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- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 18
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Post your 2012 H2H stories of woe or joy, here.
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Post your 2012 H2H stories of woe or joy, here.
I'll bet you're not surprised that I will post here!
In one Dobber league with Pengwin, I was seeded 2nd (no bye unfortunately) and faced the 7th seed in the quarterfinals. Our season record was 10-9-1 for him (though both matchups were blowouts - 9-1 for him, 8-1-1 for me), so I had to beat him outright to advance.
It was a really close matchup the whole way - both of us trading leads multiple times. In the end, I lost 6-3 but it was much closer than the score suggested. We were even in RBI, he beat me by one run, one stolen base and one save. The other close category I had one more HR. Not surprisingly it was decided by yesterday's final games.
Oh well - that's the nature of the H2H beast.
Your turn. :)
Fortunately, all 3 of my 3 H2H teams advanced in their quarter-final match-ups.
But I really did NOT deserve to win one.
In the DobberHockeyBB league, my match went back & forth all yesterday.
To start the day, I was down 6-4 with key categories:
BA: Winning (.244 to .228)
W: Losing (4 to 5)
WHIP: Losing (1.17 to 1.15)
My day started fantastic, with a Huroki Kuroda pitching a nice game.
It was good for a WIN and a WHIP reduction.
I was up 5-4-1.
I had Andrew Werner (SD) and decided to let him go in search of a WIN.
My opponent had Gio Gonzalez (WAS) at 8pm and those would be good stats.
Werner got shelled, giving up 5 runs in the first 3 innings.
My WHIP lead was gone, down 4-5-1, day already seemingly over.
Werner is pulled after his top of 5.
He pitched 5 IP, but SD is down 5-3 after the 5th inning.
Miraculously, San Diego puts up 8 runs in the bottom of the 5th.
San Diego is up 11-5. SIX RUN LEAD. Noooobody blows a 6 run lead after 5 IP, right?!
This will be a win for Werner, the match will swing to 5-5-0 (and I have tie-breaker.
Oh joy!
I go back & forth from watching football to checking the game score.
Top of the 7th... Colorado mounting a few runs, then *BOOM*, Josh Rutledge of COL parks a grand slam and the game is tied 11-11.
Once again, disaster strikes.
The win is gone, the WHIP lead is gone.
Down 4-5-1.
The league has a funky same-day transaction allowance.
So, I use my last transaction on Johnny Venters, on a hopeless prayer that the Atlanta-Washington game might be a tie at some point with Venters the pitcher of record and perhaps Atlanta can then win. A shot in the dark.
As the game starts, I'm noticing that my team's 2/28 night (combined with a 4/31 Saturday night) has dwindled my BA lead to .239 to .232.
I do a calculation on Uggla.
If I bench Uggla, I'll win BA as long as Desmond doesn't go 2/3.
Not likely, eh. I should bench Uggla.
But I have this Karma in me that tells me I shouldn't bench him, because my opponent is still throwing Gio Gonzalez with a thin 1.13 to 1.16 WHIP lead.
So I keep Uggla in.
Gio Gonzalez goes out and gives up several hits & walks.
Nice job Atlanta, around the 6th inning Gio gets pulled.
I check the computer, I'm winning WHIP!!!
I'm winning... 5-4-1.
At this point, I'm super happy.
Washington comes up in the top of the inning.
I watched and Ian Desmond gets a flare-single.
I'm thinking... oh, totally forgot about Uggla and BA issue. I go & check.
BA is tied .236 to .236.
The match is now tied 4-4-2... at least I still have the tie-breaker.
But I also have Uggla.
Uggla comes up in the bottom of the 6th and pops out.
Why did I start this guy? Why... stupid Pengwin.
4-5-1 (down in BA .235 to .236. I have now blown a 30+ pt BA lead in two days, with my team being a combined 6/60 over Saturday and Sunday).
At this point, I'm once again preparing my congratulations line on the H2H chat board.
And the game is raining, will it be called?
The Braves mount a run in the bottom of the 7th and Uggla comes up with 2 outs in the bottom of the 7th. He swing... good contact... base hit, left side!
Woohoo, I run to the computer.
Back up in BA .239 to .236
5-4-1... I'm winning.
One last chance for my opponent.
Ian Desmond comes up in the top of the 9th and fouls out to Freddie Freeman.
Unbelievable, I pulled it off.
That was a rollercoaster, if I've ever been one.
I also realize... that maybe I'm a little too into fantasy baseball.
Damn lockout.
Wow, those are pretty intense moments there buddy!
I won my 24 team dynasty $ CBS league matchup by 0.17 points, I can't help but feel bad for the guy who lost.
At the same time, I was the number one seed and I want to win it all.
I had some pretty awful hitting performances in my yahoo leagues, despite great pitching, which usually helps you win in the playoffs. None of them are money leagues, just leagues I play in for fun.
I have a story of triumph and woe. After missing the playoffs last year I tied for the best record in the league this year and made it all the way to the semi's. It started off well enough but in the end I lost.
Looking on the bright side I did have a great season and looking forward to making it further next year!
I begin mine this week so I hope to add to it soon. Intense stories so far though.
A buddy of mine had a good run though. Down early in the week as bad as 11-3.....then mid way through Sunday finally caught up to actually take the lead...only to lose by one walk. Heartbreaking.
