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|Alexander Jhin
I'd love to hear more concrete examples of actual game play mechanics that communicate particular ideas or emotions. I can only think of a couple of examples: rapidly tapping a key to represent some frantic action. Or the adult/art game Ute, seemed to capture the feeling of guilt and fear of getting caught during sex, but it was an entire system that gave the feeling rather than some constituent parts (ie, it was an entire melody that portrayed the message rather than, say, just a minor key.)
September 12th (another flash art game) used the idea of a systemic Catch-22, no-win situation to portray the futility of the war on terror.
But none of these are nearly as universal, powerful or flexible as the minor key.
|Rene Argoud
Heavy Rain seemed to try and give meaning to player input (frantic button pushes, more complex entries for confusing or startling situations) but I'm hard-pressed to think of anything that makes these meaningful, they're relevant in terms of the instinctual reactions they bring out in the player but in the end I did feel like i walked away from a Dragons Lair arcade machine.
Maybe, the added freedom presented in the motion controllers for their respective systems will help this?
In much the same way that music derives meaning from all it's component's one could hypothetically set a rhythm to the experiance, that could make gameplay into something that derives meaning from an eclectic mish-mash. IE(the meaningful removal of distinct items/props, or in contrast added variation's in visual elements to force a player to regroup and find his barings, while simultaneously increasing the need for input) A lot of early MMO's had this present as a problematic side-effect to simpler textures. Meridian 59 comes to mind but that was accidental. I get a sense that this was present in Mirrors edge to a certain extent but it felt half-cooked.
|Bart Stewart
Bravo! I agree completely with this concept, which I liken to collimating a laser or a telescope: when all the systems aren't working together, the whole thing is out of focus.
On the other hand, by taking the time to consciously tweak every subsystem so that it supports every other subsystem, the output of the whole becomes much more coherent, dramatically increasing its power.
For example, suppose you want to communicate something on the theme of "freedom."
To emphasize this you could develop a first-person game set within a story of imprisonment and release. During the prison section you could keep rooms small and dark, with low ceilings and short movement paths. You could restrict options for interacting with the gameworld, and underscore this with low-pitched and minor-key or even dissonant music. All of these elements would work together to create a sense of oppressiveness.
Imagine the player's feelings then on leaving this setting and emerging into the bright sunlight of an open world, with birds flying lightly through the air to a few sweet major chords. Both Half-Life 2 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion made use of this process of bounding and then opening both the player's world and the available gameplay mechanics, and both became more memorable for it.
By carefully designing each of the elements of the player experience to cohere, to work together in support of the guiding vision, you make the whole experience much more powerful than if you simply implement the first or simplest thing that comes to mind.
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Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price is willing to shake things up in an effort to revive his flat offense.
On Sunday, Price batted first baseman Joey Votto in the No. 2 spot in the order for the second straight day, a move long clamored for by the fan base and some pundits. "I don't feel like a sit on your hands type approach is the way to get this thing turned around," says Price.
In the first 11 games this season, Cincinnati was batting .219 as a team and had scored three or fewer runs seven times and two or fewer runs on four occasions. On Sunday afternoon, they erupted for 12 runs on 13 hits in a 12-4 win over Tampa Bay.
"We just have to keep the faith," said Price, who held a team meeting following Saturday's 1-0 loss. "Pressure is self-induced. We know we have a good team. We just need to go out and play the way we're capable of playing."
Votto had batted second on just eight previous occasions. Saturday was his first start in the No. 2 hole since Aug. 8, 2008 vs. the Houston Astros. Votto has made 735 starts batting third.
On Saturday, Votto went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, but the Reds were shut out 1-0. In Sunday's game, he followed Billy Hamilton's leadoff single in the third with a 452-foot home run to center.
Sunday's game produced a season high for runs and hits. The five-run third inning was the most runs they'd scored in an inning this season and the first time they have batted around. A pinch-hit grand slam by outfielder Chris Heisey capped the scoring on Sunday.
Tweaks to the batting order aside, the Reds are confident that their lineup has the potential to score more consistently as the season progresses.
"Baseball is a game of failure," said right fielder Jay Bruce. "It's a tough game. Over the course of the year, we're going to do just fine. We just have to be prepared and ready to take advantages of those situations when we have runners on base."
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Is parent the only other one here who recognises a tautology when it smacks them between the eyes?
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Re:Department of Redundancy Department (386 comments)
Is parent the only other one here who recognises a tautology when it smacks them between the eyes?
Clearly the editors don't.
Only Tracy Jordan can do it (465 comments)
Goregasm: The Legend of the Dong-Slayer - it sold 61m copies. The ultimate melding of violence and porn. If an egomaniac can pull it off, surely the big wigs can too.
Preventing sleep deprivation? (332 comments)
This sounds all roses and sweetness but the reality is, surgery involves volatile hours. Some degree of predictability may be known, for example weekend nights probably have a greater probability of road accidents, but for the most part, surgeons have to perform at a moment's notice to save lives.
Whilst you could simply employ more staff to ensure there's a healthy buffer of refreshed and well slept surgeons, I'd hazard a guess this is far more costly than most hospitals could afford or would want to cut into profits.
Declaring sleep deprivation might make some academic journal tingle inside, but how will that affect lives? You get a disclaimer and a law suit potentially sidelined. But the patient then must wait for a suitable surgeon to perform. In many locations, that simply might not be an option.
Re:Another fine investment decision... (125 comments)
Are Twitter at any point going to get a revenue stream?
Yes. They're now selling promoted tweets for up to $100,000. Engagement rates were significantly higher than what was seen on Google's sponsored links, though that's likely due to its novelty. With enough promoted tweets however, you could start to see some serious cash rolling in.
Law and Order Disclaimer (124 comments)
Didn't he see the frame that briefly flashes up before starting the game?
"The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event. Any similarities to actual people, places or events is purely coincidental."
Re:Wow surprising (212 comments)
Er what? I think you misread what the CEO was saying (assuming the article you don't cite mentions it). Netflix was saying that third-party content providers were not essential to its success. At the end of the day, Netflix has the subscriber base and the cash rolling in to negotiate with whomever they want. It doesn't matter if they go direct or via some third-party route.
At the end of the day, it's in the studios' or brokers' best interest to receive large slabs of money because content providers can double dip as much as they want. First the air it on TV (money), host it on their sites (more money), make it available to iTunes and other pay-per-view services (the dollars continue to flow), then sign up as many streaming services as those companies can afford (ooooh, they're getting richer) before releasing to DVD and syndication.
