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Gehrig, Meusel, Lazzeri, Ruth
FROM: The New York Times (November 30th 1977) ~
By John S. Radosta
Fans will argue long and inconclusively about the "best" outfield in
baseball history. The candidates include the 1912 Boston Red Sox, the
1915 Detroit Tigers, the 1920 Chicago "Black Sox," the 1925 Tigers,
the 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates, the 1929 Chicago Cubs, the 1929
Philadelphia Athletics and the 1942 St. Louis Cardinals.
But right up there with them is the 1927 Yankee outfield of Bob Meusel
in left field, Earl Combs in center field and Babe Ruth in right
field, with batting averages, respectively, of .337, .356 and .356.
Players of that time rated Mr. Meusel among the great Yankees, just a
notch below the level of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Ten of Mr. Meusel's 11 years in the major leagues were spent with the
Yankees, from 1920 through 1929. He played the 11th year with the
Cincinnati Reds of the National League.
In 1925 he led the American League with 33 home runs and 138 runs
batted in. In only three of his 10 Yankee seasons did he bat below
.300. His career batting average was .309.
He was less impressive in the six World Series he played for New York,
when his batting average was .255.
Noted For His Strong Arm
The Yankee outfield of the late 1920's was awesome enough, but it was
only part of the power that constituted "Murder's Row." Others
included Mr. Gehrig at first base and Tony Lazzeri at second.
Mr. Meusel was as valuable in the field as he was at bat. He was 6
feet 3 inches tall and moved with deceptive nonchalance. He covered
left field (he also played occasionally in center and right) with a
lazy lope. He usually got to where he had to be to make the catch,
but the impression he gave was of a man only half-trying.
And very few players had a stronger arm. He was deadly accurate and
swift in throwing to the bases or home plate from any corner of the
ball park. He could whip the ball like an infielder pegging to first
Casey Stengel, one of his contemporaries, recalled, "I never saw a
better thrower." For some reason Mr. Meusel could not "skip" the ball
to home plate - that is, throw it to the catcher on a single hop.
What he did was to throw clean line drives.
"He had lightnin' on the ball," Mr. Stengel said. "I don't know what
it was, but when he skipped the ball it skidded so crazy no catcher
could handle it. He had to throw on the fly all the way."
Bob Meusel was the younger brother of Emil (Irish) Meusel, and they
played against each other in the 1921 World Series, when Irish Meusel
was with the New York Giants. Early in his career Irish Meusel hurt
his throwing arm and his weak throw prevented him from being a great
The late Arthur Daley, The New York Times sports columnist, once wrote
that he considered that Bob Meusel had never reached his full
potential as a player.
Goat Of '26 Series
One reason was that people considered him to be lazy. He hustled only
when he wanted to. Impervious to pleas, threats or criticism, he
moved through his own world in solitude.
He sometimes refused to run out grounders. But there was the time, in
the 1921 World Series, that he stole home after warning the Giants
catcher, Earl Smith, that he would do it.
Mr. Meusel also happened to be the "goat" of the 1926 World Series,
when he dropped a fly ball that allowed the Cardinals to tie the score
and go on to win the game and the series. What happened was that Mr.
Meusel tried to throw a runner out before he actually caught the ball.
Mr. Meusel was born July 19, 1896, in San Jose, Calif., and he played
minor league baseball on the West Coast before joining the Yankees in
1920. In 1930 he was sold to Cincinnati and after a season there he
went back to the Pacific Coast League.
Mr. Meusel was directly independent. After the 1921 World Series he
was warned that a barnstorming tour he planned with Babe Ruth was a
violation of baseball rules, but he and Ruth went anyway. The then
baseball Commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, suspended them for
five weeks at the start of the 1922 season.
He also was dilatory about signing contracts. There was no
high-powered players' agents then, nor super contracts. A striking
contrast with today's bargaining conditions comes from a 1927 press
clipping: "Mesuel probably was insisting on more that a one-year
contract, which magnates in general are prone to frown upon."


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QNAP Introduces XBMC App for TS-x69 Pro / L Series NAS Unitsby Ganesh T S on 2/7/2013 7:11 PM EST
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StealthX32 - Thursday, February 07, 2013 - linkIs the home NAS market really willing to fork up that kind of money?
ZyXEL's 2-bay NSA325 NAS + a Raspberry Pi is $200 (plus HD costs obviously). That's a pretty far cry from $479. The NSA325 is driven by a Marvel 1.6GHz with enough oomph to drive torrent/Usenet clients, stream media, etc.
Is there anything I'd be missing?
(serious question as I'm in the market) Reply
ganeshts - Friday, February 08, 2013 - linkDepends on the number of clients you have for the NAS. For a single user, a ZyXEL NAS should be good enough. But, if you have 4 - 5 people in the home accessing the NAS simultaneously, then, things become dicey and you need an Atom based solutions like the ones being discussed in this piece.. Reply
jramskov - Friday, February 08, 2013 - linkIt all depends on your usage, but I don't want my NAS near my TV, I prefer a dedicated solution for streaming video from my NAS and such.
I personally have a Synology NAS and I would certainly recommend taking a look at their offerings if you're looking at getting a NAS. Reply
RoboJ1M - Friday, February 08, 2013 - linkI'm getting a Synology DS next month
A NAS's impressibilities should be protecting and serving your data.
I'm going to run Plex on a seperate box, whose job will be doing the transcoding for my DLNA devices and when I'm out on 3G. Reply
themelon - Saturday, February 09, 2013 - linkYou'll understand when you try to run XBMC on the Pi. It works but not with 1080p and bit streaming audio. Although to be fair it was with a V1 I tried. I have a V2, the Model B with 512MB ram I plan to try this next week. Hopefully it works better but I still doubt it will be good enough for theater use.
Still won't bit stream HD audio though. For some applications that is just fine. I'm sure I will have a few in certain areas of the house. But for Theater use the hardware is just not capable enough.
If you only want one machine running and you can run a few cat5e cables to your Receiver or Display from where your NAS sits you can use the Monoprice HDMI extender, PID 6532 ~$40, and USB 1.1, pid 6042 ~$10, extenders. The HDMI extender works great as long as your not connecting to an HDMI port with a signal frequency over 165MHz. I use 2 of them for my desktop PC pushing 2 Samsung 1920x1200 displays over 50ft of cat5e UTP.
Although if your only going to have 2-4 disks in your NAS I'd go with something like the HP MicroServer with a GeForce 610 PCI card instead of the ZyXEL. Overall performance will be much better and the HP is pretty good on power consumption. Reply
chaos215bar2 - Thursday, February 07, 2013 - linkI know Synology uses the D2700 in their higher end units. It would certainly be interesting to see them use it in one of their home units and add HDMI out, even if they left it up to third parties to release a media center package. Reply
chizow - Friday, February 08, 2013 - linkAs title states, I'd be interested if the XBMC allowed an attached TV to directly play and record content-protected Live TV streamed over a network. That would allow me to forego a thin client with Windows Media Center attached to the TV with the NAS. I currently have an older C2D laptop connected to my TV for this functionality but the CPU/GPU isn't quite up to the task for hiccup-free streamed 1080p playback.
If this NAS with XBMC performed similar to an XBox 360 it'd be perfect. Reply

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Segebart: Plan to hike fuel tax draws interest
School funding, bullying also discussed at legislative forum
State Sen. Mark Segebart, R-Vail, shows a bumper sticker that was making the rounds at the State Capitol that's a sign of the times, difficulty in funding prison staff and State Patrol.
March 31, 2014
A hybrid system for raising fuel taxes for Iowa's roads and bridges has gained interest in the Legislature, Sen. Mark Segebart, R-Vail, said at a Carroll Chamber of Commerce legislative forum Saturday morning at Carroll High School.
The hybrid plan, which adjusts for inflation, differs from the proposal to raise fuel taxes by 10 cents a gallon over the next three years - 3 cents the first two years and four cents the final year.
