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Gary Allan on new songs, vocal surgery
When I talked to Gary Allan earlier this week, we covered more ground than was able to fit in the full feature that appears here on Tap Milwaukee. Here is more of the conversation we shared as he waited to make a Monday night appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon." (Click here to watch his spot on the show.)
As Allan prepares to visit The Rave tonight, he discussed why he thought "Tough Goodbye," the lead song (co-written by Cedarburg native Josh Thompson) from his Billboard chart-topping new album, "Set You Free," would be the first single. He also talked about how a vocal cord operation that he underwent just before recording the album has made him feel like a whole new singer, and his approach to Nashville after spending his early years (starting at 12 years old) playing honky tonks and clubs in California's Bakersfield-inspired country music scene. »Read Full Blog Post
Next Act gives wings, radio style to 'It's a Wonderful Life'
Imagine a Milwaukee without its musicians and dancers, its singers and actors, its highly reputed symphony and its world-class theater. It would look a lot more like Pottersville, that mean-spirited burg of cheap thrills and third-class entertainment that greets George Bailey before his great awakening.
Such were my thoughts Friday night as six veteran Milwaukee-based actors tugged at my heartstrings for the second straight year, in Next Act Theatre's reprise of "It's a Wonderful Life," as transformed by Mary MacDonald Kerr into a 1957 radio play, coming straight to us from the studio of Milwaukee's very own WNAT. »Read Full Article(1)


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By VINCE LUECKE
As a kid, I remember two distinct smells emanating from Tell City's downtown. The first was the smell of wood and lacquer from Tell City Chair Co. The second was at Tell City Feed and Grain, where the odor of grain and soybean mill wafted over the area.
At their April 2 city meetings, Cannelton officials made several decisions and took some steps to help better their community. Several residents of Cannelton were there to lend their support.
Although I appreciate Mrs. Carter's passion for animal rights, I do believe she is way out of line calling councilman Ron Crawford an arrogant hypocrite.
She does not know the same man I have known for 60 years. Arrogant? Mr. Crawford is the most humble person I have ever known. Hypocrite? No way, he has always been straight ahead with his views and his life in general.
Also, as for as representing his constituents, well he is representing this constituent and many others with whom I have discussed this issue.
I am replying to an editorial published in December titled "Letting people raise their own taxes could be a good move."
Now my first comments would be directed toward the part that says, "Most politicians are still unwilling to raise taxes on even the most wealthiest citizens."
Agriculture has a bright future in Perry County and southern Indiana and it's not just corn and soybeans that will help drive profits on farms big and small.
An afternoon drive proved that truth for me Thursday, perhaps helped by the early spring all of us have been enjoying for weeks.
The Tell City-Troy Township School Board hopes to hear options this month on how to dispose of the vacant former junior high school, and we hope this will lead to its quickly changing hands.
Options presented at last month's school board meeting included listing the building with local real-estate companies or conducting an auction. We vote for the latter, as it will likely lead to quicker disposal of the building.
On Sept. 18, 2011, I laid my husband to rest at St. Mary's Cemetery. His monument was placed in November and the cradle and flowers arranged.
Already someone likes them also. His grave is visited several times a week but March 2 was special as it was our 59th wedding anniversary.
All was well, I went by the next day and found an empty monument. We have had things stolen from our yard in the past, his flag off of our porch being the most important.
I am writing to clarify my statements (made in a March 5 letter) about the proposed income tax concerning the new jail, and animal control ordinance and board. At the end of this letter I have included a short response to Jeff Jones.
Because my first letter has led to some confusion, let me try to clarify my statements. First, when I was talking about the tax levy, I was talking about the 20 years as the time frame suggested by the council. According to stats found at Indiana.edu, the median household income is $44,652.
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5 Ways to Cut the Fat From Your Grocery Bill
Friday, June 4, 2010
Eating is an expensive habit. And if you're anything like me, then food probably consumes a significant portion of your budget. On average, American families spend $9,478 a year on food alone -- that's 13.3 percent of their total household budgets, according to a recent survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
To help you get a grip on this tasty but often expensive cost-of-living, here are five ways to cut the fat from your grocery bill.
1. Make a grocery list and check it twice. Going through your kitchen before hitting the supermarket is free, and planning ahead can fatten your wallet by preventing expensive impulse buys. You might even save on gas by being organized because you won't need to make a second shopping trip to buy those forgotten items.
2. Stop clipping worthless coupons. Take a good look at the grocery coupons you're clipping before getting excited about the deal. Many coupons offer deals on highly packaged foods low in nutrition and high in unpronounceable ingredients. Skipping the worthless coupons and opting to pay a little bit more for whole foods may be a better deal for your health in the long run.
3. Watch the price scanner. Mistakes on price scans are common at the grocery store and can cost you additional dollars. A Consumer Reports survey found that 6 percent of respondents were overcharged at the grocery checkout, and no particular chain stood out as more or less accurate. Watching while your grocery prices scan and verifying their accuracy at check-out can save you money and may even score you free food -- many grocery chains will give you the item for free if it scans at the wrong price, but it's up to you to spy the error.
4. Buy generic items over big brand names. Save a huge 10 to 50 percent on every shopping trip by switching your brand name buys for generic items. It costs big bucks to market brand name products, and you're paying for that expense when you buy a food item with a recognizable label. Compare many generic items to the brand name equivalent and you'll find that the brands are not necessarily better than their less-advertised alternatives.
5. Skip the cans, buy dried beans in bulk. Why are you buying beans canned in captivity? Buying dried beans in bulk and soaking them overnight is a frugal way to add protein to your diet without paying for the high cost of meat. Besides, dried beans are extremely cheap and expand when soaked, so your family gets more meal for every dining dollar spent by forgoing the canned variety.
Finding simple ways to cut your everyday food expenses takes a bit of practice, but the payoff can be huge. Keeping track of your budget can also help you save money on all your other living expenses.
How do you cook dry beans, I have never cooked with any type of dry beans. I would like to know the basics, how long to soak, how much water, how to cook, what to make with them. I am pretty uneducated when it comes to dry beans
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How do you cook dry beans, I have never cooked with any type of dry beans. I would like to know the basics, how long to soak, how much water, how to cook, what to make with them. I am pretty uneducated when it comes to dry beans
There are usually directions on the bag, I can't remember off of the top of my head but it's real simple. Dry beans are so much better for you than canned. Anything in a can (beans, veggies, etc) is usually SUPER DUPER high in sodium!! I usually throw them in the crockpot and make chilli, yumm!
I already do all those except the last one. Canned are just a lot more convenient for our small family.
I suck SO BAD at dry beans. I tried and tried because I bought a few lbs and no matter how long I soaked them, or what I did to them, they STILL came out tasting dryer and icky... I like canned beans :( [SHAME!!!!]
Definatly dried beans!!!! Also buy in bulk when you can. That helps us SO much because I do all of my own baking.
