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"Will you stop following me, for Merlin's sake!" Zedia screamed at the green creature following at his shoulder, it's big green eyes shining.
"Calm down, Zed," Blaze patted Zedia on the shoulder, "I'm sure there's one way to get rid of it,"
Flora and Blaze were struggling to keep up with Zedia's angry pace.
"I like it, I think it's cute," Flora said, Zedia threw her a dirty look.
Zedia stared at Aidez and slid his eyes slyly.
"Why don't you have one of these things?" Zedia asked angrily.
"Mine faded a few minutes ago… because I said the incantation properly!" Flora smiled.
"Be quiet…" Zedia growled.
The four entered into the path that led up to the schools field. They were stopped in their tracks when a deep voice called them from behind.
"Hey! Green boy!"
Zedia knew the voice.
"So you came back for more, Gareg?" he said, turning to the big snout faced boy standing a few metres away.
"Yeah, but this time- you're gonna' be the one who ends up with the snout… BOYS!"
Fifteen year tens piled from round the corner of the building at the bottom of the path.
"Err… run!" shouted Zedia.
The four burst into a run towards the field.
"You had to pick a fight with the biggest kid in the school, didn't you, Zed!" Blaze shouted, out of breath.
"Sorry!" Zedia shouted back.
"Slow down,!" Gareg called from behind them.
"Take this! Disarmus!" Flora had shot a disarming spell at Gareg, but he dived out of the way, it had hit one of his goons. He fell back into the crowd.
Zedia's heart was pumping violently. His face was going bright purple.
At last the four had entered the wide-open field.
"Shouldn't we have run-" Blaze stopped talking for a moment to catch his breath. "Somewhere… else, than- the field?"
Zedia realised, there was nowhere to hide.
Three heart pounding minutes had passed since Zedia, Blaze, Flora and Aidez had entered the fields. They were now at a standoff.
Fifteen versus four.
They were doomed.
"What should we do?" mumbled Flora.
"Run?" Zedia mumbled back.
"No bloody way!" Blaze had shouted.
Gareg moved his face into a horrible smile, and swung his arms out so he formed a crude cross and screamed.
"MORPHUS PERFECTUS FORMUS!!" he grinned sinisterly as two beams of red erupted from each of his palms, And wrapped around all of the year tens.
There was a blinding light, Zedia, Flora and Blaze covered their eyes.
Even Aidez moved his wings so his eyes were hidden.
As the light died down, the fifteen figures had been replaced by something else…
Something worse…
Much worse.
"What… what are they?" Blaze asked.
"M… Morph… Morpheggs!"
What the four were looking at had absolutely no connection to what they were looking at sixty seconds ago. Gareg's face had gone dark swampy green, and had one extra addition… an extra eye. All his hair had fell out and a horn had appeared on his head. His nose looked like it had been squashed back into his face. His school clothes had been replaced by a black cloak. The same went for every one of his friends.
"I am Captain Disharkus, I will carry out the wills of my master!" Gareg snarled.
" And who is your-" Flora was interrupted by Zedia.
"Let me guess… Sladen?"
Disharkus nodded smugly.
"YES!! And he wants you… Eliminated, Zedia Spell!" he roared.
"Why me?"
But Zedia got no answer, he barely had time to dodge a beam of fire shooting towards him.
He rolled into the mud. There was a scream as Flora was hit.
"Flora!!" Zedia screamed, he leapt up and ran towards the crowd.
"FIRE!"Morphegg Gareg snarled to his 'army'.
Every single one of the Morpheggs started shooting flaming spheres at Zedia, Flora and Blaze, every single one of them missed.
Zedia yelled as he acrobatically jumped above the swarm of Morpheggs.
"Semi Destructamus!"
A black beam of surging power shot towards the crowd. There were a few low pitched roars of pain, and an explosion. And suddenly there was a massive hole where ten Morpheggs were standing a few moments before.
"Yes!!" Zedia proclaimed, but his excitement was short lived.
More Morpheggs, who had seemed to come out of nowhere, replaced the hole.
"Oh, crap!" Blaze shouted. But then he cried out in pain. He had been hit.
Flora got back up again. And Zedia landed next to her, Blaze was trying to pick himself up off of the ground.
"We can't beat them…" Zedia said.
"There's too many…" Flora continued.
"We're doomed," Blaze finished.


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It's been reported that the bank's chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, has offered to meet environmental and human rights campaigners this week in an attempt to defuse escalating protests about the bank's "dirty" investments.