The hybrid tax would reduce Iowa's gasoline tax to 16 cents a gallon and impose a new 5 percent wholesale tax on motor fuels, state lawmakers explained in a recent story in the Des Moines Register. The current taxes are 21 cents per gallon for regular gasoline and 19 cents for ethanol-blended fuel.
Estimates say the new plan would generate an additional $230 million yearly and have about the same impact as a 10-cents-per-gallon increase at the pump.
Segebart didn't dismiss chances for the hybrid plan's approval, calling it a "sleeper bill."
"It's got legs under it, a lot better than I thought," he observed. "There are a lot of people talking about this."
Segebart, a former Crawford County Board of Supervisors member, said the hybrid plan would bring quicker help to secondary-roads budgets.
"I'm for doing something," he said. "I think we probably should have done this years ago, but I was never in any position other than I could complain as a county supervisor. I'm doing what I can as a minority member of the Senate, and I have many friends on the majority side that would like to see something happen too."
Segebart said Democratic leaders in the Senate will want to see assurance of bipartisan support for any plan to increase the fuel tax before bringing it up for action.
"The scary part is that one party will blame the other if (support) is not bipartisan," he said.
"So it's alive. It's a live round," he said of the hybrid plan's chances.
Segebart said a number of Republican senators support raising taxes for roads.
"There are a lot of old county officials in our caucus who understand the problems we have with our roads out here in the country, so I think we can get there," he said.
At the forum, Carroll City Manager Gerald Clausen distributed a sheet titled "Iowa Transportation Facts," listing rankings nationwide, based on data from the the Iowa Department of Transportation and 2013 annual report on the Performance of State Highway Systems, Reason Foundation. Those rankings are: 48th in deficient bridges, 38th in rural-Interstate condition, 46th in rural-arterial condition and 37th in urban-Interstate condition. The information sheet said Iowa last increased motor-fuel tax 25 years ago and increasing user fee by 10 cents a gallon would equal $44 a year per vehicle based on 12,100 miles average driven per household vehicle.
"Each week, the added investment in your roadway system from a 10-cent increase in the gas tax would cost less than one can of your favorite soda, half the price of a cup of espresso ($1.65 for a large cup of Starbucks coffee) and a fraction of the cost of one movie ticket," according to the information.
Segebart led the forum, attended by about 30 people, on his own, as Rep. Dan Muhlbauer, D-Manilla, was attending the funeral of a friend and fellow church member.
The forum also addressed school anti-bullying legislation and state education funding.
Segebart said anti-bullying legislation recently approved on party-lines in the Senate calls for $1 million in appropriation and "set up another layer of bureaucracy at the state level."
A new office at the state level would compile statistics from throughout the state, and that office would present information to the Legislature, Segebart said. He added that teachers and administrators would be required to address bullying off school grounds as well as in school.
According to The Associated Press, the bill would build upon current Iowa law by broadening the definition of bullying, requiring parental notification in some instances of bullying, granting school officials the authority to handle bullying incidents that occur off campus if they affect students on school grounds, and training school officials on the best practices and procedures to respond to bullying cases.
The bill seeks $1 million for anti-bullying efforts, of which $250,000 would go toward establishing an office within the Department of Education to coordinate and implement new policies to prevent bullying and harassment in schools. The remainder of the money would be used for a competitive grant program to help schools with carrying out the new rules.
The bill also doesn't require parental notification in all cases, leaving that decision to students and educators.
The law outlines a list of reasons a child might be bullied, such as religion or sexual orientation.
Gov. Terry Branstad has made bullying prevention a priority this year after a failed attempt during the 2013 session.
Explaining his concerns about the bill, Segebart noted that even such organizations as the Iowa Association of School Boards, Department of Public Health, Iowa State Police Association, School Administrators of Iowa, Area Education Agencies, United Way and Child and Family Policy Center have withheld their support.
"The bill passed is one most school boards and administrators don't support themselves," Segebart said.
The Senate bill was sent to the House, which is working on its own anti-bullying plan.
An audience member said schools are being asked to do more of what should be parents' responsibility.
"How can they teach reading, writing and arithmetic and at the same time do all these reports and try to take care of things not even happening on school grounds?" she said.
Segebart said, "Teachers have only so much ability to make corrections in the classrooms. Superintendent Cordes (Carroll Community School District Rob Cordes, who emceed the forum) could probably tell us more than we want to hear. But they're toothless when it comes to discipline."
Segebart talked about the difficulty of eliminating bullying, citing an example of his own grandchildren, with a 6-year-old already picking on a 1-year-old.
"It's part of human nature, and parents need to correct that," he said. "They're not getting that like they used to. You used to be able to go to the teacher. If the teachers had a problem, they sent a note home to the parents, and it was fixed by the parents. That whole system seems to have fallen through the cracks. So giving teachers more responsibilities that will actually not solve the problem is not the anwer. It's going to have to start at home and allow teachers to have a little more ability to straighten it out in the classroom."
Segebart said peer pressure used to be effective for correcting bullies but that seems to have disappeared.
And he noted the emergence of cyberbullying, "How would you ever have seen that coming? And now that's a huge problem."
Near the end of the forum Cordes needled Segebart on the need for the Legislature to provide schools with more dependable funding and spending authority.
Cordes said, "There are not only declining-enrollment schools but there are schools with increasing enrollment that are having to make budget cuts and significant budget cuts. Carroll Community is one of those, and they're all the way across the state of Iowa.
"This excuse of not wanting to set (funding) because we want to hold true to our promises doesn't hold water. If you look back at the history of across-the-board cuts, that's very evident, because even in the years we had across-the-board cuts, we still had the authority, and that budget authority is extremely important. Besides, it' the law."
Last year legislators approved an allowable growth model of 2-2-4 that would give an increase of 2 percent plus a one-time payment equal to 2 percent in 2014 and 4 percent growth for 2015. This session, the Democratic-led Senate has asked for a 6 percent increase, while the Republican-controlled House wants to stick with a multi-year funding formula.
Segebart said 6-percent growth is not sustainable, noting that the state's Revenue Estimating Conference recently projected 4.5-percent growth.
"There are a limited amount of dollars. We do not print dollars at the state level," Segebart said. "We have to have a balanced budget. If you go to 6 percent, someone else in that budget is going to have to be left short, and everybody out there is crying for money."
Segebart said that in the last 10 years, schools have been shorted six times on the approved education funding, so, he added, he doesn't want to see school districts make promises that can't kept.
"Just keep the authority, even on those years it was cut, they kept the authority to spend. The authority to spend is extremely important," Cordes countered.
Responding to an email question from the Times Herald about spending authority, Cordes responded, "Spending authority is the legal amount a school district can spend in the general fund based on the funding formula. One of the big numbers in the calculation of spending authority is regular program cost which is the number of students (certified enrollment x cost per pupil - set by the Legislature). There are several other parts to determining the spending authority for a district, but most of them are dependent on the cost per pupil.
"In years the state had across-the-board cuts districts received less money, but did not lose any spending authority. While it is not popular districts can recoup the money lost the next year by levying additional property tax through the cash reserve levy."
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This article was published 24/11/2012 (1733 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
BEFORE IKEA announced four years ago that it was coming to Winnipeg, some long-suffering fans had undoubtedly sought divine intervention to convince the Swedish furniture maker to enter the Manitoba market.
While there's no tangible proof a higher power had any direct role in creating the biggest retail-related frenzy in Winnipeg's history, we can point to a number of earthly developments that made next Wednesday's much-anticipated grand opening possible.
When the ribbon is finally cut, the Winnipeg store will be the 12th in Canada for the world's largest furniture maker. (There are currently stores in Calgary, Edmonton, Coquitlam, Richmond, Burlington, Etobicoke, North York, Ottawa, Vaughan, Boucherville and Montreal.) Here's a list of events that were crucial to IKEA's decision:
IKEA expands to Montreal.
At the time, nobody expected it would be another three decades until it entered a new Canadian market. Over that period, Winnipeg is at or near the top of IKEA's catalogue sales in Canada.
Behind closed doors, IKEA identifies Winnipeg as one of the markets into which it wants to expand.
