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Take it in turns to place a domino on the grid. One to be placed horizontally and the other vertically. Can you make it impossible for your opponent to play?
We're excited about this new program for drawing beautiful mathematical designs. Can you work out how we made our first few pictures and, even better, share your most elegant solutions with us?
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
This article looks at levels of geometric thinking and the types of activities required to develop this thinking.
Can you make a 3x3 cube with these shapes made from small cubes?
Can you cover the camel with these pieces?
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In each of the pictures the invitation is for you to: Count what you see. Identify how you think the pattern would continue.
What happens when you try and fit the triomino pieces into these two grids?
This second article in the series refers to research about levels of development of spatial thinking and the possible influence of instruction.
Here you see the front and back views of a dodecahedron. Each vertex has been numbered so that the numbers around each pentagonal face add up to 65. Can you find all the missing numbers?
This article for teachers describes how modelling number properties involving multiplication using an array of objects not only allows children to represent their thinking with concrete materials,. . . .
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use the interactivity to test your prediction.
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, involves open-topped boxes made with interlocking cubes. Explore the number of units of paint that are needed to cover the boxes. . . .
Find your way through the grid starting at 2 and following these operations. What number do you end on?
Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10. You could use the interactivity to help you.
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
I found these clocks in the Arts Centre at the University of Warwick intriguing - do they really need four clocks and what times would be ambiguous with only two or three of them?
How many different cuboids can you make when you use four CDs or DVDs? How about using five, then six?
Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the opposite direction.
Exchange the positions of the two sets of counters in the least possible number of moves
Use the three triangles to fill these outline shapes. Perhaps you can create some of your own shapes for a friend to fill?
A game for two players. You'll need some counters.
An extension of noughts and crosses in which the grid is enlarged and the length of the winning line can to altered to 3, 4 or 5.
Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.
If you can post the triangle with either the blue or yellow colour face up, how many ways can it be posted altogether?
If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?
A game for 2 players. Given a board of dots in a grid pattern, players take turns drawing a line by connecting 2 adjacent dots. Your goal is to complete more squares than your opponent.
Which of these dice are right-handed and which are left-handed?
How can the same pieces of the tangram make this bowl before and after it was chipped? Use the interactivity to try and work out what is going on!
Investigate the number of paths you can take from one vertex to another in these 3D shapes. Is it possible to take an odd number and an even number of paths to the same vertex?
We start with one yellow cube and build around it to make a 3x3x3 cube with red cubes. Then we build around that red cube with blue cubes and so on. How many cubes of each colour have we used?
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?
How many different ways can you find of fitting five hexagons together? How will you know you have found all the ways?
In how many ways can you fit two of these yellow triangles together? Can you predict the number of ways two blue triangles can be fitted together?
A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.
A magician took a suit of thirteen cards and held them in his hand face down. Every card he revealed had the same value as the one he had just finished spelling. How did this work?
Can you see why 2 by 2 could be 5? Can you predict what 2 by 10 will be?
Take a rectangle of paper and fold it in half, and half again, to make four smaller rectangles. How many different ways can you fold it up?
A variant on the game Alquerque
How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
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A game for two players on a large squared space.
What is the smallest cuboid that you can put in this box so that you cannot fit another that's the same into it?
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square?
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remover them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
A toy has a regular tetrahedron, a cube and a base with triangular and square hollows. If you fit a shape into the correct hollow a bell rings. How many times does the bell ring in a complete game?
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09-04-2004, 01:05 AM #1Junior Member
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Instrument Gauges
I have been having problems with the fuel gauge on my 1999 Outback LS since I bought it (used). It has taken an act of god to get a new fuel gauge ordered, and Skier's Choice wasn't any help.
I was wondering if anyone has replaced the instrument cluster with another brand (teleflex, faria, etc.)? Is this possible? What problems did you encounter? What brand do you suggest?
If it comes down to it, I'll replace ALL the gauges to get a uniform look, as long as they work!
Thank you for any suggestions.
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What was the problem with your fuel gauge? If it was the fact that it bounces around and you can't get an accurate reading, then you probably didn't have a problem. The new one's still do it. It's an issue with the sending unit and the fuel sloshing around in the tank.
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The problem with the fuel gauge was that it always was pegged at full. Every now and then, it would indicate the actual level, but this was on rare occasions. I replaced the sending unit and the wire and it still didn't work. I don't believe that this is simply fuel sloshing around.
I have now replaced the fuel gauge and will test it soon. After finially receving the fuel gauge from a dealer, they sent me the wrong color! I just can't win with this problem.
If the fuel gauge still doesn't work, I'd like to replace all the gauges with a different brand...one that's more readily available.
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You can test the gauge by grounding and ungrounding the signal wire to the sender.
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If that does not work I would try getting a new instrament module. That little black box that sits under the dash and your guages and pitot tubes are connected to it. This box was having problems in alot of boats. The guages would either read in the middle of the guage or they would not work at all. I believe Skiers choice has since swithed modules because I was lucky to get a replacement of that exact one. I was told they had "phased them out to a different manufacturer".
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I enjoyed the idea of these crackers: simple ingredients and easy to make. I didn't have pastry flour so I used 1/2 c. of regular whole wheat flour and 1/2 c. of white flour. I had a difficult time making the dough hang together so I added some water, rolled the dough into a log and chilled it overnight. The chilling really helped. The flavor was good but the whole wheat flour made for a grainy tasting cracker. I will try again when I have some pastry flour and see how that works.
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Grub Spy: The Unicorn by Fiorentina, 12 Merrion Court, Merrion Row
Most Dubliners my age remember with great fondness their first proper restaurant meal in the 1980s. And there certainly wasn't a kaleidoscopic range of cuisines to choose from either.
Basically, you had your Chinese, your Indian, and your French or Italian. The Chinese/Indian offerings were pretty much take-aways on a plate (which was all fine and dandy), but if you were trying to impress they weren't at the races really.
Aside from the eye-watering expense a typical French menu in the 1980s was, you hadn't the foggiest what any of it meant either.
The only way to go was Italian. Big belt-straining bowls of pasta, rich, dense tomato sauces, ravishing deserts and maybe a free snifter of flaming Sambuca at the end. Sophistication or what?
Which brings me to the Unicorn just off Merrion Row in Dublin 2. After a bit of a kafuffle, it looked like the old girl was about to expire. Foodie fashions may come and go, but it's hard to imagine Dublin without the iconic Unicorn.
Thankfully, matters are now in the same savvy hands that run Fiorentina on Parliament Street - and prospects, I've been informed, are looking good again. With that in mind, I've been looking forward to a visit today, and I'm happily ensconced with a friend in the same outdoor corral I sat in many years ago.
