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Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time on iOSby Jarred Walton on 8/15/2013 5:02 PM EST
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xinthius - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkI am disappointed how the game looks in comparison to the original. It's taken a large step back in my opinion. Will have to wait until Android release to test the game play, let's hope the F2P mode isn't crippled. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkQuick update: other than limiting the plants you have (easy) access to, the F2P mode makes it so that you have to replay levels multiple times to earn enough stars to open the Star Gate at the end of each world. There are also keys that randomly (?) drop that open access to areas where you can get additional plants, and you can pay to get through these as well. It's basically a question of investing more time vs. spending money. I'm not super pleased with how many microtransactions exist, but the game is still playable to completion without spending a penny. Reply
designerfx - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkso it's not just F2P then, it's an intentional F2P grind?
haven't they looked up how people feel about that? People aren't usually happy about such a concept. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkHaving played more, it works like this:
1) Play through initial levels. You'll earn probably 3-5 keys randomly in the first zone, Ancient Egypt, along with probably 3 stars.
2) At the end of the zone, you unlock the Star Gate that requires 15 stars to pass, and all of the non-star levels you already played through are now populated with three stars each.
3) To earn a star, you have to complete these challenges, which give you different goals. They're nothing too difficult for a PvZ veteran, though you might have to try some of them more than once. Usually, the first star is easiest to earn, second is harder, and the final star requires the most skill.
4) Examples of challenges: Do not lose any mowers. Do no spend more than 1500 sun. Collect at least 2500 sun. Don't plant on Dave's mold colonies (the first two columns). Destroy at least 10 zombies in 10 seconds.
5) As you play for these additional stars, you will likely earn more keys, which can open up areas that provide you with new plants and/or power ups (as well as a few more single-star challenges).
6) By the time you've collected 15 stars, which shouldn't take too long and it's not just playing the same levels repeatedly, you'll have found enough keys to get most of the plants. If you're a completionist (like me) and want to earn all three stars on every level, by the time you're done with that you'll almost certainly have enough keys for all the locked areas.
7) All of this can be done without spending any money. The only reason to spend money is if you're impatient and want to move forward earlier, or if you want one of the locked plants like Snow Pea, Squash, or Torchwood.
If you enjoy playing the original PvZ, none of this should really bother you as the new levels basically follow similar patterns but the challenges mix things up to keep it "fresh" -- or at least as fresh as playing through the same level 10 times in the original with increasingly difficult waves was "fresh". It's not a major reinvention, but personally I find it's a fun diversion. Reply
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LtGoonRush - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkI don't want to be a downer, but this is very frustrating to me. I LOVED Plants vs. Zombies on the PC four years ago, it was a breakout hit and all I ever wanted was to be able to buy more content. Not only was the game completely abandoned in favor of crapping out more mindless content for Peggled and Bejeweled, but now that we're finally getting a sequel its exclusive to the one platform I (and let's face it, the rest of the market) don't own. Why couldn't Popcop just pretend this is Peggle or something and put out a regular paid content packs and periodically charge for sequels...on the platforms the game is currently for sale on?
Similarly, I thought Gyromancer (also released in 2009 like PvZ) was fun and innovative for a casual game, but I bought it at launch and it was pulled from sale almost immediately and scrubbed from the web like some terrible secret. This could be Square Enix's doing though. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkYou mean EA's doing? Anyway, I'm sure this will make it's way to Windows sooner rather than later, and Android as well, but the big question is: when? Was it simply easier to do an iOS version first, or merely more lucrative? But to say "I, and let's face it, the rest of the market, don't own" about iOS is pretty extreme. I see a lot of Android users, but I also see more iPhones and iPads than any specific Android device. Reply
lmcd - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkAs a high school student I see far more Android devices. And I've actually seen about as many Windows Phones as I have iPhones in my specific crowd, but I know iPhones are abundant with the jocks+, even though Android is actually equally common there (since they picked up preferences back when the iPhone was a carrier-specific deal). Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkWhat I mean is that iPhone is one device (okay, iPhone 4, 4S, 5 are mostly what I see now), but Android is dozens of devices. Is there any other phone that sells nearly as many units on its own as iPhone 5? I'd be very surprised.
