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Rayn followed me to my new job at the studio. I say followed. What I mean is, he insisted that I walk instead of drive, and that I give him a piggy back. I tried to get him to just be normal for like five minutes and let me drive, but the guy's kinda persuasive when he's climbing on your back and using your neck to pull himself up.
"You there," he says, prodding my cheek as I trudge over to the studio with him clinging to me like a... clinging thing. "Be faster. I need to pee."
"You should've just let me drive," I grumble.
"But this is more fun," he whines. I roll my eyes and drop him. The idiot wasn't holding on, so he falls straight on his ass. He complains about it loudly, staying exactly where he is.
"C'mon, loser," I start to walk off, leaving him there.
"Hey! Wait for me, asshole!"
The studio session went pretty well - the band recording said their drummer had broken his leg or something and couldn't double kick. They were pretty friendly guys, and were as surprised as Kyle was to find out how childish Rayn is.
"We'd heard you could be pretty weird, but we'd never figured they meant this weird," the singer guy said, watching Rayn pretending to be a cat.
"...And then I fucking pounced on that squirrel. The bastard bit me," he continued with his epic tale of how he chased down that squirrel earlier and rolled up his sleeve, showing off the red marks on his arm where the squirrel had indeed bitten him. "I couldn't get back into his apartment to clean up, 'cause he'd decided to screw his boyfriend while I was distracted. I'm probably going to get rabies now." I glanced at him, my eyebrow arched a little.
"It gets worse, trust me," I muttered under my breath to the singer guy.
"Well, I gotta go," the singer guy says eventually, "see you tomorrow, yeah?" I nod and watch as him and his band leave.
"Looks like it's just us," Rayn says, putting on a husky voice and a creepy face, getting real close to me. I peck him on the nose, grinning as he recoils, scrubbing at his nose with his sleeve. "COOTIES!" he yells, rolling away from me. I giggle, getting up.
"Well, I don't have a shift at the bar tonight. And I'm gonna be alone all night otherwise. Any suggestions?" I probably should've mentioned no drugs. Is my will power really that weak that I'm hoping he suggests that?
"Hmm..." he pretends to consider it, slithering off the sofa onto the floor on his back. "You never did join me for that line." I smile.
"I'm s'posed to be giving that shit up," I remind him, but we both know it's gonna happen, no matter how many times I tell him that I'm not supposed to. So long as I'm either asleep or sober for when Kyle gets back, I'll be fine, right?
We go back to the motel he's staying in, and he pulls his gear out of his bag, the mirror, the razor, the nasal straws. The little bag of powder. I ask him if he has any crack. He shakes his head, but I shrug it off. Right now, in this state, anything will do. He draws out a line, and I watch impatiently as he snorts it up. Hurry up, asshole. I need that hit.
After a couple of lines, we feel like we own the world. I'm fucking invincible, and wondering how the hell I coped without this awesome rush. Rayn climbs out of the window, dropping to the floor, whooping like he fell further than from the ground floor. I watch for a second as he starts bouncing around the parking lot. I follow him out, with far less grace, tripping over the flowerbed the motel owner had planted around the rooms.
I'd forgotten just how horny coke makes me. Fuck. Where's Kyle when you need him?
Rayn runs up and jump hugs me, knocking me back into the wall. My morals and worries are a million miles away. Without thinking, I catch him and kiss him hard. He kisses back, shifting a little in my grip so I end up holding his ass rather than his legs. I hum, feeling my pants tighten as he fidgets again. Turning, I shove him back through the window, pulling myself back inside.
I barely have time to stand up straight before Rayn drags me over to the bed, forcing me to lay down. He palms me through my too-tight pants and kisses me again, moaning a little as I bite his lip, willing him to get a fucking move on. He fumbles with the button on my pants and I shove them down the second they're undone. He goes down on me and I tangle my fingers in his hair, letting whatever noises I wanted to make come out of my mouth.
Once he figures I'm lubed up enough, he moves up onto the bed with me, leaving his pants behind on the floor.
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Dry Eyes
What is it?
Each time the eye blinks the eyelid spreads your tears across the surface of the eye to form a film. This film acts to reduce the evaporation of moisture from the eye, helping it stay hydrated. Dry eyes can occur when either you don't produce enough tears or when a gap in the protective tear film allows moisture to be lost.
