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- Publisher: Frictional Games
- Release Date: Sep 10, 2013
- Summary: Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is an upcoming survival horror video game developed by thechineseroom and produced by Frictional Games. The game is an indirect sequel to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which was developed and produced by Frictional Games.
- Developer: Frictional Games
- Genre(s): Horror
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
Positive: 26 out of 59
Mixed: 32 out of 59
Negative: 1 out of 59
Sep 10, 2013Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is a well-oiled horror mechanism. It's a great sequel that will be loved by the old and new players.
Oct 5, 2013Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs has its faults as a game, but as an experience it can't be faulted. [Oct 2013]
Sep 9, 2013Scary as hell, but not so much like its predecessor The Dark Descent - considered one of the scariest games ever made -, this Machine for Pigs is truly a terrifying Lovecraftian tale of Victorian and industrial horror, with unthinkable machines, mad doctors and more, but with some wrong design decisions.
Sep 9, 2013It is a definite step back from The Dark Descent, but even several steps back makes this better than almost any other horror game released in the past decade.
Dec 12, 2013A Machine for Pigs is a well made and impressive game with a thorough thematic design and atmosphere. As a horror game it is rather spartan yet brilliant in that it let's your brain conjure most of its horrors. Unfortunately it comes with a rather numbing effect that makes later parts of the game feel more formulaic and not as scary.
Sep 11, 2013Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is a pretty good game, with a well written story, good voice acting, an atmospheric musical score, suitably varied and eerie environments, and quite a few stomach churning and downright creepy moments. It never gets boring or frustrating, and there are no passages in particular that qualify as less than enjoyable. Unfortunately, though, it's just not that scary. And that's quite the let down for a horror game.
Sep 11, 2013A Machine for Pigs takes Amnesia's formula and shows us how to screw it up. The idea had huge potential, but it's squandered on what frankly is a cheap and uninvolving game. This was an extremely disappointing experience.
Score distribution:
Positive: 110 out of 302
Mixed: 63 out of 302
Negative: 129 out of 302
Sep 10, 2013Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is definitely not the same game as The Dark Descent. It's quite different. It's got fewer jump scares and it's notAmnesia: A Machine for Pigs is definitely not the same game as The Dark Descent. It's quite different. It's got fewer jump scares and it's not as splatter-horror-y as some fans might have wished. But boy, that overwhelming, thick sense of dread that comes with every step down into the unholy machine. Not to mention the brillant soundtrack by Jessica Curry (do yourselves a favour and buy it) and the brillant writing by Dan Pinchbeck. I guess it takes a bit of effort to actually get involved into the story (similar to Dear Esther) but you'll probably get one of the most literary experiences in video games to date.… Expand
Sep 15, 2013What to say about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs... It is definable not like a dark descent, but it is much, much deeper in story. If you areWhat to say about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs... It is definable not like a dark descent, but it is much, much deeper in story. If you are someone who flew through a dark descent with out reading anything then I am certain this game is not for you! But if you did read and enjoyed the story in a dark descent, You will most likely enjoy Machine for pigs. It has a wonderful deep story but lacks in the strong horror elements that made a dark descent so great. I'm not gonna call this a spoiler because it is so obvious, in the game their are pigs, as someone who has had pigs and had pigs slaughtered made this game particularly not frightening. But, the story was so good that I enjoyed it anyways.
For pure horror: skip it
For a great interactive story experience: play it… Expand
Sep 15, 2013"Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs" is the sequel to" Amnesia: The Dark Descent", but doesn't really feel like that. The graphics and the atmosphere"Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs" is the sequel to" Amnesia: The Dark Descent", but doesn't really feel like that. The graphics and the atmosphere are definetly awesome, but the gameplay is heavily reduced.
The inventory sytem is missing, you don't have to refill the lantern and you can't move as many objects as you could in "The Dark Descent".
The monsters in "A Machine For Pigs" are looking scarier than the monsters in "The Dark Descent", but don't really seem to be a real threat to me, mainly because the chasing noise doesn't appear anymore.
The puzzles aren't as challenging as the ones in "The Dark Descent", which isn't exactly a bad thing, because you don't use so much time on finding and combining stuff anymore.
"A Machine For Pigs" is a bit short, but I felt satisfied in the end. The story confused me and I still don't really know what was going on, but I didn't have the feeling I had after games like "Outlast" where the ending was just bad to me.
"A Machine For Pigs" is definetly a good game, but the fact that it is the sequel to one of the scariest games ever created makes it seem a bit bad. If you would take the "Amnesia" out of the name and would just call it "A Machine For Pigs" it would seem way better because one doesn't compare it to "The Dark Descent" anymore.… Expand
Sep 10, 2013Ironically, this game only makes you feel unpleasant, while the first game made you squeal like a pig.
If you haven't played the firstIronically, this game only makes you feel unpleasant, while the first game made you squeal like a pig.
If you haven't played the first amnesia game I would highly recommend you play that one instead. If you have played it and is looking for more amnesia, or any scary game in general, I would say you're better of trying some of the many custom stories that were made for the first game, or try other games in the horror genre.
It is developed by the guys that made Dear Esther and it shows. While the atmosphere remains truthful to it's predecessor, it's not as tense, scary or stressful as the first game. Even the music is not made to scare you as it did with excellency in the original.
There are some stressful moments, but they are few and far between. Most of the game is about immersion. exploration, listening to dialogues or reading notes, which mostly seems to be written by William Shakespeare.
There are also a few puzzles, but they are not clever in any ways and most of them are either solved too quickly or they make you feel frustrated when you finally realized you've missed something that the game thinks is obvious.
There are not as many monster encounters and the monsters themselves aren't even that scary.
In conclusion I would say that this game is a toned down version of the original that focuses more on story writing and exploration, rather than trying to scare you in as many ways possible. If that sounds appealing to you, then give it a shot.
After paying full price for the ~5 hours long game I would say buy it the next time it goes on sale for maybe 50% off. It's not really worth the full price if you ask me.… Expand
Sep 11, 2013I expected so much more from this title but this was just a cash in. This was not scary, but rather boring. The enemies were lame looking andI expected so much more from this title but this was just a cash in. This was not scary, but rather boring. The enemies were lame looking and you could just walk right through them if cornered, the graphics were just the same as tdd nothing special, interaction throughout the world has almost been completely taken away, the puzzles were child's play. This game was meant to be a step forward but has turned into another letdown in the gaming industry. disappointing...… Expand
Sep 13, 2013Overall not a rememberable game and wasn't what i was expecting.
They got rid of a lot of things that made the previous amnesia and penumbraOverall not a rememberable game and wasn't what i was expecting.
They got rid of a lot of things that made the previous amnesia and penumbra games great.
They got rid of the puzzles.
They got rid of inventory drops like laudanum, oil and craftable parts.
They got rid of having to hide from the monsters.
They got rid of the suspenseful music, and in the end the storyline was pretty mediocre.
If you want to play a good HPL interactive horror game try out the old penumbra games...… Expand
Nov 6, 2014Horrible game. Boring story, just walking around, not scary at all. Great graphics, but that is not the important part. I hoped that i wasHorrible game. Boring story, just walking around, not scary at all. Great graphics, but that is not the important part. I hoped that i was near the end when i played this game, so i runned through everything that is "scary*.
