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Get Help With Your Video Games With These Simple Tips
Though video games do not always get the credit the deserve, they can offer everything from better grades to better hand-eye coordination. This article provides you with a lot of ideas for getting the most out of games, from finding them to getting to higher levels.
Game ratings are a great way to figure out what is suitable for your children. Some games are not meant for children, so consider this fact when shopping for games. The ratings start with Early Childhood (EC) and progress upwards to the most graphic or violent rating of Adults Only (AO). If you are gifting a video game, be sure that it is age-appropriate.
You should try to take a stretch every ten or fifteen minutes when playing video games. Repetitive movements involved in gaming can be stressful for your body. You can also suffer from cramps and blood clots if you stay in one spot for too long, so be sure to get up on a regular basis. It's very healthy, too.
Make the screen brighter. Games that have settings in dark caves or buildings may look good, but can negatively effect your performance. You may find that you're frequently being attacked because you can't see. If you don't mind the slight loss to the game's feel, turn up the brightness. Distinguishing colors is easier and you can get the jump on your enemies.
Look at the fine print of Internet games. Sometimes, online games can involve a steep fee for playing. If your kids want to join a site that many of their friends are using, make sure that you take a look at it first. Find out how much the game costs and make sure it is appropriate for your children.
Many video games have parental control settings you can adjust. Check if the game is online compatible. When it does, you should disallow kids from having access. Monitor any friend requests they receive, and how much they play and interact with their online friends.
Take breaks when playing video games. If you do not force yourself to take regular breaks, you can actually become addicted to playing. Playing and practicing a game is something that should be fun. If you think you're becoming addicted to video gaming, you should seek medical help.
Learn all that you can about the content and safety settings of your home console. Some consoles allow you to customize the security settings to match what you find to be appropriate for your family as everyone has different preferences. The most advanced systems will even give you the option to customize the settings for each user like a computer would.
Don't allow kids to play any game unless you've checked its rating first. Certain games that contain violence are rated 18 and up. It is best to not allow children to play these games. Violent or otherwise inappropriate video games can result in behavior changes or nightmares in children.
You will find playing video games to be quite fascinating and enjoyable. You can get away from the doldrums of day-to-day life and learn while enjoying video games. In this article, we share tips to help you level-up with video games.
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19 October 2012
A roundup of a4uexpo performance marketing conference
By Rachel Hawkes
We spent Tuesday and Wednesday out of the office and attending performance marketing conference a4uexpo. Thank you to the organisers for ensuring there was fast, free Wi-Fi throughout the venue, which enabled us to work remotely whilst making the most of everything the event had to offer… which was lots!
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A brief recap of Day One at a4uexpo
By Rachel Hawkes
Today, Tim and I headed the first day of the a4uexpo, a conference for affiliate and performance marketing. Looking ahead to tomorrow, I'll be one of the "preaching to the choir" delegates in the "For Blog's Sake – Don't You Know I Add Value" session at 9:30am… a topic that we discuss with almost all clients!

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This 30-question research-based multiple-choice test is designed to evaluate students' conceptual understanding of symmetry and Gauss's Law. The test may be administered to students in calculus-based introductory physics courses or upper-level undergraduate E&M courses.
The survey is based on investigations of students' difficulties with the concepts of symmetry, electric field, and electric flux and should be given in a 50-minute period. Statistical results have shown the survey to be reliable and valid. A summary of the construction and analysis of the survey is available in Student Understanding of Symmetry and Gauss's Law of Electricity, Am. J. Phys. 74 (10), 923-936 (2006).
This assessment is free for use by instructors in their classroom. However, as it takes years of development effort to create and validate reliable assessment instruments, the file is password-protected. Furthermore, the author requests that 1. students are not given copies following examination; and 2. none of the questions are incorporated into web-based question delivery systems without adequate security to prevent printing or unauthorized access by students.
