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Much as with the base game before it, I believe I'm done with Beyond Earth for now.
This is not to suggest that I believe Beyond Earth to be a bad Civ game. There are quite a few issues – some imbalances, some questionable design philosophies, etc – as pointed out in various Reddit threads dedicated to the game. However, it absolutely captures that whole addictive "I pressed End Turn for six hours in a row" part of the Civ experience. Even now, I'm getting the urge to boot it back up.
What is stopping me is the realization that what I like about the game and what the game actually does are two separate things.
My favorite part of a Civ match is the beginning, when your strategy is largely formless, reactive, as you cast your eyes about an unknown and hostile world. "Okay, let's scout out that island." "Ooo, a city here would capture three strategic resources!" This feeling lasts maybe the first 100 turns, beyond which everything becomes a formality, a known, an inevitability. Yes, perhaps disaster strikes, perhaps you lose a city, perhaps an enemy Civ suddenly wins with a surprise victory condition. Nevertheless, you still know what you have to or should be doing at that point – it all just becomes the mechanical action of carrying it out.
All for what? The personal satisfaction of grinding the patience of a machine to dust? If Firaxis changed the Retire button to a No Longer Delay the Inevitable button, I would win the same amount of times with at least some in-game acknowledgment of the hours poured into the equivalent of a roguelike. Do I really need to conquer those last two capitals before the game is officially over? The game was arguably decided hours ago when I stopped exploring and building cities.
This sort of reminds me of when I used to be really into RTS games like Command & Conquer and Starcraft, up until I understood the concept of Actions Per Minute. Suddenly, the game I was hitherto playing was no longer. I could not unlearn how horribly inefficient my "build six Protoss Carriers" strategies were, nor how much better I could have been playing. The three aspects of gameplay were (still) entertaining – building bases, ordering units around, micromanaging one unit's abilities specifically – but I both understood that I was incapable of engaging in more than one of them at a time, and not particularly motivated to try to get better. If you had time to turtle up to spam endgame units, you probably had time to win much earlier. Which means I was doing… what, exactly?
There is nothing necessarily wrong with enjoying a game outside of its intended purpose, but if the box brings more joy to the cat than the toy it contained, maybe you should just have bought a box instead. Or go find a better toy.
Like I said though, if Civ and Beyond Earth is your type of game, more power to you. I used to think it was mine. But now that I see myself sitting upon a virtual throne of cardboard boxes, I am not quite sure what to think. Other than maybe I should go play something else.
Impression: Civilization: Beyond Earth
I think I am beginning to understand those old-school gamers who were miffed by EA's Dungeon Keeper app. Because, you see, with Beyond Earth I thought I was buying Alpha Centauri and ended up with a full-price Civ 5 mod instead.
That is not an entirely fair comparison, of course. I knew this wasn't going to be Alpha Centauri. But… you know… I kinda wished it was. Alpha Centauri consumed a solid chunk of my adolescent mindspace, where it resides to this day. Like… like a mind worm. That will need to be nerve stapled to be removed. And don't even get me started on those real-world quotations used when researching new tech – I walked into my college courses years later with the equivalent of AP credit from being inspired by Plato and Aristotle half a dozen years before they were required reading.
Anyway. Back to
Civ 5 Beyond Earth.
You know, it's actually extra unfair that I keep belaboring this Civ 5 point because I didn't start playing Civ 5 until about two months ago. I have a total of 24 hours /played in Civ 5 actually. By contrast, I have 16 hours in Beyond Earth as of this morning. It came out three days ago. So there is that.
What I already like about the game are the
barbarians aliens. There are multiple kinds roaming about, including ranged and flying units, and even some "endgame" aliens right from the start. While it feels a bit unfair to stumble across a Siege Worm with an Explorer on Turn 3, I enjoy that extra level of randomness insofar as it gives you some interesting decisions. Such as A) run screaming, B) decide you didn't want to build a city over there anyway, and/or C) New Random World.
Another thing I like – thus far – is the tech web:
The basic gist is that instead of needing to research lame things like Pottery and Horseback Riding on your road to thermonuclear weapons, you can make a beeline to wherever you want. Each tech "branch" has tech "leaves," which I thought was a pretty clever way to keep the web itself relatively clean. Still, there is a lot of convoluted nonsense in there with some techs granting bonuses to buildings on the other side of the tree and the rather unfortunate necessity to research certain techs to "unlock" strategic resources. I know Civ 5 had something similar, but it's extra important in Beyond Earth because your Affinity special units "reserve" a certain amount of said resource, and you never really know how much you'll have until unlock the ability to see it. Combine that with Civ 5's "we still don't like you building cities" M.O. and you could be frustratingly locked into a different Affinity or just use standard units forever.
Speaking of forever, my Civ 5 experience in pressing End Turn about a thousand times before anything of consequence occurs has carried over into Beyond Earth. I have completed one game thus far, where I decided to go for the Supremacy victory instead of "just roll over the insane enemy Civs" victory. After grinding up Supremacy to the prerequisite level, I had to spend 30 turns building an Emancipation gate. Then I needed to… send 1,000 Attack worth of units through the gate. And you can only send one unit per turn. I get that this would probably be completely compelling in a multiplayer match or something, but Jesus.
My second game was on a bigger map that ended up being an Archipelago-ish area. Which could be interesting… except, whoops, you need to spend ~17 turns researching the ability to Embark your land units. Remember when I told you that high-level aliens are everywhere right from the start? That also includes the seas. You can't even escort a colony expansion until you research Gunboats in such a scenario, and one Gunboat can eat about two hits from the standard sea alien. It was literally turn 98 before my 2nd city came up to speed. I might have been able to push for a much earlier expansion but, again, Sid Meier apparently hates cities these days so I wanted the few he would deign to grant me to be near some strategic resource.
Want to know how that game ended? I came into it deciding to go Harmony and channel my inner Deirdre this time around. After unlocking the ability to see Xenomass, I check out the map and… huh. There is pretty much just one free node anywhere near me. Which makes sense, in a way, given that it spawns on land and this particular world is mostly water. Still, it was discouraging enough for me to just abandon the effort altogether. No doubt I could have switched strategies to something else – there were alternative avenues of (eventual) victory – but I wanted a Xeno Titan. Oh well.
There is more to say about Beyond Earth and it's inevitable parade of expansions that will socket in more Civ 5 mechanics, but these are my impressions at 2am after playing 16 hours across three days. If you liked Civ 5, you'll probably like this game. If you liked Alpha Centauri, you probably won't. I am not quite sure what I ultimately feel like right now, but I do know that I would like to try it again.
Micro-Reviews: Suzuka, Orange Marmalade, GE – Good Ending
Suzuka starts off as a fairly cliche high school romance manga, right down to the main male character transferring to Tokyo and living in an all-girl dorm/spa. In fact, you might recognize pretty much that exact premise right out of Love Hina. The curious thing about the manga though is that I was never really able to get a sense of whether it started this way intentionally, or if the gradual evolution of the story into something more meaningful was a happy accident. In either case, the character progression becomes much more interesting as time goes on, the harem and fanservice drops away, and many satisfying (and occasionally frustrating) developments are had by the end.
