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Oyster Grill, 455 North Third Street (Arizona Center), Phoenix, 252-6767. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m., seven days a week.
Most people in the Valley have moved here from someplace else. And sometimes they have a hard time letting go of the past. Why else would they try to plant grassy lawns in the middle of the desert? Why else would they demand that the television weathercaster tell us the temperature in Chicago? And why else would they insist on ordering fragile, expensive fresh seafood in restaurants? Right now, in the middle of summer, it's just about impossible to delude yourself even momentarily that Phoenix is an oceanfront community. Folks who think they feel sea breezes on their cheek, hear waves crashing on the beach or see seagulls making lazy circles in the sky, are either in the Twilight Zone or San Diego. Well, Rod Serling must have been hiding in the kitchen at the Oyster Grill and Il Pescatore, two local ports where I recently dropped anchor looking for seafood dinners. Or maybe both places were pumping salt air through their air-conditioning vents, trying to work subliminally on my unconscious. All I know is, by the time I left, I was convinced that the pier was right outside the door. Over the past five years, Big Four Restaurants, at one time the operators of some of this town's trendiest eating places, has failed to keep pace with the Valley's growing dining-out sophistication. These days, Oscar Taylor, the American Grill and Aldo Baldo look pretty tame, compared, say, with rivals like Christopher's Bistro, Eddie's Grill and Franco's Trattoria. But if the Oyster Grill is any indication, the company is on the verge of turning its fortunes around. The fare here is as appealing as any seafood restaurant's in town, and has prices that won't drive customers into a life of piracy. The Arizona Center location isn't going to remind anyone of Fisherman's Wharf. But the designers have done what they could with the space. An oyster bar occupies one side of the airy room, a casual dining section the other. The wall is painted aquatic blue, and a large, indeterminate metallic sea sculpture hangs from the ceiling. ("An amoeba," opined one employee, when I asked what it was.) Booths are lined with tropical prints, and the tables are covered with oilcloth. I liked the touch of immediately bringing over to the table a whole baguette in a paper bag. I liked it even more when I discovered the bread was perfectly fresh. But even though it's cost-efficient, I recommend you don't fill up on the free loaf. The Oyster Grill's starters are worth spending money on. The soups are good enough to order in the middle of a desert summer. New England clam chowder is right on target, a rich, creamy, not-too-salty broth thickly stocked with clams. And the Sonoran Oyster Curry Stew is magnificent, one of the best dishes I've had in months. The big bowl features plump blue point oysters in a mildly spicy, curry-tinged cream broth that's also swimming with eggplant and onions. Everything's topped with crispy shreds of fried leeks. For some folks with smaller appetites, this filling stew could be a meal in itself, especially if you work on the baguette at the same time. Personally, only a professional obligation to sample the rest of the menu kept me from ordering seconds. Another profitable way to start the meal is to munch on shrimp and cream cheese egg rolls, four crunchy specimens that are accompanied by a fruity dipping sauce. The menu lists some two dozen species of fresh fish that the restaurant carries at different times. Those that are available--seven the night we were there--have their prices filled in next to them. They cost substantially less than their counterparts at the Big Four's other seafood restaurant, Steamers, at the Biltmore Fashion Park. But they're just as effective. There's only one method of preparation, grilling over alder wood. Moist, reasonably sized slabs of ahi tuna, swordfish and thresher shark all arrived competently prepared. And each dish came with a side order of luscious, corn-flecked mashed potatoes and a heap of garlicky braised greens.
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The tasty seafood stew called cioppino (invented in San Francisco) is also an appealing option. It looked like it was put together by Noah: two scallops, two shrimp, two mussels, two clams, two calamari, as well as pieces of salmon in a robust tomato-garlic broth. It's surprisingly wallet-friendly, too. When's the last time you saw a $12 cioppino, in this or any other town? The Oyster Grill has also come up with a wine list that won't send anyone to the poorhouse. The wines are all from California, and all 20 are available by the glass. If wine's not for you, maybe the microbrew sampler is. For $3.50, you get three small tastes from the six microbrews on tap. Desserts end the meal on the same high note on which it began. Chocolate tower features flourless chocolate cake in raspberry sauce, lined with white chocolate mousse and enclosed by sugar cookies. The Snickers cheesecake, a heavy treat that requires several cups of coffee to wash it down, is gilded with peanut brittle and caramel sauce. The restaurants at the Arizona Center tend to be places you go to because you've got something else planned in the area--a game at America West, a play at Herberger, a concert at Symphony Hall. The Oyster Grill, though, is worth a stop on its own dining merits. Il Pescatore, 13802 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 951-8450. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Dinner, Monday through Saturday, 5 to 10 p.m.