It's a relaxing and becalming spot, and on this beautiful June day there's nowhere better to chill and sip away an afternoon. But we're here for the food, and that's what matters most.
The lunch is pure Italian gold. A crunchy bruschetta draped with pillowy goats curd, cubes of sweet beetroot and fresh peppery rocket is an antipasto aristocrat. The calamari fritto misto is a crispy squidgy delight. Friend C loves it; she says she'd have exactly the same again...straightaway.
The fluffiest of potato gnocchi arrives next with luxuriously good crab and a scattering of vibrant green fava beans. It's a snapshot of Abruzzo on a plate. All I need is a fork and a glass of something red. Absolute bliss.
Delicious, perfectly-fried lambs liver is served in a sultry dark sticky jus. I would have this every day of the week if I could. The crunch of al-dente green beans tossed with lardons of crispy pancetta is nicely balanced with a wonderful little pot of buttery mash.
Desserts are just as dreamy. The panna cotta, mildly scented by accompanying strips of basil, is a delicate piece of wobbly wonderfulness. A tiramisu goes down much the same sexy way. Both are flawlessly made and real barnstormers in the taste department.
When it comes to the classics, who cares about de-constructing or reinventing or fixing things that were never broken in the first place?
All-in-all, this is the type of food Dubliners young and old will quite happily eat for the next 50-odd years. It is an expensive lunch but, considering the superb quality, it's by no means exorbitant. I can hardly wait for the next visit.
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3-course lunch for 2: €54.50
Water: €4.50
Bottle of wine: €32
Total: €93.80
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Former Anglo company secretary, Bernard Daly (65) of Collins Avenue West, Whitehall, Dublin, former Chief Operations Officer Tiarnan O'Mahoney (54) of Glen Pines,Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow and Aoife Maguire (60) of Rothe Abbey, South Circular Road, Kilmainham, Dublin, are facing charges relating to offences allegedly committed in 2003 and 2004. They have pleaded not (NOT) guilty to all seven charges.
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If loyalty programs are the key to boosting usage of new payments methods like mobile wallets, ease of rewards redemption could be even more critical. On Wednesday, terminal maker VeriFone Systems Inc. took a step in that direction by expanding the reach of its Points Redemption app, which allows consumers to cash in loyalty points at the point of sale.
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San Jose, Calif.-based VeriFone said it is working with processor Fidelity National Information Services Inc. to let users of FIS's Premium Payback Network redeem their card-linked loyalty points toward purchases on the spot. Jacksonville, Fla.-based FIS says its loyalty network enables redemptions for 8.5 million consumers using cards from some 3,100 banks. "Thousands" of gas stations nationwide are linked to the network, the company says.
"Today's consumers have been digitally empowered and expect tomorrow's payment and rewards capabilities today," said Bruce Lowthers, executive vice president at FIS Global Retail Payments, in a statement. "The single integration point to brick-and-mortar retailers uniquely helps loyalty programs increase member touch points, while our relationship with VeriFone expands the reach to bring scalable loyalty points redemption to many more consumers."
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After upgrading to version 5.0 the system is unusable and gets stuck on the loading screen for tickets and invenory or switching between screens.
it works for about 30 seconds then gets stuck on the loading screen and comes to a grinding halt . I have run an integrity check and recreated the data with no improvement.
I have even tried a fresh install then imported the previous data in and its still a problem. I have tried it under windows 2008 server 64bit, windows xp, and windows server 2003, and I get the same result everytime. It works for about 30 - 40 seconds then freezes until I restart the spiceworks service, sometimes if you wait for a couple of minutes it does come good for a bit.
There must be something causing this,
Occasionly it would take some time to respond in the previous version but it was not nearly as bad as this.
I have installed it on different computers and the same result.
What can I do to fix this ASAP?
We have a large inventory in the system and I have disabled all plugins and network scanning and its still an issue.
I have also attached some logs.
This topic was created during version 5.0.
The latest version is 7.5.00101.
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Nov 15, 2010 at 6:27 UTC
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Exact same scenario here. After upgrading to 5.0 it all went downhill. I can't apply the email fix mentioned elsewhere as I can't get to any settings.
Nov 15, 2010 at 7:41 UTC
Just started to work after a few reboots, no idea why.
Nov 15, 2010 at 7:48 UTC
How many AD accounts do you have? If you had already configured your AD settings along with the base DN in your 4.x version, then AD will start to pull in data right away, unless you have over 500 AD accounts. For me my install was at a crawl when it first pulled in the accounts and I had to leave it alone for awhile. If you have over 500 accounts you have to manually up the number in the pro settings for AD to scan. If you can get in, try to disable AD scanning in settings and see if that helps. Just a thought.
Nov 15, 2010 at 11:44 UTC
We dont use the AD integration and only have about 400 accounts, and I have disabled all scanning.
Hyper -A, What is the email fix as mentioned?
Nov 16, 2010 at 4:56 UTC
Hi Bruce,
there is a spiceworks post that mentions the fact that if you have email configured to use an Exchange account you can disable it, replace it with an IMAP account and that fixes a number of hangs and delays.
And I don't have many AD accounts either, still. working since yesterday btw.
This discussion has been inactive for over a year.
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Review/Film; A Job That Attracted Few Applicants
Just when the Soviet Union is coming apart, it is paradoxical that two films featuring Stalin, the personification of Soviet totalitarianism, should play in New York simultaneously. Stalin is the paranoiac center of gravity in both Andrei Konchalovsky's dark comedy "The Inner Circle," which opened today at the Loews Fine Arts, and in Ken Palmer's "Testimony," at Film Forum 1. In "The Inner Circle," the dictator, played by Aleksandr Zbruyev, is a rotund little demon with twinkling eyes. Terence Rigby's more ominous Stalin, in "Testimony," is a hulking, shadowy beast.
"The Inner Circle" tells the true story of Ivan Sanshin (Tom Hulce), a movie projectionist for the K.G.B. Club who on his wedding night in 1939 is routed out of his apartment and whisked into the bowels of the Kremlin. Certain he is being arrested for a minor professional mishap, he instead finds himself drafted into the job of personal projectionist for Stalin. His predecessor, he is told, died of a heart attack when yelled at.
In one of the film's whimsical juxtapositions, the first film Ivan shows the dictator is "The Great Waltz," the glossy Hollywood biography of Johann Strauss and a movie whose giddy spirits seem grotesquely incongruous given the setting.
Veering unpredictably between comedy and pathos, "The Inner Circle" is a study of prolonged political naivete and its unhappy consequences. Long after it is clear to many in the Soviet Union that Stalin is a tyrant, Ivan remains buffoonishly idolatrous of his boss. In love with his job, he throws himself into his work with the frenzied zeal of a song-and-dance man working up new routines.