Basically, if you are looking for a more "realistic" romance manga along the same vein as A Town Where You Live, Suzuka is a good front-runner.
Orange Marmalade
This is a Korean-style romance manga centering around high school girl Ma Ri, the "ice queen," who actually happens to be a vampire in hiding. It has been 300 years since the last vampire has actually killed a human, but the discrimination and threat of exile is constant. In fact, her family has had to move around repeatedly any time people start to get suspicious, which has led to Ma Ri to make peace being alone forever. Despite her best efforts though, she is befriended by a group of girls and Jae Min, a boy who seemingly refuses to leave her alone once she accidentally nips his neck.
The pacing, art style, and overall quality of Orange Marmalade is extremely good. I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I basically plowed through the entire series in a single day. It has angst, drama, and moments of extreme pathos, all without necessarily devolving into standard tropes. There are some vampiric shenanigans, but the story isn't necessarily about vampires. In fact, beyond a few initial plot points, the vampire angle is more allegory than anything – and in that regard, it is extremely effective. I recommend it.
GE – Good Ending
GE – Good Ending is, as you might expect from the title, a high school romance manga. The story centers around Seiji Utsumi, a boy who has a crush on the tennis club president. Too scared to make a move and too unathletic to join the tennis club himself, he remains content with admiring her from afar. That is, until another tennis club member, Yuki Kurokawa, catches him peeking in the bushes, and seemingly makes it her duty to put them together.
While this manga starts out with the stereotypical dumbass protagonist who is incapable of doing anything, the beauty of GE is the character progression and, indeed, evolution. Characters grow up, pasts are revealed, feelings change, misunderstandings are had, and basically real shit occurs. In other words, the beginning of the manga bears little resemblance to what it eventually becomes, which is a rather compelling narrative. If romance manga is your genre, GE will definitely earn a spot on your list.
Huge Layoffs for Wildstar
In a statement provided to Polygon by NCSoft, the layoffs were described as part of "a restructuring of key operations with [NCSoft] West." The publisher says it is devoted to its core massively multiplayer franchises — Aion, Wildstar, Lineage, and Guild Wars — but it also plans to expand into mobile and tablet products.
According to the statement, there were "staff reductions" across all of NCSoft's western branches except for Guild Wars developer ArenaNet.
A source speaking to Polygon who wished to remain unnamed said that Carbine was especially hard-hit by the layoffs. The studio reportedly lost over 60 members of its team of a few hundred. Our source says the layoffs included Carbine employees across all levels, not just entry level or less senior staff.
Although I let my Wildstar subscription lapse after the first month (I had one extra free month via in-game gold), I left /r/Wildstar subscription active on Reddit just to keep an eye on things. For the last few months I thought it might be good to track down just how many developers were leaving Carbine, but it didn't seem especially pertinent considering I did not know their relative "value" or impact to the game. Given the news of this heavy cut, I decided to go ahead and post what I could find:
- Jeremy Gaffney (President of Carbine | Aug 26)
- Hugh Shelton (Class Lead | Sept 23)
- Stephan Frost (Design Producer | Sept 30)
- Matt Mocarski (Art Director | Oct 14)
- Bitwise (Lead Client Engineer | Oct 23)
- Rob Hess (Dungeon and Raid designer | Oct 23)
- Ryan Moore (Senior World Artist | Oct 23)
Some of these people left for personal reasons, some got better offers, some were hit with layoffs. To an extent, this is pretty "normal" in the game industry anyway. No doubt some of those people have been working on Wildstar for 5+ years.
At the same time… yikes.
It's 25% Off!
A friend of mine still hanging onto WoW for dear life wanted me to see this news:
In other words, character transfers are 25% off for a limited time. Not quite the 50% discount Blizzard was offering back in June of last year, but hey, why would they? They got back 600,000 subscriptions in Q3. Can't possibly stymie that value-added cash flow equivalent to any number of quality Steam games/bundles/etc.
I kinda get the argument that the value is there for players still invested in playing WoW; even at $18.75 there are only a few Steam games that could stand up to ~100 hours of play that WoW could easily generate in a month. On the other hand, my subscription ended 5/10/13. I am nearly a year and a half removed. And even if I came back tomorrow, all my toons are still stuck on
no-Pop Auchindoun-US whatever merged PvP server nonsense exists with just about everyone else I know having abandoned ship to a PvE server. So the costs for me to get back into the game is, minimum, $15 + $18.75 + the expansion. That is a rather serious goddamn commitment for something I don't even know I will find fun anymore.
So, no thanks, Blizzard: it's still a wee bit ridiculous. If I could transfer my entire character stable wholesale for that price, sure, maybe. I simply got too much gold, too many alts, and not enough fucks to give.
Review: The Stanley Parable
Given the extremely recent news that it sold 1 million copies in the last year, I figured I'd go ahead and throw out my brief review of The Stanley Parable.
Game: The Stanley Parable
Recommended price: Bundle
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Completion Time: ~3 hours
Buy If You Like: Choose Your Own Adventure games, experimental indie titles
The Stanley Parable is a visual Choose Your Own Adventure tech demo that extremely briefly examines the nature of narrative choice in video games. The "game" consists of moving around in the first-person and exploring an office building while a narrator details all the things you are doing, Bastion-style. The meat of the gameplay consists of getting to one of the endings (sometimes taking as little as 5-7 minutes) and then doing something different on the next play-through.
And… that's about it. While the concept itself is novel, and some of the meta-humor actually relevant/damning, there isn't really anything resembling a game here at all. The entirety of the "parable" could have just as well been summed up in a single blog post, but I suppose that would have meant forgoing the opportunity to charge $15 for the privilege of hearing it.
Nevertheless, I do recommend keeping an eye out for when The Stanley Parable appears in one of the many gaming bundles. I might not be willing to put a dollar price on this experience, but it does add value to whatever the overall bundle you might be looking at. So… take that for what you will.
More Than Fun
Some people play videogames just to have fun. I am not one of them.
Have you ever listened to a mindless comedy sketch or watched a show like America's Funniest Home Videos (or equivalent)? Or realized that you somehow sat through the national average of 5+ hours of television a day? I always feel empty inside afterwards – I had "fun" in the moment, but then the moment is over and the fun evaporates as if it never existed. Because arguably it never did.
To me, having fun isn't enough. I am not in search for some meaningless amusement to while the time away until oblivion; if that is all you're looking for, I might recommend heroin or masturbation. I am looking for fun + X, where X is something I am going to remember more than five seconds into the refractory period. It doesn't always have to be a profound, life-changing epiphany. It just has to be something.
Some people just view videogames as entertainment. Games are certainly that. But they don't have to be just that however, and I would say that they shouldn't be just that. If something can be more, it should be more.
I want games that set fire to my imagination, that grip me emotionally, that change the way I look at the world, that make me want to be a better person. I will also settle for games that break new ground or do familiar things in clever ways. The world has plenty enough slot machines and similar wirehead simulators; we don't need more Loot Caves, we need more Plato Caves.