What are the main causes?
- Contact lenses - Over 75% of contact lens wearers suffer from dry eyes at some point
- Central heating and air conditioning - these dry out the air so reduce moisture in the eyes
- Not blinking enough - When you stare at your computer screens or TV for a long time your rate of blinking reduces from about 22 blinks per minute to as low as 7 times a minute! This reduces the spread of tears across your eye leading to damage to the protective lipid layer over the eye.
- 22% of dry eye sufferers blame their computer for causing their symptoms
- Ageing - We tend to make fewer tears as we get older so as you age you are likely to be affected more. For women, hormonal changes during the menopause can also lead to more frequent dry eyes.
- Some medications can cause dry eyes as a side effect or make existing dry eyes worse (e.g. beta blockers, the pill and antihistamines)
What are the symptoms?
Your eyes will feel dry, irritated & uncomfortable. You may experience a gritty, burning sensation when you blink although dry eye should not cause significant pain.
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A Compact, High Quality Anamorphic Adapter for COTS Infrared Camera
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AbstractWe propose to design and fabricate a high performance anamorphic adapter for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) infrared array cameras. With this anamorphic system, the viewing angle along the preferred axis can be maximized and the viewing angle along the orthogonal axis can be diminished while an equal projected area per pixel can be maintained. The viewing angles for the proposed system with an isothermal focus will be 150 degreex15 degree. The anamorphic system will be designed and made so that best possible image quality can be obtained when used together with a COTS hardware. The system are expected to be compact in structure, easy to realize and relatively low in cost. By incorporating the innovative design of the anamorphic optical system into the wide-field-of-view adapter, it is anticipated that all the Navy requirements for the IR imaging applications can be met. The objective new system represents a breakthrough, enabling technology for wide-angle IR imaging for distended scene with high imaging quality by allowing recording, playback and data analysis using generic equipment. The proposed high performance wide-field-of-view anamorphic adapter will find many dual applications and will greatly expand the usage of COTS infrared cameras.
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We use broadband frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) and cross-correlation FROG (XFROG) techniques to study the details of the supercontinuum generated in extruded soft glass SF6 photonic crystal fibers pumped with envelope-modulated 100 fs pulses at telecom wavelengths. Strong temporal jitter of solitons is observed with highly non-Gaussian statistics, which is related to the statistics of the pump pulse envelope shape fluctuations. The ripples present on the input pulse seed the modulation instability at high pump powers, affecting soliton fission. Numerical modeling confirms strong sensitivity of the soliton fission process to the presence of ripples on the pump pulse envelope.
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Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
PURPOSE: The criteria for the diagnosis of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis, severe sepsis (SS) and multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS) have been well established. The early diagnosis of sepsis and early intervention have been shown to have beneficial effects on the outcomes of septic patients. However, using the sepsis criteria in a clinical setting is very subjective, despite rigid quantitative criteria. We evaluated the intraobserver variability for diagnostic consistencies and the temporal relationship between their subsequent diagnoses of the sepsis continuum.
METHODS: 32 patients receiving care in a medical intensive care unit were evaluated retrospectively via chart review by two physicians to determine the time and date that the patients met criteria for SIRS, sepsis, SS, and MODS within a defined time period. Variations in diagnoses and time of diagnoses were compared between the physicians using MS Excel.
RESULTS: For the diagnosis of SIRS, observers were 100% congruent and made the diagnosis within 5.5 +/- 10.1(mean +/- SD) hours of each other. For sepsis, observers were congruent in 93.7% of cases, making the diagnosis within 1.9 +/−6.3 hours of each other. For SS, observers were congruent in 93.7% of cases, making the diagnosis within 4.3 +/- 12.8 hours of each other. For MODS, observers were congruent 96.9% of the time, making the diagnosis within 0.2 +/- 0.8 hours of each other.
CONCLUSION: Observers had the least congruency in their diagnoses when defining sepsis and SS, whereas SIRS and MODS had more congruency between observers. The observers were able to diagnose MODS and sepsis with the least amount of time variability whereas the diagnosis of SIRS and SS were more variable.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Early detection of sepsis is pertinent in improving outcomes in critically ill patients. Our study shows that the sepsis continuum allows for great variability and subjectivity in these diagnoses. Future studies might increase the number of observers to more accurately define the sepsis continuum and take into account experience level of the observers.