I was very disappointed.… Expand
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Master pre-calculus from the comfort of home! Want to "know it ALL" when it comes to pre-calculus? This book gives you the expert, one-on-one instruction you need, whether you're new to pre-calculus or you're looking to ramp up your skills. Providing easy-to-understand concepts and thoroughly explained exercises, math whiz Stan Gibilisco serves as your own private tutor--without the expense! His clear, friendly guidance helps you tackle the concepts and problems that confuse you the most and work through them at your own pace. Train your brain with ease! Pre-Calculus Know-It-ALL features: Checkpoints to help you track your knowledge and skill level Problem/solution pairs and chapter-ending quizzes to reinforce learning Fully explained answers to all practice exercises A multiple-choice exam to prepare you for standardized tests "Extra Credit" and "Challenge" problems to stretch your mind Stan's expert guidance gives you the know-how to: Calculate distance in Cartesian two-and three-space Perform vector multiplication Work with cylindrical and spherical coordinates Understand relations and functions Learn the properties of conic sections Graph exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric curves Define curves with parametric equations Work with sequences, series, and limits Take college entrance examinations with confidence And much more!
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An anonymous reader writes: An article in Communications of the ACM takes a look at how Edward Snowden's revelations about government surveillance have changed privacy behaviors across the world. The results are fairly disappointing. While the news that intelligence agencies were trawling data from everyday citizens sparked an interest in privacy, it was small, and faded quickly. Even through media coverage has continued for a long time after the initial reports, public interest dropped back to earlier levels long ago. The initial interest spike was notably less than for other major news events. Privacy-enhancing behaviors experienced a small surge, but that too failed to impart any long-term momentum. The author notes that the spike in interest "following the removal of privacy-enhancing functions in Facebook, Android, and Gmail" was stronger than the reaction to the government's privacy-eroding actions.


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Due to an unexpected bill this morning, I am in need of some immediate funds, and so I am selling the last of my Disneyland memorabilia. Before I list it on eBay, I figured I'd give everyone here a chance to acquire it this evening, first. I've just put up a list here of what I've got to sell - little stuff, big stuff, and everything in between! - if you're interested in any of it, either post here or drop me a line at [email protected], and we'll work something out; I'm willing to let everything go pretty cheaply.
Disneyland 40th Anniversary Ian Fraser sculpture - Sleeping Beauty Castle - This is the rarer 1st edition of this GORGEOUS sculpture! For those of you who aren't aware, there was a first edition of this sculpture, which was released with a wooden base and a little plaque attached celebrating Disneyland's 40th anniversary in 1995. The next year, a second edition of the same sculpture was released, minus the wooden base and plaque (still difficult to find, but not quite as rare as the 1st edition - both have been out of print for years). This sculpture is in mint condition - it still has the original $95 price tag attached, and is in the original styrofoam packing container. Beautiful!
Disneyland Hotel matchbook - near mint condition, still has 2/3 of the matches in it, from the Monorail Cafe, circa late 1950's
Disneyland Mickey Mouse ears - circa 1960's (near mint condition)
Complete set - Disneyland Whitman card game - circa 1964
Disneyland Ticket Book - (missing cover ticket, 2 Es, and 1 D; everything else is complete) - circa late '70s/early '80s
Disneyland pennant - red w/ characters, near mint condition, circa late '70s/early '80s
Disneyland 25th Anniversary Silver Coin - still in the original case!
1983 Disneyland "Guided Tour" luggage tag - mint condition
COMPLETE Master set of 1985 Disneyland 30th Anniversary "Gift Giver Extraordinare" pins - all 7 lands (Adventureland, Bear Country, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Main Street USA, New Orleans Square and Tomorrowland), with both Frontierland and Tomorrowland recalled "pointy" variants, all 3 New Orleans Square variants (Mickey - gold text, Mickey - red text, and original purple B'rer Fox pin), and rare Mickey w/ drum title pin! (Warning: It's gonna take a LOT to get this from me - it's my baby!)
1985 Disneyland 30th Anniversary pennant - light blue, near mint condition
1987 Disneyland Souvenir Guidebook - mint condition
1988 Disneyland Souvenir Guidebook - mint condition
Original Disneyland 35th Anniversary pop-up souvenir map - mint condition!
1993 Disneyland Souvenir Guidebook - celebrating the opening of Toontown
1993 Mickey's 65th Anniversary Disney Dollar - circa 1993, mint condition
"Inside Disneyland Today" daily park map - Aug. 6-12, 1994
1995 Disneyland vacation video - "Catch a Wave of Fun!", complete with brochure and cover
1995 Disneyland 40th Anniversary pennant - light blue, excellent condition
Disneyland 40th Anniversary poster-sized fold-out map - never displayed, still in mint condition!
Complete set of 8 1995 Disneyland 40th Anniversary McDonald's Happy Meal viewers (Aladdin - Aladdin's Caravan parade, B'rer Bear - Splash Mountain, King Louie - Jungle Cruise, Mickey - Space Mountain, Peter Pan - Fantasmic!, Roger Rabbit - Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin, Simba - Lion King Celebration parade, Winnie the Pooh - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad)
"Inside Disneyland Today" daily park map - Oct. 6-19, 1995, celebrating "The Spirit of Pocahontas" stage show and the "Indiana Jones Adventure"
1996 Main Street Electrical Parade Farewell Season "5 for 2 Passport" advertising table display - mint condition!
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Original Disneyland Autopia Chevron driver's license - mint condition!
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Disneyland 45th Anniversary poster-sized fold-out map - never displayed, still in mint condition!
Disneyland 45th Anniversary Celebration Tour map set - reprint of the original Herb Ryman map; includes "I Walked in Walt Disney's Original Magic Kingdom" button, Disneyland "scroll" pin (only available upon completion of Celebration tour during summer of 2000), and RARE AP-exclusive "Herb Ryman map" pin! (only available to APs after completion of the "Celebration tour" during July of 2000, and sold out after the first week!)
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Disney's California Adventure park brochure - March 30th-April 5th, 2001
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Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff coached Friday's game against Golden State but the Lakers will conduct a national search for a long term replacement. Candidates could include Mike D'Antoni, Jerry Sloan, Nate McMillan and Phil Jackson.
It was believed to be the earliest firing of a coach in the team's history. Del Harris was relieved of his duties 12 games into the 1999 season.
The Lakers were 41-25 in Brown's first season, losing to Oklahoma City in the second round of the playoffs.
The team has had trouble picking up Brown's Princeton-based offense and has also lagged defensively.
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The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system is saying "thanks, but no thanks" to a proposed school site offered by Obey Creek developers.
The proposed Obey Creek site was marked as a potential school location several years ago on Chapel Hill's land use plan.
Todd LoFrese, assistant superintendent for support services at Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, noted that in April 2014, the Board of Education approved a resolution for the Town Council to recognize that potential site, and to include that as party of negotiations with developers.