Direct or indirect - Netflix doesn't care because someone will agree to those handsome checks.
Re:The ironing ... (614 comments)
If you use some starch, the ironing will be crisp!
Oh the event is in 2011 (614 comments)
Hence the pursuit and vilification of individuals *cough Assange* and organizations whose propagation of information is at odds with the U.S. was perfectly acceptable in 2010.
So 2011 will be all different then.
His forms are still for sale (360 comments)
From TFA, you can still buy his defense package from here
So why not just provide a link? (169 comments)
If the non-profit organization liked the story, why wouldn't they simply acknowledge Righthaven by way of summary and then link back to the source. Copying verbatim, even with acknowledgement, denies Righthaven hits to its website that otherwise would have been forthcoming.
What is fair use? IANAL but I would hazard a guess that entire reproductions without permission aren't fair.
Re:Anthropomorphalicism (609 comments)
You missed the joke. It's from today's dog v cats
Personal privacy (119 comments)
Because Mr. Bilal is an active professor, teaching three courses this semester and scheduled to teach this spring, his special camera could capture not just his personal activity, but also his interactions with students.
That could make for really awkward viewing by the selection committee as they look through his private life.
Needlessly Elaborate (309 comments)
Most countries have an abundance of land making this fantasy of a city completely redundant. While Japan is noted as having far less usable land than say the U.S., Europe or continental Asia, skyscrapers, land reclamation and urban sprawl usually do the trick in making room for population growth.
To conceive of this mammoth project might be an architect's wet dream, but realistically, the global population is not so extreme that this needless reallocation of resources is warranted.
In terms of generating renewable energy and minimizing resource use, one only needs to look in our backyards - we've the technology to go carbon neutral/negative now. It's the political and societal will that's lacking.
Re:Domestic Spying (81 comments)
The spam kings (and queens) that you mention are largely in countries that do not want to cooperate with U.S. authorities and their hunt to prosecute foreign nationals.
So spying is about all they have.
This is scientific proof! (478 comments)
That Mary was a boa constrictor after all.
This is scientific proof! (478 comments)
That Mary may have been a boa constrictor after all
Why put out a request... (407 comments)
If only one company was going to be considered?
No, it hasn't (381 comments)
Nolan is one of many directors working for one of many studios. His decision, while interesting, does not mean the industry will be so stunned, so shaken, that they would suddenly stop charging an extra $3-5 because the movie is 3D, no matter how good or bad it was executed.
There is money in offering 3D movies hence 3D movies will be made.
To think otherwise is naive.
PVZ Endless (854 comments)
Plants v Zombies, hardly an old game, has a survival mode that can potentially go on forever, getting more difficult with each turn.
That should appeal to your penchant for difficult gaming.
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"A true folk art is of and for the community," says Elaine Eff, founder of the Baltimore Painted Screen Society. "Screen painting has always been an East Baltimore art form."
Eff, who lives in Northwest Baltimore, says she first became interested in screen painting as a graduate student in the 1970s and fell in love with it.
"I don't paint screens myself," Eff says. "I'm a folklorist."
According to the Painted Screen Society, screen painting was invented in Baltimore by William Oktavec, a Czech grocer, in 1913.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the creation of the art form, the Painted Screen Society and the Highlandtown Main Street Program came up with the idea for "100 Screens for 100 Years on Highlandtown Main Street."
The project was funded through a grant by the Baltimore Community Foundation.
"That grant is for screens to appear along businesses Eastern Ave. from East Ave. to Conkling St.," says Amanda Smit-Peters, manager of Highlandtown Main Street. "What could be a more appropriate art form for Highlandtown businesses than painted screens along Eastern Ave.?"
Last Wednesday, the Southeast Community Development Corporation, Highlandtown Main Street, Painted Screen Society, and local merchants had an unveiling of the Highlandtown Gateway Screens at the corner of S. Conkling and Eastern Ave. above the pawn shop, Southeast Jewelry & Loan.
The Gateway Screens, painted by Anna Pasqualucci and John Oktavec—grandson of William—show iconic and whimsical Baltimore images such as the Baltimore Orioles, beehive hairdos, steamed blue crabs, and ravens in the beehive. The seven screens spell out the word "WELCOME."
"They are about Highlandtown, our homes, and our history," says Smit-Peters.
Highlandtown artist and screen painter Monica Broere gave screen painting lessons to the kick-off attendees, and Baltimore County screen painter Bruce Barrett, who shows his work at the Northpoint Flea Market, told attendees about his work, some of which was on display.
"I've been doing airbrush work for 20 years, but on the screens I use a paintbrush and I paint the screens like they are cavases," Barrett says.
About 50 of the 100 painted screens will be installed in time for a June 15 tour—on that day, the Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival will be held at the Creative Alliance, and will feature a free walking tour of the painted screens on Eastern Ave., says Smith-Peters.
"Our goal is to have the other 50 installed by the end of June," she adds.
Several local business and organizations are involved in the 100 Screens Project, including Spartan Pizza and Cardinal Chiropractic, both on Conkling St., says Smit-Peters, who adds that one of her favorite local merchant screens is on the Liberty Tax Building on Eastern Ave.
"It shows how a painted screen can tie a building together," Smit-Peters says.
"But honestly, it doesn't end with 100," she adds. "This is just a kickoff. We really would like to see more people learn the art form. We want to inspire artists. I think 100 is just the beginning. More painted screens are definitely coming to Highlandtown."
Says Neff: "That's wonderful. Painted screens have been a part of East Baltimore for a long time and I very much hope they will continue to be."
Several screen painting events are coming up within the next few weeks. On June 20, at 7:30 p.m., the Creative Alliance will show the film "The Screen Painters," which debuted at the Patterson theater 25 years ago. It is double billed with "Little Castles," a film about formstone in Baltimore. Film tickets are $12 ($7 for Creative Alliance members). On June 22, at 9:30 a.m., Eff will lead the Painted Screens Pilgrimage, a bus and walking tour of Baltimore screen painting landmarks. Tickets are $35 ($30 for Creative Alliance members). Info: www.creativealliance.org and www.paintedscreens.org.
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A tusked herbivorous reptile of the Triassic period.
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No one uses that expression in innocence. Some production assistant said "look sexy for me, Sid" and he came through.
Totally convinced he's been schooled by a cougar.
I like hockey. I like Smurfs. I like baseball. I like cats. I like football. I like cooking. I like hard rock with chick singers. I like objectifying athletes. I like good spelling and punctuation. I like mocking the stupid. I like that I'm unpredictable. In the words of Pain, it has led me down so far so why don't you follow me?
