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"Crytek are known for developing video games that push the hardware limit. They have developed a few franchises in the past but the most well known out of them is obviously Crysis. The game pushed gaming PCs to the limit and it coined a new term in the industry: Can it run Crysis? In 2011, Crytek released the fantastic Crysis 2 and later on added DX11 support although initially the PC version was not up to the mark."
Shut up, your games suck, there boring, Far Cry 3 looks better than Crysis 3, graphically, you dont hear Ubisoft shouted the odds every other day
Maybe you should check your spelling and grammar before we listen to your opinion. That edit feature must work wonders for you.
Yeah it doesnt look better at all crysis 2 with the direct x11 update and the high res texture patch looks crazy. But i wouldnt expect a console to keep up with a PC with 3 or more graphics cards in it. The gpu in the ps3 and xbox are so old my sisters old 4870 crossfire build graphics looks way better than consoles.
Funny how games like Halo and Uncharted pull GOTY awards and Crysis is only remembered for what the mods can do. These guys need to shut up. When they deliver more than visuals, then they can talk.
Tell me more about this "sister" of yours...
The problem with Crytek is that they're not good at optimization. Even the original Crysis still has graphical issues on CURRENT hardware. That's pretty sad.
You obviously understood what he said and meant so it really doesn't matter now does it?
I agree with Hellsvacancy, the Crysis games are just generic shooters with no substance. All they are good for is showcasing graphics on the most poorly un-optimized game engine to date.
Dude stop raging at devs who can't hear you and get a life.
Farcry 3 doesn't look better than this.
or can do this.
There so called "sucky" games sold million each time and crysis 3 will sell millions.
They are succeeding in f2p. Warface is actually a good game.
These guys made an engine and have caught up despite the Unreal Engine success.
Any other console game have so many real time effects going on?
"Crytek has DX11 graphics running in Crysis 3 on PS3, Xbox 360"
If that is true have other console devs done it.
Cry more if you need to you only talk like that becuz you have seen people do it on n4g before.
A next gen demo of an rpg shown running a two year old laptop.
These make games so they have a right to talk game creation. Stick to your level of knowledge and worry about pressing power, start, R1.
I would bet $50 you have a copy of black ops 2 while talking sh!t.
Don't care about agrees like u.
Go ahead talk more as they sell million why waste ur time with non facts?
Well I don't buy their games. How's that?
'Well I don't buy their games. How's that? '
It means you aren't one of the millions that bought their games. Simple really. I don't buy a lot of games that others buy.
What are you trying to really say? Are you doing the text equivalent of blowing a raspberry at shutUpAndTakeMyMoney?
Because that's quite childish really.
Wow! The PS4 will likely be announced in something like a month or so, after the holidays..
And it is still blasphemy to say a pc has better graphics the a ps3 / 360..
I hate to throw logic back into everyone's windows but its a no brainer that ps3/360 are behind the curve.
The only thing interesting about this article is that Crytek is saying developers can still squeeze a lot into something that is so far behind to still make them feel current.
Far Cry 3 is full of screen tearing, it looks really bad and kind of ruins the game for me. Crysis 2 had none on the PS3 version. Killzone 1 & 2 and Rage have no screen tearing either and they both look incredible.
If your getting loads of screen tearing in far cry 3 you are playing a copy of it i havent seen before.
Yes, the PS3 and 360 are behind the curve.
The curve isn't that vast, though; You can only thing about one game that defined PC gaming this gen, and it is Crysis.
Not crysis 2
Probably Crysis 3 though.
Other than that, the differences aren't to the point where everyone's going ape-scat over the PC's graphics like last gen, even.
Bubble for you Rupert, thx, for making me chuckle.
I think the people who are acting enraged are just looking at snippets of interviews like the quote in the title and interpreting that as an attack on the consoles. If this was Crytek's actual position, they could just delay the console release until next year or skip it entirely. Instead, they're attempting to use tech in Crysis 3 that has never been attempted on consoles before, which seems like a good thing to me. I certainly appreciated it when Team ICO put in the effort to mimic HDR rendering with Shadow of the Colossus on PS2.
I've seen interviews from Crytek guys admitting that they wished they could have pushed things further in Crysis 2 and that they are really trying to impress gamers with the improvements they've made in Crysis 3. There's also the fact that they put forth the considerable effort and investment to make CryEngine3 compatible with consoles. The idea that they are against consoles just doesn't square with what they've been doing. But if some want to instead just make assumptions based off of a provocative title on N4G, I guess that's what they'll do.
Think of it as me showing contempt towards game devs who have done jack-sh*t for gaming besides complain about the platforms they have to work with.
Also not feeling to good towards the gamers who defend Crytek and their resource hog title when it was a resource hog. It doesn't matter that years after the fact of releasing a single game which required massive upgrades to play on minimum settings they "fixed" the problem, its that they caused and further highlighted a problem with the PC gaming industry. Namely that it was pricing and upgrading itself out of existence.
Now they're trying to do things as cheaply and low-end as possible, have even moved into the competing console market, and yet companies like Crytek are still bit*ching that the market should cater to them instead of the other way around. Nevermind that they've yet to actually do anything of actual substance. Just make pretty looking FPS.
And not really being much of a FPS fan, first person perspective games in general which means I've largely been SOL for much of this gen, I have even less reason or want to touch a Crytek game.
If you and others like them all well and good, just please get off their co*k for long enough to realize that by the sales of their games they aren't the end all and be all of gaming.
and Crysis 1 PC looks better than FarCry 3 PC and Crysis 2 PC; can't speak for Crysis 3 yet for obvious reasons.
