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Lips are the instant way to look party-ready. Lisa Haynes reveals how to work a statement pout.
By Lisa Haynes
Natural beauties look away now, the season of excess is upon us.
But if you prefer to leave the glitter and sparkle for the Christmas tree, then look to lipstick for a festive beauty boost.
"Lipstick provides an easy way to change your look, taking you from girl-next-door to sexy siren with just a swipe of colour," says Jemma Kidd, make-up artist and author of Jemma Kidd Make-up Secrets. "It's an instant pick-me-up."
Prime your pout for mistletoe kisses with irresistible statement lips.
Wearing it well
The power of your pout should never be underestimated - it's the main focus when we talk, laugh, drink and kiss, making lips a prime candidate for a party makeover.
"A fully made-up mouth can be the finishing touch to your look, and some women feel naked without their signature lipstick," Kidd says.
"It is probably the safest way to go bold. The rest of the face must be flawless, with minimal make-up in neutral tones so that the statement colour really stands out and you don't look overly made-up."
Take your lip size and shape into consideration when you're choosing textures and colours. Satin-finish lipsticks are flattering for most due to their creamy coverage and slight glossy finish.
"Matte colour can make a bold statement that looks stunning on fuller mouths, especially in classic Hollywood starlet red, but be careful if you are older, or if you have small/thin lips as matte finishes can look harsh and ageing," Kidd warns.
Creative colour
Unless you're working a strong eye, give the nude tones a wide birth if you want your lips to be the star attraction this Christmas.
"For the most wearable brights on the mouth, go for red, pink, purple or orange," Kidd advises.
If you have porcelain skin, stick to cool pinks and blue-toned reds. Those with olive complexions should opt for berry or plum tones, oranges and warm, orange-toned reds. If you have dark skin, Kidd recommends experimenting with rich browns, strong oranges and deep plums.
When trawling the lipstick stands in search of your perfect pout match, avoid testing on the back of your hand.
Kidd explains: "If you can, try a lipstick on your lips to test the true colour (use a cotton bud to apply), or try on your fingertip, which is closer in colour to your lips because of the concentration of blood vessels there."
Lip longevity
All that prosecco supping and mistletoe pecking calls for extra staying power during the party season. With the right preparation, you can make your lipstick last longer.
"Use a lip primer, or a dab of foundation or concealer," Kidd reveals. "After outlining your lips, apply lip liner over the whole surface to provide a smooth, even undercoat of colour and a waxy base for the lipstick to adhere to."
It's winter, so think layering. One coat of lippy isn't sufficient so apply your lipstick once, blot with a tissue and then layer on another coat. If it feels too bold, blot with your finger for a pressed-in stain effect.
Kidd recommends a light dusting of translucent powder or blusher patted on top of the lipstick for a matte finish and extra staying power.
Pigment-packed lipsticks can be drying on the lips, especially long-lasting formulas. Use a lip balm under your lipstick to avoid the dreaded cracked look.
Pout perfection
If you're ready to take the pout plunge, Jemma Kidd has these golden lipstick rules:
:: Dark colours are generally harder to wear than paler shades. They can be more draining and ageing, and you also need to be more accurate in your application as any slips will be obvious.
:: Bright lipsticks will be more flattering if you have a small mouth or thin lips.
:: When you are wearing a dramatic, bold lipstick, keep the rest of your make-up minimal.
:: If you buy a shade that turns out to be too dark or bright, blend it with another lipstick or gloss to achieve a bespoke colour that suits you perfectly.
:: Oily lipsticks, liquid glosses and stains tend to migrate beyond the lip line, so choose thicker, drier and less greasy formulas if 'bleeding' is an issue.
:: To achieve the illusion of bigger lips, use a lip liner in a colour that matches your lipstick and outline your lips just a fraction outside your natural lip line.
Tried & Tested
Lauren Taylor tames her mane with a DIY blow-dry masterclass.
Like a lot of women, my hair just won't do what I tell it to. If only there was a way to recreate that just-left-the-salon feeling at home... Now Saks are offering a blow-dry menu with the chance to learn techniques you can reuse at home, and I went to watch Saks's creative director Alison Dace demonstrate four different blow-dry techniques. First, the 'Tjuz It' tousled look was created by blow-drying the roots with a rounded brush. Using a only a splattering of mousse, the stylist worked the roots to give lift and volume. A backcombing technique was demonstrated to make sure it looks subtle and sophisticated, by not taking the comb all the way through the hair so the top layer is left straight. Next there was the 'Wrap It' technique - the stylist dries the hair flat and downwards against the scalp, using the shape of the head to wrap the hair around. Another technique was the simple, straight 'Polish It' look, and the final masterpiece was a Kate Middleton-esque 'Bounce It' style; loose curls achieved with a large barrel curling tong. The masterclass was a helpful insight into new things to try with my tresses. It's a great idea to get your stylist to talk through their techniques step-by-step - I recorded my favourite look with my smartphone. When it comes to blow-drying like a professional, a lot of it comes down to investing in a good big round brush, mousse - and lots of practice in front of the mirror.
:: A Saks blow-dry starts from £22. For information visit www.saks.co.uk
:: Request a one-to-one blow dry masterclass with your local salon. Visit www.wahanda.com/treatment/blow-dry/
Buy it now
Don't panic if you've missed out on Maison Martin Margiela's collaboration with H&M. Style up your Christmas table instead with the designer's newsprint beauty crackers. Each contains a 7ml bottle of Maison Martin Margiela's Untitled fragrance, £40 for six, available at Selfridges (www.selfridges.com).
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:: Movember map -Tache
With Movember in full swing, no doubt you've spotted a lot more men sporting moustaches than usual. The campaign, in which blokes forgo their razors for November, raises vital funds and awareness for men's health charities. But did you know the shape of a man's moustache can determine where they're from? According to a recent Debenhams survey, men in the north favour a 'trucker tash', with a full moustache that plummets straight down either side of the mouth and frames the chin, while guys in the south tend to grow the 'rock star' - a full but neat moustache with enough length at the ends for a slight flick.
Recessionista alert
Designer storage anyone? Jimmy Choo Parfums is offering a free Jimmy Choo luxury shoe case with any purchase of Jimmy Choo 60ml fragrance, from £44. Available in department stores nationwide now.


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General information
Downloads can of course be found on Python's official website http://python.org
If you're using Linux or BSD as your operation system, you'd better use your package manager to install Python unless you have a specific reason not to do so.
Which Python version should I download/install?
If you're not told to use a specific Python version by someone (teacher, supervisor, dev-team), you have to choose for yourself.
I'll focus on the official version from Python.org here, also known as CPython.
Note that there are also other implementations of Python, written in other programming languages or for different purposes, such as Jython (Python for the Java Runtime), IronPython (Python for the .NET Framework). If you have to use something other than "normal Python" (CPython because it's written in C), you would know.
Let's get back to official Python:
Currently there are two offical Python versions available: the Python 2 branch and the Python 3 branch. With the step from 2 to 3 the Python inventor Guido van Rossum aka BDFL wanted to make some changes to the design of Python. This makes some code written in Python 2 not to work anymore. A lot of 3rd party libraries (called modules in Python) do not work anymore and have to be rewritten. This takes time, but a lot of modules are already translated and work on both versions of Python. Also a bunch of tutorials are not translated yet, or will never get translated. This is NOT true for the official Python docs on Python's website. They are always up to date and availiable for both branches.
Personally I'm still working with the Python 2.7.x branch, as I'm dependant of some 3rd party modules at work.
Where can I find tutorials and other informations about?
There's a gazillion tutorials for Python out there, but some are outdated. The following list contains just a few websites I visit on a regular basis, but I don't clain that it's complete.
A good start could be Zed Shaw's website: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html#Python
His section already links to "Dive into Python" and "A Byte of Python" and some other freely available Python books.
He's also written "Learn Python the Hard way". Check it out at http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
If you want to write programs with GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces, such as Windows, Buttons, Lists, Checkboxes, ...) you might have a look at
There you can find a lot of useful tutorials for all common GUI toolkits.
Wait! Common GUI toolkits? There is more than one? What the ....
Yes. Unlike other programming languages such as Delphi, Visual Basic, C#, ... Python gives you the freedom to choose the best tools for your task. This also means, that you have to know what's available. It may seem confusing, but it's not that hard. You just have to show a little patience.