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With this summer's passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act, it's Europe's turn to address financial regulation. This
morning, the European Commission released its Proposal for Regulation on OTC Derivatives, central
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collateral. The proposal follows the commitment from the G-20 that
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Clouds move at night
Clouds fly across the sky in this nighttime shot of Cork City. A crane is in the middle distance, practically a symbol of the City at this stage.
The building site in the foreground is on the old site of the Guy And Company building. There's St. Anne's Church or Shandon Bells in the distance.
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August 20, 2007
Love the perspective.
August 21, 2007
Thanks! It was taken from the top of Tesco's carpark on Paul St., looking mostly north.
August 21, 2007
Great night time shot of the city. I love the motion blur on the clouds in long exposure shots like this – it gives a very dynamic feel. And look at that crane jib, don't you just love ultra-wide distortion!
August 21, 2007
love it , well caught ….where was it taken from , the North Main St.car park ?
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Thanks for commenting everyone. Makes the effort of going up there worth it! And thank you John for subscribing!
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Swiss Re and the People's Insurance Company of China (PICC) are the latest insurer and reinsurer to licence the Asia Risk Centre's (ARC) China agriculture model, which according to ARC signals the growing need of robust models to systematically quantify agriculture risk in the region.
Released in 2013, the Agriculture model is the only one which includes all major lines of business underwritten in China in a holistic approach where re/insurers and reinsurance brokers benefit in a complementary way.
"With the addition of Swiss Re and PICC to the list of users of our China agriculture model, ARC now covers 59 percent of the Chinese agriculture insurance premium and 25 percent of the premium underwritten by reinsurers," said Dr Roman Hohl, ARC's chief executive officer.
Swiss Re is the leading international reinsurer for agriculture in China and considers the model to be "an important part" of the company's risk assessment evaluation.
Reto Schneider, head of agriculture for Africa, Americas and Asia at Swiss Re said: "The ability to understand and model various sensitivities to a wide range of parameters in the ARC model allows us to identify potential loss drivers in a dynamic market, where risk types and original policy conditions have been changing rapidly and reinsurance structures have become more complex."
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But Patrick Long, a native of Thousand Oaks, Calif., did things a bit differently. At 16, he left his high school buddies — some of whom he had known since preschool — and went go-kart racing in Italy.
Long, who graduated from high school through a correspondence program so he could pursue his racing dreams, didn't take the usual route. But his path has proved to be a successful one.
He will compete Saturday in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with drivers Jorg Bergmeister and Timo Bernhard.
Long, 23 and the only North American who has a racing contract with Porsche, is going back to Le Mans this weekend looking for his second Grand Touring (GT) class victory in only his second trip as a driver to the Sarthe region of France. His team, Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing, is attempting to win its third consecutive class title.
"It was really about opportunity," Long says during a recent trans-Atlantic telephone interview. "I knew that Europe was so competitive."
Long went from Italy to France to England. Now he splits his time between Las Vegas, where his team is based, and Germany. He is fluent in four languages: English, French, Italian and German.
Long got into racing through his father and uncle. He began racing go-karts at 8 and used to wake up about 4:30 a.m. to catch Formula One races on TV.
After racing for several years in Europe with dreams of one day driving against Michael Schumacher, he tried to win a spot in the Red Bull Driver Search — a program designed to groom the next American F1 driver. He was one of the last cuts — Scott Speed was the ultimate winner — but the morning after he heard the bad news, Porsche called with an opportunity for Long to race.
"It was a roller coaster," Long says. "Here I had lost this great chance, but then I got this great opportunity with Porsche. In retrospect it all worked out."
Porsche employees had been tracking Long throughout the Red Bull Driver Search and liked what they had seen and heard. He impressed and got a chance to drive for Petersen at Le Mans last summer. He is racing his first full season with the American Le Mans Series team.
"I landed on my feet," Long says. "I feel pretty happy."