Before you can really concentrate on the first-rate seafood, you have to get past the contrast between Il Pescatore's look and its location. The restaurant recently moved to expanded digs. Now it's installed at the back end of a less-than-glitzy Scottsdale shopping center, in what used to be a furniture store. So it's startling to find a formal-looking Italian room: a gurgling fountain, dim lighting, tuxedoed waiters, subdued peach tones, linen-lined tables. I felt underdressed in my jeans, but my embarrassment diminished once I saw my fellow diners. Not a single customer, including several in shorts, looked like they had made any effort to match their attire to the surroundings. Il Pescatore's proprietors might consider scaling back the elegance level to achieve a better balance with the clientele. But there's no reason to fiddle with anything that comes out of the kitchen. A basket of garlic bread takes care of immediate hunger pangs, but the starters do a more rewarding job. In particular, the cold seafood salad is wonderful--scungilli, squid, mussels, shrimp, capers, red pepper and onions lightly dressed with olive oil. The plate smells like the Italian coast on a summer's day. Fried calamari is also an effective way to slide into dinner. Rings and tentacles come in a fresh, light batter, without the usual jaw-breaking toughness that makes this dish such a chancy appetizer proposition. You could pass up appetizers altogether and wait for the soup that comes with dinner. The hearty, aromatic tomato soup lined with mozzarella cheese, our evening's broth, won't remind anyone of what comes out of a Campbell's soup can. It's certainly preferable to the dinner salad you can choose in its stead, a routine pile of greenery. Although Il Pescatore offers the usual assortment of Italian veal and chicken preparations--piccata, marsala, parmigiana--we stuck to seafood. After all, the place is called The Fisherman, not The Butcher or The Chicken Plucker. We didn't regret the choice. The kitchen's not afraid of garlic, lemon or Italian seasonings. And it doesn't shy away from filling up your plate with seafood. That's certainly the case with the cioppino, an evening special that turned out to be one of the more amazing versions of this dish I've run across. It's enormous, overflowing with mussels, clams, scallops, shrimp, salmon, snapper, squid and scungilli, served over linguini in a fragrant tomato broth. For the first time since about, oh, 1960, I found myself unable to finish something I liked. Maybe the house ought to advertise it for two. Shrimp scampi is somewhat more manageable. It comes with six meaty shrimp, drenched in garlic and olive oil, with an eye-catching polenta flan studded with red peppers, as well as a side of penne pasta in a light tomato sauce. Il Pescatore also features fresh fish. Halibut, one of three fresh offerings available that evening, came simply and effectively prepared with a squeeze of lemon, accompanied by polenta, pasta and buttered cauliflower. Meanwhile, fans of linguini with clam sauce definitely get their money's worth from Il Pescatore's model. It's filled with a bucket of garlic and minced clams, as well as three beauties still in their shell. Except for the tartufo, a chocolate-covered ice cream ball, Il Pescatore makes its own desserts. The spumoni, Italian ice cream dotted with candied fruit, took me right back to the old neighborhood. Intense chocolate mousse and a light tiramisu also bring dinner to a pleasant conclusion. Except for a small band of Chinese and Mexican seafood houses, ethnic seafood hasn't made much of a splash in the Valley. With Il Pescatore, the pool just got a little deeper.


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Value of SOA Specialization interview with Jag Puttanna, CEO of XTRON – part IV
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"We are excited to announce the Oracle partner network recognition. This program gives a unique advantage to position XTRON in the North American region. We have a strategic focus on oracle fusion middleware including Oracle SOA Suite. Getting this SOA specialization re-assures customers that XTRON is geared up and committed to deliver. This would also enable our customers to confidently work with a great company and people who are certified, specialized and committed for great quality." said Jag Puttanna, CEO of XTRON.
Why did XTRON decide to become SOA specialized?
SOA specialization gives a unique positioning to differentiate our services among the Oracle partners. XTRON is among the first 13 partners in North America to achieve SOA specialization.
Can you describe the marketing activities with Oracle?
We have used various marketing kits for lead generation activities. We saved significant time and efforts to launch new campaigns.
How did you team with Oracle around the sales activities?
