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This year has been the most competitive Canucks camp in recent memory, with so many players with a realistic chance to make the team. Head coach Alain Vigneault has a lot of tough decisions ahead of him, particularly concerning players on the bubble. Numerous young and old guys are fighting for spots at forward, defense and in goal. Here's where the "bubble boys" stack up so far:
Perhaps none of the battles have been as close as Schneider versus Raycroft for the backup job. Both have played well in their games, but conventional wisdom would suggest if it's close, they'd give the job to Schneider. One would think that the Canucks want desperately to shop Schneider and then trade him as soon as possible while his stock is high. The thinking is that Schneider has already done everything he can do at the AHL level and that his trade value can only go up if he proves something in the NHL. It wouldn't come without consequence though, Schneider's cap hit of $1.084 million is more than double the minimum wage $500,000 hit from Raycroft. Raycroft would also have to clear waivers, while Schneider doesn't. Should be interesting to see how Gillis makes the jigsaw puzzle come together.
Shane O'Brien has been impressive so far in the preseason, looking more mobile and making good decisions with the puck. Everyone knows he's tough, but he'll need to be reliable defensively to deserve his new $1.7 million deal. Christian Ehrhoff has 4 points in 2 games, and is looking like he is solidifying a spot on the first unit power play. Brad Lukowich is a steady defensive defenceman, which means he won't dazzle anyone, even when he's at his best. Look for Lukowich to be their #7 or 8 defenceman, along with O'Brien. Mathieu Schneider hasn't played a game in the preseason yet, presumably resting the 40 year blueliner for the regular season. It would be hard to imagine them not having him in mind for their top 6 if they are resting him in the preseason. Another impressive player in the preseason has been Aaron Rome. Barring injury/trade, I give Rome very little chance at cracking the Canucks roster. The resumes of the other 8 defencemen in camp are far superior and I don't think there's anything Rome can do to change that.
The Canucks currently have 13 proven NHL forwards under contract and I believe that all of them will make the team. Mason Raymond and Rick Rypien in particular have looked very impressive. Of the 13, Jannik Hansen is in the most danger of being thrown on waivers. That list of 13 forwards also includes the injured Pavol Demitra, which means that at least one of the bubble players will get a shot on opening day.
That's where things get interesting. Cody Hodgson, Michael Grabner and Sergei Shirokov make-up the list of youngsters trying to crack the Canucks roster for the first time while Mark Parrish, Ronald Petrovicky and Dave Scatchard are all veterans on tryout contracts. None of the veterans have shown enough to earn an NHL gig thus far. Michael Grabner appears to be a young sniper who doesn't score, and that's a bad combination. Cody Hodgson has looked ok, but I don't think he looks quite at home in the NHL yet. I think there's a good chance that Hodgson will be sent back to junior. That leaves Sergei Shirokov. He's impressed everyone since his first day at rookie camp and, assuming he can recover from his minor injury set-back, is my pick to make the Canucks roster.
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Fallout 3
Review by DarthMordechai
"War. War changes sometimes"
I'd like to start this review by apologising, since this review is going to be full of comparisons to other games, namely the original two Fallouts and Oblivion. As a younger more optimistic child I played the hell out of Fallout 1 and 2 and loved every second of it. The games have aged quite badly graphically but they still hold up surprisingly well in this day and age. Oblivion bored me to tears and I still finished the damn thing twice so I'm no stranger to mediocrity - just ask my ex girlfriends
Love it or hate it, Oblivion did a lot of things right. It gave you a short introductory level, gave you a few skills and a grasp of the game and then shooed you out into the massive world for you to do whatever you damn well please. It's just a shame that Dark Brotherhood missions aside everything for you to do is incredibly boring
But this game isn't Oblivion - it's Fallout 3. The game that, when I first heard about it's production, I knew would not be able to live up to the hype. It's not like I had written the game off before I had even played it, but my expectations were low enough for me play it without bursting into tears and cursing Bethesda for their crimes against video games
Sadly enough, the game didn't live up to the hype of being a successor for Fallout 1 and 2, but it doesn't even live up to the hype of being a good video game
The start is quite ham fisted, so to speak. The game starts with you being born, and the cool calm tones of Liam Neeson welcoming you to the world. You then pick your characters name and what you look like due to future technology in this post apocalyptic world. Just note that choosing what you look like is an exercise in futility since it has no effect on the game at all since the only time you really ever see your face is when you die
Time jumps forward, and you're a baby walking around, informing you that you now live inside a "vault" deep underground. You then choose your stats, which again is pretty worthless for reasons I'll get into later, and then time jumps forward again. It's your birthday, and you finally get to talk to people. You get given items, meet people and then you get a cruddy BB gun. Time jumps forward again, you take a test to determine what your "occupation" is, but it's just a fake out for you to choose your skills (skills are actually relevant, or at least they are most of the time) Time jumps forward again, things have went pear shaped as your Father has escaped and everyone is trying to kill you. You avoid them and escape the Vault, coming into the real world for the first time. The game really begins here
The comparison to Oblivion begins here, since Oblivion did pretty much exactly the same thing. Short introduction where you pick your skills, an "oh no everything is going wrong" moment and then you're all alone in the big wide world to do what you like. And don't get me wrong - the world is huge. Not quite as big as Oblivion's, which is a good thing since Oblivions world had so much empty space that it seemed big for the sake of being big. Everything seems more compact here, where things aren't exactly bunched up but neither are they miles apart
Again like Oblivion you have the choice of a first person view of a weird over the shoulder view that just looks awkward. Unlike Oblivion you actually have a reason to keep in the first person view as most of the time you'll be using guns to fight. Sure you could use bows in Oblivion, but they really sucked so you never used them. The controls are tight, in that everything is right where you want it. Y makes you jump, and since you rarely even need to jump it's put out of reach. A controls everything, from picking up items to working doors to talking to people. RT shoots, X reloads and B accesses your Pip-Boy, which basically works as your inventory. You change weapons and armour through it, as well as heal yourself and checking your map and quests. It's your little go-to guide for the game, with everything you need to continue your game at the push of a button
The big difference in controls from Oblivion to Fallout is the introduction of VATS, or Vault-tec Assisted Targetting System. When you push the RB button time stops, and you can safely pick out targets without repurcution. Right stick chooses a target, left stick changes which body part you fire at and it's best to pay attention to your chance of hitting your target is, but the game gives you a percentage so you always know. Shooting a protected torso in VATS won't do much damage, but an unprotected headshot is very damaging. Also, if you shoot a body part enough times you'll cripple that body part with a range of effects - crippling a head lowers accuracy, crippling a leg makes the enemy unable to run, crippling a torso makes them flinch a lot more when hit and crippling an arm makes them drop a weapon. You can even shoot the weapons in their hands to break them, and much fun can be had shooting grenades that enemies are wielding. Note that the enemies can do the same to you, although you'll only ever really see this when they use explosion weapons
VATS is the battle system of Fallout 1 and 2 given a modern interpretation. So long as you have the AP you can keep getting targetted shots on your enemies, and when you're out of AP you'll have to wait until it refills naturally to use VATS again (or you could use some recovery items that do the same) Until then you can play the game like a normal First Person Shooter, and if you're a fan of FPS then you'll see no real need to use VATS - if you can make the shot yourself then why have the game do the aiming for you? This is what I thought until I found out you're invincible while using VATS - after picking your shots and accept the actions, time slows and you see yourself making the shots, and the enemies reactions to that. Even if you're surrounded by five knife wielding raiders who are stabbing the life out of you, because you're going in bullet time they'll do no damage to you at all. Time it just right and you can dodge rockets and grenades, simply because they'll do no damage to you. This is game breakingly stupid