Good luck in the finals of the readers league hr!
I lost 2 of 3 semi-final match-ups this week.
Didn't deserve to win either, completely outmatched in both.
In the other semi-final, I won the most crazy nailbiter I've ever been in.
Through Wed/Thurs I was down by scores of 11-1, 10-2, etc.
This included:
*Missing Ichiro's 7/8, 4SB, 2XBH day
*Seeing a Carpenter win blown in the bottom of the 9th
*Seeing a Marmol save blown in the bottom of the 9th
End of Saturday I thought I was toast.
I was going to need to:
*Win HITS. Tied at end of day.
*Win SB. Tied at end of day.
*Win SV. Up by 1 at end of day.
The fantasy baseball gods screwed with me all day long.
1st) My hitters were AWFUL early in the day and I got behind in hits.
2nd) The other team gets a SB... I'm basically screwed.
3rd) The other team gets a SV... Balfour (OAK) over the Yanks.
I'm basically hosed.
But three little fantasy baseball miracles happened.
1st) Ichiro stole a bag late in the OAK/NYY game, and I retook the SB lead.
2nd) With the Reds clinching their division they sat Phillips & Bruce! Two key last-game-of-the-day players on my opponents' team!
3rd)... and this is the crazy one.
Score would have been 6-6.
Arizona was up 7-4 in the top 8th.
I'm thinking "This is great, JJ Putz save and I get the SV back!"
Then, Arizona goes & scores 3 to go up 10-4 after the 8th.
I practically cried. Match over.
Then the miracle happens.
Arizona gives up THREE runs in the bottom of the 9th.
Putz comes in with 2 outs in the 9th, man on, man up, man on-deck.
Final score: 7-6 Pengwin (and I did NOT have the tie-break)
What a rollercoaster.
Onto the finals!
I lost in my "big money pool" last week. I had the best team all year but got seeded 2nd because the team I tied with had the h2h against me. I easily won the 1st round but last week I played the 3rd place team without my strausburg, kershaw, chapman, cargo or street! I put on an amazing comeback on Saturday from how much I was down all week but then was up against lees 11k performance, kurodas, schertzer and aj burnett also had an 11k game. Alls I had was ww pitchers going. I got thumped and I'm not to happy because he had a shifty trade at the deadline that easily gave him the league. It was basically Harper for c Santana, butler and josh Johnson.
I hate H2H in general, but really hate Yahoo for changing it to allowing 8 teams into the playoffs. I see why they did it, but to see a team that dominates the regular season and lose in the first round to a team squeezed into the playoffs without making any transactions is wrong. Now first place guy all regular season's best position is seventh? eighth? Wrong.
Not taking home any championships this year, but I've also not been able to pay as much attention to my pools the last two months as I usually do.

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a universal supper invite
Heavy search for expressions on this chop.
|Funny Elephants and Aliens
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Superlative composition. Excellent use of colors and lights. A technical suggestio, as far as I know light rays get diverted thruough the water.
Hmmmmmm where is my earlier comment. Frickin hate when that happens. I think I said Awesome or something like that, Awsome chop Pree, you know you won my hear whenever you put the gray aliens in a chop. One of my favorite chopables hehe. Congrats on the silver
Congratulation on the cup Pree. One Funny entertaining Chop.
Congrats on the silver, Pree. This elephant is naturally ele(phant)vated.
Thanks everyone sorry for the late reply.. Glad you all liked it,, Grey USO's Soo thats where their hiding..
|Funny Never Open An Alien Rocket
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Terrific. What's the name of the rocket . ( I don't know alien language yet )
плохо, что идет бум
Yikes. I can feel the radiation emission from this chop. Well Done. and so is the curious rocket inspector. Great Idea.
Opening Alien rocket turns you to become one of them great work using the green fumes and aliens hovering around him good one
Such a great story. Love it, love the textures.
Congrats on the win, Hitz. As a bonus you get a golden rocket and a ticket to Mars
So busy I am getting behind. Newsey. I'd go too. Thanks NM, Doc, Alias, Luciano, Icy, Rajesh, Armatien, Jim, Splatshot, and Evirio.
Hey, Hits, that translated message hardly makes sense ("bad that we go, bang")
I replied to the Google translator "Bad thing that goes BOOM." in reply to you. Lol and that is the translation it gave me hahahahaah that is so funny. Thanks Pat and Bob.
congrats on the gold mr. hit. excellent work, if you master
muchas gracias por sus comentarios hacia mis trabajos , creame que son de mucha motivacion. usted es unos de los mas grandes que he conocido . exitos señor
Usted es bienvenido. He estado disfrutando de los concursos de los últimos tiempos. Pero voy a frenar un poco. Gracias por el buen cumplido usted.
My goodness, I love this one, you rock as always. Congrats on the win...
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|Funny Alien Nebula Christmas Ornament
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Good one. it reminds me a peaceful version of the "War of the worlds" poster
It also remembers me as if mother nature is protecting our planet from external forces.... good imaginative art work and awesome composition over all
Stunning work, especially now that it's Christmas time.
Congrats on the gold, Opcrom. Setup an avatar - we use them in many site sections in the new site design.
