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Partial loss of limbs may be compensated for in future under a travel insurance policy to be launched by a major insurer.
Hong Kong insurers currently only pay out when victims suffer complete loss of limbs or death. However, following criticism of insurers who declined to pay out in the aftermath of the Manila hostage shootings which claimed the lives of eight Hongkongers a year ago - the claims were eventually settled - one company is to launch a new policy under which the loss of a part of a limb may be compensated for as a percentage of the total policy.
Chartis is a company which provides insurance via more than 300 travel agents in Hong Kong. Under its new policy, victims who suffer permanent disability may be compensated up to 75 per cent more than current full coverage, while loss of sight or hearing would also be fully covered. Accidental death will still be 100 per cent covered. Chartis says the new policy, available at an additional premium, will come into effect in two months. Customers will still be able to choose the old policy with limited personal accident coverage.
'The new product will offer more extensive personal accident coverage than that currently provided under the standard existing travel insurance policies in the market,' said Peter Joblin, a spokesman for Chartis. Rival insurer Blue Cross, which serves 500 tour agencies in the city, said it had no plans to launch new products.
In the Manila shootings, survivor Joe Chan Kwok-chu was shot in both hands, while his wife, Yik Siu-ling, had her lower jaw injured. Both complained that travel agents failed to explain details of the insurance policies they had bought, and did not know their injuries were not covered.
The couple later secured a one-off HK$1 million donation from an insurance fund set up by Chartis.
Since 2006, the government has issued a special licence for travel agents to sell travel insurance to encourage more tourists to buy policies.
Paul Chan Kin-por, a lawmaker for the insurance functional constituency, said the policy had proven to be a success, with more than 80 per cent of tourists now buying travel insurance. 'It is convenient for customers to be able to buy insurance when they sign up for a tour,' Chan said.
Meanwhile, the family of Masa Tse Ting-chunn, the tour guide killed in the Manila shooting, has received HK$650,000 in a 'condolence payment' from seven charities in the Philippines.
But Tse Chi-kin, his older brother, said the family was annoyed after some media reported the Manila government describing the money as 'compensation'. 'We treat the money as a condolence payment,' he said. 'Nothing in the letter issued by the charities said it was compensation or a settlement. We were so angry after reading reports that quoted the presidential office in Manila describing the sum as compensation. It was a trap; we may return the whole sum of money to them,' he said.
Tse Chi-kin and six others including his mother and Democratic lawmaker James To Kun-sun flew to Manila last night before the first anniversary of the fatal shootings tomorrow.
China's ambassador to the Philippines Liu Jianchao last night visited the group to express sympathy. He said the embassy would try its best to work with them.
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I wanted to share a few of the photos I took while at the NTA convention last week. I am sure you would like to see what you missed. I should have a video ready later this year which will have a lot more. I hope you enjoy this little look into the convention competition. http://w109.photobucket.com/widgets/dynamicflash.php?featuretype=bucketstrip&featurename=NTA2006&pa=/n58/jkulis1/
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You did it again, Great Photos. Also expect me to stop by your shop to buy a copy of your video of the 2006 show when it is ready for release. If it is anywhere near the quality of your video from the 2005 it will be a must buy. Thank's again for the photo's.
Any suggestions on how to speed up this download. It seems to be taking a long time for me. This was the first time I tried this. If you have as much trouble as I am havinf to look at them, email me and i will be happy to send you the photos. Sorry for any trouble you might be having with the photos. Have a great day.

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Minnesota Twins, Vikings, Wild, and Timberwolves Get In The Valentine's Day Spirit [VIDEOS + PHOTOS]
Here it is, Valentine's Day! As a majority of people celebrate love, the Minnesota Vikings, Twins, Wild, and Timberwolves have jumped on board with videos and Valentine's Day cards for fans. Here's some of what they had to share:
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The Twins offered a video of terrible pickup lines. Brace yourself, it's time for the bad pun…avoid these pickup lines so you don't "strike out" with that special someone.
Minnesota Vikings
The Vikings took to Facebook and Instagram with a couple of "punny" Valentine's Day cards. Nothing against Patterson, but personally, the AP one is my favorite.
Minnesota Wild
The Wild sort of followed suit with the Vikings, and made a bunch of player Valentine's Day cards. Which one is your favorite?
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The T-Wolves offered a little video that features a bunch of player cards. The best of both worlds, right?


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Popular culture consumers are a generous and forgetful bunch. Something can disappear, then come back the same but different, and it'll seem like it never left. Certain entertainers, like Cher, have that kind of crowd-pleasing durability. So, too, does the "Rush Hour" franchise. These movies are the Cher of cartoonish action-comedies: hard to embarrass and probably not biodegradable.
"Rush Hour 3" puts Chris Tucker's Carter and Jackie Chan's Lee in another senseless plot -- Chinese triads, the streets and sewers of Paris, kick, bang, boom! When the ambassador who Lee has been protecting is shot at an international conference in Los Angeles, he and Carter go looking for the culprits and the mysterious gangland list behind it all. Unnaturally, this leads to a Parisian chanteuse named Genevieve who's played by Noémie Lenoir, the light-skinned European supermodel who suggests that Beyoncé is French for "great, big mannequin." (She's actually put to more ludicrous use, but you have to see it to believe it.)
Along the way, we get refried scenes. Look, it's Carter and Lee bickering on the plane and in the hotel, and look out, here comes a deadly dragon lady (Youki Kudoh) with a daggered Chinese fan. This is the same parade of cheery racism and blithe misogyny that we got six years ago with "Rush Hour 2." This new one has even been sprinkled with unashamed movie icons (Max von Sydow and Roman Polanski have small parts) and has made room for Yvan Attal to steal all his scenes playing a Parisian cab driver who falls in love with America.
This movie makes a fine replacement for the previous two installments. They've all been directed with lots of affection by the incurably average Brett Ratner, who sets his climactic fight atop the Eiffel Tower and demonstrates how the French flag can double as a parachute.
Of course, he also remembers that part of the appeal of these movies is the fantasy it promotes: We can all be jive, even Dana Ivey, who has an amusing cameo as a nun who translates a French-Asian baddie's racial slurs for Tucker and Chan. Being around Tucker makes you want to say obliviously ignorant stuff to everybody in a voice that squeals.
"Rush Hour 3" reminds us that Tucker is an utterly strange entertainment phenomenon: He exists only in the world of these movies. He's done virtually nothing else since the first one came out in 1998 (I guess it takes about six years to count $20 million, which was Tucker's salary for the previous installment), and you miss the instrument that is his voice. It's like the zither or the theremin -- you want to get close enough to hear how he makes that sound. For this sequel, Tucker gets to sing a lot more. He does Prince's "Do Me, Baby" and "The Star-Spangled Banner."
And his lasciviousness is taken up a notch, as though Tucker's only chance to approach women is when he's making these movies. "These girls are sushi-grade," he says about two ladies he's arresting. His Carter is a walking R. Kelly song -- he's not heterosexual or bisexual. He's just sexual. You get the sense that he'd hit on a park bench if it would say yes.
But Ratner, working with a script by Jeff Nathanson, is open-minded enough to admit what "Rush Hour 3" is: a love story between its two stars. When they fight and split up, Elton John fills the soundtrack, Lee sees African tribesmen on TV and wistfully orders fried chicken, while Carter, feeling the same, orders moo shu. For their reconciliation, they lovingly sing to each other "The Closer I Get to You" (with Genevieve, basically serving as an afterthought) on stage in front of hundreds of Parisians. This all feels borderline radical: a series of gags that seem sincere despite themselves.