When during an argument with his wife, Anastasiya (Lolita Davidovich), she asks whom he loves more, her or Stalin, he replies, "Stalin," as if no other answer could possibly be imagined. Even after German bombs have reduced his Moscow neighborhood to rubble, he remains stubbornly worshipful.
Anastasiya, who is more naive than her husband, is emotionally unstable. She fixates her affections on the orphaned daughter of neighbors who were purged by the K.G.B. and, without telling her husband, secretly visits the little girl in the orphanage. Later, when Ivan and Anastasiya accompany Stalin and his entourage on a trip to the Ural Mountains, she lacks the wherewithal to resist the advances of the K.B.G. chief, Lavrenti P. Beria (Bob Hoskins), and her life goes into a tailspin.
"The Inner Circle" takes a remarkably lighthearted view of a world in which mortal terror pervades the most everyday interpersonal transactions. Lest they be overheard by spying neighbors, Ivan and Anatasiya bundle themselves into a wardrobe to conduct a serious conversation. The scenes in which Stalin engages a quiveringly frightened Ivan in conversation are played with an undercurrent of farce.
This air of detached gallows humor is augmented by the use of occasional snippets of narration to push the story forward and by some vaguely surreal touches, including the view from Ivan's apartment window showing cattle moving through a cityscape flecked with impossibly large drifting snowflakes. The seriocomic tone is sustained for so long that when the mood of the film suddenly turns darker and more emotional, one has to make a sudden adjustment.
Yet the film's odd shift from wryness to pathos works to its advantage. One never feels manipulated. And Mr. Hulce, who adopts a serviceable Russian accent for the role, makes the dutiful Ivan a complex character who is alternately maddening and engaging.
"The Inner Circle is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes mild sexual scenes. The Inner Circle Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky; written by Mr. Konchalovsky and Anatoly Usov; director of photography, Ennio Guarnieri; edited by Henry Richardson; music by Eduard Artemyev; production designer, Ezio Frigerio; produced by Claudio Bonivento; released by Columbia Pictures. At Fine Arts Theater, 4 West 58th St. Running time: 137 minutes. This film is rated PG-13. Ivan Sanshin . . . Tom Hulce Anatasiya . . . Lolita Davidovich Beria . . . Bob Hoskins Katya . . . Bess Meyer Stalin . . . Aleksandr Zbruyev Professor . . . Fyodor Chaliapin Jr. General Vlasik . . . Oleg Tabakov General Rumyantsev . . . Vsevolod Larionov Vasily Morda . . . Aleksandr Garin


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Healing center opens in town
A Healing Place–The Estates is a new treatment center for Ventura County residents with chronic pain, psychological disorders and addiction at 601 E. Daily Drive, Ste. 205.
For millions of Americans who are suffering with chronic pain, many physicians prescribe opiate medication. Unfortunately, these medications can be addictive and can contribute to other psychological and biological health complications.
According to A Healing Place, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notes that 78 people per day die from an opioid-related overdose.
The founding partners of A Healing Place–The Estates are John C. Stenzel, CEO; Dr. Joseph A. Cabaret, a local pain interventionist who is board certified in pain medicine, addiction medication and anesthesiology; and Dr. Stephen F. Grinstead, developer/author of the Addiction Free Pain Management System on which the treatment program is based.
A Healing Place is accepting patients into its full-day treatment program, with optional transitional living at a private residence.
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Disney film Brave, about a medieval Scottish princess, is Disney Pixar's first animation with a female protagonist
Animated fantasy Brave has kept the top spot in the UK and Irish box office chart in its second week in cinemas.
The Disney-Pixar adventure earned 2.4 million pounds, a 55% drop in takings compared with its opening weekend.
Seth MacFarlane's comedy Ted moved up to number two, taking 1.7 million pounds, while The Bourne Legacy was pushed into third, making 1.6 million pounds in its second week.


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Conserving Food
Reasons why we chose this idea and why it is beneficial:
1. Saving food can also save money
2. There can be more food in the world.
3. The food we waste could be enough to feed starving kids around the world.
What the cafeteria man said:
* Most of the trash cans are full of unwanted fruits and vegetables such as salads and apples.
* Four whole trash bins are full of trash bags each day, ready to be sent to the trash mountain.
Facts and information:
* Over 30% of the worlds food supply is wasted
* All of the world's food waste could feed 3 billion people.
* An average American wastes 40% of their food.
What needs to be changed to conserve food at West
* There should be an option of whether the student wants a healthy side or not.
* Even though this isn't food, there should be reusable food trays.
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Doctors in Poland said Monday that the son of former President Lech Walesa is conscious and retained feeling in his legs, despite serious injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident last week.
Doctors at a Warsaw military hospital said that European Parliament lawmaker Jaroslaw Walesa can move his arms and has feeling in his legs. He is being kept in an induced sleep.
The fact that Walesa retained feelings in his legs gives them hope the 34-year-old will be able to walk again.
"We have some hope that in the future the patient will be able to return to a similar or the same condition that he was in before the accident," said Zbigniew Rybicki, a doctor at the hospital.
Walesa has already had surgery on his spine but will need more operations and faces months of rehabilitation due to broken arms, legs, pelvis and spine.
Walesa sustained the injuries on Friday when his motorcycle collided with an SUV in Stropkowo in central Poland.
Doctors said the helmet he was wearing likely saved his life and prevented damage to the skull.
Jaroslaw Walesa is one of eight children of Lech Walesa, the Solidarity founder who led the movement that helped topple communism in Poland in 1989. His leadership in that pro-democracy struggle earned Lech Walesa the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.
The U.S.-educated Jaroslaw Walesa entered politics in 2005 when he was elected to Poland's parliament, representing the pro-market Civic Platform, which is today the governing party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. In 2009, Jaroslaw Walesa became a member of the European Parliament.


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- GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute. Reference includes data from Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States
In the Kilchrist vent on Skye, off the west coast of Scotland, acid intrusions are emplaced in the basaltic agglomerate. In the eastern marginal mass, a felsite occurs between the inner margin of a microadamellite and the vent agglomerate which is a tuff consisting primarily of fragments of basic lavas. Field and petrographic relations are reported. Laminar structure in the tuff matrix and other evidence indicate that the assemblage of fragments acted in a manner similar to fluid injection. Veinlets of tuff are found penetrating a xenolith within the tuff. There is a gradational relationship between the felsite tuff and the felsite, with the laminar structure disappearing as a microgranular texture appears. It is assumed that the felsite tuff grades into the felsite, metasomatized in place.


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Colonel Dijon is the main antagonist of the All Dogs Go to Heaven episode "Free Nelly". He is a circus ringmaster with a clown and a muscular ballerina (named Norm and Bambella, respectively) as henchmen who abuses his circus animals, particularly the titular elephant Nelly.
When Nelly is freed by Charlie and Itchy, Colonel Dijon (with his henchmen) goes after animal control, telling the animal control officer Eugene Switzer that Nelly is crazy. Eventually, when, in a department store, Charlie and Itchy expose the video to the officer, he arrests the circus workers for animal abuse.
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I don't usually do sponsored posts, but very occasionally someone contacts me with a request I feel like will benefit my readers, includes some cool perk for me, and fits well with the themes around here (on that note, BabyGap…I'm not even kidding…my twins. your clothes. this blog. make it happen).
Uniformed Scrubs asked if I wanted to review one of the Dickies Spring Line scrub tops and sent me a top in their "Right On The Dot" print to try out.
- Shipping: They are really quick with their shipping and everything. I'm so behind in posting, so this is delayed significantly (sorry, scrub peeps – two four month olds, med school, buying a house, selling a house, moving…nothing too time consuming), but they got that shirt to me in like 3 days. Awesome.
- Fit: A little bigger than expected based on the size charts, but still fits well. It's cut nicely, I wish our hospital-issued scrubs would take a lesson from the people over at Dickies so I wouldn't feel like a big blue water balloon every time I went in the OR.
- On that note, I'm not a fan of the squared neck line, I'd prefer a rounded or v-neck to this.
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Xi in America: Actions must follow words
During former US President Richard Nixon's second visit to the People's Republic of China, Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong, arranged a series of opera and ballet performances for her husband's personal guests.
Following a virtuoso vocal performance midway through the evening, Jiang leapt up to applaud. Respectfully, Mr And Mrs Nixon followed suit, only to be halted by a sharp US official who had recognised the line of the tenor's song – "We shall certainly liberate Taiwan!"
A hard-line leftist and anti-Westerner, Jiang was dismayed by the breakthrough in China-US relations earlier in the decade, and this marked one of her later attempts to derail and damage ties.
With China's President Xi Jinping currently on his first state visit to the US, there are likewise elements seeking to use the occasion for their own agendas and otherwise voice criticism and dissent.
Mr Xi's first stop was in Seattle yesterday, where he was met by both cheering local Chinese and those protesting for a free Tibet.
Live: People in #Seattle have their welcome mat out and are lining the street to hail visiting President #XiJinping. pic.twitter.com/IxQYNpaOTc
— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) September 22, 2015
Xi also arrives during heated competition among Republicans hopeful of earning their party's nomination for next year's presidential election, in which 'China bashing' has been an easy refrain for those wanting to appear tough on foreign policy.
But while some GOP debate rhetoric may be divorced from reality, US-China ties face a number of stark problems, on top of traditional sticking points such as human rights.
China's increased assertiveness and artificial island creation in the South China Sea, alleged cyber warfare and theft, currency devaluation, difficulties for US businesses in China and a perceived Beijing crackdown on NGOs in China are all salient issues on which there been calls for a tough action from US President Barack Obama.
With all of this in mind – and thoroughly anticipated – both sides have made sure they will be saying the right things and appearing in the right places.
Mr Xi, who in 1985 stayed in Muscatine, Iowa, has said many of the right things in Seattle. He astutely named-dropped the hit political TV series 'House of Cards' in his speech, when dismissing notions his flagship crackdown on corruption within the Communist Party of China is part of a power struggle, and also referenced Hemingway, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and more.
As well as talking about continued reform of the Chinese economy, he met with top business leaders, aiming to demonstrate leadership in a world of business and ease the concerns of American companies dealing with China.
For their part, by standing next to the Chinese president, American business leaders could boost US brands in China.
Xi tried to play down fears of Beijing clipping NGOs and claimed China - having been challenged on the issue by Obama a week ago - is a 'staunch defender' of cybersecurity and ready to "set up a high level joint dialogue mechanism with the United States on fighting cybercrime".
Xi Jinping says China is committed to addressing U.S. concerns http://t.co/KX9y3LLj8o pic.twitter.com/MaWc321Y5x
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 24, 2015
When he arrives at the White House for the showpiece of the state visit, it will portray to the Chinese back home that their country is powerful and very much a key player on the world stage.
Indeed, Chinese state media and the controlling Communist Party have been keen to highlight all of this for maximum effect, even placing articles within three US papers.
As the visit goes on, both sides are likely to be making the rights noises, as Mr Xi did in Seattle, but the real meaning will be in the outcomes of the visit.
Any talk of China being tough on cybercrime is at best useless unless backed up swiftly by concrete action. Businesses too will want to witness a more favourable environment rather than soothing words.
On climate change, economy and perhaps even the surprisingly partisan issue of cooperation on outer space, there may be deliverables, but large issues remain, and underscored by contrasting world views and core interests.
This situation is complicated by the state of the international system within which it is occurring. The US has seen, through the rise of others – especially China – a decline in its relative global military and economic dominance, but cannot admit that to itself.
Meanwhile, China wants to be seen as an equal partner - one returning rather than rising to a role of global power – when it has far to go to reach such status.
With big changes coming next year after eight years of Obama, China and the US need to consolidate and keep moving in the right direction. Otherwise, there are many open threads that could unravel.


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The JNTUH has announced the EAMCET notification for conducting common entrance test on 20- 02-2015. A very large number of students applied for this examination. And now all of them are very eager to download their exam admit card. The admit card is compulsory for the candidates who appear for the examination. The Candidate must fill the application form with correct details. Without the admit card, no candidate will be allowed to write the exam. An admit Card contains the information which is essential for the students at the time of exams.
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IRVING, Texas -- ExxonMobil Foundation's 2007 Educational Matching Gift Program raised more than $2.5 for 19 colleges and universities in Louisiana.
Since its inception in 1962, the program has matched gifts to affiliated higher education institutions by employees and retirees on a 3-to-1 basis. Last year, ExxonMobil employees, retirees, surviving spouses and directors contributed more than $900,000 to Louisiana institutions of higher education, an amount matched by the ExxonMobil Foundation with $1.6 million in unrestricted educational grants.
"For more than 40 years ExxonMobil's employees and retirees have demonstrated their commitment to institutions of higher education through their generous contributions through the Educational Matching Gift Program," Kenneth P. Cohen, vice president for public affairs for Exxon Mobil Corp. and chairman of the ExxonMobil Foundation, said in a released statement.
To date, the program has provided more than $372 million to higher education in the United States. Funds raised support math and science programs, a response to the nation's growing need to produce more engineers and scientists and to develop more highly qualified math and science teachers. To this end, the Foundation encourages college and university presidents to allocate a portion of the unrestricted matching funds to existing or new programs which provide teachers with professional development opportunities, train new math and science teachers, and support women and minority science and engineering programs, Cohen noted.