But to make a long story short: there are 4 big toolkits, you should have heard of:
- Tkinter (comes automatically with Python on Windows), crossplatform: some say it's ugly (since 8.5 it's better and has more widgets!!!), but for starting out and for small tasks I really like it. Runs on Python 2 and 3.
Helpful links:
- wxPython, crossplatform: quite popular. Uses the native GUI on each platform (WinAPI on Windows, Carbon on MacOSX and GTK on Linux/BSD). Therfore the GUI looks native on every platform. Some say it's API is 'unpythonic', but once you're used to it, it's ok to work with. However, I'm not sure what the status of wxPython on Python 3 is. wxPython has a 'tool' called 'wxPython Docs and Demos' which is powerful resource to learn from! Also, there are at least 2 books (wxPython in Action and wxPython Cookbook). The google user group is very active and the members are very helpful.
- PyQt and PySide, crossplatform: PyQt and PySide are both wrapper modules for the popular and powerful Qt lib, which is written in C++. It's not native on any platform (despite Linux/BSD, where KDE is a one of the most used desktops around and therefore native). This means: it mimics the look & feel of Windows on Windows and of Mac on Mac. It's available for Python 2 and 3 and has a lot to offer! For years only PyQt was available as wrapper for Qt and both the licenses of PyQt and Qt made it a little "unattractive". But this seems to have changed and PySide has not such a restrictive license, I guess.
As I'm not very familar with PyQt/PySide, I can't write that much about it, but maybe someone else can complete this?
- PyGTK, crossplatform: Python binding for GTK (Gimp Tool Kit). As the name already says: it's the same GUI that the GIMP uses. It's used for the GNOME and XFCE desktops. A lot of popular programs have GTK as GUI. It's only native on Linux and looks just a little odd on Windows (though I don't mind as I love GIMP and Inkscape), but rumors have it, that a lot of Mac users just can't cope with it (= don't like it). Also it seems quite hard to install on Apple computers (not the installation of PyGtk, but to get GTK running).
What else should I know?
Most of the tutorials explain it anyways, but you might want to have a decent editor, that is capable of Python.
Commonly used are: Scite, Notepad++, Textmate, Gedit, Kate, Spyder, Eric, SPE, Vim, Emacs, IDLE ...
You might have heard, that Python can be used to write games. If you want to write computer games in Python you will stumble upon Pygame. Pygame is not the only one, but the most known and most popular. Pygame is a cross platform module based on SDL. You can visit pygame.org for information and download. If you're running MS Windows, make sure that you download the correct Pygame version that fits your Python version.
E.g.: if you're running Python 2.7, 32bit make sure that you download pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.7.msi. See? py2.7 for Python 2.7 and win32 for 32bit Python version. Easy.
I'm bored and don't know which program to write!
Go to http://pythonchallenge.com/ and try it out. You'll learn a lot!
You also can visit http://projecteuler.net/, it's not Python centric, but offers a lot of tricky programming tasks (related to mathematics).
Anything else?
Python is an interpreted programming language, which means there is no compiler that translates your incode into binary machine code. However you can use py2exe or cz_freeze to pack your code with the necessary Python interpreter + modules into a separate "stand alone program".
Oh, I'm sure, there is more information! There is stackoverflow, which has a billion Python related questions, there's ActiveState's archive with Python related stuff. There are some Python related Podcasts out there.
And last but not least there is US - the memebers of http://python-forum.org.
If you get stuck, just ask and we'll try to help you!
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A design and marketing company has teamed up with an Ilkley community group whose work supports children and their families who have special needs and learning difficulties.
Having set up a new studio in Ilkley in 2013, Creative and Marketing was keen to get involved with the community group LS29.
Creative's co-founder, Daniel Belcher, said: "Becoming involved with LS29 was a fantastic opportunity. The project involves rebranding and revamping their website, plus producing some marketing. The aim is to create greater awareness and wider participation for the group.
"We would like to see more children and families find access to the support that such an organisation like LS29 can bring.
"For us it means we can engage with a locally-based charity and to provide a much-needed service as part of our social responsibility."
The new website houses the latest news and events plus the ability for parents to join the group, creating a stronger network of support.
In addition, the newly-set-up LS29 Youth Zone offers up the same kind of activities for older children of nine-plus, who still benefit from inclusion and interaction.
"We think the new brand and website will make a big difference to how LS29 is seen and in turn engender greater support," said Daniel.
Creative is also offering mentorship support to 'up and coming' designers, web developers and marketers, from young people looking to find a career in the creative industry to graduates seeking all-important studio experience.
Creative and Marketing undertake imaginative and innovative work for small businesses, large organisations and social enterprises.
They offer a free, no-obligation diagnostic review, to understand how best to contribute towards greater market share and business growth. The focus is on strategy, technology and multi-channel marketing.
Daniel added: "If this is something businesses feel they would benefit from, they can get in touch for a chat about how to make their marketing really work, which for any company is key to future success."
For more information about the support group, visit LS29.org.uk.


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Here's a set of forty one lush fur shaders for Daz Studio 3 and Poser. These shaders will let you transform plain clothing into luxurious furs, create instant second skin clothing including gloves and ugg boots, give your animal skins some help and add style, variety and depth to your renders. Furify presets range from lush mink, chinchilla, sable, marmot, red fox and mountain wolf skins to funky, silky faux furs along with several presets designed for you to add your own colour and textures. And there are lizard and crocodile skins thrown in for good measure. A mixture of DS shader mixer and more traditional tiled textures, Furify will be the most useful shader set in your runtime. We would like to thank Pendraia, Syndaryl and yacomo for their work on the DS fur shader network on which many of these presets are based.
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For dinner parties, folks often deem it necessary to fancy up the food, thus dismissing luscious, homey options in favor of something prettier for the table. In restaurants, this is an issue that pastry chefs constantly face—the pressure to present something artful, when all we really feel like having is a big fat cookie. We are constantly dreaming up ways to sell nostalgic, somewhat less-refined treats in an artful package. Here is one such treat: a pie that lovers of brownie sundaes will adore, dressed up for a more formal holiday table.
This recipe is designed to be versatile and easy to make, and the flavors and toppings can be changed to suit your needs. You start by making the foundation: a round base of rich, homemade chocolate brownie, and a disk of ice cream. For the holidays, I've added peppermint extract to the brownie batter, but you'd do equally well using vanilla extract if mint is not your thing. For my version, I topped the pie with crushed candy canes for a festive look, but any other kind of candy will do. And of course, no brownie sundae is ever complete without hot fudge (or for non-mint fans, hot caramel sauce), served artfully on the side.
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Frozen Black Bottom Peppermint Pie »
About the author: Lauren Weisenthal has logged many hours working in restaurant kitchens and bakeries of Brooklyn and Manhattan. She is a graduate of the Artisan Bread Baking and Pastry Arts programs at the French Culinary Institute and holds a CS certification from the Court of Master Sommeliers. You can follow her on Twitter at @evillagekitchen.


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THE number of drivers prosecuted for speeding in the Avon and Somerset policing area has dropped by 70% since March 2011.
The drop-off in prosecutions coincides with the date when speed cameras across the force area were switched off.
The number of people prosecuted between April 2010 and March 2011 was 160,000, compared with just 45,000 from April 2011 to March 2012.
Avon and Somerset Police says education programmes are recognised as the best way of influencing behaviour.
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Forget what your mom said about not playing with your food — we think food should be fun, and no one is better at showing how than Hedy Goldsmith, pastry chef at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami. With her new cookbook Baking Out Loud, Hedy serves up desserts that are full of fun and big on flavor.
As someone who ate their fair share of Nutter Butters, Twix bars and Hostess snack cakes growing up, I particularly appreciate her chapter on "Childhood Treats", where she re-conceives the fast, fatty junk food of her past into desserts with recognizable ingredient lists. Twinkies turn into Red Velvet Twinks (pictured above), a delicious combination of rich chocolate cake and cream cheese filling.
Hedy covers all the basics — breakfast sweets, cookies and brownies, pies and tarts, cakes, and an entire chapter dedicated to frozen desserts. She also shares recipes for two of her most famous desserts from the menu at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink — Junk in da Trunk Cookies and Banana Toffee Panini. As Hedy says, the secret ingredient to baking is passion, and it's clear in the pages of this cookbook that she has a ton of it.
