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Mark Ruffalo
|Mark Ruffalo
Ruffalo in June 2014
|Mark Alan Ruffalo
November 22, 1967
Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
|Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
|Actor, producer, activist, director, humanitarian
|Years active
|Sunrise Coigney (m. 2000)
Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967)[1] is an American actor, director, humanitarian and producer. He has portrayed the Marvel Comics character Dr. Bruce Banner / the Hulk in The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Other notable films in which he has starred or co-starred are You Can Count on Me (2000), Collateral (2004), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005), Zodiac (2007), Shutter Island (2010), Now You See Me (2013), and Begin Again (2013). For his roles in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and Foxcatcher (2014), he received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.[2] He won a SAG Award and received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for The Normal Heart, which he also produced.
Early lifeEdit
Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His mother, Marie Rose (née Hebert), is a hairdresser and stylist, and his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, Jr., worked as a construction painter.[2][3][4] He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott (died 2008).[2] His father is of Italian descent, and his mother is of half French Canadian and half Italian ancestry.[5][6] He has described his upbringing as taking place in a "very big" family with "lots of love".[7] Of his father, Ruffalo has said, "He was an amazing, charismatic guy who was city high school wrestling champion three times. He was away a lot when I was growing up. I was very lonely for him."[3] Ruffalo was raised Catholic and attended both Catholic school and progressive[clarification needed] schools.[8]
Ruffalo has described himself as having been a "happy kid,"[9] although he struggled from undiagnosed dyslexia and ADD as a child and a young adult.[10]
Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. He competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia. Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School,[2] and then moved with his family to San Diego, California, and later to Los Angeles, where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company.[2] With the Orpheus Theatre Company, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays, and spent the next nine years working as a bartender.[citation needed]
Ruffalo had minor roles in films like The Dentist (1996), the low-key crime comedy Safe Men (1998) and Ang Lee's Civil War Western Ride with the Devil (1999). Through a chance meeting with writer Kenneth Lonergan, he began collaborating with Lonergan and appeared in several of his plays, including the original cast of This is Our Youth (1996), which led to Ruffalo's role as Laura Linney's character's brother in Lonergan's Academy Award-nominated 2000 film You Can Count on Me.[2] He received favorable reviews for his performance in this film, often earning comparisons to the young Marlon Brando, and won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Montreal World Film Festival.[2]
This led to other significant roles, including the films XX/XY (2002), Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me (2003), Jane Campion's In the Cut (2003), Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), which is based upon two short stories written by Andre Dubus.[2] He appeared opposite Tom Cruise as a narcotics detective in Michael Mann's crime-thriller Collateral (2004).[2]
In the mid 2000s, Ruffalo appeared as a romantic lead View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005).[2] In 2006, Ruffalo starred in Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! at the Belasco Theatre in New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.[2] In March 2007, he appeared in Zodiac as SFPD homicide inspector Dave Toschi, who ran the investigation to find and apprehend the Zodiac killer from 1969 through most of the 1970s.[2] In 2007, Ruffalo played divorced lawyer Dwight Arno, who accidentally kills a child and speeds away, in Terry George's film Reservation Road, based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz.[citation needed]
In 2008, Ruffalo starred as a con man in The Brothers Bloom with Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz and co-starred with Julianne Moore in Blindness. 2008 also saw Ruffalo in Brian Goodman's What Doesn't Kill You with Ethan Hawke and Amanda Peet, which was shown at the Toronto Film Festival. In 2009, he played a brief role in the film Where The Wild Things Are as Max's mother's boyfriend. In 2010, he co-starred in the Martin Scorsese thriller Shutter Island as U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, the partner of Leonardo DiCaprio's character Teddy Daniels.[11]
In 2010, he starred in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right, with Annette Bening and Julianne Moore. Ruffalo stated in an interview that he approached Cholodenko after watching High Art and said he would love to work with her. Years later, she called Ruffalo and said she wrote a script, and had him in mind for the part. His performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[12]
Ruffalo starred in The Avengers (2012), the sixth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, replacing Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner / the Hulk.[13] Ruffalo received critical acclaim for his performance and is under contract to reprise the role in any future film appearances of the character produced by Marvel Studios.[14] Ruffalo also made an uncredited cameo appearance as Banner in Iron Man 3, making him the first actor to reprise the character in a live-action film. He reprised the role again in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
In 2014, Ruffalo starred as Ned Weeks in a television adaptation of Larry Kramer's AIDS-era play, The Normal Heart; his performance earned him an Emmy nomination. He says he has had an outpouring of support for his performance:
I've never had so sincere and vulnerable a response from people for anything that I've ever done.... And of everything that I've done since I've been on social media, which hasn't been that long, by the way, I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing, man. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, "You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare."[15]
He made his directorial debut with Sympathy for Delicious, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. On releasing the film, Ruffalo said, "I'm still looking for distribution. I have a couple offers on the table, but I'm holding out for something a little bigger. I've been screening it for a lot of groups, and people are really responding to it. I think they're scared of that movie."[16] About directing, he says,
I liken it to an actor gets to eat one slice, and a director gets to eat the whole pie. [laughs] You get to collaborate with gifted people who are good at their craft, so you're orchestrating all these different mediums. You're helping people through the script to realize their own talents. I find that really satisfying, and I felt like being in front of the camera is so intense and self-involved and personal, and directing isn't like that for me. It's a much more communal experience. Last year at this time, I was like, "I'm not going back to acting, man. No way, it's done." I haven't worked in a year. It's really taken me that long to get back to my love for what I do for acting. I would like to do 50-50, if I could. Really, I'd just be directing right now, but I can't support my family doing that at this moment, and I love acting. It's not a bad position to be in.[16]
Personal lifeEdit
Since June 2000, Ruffalo has been married to Sunrise Coigney and they have three children: son Keen (b. 2001), and daughters Bella Noche (b. 2005) and Odette (b. 2007). They live in Manhattan.[17]
After completing work on the film The Last Castle, Ruffalo was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a type of brain tumor, and had surgery; the tumor was benign, but resulted in a period of partial facial paralysis.[3] He recovered from the paralysis; however, he became deaf in his left ear as a result of the tumor.[10]
On December 1, 2008, Ruffalo's brother, Scott, was shot at his Beverly Hills condominium,[18] with one report describing the shooting as "execution-style" in the back of the head.[19] Scott Ruffalo died on December 8, 2008. Police took two people into custody: a woman who is considered a suspect and a man considered a "person of interest".[20] An attorney for the female suspect told police Scott Ruffalo shot himself accidentally.[21][22] The female suspect died on January 6, 2012.[23]
Political viewsEdit
On October 4, 2006, he appeared on Democracy Now!, a daily news program. He spoke against the War in Iraq, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, torture, and the Bush Administration. He also announced he would speak at The World Can't Wait Protest in New York City on October 5, 2006. Ruffalo contributed to the campaign of former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for President.[24]
He appeared on Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on August 14, 2008's episode entitled "World Peace". He said that "Peace looks like me and my kids and my wife laying in our bed on a Saturday morning... it's a love-in, y'know? John Lennon had it right, y'know?" [25]
In 2012, he endorsed Kathleen Kane, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania Attorney General, due to her insistence on investigating the Jerry Sandusky scandal and the Hershey Trust for alleged improprieties, and for her opposition to hydrofracking.[26] Kane was elected and became Pennsylvania's first woman Attorney General and Democrat elected to the post.