Nice win. Dig the use of the eagle nebula.
Aha, I see you uploaded an avatar now. Cool beans.
Thank you all voters for the Gold, it has been an unexpected christmas present. Happy holidays to everyone.
|Funny New Alien-Off
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NEW Alien-Off. Why bother with old fashioned crow bars. National Geographic: What might alien life look like.
Very eager to know how the Aliens look like. This format could be the one of them
I can hear him saying " MmmMmMmMMMm... M Mmm MmMmmMM." She'd better spray fast so he can talk. Me loves this one.
Nice. Apparently there are no good options for the removal of face sucking space aliens. I think I'd opt for the cro-bar.
|Funny Six Aliens are Laying ...
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Twelve aliens drumming, Eleven aliens piping, Ten aliens a-leaping, Nine aliens waiting, Eight aliens a-milking, Seven aliens a-swimming, Six aliens a-laying, Five alien rings. Four alien birds, Three alien hens, Two alien doves, and an alien in a pear tree...
very impressive hidden,I hope to survive such Christmas .
I agree with Luciano - some decent work here
Dang it, At this time of night I should be counting sheep and you have me counting aliens. If I have nightmares I'm going to be mad at you. But there is something about this one, great composition.
Amazing chop.... all the aliens were well chopped and great work on the multiple hands and legs of the creeping creature and good lyric indeed
Gotta love it. Creepy stuff and irreverent. Congrats on the cup.
Creepy cool work. Congrats on the Bronze, maiden.
|Funny Alien Christmas Card
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Great chop, but we had to move it from Celebrity Christmas Cards to Freak Show, because it does not feature any celebrity character/person.
Ha. You had way too much fun doing this one Marvelously silly.
Kewl. You better watch out. Looks Like Santa Claws is coming to town.
|Funny Brad Pit: The old alien Gentleman
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|Funny Alien Celebrities - Great Britain is the center in the latest massive UFO sightings. Many witnesses reported seeing UFOs, and even a police helicopter had given chase to a UFO after the UFO almost collided with the police aircraft in Cardiff. The helicopter kept in pursuit for several minutes, but had to stop due to a fuel shortage. Ironically, the wave of UFO sightings in England comes just weeks after many comprehensive Government files on UFO activity were opened to the public. Some of these records include numerous reports of air traffic controllers seeing UFOs and military personnel seeing little green men. To prove that aliens do exist, photoshop celebrities and politicians as aliens. Please don't just paste some alien face over celebrities, but instead turn their own face into an alien face by adjusting the facial features. Here's a good example. Please include celebrity names in your titles.
|Funny Alien Paintings - The United Nations named 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy and called for its member countries to disclose the secret documents on UFO & ET sightseeings. So far, France is the only country that publicly opened its files on UFOs and E.T. (in 2007). In this contest our mission is to prove that alien sightseeings happened through all the history of mankind by including aliens in the famous (and not so famous) paintings, sketches and frescos. You can either add new alien figures in paintings, or turn the existing figures into aliens (alien Mona Lisa, etc.). Take a look at one good example.
|Funny UFO & Alien Photos - Create UFO hoaxes or create photos and documents that show undisputed evidence that UFOs exist.
|Funny Aliens - Create aliens! You can use animals, humans, anything. Just show us what you think alien life might look like.
|Funny Alien - In your submissions take your stand and either show the evidence of alien life (e.g. that the aliens are already among us), or show that aliens are only a hoax.


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Wai or Not to Wai…
..that is the question.
Searching through my mental backlog of blog ideas I remembered this was one of the first I thought to write for Thai-blogs I just never got around to it. The Wai is one of the most famous of symbols that people recognize as being 'Thailand.' To do it right is almost an art form and something that many Thais take great care to express properly and sincerely because not only is it ingrained from an early age into Thai culture it also comes from the heart and it is literally a true measure of how much respect to show someone.
From the foreigners perspective if you want to socialize in Thailand so Thai people will a) be somewhat impressed and b) prove not all farangs are uncultured bores only into Thai women (or men if the case may be) and ruining Thai culture with our western ways then take the time to learn some Ways of the Wai.
At first glance the 'Wai' looks simple and easy, however to understand the rules to a proper Wai you soon realize this is no simple slick Thai style 'handshake'.
If you ever watch a Thai perform the wai it is amazing the skill they have. They can gracefully and respectfully wai carrying anything! In the beginning making my first attempts to wai I was doing good just to manage a wai with two bare empty hands but I felt so awkward and self conscious! Yes even with something as simple as pressing your palms together in greeting I would do it so fast my hands made a clapping sound and it looked a bit strange. It takes practice.
A wai is commonly given when
- Giving Thanks
- Good Bye
- Apologizing
- Praying to the Buddha
- Begging
The rule to understand is not how to Wai but to whom. For example try this brain teaser on for size:
A young foreigner meets a Thai girl for lunch. She does the wai and he returns the gesture. To go back to his hotel he hails a taxi. The older driver, upon receiving a good tip, wais him, then drives off. The foreigner waves his hand to mean 'never mind.' Some days later, the girl invites him to her house. An old man walks out and she introduces her father, whom he instantly recognizes as none other than the taxi driver.