It really does. They downgraded with Crysis 2. I was hoping Far Cry 3 would look as great as the jungles of Crysis 1 on Ultra... they have the same flora in consoles. Maybe a mod can make it look like a crazier jungle.
Except for the rocks. Crysis 1 rocks look terrible at times, but the water, vegetation, and physics look consistently superior when set to Very High.
Far Cry 3 has better rocks, fire, gun models, character models, and vehicle handling. Plus you can freaking fly (err, glide with style). Far Cry 3 also has the better story and is a lot more fun than Crysis 1 or 2 overall. The plants in Far Cry 3 are a lot stiffer and there are no destructible structures. The water is also relatively very static and animated looking, rather than organic & dynamic. Crysis 1 water is still better than any water I've seen in a game since; when a bullet hits the water in Crysi 1, it actually ripples and creates mist (though the ripples don't interact with one another).
That isn't to talk bad about Far Cry 3 on any platform; I think it's an amazing game and gave over 30 hours in it already. Just wish it wasn't fundamentally limited to what the consoles can do.
Well, if you read the article, he did praise a certain recently released game that looks amazing on consoles.
So many facepalm comments here... sigh. -___-
A little harsh, but yeah, someone needs to keep their mouth shut.
You are blind if you think Far Cry 3 looks better than Crysis 3.
You might not enjoy their games but there are many of us that do.
Nintendo should just pay them to make them an engine on the wiiu. They know graphics and retro knows game play....
Really they might be the only studio ready right now for the next gen. They could always find a writer to story up their games though.
MAN FAR CRY 3 IS AN AWESOME GOOD LOOKIN GAME! and no it doesnt look as good compare to Crysis 3 i dont know how old you are but im sure a mature person can tell by their on eyes that Far Cry 3 doesnt even come close to crysis 3. and im talking about ps3/xbox360 version. lets not even compare PC coz thats just wrong.
Crysis 2 was not bad but also not good for me. I consider a game good when there is replay value in it. Once I finished Crysis 2 I never felt the compulsion of playing it again. I think the problem with it is that it's on rails and it get's too predictable because of that. I like graphics but without great gameplay a game isn't fun for me.
FarCry 3 is inferior than Crysis 1 graphically.
Far Cry 3 has no Physics.
Far Cry 3's environment is static compared to that of Crysis 1. You shot a plant or tree with a bullet, the leaves would sway in a realistic manner.
Crysis's water is more realistic than Far Cry 3, It was built using dynamic parallax occlusion mapping supported by DX10 cards available that generation.
The Textures are gorgeous and far more HD than Far Cry 3.
Far Cry 3 in terms of graphics (i again say) Far Cry 3 graphically is just a inferior mod of Crysis 1. Story is better in certain cases but im more of a Sci-Fi dude so you can take a hint.
And yet FC3 is a masterpiece and its one of those games that will be remembered years from now. Crysis 1/2 were released a few years ago and are only remembered for being glorified tech demos, not for being good games. Case and point your own comment. Graphics this, physics that.
When im playing FC3 the last thing on my mind is how plants react to a bullet. Im often too busy running away from a bear just to suddendly see a tiger in front of me and thinking that after all that running im gonna die when the tiger decides to go after the bear giving me enough time to get the hell as far away from them as i can. That is what i want in my games. I could care less about plants reacting to bullets.
@Imalwaysright We are talking about graphics superiority here in which Crysis 1 is a better game compared to FarCry 3.
They put in animals in the game which can be approached dynamically but left the key part of the jungle (Plants, Environment) static.
And yes, to you it may not matter but the dozens of comments above and below us prove that graphics and performance of any specific title may it be current gen or next gen is a point to ponder by gamers.
Crytek may not be the best game developer but they are an excellent game engine developer. Few companies can make an engine as good as CryEngine 3. Plus they provide the sdk for free. Here, they are not talking about game design but the technical challenge of getting the most out of hardware as limited and dated as 360 and PS3. Far Cry 3 is an excellent game and has great graphics but overall, it does not look as good as Crysis 3 will.
Crytek is the ID of today; only caring about graphics and technology. Gameplay>Graphics everyday of the week a.k.a. you can polish a turd
I swear Crytek are the only company to spout this stuff regularly. They need to sort out their PR because this isn't really getting me excited for Crysis 3 instead Crytek are coming off badly
I kinda agree with you. They did the same talk during Crysis 2. But they failed miserably with the PC version of the game. But again, they seem to have learnt from their lessons.
Fingers cross for this game.
Agreed 100%. The first week on PC was pretty much a mess. As was with RAGE. It's a shame that the developers who gained their fame on the PC are shunning it.
Or maybe its because they get interviewed alot on these questions and press finds them relevant on the issue? Its not like they have monthly press conferences about how weak PS360 are.
So you want them to lie and spread nonsense about these consoles having some special "untapped" power that has yet to be unleashed? this isn't propaganda or bs PR, this is REAL PR!
They're just saying it the way it truly is, and I like how suddenly all these PS3 fanboys are using FC3 as a counter argument whenever Crytek mentions anything about their technical & graphical prowess.
FC3 looks like shit compared to Crysis 3, this site has to be the first site I've come across where people are saying FC3 looks better than Crysis 3, it's obvious you people are only saying that because you feel offended for absolutely no reason.
What's there to be offended about anyway? if Crytek maxed out the PS3/360 so what, ah! because ND haven't said it's maxed out then they're lying right? are you people lemmings? can't you think for yourselves.