Later, the Council asked CHCCS if the school site offered by developers should be reserved.
The Board of Education has now come to a decision regarding Obey Creek.
"At a recent board meeting, the board passed a resolution thanking the Town Council for honoring that process," said LoFrese. "The next was to communicate that we weren't in reserving a school site. There are some challenges with the proposed area that was offered to the district as a school site."
One of those development challenges, said LoFrese, is that the school would be difficult to access.
"There'd be an extensive bridge that would need to be constructed to cross over the creek," said LoFrese.
In the final part of the resolution, the Board of Educations expressed that the Chapel Hill- Carrboro school system has other facility needs to address.
"We would be open to looking at other potential locations for where a school could be built," said LoFrese. "We didn't specify that it would be in the area that is currently proposed for development by Obey Creek. And the board also communicated that we have 10 older school facilities that have a lot of financial need."
LoFrese said that it's too early to estimate the impact the development will have on the school system, without a hard number of residential units to consider.
Right now, however, there are some spot-crowding problems that could be fixed, he said.
"Smith Middle School rises to the top of the list in my mind," said LoFrese. "We had to close the school this year to new enrollment, even if you lived in the Smith zone. So we have some families who are being transported to either McDougle or Phillips, or Culbreth."
LoFrese said there is still some breathing room at the elementary and high school levels. The next projected need for a middle school is in 2023.
In the meantime, said LoFrese, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro system would like to expand older schools, while performing long-needed renovations.
That, he said, would further put off the need for new schools. He added that it could also create the equivalent of an entire new elementary school.http://chapelboro.com/news/pre-k-12-education/chccs-takes-a-pass-on-proposed-obey-creek-school-site/
At Thursday night's meeting, the Chapel Hill Town Council discussed an affordable housing plan for the proposed Obey Creek development.
Ben Perry, finance director of the development company East West Partners, proposed that 15 percent of the for-sale units and 5 percent of the rentals be designated as affordable housing.
East West Partners wants to build 1.6 million square feet of commercial, residential and office space on 35 acres at the Obey Creek site, which is across from Southern Village. Thursday's meeting was part of the town's ongoing negotiation with the developer.
An Obey Creek Affordable Housing Subcommittee, made up of some council members and stakeholders, had meetings with East West Partners over the last month.
Perry said East West Partners would provide 15 percent of the for-sale units at prices affordable to people earning up to 80 percent of the area median income (AMI), which is $66,000 for a Chapel Hill household. In other words, the developer would offer six to eight for-sale townhouses at a reduced cost. This meets Chapel Hill's inclusionary zoning ordinance for residential development.
Perry said the developer could offer 5 percent of the 600 rental units at a reduced cost.
Half of those 30 reduced-cost rentals would be eligible to section 8 and veteran affairs voucher holders. These would serve people who earn between 30 and 60 percent of the AMI.
The other half would be offered to people earning between 60 and 80 percent of the AMI. These tenants would pay 30 percent of their income for the units.
The council could ask the developer to pay a fee for affordable housing programs offsite instead of offering affordable housing at Obey Creek.
"My suggestion is that we take the affordable rental units, not the payment in lieu," said Delores Bailey, executive director of the non-profit EmPOWERment Inc. She served on the Obey Creek affordable housing subcommittee. "There are lots of families that we can accommodate with this project when it happens."
The town also discussed a draft of the Obey Creek Development Agreement. This agreement, a contract between the town and the developer, would list the permitted uses, housing requirements, environmental specifications, and other conditions and requirements.
The council would vote on the agreement in June, at the earliest. You can find the draft development agreement here. Email your feedback to firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.
The council's next negotiation session is scheduled for Feb. 19 at Chapel Hill Town Hall at 7pm.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/chtc-discusses-obey-creek-affordable-housing-plan/
Much of Friday afternoon's special meeting of the Chapel Hill Town Council was taken up with discussion of changing traffic patterns on 15-501, if the town were to approve the Obey Creek development.
The Council held two days of meetings late last week to discuss the Southern Village Park-and-Ride lot area, and connections between the proposed 35-acre mixed-use development and southern Chapel Hill.
The town has hired the planning firm of Dover, Kohl & Partners to develop possible scenarios, and consultant Victor Dover led Friday afternoon's discussion.
Dover proposed a modern roundabout at Dogwood Acres Drive, where rapid-transit buses could easily change direction.
Council member Ed Harrison expressed concern about that idea, citing unsuccessful attempts at multi-lane roundabouts in North Carolina. Dover said there's proof it can be done right.
"There is a successful one in Davidson, now, that you might want to look at," said Dover. "It's easy to Google. You can see it on the aerial and satellite photograph quite vividly."
Another Council member, Jim Ward, pushed to get and an answer about DOT approval for another idea, a signalized intersection at Sumac Road. The roundabout would require DOT approval, too.
"To me, the bottom line is, that needs to work, fully" said Ward. "That's a decision, I feel like, we need to know early in the game."
The next Obey Creek Special Meeting is scheduled for Feb. 12.http://chapelboro.com/news/development/obey-creek-special-meeting-focuses-traffic-patterns/
The Chapel Hill Town Council is considering options for redeveloping the park-and-ride lot at Southern Village. The council hired a consultant to help plan the future of the town-owned 8.5-acre lot.
Victor Dover, the consultant from the planning firm Dover, Kohl & Partners, facilitated the discussion at Thursday night's meeting.
Dover said a park-and-ride lot means "capturing an outer catchment or cloud of suburban drivers and hoping that we'll intercept them so that they don't ask us to store their big, expensive, space-consuming cars in the center of town or on campus or at the research triangle where we don't have room for them, and instead store them somewhere on the edge of town and use transit for the rest of their trip . . . Apart from the $2 they pay to park in the park-and-ride, which barely helps with recovering any costs, they're not contributing economically to that place."
Dover said putting shops between the parking space and the bus stop might entice drivers to spend money locally.
Dover listed several possible development scenarios to start the conversation about the park-and-ride lot. One scenario has surface parking with a few mixed-use buildings. Another scenario includes a parking structure, several mixed-use buildings, an access lane with on-street parking, and civic buildings.
Southern area resident Jeanne Brown offered suggestions to the council as they consider the future of the park-and-ride lot.
"Please make sure that your planning can be proactive and not reactive to what is being proposed across the road," said Brown.
Council members are considering redevelopment as they negotiate with East West Partners, the future developer of the privately owned 120-acre property across the highway. This is the Obey Creek site, proposed as a residential, retail and office development of up to 1.6 million square feet.
Council members encourage people to come to Chapel Hill Town Hall for Friday's 1:30 pm meeting facilitated by Dover and designed to get public input. The Town Hall address is 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. At 4 pm, council members will meet with Dover and the developer to discuss both the park-and-ride lot and Obey Creek.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/chapel-hill-town-council-considers-redevelopment-southern-village-park-ride-lot/
On Thursday night, the Chapel Hill Town Council discussed the fiscal impact of the proposed Obey Creek development on the town.
Chapel Hill Business Management Director Kenneth Pennoyer estimated the mixed-use development would net between $600,000 and $1 million every year. This is the revenue, which comes from taxes and fees, minus the cost of extending town services, like fire, police and transit services.