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This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
==UPDATE, January 23rd, 2014==
I added one additional star to the game (so from 2 to 3) because the game developers are very flexible with the multiplayer playlists. Many reviews were complaining about the low health, so they implemented (albeit maybe temporarily) a "Heavy Duty" playlist where players have more HP. I'm at around 3rd prestige as of now; I haven't really been playing this game too much to be honest. One other thing that I like is Clan wars. It's very fun to participate if you have a group of guys you can handle playing with for extended amounts of time. Clan wars essentially pits your clan against seven other similarly skilled ones in a fight to control key locations on a virtual map. Holding positions gives you bonuses like extra XP and the ability to win character gear. You can check the status of your conquest on the revised Call of Duty AP. They're really trying to get more interaction with your friends here, so if you don't have any, go get some. The underlying problem with clan wars though is that the team that wins is not necessarily the better team, but rather the team that was willing to waste more time playing the game. _________________________________________________________________________________ ==ORIGINAL REVIEW== I love Call of Duty; I've max-prestiged myself on every installment possible and usually obtain a Kill/Death Ratio of 2.5-4.0 (I know nobody cares but I'm just setting the scene for my subsequent critiques). I typically use assault rifles, I tend not to camp, I like objective game modes and I love being a team player. To be honest, I'm having buyer's remorse and I wish I did not purchase this game. I had a feeling Ghosts would be a dud the second they introduced all the gameplay surrounding the new Call of Duty dog. Here are my thoughts: PROS (Both campaign and multiplayer): (1) The campaign looks stunning (indoor lighting effects, city skylines, etc). The multiplayer maps seem kind of drab. The overall aesthetics of the game remained similar to the past few ones that IW has produced. (2) The character customization on multiplayer and the squad point system (unlock new weapons, attachments and custom classes) are both a step up. If you're not familiar with this copy of the pick-10 system then a simple google search can fill you in. (3) Lots of perks to play around with. (4) The removal of gimmicks: no more overpowered C4, less quick scoping, no more tac insertions (for boosters), no more noobtube/RPG fanatics, and lastly NO MORE DEATH STREAKS!! (5) I think Search and Rescue is a good addition to the game and a slightly faster paced version of the original. (6) Let's face it, Call of Duty is usually fun to play with friends and clan mates (especially when you're stomping on noobs). MULTIPLAYER CONS: (1) NO DEDICATED SERVERS. I had faith there would be dedicated servers for current gen consoles and there isn't; they lied to us guys. Ghosts promised us before launch that they would put up servers to manage hosting games so that players are no longer assigned "host", making everybody reliant upon his connection. Like all previous CODs (PvP connections) the host gets a slight advantage and when the host quits/dashboard then your game is pretty much over. There are plenty of youtube video reviews complaining about this, so go look at them if you want more info. (2) The maps are bad and certain maps are incredibly too large for 6v6 gameplay (as a result, people complain about their thumbs hurting from constantly sprinting too much). This wouldn't be a problem if they included Ground War (9v9) but they didn't. You would think the enormous maps would discourage camping, but that's not the case either, you'll find yourself spending 30-60 seconds trying to find somebody and then dying to a camper only to restart the frustrating process. To top all of that, people already found ways to glitch themselves under certain multiplayer maps, they can kill you from underneath the map and not be able to be killed! Does that sound fun to you? My theory is that they made the original maps so bad that you'd have to purchase the extra DLC maps to salvage any gameplay. (3) Spawns are HORRIBLE. HORRID. INCREDIBLY BAD. I think this is the biggest turnoff for me. I can be aiming down sights watching an area and I'm able to kill people spawning in right before my eyes; that's not fun. What makes matters worse is when you kill somebody and they seem to find you 5 seconds later because they spawned right behind your location (despite the maps being large enough for them to spawn elsewhere, I don't get that). Oh let's not forget that times I spawn in and die instantaneously (>2 seconds), two or THREE times in a row. This leads to my next problem: (4) You die too fast. For any other Call of duty if somebody told me they died too quickly I'd brush off their statement and jokingly tell them to go play HALO or battlefield. I know COD has been notorious for quick deaths but this one just seems even quicker than all the previous installments. My friend who usually only plays hardcore told me he switched to core because "it's essentially the same thing". Overall, nobody wants to die instantly (if you do then you play hardcore), people want a chance to fight for their virtual life. The whole element of gun-play is lost. It's not fun to "turn" on people any more and when I actually get an opportunity to do so it was because their aim sucked or they had to reload. Those moments when you managed to escape death and possibly even win the game for your team was the adrenaline pumping gameplay that kept me hooked on COD. (5) Assault killstreaks are a huge step backwards when compared to the last few games. THEY REMOVED SCORESTREAKS! Let me quote something I found which sums this up really nicely: "If Infinity Ward wanted to include more incentive for teamwork