Between this and "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry," it feels a lot like Hollywood is prepping us for some kind of seismic coming out. Who knows where Carter and Lee are dancing off to together at the end of this movie. But I'm ready to pronounce them Chris and Jackie.
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(Max Liberty/TeaParty.org) – Washington looks the other way to the Russian land grab of U.S. territory. Did Obama and Prime Minister of Russia Medvedev secretly discuss the land grab? It seems the National Geographic boosts giveaway of US/Alaskan Wrangell Island to Putin's Russia with grossly false article.
National Geographic's May issue sported an incredibly false story about the US/Alaskan Wrangell Island in the Arctic Ocean. The falsehoods boost the giveaway to the Russians of Wrangell Island and its 200-nm resource rich seabeds. The Obama/Kerry State Department actively supports the giveaway.[i]
National Geographic is risking its general renown for accuracy by publishing this patent propaganda piece. The editors should be ashamed of themselves for failing to fact-check most everything.
FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! For Sedition against the Constitution!
Here are just some of the crucial false/misleading statements:
1. The article's title "Russian Refuge–[sic]Wrangel Island is a Haven…" has two major errors. Wrangell Island is not Russian territory; it is Russian-occupied American territory. The island was named in honor of Baron Ferdinand von Wrangell. He was not a Russian, but rather a Balt, and his family spelled the name with 2 Ls. He was hired by the Russian government to explore, but, as the article correctly said, he did not even sight Wrangell Island.
2. The map has several errors/omissions. It fails to show the tallest mountain Berry Peak and the biggest river Clark River at whose mouth on the eastern end of the island was the definitive landing the U.S. Revenue Marine ship Corwin made to incorporate Wrangell into the United States in 1881. These and other American names such as Rodgers Cove, Evans Point, etc. are expected as they were named after the Americans who brought this island into America or their higher-ups in the chain of command. Wrangell is the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
3. The joint expedition of USS Jeannette between the U. S. Navy and the publisher of the New York Herald James Gordon Bennett was a spectacular success for American exploration. USS Jeannette did drift by Wrangell Island without landing in 1879, and after two years of drifting northwest in the icebergs came to three islands in 1881 which were claimed for the U.S.: Bennett, Jeannette (his sister), and Henrietta (his mother). They are referred to as the DeLong Islands after the ship's captain George Washington DeLong. USS Jeannette did not then just "sank". The crew departed south in three whale-type boats. Two of three made it to the Russian mainland at the Lena River delta. One of the two were rescued by local Russians; the other with DeLong landed but went off in another direction, and he and his part of the crew died of starvation. DeLong was eventually found clutching the ship's log highlighting in red ink the finding of the three islands for America. This became front page news in the U.S. Great welcome home ceremonies. Congressional hearings. The crew eventually awarded gold Congressional medals. The story is recounted in great detail in "Icebound" by Leonard Guttridge, published by the Naval Institute Press.
4. In August 1881, it was not just any "steamer" involved. It was a U.S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin (predecessor of Coast Guard, and under the command of Treasury Department). John Muir was not a U.S. government officer but was an enthusiastic guest observer, who did recount the landing with his illustrations in "The Cruise of the Corwin". The U.S. officers in the landing party did all the right things which brought this uninhabited island into American territory. The Russians NEVER disputed this either then or now.
5. Within a week after the initial landing, USS Rodgers (commanded by Lt. Berry) did a complete survey of the island.
6. Muir did not publish "the first description of [sic] Wrangell". Rather the officials in the Navy and Revenue Marine made extensive reports, maps, and suggestions to Congress and others in Washington. Congress accepted the wonderful addition. Numerous news stories, it was incorporated into all the necessary American territory records.
7. Much action took place in and around Wrangell from 1881 into the 1920s: Hollywood movie shoots, polar bear hunts, and a settlement by owners of Wrangell properties. This included a reindeer herding business owned by the Lomen Brothers, Carl and Ralph, prominent officials in Nome.
8. In 1924 a Soviet/Russian gunship Red Oktober invaded the island, captured the Americans working for the Lomen Brothers, and took them off eventually to Harbin–where they were repatriated to the U.S. This occupation continues to this day–a very sad day. The U.S. government had no government to complain to about the invasion in 1924, inasmuch as it did not recognize the Soviet government, but rather the Kerensky government as the legitimate government of Russia. The State Department has continued to this day to obscure the occupation, and to make it into a de facto giveaway. Perhaps due to embarrassment or weakness.
9. The facts show that Wrangell is American; not because "certain jingoistic groups in the United States", including a "Tea Party blogger", say so. The facts say so. The State Department's neglect is a de facto giveaway. The State legislatures of Alaska and California, plus numerous national groups, have fought to stop the giveaway by passing resolutions.
10. As for resources, they are vast, not "is not known to have substantial oil reserves". The Department of the Interior estimates the oil and gas reserves in the Chukchi Sea are in the billions of barrels. Also, fisheries in the hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. The oil and gas may be on land, but more likely within the 200-nm Exclusive Economic Zone around the island that is part of the giveaway.
11. Among other uses of Wrangell, the Soviets/Russians established three gulag concentration camps which were operated for decades with numerous deaths.
12. The sad giveaway story was initiated by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1977 when he unilaterally announced to the Soviets–in some 'detente' concession–that the U.S. would recognize a maritime boundary between the U.S. and the Soviet Union as including a line from the Bering Strait proceeding due north–with Wrangell and its EEZ being on the Soviet side. This was a secret declaration that was not revealed to Congress, the State of Alaska, or the general public. Thus the State Department has saddled itself with an entirely fabricated story of "no claim" to Wrangell. The good things are that the truth can overcome these missteps.
National Geographic should quickly redeem its name by seeking out the facts and republishing the article with the truth. It should not be aiding the cabal of Putin's Russia and the Obama/Kerry State Department.[ii]
The giveaway is not confined only to Wrangell Island and its EEZ. It also includes Bennett, Jeannette, and Henrietta Islands in the Arctic, and Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock, and Sea Otter Rock at the western end of the Aleutian chain.[iii]
When will The Obama administration tell the American people that they are not only giving away our rights, but our land as well!
Citizenship is running on empty.
Resources – Max Liberty is a senior writer on the Tea Party Research team.
[i] View it at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/wrangel-island/sides-text
[ii] The best source of facts is the website: www.statedepartmentwatch.org. It has photos of gulags, Kissinger cables of concession, numerous resolutions of opposition to the giveaway by States of Alaska and California and by national organizations, Department of Interior estimates of the billions of barrels of oil and gas, hundreds of documents in the Congressional Record, etc.
[iii] You can encourage the National Geographic to redeem its name and correct the story–and to help stop the giveaway. Here's the e-mail address: [email protected].


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State insurance regulators delayed for at least four weeks action on a resolution that would support the demand by insurance agents for an exemption from the medical loss ratio (MLR) provision of the health care reform law.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Professional Health Insurance Advisors Task Force took the action late Sunday. The meeting was held as a prelude to the NAIC Spring Meeting, being held in Austin, Texas this week.
The panel decided to ask the NAIC staff to provide substantial data that it will use to decide whether to support the request by insurance agents, brokers and health insurance companies for a resolution backing House legislation that would exempt agent commissions from the MLR.
The agents and brokers want the NAIC to endorse H.R. 1206, the "Access to Professional Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2011." The legislation is sponsored by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.
