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By Eagle Heart
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Comments about Electrolux EIMED60JIW Dryer:
I am a disabled Combat wounded Veteran and needed something that I could front load and get value and service for my money
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By CA Buyer
This dryer is great - quiet, efficient, fast, and I really like the many options available for drying cycles. I had to change the way the door opens because of the setup of my laundry room, and that turned out to be easy to do. There were easy to follow instructions; the process took about twenty minutes and only required some hand tools to complete. I'd recommend this to anyone.
Buyer Beware!
By Danired0908
We purchased this dryer in October 2013. Nine months later, I got an "E66" error message. The repair technician determined it was the Thermal Lameter and needed to replace the Main Board. After that was complete and the technician was running the machine for 5 minutes, he received an "E65" error message which meant the Element needed replaced. After the Element was replaced and I finally was able to use my dryer after waiting 2 weeks for it to get fixed, I ran my dryer 2 times and received another "E66" error message. I am now waiting for the repair service to come and figure out the problem. Needless to say, I am now without my dryer for another extended period of time while I have to wait for this problem to get fixed. I am very disappointed in my a Electrolux dryer! We are a family of 4 and to be without a dryer is highly inconvient. And NO, I would NEVER recommend this product to anyone.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
A Fantastic Dryer
By Sue Ohio
I love this dryer! It not only dries my clothes without over drying but it does it in half the time my old dryer took. I is very quiet and has a steam function that reduces wrinkles in my husbands work clothes.
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By Mike
A very high quality, highly functional, high class machine with good looks to boot. I have allergies, and a need for the sanitization selection provided on this machine. I find that the steam function is great for touching up your clothes before putting them on in the morning. Controls are logically laid out and easy to understand.
Great Machine
By Gordie
We've had ours for a couple weeks and have been very satisfied with it. Drys very well and minimizes wrinkles. We are very happy with it.
The power of steam
By Ben
Perfect for dress shirts. No more dry cleaners for me.
Febulous Dryer
By Gsquared
All of my superlative comments regarding the matching washer apply equally to the dryer. I particularly like the steam feature on the dryer since it takes wrinkles out of clothes without washing. All in all, amazed at the drying speed even on large loads of sheets and towels.
Replaced my 25 yr old dryer
By GL
This dryer has a lot of options for drying different fabrics. I like the lighted stainless interior. i
By mstylers
We are very pleased with our new washer and dryer. I think they work faster than our previous set and I'm very pleased with the quality of the wash/dry cycles. The units are very quiet and work quickly and clean and dry the clothes well.
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Where should 50 women eat in Manhattan?
I'm organizing a girlfriend getaway in late August for 50 single women from Canada!
I need a few recommendations for a great restaurant that has a Prix-fix menu that can accomodate larger parties on a Friday or Saturday night ($50 per person).
We'd like to eat in Manhattan (staying mid-town east).
Looking forward to our girls' weekend!
Any help is much appreciated ;-)
HunkMania Male Revue? ;)
I wonder if Landmarc at the Time Warner Center would take all of you. Maybe you could pre-arrange to pay 4 or 5 ppl to a bill? Or just make eight reservations of 6 or more people, each? They don't have prix fixe, but prices--esp. for the wine--are pretty fair and the service very friendly.
Most places in NYC won't have this kind of space. Of the ones I know that do, none has a prix fixe menu. And no place is going to be happy with seating 50 people unless you rent the restaurant for the evening.
Have you considered breaking up into smaller groups and spreading yourselves around? All 50 people won't be able to talk to each other anyway. And if you're 50 single women who are *looking* -- well, even approaching two women at a time is intimidating for many men, let alone 50.
re: cimui
Agree with cimui, 50 is tough and you might want to make your reservations in smaller numbers. I have had client dinners for 30+ (we split the group in half) in the small upstairs private room at Del Frisco's (it was cozy/tight for 16+) and at the Sea Grill at Rock Center (2 tables of 8+). Carmine's might be able to accomodate 50, but why come to NYC just to eat good (not great) Italian food? You can go to far better restaurants if you use cimui's approach.
re: financialdistrictresident
Darn, for a sec, I thought you were agreeing with me that HunkMania Male Revue is the greatest.
cveenstra, I'm liking financialdistrictresident's Del Frisco's suggestion. I know the wine cellar holds 50, but since I've never personally paid for it, I don't now how much it'll set you back. Just be forewarned that your bellies will leave happy, but you probably won't want to do anything too active for the rest of the night.
re: financialdistrictresident
HMR *is* fine dining, my friend--for the eyes. And I'm sure they'll travel to her no matter which fine dining establishment OP decides upon that evening. It might be against fire code in the Del Frisco wine cellar, but if just one of the ladies would take one for the team and eat at the bar, the rest of you will fit just fine.