in Ghosts then it should have built-upon the score-based nature of the Support tree rather than focusing on kills. This is just a personal niggle, but I do feel this is something of a wasted chance. Also, the Scorestreak format from Black Ops 2 was - personally - better than the old model hands-down. It encouraged more than just wanton killing and lone wolf play. It challenged you to claim objectives and support your squad instead of worrying about K/D ratios." To add onto that, I would dub the assault kill streaks lame and very limited in scope compared to the array found within BO2 and all the other predecessors. Am I the only one that thinks a juggernaut with a knife and super speed is probably one of the stupidest things to be put into a game? They make you die instantly to add realism but then put a super ninja into the game, how backwards is that? Infinity ward could have de-emphasize the constant barrage from the air without leaving us boring killstreaks. What happened to the simple harrier? the airstrikes? the predator missiles (no the one in the game isn't the same, it veers off so much)?.. Ghosts messed with things that didn't need to be changed. (6) The scoreboard doesn't tell you your ping so it's really annoying when the game lags and you're not sure what your connection currently is. Alternatively, people can't complain about "3-baring" so I guess there's an upside to this. (7) There are no graded assists. If I put 99% damage into an enemy and a teammate takes my kill then I'm rewarded the equivalent of putting 1% damage. This is so simple to implement however Infinity Ward remains stubborn to this aspect of gameplay. (8) The squad game mode as well as the knock-off on zombies (they are aliens, watch out) aren't really fun for me. CAMPAIGN CONS: 1) The same old campaign with similar tasks to do as the predecessors: fly this helicopter, man this machine gun, use this sniper, defend this position.. it's boring. Not to mention the slow-mo breeching was overdone in MW3, but it's back in Ghosts, hoooray! (2) You can't connect with the characters, they're not memorable, and the game tries WAYYY to hard to make the Ghosts look like badasses. They'll pop out of nowhere and slit a guy's throat and then act all macho when they interrogate people or boss you around. I do not envy the ghosts nor do I respect them as a legitimate special ops entourage. (3) You still have to wait for scripted events or your friendly characters to manipulate objects to move on through the environment. I just don't feel like I'm in control of anything. You honestly spend the entire game following people. (4) Enemies infinitely spawn during parts of the game which is always a bothers me (especially the fact that I notice it happening). (5) The dog, I hate the dogs. I promise it's not because I'm not a cat person, but why did they add the dog to the game again? Oh wait, so that they could skimp on actual gameplay elements and distract us with how cute the dog is, that's right. CONCLUSION: I usually hold Infinity Ward to a higher standard but overall this game was ultimately a let down. If you save yourself $60 then (according to my opinion) you're not missing out on much, I promise. Go use that money to find something that will bring you true happiness. As for me, I'll constantly do follow up reviews if things get better/worse to update the community!
238 of 294 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
I was so excited to get this, and was there at the midnight launch eagerly awaiting my copy. Rushed home and popped the game in, and immediately went into Multiplayer, which is all I play. After 3 rounds, I was already disappointed and aggravated, and put it away for the night, thinking my tune would change after some sleep. Not so.
The maps are much too big, more like Battlefield. Which would be fine, if this played like Battlefield. But it doesn't. Maps this large basically promote running around in search of someone, then getting sniped from afar, or killed in one shot because someone else spots you first. I can detect no difference in the damage done by different guns, as everything seems to kill in one or two shots. Not that it really matters, since every other player is a sniper, camping and picking off anyone who wanders into the open or a lower level. So even though death comes very quickly once you're found, (or you're lucky enough to spot someone else first) the gameplay seems slow to me because of the amount of camping and the size of the maps. The only matches I sort of enjoyed were on maps like Free Fall, which are much smaller in size and therefore faster paced. But even then, the ease of killing someone (or being killed) because of the guns being so overpowered still doesn't satisfy. If you're spotted, you're basically dead. Rinse and repeat. The maps are all in the same gray tone with not much color contrast, which makes it that much easier for campers. Everything blends into everything, and makes it not only frustrating to play, but boring to look at as well. They're all a rehash of everything we've played before, as well. Everything feels like a bigger, darker, more boring version of everything from Black Ops 2. The character creation, which could have been a fun way to make a unique character, is filled with so many similar and yes, boring (that word comes to mind a lot when describing the different areas of the game) options that it would have been better to just leave it out altogether and focus on improving other areas of the game, especially since the only sort of bad ass looking uniforms (of which I think there are two) have to be unlocked by doing tasks that would take the average casual gamer quite a long time to accomplish. So to sum it up, after two days of playing every spare minute, thinking I just didn't give it a proper chance, I'm putting it away and popping BO2 back in. This game just isn't much fun to me, and isn't that the point?
