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25 Germy Things You Should Probably Start Throwing Out
If that sad old kitchen sponge has been giving you the dirty eye for the past few
weeks months, it may be time to toss it out.
Take a look around your pantry, the kitchen, the bathroom and the closet. Which items have been there for over a year? There are household things we use every day, but often, we don't really consider what lurks inside of them.
Jason "The Germ Guy" Tetro, a germ expert and blogger for Huffington Post Canada, says although most everyday items don't pose any risk for a life-threatening illness, they could lead to mild or moderate infections if they're in use over a long period of time or not replaced when they get damaged.
While most of us don't think twice about our shower sponges or salt shakers, there are ways to see if a product has spoiled. Expiry dates, for example, are good bases to start with and water, Tetro adds, is often the enemy. Some everyday household cooking items can lead to bacteria growth, especially if they are moist or soaked in water.
According to a recent survey commissioned by the U.K.-based Global Hygiene Council, dishcloths were dirtier than toilet handles, according to the Daily Mail. Cloths used for cleaning dishes collected six times as much bacteria as the toilet flush. The survey also added dishcloths posed the risk of life-threatening germs like E.coli.
Here are 25 things that may need replacing this year and other things you should just keep an eye out for. As a "damage" factor, Tetro has also included the risk of infection (out of 5) of not following the rules and the chances of either a mild or moderate sickness as a result.
DAMAGE: 4/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: 3 months Jason "The Germ Guy" Tetro, a germ expert and blogger for Huffington Post Canada says bristles lose their strength over time — which usually makes brushing less effective. If not changed, the gums could end up being injured, allowing for infection and other chronic health problems.
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: You're OK for replacing, just wash it with hot water and soap twice a month. Tetro says without proper maintenance, the incidence of fungus and other bacteria could increase or end up on the scalp.
DAMAGE: 3/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Washed every day or second day and replaced when worn out Yes, you should probably get into the habit of wearing new underwear and bras on a daily basis. If not, Tetro says undergarments, when worn without washing, could lead to bacteria buildup (biofilms) and could irritate the skin. There's also the possibility of infection and fecal-oral transmission of infectious bacteria and viruses.
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: After one year Although most sunscreens last for three years, once you've used one bottle for the year, get a new one. "Sunscreen can also harbour bacteria (such as this recall) and so it's best not to leave it around for the winter season as there may be growth. If reused after a year, the bacteria could cause skin irritation and infection, particularly if there are cuts on the skin," Tetro adds.
DAMAGE: 1/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: If your bar cracks or if your liquid soap separates (or dries out) in the bottle Soaps and shampoos have a pretty good shelf life. "Bacteria are usually able to survive in soap although in lower numbers than needed to cause infection," Tetro says.
DAMAGE: 0/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: When you're out — unless you're using rice in your saltshakers to avoid clumping, every three months For the most part, salt and pepper are pretty safe. Bacteria needs water and nutrients to survive, so they won't be able to survive in shakers. However, if you are using rice *which can become moist) in your salt shaker to avoid clumping, you may want to replace it every three months.
DAMAGE: 1/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: N/A (unless it is wet) "Dry sugar cannot allow bacteria to live – it needs water. If sugar is liquid or moist, consider changing every few weeks to be sure no bacteria is growing," Tetro says.
DAMAGE: 1/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Flour can last three months in the pantry and a year in the freezer. Flour is also one of those safe ones. Tetro says bacteria would have a hard time surviving without water so the risk for infection is quite low.
DAMAGE: 4/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT:Washed once. every two weeks (even if you use it once). For personal towels, wash it once a week. Throw out when worn out. "The transfer of bacteria, no matter how small, could lead to significant growth in the fibres and lead to the potential for infection," Tetro adds.
DAMAGE: 1/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Every three months Bacteria may be there, but unless you share your shower sponge with other people, the risk of infection is pretty low.
DAMAGE: 4/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Once a month If you use the same sponge for months, bacteria can grow and spread during cleaning. "If the number of bacteria grow too high, the sponge could spread to dishes and then eventually to you giving you gastrointestinal upset and infection," Tetro says.
DAMAGE: 1/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Do not reuse disposable ones Tetro adds abrasives used to clean pots and pans, for example, should be soaked in hot water for at least 10 minutes to kill bacteria.
DAMAGE: 1/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Once a year for spring cleaning Spices like cinnamon, celery seed, thyme, and curry are known to harbour bacteria over time, but for the most part, you should be safe from infections. If your spices get moist or wet, you should replace them.
DAMAGE: 5/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Follow the expiry date on the package Most contact lenses come with their own expiry dates, but Tetro says cases and cleaning solutions are the problem for bacteria. "The solution should be changed on a daily basis while the case should be changed every three months. Bacteria can grow in these solutions and eventually lead to biofilms that could transfer bacteria from the case to your eye," he says. Not following these recommendations can lead to serious infections or even blindness.
DAMAGE: 0/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Replaced when dry or no longer useful Glues and paints are made with substances known to kill microbes, Tetro says.
DAMAGE: 1/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Follow expiry labels When you leave oil in your pantry, bacteria simply cannot overwhelm the oil to leave it rancid, Tetro says. "However, if there is a small amount of oil left in a container, the bacteria can get in there and ruin the goodness and possibly your health. Never leave small amounts of oil to be sure this doesn't happen."
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Every three to five months Water filters do their job of reducing contaminants and pathogens, but they should be changed every few months. "If a filter is not changed, then more pathogens may grow and increase the risk for both gastrointestinal and respiratory infections," Tetro says.
DAMAGE: 3/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Every six months Air filters are a great way of removing pathogens from the air, but if they are not changed once a year, they can develop a buildup — sometimes even a fungus, Tetro says. Although they are not high at risk for infection, they could be a problem for those of you with asthma or respiratory problems, he adds.
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Three months Makeup is coated in bacteria — your own. Depending on the type of makeup, you may have to replace items more than once a year. However, if you keep makeup around for years in your makeup bag, you are risking your chance of getting an infection, Tetro says. Check out the next slides for specific types of makeup.
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Three months
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Six months
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Six months
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Six months
DAMAGE: 2/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Six months
DAMAGE: 0/5 WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE IT: Once a month (if you are refilling travel-sized bottles) Tetro says hand sanitizers made with alcohol will eventually become less effective as the alcohol evaporates. "Though no bacteria will grow in the container, you might be left thinking your hands are safe when they are not," he says. Always replace the solution once a month or don't use it on a regular basis.


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Class 015 at P.S. 114 gives their teacher, Miss Morris Jackson, a Day of Honor to remember forever. Miss M-J has been teaching at P.S. 114 for 37 years and is now retiring. Her students of her kindergarten class presented her with a bracelet, flowers, and their love for the wonderful teaching and friendship she has had with the children. Because she has given to her children, Jackson will never be forgotten for all her years of dedication.


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Police Investigate Holiday Car Thefts in Missoula
Two cars are still missing after being stolen in Missoula after owners left them running, with the doors unlocked.
Two cars are still missing after being stolen in Missoula after owners left them running, with the doors unlocked.
The Markus Kaarma trial continued Thursday afternoon as the state presented its case in Missoula County District Court.
The Markus Kaarma trial started in full force today, December 4, with opening statements and new revelations about what happened the day German exchange student Diren Dede was shot.
Missoula police are asking for the public's help in finding two individuals suspected of stealing nearly $5,000 in hunting gear.
