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Chevrolet Corvette Models and Corvette History
Receiving a revolutionary fifth-generation redesign for the 1997 model year, the Chevrolet Corvette was considered reborn. Presented initially as a coupe, the convertible version came in 1998. In 1999, a notchback hardtop body option was added. Powered by a 5.7-liter LS1 V-8 engine producing 345 horsepower, the fifth-generation Corvette incorporated advanced construction materials and better handling thanks to better weight distribution.
A rear axle mounted transmission was a first for the production Chevrolet Corvette. While the stock Corvette received a mild five horsepower engine power increase for 2001, the year also introduced the 385-horsepower Z06 model (increased to 405 horsepower the following year). The Chevrolet Corvette Z06's power was complemented by several weight-saving attributes making it a strong track performer. For 2005, the Chevrolet Corvette replaced the sports car's concealed headlights in favor of body-conforming front lamps. Standard engine power was bumped to 400 horsepower with a 6-liter V-8 powerplant added for the 2005 model year (increased once again to 430 in 2008).
A new Corvette Z06 came the following year with a 7-liter eight-cylinder engine generating 505 horsepower. Becoming the most power production Chevrolet Corvette ever built, the ZR1 model arrived in 2009. A supercharged, 6.2-liter V-8 engine on the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 generated 638 horsepower and allowed the sports car to reach a 205-mile per hour top speed. For 2010, a Grand Sport version of the Chevrolet Corvette offered a series of performance enhancements for the base engine vehicle. For 2014, the Chevrolet Corvette matures into a brand-new shape powered by a 455-horsepower, high technology LT1 V-8 engine.
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The Corvette represents a long line of best-selling, iconic sports coupes that has cemented the Chevrolet nameplate.
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Completely redesigned from nose-to-tail, awe-inspiring V8 power, more room for cargo stowing, unmatched handling and sports-tuned braking, and plenty more to love, make this the best Corvette yet.
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A fusion of American muscle and European styling, the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is as exciting as it looks, while still delivering up to 29 mpg.
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As America's super car, the 2011 Chevrolet Corvette is now available in a new limited production Z06 Carbon Edition with performance upgrades, unique colors and black 20-inch wheels.
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Spotlight Recipes: Easter Goodiesby Dana Angelo White in Healthy Holidays, Healthy Recipes, March 29, 2010
Keep this year's Easter celebration seasonal with the flavors of spring. Here are a few simple, fresh recipes to serve at your holiday meal — plus, a couple classic choices.
- Radishes With Butter and Salt
- Steamed Artichokes with Almond Saffron Dip
- Rack of Lamb
- Robin's Egg Easter Basket Cupcakes (shown above)
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Mark Alan Helsing, the Tustin hard-money lender who was the subject of a Register investigation, was arrested Friday and charged with cheating investors of more than $2.2 million.
Helsing, 51, is being held on $2.5 million bail. The Orange County district attorney charged him with 54 counts of grand theft, theft from an elder and attempting to file false documents.
If convicted on all charges, he could face 46 years in state prison.
Helsing was arrested in the county courthouse in Santa Ana on Friday, moments after pleading guilty to an unrelated $7,000 check-kiting scheme, Deputy District Attorney George McFetridge said. According to court records, he was sentenced to probation and restitution in that case.
The complaint names three victims. McFetridge said he expects to add more victims and more alleged losses later.
McFetridge said he charged Helsing Friday, without waiting to add the additional victims, because "we were concerned that he might not stick around."
An investor who was not named in the complaint, Dana Point retiree Joe Aiello, tried unsuccessfully to persuade police and prosecutors to charge Helsing with a crime last summer. Aiello said he lost $300,000.
"I'm just tickled that justice has been done," Aiello said Friday.
During nearly two decades as a lender, Helsing raised millions from investors, which he then loaned to desperate homeowners at double-digit rates, a Register investigation showed. According to court records, he charged a Riverside woman 43.882 percent on a $10,000 loan.
While real estate prices soared in the early part of the decade, Helsing's business prospered. Even if a borrower defaulted, he could still foreclose, sell the house and make a profit.
But when home prices stalled in 2006, his business began to come apart.
In a case described in the criminal complaint and a 2007 civil lawsuit, Costa Mesa investor Larry Richardson put up $100,000 for a loan to Riverside resident Ruben Sanchez in February 2006. Sanchez repaid the loan in October. But instead of returning Richardson's money, Helsing allegedly continued making monthly payments to him.
Richardson discovered the loan had been repaid when he did a title search in May 2007.
Richardson subsequently won a $465,000 judgment against Helsing.
He declined to comment on Helsing's arrest.
Aiello lost $300,000 in a June 2007 deal with Helsing. Aiello said Helsing gave him what appeared to be a mortgage for a house in Pomona. But the mortgage was never recorded, and Aiello never got his money back.
In two interviews with The Register last summer, Helsing was unable to explain what happened to Aiello's money.
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When designing a vaccination program for a dairy there are many variables to consider. Increased movement and purchase of cattle with today's larger herds puts additional stress on the vaccination program as disease risk rises, says Victor Cortese, DVM, PhD, Pfizer Animal Health.
Cortese advised audience members at the AABP-ACC meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., to ask the following questions when developing a vaccination protocol.
- What is the presence and degree of challenge of particular diseases on the dairy?
- Are there management practices on-farm that lend themselves to or hinder the implementation of vaccination programs?
- At what age or time does a disease problem occur? The timing may give some insight into stresses that are occurring in the management of the animals.
- Is the herd open or closed? At what age is the farm purchasing animals?
- Are calves raised offsite or on the dairy? If raised off-site when do they return to the home operation?
- What type of breeding program is in place? Are clean-up bulls used? If so what is the source of the bulls and what age are the bulls purchased at?
Other advice offered included basic questions that need to be asked about vaccines under consideration for a vaccination protocol. Cortese recommends for veterinarians to ask:
- What immune system components are necessary to afford protection against the various diseases?
- What does the label indicate for duration of immunity and maternal antibody interference?
- Are there warnings or restrictions on the use of the particular vaccine?
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MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - The Mount Clemens Community Schools Board of Education voted to close two out of the district's three elementary schools Monday night due to the district's looming deficit.
Superintendent Deborah Wahlstrom told Local 4 that this fall Washington Academy (K-6) and Martin Luther King Jr. Academy (K) will not be open for the 2013/2014 school year.
"This is one of the hardest decisions a school board has to make," said Wahlstrom. "It's just something we have to do, there is no way around it."
Mount Clemens Community Schools has been struggling to dig their way out of a deficit for years. Currently, the district owes $2.4 million and have until June of 2015 to pay it.
"Operating the buildings comes at such a huge cost, merging the students and teachers will help with our deficit," Wahlstrom said.
At this stage, kindergarten through third-graders will be transitioned to the districts only remaining elementary school, Seminole Academy.
The fourth and fifth-graders will receive their own floor inside of the Mount Clemens Junior High building.
Most of the teachers from the closing schools will move with the students, but there will be cuts in staff.
"Each building has its own security and custodial staff and unfortunately that's where we'll see most of the layoffs," said Wahlstrom.
Information about the closures will go on the district's website this week and packets will be sent home with students this week.
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Good morning, Staff Members!
At its meeting last night to finalize work on eliminating the deficit, our school board voted to close King and Washington, as well as cut funding for athletics and transportation. Additionally, the numbers of staff members in administration will be cut. We will roll out the details at a later time, but I know that each person in the district will feel the impact of this decision.
It is not a win for anyone.
I know our board members have given a great deal of thought to these decisions, including the impact on each of you. Their faces said it all. I know the decisions weigh heavy on their hearts, as they do mine.