Get happy by baking up one of Hedy's sweet recipes:
We're giving away three copies of Hedy Goldsmith's Baking Out Loud to three lucky winners. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post telling us what junk food from your past you'd like to see made over. Then head over to Food Network's FN Dish — they're giving away two copies of the book, too!
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A DARWEN firm which makes ties for high-profile firms including Manchester United has announced a £250,000 expansion.
Bosses at DHJ Weisters, which welcomed Mayor of London Boris Johnson during a whistle-stop tour of the town last week, expect to create three new jobs with the expansion.
The firm, in Moss Fold Road, has commandeered a new space within its Anchor Mill site and is preparing it for the arrival of two new weaving looms.
Other firms to have had ties made by the firm, which is based in Darwen and has a further site in Cheshire, include Jamie Oliver's restaurants, Jaguar, Porsche, Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool FC.
It also makes ties for institutions such as the Salvation Army and the Royal British Legion.
The firm, which turns over £4million a year, employs 65 people across its two sites, with 38 in Darwen, and can produce 35,000 ties a week when at capacity.
Operations director Gerard Knight said: "This is quite a big investment for the weaving industry. We will be able to increase tie production and it also enables us to be more energy-efficient.
"Some of the old looms are not as efficient as they used to be, so these will be a lot greener."
Mr Knight said there weren't many tie weaving companies still in business in the UK.
He said: "You don't hear many weaving mill success stories in this country any more. A lot of it is done overseas in places like China but we can cater for smaller orders and make a better quality product.
"But I think there are only three or four companies in Britain still making ties."
As well as ties, the firm makes products such as bridal fabric and badges that can be stitched on to clothes.
The weaving mill dates back as far as 1932 when German-born Godfrey Weisters started up the business.
Current managing director Duncan Weisters is the great-grandson of Godfrey, ensuring the firm has stayed in the family.


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GUELPH, ONT. -- The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will be missing one star player from their lineup but will mark the return of another when they host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers here Saturday evening.
While Hamilton slotback Andy Fantuz will miss Saturday's contest with what the club is only calling a lower-body injury, Tiger-Cats running back Chevon Walker will be in the Cats lineup for the first time this season when the 0-2 Tiger-Cats face the 1-1 Bombers.
Walker rushed for 656 yards on just 118 carries in 2012 and was gushing today about the chance to finally get to play in 2013 after losing his job in the pre-season -- thanks in large part to an injury -- to CJ Gable.
"I'm ready to play football, man. I'm ready to help my team," Walker said this afternoon during media availability at the Ticats offices in downtown Hamilton. "Yeah, I definitely feel like it's time to let loose. I definitely want to make a statement."
Walker will have a retooled Bombers defensive line with which to work. The Bombers will have Jake Thomas starting at one of their tackle positions this week in place of an injured Bryant Turner and they will also have defensive end Dexter Davis playing in place of Freddie Harris, who is a healthy scratch this week.
The Bombers have also added defensive tackle Marquis Frazier and returner Aaron Woods to their 46-man roster this week. Head coach Tim Burke said Frazier will play Saturday in a rotational role; Woods is not expected to play.
On offence, the Bombers will also start Isaac Anderson this week in place of an injured slotback Terrence Edwards.
Meanwhile, Walker isn't the only running back that's looking to make a statement in Saturday's game. Bombers tailback Chad Simpson's been held to just 90 rushing yards through two games and is hoping to have a breakout game against a Hamilton defence that is been giving up an average of 9.0 yards per carry, by far the worst in the CFL, this season.
Simpson was asked during a media availability this afternoon shortly after the Bombers arrived here at their downtown hotel whether he's salivating at the chance to run against the porous Hamilton defence.
"You can't go in thinking like that because you might be the game they get it right on," said Simpson. "I'm just approaching them like every other team. But with that being said, I also feel against every team like I will do good against them."


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The biggest ever anti-poverty movement came together under the banner of MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in 2005. Great steps forward were made, but the fight against poverty continues.
Trade Justice
Rich countries are blocking a global trade system that would help make poverty history. This injustice will only be changed if enough citizens across the world call on rich country governments to change their trade policies, for example at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
We need to stop people's lives being destroyed because of unfair trade laws - and you can help make that happen. Be part of the call for just and fair world trade. Take action with the member organisations of the Trade Justice Movement, the coalition continuing the campaign for trade justice.
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Already, public pressure has forced rich countries to cancel some poor country debts. The progress seen on debt in recent years is down to people like you. Gordon Brown acknowledged that the G8 made further concessions in 2005 because campaigners had made debt "a crucial public issue".
But there is much more to do to end the scandal of poor countries paying money to the rich world. To find out how you can help bring about 100% cancellation of unpayable and unfair poor country debts, visit the website of Jubilee Debt Campaign.
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text: To some extent, director Nicholas Ray was a typical Hollywood studio hand, making Westerns when called upon to make Westerns, helming domestic melodramas when those were in fashion, and so on. But Ray's films were tougher than most, and often more honest. He was drawn to material that kicked off the soft blankets separating genre-driven plots from their chilly psychological origins, and he illustrated them by keeping the stories uncomplicated and the images uncluttered, while applying the opposite approach to the characters. In the brittle 1950 Hollywood noir In A Lonely Place and the human-scaled 1961 Jesus biopic King Of Kings–both newly available on DVD with sharp transfers and scant bonus features–Ray cuts to the marrow, exposing the existential dread and gaudy displays of power that have always been in the bones of these kinds of stories. In A Lonely Place may be Ray's masterpiece: It's a witty and often excruciatingly bleak portrait of a likable loser who gradually reveals the full extent of his occasional dark moods. Humphrey Bogart plays a struggling, smart-alecky screenwriter who takes on a hack adaptation job and becomes a murder suspect when the woman he hires to help him turns up dead. Bogart investigates the crime himself, in part to get the police off his back, in part to impress pretty neighbor Gloria Grahame, and in part because he knows his own temper and tendency to drink, and he's not entirely convinced that he didn't commit the crime. As L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile director Curtis Hanson points out during a 20-minute appreciation featurette on the DVD, Bogart remains a sympathetic character right up to the moment when he loses it and becomes a physically repulsive, sweaty brute. King Of Kings doesn't overtly indulge such character switch-ups, because '60s theatergoers probably wouldn't have appreciated a conflicted, morally inconsistent Jesus. So Ray and screenwriter Philip Yordan balance Jeffrey Hunter's kindly, passive portrayal of the Messiah with extensive subplots. The contrast comes from supporting players, especially Harry Guardino's Jewish revolutionary Barabbas, who offers a direct, violent alternative to Jesus' you-have-to-lose-to-win philosophy. Ray's heart doesn't seem to be in the big battle scenes or the shots with teeming fields of extras, and the movie suffers somewhat from listless epic-bloat. What saves King Of Kings, and what marks it as a clear inspiration for Martin Scorsese's low-budget The Last Temptation Of Christ 25 years later, is Ray's inventive and pointedly unspectacular recounting of the most memorable parts of Jesus' story. Most of the miracles aren't shown, just recounted in a dry government report, while the moment when the rabble choose to release the violent Barabbas rather then the humble Jesus takes place offscreen. The high point of the film is Christ's trial, which features two Romans abstractly debating his guilt while he watches, silent and impenetrable. The movie repeatedly contemplates the manipulation and meaning of power, as the Romans and the Jews look for wealth and control, but can't seem to find or understand what they really want. That's a typical preoccupation for Ray, who often risked unnerving his audience by giving them people to identify with, then illustrating how they, and we, are all screwed up.


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It was to be a one-off, free weekend of outdoor music at Birds Hill Park to help celebrate Winnipeg's 100th anniversary.
Bruce Cockburn would be there with his "warm blend" of folk, jazz and blues, as would Sylvia Tyson with her "bristling vitality," along with neo-vaudeville crooner Leon Redbone and 50 or so other folk musicians from around the world.
Winnipeg's Centennial Folk Festival, billed as the largest event of its kind ever held in Western Canada, was designed to appeal to all ages and musical tastes.
"This weekend you can hear music of the Southern Appalachians, of the Canadian Prairies, of the New Orleans Honky Tonks, of the Big Cities, of the Irish revolutionaries, of the east coast fisherman, of farmers and hoboes, rich men and fools and of many of the people that make this world what it is," co-directors Mitch Podolak and Colin Gorrie wrote in the festival program.
That little hootenanny -- which drew a reported 22,000 fans over three days -- of course, grew up to become the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Now one of the largest outdoor music festivals in North America, in 2011 it attracted a record paid attendance of 59,324 visitors.