Sandy Praeger, Kansas insurance commissioner and chair of the Health Insurance Advisors Task Force, said after the meeting, "This was the right thing to do. We need to base our decisions on appropriate data."
Beth Mantz Steindecker, a health care analyst at Washington Analysis, says the decision "is not fatal" to the intensive efforts by agents and brokers to be exempted from the MLR.
The agents, led by the National Association of Health Underwriters, the Independent Agents and Brokers of America, the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents, and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, say that insurance companies have used the authority provided under the MLR provision to cut their commissions as much as 50 percent this year.
Steindecker acknowledges that NAIC support is a "key factor" in building momentum for House action. But a greater hurdle will be the Senate, she says.
"House support will be important, but the Senate is a key obstacle because Senate liberals, led by Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W. Va., and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, are key opponents of any change to the law," she says.
In fact, Rockefeller and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., wrote letters to the panel asking the NAIC not to pass the resolution.
In his letter, Sen. Rockefeller calls the MLR a key "pro-consumer" provision of the health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
"Agents and brokers play a role in helping American consumers and businesses purchase health insurance," Rockefeller says in the letter.
"But I won't support a proposal that allows those same agents, brokers and health insurance companies to pocket $1 billion in benefits that should instead be going to the benefit of American consumers as part of the health care reform law we approved last year."
Praeger acted after commissioners from such states as California, Illinois, Oregon, Washington and Connecticut voiced opposition.
Support for the provision is being led by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, who is also seeking to exempt insurers in Florida from all cost-control provisions of the PPACA.
David Eppstein, PIA assistant vice president for regulatory affairs, says: "There is already ample evidence that agent and broker compensation has been negatively affected as a direct result of the Department of Health and Human Services's failure to exclude it from MLR calculations. We are hopeful that the Health and Managed Care Committee, chaired by Commissioner Praeger, will act quickly to allay any concerns and that the NAIC will just as quickly endorse legislation to remove producer compensation from medical loss ratio calculations."
But officials of Consumer Watchdog, a California-based consumer advocacy group, laud the panel's decision.
"Without the united backing of the state insurance commissioners, the legislation's special-interest authorship is laid bare and its aim--to protect large percentage commissions on health insurance sales--is easier to detect," says Judy Dugan, Consumer Watchdog research director.
"We applaud the consumer-focused state commissioners who made their doubts known. They put the brakes on an industry pay bonus from the pockets of consumers and taxpayers."


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Statoil announced Thursday lunchtime (UK time) that Victor Sneberg, the last of its missing employees after the terror attack on the In Amenas gas facility in southeastern Algeria January 16, has been confirmed as dead.
The news comes a day after the bodies of four other Statoil employees who were victims of the In Amenas attack were flown back to Norway.
On Thursday, Statoil Chief Executive Helge Lund said in a statement:
"It is with deep sorrow that we have received the news today that Victor Sneberg, our country manager in Algeria, is among those who lost their lives in the terror attack at In Amenas.
"Five friends and colleagues who were going about their work for Statoil will never return to their loved ones. They represented the very best of our company. Our thoughts and deepest compassion go first and foremost to the families, friends and colleagues who have lost those dear to them. Everyone in Statoil shares their grief. In the time ahead those most affected will need our support."
Statoil added that a ceremony to mourn its dead employees will be held Feb. 4 in Håkon's Hall in Bergen, Norway.
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It is extremely refreshing hearing someone inside the industry really speak his mind unfiltered by the need to market one game or another, although the occasion is a sad one. I played both Titan Quest and Immortal Throne and loved it; infact I still listen to the musical score occasionally. However, since I did not buy the game until several months after release, not being too fond of the hack&slash genre at the time, I did not notice any of the original troubles.
One thing that strikes me as odd is the copy protection issue mentioned. I wonder whether it was intentional to crash the game at the copyright checkpoints instead of terminating the program graciously with an error message for the user? I guess this would make hacking the game easier, but is a functional hack not better than a hack that only appears to be functional and makes the game look unstable?
Maybe this is something for the developers to learn, being less paranoid about their users. Although I have little sympathy for people pirating games, I have even less for companies with underhanded programming styles. Although not directly related to PC game piracy, I suspect that companies like Sony BMG were very successful in erasing any bad conscience people downloading mp3s for free might have had, thus aggravating the issue even more.
If the crash was only caused by an incompetent cracker, however, which seems just as likely, the most important thing is probably to communicate this to the potential players efficently. The cause of the crashes should be brought to the attention of people through highly frequented websites, not an obscure message board as is usually done, since most gamers scared away by rumors of crashes are not likely to visit the official message boards looking for the few developers comments on the issue! If things get lucky, they might take a look at the official website of the game.
As mentioned above, I do not know how Iron Lore handled things at the time. Maybe they really did handle the situation as well as possible, maybe they made some mistakes. In either case, I hope Michael's post is read by as many people as possible, in particular those in a habit of obtaining games for free. It might help return some of the bad conscience scared away by the more consumer hostile companies around.
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Blade of Darkness on GoG
Some good old, real, hacking and slashing. Forgot to add that it used to be called 'Severence: Blade of Darkness', don't know why they severed 'Severence'!
This was one awesomely atmospheric and brutal action game. I wouldn't actually call it hack & slash, or at least not mindless. It's very tactical in the way you have to time your swings. I loved it, but it also freaked the hell out of me. The music and sound design was amazing.
By the way, just to point out that the GoG version includes the 'speeding up' fix that I had and many others with running the retail version on new CPUs.
On a semi-related note there are some new screenies from the remake of the game [EDIT: my link points to material from a Blade of Destiny remake and not Blade of Darkness - I am an idiot :) ], showing off the Thorwal region. There's also some new info:
- The developer is Austria-based Crafty Entertainment who have worked on various German language MMOs and browser games in the past
- The game is not going to be casualized. There's only supposed to be more support for newcomers.
- The DSA ruleset is not going to be touched. They are only aiming at various improvements of the system.
- They are planning on keeping the original soundtrack but it's getting a technical overhaul.
- The anticipated release date for the remake (not sure if only BoD or the whole trilogy but probably just the former) is Q2/2013.
Whaaaaaa???? A remake? Awesome!!!!!
No, there is no remake. Mo smoked the purple mushrooms today. Or he had a clown for breakfast. ;)
Oh so many memories with this game. GoG does fine job rereleasing the classics. They don't only do good business, but they also uphold the culture of videogames :)
There used to be a small, but healthy modding scene for bod. If you have played this game through dozen times through like I have, well then you surely seek extra challenge / content.
Few Bod sites:
http://www.arokhslair.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=24 <- Likely the oldest english BOD forums. You can find many links to bod related sites there. You can also find help if you're stuck in game or need tips how to run mods etc.
Bod loader is required nine times out of ten if you wish to play user made mods, singleplayer maps etc.
http://www.petrbnsfineart.com/blades…ladestuff.html <- The home of fugitive mod. One of the best sp adventures for bod, although fugitive 1 is maybe something one should skip entirely and play fugitive 2-3 since they are higher quality, but a bod junkie like myself plays everything :)
http://www.moddb.com/games/severance-blade-of-darkness Great resource for bod files.
Oh man I may need to get this. The version I had froze on XP.
haha. Don't even name the evil incarnate. ;)
I still have an original big box retail edition of BoD lying around somewhere.