Making the game even easier is the games insistence of giving you stimpacks, which restore health. If you explore most of the buildings you find you'll be picking up a load of stimpacks, and most areas also have beds for you to sleep in to restore your health no matter how long you sleep in them. Even the longest journeys into the wasteland are a piece of cake because of the amount of healthpacks lying around. Couple this with the fact stimpacks weigh nothing, it means you can carry around 300 of them at once without breaking a sweat and you rarely even need them. You find yourself charging raiders wielding rocket launchers because there's really nothing to fear - take a hit, use two stimpacks and you're fine. It's no big deal, there's hundreds of them in your pocket which must be made out of the same material as The Luggage
Ammunition is also weightless apparantly, so even if you're not going to use the weapon the ammo is for it's worth picking it up anyways. You can trade most ammo for quite a bit of money and they quickly add up so money needs aren't really that important either after a few hours. When you're a level five schlub and you're the richest person in the world the game quickly devolves into a feeling if pointlessness. I can understand why Bethesda made ammo and healthpacks weightless, as it'll really suck only being able to carry so much, but it just breaks the game completely att he same time
The stats you choose at the start of the game are also incredibly worthless unless you're Role Playing the game. You'll end up min/maxing your stats since the best stat by far is intelligence as it gives you more bonuses when you level up. Charisma is worthless since you get no real bonuses for talking your way through the game - it might give you a shortcut or two but why take the quick way when the slightly longer way gives you more loot and money? The other stats fit nicely in the "useful but not really neccesary" category, and one of the first perks you can get gives you an instant +1 to any of your stats so if you are feeling a little low taking a level or two to correct things is very easy, not to mention you can choose the perk 10 times in the game making your stats godlike incredibly quickly
The perks you can choose at level up range from the incredibly useful to the incredibly worthless. For every Educated perk (gives you more skill points at a level up) or Comprehension (gives you more skill points when you use a skill book) there's a Bloody Mess perk (enemies limbs explode when they die, and a pitiful 5% damage boost) or Lead Belly perk (you get less radiation when you drink from an irradiated water source, which you'll never be doing anyways) Just by reading the game manual it tells you what every perk does so it doesn't even take much to see which ones are good and which ones are bad
Skills are a different matter, mostly. Depending on your intelligence you get a certain amount of skill points you can put into all of your skill stats, but with the amount of skill books in the game which raise a skill permamently there's enough skill points to make you good at pretty much everything. Barter is worthless since money is so easily obtained store prices are not a pain, speech is also worthless since it gives you very little apart from a slightly better reward than what you'll get. Lockpicking or Science helps you break into locks and computers respectively, but since they go up in ratios of 25 (you need a skill level of 25 to break into easy locks, 50 to get into medium locks etc) it's better to just dump all of your skill points in them at once to reach the next plateau
The rest of the skills are weapon based (if you're not using a weapon take unarmed, take melee weapons if you're using sledgehammers et al, small guns for pistols/shotguns/rifles, big guns for missile launchers and miniguns, energy weapons for laser and plasma weapons and explosives for mines and grenades) and the other two are sneak (hide in shadows basically - if you hit an enemy while hidden you get a critical hit, and sometimes if you position yourself well they'll never see you and you can take potshots until they die) medicine (the higher the skill the more health you'll recieve from a stimpack - handy) and repair (repairs weapons and armour to make them more useful - traders will also repeair them for you, so it's up to you if you want to take this skill)
If you're using VATS then picking a weapon skill isn't really worthwhile no matter what you use. At really high levels, Small Guns means you can take just about anything out easily from miles away in VATS, but early on the tactic is get as close as you can to the enemy so you can't miss in VATS, you're invincible while shooting in VATS and the enemy is usually so weakened if not dead from this that it's incredibly easy to finish them off. Not to mention that Big Guns feel clumsly and underwhelming when it comes to power - missiles are sort of rare, so you won't use them on most enemies because you're saving them for the big bad guys but they never seem to appear - the only real enemies worth using missiles on are Deathclaws, and the missile launcher reloads too slowly for it to be a viable weapon
The game scales the enemies as you level up, giving weak raiders stronger weapons and throwing stronger enemies like bears (called Yao Guai for some reason, but I always call them yaoi bears) and Deathclaws instead of weak mole rats or radscorpions. You'll also fight different enemies in different areas, with Super Mutants predominately in the western part of the map Deathclaws up north Yao Guai to the West and Raiders tend to stay around the middle of the map. Even at low levels you can generally take most enemies that you face, unless you stumble upon a Deathclaw at level 2 for some reason. the game isn't exactly difficult, as I have pointed out before
But who cares about that, so long as it looks good, right? Well, yeah the game does look good. You wouldn't really expect anything less. When the whole "whoa" feeling of the enviroment wears off you'll get sick of walking through the same brown wasteland all the time, breaking the monotany with the same black caves or the same slightly different brown dungeon that is out there. The places that have effort put into them look really nice with lots of little touches given to them, but they're so few and far between that wandering through yet another boring cave is even more dissapointing when you know that they can do so much more
The voice acting is a massive step up from Oblivion, although I've saw youtube videos that have better voice acting than Oblivion. Bethesda, realising that hiring two people to voice just about every non-story related NPC in the game was a bad idea, brought in a lot more people to do voice work and it really helps the game. This means that when two people bump into each other and do their few back and forth lines although everyone will be saying the same things at least it won't be the same voice doing them. Shame on Bethesda for not putting the conversation "I saw a radscorpion the other day" "Dreadful creatures" "Well....bye" in though, they really missed a trick there! Although they are once again guilty of hiring a well known actor to portray a character in the game before making said character drop off the face of the Earth for most of the game thus making the purchase pretty pointless, the voice acting talent is pretty decent
The actual story of the game is pretty boring. It's not down to Oblivion's standard, although Oblivion's never ending monstrosity of a plot makes a coma seem exciting, but it's a lot shorter and again, compact. This helps it more than anything else - if you're following the main plot it always keeps you moving, and there's only one real dungeon crawler of a level. Although it does tend to put you in places of no return until you finish that plotline it's really not that bad. It doesn't even come close to interesting though, probably due to a combination of I-don't-give-a-damn-itis and the inherent easiness of the game, but that's helped by the quests
The quests in the game are done much better than the main plotline. They are interesting, with lots of people to talk to and more importantly they make you explore the world map. If you don't go around talking to people or exploring you'll never find most of them. If they made the main plot more of a way to explore the map so it makes you think "I'll finish this bit and then come back to explore here" as you go past it'll be so much better, but the game rarely does. The quests take you all over though and the game starts to resemble something fun when doing the quests
They even tack on a karma system to keep track of whether you're good, bad or neutral depending on your actions, although this again is largely worthless. It doesn't really make much difference at all and if anything is a main problem of the game. Take for example if you're a good person. You'll do a few quests for the people, and you'll be focusing on finding your dad as well. But, if you're a bad person, why would you ever want to find him? But there's no other real option but to find him regardless of what kind of person you are, and being good or bad doesn't even reflect on anything in general. If you're good you have mercenaries trying to kill you sometimes, but if you're bad you have lawbringers trying to kill you sometimes. They're nothing more than another random mob though, and it's just pointless outside of roleplaying