"People getting off on music, mellow Manitoba sunsets and other people," was how a Winnipeg Free Press reporter described the inaugural event on Aug. 12, 1974.
Some things haven't changed.
But when Tyson and Redbone return to Birds Hill Park this year (July 10-14) to help the Winnipeg Folk Festival celebrate its 40th birthday, they'll be joined by 70 or so bands and singer-songwriters from as far away as Belize and Mali.
And let's just say the "folk" umbrella has expanded into a colourful, multicultural canopy encompassing everything from bluegrass, blues and gospel to funk, Sufi electronica and sci-fi folk.
"That's definitely a genre that didn't exist in the early days of the festival," artistic director Chris Frayer says of the latter. Patrick Watson, a Quebec musician whose band is famous for using unusual objects (like bottles, bicycles and spoons) to make music, plays the mainstage this year, as does Australian ska and jazz band the Cat Empire.
"It used to be singer-songwriter protest songs," says Frayer. "A lot of the world music wouldn't have been at the festival for a long time. But as our country has become older, our immigrant community has become older, too. We have a lot of music that we used to have to bring into the country right in the country,"
In addition to featuring artists from Denmark, Mexico, England, Africa, Australia and all across North America, this year's folk festival will also see Belize, Honduras and Iran represented for the first time. World music aficionados can groove to Danny Michel & The Garifuna Collective, Aurelio & The Garifuna Soul Band, and Niyaz Omara "Bombino" Moctar, a young Tuareg musician and songwriter from the sub-Saharan country of Mali, will also bring his electrifying, Jimi Hendrix-infused guitar wizardry to the Manitoba forest.
But being the 40th anniversary, the Winnipeg Folk Fest's 2013 lineup will pay homage to its acoustic, singer-songwriter "folkie" roots and trace its evolution over the decades.
Frayer, a self-described "festival brat," who hasn't missed the Birds Hill event since 1984 -- he's been at the artistic helm since 2004 -- says one of his working themes when putting together this year's lineup was "connecting generations."
"We've been looking for ways to tie the festival back to its early days and trying to represent every decade of the festival through the program," he says.
Canadian folksinger Sylvia Tyson, folk ensemble Stringband and Pennsylvania jazz-ragtime-blues singer Leon Redbone have the '70s covered. Winnipeg poet, raconteur and frequent host Peter Paul Van Camp is even coming out of retirement just to help the festival celebrate its big 4-0, Frayer says.
American master instrumentalist David Lindley and folk-rock duo Indigo Girls, meanwhile, are a nod to the '80s.
Other singer-songwriters, acclaimed and obscure alike, include Dan Bern, David Francey, Hayes Carll, Jason Collett, Martin Sexton, Rose Cousins, Serena Ryder, the Avett Brothers, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Flatlanders (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock), Whitehorse and Xavier Rudd.
Blues, funk and soul fans will get their fix courtesy of Dr. John & The Nite Trippers, Ken Whiteley & The Levy Sisters and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
Manitoba artists will be represented by Del Barber, Oh My Darling, Madam Diva, Seanster and the Monsters, the Magnificent 7s, and the JD Edwards Band.
Then there are the artists who grew up musically at the festival, such as Rudd and Ryder.
"They started when they were smaller, unknown acts and they've grown in to headliners," Frayer says. "That's one thing we pride ourselves on; we develop our own headliners within our own festival culture."
The 2013 lineup is about 95 per cent complete, he says. And as much as it's a retrospective of where the festival has been, it also reflects the ongoing mission to bring lots of new artists through the door.
Many of them are young musicians armed with guitars, banjos, mandolins and an old-time sound.
"A lot of folk music is definitely having a revival," Frayer says. Frank Fairfield, for example, hails from Los Angeles and is in his late 20s but plays old-fashioned "hillbilly" music and wears tweeds and grandpa shirts and uses hair oil.
For the Winnipeg Folk Festival's full 2013 lineup, go to www.winnipegfolkfest.ca
1974 main stage acts:
Eagle Creek Band, Liam Clancy, Eric & Martha Nagler, John Allen Cameron, Bruce Cockburn, Stringband, Allan Mills, Jean Carignan, Booker White, Michael Cooney, Humphrey & the Dumptrucks, Mike Seeger, Oscar Brand, Lou Killen, Murray McLauchlan, Rick Neufeld, Tommy Makem, Sylvia Tyson, Fraser & Debolt, John Hammond, Ryan's Fancy, Angel Arsonault, Raffi, Shirley Eikhard, Roosevelt Sykes, Leon Redbone, Mimi Farina, David Rea, Original Sloth Band, Len Udow
2013 main stage acts:
Wednesday: Oh My Darling, the Avett Brothers, City and Colour
Thursday: Sara Watkins, Indigo Girls, Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band, Serena Ryder, Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists)
Friday: Nathan Rogers sings Stan: The Rogers Legacy Continues, Lindi Ortega, Danny Michel & The Garifuna Collective, Patrick Watson, the Cat Empire
Saturday: Habadekuk, Whitehorse, Martin Sexton, Dr. John & The Nite Trippers, Galactic
Sunday: The Blind Boys of Alabama, the Flatlanders, Xavier Rudd
Early-bird tickets for the Winnipeg Folk Festival (July 10-14) go on sale today at 11 a.m. at the Folk Festival Music Store or through Ticketmaster, 1-888-655-5354 or online at Ticketmaster.ca. Limit of four per person. The price of a five-day pass has increased this year by $9, to $215 for adults, $125 for youth/senior and $13 for children ages five to 14.
New this year is the five-day share pack ($275 for adults, $200 for youth/senior and $13 for children), which contains one ticket for each day. It's a $60 saving over buying individual day tickets.
Day tickets are $55/$40/$5 for Wednesday and Thursday and $75/$55/$8 for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices go up on May 1.


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In the Romanian Diocese of Timisoara, the Church faces major challenges. With the collapse of communism around the year 1990, the majority of the ethnic German inhabitants living here left the region and emigrated to Germany or Austria. As a result, many parishes were left empty and many had to be closed. Yet those who remain behind still retain a very strong bond with the Church. Today, some 120,000 Catholics still live in this region, but the parishes are scattered across a wide area. The 80 priests who minister to these Catholics have to travel a great deal to celebrate Holy Mass in the various towns and villages. Since there is little in the way of public transport, it is difficult for most of the Catholic faithful to reach another church if there is no Holy Mass in their own home town. As a result, every priest celebrates Holy Mass between three and four times each Sunday.For the Catholic faithful, the greatest event of the year is the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Maria Radna, where Our Lady of Mount Carmel is venerated. This pilgrimage has been documented for the past 300 years. In fact, throughout the summer, from the Feast of the Ascension until the Feast of the Holy Rosary on October 7, a succession of pilgrimages takes place. "Every parish has its own day of pilgrimage," reports Bishop Roos, adding, "The pilgrimage to Maria Radna is the high point of the year for the faithful. They experience the communion of the faithful and return strengthened to their parishes."Since 1990, various Protestant sects from America have been coming to Romania, too, but the people in this region tend to be resistant towards them. "The people will not abandon their community," says the bishop. There is no doubt that the veneration of Our Lady plays a great role in this.Will you help ACN contribute $9,800 towards the renovation of the Shrine of Maria Radna in Romania?Aid to the Church in Need commits to invest your funds where they will have the greatest impact for the Church that we serve. Funds donated to Aid to the Church in Need's projects will be used towards the greatest need in our programs to help keep the Faith alive.
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PJ Salvage Vintage Romance Stripe Lounge Set
The only thing harder to mend than a heart broken by a boy is a heart broken by the fashion world. Poor little Victory Ford - no matter how heartbroken she was, she still managed to look adorable in a similar pair of striped pajama pants. Lounging around the apartment never looked so cute.


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American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin made Winter Olympics history by becoming the youngest slalom gold medal winner at Rosa Khutor Alpine Center.
The 18-year-old from Colorado was the favourite heading into the event after topping the podium at last year's World Championship in Schladming and was the overall World Cup champion.
She proved she could shine on the grandest stage on Friday with an opening run that left her nearly half a second clear of the rest of the field.
Shiffrin, who finished fifth in the giant slalom earlier this week, set off second time around with a healthy 1.34second advantage over second-placed Marlies Schild, and although she nearly fell halfway through her run, she held her nerve to move into the record books.