Town council members are looking into the impact of two different development scenarios to help the town strategically negotiate with the developer, East West Partners. This wide range in the bottom line – $600,000 to $1 million – comes from comparing a bigger development plan, the original scenario, with a smaller development plan, the minimum scenario.
"The original development plan called for 1.5 million square feet of development with residential being slightly more than half, retail, office and also hotel included," said Pennoyer. "The minimum scenario is slightly less than half the square footage containing residential, retail and office but no hotel."
The development would also generate revenue for the county and the local school district. The town estimates the smaller development scenario would add 50 students to area schools and the bigger development would add 130 students.
Ben Perry, finance director of East West Partners, said this minimum development scenario may not be financially feasible for his company.
"I think what we're really looking at is something closer to the original analyses you received on the traffic and on the fiscal, starting at that 1.5, 1.6 million and working down from there," said Perry.
The public is invited to comment on the Obey Creek negotiation process at the town council's 7pm meeting on January 12 in the town hall council chamber. The council will hold special meetings with Victor Dover from the planning firm Dover, Kohl and Partners, on January 22 at 7pm and January 23 at 4 pm. Both meetings will be in the council chamber.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/obey-creek-estimated-net-600000-1-million-annually-chapel-hill/
The year 2015 is finally upon us – but before saying goodbye to 2014, the WCHL news team took a look back at the year that was in our local community.
In a year dominated by ice storms, high-profile elections, serious debates over policing and public safety and same-sex marriage, and still more scandal at UNC, what were the top news stories that shaped the year 2014 in Chapel Hill? And who were the top newsmakers?
As we do every year, WCHL's news team compiled a list of the top 10 news stories, and the top 10 newsmakers, here in Orange County. Does your list match ours?
Listen to our 2014 Year In Review special!
Part 1: #10, #9, #8
Part 2: #7, #6, #5 (and the year in sports)
Part 3: Aaron Keck chats with Akiva Fox and Allison Driskill about the top stories of 2014 as viewed on Chapelboro.com.
Part 4: #4, #3, and #2
Part 5: #1
News Story: Rooftop Incident At Hampton Inn
Newsmaker: Rita Balaban
Our #10 news story of the year took place on Tuesday, September 30, when Carrboro police got a call that a man was on the roof of the Hampton Inn on Main Street, threatening to jump. What followed was an 18-hour standoff, during which Chapel Hill and Carrboro police shut down traffic downtown so trained negotiators could talk the man off the roof – which they did, successfully, the following morning.
Our #10 newsmaker is UNC economics professor Rita Balaban, the professor who unmasked three streakers who dashed through her classroom in October. Coincidentally, she was also the professor of the class that police entered in November to arrest the student who'd posted a bomb threat in the Pit on social media.
News Story: UNC's Response To Ebola Crisis
Newsmaker: Francis Henry
Thousands in West Africa died during the worst outbreak of Ebola in history. Other than a handful of cases, the disease didn't make it to the U.S., but in Chapel Hill, the work of UNC researchers was pivotal in the fight against the disease overseas.
Meanwhile, the fate of Hillsborough's beloved, now-dilapidated Colonial Inn was a hot topic all year. Francis Henry, the building's current owner, petitioned the town for permission to tear the historic building down, but was denied.
News Story: Teacher Pay
Newsmaker: Robert Campbell
North Carolina public school teachers are among the lowest paid in the nation – a fact that sparked an outcry in 2014. That outcry was so loud that state legislators actually responded to it, passing a sizable pay increase, but that didn't quell the controversy: those raises were minimal at best for experienced teachers.
2014 was a banner year for Reverend Robert Campbell, whose tireless work on behalf of the Rogers Road community came to fruition at year's end. Orange County municipalities finally came together on a remediation plan to extend water and sewer service to the neighborhood, and a new community center opened in the fall.
News story: Development in Chapel Hill
Newsmaker: Roger Perry
Our #7 news story and our #7 newsmaker go hand in hand: 2014 saw big debates about new developments in Chapel Hill, primarily at Obey Creek and the Ephesus/Fordham district. Developer Roger Perry was at the center of both discussions: his East West Partners is both the lead developer at Obey Creek and the developer behind the first major proposal at Ephesus/Fordham.
Wrapped up with development is the ongoing discussion about affordable housing – which is getting harder and harder to find. Chapel Hill teamed up with DHIC for a major affordable housing project in Ephesus/Fordham, but that's on hold because clerical errors in DHIC's funding application led to its rejection.
News story: Ferguson and Police Militarization
Newsmaker: Charles Blackwood
The events in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked several major debates locally: from protests over the non-indictment of the officer who killed Michael Brown (as well as the officer who killed Eric Garner) to a debate about perceived police militarization, sparked by the heavily-armed police response to protestors in Ferguson.
This year's local elections were mostly a low-key affair, but the sheriff's race was an exception, as six candidates vied to replace longtime sheriff Lindy Pendergrass. Charles Blackwood emerged victorious, defeating David Caldwell in a summer runoff.
News story: Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
Newsmaker(s): Mark Kleinschmidt and Lydia Lavelle
Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and UNC were all honored as "Bicycle Friendly" by the League of American Bicyclists, but our community was hit by a series of incidents involving bikers and pedestrians – most notably the tragic death of bicyclist Pamela Lane in October, in a collision with a vehicle on MLK.
It was a busy year all around for Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle, but perhaps most notable was their respective contributions to the fight for same-sex marriage in North Carolina. Kleinschmidt was an attorney on the case that saw the state's ban struck down; Lavelle and her partner Alicia Stemper were the first same-sex couple to apply for, and receive, a marriage license in Orange County.
News story: Ice Storm
Newsmaker: Rashad McCants
We won't soon forget the February ice storm that shut down Chapel Hill and Carrboro for days, left motorists stuck on 15/501 and other roads for hours, and forced UNC to call off the Duke/Carolina basketball game scheduled for that evening. (Carolina won the rescheduled game, when it was finally played.)
Former UNC basketball star Rashad McCants made waves in the summer when he appeared on ESPN to declare not only that he'd taken phony classes and had tutors write his papers at UNC, but also that his coaches – including Roy Williams – knew all about it.
News story: Murder of Feng Liu
Newsmaker(s): Thom Tillis and Kay Hagan
Chapel Hill and the UNC community were shocked when pharmacy professor Feng Liu was attacked and killed on July 23, while taking a walk near campus in the middle of the afternoon. Two men were arrested for his murder the following day.
Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican challenger Thom Tillis waged a hard-fought (and extremely expensive) battle all year for a seat in the U.S. Senate. State House Speaker Tillis won, riding a Republican wave in spite of the unpopularity of the General Assembly.
News story: Same-Sex Marriage Legalized
Newsmaker: Carol Folt
In May, Mark Chilton unseated incumbent Deborah Brooks in the race for Orange County Register of Deeds, at least partly because he said he'd be willing to defy the state's ban on same-sex marriage. As it turned out, though, that wouldn't be necessary: a district court judge struck down that ban in October, and it was Brooks (not yet out of office) who issued Orange County's first same-sex marriage license.