Never got very far in this game. I remember finding it somewhat frustrating for some reason, and I wasn't interested enough to keep trying. Always meant to go back and give it another shot. I wonder how it holds up to more modern fantasy combat games.
I'll be picking this up. I rather enjoyed it but never finished but I rarely finish games anyhow.
If I remember correctly it had some superb combat. This is the first game that came to mind when playing dark souls. Combat wise.
Ooooooh, the "first" game to have shadows (and most games after it couldn't top them).
I remember getting frustrated at the keyboard combos, but finding the game freaking awesome.
I always wondered if Blade of Darkness would end up on Gog. It's certainly a very worthy addition. In my opinion, BoD still has the best melee combat system I've ever encountered - something that is extremely impressive given the age of the game. Timing, footwork, hit detection for different body parts, and challenging, aggressive A.I. that keeps you on your toes and demands strategy over blind button mashing for success are the bullet-point highlights that make BoD extremely satisfying. Oh yeah, and it's still one of the only games (perhaps the *only* game) I've ever played with a "true" dodge mechanic - as in you actually duck underneath and around incoming blows instead of the lazy cop-out modern developers use of rolling around on the ground like a spaz. It's baffling to me that no one has managed to get dodging "right" in the years that have followed BoD.
There is a learning curve involved with learning how to properly move your character and time your attacks in a fluid rhythm alongside defensive maneuvers, but once you "get it," it is a truly remarkable game. In addition to the combat, the atmosphere is fantastic. What it lacks in story, BoD makes up for with it's lovingly crafted environments. Certainly one of my all-time favorite "hidden gems," and I hope that it finally gets some of the long over-due praise it deserves through its re-release on Gog.
I remember making it through the blinding snow level to he final gauntlet but gave up. Difficult game to say the least. Was I supposed to be that blind in that whiteout or was that an artifact of an old game on modern hardware? The first 2/3rds of the game is fantastic and the first few levels are pure brilliance.
I've been playing the GoG version. Easy install, select OpenGL, lower the brightness and that's it. There is a "god mode" bug at the end of the first level I encountered, but luckily it vanishes at the end of the level. Game looks remarkably good after all these years.
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Jackie Hope: Desperately seeking Santa
By Jackie Hope, Our Town Columnist
Know who's in town? Santa, that's who! He arrived on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and plopped himself into a big red chair, smack in the middle of Prairie Hills Mall.
Who is his acting CEO at the North Pole? Who is checking the lists and checking them twice? Who is wrangling the elves and exercising the reindeer; or exercising the elves and wrangling the reindeer? And if Santa is here, who is that imposter sitting in the big guy's chair over at Kirkwood Mall?
A Google search for Santa Claus turns up 117,000,000 hits in .31 seconds, and our website friend, Wikipedia, is the frontrunner in that race. Skipping over the wonders of Wikipedia and surfing to another of Santa's websites, www.stnicholas.org, we learn St. Nicholas was born on an island near Turkey, became a Roman Catholic bishop and was canonized after his death on Dec. 6, 343.
Legends then grew, recounting St. Nicholas' good deeds and kindness to children.
St. Nicholas followed the early colonists to America and, in 1809, Washington Irving gave him a makeover as an elf-like Dutch burgher in "Knickerbockers History of New York."
Irving's elfish St. Nicholas was not a "Lord of the Rings" hunky elf like Orlando Bloom. He was more of a John Rhys Davies/Gimli guy.
By 1823, Clement Clarke Moore had given us "A Visit from St. Nicholas," also known as "The Night Before Christmas," with a "jolly old elf" who smoked too much, ate too much, wore a grungy soot-covered suit, and did home invasions every Christmas Eve. Don't know about you, but I'd rather see Orlando Bloom under my Christmas tree.
So what about the 21st century Santa Claus? Who is that dude out at Prairie Hills Mall? Let's go visit him, and find out.
Here we are at the mall, where the town's second-biggest big-box store is gleefully blasting Christmas music because, hey, nothing gets you into the buying spirit like "Silent Night" pushed at 100 decibels.
Its playlist must be on "shuffle," because "O Holy Night" is chillingly smooshed up against "Frosty the Snowman." And "Blue Christmas," "White Christmas," and "Cowboy Christmas" all are lined up, but not alphabetically or according to age, or even by megabytes of music. Now shuffle has moved to "Hard Candy Christmas," which is a bite-sized music byte. What is shuffle up to? Is it shuffling without a full deck?
Well, there are more important questions to be answered. Like, "Where's Santa?" and, "How many kids are in front of me in the Santa queue?" There's Santa's snowy enclosure — a Claus corral — way down the concourse, just beyond the sausage stall and the pretzel emporium. Oooo, do they have bacon-stuffed pretzels? And cinnamon? I want a cheesy one and a cinnamon one and … oh yeah, Santa. Gotta ask Santa for a whole bag of pretzels, the big fat ones with half-carat salt crystals on them.
Look, there are Santa's snowy trees! And there is Santa's snowy fence! And there is Santa's snowy gate! And there is Santa's big red chair! But Santa's big red … uh, big red … um … Santa's big red self is not sitting in Santa's chair!
Where is Santa? What gives? Is this like a "Where's Waldo?" and we have to look around the mall for some guy in a red stocking cap?
Bummer! A sign says Santa will be back later. Did he leave for Thanksgiving break? Did the big guy split, to go home and eat turkey with the family, then watch some football on the widescreen? Hold on, it's a heck of a commute from the North Pole. Maybe Santa couldn't find a hotel room in Dickinson. They are pretty scarce sometimes. Or maybe he had to bunk down with his reindeer at the boarding stable. Nah, that's another Christmas story.
Dang, who is gonna listen to our Christmas lists? Who is gonna believe we've been good all year? And who is gonna put that bag of pretzels under my Christmas tree?
Or, more importantly, who is gonna put Orlando Bloom under my Christmas tree?
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Gooey Toffee Cake
- 6 ounces dates (Pitted)
- 1 1⁄4 cups water
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4 ounces butter
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Toffee Sauce
- 2 1⁄2 cups light brown sugar
- 3 1⁄2 ounces butter
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1⁄2 ounce brandy
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 ounces Skor English toffee bits
Toasted Pecan Ice Cream
- 3 cups milk
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1⁄2 vanilla bean (Split&Scraped)
- 1 1⁄2 cups pecan pieces
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream
- 1⁄2 tablespoon whiskey
- Procedure:.
- Preheat 325*/Spray Cake Pan.
- Combine the dates and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Turn off heat and gradually add the baking.
- soda (it will foam) and set aside.
- Sift together the flour and baking powder. Cream the butter in the mixer bowl until fluffy, with the mixer.
- running add half of the eggs and mix until incorporated. Add the rest of the eggs and vanilla and continue.
- to mix until smooth. Starting with the flour mixture add in thirds opposite the dates in to the creamed.
- mixture until all is combined and smooth.
- Place equal amounts into prepared pan and bake for 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
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- Combine the sugar, butter, half&half and brandy; boil for three minutes. Add the vanilla and heath bar bits.
- and stir until almost smooth.
- Preheat 400*.
- While warm ladle equal amounts into the cooked cakes and cook for five minutes or until bubbly and.
- golden. Let cool to room tempetature.
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- Preheat 350*.
- In a sauce pan bring the milk, cinnamon sticks and vanilla to a boil. While this is coming to a boil, toast.
- the pecan pieces in the oven for 6-8 minutes. Toss them into the milk mixture. Turn off the milk and let rest.