139 of 175 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
End of COD Franchise? - Update,
By US Hondo "Ironman" (Cave Creek, AZ) - See all my reviews
= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
For my original review, read below. I have upped my review to 3 stars. There are some real improvements to the game which I want to give them credit for. 1. The in-game mute issue was fixed. 2. DLC maps are smaller and much more fun. 3. New weapons and some adjustments to existing weapons that make the "shooting experience" more interesting. 4. Many more play modes. 5. Better but still problematic lag compensation algorithms. They are making some real improvements so the game is definitely better than when it first came out. BUT, it's starting to get boring. Not just the game, but the genre. I still think the COD franchise could be reaching it's end point. They need something new and fresh to keep it going. Perhaps Ghost was an attempt for something new and fresh that just didn't quite work. Got to give them credit for trying. --------------------------------------------------- Well, let me add my two cents worth into the COD Ghosts discussion. I have not played the Campaign. I bought the game and went straight to multiplayer. My review is based on that. As others have said, the maps are too big. Also, the maps do not seem well designed for choke points, instead they give the player the incentive to stay in one spot and camp the game out. Either by hiding in a corner waiting for another player to come by, or for snipers to wait on top of roofs to snipe someone out in the open. There are so many routes through a map (caves, doors, up hills, etc.) you have a high chance of getting shot in the back. Speaking of getting shot in the back. It is true the spawning system spawns players behind you. Even though the maps are big, a player you just killed ends up finding you quickly. One thing that bothers me quite a bit is there seems to be a serious lag issue and I believe they have tried to hide if from the players. When the match begins, you have no idea what each player's latency to the host is. This used to be displayed by green bars. If you had 4 bars and another player 2 bars, there is a good chance that what the two of you see could be off by up to 1/4 of a second resulting in one player being easily killed by another. Here is an example. You are heading down an alley. Another player is heading down the alley towards you. You see him / her and fire. You think you fired first. You unload an entire magazine into the player confident you aimed straight at him / her. Then the other player fires one shot and you die. You watch the kill cam (which is the instant replay) and it shows that you never fired and the other player fired multiple shots at you. Or worse yet, you see yourself shooting 3 feet away from your opponent even though you are sure you fired directly AT him / her. This is a result of latency between you and the opponent. Some call it lag compensation which are a set of algorithms that attempt to make a fair call between two players that have significant latency (long ping between players). There is not perfect way to solve this issue but BO 2 has perfected the solution. The best way is to have dedicated centralized servers to manage lag compensation (like Battlefield) but COD uses a peer to peer model relying on a player's XBOX with a good connection and the best average ping between all players to act as host. This lag issue is happening to me over and over in the game. Guess what severe lag issues make you do? Yep, camp. If you can't win a head to head fight and realize the game is giving you a disadvantage you have to hunker down and fire at a surprised opponent. This is not fun since camping is boring to most players. With green latency bars, you could at least back out in games like that seeing players that either have bad connections or are too far away from you to have a decent game but they don't show it anymore. Why? They don't want you to know. What else is wrong? The maps are bland. There is not much color and you can't really see well and distinguish players easily on the map. This allows campers to easily. Hide and shoot you. I read that some players feel they die too fast. I like hardcore in BO 2 so I don't mind quick kills but I really think the problem is due to latency issues. Watch your kill cams and you will see what I am talking about. You are really not dying that fast. They are unloading several rounds into you in the kill cam although you thought is was a quick one or two shot kill. The game has this thing called SatCom. It's horrible. It's a kind of a weaker UAV. It really doesn't help much and I find that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I must be doing something wrong here. Regarding the muting of players in game. I can not figure out how to do it. Ever started a game and then some fool starts playing their loud music for all to hear? Not good. So let's talk weapons. Not much excitement here. Some of them have very tinny pop gun sounds. I don't feel as though I am shooting a real weapon. BO 1 and 2 have done a great job of making weapons feel real even thought they are not. There are many new game variants. Some are fun, some aren't. Squads are interesting but still not sure what the point is really. You use Bots against another players bots. It is more fun than the multiplayer Team Deathwatch, etc. Extinction is a game like Zombies in BO 1 and 2. I haven't played it yet so won't comment. Seems to take a long time to earn squad points to buy things. I don't like having to buy things over and over again for different players in your squad. I would like to earn weapons and points once and give it to my Bot squad players. This game is so bad that I feel that the franchise could be in trouble. I bought Battlefield 4 and quite frankly Ghosts is a bad version of Battlefield 4. It barely resembles any earlier COD or MW or BO game. Some folks say it is the same as the earlier COD games but I think it is starkly different. It seems to have a new game engine, different map designers and a horrible lag compensation and latency management system that makes the game feel unfair. When you shoot someone they should die. This is the simple most important requirement in a shooter. If it doesn't do that well, nothing else matters. Looking forward to Titanfall coming out next year. COD in my mind is played out. Thank you.
85 of 106 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Huge step back,
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This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
Call of Duty Ghost is a huge step back in every imaginable way from Black Ops II. The gameplay is extremely slow due to the maps being so large, the gametype variants have been completely gutted, no ground war, search and destroy, headquarters, or any of the new gametypes to Black Ops II. The graphics a major step back from the previous Call of Duty's and the whole game as a "grayish" tint to it making it very unappealing. If you have any other COD I'd recommend skipping this one, If you don't have Black Ops II I'd pick that up instead. Far better game, way cheaper.