UNC Chancellor Carol Folt was at the center of every major debate on campus. The academic/athletic scandal was the most prominent, of course, but there were also plenty of major accomplishments as well.
News story: The Wainstein Report
Newsmaker: Mary Willingham
Commissioned in February and delivered in October, Kenneth Wainstein's 131-page report on academic irregularities at UNC shocked observers who thought they'd heard it all – shedding light on a "scheme" of fraudulent classes that went unchecked for nearly two decades.
Former UNC academic advisor Mary Willingham sparked massive debate when she appeared on CNN in January to blow the whistle on UNC admissions – arguing that a sizable percentage of UNC football and basketball players couldn't read above an eighth-grade level.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/wchls-2014-year-review/
Three Chapel Hill Town Council members volunteered to lead a working group to analyze affordable housing options for the proposed Obey Creek Development.
The developer, East West Partners, plans to bring a mix of retail, office space, and up to 800 residential units on 35 acres at the site, which is across from Southern Village. The town officially entered the negotiation phase with the developer in November.
At Monday's meeting, the town council talked with members of East West Partners about options for the residential units. Council members Jim Ward, George Cianciolo and Sally Greene will plan housing strategies for the proposed mixed-use development. The team may consult with local affordable housing providers in the planning process, and the team will report findings to the town council.
The town council may ask East West Partners to provide 15 percent of the units at prices affordable to households that earn between 65 and 80 percent of the area median income. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development lists the area median income for Orange County at $65,700 for a family of four.
Alternately, the council may ask the developer to pay a fee for affordable housing programs elsewhere in Chapel Hill. The council may choose a combination of these options or another option that supports affordable housing initiatives in the town.
The Chapel Hill Office of Housing and Community prepared this list of new developments and the number of affordable units or amount of payment in-lieu at each development.
Council members will negotiate with East West Partners to build infrastructure as part of the development agreement. The town council discussed possible bicycle and pedestrian paths, including a proposed bridge over U.S. 15-501 connecting Obey Creek with the town's park-and-ride lot.
The town council will hold four meetings in January focused on the development of Obey Creek and the park-and-ride lot. The next meeting will be at Chapel Hill Town Hall on January 8 at 7 pm.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/chtc-talks-obey-creek-developer-affordable-housing/
On Thursday night, The Chapel Hill Town Council started the negotiation process with the future developer of the Obey Creek project near Southern Village.
"We have a lot of commonality of interests in a lot of areas," said Roger Perry, president of the development company East West Partners. "It's in the town's best interest and our best interest that this works."
Perry presented details of his development proposal to council members, focusing on the specific mix of uses and the design principles at the Obey Creek site.
Perry proposed minimum and maximum numbers for the amount of retail, office, residential, and hotel space at the property.
Here is the full chart:
Retail – 200,000 sf minimum – 475,000 sf maximum
Office – 150,000 sf minimum – 600,000 sf maximum
Residential – 250 units minimum – 800 units maximum
Hotel – 0 rooms minimum – 400 rooms maximum
Perry said an upper limit of 1.6 million square feet would be developed on 35 acres, and he said East West Partners would not build in a way that increases traffic beyond a threshold identified in a traffic impact analysis.
Perry said many of the residential units will be rentals available only for senior citizens. He also said "there will be almost no kids" in the proposed residential units.
Several council members expressed concern about the lack of age diversity.
East West Partners hired the architecture firm Elkus-Manfredi to work on the project. "The very fashionable word in planning now is that you have to curate the retail," said architect David Manfredi. "It's a little too cute for me, but the message is right that you don't build space and then put a 'for lease' sign on it."
Manfredi said the developer should plan spaces to accommodate particular uses. For example Perry proposed building a space to accommodate a large grocery store. He also said he wants to bring in a large department store.
Council member Jim Ward said that in addition to these large stores, the developer should plan spaces for "micro retail" or "affordable retail."
Council members talked briefly about affordable housing, but they decided to discuss this issue in greater detail at the next Obey Creek meeting on December 8 at Chapel Hill Town Hall.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/ch-town-council-talks-developer-uses-design-obey-creek-project/
The Chapel Hill Town Council will sit down with representatives from East West Partners on Thursday to hash out the details of the Obey Creek development agreement.
This is the first formal discussion since the Council voted last week to enter into negotiations for a plan to govern the long-term build out of the project.
The developer is proposing a multi-use development that will include 400,000 square feet of retail, 250,000 square feet of office space and up to 700 residential units on 35 acres. Council members will discuss the mix of uses, affordable housing provisions and design principals at Thursday's work session.
The meeting starts at 7 o'clock in Council Chambers at Chapel Hill Town Hall. You can find the full agenda here.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/chtc-talk-housing-design-obey-creek/
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted 8-1 on Monday to enter into negotiations for a development agreement for the Obey Creek project near Southern Village. At the same time, the council agreed to consider developing the town-owned park and ride lot across the street.
Though developer Roger Perry has been eager to move forward with the Obey Creek project, this gave his pause.
"I'm a little troubled that we're going to do this," said Perry. "And yet at the same time you're going to begin looking at a process of developing your own property."
Perry is president of East West Partners Management Company. This company will soon negotiate with Chapel Hill on the terms of building a multi-use development that will include 400,000 square feet of retail, a quarter million square feet of office space and up to 700 residential units on 35 acres.
Ben Perry, Finance Director of East West Partners, said company officials are "troubled" because the town is asking East West Partners to pay for road improvements costing "millions of dollars" which will increase the value of the town-owned park-and-ride lot across the street.
Roger Perry told Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt this situation introduces a conflict of interest into the negotiation.
"Well thank you, and I was wondering when you were going to notice that," said Kleinschmidt. Perry replied, "I've noticed it for some time. I didn't realize you were going to go quite this far."
In response to the concern, Kleinschmidt said cameras will record and broadcast each meeting, and East West Partners can continue to remind council members of this potential conflict. He also said this is one example of the council navigating multiple issues at the same time.
During the public comment period, resident Amy Ryan listed priorities for the proposed development. She said the development should be well-connected to other parts of Chapel Hill, and it should not negatively impact traffic on side roads near Obey Creek.
She also discussed affordable housing.
"Obey Creek will be worth it if it achieves some important town goals," said Ryan. "For example this is a great spot for moderate priced housing. The area has plenty of high-priced single-family homes already. Let's ask for units that cater to UNC employees who can then bike or take the bus to work."
Affordable housing will be one of the discussion topics at the council's next "special meeting" focused on Obey Creek on November 13 at Chapel Hill Town Hall.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/developer-expresses-concerns-obey-creek-negotiations/


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by Geoffrey Ciani - WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KOs) successfully defended his title and defeated Shannon Briggs (51-6-1, 45 KOs) by unanimous decision (120-107, 120-105, 120-107). It was a brutally one-sided encounter where Klitschko probably had his best performance since coming back to defeat Sam Peter and reclaim his championship after nearly four years of inactivity. Shannon Briggs became just the third fighter to go the distance with Klitschko. Despite his tremendous heart and determination, he received a terrible beating and was unable to effectively implement his offense.