A year later, it starts market research and a site-selection process. Winnipeggers are still in the dark, although they not-so-secretly hope IKEA will open a bricks-and-mortar location in the city.
IKEA regularly runs out of catalogues at its booth at the Home Expressions show each spring.
July 2007
Winnipegger Justin Phillips launches a Facebook group, "Bring IKEA to Winnipeg." Both he and his wife are longtime fans, regularly loading up their vehicle in Calgary or Minneapolis and even having IKEA parties. Over the next 1½ years, more than 6,000 people join the group.
"I like to think we had some impact on the decision, even though it's probably pretty minute.
Six thousand people were voicing their opinions, saying they would shop there," Phillips says.
"IKEA would ship whatever you wanted to your house for under $100. Our friends would pick (their furniture) up from our house and we'd all split (the delivery charge)."
Dec. 15, 2008
The pre-Christmas miracle thousands of Winnipeggers had been praying for finally occurs — IKEA announces it's coming to Winnipeg.
The Manitoba capital was always on IKEA's radar, company spokesperson Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick says, but the company doesn't take expansion plans lightly, opening just 20 stores around the world every year.
"Contrary to what some have maintained, we firmly believe Winnipeg can support one of our largest stores in Canada. We really do our homework to determine the sustainability and viability of our markets," she says at the time.
Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz calls the $400-million development "a big win for the city," while Manitoba Premier Gary Doer says it represents "a great step forward."
IKEA acquires a parcel of land to the southwest of Kenaston Boulevard and Sterling Lyon Parkway, part of a development to be known as the Seasons of Tuxedo.
The province and the city announce they will spend a combined $18.5 million to widen Kenaston Boulevard and Sterling Lyon Parkway. The province can recoup its investment almost immediately through sales and income taxes, while the city can get its money back through property taxes over less than four years.
Construction begins on one of the biggest projects in Winnipeg's history with hundreds of workers on site most days. The building is completely closed in during the summer of 2012.
June 2012
IKEA Winnipeg store manager Stephen Bobko announces he is looking for about 350 workers before the store opens. He is inundated with thousands of online applications within a couple of weeks.
Sept. 19, 2012
IKEA causes furniture fanatics all over Winnipeg to scramble to mark their calendars as it announces its new store will open on Nov. 28.
Fall 2012
Teams of IKEA workers from around the world descend on the store in fall to stock the shelves and install fixtures. In late October, the kitchen staff starts cooking its first batches of Swedish meatballs as the store goes into its final month of preparations. The most eagerly anticipated retail opening in Winnipeg's history will finally happen. The company isn't allowing anybody on the parking lot before 12:01 that morning, so if you're planning on camping out for a few days for the door-crasher specials, don't bother.
(Why would people want to do that? When the new store in Ottawa opened a year ago, one woman won a $10,000 gift card for waiting in line for five days.) Unlike store openings in other cities during warmer months, the company is worried about the possibility of extreme temperatures and it doesn't want any of its customers being treated for hypothermia in the event of a deep freeze.
The first 1,000 people in line after midnight, however, will receive a gift box from IKEA, including an Allen key inside. If yours has a yellow Allen key, you'll have a one-in-six chance it will unlock a $1,000 IKEA gift card or the grand prize of a $5,000 gift card.


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In March, our new granddaughter came to visit and so a camera became an essential purchase to capture her every moment and after careful deliberation I chose the Fujifilm S4000. To date, I have been very satisfied with almost every aspect of this camera's performance.
** Overview **
The camera is a 14 megapixel camera that looks similar to the Digital SLR cameras. I couldn't justify the price of a Digital SLR and so when this camera came up in Amazon's listings at a very reasonable 139.99 pounds I decided to take a look. The camera certainly fits the label of 'superzoom' with a 30X optical zoom built in. This zoom is surprisingly effective even when handheld. If you take a common sense approach to assisting the stability of the camera, for example, resting the camera on your knee, even at full zoom you can obtain clear shots without the need for a tripod. The camera probably aims at the 'bridge' camera category that sits between the fully automated photography offered by a compact and the fully manual control offered by the Digital SLR cameras. For an amateur photographer with an interest in taking some control over pictures but without the technical know-how to assume full control over every aspect it is perfect. I could imagine photographers with more technical knowledge eventually reaching a point where they want more manual control than the camera allows.
The camera looks well built and incorporates a 3 inch LCD screen into the back which seems surprisingly light on battery usage. Certainly I am getting many hundreds of shots from the four AA batteries even with the screen switched on. The screen is good quality but obviously, as LCD, lacks brightness in direct sunlight.
As an additional bonus the camera can record 720p HD video which can then be played back on your computer screen or HDTV. The quality of the video is surprising given the cost of the camera but the built in microphone struggles with anything not extremely close and has a tendency to exaggerate background noise.
** How easy is it to use? **
I'm not a person that likes to read manuals and this camera doesn't need too much homework before you can unlock most of its features. The menu system is intuitive but it does react differently based on which setting has been chosen on the top dial. This can be slightly confusing until you get used to the top dial settings. A typical issue will be that a certain scene setting, for example macro, won't appear in the menu until you have chosen one of the appropriate modes that includes macro. Once you are aware of this though I would suggest the manual can rest in the box and the camera can be used with relative simplicity.
The 30X optical zoom is what will attract many people to this camera. In 35mm photography terms it is equivalent to a 24-270mm lens. Wildlife can jump into view, items on the horizon are suddenly within range and it can even add a depth of field effect to portrait photos making the background look slightly out of focus.
The auto-focus options are awesome, although at times the speed can be an issue as you ask your subjects to hold their smile whilst the camera adjusts the focus in and out until perfect. Auto-focus is operated with a two pressure button for taking pictures. You push half way for the camera to focus and then when the image has stabilized push the remainder of the way to take the picture.
The camera has a number of other features including modes for moving subjects, the ability to take a string of photos with one button press and even smile detection. The latter is a truly impressive offering when showing the camera to friends.
** Overall **
Overall, after four months of use I'm very satisfied with this camera. It doesn't fit in a pocket but it offers and image quality, a variety of pre-set modes and a level of zoom that are unusual to find in this price bracket.
I first published this review on Ciao under the same user name.
I wanted to buy a camera as my old one had bitten the dust but I couldn't afford to buy a Nikon or Canon so with the help of my parents who are keen photographers we came upon the Fujifilm Bridge camera as a good compromise until finance improve.
I really love the look of the Fujifilm it is not too big and bulky or heavy to carry around. I have also found that the different settings on offer are easy to use as I am not as well clued up on the ins and outs of photography as my parents. They are easy to use because when you select a setting you get a full description of the use by way of the viewing screen of through the view finder depending on the option you have selected to take your photo. Having the option of using either the view finder or the display screen at the back to take a photo is excellent because depending on what your doing you have the option. I would say that if taking photos outside in bright light then the display screen is difficult to use so having the option of the traditional view finder is perfect for such occasions.
The zoom is fantastic as you are able to take those lovely scenic shots from a good distance. There is also the panoramic option which I have played with a little bit but need a bit more practise with.
The quality of the photos is excellent being 14 mega pixels.
There is also the option to use as a video camera to capture those special moments.
My only negative would be that there is a slight delay when taking the shot which is only a problem when I am trying to take a photo of my daughter as she dosen't always sit still for long so sometimes that perfect shot that was there when you pressed the button is not quite what you get as the end result but this is typical of a bridge camera.
I would rate this camera as great for starting out or if finances cannot stretch to the more expensive Canons and Nikon digital camera's
I have always been interested in photography. Last year I decided i was going to leave my little sony point and shoot and upgrade to a dslr. However i very quickly realised that the canon's and nikon's that i dreamed of were a lot of money. I decided to buy the fuji s4000 to see if i really wanted to spend the money on a dslr. I bought mine from amazon, the price was unbeatable and delivery was very fast. Now down to the fuji. Upon opening the box there is: The camera itself, a lense cap, a carry strap, batteries, warantee booklet, instructions and a software cd.