28 of 33 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Only played the multiplayer, but that was enough for me to return it,
By Andy (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
Simply terrible, that's all I can really muster here. I rented the multiplayer only from Redbox, in anticipation to buying the game through Amazon, but after only two days, and about two hours of playing, I was fed up. I won't repeat what most of the other reviews are saying, so in short, the maps are too big and poorly designed, most of the time you'll be killed from behind, and the killstreaks are the worst of any Call of Duty game. Graphically it's the exact same, and the guns lack any originality. Simply put, I got tired of sprinting around the map and then suddenly getting killed because someone respawned behind me. That's 90% of multiplayer right there. I've loved every Call of Duty before this, but my love went to hate after only about an hour of playing this game.
81 of 101 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Going back to BO2,
By cane (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
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This game should be called getting shot in the back. Spawns are ridiculous and maps are way too big for 12 players. Awful in 1 word.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Please read the reviews before you waste your hard earned money. I wish I had.,
By cc enthusiast "ccenthusiast" (chicago, usa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
0.5 stars would be my rating. I HATE this game.
After playing the game for the better part of two days after launch, I couldn't agree more that this is the worst multiplayer game play of any COD from Treyarch or Activision...unless you like to get a good thumb work out running around like an idiot being shot by random campers. For me, MW3 has the best multiplayer lag experience. This one is worse that Black Ops II, which is hard to do, because most of the matches there were decided by who got host. The huge maps, ridiculous spawn points (lined up in someone's sites while they are already shooting), and ridiculous lag is sending this to craigslist immediately. If you don't think lag is a problem, consider the fact that I averaged over 400 points per minute in black ops II (probably the top 15% of players) and I went 0 and 34 in a match. That's right, ZERO kills and I died 34 times. Not a single grenade kill, stab, final shot to an already injured player. After a while, I laid down and aimed down sites and fired with an LMG (light machine gun) and still couldn't kill anyone. Even with an SMG, they ran by, saw me and quickly killed me before my hits registered. What a complete joke. Save your money and pick something else that won't frustrate you beyond belief.
33 of 40 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
worst COD game by far,
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This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
This game was a huge dissapointment. Huge maps with no action. Best game modes are gone. Campaign is repettitive and as unrealistic as can be. Wish I didn't waste my money
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
If you buy this game expect nothing but crap.
I bought this game hoping to get some great play out of this because I was getting bored with Black ops 2. Come to find out it was not worth even $10. Lets start out with the Pros Which will be a short list. Pros: Great graphics in story line Lots of side games to play like squads, safeguard, ect. Classes very customizable in mulitplayer Cons: LOTS OF LAG (and no it is not from my internet) lots of ppl have reported this problem and complained NO more playercards to customize A lot of bugs not fixed (like when you invite someone to your clan and they are already in one and join you don't get points because it does not delete the old clan) Spawn points are so bad enemys will spawn right behind you and kill you. guns not accurate in shooting Lots of glitching and once again not internet problems. Story line is very short and can easily be beat in a day All in all the reviews speak for themselfs only a hand full of ppl like this game and there is a reason. So save your money. Hell I am thinking about going back to black ops 2 tell this piece of crap blows over.
86 of 110 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst Call of Duty ever.. and here's why...,
= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox 360 (Video Game)
So, it became blatantly obvious to me today that there's already hackers in the game. I had hoped that it would be a little while before they ruined the game, but I'm told they were there from day one. Given that we can't administer privately hosted servers any more and kick/ban the hackers this just ruins the game. This actually doesn't bother me, but that's only because the game is terrible.
There's no denying that the game is visually rich, but even on the "recommended" setting with my fairly recent video card, certain things bring it grinding to a stuttering slideshow and there's areas in both multiplayer and single player where I'm blinded by flaring light for no apparent reason. Unfortunately, the visual richness of the game presents its own problems. It can be difficult to see enemies even when you're looking right at them. The audio is terrible! Whereas in Black Ops II, I could tell from the sound of footsteps roughly where someone was, in Ghost I can hear footsteps, but can't tell which direction they're coming from....until I get stabbed or shot. Hardcore mode now gives the player too little health. This sounds great in theory, but in practice it means that luck plays a much larger part of whether you live or die. Two bullets from just about any weapon is enough to kill you, so just about every weapon is "Instakill". It's less about accurate aim and strategy, now being more about getting lucky with the bullet spray and being lucky enough to be facing the right way when you come across an enemy. Unfortunately, this combination of issues has made the game a "camper's paradise", which