Vitali Klitschko landed a good flush right hand just ten seconds into the opening round. This would become a familiar pattern over the course of the fight. Briggs seemed a bit tentative at the onset and was less aggressive than most anticipated. Vitali was controlling the distance and landing the better shots at range while Briggs attempted some body shots. Briggs appeared winded early, and it seemed as if he might lack the energy to see things into the later rounds.
In the second round Vitali began finding the mark with short lead left hooks. As the round progressed he began peppering Briggs with right hands. Vitali was absolutely outstanding when it came to maintaining his proper fighting distance. This pattern continued in the third. The pace was fairly slow, but Vitali was consistently doing the better work landing crisp shots with both hands. Briggs started finding the mark a bit more in round four, but he was still being hammered by Klitschko who was far more active and accurate.
Vitali continued his dominance in the fifth and sixth rounds. Briggs appeared tired and was unable to muster an effective sustained attack. Meanwhile Vitali continued landing right hands at will. Through six, despite eating a lot of shots Briggs never appeared seriously hurt. That all changed in round seven when a series of crushing lead rights from Vitali had Briggs on uneasy legs. He appeared stunned for the first time, and after a short combination highlighted by some stellar left hooks, Briggs was clearly hurt. He was eating an accumulation of shots and sent stumbling to the corner at the conclusion of round seven in what could easily have been scored a 10-8 round for Klitschko.
Briggs was slightly wobbled again in the eighth and it seemed as though a Klitschko knockout victory was inevitable. Briggs absorbed a slow prolonged beating throughout the eighth and ninth rounds. He found himself in big trouble again in the tenth when Vitali opened up with an onslaught of vicious right hands. Klitschko smelled blood and went for the kill, but Briggs somehow withstood the horrific beating and remained standing. The action slowed a bit in the eleventh when Vitali appeared to take a breather, but he picked things up again in the twelfth and resumed peppering Briggs with a variety of big punches.
This was a tremendous victory for Klitschko, who had not looked this impressive since his comeback win against Peter. In recent fights against Juan Carlos Gomez, Chris Arreola, and Albert Sosnowski, Klitschko appeared to be slowing down and looked more vulnerable. Tonight he was in prime form and put on a masterful performance against a very game opponent. Vitali seemed quick, agile, and fought intelligently. He was landing lead rights, lead hooks, and was always able to control the distance with his jab. At times, he was throwing punches in bunches and putting together some nice short combinations on both the inside and outside.
Briggs lost every round of the contest, but he always maintained his focus and was extremely determined. Unlike Kevin Johnson a year earlier, Briggs was trying his best against the far more skilled and quicker champion. Johnson was content on merely surviving against Klitschko and never tried to make a fight of it. Briggs, on the other hand, was continuously trying despite being ineffective. He suffered a severe beating in which he exhibited tremendous heart and courage. It was an admirable effort by Briggs who gave the fans their moneys worth by hanging in there when lesser men would have folded.
It is unclear where Briggs goes from here. Another title shot seems unlikely given the one-sided beating he suffered, but his efforts were brave enough that he could possibly land another meaningful fight in the foreseeable future. For Klitschko, it seems like a fight against former cruiserweight and light heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek could be next, provided Adamek wins his upcoming fight against Vinny Maddalone on December 9. Adamek provides a stark contrast in style from Briggs and his speed, skills, and movement should provide a totally different type of challenge for Klitschko. At this stage, however, short of his brother Wladimir it is doubtful that any heavyweight has what it takes to beat the elder Klitschko.
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This MP is not showing up on the MP Catalog just yet, however the MP catalog does take you to the latest version of the MP.
Get it at: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=10631
This is a simple update, per the guide it only fixes a bug in the SQL DB file free space monitors. Previously in 126.96.36.199, this monitor would create a lot of alert noise in specific databases even when free space was not really an issue.
Thank Kevin. One of my customer has this exact problem.
Interestingly though when I imported it OpsMgr said that I already had these MP's however I was running 220.127.116.11
The documentation is also incorrect. The Free disk space change is noted in the "Revision History" but the section called "Changes in This Update" is stating the changes in the previous version.
By the way, any news around the Exchange 2010 MP? The Exchange team is ignoring any questions and comments and we are still without a working Exchange 2010 MP. Because the old version that was working (although with a bit more load on the Ops enviroment) is not available anymore. Companies that didn't download that version of the MP can't monitor their brand new installation :(
Link to Exch Team MP post: blogs.technet.com/.../mailboxes-on-a-database-are-quarantined-in-an-environment-with-system-center-operations-manager.aspx
A six month wait for a one line code change, i dont get it.
The new Exchange 2010 SP2 (fixed) MP should be available next week (03.09. - 07.09). Rumours says, that this MP is not for use as an update - you have to delete your old one and import the fixed version ... :(
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I am having the same issues as Divyadeep on this one. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
I'm having the same "Module was unable to convert parameter to a double value" issue as well. Not sure what could be the issue. Any thoughts? Anyone?
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Walkers and joggers will be able to use paths and watch for birds in a redwood forest near Trafalgar that is being preserved from development.
The Central Indiana Land Trust, an Indianapolis-based environmental nonprofit group, has bought 109 acres of the forest off of Hougham Road and plans to open it as a nature preserve the public can visit.
The nonprofit raised $500,000 in donations to buy the land from a family who wants the land to be preserved, executive directer Heather Bacher said. The nonprofit also received a $180,000 grant from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and donations from multiple local organizations to buy the land, Bacher said.
The land is part of a 4,000-acre block of forest that the land trust wants to preserve to protect certain species, such as the Eastern box turtle, worm-eating warbler and hooded warbler, conservation director Cliff Chapman said.
"It's part of one of our identified core conservation areas. It represents the best slice of central Indiana," Chapman said.
"Some people think Indiana doesn't have great natural resources because we don't have beaches or big mountains. But we're rich in the hardwood forest that we have, and it's really beautiful. People can enjoy and appreciate it before it's all gone."
The land trust's mission is to conserve land either by buying it or by working with landowners to make their land a conservation easement.
In both cases, the land is protected forever from development, Chapman said.
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The U.S. Navy is planning to expand training exercises off California and Hawaii, citing the need for military readiness. That's raising concerns about threatened whales and marine mammals, because sonar is known harm and, in some cases, kill them. The state of California is fighting the Navy's plan.
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Braving the threat of daily bombings, Iraq voted in its parliamentary election on Wednesday, April 30. This is the first election since United States troops withdrew from the country in December 2011, almost three years ago.
A young Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained fingers after she voted in the country's parliamentary election in the capital Baghdad on Wednesday.
Security was extremely tight as Iraq is witnessing unprecedented sectarian violence, the worst since 2008. Militant attacks, including a surge of suicide and car bombings, have occurred since Monday, April 28, in an attempt to discourage voters from going to the polls and derail the election process.
Members of Iraq's anti-terrorism force are deployed outside polling stations in central Baghdad. There was bloodshed across Iraq on Monday, April 28, which included nine suicide bombings and several other blasts.