An overall time of one minute 44.54 seconds was enough to secure victory by 0.53secs ahead of silver medallist Schild, whose fellow Austrian Kathrin Zettel claimed bronze.
"It is tough to describe my feelings. This has been a dream of mine for a very long time," Shiffrin said after breaking Paoletta Magoni-Sforza's record for the youngest Olympics slalom winner.
Ukraine stormed to an emotional gold in the women's 4x6km team biathlon, finishing 26.4 seconds ahead of nearest challengers Russia.
Olena Pidhrushna, on the anchor leg for Ukraine, hit every target in the final shoot to race clear of Russia's Olga Vilukhina down the stretch.
Norway came home in bronze medal position, 37.6 seconds behind the Ukrainians.
The Ukrainian quartet of Vita Semerenko, Juliya Dzhyma, Valj Semerenko and Pidhrushna had led the field from the end of the second leg, when Dzhyma overtook Olga Zaitseva after the Russian made a costly mistake in her standing shoot.
Neither Valj Semerenko nor Pidhrushna surrendered the lead over the final 12km as the team secured Ukraine's first gold in Sochi in what was an emotional victory following the recent deadly protests in Kiev.
"Before the race people wrote us many messages and wishes, waiting for victory," Pidhrushna said.
"Until the very last moment, even this morning I read my emails, saying like 'girls, start and win for us all, for Ukraine'. We are so happy that the people of Ukraine are happy back home and that something good happened for our country."
Canada were crowned men's curling champions following a comprehensive 9-3 defeat of Great Britain in the final.
Brad Jacobs' rink led 6-2 after five ends and continued to add the points until David Murdoch's British team called it a day at the end of the ninth.
Sweden won a dramatic bronze-medal play-off against China 6-4 after an extra end, in a match which saw the Asians penalised for two technical violations.
Marielle Thompson underlined her status as favourite for the women's ski cross by taking gold at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
The 21-year-old Canadian capped a fantastic season, that has seen her secure two wins and four podiums from seven World Cup races, by topping the standings in Sochi with a deserved victory, where she came first in all four of her races on Friday.
Compatriot Kelsey Serwa was on Thompson's heels for the entirety of the final but had to settle for silver, while Sweden's Anna Holmlund took bronze.
In the short track, Victor An skated off with two gold medals as Russia enjoyed a bumper night in the Iceberg Skating Palace.
An claimed his first victory in the men's 500 metres final, seeing off competition from China's Wu Dajing and Canadian Charle Cournoyer.
The South Korean-born skater then helped Russia take gold in the men's 5000m relay, joining up with Semen Elistratov, Vladimir Grigorev and Ruslan Zhakarov in beating the United States and China.
The success marked An's third gold medal of the Games.
South Korea's Park Seung-Hi secured gold in the women's 100m final, ahead of China's Fan Kexin and compatriot Shim Suk Hee.


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Mass Effect 3 - How Would You Have Ended It? (Spoilers abound obviously!)
I'm aware there's a massive thread on Mass Effect 3's ending but I'm hoping to ask a different question that what was good/terrible about it. I apologise if this sort of ground has already been covered but aforementioned massive thread is indeed massive and I fear reading it all may have a horrible effect on me!
So rather than bash/defend the ending I'd like to ask the question; what would you, dear RPS reader, have done differently?
Having already said that I didn't want to go into what worked and what didn't I'm going to do so myself, if only to frame how I'd do it differently. I shall try to be brief!
Bleakness - I thought ME2 suffered from a lack of it and was glad Bioware had the balls to be bleak this time. It's fighting against insurmountable odds, if destroying the Mass Relays causes a massive loss of life but leads to survival then, well, that's the way it would have to be.
Self sacrifice - It could be seen a mile off but it's fitting.
Desperate last throw of the dice feel - nailed it I reckon.
War Assets - Tied to an aribtrary number rather than having some sort of effect related to what assets you had/didn't seemed to render the whole thing a bit moot in my book. A shame after how well ME2 handled that sort of thing, I wasn't expecting control of troop placements or anything (that's a job for the Admirals) but I wanted to see something tangible.
Ancient race zooms in at the last 5 minutes to offer choice - just no. Always such a disappointing way to end a sci-fi saga. The reapers were fine as a mysterious threat without having to find out what their purpose was.
Ending that makes no sense considering character's actions in game - The control ending ranks up their with Deus Ex: Invisible War's templar endings. It just makes no sense joining what you have unequivocally shown no sympathy for throughout the entire game.
How I Would Have Done It
So on to the meat of it. What would I have done? Well, the problem of war assets is an easy one to solve. Just needs some more cutscenes showing parts of the battle going well/badly depending on your assets. If you go into the final battle with very little fleet support there could be a super bleak ending of the crucible getting destroyed en route. Not enough assets working on the cruible could result in it not working effectively come the final decision. Plus I'd have liked to have seen/read reports of the battle for the Citadel. Have evacuation from the citadel be effective/disastorous depending on the strength of the Citadel defense force (it seemed like a completely wasted effort doing all the side missions related to that!).
So that just leaves tidying up the narrative. Obviously you need someone to explain the choices at the end instead of "the catalyst" and who better than arch-nemisis The Illusive Man. It's implied throughout the game he knows something more about the reapers than he lets on to you so he seems the perfect foil (especially given his indoctrinated state) to serve up a destroy/control choice. This obviously ditches the synthesis ending, no great loss in my mind as the theme of synthetic vs organic was explored well enough in the Quarian/Geth part of the game. Obviously to make this an actual choice you'd have to give Shepard the potential to be more sympathetic towards it througout the game (suggest that controlling the reapers may not be such a bad idea but the Illusive Man isn't the one to do it/has the wrong methods) so that it actually makes sense as a choice (to me it was the ending I wanted to choose but couldn't as it just didn't make sense as I'd been shoehorned into arguing against it throughout the entire game). Then just alter the Illusive man showdown to have him explain that the Crucible can either be used to control/destroy the Reapers and that he was the one to control them, you talking him down/killing him (whatever suits your Shep) due to his indoctrination and then making the choice yourself.
From then on I'd have the endings follow very similar paths, with the destroy ending resulting in Shepard's self sacrifice (the Crucible would fall apart after firing) and the control ending resulting on Shepard having to remain locked into the Crucible, lest the reapers start doing their own thing. To make it a tough choice I'd have the illusive man try and sell the control ending by suggesting how Shepard could use the reapers to prevent the races from getting out of line and keep the peace etc. So it would essentially become a choice between heroic self sacrifice, leaving the galaxy to it's fate and own free will or staying alive and having the chance to influence things for the better; which I think is perhaps a more interesting thing to consider than what was offered up by the actual endings plus perhaps helps to offset the bleakness of the destruction of the mass relays a bit more (much as I liked the bleakness I thought the unsatisfactory consequences of a lot of the endings just compounded it a bit too much).
Then I'd cut to scenes of whichever friends survived (which would be closely tied to success with war assets) contemplating victory.
It's not perfect and wouldn't please everyone, such is the way of endings, but for me it would deal with a lot of the problems with the endings, while making only minimal changes to the rest of the game, which was pretty damn excellent (my favourite bit being walking in on Garrus and Tali engaged in some romantic action before the final mission!).
So if you could make your own ending to Mass Effect 3 what would it be? Would you only make minor changes, or would you ditch the whole thing in favour of singalong number with dancing leprechauns? Let your thoughts be known.
The instant it added precursors it pretty much had its ending.
Precursors are revealed to have created mankind, they are revealed to be slavers/exterminators of life, then they come back and are either a) destroyed in a hilarously anticlimatic way or b) a lantern jawed hero joins them and becomes their ruler.
Precursors are rapidly becoming the magic sword/lost prince of sci-fi. So predictable you can only hope their inclusion is somehow ironic or post modern. Of course it's Bioware so they played it straight.
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This ending happens regardless of paragon/renegade or readiness.
Scene: Shepard on the Citadel. Cut to Shepard drinking with Anderson.
Anderson: I'm amazed we managed to pull it off, especially after all the trouble we went through before now.
Shepard: Yeah. I'm just glad it's over. Hey, I wonder what happens to people that were indoctrinated now that the Reapers are gone for good?
Anderson: I was wondering the same thing. I guess we shouldn't worry about it too much, without the Reapers controlling their thoughts, they'll probably all just go back to normal.
Shepard: No I must stop the Reapers!