With these decisions made, we are a step closer to eliminating the deficit.
Please know that we need you - our teachers - to continue to provide high-quality teaching and learning experiences for our students. If you work at King or Washington, you'll be in a different building next year. Which one? If you teach pre-K through grade three, you'll likely be at Seminole. If you teach grades 4 and 5, you'll likely be on one of the floors in the middle school. You see, our high school will really hold all of our students, but the board feels it is best to keep our youngest students in an early childhood school of their own.
Now that the board has made its decision, we will begin work on implementing the choices made. We will meet with our principals later this week to begin work on the overall implementation plan. We want you and our parents to know the details of where children will go to school and which bus routes they will take before you leave for your summer break. We will have a district-wide implementation team with representatives from each school.
I trust that you will let me know if you have questions while you are waiting for more information about implementing the board's decision.
I continue to be grateful for all you do each day - and know our board is, too.
Dr. Deborah Wahlstrom
Mount Clemens Community Schools
167 Cass Avenue
Mount Clemens, MI 48043
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Another Oliver Perez start; another bad night. Here's how I wrote it:
LOS ANGELES _ On the bright side, Oliver Perez didn't give up many of those excruciating painful pull-out-your hair walks.
Instead, he settled for giving up those annoying home runs.
Perez gave up three, making for a quicker, less agonizing defeat, 5-1, last night to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
At first, manager Willie Randolph, standing in a cramped hallway outside the Mets' clubhouse, said, "I thought he pitched fairly well,'' then modified that to, "he was better than last time,'' and eventually, "it was a fair outing.''
Before the clearly frustrated manager was done, Randolph said, "he's in my rotation and will stay there until we deem that we have to make a change.''
Inside, pitching coach Rick Peterson dressed quickly and left without comment, leaving Perez to explain the homers to Rafael Furcal, Blake DeWitt and Matt Kemp.
"I did everything I can,'' Perez said. "It happens. Sometimes I make mistakes and they hit it.''
"It's all about focus with him,'' Randolph said. "I don't want to beat it to death.''
Focus, no doubt, is getting ahead 0-and-2 to Furcal before throwing a lame slider that was crushed.
"In that case, no,'' Randolph said, when asked if Perez focused.
Perez was coming off a 1 2/3-inning meltdown in which he walked five and gave up seven runs in a 13-1 loss to Pittsburgh that prompted closer Billy Wagner to rip the potentially talented, but frequently easily-hit left-hander who hopes to capitalize big in the free-agent market this winter.
Wagner said with the bullpen being overworked Perez needed to give the Mets innings and carry some of the load.
Randolph wasn't happy Wagner took Perez to task through the papers, but when asked which was the greater issue, Wagner speaking up or Perez's pitching, he didn't hesitate to say the latter.
Prior to the game, Randolph said he hadn't given up on Perez and his sub-two inning stint against the Pirates was an aberration.
Was it really?
Perez gave the Mets six innings last night, but also put them in a hole their sputtering offense couldn't escape.
The Dodgers added another run in the first on Russell Martin's RBI single, then blew the game open with three in the fifth on DeWitt's homer and Kemp's two-run drive.
When their offense is clicking, five runs is a doable deficit from which the Mets can rally.
However, with how they've played lately, they made Chad Billingsley _ he of the 1-4 record and 5.20 ERA going in _ appear invincible.
They had their chances to make a game of it long before Moises Alou's cosmetic RBI in the sixth.
The Mets left five runners in the first four innings, including four in scoring position.
They had runners on second and third with one out in the second, but Brian Schneider struck out and Luis Castillo grounded to third. Jose Reyes was left on third in the third, and Carlos Delgado was stranded on second to end the fourth.
"It was one of those games where we had opportunities,'' Alou said. "But, we didn't come up with the key hit. If we could've come up with some clutch hits it could have been a different game.''
Instead, it was the same old story.
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Singita Lebombo runs a school of cooking to develop employment opportunities for local youth.
In South Africa, bush spas now form an essential part of the luxury game lodge experience.
Just a few years ago, the idea of combining a Big Five safari with an on-site spa treatment was unheard of, but because the game lodge industry continues to reinvent itself, our renowned bush spas lead the way in terms of health and wellness tourism innovation on the continent.
Bush spas in South Africa offer a real treat for the discerning traveller and having a spa facility is now seen as an essential element to any decent luxury safari game lodge experience. Certainly, the best lodges in the country all have magnificent spas to brag about as well as some very unique pamper concepts.
Sabi Sabi Earth Lodge has the Amani Spa which is known for its excellent hydrotherapy treatments and its tranquil zen garden. The spa also uses the Africology range of products - inspired by South African indigenous plants such as rooibos, marula and the African potato.
Shibula Game Lodge & Spa in the Waterberg uses apricot kernels in some of its therapies and is known for the very specific African Back Wood Massage therapy.
Therapists at the spa at Singita Lebombo and Singita Sweni in the Lebombo concession of the Kruger National Park use monkey oranges in a signature massage and also offer up a sensual 'Touch of Moonlight Therapy'.
Garonga safari camp is still touting their concept of 'Soul on Safari' and the combination of game activities and delicious therapies in the outdoor sala is an absolute winner.
Falaza Game Park and Spa in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi has incorporated zulu rituals into its spa offering and Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve and Wellness Retreat in the Cederberg have taken their inspiration from the earth itself.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - It's a first for Jacksonville. A home for "generation next" or what's also known as the "sandwich generation." Lennar Homes just finished construction on the first home in our area built specifically for families with multiple generations living under one roof.
Whether it's elderly parents, kids moving home after college or even an adult child moving in after a divorce, these floor plans provide a home within a home to solve the problem.
Barbara Moore is the Division President for Lennar and gave Channel 4's Nikki Kimbleton the grand tour. Moore said, "Our "next gen" suite connects to the home but in a private location and away from the noise of the main home. You have a private kitchen, living area and then the bedroom that's plenty large for a king or queen size bed, plus there's a walk in closet and private bath."
The homes average 3100 square feet with three or four bedroom options in the main home, plus the additional one bedroom and one bath in the suite. Each side has a connected garage.
"Our customers are telling us all kinds of uses they're finding for it." Moore said. "Home business, teenagers, guests who stay for long periods of time, kids who are coming home to live for awhile and the guys love it for a game room. It's the perfect place to watch football with their friends."
This is the first, completed generation next home from Lennar in our area. Others are under construction here but this floor plan is already a hit in other parts of the country. They've sold 400 so far.
"What we've seen with our multiple generation families, this is the most affordable combination they can have with two or three generations of families living in the home."
Homes range from the high $200's to the low $300's. Lennar is building the Next Generation homes in four different developments around our area including Oakleaf and Nocatee plus two areas in Duval County.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. – The seventh-ranked Saint Leo women's tennis managed to pick up a critical Sunshine State Conference victory as the Lions defeated No. 12 Rollins College 5-4 in action from Rollins on Friday afternoon.
In claiming the conference win the Lions (13-2) picked up wins at Nos. 1 and 3 doubles to managed a 2-1 lead over the Tars (12-3) as Pauline Helgesson and Maria Benkirane managed an 8-4 win at the top doubles spot. Adrianna Daszkiewicz and Coralie Pesenti 8-5 victory at No. 3 meant the Lions took a 2-1 advantage into solo play.
Rollins would rally to tie the score at four as they picked up wins at Nos. 1, 5 and 6 and Saint Leo earned victories with Helgesson and Benkirane as the entire match would come down to Daszkiewicz at No. 4 singles.