Now, should the westerner, say a manager of some firm (status), recognizing the taxi-driver father (elder person), wai first? Or not wai but mumble something in English as a detour? Or merely extend a hand for a handshake? Do nothing to see what happens first?
Before he can sort himself out, a woman looking younger than he walks in and his girlfriend introduces the woman as her stepmother. Should he wai this younger woman first or wait for her to do it first? An elderly woman now comes in and it turns out she is the chief servant. He becomes confused. Wai quickly?
This is actually from the book "Do's & Don't in Thailand" available online. There are numerous books on Thai customs but this book is great. It's written in an easy to read style but straight forward and also quite funny!
So your curious to see how to try one of these? well for starters here are the basics. First up is the
Rules of Usage
The most common use for the Wai is in greeting someone. You clasp your hands together in front of you and lower your head while smiling and saying 'Sawasdee' for hello. Gentlemen can bow slightly at the waist while Ladies may make a small courtesy.
The Wai is also meant as a sign of respect and is often shown by a person of lower status wai-ing to someone of higher status first. There is no need to wai any service type individual and this includes waiters/waitresses, shop clerks, parking lot attendants and anyone else you pay to perform a service. Usually, they will wai you (or sometimes salute like in the military). If you feel that you MUST wai these people only do so if they wai you first and then make your wai very generic i.e. palms to the chest and no bowing of your head. Sometimes, just a nod of recognition is all that is needed, or at the very minimum, a nice smile.
The higher the hands are held in relation to the face and the lower the bow, the more respect or reverence the giver of the wai is showing. The wai is traditionally observed upon entering formally a house. After the visit is over, the visitor asks for permission to leave and repeats the salutation made upon entering. The wai is also common as a way to express gratitude or to apologize.
Positions of the Wai
The person of lower status would also bend lower, lower his head more and clasp his hands higher. You will usually guess the status of two people that meet by watching the way they wai each other. The lower the head/body, the higher the hands, the higher the status and respect offered.
It is also protocol that if someone wais you, you don't have to return the wai but it is very disrespectful to not acknowledge it. Monks and Thai Royality will never return a wai but a King will wai a monk, such are the rules of status in Thailand.
When to Wai
When will always depend on 'who' as in who has the higher status or seniority. If you are lower in status then you wai first. Most tourist and farang generally would not have to worry about wai-ing first out of general respect from Thai people for your status as a foreigner plus we aren't expected to understand Thai ways.
However you do go a long way by wai-ing with the proper respect to monks, members of the Royal Family and elder persons. Be careful you don't go in the wrong way by wai-ing to children, service people like cooks, clerks, taxi drivers or anyone obviously younger than yourself. People and friends of equal status may only wai each other when coming or going.
Origins of Wai
The strongest cousin to the wai is the Indian Namaste which means welcome, relax and enjoy. Namaste, an Indian word is the highest form of greeting considered an honorable tribute from one being to another. The Chinese way of greeting, or 'Koh Kung', also uses the same handlike gesture. It's pretty obvious that Thai culture not only shares this tradition but was influenced a great deal by it. I've always thought Thailand was a unique blend of East and West Asia.
Plus the Buddha is often shown in a similar pose with his hands clasped together as a sign of peace. Whether the origin of the wai comes from India, or China or perhaps sprung completely on it's own from the people that tamed Thailand eons ago. the fact is it is Thailand. It's the heart and warmth of the Thai people and it is with grace, sincerity and beauty that it is offered. Makes the handshake look kinda primitive afterwards doesn't it?
So even if you can't speak a lick of Thai to save your life if you know the rules, always smile and master a good Wai.


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Add much of the Northeast to that after Superstorm Sandy, which killed more than 100 people in 10 states and caused untold billions of dollars in damage. But it also left thousands of people in multiple states in the dark for the better part of two weeks. Some today still don't have it because the damage is simply too extensive.
Utility companies have no choice but to rely on workers from other states to help them repair the downed lines, damaged transformers and snapped poles. After Sandy, thousands of out-of-state workers — including around 500 from Alabama Power Co. — poured into New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and other northeastern states.
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Alabama is no stranger to Mother Nature's wrath. Our state's electrical workers are experienced in repairing power grids after Gulf Coast hurricanes and tornadoes here, much less in other states. Given our state's history with all forms of storm damage, it's safe to assume Alabama's linemen are as experienced in this unique form of disaster response as any other state's.
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Starting with the original Far Cry, released for the PC in 2004, Ubisoft slowly began carving out a niche for itself in the crowded FPS market by stripping away the traditional "level" design of most first-person shooters and replacing it with an open, freely-explorable world. Instead of self-contained "levels," you received a mission and an objective waypoint and it was then your responsibility to make your own way to where you needed to go, while engaging hostiles and completing objectives however you saw fit. You could strafe the enemy camp with a heavy machine gun from a boat before assaulting it on foot, you could sneak up and silently kill everyone, you could bomb the hell out of the enemy with grenades, C4, and anything else you could make explode, or any other combination that comes to mind.
Eventually, the Crysis series came in and stole a little thunder from Far Cry with its story of alien invasions and soldiers in super-suits. Then consoles started getting in on the Far Cry party. Those first console Far Cry titles were unremarkable to say the least. The open world was mostly gone and the graphical downgrades were disappointing.