I could go on and on about how this game fails to live up to the hype. Fallout 3 falls into the same group most free roaming games enter - with so much freedom why should you even care about what the game wants you to do? Shooting the heads off raiders and super mutants is fun at first, but after the twentieth time it starts to grate and you realise that you're going to be blowing the heads off many more before the game is over. And the ending! I won't even comment about the ending, but here's a test - go check the Fallout 3 message board, and if there isn't a topic complaining about the ending in the first few pages I'd be amazed
Best game ever? It's not even the best game in the series. Bethesda have taken a classic and pitched it out for the casual gamer to eat up in droves while the fans of the series are left wondering how this happened. The hype machine has burst into overdrive once more, and the game is so far away from a fun experience that it's quite unbelievable. I don't want to sound all elitist here with a rant about casual gaming destroying any chance of an indepth and interesting game but this game is the proof of this happening
Whats the most dissapointing thing about this game isn't the fact it's an Oblivion-clone, but the fact that with a bit more effort the game could be so much more than the boring mediocrity that it is. Bethesda show that they are able to do it with the odd glimpse of fun in the game, but other than these few and far between moments the game runs out of steam quite quickly with replay value almost non-existant unless you love doing the same things over and over again expecting something different to happen, which is a definition of insane
Reviewer's Rating: 3.0 - Fair
Originally Posted: 12/02/08, Updated 07/06/09
Game Release: Fallout 3 (EU, 10/31/08)
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text: The Associated PressPerhaps the San Francisco Giants should begin an advertising campaign telling everyone to come see Barry Bonds hit a homer.Why not? It seems to happen every night.Bonds held homerless when he was intentionally walked as a pinch hitter last week has connected in each of the last seven games in which hes had an at-bat.How does Bonds do it when he gets so few chances?Talent, the six-time NL MVP said.But he wasnt thrilled by his latest feat.It doesnt matter. Were losing, Bonds said.The latest homer came in a 9-5 loss Tuesday night to the San Diego Padres, when Bonds moved within a game of the major league record of eight shared by Dale Long, Don Mattingly and Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball rules do not penalize Bonds for the intentional walk.The homer was the 667th for Bonds, whose only remaining career targets are Babe Ruths 714 and Hank Aarons 755. Bonds leads the majors with nine home runs this season. The homer Tuesday night was a two-run shot in the fourth inning off Brian Lawrence (2-1), who benefited from a season-high 15 hits by the Padres.Bonds has hit eight homers during this seven-game stretch. Mattingly holds the major league record with nine in seven games in 1987. Bonds also had three bases on balls, including an intentional walk with the Giants trailing by two runs and first base open in the seventh.Before the game, manager Bruce Bochy said the Padres planned to pitch to Bonds in certain situations.You dont take the bat out completely out of his hand, Bochy said. Fans pay a lot of money to watch him hit.Elsewhere in the NL, it was Florida 3, Philadelphia 1; Montreal 2, New York 1; Cincinnati 3, Atlanta 2; Chicago 9, Pittsburgh 1; St. Louis 5, Houston 3, and Colorado 7, Los Angeles 1.Brian Giles hit a two-run homer and Sean Burroughs had two doubles among his four hits and drove in two runs for San Diego, which beat Dustin Hermanson (1-1).Despite the power surge by Bonds, who also leads the NL with a .514 average, the Giants have lost four of their last five games. He homered in each weekend game against Los Angeles, but the Dodgers swept a three-game series.Its unusual that a guy is hitting the ball like that seven consecutive games with a home run and were losing the games, Giants manager Felipe Alou said. Those factors dont go together very often. Usually, youre winning those games. Its really, really strange.Marlins 3, Phillies 1At Philadelphia, Dontrelle Willis allowed an unearned run in 6 2-3 innings, leading Florida to its 11th straight victory over the Phillies.Willis (3-0) struck out in his first at-bat, snapping his streak of 10 consecutive hits, dating to last season and including the playoffs. He gave up four hits, struck out three and walked none. Armando Benitez worked a perfect ninth for his seventh save.Vicente Padilla (0-2) took the loss, ending Philadelphias four-game winning streak.Expos 2, Mets 1At New York, Jose Vidro led off the eighth inning with a tiebreaking home run and Montreal snapped an eight-game losing streak its worst skid in four years.Zach Day (1-1) limited the Mets to four hits in seven innings. Rocky Biddle worked the ninth for his third save.David Weathers (1-1) relieved Al Leiter and allowed the homer to Vidro, the first batter he faced.Reds 3, Braves 2At Cincinnati, Barry Larkin singled home a pair of runs his first RBIs since opening day and the Reds rallied to win.Sean Casey had three hits, including two doubles off John Thomson (1-1), and drove in a run.Jose Acevedo (2-0) struck out six and allowed three hits in seven innings, including Marcus Giles two-run homer in the third.Danny Graves got three outs for his seventh save.Cubs 9, Pirates 1At Pittsburgh, Alex Gonzalez homered, doubled and drove in four runs for Chicago.Corey Patterson, Todd Walker and Michael Barrett also homered to back Carlos Zambrano (2-0), who allowed one run in eight innings, beating Ryan Vogelsong (1-2) for the second straight start.Brewers 4, Diamondbacks 2At Milwaukee, Lyle Overbay and Junior Spivey two of six players the Brewers got for Richie Sexson, had three hits apiece in the win over Arizona.The four starters who came in the Sexson trade went 8-for-16. Craig Counsell and Chad Moeller also got singles against their former team, for whom Elmer Dessens (0-2) took the loss. Sexson went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.Arizonas Roberto Alomar was hit by a pitch from Ben Sheets (3-0) in the sixth inning, broke a bone in his right hand and will be out indefinitely.Cardinals 5, Astros 3At Houston, Reggie Sanders homered in the third inning and robbed Jeff Bagwell of a hit at the right-field wall in the fifth.Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer to break a 1-1 tie in the sixth, and Jason Isringhausen worked 1 2-3 innings for his second save.Jeff Suppan (1-2), who pitched six innings, didnt give up any hits after Bagwells single in the third.Rockies 7, Dodgers 1At Denver, Vinny Castilla homered and drove in two runs, Joe Kennedy (2-0) pitched seven strong innings and Colorado ended Los Angeles five-game winning streak.Charles Johnson and Jeromy Burnitz hit back-to-back homers in the second, and the Rockies shelled Kazuhisa Ishii for seven runs and eight hits in four innings.


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In an article published in the current issue of the London Review of Books, British author Hilary Mantel—two times winner of the Man Booker Prize--has written of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, as a machine-made princess, seamlessly suited to the role thrust upon her. The piece, which has unleashed strong, divisive opinions, including a critical one from British Prime Minister David Cameron, is searing and provocative for the uncomfortable questions it raises. The most important being: should adaptive women who willingly take on roles that land them in public scrutiny, without colouring them with their personal whimsy, be seen as machine-made? Should those who are defined only by what they wear be seen as idiotic? Does perfect dressing and thinness douse individualism?
"…the princess is a shop window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore…," writes Mantel. Comparing her with Marie Antoinette and Diana, the Princess of Wales, Mantel also said (she delivered the piece as a lecture two weeks ago) Middleton "was no gliding smiling disaster". Further…"Kate Middleton appeared to have been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindle of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished." The Duchess "seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of emergence of character."
Harsh words. Also, because they sentence the easy-to-convert personality types minus quirks—which Middleton probably is—as inferior to venom-spewing champions of self. It is too lopsided a view coming from a nuanced author like Mantel, whose writings have warmed and worried us about the zillion personality variations inside the human race. Middleton's lack of political or feminist aggression and her easy demeanour may make her seem out of step with women who accessorise their clothes with their fury and flaws but that doesn't make her worse (or better) than Princess Diana, whose "human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in every gesture". Mantel's view suddenly makes women who go about their lives without Prozac, hysterical fits, emotional crimes and dangerous liaisons seem less likeable.
You don't have to be a bored Brit to realize that being Prince William's wife is a complex role, one fraught with enormous performance anxiety. Given that, Middleton's has been the most effortless performance in its category we've seen so far. Yes, the Duchess could have taken a more vociferous personal stand when nude pictures from her private vacation were vicariously splashed last year, but to assume that she is a wilting violet just because she looks like a violet is too simplistic. A blank slate of a person is hardly machine made. "Seamless" suitability is a learned skill and Middleton seems to have mastered it. Besides, it takes time for masks, if any, to crack and fall apart; must we attack what's not broken?