Technically Crytek could use CE3 to make TLOU better looking than what ND have done, but you guys wouldn't know anything about engines would you since you're too busy bending down for Sony.
The only reason I'm bringing up graphics is because that's all you guys ever talk about anyway, and whenever you're beloved exclusives are out done you guys start rambling on about how it's all about the gameplay & story even though most PS3 exclusives lack good stories and have bad gameplay.
You guys must've been traumatised after reading this article seeing as how many of you guys overreact and post nonsensical jargon with your emotions running wild.
Are those peas functioning?
Hahaha oh wow. It looks like the only person that's offended here is you, with your whiny ranting and swearing. Keep on raging there, buddy! Everybody else will just keep laughing at your absurd anti-Sony fanboy crying.
Crytek needs to work on better story telling and better gameplay
They are novice, but I suspect they will improve more and more with each game they make.
They are also making Homefront 2 for 2013. I question whether that game will be Grade A or average.
True notice that when someone talks about Crysis the only thing they have to say about it are its graphics. Crysis 1/2 are average games at best.
Well after some moron has gone and wasted $800 on a graphics card just to try and outdo a $250 console, you better believe he's gonna whine about graphics to try and justify that purchase.
I'd be mad as hell too if I paid through the nose for some sloppy, glitchy ports of console games :D
agreed they should just make engines and not make games since they happen to look good but suck
if you don't like how it looks on consoles or even bother with it, don't complain, they know what they're getting into.
All I think of them is that they do it for money.
It's probably EA that wants Crytek to port it to consoles. EA IS the publisher after all.
Crysis2 had a good sp but man I could just not get into the mp at all
But that said I think 3 will be real fun
TBH, I could not enjoy the SP or the MP. The MP was a laggy mess for me. The SP, while not necessarily bad, it was boring (at least for me).
Graphically, I think Crysis 3 will be the best looking game (after the mods are done with it), but I'd prefer I good story and better game-play. If I hear positive things about the story, I may just consider getting it.
na thats cool but we both agree the mp sucked balls lol
He's not trashing current consoles like the title implies, he's just saying you can't get the PC experience "graphically" on consoles which is understandable on systems that came out in 2005 and 2006.
I just think Crytek should work on releasing Crysis 3 for the PS4 and next Xbox and leave this gen that they seem to have some issues with.
But it seems like the only thing they ever talk about is the PC experience "graphically." Their games aren't exactly known for having memorable stories or innovative gameplay, and when it comes to consoles, their releases aren't really very high up the list, graphically.
They keep saying the same thing- "Consoles are maxed out"- as if it's the only thing that matters; meanwhile, they ignore all the other important aspects of a game that should be improved upon.
Frankly, it's gotten annoying.
Their older games like FarCry1 and Crysis1 did have innovative gameplay since they were more 'open' games and gave the player some level of freedom.
Crysis1's story wasn't all that great, but the reveal of the aliens and snow transition was a memorable moment.
This was before/around the time of CoD4 though. Unfortunately, Crytek seems to be following CoD's formula now by making the typical linear shooters. Either they've lost their vision, or in the pursuit of having pretty visuals on consoles, they've decided to sacrifice the open level design.
I agree about the story in Crytec games being their weaker point but they have interesting ideas that are able to carry the game, Crysis sometimes just seems like a muscle flexing competition "mine are bigger than yours thus making me better"
But then again story never seems to be their real focus they just want to make people go "oooh that looks amazing" and on the PS3 and 360 unlike other developers they haven't been able to do that. This is why I think Crysis 3 should be a release title on the next gen systems, then maybe they can impress us with their fireworks.
You see Far Cry 3 Hicken? That whole idea for a game started with the first Far Cry. Show me another game that did what Far Cry did before it came out, and tell me they didn't innovate.
So wait a minute. They complain about the consoles but dumb down their PC versions in favor on the consoles? That's a bit hypocritical isn't it?
I wasn't knocking consoles btw I own em all. I was just saying how crysis 2 was a massive leap back from 1 in favor of a more linear console style shooter as opposed to an open world strategic shooter.
I dont know what Crytek is braging all about seriously.
I don't know what you're talking about, there are no crysis 3 console videos/screenies out.
Someone mentioned Far Cry 3 being better than Crysis 3 graphically. First of all, L O friggin' L. Second, are you on drugs. Third, google search Crysis 3 "The Fields Walkthrough" single player gameplay. Fourth, if you find that Crysis 3 footage to be below par then i have no hope for you and may god have mercy on your soul.
edit* Just want to say i am referring to the PC version of Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3 and not the console versions.
There's no point trying to talk any sense into these PS3 baboons, running around screaming and shouting in the jungles is what they do best.
FarCry 3 is hardly any better than Crysis 1 graphically, talk about visual superiority over Crysis 3? lol
After seeing Crysis 2 run like garbage on my PS3, I don't think I trust Crytek anymore. And Crysis2 wasn't the best looking game on PS3. It looked mediocore at best, and played mediocore.
I can name ten games off the bat that look better than Crysis2 on consoles.
'I can name ten games off the bat that look better than Crysis2 on consoles. '
Go on then.
Here goes no effort:
Uncharted 2
Uncharted 3
Resistance 3
KillZone 2
KillZone 3
Heavy Rain
Gears of War 3
LA Noire
inFamous 2
i TOO would be interested in hearing this list.
Crytek maybe ahead tech wise, but they're far far...far behind in making actual enjoyable games.Crysis is
nothing more than a tech showcase,story/characters/ environment(despite being graphically advanced) are bland and generic in the literal term. Honestly these as engineers they may be brilliant but as game developers they gets more credits and free pass than they deserve.