Champion Audi: The Florida-based team has dominated the American Le Mans Series over the past two seasons. Champion Audi R8s have won 13 ALMS races since 2003, including the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March. JJ Lehto, Marco Werner and Tom Kristensen will team in one R8 at Le Mans. The other R8 will see Emanuele Pirro, Frank Biela and Allan McNish (Sebring runners-up) splitting time.
Miracle Motorsports: Last year's LMP2 team champions in the ALMS won for the second year in a row at Sebring. Ian James, who drove the car in March, will partner with team owner John Macaluso and Andy Lally for Le Mans.
Corvette Racing: America's best hope for a victory comes in the form of the two Corvette C6-Rs that have won two of three ALMS events in their inaugural seasons. The C5-R won three times at Le Mans (2001-02 and 04), but drivers say the new Corvette is better. Ron Fellows and Johnny O'Connell will go for their second class win together (O'Connell is seeking to become the first American to win four Le Mans class titles). In the other entry, Olivier Beretta, Oliver Gavin and Jan Magnussen will try to repeat. Corvette's biggest challenge likely will come from a pair of Aston Martin DBR9s, one of which won in class at Sebring.
There is good reason for that. Petersen Motorsports has had an excellent track record. The team, which is owned by Californian Michael Petersen and team manager Dale White of Las Vegas, only has about a dozen members and doesn't showcase glamorous motor homes. Yet it has captured the triple crown of endurance sports car racing: the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 24 Hours of Daytona and Le Mans. Long helped pilot the team to a GT2 class victory at Sebring in March. He also recorded the fastest lap in the GT class at Daytona.
Making the team's record even more impressive is that it is considered a privateer operation, meaning it is not entirely funded by a car manufacturer. It does have a couple of drivers with Porsche contracts (Long has a long-term deal), but Petersen is not Porsche's factory team.
So for Petersen to win at places such as Le Mans — and beat the factory team — is more sweet. You might think Porsche wouldn't like teams such as Petersen's beating its own hired guns, but that's not entirely the case. When teams such as Petersen's win, it shows other privateers have a shot.
"We've spent the best part of the last four or five years organizing a nucleus of guys," Petersen says. "It's nice to be able to come to a place like Le Mans and showcase your talents. You don't just get to Le Mans because you can pay for it. You've got to be invited."
"The team is a unique group," Long says. "There are some teams there for the glitz and glamour. But these guys come from off-road racing, and they've won the triple crown. They keep it low key, more like a family."
Competing in a 24-hour event is unlike anything else in racing. Even the most grueling races, such as the Indianapolis 500 or NASCAR'S Coca-Cola 600, last only for a few hours.
"You can't prepare for being woken up at 3 a.m. and being told that in 10 minutes you need to be on the track and driving at 190 miles per hour," Long says. "People do really underestimate the physical ability of the drivers."
Long, who has competed in four 24-hour events, says he barely gets any sleep on a race day, and that includes the several hours he's at the track before the race begins. White says he's a "nervous wreck" the entire 24 hours, pacing throughout the race and barely taking time out to sit. Petersen says he takes short naps but leaves his radio on in case something happens.
Long isn't sure where his racing career will go from here. NASCAR is "definitely on his radar screen," although it is different from anything he has ever raced before, and he'd like to win the Baja 1000, an off-road endurance race.
"My goal right now is to win the big ones in sports car racing. But I'd like to be a versatile driver and win things out of the ordinary."


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To date, Johnny Borrell can lay claim to the curious title of being the only artist ever to walk out of an interview with me. I say curious, because we were midway through a mild-mannered discussion of American Beat writers when he abruptly stood up and strolled off.
It would be wrong to say that I have spent the past decade wondering what exactly caused him to bristle (though I confess I have occasionally speculated); after all, I recall heading into that interview braced for mildly preposterous behaviour.
This was the summer of 2004, shortly after the release of Razorlight's debut album Up All Night, and already young Borrell's peacocking was legendary: proclaiming himself a musical genius and the best songwriter of his generation, drawing parallels with Charles Dickens, quoting Charles Bukowski, and displaying a kind of pre-Brunelleschi grasp of perspective: "Well put it this way," he told the NME shortly before we met, "compared to the Razorlight album Dylan is making the chips. I'm drinking champagne."