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MILWAUKEE After giving his players a couple days off, Doc Rivers had no idea what to expect when the Boston Celtics took to the floor against the Milwaukee Bucks.
The Celtics looked alive and refreshed, and clearly had a little more bounce than normal as they pulled away in the fourth for a 100-91 win that snapped a six-game winning streak for the Bucks (21-25).
With the win, Boston (25-21) is guaranteed to do no worst than .500 on their eight game road trip that ends Friday night at Philadelphia.
But for the C's, there's no time to think about how good this trip has been, until it's over.
For Boston, it's their second straight win over a team that they could potentially see in the playoffs.
"These last two wins have been big," said C's coach Doc Rivers. "We'll be ready tomorrow."
Strong defensive play in the second half, great help-side defense and an active bench all factored into the Celtics' win on Thursday. Here we look back at a few keys identified prior to the game, and how they actually played out.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR: A big part of Milwaukee's run of late has been their ball movement. The most telling barometer for that is assists. And the Bucks have been racking them up in bunches lately. Milwaukee has had at least 30 assists in each of their last four games, something that hasn't happened in the NBA since Phoenix did in during the 2007-2008 season. And a five-game assist binge of 30 or more hasn't happened since Orlando did it during the 1994-1995 season. That ball distribution success will be put to the ultimate test by Boston, which allows a league-low 18.5 assists per game.
WHAT WE SAW: Milwaukee had another good game in terms of assists, but the Celtics really took them out of what they wanted to do, in the second half. The Bucks finished with 23 assists (snapping a four game run of 30 or more assists), but only six came in the second half.
"We were struggling to even handle the ball," said Bucks coach Scott Skiles. "We weren't sharp in any area of the game."
MATCHUP TO WATCH: Kevin Garnett vs. Drew Gooden: Like Garnett, Gooden is also a power forward playing center. And like Garnett, Gooden has the ability to score facing the basket although he doesn't have Garnett's range on his shot. This is going to be one of the few games that Garnett will play at the center position where he doesn't have a clear-cut advantage over his matchup. And when you throw in the fact that Gooden is playing the best basketball of his career (he was Eastern Conference Player of the Week earlier this month), it makes for what should be a great duel.
WHAT WE SAW: This matchup wasn't even close. Garnett ratcheted up the defensively intensity all game on Gooden, who had six points after missing 10 of his 12 shots from the field. Meanwhile, Garnett had his team-leading 15th double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds, in addition tallying six assists and three blocked shots as yet another example of how he's one of the most versatile players in NBA history.
PLAYER TO WATCH: It has to be Paul Pierce, who has been in foul trouble each of the last two games for the Celtics. He didn't fare so well when the two teams met on Feb. 29, scoring just 10 points on 5-for-12 shooting. He'll be defended by Carlos Delfino, which is one of the few matchups that clearly favors Boston. Don't be surprised if the C's try to get the Captain going early and often.
WHAT WE SAW: The Truth delivered the kind of big-game performance fans have come to expect from him in games like Thursday night's tilt. He came out attacking, and scored 11 points in the first quarter. After a quite second quarter, he erupted for another 14 in the second half before finishing with a game-high 25 points.
"That's what a couple days off will do to you, give you some fresh legs," Pierce said. "I had a little zip in my step tonight."
STAT TO TRACK: If Boston emerges with a win, the turning point will most likely be the third quarter. This season, Boston averages 24.3 points per game in the third, the 10th-best scoring mark for that quarter, in the NBA. The Bucks' third-quarter scoring defense ranks 19th in the league, with opponents averaging 24.1 points scored. But complicating matters some for Milwaukee in the third is that they average just 23.2 points scored in the third which ranks No. 23 in the NBA in third quarter scoring which, as you might expect, is their worst scoring quarter.
WHAT WE SAW: True to form, Boston's ability to close out the third quarter playing well positioned them for a strong fourth quarter push. After Milwaukee went on a 5-0 spurt to lead, 71-70 in the third, a pair of baskets by Kevin Garnett gave the C's a 74-71 lead going into the fourth. From there, they opened with a 14-6 run and never looked back. Although Boston only scored 18 points in the third, they were still plus-5 in the quarter by limiting the Bucks to 13 points on 6-for-21 shooting in the quarter.


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Some 650 girls and boys attend this village school in central Bamyan Province in Afghanistan. Despite continuing insecurity, 4 million children have returned to school since 2005.
Afghanistan is facing a variety of natural and man-made disasters across the country. Armed conflict, school burning, suicide attacks and kidnapping and killing of humanitarian workers limit the access to civilian population and hamper the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Influx of deportees/returnees from the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan, population movement and natural disasters are the main phenomena.
Afghanistan has a maternal mortality ratio of 1,600 deaths per 100,000 live births, which accounts as one of the highest in the world; infant mortality rate stands at 165 per 1,000 live births whereby one child out of every four does not survive his/her fifth birthday; 2 million primary school-aged children (60 per cent) are out of school, with an estimated 1.3 million of them being girls. As per Ministry of Education statistics, 3,929 schools do not have buildings (2006); only 23 per cent of the entire population has access to safe drinking water and a mere 12 per cent to sanitation facilities. According to UNHCR statistics, 347,563 individuals from Pakistan and 5,763 from Iran returned into Afghanistan in 2007 in addition to 260,342 deported persons. Conflict in southern, south-eastern and eastern regions is increasing, causing civilian casualties and population movement. In the military operations and suicide attacks up to June 2007 either by the Government/Coalition forces or by Anti-Government Elements (AGE) 600 civilians have been killed and over 2,000 families displaced, mainly in the south.
Health and nutrition: An estimated 600,000 vulnerable children among the displaced, returnee host communities and impoverished will benefit from the following activities: distribution of essential emergency drugs and equipment; provision of nutritional supplies to therapeutic feeding centres; administration of multiple micronutrients and vitamin A to pregnant/lactating women; vitamin A supplementation to internally displaced and drought-affected children; vaccination against measles; and rapid response to diarrhoeal and acute respiratory disease outbreaks for children in high-risk areas.
Water, sanitation and hygiene: UNICEF will provide water purification tablets at household level for 10,000 families and water tankering for a population of 150,000; chlorinate 10,000 wells in high-risk areas; construct 1,000 sanitary household latrines for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees; construct five roof water harvesting systems for five schools in drought-affected areas; repair 2,000 water points in drought-affected areas, mainly in schools; promote hygiene education; construct and repair 35 piped water schemes in drought- and flood-affected areas; and provide 60,000 collapsible water jerrycans to IDPs and emergency-affected families. An estimated 1 million children and women will be assisted.
Education: Over half a million children, mainly in IDP/returnee- and conflict-affected areas, will benefit from the construction of 305 cost-effective classrooms, the provision of teaching/learning materials, teacher support, temporary learning spaces, psychosocial support to traumatized and war-affected children and IDP/deportee (adolescent) girls' education.
Child protection: UNICEF will create child-friendly play areas for children in the IDP/deportee concentrated areas and for children affected by armed conflict and natural disasters; strengthen monitoring of child rights violations and abuse through existing Child Protection Action Networks; support community-based psychosocial/child-friendly corners in the IDP/deportee concentrated areas; undertake mine-risk awareness programmes; trace and reunite separated children in the event of emergencies.
Humanitarian response and coordination: UNICEF, in coordination with the Government/UN agencies, will preposition relevant supplies in its Zonal Offices and other strategic locations to cover 30,000 families with a standard package of family kits, tarpaulins, jerrycans, blankets and warm clothing for women and children. UNICEF, in collaboration with the UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA), will support disaster risk reduction trainings at community level.