re: cimui
No way will Otto work. No way. Fri or Sat is really a problem, although you might do better in late August when half the city is away. Of course, half the restaurants are closed, too. What about a huge Chinese or the BR Guests are a good idea. You can google them. Redeye Grill in midtown. Vento downtown (meat packing) lots of these places also have private dining rooms but they charge you for that real estate, too. Del Posto has a million private rooms...you are going to have to get on the phone and call. As for the prix fixe, that size party, they'd probably be happier with it.
re: whit565
I had a bday dinner at Otto last year. We had the round table and there were 4 other large groups where they pushed together the other tables. If you plan far enough in advance you could probably reserve all of those tables. It is worth a try. FYI Del Posto will break the budget - as will several of the other options. Chinese is a good idea especially for one of the big places like JiFong.
re: whit565
Red Eye Grill has a private room upstairs. We had our holiday dinner there one year. Not sure if it can accomodate 50.
We had our company event at Gabriel's right by the Time Warner Center of 50 people, they did a prix fixe menu for us as and arranged an open bar for socializing before everyone sat down for their meal. I'm not sure their budget but sans the open bar, you might be able to fit it in yours.
Maybe divide people into three groups and give each one a 'unique' dining experience somewhere. Meet up at a club later where people can mingle and talk about what they ate and what they liked and did not like. You could choose three tourist-y 'destination' restaurants in the Times Square area, for example.
If you all want to eat together, you're going to have to book a private room in a large restaurant or hotel or take over an entire restaurant for the evening. There's no restaurant that would be able to handle serving a group of 50 within the main part of the restaurant. Either way, it's going to be pricey. Does that $50 include drinks?
I suggest you contact the catering dept. at BR Guest. They own a chain of reasonably well respected restaurants of all sorts and are good at catering.
You also might want to investigate either chartering a yacht or going on one of the larger ones as a group.
Where are you all staying?
Whatever you're planning, I hope you're making arrangements through group sales departments of various suppliers. You'll save a lot, esp. for things like theater.
re: mclaurie
Mclaurie is right, BRGuest Restaurants will pretty accomodating. We've done group parties at Dos Caminos and they were able to put together a prix fixe menu and section off an area just for us.
re: mclaurie
Love the cruise idea. Only one caveat - are there any cruises with really good food? I tried to plan a cruise holiday party last year and what stopped us from going the cruise route was the food choices.
Trattoria Trecolori, on 47th St., b/t B'way & 8th Av., serves very good Italian food. They have a private room that can accommodate 50 people. It would be a buffet, and you can choose a menu that will fit your per person budget.
re: RGR
I highly recommend Compass.
The very back section at Otto might work. They normally don't do a single group bigger than 12 (I think) but you may be able to reserve the big round table as well as the other tables that they will line up next to each other there. It may be a long shot, but it is worth a try and you would get a Batali experience to boot.
Opentable reservation site has a section on banquet and large party bookings- lists restaurants, description, and contact information. This might be a good first step then ask for recommendations about specific restaurants.
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Does it have to be dinner? What about an upscale lunch/brunch? It's so sad to come to NY and not dine at one of the better restaurants (you did say "great" and only $50 pp). Whit565 also makes a good point about August, it's a big vacation month in the city.
Try Maloney & Porcelli - E. 50th St b/w Madison and Park - they took over the old "Prix-Fixe Wine Dinner" from their sister restaurant, Cite, when it closed this year and now do it only on weekends. Not sure about the space, but they have at least two floors and if you call far enough in advance, they might have the room - best part of this deal, the wine is unlimited so you really get the most bang for your buck (though I think it will be closer to 70/80 per person, not 50).
Try the private room at Dennis Foy in Tribecca (amazing food). Also was at a birthday party for about the same number of people in the private dinning room at Eleven Madison Park. While not usually my favorite restaurant, they did a lovely job, although may be hard to keep costs down there.
I know this is different than other suggestions, but have you considered a Chinatown Banquet? Many places there are more than happy and experienced to handling your size number as a group. And I am sure you could set it up as a banquet, to get a Prix-fix type of deal. You could arrange it ahead of time to plan the menu, you have lots of lead time. And It would be really fun! The fun of shopping in Chinatown before or after woudl be an additional plus.
re: kobetobiko
Maybe true, but it is a good and fun time. Canada may have good chinese food in some places, like we do here. Both are large countries and both offer great diversities that we can share, not compete about, no?
What about something like Carmine's or Tony's Di Napoli?? Not the best Italian food in the city, but certainly good for large groups.
Afterwards, you should all head over to my apartment =)
The private room at Remy is a great spot for a party that size. If you work with the restaurant you may be able to get close to that price point.

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Let´s play the game called "Unintended Consequences". Do you now believe it´s possible that Little Johnny´s doting parents can be relieved that their little tyke won´t die on the expensive family room sofa? Or that those parents will now be any longer concerned with his drug addiction since this band-aid is now available?
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This is such an important breakthrough that it needs to be mandated that everyone buy this device and keep on hand. And they must be refreshed periodically, so the authorities will need to come by your house to, inspect your medicine cabinet to make sure they are not expired. If cannot afford this, the government will provide it for you and, if you want some heroine, just register as a dimocrat and promise to vote as often as possible and you´ll get the heroine you´re have a right to... as long as yo don´t vote for those meanie republicans.
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To follow up on unintended consequences: How long before someone figures out how to misuse this thing?
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This will only make heroin more popular. With no worry of the ominous "overdose", more and more kids will turn to it. Watch...
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Be serious...it is not going to encourage anyone to overdose. This is just a life saving procedure. Besides, nobody would want to take something like this. As with most of these antidotes, I am sure they throw the body into immediate withdrawal. The person will become violently ill and wish he were dead. Believe me, it isn´t nice or fun. No, the user will definitely know the consequences of his actions. But at least he will still be alive. I can´t believe anyone would have a problem with this new antidote.
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No #5, it will take away the DANGER of an overdose. Alot of kids (and adults) are scared of heroin because of the potential for overdose and resperitory death. Now that this is available, that danger is removed, thereby making heroin "safer".And the antidote (like Narcon) doesn´t make you violently ill, it just makes the high go away. It actually makes the addict quite upset when administered because in their drug-induced stupor, they don´t realize they are overdosing. Letting the EMT personnel administer this is where it belongs.
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But I thought that the antidote to heroin overdose was a hypodermic shot of adrenalin slammed through the sternum, then injected, as Vincent Vega (John Travolta) performed on Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) in Pulp Fiction. Brought her around with a gasp in a fraction of a second. Of course, as Quentin Tarantino said, it was just a device in a movie. Don´t try this at home. Walking off an OD--if the addict can stay upright--might be of more use.As for Phillip Seymour Hoffman, he died after injecting a speedball (as did John Belushi), which is a mixture of both cocaine and heroin. Don´t know if Evzio could have prevented his death.
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in any event, one hears that a number of the deaths in regional cities are not just from "plain" heroin, but from that awful concoction (courtesy of the Russki´s I believe) called "krokodil" which also may include such refinements as gasoline. You want to spike up some regular?Not to be cold and heartless, but this just may be one of those "think of it as evolution in action" matters. I don´t say that lightly, having seen people I cared about go down that "Jonesing" road, beginning some 40 years ago. And know, personally, of some cases where we, by the grace of the Lord, were able to save a life. Only to have the same person die of an O.D. later. Which may very well happen here as well. The problem is not the dope, the problem is a person you might think no longer had a soul, something I certainly don´t say lightly.
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Let us suppose that Rush Limbaugh had been just slightly more addicted than he was. Took one oxy (?) too many, and naloxone could have saved him.Run the thought experiment with injured soldiers who develop an unfortunate addiction. Is it a clear moral mistake they´ve made choosing between agony and addiction, so to hell with them?How is this much different from an epinephrine pen to save someone from a known allergic reaction? Would you administer first aid to a drunk driver who wrecked only his own car?Acetaminophen abuse kills 10 times as many Americans as heroin abuse. Obviously they deserve it. Tylenol junkies!
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Learning Exercise
Audacity, an excellent free audio editing program
Submitted by:
Susan Phillips
on May 02, 2010
Date Last Modified:
Jan 26, 2011
Vowel acoustics
In this lab, students record vowels and diphthongs, measure Fundamental Frequency, identify F1 and F2 and explain how tongue placement affects them.
Type of Task:
Individual, Student-centered, Unsupervised
vowel acoustics
College Upper Division
Science and Technology
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Foundations and Related
Prerequisites Skills:
Using Audacity to record speech, screen capture
Learning Objectives:
Students will: 1. Measure fundamental frequency 2. Identify F1 and F2 3. Explain how tongue placement affects F1 & F2
Technical Notes:
I have students use Jing or MWSnap to capture the spectrogram images and insert them into the lab.
Text of Learning Exercise:
Lab 6: Vowel Acoustics Vocal acoustics A. Concepts to work with 1. vocal tract as various tubes w/ resonances 2. acoustics of vowels (formants) /α/, /i/ /u/ 3. Spectral analysis reading 4. Waveform reading B. Activity: Create these recordings in Audacity. Use Edit, Preferences, and in the Spectrogram tab, set the FFT to 512 and the Max frequency to 8000 Hz. 1. Record /α/, /i/, /u/ (as in "ha, he, who") for each lab partner, holding the microphone about 3 inches from your mouth. a. Use the plus button on the left at the upper right on the tool bar to make the timeframe bigger (so you can see hundredths of a msec). Then drag the bottom of the picture down so the waveforms are bigger. Use a central portion of the /α/ to figure out your fundamental frequency. Count the number of repeating waves you see in 1/10th of a msec. Multiply that by 100 to get your Fo. Copy and paste your picture into your lab. Use the minus button in Audacity until you can see all 3 syllables before moving on to the next question. What is your fundamental frequency (Fo)? ________________ b. Toggle to the spectrogram view. Highlight a segment of the /α/, then choose Analyze, Plot Spectrum from the menu at the top. Find the formants; for /α/ it is hard because F1 and F2 are very close together. Norms for females are in parentheses to help you find them. Yours should be a similar frequency. Then do the same for the other 2 vowels. Copy these spectrograms and plots into your lab. Label the formants with a line. Contact a friend and compare your results, including the numbers in your tables. How does tongue placement affect F1? What changes in tongue placement affect F2? /α/ Name F1 (850 Hz) F2 (1220 Hz) /i/ Name F1 (310 Hz) F2 (2790 Hz) /u/ Name F1 (370 Hz) F2 (950 Hz) c. Record a whispered /α/. Change it to a spectrogram. Magnify at least once. Copy and paste it into your lab and put a copy of your spoken /α/ next to it. What are the differences between a whispered /α/ and a spoken /α/? Where are F1 and F2 for the whispered and spoken /α/? Analyze both with a plot spectrum and include those pictures in your lab. 2. Diphthongs: Record /αi/, /jα/. Change it to a spectrogram. Magnify two times. Copy and paste it into your lab. Describe the changes in the formants. Why do they change?
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The UK government's Cyber Security Strategy publication for this year is now expected in mid-October, after being delayed until after the party conference season. The Minister for Cyber Security, Francis Maude, was due to make a parliamentary statement on the strategy before the end of the month, but Thursday is the last day …
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'Tier 1 national priority' wasn't ready in time
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I guess we just sit here then, twiddling our fingers, hoping UK CNI doesn't get screwed over by Russian/Chinese/American/Greek/Turkish cybercriminals?
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Surely the UK shouldn't be left at risk to the peripatetic serried ranks of global Cyber warrior forces for a moment longer. Particularly not an almost two month delay because of party conferences?
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- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Nov 3, 2009
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 3
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 657 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Jun 21, 2011After playing about three hours of Dragon Age I stoped. Just don´t understand what all you guys have with this Bioware. Mainly I did not like the graphics-realy bad.
Jul 4, 2011Just terrible. In my years of playing RPG's, this game was delightfully devoid of most control concepts, most notably the battle system. Once you engage an enemy, the game pretty much takes over for you and has the characters doing their own thing, for better or for worse. And no, I don't care to know every AI character's backstory which ends up reading about 10000 lines of information that has nothing to do with game play. I stopped playing this after 10 hours, and it's the reason I opened a Goozex account. BLECH.… Expand
May 17, 2011this is such a bad game,absolutely pathetic attempt at creating an rpg,shame on you bioware,i will be never ever ever again purchasing any of your products after this abomination of a game
May 16, 2013Just about everything about this damn game is terrible. The story and narrative are one giant cliche, the setting is uninspiring, the music is entirely bland, the characters are quite one dimensional, combat is sluggish, the interface is clunky, the visuals are a mess, level design is utter garbage, but the voice acting is pretty good.
Mar 3, 2014Pros:
Good choices.
Good back story for each race.
Good story, not great.
Good voice acting.
Worst gameplay ever.
Horrible graphics.
Bad facial animations.
Mar 19, 2011Dragon Age II is a failed attempt to build a story set into the world developed in Dragon Age Origins. I will briefly describe and rate different aspects of the game.
Graphics: The graphics aren't bad but they by no mean redefine the industry's standards like some critics claimed. 7 / 10
Gameplay: The combats are interesting and compelling but the game's mechanics are tarnished by a few problems that really hurt the fun factor. Mostly, you just walk around in town and endless waves of weak humans attack without real reason (they are some civilians walking around with no reaction). The fights are too fast for the player to really set in strategies. Also, the difficulty of the fights isn't fluid. Most of the fights are way too easy on normal difficulty you will want to set the game to hard until your champion meets a real challenge that kills him in a few hits. Many people also criticized the threat system (how enemies pick their target) not without reason. Aside from a short expedition into the deep roads, where you actually kill real enemies and bosses, the fights offer no surprise. Finally, the player will also spend a great amount of time moving from places to places on the city map to talk to characters that has uninteresting things to say and tiring quests to give.
Interface: The big improvement compared to Origins is there. Cycling through the menu is less of a pain and everything is set and explained fine except for a few details. The crafting is now done at specific shops (or Hawke's house for convenience) and doesn't require learned skills. I thought it was a big improvement over Origins, where I felt many character and inventory tweaking were unnecessarily complicated. The skill tree is also vastly improved and many useless skills were removed or combined to reduce possible skills to a compelling amount. 8 / 10
Story: The player embarks into the quest of Hawke, a refugee from the dark spawn invasion triggering the events of Origins. Unlike all games, there is no real quest here but the underlying veil of social ascension punctuated by an infinite pile of uninteresting and mostly incoherent side-quests. The story, which spans over ten years played through four acts, is boring, dull, and shows nothing to hide the fact that the game is just about button smashing your way through side-quests. The champion eventually attempts to bring down the Chantry (mostly a dubious sketch of medieval Christianity) but it wasn't the mission or the intend of the game from until very late into the story and it still feels as artificial and a pretense to kill easy targets as the rest of the quests. This makes the whole game deprived from the very single touch of epicness, a big strength of Origins. An RPG, with no story, come on. 0 / 10
Role-playing: Upon playing an RPG, you are usually expecting two things: playing a role and building a character. Since there is no story, the role playing can only be provided throughout the dialogues where you to get to select an answer between three dialogue patterns: Kneeling **** idiot clown and jackass. Note that the considerable margin between the written tab and the ensuing vocal dialogue made many people consider themselves as Hawke's schizophrenic soul. Furthermore, the three options always lead to the actions after a line or two of stereotypical **** Character customization has been simplified, following the trend of Mass effect and american boys' brain. The warrior can no longer wield two swords and dual wielding rogues can only use daggers, thus forcing the damage scale on dexterity. Inventory items require two set of attributes now. Warrior weapons and armors need strength and hp , rogues need dexterity and critical damage and mages magic and mp. There is, therefore, no way of customizing your character aside from the skills selection. 2 / 10.
Level design: Except from the short expedition in deep roads, where the game designers even dare to send you back for side-quests, all you get (and by that i mean ALL you get) is a mountain, a mine, a town, a foundry, a backstreet a little keep and an Island. Every area has to be visited about an hundred times to complete the mostly mandatory side-quests and all of the what the game designers thought to make is seem different is to block some paths with gray walls. The rest of the level even shows on the minimap! Sometimes, the game will pretend it's a different place which makes it all very confusing and downright insulting the mine accessible is the same as the tunnels accessible from town. 1 / 10
It's like the game was made by two teams: one designing the interface and the gameplay, which didn't fail even it if wasn't perfect, while the other one dedicated itself into producing the worst story ever ported to a screen. Final score: 3 / 10… Expand
Jun 11, 2013Yeah, so 4 apparently doesn't put this game in the red. Well, shucks. I gave Dragon Age 2 an 8, but since that review was basically just bashing this game, I figured I'd flesh out my bashing a little more. First of all, what did I like? The city elf origin story (I am told I would like the casteless dwarf story too), king Cailan, the dog--whom I named Yarlan--and, um, nothing else. Oh, I guess the conflict of interests at the landsmeet was pretty cool too. Oh, hell, I also liked queen Anora. There. Wait, one more, the drama of Isolde killing her own son was pretty gripping and, well, awesome. Everything else--Boring! Stupid! Ugly! A pain to listen to! I mean really--"My warden sense is tingling"? "It's either you or me and it isn't going to be me"? C'mon! People bought this?! A generic the-world's-gonna-end plot involving ogres? I mean darkspawn--could've call them the Flood for all I care. That's what there is to offer? Did y'all really think the story was epic? Have you seen the map? There are only a handful of places to go to and the game can be beaten in 20 hours including the side quests. If it takes longer than that it is because hacking through every enemy--which you have to do to build experience since they don't respawn (places look like desolate wastelands when you revisit them)--is so damn tedious. Have you played an epic RPG lately? Diablo? Dragon Quest? Final Fantasy? Hmm? Does the game really give you that many options? I'm talking about good ones. I mean, how many ways can you tell Wynn she's an old hag with big boobs? That ought to be exciting. Does anything I do change the fate of the city elves? Nope! And would I really care since all the choices in the game basically add up to cue cards at the end? And Ogren. Awful. Maybe not the worst, most annoying NPC ever, but up there.… Expand
Nov 11, 2013Dragon Age:Origins is the worst game of all time. People seem to confuse dirt for diamonds in today's face paced world where information is gushing at your brain like a sewage pipe full of knowledge just burst. But honestly how can anyone find any sort of depth here? The dialogue that is so praised by critics is at best standard fair and nothing to the point it could convince me alone to buy the game, worst yet all bit of dialogue is spoken by weird alien looking people that look like they could past for CGI mannequins from a 90's film. The combat mechanics are pretty much like every other Bioware game and somehow seem even worse then what they were in KOTOR times, The characters are half assed archetypes I had no interest in knowing much less keeping alive, in fact half the time I wished I could feed Alistair to my dog, the Dog was more memorable then your companions. I can't even remember one line of dialogue from them and I just finished the damn game. The story is at best a slightly worse knock off Tolkein, it feels drab and uninspired. Any grand and memorable vistas? Any interesting areas? NOPE! The game generally keeps it's same, dark, depressing grimdark look through out the game making almost every environment feel the same. Also why is it the game even called Dragon Age? Why not Dark Spawn:Origins. The only damn dragon I saw in the game was slightly bigger then my character and easy as hell to kill. Wait a minute, why did I even play this worthless game? I might as well have gone and read Tolkeins books, I'd still get the same story minus the ****ty uninspired enviroments, the ripped off story elements, the horrid combat, the linear and pointless adventure that makes you feel like you really accomplished nothing but unite a bunch of fantasy stereotypes. In short the game is awful don't buy it.… Expand
It's a delight to give into a fantasy setting with such a dense back story, even if the gameplay still rarely breaks away from conventions established a decade ago.
Despite its lack of innovation Dragon Age: Origins is the best RPG in 2009. Its great value and addictive gameplay are among its main highlights.
Incredible storytelling, great characters, and exciting battles are just a few of the things that make this fantasy role-playing game so great.


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Rise Against The Good Left Undone Lyrics
Last updated: 06/08/2014 04:24:56 AM
In fields where nothing grew but weeds,
I found a flower at my feet,
Bending there in my direction,
I wrapped a hand around its stem,
I pulled until the roots gave in,
Finding there what I'd been missing,
But I know...
So I tell myself, I tell myself it's wrong.
There's a point we pass from which we can't return.
I felt the cold rain of the coming storm.
All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long.
When I do I dream of drowning in the ocean,
Longing for the shore where I can lay my head down,
I'll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out.
Inside my hands these petals browned,
Dried up, fallen to the ground
But it was already too late now.
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
Returned this flower to the dirt,
So it could live. I walked away now.
But I know...
Not a day goes by that I don't feel this burn.
There's a point we pass from which we can't return.
I felt the cold rain of the coming storm.
All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long,
When I do I dream of drowning in the ocean,
Longing for the shore where I can lay my head down,
I'll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out.
All because of you...
All because of you...
All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long.
When I do I dream of drowning in the ocean,
Longing for the shore where I can lay my head down,
Inside these arms of yours.
All because of you,
I believe in angels.
Not the kind with wings,
No, not the kind with halos,
The kind that bring you home,
When home becomes a strange place.
I'll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out.
Thanks to Jem for submitting The Good Left Undone Lyrics.
My friend | Reviewer: Pretender | 6/8/14
As it usually happens, the meaning I see in the song reflects my own situation. My friend and I had this increidible friendship, we were both in bad situations in our lives and kind of saved each other. We started dating, because we started feeling more than a friendship but I ended it, because it stopped feeling like it was "supposed to".
We passed the point of no return and couldn't go back to be friends anymore..
I miss him so badly, I love him, but not in the way he'd want me to. I hear this and I feel like his singing to me to shout and tell him to come back.. I wish I could
My View | Reviewer: Sami Townsend | 4/16/13
I saw some reviews saying this song's about the enviroment. I have to disagree. For me, it's odviously a love song. It's about being in nature, and thinking back to old times and old memories. Looking back on old love, and still feeling the power of it. That's my view, anyway. :)
The earth | Reviewer: Crowsfeet | 12/24/12
This song is about the earth and our how our consumerism and selfishness are destroying it. I'm not confident in what the meaning is behind the chorus', but I think he may be referring to a person who helped him see the error of our human ways and the consequences of our actions. This person is someone who is there for him when everyone else has turned their back on him for his newly found set of beliefs, or the first actual convictions he may have decided on for himself regardless of what he was fed by others and society.
Story of my life | Reviewer: D. | 10/26/12
This song tells the story of my life...
I was married but I wasn't happy. Then "i found a flower", a girl that i fell in love with, "in fields where nothing grew but weeds", in a place where i never thought i would meet someone like her. And she was "bending there in my direction", she was very interested in my, too.
So "I wrapped a hand around its stem", i took the chance and
"I pulled until the roots gave in",I told her how i feel and that there are no need for all of her fears and doubts. Than i was
"Finding there what I'd been missing" - we fell in love and i felt more for here, then i ever felt for my wife.
"But I know...", i knew about the problems we were facing.
"So I tell myself, I tell myself it's wrong." in the beginning, before we became a couple, i tried to tell myself that it's wrong and that it simply is not possible to be with her.
"There's a point we pass from which we can't return." - but after we kissed for the first time, i knew that we passed the "point of no return"...
"I felt the cold rain of the coming storm."
I knew times will be hard and that a "storm" will rise.
After a few months i realised that "Inside my hands these petals browned," that she couldn't stand all the trouble and that she wasn't happy...
"But it was already too late now." because i already had left my wife and we were already in this together.
She realised that she could never have the relationship with me that she was dreaming of.
"I pushed my fingers through the earth,
Returned this flower to the dirt,
So it could live. I walked away now." i broke up with her, because i knew she could never be happy and satisfied with me.
"But I know..." that i made a mistake letting her go. But there is no other way and no turning back...
"Not a day goes by that I don't feel this burn." i still can' t get over her...
"There's a point we pass from which we can't return." to much has happend, my feelings for her are to strong to let go.
"I felt the cold rain of the coming storm." because i knew, that i was entering depression and lonliness...
"All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long," i rarely sleep, because my thoughts keep me awake.
"When I do I dream of drowning in the ocean," like i will finally drown in all this sadness.
"Longing for the shore where I can lay my head down," she is the only one who can make it stop and give me peace.
"I'll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out." if she would say, that she want to try it again, i would do it! I know that it's not meant to be, but i never loved a girl like this before... And i would do it all again, going to all the trouble and stuff, because i don't regret anything...
Persistance | Reviewer: who cares | 8/4/12
I don't know the intentions behind this song but somehow i feel like it refers to my situation. I always try to keep everyone of my friends happy and make sure they are well before I look after myself.
It went good for a long time but now they don't realize that i can't do this if they don't care about me too. I am about to break over my kindness and it seems that nobody realizes that. I believe in these Angels without wings and halos but i have to find the one that gives me the love I need because i don't know how much longer I can stand this...
Self-Sacrifice | Reviewer: Atlas | 10/23/11
It's about finding a thing of beauty in a terrible, ugly world, and taking it for your own; but then discovering that you're killing it, corrupting it, ruining its beauty simply by interacting with it. So you put it back, before all of its perfection is gone, in spite of how much it hurts you to do so. Still, you always remember that thing of beauty, and if it ever called you back, you would go without hesitation.
In this context, it's a woman, but I don't see why it couldn't be applied to damn near anything else.
Interpretation | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/26/11
The last verse of this song hits me most heavily.
"All because of you,
I believe in angels.
Not the kind with wings.
No, not the kind with halos.
The kind that bring you home
When home becomes a strange place.
I'll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out."
I've struggled with depression, self-harm, and suicide throughout my life. My family did little to nothing to help me. They were too busy wrapped up in their own silly lives to think about their dying daughter. Some how, through my own stubborness, or luck, I made it to age 17. Right before I turned 18, a person came into my life that, without a doubt, saved me. He brought me home when my home was no longer home to me. I would follow his voice without hesitation.
I am proud to say that we have been dating for 10 years, have been married for 5 years, and it has been 10 years since I've last cut myself.
There is always hope.
Yup totally | Reviewer: MR flame red sled | 7/25/11
I agree with the top interp. I recently got out of a 4 year long relationship 2 of the 4 I was engaged. I'll never forget her. After all the shit thats happened if she called out for me I would be there because I love her. The story has alot to it more than I'd like to admit is negative on her part. 10 hours feels like 10 years in that senario.
Rise Against is increasingly awesome.
Interpretations | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/8/11
Our interpretations seem to heavily reflect who we are, and it is a bit sobering and peaceful to see others have similar and near totally mutual feelings with what this song sings to me. I love this song. It sounds beautiful and appeals on a deeper level. I had a girlfriend who broke up with me in miserable circumstances for both of us and she did more and more to hurt me, not wanting to, but it was a consequence of actions she took to find herself.
But I found that no matter how much she hurt me, I was clinging to the idea of her and sacrificing more and more for her until that sacrifice became a true love of its own. Sacrificial love is the most powerful, but unrequited, it is also the most miserable. She knew this. I knew this.
I'm past my point of no return to where I can't... not miss her.
So, I feel the burn of the pain in our relationship everyday, but I've come more and more to accept it as more warmth than painful.
The song relates heaviest to me because, though we agreed to part ways, if she called, "shouted out," I would return. But until then, and even if it never happens, I can find peace and reflect, sadly, but also in serenity, on the events that happened and what they taught me.
Because of her, I do believe in angels without wings and halos. Thank you, Rise Against, for this wonderful song.
Based on my experience | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/28/11
It's about finding someone in an unexpected place, like a best friend, and finding comfort in them and their love through a rough time in your life. But eventually you see that it isn't a healthy love, it's a consuming love that just kills you both and to save that person and preserve your feelings, you have to pull away. However, even though you know it isn't healthy in the long term, you always remember what that person did for you and meant to you. And you wish that it could have worked out.
my thoughts | Reviewer: That guy | 2/19/11
this guy, with nothing in his life suddenly meets someone who became his flower,leaning towards him, wanting to actually care for him.
so he lets his guard down, falls in love, finding what he has been missing, but he knows the girl cannot give the same back, and he knows its wrong, but he cant get them out of his head, his dreams, he needs to be with this person always, all she have to do is call and he will be there for her, he will come running, he loves this person and cannot show his true feelings, he doesnt know how she feels for him either. before it goes too far he returnes his flower to the earth, becomes the man he always was before his fate had guided him to her. but every day he thinks about her dreams about her still, he has past the point in which he can just forget her. he is alone again cold out in the storm, but his memorys of her still keep him awake at night, and maybe that is enough for him, because of her, he has relised that not everything in this world are weeds, there ARE flowers out there, but he waits, hopes to hear her call, and he will come running....