The good things. the fuji looks like a complex dslr however it is actually incredibly similar to control to an ordinary compact. This makes it easy to judge if you would be happy to carry an slr camera around with you all day. Next up is the usp of the camera which is the whopping 30 times optical zoom, this is an amazing feature allowing you to take full hd pictures and video at long range. When it comes to features they are pretty much the same as your ordinary compact with a few extras for example the scene recognition, in this mode the camera analyzes the surroundings and adjusts iso and shutter speed based on what type of picture it thinks you are taking eg portrait. The camera is installed with blink and smile detection allowing really great pictures of people and groups without someone blinking or not smiling. The manual mode allows complete control over shutter speed and apature giving you a taste of slr shooting. 14mp full hd pictures and videos is the source of all the great pictures with the s4000. The best way to describe the pros is that the s4000 has all the features of a compact, with high quality pictures and video in a dslr body and an incredible zoom.
There are some small downsides as such but nothing major. The flash has to be released manually so that is up to the user to decide when it should go off. The tripod grip is actually made of plastic and doesn't look very strong, however just be careful with it. Also the screen may be big but the quality is not exceptional, good for a quick check of the picture but definitely need to upload to pc. something that some of my friends have commented on is the noise of the zoom recorded over videos, however this could be countered by using the digital instead of optical zoom.
Buying this camera was the best thing i did when moving up from compacts, originally i planned to buy this to see if i wanted to spend the big money on a dslr then sell it. However I loved this so much that i didn't want to sell it. I have upgraded anyway to a canon eos 500d but still use the fuji as backup. All round fab cam beginer and backup camera.
I treated myself to this camera last October and took it to northern highlands of Scotland on our holidays, it is easy to use and very comfortable to hold with the shutter button in easy reach even for my small hands!
The 30x zoom is fantastic and you can zoom again once the picture is taken, allowing fabulous close ups of wildlife a long way away!
The screen is a good size allowing you to see exactly what your snapping, or you can flick a switch and use the viewfinder.
The clarity of the pictures are wonderful, even with maximum zoom they are clear and sharp.
You can take stills and videos on it, i found the panoramic view useful and very simple to use allowing a fabulous views to be captured in full.
The camera switches off after so long in order to save battery life, and does not switch on if the lens cap is on, it is advisable to invest in re-chargeable batteries and always have spares with you just in case!
It is easy to upload your photos to a PC and very fast.
I would recommend this camera to everyone!
If you only want to view your photos on your computer and at a size no larger than your monitor then this is a great camera. Otherwise, don't get your hopes up. I've been using the Finepix S1500 for the past 3 years and LOVED it, so I REALLY wanted to like this camera. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I've tried I just can't do it. Maybe it's because I'm comparing it to the S1500, but I checked the specs on the S4000 before buying it and the only real difference between it and the S1500 is the increase in zoom and the bump from 10mp to 14mp. I figured with everything else being the same I should get at least the same picture quality as I did with the S1500 right? WRONG. Here's the thing. The pics from the s4000 look fine on the LCD...and they even look good when viewing it on your computer screen at the fitted size. However, as you zoom the photo closer to it's ORIGINAL size you begin to see it's flaws. I take a lot of photos at the beach so that's where I took mine for a "test drive". It also was a good way for me to compare the photos against photos I'd taken at the same location with my S1500. The first thing I noticed was that my photos looked "flat" and the colors weren't very vibrant...not even using the CHROME color setting. This seemed to cause the edges around the subject(s) to look "Hard" against the backdrop, similar to the look you get from a photo that has been oversharpened. This also made the photo look a bit cartoonish and almost unreal. The next thing I noticed was that the photos lacked focus...or crispness. I'm not talking about a slight blur caused by subtle motion, but rather little "smudges" of blur throughout the photo...even with stationary objects. It's as though the lens just cant seem to make up it's mind what to focus on. I tried using a variety of settings to try and correct the problem or at least notice a difference, but to no avail. Let me again point out that, although I'm not a professional photographer, I AM experienced with the S1500 which is nearly identical to the S4000, so this camera is very comfortable to me. Still, I thought maybe I was doing something wrong, so I checked with some members of the S4000 Camera Users group on Flickr to find out what they've experienced. Turns out these same issues are points of frustration with other s4000 users, especially those who use or have used other cameras.
Now I am not one of those people who buy an entry-level camera and expect it to perform like a high-end DSLR. However as a former Finepix user who was extremely happy with the photo quality of the S4000's predecessor, the S1500 (which by the way was also a budget "bridge" camera that sold for around $200 dollars), my expectations were quite modest and far from unrealistic.
As far as the other CONS I listed, they weren't a big deal to me and honestly I couldn't care less about them. It's the PHOTO QUALITY that just kills me. Like I said at the beginning, this camera is great if you just want to upload your photos to be viewed from a computer. You might even be fine having 6x4 prints made at a kiosk down the street. But if you need a camera that will give you a photo quality thats suitable for slightly larger prints, you might want to look elsewhere.
I recently went on a trip to America from San francisco to Miami, and I took this camera and a cheap camera with me. This was the one I used for the scenes such as the grand canyon, yosemite and the Redwoods. The camera was really powerful and managed to catch some great sights. My favourite being the thunderstorm over the grand canyon where it painted the sky purple. I was highly relieved to have a powerful camera on me, so therefore I would definitely recommend this one to you.
Video wasn't as good, however I chose the camera for the photos, next time I might seperately bring a camcorder.
Fujifilm is a highly reliable camera make. The camera I had before this one was a fujifilm and we took it to a water park and it was literally drenched! It worked completely fine throughout and is still fully functional, a massive relief to me as the pictures were epic!
I went to comet and bought one of these, I couldnt wait to use it when I got home. I found it so easy to use and to hook up to my computer, the clarity of the photograph's is just brilliant, the one downside was the price, I found it quite expensive but its definitely worth investing in on of these babies! The zoom was really good especially for taking picture that were really far! The pictures were very clear, and I found it so easy to use because I'm not very good with technology, so I highly recommend it to you if you're not very tech geeky! My eldest daughters keep stealing it from me without asking, I remember when I first bought it, my eldest daughter Lucy stole it when she travelling to Thailand. I definetly highly recommed this camera especially if your not a tech wiz! I hope this helps, Thank you!
I am a nature lover and I keep visiting Natural parks and wildlife reserves and I am always accompanied by Fujifilm's Finepix S4000 as it has a super wide-angle 24mm zoom which helps me click photos in a true high quality and adds a professional touch to the photos. I feel quite comfortable carrying around this camera as it is quite lightweight as compared to the SLR equipment i have preciously used.
This SLR camera offer images of great clarity even if i shoot at a place where there is scarce light available. This enables me to shoot even if the light is not adequate and i can capture in a good quality even in the evening time. The previous SLR cameras that i have used captured blurred images if the object i was shooting moved or if I couldn't handle the camera in a stable position , but this one has got great ISO Sensitivity feature and shoots clear pictures even if we click it in a shaky motion.
The best feature of this Fujifilm FinePix is that it offers video recording at 720p HD at an stunning frame rate of 30 frames per second. I love to watch the videos i have captured in my HDTV and the quality makes it look real-live like.
Thanks to Fujifilm , i can post my images or videos on Facebook or Youtube making use of a bundled software toolkit. I just have to connect my camera to a laptop and upload the pictures making use of the Fujifilm software. This is the feature i love the most , because it enables my friends to be updated with the latest happenings as they can have a look at the creative pictures captured by my Fujifilm buddy.
I would recommend anyone who loves quality pictures to for this and experience true photography with this Fujifilm.


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Astros rebound from White Sox rally, win slugfest
Dominguez has big game, drives in go-ahead run; Altuve goes deep
CHICAGO -- Just when it looked like the White Sox were going to rally for their third straight come-from-behind win in Sunday's series finale at U.S. Cellular Field, the Astros pulled away with four runs in the seventh inning in an 11-7 victory on a day they tied a season high with 17 hits.
