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Patrice Bergeron Not A Top-10 Center, According To NHL NetworkYou'd think Patrice Bergeron was among the top-10 centers in the NHL. Not according to the NHL Network.
Haggerty: David Pastrnak 'Hit The Market At The Exact Right Time'Joe Haggerty explains why David Pastrnak's timing as a restricted free agent was perfect.
Kalman: Bruins Shouldn't Worry About Outside Comparables And Just Pay David PastrnakMatt Kalman says no matter what is going on with other restricted free agents, the Bruins have to pay Pastrnak what he's worth to them, even if that means a higher paycheck than the team's other stars.
Dolloff: Bruins Now Have To Overpay To Keep Pastrnak After Draisaitl ExtensionDraisaitl's big extension has forced Sweeney to overpay to keep Pastrnak around.
Shawn Thornton Misses Boston, But Retired Ex-Bruin Ready To Boost Panthers From Front OfficeFor the first time in more than two decades, former Bruins forward Shawn Thornton won't be reporting to training camp as a player next month when the NHL ends its summer break.
Dave Goucher Says Farewell To Boston On Toucher & RichDave Goucher joined 98.5 The Sports Hub's Toucher & Rich on Wednesday morning to say farewell to Boston, and said this decision to accept TV play-by-play duties for the Vegas Golden Knights not an easy one to make.
Don Sweeney In Email To Globe: 'Not Trading Pastrnak'Don Sweeney shot down the David Pastrnak trade rumors with three simple words.
Kalman: Still Youthful Krug Ready To Play, Mentor For Bruins For Long HaulBruins defenseman Torey Krug has been through almost everything with the Bruins.
Dave Goucher Named TV Play-By-Play Man For Vegas Golden KnightsDave Goucher is taking his golden pipes to Las Vegas.
Bruins Don't Appear Close To Actually Trading David PastrnakMany were quick to shoot down the rumors that the Bruins may be trading David Pastrnak.
Kalman: Rask Healthy After Surgery, Confident Khudobin Can Do No. 2 JobRask isn't sweating the Bruins' decision (so far) to return for this season with Anton Khudobin as the backup with Malcolm Subban and Zane McIntyre hoping to challenge Khudobin for the spot.
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German artists Folke Koebberling and Martin Kaltwasser, with students from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, present CARS INTO BICYCLES
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was following a storm home from Whitby to Orono when i found the storm to be dissipating started heading homa only to see storm chaser Mark Robinson packing up after his own chasing. Best chat ever about what occurred today and what might transpire. Happy chasing Mark hopefully our paths will cross chasing soon :)
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I cannot comment on the maternity services because I was put off by their appointment booking team I withdrew from the hospital, but I wanted to share my experience nonetheless.
I was due to have my booking appointment and dating scan at Kingston hospital but because of a rude and unhelpful telephone conversation with one of the appointment booking staff (who spoke to me like I was stupid, annoying and quite simply wasting her time), it made me question whether the hospital was as good as its reviews.
I gave them the benefit of doubt, because 1 person doesn't represent a whole organisation, and tried contacting later in the day, unfortunately I got through to the same person and again, I was met with sarcasm and rudeness. I asked to speak with someone else and she transferred me to the on-duty midwife who was understandably very busy so couldn't pick up, and so I left a voice mail asking her to call me back as soon as possible.
I have not heard back from Kingston at all since, and for a hospital that seems to have such good reputation, I was astounded and appalled by the service I had received - and it was only a simple phone call! I don't even want to think about the maternity ward experience.
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I may be dating myself a little here but I can remember when arcades had nothing but pinball machines in them. Until Asteriods and Pong arrived to signal a gaming revolution, everyone wanted to be a pinball wizard. Just ask Roger Harry Daltrey and The Who.
Something has to be said for the simplicity of pinball itself, banking a steel ball around knocking down targets and hitting bumpers. That natural, straightforward gameplay is what has kept pinball around in digital form even though not many of those slick cabinets are manufactured anymore.
Zen Pinball 3D, developed by Zen Studios and available at the Nintendo eShop, is the first such simulator for the Nintendo 3DS. Previously, Zen has released Pinball FX and Marvel Pinball and what you see is pretty much what you get.
There are four tables to start you off: Excalibur, Eldorado, Shaman and Earth Defence. Excalibur is a sword and sorcery table complete with a castle, a catapult and an extra flipper at the top. It is the most uncomplicated table of the four. Eldorado comes complete with an Indiana Jones, treasure hunter theme. There are several looping ramps, lots of targets and an ancient idol that steals balls. The layout is deceptively unassuming but the table will crush you like a rolling boulder if you fail to pay attention.