Of course, I'm in my late 30s, so I'm not hanging around high school or even college kids much, but if I were a parent buying a phone for my child, I'd look at cost first -- what HS kid needs an iPhone? Answer: none. Any smartphone should be more than sufficient (and perhaps still more than they should have). Yeah, I'm one of those parents: my kids won't be taking their phones to school, once they're old enough to have one. Reply
althaz - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkSamsung's flagship Galaxy series regularly outsells every iPhone model, just FYI. With tablets I'm not sure, but I suspect the Nexus 7 sells WAY more than everything else (but again, I really don't know for sure). Reply
steven75 - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkNo, the Galaxy series doesn't regularly outsell the iPhone. Actually, you have that backwards.
"Lacking hard numbers (because Samsung doesn't release them anymore) most analysts assume that the bulk of the Korean manufacturer's mobile sales come from its low-end phones. According to Raymond James' Tavis McCourt, Samsung's high-end Galaxy line outsold the iPhone only once -- in the summer of 2012, when many of Apple's (AAPL) customers were holding out for the iPhone 5."
Also the Nexus 7 doesn't even outsell Kindle Fires. That thing is basically an unknown to the "regular" people. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkiPhones and iPad are far more numerous than comparable hardware running other mobile operating systems. Larger numbers are the main reason why iOS has better software or gets applications first.
Obviously there are more Android devices out there but the majority are very low end, not hardware like the GS4 or iPhone. Windows Phone just doesn't have many people using it, high end or low end. Reply
hpglow - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkIts all a matter of demographic. I work in construction and it is about 50 / 50 iPhone / Android phones. It does tend to lean a little closer to Android lately but the split is still about even. My wife works in government contracting and she sees about 75% iPhone there. The other thing at play is that many developers still report more purchases on the Apple App store than with the Google play store. Let me ask you is someone with a good paying job more likely to buy an app or someone in high school with no job? Is someone with something to loose (a home, car, job and family) going to steal an app, or someone who still thinks theft is cool and anti-establishment? Reply
LtGoonRush - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkEnix bought Square from EA in 2003, so I think Gyromancer was a Square Enix decision. You are right that I was a bit extreme in my statement, but it's also true that it doesn't matter how many users of a PARTICULAR device there are, only the platform*. Android overtook iOS awhile back, and is currently selling ~6X as many devices per year with ~3X the year-to-year growth as a percentage of sales. Average Revenue per User is lower on Android, but this is made up by volume and probably reflects quality of monetization efforts rather than user willingness to spend money. I think PopCap is big enough that dev resources weren't why they only launched on iOS, and even if iOS would make them more money the other platforms would be ADDITIONAL revenue and not diminishing iOS sales, so this pretty much leaves Apple giving them some nice incentives for exclusivity.
*=Android fragmentation is a thing people talk about but is not actually a problem. >95% of Android devices are >2.3.3, and while some of those are crap-phones that can't run your game, those cheap devices are also being retired and replaced with capable value phones. At any given moment there is a flood of adequate Android 4.1+ devices being activated. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkAs someone that owns Android tablets and ended up purchasing the original PvZ for the platform, this "second class Android citizen status" doesn't surprise me in the least. While PvZ was available through the Play Store in the past, it was pulled (then reintroduced). I tried to buy it just a month or two back only to be told my device didn't meet the requirements, so I had to install the Amazon Store App, purchase it through there, and periodically log in to my Amazon account on the tablet(s) just to play. Oddly enough, one of the tablets had PvZ on it originally, but when I updated to Android 4.0 PvZ stopped working and I couldn't update.
The point being, apparently Amazon paid EA/PopCap enough to limit availability of PvZ on Android for along time, so having Apple do the same at the launch of PvZ2 is par for the course. Long-term, we'll certainly see PvZ2 on all the major platforms, but when that will be is not yet known. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple paid for anywhere from a one week to a one month (maybe even longer) exclusive. Obviously this is a business decision, and the web is full of talk over the years on EA's business decisions, so again it's basically par for the course.
I'm just happy I at least have one iOS device that I can use to play the game. Hahaha... but I really wish I could run it on my PC or Android tablet, as the 960x640 native resolution is lacking at best. Reply
Impulses - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkThe version of PvZ on Android wasn't particularly well optimized anyway... I remember that game pushing my OG EVO hard at a time when games with better graphics were perfectly smooth. PvZ would slow down in busy scenes and occasionally crash out. I don't imagine this will run on an ancient 2nd gen iPod touch will it? :P Doubt I'd bother anyway, I can wait. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkAn old iOS resolution from 2010 is lacking, shocking.