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I awoke to this glorious, unseasonably...nice October Saturday, grinning in the dawning realization my life...life, small-l...has become a black comedy.
Oh, I needed no reminder in my green youth I regularly chose the path less traveled. I zigged left instead of right when I woke this morning, oh yes. Instead of striding purposefully for the toilet, I navigated the dark apartment toward the bedroom window. Parted the curtains. Filled my eyes with clear sky, glowing deep blue. Gazed at the nearly last-quarter moon. It was still close enough with glaring Jupiter that the pair of them should use their hand signals. And Orion, O'yea. Orion sparkled up there. Orion looked like he might snag his three-starred belt on the top of the telephone pole in the alley outside.
Orion sparkled more east, y'see. He'd been clear of that telephone pole yesterday, higher, and even higher the morning before. I'd seen this scene, with slight degrees of variation, three 6:30 am's in a row now. Since Thursday.
Three 6:30's ago, I almost snatched up the cell phone, almost texted the gist of the celestial spectacle, and my wonder, to the blog. Something like: 6:31. Opend bedrm curtain. Deep blue sky. Fat moon. Jupiter's a jewel. ORION. Forgot Orion could wow in AM. Gotta pee.
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No, instead of spontaneously texting it, I breakfasted and scribbled it on a scrap of paper for my back-pocket. The gist now but the start of it. Later, at work, I scribbled it into an email draft, and scribbled some more. Moved the more around. Tidied and prettified the more. I pondered the more. I intended to post whatever it might become Thursday eve. But it didn't feel right. I pondered the more at home too.
And at moments during busy Friday.
I finally admitted it was hopeless this morning.
Now, here's the nugget I'll keep close which actually started me chuckling a moment ago, while sipping milky tea and blinking out the bedroom window at the sunshiny Saturday, just as a bus whined past on the main road: Yes, very fitting; I've missed the cosmic bus; I am become a study in studied spontaneity.
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Boutique Hotel Riviera offers a health club, a rooftop terrace, and free WiFi in public areas. Airport transportation is made easy with an airport shuttle for a fee (available on request). The front desk has multilingual staff on hand 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, luggage storage, and securing valuables. Other amenities at this boutique hotel include a meeting room, a business center, and free newspapers.
Property features
- Close to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery and Independence Square
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- Health club
Boutique Hotel Riviera
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Riviera on Podol offers a prime location steps from the Poshtova Square Metro station and the riverfront. Numerous restaurants are right down the street. Saint Andrew's Church, St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, and Saint Sophia Cathedral are all less than 1 km (0.6 mi) away.
An original art collection is displayed in public areas and suites. Guests can dine round-the-clock in the rooftop restaurant, or enjoy in-room dining 24 hours-a-day. The Elixir spa offers a wide array of relaxing and rejuvenating treatments, as well as a fitness room and hair salon.
Other amenities include a multilingual staff, 24-hour front desk, concierge services, and a business center. For a surcharge, guests can take advantage of an airport shuttle (advance notice required). Outdoor and garage parking is available for a surcharge.
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- One meeting room
- Spa services on site
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 80
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 7
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fireplace in lobby
- Designated smoking areas
- Rooftop terrace
- Health club
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free WiFi
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
Boutique Hotel Riviera offers 80 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. Rooms open to balconies. Televisions come with satellite channels and pay movies. Bathrooms include separate bathtubs and showers, bathrobes, slippers, and designer toiletries.
This Kiev hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks, complimentary newspapers, and phones. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottled water and hair dryers. In-room massages, hypo-allergenic bedding, and irons/ironing boards can be requested. A nightly turndown service is provided and housekeeping is offered daily.
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Pay movies
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Minibar
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Slippers
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Satellite TV service
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe
- Desk
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free newspaper
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Soundproofed rooms
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Riviera - A 24-hour, rooftop restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Room service - Available round-the-clock.
Spa Services
- Massages
- Body treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 2 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Self parking fee: UAH 180 per night
Hotel Name
- Boutique Hotel Riviera
- Boutique Hotel Riviera Kiev
- Boutique Riviera
- Boutique Riviera Kiev
- Riviera Boutique
- Riviera Boutique Hotel
We should mention
If you require a visa to enter the country, your property may be able to help with the supporting documents needed to obtain one. To learn more, you can reach out to the property via the contact details included on your booking confirmation. The property may charge for this assistance, even if you end up cancelling your reservation. All arrangements are solely between the property and yourself. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 2 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saskatoon places you next to Karttrak Go-Karts and within a 15-minute walk of Third Avenue United Church. This 122-room hotel has free breakfast along with conveniences like an indoor pool and free in-room WiFi. Located centrally in Saskatoon, it's also near University of Saskatchewan and Midtown Plaza.