Ruffalo is pro-choice. He has explained his stance by saying,"I don't want to turn back the hands of time to when women shuttled across state lines in the thick of night to resolve an unwanted pregnancy, in a cheap hotel room."[27]
He pled for Elizabeth Warren to run for president in a video, but she declined on the Huffington Post Show in April 2015.
He is also a supporter of LGBTQ+ rights.
Opposition to frackingEdit
In 2008, Ruffalo expressed concern that gas companies were eyeing his family's land in Callicoon, New York. After doing his own investigation, New York magazine wrote, he becomes "anti-fracking's first famous face."[28]
On October 4, 2010, Ruffalo appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss hydraulic fracturing and the The FRAC Act of 2009.[29] He claimed in the December 2010 issue of GQ magazine that after he organized screenings in Pennsylvania of a documentary about natural-gas-drilling called Gasland, he was placed on a terror advisory list.[30] The Department of Homeland Security denied the claim.[31]
On July 13, 2011, Ruffalo appeared on Countdown With Keith Olbermann to discuss fracking, particularly in New York. "This is an industry that is the dirtiest, slimiest, most arrogant, and negligent that you can imagine," he said. Ruffalo taped an "online segment extra" for Countdown, during which time Keith Olbermann offered him the opportunity to become an official Countdown Contributor. Ruffalo gratefully accepted.[32]
He has appeared on The Colbert Report and Real Time with Bill Maher to discuss his continued opposition to fracking.[33] His neighbors with a family house near his in Callicoon, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, mobilized their friends around the anti-fracking cause, and in August 2012 Artists Against Fracking was launched with Ruffalo and the two heading it. Alec Baldwin is a member.[28]
On April 25, 2013, Ruffalo laid out his case against fracking in a piece co-authored with Phil Radford on CNN.com, where he argued solar and wind are here now, and using fracked natural gas instead of cleaner sources of energy will result in more faucets on fire, methane leaks that cause global warming, groundwater contamination, and cancer-causing chemicals in communities.[34] That same year, he began promoting The Solutions Project along with Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and private equity investor Marco Krapels. The Solutions Project is presented as a way for the U.S. to generate 100% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2050.[35]
Ruffalo is filming a documentary on the effects of major oil spill.[36]
Israel and Operation Protective EdgeEdit
On July 21, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, Ruffalo criticized the IDF for targeting Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip as a Hamas base,[37] causing anger in Israel and among supporters of Israel over his comments.
|Rough Trade
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|View from the Top
|Ted Stewart
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|Detective Giovanni A. Malloy
|We Don't Live Here Anymore
|Jack Linden
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|13 Going on 30
|Matt Flamhaff
|Just Like Heaven
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|Rumor Has It...
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|Shutter Island
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|Gerald Maretti
|The Avengers
|Dr. Bruce Banner/Hulk
|Thanks for Sharing
|Iron Man 3
|Dr. Bruce Banner
|Post-credit cameo, uncredited
|Now You See Me
|Dylan Rhodes
|Begin Again
|Dan Mulligan
|Infinitely Polar Bear
|Cam Stuart
|Also executive producer
|Dave Schultz
|Avengers: Age of Ultron
|Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk
|Michael Rezendes
|Now You See Me 2
|Dylan Rhodes
|CBS Summer Playhouse
|Michael Dunne
|Episode: "American Nuclear"
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|Vinnie Webber
|Episode: "A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby"
|On the 2nd Day of Christmas
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|The Beat
|Zane Marinelli
|8 episodes
|Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
|Episode: "World Peace"
|The Normal Heart
|Ned Weeks
|Television film; also executive producer
Awards and nominationsEdit
- ^ "Monitor". Entertainment Weekly (1182). Nov 25, 2011. p. 30.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Mark Ruffalo". Inside the Actors Studio. Season 13. Episode 6. 2007-03-19. Bravo!.
- ^ a b c Radar, Dotson (May 9, 2004). "I Wouldn't Give Any Of It Back". Parade. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ Baldassarre, Angela (March 4, 2007). "On the trail of a real-life serial killer". Tandem (Canada). Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ Wloszczyna, Susan (September 15, 2005). "Ruffalo ascends to the next level in 'Heaven'". USA Today. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
Ruffalo, an Italian-French-Canadian mix,,,
- ^ http://www.ecufilmfestival.com/en/spotlight-mark-ruffalo/
- ^ Dudek, Duane (December 20, 2000). "United by loss: Ruffalo nails his role in drama about 2 siblings who share painful past". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Archived from the original on September 26, 2008. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ "Mark Ruffalo Speaks Out For Women's Reproductive Rights (Video)". Huffington Post. January 23, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- ^ Pearlman, Cindy (February 25, 2007). "Working on a killer movie". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ a b Hiatt, Brian (May 4, 2015). "The Hulk: The Last Angry Man". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media, Ltd. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ "Shutter Island Opens Doors For Home Video". DreadCentral.com. April 19, 2010. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
- ^ "The Kids Are All Right interview". Mark Ruffalo Central. July 11, 2010. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
- ^ "TOLDJA! Marvel & Ruffalo Reach Hulk Deal". Deadline Hollywood. July 23, 2010. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
- ^ Finke, Nikki (2010-07-23). "TOLDJA! Marvel & Ruffalo Reach Hulk Deal". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
- ^ Gerard, Jeremy. "Mark Ruffalo After 'Normal Heart': 'If A Piano Dropped On Me Tomorrow, I Did OK". Deadline.com. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Page 2 – Mark Ruffalo is Doing "All Right"". Ifc.com. 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ Ellis, Josh. "Mark Ruffalo's Good Life Formula: 3 Kids, 1 Rabbit, 47 acres, 2,764 Miles From Hollywood", Men's Journal. June 2013; accessed April 26, 2015.