I Can't wait for CRYSIS 3 on the PS3, The PS3 is truly an amazing piece of hardware


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Guilty Pleasures: Biggles: Adventures in Time
Scott McKenzie takes another trip back in time and finds himself in the dock...
There will be many members of the jury who have not seen the 1986 movie Biggles: Adventures in Time, but you must not let that cloud your judgement. Just because there were only a handful of people in the cinema when the accused went to see this movie on its opening weekend and it doesn't receive much love from TV broadcasters, that doesn't mean he shouldn't be ashamed at his misplaced love of this relic. The fact that a movie based on Captain W.E. Johns' characters was put into production should be applauded. The early twentieth century adventures of his stories should have been well-received by young cinema-goers following the release of the first two Indiana Jones movies but the makers of Biggles made one fatal flaw.
Undoubtedly with their eye on the US market and reacting to the influence of Back to the Future, the writers bashed a story together that involved sending a young American guy back in time to the first world war. The plot device they dreamed up to do this is to invent the theory of 'time twins', whereby someone will be taken through a hole in time to help out their time twin if they are in mortal danger. What's amazing isn't the fact that it makes no sense whatsoever, but the fact that that's the best the writers could come up with! After all, the plot centres round Biggles attempting to foil the nefarious scientific plans of those evil Germans—why not have our goggle-wearing hero discover that the Hun have built a time machine and take it from there?
Exhibit A: 'If you can fly a Sopwith Camel...'
Another failure of the writers is with the unbelievably corny dialogue. When they aren't drawing directly from the Olde English 'chocks away, what what' playbook, they're explaining away Biggles' success at piloting a helicopter on the first attempt with the toe-curling line 'if you can fly a Sopwith Camel, you can fly anything' (exhibit A). The soundtrack is no better. I guarantee that by the mid-point of the movie you will be tearing your hair out upon hearing the opening bars of Jon Anderson's 'Do You Want to Be a Hero' or, God forbid, the appalling song that seems to be blaring from the helicopter most of the time. If the songs have made you lose the will to live, then the background music will almost certainly send you over the edge. Biggles should be studied by film students as an example of how to come up with a score that comes nowhere close to matching the mood of the movie. The best way I can think of describing the score is to ask you to imagine an electronic Casio keyboard with severe flatulence.
Exhibit B: Look out for the telegraph poles, old bean!
The producers obviously thought they could knock together an Indiana Jones-lite movie and walk away with a tidy profit but there's just so much about Biggles that betrays its low budget. First of all, the dogfights between Biggles and his arch enemy Von Stalhein were filmed in the British midlands, in1985, which explains the presence of telegraph poles in the shot (see exhibit B). The visual effects are pure Doctor Who standard, and I'm talking Doctor Who circa 1986, not 2008. The supporting cast don't make things any more bearable, in particular the incredibly annoying Chuck, played by William Hootkins, also known to science fiction fans as Porkins, the only member of Red Squadron who had to keep his X-Wing in a lower gear. To finish, I would like to present the jury with a clip from British kids' TV show Blue Peter from 1986 (exhibit C). Both fans of the movie will probably find the making-of sequences interesting but the biggest indicator of the producers' lack of faith in their movie is the competition at the end offering fifty (yes, fifty!) pairs of tickets as prizes.
Exhibit C: When TV competitions actually required brainpower
I'm willing to concede that Biggles is a cynical piece of filmmaking made to cash in on the popularity of mid-80s sci-fi adventures and the 'time twin' plot device is nonsense, however it does make for a simple and efficient movie. Biggles' main weakness is also the reason for one of its greatest strengths. By transporting Jim Ferguson back in time whenever Biggles is in trouble, the audience knows that a nice bit of action can't be far behind. This means that the writers don't have to insult the viewer's intelligence by stringing together tenuous contrivances to get Biggles and his gang from one place to another and also minimises the time we have to spend in the 80s. Once the viewer stops questioning the theory of time twins, it makes the movie all the more enjoyable.
Exhibit D: The late great Peter Cushing
You will also find no argument from me on the subject of the low budget; however some key scenes are shot with surprising flair. Given that this is the last screen performance of the great Peter Cushing (exhibit D), due deference is given to his presence, with eerie framing whenever he is on screen.
Prosecution: Objection! It just looks like the camera is on the wonk whenever Peter Cushing shows up.
Judge: Overruled.
The flying scenes are particularly impressive, with wing-mounted cameras putting the viewer right in the middle of the action. These sequences alone make Biggles an intriguing watch even for the most casual viewer. In addition, there's even a nice touch of gore thrown in that generally gets cut whenever Biggles is shown on TV (exhibit E).
Exhibit E: Eeeeewwww
The performances of the supporting cast may be dodgy to say the least, but there is genuine chemistry between Neil Dickson as Biggles and Alex Hyde-White as Jim Ferguson, who didn't go on to bigger and better things and unfortunately showed up as Mr Fantastic in the Fantastic Four movie that never was. Ending on a cliff-hanger, it's a crying shame that Biggles underperformed at the box office because it had the potential to spawn not one but two franchises. First of all we could follow the further adventures of Jim and Biggles but secondly, and possibly more intriguingly, we could have been given more stories of different sets of time twins.
Before I retire to my chamber and start work on the pilot of the Time Twins TV show that I've just thought of, I'd like the jury to consider the trailer for Biggles (exhibit F) and then ask them to honestly tell me that they wouldn't like to watch the whole movie. Ignore the music of course...
Exhibit F: Yes, I want to be a hero!