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Really well done one thing i dislike is the feet :P
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Yeah, they're fugly, but the Space Police health care program does pay for fashionable cybernetics! ;D
Yeah, they're fugly, but the Space Police health care program does pay for fashionable cybernetics! ;D
I'm actually hoping to post some more stuff soon showing off the unique gripping abilities these prosthetics have--the heel part of the foot actually uncurls and becomes two more little gripping fingers that help her jump and grab things mid-air. Long story short I was going for function more than fashion XD


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May 6, 2014
Providence, R.I.-Rhode
Island College has named Sherri
Heard as the
assistant women's volleyball coach. She will assist Head Coach Leo
Bush in all phases of
the program including recruiting, scouting, administering practice
and match coaching.
"I am excited and looking forward to
being back at my alma mater and becoming part of the athletics
department at Rhode Island College," said Heard. "I am looking
forward to working with Coach Bush, as well as the rest of the
players on the team. I hope we grow and develop the volleyball team
into one of the top competitors in the Little East. I enjoyed
playing here at RIC and cannot wait to begin my coaching career."
A former member of the Rhode Island College women's
volleyball team, the Coventry, R.I. native closed out her career as
an Anchorwoman having played in 484 games in 134 matches. She
totaled 1,001 career kills (2.1/game), a .228 hitting percentage,
107 assists (.22/game), 58 service aces (.119), 159 digs (.33/game)
and 279 blocks (.58/game). She ranks fourth and is one of only four
former players to eclipse the 1,000-kill milestone all-time at RIC.
Heard is fifth in career blocks and ninth in hitting percentage.
As a senior in 2007, she played in 114 games in 32
matches, totaling 318 kills (2.8/game), a .243 hitting percentage,
51 assists (.45/game), 57 digs (.50/game) and 75 blocks (.66/game).
Heard was second on the team in kills, hitting percentage and
As a junior in 2006, Heard played in 123 games in 33
matches totaling 286 kills (2.33/game), a .291 hitting percentage,
27 assists (.22/game), four service aces (.03/game), 27 digs
(.22/game) and 71 blocks (.58/game). Heard was named the Little East
Conference Women's Volleyball Offensive Player of the Week once on
the season. She was second on the team in kills, hitting percentage
and blocks.
As a sophomore in 2005, she played in 122 games in 36
matches. She had 169 kills (1.39/game), 23 assists (0.19/game), 37
digs (0.30/game) and 56 blocks (0.46/game).
As a freshman in 2004, Heard played in 125 games in
33 matches. She had 228 kills (1.82/game), a .211 hitting
percentage, 54 service aces (0.43/game), six assists (0.05/game), 38
digs (.30/game) and 77 blocks (0.62/game). She was named the Little
East Conference's Rookie of the Week twice on the season.
Heard was a three-sport athlete who also competed for
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She closed out her lacrosse career having played in 37 games,
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Legal Question in Criminal Law in California
My 18 year old friend was pulled over on the side of the roa and a cop cam behind us and turned his lights on. He told the driver we were being pulled over for tinted windows and began asking the driver and the three passengers including me to get out one by one the handcuffed all of us. And asked the driver if they could search the car he said no he wa on a hurry to get home the officer began searching the car regardless and found over and ounce of marijuana underneath the front passenger seat and a scale in the trunk. They didn't read us our right till after we go to the station. What will most likely happen in court if they charged everyone in the car with intent to sell because no one owned up to the weed or scale but the driver admitted to the hookah and bong the driver was also the only adult in the vehicle?
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If the police version is somewhat similar to your's you will move to suppress the evidence on Fourth Amendment grounds. These motions are rarely won but on your facts you should win and the case should be dismissed. If they insist upon charging all three of you, you should insist upon a trial. (The driver being an adult will get a separate trial before a jury.) I doubt they can prove that all three of you possessed the marijuana. As to Miranda, any statements made after a person is detained and before he/she is given their Miranda rights should be excluded at trial if it was the result of interrogation.
Each of you needs a separate attorney as soon as possible.
What will most likely happen in court ?
Prosecution for the crime[s] charged by the DA. Looks like felony charges.
You�ll learn the actual charge[s] filed and any enhancements, priors, or violations alleged, and get copies of all the police reports and prosecutors� evidence when appearing for arraignment at the first court hearing. The charges actually filed by the prosecutor will determine how much �time� could potentially be imposed.
When charged with any crime, the proper questions are, can any evidence obtained in a test, search or statement be used against you, can you be convicted, and what can you do? While this isn't a 'capital case', it certainly carries potential �time�, so handle it right.
If you don't know how to represent yourself effectively against an experienced prosecutor intending to convict, then hire an attorney who does, who will try to get a dismissal, charge reduction, diversion, programs, or other decent outcome through search & seizure and evidence suppression motions, plea bargain, or take it to trial if appropriate.
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As you have probably heard by now, Microsoft changed its mind about Xbox One and its policies on game sharing and online check-ins. Xbox One gaming will be not unlike Xbox 360 gaming. Since you're reading this, I'm guessing you agree what we've got going on isn't broken.
Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara brings back two old school D&D faves: Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara. They are now updated in HD with four player drop in/drop out co-op, leaderboards and collectible extras. Capcom delivered numerous Final Fight-style games back in the day, and Shadow over Mystaras is one of the most fondly remembered. Co-op brawler set in the D&D universe? It's Nerd-vana. Now you don't have to blow your entire allowance or spend the whole day at the food court to play it. Although those were actually pretty fun times, looking back. This two-pack is 1200 Microsoft Points. ($15)
The demo for NCAA Football 14 goes live this week. Previous installments have had some problems in dynasty mode and other areas, so EA has a lot to answer for. There's a renewed focus on the spread and read option offenses since the game is seeing a lot more of that these days. This is our first chance to see if NCAA is on the right track, or needs to hit the books a little harder.
Another demo worth checking out is Painkiller: Hell and Damnation. Daniel Garner returns to fight demons and other evil creatures, in a quest to escape Purgatory and be reunited with his wife Catherine.
Games on Demand adds The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct for $49.99 and Toy Story Mania for $29.99.
The Deal of the Week is 50 percent off games from Popcap. Zuma's Revenge, Heavy Weapon, Feeding Frenzy 2 and Astropop are all just 400 MP. Zuma, Feeding Frenzy, Bejeweled 2 and Bejeweled Blitz Live are 200 MP. Bejeweled 3 is 600 MP.
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I've said in another thread. Feudalism, capitalism, socialism, communism and whatever mixes are dead.
We're living in the era of fraudism. Offer any kind of useless junk - there will be someone to buy it. And if you've invested into marketing, you'll sell even more of it. "Sex sells" is a thing of ancient history, now it's "fraud sells".


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Eight older horses will line up for recognition in Saturday's Arlington Handicap (gr. IIIT) over the lawn at the Chicago racetrack. Highweighted Cool Conductor, fourth in the July 2 United Nations Handicap (gr. IT) at Monmouth, carries a top impost of 120 pounds, but the Bobby Frankel-trained Cal-invader Vangelis--looking for his first North American stakes win--is the 2-1 morning line favorite.


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Funeral services for Maggie "Louise" Colbert, 71, of Skiatook, Oklahoma, formerly of Rockdale, were held Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with burial following in Gause Cemetery.