- ^ Jones, Oliver (December 3, 2008). "Mark Ruffalo's Brother Shot in the Head". People.
- ^ "Scott Ruffalo still in critical condition". Boston Herald. December 5, 2008.
- ^ "Scott Ruffalo Dies from Gunshot Wound". People. December 9, 2008.
- ^ Dillon, Nancy (December 9, 2008). "Actor Mark Ruffalo's brother, Scott, died after playing Russian Roulette, says murder suspect". New York Daily News (New York City). Archived from the original on January 1, 2015.
- ^ "Autopsy scheduled for Scott Ruffalo". Los Angeles: KABC-TV. December 11, 2008. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014.
- ^ Blankstein, Andrew (February 29, 2012). "Death of Mark Ruffalo's brother: Key witness may have overdosed". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- ^ "Election Center 2008: Mike Gravel". CNN. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ "YouTube – "World Peace" with Penn and Teller". YouTube.com. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
- ^ Ruffalo endorsement of Kathleen Kane; accessed April 26, 2015.
- ^ Kira Cochrane (August 19, 2013). "Mark Ruffalo's pro-choice stance on abortion rights sets a powerful example". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Fracklash". New York magazine. Sep 10, 2012.
- ^ Mark Ruffalo Speaks Out Against Fracking Practices on The Rachel Maddow Show, commondreams.org, October 5, 2010.
- ^ Buchanan, Kyle (November 24, 2010). "Mark Ruffalo Is on a Homeland Security Watch". New York. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014.
- ^ Sanburn, Josh (November 30, 2010). "Does Pennsylvania Consider Actor Mark Ruffalo a Terrorist?". Time. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014.
- ^ "Web Extra: Countdown Contributor Mark Ruffalo on Fracking – Countdown with Keith Olbermann". Current.com. 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ "Mark Ruffalo". Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ^ "Don't Let America Get Fracked". CNN.com. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
- ^ 100% Renewable Energy, thesolutionsproject.org; accessed April 26, 2015.
- ^ Teitell, Beth (September 30, 2014). "Mark Ruffalo goes wading in the Charles River". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
- ^ Ruffalo's tweet
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mark Ruffalo.
- Mark Ruffalo at the Internet Movie Database
- Mark Ruffalo at the Internet Broadway Database
- Mark Ruffalo at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- People in Film: Mark Ruffalo at Focus Features
- Clips from Ruffalo interview on Inside the Actors Studio
- Mark Ruffalo Producer Profile for The 1 Second Film


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St. Louis County Library Branch Hosts Career Fair
St. Louis County Library and Critique It, LLC will host a Diversity Career Fair on Wednesday, August 14 from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at the Florissant Valley Branch, 195 S New Florissant Road, Florissant, MO 63031.
The 2013 STL Diversity Career Fair Series allows jobseekers an opportunity to meet face to face with employers who are hiring. Participating companies include Graybar Electric, US Bank, St. Louis University, the Special School District of St. Louis County and Whelan Security. The event is free and open to the public.
A variety of industries will be represented at the career fair such as customer service, banking, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, sales & marketing, retail, IT & software, health care, warehouse and more.
Attendees should bring multiple copies of their resume. Professional attire or business casual is strongly recommended.
10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Jobseeker Workshop - "Networking A Career Fair"
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Thinking About the Civil War 150 Where It Really Matters
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I wouldn't hesitate to use the smallest f/stop because of the "risk of diffraction."Originally Posted by noblebeast
Any lens designer worth half the powder to blow them to hell will know enough to limit the smallest lens opening available so that diffraction errors will not be a problem. Diffraction is independent of the glass itself: it is a result of the physical size of the lens opening and the distance of aperture to film plane.
That is why short-focus lenses have smallest openings of f/16 and the long, large format lenses go to f/64 or ?
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The more I think of it, the more inclined I am to agree with Les... It does sound like an alignment problem. Is there a uniform loss of sharpness around the periphery of the frame? If the image is sharp along a particular radial axis when the center of the image is in focus, the baseboard is not perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens.


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Refreshing Lemon-Lime Drink Recipe
Here is a lighter version of the famous margarita-without the alcohol! It goes very well with Mexican dishes or as a cool summertime drink in the shade. -Lisa Castillo of Bourbonnais, Illinois
- 1 can (12 ounces) frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
- 2/3 cup thawed lemonade concentrate
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 6 cups chilled diet lemon-lime soda
- 1 medium lemon, sliced
- 1 medium lime, sliced
- 1. In a large container, combine the limeade and lemonade concentrates and orange extract. Stir in water.
- 2. Just before serving, stir in lemon-lime soda. Serve over ice. Garnish with lemon and lime slices. Yield: 3 quarts (12 servings, 1 cup per serving).
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One serving (1 cup) equals 84 calories, trace g fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 1 mg sodium, 22 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 fruit.
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This short film is a collaboration between the folks at Stoneblossom Floral & Event Design and Rob Fortunato Photography.
The concept was to have a couple spend a day together with no distractions and to share the space between themselves while exploring each other. I wanted to use the sun and natural light as much as possible and approach it from a fashion photography perspective. There was one Arri 1.2K HMI used to balance some scenes, but we followed the sun...
The song,"Chasing Cars", by Snow Patrol was the inspiration
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Ritzel said to herself, "I know she's here."
One year and nine months ago, Ritzel sat on her mom's death bed. Just before her mom passed away from breast cancer, Taylor promised she would make the Olympic team in her honor.
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Luxury self-catering cottage close to Dartmoor as well as the famous beaches of Bude and the surrounding coast line. A peaceful countryside location with enclosed garden and private decking area. Furnished to a high standard with fully equipped kitchen, heating, freeview TV, DVD. Shared heated Indoor pool, private coarse fishing lake, BBQ and children's play area, laundry and public phone.