Free hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning from 6:30 AM to 9:30 AM. Satisfy your hunger from the comfort of your room with room service.
All of Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saskatoon's 122 rooms are air-conditioned and have an array of amenities, including microwaves, refrigerators, and coffee makers. Flat-screen TVs come with cable channels and pay movies, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi and wired Internet. Bathrooms have hair dryers and free toiletries. Free newspapers, free local calls, and ironing boards are other standard amenities.
Guests of Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saskatoon have access to an indoor pool, a fitness center, and a spa tub. You can take advantage of free parking, along with an airport shuttle at scheduled times. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to assist with dry cleaning/laundry and securing valuables. Additional amenities include free WiFi in public areas, 2 meeting rooms, and a 24-hour business center.
Property features
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Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saskatoon
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saskatoon provides a spa tub and a fitness center. A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business-related amenities consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. 2 meeting rooms are available. This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, coffee/tea in a common area, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saskatoon is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 122
- Indoor pool
- Number of floors - 4
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
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- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
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- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Free self parking
- Smoke-free property
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Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saskatoon offers 122 air-conditioned accommodations with complimentary newspapers and coffee/tea makers. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels and pay movies. Guests can make use of the in-room refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
This Saskatoon hotel provides complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones; free local calls are provided (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Pay movies
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 9:30 AM.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
- Golfing on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 19
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of CAD 10 per accommodation, per night
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Optional extras
Hotel Name
- Holiday Inn Express Saskatoon Hotel
- Holiday Inn Express Saskatoon
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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I am a recent graduate of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan where I was the nanny/babysit for 5 different families.I currently live with one of the families that I nannied for, they have 3 little boys ages 3, 1 and 4 months. I love each and every moment that I get to spend with children. I love watching them grow and using their imagination in creative and new ways. I am available most days and evenings. If you would like to contact me please feel free to send me a message or give me a call: 630.881.6378 - thank you! Stephanie
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Upsides and downsides of Bilingual Education
Bilingual instruction has turned out to be exceptionally mainstream of late, with maybe the most convincing explanation behind bilingual training being the idea of balance of training in our nation. How is it workable for somebody to acquire an incredible instruction when he or she doesn't completely comprehend the dialect the lessons are being taught in? Isn't that understudy going to end up a peasant? Should we simply permit that to happen or would it be advisable for us to show them in their local dialect and stress over digestion at some later time? The truth of the matter is that there are a great deal of upsides and downsides about the subject.
On the positive side, there are numerous advantages of understudies taking in another dialect at an early age. It has been demonstrated that youngsters who figure out how to talk another dialect ahead of schedule in life have a less demanding time getting a handle on the vocabulary, sentence structure, and subtleties of both dialects. It has additionally been demonstrated that these same understudies will have the capacity to proceed onward to adapting third and fourth dialects simply. The purposes behind this are shifted, yet one of the main reasons is that numerous dialects have their roots in a solitary old dialect, for example, Latin or Greek. As the nationalities have built up, their dialects changed however kept a considerable measure of the same words and word structure. Additionally as the world therapists and everything turns out to be more worldwide in nature, it will turn out to be perpetually vital to have the capacity to convey in more than one dialect.
There is no denying that bilingual instruction lessons ought to be taught to understudies at the basic level. Holding up until secondary school will just make it more troublesome on the kids. Once an understudy gets comfortable with a second dialect it is much simpler for him or her to ace it as they become more established. It is additionally something to be thankful for when understudies find out about the way of life of various nations, which is improved by taking in the dialect. Considers have demonstrated that the capacity to talk numerous dialects does not befuddle the brain. Indeed, it creates it quicker and lead to a balanced future.
On the antagonistic side, there are individuals who feel that bilingual instruction is a terrible thought since it takes away our feeling of national personality. The United States has dependably been known as a "mixture" of societies where everybody is dealt with similarly and each society gets to be absorbed into the essential society of the United States. Verifiably, newcomers to this nation have been compelled to take in our English dialect and a considerable lot of our ways, at the same time contributing parts of their notable culture and improving the whole culture accordingly. The contention is that by holding the dialect of their old nation, they are no more as effortlessly acclimatized into this nation.