In the seventh, Houston accumulated the four runs on four hits and an intentional walk over eight batters against reliever Daniel Webb, who tossed 25 pitches over the frame and took his third loss.
Chris Carter and Matt Dominguez led off the inning with back-to-back doubles, then L.J. Hoes and Marwin Gonzalez brought home another pair with consecutive two-out hits to give the Astros tie their largest lead of the game, which they reached three times.
"Even when we made some errors and did not make plays that put our pitchers in more distress, the offense responded each and every time and was able to continue to put runs on the board," manager Bo Porter said. "We've been faced with adversity throughout the course of the year and one thing I can say about these guys is they're going to continue to fight."
All-Star Jose Altuve extended his MLB hits lead to 135 after finishing 2-for-5 with a homer and a single to lead off the game.
Altuve, who struck out five times in his first nine at-bats of the series, scored the game's first run on a sacrifice fly by Carter, a former White Sox prospect. In the third, Alutve hit a two-run homer, his third dinger of the year, on a changeup hung high by starter John Danks, which Porter said before the game would be the key to exploiting the lefty.
Sunday marked the second straight day an Astros starter left after just five innings when Jarred Cosart was relieved at the 104-pitch mark after allowing four runs (three earned), seven hits and four walks while striking out three.
Cosart, making his first start since July 7 after battling a sore groin, said he struggled early with command of his fastball.
"I was hoping to go six or seven even after the first; just come out and have some quick innings," Cosart said. "But it's baseball. I got a lot of ground balls. Obviously I didn't get the results and didn't go as long as I wanted to, but I thought I made some good adjustments to start the second half that I can only build off of and get better."
Houston opened a 4-0 margin that extended to 7-3 with three-run innings in the third and fifth. Highlighting those frames were a pair of first-pitch, two-run homers by Altuve and Dominguez, their third and 12th home runs of the season, respectively.
Dominguez, who went 1-for-8 in the first two games of the series, finished 3-for-5 hitting cleanup with four RBIs and was a triple away from hitting for the cycle.
In the fifth, Jon Singleton scored from second on a Robbie Grossman base hit to center, sliding past a bobbled tag by White Sox catcher Adrian Nieto three batters after Dominguez's homer. Dominguez also had an RBI base hit in the third, three batters after Altuve belted his homer.
The Astros (41-58) are off Monday, then open a three-game series in Oakland against baseball's best team.
Porter said that the additional day comes at a beneficial time, as many of the Astros are banged up, including starting outfielders Dexter Fowler, Alex Presley and George Springer, who was scratched before Sunday's game with soreness in the quad and knee on his right leg. Porter said the club will reevaluate Springer's status Tuesday.
First baseman Jesus Guzman was also scratched with a tight back.
"The off-day's coming at a good time," Porter said. "We've got some guys banged up and they continue to get treatment. Hopefully the extra day will help us."
Daniel Kramer is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Lightning took a 5-0 lead after two periods and never looked back.
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Also many that preordered canceled their orders friday as they were able to pickup in the store. I personally cancelled a iPhone 5 16GB Black as I was able to receive in store but the 64GB was sold out. Original delivery date was oct. 5 but Apple has already shipped the 64 GB on friday. So I think it is because a lot of preorders got cancelled.
Guess I am not one of the lucky ones to get their iPhone earlier than expected, still waiting for it to be shipped...
Probably improved shipping dates due to cancelled orders.
Yeah I ordered mine at 9am EST Monday morning the day they were first available for preorder and was rather sad to see that I was going to be 14-21 days. BUT..... I got notification late Friday that mine will arrive Monday. Today!!!!
Last time for the 4s I preordered and then went and found one in store (best buy). I would have done the same this time (live in a small town. They had plenty until after 5pm Friday) but I was traveling for business and was in a large city and didn't feel like waiting in line for hours.
I ordered mine on the 14th, when it said it would be delivered in two weeks. The next day, the actual delivery date changed to oct 9... Almost three weeks later. Then early Saturday morning I received a shipping notification that stated oct 2 as the delivery date. Finally, tracking the UPS shipment now shows a Sept 28 delivery date. Yay!
i had an Oct 5 delivery date, I just checked on the App, it shows shipped from china yesterday. i'll have it soon, pleasantly surprised now.
Mine is on a flight from china as I type, UPS doesn't show an ETA but the email I got from apple is saying the 28th so I'm hopping it shows up early until then iPhone 5 Music Video - YouTube
Foxconn is a joke... they don't only produce iPhone or apple products. they are responsible for many other things. who knows what or why they where rioting. personally i don't believe that this will last long considering foxconn employs something along the lines of 1.1 million people, and have been known to be able to employ 79,000 new people over night. they could just fire the ones rioting and move on!
My iPhone 5 32 Black ordered from Apple originally to be delivered Oct 4 Changed to preparing for shipment Thurs night 9-20 today is Monday 9-24 and it still says the same. Can't track by reference either. My apple care on same order shows as completed on Friday anyone else having a long delay in preparing for shipment stage?


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HOUSTON - A beloved pastor, who police said was killed by his own great grandson, was laid to rest Saturday.
The funeral for James Dorsey was held just over a week after he and his daughter, Barbara Dorsey Alexander, were found dead inside their home.
The grief was too much to contain for many during the funeral at Holmons Street Baptist Church, where hundreds gathered to pay their final respects.
But for the ones who loved the Dorseys, it's impossible to forget the brutal way they died.
Investigators said Dorsey's great grandson, 20-year-old Cameraon Dorsey, was staying with the pastor to get back on his feet after being released from prison.
Investigators said Dorsey argued with the pastor, then killed him and the Barbara.
Now, after saying their goodbyes, family and friends are left to cope with the devastating void.
Local 2 spoke exclusively with the Cameron Dorsey. He said he thinks it's fair that he's been charged with capital murder. He also said he remembers everything, but he didn't want to talk about why it all happened.
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Jeff Koons' New Sculpture Could Crush You
But luckily the $25 million life-size train will be suspended from a crane.
Fancy a thrill in the 'I could so easily be painfully pulverized' sense of the word when stopping to smell the flowers? Jeff Koons has made massive dogs out of live plants and balloon animals out of stainless steel, and now the pop artist could suspend a train weighing several tons from a crane above a walkway in a New York park. As you do. The proposed sculpture would be a life-sized, 70-foot replica of a 1940s locomotive crafted from incredibly heavy-sounding materials, steel and carbon fiber. Oh, and it would also sporadically turn its wheels, blow its horn and emit steam.
The piece of art has been modestly quoted at $25 million to produce and install, and it would be part of the High Line in Manhattan's West Side, which is a park built above the city streets on what used to be a freight rail line. Jeff is in talks with Friends of the High Line, the group that manages the park, about installing the train in the park's third and final section of development, the rail yards.
"We've had a crush on the 'Train' for a while now," said Robert Hammond, co-founder of High Line, to the New York Times. Crush. Lol. Tom Eccles, former director of New York's Public Art Fund, employed quite an original metaphor when describing his feelings about seeing a model of the train, also telling the Times, "It's like picking up a dog by its tail, with the legs still running. In some ways, it's suspended between the past and the future."
Now all they need is a private investor to dish out the cash money - and they can't look to Diane von Furstenburg and her husband Bary Diller, who've already donated nothing short of $35 million to the park.


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i made two racks of spareribs on Saturday. i cooked them for 4hrs at 250-275 grill temp. the only seasoning i used was Montreal steak seasoning (no sauce, i ate them as they where) and they tasted fantastic and fall off the bone. (That's how my wife likes them)
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Per serving - 202 calories, 4 gram fat (17% calories from fat), 8 gram protein, 35 gram carbohydrate, 0 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 113 milligram sodium


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Pen/Faulkner Finalist ZZ Packer to Give Reading at Ithaca College
ITHACA, NY — The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at Ithaca College will host a reading by short-story writer ZZ Packer. Free and open to the public, her presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall.