Daszkiewicz would fall in the first set to Mariana Salvador, 6-4 but rallied in the second set 7-6, winning in the tiebreak 7-1 to send the flight, and the entire match to the deciding set. Outlasting her opponent, the junior dominated the third set 6-0 to give the set and match to the Green and Gold.
Rolling through the Tars, the Lions will return home and take on Nova Southeastern in conference action on Saturday afternoon. The SSC match between the Lions and Tars is scheduled to get underway at noon.
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UF basketball up to No. 11
Published: Monday, January 7, 2013 at 2:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 7, 2013 at 2:14 p.m.
Florida moved up two spots to No. 11 in the latest Associated Press' college basketball poll Monday.
The Gators (10-2) host Georgia on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the SEC opener and are expected to be without senior forward Erik Murphy (12.1 points, 4.7 rebounds per game), the team's second-leading scorer. Murphy has a painful rib injury that kept him out of Sunday's win at Yale.
Meanwhile, unbeaten Duke and Michigan hold the top two spots in for the fourth straight week.
Duke received 62 first-place votes Monday from the 65-member national media panel, with Michigan getting the other three.
Louisville overtook unbeaten Arizona to be ranked third. Completing the top 10 are Indiana, Kansas, Syracuse, Minnesota, Gonzaga and Missouri.
No. 23 Wichita State and No. 24 UNLV are back in the rankings. Oklahoma State and Pittsburgh dropped out from last week. Wyoming, the other unbeaten Division I school, remains unranked.
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Conference papers Emner "Value"
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Refashioning luxury goods through co-creationWolny, Julia; Hansen, Rina (Geneva, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Sustainable fashion in all its guises, has been the preoccupation of many a recent campaign, article, research and initiative. Not only is the industry increasingly aware of the need to cut its environmental impact, but also consumers and consumer organisations are putting pressures on various parts of the supply chain to comply with environmental and ethical practices. Yet, from a management perspective, the economic impact of these demands can lead to conflicting priorities. In particular, the basic marketing concept of product lifecycle indicates the product's gradual diminishing monetary returns through time. In this paper we will be analysing a case of a refashioning of products that are either obsolete or unsalable and making a commercially viable collection. In 2008 MCM collaborated with the London College of Fashion to reuse, recycle and redesign a number of end-of-line, dated handbags into new objects of desire with a new lifecycle. This case will form a basis of analysing the validity of such a product re-development tactic for other luxury brands. The paper will provides a blueprint for future re-fashioning initiatives by reflecting on the value inherent in the process for both users and firms alike. The paper contributes to the understanding of recycling and sustainable fashion from a theoretical perspective that links together the product lifecycle, co-creation and value creation theories. The main theoretical implication of the work concerns the framing of recycling and refashioning with the context of those linked concepts.According to this contribution, refashioning can enable value creation from obsolete products, especially if a co-design with consumers or users forms part of the proposition. On the managerial side, this study recognisees the economic drivers of business and highlights the commercial, not only environmental and societal benefits of recycling within the luxury sector. The recycled products stand in direct opposition to counterfeiting, which is evident in the uniqueness for refashioned products leading to the development of new objects of desire. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8525
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Carton, Fergal; Hedman, Jonas; Damsgaard, jan; Tan, Kay-Ti; McCarthy, JB (Como, Ita., 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper derives a theoretical framework for consideration of both the technologically driven dimensions of mobile payment solutions, and the associated value proposition for customers. Banks promote traditional payment instruments whose value proposition is the management of risk for both consumers and merchants. These instruments are centralised, costly and lack decision support functionality. The ubiquity of the mobile phone has provided a decentralised platform for managing payment processes in a new way, but the value proposition for customers has yet to be elaborated clearly. This inertia has stalled the design of sustainable revenue models for a mobile payments ecosystem. Merchants and consumers in the meantime are being seduced by the convenience of online and mobile payment solutions. Adopting the purchase and payment process as the unit of analysis, the current mobile payment landscape is reviewed with respect to the creation and consumption of customer value. From this analysis, a framework is derived juxtaposing customer value, related to what is being paid for, with payment integration, related to how payments are being made. The framework provides a theoretical and practical basis for considering the contribution of mobile technologies to the payments industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8348
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A 32-YEAR-OLD man took his friend's television while the owner was in the shower and sold it at Cash Converters.
Blackburn magistrates heard the owner realised what had happened and dressed quickly and got to the shop before the deal had been done.
He told the assistant the set was his but while he was going home to get proof his friend was given £20 for the set.
Gary James Thompson, 32, of the Islington Motel, Great Bolton Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to theft of the TV belonging to Paul Nuttall.
He was fined £70 with £105 costs. The magistrates made no order for compensation for Cash Converters who were £20 out of pocket.
Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the two men were both resident at the Islington, and Thompson had raised the possibility of selling the TV but his friend had said no.
Rachael Griffiths, defending, said Thompson's understanding was that they had agreed to sell the set and split the proceeds.
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Your favorite video game sucks
I had too much fun with the talk-me-down thread. I'm a deeply pessimistic and negative person, and I've been censoring myself for far too long just because people don't like to be brought down. This is the thread where cynicism is love! Write your worst reviews of well-loved games, free from the fear of rubbing anyone the wrong way!
The guidelines:
It should be a popular game. Skyrim, Dark Souls, Half-life-- these are all great choices for your negative review.
It should be an honest review. The more recently you've played the game, the better. Ambivalence is acceptable: acknowledge good points, should any exist (lol they don't). Don't invent anything.
It's okay if you have a love-hate relationship with the game. It's okay to be that guy on Steam with 1500 hours into Chivalry and a thumbs-down review. Sometimes it takes 1500 hours of careful exploration to really discover how deeply flawed a particular game is.
Don't be a fan. It's okay to comment on people's reviews, to agree or argue; it's okay to re-review. But the thread's whole point is negative reviews of well-loved games, so don't take it personally!
Let the rule of gloom commence in the Jaded Empire!
You know what? Mortal Kombat sucks. The whole series reeks of a puerile fixation on excessive gore and grimdark teenager aesthetics, and it only got worse with time, especially the latest game and the upcoming one, judging from trailers.
So fuck you, MK. There's nothing transgressive about the gore, it's just pandering to the bloodthirsty and voyeuristic masses.
Harumph. I'm probably biased but ohwell.
Can I throw someone a fast ball? I'd like someone to rip Bioshock 2 a new one, no comments from anyone who gave up after an hour.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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I completed Bioshock 2 within around 10 hours. Tried reading and listening to as much as possible and can now safely say: Bioshock 2 sucks. It iterated on the floaty shooting of the first Bioshock and improved in small parts. Which is the one thing I'll give it. But it's also the iteration that made this such a dull game to me. To start with, I can't for the love of anything holy remember any specifics about the plot. I remember the Big Sister thing but mostly because it was such an annoying enemy that it stuck. The areas it had, did blur together with those of Bioshock 1, to the point where I just can't tell which area is part of which game. Bioshock 2 is iterative to a fault, because it lacks its own identity.
There was no real plot revelation, the foreshadowing was overbearing to a point of complete predictability, at least in what I do remember about it. /edit: or to put it into better words: The plot never surprised me or had any twists and turns that made it memorable, hence too predictable.
The areas, while in that nice artstyle, had been seen before and weren't fresh anymore. It's more of the same, treading the same tried and tested ground with some minor adjustments. It's an idea that outstayed it's welcome for lack of new concepts. Something more akin to an expansion pack for the die hard fans, than a proper sequel. I also felt it was horribly outdated. The art style lend itself to glitz and glamour and the bright colors and excentric architecture enforced that idea. And then it completely fell apart because of the enemies. The splicers were... inconsequential to the world. Their animations were floaty, ever feeling disconnected from the ground. They looked wrong, but not because of their artstyle but because of some seriously hideous bumpmap accident. It didn't help that the unreal engine gave it that all too familiar plastic/cartoony look. These remarks apply to Bioshock 1 as well but it wasn't helped that 2 didn't iterate on that aspect.