While Razorlight enjoyed hits galore and widespread success for several years, time has done little to mellow the public perception of Borrell as a figure of fun – largely because of his tendency to say and do ludicrous things, and to fall out spectacularly with his bandmates, not to mention the questionable song titles that made up his solo album.
But it is also, I suspect, because in any narrative – fairytales, football teams, rock'n'roll scenes – we draw up our cast of characters early: the good guys, the heroes, the villains, the diamonds in the rough. Borrell's misfortune (aided perhaps by being southern, middle class and cocky) was to be set down as the egotistical ponce, the fop and the Fauntleroy.
Last week I went to see Razorlight play the Electric Ballroom in Camden (you can read an excellent account of that evening, fandom and the band's early days by my comrade Laura Snapes here). I suspect like many in the audience, my attendance was largely fuelled by nostalgia – a yearning to hear live once again the songs from an album that seemed to soundtrack much of a particular year of my life.
But in the days leading up to that show, and certainly in those that followed, an unexpected thing happened: I began to feel a certain tenderness for Johnny Borrell. I read Tim Jonze's hilarious interview with him in this very paper, and the near legendary 60-Second grilling in Metro, and I felt faintly delighted by his ridiculousness. Even at the gig itself, Borrell's contrary encore of two rambling songs no one gave a bobbins about (followed by stadium-rocker America) made me smile.
Here's what I concluded: at this point, 10 years into his career, I rather think we should perform a collective U-turn on the "Johnny Borrell: most hated man in rock" stance and just go right out and appoint him a national treasure.
Because here's the thing: we live in a country where people actually vote – vote! – for sinister clowns like Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, in no small part because they are prone to saying daft things and people find them amusing. We toast entertainers such as Lily Allen and the Gallagher brothers because they swagger and strut and shoot their mouths off. We grant Peter Andre his own reality TV series. We rot our brains with tripe like Made in Chelsea. We allow Liz Hurley to get away with white jeans, and Damien Hirst to make diamond-encrusted skulls. We let John Lydon advertise butter.
Borrell is better value than them all. This is the man who recently claimed one would be "more likely to find out what's going on by walking down the street with a guitar" than by reading a newspaper. Who titled one of his solo compositions Pan-European Supermodel Song (Oh! Gina). Who, back in 2004, turned to me and said "Sometimes I just wanna get on a motorbike or in a car and just drive and drive and drive." Do you ever do that? I asked. "No," he replied, "I don't have a licence."
I think of him now with great affection. I think of him at his ludicrous best: bare-chested on a Harley Davidson at SXSW, sitting axle-deep in mud in a pastel-hued sports car at Glastonbury, dating Hollywood stars, shirtless (again) on the cover of Vogue beside a supermodel.
And I think: surely this is what we want in our rockstar landscape. A writer of some damn fine tunes who is also boundlessly entertaining. Give this man record deals in perpetuity, give him a television show, a radio programme, a guitar-based roving-reporter role on the evening news. Let him run free forever.


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Superbes photos... et le romantisme de Saint Germain des prés !
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Dear Marsha, I did see one of the pictures :)ReplyDelete
All I can think is..beautiful, evocative, iconic ...Chanel, Monsieur Karl, Gisele and Paris Voila!. This is why they say 'Paris is not a city, it is a world'
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Gorgeous......the second pic is my fave, a triple treat, Chanel, Paris and Gisele all in one:)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Lucky to catch a fashion shoot outside Le Maison de Victor Hugo once. Giselle is lovely in Lagerfeld. Her presence in his couture would make any street beautiful.ReplyDelete
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Lynne, the photography, art direction, just everything, make these photos so evocative and timeless. I love the way he shot her, off center. So interesting.ReplyDelete
I love the second pic of Giselle as it doesn't look as contrived, however it would look even better if she was wearing a gorgeous pair of high heeled shoes. Bet her tootsies were freezing! Love the suit, and the amazing pointed collar of the shirt give the entire outfit an entirely new feel.ReplyDelete
Lovely Paris - it's time to return - but I have to wait until September!
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It certainly IS show biz, but oh-so-glam. (Gisele would look good in anything, with or without shoes, and with or without Paris as a backdrop.)ReplyDelete
So elegant!
I LOVE fashion photography by Karl Lagerfeld! Absolutely love!!!ReplyDelete
And Gisele is so perfect for these....
A little fashion fantasy can go a long way - oh to be sauntering through Paris, barefoot and draped in Chanel!ReplyDelete
I love Chanel! I have been in Paris many times during fashion week and love seeing all of the fabulous clothes.ReplyDelete
This shot looks wonderful! as does Paris!
IT IS ONLY BECAUSE OF YOU I SAW IT! Brilliant beyond! With those legs...who sees the clothes??!!??ReplyDelete
I love the views of the city...middle of the night!
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Just my opinion......barefoot was key to the genius!ReplyDelete
Anyone else would have put shoes.......he is a "genius par excellence"; and so are you for finding these and sending them to us!!!
He will always be a trail-blazer. Even when we think he's not, POW, he comes right back with this kind of genius thinking.Delete
He's brilliant. Barefoot is the first thing I spotted! How funny.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Has anyone noticed the ugly feet except me???Delete
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Writing an in-depth outline of some common sloppy arguments in video game reviews is basically an exercise in shoving your opinion onto someone else. To try to compensate for this, I shuffled around on Twitter and got advice from several people on the most flawed arguments they see in game reviews. Contributors include 10rdBen, Nelsormensch, SparkyClarkson, mrduranpierre, PopSchiller, mkrpata, Iroquois Pliskin, traceylien, 8bithack, plushapo, Simon Ferrari, and several others. The consequence of using these outside opinions is that I'm personally guilty of several of these flawed arguments in my own reviews. Objectivity is, in many ways, impossible for any one person to manage. But that doesn't mean we can't strive for it. Inherent in all of these critiques is the notion that a video game should be judged by the intent of the developers and how well it delivers that experience rather than some personal view that all games should be X or Y.
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The controls suck.
Declaring that a game's interface is bad is usually dependent on comparing it to another game. This game controls like this and I like it, this game seems similar so it should control the same way. Kane & Lynch, for example, got a lot flak for its auto-cover system because it was contrary to how Gears of War worked. The best way to elaborate on the controls sucking is to explain that the game wants you to do X and the controls are making that hard. The issue that comes up is gauging whether or not you're trying to make the game do something its developers didn't really intend. It helps to remember that for the average AAA game, a lot of people have played it before it reached you and they all seemed to think it was fine. Assuming they aren't serving paint chips in the cafeteria, there is usually an ideal way of playing a game that the developers really wish you'd adopt. Do they get that across? Why not? Why would it be better for them to do it your way?
I'm not having fun.
A game review is a consumer report that explains how well a piece of software generates an artificial experience for the user. If you're not having fun, the game is either trying to give you an experience that doesn't revolve around making you happy or something is broken in the system. Your job is to explain what's busted, not tell us your feelings that day.
The graphics are terrible.
We're talking about an artistic medium that started out as a green dot on a round screen. Everything from text to blocky 8-bit graphics has at one point been considered a great video game. The question is whether or not they communicate the information the game needs properly so that it doesn't inhibit gameplay.
There are no new game mechanics.
Video games by their nature rely on the pre-existing skills of the player. Part of the way a game appeals to an audience is by being like other games, an FPS plays like an FPS and a Third Person game works on the same basic principles. So it's inherent for there to be a lot of overlap in any game while changing up weapons and play styles. If you find yourself thinking that the game needs new game mechanics, it's probably due to dull level design and not working with what it has creatively. Also, complaining that there is no new gameplay in an episodic game series is pretty mind-boggling for the exact same reasons: episodic games by their nature are content delivery systems. The person who plays them does so because it stays familiar, not because they want to play a tutorial every time they fire it up.
The game is too easy.
The odds are that someone who writes reviews of video games has probably been playing them a long time. They are, as a consequence, better at video games than the average person. Staying objective here usually means just playing a game at its normal setting and having some kind of standard based on the game's intent. Call of Duty 4's difficulty works because if I go running ahead of my squad and start firing everywhere I'll die. Bioshock's kinda breaks down because I can just kill a Big Daddy with a pistol on Normal. If anything, a game that's too hard even for a game reviewer is the most problematic because it's catering to a niche audience way more than a game that's too easy. Does the difficulty stay rational and maintain a sense of fairness about what's expected of you?