Family holidays or weekend retreats. Beautiful scenery, tranquil surroundings, close to North coast beaches and coves, access to Tarka trail and other walks. Close to Granite way cycle routes, country walks, horse-riding, archery, good food pubs. Something for everyone.
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|Double beds (1), Single beds (2), Cots (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
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The property has one double bedroom and one twin bedroom. Electric shower (no bath), fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher, microwave, oven, toaster, kettle etc. Lounge dining area with extendible table, LCD TV with freeview & DVD, Patio doors opening onto private decked area with table & chairs. Enclosed garden with additional seating.
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A small site shared by 14 properties, the well kept grounds include, indoor heated pool, changing rooms, toilets & showers. The well-stocked private fishing lake requires a fishing licence (available from the local Post Office/store which is a few minutes down the road). The site also has a BBQ and children's play area. Laundry room on site as well as public phone.
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6 Jun 2013
"Lovely Accomodation"
This is a great place to stay with young children, the pool and play area were fully utilised by us, and there is loads to do in the local area. Tintagel is about 45 minutes away and well worth a visit, the children also enjoyed the Gnome Reserve at Bradworthy- be prepared to wear a gnome hat though! The accommodation was very clean and had everything we needed.
14 Apr 2013
"Really enjoyed - ideal for couple with young son"
We had a great time staying here - my husband and 10 year old son. Would really recommend. The setting was quiet, local pubs very good, friendly people and having use of the pool was what sold it to us and we weren't disappointed. One small thing was the lack of wi-fi. Many thanks
10 Sep 2012
"A lovely quiet break in the countryside - with beaches nearby"
As returning visitors, we were still impressed with the pool. The children are getting bigger all the time and, on occasions, the space inside the accommodation does become a little cramped but it's no more and no less than we would expect of any holiday accommodation. It's equipped with all you need for a good summer holiday, but we took a small barbecue so that we could cook outside when the weather permitted (which wasn't very often this year!). This is a lovely quiet location - well away from the hubbub of "normal" life but close enough to beaches and other attractions if you want them. We took our bikes and did the Tarka Trail from Great Torrington down to Bideford and back, as well as a local ride through the woods to Hallwill Junction. The riding at Roadford Reservoir is very limited and will only really satisfy inexperienced bikers. The local pub is rather quiet, but does accommodate children. There are other pubs in Hatherleigh that are much busier, especially on market days, and there's a pizza restaurant that has potential to be great: the market (Tuesdays) is well worth a visit for the livestock auctions. Hatherleigh also has a bit of a heritage trail that's quite interesting and the town is more interesting than Holsworthy, in my view. The organic butcher on the road leading to Hatherleigh is well worth visiting for some good meat cuts, but there's a Co-Op in Hatherleigh for all you really can't do without (beer, wine, crisps, etc.). The beaches at Bude are still great for surf, bodyboarding, kite flying, sandcastles (Widemouth Black Rock £4.50 all day, Sandymouth Bay is free for National Trust members). Walk from Boscastle to Tintagel if you can - it's stunning - and then visit the Hotel Camelot to see the view in the late afternoon - also stunning. A bus can take you back to Boscastle.
2 Oct 2011
"A great place to take your small children"
The cottage is tucked away in the corner of the site, way out in the countryside and well away from everything. The cottage is small, but well planned and equipped with a small private garden/play area. The best thing about the site, though, is the indoor heated pool - it was just perfect for those British summer days when it's supposed to be hot and sunny and you're supposed to sit on the beach all day, but it is neither hot nor sunny and beaches are far from top of the list of 'things to do today'. The children (ours were 5 and 7) loved it and we used it most days in the pretty poor summer of 2011. It is clean and inviting, and not too busy - even at the height of summer. It is, though, at the bottom of the hill from 1 Lakeview Rise so be prepared for a long haul back with tired children. Take your own teapot and a radio/sound system that connects to mp3 player if you like music, although there is a tv and dvd player. It's close to the NCN route along the former Bude railway line that gives reasonably good access to the local shop and pub (about 10 mins walk), but we found the pub in Black Torrington more amenable to small children. There's loads of good walking and cycling country around and we only scratched the surface of it. Allow around 30-40 minutes to drive to the beach. We found Widemouth Bay (parking £4.50 all day) and Sandymouth Bay (free parking for NT members) very good for small children and they both have a small cafe and toilets. Market day in Holsworthy is a nice morning out and there's plenty of places to get decent food, but we liked The White Hart. We enjoyed it so much that we're already planning to come again next year.
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Wow, what a great PASS Summit! Great to see so many old friends and meet so many new ones! At PASS I had the opportunity to talk to a number of people about an exciting new feature we have in SQL Server 2014, In-Memory OLTP (codenamed "Hekaton"). We had some great discussions and got to listen to a fantastic keynote delivered by Dr. DeWitt on this technology: http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2013/PASStv.aspx?watch=aW3-0G-SEj0
For this blog I just wanted to share some of the most common questions and discussions we had around SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP at the Clinic and throughout the PASS Summit. Maybe it will help answer some questions you may have around In-Memory OLTP as well!
Question 1: Is In-Memory OLTP the solution to all my performance concerns?
In-Memory OLTP is aligned to address the common difficult bottlenecks which are experienced in high scale/low latency RDBMS systems. Problems such as latching and locking do not exists on memory-optimized tables. Placing T-SQL into Native Compiled stored procedures can help reduce the CPU time and improve the T-SQL execution time. However, there are a number of solutions which have performance issues which In-Memory OLTP cannot address, for example if the bottleneck isn't in the SQL Server engine or the code cannot be modified to take advantage of In-Memory OLTP. To help with this analysis we did create the AMR tool: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/09/17/new-amr-tool-simplifying-the-migration-to-in-memory-oltp.aspx . This is a great first step to investigating your solution and In-Memory OLTP. Overall, to summarize, the answer is unfortunately no, it isn't quite that magical fix everything button.