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I have previously written about our grant scheme called "Community Cashback" which involves putting the money we have obtained through the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) back into the Sussex communities.
A few months ago Chris Neilson and myself went and visited some of the local charity and community groups who had received money through our Community Cashback scheme. We wanted to hear what they had been doing with the money and we were not disappointed.
Watch the YouTube clip as we talk to some amazing people doing such important, valuable and fantastic work across Sussex.
This is money seized from the criminals now making such a positive difference across our communities.
I now fancy myself as a roving reporter!!!
Thank you to those who took the time to speak to us, I personally found it a humbling experience listening to all the dedicated people involved.
Thank you to the Sussex Community Foundation for working with us to form such a successful partnership.
Another week and a new Chief Constable, well not that new!!
T/ Chief Constable Giles York is now at our helm. A strong leader with strong values and direction and he loves innovation and cycling! He also embraces social media and is joining us as a new Sussex Police People blogger!
It was a privilege to hand over a cheque for £4,520 to Chief Superintendent Barry Fryer from the RSPCA's Specialist Operations Unit so that the RSPCA and animal welfare can benefit from this money, seized from those convicted of illegal cock-fighting in West Sussex. Justice at its best!
It was a pleasure last Friday to hand over a cheque for £4, 520 to Chief Superintendent Barry Fryer from RSPCA's Specialist Operations Unit.
This money came from a successful cash forfeiture investigation conducted by us as a result of an RSPCA investigation into a gang from West Sussex who were making money from cock-fighting.
Back in October 2012 a father and son, both named Mark Giles from West Sussex were convicted at Brighton Magistrates Court for offences of keeping birds for use in connection with animal fights, causing unnecessary suffering to chickens and failing to take reasonable steps to ensure their needs were met. This was an RSPCA prosecution and we assisted with the arrests and warrants at the time.
We arrested the Giles father and son on behalf of the RSPCA for cock-fighting and keeping birds for the purpose of cock fighting. They were running a profitable outfit, a cock-fighting pit was found and loads of advertising for these events. The RSPCA also managed to save about 200 adult cocks and hens.
A bonus for us was finding £25 800 in cash, believed to be some money they had made from the suffering of these poor birds…so we seized the cash under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Mark and Mark Giles were sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment suspended for two years and a lifetime ban on keeping birds. However, the biggest punishment to them probably was our cash seizure. Horsham Magistrates granted the cash forfeiture, agreeing that the money was the proceeds of the Gile's criminal activity.
So there is justice and a fitting conclusion to this horrible and cruel business, that we can give some of the seized cash to the RSPCA to help them in their continual fight against animal cruelty. They do such a great job and we have built up an excellent working relationship with them and we are always keen to assist in their operations.
Last Friday was the last working day of our Chief Constable, Martin Richards. He has retired and will be taking some time out with his family. I wish him all the best and hope we remain in contact.
Mr Richards has instilled values into us all and changed the culture and mindset of us from chasing targets and often-meaningless performance indicators and focused us all on putting our customer, the public first. He has left us with the strong message that it is hard work and Humility in the workplace that makes us better officers.
There has been an avalanche of deliberately negative media reports about policing in the last few months and it is definitely affecting morale.
We have been hit with changes to our pay, conditions and pensions as most public sector workers have and a lot of them have been and continue to 'strike" and of course we can't do that.
I can't defend the so-called 'plebgate' or Hilsborough, but this really is the minority.
Corrupt officers let us all down, they let their colleagues down and they let the public down. Integrity is a value at the core of British policing and certainly at the heart of Sussex police.
I know how professionalism and honesty are so important to me and all my team and certainly part of my role is leading and challenging my staff.
It is very frustrating to see how such small numbers of dishonest and corrupt police officers across the country are highlighted and enlarged by the press, and soon the whole issue has got completely out of proportion.
I personally therefore welcome any measures introduced by Theresa May to examine our integrity as it will show that the majority of us are honest, hard working, committed and go that extra mile to serve our communities!
Richard Littlejohn, can you write a 'nice' article about us police in the Daily Mail……..
This was a job a bit out of the ordinary for us, we don't often deal with such sophisticated set ups in relation to copyright offences. This relates to a Keith Tamkin who was sentenced to 18 months in prison when we found him with all this equipment!
According to the British Phonographic Institute this was the largest technical set up that they had ever seen for the illegal downloading of films and music.
We ended up seizing more than 100 computer hard drives, 150 000 CDs and DVDs, computers and 8 multiple burning towers that were being used by Tamkin to produce counterfeit music, films and software. We also found a large catalogue of titles linked to an extensive client base. So that stopped his "little" illegal operation!
It all started on Saturday, when some of my team went out to deal with a job involving a suspected possession of a firearm. The job couldn't wait and my dedicated Detective Sergeant and Detective Inspector ended up working through the night. They got a result though as a 6 shot revolver with 4 rounds of ammunition where found hidden in a house in Crawley. Liam Hussy was arrested at the scene, later interviewed and charged with possession of prohibited weapon and ammunition. He has been remanded in custody…….so another suspected criminal and firearm off the streets.
What next, well, Monday we charged Aaron Davies with possession of prohibited weapons as disguised firearms and importation of prohibited weapons. This was as a result of an operation in the summer when my SOCU team found two powerful Taser stun guns, which had been disguised as torches in a car and a further 13 hidden in the suspended ceiling of an industrial unit at East Preston. Davies is due to appear at Worthing Magistrates Court on 11th February.
Then onto Tuesday, we charged Luke Heasmer at Hastings with an offence of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, and two charges of inciting a person under 18 years to become a prostitute and a theft offence. This case is based on allegations around his Facebook conversations with two young girls. I can't go into any more detail now, but Heasmer will be at Hastings Magistrates Court on 6th February. Watch this space!
Still on Tuesday and the end of a 5-day trial at Crown Court involving two cousins, Adrian Veshaj and Amadeo Veshaj from Brighton charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine and money laundering. Amadeo had already pleaded guilty so the trial was just for Adrian and he was found guilty on Tuesday. So they have both been convicted and will be sentenced tomorrow afternoon at Hove Crown court. This was another excellent operation by SOCU, more than 2 kilos of cocaine and 7 kilos of cutting agent were seized by us from a garage in Somerhill Road. We also found an industrial printing press and other materials that they were using to package the drugs ready to sell. More on this after they have been sentenced!