Are there better avenues than videogames to sate these desires? Maybe. Books have been changing peoples' lives for thousands of years, for sure. At the same time, I don't see a particularly compelling argument that we need sequester life-affirming experiences to one particular medium or another. As we have seen, games can be accessible in ways that Tolkien (etc) may not be. A substitute, even a poor one, is often better than nothing.
If you say such games do not exist, I will disagree. I have played them. Chances are you have played them too. They will be the ones at the top of your "most favorite games" list. They will be the titles you still think about and talk about decades after you stopped playing them.
There is a time and a place for the Flappy Birds and Candy Crush Saga games of the world, don't get me wrong. But just like this compilation video of guys getting hit in the balls, you're going to turn it off and feel nothing. Except, perhaps, remorse.
Peril of Subjectivity
As noted in the sidebar, I have been reading the Art of Game design. One part of an early paragraph sort of jumped out at me, and is kinda relevant to the topic of the usefulness of game reviews:
This peril is the peril of subjectivity, and a place where many designers fall into a trap: "I like playing this game, therefore it must be good." And sometimes, this is right. But other times, this is very, very wrong. [Art of Game Design, pg 16]
Now, on the one hand, this is pretty straight-forward advice for a game designer. Just because you like the game you are creating doesn't necessarily mean other people will. But it seems to me that there is a hidden edge to that sentiment, an implication that a well-designed game is one that most players enjoy.
Duh, right?
Well… doesn't that mean Candy Crush Saga is one of the best games of all time? As of March of this year, 143 million people were playing it every day; the company's revenue went from $164 million in 2012 to $1.9 billion in 2013 almost entirely on the back of a single game. While the game's popularity is declining (as is King's stock price), the takeaway should be that perhaps the quality of a game's design is not necessarily a function of it's popularity. Good games can languish in obscurity and bad games can sell beyond all reason.
Which, really, should not come to a surprise to anyone who has ever turned on a television, read a book, or seen a movie.
Here is the Wikipedia link of the best-selling books of all time (minus religious/political works), for example. The top looks pretty good: A Tale of Two Cities, The Lord of the Rings, and so on. Then you hit The Da Vinci Code and your eye might twitch. It's only when you scroll down to the book series section when you realize that 50 Shades of Grey sold more than 100 million copies. I wasn't able to find how many each individual book in the series sold, but if we assume 33 million apiece that means the original 50 Shades of Grey is "better" than To Kill a Mockingbird or Gone with the Wind. Or Nineteen Eighty-Four. Or a whole swath of cultural brilliance.
You probably don't even need to look at the highest-grossing movies listing to know it's even worse. There is a Transformers movie at #7 and #11, for the record. And the one at #11 was released, oh,
a week four months ago. As in literally seven days ago as of the time of this posting [Edit: I misinterpreted the Wikipedia note; the movie is still in theaters though] . I mean, it should really have been bad enough that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is at #48, ahead of all its infinitely better predecessors.
I suppose my point is that, going back to Tobold's post, it does not surprise me in the least that Destiny received a 76 Metacritic score and yet has 3.2 million daily players. Just as it shouldn't be surprising to see how little overlap there is between RottenTomatos' Top 100 movie list and highest-grossing movie one. I mean, Transformers: Dark of the Moon got a 36% score, and is #7 highest-grossing of all time with over $1.1 billion worldwide. That's more than LotR: Return of the King (94% fresh) which clocks in at #8.
So, basically, no – game reviewers are no more irrelevant than reviewers of any kind of medium. I mean, unless you think movie reviewers are there for some other reason than to direct you towards movies worth watching… in which case they should have just said "Transformers," apparently.
I cannot really comment on Destiny's actual merits for two reasons: A) it wasn't released on the PC, and B) I've been playing PlanetSide 2 for an hour or more each day despite actively hating the game at least 60% of the time. I do not consider the latter indicative of Ps2's game design brilliance so much as a personal deficiency.
Stubborn (PvP) Principles
I have not been playing Wildstar for months, but I try and keep abreast of its various developments. The most recent was a disabling of the free realm transfers ahead of the incoming megaserver merge. It was later clarified on Reddit that the free realm transfers would be coming back once everything is stabilized… but only for PvP –> PvE transfers. Some player, clearly new to the MMO scene [Edit: or used to WoW] , asked the bright-eyed question of "Why?" InRustTrust helpfully explained the hitherto ironclad logic:
The restriction is, and always has been, purely because the people on PvP servers don't want you to just level up your character in complete peace, obtain all the gear they competed over and free of the ganking they had to endure, and merely transfer past all that. I don't know why this is ever shocking to anyone. It's like this in practically every MMO and the reason is always the same.
I say "hitherto" because A) I like fancy words, and B) does that explanation strike anyone else as increasingly asinine?
It is certainly true that such a rule strikes a chord of fairness. But what are we really saying here? What are the developers committing to? There are precisely two megaservers in North America, with a one-way funnel between them; any server transfer is basically a permanent loss for the PvP megaserver. So anyone who originally joined their friends on a PvE server only to lose them, now has to sate their frustrated bloodthirst in battleground queues. Or anyone who wasn't sure whether they could stand it, or anyone who didn't originally know the difference, or anyone looking for a change in scenery, or for any number of reasons. Including, I'm sure, X amount who wanted to level in peace but are itching to gank lowbies.
Would it be unfair? I ask… who cares?
No, seriously, just think about it. Are we really regarding leveling up on a PvP server as some kind of rite of passage? That you cannot gank lowbies unless you yourself were a lowbie to be ganked? It spawns all sorts of interesting questions. For example, I leveled up on the PvP no-pop server of Auchindoun in WoW. There were a few ganks along the way, sure, but my experience had to be night-and-day different from someone who leveled up on a High-pop PvP server. Am I "worthy" of the same "respect" as those who had it worse?
I mean, principles are great and all, and I recommend everyone having a few. But on occasion I also recommend examining them and seeing if they are still relevant to your interests. Having a PvE –> PvP server restriction is 100% arbitrary and I can't see what real benefit it brings, especially when PvP servers are historically the most empty to begin with. Can Wildstar really afford to turn away geared endgame players from possibly generating endgame shenanigans on PvP servers? "It's not fair!" So add an achievement: Leveled On A PvP Server [+10].
It's a PvP server, people, everyone should be falling over themselves getting more (carebear) targets to transfer. Right? The sanctity of the hazing ritual that is leveling on these servers is not sacrosanct. The PvP person who would quit over this clearly was not interested in a world PvP endgame. The only people you have to watch out for would be the lowbies who might see an increase in getting ganked… but then again that is precisely what they signed up for in the first place. Arguably those masochists would like it even more.
So come on, Carbine, be the
first (?) next to put this sacred cow out to pasture.
Cooperation Requires Incentives
Both Tobold and Rohan were musing about a similar issue last week: why isn't there more cooperation in survival MMOs? Or more PvE-only survival MMOs in the first place?
Let me turn the question around: why would you cooperate? Tobold is thankful that our real-life ancestors were not as blood-thirsty as the average DayZ player, but I am not even sure whether or not that is true. Recorded history is filled with the conquest of the weaker, and who knows what happened in the darkness of the forest millennia before that?