"These donations provide universities throughout the nation an opportunity to enhance their current educational programs and to achieve new levels of excellence," Cohen said in a released statement.
In other news, Chevron Corp. announced it contributed $2 million to provide assistance to those affected by the recent devastating cyclone in Myanmar, which took place on May 2, 2008. Half of the donation was pledged to the International Federation of the Red Cross, while the balance will be distributed to the International Organization for Migration, Mercy Corps, Pact and Save the Children.
"We share the concerns of the global community for the welfare of those affected by this terrible tragedy," Chevron vice chairman, Peter Robertson, said in a released statement. "We are pleased to partner with these aid agencies to provide immediate help to victims of the cyclone."
Jim Blackwell, of Chevron Asia Pacific exploration and production, said in a released statement, "Chevron's contribution represents our commitment to the people of Myanmar. This direct aid is intended to help relieve the suffering of those in the hardest hit areas."


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- 40,000 faction with the The City of Jinisk in Kunzar Jungle.
- Command of the Ratongan language.
- Starter: Apprentice Neemari in the Bay of Anuk in The Sinking Sands
- Speak to a Kerra Ghost named Apprentice Neemari, at ( -1025, -231, -1215 ) /waypoint -1025, -231, -1215, in a cave accessible through an underwater tunnel in the The Bay of Anuk in The Sinking Sands. The easiest way to get to the cave is to take the carpet to Silent City, and jump off when it passes through the cave.
- Listen to his story to gain access to Dire Hollow: Or'Kales' Solitude.
- speak to Apprentice Neemari in the Bay of Anuk in The Sinking Sands( -1025, -231, -1215 ) /waypoint -1025, -231, -1215. To get to him, you must enter a cave in the bay at ( -883, -235, 125 ) /waypoint -883, -235, 125.
- Go to Dire Hollow in Nektulos Forest. Easiest way to Dire Hollow is to take the griffon from the docks and jump off at the end of the beach path. Head north to a tunnel entrance through the hills at ( 375, 4, -827 ) /waypoint 375, 4, -827. Continue through to the end of the tunnel. Exit the end of the tunnel, head north then west to Dire Hollow entrance.
- Zone into a special instance of Dire Hollow called "Or'Kales Solitude". This is a solo zone in, you may only enter alone at this point. This includes mercs, so remember to suspend any you may have.
- Find and speak to NPC Vettius Or'Kales.
- After talking to Vettius, he will attack you. He is a Lvl 80^ Solo.
- After the Fight, you need to talk to Apprentice Morwynn.
- After talking to her you will need to fight lvl 73^ Solo Shadowed Men (8 of them).
- Once all dead talk to Apprentice Morwynn again for update, she will ask you to do the same thing, only the portals are various locations outside the zone.
- The first tear is in The Pillars of Flame, ( 1725, -206, -926 ) /waypoint 1725, -206, -926, the island where Siyamak spawns. There is a portal up top with lvl 79 solo mobs that give the updates. If you die during the fights, the portal will despawn for ~5 mins. The portal repopped sometime later though. Some of the mobs, especially the Thoughtbleeders, have LOADS of HP. Like 65,000 HP. So be prepared for long fights. You will need to kill eight of these. They can be soloed but bring some DPS for shorter fights.
- The second tear is in Kunzar Jungle, ( -49, 149, -1042 ) /waypoint -49, 149, -1042 approx (near The Fate of Norrath starter). The mobs are 81 and 82 ^^^ Heroic Nightblood and Lamia.Bring several friends.
- Return to the apprentice in the Or'Kales Solitude (Dire Hollow) in Nektulos Forest. She tells you to find 3 items: A firewater crystal, a greenmist orb, and "a weapon from another plane". They have to be found in that order.
- Find the Murk Alchemist, "Vasiliy," in the Edgewater drains 1 below freeport ( 85, 33, 76 ) /waypoint 85, 33, 76 in order to receive the subquest "The Mystery of the Firewater Crystal." The easiest way is to enter The Thieves Way from Big Bend, then through the Serpent Sewer. Alternatively, the Sprawl has a zone in to the Serpent Sewer too.
- Note: You must be able to speak Ratongan for this part. Also, you need to walk away backwards while looking at her when he tells you to go away. At that point you will need to pay her 2 gold to get info and the subquest. (If you don't know the sewers, it is along run down. Just keep going)
- The subquest requires you to find:
- a Flame Emerald (City of Jinisk Faction Merchant)
- some Kedge Gills (drop from any mob in Chardok that is over level 80)
- The subquest requires you to find:
- Note: You must be able to speak Ratongan for this part. Also, you need to walk away backwards while looking at her when he tells you to go away. At that point you will need to pay her 2 gold to get info and the subquest. (If you don't know the sewers, it is along run down. Just keep going)
- These items must be returned to Vasily, then you can buy the Crystal from him for 1 gold and 96 silver.
- You must then return to the quest giver in Nektulos. She will tell you that the green orb comes from a Mystic "somewhere in Faydwer"
- The mystic you need is in Butcherblock Mountains in East Fort Irontoe by the name of Bofim Axeshadow ( -309, 173, -243 ) /waypoint -309, 173.09, -242.70. Drink the ale he gives you to update.
- The orb is a drop (No trade item and Individual loot) in Sebilis from Sathirian dignitaries near and in the audience room( 168, -8, 372 ) /waypoint 168, -8, 372 or in the secret room in the laboratory from the Apprentice or the named ( -297, -25, 374 ) /waypoint -297, -25, 374, this is a hidden place you need to open by clicking an item at ( -310, -27, 324 ) /waypoint -310, -27, 324. Also drops off a Sathirian Lich (always drops) on the lower level in the jail area. Plenty of them around. (You can invis all the way to the jail if you jump off the platform heading to the exit and swim down the drain. The two drains take you to the jail underwater.)
- Next is to find the sword forged on another plane....
- Go to Barren Sky, Isle of Desolation, at ( 407, 291, -640 ) /waypoint 407, 291, -640 right-click and [Take] "an ancient statue."
Must use the Cleft Entrance waypoint at ( 504, 300, -557 ) /waypoint 504, 300, -557 to gain access into the area the statue is in.One can fly to point where ancient statue is.
- Go to Jarsath Wastes and hail Izzal Din ( -690, -109, -849 ) /waypoint -690, -109, -849
- Next step is to "hunt beasts of legend that plagued Norrathians long before the rending".
- Go to Jarsath Wastes to Skyfire and kill Eldrig the Young ( -1369, 252, 1654 ) /waypoint -1369, 252, 1654. After killing him get his entrails off the body loot and put it into the skeleton next to his spawnpoint. If the bones are not there you need to wait for them to re-pop. 15 up to 40 minutes, can't miss them. (After bones repop you will need still wait for named) Then Eldrig the Old will spawn lvl 84 ^^^ (Abilities : AoE Stun, Knockback and Mez). Kill him to get the axe.