So now I must put the question to the DVDActive jury. Biggles: Adventures in Time... guilty pleasure or not guilty?
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I may have said something like "Go Robert Go," but that was after he was already running at full speed.
But this was all Google. I've known Scoble since 2005 and I've never seen him lose control like this before. But when you spam someone uncontrollably, like Google did, you can expect some anger.
No one ever got this angry at Facebook over privacy issues. If Google learns anything from this, it should be that. People hate unstoppable spam more than they hate giving up privacy, or most other things.
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A while ago I tried putting infinite polytopes (space filling tessalations) into cartensian product but failed! recently I worked it out. note I'm only showing polygons (and polygon tilings)
if you take the prism of a tiling you wouyld expect it to be layers of the tessalation but in fact the prism only has one layer.
The infinite layer is the CP of the tiling with the apeirogon (line segment tessalation)
if you have duoprisms tesselations, such as 3-6 duoprisms that would be a CP of the triangle tiling and the hexagon tiling.
An infinite times an infinite is a duoprism tessalation for each piece times each piece.
An infinite times finite would be infinite in some directions but infinite in others
e.g. Triangle times hexagonal tiling is a tiling of 3-6 duoprisms, but in one layer (of the triangular girdle of hexagonal prisms) but infinite for the other girdle
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While grilling dinner in the back yard on Sunday evening, a man heard his dog barking and spotted an unexpected visitor: a bear.
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Let's Talk About Sex, Drugs and HIV
By Elizabeth Lombino
June 27, 2012
These kids today ...
I feel so old just writing that, yet there is no more accurate statement, at least with regard to the topic of HIV/AIDS. When I came of age in the 90s, one of the many hooks we all sang was "Let's Talk About Sex" (by Salt-N-Pepa, the first all-girl hip-hop group ... they also had a reality show for a few minutes, if that's all you youngsters can relate to). And talk about sex we did. From condoms to girl power to HIV. All these concepts were blended together to form our overall vision of healthy sexual expression. It was almost impossible to talk about sex without inserting (pun intended) the word "safer" in front.
This was also a time of medical breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. New medications allowed people to live longer, healthier lives. The number of people dying from HIV/AIDS started to decrease drastically. People were making strides to be safer and the spread of HIV slowed down. The epidemic was losing momentum and America was taking a collective sigh of relief.
Fast forward to now. For a variety of reasons, the spread of HIV is seeing an upsurge. Safer sex is not as trendy as it once was. Abstinence-only education has been revived. To talk about sex in any public forum is taboo again. The word "condom" is now categorized under dirty words. When did this happen? The pendulum has swung drastically in the opposite direction.
Seriously, this is very scary. Kids today are as sexually active as ever, yet the discussion of condoms does not come up as readily and simply as it once did. Are people using condoms? It's not clear. In some cases, the answer is no. How many reality shows have had full episodes (along with the ever-dramatic cliff hanger) dedicated to a pregnancy scare? Case in point, the queen of reality TV, Snooki, is now pregnant. Clearly there was no use of safer sex practices with that sexual fluid exchange. And really, there are whole series dedicated to teen moms. What about the STI risk? The risk of HIV? Is pregnancy the new trend? Oh, please no ... Make it stop!
In my professional life, I've been conducting trainings on all things HIV/AIDS for years now. My main focus of the trainings I conduct is to discuss with fellow social workers and counselors what it means to work with a client who is living with HIV/AIDS. I do a basic overview of HIV, prevention, treatment, and also discuss the culture of living with HIV and some of the special concerns with this unique community.
Each year that goes by, I feel as if the information I am presenting becomes more and more foreign to the audience. My field is becoming full of younger counselors, which is bringing a new level of energy and vibrancy. At the same time, they seem to be more and more disconnected to the world of HIV/AIDS. Even the basic facts regarding HIV/AIDS are not so basic anymore.
I'm not exactly sure what's up with this. Is it due to the resurgence of abstinence-only education in many of our country's school systems? Is it due to HIV/AIDS becoming a chronic disease and therefore losing some of its "scary" nature? No matter the reasons why HIV has gone into the shadows of education, the time has come to bring it back into light. We all have an obligation to continue to talk about HIV/AIDS within every context. My fellow social workers and other helping professionals need to own this obligation even more. All of our clients are touched by HIV/AIDS in one way or another. We all need to recognize this and treat each client through this lens.
I will continue to teach the youngsters of my field of the realities of HIV/AIDS. My goal is to fill in the gaps that seem to be the result of antiquated sex education and over-exposure to reality TV. It's a lofty goal indeed, yet I will not stop striving to reach it.
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When you mention cloud computing, most IT pros probably think of outsourcing their company's applications and infrastructure. Certainly, that model is appropriate in some businesses. However, there are other circumstances that might call for cloud computing in a dynamic or temporary deployment, and a recent survey suggests that more businesses are looking at this model for uses such as big data or media files.
The survey was prepared by cloud security vendors CloudPassage and received input from 201 IT professionals ranging from C-level executives down to the systems administrators in the trenches. One of its key findings indicated that 70 percent more companies are planning to use public cloud environments for temporary workload or big data in 2013 as compared to 2012.
I spoke with CloudPassage's chief evangelist, Andrew Hay, about the survey results. "Netflix is definitely a great example," Hay said. "They'll fire up a server instance to serve a particular movie. During peak times, they'll fire up additional servers to combat the load or the customer demand to watch the movies. They're dynamically provisioning and serving information." In a typical business, you might think of serving training videos in a temporary cloud deployment, for instance.