Covered with Myan or Aztec imagery, Shaman is much like Eldorado except it has six flippers, a target board at the top of the table and a drummer target who lays down a solo each time you hit him. It is a very, very tricky board to work your way through. Earth Defence is an alien invasion theme with a gigantic and chatty enemy robot and huge tanks on either side of the table. You had better have fingers of lightning to deal with Earth Defence.
To play any of the tables, you can use either the L or R buttons to activate the flippers or you can use the B button and the directional pad. The circle pad tilts the table and you can change your view of the tables using the X button. I found it far more comfortable to use B and the directional pad to control the flippers as reaching around the 3DS for the L and R buttons gets really tiring the longer a game goes on and you certainly don't want to abort a good run due to awkward controls or a cramp.
Zen has thrown in a Hotseat option to compliment the single player action. It is a multiplayer mode where you can share your 3DS with friends and play different tables. There is an online leaderboard and awards for completing certain challenges.
Zen Pinball completely captures the feel and mechanics of the pinball experience, although there is one drawback. Since you are playing on the smaller 3DS screen, sometimes it can be hard to keep track of the ball or of the particular happenings. Other than that, for $6.99, Zen Pinball is a bargain for those times when you just want to load up a pick and play title to pass the time.
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This oblique photograph of the battleship Tirpitz at Aas fjord in Norway, taken at low level on 15 February 1942, shows floating camouflage units surrounding her bow and stern, with netting draped between her port side and the shore. This was an attempt to break up the outline of the battleship. Ref: AIR 34/239
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Assuming there are 'normal game rules' already implies that bosses are unnecessary and do not belong. What if the game is all about the boss fights, a la DaS or most MMOs? Or Shadow of the Colossus?
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So, I've been going back to Shogun 2, and in particular, the Fall of The Samurai expansion pack, which is in my opinion, the high point in the entire series. (and a large part of why Rome 2's shoddiness surprised me - after this and shogun 2's base game, I really thought they'd finally figured out how to make these games. But nevermind.)
Starting at the latest technological point in the total war series, my favourite part of the fall of the Samurai is how it manages to crack the fusion (err, which I suppose makes it a fission) of two disparate time and technological periods - medieval japan, and the industrial-age west. Even your basic line infantry is a step up from what appears in empire: total war, but the barracks that let you create modern line infantry and sabre cavalry is distinct from the barracks that lets you create a versatile but finicky medieval force. Have both of them, however, and you can back up line infantry with katana charges, utilise battlefield ninja as stealthy grenadiers, and charge the backs of vulnerable enemy formations with a mix of revolver cavalry and yari samurai cavalry. Or... do what I usually do from my vantage point in the 21st century, rush artillery and guns, and steamroll the place with your hindsight. Because artillery is OP. I think it sticks with me because it manages to be something a little different to the usual total war series, and shogun 2 was always the one with the most love poured into the stylism, which shows on all levels - even the campaign map's fog of war is a nice 19th century map you steadily push back to see the terrain beneath. Plus if you do decide to make it hard (and expensive, because dudes with swords are pricey) on yourself, managing to outmaneuver an army you've no right to beat with your ancient weapons and hokey religion. I think the one area it does a bit fall down on is the naval battles. Whilst they're the best in the series, 'interesting events' (like detonations of your ships magazine) happen a bit too often, and can make the battles feel unfairly random, and astronomically expensive, given how not-at-all cheap ships are in the game. Still. It is quite good.
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Much of the game is excellent. The combat. The minimal narrative. The atmosphere. The lack of a musical soundtrack. And the level design and world building are second to none. Heck I even love the fights with mooks and mini-bosses. Silver Knights, Tower Knights...even Black Knights are fair, exciting battles, provided you do not stumble onto them too early on.
I even love some of the bosses. O&S will forever be one of my favorite boss fights in a game - in as much as I like them at all, which I generally don't - because as tough as it was, it was fair. Good visibility. Plenty of room to move. Environment you could use to your advantage. Tough but fair and reasonable.
On Capra, Tomb and Nito though, we are just going to have to agree to disagree. I feel those are extremely cheap situations. Severely limiting a player's movement or visibility, or tossing in a half dozen giant mooks for 'flavor' in my opinion makes a fight tedious and unenjoyable.
You might not feel this way. That's fine; I respect that. But for me, Capra was a warning that, yes, I should have heeded. It was an announcement regarding the direction Dark Souls was headed. I should have stopped there. I really should have. But I loved the world and the mechanics and narrative construction and the mystery so much that I pushed on.
Past Blighttown and its FPS issues. Past the tedium of the Anor Londo snipers. Past O&S. But the Tomb was my breaking point. Being a goodly bit claustrophobic myself I found the depths bad enough. But Tomb was both claustrophobic and tedious in the extreme, to me personally. Coupled with Nito, it was simply more tedium than fun - something that had been cropping up more and more often since the Parish, in truth.