While one half of the planet continues to breathlessly battle for adopting a benign approach towards everyday existence, for pounding and packing away the ego, for seeing the larger picture even when you look into the mirror, and "practice" life as a short, fun trip, Mantel's disregard for Middleton's tabula rasa persona is really disheartening.
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Game-theoretic analysis of IPv4-IPv6 migration process
The rate of deployment and adoption issues of new network technologies, IPv6 in particular, have recently been hotly debated in the research community. However, the question of how protocols migrate, especially the dynamics of migration, to new paradigms is still largely open. In this paper, we address the issue from a game theoretic point of view. We model and analyze the profit maximizing strategies of Autonomous Systems (ASes); both the properties of ASes and the topology of the Internet is considered. The contribution our work is threefold. First, we propose an economic model of the ASes and their relations from the IPv4-IPv6 migration viewpoint. Second, we show - after analysing the strategies of ASes using gametheoretic tools - that under the proposed economic model, the all IPv6 AS topology is a Nash equilibrium on any network topology. Third, we apply the findings of evolutionary dynamics on the problem of migration by incorporating Internet-specific properties to the evolutionary model, namely the size of the ASes and the cost of migration. The analyses show that even if IPv6 has higher payoff than IPv4, the whole migration does not happen always fast. Finally, extensive simulations are carried out based on the proposed models to illustrate the impacts of different parameters on the IPv6 migration dynamics in realistic scenarios.
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I own an '89 Epiphone honeyburst Les Paul Standard which makes this amp sing and can also serve to produce that dark, heavy, face melting, distorted, metal sound. I play everything from clean to blues to straight up thrash and death metal and for all of the paces I've put her though this amp totally kicks a-s. My other guitar is an Ibanez RG350DX which SCREAMS in this thing howling solos and tremolo dives are as metal as it comes and I have no complaints. Once you kick the volume way up the clean kicks into a creamy overdriven bluesy sound and sounds beautiful. My only hang up is that the overdrive creates feedback like nobodies business when you hit certain volumes and to calm it down you have to sacrifice some gain. Overall a fantastic sounding amp. I've played Bugeras, I've played Egnators, I own an Orange Crush 35, the HT-5R blows it all away!
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My overall impression is fantastic. This amp is mindblowing. I've never been more excited to play. Having been playing for about 4 years this is skyrocketing me to a new level of playing. With my Vox Tonelab ST which I also rave about this amp is unbelievable absolutely amazing. If it was lost or stolen I'd by an HT-20 if I had the funds because I love the amp and would love to gig it with out having to plug into a cheap cabinet. If I get a better cabinet I'll absolutely replace it with the same thing. I'm sold on Blackstar.
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I don't have much to say about the amps durability. Its built to take bumps and bruises and keep on ticking. The tubes are partly enclosed and are surrounded by a padded insulation to keep them cool and protected. If it falls your cables will be fine because everything is situated to protect it. VERY VERY durable. I'd gig it with a cabinet for sure. No back up no problem.
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This model began production recently (within the last couple of years). It is a dirty kicka-s solid amp with all of the features of the HT-5 1x10 plus stereo reverb. It comes packed with a 12BH7 and an ECC83 tube which are wired to be used lightly while giving the full power and quality of a tube amplifier. It is classified as an all tube push/pull 5 watt combo. It packs a 1x12 Blackbird 50 speaker which gets unbelievably loud and sounds smooth and fat when needed and also can get the twangy sound you desire. It has two channels a clean with a simple tone knob taking you from a thick bassy clean to a crisp trebbly sound and everything in between. The other is the overdrive which some complain doesn't get distorted enough but in my experience you can certainly take it to Slayer style death metal sounds. It also comes with a cabinet output, a headphone output with cabinet emulation, a footswitch, and an effects loop. To top it all off it has a line in for MP3 players and such. Oh and the ISF is to die for I'd explain it to you but their website and the amp itself says it all.


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New Delhi: Swedish furniture retailer Ikea on Thursday said it wants the government to allow it to "retail its entire range of products", including opening of cafes in its stores in India, in the wake of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approving only Rs.4,200 crore investment out of a total of a proposed Rs.10,500 crore.
"The Ikea Group must have the ability to retail its entire range of products in India as is being done globally in every country, where Ikea stores are located. This is as per the Ikea concept," a company spokeswoman told PTI.
She said the Ikea Group has clarified to the Indian government on the categories of products that it can sell here based on its global concept and range.
"It is not the intention of Ikea Group to seek a general or broad approval for a wide variety of products. We are true to our application that we submitted in June 2012 and we have not submitted a fresh proposal," the spokeswoman added.
In that application the company had proposed to invest Rs.10,500 crore over a period of time by setting up 10 furnishing and homeware stores as well as allied infrastructure over 10 years in India. Subsequently, it plans to open 15 more stores.
FIPB had, however, in its November 20 meeting cleared investment of only Rs.4,200 crore by Ikea and forwarded the proposal to Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for consideration as proposals of FDI over Rs.1,200 crore requires CCEA nod.
"The Ikea Group is confident that the Indian government will support Ikea's application as per the Ikea concept and Ikea respects the Indian government's efforts in this process," she said, adding the group is now waiting for the approval from the CCEA.
Government sources had said Ikea has approached FIPB again seeking a review of its earlier application so that it is allowed to open cafeteria at its proposed single brand retail stores in the country.
"Ikea has again sent its application for review, seeking permission to let it open cafeteria at least," an official source has recently said.
The Ikea spokeswoman said that opening of the food joints inside its stores is a part of its global concept.
"We expect to have Ikea restaurant and cafe inside the Ikea stores in India as every other store worldwide. The Ikea cafe/restaurant is a mandatory and an integral part of the Ikea concept and offer to our customers," she said.
The restaurants and cafes will only be located inside the stores and the company does not have any intention of setting up independent standalone restaurants.
"The approval for the restaurant and cafe should not be an obstacle in our application as it is part of the Ikea concept and not a separate proposal," the spokesperson said.
On Wednesday, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma had said: "The government has taken...note of the representation that Ikea has made in this regard and a favourable view has been taken so that we accept their global model and the process of FIPB's formal approval is currently under way."


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Recently, almost all things and human actions have been developed and rescheduled. If you talk about music and dancing, then you obviously experience so many modern activities. In these days, DJ dance has become beloved and more attractive activity, which designs up leisure and some gathering in fabulous style. Teens and youngsters are extremely interested in musical entertainments as well as dancing events. In present age, school dance DJ is quite popular and common in young generation. If you are going to organize such a fantastic dancing party, then you should follow some compulsory guidelines.
Selection of Clam Venue:-
Usually, DJ dance is very popular among the teens and youngsters, as it makes youth emotional. Dancing party is very best and superior way of proving skills and potential of young generation. For some outstanding school dance DJ, the management has to plan and choose brilliant venue. This is very first and necessary step that demands for great capability of choosers.
Preparation of Attractive Plan:-
After selecting celebrity site, now it is time to plan about entire school dancing contest. Actually, this step cannot be completed by single person. So, for accurate and elegant preparation, you should include thinking and services of others. Combined efforts can yield some extraordinary views or arrangements.
Design Outstanding Theme:-
According to panning, site and other circumstances, organizers should create some relevant and brilliant theme. With attractive and distinct setup, you can make some outstanding things, which will surely enlarge perfection and beauty of school dance DJ.
Contribution of Professional Dancers:-
It will be beneficial and outclass event if management invites some professional and famous dancers. These people are highly familiar to DJ music and its different nodes. That is why; with contribution of DJ dancers, school dance DJ can be developed in fabulous way.