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I am a horrible cook and I am not creative!
Awwww dont be so hard on yourself!!! You should spend sometime finding a cookbook you love and start there.
my nana just gave me 6 cookbooks, I just need to get the ingredients, some of them i've never heard of, and some are jut expensive


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Patriots have released WR Da'Ron Brown.
After signing the other NFL Gronkowski the Pats have decided to let go of Brown.
Saints have cut OL Khalif Barnes.
After recently resigning Barnes the Saints have decided to let go of him again.
Patriots have signed FB Glenn Gronkowski.
In an interesting move the Pats have signed another Gronkowski brother. They have signed him to the practice squad and cut WR Brown.
Adrian Beltre is out of the Rangers lineup on Saturday.
Gallo will be at 3rd and Moreland will be at DH today for the Rangers. It looks like almost all of the regulars will get a break today for the Rangers.
Bears have place DL C.J. Wilson on waivers.
One day after signing him the Bears have placed the ex-packer on waivers. He would have been the third string DE for the Bears and although it happened quickly this move is not too surprising.
Joe Mauer is out of the Twins lineup on Saturday.
Mauer has been out since the 25th with a quad issue. He will be replaced at 1st by Beresford.
Elvis Andrus is out of the Rangers lineup on Saturday.
Andrus will get a break today at short for the Rangers. Profar will get the start at short for the AL west champs.
Carlos Beltran is out of the Rangers lineup on Saturday.
The Rangers have nothing left to clinch. With that being said the best couple games will be time for players like Beltran to get some extra rest prior to the playoffs. Beltran will be replaced at DH by Beltre.
Yoenis Cespedes has been thrown out of Saturday's game.
Cespedes was ejected after arguing strikes. He will be replaced in the outfield by Conforto. The Mets cannot be happy with their star as this is a very important time of the year for the team.
DJ LeMahieu is out of the Rockies lineup on Saturday.
Intent on getting LeMahieu the NL batting title, the Rockies will likely sit him for the rest of the regular season. His average currently sit at a .348, just one tick above Daniel Murphy's .347. In his absence, Daniel Descalso will get the start at the keystone, while he bats second in the order.


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2012 Review And What I Am Doing In 2013 7 comments
I know many readers of mine followed me over to SA from my previous newsletter days. My intention is to update readers on what I did during 2012 and update current positions. I will also lay out what I am expecting and doing in 2013.
Vietnam Opportunity Fund
This is a closed end fund that invests in the Vietnamese Stock Market and private equity deals in Vietnam. The website is here if you want to check it out. I am a big long term believer in the ascendancy of Asia this century and what I like about this fund is the net asset value of the fund is around $2.40 per share and the fund sells for around $1.75. You are getting the opportunity to buy $1.00 for around $.65 in a growing economy with many tailwinds. The management of the fund realizes the discount to NAV and has been buying in shares.
Mart Resources
This is the oil producer in Nigeria that was my stock of the year pick for 2012 and returned well over 100%. It started paying a pretty decent dividend this year, however I have trimmed back my position. The company has had problems with pipeline thefts and recent flooding in its area of operations. Nevertheless the company has excellent upside as it has not fully drilled off its acreage. This one is risky but I still hold some shares.
Caledonia Mining
This is the gold miner in Zimbabwe. The company has done a great job in bringing back its Blanket mine and the company has really delivered on the operations front. If the company was operating anywhere else it would be worth multiples of where it is now. The company continues to expand production and is the lowest cost operators in Africa. Cashflow has been impressive and the management intends on initiating a dividend early next year. This is another one with quite a bit of upside but it is risky with political risk being the biggest headwind. Zimbabwe is talking about having elections next year so expect the rhetoric about black empowerment and possibly nationalization to rear its head again. Mugabe could die at anytime and that would certainly be both chaotic but also possibly loosen things up. The company has the gold price as a tailwind and any decent political outcome could launch the shares.
Cortex Business Solutions
This is my 2013 stock of the year. I just wrote about it recently and you can read about it here.
Mongolia Growth Group
Irrespective of all the negative news that has recently come out about the political situation in Mongolia I am still extremely positive on the country. The economy continues to grow double digit and the Oyu Tolgoi mine is commissioning now with the concentrator ready to be dedicated on 12/27/12. This is going to be a major economic driver next year (A billion plus pounds of copper and 650k of gold per year). Plus we need to keep in mind there are quite a few other projects happening in Mongolia. I am a long term investor in Mongolia and I continue to accumulate shares in Mongolia Growth Group which continues to build book value and has several real estate redevelopment opportunities that could add multiples onto the share price.
Mongolia Stock Market
I am back in buying shares. I think the market has either bottomed or is near a bottom and I am scaling into some positions. I like the following companies Remicon (cement), APU (beverages), BDSEC (largest brokerage firm), E-Tran Logistics (Logistic services and expediting), Tavan Tolgoi (also known as little TT, met coal producer). Of course I have a longer term perspective so even if I don't catch the exact bottom I think I will do well buying in now.
Seems to be the flavor of the month and really no way to play it right now for smaller investors. I do have a small position in Yoma (real estate) but I bought it a while back and it is now likely overvalued. I will be watching an writing this up as soon as any vehicles for investing in Myanmar become available.
I think 2013 is going to be a great year for uranium. The bottom is in and several catalysts exist to propel it much higher. The new Japanese government has said they will be turning the country's reactors back on over the next few years. We knew this already as they have no other choice. As an aside this is more proof positive that renewables just are not scalable at this time. The country has a trade deficit due to all the fossil fuels it is importing and unless they lower their energy costs the high cost of energy could cause the entire economy to implode. The Chinese have lifted their post Fukashima moratorium on new nuke builds. The Megatons to Megawatts program with Russia ends this year and Putin has already said it will not be renewed. The major point is that the uranium spot price is $44.75 and the long term price is $60-65. Hardly any miners can make money at this price even with demand exceeding production. The price needs to rise to around $80-85 in order for sufficient capital to be attracted to the uranium mining sector to erase the supply/demand deficit. As always the cure for low prices is low prices. I am buying Uranium Participation Fund and the Uranium ETF.
I will also be writing about some more opportunities in Africa and Southeast Asia. That is where the growth and the action is. I continue to see the western welfare states stuck in their multi year decline. Yes there are pockets of opportunity i.e. shale oil and gas but it will take decades to unwind the fiscal messes and entitlement mindset in the populations of the west. Why swim upstream when the rest of the world has better opportunities and some places are growing double digits. I appreciate all the readers and thank you for another year of readership. I wish you all a Happy Christmas and safe and profitable New Year.
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John I also enjoy your reading and will always appreciate what you have done for Caledonia Mining. At least the fundies fit the parameters what I prefer to find in an investment.