Sales alignment is the ultimate key behind our success. Our business development team is aligned with regional channel and sales managers. We also had our presence at various events like Special Interest User Group (SIG) etc.
Did you get Oracle support to train your consultants in the Oracle SOA Suite?
Oracle competency portal has been extremely useful to train our consultants. Prerecorded webinars and guided learning path has been the key behind implementation exams. Our consultants also participated at various OTN developer day and live virtual classes.
What are the next steps for XTRON?
We are looking forward to develop competency in newer offerings like CEP, Webcenter and Application Grid. Exalogic is another exiting area to begin and explore. We would continue to invest and strengthen our relation with Oracle.
About XTRON
XTRON, located in silicon valley, CA, is a system integrator and an enterprise applications solution provider. A GOLD member of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) having expertise to implement, upgrade, integrate, automate and optimize business processes using Oracle Fusion Middleware technology in the following areas:
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TAMPA — On Friday, the 700 block of Wood Street in Sulphur Springs was hopping.
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Premier David Ben Gurion interrupted his vacation today to hurry back to Jerusalem to attend an extraordinary Cabinet meeting the called to consider the rapidly deteriorating situation on the Israel-Jordan border. The weeks-old tension culminated Monday night in the mining by Arabs of an Israel freight train one mile from Jordan territory in central Palestine.
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Meanwhile, United Nations truce observers began an investigation of the train attack as Israel lodged a stiff protest with the Mixed Armistice Commission. Military attaches of foreign countries who are stationed in Tel Aviv today mixed with correspondents surveying the scene of the attack. It was learned that the landmine had been placed Monday under cover of a diversionary attack on a nearby kibbutz.
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3/10/2014 – Its my first time making wine and I'm using montrachet dry wine yeast but its not fermenting. I was told the yeast might be dead. Is there any way to test this?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I would be suspicious with the fact that it is not fermenting...how do you know?The best solution is to use a hydrometer to measure the amount of sugar in the solution, and again measure after fermentation to assure that it is complete.Perhaps:a) It is done (complete) fermenting. This happens a LOTb) Your juice has preservatives . . .
8/18/2013 – I want to make mango ginger wine but not sure what wine yeast to use? Or do I need to buy any other yeast or pectin or anything to make it? Thanks
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Sounds like a wine I would enjoy! Haven't had it, unfortunately.Here is a recipe from Jack Keller for making a ONE gallon batch of mango wine. Scale up as needed, and simply add ginger to the mix. If it were me, I would use a Cote de Blancs wine yeast. Mango Wine3-4 lbs fresh mango 1 lb 13 oz lbs finely granulated sugar 7-1 . . .
10/3/2012 – I recently purchased Montepulciano grape. They were very nice and had a 26brix. Someone suggested that I use Red Star Montrachet yeast which I have. It is fermenting but very slow and not very vigorously. Was this the wrong choice for a 'strong wine'? Is it too late for me to add another yeast?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Montrachet is a good yeast, but doesn't "attenuate" well. In other words, it may leave some sweetness in the finished wine.If you are after a drier version you could add some champagne yeast (even now). It should get you a lower ending gravity (less sweetness). A dab of yeast nutrient might help also.Be sure that your fermentation . . .
9/16/2012 – Do i need to add tannin to muscadine wine?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Probably not. Tannin adds a little astringency, which usually not necessary with muscadine grapes.I WOULD add some pectic enzyme however to help break down the fruit and to better extract the natural sugars in the grapes. Here are a few recipes for muscadine wine:http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques15.asp
5/17/2010 – what is your phone number?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: We can be reached at (425) 355-8865Our toll free order number is (800) 850-2739
12/1/2009 – Using a packet of dry yeast, how long can the yeast wait to be added to the fermenter, once it is mixed with the water? Will it lose its potency?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: A few minutes is normal, and there is certainly no reason to wait beyond that anyway.How long it can stay in a water solution is anyone's guess. It probably depends on how sterile the container and water are, temperature and other factors. There are no nutrients present at that point, so I am guessing that after a few hours the yeast cells . . .
3/11/2009 – I'm trying to make sweet wines red & white. With a 10-17% alcohol content. What yeast would you recommend?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Generally speaking, we like Montrachet and Premier Cuvee for reds, and Cote de Blancs for whites.Here is a wine yeast selection guide:http://store.homebrewheaven.com/articles/wine_yeast_recommendatons.htmThe key to making sweet wines is to ferment them completely, then stabilize the wine (using potassium sorbate and potassium sulfite). . . .