Anderson: No Shepard, you are indoctrinated.
And then Shepard was back on the Crucible but with a robot face. Also a fourth option to kill god child. Like that's all that ending does.
All I wanted in the ending was some sort of squad decisions like ME2, but in a more awesome way.
Imagine a part where you had to pick a sniper to cover you (Obv Garrus) and you were talking to him whilst you covered you. Also seeing other squad mates fighting in the distance and completing other objectives.
Just an expansion on the choose characters to help you (IE using a biotic barrier in ME2). That's all I wanted. Just that...
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That makes a lot of sense when you consider that since this is supposed to be the finale, they can go right ahead and kill everyone in your party.
Except they can't, because downloadable content.
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In short, my ideal ME3 ending would focus on closure and the result of your choices during the series, and leave out all the sudden plot twists and wild speculation bombs. The ending is as bleak or happy as your decisions would make it.
In more detail:
- Scrap the majority of the ending as it is now in terms of the plot; no exploding relays etc, no starchilds, no sudden plot twists. The general gist could be kept intact (Shepard fights through London to reach the Reaper-destroying McGuffin). The only plot-relevant encounter that's kept is the TIM encounter, even if in a changed location if necessary.
- Have your gathered war assets show up during the final fight in London. Whoever decided to aid you in knocking down the Reapers would be there, doing their thing as Shepard's assault squad makes its way through the warzone.
- Have your whole party involved in a similar way to ME2's suicide mission, including the variables and possibility to die/fail.
- War assets directly determine the extent of losses against the Reapers during the battle, and thus the main mood of the ending: very minimum asset run would end with the Reapers winning, maximum asset run would end with a victory with 'minimal' losses, some grades in-between the extremes.
- Have Shep fight against/encounter the Harbinger in some manner, whether as a boss battle, a dialogue encounter or as a major element during some part of the London assault. Harbinger's the closest thing to the face of the Reaper forces and he/it has already established a relationship of sorts with Shepard during the last two games - having the two meet for the last time (in a better way than quick laser beam you don't even know is shot by Harbinger until you read about it online) would only feel right. Have closure in that part as well.
- No random plot twist at the end, no last-minute major choice that completely overthrows everything you've done. If the Mass Effect series has always been about choices, then let the conclusion of the final game be the result of everything you've chosen throughout the three games. There's no need for a sudden gamechanging twist at the very end, especially since it just pulls off the carpet out of everything you've done so far. Whether the ending is bleak, happy or bittersweet should be the result of how you've played the entire series, not because of a dialogue option two minutes before the credits. And you don't need the Reapers to have some grand special role in the world that suddenly makes them necessary. The series is a grand space opera, let's just have a straight-up galaxy-eating big bad we need to beat because it actually works far better for the setting than any special twist motivation.
- Fallout-esque account on the aftermath of your actions regarding major characters and the races of the galaxy. Did the Krogan start conquering the galaxy again? Did the quarians and geth reunite fully? Did the asari ever recover from the destruction of their civilisation? If my squadmates survived, how did they continue on their lives? Etc etc. If we fought for the future of the galaxy and thought hard about the choices regarding it, then I do want to know what went on afterwards.
- I personally have no opinion on whether Shepard should live or die in the ending, either way works for me. That was never a bugbear for me.
- Bonus change: include a more suitable Faunts song in the credits. Das Malefitz is swell but it it isn't epic/ending-y enough.
And no, I don't expect the ending DLC to include any of this. What's happened happened, this is my ideal fantasy ending.
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My Paragon ending would've involved Shepard just putting on a helmet, jumping into space, punching Harbinger in the face and then rodeo ride him against the other reapers. Once destroyed. Shepard would ride Harbinger into the sun.
The Renegade ending would be the same but Shepard also wears a cowboy hat.
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I like the majority of that (particularly the War Assets/involving the whole party) with perhaps the exception perhaps of the epilogue bit. I've never been a massive fan of that sort of thing to be honest. While in your style of ending i'd definitely like to see which of my squadmates survived but as to their futures and to things like the whether the Krogan start making a nuisance of themselves I'd rather not have it spelt out in a "some time later" epilogue. It's enough that I'm aware of these questions, answering them doesn't feel like something that should be part of the story.
But that's just my personal dislike of "sometime later" epilogues, which annoy me even more in games than books as I feel that they have been taken out of my hands.
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Yeah, that's just matters of personal taste colliding - I've always been a fan of that sort of "sometime later" epilogues myself!Give me [url=http://steamcommunity.com/id/flintgf]steam[/url] and how you feel to make it real.
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Shepard wakes up on Eden Prime realising the whole thing was a dream after the first beacon exploded,
I quite liked Drew Kershaws intended ending I really would like to know why they didn't stick to that seeing as it actually answered some of the questions from the Mass Effect 2 and tied back to previous mysteries.
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The catalyst would not have been the citadel, the VI on the cerberus would have owned up to lying to cerberus despite apparently being hacked because he leaned on translation errors to 'not objectively being a lie'.
The reapers take the citadel to earth and camp out. Then 3 or so totally divergent missions would be suggested from a possible set of 12 based on the state of the galaxy from your endevours.
Each would lead to totally divergent final choices, maybe you sod the catalyst and drive the crucible into a small sun to kickstart it. Maybe you realise the reapers ai is transmitted from the real reapers who exist beyond the gates which you detonate. Maybe you perform an operation to set yourself or the Geth as the AI or edi in command of the crucible and bypass the need for the catalyst.
12 endings with a half dozen variants.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Simply put, don't bother explaining the Reapers. Leave them as old and mysterious. Have Shepard making a final slog to activate the catalyst with Harbinger demanding she stop. Have him leave a final warning that the Reapers are the organics' salvation, that there is a bigger picture she is missing.
Catalyst is activated. Reapers are not destroyed, simply deactivated. Back on Earth, there is celebration tinged with uncertainly against a backdrop of huge, dead Reapers. Galaxy saved... but who knows what is to come?
Or something else entirely. I'm not too bothered The main thing is, don't end with the phrase 'the created will always destroy the creators', because that really fucked things up for everyone
My ending would have been:
- War Assets determine the ending; if significant assets then ending is good, if piss-poor there's nobody left to enjoy the victory
- No explanation for the presence of the Reapers, or their motivation, they remain enigmatic
- Crucible is a superweapon, like we were led to believe all along
- Epic fight against Reaper agents on the Citadel/Crucible in the style of the ME2 suicide mission
- Shepard dies in the end, no exceptions, no sequels
Alternatively, go back with the original Dark Energy idea.
With all that said though, I can sort of understand why the War Assets weren't more important: everyone was bitching about needing to fill the bar up (particularly with MP) to get the "best" ending. You can't complain that the bar wasn't important enough and complain that the bar is too important. Also the original ending wouldn't have changed the fact that most of your decisions channel into the War Assets bar, not a sequence of cutscenes at the end. It seems clear to me that the final ending was always going to focus on Shepard alone, sort of a "Squad got me this far, now it's all up to me" sort of thing.
I would have ended it exactly like it ended, only to piss people off even more, rather than having the credits and post script I would have scripted an extra line of nonsense dialogue and had the game blue screen mid-line, forcing you to restart your machine (which would be my homage to the final episode of the "Sopranos"--which I thought was awesome).
Either that or I'd have cmdr shepherd transport to the Citadel only to discover that the head reaper looks exactly like Jon Hamm and the only way they can save the galaxy is via hot man on man action (so, yeah, in this version the ending would basically just be like a 20 minute gay hentai game, complete with "Indigo Prophecy-esque" thrusting quicktime sequences and everything. It would be awesome, not the least because it would piss off all the people who whine about gay characters in Bioware games).
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I would have been perfectly fine with an epic (EPIC) space-kitsch ending, especially if you made all the "right"/"best" decisions during the game.
You know, that moment in a movie when a lines are crossed and everyone becomes an utter badass no matter how whiny they were before. Liara wrecking havoc, Legion descending with his Alpha Buddies in the midst of the enemies etc. etc.Play ArmA with us. (Competence not required.)
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I kind of think the entire 3rd act suffered a bit and needed to be reworked as a whole.
Firstly I'd of avoided the false fight with Kai Leng. I'd rather it were a case you got there and either were too late, or there's a cutscene intervention that explains Cerberus seizing the data rather than pulling the rug under you with that no win fight.