Then in 2008, with Far Cry 2, Ubisoft tried to revolutionize the FPS by setting it in the most detailed and realistic open-world setting the genre's ever seen. It was mostly successful and offered gamers stunning visuals, a day/night cycle, inclement weather, wild animals, and a true open-world. However, several things did not work. Respawning enemies made foot travel harrowing at best and controller-tossingly difficult at worst and the limited fast-travel system didn't help. Also, the world, while beautiful, was a little sterile and lifeless. Towns were locked down demilitarized zones where shooting your gun - even accidentally - meant it was now you versus the entire town. Also, in their quest for realism and immersion, your character was saddled with malaria that required a near constant supply of meds lest you fuzz out during combat. The game also featured featured degrading weapon meaning that any gun you ripped from the cold, dead hands of an enemy was going to jam or just cease to function sooner rather than later.
That brings us to Far Cry 3. Far Cry 3 deviates from Far Cry 2 in many ways and almost all are for the better. It's possible that Far Cry 3 is exactly the kind of open-world first-person shooter Ubi has been trying to make for almost a decade.
The very first thing that struck me about Far Cry 3 was the tone, set right there in the intro movie that features a bunch of twentysomethings partying like they're about to be kidnapped by pirates - which is exactly what happens when, on the last day of their South Pacific adventure, they decide to skydive above Rook Island not knowing that the pirates on Rook, led by the certifiably insane Vaas, just love to kidnap then ransom those that look like their parents can pay. Far Cry 3 eschews the more socially relevant African setting and morally conflicted mercs, warlords, and arms dealers of Far Cry 2 for dudes and their girlfriends and the story of the worst vacation ever.
Part of that, to me, is the game's biggest surprise. Far Cry 3's protagonist isn't some super-soldier, regular soldier, highly-skilled mercenary, poorly-skilled mercenary, bounty hunter, or even a scrappy journalist with luck on his side. No, in Far Cry 3 you are Jason Brody - soft, frightened, and, if I can be crass for a second, kind of a douche bag in that "whut up, brah?" frat boy kind of way. When the game opens and you find yourself caged and bound while Vaas rants at you about things that could only make sense to a crazy person, it's your ex-military older brother that frees you and leads you on a tense sneak session out of the pirate camp. You escape briefly but everything goes to hell from there. Eventually Jason finds himself in the care of a local named Dennis - a member of the native Rakyat tribe - who is so convinced Jason is some mythical savior that he tattoos him with what can only be described as magical ink and sends him out to stop Vaas and break the pirates' hold on the island and its natives and to also rescue his brother, their girlfriends, and the rest of the group. Along the way Jason meets a motley crew of eccentrics and weirdoes and you, as the player, get to enjoy an open-world game in the most classic sense.
You might be asking what makes an open-world game "classic." Well, to me, it's all about the side quests. The best open-world games have a wide variety of side quests to distract you from the story. Far Cry 3 gets this right exactly as much as Far Cry 2 got it wrong. The game is filled with assassination missions, hunting jobs, sharp shooting challenges, races, and poker. It's reminiscent of Red Dead Redemption in that way, however, a better comparison would be Just Cause 2, or maybe the love child of RDR and JC2. It even has "bounty boards" because it hadn't sampled Borderlands yet. There are also "story missions" that help flesh out the island, collectible relics, memory cards that flesh out the island's history with the drug trade, and letters from long dead Japanese soldiers stationed on Rook during WWII.
That's not even everything. FC3 also has enemy camps to liberate which reduces the enemy's presence in the region - and no, camps don't respawn like guard posts in FC2. You also have radio towers to activate. Those reveal previously hidden areas of the map and allow you to receive free weapons at safe houses. And finally, you have Trials of the Rakyat. Those are basically carnage missions where your goal is to kill as many enemies as you can with a specific weapon or vehicle within a certain time limit. Scores are tracked via leader board with the top scorer getting their gamertag scrawled on the rock carving that initiates the mission.
So there are tons of things to do, but what about Rook Island itself? Nothing hurts an open-world game more than a lackluster open-world, right? Well, Far Cry 3 has no such problems. Rook Island is a tropical paradise, and as such, features rivers, lakes, rainforest, rolling hills, islands, native ruins, and mountains to explore on foot, or via car, truck, dune buggy, ATV, rubber boat, Jet Ski, and hang glider. Each one is a blast in their own way. I only wish comprehensive river travel was possible, but, for what I assume are gameplay reasons, waterfalls keep the rivers broken up into segments and it's only around the island that you can freely travel by boat. That's a little disappointing. Also a little disappointing is the lack of personality Rook shows. Whereas the African setting in FC2 was almost a character in and of itself full of dense rainforest, endless expanses of lifeless desert, advanced darkness, intense thunderstorms, and river travel that would creep even Joseph Conrad out a little, Rook Island is brighter, more open, more inviting, and far less threatening. It's in line with FC3's distancing from the immersion and realism in FC2, but it's disappointing nonetheless - it's also way more fun.