So I am on to things like Crysis 3 and Amalur for now. I wish it were otherwise. I do. I love everything about Dark Souls except the bosses, and Tomb itself. And I was almost done with the latter.
Give the DS bosses a reasonable health bar and enough room for the player to stick with the play style they spent the entire game developing and you would probably have the perfect game, or near enough.
It's a bit pat, though, because the real discussion isn't in determining what I've said but in figuring out whether or not a game cleaves to it. But a lot of games violate this basic design logic on a whim and don't get any negative attention in reviews and what-not for it. In a game about shooting and smashing things flamboyantly you wouldn't want a lock-picking mini-game--you surely kick down doors and blast them open. Gated content should be gated not by find-the-key but rather by find-the-bazooka (see Metroid, I suppose).
Hey, look! A Segue! I've been playing LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.
Basically the entirety of most LEGO games is all about violating the concepts I've been discussion here. There is very little game there and it's NOT because it's an easy kid's game--Yoshi's Island is a medium difficulty kids game that's easy as crap for me after gaming for so long and it feels like substantially more of a game than the LEGO games AND it still has the gleefulness and joy that I find in the LEGO games; more robust mechanics are perfectly possible in easy/children's games and for that matter I feel there is room for LEGO games to stretch their legs into more "serious" gaming territory with tougher and more robust gameplay. But that's another matter.
In any case, the animations, sight-gags, and the sheer imagination and joy in those games is great but I find myself wishing they were an animated feature on Cartoon Network or something rather than what they are now--I'd watch the crap out of that, but I need a game that is meatier and more coherent and less repetitive whether or not it is any more difficult. The core conceit of the games is using a wide cast of characters with different abilities to overcome obstacles that require several of these abilities ... but the game restricts what characters you can use in "Story Mode" while still putting you in levels that require the use of other characters to collect things; the whole Free Play vs. Story Mode thing is really a bit crap--the only difference is that by limiting Story Mode the game forces you to backtrack in order to do exactly the same thing only in a more entertaining fashion with more freedom to screw around and enjoy the silliness of it all. The puzzle element that might justify maintaining challenge coherence by designing a level specifically for a certain sub-set of characters doesn't work. The puzzle element isn't just easy, it is non-existent; we can't simply pretend it was designed for small people who don't necessarily think very hard about these sorts of things yet because the game doesn't ever ask them to even try to figure out something obvious. It makes Dora the Explorer look subtle, sometimes. The game tells you exactly where to go and what to do and won't shut its gob about it for ten seconds and the only times that anything is even remotely confusing is when the camera decides that it hates you or when you decide not to smash everything in the room only to discover after a few moments of head-scratching that this is one of those rooms where you have to smash everything and then press a button to "build" a thing that allows you to proceed.
It is a very long, utterly charming quick time event that has glimmers of good design and an abundance of good taste. I love the swipe-targets-to-lock-on mechanic for some heroes and would love to see it at work in a tighter action game, I love the insta-swap between various characters and the tactical possibilities that creates during a fight (or would create if fights were more tactically robust) and the clever use of LEGO in the game(s) never ceases to bring me joy from Iron Man's thruster trails to miscellaneous details on various vehicle builds to the load-screen architectural minis/schematics being made out of LEGO. I don't mind having bought it, because it did bring me joy and I've played other iterations on consoles via friends without paying for the privilege. But I am disappointed that there isn't much of a game here. They're so GOOD at the rest of it, they ought to just make cartoons; that or take the gameplay design a lot more seriously.I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
Random tip: embark with pigs! They require no surface grazing and can you breed unlimited amounts safely underground. Good source of pigbone crossbow bolts assuming you have become versed in the arcane rituals necessary to persuade your militia to actually use them.
EDIT: I found the name of the mod I use: Modest Mod
It's really more of a bugfix patch than a mod. It also adds some very sound tweaks such as:
-Added pause and recenter on death of citizen (This is an absolute godsend to stop you playing detective a month later everytime someone dies.)
-Goblins wear less clothing, causing less clutter after sieges
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I haven't been keeping up on this thread, so this is a couple months worth.
Loadout is well worth a spin if you like oldschool 3d arena shooters. Around 10h clocked playing with a friend over the last couple months. The weapon building system is fun to experiment with, but it also is always messing with the balance of your matches one way or another. It seems to be getting a lot of good updates. I'm not really tempted to spend money on it, but at least the F2P bits are only cosmetics and "earn stuff faster" boosts.