Develop Useful Strategy:-
Strategy is one of the best and essential things of any event. So, practical program should be arranged according to unique and common planning. In this way; every contestant or participant deliver remarkable performance. For better and glorious memories, teens can also hold some delicious contests.
Collection of Best DJ CD's:-
Before finalizing school dance DJ, it is an essential and significant step to collect marvelous music CD's of DJ. For this purpose, it will be quite proficient if you take online assistance. There are thousands of famous websites, which are rich with quality music of DJ. So, you can get every required songs or dancing tones from these relevant websites.
Fixing of Date:-
All invited teens wait for the date of school dance DJ, as they plan so many things for upcoming function. That is why; it is quite complicated for them to wait for fixed date. This thing increases emotions and restless among youngsters.
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Hundreds of wonderful and vital things can also be summed up in this dancing event, so that memories of life can be carved. You can shoot the moments by eye of cameras. Throughout the school dance DJ teens experience several modern and interesting activities, which are not found in other celebrities.


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Improving the 4 Most Important Elements of Your eLearning Course
When an eLearning course is underperforming, there are a number of elements that could be going wrong, but the eLearning development team that designed it doesn't necessarily have to start from scratch. There are four areas that most commonly run into trouble, and revisiting the course and making improvements in these areas can significantly improve the performance of the course.
This post will help you improve those key areas of your course and start moving toward better eLearning.
Element #1: Visuals and Design
A surprising number of eLearning courses still exhibit clip-art from the 1990s, or offer shaky, low-quality video with poor sound. The visuals of a course will shape the users' impressions and attitudes when approaching it, and if the course looks cheap, outdated, or unprofessional, learners won't trust the quality of the content.
The design and layout of the course may also need improvement. During eLearning development, many designers try to make the screens more dynamic and interesting, but this can result in a cluttered and confusing appearance. Pages should be streamlined and anything that doesn't enhance the learner's experience with the content should be removed.
Element #2: Interactivity
People learn more readily when they are actively engaged with the content, rather than sitting back and passively absorbing it. It's harder to become distracted when an eLearning course is regularly asking for thoughtful input – which means something more than clicking "Next." When eLearning development incorporates real interaction and engagement into the design of a course, users will get more out of the content.
Giving users the opportunity to "try out" the material they have just learned with a game or simulation is an effective way to reinforce lessons.
Short quizzes or assessments force learners to pay attention and retain the material being taught.
By shifting the format of the content delivery from a linear progression to a series of branching avenues, the eLearning development team can create a course in which users must make choices which unlock new material in a manner that follows from their decisions.
Element #3: Content
Ultimately, an eLearning course is only as good as the content itself. Often, additional details and supplemental materials are added in during eLearning development, causing the content of the course to bloat unnecessarily. The content of an unsuccessful course should undergo a relevancy review; anything that is not necessary for the main learning goals of the course should be moved to sidebars or cut out entirely.
The order and progression of eLearning content is also important. Skills and concepts need to be introduced in a manner that proceeds logically and facilitates understanding, rather than in whatever order someone on the eLearning development team thought of them. Concepts must build on one another to create a strong foundation for learning, rather than being stacked haphazardly without regard for coherence. By going through the content sequentially and ensuring that one idea follows clearly from the next, developers can ensure that users will not be confused by the content.
Element #4: Navigation
After having established what content is necessary and the order in which it should most effectively be experienced, an eLearning development team may be tempted to ensure that the user's experience with the content proceeds exactly as they have deemed optimal by locking down the navigation controls and allowing a user's experience to proceed only in a linear fashion, hitting every point in order. This approach is sure to annoy and frustrate many users. By unlocking the navigation and letting users backtrack or skip ahead as they feel necessary, moving past screens of content they already understand or jumping to a particular chapter that they want to review, the eLearning development team can make the content more accessible and help users feel more engaged.
What other quick tricks do you have for instantly boosting eLearning quality?


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Croghan, NY
The Village of Croghan is nestled in the Foothills of the Adirondacks along the Black River Trail. The Village was named on April 5, 1841 after General George Croghan who served in the war of 1812. The village was incorporated in 1906. One of the most prominent residents of Croghan was Theodore B. Basselin. Mr. Basselin came to America as a little boy. He built his business by gathering and sawing hemlock logs that were left to rot in the forests after the bark was peeled for use in tanning hides. He eventually became a leading employer. He was Croghans first millionaire. His beautiful home, The Basselin House is located on Main Street a short distant from the Basselin Cemetery.
The American Maple Museum (see Maple Syruping Section) is located next to St. Stephens Church and was the former Father Leo Memorial School. The School was built with funds provided by The Basselins Estate. The Village Hall is home to Croghan Free Library. Known locally as the Opera House, it was once the center of activity. It is the former site of the third St. Stephens Catholic Church. It was purchased by Mr. Basselin and known as Basselin Opera House. In later years students at Father Leo Memorial School used it for plays and basketball games.
Although Croghans businesses offer countless modern services, many are housed in original, oldfashioned stores. Some must-sees are: Good Ol Wishys soda fountain and variety store offers ice cream sodas and other ice cream specialties made at an original soda fountain. Monnats Country Store, an IGA Express grocery store, is a step back in time with original metal ceilings, walls and hardwood floors. Buckingham Hardware and Great Outdoors is in a building that was originally built before 1912. Sometime before 1875, it was the site of a Roman Catholic Parsonage. After that, the Shinebourne Tannery and Boot and Shoe Factory was built on the site. It burned twice - once in 1875 and again in 1912. The Shinebournes rebuilt in 1912 and continued to own and operate the factory until 1954. The current store offers hardware on the first floor with a sporting goods store on the second floor featuring displays of fishing and taxidermy. Croghan Island Mill Lumber Company is powered by water and has been in operation for over 150 years. It is the only surviving waterpowered mill in New York State. Year round, the mill processes purchased board lumber into finished products using only the power from a ninefoot waterfall. The mill is operated by a water wheel through a system of shafts, pulleys, and belts. Most of the machines are over 100 years old but are still used nearly every day. Electricity is used only to power the mill lights and scrap wood is used to heat the wooden barn-like building.
Croghan Meat Market, in business since 1888, is home to the renowned Croghan Bologna. In the early years, the Croghan Meat Market supplied fresh and cured meats to Adirondack lumber camps. They also did horse and cart deliveries to area hamlets. Today the business has a retail store, a mail order business, and a wholesale business. E.M. Marilley & Co., Dealers In Nearly Everything describes this general store - which is the oldest business in Croghan. Established in 1874 by Edward Martin Marilley, this business has been owned by family ever since. It was burned out in the spring of 1912 from a fire that swept through Croghan, and was rebuilt that fall. The store originally carried staple items of all sorts - a tradition that still holds true today. This is a great place to stop and browse.
The history of Croghan, NY, is quite fascinating and educational. The first known settlers of the area were the Oneida Indians, one of the Iroquois tribes. They occupied the forest and surrounding river banks. In 1848, the towns of Croghan and New Bremen were formed by French, German, and Swiss immigrants. Croghan was named in 1841 after George Croghan, who had been a hero in the War of 1812.
The main industries of the area were logging, lumbering, and tanneries. The great rivers enabled the logs to be floated down the rivers to the sawmills. The mills were built on the rivers to utilize the water power. Later, as the land was cleared by logging, farming began. One of the most influential people who lived in Croghan was Theodore B. Basselin, a millionaire owning several sawmills. Basselin used the Hemlock logs that were left in the forest to rot after their bark had been stripped for use in tanning leather. It was ingenious, as the logs were a waste product that was turned into a profit making resource. Basselins mansion is located in the center of Croghan yet today. His family cemetery is also located on Main Street. He was instrumental in establishing the St. Stephens Catholic Church, Father Leo School and several other historic buildings.
The downtown area of Croghan has survived two major fires, one in 1902 and the other in 1912. Today the town is still made up of the people from the French, German and Swiss decent. Major industries include dairy farming, forestry, tourism, maple syrup production, and paper manufacturing.


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After lengthy negotiations, Fox today officially announced what everyone already knew by now: that Jennifer Lopez will return as a judge on American Idol next season alongside Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler. The upcoming 11th season of Idol, hosted once again by Ryan Seacrest, will premiere on Sunday, Jan. 22, following the NFC Championship Game. "Having both Jennifer and Steven return to Idol in 2012 alongside Randy is such a positive reflection on what was a wonderful and hugely successful season last year," said series creator/executive producer Simon Fuller. Added Fox's president of alternative programming Mike Darnell: "From the very first day of auditions, we knew we had something special in our new judges panel, and we're so happy that America felt that way too. Together with Ryan — who is fantastic day in and day out — they built an incredible connection with both the contestants and our viewers, and I'm absolutely thrilled to welcome them all back to Idol for another season." Idol, which received 10 Emmy nominations this year, starts the audition process for next season Aug. 26 in Houston.
It's Official: Jennifer Lopez Signs Deal To Return To 'American Idol'
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Who cares? Idol isn't relevant anymore. It's all about The Voice.
i love the voice amercian idol has gone down hill
Great for Jennifer's resurgence and profound $ucce$$ and mass appeal, must be driving her once tormentor Rosie Perez insane in the membrane!
you'll have to elaborate. I guess i missed that epic Perez/Lopez smackdown…circa 1999 I would assume.
That's great, but how is JLO able to handle so many projects at one time? She's filming 3 movies. Movie with Cameron Diaz, starring in the movie Parker with Jason S., and a voice on Ice Age), still promoting her music, commercial endorsements, Exec. Producer of the South Tow reality show, Q'Viva with Marc Anthony and now American Idol. That's alot.
FYI. Just because you lend your name to something to "produce" doesn't mean you actually do any work.
Good to see JLo's publicists chiming in…
JLo doesn't have a whole lot of options to do anything but– her music career has stalled and the Revlon ads are soon to follow.
I liked her on AI a lot. She could do a lot worse…
I don't know. Season 10 got off to a really promising start, but ended on a whimper. Unless Nigel can get Steven and J-Lo to start being more honest and not saying every song is good, it's going to be a boring season.
Completely agree. For the first time in my life, I watched AI and enjoyed the first few episodes (not because of J.Lo, moreso because I was just bored). However, my interest quickly faded when the judges just couldn't give an honest critique to save their lives. It just got sickening with all the sugar in my pop.
Anyways, I would much rather watch The Voice and am interested in X Factor.
Oh boy. Becasue she was so compelling last season. What a bore. I'm not anti-J.Lo, but she was not very interesting to watch on AI. Steven Tyler even less so. But she delivers no spark whatsoever.
I agree, Jenn really brought the early episodes to life, but once the competition started, kind of fizzled. Jennifer is so fun to watch, it would be nice if they'd have her do more in those later episodes. Add a moment with her helping the kids figure out a video or something. She's good TV.
It's all about X Factor and The Voice now. At least The Voice knows how to make the show entertaining. With X Factor, you have Simon Cowell and LA Reid who aren't afraid to tell the truth. And Nicole Scherzinger, judging from the UK version isn't afraid to tell when someone sucks. Cheryl Cole might be nice and sweet, but Nicole is nice too but, gives more crticism than Cheryl did.
I was happy to hear the news. I liked Jennifer on AI. Steve Tyler was just goofy enough to make him interesting, but I really appreciated her honesty and emotion. She gave some good advice too. (and no I don't work for J-Lo, or in the biz at all, just an insurance grunt looking for a break from the daily hum-drum)
She probably got a shitload of coin to return to this drabfest. Seacrest is a dweeb as always and the other two judges are fossilbs, but yes, rich fossils at that. X factor, if it succeeds, will force AI off the air in the next year or two.
I liked Jennifer Lopez until she criticized the young blonde singer named Kelly Reinhart constantly while heaping praise on every other mediocre singer. JLo cannot sing-she lip-sync's to all her songs. She is beautiful but I don't think she is a qualified Judge for singing talent.
i'm so happy of this news.
i love JLo
she is a very good singer and actress and she judged season 10 very well
somebody that say jennifer doesnt sing and just lip-sync's to the musics. i have to say to them
she sing in her live shows and concerts
but she play the song and sing on that
because she cares about the quality of the show
you can see the enrique lievs.he make the song and sing on it in the show.
this is the reason that his live havent the quality like jennifer
so stop hatting her
she is the best.


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History of the Australian Ice Hockey League
The Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) was formed for the 2000 season by the Sydney Bears, Canberra Knights and Adelaide Avalanche after the failure of the former national league.
From 2000-2001 the thee teams played round-robin weekends spaced out over the season, with the top two teams playing a single final. In 2001 the revered Goodall Cup ceased to be contested at a separate tournament, and with the expansion of the AIHL to six teams in 2002, became the prize for the AIHL's Finals.
The Adelaide Avalanche won the AIHL championship in 2000 and 2001, while the Bears won the Goodall Cup in the 2001 Goodall tournament.
In 2002 the addition of the Melbourne Ice, the West Sydney Ice Dogs and the Newcastle North Stars made the AIHL a much more purposeful league. The Sydney Bears were 2002 AIHL & Goodall Cup champions, the first time the two were combined.
In 2003 a new finals tournament weekend was introduced, where the top four, not just the top two, teams would play sudden death semi finals on the Saturday and the winners would play for the Goodall Cup and AIHL Championship on the Sunday. This format is unchanged up to now.
The Newcastle North Stars were the 2003 winners, with the West Sydney Ice Dogs winning it in 2004.
In 2005 the AIHL expanded to eight teams, the two newcomers the Central Coast Rhinos and the Brisbane Blue Tongues. 2005 Champions were the Newcastle North Stars.
The same league structure continued through to 2008 season. In 2008 the Adelaide Avalanche folded and a new team, the Adrenaline was founded in its place. 2006 Champions were the Newcastle North Stars, in 2007 it was the Sydney Bears, and in 2008 it was Newcastle North Stars again.
In 2009 the Brisbane Blue Tongues moved to become the Gold Coast Blue Tongues, and had their first ever finals appearance. The Central Coast Rhinos declined to accept the AIHL's new licencing model and the AIHL became a seven team league until 2011.
2009 Champions were the Adelaide Adrenaline, and in 2010 the Melbourne Ice became champions in the new Australian Olympic ice facility in Melbourne's Docklands.
The Goodall Cup was withdrawn from the AIHL in 2009 by its caretakers, Ice Hockey Australia, so it could return to being contested by the states. A new trophy was awarded to the Adelaide Adrenaline, now known as the H Newman Reid Trophy. In 2010 the Goodall Cup was returned as the AIHL's prize, and the new trophy consigned to be the prize for the regular season's top team (minor premiers).
In 2011 the league has returned to a team strength of eight with the inclusion of the Mustangs Ice Hockey Club, who will also play from the Docklands rink in Melbourne.
The Perth Thunder will play exhibition games as a provisional team in 2011, in hope of securing a vote to become the ninth AIHL team in 2012.
History of Ice Hockey in Australia
The first rink in Australia was in Adelaide in 1904, where the first games of bandy were played, basically field hockey sticks were used with a ball on the ice.
Organised hockey games more like the Canadian rules were begun when rinks opened up a few years later in first Melbourne, then in Sydney. In 1909 a Sydney team travelled to Melbourne for the first ever national championship, teams playing for the Goodall Cup.