In the case of big data, the temporary cloud can be useful for processing chunks of information. "One of the big use cases people usually go to in talking about temporary workloads is any sort of analytics or number-crunching," Hay said. "Data that you'd traditionally ship off to a mainframe or super computer to try and do computational analytics and statistics -- people are moving those kinds of workloads to the public cloud because it's far less expensive to maintain a public cloud that you can just fire up and then turn off when you're done as opposed to maintaining a huge super computer infrastructure on premises."
You should consider a temporary cloud deployment whenever you have workloads that are seasonally dependent; that is, if you have high-volume needs at certain times and not at others, this model would seem to be ideal. Certainly, businesses focused on holiday sales through their websites should be using this method, but there are also organizations that might be focused around special annual events, such as political organizations running campaigns. I'm also reminded of SharePoint expert Dan Holme's experiences working on the Olympics for NBC.
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Edit: Agreed about Hisoka. Thanks to both of you for the speedy replies. XXXD
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Perhaps the most striking thing in the career of Mr. Derwent Wood is the unusual rapidity with which he has made for himself a place of particular prominence among our younger sculptors. Within the short space of ten years he has advanced from the position of a brilliant and successful student in the Royal Academy schools to the rank of an even more brilliant and successful producing artist, whose works are in general request and whose capacities are widely recognised. . . . He is now only thirty-two, so that It can be plainly seen that he must have come before the public with definite confidence in his powers at an age when most artists are still feeling their way more or less tentatively towards the proper expression of their convictions — at an age, indeed, when many men have scarcely decided what are the convictions by which they propose to be guided in their practice.
He was born at Keswick in 1872; but while he was still a young child he was taken abroad, and when he was nine years old he commenced his education at Lausanne. At the age of fifteen he went to Karlsruhe, where he remained for two years; and then he returned to England. His first practical experience as an art worker was obtained in his uncle's potteries; but he worked there for only a brief period. In 1889 he gained a National Scholarship, and began a course of study of modelling under Professor Lanteri in the Royal College of Art at South Kensington; and that he made rapid progress under the supervision of this admirable teacher is proved by the fact that only two years later he was able to take a post as assistant to Professor Legros at the Slade School. This post he held until 1893, when he became a student in the schools of the Royal Academy.
His career at the Academy was comparatively short, but it was exceptionally distinguished, and culminated in 1895 with his success in securing the gold medal and travelling scholarship for sculpture with a group, half life size, of Dedalus and Icarus. During the period covered by his Academy studentship he was working in the day-time as an assistant to Mr. Brock, and at night in the schools, so that he was learning the practical side of his profession under the best possible guidance, and was laying an admirable foundation of knowledge upon which to build in after years. To such good use did he put the experience which he had so far accumulated, that he was able in 1897, soon after the expiration of the term of his travelling scholarship, to gain an award at the Paris Salon for a group. Charity, and so to rank himself, when barely five-and-twenty, among sculptors of established repute. By this time the preparatory stage of his professional life may fairly be said to have come to an end; he had acquired something like mastery over the details of his craft, and was well qualified to attempt independent undertakings of an important kind.
When he returned to London after his stay abroad, he rejoined Mr. Brock; bat not long afterwards he was offered, and accepted, an appointment at the Glasgow Art Schools. He began, too, to find that his services were in request, and that there were at his disposal many commissions for portrait busts, and for architectural sculpture. [A.R.A. 1910. R.A. 1920] — W. K. West, The Studio
Memorial Sculpture
- The Machinegun Corps Memorial (3 views)
- George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Marquess of Ripon
- Sketch Model for a Mural Monument Love ad Life, Sacred and Profane
- Memorial for Major-General Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis, KCB
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- Charles Harrison Townsend
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- Maggie
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- An unidentified woman
- Bust of an unidentified woman
- Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, the Baptist House in Southampton Row (no image on this site)
- Queen Victoria, Cavalry Club (no image on this site)
- Queen Alexandra, Cavalry Club (no image
- Sir Blundell Maple, for University College Hospital (no image on this site)
- Sir Joshua Reynolds, Medallion portrait in low relief, Plympton parish church (no image on this site)
- La Bretonne
Literary and Religious Subjects
- Daedalus and Icarus
- Dante at Ravenna
- Psyche (Lady Lever Art Gallery — Victoria & Albert Museum)
- Fiametta
- Ophelia
- The Penitent Thief
- St. George
- Circe
- Leda (no image on this site)
Nudes and Figure Studies
- Standng Female Nude with a Grapes
- Diana, Shipley Hall
- Juno, Shipley Hall (no image on this site)
- Standing Nude with peacock
- Venus, Shipley Hall
- Nude, Chelsea Embankment
- Female torso with arms
- La Moqeuse [sic]
- Cupid and Psyche (circular bas relief)
- Study of a Female Torso (3 views)
- Atalanta
- Ceres, Shipley Hall (no image on this site)
- Crowning Figure for Fountain
- Nude listening to a shell
- Gaia
- The Bather
- Nude torso of a woman
- Garden Figure (I)
- Garden Figure (II)
Allegorical Sculpture
- Bust in Teak, Birch, and Lead
- Painting
- Music
- Sculpture
- Architecture
- Mercury
- Steamship Transit
- Locomotive Transit
- Industry
- Medicine [?]
- Motherhood
- Britannia (first version)
- Britannia (second version)
- Indian Water Carrier
- Woman with Baby
- Persian Scarf Dancer
- Love and Life, Sacred and Profane
- Abundance
- Australia
Vessels and Metalwork
Works not illustrated on this site
- Dedalus & Icarus illustrated in the 1896 Studio)
Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
British Sculpture 1850-1914. A loan exhibition of sculpture and medals sponsored by The Victorian Society. London: Fine Art Society, 1968.