And then there is the wildlife on Rook Island, and what a menagerie that is. You'll come across goats, tapirs, water buffalo, and giant turtles, among others; however, the real fun is in dealing with the animals that want to tear your face off. For that you have bears, komodo dragons, leopards, tigers, crocodiles, bull sharks, boars, and the roughly man-sized flightless birds called cassowaries (think colorful yet deadly ostriches). Rook Island is a Darwinian paradise full of things that want to eat you. It's made all the more…um…"interesting" by their insane resistance to bullets. I'm talking about getting mauled to death by a leopard despite putting half a mag into its face. It gets even more ridiculous as the predators grown in size. For tigers and bears, don't even bother shooting them; explosives are your best friend. That's right; in Far Cry 3 you can hunt tigers with landmines. It's insane. I don't know if it's a hit detection issue in the game itself or if the people at Ubisoft just like messing with us gamers. Either way, you have been warned. At least it keeps you wary if you travel on foot. On the plus side, many enemy camps come with caged animals. One well placed shot will release them. Then you only have to sit back and wait for the bear or tiger or whatever to do all the work, and then you can roll in the XP bonus that comes with liberating an enemy camp undetected.
I said "XP bonus" because Far Cry 3 has chosen to open up a can of RPG whup-ass on us. Now, each kill and activity earns XP and when you level up you can spend the earned skill point on a skill in one of three trees: Heron skills, Shark skills, and Spider skills. Heron skills translate to long distance combat and mobility, Shark skills translate to assault skills and healing, and Spider skills translate to stealth and survival. Oh, and every time you pick one, your magical tattoo grows. By the end of the game, you can forget about ever getting a job that doesn't involve drugs or motorcycles.
Honestly, the RPG aspects are a little undercooked, amounting to little more than the ability to change the order in which you adopt skills, but you know, if you want a first-person RPG you can go play Skyrim. The skills are fairly useful and include things like cooking grenades, enhanced aim, more health, an ever-increasingly complex set of possible stealth takedowns, and more competence with the ability-enhancing syringes you can craft yourself from the color-coded plant life you find throughout Rook Island.
You'll also find yourself crafting other items out of the skins of animals you kill. These items improve you inventory, money, ammo, explosives, and weapon carrying capacity. At the start you can carry one weapon at a time, and very little ammo and explosives so skinning the appropriate animals to craft those items is one of the first things you should do. Luckily, they're almost always easy to find.
In case you couldn't already tell, the single-player portion of Far Cry 3 is pretty big with 20 or 30 hours of content; however, it doesn't stop there. Far Cry 3 also sports a separate co-op campaign, a full suite of multiplayer options and the map editor is back.
The co-op campaign can be played online with up to four players or offline with two via split screen. The story consists of six "chapters" and takes place before the main story and involves a ship captain that sold his ship and crew to Rook's pirates and the four people determined to hunt the captain down and score a huge pay day in the process. The four characters are pretty unremarkable. You have the old man, the obligatory female, the crazy guy, and the regular guy. They all have their own back stories, but you probably won't care. Also, each mission sports fully rendered cut scenes. It's straight-forward and lacking any real open-world content, but it exists - and, frankly, it has to in this day and age.
The multiplayer, meanwhile, is pretty much what you'd expect. There are four modes: Team Deathmatch, Domination (aka "capture and hold"), Transmission (score points by controlling transmitters), and Firestorm. In Firestorm, each team must set fire to two supply caches belonging to the other team. Once that happens, the battle shifts its focus to a transmitter that, if controlled by the team that set the fires, calls in an aircraft to drop kerosene, causing a firestorm and ending the match. If the other team wins control of the transmitter, a fire fighting aircraft puts the fire out and the match continues. Obviously Firestorm is the only real original idea in the bunch.
Finally, you have the map editor. If that's your thing, then have at it. I found it confusing and tough to use, but I've never touched the map editor in a Far Cry game before so that's on me.
Beyond gameplay modes and features, the graphics and music are good enough. There is a lot of object fade-in and a fair amount of screen tearing, however. It's what you'd expect from previous Ubisoft games. When you stand still, though, the game can look breathtaking.
The music is nice, but just sort of gets in the way of the natural sounds of the jungle and the first time you get jumped by a tiger you didn't hear because of the intrusive music, you'll turn it off just like I did. On the other hand, being able to hear every noise every animal makes is nerve-racking in its own way. I don't know if tapirs really sound like vicious, blood thirsty monsters, but I do know that the sound they make in the game is terrifying. I can't count how many times I've snapped around ready to defend myself from whatever monstrosity is attacking only to find that it's just a tapir mindin' its business.
Overall, Far Cry 3 is a vast improvement over Far Cry 2. What it loses in immersion and atmosphere, it more than makes up for in fun, thanks to generous fast travel and fairly forgiving combat, the ability to tag and track both animals and enemies, and vehicles that really typify "Hollywood handling." Despite the handful of technical issues, Far Cry 3 is easily recommendable to FPS fans everywhere. It's a big game with a solid story full of interesting characters, fun missions, an interesting island to play on, and all the multiplayer and co-op options a game needs.
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I wrote these words just a couple of days ago about a different book.
That particular telling of this popular storyline was not quite
successful. Andrea Pickens has taken the same plot and turned out a
most entertaining Regency romance.
Sebastian, Earl of Branford has a dire reputation. He has killed two
men in duels, has cut a swath through the bored wives of London society,
and is reputed to have caused his nephew's death in order to inherit the
earldom. Not a man to trifle with. One late night at White's, he is
drawn into a wager by the Earl of Hammerton.