12/2/2008 – Which of the wine yeasts you currently carry is the closest to Montrachet? I am making wine from berries.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: If Montrachet is unavailable, I would go with Premier Cuvee. Here is a link to that product
11/11/2008 – How do you ship wine yeast? Doesn't it need to be kept cool?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: The common dry wine yeast needs no refrigeration. We typically use FedEx or USPS Priority Mail.If you order a Wyeast liquid yeast culture, and the weather is expected to be hot on the way (above about 85 deg F) then we recommend buying a Frozen Gel Pack also. It will protect your yeast for a few days while it is in transit. They are available . . .
10/14/2008 – Hi, I live in India, How can I obtain good quality wine yeast from you ? In India day time temperature in winter can be as high as 78 Deg F is it ok for most wine yeasts ?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes, you can buy wine yeast from us directly from our website.78 deg F is fine for many wine yeasts. Red wines are best fermented at this temperature.
1/26/2008 – I live about an hour (if traffic is good) from the address on your website. Do you have an actual store or is everything here based solely online?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes, we have an actual brick-and-mortar store in Everett, WA. People actually walk in and buy stuff!Our address is:Homebrew Heaven9121 Evergreen WayEverett, WA 98204Heck, you can actually call us on the phone, too! It's 425-355-8865. A person will actually answer as long as it's business hours!
1/20/2008 – I am making "Balloon wine" with Welches grape concentrate. What would be a good yeast?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Montrachet would work well. Here is a link to that product.So would several others.But the question IS: Why not make GOOD wine? It's easy to do, and you don't do it using Welches and balloons.The expression I have heard is "you can't make ice cream out of horse****". Asking what kind of sprinkles you should use on that ice cream . . .
10/25/2007 – I'm making a strawberry wine I want to keep as much of the flavor as possible and I want it a little sweet. I used the montrachet for the last batch it was alright but a little dry. What yeast would you recommend. Thank you.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I would recommend RE-sweetening to taste, after you stabilize the wine. Use potassium sorbate and sulfite to stabilize, then use wine conditioner to sweeten to taste. Doing it this way will leave some sweetness without causing a re-fermentation (and exploding bottles).Using Cote de Blanc yeast may also help...
6/28/2007 – What is the shelf-life for Montrachet yeast? I have some white packets, with no expiration date. The only info is typed on the pkt: 5GR 1399 1
Response From Homebrew Heaven: When stored at room temperature, the shelf life is about 1 year. If it is in a white packet, it is probably older than that. They changed the packaging over a year ago. For a VERY small amount of $, I would replace it.
6/3/2007 – Am new to winemaking. I have a fairly nice crop of muscadines that I made jelly with last year. Would like to try wine. Is the five gallon kit good and can I use it to make smaller batches? Also what do I need besides kit?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: You can only eat so much jelly! Yes, this kit would work well for you, and can be used for smaller batches...altho more is better. As far as equipment, that is all that is required (except for a way of crushing the grapes, and bottles).Here is a typical recipe for Muscadine WineMUSCADINE GRAPE WINEMakes 5 gallons35 lbs ripe Muscadine . . .
11/5/2006 – I live in Seattle, can I come and pick up the bottles in Everett? Do you have a "brick and mortar" store?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: You sure can. It is literally made of bricks and mortar, in South Everett. Our address is:Homebrew Heaven9121 Evergreen WayEverett, WA 98204425-355-8865Hours are 10am-6:30pm Monday-Friday and 10am-5pm on Saturdaysand 10am-3pm on Sundays
10/5/2006 – could you please tell me what yeast you recomened for wine from fresh concord grape juice from New York.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I would use either Montrachet or Cote de Blancs.Here is a link to a Wine Yeast Recommendation chart for various wines:http://store.homebrewheaven.com/articles/wine_yeast_recommendatons.htm
9/16/2006 – I am making 6 gallions of white zinfandel from fresh juice called regina from california they told me it is acid and ph and sugar balanced and also the natural yeasts have been balanced should i still add yeasts i was going to add red star montrachet what do you recommend?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: We don't recommend trusting "natural" yeasts. They are unreliable, and of unknown strain(s). Sometime they sell juice from vineyards that is already fermenting...not a good thing. The vineyards claim it is "balanced" (there is no such thing). It is better to stun off any wild yeasts and harmful bacteria before adding a quality wine yeast. . . .