Renegade-X is great fun and very impressive for a purely non-monitized free game. It plays very differently from what I expected, but the original Renegade also predates Battlefield, so I appreciate that it does it's own thing and isn't a clone. There are still some issues and crashes, and one map that's always a stalemate, and too many servers with ridiculous settings (like 80 mines per team), but it will probably shape up in time. The one big omission is built-in voice support.
I snagged CS:GO in the sale and put around 5 hours in. Despite the changes it's still quite true to CS, and I can see why the purity of the game retains the fanbase. Nothing really compares for requiring sheer anticipation and steel nerves under fire.
SMITE is a nice diversion as a F2P third-person action-MOBA. The setup took some figuring out, as you have to run the troubleshooting & diagnostics tool to tell it to install somewhere besides the default location, but it can't be changed during the download. It isn't a SMNC-beating action game, since it really just has 2d gameplay with a 3d view, but it also doesn't have that game's meta-power creep. While you don't have all the characters unlocked, the matches are fair otherwise (and modulo the luck of matchmaking of course). It also isn't super mechanically deep like DOTA, but I really can't render any kind of final judgement in my 12h of playtime. There's no voice chat here either, and no text chat with your opponents, but there's a Tribes:Ascend-style voice command system.
Titanfall is a blast. I waited for the first update and price drop before I picked it up roughly a month ago, but I wouldn't have been unhappy at full price. I do wish it were strategically deeper, with modes more like ETQW or BF2142. As it is, the mechanics of movement and combat are so slick that it's simply a pleasure to execute the basics in, and the 15 maps are well designed with lots of variety to keep it feeling fresh. My gametime is just 37h, but I'm only playing once or twice a week (mostly with a friend) and trying not to wear it out. I may end up buying the expansions when they come and "regenerating" back to level 1, but for now I'm done playing "watch the bars go up", so I'll stay at level 50 and just enjoy the game. The matchmaking update more than doubled my average k/d in the modes it's been added to, so I'm glad it's getting the necessary support. My biggest complaint is the irritating "connecting..." popup screen, because it will interrupt you while configuring your loadouts, when instead it could just be a "match status" notification in the corner. The burn card system is great, because they feel like built in cheats you can use to tweak the balance, but none of them ruin the game or make it a slippery-slope situation like kill-streak reward abilities do. The amount of customization in your pilot and titan kits also feels just right, and when I was first starting out I found myself frequently thinking about setups when I was away from the game.
I loaded up Guild Wars 2 again to check out the big update, only to discover that with the new system the traits on my level 80 thief had been wiped (now they're free to respec), and I had no idea how to reassemble the character. For the generally amazing level of polish GW2 has, that was a rather shocking icewater-in-the-face kind of moment.
This weekend I knocked Tank Universal off my backlog in around 6 hours. For the most part it's pretty good for a (nearly) one-man title. The bigger strategic battle sections are quite fun, but there are some "why bother with this" walkabout bits and an extraneous story-framing device, and it has a very strange interlude in which you ride a jumping sheep while a synthesized William Tell overture plays. I had a few crashes, but the biggest fault is that it's limited to 30 fps.
I just grabbed Ultratron in this week's Groupee's bundle, and made it 3/4 of the way through on my first real attempt. Having to edit a text file to get my gamepad properly configured was a drag though. It's splashy and fun, but does not seem seriously compelling like Revenge of the Titans was. I'm now wondering if there's a quick-start or hard-mode or continuous replay or likewise available when you win. Edit: it does save post-boss checkpoints for you to restart at.
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Well Tara, my veteran hardcore engineer in Torchlight 2, bit the icy bullet. Locked in place by ice and unable to act, I became fodder for various grotesque monsters that claimed my graphically broken mortal soul. Rest in peace Tara, I hardly knew ye.
So I basically continued my battle mage non-hardcore character I started ages ago and had a bit of a laugh when I very quickly worked out that I saved at literally the same point in the dungeon my engineer died at. Ha! I then proceeded to die over and over to the boss because my battle mage is a brittle being. The subsequent boss, the finale of Act 1, also required a pit-stop death as my pitiful damage and meagre AoE damage provided a very clear image for the very idea of cherry tapping. It doesn't help that a lot of the melee-ranged magic abilities for the ember mage are based on weapon dps and my weapons are quickly becoming rather weak. I shall need to upgrade them soon. Tell you what though, it takes a lot out of the game when death is just a minor inconvenience as opposed to a main issue with your run.
I'll certainly try a hardcore attempt again, maybe with the Outlander who I've had even less time on and it'd be fun to try something there. Main problem with my engineer was a complete lack of healing outside of potions (and a heal spell I picked up about half an hour before death) and my intermittently operational healing bot. That and my ranged damage was woefully lacking, even if I was justifying it by using a shield for defence, which did work quite well at least.Powered by Steam. And biscuits. I'm also a twit and dabble in creative writing.