In short: It felt like an expansion pack made from dropped levels intended for Bioshock 1. It was iterative to a fault and treaded too much of the same ground thematically, visually and mechanically. It looked dated and had really conflicting artstyles between the environment and the enemies. The plot was entirely forgetable, I had to look it up and even with the help of a summary, I still couldn't recall most of it. It quite simply lacked it's own identity, something to make it a game of it's own.
It doesn't actually suck and I don't hate the game but I thought it was rather mediocre.
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You didn't even mention the abortion boss battle.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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The worst part of Bioshock 2 was the crappy fatherhood theme. It was incredibly overwrought, involved the same bullshit evil mother them that was prevalent through the late aughts.
If any series needs taking apart though, it's the Witcher. Mediocre combat mechanics, relatively flat side characters that probably rely on the books for characterization, terrible set piece boss battles, and then there was the cards.... And it's supposed to be savior of RPGs. One of the many reasons I'm glad the many kickstarted RPGs are coming out is that it puts the Witcher 2 back in perspective.
I'd rip into The Witcher but I did give up (several times) a few hours into the game. Crap combat, uninteresting characters, pedestrian pacing... nope. Also I don't know why RPS lets it get away with its sexualisation of women, particularly when context seems to be irrelevant. Also Bioshock 2's political undertones had all the subtlety of a man with a jackhammer outside your window at 6am.
On topic: I really wanted to do an indie game but apparently that's off limits so... Half Life 2 sucks, and by extension, so does Half Life. What's wrong with modern FPS games? Did you say linear, scripted sequences and level design? Well here's your goddamn genesis right here: HALF fucking LIFE. Valve's magnum opus gave birth to the linear scripted shooter, with its clearly telegraphed set pieces, arena segments, and scripted story sequences. Half Life 2 just took it to the next level. Instead of shooting Combine or headcrabs, I'm stuck in Kleiner's lab while they talk about stuff like I'm not even there! And when they do include me, they're talking as if I know what's been going on! That made a little bit of sense in Half Life where Gordon Freeman was supposed to have been working at Black Mesa for a while, but he's been MIA for ages in HL2, and they still assume he knows everything! Even worse, Valve's clumsy story-telling occasionally makes concessions by addressing the player with a bit of story exposition. And that story goes nowhere - it follows the LOST method of story-telling by answering every question with circular thinking or another question. Attempts at creating an enigmatic threat fall short because there's no backstory or history delivered to the player. HL2 dumps you in the middle of the conflict with no idea of what's going on or why you should care. Suddenly: Combine. What are they? Why are they here? Why is Breen where he is? How does this new world work? How many other cities are there? Lol nevermind, here's a terrible vehicle segment to play through.
The AI are passable but occasionally dead stupid. They navigate using pre-defined navigation nodes but occasionally get randomly stuck and can't proceed. This means you can take them out with little effort using your weapon of choice... of which there are several, and if there's any concession I can make it's that the weapons are fun.
Half Life: Birth of the scripted sequence. Looking for something to blame? It isn't consoles: it's Half Life.Nalano's Law - As an online gaming discussion regarding restrictions grows longer, the probability of a post likening the topic to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea approaches one.
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And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
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These kinds of threads are ridiculous. None of these suck. They have flaws. And the point of the thread is to exaggerate.
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Maybe, smullyoz, but Total War: Shogun 2 definitely, actually, sucks. I say this because I know: Steam says I have-- oh my god, nevermind, I'm not telling you how many hours I've poured into this shitty, shitty game, which was famously, unambiguously, thought-wot-of and tacritic me'd.
See, my problem is that I love samurai. I don't even know who to blame; Frank Miller maybe? He's responsible for a lot that's wrong with my life.
But Shogun 2 has so many problems. Shall we just skip the realism bits? Like how castles can be stormed-- and won-- by roughly even numbers of troops? How single ships can carry armies, but those armies won't repel boarders? Let's skip those parts.
Abstract when it shouldn't be, then simulative when it shouldn't be. There are few games where your archers actually run out of arrows, fewer still where your musketeers run out of arrows. There are few games where your arrows slam into the cabin walls of ships harmlessly and naval battles are determined more by the ship models used than by in-game statistics.
There are even fewer tactical/strategic games where every fight is a 1-on-1 duel, and outnumbering your opponent just feeds into the battle equation. There are plenty of games with a hard limit on the number of units per army, but it's usually a bad idea.
Shogun 2, time and again, mixes too-much-simulation with too-much-abstraction, and, worse, does so in exactly opposite the situations where it would make sense to do so. Naval fights should be more abstract, because they just don't work with the way CA simulates them. Land fights should be more simulated, because that's our window into the world: we expect multiple little dudes to be trading blows at once! With CA's solutions, everything becomes an exploit-- and if you try not to exploit, there's not really any game left.
For instance, consider the basic rock-paper-scissors of the game. It's intended that archers beat spearmen beat cavalry beat archers. Which isn't even good in theory, because RPS is amongst the most boring of games. But in practice, the actual way that this works is that multiple units of cavalry can use their manueverability to rapidly outnumber a flank of spearmen and, given CA's wonky battle resolution, force a rout without causing any casualties. Meanwhile, infantry can avoid most archer fire by micromanagement and jinking. Archers are still useful, because it's trivial to use them to empty their quivers into castles, nearly risk-free-- but they're reduced to siege engines. What you end up with is less a game of Rock Paper Scissors and more a game of Rock Vegetable Fraternite.
Totally misplaced priorities.
Here's a picture from Shogun 2.
Damn, isn't that beautiful? But here's what you're actually going to see during your game:
CA put so much work into making this game work at a scale that is totally useless to anyone playing the game. This isn't just a case of them wasting developer time, either. Considering the game, Shogun 2 performance, load times, and game size are abysmal. People playing on reasonable machines for the time of Shogun 2's release were faced with that super irritating problem of multi-threaded mouse where you have to hold the mouse still for a second after clicking or else the main thread will think you clicked someplace you didn't. This, in a game full of click-and-drag for both selection and deployment.
In fact, this quixotic focus on a scale useless to the player is exactly why CA has ended up with the aforementioned abstracted duel-based battles. It's all so they can show pretty animations at that small scale. Never mind that nobody is even looking.
Shitty, shitty new features. I've already mentioned what a terrible implementation of naval combat Shogun 2 ended up with. It's not unheard of for naval battles to time out because of the problems of simulated arrows in the context of complex models. Ships frequently get caught on geometry; the first lesson of winning naval battles is to avoid islands which will hold your ships like Gorilla Glue.
Add to this that Shogun 2, despite always-online features that would permit some decent data gathering, has ridiculously different outcomes from auto-resolve and actually resolve for naval battles-- well, and for land battles too. This makes it so that good play means using auto-resolve strategically. If you want to win, you can't skip the tactical battles (and neither can you engage in them every time, either). So you're stuck playing through these shitty, buggy, slow naval battles.
I understand some of these diplomacy options are new as well. Diplomacy is great. Strategy is far less about getting more of your dudes on some node than some other guy, than it is about diplomacy. Unfortunately, CA's diplomacy is crap.