The Goodall Cup remained as the national trophy for mens ice hockey between the states until it passed to the AIHL in 2002.
In 1960 an Australian team travelled to the Winter Olympics at California's Squaw Valley, the only time an Australian team has qualified to do so.
Currently Australia is one of the bottom-rated teams in the International Federation's Division I level tournaments, in 2011 ranked 34th worldwide.
Goodall Cup
The Goodall Cup was contested by the state associations until 2002 when it became the prize for the AIHL. In 2009 the Goodall Cup was returned to a state-contested tournament for its anniversary, but was returned in 2010 as Australia's ice hockey holy grail.
The original Cup was partially restored by 2003 winners Newcastle in 2004, then it was further restored and remounted on an impressive Stanley Cup style barrel base in 2007-2008.
Considered too precious to travel, a replica was made of the original in 2009 and on the Goodall Cup's return to the AIHL in 2010, was awarded to new champions the Melbourne Ice.
The replica Goodall Cup will be housed at the Docklands ice rink for the next three years or more, as Australia's ice hockey showpiece.
The original Goodall Cup is now kept on display a the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
H Newman Reid Trophy
Following the removal of the Goodall Cup from the AIHL in 2009, the AIHL commissioned the design of a "new tradition" trophy. With a modern three-tiered design raising from a circular base to a glass puck mounted on top, the trophy was a big departure from the century-old pewter Goodall Cup.
The Adelaide Adrenaline were awarded the then AIHL Champions trophy following their 2009 championship win. When the Goodall Cup was returned to the AIHL in 2010, it was decided to reassign the trophy to honour the regular season's top teams, and the Adrenaline were added to the Goodall Cup for 2009.
For 2010, the trophy was renamed the H Newman Reid trophy in honour of the man who opened the first ice rinks in Australia and who's family fostered ice sports in Australia.
The previous minor premiership trophy was known as the VIP Cup and was last awarded to the Adelaide Avalanche in 2007.
Winners of the H Newman Reid trophy since were backdated, including the Bears (2008) and North Stars (2009 & 2010).
Melbourne Ice were the first team ever to win both the Reid and Goodall trophy in the same season, doing so in 2011.
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This 72 page books tells the story of a block of flats in Brighton on the south coast of England. Built by Wells Coates in the 1930's, it became well known for it's famous residents and artistic community. It fell into disrepair in the 1990's. Residents fought a tough battle to save their building and it was restored to it's former glory in 2005.
This book tells my story of Embassy Court, Embassy Court's own story and shows stunning photographs of it's run-down state in 2003 and how it looks now in 2009.
The architecture of Wells Coates makes this something rather special.
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- Publish Date Apr 21, 2009
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Bigg Boss 9 27 October 2015 Written Episode Update Colors Tv
Day 16
Song plays, Yuvika dances while all enjoy it.
Vikas says to suyyash that some people has come here to play and some to win it, this is fake world, suyyash says you, Yuvika and Prince are my good buddies, Prince has changed after listening just a message, he shouldnt do that, Vikas says he shouldnt break friendship with you, Suyyash says big boss is like this only.
Prince reads luxury budget task "friendspage", Prince and suyyash will play against each other in it, they have a fan page on wall placed in garden, they will update status and send friend request to inmates, inmates will provide support by becoming their friends and liking their status, if any inmate wanna change support then they will announce in camera and then change their side, Kishwar will supervisor of task and is not allowed to be on either side, the one who will have more friends will win the task and become captain while loser will be nominated directly, if rules are broken then Prince or Suyyash can block friends of opposite sides, Kishwar can give her input when it comes to blocking, blocked user will wear street jacket and have to sit on chair placed in garden. Prince and everyone come in garden, Prince says after buzzer plays, we will start writing status, ,, starts writing on wall to update his status but Aman reads that he has to announce first then write it, Prince says Keith says to Aman that everyone is trying to supervisor that is problem. Prince update his status that you all know everything, if you help me to win then it will be great. Rochelle stick her picture on Prince's side, she becomes his friend. Suyyash says i need your support and love guys, he writes his status that ,,
Keith ask Suyyash and Prince that Prince, Suyyash and Kishwar has bond of friendship, they have a group, Prince have support, how will you people play when you have a group? Prince says they are like brother and sister to me but i will play my task individually, Keith says will you be fair? Prince says definitely, Suyyash says i agree that we did gang up earlier but when it comes to task then i will try to be fair and will not cheat anyone. Rochelle says to Suyyash that you fight alot in task, your status seem fake to me, you have not left a single thing to fight, Suyyash says i thought i was correct so i fought for it, i know i am short tempered and i get loud but i was not wrong. Rochelle says in camera that i dislike Suyyash's status as it seem fake to me and he doesnt mean it. Aman says to Suyyash that you got negative vibes from me because your girlfriend was tied to me and you couldnt spend time with her but you didnt tell me once this, you could have told me that you wanna spend time with her, Suyyash says i was angry with her more as she was not taking stand for her, Aman says when it was about nominating one person from pair, Kishwar said she will nominate herself but i raised my hand and nominated myself to show that i am not negative person, Kishwar says i just wanna say.. Aman says you cant come in talk, you are supervisor of task, Kishwar says when its about me then i will come in talk and nobody can stop me as i am captain of house, Aman says this is the problem that whenever we talk to one of you, both both jump in and doesnt let anyone else talk, Rochelle says to Kishwar that you cant answer on Suyyash's behalf as you are supervisor, Kishwar says you talk on Keith's behalf too, Rochelle comes to camera and says supervisor is talking in english, i wanna complain about her, Kishwar says to Aman that you nominated yourself as you wanted your bag, dont bring my name in your talks, Aman says why not? i will. Prince says to Keith that ,, Yuvika says to Kishwar that ,, Mandana says to suyyash that your way is wrong, you are playing game so you should play alone, Suyyash says you cant change way of reaction of anyone. Kishwar says to Keith that i didnt interfere in Aman's talk till he started taking my name. Suyyash says to Aman that i cant change Kishwar's way of reaction.
Arvind says to Keith and Aman that when Kishwar is supervisor ,, Aman says Rochelle and you talk on each other's behalf many times but you talk with some sense, you both dont start shouting on others, this is not the right way. Suyyash says to Rochelle that ,, Prince says to Kishwar that if Suyyash can play alone then why you are interfering, Kishwar says you started campaigning about your profile even before writing your status, Prince says rule was that i wil announce status before writing which i did. Rochelle says to Arvind that i and Keith never compared our relation with Suyyash and Kishwar, i never say that they do this as couple so we can do it too but Kishwar keep comparing her couple with us and keep saying that Rochelle do this for Keith etc.
Prince request Aman to like his status, Aman put his picture on Prince's wall. Kishwar says to Suyyash that Aman was talking about me so i have to react, suyyash says he wanted me to thank him for nominating himself and saving you, Kishwar says he wanted to show how great he is, all know about him but its only me who can speak up, Vikas comes and says Arvind is instigating everyone inside, Suyyash says i will support Kishwar in everything, Vikas says if its about my wife then i will speak up. Prince updates his status that he is trying to move on so he needs support. Mandana comes and says thats very sweet, he should get chance if he is trying to rectify, she likes his status, he hugs her.