And it is still only Wednesday!
Oh yes, and it gets better…we are arranging a SOCU team cycle ride from Newhaven to Paris in June!!!
Please be aware of this latest card scam being used by fraudsters and don't get caught out.
This is a fraud mainly targeting the elderly and vulnerable in our communities.
The fraudsters call an unsuspecting victim on their landline and pretend to be from the bank or us, the police. They tell the victim that their computer systems have spotted a fraudulent payment on the victim's card or it is due to expire and needs replacing.
The next part of the scam is they tell the victim to hang up and call the bank or police back straight away so they can be reassured that the call is genuine. This is all part of their scam as they do not disconnect the call from the landline so when the victims make the call thinking it is to the bank, it is not, it goes straight back to these criminals.
Thinking they are now speaking to the back or police, when the fraudster asks for the victim's PIN number, the victim reads it out over the phone.
Step 3 is that the fraudsters send a courier to collect the bank card from the victim. Once they have the card, they already have the PIN, name, address……and no prizes for guessing what happens next!
Don't be a victim of Courier Fraud and please make sure your elderly relatives, neighbours etc. are aware of this scam.
Remember- Your bank or police would never send a courier to your home, never collect your bank card and NEVER ask for your PIN.
Never give your bank details out over the phone.
The Twelve Online Frauds of Christmas -
The Twelve Online Frauds of Christmas
Did you know that you are more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other crime?
Christmas is a time when the fraudsters rub their hands with glee as there are such "easy pickings" for them as we all rush onto the computer to do our online Christmas shopping.
Lets face it, why sit in a traffic jam getting to town, another queue to park, extortionate parking fees and then fight our way round those crowded, hot shops. You can never find what you want and never a shop assistant these days!! The alternative is to sit with a nice coffee at home in front of the computer!
So don't fall for any Internet scam or let these fraudsters ruin your Christmas and read the attached advice from Action Fraud and The City of London Police.
So what have my team of 'invisible' to the public officers been up to behind the scenes……..
We prevented a kilo of extremely pure cocaine reach the streets of Sussex last June as part of an operation in which Grant Clark and Tim Saunters from Hastings were arrested.
We were working together with the Metropolitan police on an organized crime group that were supplying cocaine into Sussex from London, and one of their outlets was Clark and Saunters.
A strike was planned….just like 'by any means'…and the vehicle driven by Saunters in Hastings was seized and searched. A kilo of pure cocaine was found in the car. Then the team went on to search their houses and inside Clark's house a safe was found containing a "production and dealers kit" and £13000 in cash.
Last month both Clark and Saunters pleaded guilty at Lewes Crown court and were sentenced to 4 years 8 months in prison each. And it doesn't stop there as we are pursuing them through the Proceeds of Crime Act for potential assets of £130 000. That could well hit them harder than the prison sentences. This will be resulted in February so I will report back then.
And who said crime pays!!!
November was a good month for locking up organized crime criminals. Ryan Carden from Peacehaven was sentenced to 9 years at Hove Crown Court for aiding and abetting the transfer of a sawn-off shotgun.
Five other 'criminals' had previously been convicted during earlier court hearings following the same investigation. 3 had already been sentenced but the other 2 involved in the same crime group were sentenced with Ryan Carden.
Craig Carden, cousin of Ryan was sentenced to 5 years for possession of the same sawn-off shotgun and Stephen Fox from Brighton was sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison for conspiracy to transfer the same shotgun, conspiracy to supply amphetamine and possession of cocaine with intent to supply.
So you could say that this was 'social justice' by locking up members of these orgainesd crime groups.
It is important to understand and portray the damage organized crime can do at the local level, in the streets and communities of Sussex. We have a prevention-based approach to tackling orgainsed crime and try and disrupt them as much as possible using many different tactics.
I will finish with a rant: Why on earth is Clare Balding and BTSport interviewing Mike Tyson for their TV show, he was convicted in 1992 for the rape of a teenager and also has convictions for assault, cocaine possession and driving under the influence??!!!!


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The Oakland Raiders' 2013 season has mercifully come to an end on the heels of a six-game losing streak that was capped off by a 34-14 beat down by the rival Denver Broncos. The Raiders got steamrolled by a surging Broncos' team that jumped out to a 31-point lead at half. Coach John Fox would pull most of his starters in the second half, as the game was well in hand. Terrelle Pryor would get the nod as the starting quarterback in the finale and he had a performance to forget with his lone scores coming in garbage time.
Here are the 'X-Factors" for each team in the Raiders' loss to the Broncos on Sunday:
1. Peyton Manning's "historic" day rolls over the Raiders' defense:
Manning came into the game with the single-season passing touchdown record already in hand and needed just 265 to tie the single-season passing yard record. It would not take long, as it would just take one half of football to make quick work of the Raiders' defense.
Manning and the Broncos' offense were near perfect. They would boat race the Raiders on the back of five straight scoring drives in the first half. Manning would connect with Eric Decker and Knowshon Moreno on two straight touchdown passes in the first quarter. He would then lead them on a methodical drive down the field for 34-yard field goal. He would then cap off his great first half with back-to-back touchdowns to Demaryius Thomas, including one from 63-yards out.
Manning would finish the half with a stat-line of 25 completions on 28 attempts for 266 yards and four touchdowns. The mind-boggling stat is the fact that he had more touchdown passes than incompletions. The 266 yards gave him the single-season passing yard record by a single yard.
On the year, Manning finished with a 68.3 completion percentage nearly 660 attempts for 5,477 yards and 55 touchdowns. Those are numbers you see in the high flying college game or on Madden football. He then decided to finish his season off with a video game like performance in the first half against the Raiders.
This game is another in a string of recent poor performances for the defense and could spell the end of the Dennis Allen era in Oakland.
2. Terrelle Pryor struggles in his return to the starting lineup:
Pryor got his first start since the Raiders' loss to the New York Giants in week 10, as Matt McGloin took over the starting spot for the last several weeks. Pryor saw some opportunities with some rotational snaps in games against the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was largely ineffective in those chances, as he went 3 for 10 for 32 yards and an interception, while adding 23 yards on six carries on the ground.
His start against the Broncos was a lot of the same, as he failed to provide a spark to the offense and failed to be the answer for the questions surrounding the Raiders' quarterback position. The Raiders managed just 53 yards of total offense in the first half alone, as the Broncos' offense and defense stunned the Raiders on both sides of the ball.
The Broncos would call off the dogs in the second half and Pryor would fail to capitalize with many of the Broncos backups in the game. The Raiders' first decent drive came at the start of the fourth quarter, when they managed an 11 play drive that ultimately ended in a turnover on downs.
Pryor would find some rhythm at the end of the game with two straight touchdown drives, but it was too late to have any impact on the game. It is more worrisome than it is a sign of positive change, as Pryor could not manage any semblance of effectiveness until garbage time against the backups of the Denver defense.
The Raiders are going to be facing a lot of questions as they head into the offseason. They could easily be searching for a new coaching staff, which could mean changes coming at the quarterback position. No quarterback really seized the starting quarterback position, as they failed to show they deserved the chance to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. Matt McGloin looked like he has potential that whichever coaching staff is in place will want another look next year. While, Pryor's time may be coming to an end as his regression during the season is worrisome.
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Mumbai The public sector Indian Bank has increased its benchmark prime lending rates by 75 basis points to 14 per cent per annum with effect from Monday.
However, the home loan floating rates for sanctioned limits up to Rs 3 million for both existing and fresh accounts are not being revised.
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Alfresco Node Lifecycle
The lifecycle of your average Alfresco 'node' isn't that complicated is it? A node (perhaps a document) is created, it gets changed, hangs around for a while, and is finally deleted at some point. End of story, right? From a user perspective that's correct, but what's actually going on under the abstraction that is the 'Object Content Repository'?
What follows is a step-by-step journey of one humble node from birth to it's final demise, at the level of the file-system and database entries.
The Content Repository: A quick reminder
Remember that the content repository is composed of three aspects. Without any one of these, Alfresco will fail to operate correctly (at least prior to version 4.0, where the lack of an index isn't the end of the world):
- The database which describes all the details about a content node/document.
- The file-system (or 'content-store') which is where all file content is to be kept. A reference to each file is kept by the node information kept in the database. Note that every change to a file is written to a new file instead of overwriting an existing file.
- The Lucene search-index, which contains both information from the DB and the content on the file-system. If lost, this index can be rebuilt based on the presence of the other two aspects.
Step 1 - Create a Node
- The user creates a new node in the repo called: "Toms Document.doc". The date is the 1st January 2011.
- Where does the node live?
- FS: It's on the file-system in the file system folder: alf_data/contentstore/
- The actual file content has been renamed and located somewhere like: alf_data/contentstore/2011/1/1/13/14/6e228904-d5d2-4a99-b7b1-8fe7c03c71f3.bin
- Notice that the file content has been renamed using a new unrelated UUID. This is *not* the same UUID as the node-ref in the DB.
- DB: It's in the database as: workspace://SpacesStore/4529b059-a4d1-4938-b0ce-ff7fce3a5c9a
- The node contains a property in the DB that allows it to find its content in the file-system content store. This can be found in tables alf_content_data and alf_content_url.
- IDX: It's in the search index found in folder alf_data/lucene-indexes/workspace/SpacesStore/
- FS: It's on the file-system in the file system folder: alf_data/contentstore/
Step 2 - User Deletion of the Node
- The user deletes this node ("Toms Document.doc") using the web-UI, or usual alfresco services (all of which lead to nodeService.deleteNode). The date is the 1st February 2011
- Where does the node live now?
- FS: On the file-system it lives in exactly the same place. i.e.: /alf_data/contentstore
- Note: Incidentally, it's worth noting that once a file is written to the content store, it is never ever modified.
- Note: I think various optimisations exist that may cause two nodes to point to the same file content (for example, a copy operation).
- DB: In the database the document-node record is marked as living in a different store: archive://SpacesStore/4529b059-a4d1-4938-b0ce-ff7fce3a5c9a
- Note: The record in the alf_node table has a store_id property that is changed from 6 to 5.
- IDX: It's still in the search index, but it's moved and is now found in folder alf_data/lucene-indexes/archive/SpacesStore/
- So, it's removed from one index to added to another.
- FS: On the file-system it lives in exactly the same place. i.e.: /alf_data/contentstore
- From a user's perspective, at this point they can go to their user-profile (the 'Manage Deleted Items' part) and un-delete items, which moves them back to the store: workspace://SpacesStore.
- Undeleting changes the store_id of the node in the DB, and moves it back to the correct Lucene index.
- From a programmers perspective, they can bypass step 2 completely and go straight on to Step 3, if they apply the 'cm:temporary' aspect before they call 'nodeService.deleteNode'.
Step 3 - Empty the Trash
- The date is the 1st March 2011 and the user decides to empty "Toms Document.doc" from the trash-can.
- They can do this using the "Manage Deleted Items" link from the "User Profile" in the JSF Alfresco Explorer client, and selecting 'Purge'. Let's say they do that 30 days after deleting the node.
- Alternatively, we can use the TrashCanCleaner scheduled task to automatically remove items older than 30 days from the 'trash-can' archive. Our automatic cleaner is based on the one in the forge but it's effectively the same action as the manual task the user can perform in the Alfresco Explorer UI (JSF client).
- Under the hood, the 'archiveService.purge' operation is called
- Where does the node live now?
- FS: On the file-system it lives in exactly the same place. i.e.: /alf_data/contentstore
- DB: In the database you would expect it to be deleted, except it isn't: it's only *marked* as deleted.
- The relevant row in the alf_node table has a field named 'node_deleted' which is set to '1' to indicate that is a deleted node.
- Note: This update from 'node_deleted=0' to 'node_deleted=1' does not affect the timestamp value of 'alf_node.audit_modified' field.
- Alfresco now considers any related content file found in the file-system content-store to be an 'orphan'.
- At this point where the 'node_deleted' field becomes '1', the orphan is declared by updating the 'orphan_time' field in the table 'alf_content_url' from NULL to the timestamp of NOW. (You'll see that this is important for quickly identifying orphaned files later on).
- Pretty much all DB queries made by alfresco will only consider rows where node_deleted=0.
- Auxillary node information is in fact deleted right now (that is, *most* related rows in tables other than alf_node, such as alf_node_properties, alf_node_assoc, alf_child_assoc, etc).
- IDX: The search index will be empty of this node. It is removed from all search indices.
- It cannot be found in either the 'alf_data/lucene-indexes/workspace/SpacesStore/' nor can it be found in in the 'alf_data/lucene-indexes/archive/SpacesStore/' Lucene index.
Step 4 - Die Content File, Die!
- A scheduled orphan-cleaner job activates (that is, contentStoreCleanerTrigger fires the contentStoreCleaner bean, embodied by 'org.alfresco.repo.content.cleanup.ContentStoreCleaner.java').
- This schedule executes every day at 4am, by default.
- This orphaned file cleaner doesn't act on orphans immediately, it waits for a period of X protected days.
- The query to find orphans (query template key 'select_ContentUrlsOrphaned') looks within alf_content_url for 'orphan_time' field values greater than 14 days old).
- See the XML configuration for 'contentStoreCleaner' and the 'protectDays' attribute for the number of days it waits before acting on content files.
- It does not actually delete the content files, instead it simply moves them out of the '/alf_data/contentstore' folder location and into the folder 'alf_data/contentstore.deleted'.
- Assuming that "Toms Document.doc" was orphaned 14 days ago, the date is now 14th March 2011.
- After moving an orphaned content file out of the active content-store, the relevant line in the alf_content_url table deleted from the DB.
- Note: there is *not* a crazy folder-tree 'file crawl' process looking for content files, performing lookups to determine if they're orphans eligible for removal.
- Orphaned content files that have been deleted from the content store, sit around the 'contentstore.deleted' folder forever... until a system administrator either backs it up, moves it, or deletes it.
- Where does the node live now?
- FS: Gone. On the file system, it's finally gone from the content store, although it still does exist in a folder outside the content store, that's safe to delete.
- DB: It is *still* in the DB
- It's still unchanged in the alf_node table, with its 'node_deleted' field property still set to '1'.
- However, any reference in the alf_content_url table has been removed.
- IDX: The search index is unchanged: it still doesn't exist in any search index.
Step 5 - Begone from the Database!
- A separate scheduled job runs to tidy up the database
- This clean-up job executes every day at 21:00 (bean 'nodeServiceCleanupTrigger' leading to bean 'nodeServiceCleanupJobDetail'), and performs the work found inside 'DeletedNodeCleanupWorker'.
- After 30 days from when the 'node_deleted' field was set to '1', this process considers it safe to truly delete the node with a call to the DAO service purge.
- Note: it doesn't use the audit_modifed date, since this wasn't changed when the row was marked for deletion. Instead, it uses the commit_time_ms transaction time from the alf_transaction table.
- Note: this job also removes old transactions from the alf_transaction table. Transactions are considerd old using the same property as node removal work: '30 days'; Defined using the property 'index.tracking.minRecordPurgeAgeDays').
- Where does the node live now?
- FS: Gone (it finally went in step 4).
- DB: Gone (just now in step 5).
- IDX: Gone (it went in step 3).
Finally the Node is Truly Gone
So, after 14 days of removing a node from the archive store, it's taken out of the content store on the file-system, and after a further 15 days (approx) it is finally removed from the database too.
So, why aren't nodes deleted from the DB immediately?
The 'content_url' information is needed for a while until the orphan content cleaner is happy to finally remove the content file. This alf_content_url table is the only way to find content files to remove from the file-system.
Once the trash is emptied, there's no going back, so why does it not simply remove the content file there and then, instead of relying on an orphan-cleaner removing it 14 days later? This is because in backup-recovery situations, you can restore an old 'DB-and-Index' content-set but you don't need to also revert the file-system contents to an earlier version. This useful ability (the file content-store could be huge and time-consuming to restore) is possible since the file content-store will still have the files that have been deleted since the DB snapshot was taken, assuming that snapshot is not older than 14 days. Note: You may have a number of recently created extraneous, inaccessible files, but everything will be in a consistent state.
The row in the alf_node table is kept for a number of reasons, one of which is that Lucene indexes are incrementally rebuilt (in backup-recovery scenarios, usually from a nightly backup) by replaying transactions recorded in the alf_transaction table. That transaction points to a row in the alf_node table, and if it's marked as deleted then the index can be correctly updated with the fact that the node has been deleted since the index snapshot was taken (the associated Lucene document deleted).
If you try to perform an incremental index recovery based on a backed-up Lucene index that's older than the oldest row in the alf_transaction table, it will fail and perform a full re-index based on the full DB tables instead.
So you see, there are good reasons for a node to take this long journey to its final death.


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After being postponed due to the massive rainfall on Tuesday, the much anticipated rivalry between Turlock and Pitman High grew higher as the two met on the tennis courts on Wednesday in a Central California Conference bout.
A walk-off RBI single from Turlock Christian's Mason Mark to score Jack Farrar in the bottom of the eighth with two outs did it for the Eagles who pulled out a 3-2 victory over Southern Athletic League foe Denair High on Thursday at Pedretti.
Things never go well when a player goes down, let alone your ace pitcher. For Pitman High's softball squad it was a blow they couldn't recover from when junior Alexis Mettler went down in the middle of the third inning Thursday afternoon.
James Hollister's reputation precedes itself. Serving 47 years as the track and field coach at Turlock Junior High, his name is synonymous with running and fitness by most in Turlock.
After two and a half years at Turlock Christian High, Shane Smith, former head football coach and current athletic director, is stepping away. Smith, who coached the Eagles during the 2011 and 2012 season before turning in his whistle for the athletic director position duties in 2013, has decided to resign at the end of this school year to accept a teaching and coaching position at Modesto Christian High at the beginning of the 2014 school year.
The Central California Conference met the Trans Valley League Wednesday afternoon when Hilmar High traveled to the Steve Feaver Aquatic Center to face off against Turlock High in a non-league swim meet.
Denair High's tennis team completed the first of its three-round league schedule with a win over Turlock Christian High on Wednesday as its boys and girls earned an 8-1 victory.
The relentless attack of the Pitman Pride offense was unable to tack on more than one goal in Wednesday's Central California Conference matchup against the Buhach Colony Thunder.
A six-run rally in the fourth inning was sufficient enough for the Pitman Pride baseball team to hold on to the lead and pick up the 8-5 win against a visiting Buhach Colony on Wednesday.
Golf preseason is in full swing for local high schools. Turlock, Pitman, Turlock Christian and Hilmar High have been hitting the golf courses as they strive for another successful year with some new and also returning golfers.
Three local teams are preparing for the beginning of track season in the Southern Athletic League. Turlock Christian, Delhi, and Denair High have been conditioning and training their respective athletes for the past couple months with some in search of a SAL championship and others simply in search of competition.
Hilmar High's Devon Mederios is the latest local athlete to secure an athletic future at the collegiate level after signing his letter of intent with Sacramento State University's football team. Mederios, who was a key component of the Yellowjackets' 13-1 season in 2013, will join the Hornets' roster as a walk-on at the kicker position.
The 2013-14 year was the most successful season to-date for the California State University, Stanislaus men's basketball team as the Warriors topped out in wins (21) for the season and won their first ever California Collegiate Athletic Association title after trouncing Chico State 82-70 last weekend.
Albino Orozco came through when it counted Saturday morning.
For the second time in three years, the Turlock Christian girls' basketball unit fell in the section title game, this time to Valley Christian, in a game that didn't seem to fall TC's way from the outset.
Turlock High swept both the Central California Conference Singles tournament and Doubles tournament for the second year in a row on Thursday. Competing on the home courts of Atwater High, Mila Johns claimed the singles title while the newly formed team of Lauren Carlson and Courtnie Chan took the doubles title.
Pitman High's girls' and boys' varsity water polo squads ended their penultimate match of the season with a win over Central California Conference foe Buhach Colony at home on Thursday.
For the Pride it should be four times the charm.
Pitman and Turlock High's volleyball teams met on the court Tuesday night, in the second meeting of the season at Pitman High.
The Turlock High girls' golf team is only one match away from winning their 11th consecutive Central California Conference title, after beating Pitman on Thursday in the regular season finale at Stevinson Ranch by a score of 230-272.
Former Turlock High baseball players are being recruited to reunite on Saturday for the third annual Turlock High Alumni Baseball game.
Turlock High edged out cross-town rival Pitman High on its home court Thursday afternoon, 6-3, in the Bulldogs' second consecutive undefeated championship season. With the win, Turlock claimed its 8th consecutive Central California Conference title-7th outright-and secured three spots in the upcoming CCC Singles Tournament.
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Fighting the Long Defeat
When I was growing up, from as early as I can remember, my daddy would read to me every night before I went to sleep. And I don't mean just when I was little and was learning to read. No — my daddy read to me every night well into middle school. And not just children's books. Yes, he read me all the classics of children's literature like Peter Rabbit and Chronicles of Narnia, but he also read me many of the classics of English literature like Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice. I have no doubt that my love for learning and for reading comes from my father's dedication to read to me night after night year after year.
While I'm incredibly grateful now, I wasn't always so grateful when I was in middle school. When he read me The Hobbit and the three books of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I remember complaining about the books' being "boring boy books"; all the battle scenes and encounters with evil creatures bored me to death.
But then the other day, my daddy sent me an article about Tolkien and Christianity. That article — one of the most beautiful things I have ever read — made me consider that maybe the Lord of the Rings books aren't just "boring boy books", maybe there's more to them than just battles and disgusting evil creatures. Having read that article, I want to re-read the Lord of the Rings — I think that there must be more to the books than I recognized as a middle-schooler.
This was the most beautiful part of the article — at the end when the author gives us Tolkien's riff on what it means to "fight the long defeat" as Galadrial, the Lady of Light, claimed that folks had been doing "together through the ages of the world".
"I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic," [Tolkien] writes in one of his letters, "so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a 'long defeat'—though it contains . . . some samples or glimpses of final victory."
Despite the years of faithful work, J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien have their names on two tombstones, side by side. But one can't help but wonder that the moments they shared together in life, their wedding day and their first child, their mercy to others, or maybe simply the daily comfort of tea, were glimpses of that final victory. That when Jesus comes to usher in the next age and New Jerusalem descends to earth, we will find them both there, together, faithful to the last, experiencing the fruit of the one hope that was always guaranteed: God's reign on earth.
We fight the long defeat because results are not as important as our Father's delight. We fight the long defeat because we are not the authorities over "success."
We fight the long defeat because the final victory is coming.
Isn't that last line breathtakingly beautiful? "We fight the long defeat because the final victory is coming." I honestly tear up every time I read that line.
And the thing about life being full of "some samples or glimpses of the final victory" — that's great stuff, too.
All too often, I think we focus on the big picture — on the long defeat — so much so that we don't even notice the glimpses of final victory that surround us every day.
The beauty of a newborn baby
The glory of a sunrise
The sound of birds tweeting in the early morning
The laughter of friends enjoying each other's company
The simple joy of talking to your parents on the phone
The smile on your grandmother's face when you come to visit
All these things are samples or glimpses of the final victory. But I fear all too often we get caught up in the bad things in our life that we ignore these beautiful, wonderful glimpses of our final victory and of God's glory.
All this reminds me of a card I bought at the Yale Bookstore one day last year. The card, a simple white card with black writing, said simply, "Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones."
Senior year is so full of trying to figure out what our "big joys" are and how to find them. In many ways, senior year — as great as it is to spend a few last months with your college friends — seems like a "long defeat" kind of time. How freeing to be reminded that "we fight the long defeat because we are not the authorities over "success"!
In the midst of this big-joy-searching, long-defeat-facing senior year, I want to resolve constantly to look for life's small joys, for those glimpses of final victory that are present in the mundanity of everyday life but which I so often overlook.
My daddy once told me he wants "Certa bonum certamen" written on his gravestone. I used to think he was kind of silly, but now I really think he's onto something.
Certa bonum certamen — That's the Latin version of the first four words of 1 Timothy 6:12 — "Fight the good fight".
But that's not where the verse ends. It goes on like this: "Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called."
Sounds really similar to "fight the long defeat because the final victory is coming", huh?
Chris Zheng permalinkFebruary 3, 2014 2:17 am
Found a link here through Facebook – beautifully written piece Elizabeth! Incredibly impressed. :)
Patti Barber permalinkFebruary 6, 2014 7:30 pm
Thank you so much for this beautiful article. I happen to be the Mother of Andrew Barber. Your article brought me to tears. We were and are a family of readers. Andrew read "The Hobbit" in second grade. Your article resonates so much with how I have always tried to remind both my children to find joy in the little things in life. I actually said that very statement yesterday to my younger son. God is so generous with his blessings, however we tend to look for "the next best thing that is out of reach". Thank you for reminding all of us that we have a choice in how we view the world. P.S. My husband says your father is the man!!


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Why are there such disparate reviews of Tomi Kro?
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- professor plum Jan 5, 2008 05:56 PM
I need to find a restaurant to take my husband for his 31st birthday. We live in the Riverside area and have heard fantastic things about Tomi Kro. After searching the board and the internet, however, I noticed that people either love or hate the restaurant. It appears that the food is not only up for debate but the service and ambience as well. So the question is - Do I take him to Tomi Kro this Thursday for dinner or is their another place in the same budget that you would recommend. Thanks in advance.
Tomi-Kro has been great the few times we've been and I have no issues in recommending it to others. It's not the best restaurant in the city by any means but in that price range it is definitely an enjoyable neighbourhood spot.
Speaking of which we might actually hit Tomi-Kro this week (Wednesday) if they can fit us in early before the Raptor's game, might have a quick review for you in a few days. :-)
They had attitude issues early on, which seem to have disappeared. I've liked the food and the service when I've been there. But there are few consistent restaurants in this part of town. The only ones I can think of off hand are the Tulip (of which I'm not a fan) and the Goof (pretty consistently bad).
Tomi Kro can be very laid back, so you'd want to avoid it if this isn't your style.
I really enjoyed my meal there, I think it depends on what you like. The crowd at Tomi-Kro skews young, it's pretty loud in there, and the service is friendly (at times bordering on overly familiar). Fantastic small plates for sharing, as well as big plates if you're not down with the tapas trend.
I can see how it would annoy people who are interested in a quiet bite, that's for sure.
re: childofthestorm
Thanks for your replies. I think I will make a reservation. We aren't looking for a romantic - 'gaze into each other's eyes' - kind of birthday dinner. A fun place with good food sounds exactly right. If you have any specific dishes you recommend I would love to hear about them.
re: professor plum
if you like foie gras, the "foie gras creme brulée" is delicious, basically a foie gras mousse with a crusty top, and some nice savoury relish-type sides.
re: childofthestorm
I've been to Tomi-Kro quite a lot & I've never had a bad experience there. That being said, it's not the place for everyone. It can get quite loud (with people and music, much like Trevor), but I like that so it's good for me. The food is quite wonderful and the service is: there when I need it to be and not when I don't...just the way I like it!
I think it gets such widely varying reviews because Tomi-Kro very much is what it is, and if you don't like what it is, you probably won't like anything about the place. The service is hipster and definitely cooler than I am, 'though I've always found it friendly and charming; the ambiance is funky and the music is a little too loud, 'though it's techno-lounge so I love it; and the food is small plates with intense flavours, perhaps a little too expensive, but I love that too...well everything but the perhaps too expensive.
The honey and I had dinner there just before Christmas and for two cocktails, four small starters, one main, one dessert, and three glasses of wine (if I recall correctly) it was about $175, and a really fun evening. They do a great margarita, and I'd trample my mother to get to those lobster maki balls.
re: TwinklyTerrapin
I'm still craving the lobster maki balls. . . . delicious.
I had the memphis ribs. They were decent - altittle dry. The roasted beet salad was delicious and had an amazing garlic sauce. My friends quite enjoyed their butter chicken. Sides we had were brussel sprouts with pancetta and asagio, coconut rice, and green beans - all done well.
There was nothing we did not like. The lobster balls were the most memorable, but all in all it was a satisfying meal. Affordable. Service was typical. No issues.
Hi professor plum - my sister and I are classic examples of the Jekyll and Hyde experiences at Tomi Kro. She went a few months ago with a bunch of friends and came home raving. I tried it the following week-end with another couple - we quite enjoyed the food but had appallingly bad service. I can handle a hip scene as well as anyone and I really wanted to like this place (ambient lighting, casual atmosphere, tempting menu) but service ranged from rude to flaky to absent. My sister, having enjoyed her previous dinner there, had already booked to go the following week-end and once again, had great service and a lovely dinner. We normally have the same take on things so I can only conclude that we were served by totally different people or the same people on different ends of their moodswings. Like I said, I really wanted to like this place and a lot of the food was quite good - I hope you and your husband hit it on a good night!
re: peppermint pate
Ahh yes, flaky, rude and absent...it's all coming back to me. The night we went, which happened to be a very hot August evening, we were served by one of the street people that hang outside. If not that, he was a wannabe. I kid you not. Our waiter kept going outside every 5 mintues or so to have a smoke and hang with the bums outside. It was really really odd.
Just looking for an update on this place. According to the old comments, Tomi Kro skews young, the service is hipster, the place is loud, and the service is variable - but it serves great food. Is this still the case? And if so, is it too cool a place to take a couple of admittedly unhip 60 year olds?
re: 11oclockish
My recent experience has been hit and miss. First visit about 2 months ago - fantastic food, mediocre service. On returning 3 weeks ago, the food was just ok, service indifferent. It does have a pretty boisterous vibe, which shouldn't rule out the 60 year olds. I think it will depend on the night whether you get a decent meal.
Tomi-Krow is one of my fave restaurants in the city. I celebrate most special events there, and have been a long time fan. Maybe it is the nights I go, never on the weekend, but I have always had great service and great food and it has also never been too loud, so maybe you just have to pick your days!
re: melmary
Sorry melmary, but how does one go about 'picking your days'? What I mean is, suppose you want to go for dinner to Tomi Kro's - how would you know if it's the right day or not? Is it wrong to expect great service and great food everyday?
re: millygirl
you misunderstood me...sorry
I meant I guess we have just gone earlier in the week when it is not super busy, therefore not loud
re: melmary
Personally speaking, the noise level doesn't usually bother me. In fact, sometimes I want a place with lots of action. It's the inconsistent food and service that really puts me off. I want a place where I know it's gonna be good, all the time, no matter the price range or day of the week.
re: millygirl
I have never had a bad or even mediocre meal there. The food is great and I usually like the service, although some of the men are a little on the casual side and tend to hang out on the curb in between serving. I have dined many, many times at Tomi Kro and recommend it. Try the tenderloin.
re: greenwoodgerrard
I agree, the food is good and we've never had a problem with service. A few times there have been 6 of us, and everyone enjoyed it.
re: millygirl
I see TK as a great place to drop into if you're in the neighbourhood. It's energetic, has interesting food, and can serve you late.
However I wouldn't make it a special night or trek over there if I was n a different part of the city. It's fine when I'm with friends who live near there, but I'm not a fan of self consciously hip servers and variable levels of service and execution. Of course I'm more at home around Bay St, Rosedale, and King W and spend time in those areas, so dropping in to Jamie Kennedy is easy.
For Leslieville, Tk is great. For the rest of us, you can do much better on any dimension (hipness, innovation, relaxed atmosphere, wine...) for pretty much the same budget. The neighbourhood is also a little too "edgy" and "real" for me, though hopefully the shooting across the street was a one off and not a soon to be regular experience.
re: preppycuisine
This part of town has been improving and is not unsafe (though I would avoid going into the park at Queen & Jones after dark). Tomi Kro is on a block with two other restos, one (Gio's) extremely popular, plus several more a bit to the west.


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