Mrs. Colbert died Thursday, Oct. 20, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
She was born Nov. 7, 1939, in Milam County to Willie Eller and Maggie Payne Eller.
She married Charles D. Colbert on May 12, 1976, in Cameron.
She was a member of the Baptist Church and was a resident of Skiatook, Oklahoma, for the past year.
Survivors are her husband, Charles; six, daughters: Katie Hruska and husband Tommy, Patricia Ryan and husband Devin, all of Caldwell, Nancy Alford, Ginger Caffey and Patsy Rogers, all of Rockdale, and Chantel Merriman of Oklahoma; a brother, Charles Matthews of Corsicana; and a sister, Mildred Little of Rockdale; also, numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Glenn Sandner, Nicholas Sandner, Chris Merriman, Joey Colbert, Curtis Barnett II, Eric Rogers, Nathan Arbuckle and Michael Arbuckle.
Honorary pallbearers were Curtis Barnett, Roy Alford, Ricky Wells, Dalyn Ryan and Christopher Jones.
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* Shanghai lead surges to highest since 2013
* LME nickel below seven-week peak, tin hits 20-month high
* Coming up: U.S. pending home sales at 1400 GMT (Adds BHP Olympic Dam copper mine shut, updates prices)
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MANILA, Sept 29 (Reuters) - London lead futures climbed to the highest since May last year on Thursday amid worries over tighter supply in top market China and elsewhere, while nickel slipped below seven-week highs with supply risks from top ore exporter Philippines seen limited.
Lead futures in Shanghai jumped more than 3 percent to the strongest level since 2013.
The supply of lead concentrate in China is "very tight and the shortage may threaten production of primary lead smelters in the fourth quarter," said Dina Yu, analyst at CRU consultancy in Beijing.
Global mine shutdowns over the past year and moves by lead producers to curb output amid low prices have tightened global supply of the metal used to make batteries. Yu is looking at a global deficit in lead concentrate of 146,000 tonnes this year and a deficit of 29,000 tonnes in China.
That compared to last year's surplus of 117,000 tonnes in China and 157,000 tonnes globally, she said. The upcoming winter is usually a high season for battery replacement since extreme cold weather typically causes failures.
Three-month lead on the London Metal Exchange was up 0.4 percent at $2,005 a tonne by 0717 GMT, extending gains for a fourth consecutive session. The metal hit $2,023 earlier, its strongest since May 2015.
On the Shanghai Futures Exchange, the most-traded lead contract for November delivery closed up 2.2 percent at 15,005 yuan ($2,250) a tonne, after rising as far as 15,150 yuan, the highest since March 2013.
China's imports of lead ore and concentrate dropped 10 percent in January-August. Yu said China's stricter environmental regulations had also curbed the output of smelters that recycle lead ingot from batteries.
Nickel erased early gains on both LME and Shanghai, with some analysts seeing limited supply risks after the Philippines said on Tuesday it may suspend 20 more mines for environmental infractions.
The Philippines, which accounts for nearly a quarter of the world's nickel mined supply, has already halted 10 mines, eight of them nickel producers.
LME nickel dipped 0.4 percent to $10,650 a tonne, down from Tuesday's seven-week top of $10,900. Shanghai nickel ended 0.3 percent lower at 81,860 yuan a tonne after earlier touching a seven-week high of 83,610 yuan.
Macquarie analysts say the disruption from the Philippines to the global market may be capped at between 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes of nickel ore given the upcoming monsoon season which limits mining and shipments there. Global nickel supply is seen at 1.9 million tonnes this year, they said.
Elsewhere, LME copper edged up 0.2 percent to $4,828 a tonne. A power outage in South Australia state has halted 300,000 tonnes of annual copper production capacity from BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam and Oz Minerals Prominent Hill mines.
LME zinc was flat at $2,333.50 a tonne and tin rose 0.6 percent to a fresh 20-month peak of $19,970 as inventories fell.
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The Boot at Barnard Gate
9:30am Thursday 14th October 2010
By Andrew Smith
9:30am Thursday 14th October 2010
By Andrew Smith
There is something wonderfully comforting about an English pub when the weather turns nasty. A refuge for the hiker who has just trudged down from the fells to the welcome glow of the hostelry with its real ale and heatwarming fare.
And in fact that was pretty close to the way I felt when I made a 50-yard dash from the car into the welcoming interior of The Boot, as the rain hammered down, soaking me through in seconds.
But I cheered up instantly as we were shown to a table next to the log fire with a good view of the bar. First impressions last, and this was a very good first impression which was to carry throughout the meal.
I had not visited The Boot before, but was left wondering why I had not done so, particularly as it is only 15 minutes' drive along the A40 from Oxford.
Having made ourselves comfortable, we were presented with menus and wine list which offered a good choice at reasonable prices, which is not always the case at so-called gastropubs these days.
The Boot was taken on by Adelaide-born chef Craig Foster in November 2003, and it doesn't take long to see the Aussie stamp with peppered fillet of kangaroo one of the choices heartily recommended by the (South African) waiter/barman.
But on this occasion I was not feeling particularly brave and my attention was drawn to the specials board above the fire.
Top of the list was grilled sardines as a starter — not an automatic choice for me by any stretch of the imagination, but I thought I would attempt to overcome my usual fear of fins and try it for a change.
And I am glad I did. The sardines were hot, fresh and tasty and the chilli and coriander marinade offset the strong flavour perfectly, while the small salad on the side was the perfect accompaniment.
My companion opted for the soup of the day which was coriander and red onion. This was described as "very tasty," although the bread served with it was a little hard and had obviously been left out too long.
Despite this small blemish, this had been an encouraging start and even my choice of a French white vin de pays to accompany it proved a good one, with the wine sharp enough to cut through the sardines without being harsh.
On to the next course and we had a choice of light bites such as kedgeree and seafood linguini, or the larger courses which we opted for.
Having had a relatively healthy starter, I decided to make up for lost calories and chose the roasted pork belly which came with baby vegetables, apple, black pudding and new potatoes.
This was a very large piece of pork with a lovely crispy crackling on the outside. A warming meal fitting for such inclement weather, and I only just managed to clear my plate, which was perhaps a mistake as my stomach admittedly struggled to digest such a fatty, albeit delicious, slab of meat.
Across the table, the lemon and thyme roasted chicken breast was going down just as well with the herbs giving the meat a beautiful flavour, while the accompanying crunchy citrus and fennel salad was refreshing on the palate.
It was much lighter than my main course with the result being that I had to wave the white flag on dessert, delicious as dark chocolate mousse and strawberry baked cheesecake sounded.
But there were no such qualms for my companion who selected the summer fruit pudding, opting for ice cream instead of cream. This was a perfect example of the spongey sweet with plenty of fruit crammed inside. It was much appreciated.
Not only is The Boot good on the food front, it is also a traditional pub serving local beers including Brakspear and Hook Norton. And then there is the collection of footwear from sports stars and celebrities exhibited around the walls which is well worth a mini-tour of the premises.
Names range from Stirling Moss to the Bee Gees to Ian Botham and most come with a letter and picture from the owner.
Ultimately, a visit to the Boot is a real occasion and one that we shall repeat in the near future.
Menu: Coriander and red onion soup, £4.50; sardines, £5.50; lemon and thyme roasted chicken breast, £12.95;pork belly, £11.95; summer fruit pudding: £5.50.
Drinks: Two glasses of white wine, £8; cappuccino: £2.75.
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IT'S hard to imagine what anyone did before smart phones.