The problem in gaming, as is often the case, comes down to incentives. Specifically, if there are no extrinsic bonuses for assisting someone in any game, I generally only do so if I happen to be in the mood and it's easy. For example, I have no problem playing Medic classes in PlanetSide 2 or Battlefield 4 because reviving teammates A) gives me as much XP as a normal kill, and B) the revived character is likely to get me closer to the goal of winning the match/flag/etc (i.e. more XP). Guild Wars 2 also did a pretty good job in incentivising reviving other players along similar lines. Obviously 5-man dungeons and such offer similar carrots.
In the absence of the extrinsic carrot though, a game designer cedes control to the player's own nebulous intrinsic motivations to govern behavior. Unless you are a particularly extroverted individual looking to make more internet friends, there is really no reason you would ever cooperate without the carrot. If it's a free-for-all scenario, not killing another player on sight is a huge risk. And even if you are willing to take that gamble and it succeeds, the "reward" is generally limited to what you can accomplish within that play session… unless you go out of your way to befriend them.
What if you don't want more friends?
For a PvE survival MMO to work, I think constructing the proper incentives for cooperation would be Priority #1, and they would need to be extrinsic incentives. I am not a huge fan of the permadeath ideas Rohan was tossing around, but imagine if permadeath were a possibility, and killing other players (without cause) increased that chance? Let's say the odds of permadeath were 10% baseline and increased by 25% for each player you killed. Meanwhile, if you healed, revived, traded/interacted with, or perhaps simply were in X radius around another player on your friends list, the baseline permadeath chance dropped to 0%. The "stain" of unjust PvP would not diminish – unless as a result of some penance or whatever – and yet it would give both groups the relevant incentive to do stuff with others.
I do not necessarily think it is wrong for game designers to rely on players to want to make friends to enjoy their game properly, but that ship has long sailed for me. I got my ex-WoW buddies, some IRL friends, and this blog if I want to talk shop with someone; I'm not entirely in the mood for the arduous vetting process and necessary synchronized timing necessary to make new friends. Needing to join a guild or Outfit or whatever to get the "full experience" simply means I won't ever be getting the full experience in your game.
And if your game offers nothing else, then I won't be playing it.


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Seahawks return from bye week
A week off for the Seattle Seahawks allowed coach Pete Carroll to take a closer look at some of his team's struggles.
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A week off for the Seattle Seahawks allowed coach Pete Carroll to take a closer look at some of his team's struggles.
Third down has been the biggest issue for the Seahawks this season on both sides of the ball. A defense that ranks third in the league in yards and points per game given up is allowing opposing offenses to convert on 41 percent of third down opportunities.
Offensively, Seattle (6-4) is converting just 33 percent on third down. Both stats are in the bottom third of the league. The Seahawks face Miami (4-6) on Sunday.
"For as good as we can play on defense at times to be at 40 percent, that's not good enough for us. We need to knock that thing down," Carroll said.
It's an area Carroll focused on during the week off to evaluate how they can improve over the final six weeks of the season. Carroll said they broke down what they were doing in a given situation and how teams are attacking them in those situations.
"We came to some conclusions that we wanted to fix some things," Carroll said. "...There's a couple spots in the third down areas where we haven't been as effective, so we're trying to focus on that."
Carroll said there will be some "subtle" changes to how they handle some situations that the team will adjust going forward.
The Seahawks had a practice on Monday that allowed them to implement some of the adjustments. It also allowed them to try and shake off the rust after a week away from the facility.
"(A bye week) can throw you off. You can get thrown out of whack because you're in those routines," Carroll said. "... I'm not taking it for granted that we've just got it nailed and we're back in full steam again."
The bye week did come at a perfect time for Seattle to rest some lingering injuries. The Seahawks have been relatively healthy throughout the season with just three players on injured reserve through the first 11 weeks - none of which were starters.
The Seahawks did have 13 players listed on their final injury report before their last game with the New York Jets.
Only guard James Carpenter was unable to practice during the team's first workout since the break on Monday. Carpenter was still undergoing tests for a concussion suffered three weeks ago. Carroll said they would know more about his status on Wednesday.
Linebacker K.J. Wright was cleared to return to practice from a concussion suffered two weeks ago on the opening series against the Minnesota Vikings.
Defensive tackles Clinton McDonald (groin) and Greg Scruggs (oblique) also missed the Jets game with injuries but were back on the practice field Monday.
Carroll said that he expected cornerback Walter Thurmond to be back in the lineup this week. Thurmond was activated from the physically unable to perform list prior to the Seahawks win over the Jets, but was inactive for the game. He's practiced with the team the past three weeks and Carroll is ready to get him back on the field.
"I think he's ready to go," Carroll said. "... He's a special football player and we'd like to get him involved."
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Thursday, December 18, Saturday, December 20, and Sunday, December 21, 12:30 p.m.
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On this family-friendly tour, focus on the stunning display of Hanukkah lamps in Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America, and learn more about Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday that celebrates the value of religious freedom.
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Everybody knows that the Soviet Metro has been named after Vladimir Lenin, but quite a few symbols of Stalin have been used there over the years; everything about the Metro has to do with the personality cult. In this posting we are going to compare the Metro at the time of opening with the Metro at the moment of Soviet government change.
Belorussian Metro Station – used to have a large Stalin's profile
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Semenovskaya Metro Station – used to be called Stalinskaya Metro Station, after renaming Stalin's portrait above the arch has been taken off
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Sorting data is an integral part of data analysis. You might want to arrange a list of names in alphabetical order, compile a list of product inventory levels from highest to lowest, or order rows by colors or icons. Sorting data helps you quickly visualize and understand your data better, organize and find the data that you want, and ultimately make more effective decisions.
Note To find the top or bottom values in a range of cells or table, such as the top 10 grades or the bottom 5 sales amounts, use AutoFilter or conditional formatting (conditional format: A format, such as cell shading or font color, that Excel automatically applies to cells if a specified condition is true.).
For more information, see Filter data in a range or table and Add, change, find, or clear conditional formats.
You can sort data by text (A to Z or Z to A), numbers (smallest to largest or largest to smallest), and dates and times (oldest to newest and newest to oldest) in one or more columns. You can also sort by a custom list (such as Large, Medium, and Small) or by format, including cell color, font color, or icon set. Most sort operations are column sorts, but you can also sort by rows.
Sort criteria for an Excel table are saved with the workbook so that you can reapply the sort to that table each time that you open the workbook, but sort criteria are not saved for a range of cells. If you want to save sort criteria so that you can periodically reapply a sort when you open a workbook, it's a good idea to use a table. This is especially important for multicolumn sorts or for sorts that take a long time to create.
When you reapply a sort, different results may appear for the following reasons:
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Issue: Check that all data is stored as text If the column that you want to sort contains numbers stored as numbers and numbers stored as text, you need to format them all as text. If you do not apply this format, the numbers stored as numbers are sorted before the numbers stored as text. To format all the selected data as text, on the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Format Cell Font button, click the Number tab and then, under Category, click Text.