Bilingual instruction is a worry in different nations and in addition in the United States. For instance, there is as of now a development in progress in France to guarantee that French remains the prevailing dialect and that all natives figure out how to communicate in French. Correspondingly in the United States numerous individuals feel that we as a nation have gone too far over the edge in making the various societies agreeable by printing everything in their home dialects. The issue that is raised is that, by printing everything in various local dialects, the newcomers don't need to learn English. What's more, in the event that they don't learn English they will never be completely absorbed into the United States. By accordingly making nationalistic factions some individuals say that we are possibly making the same kind of societal issues that are found in different parts of the world and that the individuals who are moving to the United States are as often as possible fleeing from. My own conviction is that youngsters from different societies who may talk different dialects at home need to get comfortable with English and that English ought to be the required dialect for every single administrative issue.
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Someone who scammed me out of over $10,000 as well as others out of thousands of dollars is claiming the scam as part of bankruptcy. This person also wrote a bad check to obtain merchandise and claimed the company she cheated out of the merchandise as a " creditor" as well as a place that she pawned stolen merchandise to. Many of these companies are not even attempting to sue her or collect from her put they are listed anyway as a creditor as a preemptive strike.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Among the many lots of Automobilia offered at the Bonhams auction at Retromobile in Paris (Jan 27th), are these two limited-edition, very rare photographs of early motorcycling competitors. Each of these photographs has been reprinted from an original glass negative onto high quality, archival stock, and is strictly limited to an edition of 7 per photograph. (Sold for 115Euros)
Most unusual is the 1902 photo of 'Madame Jolivet' (above), competing in Deauville that year on a 2 1/2hp G.Pecourt motorcycle (which used a Zedel aiv motor in a modified racing bicycle frame). Her race average over the flying kilo was 62 km/h! She and her husband were on the Pecourt racing team; they appeared in 1902 also at the Gaillon and Chateau-Thierry hillclimbs, and the Dourdan speed trials. Photographs of women competitors at road trials such as Deauville are exceedingly rare, and this image represents one of the very first photographs of a woman motorcycle racer.
A good look at her outfit tells a tale; women with an inclination towards sports were creating a new category of clothing, necessary to break out of the high collars, corseted waists, and heavy skirting which was the fashion of the day. Ms. Jolivet is wearing a combination of a worker's smock and balloon trousers (overgrown knickers with a 'skirtish' profile to fool the eye), with stockings and what look like an early example of white trainers! She certainly looks comfortable with her machine - but look at that saddle height!
The second print depicts a Mr. Wilfred aboard a Léon Bollée tricar, at an unknown event in France, sporting his race number '21' and wearing a competitor's armband. Tricars at this early point in the century were competing with two-wheelers at events and sales floors around the world, as they vied for primacy as the 'best' solution to a powered lightweight vehicle on the road. The configuration of both the Pecourt and Bollée formed branches on an evolutionary tree of motorcycles which have since died off, their brief flowering having whithered away by the late 'teens. The Pecourt has an engine hanging below and outside the front downtube of the bicycle frame, a vulnerable position certainly but one which kept the weight low and forward - which would keep skids ('the dreaded side-slip') and top-heaviness as bay. The arrangement of the Bolée has perhaps a longer lineage, or at least more cousins, with rear-drive three-wheelers still available from the likes of Triking, although they and earlier Morgan, B.S.A., etc, all leaned more towards automotive appearance, with shapely steel bodies and car-type seats. (sold for 345 Euros)
The Bonhams Retromobile Auction site is worth a gander; the sale includes a myriad of drool-worthy cars, and one 1925 Bugatti Type 22, recently recovered from the bottom of Lago Maggiore in Italy, where it lay since 1929! Ready for restoration, I would say... but what a fantastic photograph!! (sold for 260,500 Euros!)
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- drsprocket said...
Paul, I was on the Maine road run last year and we stopped in to visit the Owls Head Transportation Museum. To my surprise they had a Leon Bollee Tricar and took it out for a spin much to our joy and amusement. Rich
- January 18, 2010
Hey Paul;
I'm Trent Reker, editor and general madman at BikernetMetric. I tried searching your site for what I am about to ask but it seems your Google search widget isn't working (or I'm a spaz) so I decided to write.