It's possible to become fabulously wealthy, early in the game, by selling military access. Trade deals that would be beneficial to everyone involved are declined as a matter of course. Any number of deals can be tested with a perfect prediction of the response, but actual money values have to be hand-entered, leaving the ambitious daimyo playing the exciting "guess what number I'm thinking of" mini-game. Ongoing transactions like trade agreements can be exchanged for single-turn windfalls-- and then broken the next turn, without any cost.
And, of course, no matter what you do, every alliance is doomed, because at a certain point, every single AI gangs up on you in something CA likes to call "realm divide." (What I call it isn't suitable for print.)
That voice acting. I don't know. Have you played it? This is Rourke in Breakfast at Tiffany's awful.
I am sure there is so much that I missed. CA has a wonderful idea in their strategic+tactical games; they have very few competitors. Yet they consistently make terrible decisions about design.
@nate that was beautiful. I've not touched a total war since napoleon but my god, there is a developer which needs to let some designers go and hire new ones.
There is do much easy meat for this thread, I'm pondering what to corner in the shower block and kill with a sharpened toothbrush, but if anyone has suggestions I'll sic 'em at my discretion.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Jedi Knight 2 - It had cinematic looking saber duels, so everyone loved it and ignored the fact that:
- It had tiny crap level design that wasn't very star wars, and certainly wasn't in the same league as the awesome Jedi Knight.
- The weapons other than the lightsaber were useless.
- The story was crappy, and they managed to cram in a totally out of place love story between Kyle and Jan.
- The main boss/bad guy was kind of rubbish.
- The force powers weren't as good or varied as the original.
- Even the saber combat that looked cinematic, tended to mainly come down to luck. You both did your own thing and one of you won.
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I think Academy did a better job putting some finesse into the saber system, though I can't say I'm a terribly big fan of the mechanics in Dark Forces II. Might have been good at the time, but I have played very few games that are as mechanically dated as Dark Forces II. It plays terribly. I don't see how Outcast could be thought of as mechanically worse in terms of ... anything. Story? Maybe; I had to quit Dark Forces II because the gameplay was so terrible.I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
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Skyrim: There's a Czech saying that sums it up nicely: A teaspoon of honey is better than a bucket of shit.
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UT series does pleeenty wrong so it shouldn't be a problem to bring it down.
Trying to keeping it short, movement has gimmicks like jump dodge and cooler elevator/anti grav jumps, a feeling of openess from few maps quake ones never got right, weapon variety makes a good room for weapon specialization.
Along with all that a share of small lessons: cool weapon animations not to make the game too experience dependant because of worthless stuff, not so serious pvp modes and mutators and generally a rich range of options.
Compared to quakes they are twitcher and generally varied and yet they come from a single player game with ideas hurting the multiplayer ones.
The dodge jump is not a great idea in this kind of fps because it makes projectiles below fast ones dysfunctional, it's kept low in order not to be too unpredictable, doesn't have any thrill of dodging and doesn't make for good movement (for example players dodge jump forward at inconsistent speed with everything that this brings other than awkwardness).
The maps are mixed bags because of loads of unplayable small ones and few legendary ones like deck 16 and facing worlds' main version (and rankin in a later game with its own share of horrible small maps).
Weapons are a whole thing on their own. Location damage fires up weapons' one bringing up stuff that suits slow movement aka very lethal with unreliable damage, a third of the weaponry is worthless, impact/shield jump replaces the otherwise deadly rocket jump regardless of what people remember, some fires are delayed to prevent slick shots, armors become very important. The shock rifle in particular is both genius and horror in one and provides an overwhelming individual power. Bubbles to poke convey the overall idea, slow orbs allow for target's movement but they also allow the weapon wielder to trigger a huge explosion anywhere at anytime and all of this makes the SR the most exploited weapon in the whole series.
None of this stays the same; ut99 is the one that flows better, 2k3 sucks, 2k4 has weaker weapons and floaty movements, ut3 is shiny fat with issues.
Everything else from voice messages, powers, titan, suicide vehicules bumping everything and everyone, brightskins and disco lights etcetcetc is just a lot of fat that doesn't add to the flavour and no1 really attempted at changing modes like deathmatch and ctf ones in decades.
Also Morpheus is lost and that's the map that kept me a year in ut99. I just like "gravity volumes" (only reason I played Orbital Gear).
So yeah ut games suck
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You spend 8 hours on unwrapping the shiny paper, thinking about all that delicious chocolate. After unwrapping you realise that inside is just a shit with diarrhea filling. Then you cry in the corner.
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Sepcial agent that have aim worse than toddler handling Dirty Harry's magnum.
I could not get into Deux Ex at all. It was so ... dull ...
But it was silly, at times. I had to crawl to the end of the tutorial after blowing up both my legs in my efforts to hide from the Mech next to some, it turns out, explosive barrels. It had to build a bridge out of crates to crawl over to the other side because I couldn't jump up out of the water, and then I crawled all the way to the finish line. It was gloriously silly. It all went downhill from there.I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
Deus Ex is naturally awful but at least it had lots of stuff to mess around with. It looks like Gravity's Rainbow when you put it next to Human Revolution's dime novel.
Remember all that environmental interaction that you loved about Deus Ex? Well kiss all that goodbye you spoiled child because all you're getting is crates and fire extinguishers. Everything else is nailed down. You're going to have to forget about a non-lethal playthrough because there boss fights where killing is mandatory. Finally everything is viewed through a Berocca tinted camera lens which will have your eyes cursing and your optometrist greedily rubbing his hands together.
Skyrim, now that's a popular one, Skyrim is like a display in a hunting store. It's mannequins holding weapons posing next to stuffed animals in plastic environments and a painted backdrop. And that's all that needs to be said really.


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Did you know?
Tomson witnessed the so-called 'Biggest Wave Ever Ridden' by Californian surfer Greg Noll at Makaha, Hawaii, in 1969.
Born in 1955 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, Shaun Tomson grew up riding the city's famous waves. Now based in California, Tomson is not only considered one of the greatest surfers of all time, but is also a successful businessman, environmentalist, movie producer and writer.
Most famous for his style of riding the tube section of the wave, Tomson was a member of the 'Free Ride' generation of the 1970s, made up of a group of surfers who tackled the waves of Hawaii's Oahu island's legendary North Shore with fresh fervour and style. He won the IPS World Championship in 1977; is the oldest and the youngest surfer to win a professional event; is considered one of the 25 most influential surfers of the 20th century and 10 greatest surfers of all time; and is regarded as one of the architects of professional surfing. He was admitted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.
Tomson is also a fervent environmentalist, becoming the first professional surfer to join the Surfrider Foundation in 1984, an organisation that aims to protect the world's oceans, waves, and beaches. He now sits on its board. In 2002 Tomson was awarded the Surf Industry Manufacturer Association Environmentalist of the Year Award. He is also a successful businessman, founding and owning the clothing brands Instinct and Solitude in the 1980s and 1990s respectively.
Tomson has featured in several surf films, and produced the feature film Bustin' Down the Door, about the 1970s surf scene, and wrote a book by the same title. Tomson penned and narrated a documentary about South Africa's famous surf spot Jeffrey's Bay, The Pure Line, and wrote the children's book Krazy Kreatures – Under my Surfboard. His motto of positivity and commitment as outlined in his best-selling book Surfer's Code – 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life, acts as the basis for his inspirational speeches.


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When autumn arrives, the farmers' markets are brimming with apples of every variety. The excitement we get when we discover wonderful new apple varieties is like being kids in Candy Land.
With a plethora of fresh apples to eat, we're still continually creating new recipes to enjoy them when they're cooked. When apples are cooked to a soft texture, a little sprinkle of cinnamon transforms them into the perfect simple dessert.