The mini-games don't have any depth.
I've actually read this before so there is apparently some kind of expectation that a mini-game be anything other than a short diversion. The basic use of these things in something like Grand Theft Auto or Zelda is to give you something to do when you get stuck or tired of the main game. Beyond Good & Evil took it one step further by having the entire game be made out of a string of mini-games, but that's a different bag. The point is that they're functionally icing on the cake. You aren't supposed to automatically want to sit there and play them for hours. If you do, like a fishing game or bowling, then the more the merrier. But it's not really a valid complaint to say that a superficial diversion is, in fact, a superficial diversion.
Criticizing gameplay elements in isolation.
This would be the classic scenario of "Resident Evil 4 sucks because you can't move while shooting" or "Bionic Commando sucks because you can't jump". Which is a totally legitimate reason to not like a game and people should be told that. But taking it as a reason to knock the entire game misses the point the design is trying to make. Bionic Commando wants you to use the arm, Resident Evil 4 stays scary by making you vulnerable when you're shooting. If the overall game design doesn't really come together that's one thing, but taking one tiny portion and considering it inherently bad misses the forest for the trees.
Complaining that a fighting game doesn't have a deep story.
Seeing this in a review gives new meaning to the term "reaching". For some genres plot is very important, for others it's barely even a factor.
Complaining that a Game Doesn't Have Multiplayer.
This is one of those criticisms that didn't even make sense back when people made it ten years ago. When the original Darkforces came out, most magazines labeled it as inferior to Doom because it didn't have multiplayer. The problem with that complaint is that 1) the levels wouldn't even remotely work for multiplayer and 2) the guns were ridiculously unbalanced. It was an FPS trying to deliver a solid single-player experience and they didn't have time to balance and organize a game that wasn't one-sided. Now, thanks to years of people dropping this mindless complaint, games will add piss-poor multiplayer without much development or planning. Should the price change if the game doesn't have multiplayer? Definitely. Is it a flaw to not be able to go online inherently? Not really.
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Complaining that a re-released classic title is old.
This is a real head scratcher. Complaining that ChronoTrigger is the exact same as it was 16 years ago is a bit like whining about Oliver Twist still being the same old book. The game is a JRPG classic and when someone buys it, that's what they want. The same applies for retro-remakes. If they're blatantly trying to remake a 1980's style game for older gamers (the average age is 30, remember?), that's what they want. Getting annoyed at The Dark Spire for making you need graph paper, being ridiculously hard, and requiring tons of grinding misses the point that it's a pitch-perfect homage to Wizardry. If the developer's intent is to appeal to nostalgia, you have to gauge how well they do it, not compare it to today's standards. A younger gamer can just read "It's old school design" and know what they're getting into. There are, believe it or not, people of all ages and backgrounds playing video games regularly.


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The number of asylum seekers arriving in Britain has fallen sharply, according to official figures released today.
The Home Office said there were 4,765 applications for asylum in the final three months of last year - a 30% fall on the 6,778 applications made in same period the previous year.
But the number leaving the UK was down 3%, with 16,340 departing in the last quarter of 2009 - either voluntarily or through enforced removal - compared to 16,820 in 2008.
There was an 8% fall to 2,605 in the number of asylum seekers leaving and a 2% drop to 13,735 in the number of people departing in non-asylum cases.
Overall, the number of visas issued was up 16% from 364,060 to 423,595.
The number of applications for British citizenship was up 30% from 39,325 to 51,315, while the numbers who were granted UK passports rose 15% from 38,955 to 44,870.
A fall in the number of workers from Poland given permission to work in the UK was offset by a sharp rise in the numbers coming from the Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania.
While the approved initial applicants from Poland under the worker registration scheme fell from 16,970 to 12,125, the numbers of Latvians more than doubled from 1,965 to 5,035 while the Lithuanians were up from 2,710 to 4,250.
Overall the number of improved applicants under the scheme was 26,650, down from 28,835 in the final quarter of 2008 and 50,820 in the same period in 2007.
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Harry Redknapp has praised the leadership qualities of Scott Parker as he hunts for strong characters with Premier League experience.
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Harry Redknapp has praised Scott Parker's leadership qualities as he hunts for strong characters with Premier League experience.