just frustrates everyone... except maybe the campers. Why, oh why are there only three game modes for hardcore? Some of us only choose to play the hardcore game modes. As a consequence, there are many game modes I never really had the chance to play in Black Ops II. I had hoped that the player feedback about the lack of hardcore game modes in Black Ops II would have corrected this in Ghost, but apparently it hasn't. The Clan system, a much promoted feature, is completely broken. Not only does the website to manage them have a redirect loop error, the iPad app does pretty much nothing to engage my interest. At this point in time, I simply cannot do anything to manage my clan. Also, why do I see a "Server is full" message? If I'm attempting to join a friend, shouldn't I go into a queue for the next free slot in the game so that I don't have to try and join them 50 times? Someone needs to go back and do Design Theory 101. There are other highly questionable design decisions, like blurring my vision when I use various sights, punishing me needlessly and how hard is to to program a proximity routine for spawns? Seriously! All of us are getting tired of spawning right in front of enemies. We, the players and customers, are not alpha testers. If I'm paying to buy a product, I want a finished product. I would not, for example, buy a car with square wheels with the expectation that the manufacturer would fix it later. If I thought I had any chance of success, I would demand a refund. Now I'm sure there's going to be plenty of fanatics that will disagree with everything I've said here. Let me state categorically...I don't care. This is my opinion and I have expressed it. Others will say "Learn to Play" or that I'm not good at the game. Well, to those people, I say that I have a history with this franchise going all the way back to the original Call of Duty (yes... I'm 43 years old) and that my career KDR of 1.65 in Black Ops II actually says that I'm well above average. There's so many other problems with the game, and potential buyers need only look at the Activision forums to see a long litany of patch requests that will never happen. I'd like to have a rant and say that I'm off to play some other game worthy of my time and money, but I'm still in the stage of denial where I'm trying to tell myself that I don't hate all these things that much and that it'll grow on me... or that these things will get fixed in a patch. The truth is that neither of these things are going to happen, but I'll live in denial for a little while longer if it's all the same to you and pretend that what I spent $135 was not a complete waste of money. |
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I saw similarities..that's what I was getting at.
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quote:Now that he has really raised the level of his passing and defending perhaps he has started to embrace more of a box to box role again.
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Have Fork, Will TravelThe Borscht UltimatumHow I almost paid dearly for a bowl of borscht, and how to make it rightAri LeVaux Late at night on a train in Siberia, I had a run-in with the Russian mob over a bowl of borscht. I should have listened to the little voice in my gut when I entered the dining car at the back of the train. Something was wrong. This wasn't like the other dining cars scattered along the half-mile iron serpent winding its way north from Ulan Bator, Mongolia, to Irkutsk, Siberia. The back half of this dining car was stacked high with boxes. Two heavily made-up babes played poker and smoked cigarettes at a table while electronic trance music thumped relentlessly, masking the pounding of the train. Borscht wears the "peasant food" banner with dignity and grace, proof that a culinary masterpiece can be made from the most humble ingredients. Intrigued yet nervous, I sat down and ordered borscht. A large woman smiled sympathetically as she took my order. I never saw her again. A stone-faced man brought a bowl of faintly purple water, in which pieces of sliced hot dog floated among stray shards of cabbage. While it was easily the lamest excuse for borscht ever, the sight of the chef standing in the galley door fondling his machete-sized knife inspired enough appetite for me to finish my bowl. Then came the bill: $50. I protested, using gestures and pointing at the menu to communicate the accounting error; the borscht was advertised at $3 a bowl. The server kept his arms folded, and then employed gestures of his own, picking up various pieces of tableware to explain that I also had to pay for the use of the silverware, plates, salt, pepper and napkins. After further protest on my part, he made another gesture, moving his hand across his thigh in a slicing motion. "Mafia," he said. The babes kept playing poker. The chef double-checked the sharpness of his knife in the galley door. I paid and got out of there. Later that night, in a train station on some windswept plain, the dining car at the end of the train was removed. While that overpriced meal certainly left a bad taste in my mouth, I suppose it it did qualify as borscht—if only because borscht is such a general term for a wide category of Eastern European soups. The name comes from the Russian borshch, which means "cow parsnip." (The plant is widely distributed in the U.S. as well, where it goes by the common name hogweed.) While often considered to be synonymous with "beet soup," borscht can be made with cabbage, tomato or sorrel, to name just a few of the common main ingredients. In The Gold Cook Book, Chef Louis P. De Gouy describes a Polish borscht (bortsch Polonaise) made from (among other things) duck, leeks, beets, egg whites and crushed egg shells. Borscht is oftentimes served with a dollop of sour cream—or a dollop of mayo if you're in Russia, where mayo has achieved a standing on par with vodka. When a container of either is opened for the first time, the cap is thrown away. This throwing-away-the-cap ritual is something I learned only a few days after my run-in with the Russian mafia. When we were stuck