It seems that there is a young woman just come to London who is "no
better than she should be." She is outspoken, poorly chaperoned, and
clearly fast since she – an unmarried woman – went to view the Elgin
Marbles (all those nude men, you know.) Hammerton suggests that she is
ripe for a spree and proposes that Branford can easily breech her
nonexistent defenses. A bit "on the go" from having drunk quite a bit of
brandy, Branford agrees to the bet.
Alexandra Chilton is not your usual debutante. At twenty-three, she has
devoted herself to the study of botany and to her art: she is a notable
watercolorist and has come to London primarily to determine if her
paintings of plants and flowers can be published. She is also enjoying
the opportunity to discuss her subject with other devotees.
Branford arranges an introduction to his prey, only to discover that she
is an innocent and that she also shares his interest in gardens. (The
gardens at his estate are famous.) Upon discovering Alexandra's true
nature, he immediately cancels the bet. But having met this unusual
young woman, he finds himself eager to pursue the acquaintance. For her
part, Alex discovers that Sebastian is not quite the heartless rake that
everyone believes him to be.
Nicely complimenting the romance is the mystery surrounding the
accidents that Alex's young brother is experiencing with distressing
regularity, a note in code that their father left after his "accidental"
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course, there is the crisis when Alex finds out about the bet when her
brother feels the need to defend her honor.
This is a well done Regency romance. It breaks no new ground.
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death and unable to accept a position he feels he does not deserve.
Alex is a familiar heroine: a woman who does not fit comfortably into
the confining strictures of Regency society but whose intelligence and
personality win her the prize. The secondary characters are equally
well drawn and equally interesting.
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LOS ANGELES, March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jupiter Moon Entertainment today announced the release of Bunny Popper Lite for the iOS. Developed by former Call of Duty and Disney game artists Chris Cherubini and David Chiapperino, the full version was a top 10 iPad family game in 6 countries.
In Bunny Popper, mischievous inflatable bunnies from the darkest reaches of outer space have targeted a carrot farm in order to feed their tyrannical overlord. It is up to the players to protect the carrot farm by popping the invading bunnies with help from power-ups and barnyard friends. The game features an assortment of funny cartoon characters, high-resolution 3D graphics, and hours of gameplay that appeals to both kids and adults all over the globe. Players can also compete worldwide for free with Game Center.
The developers behind the game are award-winning video game industry veterans Chris Cherubini and David Chiapperino. Cherubini previously worked as Lead Environment Artist for Activision's Infinity Ward, working on popular titles as Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2; during his time with Infinity Ward, the company received several Game of the Year awards. Chiapperino was formerly the Senior Animation Technical Director for Disney Online Studios renowned games, including Toontown, Pirates of the Caribbean Online and Disney/Pixar's World of Cars.
Bunny Popper Lite can be downloaded for free today in the App Store. It is available for the iPhone3GS, iPhone4, iPhone4S, iPad, iPad2, & iPod Touch 4th Gen.
For more information, visit http://www.jupitermoon.com.
David Chiapperino
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I'll say this for ESPN, they do stand by their men, especially when it comes to Chris Mortensen. The other day, Mort issued a breaking report, stating the Arizona Cardinals named Kurt Warner as their starting quarterback after Matt Leinart had a horrible preseason outing against the Oakland Raiders.
Once news got out about Mort's report, the Cardinals coaching staff, namely head coach Ken Whisenhunt, indicated Leinart is still his starting quarterback. Actually, he said no changes have been made while discussing his disappointment in Mort's report.
That, however, has not stopped the Worldwide Leader from posting articles discussing how Kurt Warner's patience in Arizona finally paid off. In fact, John Clayton's article speaks as if the decision is already set in stone, obviously spurred on by Mortensen's (premature?) report.
Whisenhunt gave Leinart every chance to win the job. Sure, he probably felt threatened when Warner earned first-team snaps every other day, but too bad. All he had to do was light up practice and do the same in games. He didn't, and his skills have deteriorated inexplicably.
While that seems to be the consensus on Leinart's performance thus far, it's apparent Whisenhunt isn't ready to give in to ESPN's perspective, bringing up another point — if the heir apparent to the Arizona starting quarterback position is performing poorly, why wouldn't you make the change to Kurt Warner?
Remember, Warner posted these numbers –3417 yards and 27 touchdowns — in relief of an injured Leinart last season.
The object of playing is to win the game, not to pamper a quarterback who doesn't seem to grasp what it takes to be an NFL quarterback (it's not as easy as it was at SC, aye Matt?). I understand Warner's not getting any younger, but when he presents the Cardinals their best chance to win, making a change seems like the obvious choice.
I can understand Whisenhunt's displeasure in ESPN's methods, but keeping Leinart as the starter just to save face seems petulant and stubborn. I also understand Arizona wants to know what they have in Leinart and rightfully so. Any time you make such an investment, you need to know whether or not it was a wise one. But isn't that what the NFL preseason is for?
I'm not sure keeping Leinart as the starter just to prove a point to ESPN is the best thing for Cardinals, especially when it's becoming more and more evident Warner is the man for the job.