Most games are puzzles, in FEAR you learn the economy of crouching behind boxes while aiming down your scopes in slow motion. In Torchlight you learn the rhythm of sending your dog back home with all your crap. In every multiplayer game you learn how to sit on the top of the difficulty gradient when you meet an opponent. Everything else is twitch, pattern recall and dumb luck. But puzzles? Puzzles are play, puzzles are intellect, puzzles are beautiful.
Bad puzzles are bad sure, but boss battles can be excellent puzzles.
Gave a few hours to Kerbal Space Program Demo and was viscously rewarded. Honestly think I'd prefer vectorial controls to manual thrust but I get they are trying to achieve a Zen state of integration of player and game, where you care about what happens and feel it in your gut. It work well, probably better and better as you stop being terrible at the game. I Still struggle on the demo, but i think its the limitation of parts that's stopping my achieving the flexibility I'd like.
Guess i need to buy the game.
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Gave Diablo 2 a download and an install. I know it came out two years later, but WOW Divine Divnity aged a lot better than this game. Which is funny since Blizzard apparently released a patch in 2012. Couldn't be arsed to un-cap resolution though (the solution is to run it windowed and maximize the window, but it won't capture the cursor so you are basically fucked).
So I decided to finally give Titan Quest a proper go. I made it about 10 minutes longer than any previous run, but this time I stopped because the character creation system reminded me of Din's Curse.
Didn't make it to Din's Curse though, since Drox Operative called to me (what with all the discussion of the new ARcen game that has the exact same premise). MUCH harder than Din's, and a lot less balanced. VERY easy to fuck yourself over as the AIs have a tendency to field bullet sponges with quickly regenerating shields, whereas you are at the mercy of the RNG gods to give you usable gear. Fun, but not sure if I'll stick with it.Steam: Gundato
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Dins Curse is so painful on the eyes and hands, if only they could port their world over to Torchlight's engine.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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I suppose Path of Exile is close, but it has much less of an emphasis on the "paper doll" and the like.Steam: Gundato
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Bad puzzles are bad sure, but boss battles can be excellent puzzles.
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I decided I don't have it in me to put up with Drox right now. Like any Soldak game, I love the concept and have no problem supporting the studio, but holy crap is the game flawed as hell. In this case, it is largely the fact that you are basically at the whim of the RNG gods in terms of what gear and what mandatory quests you get, as well as what faction randomly declares war on you because they are bored (Shadow, so I couldn't even fight them since they kept cloaking all the time). I suspect that if I do a lot of research and plan my build very carefully it should be better, but meh. Din's Curse is still their best game.
But, after realizing I spent a significant part of my weekend bitching that Dungeon Siege 2's expansion pack isn't on Steam (although, now that I think about it, is DS1's?) and I have DS3 from a sale a while back, I decided to just play Dungeon Siege 3 since it is basically Dragon Age 2 with less bugs (seriously Bioware, Obsidian released a less buggy game...) and shittier storytelling (meh, I was gonna play Diablo 2, my bar is pretty low :p). Enjoying it thus far, even if it finally convinced me I wasted money on the Logitech F710 (the proportions are shitty and the triggers have way too much tension), so I am back to my 360 controller. Which reminds me I need to pick up some cyber clean (or something similar) since the controller is kind of grody.
Seriously Bioware, how the fuck did Obsidian release something less buggy and broken?
Also, fuck you to every single Diablo fan who says the solution to scaling issues is "lower your desktop resolution". Ironically, I think I'll try that when I only have my laptop (Linux, so wine) and PS4. Apparently it is easier to force scaling in a way that won't fuck with chrome and everything else because of how Linux/wine handles things.Steam: Gundato
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21-04-2014, 03:54 PM #21038The Medallion of the Imperial Psychopath, a Napoleon: Total War AAR
The Red Blades, a Battle Brothers AAR
Fall of the Samurai is almost the height of the series, Barbarian Invasion in its time was better I think.
Anyway just finished KOTOR2 with the restoration mod. It's still best described as nnnngggghhhhhhhhhhhhh! It's frustrating that such good writing and such an interesting take on the force and Star Wars is laden with bugs or weird problems where you get trapped killing Jedi despite being "light side". Argh so close!
So back to replaying Torment.
Finished the first chapter of The Raven: Legacy of a master thief and was a bit disappointing with the way it ended. The main character is fun to play and story is not bad, but I found it annoying that after all the investigations, the interrogations and even forensic analysis, everything boils down to a couple of incriminating pieces of evidence inside a locked room (which opens up at a certain plot point). That's bad adventure game design right there, but I will play the next two chapters sooner or later.