It is interesting you mention Khan Resources. I have dealt with Russians and Ukrainians before and anywhere they are involved I usually go the other way. Sergey Kiriyenko is the head of Rosatom and Atomenergoprom and I have been watching him slowly consolidate power and control over nuclear fuel and uranium resources in former Soviet satellites. This Khan saga seems like it is part of this. However I am not as up to speed fully on it so maybe I am wrong. I do know that Kiriyenko is a Putin crony and I also know that he has stated that Russia wants to have a level of dominance in nuclear power like they do in oil. Take that for its worth.
My inferred question with Khan is do you think they will collect their judgments against the gov't of Mongolia and ARMZ? I think their case is very strong and has won in the lower court. Lots of money at stake considering the paltry market cap of the company. I always thought Mongolia was and is still tied to the Soviet Union/Russia and they need to break that connection to be considered a better environment for investment. You might have more insight on these changes.
"My inferred question with Khan is do you think they will collect their judgments against the gov't of Mongolia and ARMZ?"
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By: Kerr, George, - King's College London. - Physical Society (Guy's Hospital)
Publication info: London :Printed for J. Callow,1818.
Contributed by: King's College London, Foyle Special Collections Library (archive.org)
Subjects: Childbirth Complications Diseases Electronic books Gynecology Herbs Herbs, Medicinal Insanity (Law) Materia medica Obstetrics Pregnancy Therapeutic use Therapeutics Women
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Medical sketches on the following subjects; I. On the use of Hellebore, as a remedy for insanity and other diseases. II. Of Colchicum Autumnale, and its use in medicine. III. Observations on the sudden death of women in child-bed /
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Read Cornelius Eady's no-nonsense poems and you will notice the influence of the cadences of blues and jazz. You will recognize or learn to empathize with the struggles. Listen to Eady read his poems and you will hear the music. You will witness the unflinching social commentary. You might feel like he is someone you have always known.
Mary Baldwin University students, faculty, staff, and the public will have the chance to listen when Eady presents on campus October 29 as the college's 2008–09 Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar. Eady, associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at University of Notre Dame, will intersperse excerpts from his poems into a narrative of his life, describing how his work ss a writer expanded into teaching, theatrical collaboration, and the co-founding of the national poets organization Cave Canem. Reflecting Mary Baldwin's annual theme, Maps, Eady's self-introduction is titled "Mapping the Muse: A Poet's Journey," according to Mary Baldwin Professor of English Rick Plant, who is coordinating his visit.
"Eady offers an inspiring example of a writer who is thoughtfully engaged with the world around him," said Plant. "That sense of a writer-in-the-world shows up not only in his poems, but also in the scores of young writers he has mentored." Plant remembers Eady's visit to Mary Baldwin more than a decade ago when he "won over our students with his energy and his encouraging demeanor — not to mention his red sneakers and enormous warm smile."
The Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar brings distinguished professionals and scholars in visual and literary arts to Mary Baldwin, providing learning opportunities for the college and the community. The program was created by friends and family of the late Elizabeth K. "Liddy" Doenges '63.
Eady, a native of Rochester, New York, is often categorized as a poet who writes about the African-American perspective, but his images, dialogue, and subjects employ universal themes and situations. Music, family, race, and even poetry itself are explored in his sensitive voice. A voice that, according to a review by Blue Flower Arts, is "intelligent and elegant yet informed by street idiom, angry but never didactic."
Eady is the author of six books of poetry and his work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies. Recognition for his writing is extensive, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, among others. Theatrical adaptations of some of Eady's most widely known pieces, You Don't Miss Your Water, Running Man, and Brutal Imagination have been performed in New York City venues and earned critical acclaim.
Eady, who resides in Indiana, will be back on campus in 2009 to lead a May Term course, the second component of Mary Baldwin's Doenges program. Although the specifics of his course have yet to be worked out, Eady is no stranger to the classroom; he has taught at SUNY Stony Brook, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, The College of William and Mary, and Sweet Briar College, among others.
And if you just can't wait to hear Eady's infectious, unhurried, baritone voice, listen to him read I'm a Fool to Love You at www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15244.
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CharlesV: The Saudi leadership is not our friend. First, they are purveyors of Wahhabi Islam, an Islamist form of Islam that believes in a seventh century version of the Koran. That means they oppress women, sexually disfigure them, and hang gays. The Koran advises them not to befriend Christians or Jews, who are like "apes and swine". When the question of investigating Saudi government involvement in 9/11, they threatened to ditch nearly a trillion in US treasuries in order to sink the market--i.e. guilty as charged. They artificially lowered the price of oil to drive US oil producers out of business. Finally, they have contributed millions to the Democratic party, especially to Hillary Clinton. The payback? My guess is that is why Ms. Hillary is so eager to import a million Syrian refugees here at a cost of 65k each, rather than settle them in the Middle East for a tenth that cost. Saudi Arabia will take none of them--citing security conerns, but promises to build them beautiful mosques in Europe and America. In other words, they are working towards a global caliphate, and Ms. Clinton and many others are their kind-hearted by naive dupes. That's my guess---I hope I'm wrong, but it explains the insistence on moving mass numbers of Syrians halfway across the world.


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Emily Blunt has revealed how Julie Andrews really feels about Blunt taking over the iconic role of Mary Poppins in the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns.
Emily Blunt has revealed how Julie Andrews really feels about Blunt taking over the iconic role of Mary Poppins in the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns.
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The sequel to the classic Mary Poppins is beginning to take shape over at Disney. The studio has wanted Emily Blunt to take over the title role from the beginning and is currently in negotiations to make exactly that happen. Now they're looking at other roles.
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Ever since it was announced a few months ago, there has been speculation about who will play Mary Poppins in the upcoming sequel. Well now it looks like we know who will try to fill Julie Andrews' shoes.
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Fans of the Disney musical Mary Poppins started forming lynch mobs when news broke of a reboot. Well, fear not , because director Rob Marshall assures us that his pending Poppins project is no mere remake.
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It was only a couple of days ago that news broke that Disney had brought in most of the production team behind Into The Woods to begin to put together a new Mary Poppins. Now it looks like they already have an eye on their lead.
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Mary Poppins' "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" being sung in Death Metal fashion is either the greatest or worst thing the internet has ever produced. I just can't decide ...
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Getting a movie made is hard. It's an expensive, sometimes demoralizing endeavor that often involves casting changes, periods of turnaround and multiple years. In short, it's almost always a fiasco, but as Saving Mr. Banks illustrates, fiasco is a relative term.
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It's always the same songs. There are about a dozen beloved, universally recognized classic Disney tracks, and they repeatedly populate, in some order, Top 10 lists, cover version CDs and various productions. I get it.
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While the latest edition will be available on DVD, Disney is really pushing the HD Digital and Blu-ray copies of the film, and with good reason. The December 10 release will mark the first time the film has hit Blu-ray, and the first big release of the movie since Disney put together the 45th Anniversary Edition on DVD just a few years ago (Likely due to rarity, those copies run pretty expensively).
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Remember the scene in Mary Poppins in which the greatest nanny of all-time floats down from the heavens like a no-nonsense daredevil sent to right the ship? Of course you do. Most of us watched that movie way too many times as a child, and most of us even tried to recreate that famous scene by jumping off a couch with our mom's favorite umbrella.
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Needless to say, the musical film version of the story – with Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in the lead roles of a magical nanny and a comical chimney sweep – would become a beloved cinematic classic, and it's safe to assume modern audiences who grew up on "A Spoonful of Sugar" would want to learn how it came together.
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Helihiking the Rockies of Canada in the Summer
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Suddenly the Bell helicopter pulled into the sky, leaving me and a dozen other hikers in a huddled cluster under the wash of the rotors.
I rose up from the ground to look around. I had been dropped in a remote area of the Canadian Rockies–the Bugaboos of the Purcell Range on the western slopes. With a certified alpine guide, I would walk from the improvised helicopter landing over terrain that few backpackers have ever reached.
You can do the same. In your party there may be children and seniors. Because the helicopter will return to a site perhaps a mile down the ridge, you don't need to possess more than casual fitness to enjoy this pristine wilderness.
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You begin to identify the wildflowers with your guide, distinguishing between heaths and heathers, mountain lilies and saxifrages.
One helicopter drop puts you on the middle of vast Vowell Glacier. Expertly guided, you make your way amidst the crevices, the streams of water, and the massive boulders that lie on the surface of the ice mass.
While enjoying the visual experience, you breathe the fresh, brisk mountain air. During the walks, aside from conversations with your comrades, all is silent, except for the wind and the occasional whistle of a pika, one of the small rodents of the mountains.
You see remarkable sights, such as excavations grizzly bears make to dig out ground squirrels. Your guide informs you that some researchers think the grizzly does this partly for play. The grizzly's caloric energy expended to dig out the squirrel exceeds the energy gained by eating the squirrel.
Such are the insights of the mountains, available primarily to the helicopter hiker.
Soon the hour and a half at the average drop has passed, and the helicopter returns. Your guide calls the helicopter in with a radio phone. You lift off to another location for a second drop. In a day there are usually two drops in the morning and two in the afternoon. By late afternoon you return to the first-class comforts of the lodge.
The drops themselves have fanciful names that eclectic mapmakers have left on the land here. My drops for the first day started at a mountain site called Powder Pig. The next day included an outdoor barbecue lunch on a glacial moraine and drops at Groovy, Dead Elk Lake, Tidy Bowl, and Easy Roll.
All the 27 major drops in the area have special features to enjoy, whether they be alpine meadows with wildflowers, slopes tiled with small sheets of shale, lakes formed at the base of glaciers, or forests thick with spruce and fir. Big game, such as bear, deer, and elk, are sometimes seen.
The single main nature experience is that of geology. You immerse yourself in the wondrous forces of glaciers, learning how they scraped out the landscape, slowly shifting large masses of rock and earth. You see the metamorphic shales of the Purcells, folded and upthrust in different layers, then shot through with molten rock that cooled as quartz, sometimes with lovely crystals.
Such is the world of helicopter hiking in the Canadian Rockies, an adventure sport available to all travelers.
The sport began in 1978 when tour operator Arthur Tauck of Tauck Tours approached Canadian Rockies entrepreneur Hans Gmoser of Canadian Mountain Holidays. Gmoser had built a remote lodge in the backcountry on the west side of the Rockies. He had transported skiers by helicopter since 1965 for the extraordinary experience of skiing on the largest snowfields available anywhere, all made accessible by the helicopter. Skiers are dropped at backcountry locations otherwise inaccessible.
Tauck saw the possibility of organizing summer tours that would helicopter people into the same area for walking and nature enjoyment. Gmoser was skeptical of the idea at first, but he agreed to participate, and Tauck delivered the travelers. Gmoser expanded to three lodges (Bugaboo, Cariboo, and Bobbie Burns). The two entities–Tauck Tours and Canadian Mountain Holidays–started the business of summer helicopter hiking.
Tour options include picking you up at Calgary and providing all transportation, lodging, and food, as well as helicopter hiking, until you are returned to Calgary. Helicopter hiking tours can be combined with trips through the great national parks of the Canadian Rockies (Banff, Jasper, Yoho, Kootenay), with tour leaders explaining the natural and historical story. Nights can be added at the historic lodges of the parks, Fairmont Banff Springs and Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise.
The Bugaboo Lodge, base for one of the tours and site of my trip, is a friendly place with family-style dining. (The word Bugaboo is British for hoax, referring to the assessment of miners who had been lured into the area in search of gold. There was little gold. The area was a bugaboo. Little could they imagine that tourism would be an enduring vein of wealth for this Canadian Rockies region.)
All three of the lodges operate as helicopter ski facilities in winter and helicopter hiking bases in summer. The Bell helicopter is the most expensive aspect of the whole operation. All three lodges are comfortable places accommodating a maximum of 44 people. There's a reason for that number. The helicopter must be used efficiently and can carry 11 passengers and a guide. By dividing the party into four groups, the helicopter can operate continuously, dropping and picking up parties at scattered locations in the mountains.
Helicopter hiking occurs in what Canadians have named the Bugaboo Recreation Area, an immense acreage along the west side of the Canadian Rockies in the Purcell Mountain Range.
Hans Gmoser came to Canada from Austria in 1951, when he was 19 years old, and worked in various odd jobs, then at the Banff Hotel, starting in 1953. Gradually he rose in the travel industry here, accumulated capital, started helicopter skiing in 1965, built his first lodge, the Bugaboo, in 1968, and gradually expanded. He opened the Cariboo lodge in 1974 and the Bobbie Burns lodge in 1981. Gmoser died at an advanced age a few years back. Ironically, he died in a bicycling accident.
Gmoser recruited some guides from his homeland in Austria. Other guides are Canadian. All are enthusiastic about the region and hike or ski on their free time as well as during their work.
The genius of helicopter hiking as a concept is that it opens up the mountain wilderness to everyone. Only the experienced backpacker, able to traverse treacherous terrain for days, could reach remote mountain locations that the helicopter can arrive at in minutes. The helicopter drops you at these locations and you savor the pleasures of the wilderness, a domain of philosophers and mystics, without the exertions that would limit the experience to a hardy elite.
"You arrive in an isolated area," Gmoser once said to me. "You know that it is entirely uninhabited, with no sign of man. The experience is incomparable in summer for hiking. In winter, skiing here is the best skiing I can imagine."
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Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime best friend--a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life. The twists begin when Trish Klein--the only offspring of Robicheaux's Vietnam-era buddy--starts passing marked hundred-dollar bills in local casinos. Is she a good kid gone bad? A victim's child seeking revenge? A promiscuous beauty seducing everyone good within her grasp? And how does her behavior relate to the apparent suicide of another "good" girl, an ace student named Yvonne Darbonne, who apparently participated in a college frat orgy before her death?--From publisher description.