Mandana says to Keith and Aman that he doesnt care if no one is with him, Aman says one will become captain and one will be nominated after this task so they will say anything to attract us, this change has come after Prince talked to Babaji, Baba said to Prince that he is looking like sidekick of Kishwar and Suyyash, now he is trying to prove his individuality. Suyyash updates his status that situations will change but his thinking will not change, Kishwar says i wanna like it too, Rochelle comes and reads it, she says to Suyyash that i am not able to get your thinking still now, Suyyash says you should try to think from my point of view, Rochelle says you are trying to tell that i am incapable to understand you? suyyash says no i am incapable of making you understand, Kishwar says he is saying that. Rochelle says please stay out of it, Aman says to Suyyash that when we start talking to you, she jumps in then how to talk to you? Kishwar says its my habit, i will speak inbetween when i want, Suyyash says if you drag her then its her right to speak, Kishwar and point fingers at him, Aman says why you talk like this, ,, Rochelle says to Suyyash that i am asking these questions to you without fighting, Suyyash says i tell everything to Keith as you dont get what i am trying to say so bring Keith when you wanna ask anything, Rochelle says no i wanna talk to you, you can speak in english and repeat in hindi, i will understand, Kishwar comes and says as her girlfriend i just wanna say that you say Prince, Suyyash take decisions without asking girls, why are you not asking questions to Prince, why only Suyyash? Rochelle says i have already talked to Prince.
in confession room, bigg boss says to Prince and Suyyash that rules were broken in task but you didnt block any user, Prince says sorry we didnt take this action but if anyone does that now then we will block them and will ask supervisor too. Prince comes to Kishwar and ask her to do her work as supervisor and dont come inbetween task else he will involve himself too, Suyyash ask what are you saying to her? Prince says why you are talking to me in this tone? i have given my support to you both till now but in this task, you both have turned on one side, you are covering up for each other, Kishwar shouts that people are coming to suyyash and complaining about me, if they have guts then come to me and directly to talk, if they will talk to suyyash about me then i will interfere, dont dictate me Prince, she says something which is muted, Prince says dont give slang to me, Suyyash says she didnt, Kishwar says you have been instigated by others, Prince says you both have become one and working against me, Kishwar says you have changed behavior from yesterday night only, Keith comes there and says that Kishwar will be supervisor, you both play your game, end this fight, Kishwar cries and leaves from there. suyyash says to Digi what is this way to shout on her like this? Prince is not right. Prince comes to Kishwar, she says i dont wanna talk to you, i dont wanna play this game, she throws her mike away, Suyyash gives her back to her, she wears it, Kishwar says to Prince that you have talked to Keith and said that you will be on their side and will be against Suyyash, Prince says i didnt talk to him about this, Kishwar says Suyyash and you are not talking since morning. Rochelle says to Mandana that Kishwar is giving foolish reasons that Prince was talking to us last night so he has changed. Kishwar says to Prince and Suyyash that they have forced this group thing on us, Prince says we were never a group, Suyyash says Keith, Rochelle etc have gone on one side and forced that i, Kishwar and you are a group, Prince says i am not playing in any group, i am playing for my fans.
Kishwar reads instruction that Suyyash and Prince can win support of an extra user, this will be beneficial to them as this user wont be allowed to change side, this extra user will be permanent friend of Prince or suyyash, from now till bigg boss's next order, there will be event of both teams, both teams will be allotted the song and whenever that song plays in any part of house, that team have to run there and start dancing on that song, Suyyash's team song is 'Balla booriyan', Prince's team song is 'Aaj ki party', Kishwar will attend both th
12:30am Prince says to Suyyash that we are getting personal in task, Suyyash says take things as jokes, Prince says if thing is personal then i will take it personally, Kishwar taunted me that i am disloyal, if i was nothing then i wouldnt have won reality shows, Suyyash says you have won shows so what? Prince says dont shout, Suyyash says you keep screaming, i dont care. its your drama, Prince says talk with respect, i am saying this last time, Suyyash says your respect will be taken off soon, Prince says if you cant joke then dont try it, you are a cheap person, Suyyash says what? Prince says cheap person you are, if you try to get personal with me then i will break you, i have taken everything in fun till now, you keep saying that i am your brother and all but if this is your real face then show it, dont hide it behind sweet talks, Vikas takes Prince away.
2:45am Suyyash says to Kishwar that if i had taken a step ahead today then Prince would have raised his hand on me, Kishwar says he is a jerk.
PRECAP- Prince and Suyyash campaigns to become captain, Prince says to inmates that if i am captain then it will be majority who will be considered, i will be every inmate, Prince ask them to give him chance. Suyyash says if i am captain then there wont be favoritism, i will force you to work only that is needed for this house will not push you more than that, Suyyash says i wanna move on. Later bigg boss gets miffed with inmates, he says to inmates that you are in 3rd week of show still you havent shown any creativity in task nor you have shown any enthusiasm to win task, you all have failed to understand this show.


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A FLASHER has exposed himself twice to the same woman.
The man indecently exposed himself in front of the victim, from West Bergholt, in Nayland Road, near to Westwood Park, before getting into a dirty small black hatchback car.
The incident happened last Sunday around 12.30pm, but the same man had done this previously on September 30 when the woman was in London Road, close to the same area.
The man is described as white, 5ft 9ins tall, of slim build, aged early to mid-20s with dirty blonde short hair, blue eyes and clean shaven with quite "pink" skin.
He is described as wearing washed black jogging bottoms and a dark top or white hooded top.
PC Dan Smith said: "I would urge the public, especially women, to be cautious in this area and contact me if they have any information or have been a victim themselves."
Police are arranging for an Efit to be produced but in if anyone recognises the man from the description or has other information please contact PC Smith at Colchester Police Station on 101.


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ATLIACA, Mexico - Easter vacation was over, but there wasn't a teacher in sight at the boarding school for indigenous children on the edge of this sunbaked southern Mexico hill town.
A 37-year-old cook who hadn't finished high school sat between two little girls on a concrete stoop outside the kitchen, peering at their dog-eared notebooks as they struggled with the alphabet and basic multiplication.
"I've got the children here. If there aren't any classes while they're here, I have to teach them," said the cook, who shared only her first name, Gudelia, for fear of retaliation from striking teachers.
A short drive away, teachers marched by the thousands through the streets of the state capital, some masked and brandishing metal bars and sticks in an escalating showdown over education reform that's become a key test of President Enrique Peña Nieto's sweeping project to reform Mexico's most dysfunctional institutions.
The fight is dominating headlines in Mexico and freezing progress on a national education reform that Peña Nieto hoped would build momentum toward more controversial changes.
Peña Nieto's first major legislative victory after taking office in December was a constitutional amendment eliminating Mexico's decades-old practice of buying and selling teaching jobs, and replacing it with a standardized national teaching test. That's heresy to a radical splinter union of elementary and high school teachers in Guerrero, one of the country's poorest and worst-educated states. The teachers claim the test is a plot to fire them en masse as a step toward privatizing education, although there is little evidence the government plans that.
Reform advocates say the dissidents simply fear losing control over the state education system and the income it provides, despite the need to reform a system that eats up more of the budget and produces worse results than virtually any other in the world's largest economies.
The 20,000-member group walked out more than a month ago, turning hundreds of thousands of children out of class. Then it launched an increasingly disruptive string of protests.
On Wednesday, the protesters won support from a wing of the armed vigilante groups that have multiplied across poor Mexican states in recent months. On Thursday, they blocked the main highway from Mexico City to Acapulco for at least the third time, backing up traffic for hours. On Friday, they shut down entrances to some of the biggest stores in the state capital.
After returning Mexico's former ruling party to power, Peña Nieto won international acclaim in his first five months by taking on some of the country's most powerful people. He jailed the head of the far-larger national teacher's union when she threatened to fight school reform.
Now the president finds himself facing unexpectedly tough resistance from rural teachers in straw hats and plastic sandals in his first direct conflict with the Mexican far left.
"If it spreads into other states, then it's a real problem. It means the government can't just plan on pushing the agenda from the top," said Federico Estevez, a political science professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico.
The conflict is fueled by the importance of teaching jobs for the poor mountain and coastal villages where the dissident union is strongest.


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