in a white-out while driving a monster truck across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, we opened vodka and threw away the cap. When I was served a bowl of chicken soup in a fishing village on the shore of Lake Baikal, we threw away the cap of mayo. The size of the mayo dollops heaped into those steaming bowls of soup left me forever changed. Whatever it's made of or served with, at the end of the day, borscht remains cold-weather comfort food. Like ratatouille, polenta, sausage and coq au vin, borscht wears the "peasant food" banner with dignity and grace, proof that a culinary masterpiece can be made from the most humble ingredients. Even though my dear mother makes a fantastic cabbage borscht, my favorite borscht is a variation I've developed based on the beet borscht recipe in The Joy of Cooking. Trim 1 pound of beets, cut them into quarters, place them in a baking dish, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake at 400 degrees until they're soft, then remove and let them cool. If you're afraid of skins, pull them off. (Though the skins won't hurt you—they'll add vitamins and a nice earthy quality to the borscht.) Slice the cooked beets. Cut 1 pound of red meat, like beef or venison, into cubes. Brown the meat in oil in the bottom of a soup pot or Dutch oven. After the meat has browned, add 1 quart of stock (I like chicken stock; if not homemade then try Better Than Bouillon brand), 1 quart of water, and 4 or 5 medium tomatoes, chopped (or a 28-ounce can, drained and chopped). Simmer. When the meat is tender, add: 2 to 4 cups shredded cabbage, 2 chopped medium onions, 2 sliced carrots, 3 sliced celery stalks (or a sliced medium-size celeriac), and the roasted beets. Add enough water to cover everything and simmer. As it simmers, you can adjust the water to maintain your desired proportion of broth to chunks. After 30 minutes, add the juice of 1 lemon, 2 tablespoons cider vinegar, 4 cloves chopped garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Adjust water content a final time, and simmer for 15 minutes. Serve with a garnish of dill or chervil. Now open a jar of mayo (or sour cream) and throw the cap over your shoulder. Add a dollop to your bowl, but don't mix it in. Rather, allow it to float like an iceberg in your bowl, with soft corners occasionally breaking off and drifting onto your spoon. The broth is tart with lemon, vinegar and tomato, and rich with vegetal flavor. It gives a tasty counterbalance to the meat and beet chunks, while the mayo unifies the constituents under a layer of creaminess. The soup is a majestically earthy tapestry, something those mafia guys would have been more justified in charging $50 for. Indeed, lesser food is regularly priced higher in big-city restaurants, though they don't threaten to break your legs if you complain. | Today's EventsNational Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show at Sandia Resort & CasinoTomorrow's EventsAdvanced Ayurvedic Cooking at Annapurna School of Ayurvedic CookingTuesdayGinger Beer at The SourceMore Recommented Events ›› | |
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David Miliband 'feared being distraction' for Labour
David Miliband has said he "feared being a distraction" and hopes his decision to leave UK politics helps his brother Ed to lead Labour against the coalition in an "uninhibited way".
The former foreign secretary, pipped to Labour's leadership by his younger brother in 2010, is to step down as an MP and join a US-based charity.
He told the BBC it had been a "very difficult" decision to make.
So does David Miliband's departure strengthen or weaken his brother ?
His friends insist his departure deprives Labour of a figure who would have brought experience and authority to Labour's front bench.
It's argued he would have enabled Labour to better reach out beyond its core vote and to attract those elusive southern voters.
He may also have helped re-fashion Labour's stance on the economy and so regained the party more credibility on the economy.
And yet there were also clear dangers.
A return to the shadow cabinet could have just prompted endless sibling psychodrama stories.
The Labour leader's supporters could reasonably argue their man isn't doing so bad without the help of his brother.
And while in the Westminster village the pros and cons of the most senior remaining Blairite's departure will be much mulled over, outside, life goes on.
Ed Miliband said the move would leave British politics "a poorer place".
But after serving as an MP for 12 years, David Miliband said: "I now have to make a choice about how to give full vent to my ideas and ideals."
In an interview with BBC political editor Nick Robinson, he said: "I feared being a distraction in whatever role I played at Westminster.
"I feel a sense of sadness because I am British. I love Britain. I am passionate about Labour, but I have had to make a choice about where I can make my best contribution."
He said it had been "hard for me to accept that I can best help the Labour Party by not just giving the space between the front bench and the back bench to Ed, but the space between the front bench and 3,000 miles away".
"I have wrestled with this very, very hard, and I have tried to make a decision that I honestly say to Labour members and supporters that is right for me and for the Labour Party.
"I want it to be the vision Ed Miliband has versus the vision David Cameron has. Not Ed and David Miliband. I didn't want to become a distraction. I didn't want the soap opera to take over the real substance of what needs to be done."
The former foreign secretary did not rule out an eventual come back in British politics, but said: "I am taking a job in America, not taking citizenship in America. I will continue to follow what's going on here, but my focus is going to be making a difference through the International Rescue Committee."
'Time has helped heal it'David Miliband was long seen as a future Labour leader, with supporters of Tony Blair pushing him to stand against Gordon Brown when Mr Blair stepped down as prime minister and Labour leader in 2007.