I recently discovered that what I think of when someone mentions hill climbing is vastly different from what an Englishman will think when the same is mentioned. It seems that Americans ride straight up a steep mound of dirt and Brits ride circuitously around a paved track. Both sports are termed as "hill climbing."
I've tried researching vintage British hill climber history but have had no luck other than finding their National Hill Climbing Association website, which I found lacking. A few nice pics, but not much else.
From what I can tell, a lot of vintage motorcycle marquees raced these routes, but I can find no history about these races, the bikes, nor their riders. Thought you may know something and put it up on your blog for everyone to learn.
Thank you and best;
- January 19, 2010
- vintagent said...
Hi Trent,
sounds like the makings of two posts! There are many famous British hill climbs, but it's cars which as usual steal the show. I can access quite a bit of stuff on them, but it's all hidden in other places. So, thanks for a good idea. The more obscure rubbish I write about, the more top google search results come up as MINE... bwaaahaaaahaaaaaaaaa. Cue mighty Wurlitzer organ doing the 'Phantom' theme.
- January 19, 2010
T - If not already found you may wish to Google 'Red Marley Hill Climb', this would be more in keeping with the 'colonial' version and is for classic bikes.
I can't recall if it was the 'site' or the actual programme but I do recall that it covered the history of the event with first hand accounts.
All the best
- January 28, 2010
Dear Vintagent,
Great follow-up to your fascinating post on the Bugatti submerged for nearly three quarters of a century in Switzerland's Lake Maggiore:
It was raised from its watery grave by the local SCUBA club in order to generate funds for a member of theirs, a young college student by the name of Damiano Tamagni who was recently murdered by 3 youths one night in an apparent random attack.
The club had Bonhams sell the relic at Retromobile in Paris where it brought an astounding $362,000 (euros 260,500)! The funds will go to the Damiano Tamagni Foundation and the car will go to the Peter Mullin Collection of California where it will remain on display in unrestored original condition (read "fantastic time capsule").
To view more images of the car at Bonhams or being raised from the lake, just Google "bonhams lake maggiore bugatti".
Thanks Vintagent. Great history, great car, great story, great purpose, great post!
- January 29, 2010


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The 8 Ball 10.22.13: Top 8 Confusing Games
Welcome all to another edition of The 8 Ball. This week the topic is about confusing games. This topic was pretty much brought up due to The Stanley Parable. That game does some confusing (but cool) stuff during its narrative, so trying to find other games that have parts like that is a good topic. Let's begin:
To El Shaddai's credit, I was able to finish the game, if I really devoted myself to playing it. The actual gameplay is a simplified version of almost God of War, mixed with weapon swapping from dropped weapons from defeated enemies. However, the actual story of El Shaddai is beyond nonsense. From what I can parse together, some angels decided to take matters into their own hands and become ingrained into humanity. God didn't like this, so he sends Enoch down to try and stop their plans. At least, that is the two sentence plot summary. But it barely scratches the surface of what is going on in the game, least of all playing another character late in the game, to rescue Enoch. It's about as on-par as Bayonetta, but even that game is less confusing, due to the main character having a personality. Enoch never really displays any emotion, which is kind of odd.
I actually really enjoy Remember Me: it looks great, it has some clever gameplay hooks, and the world it creates is breath-taking in spots. Even the story is mostly fine, except for one small issue. The main caveat of the game is that Nilin (your character) lost her memories and is trying to get them. You do eventually get them, but outside of two very brief flashbacks, you never get a sense of who Nilin is as a purpose, before her memory got wiped. This creates a bit of narrative dissonance in the game, when she does eventually get her memory but is seemingly unchanged from her goals. Also, for as much as the game aped the combat system from Batman, unlike Batman, it takes animation over gameplay. So you would be hitting a guy, try to dodge, but be locked in the animation of the combo, and take the hit. In Batman, you can dodge almost any time in a fight with no care at all. This takes a while to get used to and feels pretty cheap at times.
The confusion in either game is largely intentional, but still kind of annoying. When you start the game, you are told almost nothing. Nothing is presented about gameplay systems, the inventory, the skill screen, etc. You are on your own to try and bumble your way through it, along with dealing with hundreds of deaths due to the combat/movement in game. Frankly to be able to play the game effectively, you need to have at least two or three guides open from Gamefaqs, and possibly the game's wiki to figure anything out. That appeals to some people to be sure, and actually Dark Souls sold pretty well, but for a new player, it can be one of the most confusing games around.