Packer is the author of the short-story collection "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere," which was named a PEN/Faulkner finalist and a New York Times Notable Book and was personally selected by John Updike for the "Today" Show Book Club. Her stories have appeared in the "New Yorker," "Harper's" and "Best American Short Stories," while her nonfiction has been featured in the "New York Times Magazine," "Essence" and "O, The Oprah Magazine." She is a contributor to the "Huffington Post" and has appeared several times as a commentator on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and MSNBC.
Among other honors, Packer has been listed among "America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences" by "Smithsonian" magazine and the "Best of Young American Novelists" by "Granta" magazine and included in the "20 Under 40" fiction writers issue of the "New Yorker." She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as the Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.
The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the Department of Writing in the School of Humanities and Sciences. For more information contact Catherine Taylor, assistant professor of writing, at 607-274-7031 or email@example.com.


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Topic: vomitting and nausea
I thought I'd post on this end of the site this time. Is there anyone who has advice regarding the unexplained vomitting in the latter stages of untreated cc? My sister's dr said there is no pathological reason for her unabated retching and throwing up. At this point, we don't even care about why but rather what can we do about it. Most the anti-nausea drug don't really work, but any input would be helpful. Thanks and happy fourth of July to all.


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And if that doesn't work then I'm gonna come over your way and kick your pc all over the desert!!
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And if that doesn't work then I'm gonna come over your way and kick your pc all over the desert!!
Gav, I did. I had it down to 40 X 45 and not only did it not work it messed up the picture, I became just a blob.
Right! I'll be on the next plane headed to Phoenix! You'll easily recognise me....... I'll be the one getting off the plane wearing the steel toe capped boots!!!! LOL!
Last thing that I can think off if you want to try this. Maybe you could email me the pic you want to put here in your avatar. I could try and resize it etc then send it back to you and see if that works? Not got a clue if that will work or not but just thinking out loud and that is the best that I can come up with right now!!!
What about that?
I would rather you come here, but I will try to e mail it.
I am beginning to wonder if it's just Lainy's tricky way of getting you to Arizona!
Seriously it should not be this difficult. Perhaps it's the picture you picked that is being persnickety. You could try another just as a test.
Seriously out of suggestions on my end.
Oh that could be Lainy's plan Randi! Good thinking there!!! But, some AZ sun would certainly beat our Scottish snow and cold right now! And kicking a pc about in the sun, yep, I could do that too! Good idea about the individual pic being persnickety as you say. Good word too, I like that!
If you send me the pic Lainy I'll see what I can do with it tomorrow night.
Time for me to get some zzzzzz's here!
Gavin, I am going to wait until Thanksgiving when my 3 guests come from Milwaukee. I worked for one guy for 20 years and this will be there 17th Thanksgiving out here! Anyway he is a computer nut, so will let him make changes then. Thanks anyway. I will calm down by then!!! LOL
That sounds like a plan Lainy! I'm sure that your computer nut will be able to solve this problem, if not it is def time for the sturdy boots!!!
Hope you are feeling calmer today now!
Thanx, Gav. Soooooo calm. I have a date tomorrow night with Teddy's son-in-law from Palm Springs as he is coming in on business. We are going Greek. Perhaps I should say Geek as it is Halloween. I sure wish he was bringing the 9 month old Great Grandson who is just adorbs and he has quite a bit of T in him! All you Grandma's know how that feels!
You sound calmer!
Have a good night tom. Maybe if Teddy's son in law brought the little fella with him then you wouldn't get to the eating! Too hard to put the little guy down for you me thinks!
Greek, yup, you guessed it....I like!!! Nothing like a good kebab and we love them over here! Lots of salad, chilli sauce too, yum, lamb and chicken oh yeah..... I need to go get one soon!
Have a great time!!!
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I signed-up for the Final Fantasy XIV 'free trial' and played it a bit over the 14 days but - it's - well - it's
It's the most basic MMO I've played it years, EVERYTHING is "go there and kill X of them" or "go there and collect X things by killing them " or "go there and pickup things which will cause X things to appear from nowhere you'll have to kill". Added to that, there are endless Hunt/Resource awards for - well - killing things (even gathering is basically implemented as 'killing things for loot') - hell someone asked me to go find her friend (who's actually her brother) and I had to kill him and the game even laughed about the fact it happened! :)
It's very FF of course and I hate FF as a rule (that up-down scale riff is like nails down a blackboard to me) too...
Thing is tho - despite all that, I find it enormously absorbing - so I even went and bought it (£9.99 from Squeenix on-sale this week)
It's not for the story - it's not for the game - it might be for the world which is lovely to look at - it might be for the weird and wonderfully dressed/mounted players I've met (and the fact you meet people from all levels in all parts of the game is a massive plus) - it's just - well - it's a nice place to go and hit things for a while - not in any way taxing - eveytthing you do is progress of a sort etc.
The fact you can play ANY class and do ANY skill with just 1 character is - well - interesting. I find myself at Level 13 (Lancer) 7 (Archer) 3 (Tree Chopper) wondering if I should have made a character which doesn't look like Hodor (at least I didn't call it Hodor Hodor - tho I'm guilty of using a "naughty" nickname as the game chided me for "Kerr Ang" but I've been Kerrang in every MMO in history!!)
Overall tho - I'm just glad my usual addiction to MMOs isn't dead - it's just that GW2 and Wildstar left me stoney-cold!!
Elite Dangerous is consuming my life at a rather alarming rate. I just bought a Cobra Mk. 3 and am currently grinding credits by trading so I can upgrade it to a reasonably capable combat craft. Even with just 55 systems it is mindbogglingly massive, I just flew 5 and a half light-hours from Chango to I Bootis B/C.
I actually do have a sort of mobile broadband solution, but it seems to have stopped working with my desktop after my main drive failed a while back. Don't know how to get it going again, but I'll cancel it soon anyway. (Tre can shove it.)
15-08-2014, 09:39 PM #22967I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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This was a weird experience. I can't say I liked the game itself but some parts were really good. Some other parts were really bad though. Ultra-low budget, I guess. What matters is that I was invested into this game, not for the vague story but mostly for the weirdness of it all, different level design plus gunplay was good( at last, useful shotgun, decent minigun etc) and RPG parts/uprgrades were interesting, much potential for a completely different replay, nice music. Worst things are terrible Mars level( "now... go kill 27 enemies") and horrible UI.
Kerrang is a brand name of a music channel, personally I object to people tradmarking ancient onomatopoeia.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Well fudge, should've waited. The X-Com Long War mod appears to bug out around mid-game with the skyranger refusing to return to headquarters after any mission. I've loaded a few saves and confirmed this event appears to be impassable. Really enjoyed the experience up till this point.
After fiddling with Xpadder, I've managed to get Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver going. Bad points - movement and direction are a tad fiddly (although I feel this'd be the case regardless of control method), the Steam screenshot button seems unable to work and just under an hour in I've hit a dead-end. In the physical world, I've entered a circular room with a tower in it and a crystal type thing at the top in the middle...and nowhere to proceed. I've tried changing between worlds and exploring the submerged section to not avail. Hitting or trying to move the crystal seems to produce no effects. I'm afraid I'm stumped.
On the plus side, whilst the game is quite old, it actually just about holds up. Its visual style works quite well with bland and undetailed scenery and the main character's design is great. Combat works well, especially in being able to take items off the walls and use them as weapons which gives it all a scrappy feel. Plus points for being able to pull a torch off the wall, use it to ignite and finish off an enemy and then finding a bonfire near by to relight it; you're not told you can do that either, it just feels intuitive to be able to do so.
So far it seems like the controls will be the biggest challenge in the game. They're not difficult to know what they do, even when seeing keyboard inputs that you're trying to connect to whatever you've put that too on your controller, just loose and of their age. That and being stuck. If anyone could tell me how to proceed in as minimal detail as possible, mostly to stop myself feeling like an idiot with the inevitable simple solution, that'd be great.Powered by Steam. And biscuits. I'm also a twit and dabble in creative writing.