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The quick answer is NO, memory-optimized tables can still be fully durable! The tables can be created as SCHEMA_AND_DATA and will log the inserts/updates/deletes into the SQL Server database transaction log (and then the data files). SQL Server will write changes to the transaction log and execute recovery through checkpoint files by reading the data into memory (from disk) on recovery. Memory-optimized tables are supported with all 3 recovery models for SQL Server databases (full, bulk-logged and simple). Also of note, the logging of transactions going against In-Memory OLTP objects allows for integration with AlwaysOn Availability Groups so you can take advantage of HA/DR features as well with memory-optimized tables. For further details on how transactional durability is achieved see: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/10/11/in-memory-oltp-how-durability-is-achieved-for-memory-optimized-tables.aspx.
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It's in the city, It's unbelievable
A 65 year old tradition. A modern experience.
Clarks Exotica Resort & Spa reiterates the excellence of a company that has been in the hospitality business since 1947, proving that expertise undoubtedly leads to perfection.
Clarks group of hotel managing the hotel which has 5 star hotels across the country.
Ronald Colaco, an NRI based in the UAE and Bangalore, is the hotel's promoter. His experience in senior level positions in various organisations in Europe and the Middle East and his extensive knowledge of international standard town planning, utilities, construction and undulating landscapes has helped create the hotel's unique ambience and turn it into an urban oasis, within world famous township called Hollywood town and swiss town, promoted/ owned and developed by Mr Ronald Colaco. spread across 300 acres near Kempegowda international airport, Bangalore ,Karnataka, India.
Clarks Exotica Resort & Spa bagged many prestigious International awards from across the globe.
1. International Quality summit GOLD CATEGORY AWARD from BID Spain
2. 'European Award for Best practices 2013' being awarded by European society for Quality Research (ESQR) Switzerland
3. 6th Golden Star Award qualifying Clarks Exotica as the Resort Hotel of the year from stars of industries,Corporates on Social Responsibility (CSR)
4. South India Travel award from the Indian Ministry of Tourism for 'Ultimate Service Award in Hospitality'
5. The Diamond Eye Award for Quality Commitment & Excellence "conferred by Otherways Management Association Club" (OMAC), Paris, France.
6. B.I.D Madrid ,Spain who awarded Clarks Exotica Resort, Spa & Convention centre with an "International Arch of Europe" (IAE) Award in Platinum category for the year 2014 during the International B.I.D quality convention Frankfurt, Germany, for commitment to quality and excellence.
7. Awarded "Certificate of Excellence - 2014" from Trip advisor held in Massachusets, USA
8. "India says Yes - Awesome Food Award" in New Delhi
9. Today's Travellers award for the Best Resort in Bangalore conferred by Incredible India supported by Ministry of Tourism, Govt. Of India.
10. Prestigious "International Hotel Award" has conferred a 5 Star Award in the category of Resort Hotel for India in the Asia Pacific region
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Josh Shalla's goal won the game Friday for the Milwaukee Admirals, and he didn't even know it went in at first.
Shalla broke a 4-4 tie when he scored with 7 minutes left, and his team held on for a 6-4 victory over Charlotte at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
"I saw everybody else stand up, so that's when I got excited and started celebrating," Shalla said. "I had to look around three guys, so I couldn't see it. (The crowd noise) helped, and (Anthony) Bitetto running down on me helped, too. He was pretty excited and pretty funny."
The crowd of 7,312 was excited, too.
Milwaukee blew a two-goal lead by allowing the Checkers to score three times in the final 10:23 of the second period but reduced its magic number to clinch a playoff berth to three points. The Admirals can clinch their 11th straight playoff berth with a win Saturday at Chicago and a loss or shootout win by Rockford at Texas.
The Admirals also play at Peoria on Sunday; Rockford does not. Milwaukee is 8-1 in its last nine road games and a combined 16-4-0-2 against the Wolves and Rivermen.
A loss Friday -Milwaukee trailed by one goal with 8-plus minutes left -would have been devastating because every other team fighting the Admirals for one of the final playoff spots won.
"It's been the scenario all year, hasn't it?" Milwaukee coach Dean Evason said. "Or certainly here in the last -I don't know, however long we've been pushing here for the playoffs, probably a month now. It's tough. We have to do what we can do, control what we can control. We can't do anything about those other games. We'll just hopefully take care of our business and see where we sit after Sunday's game."
Shalla's third goal of the season was set up by Cam Reid, who blocked the puck in front of a Charlotte player as he was trying to gain possession deep in the Checkers' zone.
The puck bounced off Reid's stick to Joonas Rask along the left goal line. Rask, playing his first game with Milwaukee, skated to the front of the crease to try to score.
Goalie Mike Murphy, playing his first game with Charlotte, blocked the puck. It slid to Shalla in the left circle, and he fired it in.
"I just put enough stick on it as I could and (shot) far side," Shalla said.
A holding penalty on Mattias Ekholm put Charlotte on the power play with 1:45 remaining. The Checkers also pulled their goalie for a 6-on-4 advantage with 1:27 to go.
But after Milwaukee cleared the puck three times, Zach Hamill scored a long empty-net goal to give his team its fifth victory in the last six..
With 8:22 left in the third, Milwaukee tied the score at 4-4 when Joe Piskula scored from the high slot.
"Obviously it got us going a little bit," Piskula said. "It was huge for me, too. I was on the ice for a few of their goals, so that was a big weight off my back to give my team a little boost there."
Charlotte 1 3 0 - 4
Milwaukee 2 1 3 - 6
First period - 1, MIL, Van Guilder (Budish), 10:31; 2, MIL, Cehlin (Winchester, Ekholm), 14:29; 3, CHA, Welsh (Boychuk), 15:55. Penalties - MIL, Winchester (high-sticking), 6:31; CHA, Marquardt (elbowing), 11:32; CHA, Dalpe (unsportsmanlike conduct), 15:36; MIL, Cehlin (unsportsmanlike conduct), 15:36; MIL, Jarvinen (boarding), 19:46.
Second period - 4, MIL, Rask (Shalla, Reid), 2:14; 5, CHA, Boychuck (Murphy, Terry), 9:37 (pp); 6, CHA, Dalpe (Rissanen), 10:51; 7, CHA, Marquardt (Krueger, Shugg), 18:17. Penalties - MIL, Liambas (interference), 3:07; MIL, Winchester (roughing), 9:09.