Apple fries are another fun way to enjoy apples when you have an abundance. Quickly fried apples sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and powdered sugar are like fruit candy. The soft texture of the sweet apple and cinnamon fragrance make for a simple way to enjoy apples as a dessert.
These "alternative fries" are our answer to a quick, delicately sweet dish when we're craving a fruit dessert. The thought of adding a scoop of ice cream on top of the warm apple fries is deliciously exciting. That's next on our apple fry agenda!
Apples Fries With Cinnamon
• At least 2 firm apples
• Vegetable oil for frying
• 1 cup of flour
• Ground cinnamon
• Powdered sugar
1. Heat oil in medium sauté pan until you have enough oil to immerse apple slices.
2. Wash, core and slice apples into ¼"-thick slices.
3. Add flour to medium bowl. Lightly dredge each apple slice in flour, coating completely.
4. Heat oil in a medium saucepot to 375 degrees F. Gently place apple slices in hot oil. Fry on both sides until golden brown. Remove apple slices from hot oil. Place on paper towel to absorb excess oil.
5. Sprinkle warm fried apple slices with ground cinnamon and powdered sugar.
Serves about 2
More Favorite Fall Desserts on Cooking Channel
- Salted Caramel Apple Pie
- Pear-Cranberry Crostata
- Maple Pecan Pie
- Dutch Apple Cake
- Maple Pear Upside Down Cake
- Spiced Pumpkin Crumb Cake
- Pear Crumble
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Highlands whips Derry
Highlands sophomore quarterback Blake Leri doesn't play hockey, but he did put up a hat trick.
Leri rushed for, threw and caught a touchdown pass in Highlands' 41-13 win over Class AAA Greater Allegheny Conference foe Derry on Friday night at Golden Rams Stadium.
"That's pretty impressive for a sophomore. He's a competitor," Highlands coach Sam Albert said. "I haven't seen that type of competitiveness since Jeff Sinclair, or Luke Westerman when I had him at Freeport. That type of kid, they rally around him no matter what age he is."
Sinclair, a 2009 Highlands grad, is a starter at Robert Morris, and Westerman, a 2004 Freeport graduate, played at Slippery Rock.
The play where Leri caught a touchdown pass is the only play designed for him — as a receiver. But no one was as surprised to see the ball come his way as Leri.
"I knew I was going to play a few positions," Leri said. "I didn't think it was going to happen at all (Friday night)."
Junior tight end Allan Cratsenberg, who lined up in the backfield, hit Leri with the pass after taking the direct snap when Leri went in motion to the slot receiver position.
"It's nice to have somebody like Cratsenberg, who's versatile enough to come in and throw," Albert said.
Leri ended up completing just four passes on 11 attempts for 66 yards. His last completion was a 28-yard strike to sophomore receiver Chris Fick.
"The nice thing about quarterback: People only remember your last throw," Albert said. "You can throw five bad balls, but when you hit that one, you're back to being the hero."
Leri rushed seven times for 40 yards.
Adding to the Highlands (2-4, 2-4) ground total was sophomore running back Elijah Jackson.
The 5-foot-7, 143 pound runner had 151 yards on 11 carries and scored twice.
"He runs inside hard. He runs hard every play," Albert said. "He's hard to bring down. He runs with authority."
Jackson opened the second half with an 86-yard touchdown.
"They aren't going to catch Elijah," Albert said.
He wasted little time scoring again with a 7-yard touchdown on his next carry following a Derry (1-5, 0-5) turnover.
Senior kicker Mike Masarik hit two early field goals for Highlands, a 27- and 31-yarder.
"That's two (wins) now," Albert said. "We just have to keep that momentum going into Greensburg (Salem)."
Dave Yohe is a freelance writer


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text: floatingwoods 364 Report post Posted February 5, 2013 Hello, I have a cross-platform openGl application that works fine with most graphic cards. However, there are rare cases when rendering is very slow under following conditions: - Linux (Ubuntu) - Nvidia card (e.g. Nvidia NVS 5200 M) The application runs a single thread (the main thread), and turns vsync off at the beginning (following is the Linux code to turn Vsync off): typedef int (APIENTRY * AAAAGLSWAPINTERVALEXTPROC)(int); AAAAGLSWAPINTERVALEXTPROC wglSwapIntervalEXT=(AAAAGLSWAPINTERVALEXTPROC)glXGetProcAddress((const GLubyte*)"glXSwapIntervalSGI"); if (wglSwapIntervalEXT) { wglSwapIntervalEXT(0); } Rendering gets very slow because following functions seems to be blocking for several ms even with an almost empty scene content: openglWidget->swapBuffers(); // Qt command or/and openglWidget->doneCurrent(); // Qt command It seems that VSync could not be turned off! More strange is that following command: export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 improves the rendering speed (but still takes around 40-50 ms for each frame). what is going on here? Other platforms or other graphic cards do not have any problem at all. It is critical to be able to render as quickly as possible (disable vsync) for various reasons (e.g. rendering for generation of movie files). Thanks for any insight!! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Ruby Apple Salad Recipe
This is a pretty salad and tastes good, too. There are 22 apple growers in the county where I live, so I have plenty of fresh apples to use for cooking. Years ago, there used to be local apple contests that my two children and I would enter. One year we made a clean sweep of the awards - and I believe this recipe was one of the winners!
- 1 package (3 ounces) cherry gelatin
- 2 tablespoons red-hot candies
- 1-3/4 cups boiling water
- 1-1/2 to 2 cups chopped apples
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1. In a bowl, stir gelatin and candies in boiling water until dissolved. Chill until partially set. Fold in apples, celery and walnuts. Pour into a 1-qt. serving bowl. Chill until firm, at least 4 hours. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Reviews for Ruby Apple Salad
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"Reminds me of something my mother used to make, but this recipe is better!"
Reviewed Apr. 2, 2014
"Does this contain strawberries? It looks like it does."
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2010
"Absolutely wonderful"
Reviewed May. 3, 2010
"I would give this a 10 if possible. I have made it many time snow. Once I ate the whole bowl in two days. I just can;t get enough of it. So refressing!!!! Definately a keeper. As a matter of fact, I always make sure I have all the ingredients on hand at all times."
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The latest data from the FAO shows food prices volatility is behind us and steady increases are expected moving forward.
The drought affecting most of the United States sent food prices surging in 2011, but stabilization followed and lowered food prices over the past five months.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Food Price Index measures the international prices for a collection of food commodities. An analysis of prices for the month of October shows the index increased by 1.3 percent over the previous month, but was still 5.3 percent lower than the same month a year earlier.
The FAO says the index increased for the first time since April.
The rising index was largely a result of higher sugar prices, but increases in other contributing commodities also affected the global index. The FAO Sugar Price Index jumped 7.4 percent higher in October, increasing for the third consecutive month. Production numbers for 2013/14 were shaken by harvest delays in the major sugar-producing country of Brazil. The FAO also reports the price hike was influenced by a fire that destroyed a major sugar warehouse at the Santos port in Brazil.
October cereal prices were one percent higher than the previous month. The higher cereal values are a result of heavy demand amid record production and a favorable supply outlook.
Dairy prices were 0.4 percent higher in the report with strong demand for whole milk powder in China. Butter prices also improved while cheese remained steady.
Meat prices averaged to show no change for October, although beef prices moved higher while global pork and poultry prices fell lower.
The FAO is forecasting stability in the months ahead with a steady increase in prices.


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Jack of All TradesRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I have been many things in my life.
To England I traveled during times of strife.
I owned a printing shop and made its periodicals popular.
Many enjoyed my views and called me a philosopher.
I loved inventing and in the field of science I strove.