Issue: Remove any leading spaces In some cases, data imported from another application might have leading spaces inserted before data. Remove the leading spaces before you sort the data. You can do this manually, or you can use the TRIM function.
Issue: Check that all numbers are stored as numbers If the results are not what you expected, the column might contain numbers stored as text instead of as numbers. For example, negative numbers imported from some accounting systems or a number entered with a leading apostrophe (') are stored as text.
For more information, see Convert numbers stored as text to numbers.
Issue: Check that dates and times are stored as dates or times If the results are not what you expected, the column might contain dates or times stored as text instead of as dates or times. For Excel to sort dates and times correctly, all dates and times in a column must be stored as a date or time serial number. If Excel cannot recognize a value as a date or time, the date or time is stored as text.
For more information, see Convert dates stored as text to dates.
Note If you want to sort by days of the week, format the cells to show the day of the week. If you want to sort by the day of the week regardless of the date, convert them to text by using the TEXT function. However, the TEXT function returns a text value, and so the sort operation would be based on alphanumeric data.
For more information, see Show dates as days of the week.
If you have manually or conditionally formatted a range of cells or a table column by cell color or font color, you can also sort by these colors. You can also sort by an icon set that you created by applying a conditional format.
The Sort dialog box appears.
Note There is no default cell color, font color, or icon sort order. You must define the order that you want for each sort operation.
Make sure that you select the same column in the Then by box and that you make the same selection under Order.
Keep repeating for each additional cell color, font color, or icon that you want included in the sort.
You can use a custom list to sort in a user-defined order. For example, a column might contain values that you want to sort by, such as High, Medium, and Low. How can you sort so that rows containing High appear first, followed by Medium, and then Low? If you were to sort alphabetically, an "A to Z" sort would put High at the top, but Low would come before Medium. And if you sorted "Z to A," Medium would appear first, with Low in the middle. Regardless of the order, you always want "Medium" in the middle. By creating your own custom list, you can get around this problem.
In addition to custom lists, Excel provides built-in, day-of-the-week and month-of-the year custom lists.
Sort by value
Sort by cell color, font color, or cell icon
Note When you sort rows that are part of a worksheet outline, Excel sorts the highest-level groups (level 1) so that the detail rows or columns stay together, even if the detail rows or columns are hidden.
You may want to sort by more than one column or row when you have data that you want to group by the same value in one column or row, and then sort another column or row within that group of equal values. For example, if you have a Department column and an Employee column, you can first sort by Department (to group all the employees in the same department together), and then sort by name (to put the names in alphabetical order within each department). You can sort by up to 64 columns.
Note For best results, the range of cells that you sort should have column headings.
Note You must keep at least one entry in the list.
To sort by a part of a value in a column, such as a part number code (789-WDG-34), last name (Carol Philips), or first name (Philips, Carol), you first need to split the column into two or more columns so that the value you want to sort by is in its own column. To do this, you can use text functions to separate the parts of the cells or you can use the Convert Text to Columns Wizard.
For examples and more information, see Split names by using the Convert Text to Columns Wizard and Split text among columns by using functions.
Warning Be careful when using this feature. Sorting by one column in a range may produce results that you don't want, such as moving cells in that column away from other cells in the same row.
Note You cannot do the following procedure in a table.
If the results are not what you want, click Undo .
If you get unexpected results when sorting your data, do the following:
Check to see if the values returned by a formula have changed If the data that you have sorted contains one or more formulas, the return values of those formulas might change when the worksheet is recalculated. In this case, make sure that you reapply the sort to get up-to-date results.
Unhide rows and columns before you sort Hidden columns are not moved when you sort columns, and hidden rows are not moved when you sort rows. Before you sort data, it's a good idea to unhide the hidden columns and rows.
Check the locale setting Sort orders vary by locale setting. Make sure that you have the proper locale setting in Regional Settings or Regional and Language Options in Control Panel on your computer. For information about changing the locale setting, see the Windows help system.
Enter column headings in only one row If you need multiple line labels, wrap the text within the cell.
Turn on or off the heading row It's usually best to have a heading row when you sort a column to make it easier to understand the meaning of the data. By default, the value in the heading is not included in the sort operation. Occasionally, you may need to turn the heading on or off so that the value in the heading is or is not included in the sort operation. Do one of the following:


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The Large Cost of a Small Operation
A farmer in the Mississippi Delta region. People who earn their living as farmers have a unique role in society as stewards of an essential public good—an agriculture system that feeds and nourishes everyone. (Photo by Todd Post/Bread for the World)
by Gabrielle Hall
Unbeknownst to most people, thousands of local farmers across the country work tirelessly to harvest enough to get by each year. Unfortunately, the current food system in United States creates hardships for small farmers to stay afloat.
"It's very important to look at our broken food system, which actually comes from a broken agriculture system. For many years, the big guys were the only ones that counted and the little guys had to do the stuff by themselves." said Robin Robbins, food safety and marketing manager at Appalachian Harvest, a company that supports small farmers and purchases from local farms to put together truckloads of fruits and vegetables.
Here is a look at some of the other challenges small farmers face:
Posted by Bread on August 22, 2012 in Development, Solutions to U.S. Poverty, U.S. Hunger / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
What Do Liberia and Virginia Have in Common?
A market in Liberia. (Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World)
by Kristen Archer.
Liberia is about the same size as Virginia, but its poverty rate is nearly quadruple that of African-Americans in that state.
"Hunger and poverty among African-Americans mirror the unjust circumstances many people in African nations endure," said Rev. Derrick Boykin, associate for African-American leadership outreach at Bread for the World. "However, hunger and poverty impacts many African nations more severely, often resulting in disease or even death."
Continue reading "What Do Liberia and Virginia Have in Common?" »
Posted by Bread on August 16, 2012 in Development, Foreign Aid, Global Hunger, Poverty, Social Justice / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
American Drought Could Be a Disaster for Developing Countries
Faustine Wabwire (left) interviewed by VOA-TV about the global impact of the U.S. drought.
by Racine Tucker-Hamilton
Wheat, corn, and soybean prices have risen more than 30 percent since mid June.
Not a big deal, you think? Well, for some families in the developing world it could mean the difference between life and death. Poor people spend 50 to 70 percent of their income on food, and when there is the slightest increase in price it could mean the difference between eating and going hungry.
The current U.S. drought could have a devastating impact not only in this country but around the world. This afternoon, Faustine Wabwire—a senior foreign assistance policy analyst with Bread for the World Institute—discussed the issue with Voice of American correspondent Ndimyake Mwakalyelye. The interview will air next week on the VOA television program "In Focus."
To learn more about how the drought in the American Midwest will be felt around the world, read Wabwires's blog post "Is Another Food Crisis Brewing?"
Racine Tucker-Hamilton is media relations manager at Bread for the World.
Posted by Bread on August 09, 2012 in Development, Foreign Aid, Global Hunger, Poverty / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Have You Thanked a Farmer Today?