- Go to Barren Sky, Isle of Desolation, at ( 407, 291, -640 ) /waypoint 407, 291, -640 right-click and [Take] "an ancient statue."
- Return to Morwynn in Nektulos (Your group members MUST be lvl 80 to enter Or'Kales Solitude).
- Talking to her starts a ring event.
- A portal opens and mobs come through (82^^^ about every 20 seconds).
- The mobs must not kill Morwynn. Defend her for appr. 5 minutes. The fight requires lots of DPS and/or a mezzer.
- Claim your epic from Morwynn.
STOP! If your goal is to have the Item for the Epic Conversion Timeline, you do NOT need to do the RAID version. You can begin that timeline now.
This quest is part of the Berserker Epic Weapon Timeline, and can only be started/completed by a member of that class of at least Level 80.


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When I visited London, Paris, Rome for the first time in 2007, a friend recommended some old films that really spoke to the "mood" and "scene" of those marvelous cities. Watching the films not only taught me a little about the culture of those places, but also helped revv me up for the travels!
I'm hoping you might have recommendation(s) for films that showcase the culture, beauty etc of Ireland, Scotland, Amsterdam and Germany.
It's casting a wide net, but I'm not picky... I would love to hear what you think!
To give you an idea, before my last Europe trip, I watched Roman Holiday, Charade, and La Dolce Vita to name a couple. I loved them, had never seen them before, and felt totally swept away by what I was about to experience.
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films to set the tone for upcoming trip!
When I visited London, Paris, Rome for the first time in 2007, a friend recommended some old films that really spoke to the "mood" and "scene" of those marvelous cities. Watching the films not only taught me a little about the culture of those places, but also helped revv me up for the travels!
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"Leap Year" with Amy Adams. Definitely a chick flick but fun. Ireland.
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It's not Amsterdam, but "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is about Vermeer and set in Delft.
Maybe "Braveheart" for Scotland?
Most German films I can think of are quite dark and moody, and don't really focus on scenery. I recently saw "The Countess", where Germany stood in for Hungary and Romania. There were some beautiful shots of the countryside and castles. But it's a dark film, about Elizabeth Bathory.
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>>Maybe "Braveheart" for Scotland? <<
I think not. Try Local Hero.
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What's the name of that old TV series starring Robert Carlyle with the little white Scottie dog? I think it was a crime drama set in Scotland. Actually it might not be what OP wants because it was kind of bleak.
How about The 39 Steps? It's more fun than anything else.
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Ryan's Daughter,
Quackster FortuneF has a cousin in the Bronx,
The Odessa File,
Run, Lola, Run
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If you can find it in English or with English subtitles there's always Amsterdamned. Though part of the canal chase is actually Utrecht .
Local Hero is a great film for Scotland. The TV series is Hamish MacBeth.
There's always Trainspotting too if you want really bleak.
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"Waking Ned Divine" is a great comedy set in a small Irish village. I also loved "The Secret of Roan Inish"
"Dear Frankie" is a really good movie set in present day Scotland.
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"old TV series starring Robert Carlyle" - Hamish Macbeth
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There's a ton of 'tour' type videos on YouTube.
Local Hero is a great movie almost nobody saw. Another lost and forgotten Scottish movie is Comfort and Joy.
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Maybe "Braveheart" for Scotland?
God No. Try The Wicker Man (the original, not the remake), Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Hallam Foe, The Illusionist, Restless Natives!, The Bridal Path - but definitely Gregory's Girl & Local Hero.
You might also want to consider Whisky Galore.
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Obscure one but I enjoyed it--Stone of Destiny--based on the truth of the recent history of the Stone of Scone.
The recent BBC series Case Histories about Jackson Brodie are set (unlike the books) in Edinburgh.
Rob Roy maybe?
And maybe a Macbeth or two!
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What's the name of that old TV series starring Robert Carlyle with the little white Scottie dog?>>
Hamish McBeth.
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Balamory has nice pictures.
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Two movies set in German restaurants: Mostly Martha and Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin).
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Watching films really gets you in the mood for travel.
For Scotland, I would suggest MRS. BROWN, bio-top of the "romance" between the widowed Queen Victoria and her ghillie/servant John Brown. Stars Judi Dench and has fabulous Highland scenery.
Of course, THE QUEEN features many scenes around Balmoral.
For Ireland, THE WAKING OF NED DEVINE. Although actually filmed on the Isle of Man, it has beautiful scenery and warm Irish wit.
And going way back, you have RYAN'S DAUGHTER and THE QUIET MAN.
For UK – THE KING'S SPEECH and THE IRON LADY among others.
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War of the Buttons for the west of Ireland. One of my favorite movies. Watch the Ballykissangel tv series, filmed partly in Avoca.
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> It's not Amsterdam, but "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is about Vermeer and set in Delft.
Actually it was all filmed in Luxembourg - but I have to agree, it's a visually stunning film.
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For Germany you might enjoy Goodbye Lenin and The Lives of Others—both deal with Berlin under communism.
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Eurotrip and European Vacation haha
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These are all wonderful recommendations-- thank you so much!
Some, like Braveheart, Waking Ned Devine, The Lives of Others, Trainspotting, I've seen, but not in a LONG while so it'll be wonderful to see them again and from a different perspective/motivation this time. (Though yeah, I'll probably skip watching Braveheart again, love it as I do!)
Thank you, thank you and thank you all.
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What outwest said, I was going to recommend "Good-bye Lenin" too. Great film, lots of documentary stuff, but served up in a way that is interesting and good for some laughs too.
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To get lots of results simply google "movies set in Scotland", for instance. Wikipedia will likely be the first hit with list for you. Here's what I got for Scotland:
I did the same recently for London and got a great list. Then google the individual titles or go to a site like Netflix to know if they might appeal to you.
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Disregard the last part of my suggestion above. Simply click on the movie titles right there on the Wikipedia page and you'll get a great rundown on the individual movies.
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For Amsterdam: check out the TV series "Baantjer".
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A couple of options for you that aren't heavy on the scenery, but are on the 'culture' side of things;
For Scotland (one of my favourite ever films) 'Whisky Galore' (1949 - thanks IMDB) and for Germany 'The Edukators'. Both are a little different from the suggestions above.
If you want a film that makes Trainspotting look like Alvin and the Chipmunks (I know I have odd taste) try 'Red Road'.
Set in a very poor housing estate in Glasgow, it's one of the most memorable films I've ever seen. It's definitely not one to munch popcorn through with a group of friends, but you might want to have a loved one nearby at the end so you can give them a hug and be thankful your life is nothing like the protagonists'.
I've stopped wondering why my wife doesn't want to watch the same films as me...
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K-State Eases Past Emporia State
K-State Eases Past Emporia State
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State concluded its double header on Saturday with a 7-0 win over Emporia State at Body First Tennis and Fitness Center. The Wildcats have won three straight matches.
The Basics
• Score: Kansas State 7, Emporia State 0
• Records: Kansas State (5-5), Emporia State (3-2)
• K-State secured the early 1-0 lead over the Hornets, by winning the doubles point with wins at number one and two doubles.
• The Wildcats' top tandem of Palma Juhasz and Livia Cirnu cruised past Camila Ramos and Tawni Griffey, 6-0. Juhasz and Cirnu have now won four straight matches together and are 4-1 this season.
• At number two doubles, the duo of Maria Panaite and Iva Bago dropped Kaley Clark and Amy Fugit, 6-0. This was the third straight win for Panaite and Bago and improved their career record together to 4-5.
• K-State recorded wins at number one, two and three singles to secure the win. The Wildcats' top three singles players: Juhasz, Bago and Cirnu tallied a combined 9-0 record this week in singles action.
• Juhasz capped her week by blanking of Ramos, 6-0, 6-0 at number one singles. The sophomore from Debrecen, Hungary is now 11-8 this season and 24-25 in her career.
• Cirnu pushed K-State into a 3-0 lead, as she won her fifth straight match with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Taylor Smith at number three singles. Cirnu is 12-7 this season and 28-24 in her career. She has won eight of her last 11 matches and is 6-2 this spring.
• Bago sealed the win for K-State, quickly defeating Griffey at number two singles, 6-1, 6-3. Bago also won her third match this week and improved her season record to 13-6 overall and 6-3 in dual match play. Her 13 singles wins are a new career-best for a season.
• Panaite secured her second win this week with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Clark at number four singles. Panaite is 7-12 for the season and 2-6 in the spring.
• Freshman Laura Hopton tallied her first win of the spring with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Fugit at number five singles. Hopton is 7-7 in her debut season with the Wildcats, including a 1-2 record this spring.
• Redshirt freshman Tegan Louw saw her first action in a K-State uniform on Saturday. The product of Whitehill, United Kingdom, recorded a 6-2, 6-2 win at number six singles over Tiffany Khounsombath. Louw battled through injuries and rehabilitation of those injuries over the last year and a half to make her first appearance in the lineup for K-State.
• Kansas State is 23-7 against teams from NCAA Division II.
• This was the sixth meeting in the series between the schools and the first since April 19, 1984. K-State leads the series, 6-0.
• As a team, K-State is now 76-60 in singles action and 26-32 in doubles.
• The Wildcats are 5-1 this season when winning the doubles point.
Coming up Next
• K-State will travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, next weekend for a pair of matches. The Wildcats will face UNLV on Friday, Feb. 20 and Colorado State on Saturday, Feb. 21.


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Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform...
Created by Valve Corporation
To me much better alternative than this EA and Microsoft crap.
Steam for dummies guide.
Steam is the leader PC game shop, and by far the largest one. There is no other place that has a more extensive library of games than Valve's model. You might find other better deals sometimes, but that is rarely the case from my experience (after 300+ games bought)
To get the cheapest deals on Steam, and when to wait for them, check out the guide here http://coflash.com/steam/
Other websites with game deals to watch out: HumbleBundle, GoG (Good old Games), Amazon, Origin, BundleStars, GreenManGaming, Gamersgate
To see cheaper places to find your game, check out this very useful deal tracker website http://www.cheapshark.com/
- Frequent deals, and quarterly holiday steam sales (for christmas, summer, halloween, etc.)
- Ultra-fast support for downloading, this is how I test my internet speed, really
- Huge community
- Has very active reviewers and curators to let you be as informed as possible on what you are buying
- It mentions games that are unfinished (like alpha's, beta's and early access games)
- Shows DLC (downloadable content) clearly.
- Has chat support (also works in browser if you are on the go, or on mobile)
- Has content sharing support (screenshots, memes)
- Has a workshop building community, where content creators can build in-game items that can then be contracted by the game creators to appear in the game.
- Has integrated modding support (though not fully)
- Has a greenlight system, that you can vote on other submitted games to appear on steam and get launched there
- Has a market, where you can sell/buy in-game items for your games, from other users
- Has some nice and addictive game mechanics for leveling up your profile and customizing for extra flair
- Has "family" sharing options, so that you can give your collection to other users safely for them to play (as long as you don't play at the same time, the same game)
- Many gaming communities reside there.
- Has a facebook-esque wall that you can use to check what your gamer friends are up to.
- Has integrated achievements.
- Works online if you've installed the games.
- Has good security
- Has good privacy control
- Is a good place to see official news on your games
- Has good mobile support if you want steam on your other devices.
- Works on Mac / Linux too, and has deals on those platforms as well.
- Fully integrated for your gaming needs. If you have steam, you basically don't need anything else (unless the game does not appear on steam, like Blizzard games for example)
- Games are in a digital format in the cloud
- Games cannot be installed without a internet connection
- Requires an account and an installation of the Steam client
- Its features are quite addictive and it can create collector's syndrome, so you can spend a whole lot of time in the steam client, gazing over your collection and chatting, browsing silly items instead of actually playing games. It happens very frequently in the community, so be aware of that.
- The score system is not that complex, just a rating instead of a 0-100 cumulated rating.
- Community can be rude, but that's how big masses of people usually turn out.
- Not that safe for children, due to the user interactions.
- Your wallet will suffer through hell.
Overall, it's been the best since 2003.
God bless our lord Gaben for thinking about the game consumer market.
I joined Steam because of the games, and because I liked the idea of a PC's ability to tweak games and controls to a greater degree than is possible on a game console. Back then, the Steam interface was clumsy, sprawling, counter-intuitive and ugly -- to my surprise, the interface and user experience has not improved in the five years I have used it.
After a while, I got used to the interface and lock-in, and didn't mind Steam so much. But I recently came to realise that my dislike for Steam has blossomed. The more I use it, the more I find myself frustrated at it. It think it's terribly designed and implemented. Every time I boot my PC to play a game (roughly once every two or three weeks) it has to download updates before I am permitted to play. Sometimes the updates are gigabytes in size, so I have to wait twenty minutes or more before playing a game, by which time the opportunity and desire to game has passed. I find the interface bewilderingly complex and counter intuitive. I dislike all the messages about trading cards it sends, and wish I could configure it to stop doing that.
For now, I need Steam to play a few exclusive titles. But I'm seriously considering whether it is worth the trouble. I would love to be able to delete my Steam account, and walk away. One day, I will. I guess I'm just old and grumpy now. Less willing to fiddle with software in my limited spare time. After switching from consoles to a Steam PC with the idea that the extra options on PC would be more enjoyable, I'm probably going to switch back to console gaming. Gaming on PC doesn't feel worth the trouble it takes to maintain Steam. There's a lot convenience built into ownership of a console system.
Just my opinion. Other opinions are available.
This is an interesting point of view. Recently, a close friend of mine also got enraged by Steam and its policy, and it got me wondered. I'm a user for just 4 years, mind you, so I haven't got all the experience in the world. But, as a fellow gamer, – albeit one with lesser degrees of hatred for the software – I'd like to know where all that grudge stems from.
Is it just the interface that you hate or what else is there to it?
Good points, well made. I wrote my initial review while in a bad mood after a particularly frustrating Steam session. I've updated it with less hyperbole.
My major beefs are that I consider the interface to be unnecessarily complex, and I find that Steam works against me when I want to play a game. It forces me to download updates before starting a game. The whole Steam experience seems dated and clumsy in 2016. I'm a technical person and have worked for software companies for 20+ years, and grew up on Atari and Commodore games (by this, I mean to illustrate that I'm no stranger to clumsy software with obtuse interfaces). I have spent a lot of time over the years using gaming systems, and after all that, Steam just doesn't seem worth the trouble. My unwanted, unsolicited advice to all, from a grumpy 40-year-old fool: buy a console.
My peers and colleagues seem to love Steam. I'm probably not its target audience. My goal writing this review was to provide an alternative viewpoint that some people might not enjoy using it, and may find it a hinderance to gaming.
First off, I'm terribly sorry for the delay. I don't have a habit of checking alternativeto often. Now, onto the actual response.
I often sit down to write game, movie and software reviews when I'm a bit frustrated with them as well. It's a bad habit, but a common one – and one I can totally relate to.
As for the points you made, I agree with the majority of them. Steam frustrates me from time to time as well, be it by its atrocious chat interface or its lack of features I otherwise would rather not live without. You seem to have far more experience with these interfaces you cite than I do (or ever will). That being said, I can't argue with that. But if you allow some advice, I have a suggestion for one of your problems:
The auto-update feature only works when you are online. That said, you can open steam on Offline Mode and game to your heart's content (unless that specific game needs downloading). Another alternative is to schedule your update times or toggle them until they are... less worse.
I have to admit I'm a Steam junkie myself, but I wouldn't go as far as say love. At least I'm glad we can agree to disagree, since Steam does have its perks, but it's past time Valve did something about its glaring wrongs.
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Hi @AlternativeSteve,
> The whole Steam experience seems dated and clumsy in 2016.
I couldn't agree more. It's definitely dated, one obvious pointer being the tiny fonts. Most newer interfaces use substantially larger font sizes because they're easier to both read and select (when there are options involved). I think Valve would do really well to just apply modern UI standards to that overly complex interface.
Hey @carmelapedinni
> I often sit down to write game, movie and software reviews when I'm a bit frustrated with them as well. It's a bad habit, but a common one – and one I can totally relate to.
That's a good practice, I think. It'd really help if you could get those reviews heard by the developers. :)
Best regards,
[Edited by Ugotsta, August 11]
What's up, @Ugotsta?
> I think Valve would do really well to just apply modern UI standards to that overly complex interface.
The problem with appying modern UI to a widely used platform is that many have already grown used to old standards. Therefore, softwares that have been hanging about since forever are either very customizable (to please both greeks and trojans) or maintain a perilous balance between old and new. What I agree with you both that is after a point unadmissible, is being stuck in time.
> It'd really help if you could get those reviews heard by the developers.
Many a times I do. Just not when the developer in question is Valve or any other big name – I've had an easier time helping the indies (for example the guys at germ.io and at Story Wars).
[Edited by carmelapedinni, August 13]
I couldn't agree more. It's definitely dated, one obvious pointer being the tiny fonts. Most newer interfaces use substantially larger font sizes because they're easier to both read and select (when there are options involved). I think Valve would do really well to just apply modern UI standards to that overly complex interface.
I personally hate on all these "modern GUIs", or, let's call them as they literally should be called - mobile interfaces. They might play their role just fine in tablets/phones, but on desktop computers i really prefer traditional interface (i still can't force myself to like Windows 8 start screen design - some things just don't need to be changed, but there's that unfortunate hype to make everything mobile-like and noob-friendly these days...)
Also i'm wholly agreing with OP, i can't remember i ever liked Steam anyway. What makes me sad though, is that everyone lets GoG (GOG.com) pass without even mentioning it, while it's the best alternative to Steam-like platfoms out there, and it has already been around for a while.
I very much agree with you.
Modern GUIs are crap. It seems like the whole point is to force less content into more space, which is absolutely retarted.


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The freshman tailback could have an opportunity to move into a starting role in No. 6 Georgia's Southeastern Conference opener at Missouri on Saturday.
Gurley ran for 100 yards on only eight carries in Georgia's 45-23 opening win over Buffalo. He ran through arm tackles for a 10-yard touchdown run, showed his speed while scoring on a 100-yard kickoff return, and then threw a stiff-arm to clear a path for a 55-yard touchdown run.
Starter Ken Malcome left the game with a left hand injury, possibly clearing the way for Gurley to start.
Coach Mark Richt had no injury updates on Sunday. Asked if Gurley will start, Richt said the freshman will "definitely get the ball."
Gamecocks' Shaw in pain
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said starting quarterback Connor Shaw can barely lift his right arm and will miss the next few days of practice.
Shaw was injured in the ninth-ranked Gamecocks' season-opening, 17-13 victory at Vanderbilt last Thursday night. Shaw was diagnosed with a deep bone bruise in his right shoulder. Spurrier said Sunday that Shaw's shoulder joint was not damaged and if the junior's condition improved he could play in the team's home opener Saturday against East Carolina.
Shaw returned to the game after getting hurt and led South Carolina's game-winning touchdown drive in the fourth quarter.
Tailback Marcus Lattimore ran for 110 yards and two touchdowns in his first game back from knee surgery last fall. Spurrier said Lattimore came out of the game in good shape.
QB O'Brien has solid debut
MADISON, Wis . — Although he didn't quite replicate the video game-style football his predecessor produced on a regular basis, Danny O'Brien showed he was more than capable in his first start at quarterback for No. 12 Wisconsin.
O'Brien, a transfer from Maryland, had a rock-solid day in his first shot at filling the shoes of former Badgers quarterback Russell Wilson.
O'Brien completed 19 of 23 passes for 219 yards with a pair of touchdowns to wide receiver Jared Abbrederis, and Wisconsin survived a surprising late defensive meltdown to beat FCS power Northern Iowa 26-21 on Saturday.