Third period - 8, MIL, Piskula (Puustinen, Ellis), 11:38; 9, MIL, Shalla (Rask, Reid), 13:00; 10, MIL, Hamill, 19:21. Penalties - CHA, Woods (roughing), 14:52; MIL, Hellberg (roughing), 14:52; MIL, Ekholm (holding), 18:15.
Murphy, CHA 15 7 8 - 30
Hellberg, MIL 7 9 9 - 26
Summary: Shots on goal - CHA 30; MIL 36. Penalties /minutes - CHA 3 for 6; MIL 7 for 14. Power play opportunities - CHA 1 for 5; MIL 0 for 1. A - 7,312. T - 2:33.


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Re: TFF Shuttle
...Being equal to the speed of a starship that is departing a busy starbase might not mean being equal to the top speed of a starship, or even to her cruising speed.
Generally, the TOS starship departed places at warp 1 or 2. She was seldom heading away from the week's adventure at a high warp factor in the end of an episode, even though it would stand to reason that she would soon be utilizing warp 6 in order to get to the next adventure. A slow start would make sense as a standard procedure - and would give Kirk some slim hope of catching Spock by flying a shuttle that can do at most warp 2.
Well, most backstage sources suggest the Type-7 shuttlecraft is equipped with a warp core to power those nacelles, so if it isn't warp capable it must be pretty damn fast.
True. But it need not be at warp speed in episodes like "Samaritan Snare" where the windows show impulse views.
We already have a reason to believe that warping is sometimes inadvisable or flat out impossible when approaching a planet. "Best of Both Worlds" is a perfect example: the world is about to end, but Riker slows to impulse in his quest to reach Earth before the Borg. If we consider this to be a common occurrence, it would make sense for a starship not to go all the way into a "no-warp" star system, but rather to drop off the passengers at the edge of the system and let them continue the voyage aboard a shuttle. And never mind that the shuttle would be capable of warp - it would be flying at impulse because of the "no-warp" condition, and would be a more affordable vehicle for wasting time in that fashion than an entire starship.
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This week we have a composite stitch that I found in A-Z of Embroidery Stitches: v. 2 . It is called Buttonhole Eyelet flower and has a base created by first working a buttonhole wheel.
Although at first glance it looks quite restrictive you can do quite a bit with it. Buttonhole wheels can also be worked in halves and quarters in various arrangements. So half and quarter flowers can be worked. You can work the wheel as an oval disk or even heart shapes! It is also easy to add more rings of 'petals'.
This is what the finished stitch looks like.
How to work a Buttonhole Eyelet flower.
This sample was worked in perle 5 thread and I assume you know how to work a buttonhole wheel and a bullion stitch as we have had both stitches as challenges earlier in the year.
Mark a small disk shape on your fabric using a dissolvable marker pen.
Work a buttonhole wheel. To work a buttonhole wheel you simply make buttonhole stitches in a circle, passing each vertical stitch through the same space in the centre.
Bring the thread out on the edge of the circle, insert the needle into the middle of the wheel and loop the thread under the needle point. Pull the needle through the fabric to form a loop and repeat this process around the circle.
If the edge of your wheel edge flips up it is probably because you are not spacing the stitches close enough together.
When the wheel is complete take your thread to the back of the fabric
Using a dissolvable marker pen place 5 tiny spots around the edge of the wheel as illustrated.
You will now work bullion knots around the edge of the wheel. Bring your thread out at the first spot.
Working in an anti clockwise direction insert your needle in the second spot and make a bullion knot. The bullion knots in the sample are 15 wraps of the needle using a perle #5 thread.
Insert the needle in the second spot. Point the needle backwards (anti-clockwise) so that the point emerges near the place that the thread comes out of the fabric
Wrap the thread round the needle 10-15 times and then pull the needle carefully through the coil.The more wraps the larger the loop that is formed.
While pulling the needle through the coil, put your left thumb over the coil to hold the coil down. Pull the working thread through the coil until it starts to tighten and then stroke the under belly of the coil with your needle. This will smooth the coil and neaten the stitch.
Take the needle through the fabric at the point where it came out.
Work your way around the wheel until the flower motif is done. By changing the number of wraps of the bullion stitches you can make the petals more or less loopy.
Once again the challenge is:
For new hands to learn the stitch
If you are an experienced stitcher take the stitch and push it a little further in a creative manner or combine this stitch with one of the stitches already covered in TAST 2012. If you have worked a sample in a previous challenge feel free to post a link in comments as it will inspire people but if you have time do try another sample and do something different and new!
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What size did you get? If they're 8.5, trade me before you send them back.
Not sure where you got that from, but good luck getting your proper barrie size.
The blurry pics aren't your fault, Sazon. I have a hard time concentrating when staring at those babies and your camera does too -- that shine and depth of color makes it impossible for the camera to focus!


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You might assume that Paul, widely seen as a contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, is trying to redeem himself with black voters who were alienated by his criticism of the Civil Rights Act. Yet both positions spring from the same wariness of state power, as illustrated by the senator's recent comments on the over-the-top police response to the unrest that followed the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.
Paul has always said he supports the provisions of the Civil Rights Act that apply to racial discrimination practiced or enforced by the government. But during his 2010 campaign he said he was not so keen on the parts of the law that ban discrimination by private businesses, likening such "abhorrent behavior" to the racist speech that we tolerate, even while condemning it, because of our commitment to individual freedom.
Not surprisingly, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous vigorously disagreed with Paul's views on the Civil Rights Act. But Jealous also said this: "I have got to hand it to Rand Paul. It takes some serious guts to publicly challenge such a cherished pillar of the modern American identity."
Paul's positions on criminal justice issues also take some serious guts. He is not just reaching out to a segment of the electorate that is overwhelmingly hostile to Republicans; he is challenging members of his own party to rethink their reflexive support of law enforcement and tough-on-crime policies.
"There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response," Paul wrote in Time last week. "There is a systemic problem with today's law enforcement," he added, and "big government has been at the heart of the problem," fostering the militarization of police equipment and tactics.
Paul went further, encouraging Republicans to consider what it feels like to be on the receiving end of excessive police force and excessive criminal punishment. "Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system," he said, "it is impossible for African Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. This is part of the anguish we are seeing in the tragic events outside of St. Louis, Mo."
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The Horned Frogs' specialists are all back in 2014 after strong showings in an otherwise disappointing year.
With potentially the best kicker in the conference and two strong returners anchoring the special teams, TCU shouldn't have many issues in the third element of the game.