The new Food Resource Bank T-shirt inspires Dulce Gamboa, who had an opportunity to thank many farmers at the FRB annual meeting.
by Dulce Gamboa
Well, I hadn't had the chance to thank a farmer until I read the slogan on a Foods Resource Bank (FRB) staff T-shirt last Saturday during the FRB annual meeting in Kidron, Ohio. Thankfully, I was in a room full of farmers! It was a good reminder about the key role that they play in our daily lives.
The Foods Resource Bank connects farmers locally and globally as a Christian response to end hunger. Through community growing projects, FRB members and volunteers raise money in the United States to sustain agricultural projects overseas. The model is straightforward: farmers support farmers.
At the FRB annual meeting, farmers talked about the challenges of small-holder agriculture. Arlyn Schipper, from Iowa, explained common problems, such as excess or scarcity of water, soil erosion, and price volatility.
This year Arlyn is praying for rain on his own land. He needs five to seven inches of rain to maintain his cattle and crops, but so far has gotten only around three inches. Arlyn stressed that he will be okay even if he doesn't get more rain, thanks to his insurance. But farmers in developing countries don't have the same support. That is why the FRB partners with 15 organizations, like Catholic Relief Services and the Mennonite Central Committee, to make sure that small-holder farmers around the world have access to credit, new technology, and best farming practices.
Arlyn's efforts on behalf of fellow farmers extend to Washington, DC. He has made Heart of the Hill visits to the nation's capital. This joint effort of FRB and Bread for the World fosters interaction between farmers and their members of Congress. These visits delivery two strong messages at the core of the FRB: local ownership increases the sustainability of agricultural projects overseas and U.S. farmers support an increase in productivity and sustainability by all small-holder farmers.
For example, during the FRB annual meeting, Rory Lewandowski, a Wayne County extension agent, talked about his work in Central America, where he has been working side by side with small-holder farmers. From earning their trust to implementing and adapting the latest technology under challenging environments, Rory is living proof of what farmers are doing now to end hunger in our time.
Dulce Gamboa is a project coordinator for the church relations department at Bread for the World.
Posted by Bread on August 03, 2012 in Advocacy, Development, Foreign Aid, Hunger Resources, Poverty / Comments (1) / TrackBack (0)
PEPFAR's Vital Role in the Fight Against AIDS
U.S. foreign assistance programs like the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has helped reverse the growth of HIV/AIDS in many developing countries and could provide tactics for reducing the epidemic in the United States. Photo courtesy The Bill and & Melinda Gates Foundation.
To a large degree, the International AIDS Conference under way in Washington, DC, is a celebration of life. Yes, the deadly disease continues to loom over our world, with no known cure, but HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence—for those who realize that they have the disease and have access to life saving medicines. After doctors began treating HIV with powerful combinations of antiretroviral drugs in 1996, life expectancies for those infected changed from months to a full, normal spans.
Around the world, the number of people newly infected has steadily declined in recent years as has the number of AIDS-related deaths. According to Dr. Diane Havlir, U.S. Co-Chair of AIDS 2012, new scientific breakthroughs have given leaders in the AIDS movement hope that we may be beginning to see an end to the epidemic.
Progress against HIV/AIDS has been a remarkable achievement in which diverse communities worked together to apply political pressure, find funding, conduct research, and share tactics. U.S. foreign assistance programs like the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has provided support to tens of millions of people through prevention, treatment, and care. Bread for the World members have advocated for funding for PEPFAR since it was launched in 2003.
In 2009, Bread for the World shared the story of Florence Chakulya, a midwife in Zambia who is preventing the transmission of HIV from mother to child, one pregnancy at a time—with resources provided by PEPFAR. Although she often must work by candlelight, Chakulya is able to give each of her clients an HIV test and adminster Nevirapine, a drug that helps to prevent transmission of the HIV virus from a mother to her baby during delivery. In this way, the battle against AIDS is being won.
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Posted by Bread on July 26, 2012 in Advocacy, Development / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
How Can We Get There Without a Map?
Photo by Anne Poulsen/ World Food Programme
Did you ever try to get to a far-off destination without a map? It's not easy.
Today, Bread for the World will join a coalition of 50 faith-based, humanitarian, and advocacy groups to present A Roadmap for Continued U.S. Leadership to End Global Hunger. At a Capitol Hill event later this afternoon, members of Congress, policymakers, and NGO leaders will officially unfold the Roadmap, charting a course for a hunger-free world through smart investments.
The document reviews progress over the last three years towards the goals set out in the original Roadmap and offers recommendations to ensure continued effectiveness of U.S. global food security programs.
The Original Roadmap
In the wake of the global food price crisis of 2008, a broad-based coalition of non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups, and faith-based organizations developed a document titled the Roadmap to End Global Hunger, which was endorsed by over 40 organizations and became the basis for legislation introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R. 2817). The Roadmap presented a vision for a comprehensive and integrated U.S. strategy to increase global food security, including suggested levels of financial support for emergency, safety net, nutrition and agricultural development programs over five years.
Hunger remains one of the world's most pressing challenges, with almost a billion people—or one in seven worldwide—suffering chronic hunger. In addition, each year up to 100 million more may face acute hunger brought on by natural disasters and conflicts. Women and children are disproportionately affected by hunger and malnutrition. With population growth placing a strain on a limited natural resource base, and changing weather patterns creating more droughts and floods, feeding the world of the future presents a serious challenge.
Posted by Bread on July 24, 2012 in 1,000 Days, Advocacy, Development, Foreign Aid, Global Hunger, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Poverty / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Upholding the Bipartisan Consensus on Development
ACDI/VOCA's Kenya Maize Development Program nearly tripled maize yields for small-scale farmers in Kenya, about a third of whom are women. New technologies like improved seeds helped farmers realize these gains. Photo by ACDI/VOCA.
Ambassador Mark Dybul, former U.S. global AIDS coordinator, writes that a battle is brewing in Congress over whether or not to uphold an existing bipartisan consensus on health and development. At issue is U.S. support for self-sufficiency programs in developing countries, setting the goal for those countries to take primary responsibility for their citizens' health and well-being.
Fortunately, the brewing battle is not between Republications and Democrats.
"The reason for the strong bipartisan agreement is rather simple: it's the right thing to do for the American taxpayer to save and lift up more lives with the highest return on investment—and that, in turn, is good for our national economy and security," writes Ambassador Dybul in a recent op-ed in The Hill.
Those who favor this consensus argue that local organizations are closer to the ground and, thus, can accomplish more with less money. The days of paternalistic development are over, say supporters; developing countries no longer welcome support run by foreign governments or development institutions.
Those who are against increased support to self-sufficiency programs often cite corruption as an issue. They also argue that local organizations cannot manage large, complex development projects.
"A change in mindset is needed," writes Ambassador Dybul, a leader of the Consensus on Development Reform (a project of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network). "U.S.-based organizations should begin to shift from being primary implementers of programs to agents of technical support and exchange."
The result of this battle will affect two major programs, in particular, for which Bread for the World activists advocated—and which they continue to support: the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Both were started by Republicans and continue to be supported by Democrats. Such programs are keys to our efforts to modernize U.S. foreign aid.