So deciding to play something with more action, I picked up Saints row IV and full of action it is. One of the most fun games ever created (and written).


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Aidan Lang became Seattle Opera's General Director on September 1, 2014. Selected by the Seattle Opera Board of Trustees after a two-year, international search process, Lang moved to Seattle in March, 2014 to effect a smooth transition of leadership from Seattle Opera's previous General Director, Speight Jenkins.
Before moving to Seattle, as General Director of New Zealand Opera from 2006 to 2013 Lang strove to ensure that every production was theatrically stimulating and musically ambitious. Working collaboratively is a top priority for Lang, and during his tenure New Zealand Opera implemented a series of collaborations with such companies as Glyndebourne, Opera North, and Welsh National Opera, bringing exciting productions from directors Nikolaus Lehnhoff (Jenůfa), Tim Albery (Macbeth), and Christopher Alden (Turandot) to New Zealand. In addition to bringing productions in, Lang made it a priority to develop the capacity to build productions in the country, establishing New Zealand's first-ever opera production workshop. This workshop resulted in international co-productions with Scottish Opera (L'italiana in Algeri), Victorian Opera (Serse), and last year's Der Fliegende Holländer and La Cenerentola with Opera Queensland in Australia. Future international co-productions are also underway with Cape Town Opera, West Australian Opera, Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia, and Victorian Opera. Lang's collaborative approach has also reaped significant rewards in the business area. With the expansion of the company's reach to include Christchurch, in addition to its performing centers in Auckland and Wellington, Lang rebranded New Zealand Opera as a truly national company, one that serves the entire country. The partnership Lang spearheaded with Creative New Zealand (the country's national arts development agency) resulted in significant increases to its core grant funding, securing long-term financial stability for the company.
Prior to leading New Zealand Opera, Aidan Lang held artistic leadership positions at Buxton Festival, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, and Opera Zuid in the Netherlands. Concurrent with these leadership positions, Lang was a sought after freelance director working around the world. Among other productions, he directed the first Brazilian production of Wagner's Ring at the historic Teatro Amazonas in Manaus. Other noted productions include Le Comte Ory (Welsh National Opera), Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Lisbon), The Turn of the Screw (Salzburg) and the British premieres of The Magic Fountain by Frederick Delius (Scottish Opera) and Cornet Christoph Rilke's Song of Love and Death by Siegfried Matthus (Glyndebourne). As Artistic Director of the Buxton Festival, Lang expanded the Festival to include Baroque and contemporary music, tripled its audience attendance, and delivered significant operating surpluses in each year. He was a key part of the triumvirate senior management team at Glyndebourne, where he held dual positions for nine years. He succeeded in developing a unique identity for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, distinct from the larger Glyndebourne Festival, and continuing the company's tradition of nurturing young singers. Concurrent with his positions at Glyndebourne, he was appointed the inaugural Artistic Director of Opera Zuid, a newly created touring company based in the Netherlands. During his leadership, Opera Zuid's impact and the quality of its work were such that the company received national funding and is now a permanent fixture of operatic life in the Netherlands. Born in 1957 in the UK, Lang is a graduate of The Tiffin School and the University of Birmingham. He relocated to Seattle with his wife of 24 years, the former soprano Linda Kitchen, and their 17-year-old daughter, Eleanor. In addition to his operatic leadership skills and international directing experience, Lang is an accomplished musician, having studied clarinet since the age of 8.
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Just two months after one of the strongest storms to form on planet Earth slammed into the central Philippines, hundreds of survivors were forced to flee by tropical depression "Agaton" on Tuesday.
Emergency shelters were damaged or destroyed on the eastern central island of Samar. Thousands of people were evacuated across the southern Philippines, including many already made homeless by the Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in November, after three days of rain flooded towns and farmland.
Tents collapsed under the weight of the rain and emergency plastic sheets have been torn away, humanitarian agency Oxfam told Reuters.
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An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year with Haiyan slamming into central islands on Nov. 8, killing more than 6,100 and wiping out entire coastal communities in Leyte and Samar.
More than 200,000 people have been taken to shelters over the last three days as flood waters rose, but hundreds were still marooned on the roofs of their houses on Tuesday, said Eduardo del Rosario, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
Del Rosario said 42 people had been killed, 65 had been injured and damage to property and farms had reached 367 million pesos ($8.13 million).
A state of calamity has been declared in Agusan del Norte and 15 other towns in the Davao del Norte, Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Sur areas of Mindanao even as weather bureau lifted alert levels as the storm weakened.
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In a quite extraordinary match in Belo Horizonte the World Cup hosts Brazil were embarrassed and rightfully defeated 7-1 in the semi-finals by a ruthless German side.