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Springtime is the start of "kitten season," and that means the Charleston Animal Society will soon be inundated with litters of them. Though the organization appreciates the efforts of concerned citizens who bring them in to their shelter, they recommend that anyone who encounters a litter of newborn kittens to resist the urge to "rescue" them unless they are in potential danger.
"Quite often, kittens that appear to be abandoned are not in any peril," says Dr. Sarah Boyd, Charleston Animal Society's director of Shelter Health and Wellness.
"Just like humans, mama cats have to leave their babies occasionally to feed or relieve themselves," explains Dr. Boyd. "They may even be away for up to eight hours, but are usually close by.
"Kittens that appear to be safe should be left alone under their mother's care," says Boyd. "Keep an eye on them if you are concerned for their safety. If you see the mama cat, they should be fine."
Boyd also suggests putting fresh, cool water and food out for the mama, but preferably away from the kittens. A box with some clean, soft towels nearby may serve as nice bed for them.
Of course, there are instances in which kittens need human help.
"If they are showing signs of distress, such as loud meowing or breathing with their mouths open, they probably need your attention," explains Boyd. "If the mama cat has not returned for over eight hours, there is a strong chance she is unable to return."
Individuals encountering kittens in need of help can either take on the responsibility of caring for them, which is an around-the-clock job, or bring them in to Charleston Animal Society between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Once there, a foster caregiver will be assigned to care for the kittens.
Charleston Animal Society encourages anyone who encounters a litter of kittens outside to consult www.aspca.org/pet-care/cat-care/newborn-kitten-care.
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A Mass of Christian burial was held at St. Leo IV Catholic Church in Roberts Cove at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 18, 2009 for Ambrose Joseph Olinger, 85,
who died at his home on Saturday May 16, 2009.
Rev. Kevin Bordelon, pastor of St. Leo IV Catholic Church, conducted the services with Rev. Richard Wagner con-celebrating.
Burial was in St. Leo IV Catholic Cemetery.
Mr. Olinger was born on June 26, 1923, in Roberts Cove, the son of Edward and Josephine Dischler Olinger.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II attaining the rank of sergeant. He was a lifelong resident of Roberts Cove and established Olinger Repair Service. He was a rice farmer and enjoyed woodworking. Mr. Olinger was an active member of St. Leo IV Church Parish and he enjoyed working on projects at the church and for the Germanfest Association.
He was a member of Knights of Columbus #1897, St. Leo Holy Name Society, American Legion Arceneaux Post 77 and the Roberts Cove Germanfest Association.
Surviving are his wife of 62 years, Margaret L. Olinger; and six children, Charlene O. Reynolds and husband Mike, Gerard Olinger and wife Debbie, Dale Olinger, Susan Olinger, all of Roberts Cove, Laura O. Ledkins of Aurora, Co., John Olinger and wife Leslie of Crowley; ten grandchildren, Mark Olinger, Matthew Olinger, Paul Olinger and wife Arisa, Lucy R. Philip and husband Vivek, Mary Reynolds, Claire Reynolds, H. N. Daniel Reynolds, USN, John Reynolds, Sara Reynolds and Wynn Olinger: two brothers, Hilary Olinger and Ray Olinger; three sisters, Beatrice O. Leoards, Rose Marie O. John and Mary Jo Olinger.
Mr. Olinger was preceded in death by his parents, Edward and Josephine D. Olinger; one sister, Irene O. Petitjean; and a son-in-law, Bill Ledkins.
In lieu of flowers, remembrances can be sent to St. Leo IV Catholic Church or Hospice of Acadiana.
Friends were received from 3:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Sunday, May 17, and from 8:00 a.m. until services Monday, May 18, 2009, at Gossen Funeral Home, Inc., Rayne.
Friends may view the obituary and guestbook online at www.gossenfuneralhome.net.
Arrangements were entrusted to Gossen Funeral Home, Inc. of Rayne.


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Historical Traveler Reviews The Westin San Jose
A Bloody Rip Off
This was the first hotel we stayed at coming out of San Francisco and we arrived at about 1 am to a deserted downtown San Jose that looked like a ghost town. The evidence of the construction (daytime) occuring at the intersection was quite disturbing as there was nowhere to drive the car, nor to park in front of the hotel. I asked the valet where we park and if we could park ourselves and he looked at me and said, "I park it." Oh well, $10 down the drain as a tip for him doing nothing and another $35 just to park the car in some far away bunker lot that looked unsafe. I wondered how we would unload our luggage with the situation and the lone valet said nothing. I grabbed about 8 suitcases and bags, which was disorganized and sloppy, I probably dropped all my clean socks on the greasy pavement but there was no other way. Finally, after putting all our stuff on some wobbly cart, we entered the hotel.
The hotel itself was built in the 1920's and it was said that it was remodeled, because in the 70's it had hit rock bottom as a "welfare hotel". The rude clerk at the desk did not express any sympathy or warmth and we took the elevator up to our room. It was a badly decorated room and very cold too. We went to sleep with a bad heating unit that clunked all night long. When I awoke, I took a shower and was nearly burnt because of the changes in the temp and then after touring the building, there were hardly any people there, we decided to eat at the Il Furgonrio restaurant but were disappointed that it had been closed due to the fact that no one was eating there. Where was everyone? The fitness room looked like a Stalag 13 exercise room, located in the basement. Everything was creepy in the building, namely the emptiness and lack of people. We only stayed there one night but it was a complete rip off as there were no extra amenties for the excessive and absurd price of $165!!! plus parking!!! If you are in the area, stay at a Motel 6, because its just the same, a night in the sack.
A journey back through time...
I go away on business trips all the time this time I got a room at the Sainte Claire for a week.
Walking through the doors, you are transported back in time to the 1920's with the beautiful decor, grand hall lobby, and brass elevators.
The staff behind the desk was nothing but helpful when I asked questions about what there was to do in the city or where certain places were located.
The only setback was the walls in the rooms are paper thin. I could hear my neighbors TV and they were not even playing it very loud.
I ordered room service and it came within 20 minutes! That in my book is AMAZING! The food in the Italian restaurant in the lobby is HORRIBLE! DO NOT EAT THERE! It is overpriced and when I got my dinner it was cold in the middle and scorching on the outside. I sent it back and it took 10 minutes for it to come back to me (Lord knows what they did to it in the kitchen) Plus ordering hot chocolate and a scone in the morning there will set you back $6.00! McDonalds is up the road and it is cheaper (and the food is better believe it or not)
This is definately a retreat for lovers or for those people looking for the perfect place for a second honeymoon (even though San Jose there is NOTHING to do in the city, so rent a car) but not for the business traveler.
Would I go back there??? Maybe for a night or two but not another week.
Charming all in all but...
Over all our stay at the hyatt was quite charming. The historical atmosphere was quit nice and the service was great, save for a few front desk clerks. Upon check in we were welcomed by a very nice black man. That's all that was nice, his skills as a front desk clerk were some what lacking. Upon check in we some snags...3 or 4. When he asked( who i assume was his supervisor) she responded with a blank stare and said "yaaa" quite a bit, that didnt exactly put me at ease, after about 30min trying to figure out the problem we headed up to our rooms. The bellmen were really friendly and very helpfull. Other then the two baffons that checked us in the rest of the front desk clerks seemed to know how to do their jobs. The rooms on the other hand were not up to the same standards as was (most) the hotel staff. Broken light at the door, the ac didnt work and then when it did we had some leakage. The bathrooms were ok except the leaky pipes. The walls were way to thin and you can hear everything that goes on in the other rooms and i mean everything !! from people having sex to babys crying their heads off.
If the hyatt were to sprus up their rooms a tad, the stay would have been excellent. One suggestion though, mabye they should train their front desk clerks in how to properly check people in (the dyamic duo ) and how to talk to guest. If taken in to consideration by managment (not the one that COULDNT help me) the i would surley return for future stays at the wonderful hyatt sainte claire.
Do not stay at the Hyatt Saint Claire
I attended a convention in San Jose (at another hotel) and stayed at the Sainte Claire. I had booked through Expedia and the hotel clerk couldn't find my reservation. That isn't so bad and stuff happens. It was that night when I went to bed that bad stuff started to happen. I went to sleep early (still on Eastern time) and woke up a few hours later with a feeling of something biting my legs. I got up turn on the lights but couldn't see anything. Figured I was dreaming laid down again and felt these little bites again. This time I got up pulled the sheets off and checked the mattress. There was a thick (down?) pad on top of the mattress that looked to be stained with what looked like blood and stuff I couldn't imagine or want too. I told the staff about the biting and dirty mattress the next morning as asked it to be cleaned and changed. It wasn't. Should have complained more but didn't.
Emailed Hyatt when I got home and heard from their people who said that they would talk to the hotel manager and I have not heard anything since. Don't stay here or at least in room 533.
A Different Drummer
After pre-paying for a room, I saw some terrible reviews of the St.
Claire, so I had come concerns about our stay. We were pleasantly surprised. The hotel is "historic," which often merely means "old." Here it meant charming. If you're looking for chrome and glass, this is not your hotel. The room reminded me of a European hotel. It was very large with two double beds, a table and chairs, a desk, bureau, walk-in closet with louvered doors, and sufficent room to easily accommodate a rollaway bed. The feather beds were nice and fluffy. The bathroom had a lovely small ceiling mural that reflected in the mirror over the basin.
The hotel's sitting room off the foyer had a clubby feel to it. There were some glitches: a loose electrical outlet, a bathroom faucet that needed adjusting, a chipped bathroom door, poor lighting for putting on makeup in the bathroom. More attention to detail could make this place great. We had a very nice stay here, and would stay again.
Romantic getaway
Having had one event here 10 years ago, I knew that the public rooms were beautiful and the food from Il Fornaio quite good, but I had not stayed here at the time.This past weekend I stayed in this little gem of a hotel. The staff were friendly and very attentive, despite a busy wedding and graduation schedule. Our room, while small by today's standards, was beautifully furnished and decorated. It's smaller size lent it a very intimate and romantic feel, which was further enhanced by the lovely ceiling in the bathroom painted with clouds and butterflies. Breakfast in Il Fornaio, the hotel's restaurant, was good, though not excellent.There are some detractions to the hotel. You can hear sounds from the next rooms, though we only heard a baby crying and nothing else. They were understaffed, which meant we waited too long for someone to take care of the air conditioning problem (it finally came on by itself 40 minutes after we turned it on) and a long wait for the valet to bring the car up. However, after the initial AC problem, it worked fine, and we just called for our car to be brought up earlier than we really needed it so it was always waiting for us.Despite the detractions, we would definitely stay at this hotel. It's charm and warmth make up for any of the minor issues.
Overpriced and shabby
No soundproofing at all---can easily hear neighbors' TV, their arguments, etc. Shower abruptly switches from hot to cold water and back without warning. Rooms small for the price, bed mattresses sag, and heating/cooling was erratic. Shower tub was chipped and slippery---need rubber stripping on bottom for safety. Carpeting and fixtures worn and need replacement. And local phone calls are $1 each! All in all, a pretentious, overpriced dump. Never again!
Never Again!
I recently stayed at this hotel with 2 family members, I was embarrassed to say the least.. First of all, there was NO parking in front of the hotel, just the very busy STREET.. I had to drop off my sister across the street to go and find out where the heck to park and how to get all our luggage to the hotel?? We were planning on staying 5 days!
After 35 minutes of circling the blocks, one way streets, etc - we finally double parked.. Then.. there was NO VALET! The person at the front desk made about 3 calls, then disappeared and then a valet showed up.. There was only 1 person at the front desk and he was very confused about the reservations, etc.. Finally we get to our rooms on the 4th floor - the valet mentioned the hotel was built in 1926 and that the 3rd and 6th floor were HAUNTED!! (LOVELY) - luckily we were on the fourth, I thought to myself..
Anyways, we get in the room and I could not believe how old, dirty and low class the hotel was - I have been in a better motel 6 about 10 years ago!!!! We looked at the bed and there was this big lump, we pulled back the covers and there was a double sized featherbed on a King sized BED! NOT TO MENTION IT HAD a HUGE RED STAIN under the bottom!! DISGUSTING!! AFter 6 phone calls and 1 hour of our time -we wanted to go to sleep... We finally gave up on getting another cover and we went to bed.. ONLY to find out you could hear everything through the walls - neighbors talking, laughing, tv, etc.. Then it was freezing, we turned on the heater - NO HEATER! Needless to say, we checked out the next morning - after eating at the IL FORNAIO (runny eggs, no toast - poor service) and will NEVER come back to the hotel AGAIN... I would recommend the Fairmont in San Jose to thouse that expect good service, cleanliness and CLASS!!
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A Wonderful Hyatt Stay in San Jose
I was pleasantly surprised with my visit to the Hyatt Sainte Claire. Why a lot of hotels today are so impersonal, this hotel has a very friendly staff in addition to a beautiful historic hotel.
I was told that this hotel dates back to 1926. They had several historical items that were on display.
They have a large room in the lobby area that is about 20 feet tall. This room is made of antique wood and has a handpainted ceiling.
I found the bedrooms to be very nicely done. The information in the room says that it is all residential style furniture that was bought in Italy. My bathroom has a handpainted ceiling. I was told that this is the case in all of their rooms. It is something that I have never seen in any other hotel. My bathroom also had a nice teak wood counter in the bathroom around the sink area. In addition, the pictures in the room were much more appealing that the standard pictures that are in most hotels that I have stayed in. The hotel directory noted that they were of a large rustic ranch somewhere south of the hotel.
The staff was very friendly and helped me find some great places to go while I was in town.
I also tried their restaurant. It is part of the Il Fornaio chain. Their food was very good and the breakfast waiter that I had was very friendly also.
While there is some construction going on in downtown San Jose, it did not inconvenience me at all.
Ever time in the past that I had tried to book the Hyatt they were sold out, I was glad to see that I was able to get in this time. I will definitely be returning there when I go back to San Jose.
Quaint but not quite.
Quaint hotel. Nice staff but no soundproofing in rooms. Could easily hear other guests. Construction starts early across from Hotel. Rooms small. Bathroom nice. No place to sit in lobby.
Will not return.
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Final Fantasy XIII
Life is Strange – Ending soon
Up next: Calling
With all three series of games we're currently playing on YouTube, we can sort of see an ending in sight for all of them. We had a very productive super-session of recording at the beginning of the year and we generated enough material to last for a good long while so we could take a more relaxed approach, work on the website etc.
Some of that went better than other bits, but anyway. What we have realised is that means we will get through about six games a year in this format we have right now. We want to do more, but we're not interested in doing more games to the standard that we have our LP stuff at. Instead, we'll be taking a more relaxed approach to play more games and do games in only a very few longer parts. This also means that games which set the scene for other games in the same series can be done without doing those titles in the LP format letting us showcase the titles that really shine in the LP format, whilst also playing the games more suited to streaming as, well, streams. These streams can then be uploaded to the YouTube channel.
So yes, the news is that we'll be streaming. Very soon. And we'll likely be streaming Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, which is perfect for streaming due to its length and so we can get the juicy Soul Reaver LP all the sooner.
Feel free to check us out on Twitch.tv and follow, you can also see some stream testing there.
Want to use your lovely PS4 controller on your PC version of SOMA?
People often don't realise, but the PS4 controller is perfectly happy under Windows and works out of the box as a DirectInput controller requiring no drivers to work as a PC controller. Although sadly, the headset port and touchpad do nothing.
However, if you're used to PS4 button mappings and placements then you'll know how awkward it is to play a game with only XBox controller mappings available (this is pretty much every PC game with controller support), especially when it tells you to press 'X' which is of course in a different place on the PS4 pad, in fact it seems to shift about on pads quite a lot.
Luckily, SOMA actually contains all of the icons from the PS4 controller, right in SOMA/graphics/general/input. You can take the icons you like from the ps4 folder and copy them over the relevant x360 folder icons and when you start the game, you'll get in-game prompts that have the right icon that matches the controller in your hand.
Now you can play SOMA on the PC with a PS4 controller and have it come up with the right icons.
However, there are several places on the title screen with the same. I'm sure all these could be found and perhaps even a plug-in made which will show all the right mappings, as they do seem to exist in the PC copy.
It just keeps impressing me fortunately. Every decision they seem to be making lately has kept me interested. They seem to be going for the model I've often said that Linux should go for and something I think Windows has had an advantage at. I'm talking about having a stable with security updates base with the very latest in applications.
I've often thought that Linux could do this even better with the advantages it is afforded, such as the massive software repositories that most Linux distros have they have means each program doesn't need to track its own version and means you don't have to monitor websites and emails for new version reports.
This is what Leap is, the new version they are working on. Leap is going to be mega-stable and based off of their main enterprise Linux.
The disadvantage of this in Linux could be kernel support, so it'll be interesting to see which way they go with that. The kernel is generally very stable with newer stuff needing a newer kernel to work right as that is what will drive your new laptop's finicky wifi hardware. So it needs to be pretty up to date, but not so up to date that isn't reasonably well tested within the framework of the rest of the system. And up-to-date on a SuSE system seems to mean something in a completely different league to up to date in the Ubuntu world. Still, I probably won't be using it, I'm perfectly happy with the bleeding edge. And I do have a stable version of Linux that I use. When I was with Gentoo I found it useful to occasionally see what the more popular binary distros were up to, as when you are on a rolling distro you can lose track of how stuff works and what new programs have came along.
Like I was trying to figure out how to change the graphical boot for Tumbleweed and I was looking rhgb (RedHat Graphical Boot) only to discover that program had been superceeded years ago and the thing I wanted to know how to configure was called Plymouth instead, and worked at a much lower level and earlier in the boot system.
And would let you play games whilst your computer is booting properly.
Mostly it's just nice not to have to dick around like I used to need to.
Of course, I never really stop experimenting and openSuSE Tumbleweed had tremendous potential.
Sure enough with Tumbleweed's bleeding edge, the bug in the video drivers was fixed, which made it more than worth my time to try to find where the hell you get third party packages from. It's called the Packman repo and once I was a bit more serious about looking for it (having used Fedora back when it was Red Hat Linux, it was much easier to find their non-free stuff as I remembered FreshRPMs) I found it quite quickly in their list of additional repos.
Also I quite like the package manager from Tumbleweed, zypper – although I'm not so keen on the GUI version. However, the upside is that it does actually work, whereas I'm found both Kubuntu's Muon and Manjaro's Octopi to be just plain non-functional. Muon doubly so because it is recommended for use in adding repos and doesn't work for that very purpose. People simply recommend the CLI.
Zypper is lightning fast and dead easy to use, although it took a little getting used to parameters only being relevant to the previous command. zypper -u rm package is not the same as zypper rm -u package.
Problem is I'm used to apt-get and worse, Gentoo's portage, both of which are better at cleaning up after themselves. For example, with apt-get when you remove a package it will remind you that you have uncleaned dependencies that can be removed with a command, whereas Zypper if you forget to zypper rm -u package will just remove the package and not clean up dependencies. Worse, reinstall the package and remember to -u, and this time the dependencies won't be cleaned up, they have become part of the system. Like I say, a worse comparison is to Gentoo's portage which works even better for cleaning up – you have a master list of programs you definitely want on your system and it maintains their dependencies. Remove a package, run a command and its dependencies vanish.
Zypper's sheer speed trump both however, and so it feels like less a compromise, and more just a different tool with its own advantages and disadvantages.
We'll see how it goes, but so far I am very impressed. I get the latest packages, it's actually very stable, and maintenance is not only easy, but very fast.
For the curious, my reasons:
I wanted to stop spending so much time mending & maintaining.
I wished to switch to KDE – it has improved loads over the years and is way better than GNOME was before it went to shit and is way more featureful and nicer to use than XFCE. Gentoo, despite its bleeding edge reputation, is still on the last version of KDE.
The open source drivers for AMD / ATI cards are fairly good now, and do what I need a little better than the official ones and work with newer kernels.
When they work.
Under Gentoo I could never figure it out. Probably not Gentoo's fault, they also work badly under OpenSUSE and Fedora too. I can't use both screens at once, trying makes one lose the signal but the desktop is still using it. Disabling the second screen doesn't make the first one come back on, just disables the second screen with the first still blank, this persists through a restart. On top of this daft behaviour, Fedora even only displays the login on your first screen – but first screen isn't defined – in my case it happens to be the off display. Useful. In Ubuntu all that works just dandy.
Both Fedora and OpenSUSE were great choices, but they are also both interested in open source purity – they don't come with even slightly non-open stuff. Both come with nerfed FFMPEGs, and are thus useless. Fedora has third party stuff, but like I say, couldn't get the screen working. I didn't find similar for OpenSUSE, which is a shame because I loved everything else about OpenSUSE – the rolling version was completely stable, yet joyously up to date, much more so than Gentoo, it even has FFMPEG by default over LibAV, which Gentoo came around to as well recently.
Here's a good comparison point. I use KDEnlive for my non-linear video editing needs. This uses mlt. Older versions of mlt add green tints to things, but that was fixed. OpenSUSE has the most up to date (March 2015) version. Gentoo's is from June 2, 2013. Ubuntu's is a little older than OpenSUSE and not the latest, but they have the source package for the most recent, and it's surprisingly easy to compile and install from their source deb.
It feels pretty strange abandoning Gentoo because of its out of date packages as that's supposed to be its great strength.
So Kubuntu because:
Latest KDE5 stuff.
Open source graphics drivers that do everything sanely.
Easy to maintain.
Not so terrified of non-completely free stuff that they cripple FFMPEG.
Up to date in general (but especially KDE)
I can put up with having to jump an extra hoop for latest FFMPEG and libAV by default because I have the above.
It wouldn't surprise me if Kojima left because no-one got that PT is not Silent Hills despite it literally spelling it out in the demo that it wasn't a demo of Silent Hills.
The logo has been removed from the PT website, as part of a larger debranding; not sure this is news.
I'm disappointed that it's looking like Kojima is not going to be directing Silent Hills, and as I have often maintained, no, lending the engine would not be enough and even that seems unlikely. However, put this in the hands of any competent team enthusiastic for Silent Hill and give them enough funding and time to get the job done and you can make great Silent Hill games again.
I just wish that were likely, but they'll probably just farm it off to a 'barely okay' game company again.
I still think it would be interesting to give Climax a go on proper hardware.
It isn't really very obvious just quite how much effort goes into the Let's Plays and some more than others. Whether it's re-subtitling in-game movies for Silent Hill 2, zoom transitions to make Eternal Darkness' movies appear full screen, or mixing aspect ratios together in Silent Hill 4, we try to make games appear at their best and present them as no-one else does. It is a supreme compliment when people don't even notice as it means we've done a flawless job.
Call of Cthulhu has been one of the hardest LP series to produce.
The game has compatibility issues, that are sadly and misguidedly called bugs. Mostly these relate to Windows 7 not rendering the skybox correctly. This doesn't generally affect the gameplay, with the major exception of the scene on the deck of a ship where the player must aim the ship's cannon at some magi on an island in the far distance. This island is part of the skybox with the magi inside it. Obviously not being able to see the skybox makes the section impossible, unless the player happens to know exactly where to shoot, or is prepared to shoot everywhere until it manages to hit the invisible targets. In terms of atmosphere however, the lack of a skybox is quite detrimental. Features which are supposed to blend nicely into the distance now don't as the skybox's dampening effect is absent so the distance is a stark white and everything renders stark against it instead of the obfuscating fog effect you should get. Water effects just stop after a certain distance and things generally just don't look like they were intended to. On youtube, this means that since pretty much every walkthrough and Let's Play of the game is wrong – to the point where people simply assume that the game is poorly done, or, more insidiously, is just supposed to look like that.
It is for these reasons that we are playing the game on a Windows XP box. The PC port of the game also uses some XBox (the platform the game was originally published on) effects that are not replicated when playing on non-Nvidia hardware. So this is not being played on the current PC (the one built for gaming and rendering), but on the older PC. This PC is now my son's main PC and so is only really available when he retires for the night.
Basically, we can only play on Call of Cthulhu when the stars are right.
Last time we tried to record was a more serious issue though, as whenever we hit the record button the game would drop to 1fps and be basically unplayable. After much clearing of hard-drives (and gnashing of teeth), we eventually discovered that it was the Windows XP OS itself which wouldn't allow the hard drive to get properly … done (whether the issue was formatting or partitioning, we aren't certain).
Turns out Linux is better at partitioning and formatting a drive to NTFS so that Windows XP can use it than … Windows XP.
There is a reason why Windows XP is obsolete.
Now we can record again, thank goodness.
The other news is that we've hit a youtube milestone. 10k views on one video. This is the FRAPs darkness problem solution. Which doesn't really work anymore, but gives enough information to figure out what's wrong yourself. I actually don't like it because it doesn't work anymore, and the method it uses is incompatible with Sony Vegas which seems to be what a large number of video guys use. Of course, Sony Vegas is incompatible with most input formats and is one of the reasons I don't use Vegas. It also annoys me that it's so popular when the LPs are comparatively unviewed.
I suspect when we eventually get around to publishing our video production methodology, it'll be hopefully as well viewed.
Peter has played a lot of games over the years.
He made this website due to an exasperation with traditional videogame reporting and reviewing, reiterating what they've read on Kotaku and 4chan making almost all game reporting painfully generic.
This is Peter's answer.
Born in 1981, Peter lives with his son, a cat, and a girlfriend. He has a degree in Computing and Networks.
Michaela is a twenty something cephalopod, or a 25 year old English chick with too much time on her hands.
She reviews video games, and likes tea, cats and cute things.
She enjoys reading, writing, drinking tea, and video games, particularly story driven ones, or horror.
Michaela is the owner of StudiousOctopus.
So we've played all of the first episode of Life is Strange. That's all of Chrysalis.
We checked and the parts are not named the same as the AIs from Peacewalker. Sadface.
However, I can safely say that despite the obvious flaws, the most immediately noticeable being the terrible lip-syncing much like the last game of theirs, Remember Me (I actually thought the doctor's faces in the opening were masks because they didn't move at all), that I'm liking it. Other flaws are some of the absolutely terrible dialogue – it does have a sort of fake-retro 90s that didn't exist likeable-ness to them, but is often painful rather than fun, especially the almost constant name-dropping in the opening to the point where you will probably feel like telling Max to just shut up. And Victoria. And Jefferson. And all of the other classmates' names I'm more sketchy on; I felt the game introduced too many characters early on. I'm still calling the missing girl "Laura Palmer" for the obvious Twin Peaks reasons.
However once you progress past that and get used to some of the other irritations the episode really starts to redeem itself, finishing with a scene where two former best friends rediscover each other after many years absence.
Here's to hoping the rest of the game skips the problems the opening of this episode have. The next episode from the preview in this one is going to have a sequence involving a train. You know, like in Twin Peaks. It's also lovely to have a game with the illusive female protagonist – like Remember Me did. Let's also hope the game doesn't stoop to Queer Baiting