Here are the projected starters for the Frogs' special teams:
Contenders: Jaden Oberkrom (Jr., Arlington Martin), Ryan DeNucci (Sr.), Philip Armendarez (Sr.)
Projected Starter: Oberkrom
Stranglehold on position: 10
Analysis: Oberkrom is entering his third year as the go-to leg for the Frogs. Through his first two seasons, he has yet to miss an extra point in 79 tries. He has just one career miss inside of 30 yards and didn't miss any inside of 40 as a sophomore. His TCU career long was a 56-yard kick against Kansas State last year, but he once kicked a 60-yarder in high school. Oberkrom starts 2014 on the watch list for the Lou Groza Award for the nation's best kicker.
Contenders: Ethan Perry (Jr.), Philip Armendarez (Sr.)
Projected Starter: Perry
Stranglehold on position: 10
Analysis: Also in his third year starting on special teams, Perry saw 29 of 80 punts fall inside the opponents 20-yard line last season. Only 17 of his punts were returned and just one went back for a score. As the only true punter on the roster, don't expect to see anyone else kicking it away for TCU.
Contenders: B.J. Catalon (Jr.), Cameron Echols-Luper (So.), Brandon Carter (Sr., Euless Trinity), Trevone Boykin (Jr., West Mesquite), Deante' Gray (Jr.)
Projected Starter: KR - Catalon, PR - Echols-Luper
Stranglehold on position: 9 - Catalon, 7 - Echols-Luper
Analysis: Catalon was second in the conference and No. 16 in the country last season with a 26.5-yard average in his first season returning kicks. He had a 100-yard touchdown return in the opener against LSU at AT&T Stadium last season and earned himself an honorable mention for All-Big 12. Echols-Luper was able to find the field as a freshman in more than a few games as a punt returner and ended up being TCU's leader at the position by the end of the season with 14 returns for 187 yards.
Keep an eye on: Boykin. He was used as a punt returner against Kansas State last year, a situation that became infamous when Boykin and former TCU All-American cornerback Jason Verrett were penalized for both wearing No. 2 on the field at the same time. He is still explosive and versatile despite being listed at quarterback. If and when Matt Joeckel is named starter, Boykin will be used wherever they can find a spot for him, and this might be a big one.


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Whether you're cutting egg shells or glass, submerge the object under water while you cut.
The water will dampen any vibration induced by the cutting tool and prevent shattering.
You will, of course, have to either use hand tools or use a Dremel tool with an extension cable so you don't risk electric shock but, if you can figure out a way to do this, it will work. I have done it. Done carefully, you can even cut a pane of thin glass with a large pair of scissors.
Just make sure that everything, the glass and the tool, are completely submerged in water.
The question I have about using a light bulb is that it's transparent/translucent. You'll have to put the bulb inside a light tight container.
You could cut the appropriate aperture in the side of the light bulb then slide it into a cardboard tube with the correct pinhole. I think that will work. Otherwise, you could paint the outside of the light bulb with a heavy coat of black paint. But then, you would have to worry about getting the paint off the bulb.
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Chromosome P. is the latest stop of Caturegli Formica long way to search visual archetypes of the contemporary world and turn them into the subject of precious carpets, from Pirelli tyres to New York Stock Exchange listings, from DNA sequencing to the map of African villages.
The themes depicted in their carpets have to do with certain macro-knots of occidental thinking: the environment and consumption of the territory, genetics and GMOs, catastrophes, chaos theory, archival storage and the mind, the chemical essence of life.
Giovannella Formica and Beppe Caturegli share a background in the cultural atmosphere of the Radical Architecture movement in Florence. After taking architecture degrees in 1982, they moved to Milan to begin a long, intense working relationship with Ettore Sottsass, the Memphis group and the magazine Terrazzo. In 1987 they opened a studio together. One aspect of their research, honored with many international prizes and publications, is the structural use of color and light in architecture. Caturegli and Formica focus on three research themes: serendipity–the full poetic independence of the designer, proceeding by means of discoveries that apparently come by chance; the ontological workshop–the attempt to replace the aesthetic of form with the logic of meaning; and the sensorial swing–a state of particular awareness that comes from the composition of the wavering motion between two opposite signals: background-object, constancy-inconstancy, equal-different…
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Finaly :) have been waiting for ever
Set in the immediate aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead's survival co-op mode lets up to four players blast a path through the swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters. Guide your survivors across the rooftops of an abandoned metropolis, through rural ghost towns and pitch-black forests in your quest to escape a devastated Ground Zero crawling with infected enemies.
Valve sets up to release the DLC for PC and 360 versions of Left 4 Dead. Which will include the long awaited SDK.
Posted by Henley on Apr 21st, 2009
With the release of the Survival Pack DLC for the Xbox 360 the tease and the countdown for the release of the PC version has begun as the release is planned to happen later on today. The DLC will include access to the other two maps in 'verses' mode as well as the highly anticipated Survival mode which has a team of four see how long they can last against the hordes of AI controlled zombies. The DLC was originally supposed to be released around December 2008, but Valve being Valve have waited until the update is perfect. Who wants a broken update anyway?
L4D_411 wrote:In addition, for PC gamers and aspiring developers, the first Left 4 Dead release for the Source Software Development Kit (Source SDK) will allow the creation of custom Left 4 Dead campaigns that will be discoverable via L4D's matchmaking system. The SDK update is also due for release this spring, and is free of charge to all owners of L4D on the PC.
With the update the best feature by far is the ability to access the long awaited SDK. So mods like Dead Before Dawn and I Hate Mountains will finally be able to change more then just levels with a "it will have to do" SDK. As to what the SDK will allow people to do, only time will tell us that. The ability to access the Director, lighting features and the ability to finally be able to make mods separate of the game itself is some of the features I'm hoping will be accessible.
Gabe_Newell wrote:Since Half-Life launched in 1998, Valve has made continuous efforts to expand the offering of its products beyond what's included on the day of launch. With Half-Life and Counter-Strike, and more recently Team Fortress 2, we've learned that we're no longer making stand-alone games but creating entertainment services. With Left 4 Dead we're extending that tradition by creating additional gameplay and releasing our internal tools to aspiring developers so they may also create and distribute new Left 4 Dead experiences.