Channel Packet: Paris-London, 1880 - I920. Exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street London Wl. March 24th - 25 th April 1969, plate 20.
Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
West, W. K. "The Work of F. Derwent Wood." The Studio (1905): 297-306. Internet Archive digitized from a copy in the University of Toronto Library.
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Saturday, April 07, 2012
Guerlain - La Petite Robe Noire
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Your blog makes my day. I love reminiscing about la vie parisienne. Your pictures are so beautiful; you do a marvelous job capturing the quotidian.ReplyDelete
We share a love for macarons, it seems. Thank you for your lovely updates!
You did a wonderful job on both of those paintings.. really captured Shanghai's personality. She should be really happy. How fun to be going back so soon.ReplyDelete
Shanghai looks just like a little dog I know...sweet. Great portraits you did, Carol. Sounds like you're having fun--when do you move to Paris?ReplyDelete
He's looks like a Parisienne chien. Very pampered and he eats macarons. I'm going to post photos of my two darlings on my blog. They are Japanese Chin.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous post...must get to Guerlain next week...and have fun when you house sit in April/May. A bientot.ReplyDelete
You are the sweetest!ReplyDelete
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Wow - that does sound glam being with Carla! Recognise that last shot - Brentanos? Love ze rabbit. Happy Easter to you, Carol!ReplyDelete
Shanghai is pretty cute (tres chic haircut), but even cuter in your portrait. How wonderful that you will be going back to Paris so soon! xoReplyDelete
Once the word gets out that Paris Breakfasts is moving to Paris (long overdue, by the way)I think you should be greeted as you come up out of the subway by that hunky rabbit, and his wheelbarrow, and be paraded around town.ReplyDelete
Happy Easter! LOVE the puppy paintings!ReplyDelete
My heart has been Shanghaied!ReplyDelete
Love those red ones Carol... gorgeous... I am glad that you found the charms of Repetto so irresistible... xvReplyDelete
thanks http://romi-mode.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
Very cute pet portraits!ReplyDelete


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Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE:DO) rents drilling rigs to gas and oil companies mostly in the Gulf of Mexico and Asia and is the second-largest contract driller by market capitalization.[1]
Falling oil prices reduce the revenue generated by oil companies and thus make drilling in deep-water locations prohibitively expensive. Declining demand for oil has had an adverse effect on the offshore drilling industry because lower oil prices reduce day rates earned by offshore drilling rigs. Additionally, declining interest in offshore drilling and oil exploration reduces contract activity.
Though Diamond Offshore Drilling has seen the effects of the economic downturn, it is partially shielded from decreasing day rates because most of its drilling rigs are contracted for a full year or more. Diamond owns one of the largest drilling fleets in the world (a total of 46 drilling rigs), and continues to rent its drilling rigs at steady dayrates. Despite weakness in the economy, Diamond has managed to sign new contracts with oil producers such as the Brazilian firm Petrobras (PBR).
Diamond Offshore's Ocean Monarch is being moved to Vietnam from the Gulf of Mexico. The dayrate of the rig is planned to rise to $340,000 from $290,000. This represents another exit from the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill last year led to a moratorium on offshore drilling in the gulf.[2]
Diamond Offshore Drilling rents drilling rigs to gas and oil companies. DO earns revenue through dayrates collected by its rigs as specified in its contracts with oil companies. The upkeep and upgrades of rigs make up most of Diamond Offshore's operating expenses.
Dayrates and utilization rates have fallen as the demand for offshore drilling has declined, mainly due to the falling price of crude oil.[3] Jack-ups are used for drilling in water depths from 20 feet to 350 feet and are in high demand due to the offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.[4]
Diamond's rigs are used to find new oil or gas deposits, or to prepare existing deposits for production. [5] DO owns one of the largest drilling fleets in the world, a total of 46 ships, including 30 semisubmersibles, 15 jack-ups and one drillship.[6][7]
|Q4 2010 Dayrate
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An explosion and fire aboard Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana ruptured an oil well, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The rig was operated by BP (BP). President Barack Obama ordered a six-month moratorium on drilling in waters 500 feet and deeper while a government commission investigates the disaster.[16] The six-month moratorium on exploratory offshore drilling has closed 33 deep water drilling platforms and the Louisiana Economic Development department estimates that 10,000 jobs could be lost.[16] The moratorium could have an adverse effect on Diamond Offshore, which leases six offshore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Diamond offshore announced in July 2010 that it will move its drilling rig Ocean Confidence to the Republic of Congo.[17] The company has suspended a Gulf of Mexico contract with Murphy Exploration and Production Company in order to move the rig. Diamond offshore also plans to mobilize the Ocean Endeavor from the Gulf of Mexico to Egypt.[17] Combined with a $31 million early termination fee paid by the previous operator of the rig, the move is expected to generate revenue of $100 million.[17]
Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman have drafted legislation that would boost the supply of domestically produced oil and natural gas, both on- and offshore. The legislation is intended to maximize tax revenue for states that opt to drill oil.[18] Although offshore drilling has traditionally been a controversial topic, the government is beginning to move forward legislation that will benefit the offshore drilling industry.
At the state level, legislation is also helping to move forward offshore drilling projects. In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is planning on addressing California's $20 billion budget deficit in part by allowing new oil drilling from an existing platform off the coast of Santa Barbara.[18] This move will likely loosen California's stance towards offshore drilling and pave the way for future offshore drilling projects in California.