Parker has been one of the few players to come through West Ham's dreadful season with his head held high after a series of battling performances that saw him win back his place in the England squad and pick up the Football Writers' Association (FWA) Player of the Year award.
The 30-year-old seems certain to leave Upton Park after the club's relegation was confirmed last week, with the Londoners ready to listen to offers for the player.
Redknapp failed in a summer bid to sign Parker last year and he has never hidden his admiration for the combative midfielder.
The Tottenham manager is already starting to think about the type of player he wants to recruit this summer, and has targeted a couple of authoritative figures.
He would also prefer to sign a proven British or Premier League player rather than look abroad, acknowledging that Parker fits the bill.
"We lack one or two strong characters," said Redknapp.
"It's important that you have one or two leaders. I'd rather find players in this country that can do the job, rather than hope they can do it, if I can.
"Scott is a quiet boy but he is a leader because on the pitch he leads by example. I'm not just saying necessarily Scott but we need to find one or two that are that type if we can."
Redknapp admits that Parker's performances have not gone unnoticed by other top clubs in the league and thinks he could face strong competition for the midfielder if he decides to lodge a bid.
"He is footballer of the year," said Redknapp. "There will be a lot of big clubs interested in him. Liverpool and Arsenal are, I hear.
"When you look at the people who have won that FWA award it's amazing. He will not be going somewhere like he did at Chelsea and play a little bit here and there. He will want to go somewhere and be the main player."
Given and Adebayor
Manchester City's Shay Given and Emmanuel Adebayor have both been mentioned as potential targets, but Redknapp doubts Roberto Mancini's men would sell to Spurs.
"We wouldn't get Shay Given from Man City, they don't seem to want to deal with us," Redknapp added.
"We have tried before to get their players. I tried to sign Craig Bellamy but they wouldn't let him come here.
"I like Shay Given but I don't know if he's fit either. He has had a bit of a shoulder problem. It has come out a couple of times, so we will have to wait and see.
"Adebayor would be difficult. I don't know if it's true but they were talking about him earning £170k a week."


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Los Angeles Lakers Reportedly Not Interested In Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony is getting ready to hit the market and become one of the biggest free agents in the NBA this offseason.
Whether he is staying in New York or going somewhere else remains the question, but it looks like he is going for a nice little tour to allow teams to beg for his services.
According to the New York Post,
On April 29, Anthony met secretly for two hours at a Tribeca steakhouse with Knicks president Phil Jackson, who told him at the time that Steve Kerr was going to be the new Knicks coach.
Things have changed significantly since Anthony and Jackson met. Kerr passed on the Knicks after initially being lowballed on a three-year, $13.2 million offer. Kerr's reluctance to sign allowed the Warriors to rejoin the fray after Kerr initially declined to interview with them.
Jackson is now back to square one and Anthony could have been getting updates on the Knicks coaching search, which has been at a standstill.
We know one team he probably isn't landing with. And that's Los Angeles.
According to Marc Berman of the New York Post.
"The Lakers have cap space but sources maintain they aren't too interested in Anthony as a fit with Kobe Bryant," he writes. "Nor is Lakers president Jeanie Buss enthralled with stealing Anthony from Jackson, her fiance."
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Flambard was born in TA 2887 (SR 1287) to Isembard Took and he had a son named Adelard Took. He died in TA 2989 (SR 1389). [1]
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Franklin is away on business when Stevie gets sick. When he finds Stevie in the hospital, he wants to modify the environment to bring in things from his home as he believes the hospital environment is not conducive to healing. He is antagonistic to Stevie's girlfriend Leah because she is not Roma. He is very defensive about his cultural identity, believing that most people still discriminate against the Roma.
As Stevie gets worse, the doctors want to try other treatments. However, Franklin refuses, feeling that the doctors only want to experiment on his son.
The antagonism between Franklin and House's team continues to grow and Franklin loses confidence in House and tries to get him thrown off the case. He refuses treatment and testing. However, when Stevie's symptoms point to his intestines, House uses subterfuge to distract the family so his team can perform a colonoscopy. He deliberately uses the racially charged term "gyp" in front of them. While he's arguing with them, Eric Foreman and Robert Chase do the colonoscopy and discover the cause of Stevie's symptoms.