I like Road Not Taken, but I don't think it works anything like as well as it should do. When the difficulty level is this brutally tough - really, seriously, headache-inducingly tough, not Dark Souls tough - it just becomes kinda hard to care about the emotional implications. Why should I ponder on the meaning of what could have happened if I saved all the kids, when to do so seems as close to utterly impossible as makes no difference? When the game viciously punishes me the moment I make a single mistake, or my finger twitches just once on the D-pad, it may not be unfair as in rigged, but it's certainly unfair as in everything is completely stacked against me and there's no room for error whatsoever.
It isn't bad that the game is this challenging, exactly, but it just kills a good deal of the deeper meaning for me, and given the developers have pretty much explicitly confirmed that's a major part of the game - i.e. that's why it's not just presented as another match-3 with a funny makeover - it's not hard to see all this as a failing. If I save the bare minimum of kids I don't think "Oh, God, those poor children, woe, woe is me, if only I'd tried a bit harder": I just tell myself "Eh, whatever, Jesus that was a pain in the ass" and move on. It's a gorgeous, absorbing, sweetly funny game, but horribly, horribly frustrating, to its detriment as much as - or more than! - its benefit, and the philosophical airs it puts on seem worryingly thin. Triple Town plus poetry appreciation just isn't the killer combo I was hoping for, I guess.
Compare that to Eidolon where the game part of that (in the angry internet sense of the word) is almost non-existent, and where this lack of mechanical substance is certainly a problem... yet I'm constantly musing at length on the themes the poem which inspired it suggests, which are clearly echoed many times over in the world-building and every aspect of the writing, and which elevate what would otherwise be a so-so walking sim into the god damned stratosphere, and where that musing feels like an intrinsic part of the experience. Two games shooting for some degree of artsy significance, one tries to do it with very traditional mechanics, one tries to let the artsiness speak for itself. One works, one doesn't, IMO. Dunno if that means anything. It just feels odd.
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I have decided that Transistoris an Important Game.
As was probably to be expected with Supergiant, the world-building is great, the plot is great. The combat is not good, mostly because of limited ways in which it can be used - enemy variety is limited, arenas are small, and for some reason they thought it was a good idea to have you running around waiting for your turn timer to recharge.
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However, despite this limitation, I honestly think the game gets the balance between in-game actions and the development of the story down perfectly. This comes down to something that was mentioned in the WiT - Red is pure action. She is nothing else, and this fits the revenge quest that the story deals with so nicely. At the end, her 'choice' to commit suicide is the only meaningful action left for her to perform, with the result that she acknowledges that her ability to do anything else wouldn't be meaningful due to the lack of people or interaction that would've followed. Rather than face further meaningless action, she instead decides to embrace the opposite, and become the meaningful person that her situation never let her be. What's best about this is the fact that your actions, as a player, follow this to a letter. The small vignettes (using the loo, washing) are largely pointless in game, instead just operating as breathing room for the player to continue her rampage. Other than that, she is operating the only way she (and the player) can do in that situation. When she speaks, finally, at the end, she moves away from that realm completely and into a place where, even if it isn't 'real' in the sense that cloudbank was (and I think it was), her actions have meaning beyond their function.
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Basically, I think it is a game where the actions of the player in game, and the plot, are perfectly in balance. This is in contrast to other games that make your actions far less than the story (Bioshock Infinite's massacre of a city) and those that try to make your actions equal to the story (Dear Esther).
Based on the experience, I've decided Greg Kasavin has been reading quite a lot of Post-Hegelian philosophy. Also, been playing the Longest Journey. It's funny seeing his name in the credits when he used to annoy me so much on his videos for Gamespot.
Going to give Hegemony: Rome a go next, as Three Moves Ahead seemed to like it so much.
I've been playing a bit of Bioshock. I'm not having fun. It's actually my second attempt but I just can't get into it. I thought that maybe the first time I didn't enjoy it because of poor performance as I played it on an old computer but it seems that's not actually the problem.
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2 made a lot of the same mistakes, trod a bit too much familiar ground and strains to live up to the first game far too often (when it didn't even need to) but it did the story and the combat far, far better. Again, I'd only recommend it with some reservations, but it's still one of my favourite games of all time.
I tried to play some Dead Island but five hours in and it's plain bad. It's a poorly done Borderlands clone with none of the charm and twice its flaws.
I suppose it's bearable in coop but otherwise it's just one pointless fetch quest after another. Ugh.Immersive Sims on Steam WIP
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I'm playing too much Euro Truck Simulator 2, for some reason. It's... relaxing? Except when speed traps or suicidal drivers irritate the hell out of me, anyway. There is something weirdly satisfying and somewhat meditative about the whole thing, though, and the sense of exploration (and the sightseeing in general) is surprisingly good.


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Mayoral candidate Gord Steeves is promising Winnipeg a four-year property-tax freeze, claiming the revenue that would be raised by a tax hike wouldn't be worth the detrimental effect on home owners.
The lawyer and former St. Vital councillor pledged Wednesday to forgo property-tax hikes for an entire four-year council term if he's elected mayor on Oct. 22.
Steeves said the millions raised from a hike would barely begin to tackle the city's infrastructure deficit or mounting costs for fuel and emergency services.
He claimed he would raise revenue to pay for operating and capital costs by selling off city assets — and claimed this plan will not result in service cuts or layoffs.
Steeves also claimed in a campaign placard that rival mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis would bankrupt homeowners through her pledge to limit property-tax hikes to the combined aggregate of the rate of inflation and the city's population growth.
This move harkened back to a 2010 Sam Katz radio ad that warned Winnipeggers could lose their homes if Wasylycia-Leis was elected.
Steeves denied his placard was alarmist. He said he believes Winnipeggers are among the highest-taxed people in Canada, even though he agreed the municipal component of their taxes is low.
Steeves did not target fellow Conservative-affiliated candidates Brian Bowman and Paula Havixbeck. Steeves joked he hoped they are not offended and denied he is trying to separate himself from the mayoral field by announcing the most right-wing policies.
Steeves also said he has no plans to make his list of campaign donors public, as Bowman and Havixbeck have pledged.


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If you're concerned about your partner's weight but she or he doesn't seem worried, there are things you can do to create a healthy eating environment at home. Pushing or pressuring your loved one won't work and might make things worse.
Instead, consider where your partner is in the "Stages of Change." These are the stages one goes through on his or her journey to making a behavior change. Keep in mind that he or she has to be the one to initiate the change. Read more...
Some dietary supplements marketed for weight loss contain "raspberry ketone." This ingredient is one of several naturally occurring chemicals found in red raspberries that contribute to their aroma; it also occurs in other fruits such as cranberries and blackberries. Raspberry ketone is used in some foods as a flavoring agent and in other products such as cosmetics. Because the amount of raspberry ketone found naturally is so low, it is produced synthetically in a laboratory for use in commercial products.
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If you're wondering how to talk with your partner about his or her weight, resist the urge to control or criticize. Instead, express genuine concern, and focus on healthy, sustainable changes that you can make together.
Couples typically share similar values and engage in activities together, so you're more likely to impact each other's health habits. Yet criticism about weight can be a source of conflict between some couples, which can affect your otherwise fulfilling relationship.
When one partner is at a healthy weight and one is overweight, there's a greater chance for conflict, especially when they eat together. If one tries to restrict the other's eating, things become less enjoyable. You might argue more too.
Try to be supportive about your loved one's health issues. It's most helpful when your message expresses caring and closeness. Be in tune with your partner's needs if she or he is asking for your help with making healthier habits. Try being an "accountability" partner and help keep your partner on track towards his or her goals. Establish mutual goals you can work on to help improve your health and wellness too.
Some phrases to avoid include:
- "You're going to eat that?"
- "Maybe you should stop eating."
- "You're going to gain more weight if you keep eating so much."
Some supportive phrases to try include:
- "Let's both commit to healthy eating in the new year."
- "Since you've expressed wanting to eat healthier, how can I help?"
- "I know you're trying hard to eat healthier, and it's not easy. I'm proud of your efforts. Let's continue in a positive direction."