8/17/2006 – I am making some blueberry from fresh fruit. I used Montrachet to start with, but since decided to make a higher alcohol wine. I've added some more sugar in a water/reserve juice mix, and I'm wondering about the alcohol tolerance of Montrachet, which is only moderate. I'd like to add some EC-1118, which is tolerant to 18%. What are the . . .
Response From Homebrew Heaven: That's quite high for a fruit wine, but if that's what you like go for it! Alcohol tolerance for Montrachet is maybe 14%. If you add EC-1118 (Lalvin Champagne yeast) you can kick that up to at least 17% or so, PROVIDING there is sufficient sugar content. Doing it at this point is fine. No repercussions.Here is a useful link to a yeast . . .
12/15/2005 – What is the difference with all the yeasts? Can Fleischmanns active dry yeast work?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: To make bread? Yes. It makes crappy wine, however.Each yeast strain has different flavor and aroma characteristics, as well as different alcohol tolerances. Good wine is made with quality wine yeast. NOT bread yeast.
8/14/2005 – which wine yeast would you recommend for making Rhubarb wine?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I would go with either Montrachet or Cote de Blanc, myself. Another one, the Wyeast liquid Rudisheimer yeast is also a good one.
7/21/2005 – which type of wine yeast should i use for making a wine out of mustang grapes?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Montrachet is popular for that. Here is a link:
6/11/2005 – I purchased several packs of montrachet yeast from you in the year 2001. What is the life of the yeast in these unopened packs?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Usually, it's about 2 years, but it may still be ok to use. Try opening one and sprinkling it onto a little juice or sugar water to see if it swells up and gets active.For a buck, you can get fresh!
4/27/2005 – Can one re-use the yeast sediment for another batch after fermentation is done, sort of like re-using a sour dough starter?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: It can be done, but we don't recommend it for wines. For beer, where LOTS of yeast is an advantage, yes.Besides, the cost of fresh wine yeast is so low, it doesn't make much sense. Spring for $0.99 worth of yeast...it's worth the peace of mind.
12/29/2004 – What would happen if you combined different yeast strains for your wine brew? For Example, if you hydrated and proofed a Montrachet together with a Champagne, then pitched them together into your mixture?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: As you might expect, you would get something in between the two flavor profiles. The most alcohol tolerant one, however, would "win out" if there is sufficient sugar.
10/13/2004 – I want to buy a yeast for the fermemtation a mix honey and orange juice at 12% Alcohol. i don't see in your web site, If you have give me the price and web site address.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: There are many different wine (and mead) yeasts that might be good for this. Here are links to both:
9/8/2004 – I recently crushed 8 cases of zinfandel grapes and added & mixed-in campden tablets to the "must". I then pitched my yeast. Should I have waited a day to pitch the yeast? Will the campden tablets kill off the pitched yeast?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes. It is very likely that you have at least "stunned" your yeast, and possibly killed it. You need to wait at least 24 hours after adding sulfites to your must before adding yeast. Additionally, the fermenter must be kept open to the air during this time. I would obtain some more yeast, stir well and re-pitch.
8/16/2004 – can you use bread yeast to make wine.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes, if you want to make crappy wine. You can also use wine yeast to make crappy bread!
8/9/2004 – Hello, Is it Possible To Add Too Much Yeast To The Must?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: It's possible, but very very unlikely. You would have to add POUNDS to a 5 gallon batch to achieve it. Adding 2-3 standard packages is just fine.
5/13/2004 – I have an unopened pack of montrachet yeast that has been in a box with all the rest of my wine making supplies for about a year. Since it has not been refrigerated is it still good and ok to use ?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Probably. You can probably find a "best used by" date embossed on the edge of the packet. Even if it's beyond that date, it is probably fine. The only way it wouldn't be is if it was exposed to extended temperatures above 90 deg F., like in an attic thru summer. Cold temps are not a problem.A way to know for sure is to add the pack to . . .
4/30/2004 – What is the best yeast to make wine from fresh wild blackberries?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I would go with either Montrachet or Cote de Blanc, myself, but it really is just a matter of preference. Cote de Blanc typically leaves some sweetness and more of a "fruity" taste/aroma.
11/24/2003 – Just prior to adding the yeast when making an 8 gallon batch of applecider wine, I noticed the package read "good up to 5 gallons". I wasn't able to add a 2nd package until now (48 hours after original package was added). Do you think I'll be ok? Any recommendations at this point?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Probably not a problem. The yeast will multiply as needed to gobble up the sugars. By the way, OUR Wyeast packages are good for 10 gallons (XL Packs). Not sure where you got yours, but we sell only the 10 gallon sizes. Better to have too much yeast than not enough.