Germany were able to put 7 past Brazil whilst Oscar's late strike was able to give the hosts a useless consolation in a truly memorable World Cup game.
It all began when Germany scored from Toni Kroos' corner that found Thomas Muller inexplicably unmarked eight yards out, who found the net with a neat side foot which rolled underneath Julio cesar. Dante and David Luiz both drawn away by decoy runs, The finish looked easy, but wasn't.
After Germany's first, another attack was on the way with a cross-field pass by Muller that Fernandinho should have cut out, but failed to. There followed a superb interchange of passes between Kroos, Miroslav Klose and Muller again, that ended with Klose forcing a save from Julio Cesar. The ball rebounded to his feet and he made no mistake second time – to become, with 16 goals, the World Cup's top scorer unopposed, moving one ahead of Brazil's Ronaldo. It would have served as an omen, had Brazil been given time to consider one.
A minute later, Lahm surged down the right before crossing, and when Muller missed his kick – a rare aberration – Kroos struck his shot straight as an arrow leaving Cesar no chance. An uneasy quiet settled on the arena.
The game was gone now, and dignity was clinging by its fingertips. Not for long, almost from the restart Fernandinho lost possession, and Kroos and Khedira advanced on goal, unselfishly swooping passes almost as if they were reluctant to apply the final thrust of the sword. In the end, it fell to Kroos to administer the blow.
Mesut Ozil cut the ball back to Khedira for the fifth on 29 minutes and the stadium audibly gasped. Cameras that usually focus on happy, smiling Brazilians were effortlessly able to find tears everywhere around the stadium.
Andre Schurrle delivered the sixth from a neat square pass by Lahm in the 69th minute. The same player smashed yet another goal in from an acute angle against a hapless Cesar for the seventh ten minutes later. It officially became the worst night of football in Brazil's history. Oscar scored in injury time, although by then everyone had seen quite enough.
Germany will now set their sights on either Argentina or the Netherlands which will be decided tomorrow in the second of semi-finals.


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|Please note: This article is about the geisha. For other uses of the term, please see Natsumi (disambiguation).
Natsumi, the Socialite, was an artisan and courtier geisha also known as Summer Sea. In 1199 the young geisha had only recently come of age, having a certain naïve and innocent element. Skilled with the tea ceremony, Natsumi also thrived on her sweet-natured enthusiasm, but lacked the ruthless competitive drive which might be needed to secure the best patron. [1] She was so popular that one must pay a fortune and wait three months just to have tea. [2]
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Maybe they'd change the exterior of the can in order to appear more modern. Perhaps, in 2009, they would have reduced the amount of sugar in order to sound healthy. Perhaps, in 2014, they would have increased the amount of sugar so as to be nostalgic. They'd probably ride the wave of hyped-up fruit by adding a pinch of açaí. In a mid-cycle refresh, Coca-Cola could add a Punch Top vent to the top of the can, market the new design as all-new with commercials starring the next Hollywood icon, an actress who as of yet has no DUIs on her record.
Reputation for reliability
Easily operated interior
Successful CVT implementation
Doesn't look bad
Great steering wheel
Not feeling all 132 ponies
Interior feels... old
Very little manual availability
Rear beam axle can be jarring
It doesn't handle
One thing is certain: no matter how they altered Coca-Cola Classic, no matter the extent to which they tinkered and adjusted, we would drink the new can side-by-side with the old can in order to form conclusions.
Cars, however, are not Coca-Cola. Well, most cars aren't. Auto reviewers have been united in drawing favourable comparisons between the 2014 Chevrolet Impala and the ninth-gen car it replaced, but they've often forgotten to consider that consumers might cross-shop the new Impala with, for example, the new Toyota Avalon or a Chrysler 300. You don't care if the new Mitsubishi Outlander is better than the old one - time should bring about improvement, shouldn't it? - but you do care whether it's a viable rival for the Honda CR-V. Which it isn't.
But the new-for-2014 Toyota Corolla isn't a Chevrolet Impala, established though that nameplate is, nor is the new Corolla the same as the Mitsubishi Outlander, fighting tooth and nail to break through the 1000-unit monthly U.S. sales barrier.
The Corolla - an LE version of which was delivered to GCBC Towers a week ago by Toyota Canada - has historically inspired the kind of brand loyalty that leads its owners to consider replacing their current Corolla with nothing but a Corolla. It has generated a reputation for peerless reliability that leads nieces of nine-time-Corolla-owning aunts to test drive just the one car, a Corolla, because, "My aunt's Corollas never break."
As a result, why bother considering the ramifications on the compact segment that a new Corolla provokes? Why bother entering the Corolla in a comparison test with the Honda Civic, Mazda 3, Nissan Sentra, Hyundai Elantra, and Chevrolet Cruze?