Limited liquidity in credit markets resulting from the global financial crisis has reduced the amount of funding available for Diamond Offshore Drilling's business operations worldwide. Offshore drilling is a capital intensive business, and with limited credit options, DO is under pressure to finance its capital projects with cash flow instead of debt. The latest construction projects DO completed were the $186.8 million upgrade of the Ocean Monarch rig and the $266.3 million construction of two new jack-up drilling units, the Ocean Scepter and the Ocean Shield.[19]
Despite the weak offshore drilling industry, Diamond Offshore has managed to sign new contracts. Diamond, for example, has entered drilling contracts with Petrobras (PBR) of Brazil worth $1.36 billion.[20] This contract includes a three-year deal for the ultra-deepwater semisubmersible Ocean Valor, a three-year deal for the deepwater semisubmersible Ocean Baroness, and a five year deal for the deepwater drillship Ocean Clipper.[20] Diamond's ability to secure contracts will substantially affect its financial performance as its existing contracts expire.
One potential trend in the financing of deepwater drilling is investment by private equity firms. A recent Bain & Co. survey of private equity firms that hold an estimated $1 trillion in undeployed capital found that half of them would be interested in investing in energy.[9] Due to its fragmented nature, contract drilling is an ideal investment for private equity firms.[9] Some firms have hired experienced veterans of the energy sector to analyze deals. Increasing interest in contract drilling by private equity firms could mean Diamond Offshore has to outbid private equity firms when acquiring smaller drilling firms.
The drop in energy prices and the credit crunch several years ago led drilling companies to default on construction payments. Drilling rigs that were ordered by drilling companies were then put to auction at heavily discounted prices. Ocean Courage was one of the drilling rigs up for auction. Diamond Offshore purchased the Ocean Courage for about $400 million.[21] If Diamond Offshore had placed the order at the height of the market, it would have waited three years for delivery and the price would have been more than $700 million.[21] Ocean Courage is now stationed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Diamond's growth strategy is to acquire assets during downturns when iron is priced at a discount. Diamond has been known to acquire drilling assets at discounted prices at auction during economic downturns. The company also buys rigs that other companies fail to see value in. For example, Diamond purchased the rigs Ocean Vanguard and Ocean Patriot for $65 million each when other drilling companies believed those two units would never operate again.[21] Those two drilling rigs have since generated $200 million in value each.[21]
Diamond also upgrades units when possible instead of purchasing new units. Diamond upgraded the semi-submersible rigs Ocean Baroness, Ocean Rover, Ocean Endeavor, and Ocean Monarch. Each upgrade took less than two years and each upgraded rig earned the same dayrates as a new rig.[21]
Higher oil prices makes it more economically feasible to drill for deposits in deeper and more remote waters. The average drilling rig day rates, which are driven by demand for offshore drilling contracts by oil companies, are between $200,000 to $300,000 for rigs that can operate at water depths of 1500-4000 feet. As more advanced rigs can charge higher rates for longer periods of time, DO has followed a policy of continually upgrading their rigs instead of building the same ones.
Increases in crude prices not only encourage gas and oil companies to drill for more oil, but rising prices also enable these companies to invest in the exploration of new deposits. Prior to the global financial crisis, an increase in the demand for oil in regions such as China had sustained increasing gas and oil prices. This increase in oil prices drove increased demand for drilling rigs.
From: DiamondtelDebTo: Sent: 9/10/2008 7:43:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight TimeSubj: Defense of MediaAs an informed Voter, I beleive the media is handicapped by its advertisers and the fact that the major networks are no longer independent . It should be obvious to anyone that a tv news monopoly that proclaims to be the most trusted name in news and then has mega ads for no-such-thing-as-clean coal and Exxonmobil, BP, ConocoPhilips or any of the major oil corporations is anything but realistic in its coverage. That's why I trust NPR, my local newspaper (McClatchy-Charlotte Observer) and a few other internet sources that don't rely heavily or at all on Big Oil/Coal/Pharma money as do most the politicians. Obama is OBVIOUSLY the least attached to the Big Money and most interested in making the changes we need to survive as a nation -such as his willingness to talk to our enemies , willingness to depart from the fossil fuelishness that is destroying our planet, honesty and strength of character. I hope to see him elected. I hope we can keep him humble as a public servant that serves the common interest. I'd like to take the pressure off the media by making it once again public and no longer the monopoly the Bush/Cheney/McCain/Rove administration have created.Sincerely, Deb Arnason c 386-288-4454 Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Government12 Dill St, Alva, FL 33920 for the winter 239-728-3147360 Webb Rd, Wadesboro, NC 28170 704-851-3925 HLee County Florida snowbird and NC Canary-in-the-Coal-Mine It is difficult to get a man tounderstand something, when his job depends on his not understandingit. Upton Sinclair
The drilling industry is highly competitive and the the cyclical nature of the oil industry subjects companies to intense pricing competition during cycles of low demand and high supply of rigs. Companies that manage to retain the highest utilization rates are more able to experience longevity in the industry. High utilization rates means that rigs are contracted and making money. If rigs are not contracted, not only are they not earning revenue, they are costing the company resources needed to store these ships. DO has one of the highest utilization rates in the industry.
DO's biggest competitors include:
|Diamond Offshore Drilling[22]
|Rowan Companies[22]
|ENSCO International[22]
|Average Fleet Utilization
|Average Number of Offshore Rigs
Of DO's fleet of 46 rigs, only 31 are actively drilling.[22] Here is a comparison of DO's market share of active rigs and its major competitors: