apple list again. Less than half of those ideas were original.
You sound bitter.
Walgreens failures were not original ideas. Just trying to get on the bandwagon. Not since intercom have they had an original idea. They just keep going around and around. Sell liquor, no don't sell liquor, now sell liquor. I forgot, sushi in a drugstore is an original idea and so is electric car recharging, so folks can nibble and recharge their cars while waiting for prescription. that will be big, really big!
Your analysis of the pharmacy space is truthful, but ignores the other basic truth which is, that just like the bank space, retail pharmacy grossly overexpanded (and that unnecessary growth continues to this day). All those expensive, convenient little boxes entail huge overhead costs. In fact, an excellent example weas raised the other day about the onset of cat scan technology and how simply everybody had to have one... to the point that most sit, under-utilized at enormous cost to everyone that now pays for a scan.
So...enter PBM's as the new sheriff in town. Finally someone steps in to referee the healthcare cost free-for-all. Yes they took on big pharma. Yes they took on the insurance companies. And yes they took on the pharmacy establishment. And, in our NIMBY world of "let someone else take the hit" the PBM's have become an object of scorn and lobbyist spending as the K-Streeters fight to preserve truth, justice and The American Way of Greed. But make no mistake about it, PBM's are the ONLY difference between pharmacy costs just being ridiculously high and being unapproachable for most American consumers.
You write your paeans to Walgreens all you want, but they are as much part of the problem as is big pharma. And your ridiculous blather about forcing all people into a common risk pool is NOT the crux of Obamacare. Rather, it sets as a goal that EVERYONE is eligible to be part of group care, so they do not have to pay ridiculous self-pay rates that are skyhigh for the same treatment as an uninsured individual. The concept that you must have SOME group coverage, even if it is through Wshington, finally addresses the underground healthcare reality cost where uninsureds go to the ER for care, then simply skip on the bill and leave taxpayers to pay for them 100%
You really need to get out more. Or read with better comprehension.
Rob, it's interesting that you think it's OK to give away penicillin and make it up somewhere else. Do you suppose Publix charges an extra $10 on the cough syrup that goes with it? Within a couple of months after Walmart announced their $4 rx plan, a woman came to my 24 hr Walgreen with 9 rx's in hand. She was visibly upset. Dr told her she would have to purchase the 9 rx's & bring them to hospital before he would discharge her husband. She called Walmart for quotes which included 3 of the $4 rx's. She scraped up the $131 total Walmart quoted, but when she got to the pharmacy, it had closed 20 minutes early & employees ignored her banging at the window. She provided me the quote list from Walmart and I proceed to fill the rx's at Walgreens retail prices which came to $124. She was delighted with her $7 savings and her pleasant late night experience. She remains a Walgreens customer today, and we have always worked with her to provide value. That was not the norm. Walgreens overall is higher than Walmart, but not as much higher as some people (yourself for instance) think. The $4 plan is just part of the smoke & mirrors that many retailers use to create an image of value. Most frequently that image is one that the retailer does not truely live up to.
Your 7 points to control health care costs are truly the daydreams of an uninformed consumer (or possibly an informed one who prefers to mislead). Regarding point (1), the idea of putting all US citizens into a risk pool is a marxist idea. If a US citizen does not wish to be part of the risk pool, no one has the right to force him. Not even President Obama who has been known to utter the same nonsense. Regarding point (2), it is private insurance that put us in the position of high cost healthcare to begin with. Back in the early 70's the United Auto Workers coerced the automakers Ford, GM & Chrysler into providing Rx drug insurance. At that time the average cost of a prescription was about $3.50 at the pharmacy I worked. Branded oral contraceptives were 99 cents. Brand Lanoxin was 99 cents for a month supply. The pharmaceutical mfrs association took out ads in monthly magazines in which they took pride that rx drugs had experienced zero inflation in the past 30 years. Then came the insurance experience. Doctors wrote the most expensive meds because their patient no longer had to pay the bill. Patients demanded brand name because they didn't have to pay the bill. Pharmacist dispensed brand name to appease the patient because the insurance company would pay them a higher profit for brand. They were paying full AWP back then and most pharmacies bought at an 8-10% discount. Insurance companies didn't care how much they were billed because drugs were cheap compared to other health care costs and anyway it was easy to raise the price to Ford, GM & Chrysler. Drug companies learned that no one cared that there was no inflation in Rx drugs, so they started increasing prices by 5...10...often 15% annually. Some even increase more than once a year. Every time research developed a new drug it was priced higher than any drug had ever been before. Still no one cared. By the time the world woke up to what was happening, virtually all employers had begun purchasing rx drug insurance for their employees and paying through the nose for it. Manufacturers charged as much as they could for drugs & devices. Insurance companies would make token complaints about rising health care costs, but they enjoyed knowing that rising costs actually were necessary to assure their survival. Insurance companies were seen as fighting rising costs, but their fight began too late and never in earnest. By suggesting that insurance companies are the cure to high health care costs, you play right into the script they have written.
So you're saying no company should have failures?
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You have the facts wrong. Item introduced in test in Texas was, Western Union Money gram service. Another failure. But, back to Prescription Savings Club, which had enrolled more than 2 million people sometime around 2007. You can find that in past press releases. Today, if you look at the Wag website, it appears they are leading away from that "name" and trying to incorporate it into a new card/program named Walgreens Health. I didn't bother to read the details. After spending most of my career in corporate headquarters, I have seen so many attempted strategies fail it is difficult to get excited over this. Plus, you just couldn't imagine how many divisions, subsidiaries, programs and projects had name changes, not just once either. It became hard to keep track of. How many times did the name for Walgreens PBM change? Here are just a few of the failed endeavors;
Cafe W
Athletic clothing line
Ink refill
Western Union
DSL service
Walgreens private brand (another "renamed" product line)
Walgreens branded credit card (never got off the ground)
Not to pick nits with anyone, but with regard to WAG's Prescription Savings Club, it has been around for years. It's nothing new. There is a discount in the cost to sign up this month, yes, but it's not exactly a big part of the WAG strategy vis-à-vis ESRX. Just one more way to hold a bit more market share as the short-term pain of this contract dispute unfolds.
In reference to the title of this thread, I can pretty much assure you that if there is a smoking gun, ain't nobody here seen it yet! WAG's upper crust is pretty tight-lipped about their long-term strategic planning. When something big happens, I usually hear it from the district boss, who in turn got it from the regional VP maybe a day earlier, who him or herself heard it right from the horse's mouth probably that very same day.
A very secretive company, to say the least.
If nothing else, I think it is a safe assumption that there will be some interesting "developments" in the coming months.
Walgreens Prescription Savings Club Plan has been around for more than four years. So it is not a new program. It is strictly for the uninsured and any dog. (seriously, not a joke) So I wouldn't call this a smoking gun. The offer is for a "discount in January". It costs money to joing the plan. Additionally, the announcement states that the price paid for prescriptions for generic drugs are competitive with other pharmacies.


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She is survived by sons Dale Francis and wife Michelle of Nebraska City and Michael Francis and wife Yukiko of Okinawa, Japan; daughter Heidi Francis of Camp Pendleton, Calif.; sister Anna Theresia Eckenfels and husband Haarold of Germany; grandchildren Mark, Julia, Serina and Kento; nephews Frank Eckenfels and Daniel Eckenfels; many other relatives and friends.
She was preceded by her husband on March 4, 2007, and brother Ewald DeVos.
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While "Where in Time is Robocop?" was a fan favorite, and all in all a great game, it was just too buggy and unstable to be a proper game of the year. Plus, the controversial Robocop/Geisha scene also hurt its chances.
But let's get back to KOTOR 3. Picking up where KOTOR 2 left off, KOTOR 3 begins with the arrival of both Revan and the Exile back into the known galaxy. Players get to choose which path they wish to assume, and then embark as one of these characters to play the story. After completion of the story, players are free to start over again and choose a different path.
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And Korriban and Dantooine of course, which have resurgent temples for the Sith and Jedi.
I don't know what KOTOR 3 would actually entail. But I can imagine. Goddammit, Lucas Arts, I would pay YOU to let me direct this game. I have tons of ideas, and dammit, I've experienced KOTOR in ways most people can't imagine, so I know what's at stake. Sometimes I imagine having oodles of money and financing a mod/fan-made KOTOR 3. Damn, that would be awesome.
But for now we can only dream, mostly.
So that's what I wish I was playing this year. But what did I actually play? What do I think should be the true game of the year, at least for me?
Well, I thought long and hard about it, and while originally I didn't want to give out such an award, I've since decided to do so. And this might surprise you actually, but my Game of the Year is simply this:
Yup, DayZ. A buggy, unintuitive mess that like it or not, reinvented survival horror, and brought a realism and despair never before reached by zombie media. And while I'm sure the standalone release will be great, I wanted to take a moment and give respect to the ramshackle mod that it currently is, and how awesome it is despite its faults.
DayZ is a mod for the PC's Arma 2 game. In it, you face not only zombies, but other human players that might help you, or might kill you for your inventory or just for the thrill of it. You commonly start out with nothing, awaking in a nightmarish world of blurred color and insane difficulty, where zombies aren't your usual dumb slugs, but are feral beasts that will chase you for miles while they hunger for your brains.
There's just something about DayZ – it gave me an experience this year like no other, and the fear I felt, and the pulse-pounding realism really stuck with me. I don't think I've ever experienced anything like this game, and while I was tired of zombies before I played it, afterwards I was reinvigorated with the simple fact: zombies are insane!
My computer could barely handle the game, but I still loved it. When I played it I was truly transported somewhere far off and terrible, and I loved every minute. DayZ is truly a work of interactive art, and I hope the standalone release is as cool and gets the respect the game deserves.
And that's it. My two games of the year: one real, and one imaginary. Both were great.
Otherwise things are okay here. I've been playing the Witcher, and I downloaded Crossover to see if I could get Skyrim to work on my Mac through Steam. I also re-downloaded Bastion and Psychonauts to play on the Mac. I don't know if this will work, but I wanted to test it.
Still smoking two cigarettes a day, but once I finish this pack I'm going cold turkey again. I'm determined to see this quitting thing through, man. One way or another, I'm gonna do this.
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Mortgage Brokers Fail to Block Fed Loan Commission Rule
Two trade groups representing mortgage brokers lost their attempt to stop a Federal Reserve rule that limits commissions for loan officers in mortgage transactions from taking effect.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington yesterday denied emergency motions from the National Association of Mortgage Brokers and the National Association of Independent Housing Professionals. They argued the rule unfairly penalizes brokers, who won't be able to pay loan officers in consumer-paid transactions.
"Appellants have not satisfied the stringent standards required for a stay pending appeal," the court said in its order dissolving an earlier ruling preventing the Fed rule from being implemented on April 1.
The appeals court said the challenge can continue while the rule is in place. The court ordered briefs to be filed next month.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on March 30 rejected the groups' request to stop the provision from taking effect, finding that public policy interests outweighed harm to the mortgage-broker industry.
"The board has reasonably concluded that the rule will further public policy interests, a position that is further supported by the Dodd-Frank Act, which also includes provisions restricting certain loan-compensation practices," Howell said in a 46-page opinion, referring to the law that overhauled the financial industry last year.
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The trade groups filed separate lawsuits and appeals challenging the regulation.
The Fed rule, part of the central bank's effort to fix weaknesses in mortgage finance, is aimed at preventing mortgage originators from receiving more compensation for selling home loans with higher interest rates.
Susan Stawick, a spokeswoman for the Federal Reserve, declined to comment.
Marc Savitt, president of the National Association of Independent Housing Professionals, said he was disappointed by the ruling. Savitt said his group will continue with the appeal.