David Miliband
- Studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University
- From 1994 to 1997 was head of policy for Tony Blair, and from 1997 to 2001 was head of his policy unit in Downing Street
- In June 2002 was appointed Schools Minister
- Various ministerial appointments followed, and in June 2007 became foreign secretary
- Married to Louise, a violinist, they have two sons - Isaac and Jacob
There were also frequent reports that he was set to challenge Mr Brown during the three years he was prime minister before leading Labour to defeat at the 2010 election.
Instead of challenging, Mr Miliband bided his time and entered the post-election Labour leadership contest as overwhelming favourite - only to lose to his brother, who gained more union votes but fewer votes from Labour members and MPs.
The disappointment and strained relations led to David Miliband deciding to step down from the Labour front bench to, as he put it in his letter of resignation, "give Ed the space and the same time the support he needed to lead the party without distraction".
Wednesday's announcement seemingly brings to an end the almost constant rumours that he was set for a return to the opposition front bench.
In his statement Ed Miliband said: "Having spoken to him a lot over the past few months, I know how long and hard he thought about this before deciding to take up the offer. I also know how enthusiastic he is about the potential this job provides.
"We went through a difficult leadership contest but time has helped to heal that. I will miss him. But although he is moving to America, I know he will always be there to offer support and advice when I need it."
David Miliband's decision will spark a by-election in South Shields, where he has been MP since 2001, although the timing of any vote is not yet known.
Nick Robinson said Mr Miliband had "clearly concluded he does not want to return to the fray, he doesn't want to serve under his brother in opposition or in government which is a serious blow to his brother, and disappointment to members of the party".
American violinistIn his letter to his constituency party chairman, Mr Miliband said the International Rescue Committee was founded in the 1930s at Albert Einstein's suggestion to help people fleeing the Nazis. And his own family history - his parents both fled Germany in the 1930s - meant "I feel that in doing this job I will be repaying a personal debt".
International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is well known in charity circles as an emergency relief and development agency. Its symbol, a big yellow arrow, flies over refugee camps and hospitals around the world.
The International Rescue Committee was also, of course, the fictional organisation of heroes in the 1960s children's TV series, Thunderbirds.
After David Miliband has got over the jokes about becoming "Thunderbird One" he'll discover an organisation that not only seeks to help poor people around the world but also advocates policy changes to stop them being poor in the first place.
One of the IRC's best known projects was an in-depth study in 2010 of mortality rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It concluded that the war in the central African country - and the consequent devastation of health care - had, over a decade, caused the deaths of over 5m people, making Congo the deadliest conflict since World War Two.
I travelled with an IRC doctor along the Congo River in a dugout canoe to see the situation. The Congolese medic, Dr Pascal Ngoy, took me to clinics that were no more than hovels and "regional hospitals" without staff or drugs.
But the IRC doctor also showed his practical side. We stopped our canoe when a women shouted for help from the river bank. She was suffering from terrible complications in her pregnancy.
With no equipment but a pair of rubber gloves Dr Ngoy performed an emergency abortion and saved the woman's life.
"This job brings together my personal story and political life. It represents a new challenge and a new start," he said.
The MP, who is vice-chairman and non-executive director of Sunderland Football Club, is married to violinist Louise Shackelton - who has dual UK/US citizenship - and the couple have two children.
Tony Blair, former Labour leader and prime minister, said: "I congratulate David on his appointment to a major international position. It shows the huge regard in which David is held worldwide. I'm sure he will do a great job. He is obviously a massive loss to UK politics.
"He was the head of my policy unit and then a truly distinguished minister in the government and remains one of the most capable progressive thinkers and leaders globally. I hope and believe this is time out, not time over."
David Miliband's former cabinet colleagues, Lord Mandelson and Jack Straw, said they did not think it was the end of his political career.
"I think he has a future in politics... I think I know a little bit about comebacks in politics and, to coin a phrase, if I can come back [then] David Miliband can come back - and I think he will," said Lord Mandelson.
Mr Straw said he would be "welcomed back into the Labour movement".
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps added: "He has contributed a great deal to British politics and we wish him well."
Former US President Bill Clinton congratulated the charity on appointing Mr Miliband, saying: "I have known David almost 20 years. He is one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time."
But Labour MP John Mann described Mr Miliband as "the man who would have been prime minister if he had ever asked 'And what is your view'?"


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By Jordan Fabian - 07/02/10 10:58 AM ET
The White House on Friday released the salaries of its staff members ranging from its lowest-level employees to chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Emanuel, press secretary Roberts Gibbs, senior adviser David Axelrod and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett make the top salary amount of $172,200 per year. Three staffers have their salaries listed as $0.
In total, the White House pays its staff $38,796,307.
"Since 1995, the White House has been required to deliver a report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House Office employee," the White House blog says. "Consistent with President Obama's commitment to transparency, this report is being publicly disclosed on our website as it is transmitted to Congress."
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