But who really cares, anyway? The fact is, depending on which apps you're using, they can make life a whole lot easier.
From simple solutions to everyday problems to things you might never have thought of, here's our pick of the best must-have apps to make your life easier.
Read more at GQ Australia
1. Shazam
Ever heard a song and struggled to remember what it's called? Or listened to something playing and want to download it yourself? Shazam puts an end to music sitting on the tip of your tongue – it recognises songs playing around you and even allows you to download them on the spot
Free, from iTunes and Google Play
2. Quick Scan
This handy app puts an end to shopping around. It scans barcodes and then searches the web to find you the best price for that item – it also shows you nearby stores stocking the product and even lets you buy online on the spot.
Free, from iTunes
3. Sleep Cycle
This is an alarm clock with a difference. It monitors your sleeping patters and then wakes you at your lightest sleep phase during a 30 minute window – leaving you feeling as well rested as possible.
$1.99, from iTunes.
4. Taste
Taste.com.au app lets you browse or search through thousands of recipes, with shopping lists and easy instructions on how to make them all. It also includes recipe collections – Thai or vegetarian, for instance – and has features like Recipe of the Day, to help you get a bit of inspiration.
$2.99, from iTunes
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Free, from iTunes and Google Play
6. Find my iPhone
Install this app, enter your Apple ID and then if you misplace your phone, you can log onto any other iOS device – a laptop, iPad or other iPhone – and find where you left it.
Free, from iTunes.
7. MyiBidder
This app makes shopping on eBay a whole lot easier. Rather than having to monitor your favourite items – only to find you miss out at the last second – this 'bid sniper' waits until the last seconds of an auction and then makes your bid for you, giving you the best possible chance of success.
$14.99, from iTunes and Google Play.
8. Show the Loo
No more getting caught short. Show the Loo does exactly what it says – it displays any public toilets in your immediate vicinity and even allows you to search other locations, if you'd like to plan ahead, too.
Free, from iTunes.
9. Evernote
This is a centralised database of note from all the devices you use – allowing you to take photos, make lists, write notes and record voice reminders, and then access them all in one place.
Free, from iTunes and Google Play.
10. Flipboard
This app bills itself as your own personal magazine, allowing you to curate content you like on topics of interest, and then access them all in one place. You can pick subjects that interest you, or choose from your favourite publications – like, erm, us – as well as websites, blogs and social media.
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Research Looks at Link Between Bone Density and Risk
A study suggests that the stronger a postmenopausal woman's bones are, the more likely she is to develop breast cancer.
The study looked at the health histories of almost 10,000 women, with an average age of 63. During more than 8 years of follow-up, 327 women were diagnosed with breast cancer.
All of the women in the study had DEXA scans to measure bone mineral density. Bone mineral density is a measure of bone strength and is reported as a T-score. The higher the T-score, the stronger the bones. The women also had their breast cancer risk estimated using the Gail score tool. A Gail score estimates a woman's risk of developing breast cancer in two time frames:
- the next 5 years
- over a lifetime
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In this study, postmenopausal women with lower T-scores and Gail scores were less likely to develop breast cancer than women with higher T-scores and Gail scores. Women diagnosed with breast cancer were more likely to have a high T-score (stronger bones), a high Gail score, or both. Having both a high T-score and a high Gail score was linked with the highest risk of breast cancer.
Still, these results are EARLY results and shouldn't be applied to all women. This study didn't try to figure out why breast cancer risk is higher for postmenopausal women with strong bones. Because estrogen levels affect both bone health and breast cancer risk, it's likely that estrogen levels might be part of the answer.
The hormone estrogen keeps bones healthy, so women with higher estrogen levels before and after menopause are more likely to have stronger bones. But estrogen also can encourage the growth and development of hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer cells. So the higher estrogen levels that keep bones healthy may increase breast cancer risk.
This study doesn't mean that having strong bones after menopause is a bad thing. Strong bones help you move around easily and support your body. Strong bones also make it less likely that you'll experience a bone fracture as you get older. The study results suggest that if you're a postmenopausal women with high bone mineral density and are at high risk for breast cancer, you may want to talk to your doctor about setting up a more aggressive breast cancer screening plan for your unique situation. Your plan may include screening more than once a year and using other screening techniques, such as ultrasound and MRI, as well as an annual mammogram.
An interactive version of the Gail score tool is online at the National Cancer Institute Web site. Visit the Breastcancer.org Bone Health section to learn more about bone health and bone mineral density.


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Bob Helm is best known for his work on the front line of the Lu Watters Yerba Buena band and then with Turk Murphy's fine group. George Probert spent his years with Kid Ory and later with the Firehouse Five. Although dis-similar in style, the two have plenty of space to engage each other without having to allow room for piano and drums.
Certainly, this is an unorthodox approach but it works very well. The quartet breezes their way through a dozen great old tunes with the two reed players sharing the lead. Then each is given one showpiece to strut their stuff. George Probert chose "These Foolish Things" while Bob Helm picked "You're Lucky to Me". Though both musicians have been honored guests at various jazz festivals during their retirement years, this is the only time they have recorded together.
Jazz purists will enjoy this unusual pairing of old timers. Their solos are at times, somewhat tentative, and we must appreciate the fact that Bob Helm was 82 and Probert was 70 at the time of this 1996 session. The rhythm section holds everything together and the up-tempo numbers find the veterans more at ease.
The staff of Jazz Review would like to take a moment to wish Jazz Crusade's Big Bill Bissonnette a speedy recovery from recent surgery. Up and at 'em Bill!


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Sunday, August 5, 2007
Michael Chabon/THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION
This was a really enjoyable read--styled after 1940s pulp detective fiction--seedy hotels, multi-stringed murders, fatal dames, and overblown metaphors aplenty--only thoroughly (and often Hasidically) Jewish. I think the biggest prize about the book, though, is how well Chabon writes. It wasn't work to get through the prose at all, which I can't say for myself about a lot of "well-written" books, but I feel both much smarter and thoroughly entertained having come to the end.
I wasn't actually smart enough to figure out the premise on my own, unfortunately. It took a lot of "wow, there's a huge Jewish community in Alaska?" and fumbling around on Wikipedia for me to understand at last that this was an alternate history. I realize this could have been prevented by reading the flap copy. But I hope you, fellow reader, are a little less thick-headed than I am.
Defintely worth reading.
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This one has definitely been on my list of what to read for a while! Of course, the list is about 200 items long on Amazon....
- August 5, 2007 at 1:27 PM
- moonrat said...
Yeah, well... at least you can get through 200 items in 100 days!!! Think about the rest of us!!
- August 5, 2007 at 8:21 PM
- Froog said...
Fun. I only read about 8 or 10 books a year these days, and that mostly when I'm "on holiday".
However, I have recently started a new job which is likely to involve my spending A LOT of time in airports and on planes, so that strike rate might improve substantially.
Can I join your Book Book club?
- August 6, 2007 at 7:53 AM
- angelle said...
waitttt... see? i KNEW there was already an entry by you on this!! fix the other one! or is it just my browser??? weirrrrrrrrrddd...
- August 17, 2007 at 11:06 AM
- Leigh Russell said...
This book sounds fun and I'm going to look out for it when I have time in between my day job, my writing and my new addiction to blogging.... I should patronise my local bookshop but might look for it on Amazon-where-my-own-book-has-just-appeared!!! sorry - had to slip that in - I'm a wee bit excited as it's my first time...
- November 11, 2007 at 11:12 AM