Adlai J. Amor is director of communications of Bread for the World.
Posted by Bread on July 23, 2012 in Advocacy, Development, Foreign Aid, Global Hunger, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty, Social Justice / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
The Jamay Jalisco Club
The Jamay Jalisco Club in Los Angeles raises money for community projects in the town of Jamay, Mexico. Screen shot from video by Jon Vidar for Bread for the World.
Across the United States, people like Pedro Ochoa are raising funds for community projects in poor Mexican towns they left behind when they migrated (watch video below). Ochoa, vice president of the Jamay Jalisco Club in Los Angeles, is part of a vast network of U.S.-based Hometown Associations that send money — remittances — to Mexico and Central America. Ochoa's latest project is getting a school bus to Jamay, Mexico, his hometown, so children there don't have to walk far to school.
"Our plan is to do what they do here in the States: pick up the kids from wherever they are," said Ochoa. "I don't have much family in Jamay but I have my heart to help people in it."
But while remittances can improve community infrastructure, they rarely result in jobs or investments that give people alternatives to migrating from their countries for work. There's a growing recognition in the diaspora that there need to be more projects resulting in sustainable income in hometowns. Agencies like the Inter-American Foundation are already working with diaspora investors to support small businesses and agricultural enterprises in high-migration countries like El Salvador. Larger agencies like the Millennium Challenge Corporation and USAID can expand these programs to places like Jamay in Mexico and throughout Central America.
To learn more about the links between remittances, immigration, and development, read my colleague Andrew Wainer's latest paper on the topic and visit Bread's immigration web page.
Laura Elizabeth Pohl is multimedia manager at Bread for the World. Follow her on Twitter @lauraepohl.
Posted by Laura Elizabeth Pohl on July 02, 2012 in Development, Film and Photography, Foreign Aid, Global Hunger, Immigration, Multimedia / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Africa on the Ground: A Reflection by Rev. Derrick Boykin
In October 2011, Bread for the World hosted a delegation of religious leaders during a visit to three African countries -- Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania -- that are known as SUN countries for their commitment to "scaling up nutrition." The group was able to witness, first-hand, small but mighty successes on the ground. Rev. Derrick Boykin, Bread's associate for African American leadership outreach, was among the group. In this video reflection on his journey, he asks African-Americans to join him in speaking up for Africa.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Donald M. Payne International Food Assistance Improvement Act of 2012. This bipartisan-supported legislation is one of the first bills to highlight the importance of nutrition during the critical 1,000 days between pregnancy and a child's second birthday.
If passed into law, this bill will significantly benefit women and children in developing countries, especially those in Africa. That this legislation was even introduced demonstrates the growing understanding among congressional leaders that good nutrition is critical to improving the lives of poor people around the world.
African countries are also taking nutrition and development into their own hands. An exciting example of this is the growing number of African leaders who recognize the devastating impact of malnutrition during the 1,000-day window. Twenty African countries have committed to turning the tide on malnutrition by joining the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement — a committed effort to reducing malnutrition in the developing world.
Racine Tucker-Hamilton is media relations manager at Bread for the World.
Posted by Bread on June 18, 2012 in Development, Film and Photography, Foreign Aid, Global Hunger, Horn of Africa, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty / Comments (1) / TrackBack (0)
The Agricultural Gold Rush for Africa
Jane Sabbi, left, is a farmer with 12 acres of land in Kamuli, Uganda and a mother of seven children. Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl.
At this year's G8 Summit, which was chaired by President Obama, the G8 nations committed themselves to maintain this focus on food security and nutrition. But they put new emphasis on the private sector.
International investment in Africa is already increasing rapidly. Ten percent of all the foreign direct investment in the world last year was in Africa. A score of international companies have worked with political leaders in Africa to develop "Grow Africa," a framework for international investment in African agriculture. These companies have committed themselves to invest in African agriculture in ways that increase production, reduce poverty, and also reduce greenhouse gases.
Then last month, the G8 announced a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Simultaneously, 45 international companies announced $3 billion in planned investment in Africa. Three African governments – Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Ghana – committed themselves to new private-sector oriented reforms, and the G8 government said that they will focus some of their increased funding for agricultural development in these and other countries that become part of this New Alliance.
In effect, African governments and G8 governments are jointly committing themselves to facilitate a major expansion of private investment in African agriculture.
There's a lot we don't yet know about the New Alliance. It will be led by a high-level committee of government and private-sector leaders.
But African leaders, certainly Africa's ambassadors to the United States, have repeatedly said that what they most want from the U.S. government is help in attracting trade and investment, and this initiative is a major new step in this direction. The planned expansion of investment will presumably also increase trade.
Civil-society groups have important roles to play as this New Alliance takes shape. Some NGOs can help international companies connect with African farmers in ways that really do contribute to development. NGOs will also need to monitor the expansion of international investment in Africa. It can do a lot of good, but it's also likely to do some harm.
The expansion of international investment in African agriculture is a bit like a gold rush. World demand for agriculture is expanding rapidly, and sixty percent of all the undeveloped arable land in the world is in Africa. Africans can benefit from the expansion of private-sector investment in African agriculture, but civil-society groups will need to monitor what's going on and be active in advocacy. While I believe this effort to facilitate international private-sector investment in agriculture is an opportunity, it is also a risk, and that is why monitoring and advocacy by civil-society groups will be important.
David Beckmann is president of Bread for the World. This blog post is taken from remarks that Beckmann made at the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act Civil Society Forum about the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
Posted by Bread on June 13, 2012 in Development, Global Hunger, Millennium Development Goals / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
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"These are slow-cooked stuffed peppers. Red or yellow bell peppers can be used instead of green. Italian diced tomatoes can be used in place of fire-roasted if desired."
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lean ground beef
1 (14.5 ounce) can
fire-roasted diced tomatoes
1 cup
cooked rice
2 tablespoons
1 teaspoon
Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon
ground black pepper
green bell peppers, tops and seeds removed (reserve tops)
1/3 cup
I gave it 5 stars although I haven't tried this recipe yet but I don't understand cooking the hamburger meat first when 6 to 8 hours in a slow cooker should cook the meat. What am I missing? Heck, I'm still trying to figure out how to get 2 beaten eggs off the ceiling from my last attempt at cooking :)
This is a great basic simple recipe so I agree with OldCatMan-no need to cook the meat prior to stuffing. That takes away from the "simple" part. Do as directed but no need to cook meat prior to stuffing!!! BB
4 Ratings
Needs to be cooked in a red sauce, the beef broth did not help the flavors and left the meat tasteless.
I substitute quinoa for rice. The second time that I made this, I sliced the peppers...kind of casserole-like. This tastes amazing and is so easy to make!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Slow Cooker Stuffed Peppers
Serving Size: 1/6 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 6
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 233
Calories from Fat: 96
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Twitter #Music Getting Trending Station On iTunes Radio
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was the big tech story of the week, with the unveiling of iOS7, a new Mac Pro, new AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule devices, and a brand new Apple music product: iTunes Radio.