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Selling the Smokes: Vintage Cigar Ads
For More Than a Century, Cigar Ads Were Among the Best in the Business
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Good ads make arguments. The argument includes a promise, the promise being that if we buy this product, we will become the kind of person the ad depicts. So if one purchases a Montblanc pen, the argument goes, one becomes a person of taste; if one drives a Lexus, one is stamped as a person of means. There's a saying in the advertising industry that goes, "The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the observation that every man is really two men--the man he is and the man he wants to be." The philosophy applies to cigar advertising as well.
Consider a 1950 New York Times ad for El Producto cigars. The half-page advertisement--smack in the middle of movie announcements about Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour at the Paramount for 50 cents in My Favorite Brunette--shows a forlorn man, doubled over with grief. His psychiatrist, leaning back and smiling while smoking an El Producto, diagnoses the man's malady. "He is a victim of frustration," the psychiatrist says. "He has been abroad where he cannot buy El Producto." Next to pictures of the cigars the copy reads: "No psychiatrist needed--try a pocketful of El Productos today."
Another print ad from the same period shows three men in smart suits and Stetsons at the racetrack smoking "America's Number One Cigar, the New Phillies." These pricey gems were 12 cents apiece--3 for 35 cents!--and were a vast improvement over their Philly predecessors because of their "richer Havana tobacco," "finer wrapper" and "milder smoking" (due, but of course, to "the patented curing and mellowing process" used to make them). "Yessiree!" one of the three says, "when I want real downright smoking pleasure my money goes to Phillies every time." Tucked into the Times sports pages, ads for Admiration cigars and Gold Label Bonitas are equally as spirited and innocent.
That's advertising. It's full of hyperbole; but hyperbole may be what's needed. The person who isn't inclined to buy the product needs enticing; the person already hooked won't mind. Advertise-ments draw us into a world where logic is temporarily suspended and where one is led to believe that one's happiness and entire well-being are there for the asking, if only you purchase this product. Whether we as consumers need the product is none to the point. After all, it's not just the product that we're purchasing, but the world that goes with it.
The 1950s represent a turning point in the style of cigar advertising. During the previous 100 years, cigar ads were among the best-conceived, -written and -illustrated of all product advertisements, with wordplay, exciting images and graphic magnificence. Ads since 1950, however, are for the most part less imaginative and colorful. The spot "Should a Gentleman Offer a Tiparillo to a Lady?" (1961), memorable for its jingle, is a notable exception.
Just ask John Grossman. Author, painter, graphic artist and collector, Grossman owns a firm called The Gifted Line that includes more than 225,000 museum-quality antique images. He labels his collection "graphic ephemera" and displays his wares in Point Richmond, California. Included in his collection are more than 85,000 cigar box labels and more than 5,000 other items related to the cigar industry: bands, proof sheets, show cards, posters--even cigar trading cards. For researchers and historians, no more colorful and plentiful record of cigar-related print items exists anywhere.
How did Grossman, 65, become interested in cigar ephemera? "I'm a graphic artist," he says. "Ephemera have wonderful vitality and cigar ads were always beautifully illustrated, embossed. Labels themselves were printed in anywhere from eight to 10 colors. Each cigar manufacturer tried to top the others."
And how. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, commercial color printing was a novelty, having only started in the 1850s, and cigar manufacturers made the most of it. In an attempt to appeal to a broad audience, many of the early ads depict cigars in a manly, sporting context. One cigar box label (1878) shows a cigar-smoking frog hitting a red, white and blue ball. Other frogs--non-smoking frogs, that is--wait to catch it. The ad doesn't suggest a brand name. The only copy reads "The Hit." The illustration is vibrant, homey, even patriotic, with the multicolored ball and an American flag placed in the outfield. The artwork is exquisite. Frogs dressed as sailors appear on another trading card for Durham Cigars (circa 1895). "Frogs were a recurring theme," says Grossman. "I don't know what it is! But the advertisers were trying to appeal to all classes of persons."
Other sporting ads were real grabbers. The Bruiser cigar box label (1886) shows a bloody fist, surrounded by a boxing ring--and that's it. No cigar is in the fist. The dramatic image suggests that if you don't smoke Bruiser--a "real man's brand"--you'll be going down for the count.
Tobacco trading cards were another hit. Stacks of trading cards might be given by the manufacturer to the retailer, who passed them out to customers. People often saved the cards, putting them in scrapbooks. The cards had some attention-grabbing image on one side and information about the product on the flip side.
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BARSTOW• A local-area union president is dead after an apparent suicide following charges he engaged in lewd acts with a minor.
Clarence Sanchez, 60, was found by a family member at a residence on the 27000 block of Azurite Road in Barstow on Monday afternoon. He had suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Cindy Bachman, spokesperson with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, on Tuesday.
Sanchez was the president of the American Federation of Government Employees at the Marine Corps Logistics Base, Reina Barnett, public affairs chief with the MCLB, confirmed.
Sheriff's deputies arrested Sanchez on Sunday after issuing a search warrant and following an investigation that he engaged in lewd acts with a child under 14 or 15 years old.
Sanchez was booked into the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Jail in Barstow and later released on $25,000 bail only hours before he was found dead.
The American Federation of Government Employees is "the largest federal employee union representing 650,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas" and has 1,100 local chapters, according to their website.
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