"The consumer is going to be an even bigger loser than small business," Savitt said. "I can't give discounts anymore to my borrowers."
Mike Anderson, government affairs chairman of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers, said his group will move forward with the appeal while also seeking a legislative solution.
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"We will continue to fight," Anderson said. "We believe we're right."
The Dodd-Frank law, the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s, created a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that must also write regulations to prevent loan officers from steering customers into costly loans.
The cases are National Association of Mortgage Brokers v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 11-5078 and National Association of Independent Housing Professionals Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 11-5079, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Washington).


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Croatia plans to invest 7 billion euros ($9 billion) in tourism by 2020 in a bid to reach the world's top-twenty list of attractive holiday destinations, a minister said Wednesday.
Around one third of the amount would be invested in the construction of new hotels and resorts, mostly on Croatia's popular Adriatic coast, as well as into renewing existing structures such as camps or ports, Tourism Minister Veljko Ostojic said.
The aim is to double the country's current income from tourism to some 14.3 billion euros in 2020 and increase the number of overnight stays -- currently some 70 million annually -- by 43 percent, Ostojic said.
Croatia "should become a competitive, globally recognised tourism destination, attractive for investments" by 2020, the minister said.
The World Economic Forum's 2011 report on Travel & Tourism Competitiveness ranked Croatia 34th out of 139 nations.
Tourism is a key sector of Croatia's economy, contributing around 19 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP).
In 2012, more than 12 million tourists -- almost triple the country's population of 4.2 million -- visited the former Yugoslav republic, heading mostly to its stunning Adriatic coast.
Croatia's economy has not grown since 2009, and is estimated to have contracted by 1.1 percent last year.
International financial institutions say the centre-left Croatian government should reform the country's huge and inefficient public administration in particular, and improve the overall business climate.


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Utopia, or the domes, is a place of great technological advancement with much of what science fiction books and movies predicted for the future. There are robots to do the work, so the residents enjoy a better standard of living than most people today. Education is better, and disease, poverty, unemployment etc have been almost completely erradicated. The children are brought up to believe that they, as Regulars, are the superior race to the Irregulars living accross the ocean, and taught that there is no need for them to ever visit the other continent. A tube system along with hover cars run provides transport; these, along with the robots, are mostly run on nuclear and solar energy. The nuclear power plant is contained in a dome of its own in order to minimise pollution, and the walls of the dome have invisible solar panels. Due to a weather system created by the advanced technology, the sky inside the domes is the normal blue, and rainfall, snowfall and other essential weather can be accurately predicted to the minute. There are vast areas of land kept solely for food manufacture. Most Utopians live out their entire lives not ever having set foot outside the domes.
Irregular Continent.
Compared to Utopia, this continent is a wasteland. Food can be grown, and animals can be trapped, but the contamination in both would make any Regular who ate it extremely sick. The Irregulars have pride in themselves, and are resentful of the way they are treated by the Regulars. The sky is yellow from past pollution and many lakes are polluted. The water causes mutations in Regular humans, but just as with the food, the Irregulars are immune to its effects. Transport is either on foot, on bicycle or by using beasts of burden. The people of this continent generally gather together in small communities, altho small groups live in the ghost cities. As for the cities, think Pripyat. The buildings are either half pulled down, or with smashed windows and litter accross the floors. Wild animals also dwell in the cities, so most people prefer to live in the village communities which are friendlier by far. Irregulars tend not to bother with surnames.
For Sanura Grey, it was a normal day in Utopia for her. Sanura lived and worked in the main city of the dome world Utopia; it was named Paradise, which Sanura often felt was a bit pretentious. Still, it was home. Sanura was fairly tall, with a plumpish figure, grey eyes and bobbed black hair. It always seemed to be messy, which she hated. She worked in the weather control centre, working out which areas of the dome world needed rain, and which ones could be given sunshine. All this information was fed into the mainframe computer, so that the correct type of weather could be distributed to the correct part of Utopia.
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