Some of my inventions were bifocal eyeglasses, the glass harmonica and even a stove.
Many public offices have I held and served long,
Not the least of which, was reorganizing the postal system and making it strong.
Thanks to my love for travel, debates and tendency to chat,
I earned the title of diplomat.
I spent many times in England, that's a fact.
I defended American rights and fought for repeal of the Stamp Act.
My ability to write and strong belief that all men are created equal caused me to help design
A Declaration of Independence, on which the original I did sign.
Be original, a thinker, give it a try.
Can you figure out my name; who am I?
HintIf you do not remember me and need help still,
Just open your wallet and look at a one hundred dollar bill.
AnswerThe answer, my friend, I say with a grin,
Is none other than Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790). He was an American printer, author, economist, diplomat, philosopher, scientist, inventor, and one of America's greatest statesmen. Benjamin Franklin was known for so many things, but he is best remembered in the United States as a patriot and diplomat.
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Tenants in Waltham Forest could be hit in the pocket next year according to landlords who now face an annual fee of up to £500 per property because of an 'established link' between anti-social behaviour and privately rented homes.
At a meeting of Waltham Forest Council's cabinet yesterday, a borough-wide scheme was agreed to monitor landlords.
As of April next year landlords across the borough will be made to sign a register and pay a fee per let property as a part of the 'selective licensing' scheme.
It was voted in by half of the cabinet unanimously, the other four sat out - because they are landlords.
Outlining the plans for the five-year project, Khevyn Limbajee, portfolio holder for housing, told the cabinet the scheme is used in other boroughs to bring down the amount of anti-social behaviour such as fly-tipping.
For the full story see this week's Waltham Forest Guardian and Chingford Guardian, out on Thursday.


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Today's Facebook status:
I have finally decided what my theme for this year (or life stage) is: The Year of Unorganizing.
That is, I'm working towards becoming more productive and achieving more of my goals, but without freaking out about the process by which I accomplish them, or whether I am Doing It Right. If that means my projects get done at 4am instead of 9pm, and I'm still getting enough sleep, for example, who cares?
So far, what I've been finding is that when I take that pressure off to Be Responsible or to Do Things The Right Way, I actually get more done, and with less stress. And when I make changes, it's because I want to do something differently, and not because the way I'm doing things now is wrong. And I only need to use systems that work for me, easily and naturally (Yay, Google Calendar Tasks, yay, UFYH), instead of trying to conform to ones that don't.
And I'm also not worrying if I can keep this up, because not worrying about things like that is sort of the point.


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Recent op-eds in the U-T have projected the Keystone XL pipeline as a beneficial project that will bring much needed oil to the U.S. from Canada ("Middle Eastern Oil Or Canadian? It's Our Choice," March 15; "Obama's Gas Prices," March 13). President Obama's reluctance to permit construction of the pipeline is portrayed as one more example of his wrongheaded and failed energy policies.
I would like to offer a contrary opinion.
First, it's important to understand that the reason the TransCanada company wants to build the pipeline is to get access to American refineries that are capable of turning the heavy "tar sands" oil (which will be piped from Alberta) into usable transportation fuel. It is not, as most people assume, to sell and distribute oil in the U.S. market.
All the oil companies, except one, that will receive oil from the pipeline are foreign owned. The details of their contracts are confidential. The one exception is Valero, a U.S. company, that has made its intentions public in investor guides and speeches: it intends to refine its share of the oil (which is the largest share of the pipeline's capacity) into diesel and jet fuel and sell it all to China and South America.
The Valero model will almost certainly be followed by the other oil companies. Why? Consider the following facts:
• In 2011, U.S. demand for gasoline hit a 10-year low. At the same time, the number of oil drilling rigs in the U.S. has quadrupled. We now have more drilling rigs than any other country on earth. Oil supply is not the major problem.
• In view of the foregoing, it should not be surprising that the number one export of the U.S. last year was oil (approximately 80 percent refined as diesel fuel). Oil companies can, and do, sell our oil to the highest bidder, anywhere in the world. And Valero forecasts that the worldwide demand for diesel fuel will triple in the next few years.
• The U.S. refineries receiving and refining the Canadian tar sands oil are located in Port Arthur, Texas, in a Foreign Trade Zone. This means that any product made in that zone is exempt from U.S. customs duties and Federal and State taxes – as long as it's exported! And the refineries are configured to make middle distillates: diesel fuel and jet fuel.
So the chant should be, "Drill, baby, drill! … and export the oil, baby!"
The Keystone XL pipeline, if it is built, will be an oil export pipeline. In all probability, nary a drop of fuel from it would reach the gas tanks of U.S. consumers.
There are other negatives associated with the XL pipeline. The product that would be shipped in the pipeline is not like conventional crude oil. It is a tar-like substance dissolved in natural gas condensate that is called dilbit (diluted bitumen). It has to be heated to a temperature of 160 degrees F and pumped at pressures of 1440 pounds per square inch. It contains benzene, a known carcinogen. U.S. pipeline safety standards were never written with this kind of crude in mind. If it is spilled in the environment, this toxic broth can cause significant health hazards and major cleanup problems.
As for jobs, as opposition to the pipeline has grown, the job creation claims made for the pipeline have reached farcical proportions. Perhaps the most dependable and independent estimate of jobs comes from a university, the Cornell Global Labor Institute. They estimate the XL pipeline would create 127 permanent jobs and 2500-4600 temporary jobs.
The XL pipeline is a con job. It's not going to give us more oil, cheaper gas, or any important job growth. All that it will give us, if it's built, is a significant environmental hazard.
President Obama is right to resist its construction in the U.S.


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What Would Bobby Do? Watch Instant Re-Flaysby Debra Puchalla in Food Network Star, June 15, 2010
WWBD? It's easier to be behind the camera than in front of it. And armchair quarterbacking a demo is more fun than doing one: I would've, he could've, she should've.
Even Bobby Flay knows the lens is a tough judge. So he's sharing his tips this season, making over finalists' recipes. This week, Bobby is pierside in Santa Monica, dishing out uncommonly sensible advice: Tom's fish taco churros could've benefited from citrus--yes, Grant, I too would be happy to discus Tom's 'do. Then Bobby takes on Paul's dish; he could've kicked it with a savory dish truly inspired by caramel corn (hint: focus, Paul, honey).
What would you have done differently if you were Tom, Paul or one of the other Finalists?
More posts from Debra Puchalla.


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Hello all,
My father-in-law was diagnosed with a Klatskin tumor the end of December 2011. He spent several days in the hospital with Pancreatitis (a complication of the ERCP), then developed Cholangitis because of the stent placed during the ERCP. His liver resection was January 11, 2012. It was a success! The surgeon removed his gallbladder, the common bile duct, and the right lobe of his liver. He found clear margins on both sides where the tumor was located.
His recovery was slow. He went home with a JP drain, his appetite was poor, and he lost 24 pounds. Just as we made headway in one area, something else would crop up. His surgeon finally recommended he eat 3,000 calories a day because his blood work showed malnutrition. It was very hard for him to eat much for months. 8 weeks after surgery, his incision reopened. It took another 2 months for that to close completely. In that time, he has slowly gained back about half of the weight that he'd lost.
We are just now starting appointments with the oncologist. The surgeon told us they wouldn't be able to do anything for him in the shape he was in right after surgery, so we just focused on his recovery.
We just received the results of his first post-surgery PET scan. Now he has an inoperable tumor on the top of his liver (between the liver and the diaphram), and a strand on the right side of his liver that the oncologist cannot identify. The tumor on the top of his liver is almost certainly cancer, because of the density. We are scheduled for a needle biopsy on Monday.