The game looks excellent at 2048x1536, just fyi ;) Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkActually, it's not so much the resolution but the small screen that bothers me. My desktop is a 30" display and has been for about 8 years; playing PvZ on a 3.5" screen or whatever is a major change. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkCertainly :)
I don't like playing PvZ on the iPhone but I definitely enjoy playing it on the iPad. iPad is actually my favorite version, and I played the hell out of it on PC for years before the iPad release. I can't wait for the Windows release, either way Reply
Wolfpup - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkJust FYI regarding Square, EA published Square's games at one point (and Sony at one point before that), but they never owned Square. Square/Enix merged to compete better, self-publish better. Reply
steven75 - Friday, August 16, 2013 - link"Average Revenue per User is lower on Android, but this is made up by volume."
Except it isn't made up in volume. Not yet, anyway.
http://qz.com/114601/all-those-people-with-cheap-a... Reply
Arbie - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkI feel exactly the opposite from you. I think Peggle is one of the very best games ever; much better than PvZ. The only "additional content" I've seen for Peggle was Peggle Nights (a new and even better game) and a few levels done for World of Warcraft. These have hardly occupied PopCap's time, and are not mindless crap but long-term classics. I WISH there would be more Peggle, and feel that PopCap has sadly abandoned their landmark achievement. Peggle will be played as long as there are machines to run it. Reply
Gdiguy2 - Sunday, September 01, 2013 - linkYou're aware that Peggle 2 was also announced at E3 and is supposedly out soon, right?
http://www.popcap.com/peggle-2 Reply
ol1bit - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkThey need to just sell it. I hate micro transactions. In Fact for all the games I have on Android, I have never paid a single penny for mico transactions. So popcap is out of luck for my wallet. Reply
JNo - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - link"They need to just sell it."
True. This would be my preference. Or they could have 2 versions - free to play with microtransactions and one with a one-off $5 fee and all features unlocked from the off/earnable without too much difficulty like the original game. Reply
jiffylube1024 - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkAgreed. Free to play and pay version side by side would at least give us a choice. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkI agree. The game is fun without spending a dime, my only complaint is that they push the advertising pretty obviously. If you're going to do F2P then at least be classy and subtle about it like Valve is, especially since the game is still good. Reply
Mondozai - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkComing from an avid gamer of the original(I played it on my laptop years ago because mouse is actually faster than touch and it doesn't obscure your screen with half your hand):
The game itself mirrors the gameplay of the original a lot. There's actually not that much that is new.
What's worse, is that they made it "micro-transaction dependent" which should die in a slow and intense fire. The original was made up in a way that you paid a small sum and you got the full game, and that was it.
There are a lot of new levels but gameplay wise they could have innovated more and the microtransaction bit is horrible.
It's a disappointment overall. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkIt's still better than the mess that is Plants vs. Zombies Adventures: Farmville wannabe! But so far, about the only change are a few new plants and a story line that revolves around Crazy Dave. It could be worse, but it could also be better. Reply
Impulses - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkAnd to think people mocked Rovio for milking the hell out of Angry Birds and releasing five different versions... At least they gave the market what it wanted in a timely fashion! Taking three years for an uninspired sequel seems a bit lackluster. Reply
ciparis - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkField Runners (that *other* tower defense game) did a great job improving version 2, which exceeds the excellent original in every conceivable way. I'm surprised to read about PvZ having a lackluster sequel. Reply
CZroe - Friday, August 16, 2013 - link"Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time on iTunes"
Apple fought for the App Store name so you should use it. Sure, the full name is "iTunes App Store" but you're probably the last writer in the universe calling it "iTunes." I recall being extremely confused by all the descriptions of dTunes for jailbroken devices because it was universally described as "an iTunes replacement" when it was actually a media playback app. No media playback functions are handled by iTunes on an iOS device but enough people wrongly assume that we think like them and considered that an adequate description. Only on the desktop is it a media playback application and even then it requires QuickTime and is more for managing your library and making purchases (not associated with your browser or video files, is it?). I recall all the Napster users who thought you had to launch Napster to listen to their downloads just because it had a built-in player. I blew a coworker's mind when I installed WinAMP and showed him where the MP3s were. You don't want to remind us of those people, do you? ;) Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkI felt the title was too long already and considered omitting the "iTunes" part altogether, but that would have then made people without iOS devices even more irritated I think. But our readers here are smart enough to know what we mean, especially since there's a link. By saying just "App Store", far more people will think it might be available on other platforms, but since you complained I'll just change it to say iOS. Reply


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I don't think it will be that long myself... in any case, I would definitely hold off paying for any dongle-based solution unless you have money to burn of course. Last I checked the initial price of $45 is now an insane $99 for something that should be free to the scene in the first place.
Also +Rep to TDMaster and Score12 I have promoted the news to the main page as well and below is a roughly translated interview with Mathieulh on the SELF format vulnerability for those curious via ps3-addict.fr/forum/interview-exclusive-mathieulh-t4829.html
Q) Mathieulh Hello, could you give us your curriculum vitae to inform our members about your person?
A) I reserve the use of my curriculum vitae for professional purposes. I can assure you that the skills are well supplied.
Q) We saw you participate in the PSP scene and PS3, both consoles from Sony, is there a particular reason (affinité. ..)? Do you have another platform fetish (S2 Galaxy Android …)?
A) I've just been seduced by these two platforms, especially the fact that few details are revealed, including the technical side, which increases the challenge, I'm actually more interested in understanding the system architecture of as a platform to play, although I'm actually a player myself. As for the Galaxy S2, I am also very interested, but in a fun and in the development or reverse engineering.
Q) You think that should contain the essential toolkit for the perfect little hacker … apart from a brain (hardware / software)?
A) A computer course, a disassembler (like IDA, for example), a logic analyzer, if you're more focused hardware, a good knowledge of programming and reverse engineering (assembleur. ..), do not be afraid to take risks with its material, if possible have the means to debug the code analyzing / reverse. Maybe more
Q) You seem detached from the bad comments that can move in relation to what you told past that did not result in a release that's all to your honor! But are not you tempted to make them close their "valve" release by posting a "legal"?
A) Not really, I have already posted or participated in enough releases in my life (M33 Custom Firmware, Pandora, PSGroove (open source release of the exploit PSJailbreak + full documentation) Documentation of cryptography .self / update packages, Key appldr + lv2ldr, Documentation and keys for the packages of games, QA flag (even if this release was a leak, it is still my work), use of SPE8, Kirk key to sign the PSP applications. .. and many others I have forgotten) as well as on the stage PSP PS3 to get a great respect for my peers.
I have little esteem for ungrateful users who claim more than what they are free provided and have a tendency to chronic amnesia when it comes to remembering what developers have done for them. More people are demanding of me the results, insult me when they do not match their expectations … I find myself less inclined to provide the fruits of my labor to the public. I do not grow to be known, for money or any other reason like this, I develop curiosity to understand how security systems have been developed on a given platform, and also to meet the challenge to find flaws in these platforms, consoles lend themselves very well as they are developed with safety systems of a military level, including the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
So I personally have no interest in putting my work available to the public except that a spirit of sharing, when the public says abuse of my work and my kindness, I feel no remorse whatsoever have to suspend my releases. I think this case is also in good numbers of developers like myself do not feel the slightest interest to initiate backups or other on any platform whatsoever. This is one reason that caused them to stop my releases, would be another good reason to avoid a possible lawsuit from Sony.
Q) We'll still see quite active on the IRC chan Gitbrew, Twitter, or even reactive to certain news, why not have continued to participate fully in the scene?
A) Despite having stopped the public release, this does not prevent me from continuing my work for personal and educational, to be an astute observer, and to help other developers who need it. This happening, and I attend some developers in their work without requiring any credit in return (including via IRC or MSN) and post comments on my Twitter when the opportunity arises.
Q) Could you tell us more about one of your recent Tweets (über means "huge"): Mathieulh a écrit:@playstation #didyouknow that your self format is uber fail ? #morethanjustmy2cents.
A) This is a vulnerability that I discovered recently in the SELF format from Sony.
Q) Have you been able to exploit the flaw (lack of verification of the size of the header of an SCE SELF when copying the Local Shared Storage to the Local Isolated Storage) unveiled by yourself a while ago?
A) This fault is very difficult to implement and only works on certain loaders when one has direct control over the arguments sent to them. Nevertheless, there are other faults that have never been published.
Q) The rumor would like you to have the keys to decrypt games 3.60 / 3.65 / 3.66 / 3.70. Could you confirm?
A) I prefer to do without comments on this issue and leave the answer to your interpretation, the public has no need of these keys, you can downgrade to 3.55 (via hardware) almost all the PlayStation 3 out now (about 40 million consoles are vulnerable) and it is possible to run Linux (via otheros + +) or homebrew on their consoles, I think it is quite enough to make the PlayStation 3 one of the consoles the most open market .
Q) What do you think of the theory of DemonHades to find them?
A) This is a (very) bad summary of tweets I posted ago 6 months. It lacks many things, I doubt that more DemonHades has the capacity to retrieve the key question.
Q) With the information made available to hackers and without 3.6 + key, is it possible to sign an application that is functional in 3.70? If so, do you think it would lead to piracy again?
A) It is impossible to recover the private key of keysets used in firmwares 3.56 +, and, consequently, to sign applications for the latter, however, there is a way through the old keysets (0x0D below) to launch chokes on 3.56 + if you know how it is more possible to sign a custom firmware 3.60 + and install it over a 3.55 firmware provided you have the keys 3.60 + available.
Q) Many people are ungrateful and always want more, faster. Do you think this behavior penalizes the scene and drives away its actors? We recently had the right to leave the scene of ColdBird PSP.
A) I do think that this behavior scares many developers, myself included.
Q) Do you think the PS3 scene will continue to grow? Does it "good" players and good service to evolve peacefully?
A) Good actors can be, although many are gone, I am thinking of fail0verflow, or myself. The public good, I do not think so.
Q) What are your motivations in this scene? What projects would you like to see the birth?
A) I enjoy the challenge and the fact that no-one finds constantly new things, especially items hidden by Sony that are part of the operation of the PlayStation 3.
Q) Do you have ongoing projects in the same mold as the deceased or other project Utopia on PS3?
A) I have currently no plans of this type on PS3.
Q) Do you think the firmware higher than 3.55 are "jailbreak"? If so, do you think that a release could boost race dongles?
A) I do not think the 3.56 + firmwares are jailbroken through any USB dongle.
Q) What do you think of fleas and their future?
A) I think they will allow people to easily downgrade to firmware 3.55, their future is still mixed, at least until 3.60 + key becomes public.
Q) People are unhappy with the scene because the keys were not 3.6x + found / disclosed, what do you think of these people? Do you think it is good to be responsive to their expectations?
A) I think if they are unhappy, nothing prevents them to put them and retrieve these keys by themselves. I myself have published more than one method to recover them.
Q) A question somewhat out of order, if one ignores the old rumors, but here … As a former member of Team M33, would you have news about Dark_AleX?
A) I do not want to reveal too much without his consent, however, I can tell you he's okay and that I am regularly in touch with him.
Q) Thank you for giving us this interview Mathieulh, we meet again on December 17?
A) Hmm … I may be taken at that time, I'm not sure how to go to CCC depends mainly my availability.
Thank you for the time you have given us
You're welcome
10-26-2011 #292barrybarryk Guest
yeah $99 + whatever mad markup they put on the blank BR discs
10-26-2011 #293ZerotakerZX Guest
Burn BD-s is too costly. CFW forever.
10-26-2011 #294Neo Cyrus Guest
Indeed the price of BD burners is the main problem. The 25GB BDs can usually be found for $30 per 10 pack but the burners have not gone down in price in over a year, here at least. The cheapest ones I have ever seen have been $100 when on sale from $150ish.
Still, if using BDs was the only option I'd rather do that than use my original discs.
10-26-2011 #295barrybarryk Guest
you can only use their own "special" BD's though, and i'm pretty sure they won't be selling those at cost
10-26-2011 #296Neo Cyrus Guest
I should have read the whole thing... how much are they selling these "special" discs for?
10-26-2011 #297barrybarryk Guest
I don't know, don't think anywhere is selling them yet
10-26-2011 #298sdlaurin Guest
there is a hefty markup and the MPAA gets a big royalty off each disc sold for possible piracy compensation
10-26-2011 #299fatboyj Guest
Details and Payloads for Dumping PS3 Per Console Keys Surface
This should have its own thread, this is huge news makes this true blue true crap as obsolete very soon. Good.
10-26-2011 #300YuuZA Guest
Word is the price will be similar to existing BD-R so expect $4 per disc.
Things are getting better it seems


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7 Sep 2011 by Guest Blogger in Boat Tours , Food & Dining , Whale Watching and Culture
As our trip to Newfoundland stretched out before us, I knew I would blog about it and I knew instantly that the theme would be gratitude to the people of Newfoundland. So it's serendipitous that in the last few days I started reading so many words of thanks to the people of Newfoundland from the stranded passengers of 9/11 who were taken into their homes and made to feel like family.
6 Sep 2011 by Clare-Marie Grigg in Festivals & Events , Culture and Top Destinations
I spent last week getting culturally back in touch with my English Lit student days. First, I went to see Hamlet on a hill, then Henry IV, Part 1 out in one of North America's oldest and most historic towns, Cupids...
30 Aug 2011 by Clare-Marie Grigg in Festivals & Events , Culture , History and Entertainment
Last week I went to catch the final performance of Hamlet – one of the 2011 Shakespeare By The Sea productions. I realize writing about this festival when it's already happened and you can't now go and see the shows (if you unfortunately missed them) is a bit of a tease, but I'm hoping this post will encourage anyone out there who's already thinking about a 2012 trip to Newfoundland and Labrador, to plan on seeing a performance or two next year.
29 Aug 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Food & Dining and Culture
Fogo Island is undergoing an interesting experiment spearheaded by the Shorefast Foundation, which is trying to promote the social, cultural and economic regeneration of the area. From the development of a new inn slated to open in 2012 to new artist studios dotted around the island, Fogo has suddenly been put on the radar as a place where new things are happening. So we decided to have a look at the artist studios through a tour put on by the Fogo Island Arts Corporation .
22 Aug 2011 by Candice Walsh in Festivals & Events and Culture
Four days with Writers at Woody Point, and I'm more inspired than I've been my whole life. As Canadian travel journalist Lucy Izon said one evening while taking the water taxi to Woody Point, there's a sense of community here. Like Banff, I'm so awed by the overwhelming hospitality from everyone...
21 Aug 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Nature , Culture , Parks and Entertainment
"Ed and Ed's B and B — Where you are a Stranger but Once" is the third play in this series. Since we hadn't seen any of the previous "Ed and Ed" plays we were not certain what to expect, other than that the programme billed it as a comedy. Many of the plays at Theatre Newfoundland Labrador's Gros Morne Theatre Festival deal with local themes, so this play fits right in since the Bed and Breakfast that Ed and Ed are opening is in Cow Head.
19 Aug 2011 by Kurt Turchan in Hiking & Walking , Icebergs , Nature , Culture , History and Geography
On the last leg of their adventure, the hikers from TrailPeak.com saw the wreck of a ship from the early 1900s, whalebones, and a slew of icebergs.
18 Aug 2011 by Kurt Turchan in Hiking & Walking , Icebergs , Nature , Culture , History , Trip Planning , Geography and Top Destinations
This week, the hikers from TrailPeak.com saw 10,000-year-old icebergs, and visited historic Battle Harbour, a restored fishing village that thrived over the last three centuries.
15 Aug 2011 by Kurt Turchan in Hiking & Walking , Nature , Culture , History , Trip Planning and Geography
From waterfalls to ancient coastlines, the hikers from TrailPeak.com have seen it all over the past three days, while trekking through southern Labrador.
12 Aug 2011 by Clare-Marie Grigg in Culture and Entertainment
Well, it can't be denied. The Folk Festival this year was a damp one. But it also can't be denied that the performances were as amazing, and surprising as ever – and the vibe of the audience was gun ho and game for anything.
12 Aug 2011 by Kurt Turchan in Hiking & Walking , Whale Watching , Nature , Culture , History , Trip Planning and Geography
Check out the latest blog from Kurt at TrailPeak.com to read about the scenery, history and culture they've discovered along the south coast of Labrador.
8 Aug 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Hiking & Walking , Nature , Culture and Entertainment
We were finishing our pea soup and dumplings when we could hear some accordion and guitar music coming from the "kitchen" of The Outport Museum and Tea Room in La Scie. The cook and waitress, Valerie Whalen said they were going to play some music in the "kitchen" of the museum and would we like to join them. "Sounds perfect to us" we chimed in, so we joined a handful of other visitors for an impromptu kitchen party.
7 Aug 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Festivals & Events , Culture and Parks
"Winter" is a new play for Theatre Newfoundland Labrador for the 2011 season and was written by Nell Leyshon, who has the reputation of being the first female playwright to be commissioned and produced by the Globe Theatre in London, England.
31 Jul 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Hiking & Walking , Culture and Entertainment
When I recently mentioned to Gaylene Buckle that we were heading to Cow Head to see some plays for the weekend, she suggested we try out the hiking trail that traverses the "Head". As Theatre Newfoundland Labrador's (TNL) general manager, she has spent many days in Cow Head and knows the area's nooks and crannies.
24 Jul 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Golfing , Culture and Entertainment
Some plays suit a location because they mimic what is happening in real life. Cow Head, at the northern tip of Gros Morne National Park, is pretty quiet during the winter but every spring and summer they get invaded by Theatre Newfoundland Labrador (TNL) who put on plays that are often about life in Newfoundland.
22 Jul 2011 by Guest Blogger in Hiking & Walking , Icebergs , Whale Watching and Culture
On July 26 – give or take a day or two, depending on weather conditions – about a dozen two-person teams will take the helms of small wooden boats called punts and row 10 miles across open ocean off Newfoundland, Canada.
18 Jul 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Festivals & Events , Culture and History
Nurse Bennett was a true Newfoundland hero who was dedicated to serving the health care needs along Newfoundland's rugged Northern Peninsula for over 50 years beginning in 1921. She was known as the "Florence Nightingale of the North", delivered more than 700 babies and amazingly reattached logger's foot that had been severed in an accident!
4 Jul 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Festivals & Events , Culture and Entertainment
We had never been to the Coast of Bays along the south coast of Newfoundland so when we heard about the Conne River Powwow we thought that we should make a point of visiting this year....
4 Jul 2011 by Peter Bull in Fishing , Nature and Culture
This past Saturday, Ronan, Cormac my Dad and I went to Sandy Cove on the Eastport Peninsula to see if the capelin were rolling. We were in luck!
6 Jun 2011 by Guest Blogger in Culture and History
Pope's Point in Badger, central Newfoundland, bears archeological evidence of nearly every culture that has ever inhabited the island: Maritime Archaic Indian, Groswater and Dorset Palaeoeskimo, Recent Indian, Beothuk and Mi'kmaq artifacts and features have either been recovered or historically recorded to have existed there at one time.


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Looks like they pulled the video. It's not playing for me. Says it's private.
here's another link I just uploaded. WATCH IT NOW HERE
Seriously Microsoft made that video. Looks like an amateur made video. Nobody would take it seriously.
Thanks to everyone that found the third party uploaders
It's not like any company is coming out with anything innovative. This is turning into the computer race. It's all just becoming who can stuff the biggest camera, processor, and ram into the phones. In my opinion Samsung, Apple, and Microsoft have all flatlined on innovation.
Thats really low Microsoft!
Wow that is just awful. Not surprised they pulled it. What gets me is why they uploaded it in the first place...
I always love a bit of comedy, but this is a joke... and not in a funny way. Seriously?
I don't care. Microsoft is getting pathetic. This the reason my windows 8 PC might soon become an ubuntu PC.
Wow, that was just terrible, and reeks of desperation. Funny how in that wedding commercial they were trying to act like they are above the fray of fighting with their competitors, but between this and their tweet right after the 5S announcement they proved that they really are no better.
Kinda like Samsung pretending that people lining up outside stores to buy the iPhone is something to be mocked, yet you know that their execs would LOVE to see people lined up like that for their phones.


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Season 2: Episode 41: Good GirlsDebra discovers that her mother-in-law, Marie, likes Robert's girlfriend, Amy, better than she likes her, because Amy is a "good girl." When Robert accidentally lets it slip to Marie that Amy is a virgin, Marie is thrilled to pieces. Jealous of the attention Amy is receiving from Marie, Raymond minimizes Debra's premarital activities, leading his mother to believe that Debra was a "good girl" too. When the family discovers why Marie has this sudden "purity" fixation, Robert and Raymond are in for a big surprise.
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UPDATE: As mentioned at the bottom of this post, there is an update following my conversation with a representative from Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Due to its length, I've made it its own post.
As is always the case, the Uzbek media can be counted on to bring enlightening and groundbreaking coverage on the most pressing issues of the day.
Fund Forum started to sell T-shirts of charity forum-marathon "In the Name of Life" on 16 April 2012. The marathon will take place in Tashkent on 1 May. The fund said that it sold 500 T-shirts on the first day. Buying the T-shirts, people confirm their participation at the forum-marathon.
What kind of marathon might this be? Fund Forum's website says that these shirts are for the Susan G. Komen Uzbekistan Race for the Cure. And they are not making that up at all. Fund Forum and other NGOs sharing its address and also run by Gulnora Karimov are official partners of the official Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The agreement was inked in January and quickly followed with a training session in Tashkent. Races have been held in regions and cities throughout Uzbekistan already, with the final race scheduled for Tashkent on May 1.
There is nothing wrong with the goal of these events — encouraging annual mammograms and raising some funds to provide screenings.
However, everything about Gulnora's charities is questionable. And even with Komen's recent track record of making strategically poor decisions (for which it is still paying) and its slow transformation into something resembling a consultancy that helps business sell products by slapping some pink ribbons on them, the decision to partner with Gulnora's organizations seems strange. It is, at best, ignorant and poorly thought out.
It very well may be that Fund Forum and its constellation of Gulnora-led co-tenants at 80 Uzbekistan Street in Tashkent do some good here and there. But for whatever good they might do, one of their most important functions is to paint Gulnora as a glamorous, cultured, talented, educated, respected philanthropist. The first link on Fund Forum's website is to Gulnora's personal page. Scattered among stories on the various charities' events in the news section are stories on Gulnora's glamorous house; her charm, class, beauty, elegance, and caring sensibility; her beauty, charisma, and charitable projects; and, her work organizing Tashkent fashion week.
And now with the association with Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Gulnora can pin on an OFFICIAL pink ribbon, so that the public relations work her foundations do for her can show she is not only the most glamorous philanthropist to walk the earth, but also legitimized by a well-known foreign charity as being so.
Note: I have contacted Susan G. Komen for the Cure for comment on their relationship with Fund Forum and Gulnora's other charities. I will update this story when and if I hear from them.


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Muffins - I lucked out. In all the years I spent in England I was never served a muffin. I thought the muffins we call English Muffins were only made in the USA. More the pity, since England has so many wonderful quick hot breads. I always wanted to know the muffin man who lives in Drury Lane. Now that childhood hope has been shattered. I share Luke's delight in good, sweet, fruit and nut filled muffins.
Worcestershire sauce - Americans swill tons of it every year but I can think of no suitable use for it. We have the same bottles of Worcestershire sauce and McIlhenny's Tabasco sauce we were given as a gift when we married 54 years ago. They have never been opened. Why do we have them? Because they are both dressed in cute little knitted "costumes".
Cheddar cheese - There is a lot of cheap cheese in England and the US called cheddar. Americans even have a very green "processed cheddar" that is called American Cheese. The bottom of the cheese list state side is called Velveeta. I hope Cheese Whiz has had the decency to die. On the positive side, England and the US have great offerings of all kinds of cheeses, including good Cheddar. 'West Country Farmhouse Cheddar' sounds wonderful. Do they export? I assume the town of Cheddar, which I have visited, is included. I thought the town of Cheddar would be the center of cheese production. I found it is more famous for Cheddar Gorge.
What is a PDO? I know it as a computer term but that obviously has nothing to do with cheese.
French Fries: Ian is spot-on concerning American fries from hamburger joints. He need not apologize for his opinions. My mother made wonderful "pan fries" out of large potato strips. I never eat the offerings of the chain food vendors. American fries are second only to American donuts in our heart attack inducing diet.
For those who insist this forum is about words, just look at the number of words discussed in Ian's and my posts to this thread. The words just happen to be about food.
Use this forum to discuss past Good Words.
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It is dark at night, but the Sun will come up and then we can see.
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I'm with you on fast food joints and the fat they
contain, never to be visited, no in this lifetime.
PDO: I don't know either.
I love cheddar, actually I crave most cheeses.
Had many happy vacations on Eurail, stopping at
places along the Rhine, sitting on a hill with
Cheese, dark bread and wine. Oh the delight.
contain, never to be visited, no in this lifetime.
PDO: I don't know either.
I love cheddar, actually I crave most cheeses.
Had many happy vacations on Eurail, stopping at
places along the Rhine, sitting on a hill with
Cheese, dark bread and wine. Oh the delight.
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Can we get back to words, not food?
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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Not today, Slava. It's the Fourth, and that's a day for eating!
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In France it's appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC).
dictionary.com wrote: Protected Denomination of Origin: a geographical indication defined within European Union law in order to protect regional agricultural products and foodstuffs.
In France it's appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC).
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I was once standing in a group and heard a knave pronounce Worcestershire sauce Wor-CHEST-er-shire. We all looked at him like he'd grown a third eye in the middle of his forehead. It's been many years but I still remember that to this day. Funny what sticks in your mind.
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OTTAWA -- Two weeks after admitting it had lost personal information of 583,000 student loan clients, the federal government has agreed to pay for six years of credit protection for the victims.
Human Resources Minister Diane Finley made the announcement this afternoon, although she noted there is no evidence the information has been used for fraudulent reasons.
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The information was compromised when an employee lost a portable hard drive containing the names, birthdates, addresses, social insurance numbers and outstanding loan amounts of 583,000 Canada Student Loan clients. The hard drive had been stored in a filing cabinet when the employee noticed it was no longer there.
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