Reports say more than 750 people have been killed in this month alone, and around 2,000 have died in the last four months.
Above: Iraqi policemen inspect the site of a car bombing in Baghdad in March 2014. Below: Heavy smoke billows from Baghdad's historic Shorjah market, which dates to the Abbassid era over 700 years ago, after it was hit by two bomb blasts on February 13, 2014, killing at least two people and wounding at least 11.
Due to the high incidence of fatal car bombings in the recent past, authorities imposed a polling day ban on all vehicular traffic in and around the capital Baghdad, forcing voters to walk to the polling booths. The capital is reported to be "in lockdown".
An Iraqi woman stands near a destroyed vehicle at the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad's Shuala area in January 2014.
Heavy security was in place inside the polling stations as well, with multiple security checks before the voters could cast their ballots. Like in India, polling began at 7.00 am and ended at 6.00 pm.
A fully-veiled Iraqi woman walks past a member of the Iraqi security forces outside a polling station in Baghdad's upscale Mansour Sunni district on April 30.
Iraq's one million strong military and security forces cast their votes earlier on Monday, April 28, so that they could be free to oversee and protect polling stations and voters on Wednesday.
Members of the Kurdish Peshmerga force show their ink-stained fingers in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil on Monday, April 28, after casting their ballots in special voting ahead of Iraq's general election.
Around 22 million Iraqis were registered to vote at 50,000 polling stations across the country, though the voter turnout was not expected to be very high due to the ongoing unrest. However, many Iraqis said they were determined to vote, voicing disdain for the current government.
Members of Iraqi security forces stand guard as voters queue outside a polling station in Baghdad's Sadr City district on April 30.
Iraqi nationals living abroad in the Middle East and Europe also voted. They will decide the fate of over 9,000 candidates competing for 328 parliamentary seats.
Incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, 63, is hoping to win a third four-year term in office. He has, however, been accused of concentrating power and marginalising the Sunni minority.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki casts his vote at a polling station in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Wednesday.
Maliki has, however, blamed the violence on jihadists he says are infiltrating Iraq from war-torn neighbour Syria, and has accused Gulf Arab states, including Qatar and Saudi Arabia, of backing the insurgents.
Fully-veiled Iraqi women flash the sign for victory with their ink-stained fingers after voting at a polling station in Baghdad's Karrada commercial district.
Iraq faces several urgent issues apart from the ongoing sectarian violence.
As a result of political conflict, relations between its Sunni and Shia communities have deteriorated to such an extent that the nation is on the brink of civil war as well as territorial disintegration, since the Kurds have been pushing for an independent sovereign state for many decades. One of the foremost issues is to work out the power sharing between these three ethnicities.
An Iraqi family displays ink-stained fingers after the parents voted at a polling station in Baghdad's Sadr City district.
Terrorism is another worry the country is facing, with rising al-Qaeda insurgency. Added to that is the growing influx of refugees from neighbouring Syria, which has witnessed three years of internal strife and ethnic conflict.
An Iraqi woman casts her vote in Iraq's parliamentary election (ballot-left) and in a postponed Kurdish regional election (ballot-right) in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on April 30.
Iraqis have a long list of grievances, including poor public services and high unemployment. They have accused the prime minister of doing little to improve these, or to curb the rampant corruption or tackle the country's worst violence in years.


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Kentucky Derby's Signature Drink Uses Locally Grown Mint
Thursday, May 01, 2014
The race isn't until Saturday, but Kentucky Derby parties get underway today at Churchill Downs, and that means plenty of the event's signature drink: the mint julep.
More than 120,000 mint juleps will be devoured, requiring lots of water, sugar, 10,000 bottles of bourbon, and 1,000 pounds of mint — all grown on a small family farm in southern Jefferson County.
From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Erin Keane of WFPL reports from Louisville.
- Erin Keane, arts and humanities reporter for WFPL. She tweets @eekshecried.
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SpiceJet will be raising additional funds through the issue of convertible debentures and / or warrants convertible up to a maximum of 52.177 million equity shares to the promoter of the company on a preferential basis.
The price will be determined as per SEBI ICDR (issue of capital and disclosure requirements) guidelines.
The news came after the close of trading hours on Wednesday.
During the day, shares of SpiceJet gained more than 7 per cent to close at Rs. 37.40 on the BSE.
Earlier Sun Group, on Wednesday, said its aviation venture SpiceJet needed capital for expansion and would explore options, including equity contribution from existing shareholders and raising debt, but promoters have no plans to sell their shares. The promoters currently hold 48.59 per cent in the equity capital of SpiceJet.
PTI reports:
The market capitalisation of the company has improved from Rs.1,660 crore on Tuesday to Rs.1,811 crore on Wednesday fuelled by the rally in the stock.
Sun Group Chief Kalanithi Maran and his wife Kavery Maran have resigned from one of the promoter entities of SpiceJet, triggering speculations about a possible sale of Maran family's majority stake in the air carrier.
No stake sale
The group has, however, denied any plans for promoters' stake sale in SpiceJet, saying it could consider various other options to raise capital to finance fleet expansion plans.
"We certainly need funds for fleet expansion and whenever there is an attractive opportunity (for partial stake sale), we will definitely look at it, but there is nothing on cards as of now," Sun Group CFO S. L. Narayanan told PTI over phone.
Meanwhile, stocks of other airlines also witnessed good momentum ahead of the winter session of Parliament, which starts from Thursday.
Jet Airways on Wednesday ended the day at Rs.451.50 apiece, higher by 9.20 per cent.
The stock had hit a 52-week high during the day.
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Coco Before Chanel
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Audrey Tautou plays the designer as modernist in the years before World War I—a woman who assumed male privilege by assuming the simplicity and directness of their clothes. After a stint as a saloon singer, Coco calculates her way into bed with a wealthy rake named Etienne Balsan (Benoit Poelvoorde). Director Anne Fontaine reminds us that this is a movie from the country that gave us Rules of the Game. What could have been a dull bird-in-the-gilded-cage story turns urbane, with the ever-changing flow of power between the slightly wizened but sporty decadent. When Balsan realizes that another man has stolen Coco, he only murmurs, "I'm smiling, because I'm the one who let the fox into the hen house." The fox in question: a British businessman nicknamed "Boy" (Alessandro Nivola). The end titles call the house of Chanel an empire, but Tautou—last seen, cigarette on lip, in a cage of mirrors, surrounded by models wearing her gowns—makes it look like mostly hard work. Tautou is perhaps aged for the young Coco but she's unusually sharp: it's easy to imagine why someone would love admire such a moody, direct woman.


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TLR4 expression in different HCC cells lines. (A) qPCR was used to detected TLR4 mRNA expression in HepG2, Huh7, Hep3B and SMMC-7721 cells (*P < 0.05). (B) FACS analysis for TLR4 protein in HCC cell lines untreated or treated with LPS (10 μg/ml) for 48 hours. The data shown in A and B are from one representative experiment of three performed. HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; LPS, lipopolysaccharide; TLR4, toll-like receptor 4.
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30-05-2014, 05:25 AM #21661Tee hee.