My husband and I are in shock. We're trying to get our heads around this new information. We just had so much hope that it was out of his system and gone.
I mainly wanted to say "Hello" and offer to help with advice for caregivers who are looking for tips on helping a loved one recover from a liver resection. I found the discussion boards helpful when I was learning about cholangiocarcinoma, and came back every time we had a new hurdle during his recovery. I just imagine I'll be relying more heavily on them, and you all, with this new development.
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I'm a novelist, blogger and book reviewer living in St Kilda, Australia.
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I was born and grew up in
Northern Ireland. After studying philosophy at Oxford University I emigrated to New York City where I lived in Harlem for seven years working in bars, bookstores, building sites and finally the basement stacks of the Columbia University Medical School Library in Washington Heights.
In 2000 I moved to Denver, Colorado where I taught high school English and started writing fiction in earnest. My first full length novel
Dead I Well May Be
was shortlisted for the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was picked by Booklist as one of the 10 best crime novels of the year.
In 2008 I moved to St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia with my wife and kids and started writing full time.
I'm probably best known for my Sean Duffy books. The first Sean Duffy novel,
The Cold Cold Ground
, won the 2013 Spinetingler Award and was picked as one of the best crime novels of the year by
The Times.
The second Sean Duffy novel,
I Hear The Sirens In The Street,
won the 2014 Barry Award for best paperback original crime novel.
In The Morning I'll Be Gone
(Sean Duffy #3) won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for best novel and was picked as one of the top 10 crime novels of 2014 by the American Library Association,
The Daily Mail
The Toronto Star.
Gun Street Girl
(Duffy #4) was shortlisted for the 2016 Edgar Award, the 2015 Ned Kelly Award, The 2016 Anthony Award and was picked as one of the best books of 2015 by
The Boston Globe
and by
The Irish Times.
Sean Duffy #5,
Rain Dogs
, was a
Boston Globe
best novel of 2016 and an
Irish Times
best crime novel of the year; it won the 2017 Edgar Award in best paperback original category.
Sean Duffy #6 will be out in early 2017.
The First 3 Chapters of Sean Duffy #6, Police At T...
Sean Duffy Year Zero
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Why I Never Make Mistakes Except When I Do
Inside the Whale - George Orwell
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All Hail McKinty!
"If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland he would have written
The Cold Cold Ground
---The Times
"Hardboiled charm, evocative dialogue, an acute sense of place and a sardonic sense of humour make McKinty one of our greatest crime fiction writers."
---The Guardian
"A literary thriller that is as concerned with exploring the poisonously claustrophobic demi-monde of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and the self-sabotaging contradictions of its place and time, as it is with providing the genre's conventional thrills and spills. The result is a masterpiece of Troubles crime fiction: had David Peace, Eoin McNamee and Brian Moore sat down to brew up the great Troubles novel, they would have been very pleased indeed to have written
The Cold Cold Ground
---The Irish Times
"McKinty is a gifted man with poetry coursing through his veins and thrilling writing dripping from his fingertips."
---The Sunday Independent
"Adrian McKinty is fast gaining a reputation as the finest of the new generation of Irish crime writers, and it's easy to see why on the evidence of The Cold Cold Ground."
---The Glasgow Herald
"McKinty is a storyteller with the kind of style and panache that blur the line between genre and mainstream."
---Kirkus Reviews
"McKinty's literate expertly crafted crime novel confirms his place as one of his generation's leading talents."
---Publishers Weekly
"McKinty crackles with raw talent. His dialogue is superb, his characters rich and his plotting tight and seemless. He writes with a wonderful and wonderfully humorous flair for language raising his work above most crime genre offerings and bumping it right up against literature."
---The San Francisco Chronicle
"The first of McKinty's Forsythe novels, "Dead I Well May Be," was intense, focused and entirely brilliant. This one is looser-limbed, funnier...so, I imagine, is the middle book, "The Dead Yard," which I haven't read but which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the 12 best novels of 2006, along with works by Peter Abrahams, Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy and George Pelecanos."
---The Washington Post
"McKinty, who grew up in Northern Ireland, has an ear for language and a taste for violence, and he serves up a terrifically gory, swiftly paced thriller."
---The Miami Herald
"There's nothing like an Irish tough guy. And we're not talking about Gentleman Gerry Cooney here. No, we mean the new breed of bare-knuckle Irish writers like Adrian McKinty, Ken Bruen and John Connolly who are bringing fresh life to the crime fiction genre."
---The Philadelphia Inquirer
"McKinty's writing is dark and witty with gritty realism, spot on dialogue, and fascinating characters."
---The Chicago Sun-Times
"If you like your noir staples such as beautiful women, betrayal, murder, mixed with a heavy dose of blood, crunched bones, body parts flying around served up with some throwaway humour, you need look no further, McKinty delivers all of this with the added bonus that the writing is pitch perfect."
---The Barcelona Review
"I really enjoyed combination of toughness and a striking literary style."
---The Observer
"This is a terrific read. McKinty gives us a strong non stop story with attractive characters and fine writing."
---The Morning Star
"[McKinty] draws us close and relates a fantastic tale of murder and revenge in low, wry tones, as if from the next barstool...he drops out of conversational mode to throw in a few breathtaking fever-dream sequences for flavor. And then he springs an ending so right and satisfying it leaves us numb with delight and ready to pop for another round. Start the cliche machine: This is a profoundly satisfying book from a major new talent and one of the best crime fiction debuts of the year."
"The story is soaked in the holy trinity of the noir thriller: betrayal, money and murder, but seen through with a panache and political awareness that give McKinty a keen edge over his rivals."
---The Big Issue
"A darkly humorous cross between a hard-boiled mystery and a Beat novel."
---The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A roller coaster of highs and lows, light humour and dark deeds, the powerful undercurrent of McKinty's talent will swiftly drag you away. Let's hope the author does not slow down anytime soon."
---The Irish Examiner
"A virtual carnival of slaughter."
---The Wall Street Journal
"McKinty has once again harnassed the power of poetry, violence, lust and revenge to forge another terrific novel."
---The Irish Post
"A pacey, violent caper in which McKinty vividly portrays [Belfast's] sleazy, still-menacing underbelly."
---The Sunday Times
"McKinty writes with the soul of a poet; his prose dances off the pages with Old World grace and haunting intensity. It's crime fiction on the level of Michael Connolly with the conviction of James Hall."
---The Jackson Clarion-Ledger
"The Bloomsday Dead is the explosive final installment in a trilogy of kinetic thrillers."
---The New York Times
"McKinty's Dead Trilogy has been praised by critics, who call it "intense," "masterful" and "loaded with action." If your reading pleasure leans toward thrillers offering suspense, close calls, wry wit, sharp dialogue, local color and sudden mayhem, you wont do better."
The Sacramento Bee
"Le Fleuve caché d'Adrian McKinty impressionne par la richesse et la diversité de son ton et de son écriture, passant avec aisance du lyrisme ample de la nostalgie de l'amour perdu au rythme saccadé du narrateur sous l'emprise de l'héroïne. Ce livre rare et maîtrisé est une réussite bien digne de la Série noire."
Le Figaro
"McKinty - that guy is a friggin genius."
---Ken Bruen
"McKinty is a cross between Mickey Spillane and Damon Runyan, the toughest, the best."
---Frank McCourt
"Adrian McKinty is one of the great new crime writers emerging from Ireland."
--- Val McDermid
"McKinty is a superb writer of crime fiction."
---Ian Rankin
"McKinty is an exciting new talent."
---Ed McBain
"Daddy's book is really boring."
---Sophie McKinty (aged 5 1/2)
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