Corolla owners, of which there are bijillions, simply want to know if this Corolla is a worthwhile improvement over the Corolla they're currently driving. Is it time to upgrade, time to trade in, time to donate the '02 they're currently driving to Meals On Wheels.
If Coca-Cola Classic was new for 2014, you'd only need to know if it was better than the old stuff. Toyota's Corolla is new for 2014. Is it better?
Uh... yeah, Cletus, it's better. It better be better. Corolla owners are loyal, but they're not going to stick with the Toyota brand forever if the car they're hoping to purchase turns out to be ready for a retirement garage.
Base Price * (CDN): $21,020
As-Tested Price * (CDN): $22,520
Engine: 1.8L DOHC 16-valve I-4
Transmission: continuously variable
Horsepower: 132 @ 6000 rpm
Torque: 128 lb-ft @ 4400 rpm
Curb Weight: 2855 pounds
Drive Type: front-wheel-drive
Length: 182.6 inches
Width: 69.9 inches
Height: 57.3 inches
Wheelbase: 106.3 inches
Passenger Volume: 2750 litres
Cargo Volume: 368 litres
Centre Console: 9 tennis balls
Glove Compartment: 38 tennis balls
EPA City: 29 mpg = 8.1 L/100km
EPA Highway: 38 mpg = 6.2 L/100km
Observed: 28.3 mpg
Observed: 8.3 L/100km
* includes destination/delivery.
Base price refers to Corolla LE.
Basic Corolla's true entry-level
price is $17,515.
Part of what charmed me about last year's Corolla - okay, "charm" may be way too strong a word - was the car's ultra-simplistic interior. There was no time required to get to know a complicated infotainment system, no hunting around for vital buttons, no searching for something as simple as the radio seek button.
That's all still in order in the 2014 Corolla. Steering wheel buttons, for example, are massive. M-A-S-S-I-V-E, I tell you. Control knobs are actual knobs. Cruise control and fan speed aren't controlled by the same voice command. Connecting your phone isn't a 27-step process that involves turning the treble down and adjusting the passenger-side mirror.
Time will prove every part of this interior to be indomitable; nothing will crumple under the weight of frequent use. The delightfully compact steering wheel is wrapped in Lexus-like fashion. Unfortunately, the centre screen isn't canted rearward and it's terribly far from the driver's line of sight.
The interior dimensions are compact, but only so much as they should be in a car this size. Toyota has made the Corolla feel much more spacious in back than it was last year, and even the Corolla driver feels less cuddled by the door door and centre console. Yes, the Corolla interior's straightforward nature is a welcome sight if you know Corollas or if you've spent time in, say, a Ford Focus. Yet the overall design which would have felt futuristic in 2001, out-front in 2005, and normal in 2009 now feels old, from the small gauge font to the 1990s clock to the small air vents.
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In addition, brake feel is poor, but not as poor as it was in the Corolla CE GCBC tested in 2013, a car which was clearly sent here to prep auto reviewers for the wild improvements we'd find in the MY2014 Corolla. You'll find some power as revs rise, but this car never felt as though it was generating 132 horsepower.
It's hard to blame the continuously variable transmission for sapping the 1.8L four-cylinder's output, too, as this is the best low-power CVT implementation I've encountered. Would I prefer a conventional 6-speed automatic? I'd prefer to shift for myself, but this really is CVT tech at its best, and it's a real coup for Toyota, as numerous automakers are fitting their compact sedans with CVTs, and the fitment elsewhere isn't this successful.
The Corolla is a lightweight compact, and as a result, sudden changes of direction are coped with, but it's almost as easy to fluster this car as it was to befuddle the 2013 Corolla, a car which never enjoyed being driven swiftly. The Corolla's seatbacks are too flat to get wet'n'wild in the corners anyway, as you'll slide into your passenger with haste. This new Corolla is more composed than the outgoing car, a sensation that originates from every place where you could measure composure: power delivery, brakes, steering, NVH, ride quality, etc. But if you wanted a compact car to hustle down back roads, you wouldn't be looking at a 2014 Corolla.
|GCBC Has Instituted ISTBTP, AKA Interior Storage Tennis Ball Test Protocol.
You Can See More On The ISTBTP In Last Week's Accord Hybrid Review, In This Tweet,
And At Jalopnik's Opposite Lock. The Corolla's ISTBTP Results Are In The Spec Chart Above.
Problems remain. In an industry full of flavourful, refreshing, sweet, fizzy
But they are not better Corollas. To many consumers, the best Corolla wins. Hands down, this is the best Corolla.
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lit. killing the chicken to scare the monkey; to punish an individual as an example to others
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