Secondly with the attack on earth and the battle I'd of made a bigger deal in terms of seeing and experiencing the payoffs of your various decisions both in terms of the orbital battle, but also on the ground. I can't say I cared that much for the last words stuff to your companions right in the midst of the battle. It felt a little too jarring to be doing that whilst every second is costing ships and lives. I'd of happily dropped that entirely.
Casualties. I don't think anyone in the final stretch needs to be sacred (not even LI). I'd go so far to say that in the worst of endings (dependent on EMS and other factors) you might witness the Normandy get carved up as easily as those shuttles during the escape from Earth at the very beginning of the assault. Just watching your ship and it's crew (aside from the away team) just get taken out abruptly would be a great shock to the system moment. Sure you could have a few likely escape on life boats. But the idea that they're with you in the fight one second and then space debris the next would be huge OMFG moment.
Finally I'd of excised the entire god child element. I'd of had the ending be the confrontation with TIM, however I'd of built it up more in terms of the getting there (I was expecting something akin to the citadel assault in ME1 tbh) with Anderson being your squad mate (echoing the beginning of the game) and have the whole encounter play off in relation to to how little/how much credit you'd given cerberus. In fact it might well be that mad as he may have become TIM can bend the reapers to his will (a nice visual demonstration of that would be a good jawdropper maybe crashing two of them into each other), alternatively he's just become a sock puppet for Harbinger. No crazy boss fight, just you either going Rayland Givens on him or talking his into seeing the error of his ways.
Definitely remove that awkard 'I was born in London you know' like from Anderson (whom are they trying to kid Keith David?). Also no explaining the Reapers (we don't need to know their exact motivations). Though an appearance by Harbinger either through TIM or projection, outlining the necessity for the Reapers to continue their harvest in order to combat the 'Dark energy' and thus trying things back to the original plot line wouldn't go amiss. Press button & omit wave that disabled Reapers shields and guns and leaves them helpless to the firepower of the fleet. Much destruction. Shepard standing there clutching his/her gut wound watching it all play out. Cut to black. End credits.


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Culver, B.P., Savas, J.N., Park, S.K., Choi, J.H., Zheng, S., Zeitlin, S.O., Yates, J.R., and Tanese, N.
Notes: These authors analyzed and compared affinity-purified protein complexes from brain homogenates of wild type and huntingtin (Htt) mutant mice by mass spectrometry. Brain tissue from FLAG-tagged wild-type and Htt mice was homogenized in HEPES buffer supplemented with protease inhibitors and RNasin®. After affinity purification, protein complexes were digested using Sequencing-Grade Modified Trypsin and ProteaseMAX™ Trypsin Enhancer prior to mass-spectrometry analysis. (4227)
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Erlendsson, L.S., Muench, M.O., Hellman, U., Hrafnkelsdóttir, S.M., Jonsson, A., Balmer, Y., Mäntylä, E. and Orvar, B.L.
Notes: The authors explore barley (Hordeum vulgare) as a means of expressing recombinant human Flt3 ligand, which is a growth factor involved in proliferation and differentiation of stem cells and development of various immune cells. As part of their quality control, they performed in-gel proteolytic digestion and mass spectrometry. The recombinant Flt3 ligand was analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, followed by Coomassie® blue staining, excision of the protein band, destaining, drying of the gel slice and digestion with Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin at 30°C overnight prior to mass spectrometry. To test biological activity, the authors treated human acute myeloid leukemia cells with Flt3 expressed in barley or a commercial source of Flt3 then measured cell proliferation using the CellTiter 96® AQueous One Solution Cell Proliferation Assay. (4352)
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Maloney, A., Clarke, P.A., Naaby-Hansen, S., Stein, R., Koopman, J.O., Akpan, A., Yang, A., Zvelebil, M., Cramer, R., Stimson, L., Aherne, W., Banerji, U., Judson, I., Sharp, S., Powers, M., Debilly, E., Salmons, J., Walton, M., Burlingame, A., Waterfield, M. and Workman, P.
Notes: For protein expression profiling of cancer cells treated with 17-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17AAG), a compound with known antitumor activity, lysates were prepared from A2780 cells, a human ovarian adenocarcinoma cell line, and subjected to two-dimensional protein analysis. The spots that varied in intensity in 17AAG-treated cells when compared to control cells were excised and the protein gel slice was reduced, alkylated and in-gel digested using Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin. (3601)
Breen, E.P., Gouin, S.G., Murphy, A.F., Haines, L.R., Jackson, A.M., Pearson, T.W., Murphy, P.V. and Porter, R.K.
Notes: Native uncoupling protein 1 (UCP 1) was purified from rat mitochondria by hydroxyapatite chromatography, separated by SDS-PAGE and the band stained with Coomassie® Brilliant Blue G-250. The 30–33kDa UCP 1 band was excised, destained, dehydrated, reduced and alkylated. The protein was then digested overnight with 40µl of 20ng/µl Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin. The resulting peptides were extracted and analyzed by mass spectrometry. (3331)
Vessal, M., Mishra, S., Moulik, S. and Murphy, L.J.
Notes: Prohibitin (PHB-1) is a multifunctional protein that is located in the mitochondria and plasma membrane and is secreted by adipocytes. Previously PHB-1 was shown to function as a chaperone protein for newly made subunits of mitochondrial respiratory enzymes. This paper describes a role for exogenous PHB-1 in the modulation of insulin-stimulated glucose and fatty acid oxidation. To identify PHB-1 binding partners, His-tagged PHB-1 was incubated with adipocytes. Membranes were solubilized and proteins separated by electrophoresis. Silver-stained bands were excised and destained before treatment with sequencing grade Trypsin. The tryptic peptides were analyzed by HPLC and Mass Spectrometry. (3634)
Jacobs, M.E., DeSouza, L.V., Samaranayake, H., Pearlman, R.E., Siu, K.W., and Klobutcher, L.A.
Notes: The authors wanted to learn more about the proteins that comprise the Tetrahymenaphagosome proteome. Proteins were isolated from phagosome preparations, denatured by adding 5mM dithiothreitol and heating to 60°C for 1 hour. The samples were cooled to room temperature and alkylated by incubation with 10mM iodoacetamide for 1 hour protected from light. Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin, at a 1:20 concentration (wt/wt) with an equal volume of 50mM ammonium bicarbonate, was added to the sample and incubated overnight at 37°C. Each sample was analyzed by two-dimensional liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Whole-cell Tetrahymena DNA was isolated using the Wizard® Genomic DNA Purification Kit protocol for isolating genomic DNA from plant tissue omitting the use of liquid nitrogen with mortar and pestle. The isolated DNA was then used for restriction digestion, ligation and sequencing. (3680)
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Moss, C.X., Matthews, S.P., Lamont, D.J., and Watts, C.
Notes: The authors used tetanus toxin C fragment (TTCF) antigen as a model to show that asparagine deamidation interferes with processing by asparagine endopeptidase (AEP) and can influence antigen presentation in T cells. The level of iso-aspartic acid, a product of Asn deamidation, in aged TTCF was quantitated using the IsoQuant® Isoaspartate Detection Kit. Asn deamidation was confirmed by tryptic digestion using Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin, followed by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The observed sizes of two tryptic peptides were one mass unit larger than expected, consistent with the fact that Asn deamidation leads to a gain of one mass unit. (3664)
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Cullen, P.A., Xu, X., Matsunaga, J., Sanchez, Y., Ko, A.I., Haake, D.A., and Adler, B.
Notes: To identify proteins expressed on the cell surface of various strains of Leptospira, the authors labeled intact Leptospira cells with biotin, solubilized the cells with Triton® X-100, then captured the biotinylated proteins using the SoftLink™ Soft Release Avidin Resin. The captured products were analyzed by one- and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The spots were excised and washed with 50mM ammonium bicarbonate /100% acetonitrile. The gel pieces were then dried, rehydrated in a solution containing 12ng of Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin, and incubated in 50mM ammonium bicarbonate overnight at 37°C. The proteins were concentrated, desalted and subjected to MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to identify the individual proteins of the Leptospira surfaceome. (3661)
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Le Lay, J., Matsuoka, T.A., Henderson, E. and Stein, R.