hope and it will happen | Reviewer: Lizbeth | 1/29/11
this song is a song dat I can relate 2 bcuz I waz goin out wit a guy and wen we were goin out for about 7 months and I waz doin alot of mistakes and when I tried to save our relationship it waz already too late bcuz while we were goin out he started giving a girl love notes & later he broke up wit me :'(!!! 3 months of me being depressed....then later he breaks up wit his gf bcuz she waz lying 2 him dat she loved him and she never wanted to be wit him & bcuz he never stopped loving me and he never stopped thinking bout me!!! Sooo he finally asked me out :) I LUV JB *Drake Rockz*
Great song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/11/11
I believe the song is about someone who held on too tightly to something he had and didn't enjoy it while he had it. Now he misses it and knows he will never have it again. So he tries to move on and forget about her and not put her down because he wants the best for her. This is true love.
love | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/4/11
this song realy relates to me, i had a girlfriend that i was deeply in love with, she broke it off after 2 months for a guy 4 years older (she was 15 he was 18) she used me as comfort 4 times till the dude asked her out. during those stages i became extremly ill, anxiety, depression, heart problems. i said to her, docters cant help me, you can, you are the only one who can fix me... in the song where he says "drowning in the ocean", where someone can save him, in my case she can mend my illness, but this song realy relates to Dried up and fallen to the ground, in a sense. after she destroyed me, i lost my friends, they turned against me. this song helps me to gain another piece of my shattered life .....
Great Song! | Reviewer: Flamel | 12/30/10
I saw many reviews about this song, and I also think, that any interpretaion will be good.
For me it's song about love, and not a bad love after all. I agree, that the man felt sad: "Inside my hands these petals browned,
Dried up, fallen to the ground
But it was already too late now.", but the part of drowning in the ocean isn't that sad, because there is a person who can save him.
The last is very happy to me. Guy believes that there's someone, to whose arms he can fell, when his live will go ruin.
That's my personal opinion, maybe the state of love, in which I am now, is altering it, but this is what I think.
I think about girl that I love, everytime I listen to this. Rise Against is the best! 5/5 of course


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St. Marys Area School District principals were recently presented with Keystone Achievement Awards, signifying each school's achievement in reaching adequate yearly progress (AYP).
South St. Marys Street, Fox Township and Bennetts Valley Elementary schools, along with St. Marys Area Middle and High schools, were among the state's schools receiving the awards.
The Jay Township Supervisors held a special meeting Thursday evening to discuss the township's health insurance policy. According to supervisor Francis Gustafson, the supervisors were recently informed that the cost for the policy was going to increase by about $900 per month and, in an effort to keep costs down, they hoped to find an alternate, cheaper policy.
Amy Groman, an insurance agent for St. Marys Insurance, also attended the meeting to answer supervisors' questions and to provide assistance as they considered their various options.
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"I've just tried to figure things out on my own," Samudosky said. "A lot of these things that took me 13 years to do, I can show someone now in 10 minutes.
"We're all here to learn off each other and everyone has something to bring to the table."
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"I can't believe we are getting this," Brunner said.
The soup kettle was being stored in the Elk County Prison for a number of years and at one time was put up for bid.
The Elk County Catholic Crusaders opened play in the District 9 Class A boys' basketball tournament with a 67-51 victory over the Oswayo Valley Green Wave Wednesday night at the ECCHS gym.
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At S&H Granite and Marble, LLC, our goal is to exceed all of your expectations with custom granite, marble, backsplash, shower, bathtub, hard surface flooring and many more upgrades to your home, or commercial location. We take pride in great customer service being our continued goal.
20+ years combined experience in all aspects of the stone industry.
Completed installs to include a minimum of 6,000 residential installations, all of the granite at the New Orleans Superdome during renovations after Hurricane Katrina, the granite installation during the remodeling of The Hilton Downtown Baton Rouge to include the bar at the Kingfish Lounge, the Fieldhouse at LSU, Crescent Courtyard at LSU, and many more.
Completed an Absolute Black table top for use on the set of Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn while it was being filmed in Baton Rouge.
Our excellent reputation and long list of satisfied clients attest to our superior craftsmanship, attention to detail, clear communication, honesty and integrity. Just ask for our client reference list.
Please read the customer testimonials on the "About Us" page.
We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover!
Please come by and see us at
9444 S. Choctaw, Baton Rouge
We are located in between Triton Stone Group and
Southern Paper & Janitorial Supply.
Hours of operation:
Monday - Friday 9:00AM - 4:00PM
Saturdays 10:00AM - 2:00PM
Sundays Closed
Closed most holidays
Now offering a Maintenance Agreement that covers sealing the stone, regrouting, caulking when needed and MUCH more.
Please contact us for more information!
We are certified to fabricate and install Vetrazzo, IceStone, LG Viatera, Silestone and Paperstone.
We also specialize in most hard surface flooring!
Let's discuss your ideas!
9444 S. Choctaw Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA. 70815
Office: 225-216-3343
Fax: 225-925-2030
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions,
or to schedule a free estimate.
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