Seriously, though, what were your motivations, then? How could anyone enjoy that seemingly endless succession of fatal plunges and getting shot in the back? Did you just rocket straight through to godhood or something? Because to me, the idea anyone could be doing that and having fun is... well, maybe not insufferable nonsense, but something uncomfortably near.
Besides that, If you can't have fun in games that arrest play when you fail to meet a relatively narrow path to success, you don't enjoy one of the most common forms of iterative gameplay. You might enjoy iterative games, but you don't enjoy the stop-start-stop-start-one-more-inch-this-time play ... because that's kinda predicated on failure and restarting. I get the impression you need game-arresting failure to be infrequent even if success is difficult to attain; that makes you (if correct) nicely suited to games that take place in a fixed time period during which you must accomplish a certain goal but are difficult to out-right lose before that time period. It's potentially iterative, but in a roundabout sort of way that takes some of the stressful edge off by reducing the frequency of failure. I'd be curious to know how you feel about Super Hexagon--does the rapid reset make it more palatable? What about VVVVVV with it's challenge-by-challenge check-pointing? What about Bit.Trip Runner and Bit.Trip beat?
Bit.Trip games? You have to be WAY more precisely accurate than in Mirror's Edge. DDR? Your path is, again, even more linear than in Mirror's Edge (though not all versions fail you if you miss too many whats-its). I'm confused as to how someone with functional empathic capacity would be unable to understand how someone else could have fun with that kind of system. Mirror's Edge is, I'm guessing, in that weird place for you where it's too slow (longish refractory period on failure (both because of drawn out falling deaths and load times), combat challenges which potentially halt your momentum if you aren't good at disarming (and really, who IS good at disarming? it's ridiculously precise :P) or haven't gotten the hang of stuff like wall-run-kicks and similar tactics that can speed up a combat encounter, not a lot happening in between obstacles and a fair amount of time and space between obstacles, frequent failures that result in dead momentum rather than death) to function as an iterative game; too much space between failures for them to be properly interesting and constructive as opposed to stiffing. For me, the pacing isn't too drawn out so it works pretty much on the same principles as Bit.Trip and company.
Again, I totally get why you might not like it, even if it's not the slowness I delineated about. What disarms me is the idea that you wouldn't understand why people enjoy it. That doesn't speak to the poor quality of the game, as you seem to imply, but merely to the narrowness of your vision.
I enjoy the failure-reset paradigm given three conditions: 1) I feel like I make appreciable progress in either understanding or in a more literal sense at least every couple of tries. 2) I enjoy the flow of the game when I get it right. 3) Failure feels sufficiently predictable and avoidable.
An example of a game that meets these conditions absolutely perfectly is VVVVVV. An example of a game that doesn't meet them for me is Risk of Rain. Mirror's Edge had moments I found uninteresting. It's not perfect. But I think it's very good. I think it feels fun to move in it and I felt like there was a lot of room to expand between baseline finishing the level and going back over it to get faster times.
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You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
Just beheaded some bandit in WItcher 1,holly cow! I miss this kind of violence in games,kinda surprising its not in games yet in Severance from 2001,there was allot of it,and it was good gore. You could cut limbs off like knife through butter.
30-05-2014, 08:06 AM #21664"Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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No but you can cut the cyborgs limbs off and chop them up into tiny pieces in a way most games with swords don't let you do."Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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About the Mirror's Edge stuff.
The runner vision directs players everywhere while there are other elements to exploit to shortcut everything.
It's supposed to be a game about momentum and players get the right character with the right "built in knowledge" but level design is like a puzzle one: there's a red goal, a red path and elements to exploit in the middle to make things unbearable to people who remember 2 or 3 kinda tense smooth jumps in the whole game. There's also a stage before an elevator or lift or whatever that is guarded by loads of stormtroopers that are likely to die since they just ask for it and slow the game down. Time trials are totally different
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30-05-2014, 09:45 AM #21669I'm failing to writing a blog, specifically about playing games the wrong way
After putting ten hours in Saints Row IV since last weekend, my feeling went from "ha! So much fun" in the first five hours to "if I'm asked to hack one more rim jobs I will explode" for the next five hours. Probably I'll put it aside till the next time I'm in the mood for some fun nonsense, as it gets boring and repetitive very fast.
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Well, I have actually gotten SR4 to work (I created a new Steam account and used VPN to activate the American key) and I'm having a ton of fun with it. The hacking and stuff can get tiresome, yes, but the game just doesn't give a fuck. It doesn't take itself overly seriously, it simply wants you to have fun and that's what I love about it.
A puzzle is something, I think, that requires pondering. Puzzling. It's something characterized by matching up clues to uncover the solution. By piecing the answer together. By trial and error. By logic and deduction. All games involve these elements in very minor minor ways but I really don't see how a game like Mirror's Edge can be said to put these things so much at the center of play that it is a puzzle more than an action game. It bears more resemblance to Mario than it does to Tetris. To Prince of Persia than to Portal.
Just having trial and error at the center and having a single, linear solution does not a puzzle make. Really, if anything the presence of the red-line path makes it less of a puzzle. You're not deducting your way through the game to create a path using logic and the tools you're given, you're using your mechanical knowledge of how the character moves to carry you along a prescribed path. It's about building and then relying on intuition (and muscle memory) rather than building and relying on complete, explicit and adaptable understanding of the context. In most levels you follow an exceedingly clear path with no puzzles to solve--only techniques to pull off.
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You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
Assassin's Creed 2. Great fun, I've had it for ages and never got round to it. Having actually visited Tuscany makes it more fun.
I think buying a 360 pad has really changed the way I buy/play games it's a great piece of kit
Just completed ACT 1 in first Witcher and it was quite fun. Don't know why people bitch about it,being boring,bad and all that.
Just started Borderlands 2, but I'm not sure I'll continue. While the gameplay is quite fun, the save system - or rather the lack thereof - is terrible. Every time I reload the game I'm back at the campsite of sorts, with every single enemy - including bosses - between me and the rest of the region respawned. Yeah, no thanks.
So I figured I might be able to use the fast-travel option, but that just gets me into DLC areas - spoiling the end of the main storyline as it loads. Ugh."He has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to
the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free". ~ Luke 4:18
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and ME3 done. It was amazing.
shame I didn't get to chop up a certain guy, yet the renegade option was still very satisfying. Greatly enjoyed it. four and half years ago i started the game with me1 and today i concluded it.
31-05-2014, 05:25 PM #21680I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
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Van Halen played a special "rehearsal" show last night at the Forum in Los Angeles to an invite-only crowd. Fan-filmed footage of Eddie Van Halen taking a guitar solo has made its way online, and we've got it below.
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Van Halen aren't doing much in the way of press around the release of their new album, A Different Kind of Truth, but the L.A. Times managed to track down frontman David Lee Roth to talk about his first new album with the band in nearly three decades. A few excerpts follow.
If you were one of those that cried foul over "Stay Frosty" not being quite heavy enough for your tastes, then check out the below clip of another new track, "China Town." So far, this is easily the heaviest thing we've heard from A Different Kind of Truth, bordering on straight-ahead metal.
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