So with the release of the SDK what types of mods is everyone hanging out for? Let's hope we will see some creative uses of a well working AI system for online games.
*** UPDATE *** After the release of the DLC for the PC the update for the SDK was not released with the update. Lets hope we will see it soon.
Finaly :) have been waiting for ever
I just had a quick go on survival mode on the 360....It's tough haha!
I can't wait till I can play it on the PC version later today. YAY.
What's this something which valve hasn't delayed yet? Perposterous!
It was actually delayed like three times
Im pretty sure they said the SDK wouldnt be released with the DLC.
Where abouts did you read this?
Sauce or gtfo.
Finally, i hope they wont limit the SDK like they did with TF2. Beacuse there are some really intresting total conversion mods that would work really good with the coop and Zombie spawn system this game has.
I know at least 2 mods waithing for final confirmation. Plz make total conversions avalible.
edit: i just read the text xD thank god they are allowing it!
There's no way Valve will release the source code, so you can quit dreaming about total conversions.
You don't need source code for a total conversion. All you need is a fully-featured SDK that lets you do everything you could want with the engine. Remember Counter-Strike? That was a total conversion, and the HL source has never been released.
You need to understand the concept of what mods are then. There's only so much you can do with a mod without code. Perfect example is Portal Prelude, that's a mod without code modifying. Now that's what it's gunna be like with L4D. The most you'll get is server plugins, but nothing huge to allow for real total conversion mods. If you knew Source modding, (or anyone else) then you'd understand what I'm saying.
And FYI:
Looks like code to me.
I'll talk no more. Just wait 'n see when it releases, then remember me and smile vaguely.
Actually, that's completely wrong. Sorry, but the reason half life and half life 2 can be modded so easily is because we have access to the source code. Hence the name of the enginge: SOURCE. Left 4 dead, however, is all hard-coded, which means that modding it to any real extent is impossible. We can make custom maps with the sdk, and that's all.
So I don't need to bury my hopes of seeing WH40k TC on L4D yet, that's some good news.
Same mod i was thinking about ;)
Good news, I have xbox 360 version But i have been forgetting to play it :/ ima check it out soon
"With the update the best feature by far is the ability to access the long awaited SDK."
SDK is NOT included in update.
It will be aviable "shortly after".
Fix it.
Like the comment above, sauce or gtfo.
Like the comment i really don't care about that's above me
Shut up.
remeber to factor in Valve time there.
Technically wouldn't this be a new time definition? Turtle Rock... or even Valve South Time?
Turtle Rock Time: Say your going to release two things at once, delay them both then only release one.
About time!
SDK should be really great for developers.
Bring it ooooooooooonnnnnn!!!!
"This is part of the L4D SDK rollout, which is currently in a closed beta and will be released shortly after the launch of the L4D Survival Pack."
It'sin the official L4D blog, in the post titled "A Match Made In Zombie Heaven." So we will not be getting the SDK now sadly.
"This is part of the L4D SDK rollout, which is currently in a closed beta and will be released shortly after the launch of the L4D Survival Pack."
SDK isn't comming out today, you are all misinformed
Since when xbox is more important than a PC?
omg stupid xbox
man, survival mode sound awsome and i cant wait to play dead air in versus :D
cmon, release it!
People aren't realizing how AI this complex and mechanics this strict are not gonna allow valve to release much more then SDK to map, skin, sound, and possibly if your lucky, replace a few models. Remember this is VALVE we are talking about. They will NOT release everything unless they have complete control over the content that comes from it with a set of "anti stupid" restrictions not allowing you to break their engine.
They haven't released a half decent set of SDK since HL2 with addons for each episode.
And YET people are making great mods like Zeno Clash, PVK or Fistfull Of Frags(with full bot support).
Doubt that they give FULL L4D source. Same for CSS and TF2.
This will only give CHEATERS more opportinuties than to actual MODDERS.
Base HL2 source code is more than enough to make great distinct and unique mod or even a standalone game.
Lol what?
Yeah... Shows what you know.. Zeno Clash was created on the fully paid official source engine, the one that costs a bomb and has NO restrictions, and is probably more up to date than left 4 dead.
As for them mods, nothing fantastic has been done with the code, and bots are already in the half life 2 deathmatch source code, they just need fixing.
Can't wait for the official mod support and SDK.
Thank you Valve, I can't express enough appreciation to you guys and gals :)
One of the few developers left who understand gamers and actually tries to provide them quality and innovative updates for their game for FREE. It seems all to common now to see developers strip features out of a game only to sell them back to the gamer as paid DLC updates. Thank you Valve for showing everyone how to create value in a game and make it worth buying instead of cramming DRM into it.
About time?? :>
Lightspire just may be put on hold for this game update..
is it true, you got a source or is it a LIE !!!!
HAHA Fail, you actually think that Valve is releasing the source code...
(He told me this on my profile then tried to laugh at me when they released this SDK, even though i said they are releasing the SDK with mapping ability only, but NO source code.)
So yeah, anyone want to agree with me or laugh at this guy, then in doing so will be funny.
Epic fail. Haha!
Haha yeah man! :P
And it's so true. People can say what they want, but when the (mapping) SDK comes out and they see it's got no source code they can think back with their little minds and see who they were wrong.
OkeiDo, you of all people should've figured this. Although I see you on your ZPS profile thinking you're going to be able to port ZPS to L4D. Good luck with that. Time will tell.
Well you put it better than i did!
Thanks, and also look around at the large number of mods waiting to be ported, ive tried telling the developers but they are all narrow minded and stubborn and refuse to accept that the Sorce Code is not being released. Omnibus or something is one, and there is another but i forgot the name, it is about rambo and people on that mods moddb actually are discussing giving the zombies guns and stuff in the source code to make a mod.
Anyways i have my proof to show these people and hopefully save them time, and others too.
Tell it like it is dec!
Still not out yet! :(
Pacific Standard Time....its still only 2pm here.
My L4D is updating right now on steam, but no SDK guys...
L4D update i found was around 5:40PM EST but I opened steam 10 minutes after, so I think it was 5:30PM EST when they placed it.
By shortly after Survival Pack, I think its a week or two after survival pack is released (At least/most).
yey im updating
Wicked! bout time tooo :)
I just downloaded it, but source sdk isn't updating or anything... still no sdk :(