Without spoiling the end of Deadly Premonition, it goes completely crazy in one of the best ways possible. While the game initially seems like a Twin Peaks copy, the more you play it, the more the game has its own ideas about where to take the story and what is going on. Then the game goes almost off the rails completely by the end. Add to that some of the strangest characters in a game, some hilarious voice acting, and a music score that over-powers it constantly, and you'll see why Deadly Premonition can be baffling at times.
As the newest game on my list, and having just reviewed it, I think I can speak pretty definitively on this topic. Stanley poses a lot of questions in the game but doesn't try to answer any of them. Or at least doesn't answer any of them completely. Due to the cyclical nature of the game, you can take any of the endings as true, but falseness comes back as the game loops around again. It's never even explained who/what the narrator is who is talking, whether or not it's Stanley's own internal voice, some type of outside force in the world, or some type of omnipresent voice in the world. It's an experience that can make you question games and the way they tell stories, but it is very interesting to play.
Which is more than I can say for this game, frankly. Actually, I'm being harsh, having just picked it up a few days ago and only spending about an hour in it. However, in the first 5 minutes it does two of the most stupefying things I've seen in any game. The first is a story recap of what actually happened in Final Fantasy 13. It is 11 parts, with an added prologue, with the text read by a woman and grainy video somewhat tied to the narration. I was lost by the second chapter due to all the melodramatic/self-serious nonsense being bandied about. The much more impressive (in a dizzying way) is how the game starts. It opens with a video of the (presumed) bad guy doing bad things and Lightning trying to fight him. A theme song is played over the video, with game credits interspersed as the two fight. You hit start, new game, and the EXACT same video plays, only with different music, and actual voice acting/sound effects. They play the same video twice. Wow.
Also, for what it's worth, I'm about 2 hours into the game, and I'm actually kind of enjoying it. The battle system is fast and the mechanics seem fairly sound so far.
Honestly, 95% of Soul Reaver is pretty cut and dry. It's almost a kind of Metroidvania game, where areas of the world are closed off to you, requiring you to unlock a new ability, and fighting bosses across the landscape to become more powerful. The big difference is, there's no map in this game at all. And woe be to those who stop playing it for a week or two because you will be completely lost. It would be like playing the a Zelda game with no map at all. The only way in Soul Reaver you can gauge your progress is by what powers/glyphs you have which still doesn't help you out any. If you can mainline Soul Reaver in a few days' time then the game is a snap. But if you switch between different games or have to take an extended break and try to get back into it, good luck – you'll need it.
Final Fantasy 13-2's confusions are only in the first few minutes of playing. Kingdom Hearts 2's confusions carry on the deeper you go. The bat-shit thing about this game is that the story is basically predicated upon a game that not a lot of people played (Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories) and a game that didn't even exist when KH 2 was released (Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days). KH 2 was released in 2005, and 358/2 hit in 2009. That is a 4 year difference! Kingdom Hearts 2 starts with you in control of "Roxas", with you eventually taking control of Sora. Mind you, this happens about 3 or 4 hours in, with little explanation (at the start) of what the fuck is even going on. Even as you play the game, you get almost no reason as to what is happening. At this point, Kingdom Hearts – as an overall game series, is SO convoluted, it might be best to just wipe the slate clean and reboot it. I have little hope that Kingdom Hearts 3 will fare any better. If anything, the story will continue the cycle of "Snake eating its own tail" that has plagued it for so long, and confound the people who play it. At least it will add endless more pages to that "Kingdomheartssummary.docx" that is floating around on Google Docs here. If you can read that for more than 5 minutes without blood shooting out of your eyes, then you are a Kingdom Hearts fan and can get by the confusing mess of the story.
Top 8 Confusing Games
Video games have no shortage of confusing plots, confounding endings, and baffling creative decisions. It's an experimental medium, and that comes with the territory. Then there's the apparent truism that Japanese things are weird, and video games have brought Anime-style displacement to North American audiences. You could make an entire list just out of Resident Evil and Metal Gear games. Because of this, I've decided to leave Resident Evil and Metal Gear games off this list. Why? Because it's confusing!
Instead, I decided to try to select as wide a scope of games as I possibly could, showing the breadth and depth of the bizarre that touches almost every corner of the game industry. Let's get weird!