Notes: The GG2 element located upstream of the human insulin gene was mutated and cloned into a firefly luciferase construct. Two pancreatic mouse cell lines, ßTC-3 and Min6, were co-transfected with the various GG2 luciferase vectors using phRL-TK Vector as a normalization control. Luciferase expression was then assessed using the Dual-Luciferase® Reporter Assay System. Three factors known to affect insulin gene expression were transcribed and translated using the TNT® Coupled Reticulocyte Lysate System. The proteins were then used in a gel-shift assay with several DNA element oligos. A 38-40 kDa protein that bound to the GG2 element was identified. This protein was isolated by DNA affinity chromatography, run on a SDS-PAGE gel and digested with 0.01µg/µl Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin. Digestion products were then analyzed by Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry and TOF/TOF tandem mass spectrometry. (3116)
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Jiang, D. and Ghabrial, S.A.
Notes: The authors cloned and sequenced the dsRNA from Penicillium chrysogenum virus (PcV) and analyzed the gene products of the segmented virus. After reverse transcription followed by PCR to confirm the 5' and 3' ends of the dsRNA segments, RT-PCR was used to amplify the complete cDNAs for the four viral segments. The products were cloned into pGEM®-T Vector after A-tailing. To confirm the ORFs predicted for each of the four segments, the cDNAs were added to TNT® T7 Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation System reactions that included radiolabeled methionine. The resulting proteins ranged in size from 94-128 kDa and were separated on an 8% SDS-PAGE gel and analyzed by autoradiography. Gradient-purified PcV virions were digested with Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin at 37°C for 18 hours and the digestion products were separated by reverse-phase HPLC on a C18 column. Two highly resolved peptides were selected for amino acid sequencing by automated Edman degradation. (3089)
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Tan B.C.M. and Lee, S.C.
Notes: Promega's Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin was used to perform in-gel digests of Coomassie® blue-stained proteins that associated with Nek-9 in Nek-9 immunoprecipitates from HeLa cell extracts. Digestions were performed on dried 7.5 or 10% polyacrylamide gel slices and peptide fragments were analyzed by Electrospray mass spectrometry. The two analyzed proteins were sequenced and determined to be SSRP1 and FACT140. (3057)
Desterro, J.M.P., Rodriguez, M.S., Kemp, G.D., Hay, R.T.
Notes: To clone the SUMO coupling enzyme, the SUMO peptide was attached to a column, and HeLa extracts were run through the column. Eluted proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE, stained and the appropriate bands were cut from the gel. The gel bands were then digested with an in-gel trypsinization protocol using the Sequencing-Grade Modified Trypsin. The resultant bands were separated by HPLC, sequenced and the full sequences were obtained from the ATCC database. The SUMO-1 Activating enzyme was found to contain two subunits, SAE-1 (38kDa) and SAE-2 (72kDa). These subunites were expressed in vitro using the TNT® Coupled Wheat Germ Extract System and found to interact. (1226)
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Leidich, S.D., Ibrahim, A.S., Fu, Y., Koul, A., Jessup, C., Vitullo, J., Fonzi, W., Mirbod, F., Nakashima, S., Nozawa, Y., Ghannoum, M.A.
Notes: The Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin was used to digest a protein isolated from a gel slice. The protein was isolated by a referenced method. The isolated protein was dehydrated and then digested overnight at 37°C in 75µl of 200mM NH4HCO3 containing 2.5µg of the modified trypsin. The resulting peptides were recovered by extraction with 60% acetonitrile and 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid and subsequent HPLC to isolate individual fragments for sequencing. (0824)
Bothner, B., Dong, X.F., Bibbs, L., Johnson, J.E., Siuzdak, G.
Notes: Flock House Virus (1mg/ml) was digested with Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin in a reaction with a 1:3000 enzyme to virus ratio in a 10-20µl volume. At each time point, 0.5µl of the reaction was removed and placed on a MALDI analysis plate. The resulting cleavage products were treated with the exprotease carboxypeptidase YY to obtain c-terminal sequence information. (1389)
Lee, R.S.F., Wheeler, T.T., Peterson, A.J.
Notes: The Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin was used to digest a protein on a nitrocellulose membrane. Digestion prior to protein sequencing are referenced. (0815)
Ikeda, S., Biswas, T., Roy, R., Izumi, T., Boldogh, I., Kurosky, A., Seki, S., Mitra, S.
Notes: Complexes of the protein NTH1 and an oligonucleotide were covalently crosslinked. The complex (12nmol) was resolved by ion-exchange chromatography and dialyzed against 50mM NH4HCO3. The complex was boiled for 5 minutes and digested with 20µg each of Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin and Sequencing Grade Endoproteinase Glu-C (discontinued) at 37°C for 2 hours, and the digest was repeated for an additional 48 hours. The resulting peptides were resolved by HPLC and peptides sequenced. (0991)
Wang, J., Ducret, A, Tu, Y., Kozasa, T., Aebersold, R., Rose, E.
Notes: The Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin was used to digest proteins directly on nitrocellulose by referenced methods. Briefly, nitrocellulose bands were excised, cut in 1mm squares, and incubated for 18 hours at 37°C in 15-20µl of 15mM N-ethylmorpholine, 5mM acetic acid, 1% Zwittergent 3-16 that contained 1µg of Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin. (0201)
Karlsson, M., Contreras, J.A., Hellman, U., Tornqvist, H., Holm, C.
Notes: Tryptic peptides, produced with Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin, of the purified lipase were used to generate primers for RT-PCR. The largest amplimer was purified and used to screen a lambda gt11 library. The isolated 303 amino acid clone and site-specific mutants were put into the pCI-neo Mammalian Expression Vector and expressed in COS cells. The transiently expressed proteins were assayed for esterase and lipase activity. (0960)
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Holmskov, U., Lawson, P., Teisner, B., Tornoe, I., Willis, A.C., Morgan, C., Koch, C., Reid, K.B.
Notes: Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin was used to obtain sequence data from excised gel bands. (1010)
Lawler, S., Feng, X.H., Chen, R.H., Maruoka, E.M., Turck, C.W., Griswold-Prenner, I., Derynck, R.
Notes: The authors used Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin for peptide mapping. (0847)
Sun, J., Xu, Q., Chitnis, V.P., Jin, P., Chitnis, P.R.
Notes: The authors used Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin for analysis of membrane topology of proteins (PsaA and PsaB) of photosystem I. (2192)
Ladner, R.D., NcNulty, D.E., Carr, S.A., Roberts, G.D., and Caradonna, S.J.
Notes: Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin was used to generate tryptic peptides from an SDS-PAGE gel slice. The gel slice was subjected to reduction and alkylation prior to digestion. Extensive detail of the procedure is given. (0869)


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Even non-foodies are passionate about their Thanksgiving foods. Would you prefer white meat or dark? Do you call it stuffing or dressing? Is ambrosia salad actually food? But the one T-day element that cleaves the world neatly in two is cranberry sauce. In one corner you have the folks who like the gelatinous log embossed with the ridges from the can; in the other you have devotees of a chunky sauce or relish made with fresh cranberries, often with citrus and/or nuts. It's not a topic people are ambivalent about.
I was curious where affinities lie, so I asked about 1,700 of my closest friends. The results were surprising, with an overwhelming show of support for chunky cranberry sauce. The log didn't stand a chance.
Personally, I too like a nice fresh cranberry sauce, but when it comes to the all-important post-Thanksgiving sandwich (truly, the very point of having the big meal in the first place), I rather like the jelly. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but there is no substitute.
I live in a temperate part of the world. Consequently, cranberries don't make a showing at my local farmers' markets. While I'm not religious about it, I do make an effort to eat locally, so cranberry sauce is pretty much out of the question.
What we do have in great abundance, though, is pomegranates. And hey, they're red and tart … and make a fabulous jelly.
I knew for this jelly I wanted a harder set than I normally would go for, as well as a grainy texture that might invoke the cranberry sauce experience. I got it, but sort of by accident. I made an error judging my juice-sugar-pectin ratio, and ended up using more pectin than I intended. By almost double.
But in the end I got a surprisingly close approximation of the classic cranberry sauce, if a little stickier. After soaking the jar in hot water for a couple minutes, the hard-set jelly slumped out with a slight slurp, and then reclined into a shimmering, quivering log. Now all I have to do is carve the ridges into it.
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Put the pomegranate juice in a large, nonreactive pot over medium-high heat. Meanwhile, mix the pectin and sugar in a bowl, whisking to combine. When the juice comes to a boil, add the sugar-pectin mix, whisking to stir and dissolve, and the lemon juice. Bring back to the boil and boil hard for one full minute. Turn off the heat, ladle into sterilized jars, leaving 1/8″ headroom, and process via the water-bath method.
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