But, as VentureBeat pointed out, one detail overlooked in much of the coverage of iTunes Radio is that the service includes a Twitter #music trending station.
The promotional artwork for iTunes Radio shows a Twitter #music station, first spotted by Musically's Stuart Dredge:
The standalone Twitter #music app is already integrated with the iTunes store, enabling users to preview and buy songs they hear in Twitter #music over on iTunes.
Do you think iTunes Radio's inclusion of Twitter #music will help the latter gain the traction that it's failed to garner so far?
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Kamal hassan,Jackie chan & Salman khan in Thalaivan Irukiran
Aascar Ravichandran has roped in Bollywood top actor Salman Khan to share the screen space with Jackie Chan and Kamal Hassan. Initial reports suggest that the film will be a sequel to Chan s hit film Armour of God, Word is that he has set aside a whopping sum of 400 crores for this film! Hold on. It is not a movie that would feature Jackie Chan in the lead role. Rather he would act in Thalaivan Irukiran to be produced by Ravichandran. Interestingly the movie would feature Kamal Hassan in the lead role.


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Contango Oil & Gas Company (NYSEMKT:MCF)
A natural gas and oil company, whose business is to explore, develop, produce and acquire natural gas and oil properties, offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Arkansas Fayetteville Shale.
At an oil and gas conference, Ken Peak something to this effect: "I don't give myself stock options because then I'd have to give my board and my employees stock options - and I don't want to give my board and my employees stock options." I also remember he took great pleasure in showing that Contango raised a total of $65M in capital from 2001 to 2007 and as of August 2010, had repurchased shares to the tune of $89M. Since 2001, there has also been negative dilution.
I think the best share issuance/repurchase strategy is one where management buys shares back when it's low and issues them when it's high. The second best would be Ken Peak's style - that man hates dilution.
What you get in Contango is a very low-cost gas producer operating in the Gulf of Mexico trading at a decent (but not amazing) discount to its reserves with a great CEO - not a bad bet.
I see 3 errors in that short pitch.
Sadly I can't point them out even though I just green-thumbed this. What am I missing here that you can see?
Contango is a great business model with no debt and no tax loss carryforwards to expire yearly. Sadly, the market punishes all gas producers, especially in the gulf with exposure to storms. Gas is dead and will remain so until we clean out d.c. .... again. We need a national govt policy favoring conversion of fleet vehicles to natural gas with depot fueling; leave gasoline for the little guy who can not afford to convert. Contango also needs to split the stock about 2:1 to be more affordable for individuals. All companies need to do this, and we as shareholders should insist on it. It's the main way we can make a few nickels.
when i look at insider transactions on yahoo finance I see that options have been used for Peak and several others. Is this a error? Is Babo right that they don't do options or is yahoo finance right?


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Farm 'La Ginestra is situated in coercive Tuscany, between Pisa and Florence, on the summit of a hill, from which you can admire a beautiful view over the city of San Miniato and valleys. The farm is located along the road 'Francigena': road XI century pilgrims who went to Rome to leave Northern Europe. The property at the center of a large garden (with private parking) and an olive grove, consists of a large house and a dependence, which date back to the early nineteenth century, completely restored in 90s. The pool was completed in 2008 and it has a beautiful view of the valley on e San Miniato.
It is mt. X 6 mt. 12 and it is deep mt. 1.40, this pool water falls into a smaller pool of 2 mt. x 8 mt. with whirlpool and is depurated with sea salt. At around the pool there are sun umbrellas and beds. Near the pool there is a cloakroom with WC and shower.
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Empoli: 10 Km
Sea: 30 Km
Lake: 6 Km
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The property is located three km. the historic center of San Miniato.
It is 30 km. of the city of Pisa, 35 km. the city of Florence, 40 km from the city of Lucca and 50 km from the city of Siena, San Gimignano and Volterra are 35 km away.
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- 0Nov 9, '11 by Samantha3785i am strongly considering applying to herzing university in brookfield wisconsin. i was wondering if anyone has any opinion on their program. the school seems to have a great curriculum, but they have yet to have a graduationg class. therefore, there are no employment or graduation statistics. i have checked past threads, and there doesn't seem to be any recent info for any of the herzing campuses regaurding the bsn program. there have been lots of people saying that other campuses have been unorganized. they are accredited by the higher learning commision, but does that really mean anything in the nursing field? the admissions advisor said they have applied for other licensing but cant get it until a class finishes. i guess i'm just lost with all of the different schools claiming to offer nursing degrees. i want to make sure that if i do invest time and money that my degree will be worth something to future employers. any opinions would be appreciated!!!!!
- 0Nov 14, '11 by bethmariebSamantha,
Check out Bryant & Stratton College in Wauwatosa too. They are similar, similar price and have a very strong Nursing program, accredited and have been doing it for a while. They have one of the highest first-time NCLEX pass rates in the state. The instructors are great. I think their Bayshore campus offers Nursing now too.
- 0Nov 15, '11 by Samantha3785Thank you, I have looked into Bryant and Stratton. Unfortunately they only offer an associates degree, and I am interested in a BSN. I could always begin there and continue on after. I'll continue researching
- 0Nov 15, '11 by bethmariebThis is true. I'm a BSC grad with the Associate's degree but there have been rumors of adding the BSN in 2012 and I just heard the Educational Approval Board approved Bryant & Stratton College to offer the BSN. I don't know when they will announce this or start this (maybe May 2012?), but I'm probably going back for the BSN when they offer it. Good luck with your search!
- 0Nov 15, '11 by Samantha3785I've actually been having issues with admissions at Herzing, so I began looking into BS tonight. They have a great chat feature on their website, and I actually had a call from an admissions specialist within 5 min. He answered lots of my questions, and I have a meeting with them on Friday. If you dont mind me asking, where are you employed now? Was it easy for you to find a job? What is the difference in employment opportunities for an associates vs a bachelors? Are you still considered an RN with an associates? or does that make you and LPN? I guess i dont get the difference. I really appreciate your responses.
- 1Nov 26, '11 by Samantha3785I've decided to go with Bryant and Stratton. They offer a 5 semester AD. Tuition is pretty much the same, and they are more established. The passing rate for the NCLEX the last few yrs has also been in the upper 90%. I think I will start there, and continue on with my BSN when I am employed. I really wanted to get better feedback fron Herzing, because it wold have been much more convenient. But unfortunately there wasn't very much info to be found.
- 0Dec 5, '11 by LvANrse80I will attend an informational Nursing session @ Herzing today! I passed the Accuplacer @ B & S and now I'm getting ready to study for the Teas Exam, I wanna take it @ both schools and whichever I get in to will be whom I go with. I really wanna do the BSN program but I do need to find out if Herzing is Nationally Accredited. Otherwise I'll just do the ADN program @ B & S, and do my BSN online after my ADN.
- 0Dec 30, '11 by Samantha3785Bryant and stratton actually announced that they will have a bachelors program in 2012. So thats exciting! I am starting the AD program in a couple of weeks, and might transition into the BSN program or just pursue the bridge program once i have my AD... still have to weigh the options... but bethmarieb, you were right on


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