8: Limbo (XBLA, then PS3 and PC ports, 2010)
I was hesitant to include this game, because it's calculated confusion, but the execution surpasses the concept. Limbo is an experiment in giving the player absolutely no instructions. Combine that with a metaphorical story, devilishly complicated puzzles and an ending with no canon explanation and you have a black and white side scrolling bundle of "huh?" There are a lot of out-there indie games, but Limbo has that edge of brutal shadow violence that puts it over the top. The only other place children are put in that much peril is a Bangladeshi sweat shop… or possibly the Democratic Republic of Congo.
7: Halo 3: ODST (Xbox, 2009)
It's generally an exercise in frustration to try to follow the plot of any Halo game, but ODST hit a new level of "what the hell is going on?" In order to make any connection between this Halo 3 standalone expansion and the adventures of Master Chief, you need to go back to Halo 2, which taxes your memory if you want any sense of why you should care about a bunch of people with names like German Shepherds. But then things get more structurally convoluted through the use of flashbacks and a secondary story that's told only through hidden audio recordings. It was more than a little pathetic that Bungie decided to rip off Bioshock, especially since narrative has never exactly been the developer's strength. It's only at the very end of the game that we find out that the whole story is a prequel to Halo 3. Why this isn't made abundantly clear from the very beginning, I'm not entirely sure. ODST is a shining example of the calculated arrogance of the entire Halo franchise: it needs neither a functioning story structure nor clarity, because so many Halo fans only use a game's campaign as a multiplayer tutorial, if they play it at all.
6: Bioshock Infinite (Multi-platform, 2013)
Speaking of Bioshock – and calculated arrogance – what the hell happened with Bioshock Infinite!? My confusion regarding this title follows, ironically, multiple paths: my bewilderment regarding the game itself, my utter bafflement regarding the soaring high review scores from allegedly professional reviewers, and my dismay that people were offended by the game's content, but for the most part, they were the wrong people. I think that the minute that white supremacists started claiming a Jewish-led conspiracy against white people, everyone else shut up for fear of being branded equally loony.
The themes, and plot twists of Booker DeWitt's journey into Columbia are so convoluted that the story manages to say nothing profound about anything, and it functions with the wisdom of a jaded freshman at an Ivy League school whose tution is paying paid for by the parents he hates. The second half of the ending negates the first half of the ending, but that's fine if you're a spoiled white boy or a gal looking for the approval of spoiled white boys. For the rest of us, confusion reigns. I got baffled to the point of distraction midway through the game when it equated the violence committed by early America's black and Irish underclasses while fighting for their emancipation with the actions of their oppressors. Then I knew there was a twist coming with Comstock – because there's always a twist like that in Bioshock games – but instead of going the way I thought it was going, it co-opts and whitens the entire concept of a Christian convert prophet's involvement in the Massacre at Wounded Knee, the Lakota tribes' Ghost Dance beliefs, and features horrendously racist depictions of Native Americans… but fails to include a single Lakota Indian as an actual character. By this point, Bioshock fans get that Ken Levine hates theme parks, but it created a pretty massive blind spot in storytelling.
Then there's the strong Antisemitic undertones inherent in the Shylock-style character of Jeremiah Fink. Maybe a lot of you missed the "Heeb" graphiti on some of the broken vending machines, or maybe you just don't care, but Jeremiah Fink is exacting his "pound of flesh" from his workers, at multiple points in the game. Then there's the money lender metaphor of Fink tokens, usable only within his company. It's not that racism can't be used to great effect. It just isn't used well here, due, likely, to the slashing and burning of game elements during Infinite's harried development. How the hell does this happen in 2013 and get rewarded both commercially and critically? This blinkers me.
5: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600, 1982)
The E.T. video game is, if you believe the hype, the result of a $125 million budget, five and a half weeks development time, and ignoring Steven Spielberg. Ironically, you can actually see all these elements in the finished product, which set the bar for multiple types of nightmarishly bad corporate decisions. It was video games' greatest act of catastrophic hubris until 2008's Too Human. It was the poster child for ridiculously rushed development until 2011's premature release of Dragon Age II. It was the most inexplicably expensive science fiction property until 2012's John Carter. It's also the most unnecessarily convoluted game in any medium, other than Mage: the Ascension and possibly Bridge. The rumors of the burial site of unsold cartridges is a New Mexico mystery that some take as seriously as Roswell. But the most confusing thing about the game may be the simplest: why is E.T. light green?