Create healthy lifestyle changes together. Pack nutritious lunches and snacks for work or school, and prepare well-balanced meals. Check with your installation about couples cooking classes and other wellness activities offered through Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) programs too. And check out HPRC's ABCs of Nutrition page and videos for more ideas.
The first step to losing weight and gaining better health is using self-monitoring techniques to track your calories. Armed with this information, you can reinforce what's working well. Some evidence suggests that recording food and beverage intake leads to healthy, sustainable weight loss. Weighing yourself daily might help too.
What's the secret to weight-loss success? Choose a self-monitoring technique that works for you: Try to do these actions frequently—at least 3 times per week—and turn them into healthy habits. Read more...
Is your New Year's resolution to try to lose weight, meet body composition standards, or just be healthier? Weight-loss supplement might be a tempting solution, but before you take one, consider this: Dietary supplements marketed for weight loss are categorized "high-risk" products. The Food and Drug Administration has found many dietary supplement products marketed for weight loss to contain hidden drug ingredients or other ingredients that haven't been adequately studied in humans.
Not only are they potentially unsafe, weight-loss supplements that advertise "quick fixes" likely won't help you meet your goals. There's limited scientific evidence that weight-loss supplements alone help people lose a significant amount of weight and keep it off. Question the claims on the label, and remember: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
For more information about weight-loss supplements, visit the Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) FAQs about Weight Loss and this factsheet from the Office of Dietary Supplements.
You've probably seen those colorful charts on exercise machines at the gym, showing your ideal heart rate zone for optimal fat burn. Is this "zone" the best way to burn fat?
The concept of the "fat-burning zone" might not be entirely true. Many people assume that in order to burn fat, they must keep their heart rate within the defined range. This can be misleading for a few reasons. First, people's heart rates are very different, making it difficult to generalize recommendations from a fixed chart. Second, your body burns two main sources of energy during exercise: fats and carbohydrates. (Protein is an energy source, but it's only used in very small amounts.) For any given heart rate, your body will burn both carbohydrates and fats; however, the proportion of each will vary. Low-intensity exercises (lower heart rate) with a longer duration (30 minutes or more) mostly rely on fat for energy. So, there's a zone in which a higher proportion of fat is being used for energy, but that doesn't necessarily mean more fat is being burned. Your body actually gets most of its energy from fat during rest. In theory, your ultimate "fat-burning zone" is in your living room: you lying on your couch, binge-watching your favorite new series.
So, how do you burn more fat? High-intensity exercises actually burn the most fat due to the higher overall energy (caloric) expenditure. Interval training is a great way to boost the intensity of your workout, and you get that "afterburn" effect. Fitness level also is a factor. Fitter people's bodies tend to utilize more fats than carbohydrates.
If you're training for endurance activities, the "fat-burning zone" on the exercise machines might be the "right zone" for you. To burn even more fat, you ultimately need to burn more overall calories. High-intensity workouts are a challenging and efficient way to help reach your goal.
Garcinia cambogia, a pumpkin-like fruit, is a popular dietary supplement ingredient in products marketed for weight loss. Although Garcinia cambogia has been marketed as a weight-loss aid for quite some time, the latest scientific research still hasn't proven its effectiveness. To learn more, read the updated Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) FAQ about Garcinia cambogia.
If you're looking for ways to lose weight, OPSS and HPRC always recommend choosing foods first before considering dietary supplements. Visit HPRC's Fighting Weight Strategies, where you'll find joint-service and service-specific programs to help you achieve your goals.
Green coffee bean extract has been available in dietary supplements for quite some time, but despite the hype and popularity of this ingredient, there's little science to support its use as a weight-loss aid. Green coffee beans are the raw, unroasted seeds or "beans" of the Coffea plant. Similar to your morning cup of coffee, they contain caffeine in addition to a chemical called chlorogenic acid. The difference, though, is that green coffee beans contain more chlorogenic acid because roasting reduces the amount of chlorogenic acid in coffee beans.
Chlorogenic acid supposedly offers some health benefits, but don't believe everything you hear (or read) about green coffee beans supplements for weight loss; there just isn't enough evidence to back up these claims. In fact, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged a company for using deceptive weight-loss claims to market a green coffee bean supplement. Read more about this in FTC's Press Release.
Have you been watching what you eat and exercising regularly, but for some reason, the scale just won't budge? You might be at a "plateau" in your weight-loss journey. But with continued effort and persistence, you can do it! If you want to shed those last few pounds, try these ideas on for size:
- Track it. To keep old, unhealthy eating habits at bay, keep a food diary or record your intake through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) SuperTracker. This online program helps you see where your calories are coming from. Don't forget to watch your portion sizes too.
- Stick to your plan. Remember the fundamentals of a healthy eating plan: nutrient-rich, lean sources of protein such as fish, poultry, beans, nuts, and low-fat dairy products. Make sure to include whole grains, fruits, and vegetables too. It's okay to indulge a little, but too many "cheat days" can ruin all your hard work.
- Eat protein. Protein helps preserve lean body mass (muscle) during weight loss, promote fat loss, and contribute to a feeling of fullness. Use HPRC's Protein Requirements infosheet to calculate your individual protein needs.
- Rethink your drinks. Alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda, sweet tea, juice, energy drinks, and sports drinks can add too many calories and prevent you from losing weight. Stick to water and low-fat milk (or soymilk) during meals and in-between to stay hydrated. Three servings of milk per day is the limit though!
- Shake things up. Varying the type, intensity, duration, and frequency of your exercise is a great way to challenge yourself and prevent boredom—and it can make a big difference toward reaching your goal.
Whatever you do, don't give up. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is better for your health, career, and performance.
HPRC has received a lot of questions about phentermine, a prescription drug used for weight loss that's similar to amphetamine. If you're a service member, is it okay to use as long as you have a prescription? Will you pop positive on your drug test? Read the OPSS FAQ to find out answers to these questions.
For answers to other frequently asked questions that we've received, visit the FAQs section of OPSS. You can also visit the OPSS High-Risk Supplement List for information about certain dietary supplements that may pose a sport anti-doping or health risk.


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TNA: Pro's & Con's recently
by, 07-16-2013 at 10:04 AM (4349 Views)
This year, I've seen some good PRO'S & bad Con's that TNA has made this year. I'll start with the Con's first.
1. Picking up on the X-Division this late in the year. The X-Division always deserves spotlight, and not by the same few guys like Kenny King ( decent but not a top-3 guy in the division in my opinion), Manic (get rid of this bum), and off-and-on Aries.
2. Getting rid of Matt Morgan. Matt Morgan's character and in-ring ability is better than Bully Ray's, my opinion thou. Morgan would have been a way better powerhouse heavyweight champion than Bully Ray. TNA needs a real giant in their heavyweight division, and with Abyss not getting used I don't think they'll have one anytime soon.
3. Not using the T.V. title often. I know the title has been a joke but TNA needs a mid-card division. If TNA developed a mid-card division and used the T.V. title 1-2 weeks, than guys like terry.jpgRob Terry, Chavo, Eric Young ( this guy used to be very good and has potential), Jay Bradley,Samoa Joe, Mr. Anderson, and Ace's & 8's guys would get used while sitting on the sideline to the heavyweight division.
1. TNA's tag team division has never been better. I know none of the tag teams are no Beer, Money, Inc. But Bad Influence is a good tag team that'll grow on you. Gunner & Storm is decent, their character's match each other. Chavo & Hernadez are good, but Hernadez should be wrestling in the heavyweight division by now. Rude & Aries are probably the biggest hitters right now B/C they are great single wrestlers by themselves.
2. MMagnus.jpgagnus. I'm a fan fav. of Magnus now. TNA is finally developing a talent that hasn't won the heavyweight title yet. I see Magnus as TNA's future heavyweight champion face, and a centerpiece to the company.
3. AJAJ.jpg Styles turning heel, or mixed ( whatever you want to call his actions). I think by AJ Styles new look and heel , he'll last longer in the company. Most great wrestlers has turned heel at one point.
: Just a couple today.