Missoula County authorities are searching for tens of thousands of dollars in tobacco products after a reported theft of two pallets from North Park Transportation near the Wye on Monday, October 20.
Missoula Police Public Information Officer, Detective Sergeant Travis Welsh, had some nice things to say about the public, and their judicious use of social media in helping to identify a man suspected of stealing a credit card and defrauding the owner of nearly $1,500 in goods and services.
Three teenage males are sought by Missoula police after they were surprised by a teacher who caught them in the act of allegedly burglarizing a classroom at Missoula Sentinel High School.
Missoula County authorities are asking for help in finding the person(s) responsible for smashing the back window of a Frenchtown High School students car and stealing her purse and personal information.
A 16 year-old boy was taken into custody early Thursday morning after an alert homeowner confronted him while the juvenile was allegedly breaking into vehicles and stealing items from them.
Theft and break-ins are a hot topic of discussion this summer and Paige Pavalone with the Missoula County Sheriff's Department said break-ins have become an almost regular occurrence in and around Missoula.


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2. I love to cuddle more than anything. After mom gets up every day I go from person to person and curl up with them. If there is no one handy to snuggle with, I find a warm soft blanket and make a nest.
3. Mom always tells me I'm a wolf or a pit bull, so sometimes I get a bit of an attitude.
4. I bite my nails. I do it so neatly that the vet thought mom was trimming them for me.
5. I like cats more than I like dogs. I even act like a cat sometimes.
6. My favorite toy is a stuffed panda named Girlfriend. She is missing her nose so sometimes mom calls her Michael Jackson.
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Sue Quinn is a writer and editor specialising in food and cookery, working freelance from her home on the south coast. A former Guardian reporter, she is also the author of food blog penandspoon.com
Despite the barrage of health warnings on the dangers of sugar, new breakfast products – such as drinks and biscuits – contain more of the white stuff than ever
Sue Quinn: It has been rebranded as a health food and sales are up 13%. Where do you stand on the crunchy or smooth divide and have you tried it satay-style on toast?
Sue Quinn: Top chefs reckon acorn-fed pigs in Britain produce some of the world's best ham. So why haven't you heard of it, and where can you get some?
Full of happy people enjoying the great cocktails, local food, and slightly batty interiors, the latest offering from the Pig chain also happens to overlook a stunning stretch of Dorset coast
Behind the scenes: The goats at Bere Marsh Farm are happy beasts – and that's the secret to their meat
Membrillo is a Spanish speciality. But David Mason set out to prove he could beat them at their own game ...
Lard is being smeared on sourdough, draped over scallops and boiled up for triple-cooked chips – and it might even be good for us. Are you a fan of pig fat?
There is a national egg-white shortage in the US after a rise in demand for yolk-free omelettes, sandwiches and shakes. Do you ditch the tastiest, most nutritious part of the egg?
Behind the scenes: Mark Botwright of the South West Garlic Farm tells us about his black garlic varieties
Even the BBC pronounces 'restaurateur' incorrectly, and contestants on The Taste seem unable to say 'cardamom'. Which food solecisms wind you up?
Dogs' dinners are getting a makeover, with pet popcorn, ice-cream and breakfast cereal all on the menu. You can even eat out with your pooch, but surely that's just barking
Meet the producer: Jason Barber spent years developing the recipe for Black Cow Vodka - a smooth and creamy vodka made from ... milk
The possibility of a global shortage of sriracha sauce horrified chilli lovers everywhere. The UK market for all kinds of hot sauce is booming – do you spice up your savoury dishes?
Amateur bakers are using their skills to help needy children. What motivates them, and is it more than a fad?
Sue Quinn: I was horrified to hear that the government is considering banning packed lunches – I still have fond memories of my salmon and pickle sandwiches in a brown paper bag
Studies have shown that children who eat the same food as adults are healthier. It's time to wave goodbye to chicken nuggets and pizzas
Sue Quinn: Kids enjoy food-based games – and tablets and smartphones offer a fun, interactive playing experience. But what happens when they are adverts for unhealthy processed food in disguise?
It's not just Barack Obama who's coming up smelling of roses - eat 'body fragrancing functional candy' and you could too
Fuelled by the internet, the global obsession with bacon grows ever rasher. Is there a cure?
In line with their vaunted keeping qualities, pickled foods are back on British menus in a big way
Packaging you can eat is said to be the next big thing. Question is, after storage and handling, would you want to?
A large and growing number of people obsessively take and share photos of their food. Are we in danger of losing the ability to simply enjoy a meal?
Veni, vidi, vendi: it came, it saw, it sold freshly baked cupcakes 24 hours a day. Is this the future of the food vending machine?
The foreign office has apologised to two families after wrongly telling them that loved ones had been killed in the South African coach crash.
Identification of the bodies of 26 Britons killed in the coach disaster will continue today, with some relatives still on their way to Johannesburg to assist the process.
The 26 Britons killed in the South African coach disaster were on the final leg of what, for many of them, was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to glimpse the highlights of the country.
The Soil Association yesterday described as "hugely significant" indications from the US biotech company Monsanto that it might be prepared to rethink its commitment to genetically modified food in Britain.


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Kenyan celebrated music Company Creative Hub is set to sign and manage singer Dr. Jiiji real names Janvier Mugabukwali.
The company's aim is to expose Jiiji's music on international music scene by producing for him quality videos and real promotion of his music on big music televisions like Trace and MTV Base.
Speaking to Rwandashow.com, singer Jiiji explained more about the new deal and strategies to go international.
"Soon, I will be under Creative Hub Company management and I hope it will expand my music to international level," says Dr Jiiji Janvier Mugabokwali.
Mugabokwalisays that, the Company has worked on music videos that are currently selling on international music scene like Kipepewo of singer Jaguar.
Creative Hub is a music company that manages artistes, recording studios and video studios across Africa and it is based in Kenya.
Creative Hub has worked with international recognized artistes like AY from Tanzania, Jaguar (Kenya) Kimani, Navio, Octo Pizzo and many more.
Speaking to Creative Hub company spokesperson, Calvin Omondi cemented the news of Jiiji being signed under Creative Hub Company soon.
"We are still in talks with singer Jiiji and soon we will sign him and take care of his music in general and we want to make him famous on international music scene," says Calvin Omondi.
The company also boasts of celebrated video producer and director called Andrew Machalia and he directed Jaguar's hit video Kipepewo.
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Description for 1205 W Pierce Drive Brohman, MI 49312
Approximately 72.53 acres in Northern Newaygo County just west of M-37 at Brohman. Property has been in the same family for over 100 years and is mostly tillable with some wooded. Excellent deer, turkey hunting and waterfowl. This tract also has small pond. Tract #5 is part of a larger tract which is being split. Additional splits may be considered with all splits being subject to Merrill Township approval. All dimensions and Acreage are approximate and subject survey. List Price to be $2000 per acre. Seller financing with 20% Down and 5% interest.
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Chunky Vegetable Soups from Amy's Organic Soups
Made with a blend of organic vegetables
Certified USDA Organic
14.3 oz (405 grams) Can
Serving Size 1 Cup (245 g)
Servings Per Container About 2
|Amount Per Serving
|% Daily Value*
|Calories 60 Calories from Fat 0
|Total Fat 0 g
|Saturated Fat 0 g
|Trans Fat 0 g
|Cholesterol 0 mg
|Sodium 680 mg
|Total Carbohydrate 13 g
|Dietary Fiber 3 g
|Sugars 5 g
|Protein 3 g
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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|80 grams
|Saturated Fat
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|20 grams
|25 grams
|Less than
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|300 mg
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|2,400 mg
|Total Carbohydrate
|300 grams
|375 grams
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INGREDIENTS (VEGAN): Filtered Water, Organic Tomatoes, Organic Spinach, Organic Carrots, Organic Green Beans, Organic Corn, Organic Peas, Organic Onions, Organic Celery, Sea Salt, Organic Cracked Black Pepper.
Individuals with Food Allergies: This product is made in a facility that processes foods containing wheat, milk, soy, tree nuts and seeds. Amy's Kitchen does not use any peanuts, fish, shellfish or eggs.
Directions: Heat and serve. Please do not overcook.
Ready to serve - DO NOT ADD WATER.
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Chunky Vegetable Soups from Amy's Organic Soups
Made with a blend of organic vegetables
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Amy's Organic Chunky Vegetable Soup is made with chunks of fresh, tender organic vegetables in a flavorful broth to give this soup a satisfying homemade taste. It features organic tomatoes, spinach, carrots, green beans, peas, onions and celery. It contains no dairy or gluten, is fat free and a natural source of fiber. No added MSG. No preservatives, GMOs or bioengineered ingredients.
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Le Creuset Large Stainless Steel Roasting Set with Nonstick Rack
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Reviewed By Drake D (Auburn, WA) Reviewed for a 2006 Dodge Charger —4/9/2007 9:28 AM
we love the thule 4-bike rack quick and easy to load.
Reviewed By Roger K (GIBSONIA, PA) —5/22/2017 9:50 AM
So far so solid. It's a little heavy when carrying from its spot on the wall to a vehicle, but that is also why it is solid. While the two hook keys are the same, the key for the hitch lock is different. It would be better if they were all the same, so only one key would be needed. Would also like to see a welded loop on the base for a cable lock, considering someone can take your locked bikes with a wrench, buy removing the two bolts that connect the cross and vertical members.
Reviewed By Frederick H (FORT MILL, SC) Reviewed for a 2017 Ford Escape —5/15/2017 4:20 AM
Bikes seem very secure with this carrier. A quick trip around the block was quiet with the no rattle bolt included snugging the rack against the side of the trailer hitch mounting hole. It was unclear that the bolt was included so I ordered the key locking bolt when I ordered the rack. The online picture looks like it includes a cable also for locking the bikes. It doesn't.


text: HP has made the move of splitting its handhelds and notebooks into distinct business units. The company has announced plans to separate the product teams for its notebooks and handhelds, including the new iPaq hw6900 series. This means that there are now four units that comprise HP's Personal Systems Group, those being handhelds, notebooks, desktops and workstations. Tomorrow, the company will report its first-quarter earnings.


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"Mr. Maestro" will get all of your students involved in recognizing range, direction, movement, rhythm and tonality with this fun version of bingo. Appropriate for both beginning and intermediate levels of note-reading, the recording includes 24 short pentatonic music examples, diatonic melodies and even some altered tones. These melodic fragments are in 3 different game sequences so you can play the game again and again. Available: game/cassette pak, game/CD pak, replacement cassette and replacement CD. For all ages.
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2: great pinot noir! (see below)
Pinot Noir is notoriously fickle, but can be brilliant when grown in the right terroir. Expression Wines represent a commitment to producing the finest Pinot Noir from the best sub-appellations on the West Coast.
Our vineyards at different latitudes represent different 'Expressions' of great Pinot Noir and our winemaker, Richard Sowalsky, is dedicated to crafting only the best wines from each region. Our winegrowing regions include the Santa Rita Hills (34°), the Sonoma Coast (38°), the Anderson Valley (39°), and the Eola-Amity Hills (44°) of Willamette Valley, Oregon.
Our goal is to showcase both the 'Grand-Cru' vineyards and the terroir of each sub-appellation. Each vintage, we will be bringing to you our finest blends from each latitude as well as small single vineyard designate lots that represent the best of what our vineyards can deliver! View all Expression Wines
About Willamette Valley(will-AAM-it)
Named for the river that runs through the valley from Portland to Eugene, Willamette Valley is home to some of the best Pinot Noir vineyards in the Northwest. While along the same north/south line as Seattle, the Willamette Valley is protected from Pacific rains by the Coast Range on the western border and the Cascade Ranges to the east. Though sunshine is typically plentiful, rainfall can occasionally be tricky, and the wines here vary vintage to vintage. Within the Willamette Valley is a number of sub-regions, including McMinnville, Dundee and Yamhill.
Notable FactsThe valley is known for its Pinots – Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris. With a climate similar to Burgundy – in rainfall, sunlight hours and other climate factors – Pinot Noir has flourished here. Pinot Noir in Oregon produces wines that are fruit forward, yet complex, some with good agebility.
Other than Pinot Noir, many wineries grow Pinot Gris and Chardonnay. Pinot Gris from Oregon is delightful in its texture and food friendliness. Chardonnay in the valley adapts well to the cool climate and produces lean, elegant wines.
About California
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.


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"Let it Lack"
Editors Note: Bill Knott passed away on March 13th, 2014. The following essay was first published on January 21st, 2014.
Bill Knott is probably the closest thing the American poetry establishment has to a rebel. Over the course of his career he has published with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, BOA Editions, and Random House, but his most recent books are all self-published. Among them, Collected Poems 1960–2013 is a coffee-table-sized edition; its contents were simultaneously (and briefly) made available in their entirety on Knott's website before it was taken down, along with poems from a smaller but still considerable collection, New Poems from the Last Six Years. Because they are as cheaply produced as possible, and promoted only by Knott himself, the new books (containing no index or table of contents) stand as a kind of rebuke to the gorgeously produced, deckle-edged volumes from major publishers, and also to the often fetishistically beautiful volumes by smaller presses. They are brutal packages for an often exquisite art.
As Knott writes in the front matter of the Collected, "[T]he order of the poems is meant to be random, neither chronological nor thematic, though I may have failed to achieve that intention in all instances." Note that a conscious decision is here rephrased as a failure. This is typical of Knott, as is his playful decision to begin the Collected with a short poem, "Goodbye." It's from his first book, 1968's Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans, which offers, coincident with commencement, a farewell:
If you are still alive when you read this,close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black.
This syntactically simple but metaphysically dense lyric is representative of Knott's early verse. It's full of the sort of revelatory twisters championed by Robert Bly as an example of what he called Leaping Poetry, or poems that "leap from the conscious to the unconscious and back again," and what others referred to as Deep Image writing. Knott's shaved-down verses of the period seem to share an approach in common with the W.S. Merwin of The Moving Target or the Mark Strand of Darker, and in fact were anthologized alongside Merwin and Strand in the 1978 collection Surrealist Poetry in English.
These early poems are romantic, expressionist ("The beach holds and sifts us through her dreaming fingers"), and angry about imperialism, particularly in Vietnam. "Soon there will be no ideas but in things," he writes in "To American Poets," "in rubble, in skulls held under the oceans' magnifying-glass." Knott goes on to remind his contemporaries:
…Youare not important. Your black mountains, solitary farms,LSD trains. Don't forget: you are important.If you fail, there will be no-one left to say so.If you succeed, there will also be a great silence. Your names,an opensecret in all hearts, no-one will say. But everywherethey will be finishing the poems you broke away from.
Elsewhere in the book, as in "(Poem) (Chicago) (The Were-Age)," the surrealism is harder, angrier:
On the lips a taste of tolling we are blindThe light drifts like dust over facesWe wear masks on our genitalsYou've heard of lighting cigarettes with banknotes we used to light ours with Jews
As books and years accrete, Knott refuses to commit to a single school or mode. In the Collected, we find experiments with direct confessional poetry, such as "The Closet," about a boy exploring his mother's wire coat hangers after her death, alongside absurdist fables such as "Poème Noir," an expert mystery in which a man accidentally frames himself for murder. (Denis Johnson acknowledged "Poème Noir" as the inspiration for his novel Already Dead, thanking "the poet Bill Knott, from whose genius springs the plot of this tale.") Interspersed with these are persona poems, riffs on colloquial speech as rhythmically inverted as the free jazz of Dream Songs, and short poems such as "Death":
Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest.They will place my hands like thisIt will look as though I am flying into myself.
Since the tangled sonnets of 1989's Outremer, Knott has explored the possibilities of formal verse, even as the language from which he built that verse grew simultaneously thicker and more disjunct, until the lyrical density of his earlier work was finally matched by a syntactic density just as complex. Portmanteau words abound (a leaning tower that "slanticulates" our words; blandly repeating epitaphs are "ubiquitudes") and aural rhythms crackle. Stéphane Mallarmé hovers around these verses, as do Gerard Manley Hopkins and Hart Crane, as here, from "Dream amid Bed-Woods," wherein the speaker urges his readers to pull themselves up "past hammock heights" into the "composite canopy" of a forest roof:
…must you trustThe ease in these boughs, the sway of whose loftSo often now wakes vows to never rest,To somehow remain alow, to resistAll berth above…
In both the latest Collected and in New Poems we find villanelles and sestinas ("Hollywood Nightmare" should be taught in classes on form), heptasyllabics, rhymed sonnets, and long poems in rhyming couplets, all of them as tightly crafted as anything from the New Formalists of the 1990s. A fellow reader told me she thought Knott had "escaped into formalism." Perhaps. But I can't think of any contemporary of Knott's who has managed to engage so variously with all of the styles and movements around while retaining throughout a voice that is so recognizably his or her own, even if said voice now resembles "a spaceship flooded with roadmaps: / The guidebooks that marked and led me here are / Archaic. All the ways they praise have lapsed."
Poetical renown has long been one of Knott's subjects, along with the trap of the "self," the taunting existence of the numinous and its maddening inaccessibility, male uselessness, rage against American empire, love, loneliness, and defeat. But Knott's relationship to fame is not as simple as either rejection or impotence. There is real neglect, but Knott has developed a public character (and perhaps a private one as well) that righteously trumpets that neglect, waxes sarcastic. Though it rubs some readers raw, Knott's outspokenness energizes a healthy debate on the role of class and pedigree in publishing and the role of publishing in one's reputation. As he explained in an interview in the June 2006 issue of Memorious:
Mark Strand has the right to write a poem, not me. He went to Yale; he lives on the yacht of his youth. Me, I grew up in an orphanage, no family, no money, no "educational opportunities." No background, no breeding. Scum like me can't write poems. After his Ivy League education, C. K. Williams lived in Paris on a trust fund for ten years while he wrote his first book; me, after high school and two years in the army I worked as a hospital orderly while I wrote my first book.
When his real accomplishments are praised, he avers that his admirers have missed the point, even if he does so with a forked tongue: if praised and published poets such as John Ashbery or Robert Hass are "somebody," then a self-published poet must be "nobody." Ergo, presuming these values spring from a corrupted source, Knott's act points a finger not at himself but at the establishment, the average reader's middlebrow affinities, the dirtiness of publishing.
In New Poems, Ashbery is mocked as a foolishly apolitical pawn of American cultural hegemony in the pastiche "Ashbery's Visit to Pahlevi, 1972 (After James Wright's 'Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1958')" about the then-ruler of Iran. Pahlevi's "police fill the prisons / With dissidents. Ashbery follows / His fellow celebrants to the banquet." Another poem, "The Two-Room Theory," is an almost unquotably filthy parody that recasts Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" as an obsequy to Stevens's thwarted libido and frigid wife: "kiss her feet to make her horny / and she just lies there numb on / that damn dumb sheet she / sews fannytails across." That's one of the more respectable bits. Knott knows this is adolescent, and that's part of his point. "I don't want to live with the alone tonight / Stay lost at home on my own tonight," begins "The Alone Tonight," but alone he must remain. The world, he asserts, particularly the poetry world, has no use for him, his verse a generic brand, "Knott's / Best: to buy me takes / a blind eye. A lack of taste." To achieve American renown is to be complicit in a criminal culture. Better to be the hunger artist than the impresario who barks for bread.
Most people who believe themselves poor poets do not repeatedly and publicly announce themselves as such, nor do they publish a Collected Poems. But Knott does show signs of real ambivalence about his role: he joined Facebook to praise the work of younger poets and damn his own, then abruptly deleted his page. He posted the text of all his poems on a blog, then removed it. Knott is a trickster, and part of the pleasurable madness of his poems is the sense that he's pulling the rug out from a world that's too busy going mad to notice him. In "Weltende Variation #I," an homage to Jacob van Hoddis, nothing can salve the horrors of the world except perhaps our ability to laugh at them and to see them plain. Meanwhile, all we have is conspiracy, hypocrisy, incompetence, malice, foolishness, snobbery, and pointless self-abnegation:The CIA and the KGB exchange Christmas cardsA blade snaps in two during an autopsyThe bouquet Bluebeard gave his first date rebloomsMany protest the public stoning of a guitar pickRailroad trains drop off the bourgeois' pointy headA martyr sticks a coffeecup out under a firehoseMoviestars make hyenas lick their spaceshipGod's hand descends into a glove held steady by the policeAt their reunion The New Faces recognize each otherA spoiled child sleeps inside a thermometerA single misprint in a survival manual kills everyoneThe peace night makes according to the world comes
To what extent was the hurt that Knott performs inspired by real professional neglect? When, prior to publishing his 2004 collection The Unsubscriber, FSG arranged to have some of his short poems published in Poetry, Knott wrote of being crushed and feeling betrayed. "They 'accepted' poems from FSG, but not from me, never from me," he wrote on his blog, "and don't believe those fucking hypocrites if they tell you anything different." Eventually Knott walked away from FSG too. ("It was clear that for Bill," FSG president and publisher Jonathan Galassi told the New York Observer in 2011, "being published by us wasn't good for him psychically.") Black Ocean's founder, Janaka Stucky, says he finds Knott's early books to be "some of the best American poetry collections of the 20th century—and they've been highly influential on poets and artists of my generation." When he asked Knott if he could bring these early works back into print, Knott turned him down. "If I don't want to do it with Farrar Straus," he wrote, "why would I want to do it with Black Ocean?"
If Knott is a failure, he tells himself and his readers, it is because of his continued attraction to success—one can't exist without the other. Knott can envision transcendence, a connection with the source of the richest verse. He envies a poet such as Rilke, "the lucky little bastard / the kid who oops was daily / dropped not down but upward." Just so, "Dream Amid Bed-Woods" can be read as a poem about the why of such a quest, the effort of reaching, hauling oneself "off this soft / Palleted grove." Although the sublime, as in "The Balloon That Lived on the Moon," induces nothing but reflections on "How endlessly / You are not a part of it," we doggedly pursue it still; as in "The Climb," we posit a perfect self and "Know him as the truer you, / the perfected precursor emitted by / this act of aspiration alone, this try—"
In New Poems' final poem, "Letter to a Landscape," Knott aims to paint the world ("first offering the blank canvas / a cigarette and a blindfold—") but finds it impossibly upsetting: our fame-drive in overdrive, our distraction, our lust for damage, history a scar that "has inherited us with face / ruses." Still:Each brushstroke I heap you with is brokenby its cry. Aspirations try, but why, whydoes Hiroshima always forget to duck?Let landscape stand for letter. Let it lack.
To the great pleasure of his readers, Knott continues to muster his army of symbols: his mirrors, moons, clones, doppelgangers, and old movie scripts. He tries everything, fails against an ideal, and dramatizes his professed failure in language more alive than you'll find in books from some of the finest presses, the most successful of his coevals.
John Cotter is a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly and author of the novel Under the Small Lights (Miami University Press, 2010). He lives in Denver, where he co-founded the Denver Poets' Theater and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
"Let it Lack"
John Cotter is a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly and author of the novel Under the Small Lights (Miami University Press, 2010). He lives in Denver, where he co-founded the Denver Poets' Theater and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
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It's pretty obvious really, humanity as a whole loves to talk. Call us a "social animal" or a "species being" or what not, there's something essentially human in the way we communicate, quite probably built right into our genetics. We are incredibly adept at projecting our thoughts, needs, and desires into the world around us. So a place like Shimer, where we focus so heavily on education through dialogue, seems well suited to developing our human minds (and while I vehemently disagree with the idea that any one of us has to earn our humanity, I do think we need to cultivate it). In and out of class we are forced to hone, refine, and focus our thoughts. But I wonder if it's so simple.
While talking seems so intuitive, listening is perhaps less so. It's just so much harder now days; the hum of the world has grown into a roar. Technology has saturated us with media, and media has overwhelmed us with input. Historians like McNeill and Hodgson use the term ecumene (the "known world") to describe the relative scale at which societies and cultures interacted with each other. In a way, we each have our own personal ecumene, which expands more and more as we grow: family, grade school, high school, etc. In the media age, our ecumenes have exploded: voices (existences really) from around the globe constantly barrage us on tv, computers, telephones, even cereal boxes. And these now comprise our much wider "known world." Durkheim would doubtless blame all manner of social ills on the phenomenon; I'll only go so far as to say our balance of intake to output has grown precarious. As poet/punker Dick Lucas put it, "They used to wrap chips in newspapers, now they microwave fast food." More and more it looks like whole grains are the way to go.
I find that more than learning how to speak well, I've learned quite a bit
about active listening. Think about it: you're in a class with 9 other people.
Yes, you express your own opinions, but only about a tenth of the time. The
other 90% is spent listening to 9 other sets of ideas and opinions,
interpreting and following different perspectives and interpretations. It's
fairly intense. And if it's demanding it's no less rewarding; that moment when
a classmate gives you the words to bring your own hazy picture into focus is
sublime. But more than this, you find that somehow you've become a more
critical listener. I find it almost humorous watching television commercials or
media punditry now, where all the manipulation and misdirection are laid bare.
I'm reminded of Oliver Sack's story of a ward of aphasia patients laughing
uproariously at a former
In our day we need a greater filter for the information we're bombarded with, if only to resist high-volume Jack Lalanne Juicer sales pitches and seedy political ads. But there's something more in this dynamic process of speaking and listening, something that goes beyond communication. Last week in class, we discussed a poem by Lavinia Greenlaw, entitled "A World Where News Travelled Slowly." The last stanza begins:
Now words are faster, smaller, harder,
…we're almost speaking in each other's arms.
Coded and squeezed, what chance has my voice
To reach your voice unaltered and to leave no trace?
What an odd sentiment
in our age of global communication. Why would anyone want their voice to reach
another's altered? May be something
to consider next time your choosing a long distance plan.


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Posted 10 October 2008 - 09:46 AM
I didn't get one last year, but the time is coming up to decide if I will get one this year.
Thanks for any thoughts you might share, pro or con:)
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I am getting one this year.
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It hasn't a thing to do with my sugar.
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I've seen way too many patients get knocked off their feet by the flu.
However, my sister has never had a flu shot and has never gotten the flu. It's all about personal choice.
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Posted 10 October 2008 - 11:21 AM
I really appreciate the way people on this forum are willing to share their experience and be helpful.
Posted 10 October 2008 - 11:24 AM
the vaccine is a KILLED virus, and it takes about 3 weeks for the body to develop immunity to the virus
if you get sick before this 3 week period is over, then you have come into contact with the virus before you developed immunity
of course, this was explained to me AFTER i didn't get the flu shot one year, AND i got the flu............ man oh man, you do NOT want to get the flu....... slept for most of 6 weeks, crawling to the bathroom when necessary, unable to move for much else....... and the flu WILL raise your bg levels!
tip....... hold your arm up at the elbow to remove all tension/pressure from the upper arm muscle that is getting the flu vaccine injected into it....... since i've started doing this, the flu shot has NOT hurt me for 3 days after!
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Unless otherwise stated, the opinions expressed here are my own and are in no way intended to be considered as anything other than my opinion. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
Posted 10 October 2008 - 11:31 PM
I usually get a shot because of where I work. I'm leaning toward getting one this year.
PS--Tiger Lily thanks for the tip about the sore arm. I often get a sore arm for days and will try your trick.
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A1C June 2008 = 8.2
A1C Oct 2008 = 12.5 WOW!
A1C Nov 2009 =7.2
if it's to be, it's up to moi!!!


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Shares of Smith & Wesson (SWHC) have been making a habit of constantly exploding higher after earnings as the Springfield, Massachusetts based company once again reported record sales of firearms and an increasing backlog of future orders. Despite the rocky markets that investors have seen on disappointing job data, shares of Smith & Wesson have been holding up after another blowout quarter as the company produced record annual units, annual cash, net sales and a firearm backlog that exceeded expectations. The last time I introduced readers to investing in Smith & Wesson was on March 13, 2012 in an article titled, "Trading Options On Smith & Wesson: Still A Force To Be Reckoned With" and despite the almost 20% jump in one day I reminded investors that this massive increase in shares of Smith & Wesson wasn't a fluke. Typically when a stock makes a big move higher with earnings being a catalyst, I am looking to lock in my profit and enjoy the victory. But, I believe once again that Smith & Wesson will continue to grow through robust earnings and shares can continue to climb higher. Despite the large increase in the share price of Smith & Wesson since June 28, 2012 I am still bullish on the largest manufacturer of handguns and an idea to trade Smith & Wesson using options.
On November 14, 2011 the CEO of Smith & Wesson P. James Debney gave an exclusive Wall Street interview and in the interview P. James Debney told listeners that NICS numbers (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) is a primary indicator that everyone has to go through prior to purchasing a firearm. In my opinion an individual that is having their background checked isn't automatically buying a firearm, but the increasing NCIS numbers can help validate the growth in sales of firearms for Smith & Wesson. In the link here this shows investors Total NCIS Background Checks from November 30, 1998 to April 30, 2012.
When looking at the last column investors will see that Smith & Wesson has seen more background checks this year compared to last year and the background checks have constantly increased over the years. There are a number of reasons that can attribute to an increase in the NCIS numbers. There are a variety of Gallup polls that point to increasing numbers of women purchasing firearms and not only for protection, but for recreational uses. The balance between women and men firearm owners according to Gallup indicates that 52% of men have a firearm in the house and 43% of women own a firearm in the house and both of these results are higher than last year. Another reason is that consumers are purchasing more than one firearm as sales for handguns have remained strong with net sales for Smith & Wesson up 27% from the same quarter last year. Finally, with the Presidential election coming up soon this could contribute to increased background checks as "fear" over possible changes in gun laws could ramp up sales. In my opinion it's too early to decide on how the Presidential race is going to affect Smith & Wesson since jobs and the future of The Affordable Health Care Act are more important issues at the current time.
Besides sales to consumers who meet the qualifications to own a firearm, Smith & Wesson also manufactures and sells assault weapons, handcuffs and knives to various law enforcement agencies in the United States. With many state and local budgets getting slashed it can often be tough to sell to various law enforcement agencies. When taking a look at Smith & Wesson's management team investors will notice that this team carries strong sales, marketing, consulting and legal experience. Sales are increasingly important since any new gun laws can hurt Smith & Wesson. Sales tend to be cyclical with Smith & Wesson and since 2011 Smith & Wesson has been successful at converting various State Police agencies to the M&P Pistol. The M&P handguns and rifles have contributed to strong sales as noted in the company's fourth quarter fiscal 2012 financial highlights. The S&P series has greatly improved compared to the previous Signa series with improved safety features and these weapons can be customized to meet an individual's needs.
With Smith & Wesson's recent quarter behind us and another quarter where shares of Smith & Wesson have dramatically increased, I am looking forward to the next quarter and staying bullish. When taking a look at a chart of Smith & Wesson in the last six months investors will notice that over the last three earnings reports the share price has continually increased. The last time I wrote about Smith & Wesson I advocated that investors should be patient and wait for pullback before making a move. On a technical level, shares of Smith & Wesson in the last three earnings reports jumped above the upper bollinger band and then slowly came within the upper Bollinger band then flattened out. If investors believe that history will repeat itself then I would be patient and let the stock selloff, but be prepared to buy. If shares of Smith & Wesson get closer to the $8 level, this is a level where I am comfortable with buying as the stock would have a significant pullback.
Here is an option play on a pullback in Smith & Wesson:
Trade Idea #1
Vertical Call Spread
Buy (1) Sept $8 Call = 1.60 (1.60 x 100 = $160)
Sell (1) Sept $10 Call = .60 (.60 x 100 = $60)
Total Cost = $100 per spread (1.60 - .60 = 1.00)
Days Till Expiration = 72
Trade Idea #2
Deep In The Money Call
Buy (1) Sept $7 Call = 2.35 (2.35 x 100 = $235)
Days Till Expiration = 72
Note: When trading options on Smith & Wesson investors should pay close attention to the bid/ask price of the options since at times the bid/ask prices can be $10 to $20 apart. Typically when the bid/ask prices start to get wide I would avoid buying since investors will not achieve a favorable buy/sell price.
In conclusion, options provide an alternative way of investing for a cheaper price. Smith & Wesson doesn't pay a dividend, has a beta over one and for investors looking for a risk managed strategies of acquiring what you want for less, these trades above may be for you. Smith & Wesson is a company that keeps showing investors they can grow through earnings. With 2013 expectations forecasted to be higher than the previous year, growing backlog and Americans buying more guns, I expect Smith & Wesson to head higher.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, but may initiate a long position in SWHC over the next 72 hours.


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The back of the box describes the four main characters? ?Super Strength, Super Speed, Super Force, Super Stretch.? Honestly, while not completely forgettable, this game is ?Super Mediocre.?
Developed by Heavy Iron Studios, The Incredibles solidly adapts the feel of the 2004 animated movie of the same name into the gaming realm. While that may sound like a positive start, this fact does only manage to loosely hold the game together. Essentially, the game plays like a 3D-platformer/beat'em up/action game -- although, platforming is meant quite literally, as the levels are fairly linear in their nature. The primary focus of the game is to punch, punch, and punch again, with a little switch pulling, throwing, and collecting added in.
The game, like the movie, features the family of Incredibles (Mr. Incredible, Mrs. Incredible/Elastigirl, Dash, the son, and Violet, the daughter) facing off against the evil Syndrome. Their adventures will take them throughout cityscapes in Metroville, steamy overgrowth in jungles, and the dark depths of Syndrome's lair.
Much of the events of the movie are played out through cutscenes and sequences throughout the game, and, for the most part, they work quite well. The voice acting in these cutscenes, and in most of the game itself, is spot on to the movie and really adds a lot to the presentation. In fact, the colours, character models, locales, and special effects all actually contribute to the overall package of the game and this is definitely its strongest area. There may not be a striking level of detail on all the enemies or in every location, but everything does have a very vibrant and colourful look, which really keeps the game easy on the eyes and interesting to look at. In a lot of ways, the early sequences on the rooftops and buildings of Metroville actually call to mind the recent Spider-Man 2 game, in which Peter Parker could move around on the rooftops and swing from buildings; while you can't swing around a lot in the Incredibles, one level does have you flying around (or being carried around?) on rocket skates and is very reminiscent of sequences in Spider Man 2. The graphical look of the first levels actually resembles Spider-Man 2 quite a bit as well.
When you get to the actual meat of the game, however, The Incredibles takes a few stumbling steps back down to the land of mediocrity. As said above, most of your time will be spent punching and throwing around adversaries. Mr. Incredible, who you will primarily play as, can simply punch enemies or he can give them an ?Incredi-Punch,? which sends enemies flying across the screen and usually finishes them off. A jumping ground-pound move can also level the swarms of oncoming foes, and you can pick up people or objects and throw them at other people or objects. Most of the family plays the same, but Elastigirl has stretching punches and throws, and Violet can use some stealth manoeuvres. The sequences with Dash have you running through areas at high speed while trying to avoid objects and barriers; these levels, while sparse, are actually quite well done and add a nice change of pace to the gameplay. However, as much of your time is spent as the paternal unit of the group, the game must be mainly judged on those merits. To be fair, the main bulk of the action is playable and does keep you interested, but with the limited move scheme and level design, it does turn into a ?rinse and repeat? affair. Truly, the game should've focused a bit more on the other characters, chiefly Dash, and been a bit more varied altogether.
The game plays out over 18 levels and will give you an 8 to12-hour game, but this depends on how fast you play it and how challenging you find certain sequences. At first glance, it's kind of odd that the game has a Teen rating, as it seems tailor-made for kids, but upon playing, it's difficulty may actually be quite truthful to the rating; this isn't to say the game is insanely hard, but it would present a reasonable challenge to those who might've enjoyed the movie the most ? young kids. When actually playing the game, this difficulty manifests itself in different ways. Many of your actions are prompted by on-screen commands, cursors and indicators, but then in some sequences, nothing is said about a way you can control your character to get past a minor obstacle or challenge. This isn't a major flaw to the game, but the pacing and difficulty is a bit erratic and it's odd that the game didn't pick one level of challenge for the end user.
The camera isn't too bad for a 3D action game, but it can have its issues. Often times, you'll have to manually move your camera while swinging on a vine (or rope, or cable) in order to judge how far you are from the other side, but even then it might not help. You also get nailed from off-screen enemies, but, thankfully, this isn't completely rampant throughout the game.
As for bells and whistles, you'll find the game supports 480p and In-game Dolby Digital and this can really help the title's already solid presentation. While there is no multiplayer or competitive Xbox Live support, there is downloadable content for the future. All there is right now is a Battle Arena -- which can be unlocked during the campaign ? where you square off against an increasing number of baddies from throughout the game; this is actually quite a bit of fun and held my attention for a while. As for future content, I honestly wouldn't hold my breath, though. Other unlockables include still pictures from the movie, concept art for the game, and game-altering codes.
I also have to use The Incredibles as an example of one of my pet peeves ? don't charge more than the game is worth; you've got to know your audience. The fact that this game costs $39.99 USD isn't an absolute crime, but it really should've been $29.99. I can see not value pricing it completely, as it is a movie-licensed property, but don't gouge people when the game can't fully back it up; it seems some publishers know this and some choose to ignore it.
You will easily find better platformers, action games, beat'em ups and movie-licensed games out there, but The Incredibles makes a reasonable effort at presenting the look and sound of the movie and can provide a bit of fun here or there. It may only be rental or trial for most people, but at least it doesn't desecrate the movie or completely insult those who play it.
Bottom Line
Ultimately, The Incredibles is a title that doesn't try to do anything new and different in the action/platformer realm, but it does manage to capture some of the spirit and whimsy of the movie it is based on. You won't find much extended value in this game, to be sure, however it does provide a forgivable, if not passable, experience when you are playing.
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Yeah, I know, it's a bit early to start obsessing about next season (no it isn't!), but it's time to start looking forward instead of backwards to the truly truly crappy season we just had.
Let me start off with a question: Did anyone buy the Cypress Gold pass through Timmytard's corporate purchase setup? (I have a vague memory that it might have been someone else who set it up this year...). I want to find out how much the corporate Gold pass costs. I bought the Silver, but this year I'm going for the big one for the family. Need to have an idea how much to budget.
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with great sadness, today is the day i remove the bindings from my boards........ :(
BTW i'm getting families for Cypress too. Gold for me and Silver for the wife and kid. I may get gold for everyone depending on the price for corporates...
Hey boys, I am looking to buy a season pass next year and just got into vancouver, Which mountain should I buy for?
I ride almost all terrian parks and big jumps, I heard the Quick Park on Grouse is pretty nice?
Grouse is the only one of the three that has public transit all the way to the doors (if that matters to you). Their Y2Play individual pass is almost as cheap as the Seymour early bird discounts, but that's only available near the end of the season so you've missed it. Grouse has lots of steep blacks with moguls, but their weekends are totally insane. I have friends who buy seasons passes and they say that by 11:30 am you might as well just go home. Grouse also has a gondola to get to the actual ski area so you can't get to your car during the day. Most of their non-black runs are pretty boring.
Cypress is a bit more expensive but it has the most runs and the most variety of runs of the three IMO. Best beginner park and good advanced park (although maybe not as good as Seymour). You can get a good deal for a seasons pass by buying a corporate pass. Timmytard sets up a corporate deal every year through this forum, some time in the fall. I think that Cypress has more local forum members as regulars.
Disclaimer: after 6 years of being a Seymour regular, I'm switching to Cypress this season so my review may suffer from confirmation bias. I used to do Grouse when I skied.
Just as an aside, you can also do day trips to Whistler, Hemlock, Manning, and Baker. There may even be people living in Vancouver who have seasons passes to these places but they must have access to free gas (no chili jokes please :laugh: )
Grouse park hands down the best out of the 3. Jump lines went up late this season and there were only 2 with the second being built even later, BUT the quicksilver park is awesome, there are park jams, and there's a larger park oriented community so there's always people to talk to about certain features if you're unsure.
Cypress had better jumps this year but their parks don't come close to Grouse's not to mention there are way too many "elderly" folk that frequent that mountain. If you're a park rat, Grouse is the way to go.
You can also squeeze a lot more park runs in since the screaming eagle chair (the lift that services the parks/jumps) is a short one.
Mhmm thanks guys! I was lucky to be able to grab a Early Bird pass to grouse really cheap! So pretty stoked! Although this year was pretty weird on the snowfall account. I have a feeling next year will be amazing.
Paid for the whistler pass already! (or rather the deposit until September or whatever the deal is)
I think the mountain is going RFID next season. don't really know how that is going to save time - still have to load everyone but it's a few less poor Aussies to hire and I guess they can start charging per run.
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LaRouche PAC members -- just two of them made the trip -- set a table up, complete with quasi-political propaganda like portraits of Obama with Adolf Hitler-style mustaches, clown faces on Republican Presidential candidates, NASA support posters and asking presidents to be like John F. Kennedy. The duo's aim Thursday was to get Litchfield residents on board with impeaching Obama.
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A couple of weeks ago we got our first listen of Justin Bieber's new single Boyfriend, the first from his forthcoming album Believe. We also got a sneak peak at the single's music video. The Biebs was spotted this weekend with his girlfriend, Selena Gomez, zooming around in his hot, chrome sports car, picking up fast food. Do you think they were listening to Boyfriend on the what-must-be-ridiculously-good sound system?
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Valve's Gabe Newell has confirmed that his company is looking to launch a hybrid PC and games console device designed to bring Steam to the living room.
Funny you should say that: I've got a four-page feature in the next Linux User & Developer Magazine discussing gaming on Linux, based on interviews with numerous individuals and companies including Valve - and the upshot is that increasing numbers of developers are creating native Linux titles. A lot of it is down to how much money the Humble Bundle has made: every bundle, with the exception of the newest THQ Bundle, has been cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux - no Linux version, no entry in the Humble. With a quarter of purchases of each bundle coming from Linux users - roughly the same as the number of Mac customers - it's a market not worth ignoring any more.Originally Posted by damien c
This could be where we see Linux take off as a real opponent to Windows for gaming systems, rather than having to struggle to get games working on it using emulators etc.
Originally Posted by Parge
Who is their target market? Casual PC gamers who just happen to want to play a very limited selection of Steam games, in their living room? If that is the case, they will sell, erm, about 6.
Originally Posted by faugusztinQuote:Originally Posted by Parge
Who is their target market? Casual PC gamers who just happen to want to play a very limited selection of Steam games, in their living room? If that is the case, they will sell, erm, about 6.
Pretty much the same as the Mac target. And unlike Mac, Linux users can have a pretty good hardware. Mac is Intel HD4000 only right now (in 2012 generation). For example there is a Mac version of Borderlands 2. Do you really think they won't make a Linux version if Valve help them a bit ?
Originally Posted by faugusztin
Mac is Intel HD4000 only right now (in 2012 generation).
Originally Posted by Yslen
I don't see how this is going to work. The attraction of Steam is that it's a store and backup service for your PC games. If they create a Linux version that can run less than 5% of the catalogue because most games use DirectX, who the heck is going to buy that?
In 2033? :DOriginally Posted by Parge
One thing I would bet on though, is that the launch title for the Steambox will be Half Life 3.
Originally Posted by Guinevere
My MBP has HD4000 AND a 650m. The desktop Macs go up to a 2GB GTX 680MX.
Originally Posted by johnnyboy700
My question is will it be keyboard and mouse or game pad?
Originally Posted by lacuna
How many games do consoles usually have on sale before they are released?
None, obviously.
The steambox has a running start over the new MS and Sony consoles as I see it. If it undercuts them on price then I think it stands a pretty good chance
Originally Posted by damien c
What you have to think about is, that Valve are I think converting all there games to work on Linux as well as Windows which means there will be quite a few games ready for when it releases.
Then all the games that currently in development phase, that are due for release towards the end of next year and the year after could be developed for use on a Linux based gaming system rather than just for Windows, considering they are all mainly ported from a console anyway it would just mean a new utillity being developed that would port them from the console to Linux.
If they could say get the Call Of Duty, Battlefield, Crysis, Need For Speed and a few other games working on this and allowing you to game using a keyboard and mouse as well as gaming, against people on Windows or Mac versions of the games then I would buy one, simply for use as a media pc but then for gaming when I go to lans, as it would save me from dragging my main rig around and risk damaging it in transport, and also because of that I could build the stupidly sized rig I have wanted to for along time now.
What they would have to do though is fill it with a decent spec something like:
Intel 3570/3770 non K version
8Gb DDR3 1600mhz ram
AMD 7870/7950 or Nvidia GTX 660ti/670
2Tb 7200rpm hdd
Originally Posted by Snips
Anyone else know why Steam on Windows 8 is 'a catastrophe.' ?
It works fine to me and the new Steam Launcher app is ok as well.
Originally Posted by faugusztin
Steam on Windows 8 is not a 'catastrophe'. Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' to Valve, because MS pushes sales through their own store, and that means less sales for Valve.
Originally Posted by Snips
Anyone else know why Steam on Windows 8 is 'a catastrophe.' ?
It works fine to me and the new Steam Launcher app is ok as well.
Originally Posted by theshadow2001
Valve can't convert any of those without the source code, which they won't be given. Anything that doesn't use opengl will have to undergo a significant rewrite in order to work with non microsoft O/S.
Originally Posted by Guinevere
Not quite correct, but I doubt Valve will go with a middleware based solution.
On the Mac you can use products like wine or crossover to run PC games & software within OSX without needing windows, but the results can be erratic and it's by far easier to just dual boot into windows.
Valve could go down a similar route but I think it's unlikely. They'll want devs to handle their own games rather than try and handle all the compatibility issues themselves.
Originally Posted by theshadow2001
I was of this thinking. But reflecting on what you have wrote in the above, I can't help but think that steam and microsoft are selling very different software. One is pretty much a mobile/app store for the metro front end and the other is a windows desktop games distributor with a small amount of other desktop software. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Bzzt. Here's a list of all Linux-compatible games available on Steam right now. Note that these are only titles where a Linux version has been uploaded to Steam; there are other games where a Linux port has been created (often for inclusion in a Humble Bundle) but is not available through Steam and as a result does not appear.Originally Posted by bowman
Right now the only games for Linux on Steam are Valve's source games, and those are all old. You can't launch a new box with games that are half a decade old.
Originally Posted by BLC
Somewhat on topic, before I come to the subject of Richard "Saviour of Software" Stallman, it's interesting to see the direction that Valve is moving in recently. They've been hiring hardware engineers for a while now and while they may be tight-lipped on what's happening, you can bet that those engineers aren't sitting round with their thumbs up their backsides; even if it's only skunkworks-style research projects, they must be doing something. Now we learn that they're putting a lot of effort into improving the performance of their games under Linux. I'm willing to bet money on Valve releasing some kind of console or dedicated gaming hardware.
As long as I can plug in a mouse and keyboard, and there's a proper OS behind it (even if it is stripped down and heavily customised), I could really get behind the idea of a Valve console. Didn't they announce a while back that future versions of the Steam client would support joystick/joypad navigation? I'm pretty sure that was mentioned around the time that the overhauled client UI was released...
Originally Posted by BLC
And regarding the original topic of this thread, if Valve aren't working on some sort of box-that-goes-under-the-TV, then why make all the effort in improving Linux performance? Surely it's not just to release their own "Steam OS" - bear in mind that their Linux efforts so far have concerned the Source engine, so it doesn't make much sense to put so much effort into something that will ultimately limit you (the limiting factor being that Linux doesn't support DirectX and lots of Steam games use DirectX). Of course you could level the same argument at a "Valvebox", but then you're talking about releasing your own consumer electronics product; that opens up an awful lot of doors for more cash to flow in through.
It doesn't have to have the latest and greatest graphics to look good or compete with current (or next gen) consoles and, if we're talking about Linux here, it doesn't even have to have an x86 processor. Once you get away from x86, hardware cost doesn't need to be such an issue; look what the Raspberry Pi can do with ~£25, and they still make profit on each unit. Granted that uses an older ARM core and only OpenGL ES graphics, but who's to say that there isn't some version of Tegra on the way which supports full-fat OpenGL?
Someone else already mentioned it, but all they need to do in order to make it a success is to release Half-Life 3 only on Valve hardware :). I doubt that's something that they'd ever do though... That would make me a very angry bunny indeed.
Originally Posted by BLC
It just doesn't make that much sense for Valve to put all this effort into Linux and not take it any further than a custom distro or a Linux version of Steam. Like it or not, Linux is still a tiny tiny percentage of overall desktop OS's, so there really isn't that much of a market for it... Which is why I'm convinced that their plans are more than just a snazzy hardware controller and a Linux version of Steam.
Originally Posted by Gareth HalfacreeQuote:Bzzt. Here's a list of all Linux-compatible games available on Steam right now. Note that these are only titles where a Linux version has been uploaded to Steam; there are other games where a Linux port has been created (often for inclusion in a Humble Bundle) but is not available through Steam and as a result does not appear.Originally Posted by bowman
Right now the only games for Linux on Steam are Valve's source games, and those are all old. You can't launch a new box with games that are half a decade old.
Note how there are far more games there than just Valve's own Source-based titles. Far fewer than for Windows gamers, I'll grant you, but it is a closed beta. Give it time.
Originally Posted by damien cQuote:Originally Posted by Snips
Anyone else know why Steam on Windows 8 is 'a catastrophe.' ?
It works fine to me and the new Steam Launcher app is ok as well.
Have not tried Window's 8 after updating my motherboard, because I tried to install the drivers for the motherboard and wouldn't accept any of them without giving a blue screen and this on a Z77 board that apparently support's Windows 8.
Switch it to Linux or Windows 7 and everything is fine, no BSOD's whilst installing or after installing Mobo drivers.
Originally Posted by Burnout21
I think bigger plans are in action here.
Work has been done to allow steam on linux to log in as big picture mode, Its also been confirmed that Ubuntu TV will be coming to us in the "near future". A combination of the two could be a extremely attractive option for many.
I also believe valve recently "hired" some industrial designers to work on ...
Originally Posted by theshadow2001
are you implying they didn't actually hire these designers. They just rounded them up and forced them to start working at gun point or something?
Originally Posted by Burnout21
I also believe valve recently "hired" some industrial designers to work on "peripherals", I seem to remember seeing the job advert too late for myself but screamed when I found out.
Originally Posted by Xir
(as for some reason PC-games are a lot cheaper than their console counterparts*)
*no, not for new releases maybe, but after half a year or so.
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