4: Dragon's Lair (Arcade, various ports, 1983)
Dragon's Lair blew my mind back in the 80s. It changed the way video games looked forever, but no matter how many ports and reissues they do, I've never been able to finish the game. Why? Because the Quick Time Events are hopelessly confusing. Also, Princess Daphne was an early adopter of the "lots of hair makes naked look less naked rule". It's pretty hilarious that a female character wore less than a Mortal Kombat lady in a game with a kid-friendly animation style destined for public arcades way back in 1983, and thirty years later, we're still acting like boobs are going to destroy society. It's bizarre.
3: Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES, 1988)
Why does a raccoon costume allow Mario to fly? Why does a frog costume let him breathe underwater? Why does a giant wind up boot allow Mario to step on pokey things? Where did all of Bowser's illegitimate children come from? If you feel the need to ask these questions, don't play Super Mario 3. It's the most random, acid trip game in Nintendo's most random, acid trip series.
2: Siren (PS2, 2003)
Anything featuring a butterfly effect gets confusing fast, but Siren went beyond that into a convergence of things that left me too stumped to continue. The game was made for a Japanese audience and is based in Shintoism which is basic stuff in Japan, but I knew almost nothing about it at the time. I also found the "sightjacking" gameplay feature disorienting and the grainy graphics quality made it hard for me to see anything even when I was super close to the person whose sight I was jacking. Then there was the disjointed narrative – the game starts in the year 684 CE where starving villagers decide to eat a crashed alien… while it's still alive. Then the story jumps to an earthquake in 1976. Then we find ourselves in 2003, and the remainder of the game is condensed into only a few days, but there are still jumps back and forth in time. But there's more! The voice acting is just weird, the map is only partially functional, and if you fail a mission you restart midway, but all the stuff you collected is gone. It all leads to an experience more disorienting than waking up with a bad tattoo after a booze-induced blackout.
1: Candy Crush Saga (facebook, iOS, Android)
This is the most popular facebook/app game ever. Why? I have no idea. Why am I crushing candies? What did the candies ever do to me? I have no idea.
The in-game spam is invasive and of such high-volume that it clogs my tablet. The music is annoying, the character designs are cloying and unnerving. A pink dragon looks like he's urinating, and a large bunny appears to be sitting in a pool of runny feces. Allegedly those things are lemonade and chocolate respectively… but if you believe that, you probably get punked a lot by the old "dude, sick, smell this" trick. However the thing I find most perplexing about Candy Crush Saga is the fact that completing a level relies predominantly on luck, but I still. Keep. Playing.
Why? I have no idea.
But at least I don't spend money to play. This makes me not cool: casual gamers who don't understand how anyone can "waste" time on Xbox or Playstation dump tens of thousands of dollars a day in order to buy lives or get assistance items, thereby rewarding King for its wretched game design. I don't get it. I don't get it at all. It's like a zen koan or something… or maybe it's more like a Family Guy non sequitur. I don't get those either.
There's not a lot of games I came up with for this secondary list. A lot of games these days might have dumb stories but not necessarily confusing ones. Still, I did come up with a few games that almost made my main list. The big omission is probably Metal Gear Solid (any of them). The stories in those games are convoluted as all hell, but generally not confusing. At least to me. Anyway, here's the few games I came up with: Messiah, FF 7, FF 8, FF 10 (really most Final Fantasy games), Echo the Dolphin, Maken X, Sonic (2006), and LSD
The amount of comments from last week was a bit low, but I'll address a few of them. Having just re-played Bully this year, I think that game may have a few problems, but it's mostly related to it originally being a PS2 game. If they were to remake or construct a sequel based on Bully with today's gameplay standards, it would be a lot more impressive. The Nintendo arguments are interesting. The Wii U seems to be almost dead on arrival when it comes to third party support. Sure games do come out for it (from third parties), but they're either reduced in quality or have gameplay features nixed from them. Also, while Nintendo is being kept alive by the 3DS/hand held market, they are still getting destroyed by Apple and the plethora of I-devices they release.


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At the age of 33, Steve Way could have been forgiven for thinking elite sport lay beyond his capacities. He was puffing 20 cigarettes a day, fond of a drink, weighed 16½ stone and could not sleep because of his smoker's cough.
Yet on Sunday, some seven years and many, many miles of training later, he sprinted across the finishing line in the Commonwealth Games men's marathon in 10th position as the top finisher for the England team.
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