11/8/2003 – What kind of wine yeast should I use for....(berries, apples, white wines, reds, etc etc etc)
Response From Homebrew Heaven: This is a common question. There are many more wine yeasts available now than in the past. We have a helpful Wine Yeast Selection Chart available here:http://store.homebrewheaven.com/articles/wine_yeast_recommendatons.htmHope this helps!
11/7/2003 – What is the best yeast for making apple wine? I plan to use apple juice.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: That really a matter of preference, but for a true wine, I would use Cote de Blanc. For a cider, I would use Wyeast Cider yeast #3766. Both of these emphasize "fruitiness", and leave a little residual sweetness.For a wine yeast selection guide go to:http://store.homebrewheaven.com/articles/wine_yeast_recommendatons.htm
Response From Homebrew Heaven: For yeasts, I would choose Cote de Blanc (dry) or Rudisheimer (liquid). Premiere Cuvee will work, but I think these two are better choices.Yes, a batch of wine can sour (turn to vinegar) with poor sanitation and oxidation. This is often due to acetobacter, a bacteria, and exposure to air. Fruit flies are notorius for spreading it.Both . . .
9/7/2003 – How long will it take for me to receive a shipment of yeast. Them there grapes won't wait!
Response From Homebrew Heaven: That depends. Where ARE them there grapes?Sorry. I don't mean to be a pain, but that kind of info helps a lot. Many people admire those grapes growing all year long, and plan to make wine with them. It's funny to me that it's only when they PICK the grapes that they think of ordering yeast. We can get most packages out within a day or . . .
9/1/2003 – This is the first year I'm trying to make wine from Cabernet Franc, any suggestions which strain of yeast to use for this varietal. A wine maker suggested Prise de Mousse, but I'm also reading about Pasteur Red.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: I think the Pasteur Red would be a better choice. A very nice yeast for any red wine. Perhaps a better choice would be the Wyeast (liquid strain) Bordeaux #3267. It has a very complex, berry and graham cracker type flavor that I like, anyway.Either yeast will do nicely!
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Almost every recipe I have seen for muscadine wine calls for Montrachet wine yeast. I'm afraid we don't have much experience with muscadines up here in Washington. I understand that they are quite acidic, and the acid should really be adjusted downward.I would wait until the SG is 1.030 (or so) before racking. There is no harm in doing . . .
8/17/2003 – If each packet of yeast is sufficient for 5 gallons of wine, would i use one fifth of the packet to make one gallon of wine? What would happen if i use the entire packet to make one gallon?How can i get my wine to have a higher alcohol content?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Using more yeast (like the whole package) only starts the fermentation faster, it has little effect on the total alcohol content. There is no harm in using the entire package.To increase the alcohol content, you need to increase the sugar content of the juice. The yeast converts the sugar into alcohol and CO2. The CO2 is released during . . .
7/22/2003 – I make white wine from bottled white grape juice. Pls. advise which wine yeast I should use.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: The Lalvin D47 should work very nicely. Another one is Red Star Cote de Blanc.
6/29/2003 – Can this yeast be used to make peach and watermelon wines, also fruits that can be bought fresh from the supermarkets.
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Yes, absolutely. It is a very good yeast for fruit wines.
6/17/2003 – How many gallons of wine I can make with a single pack of this yeast?Actually I'm gonna making some wine out of berries and rhubarb. Do you suggest to use this yeast even for the all berries wine or do you suggest to use another kind of yeast?
Response From Homebrew Heaven: Each packet is sufficient for 5 gallons of wine.The Montrachet strain of yeast is excellent for these wines, but if you want to try a different one, the Cote de Blancs does a nice job as well. It seems to leave a little more residual sweetness and fruitiness. Enjoy!
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"Now tell me," says the voice from the black screen, "do you feel anything at all?"
When the lights come up we see a doctor (Peter Finch), probing the blubbery blue-white belly of a comically frightened, middle-aged man. The man, whose body is an anthology of small, harmless sags, the little remains of muscles that have given up, is convinced that he has cancer, not colitis, but he still would rather go to Frankfurt on business than face the gastrointestinal tests that would tell him he's all right. The man is scared half out of his mind and he'd prefer not to feel anything at all, though he does.
In this oblique fashion begins John Schlesinger's fine Sunday, Bloody Sunday, which is all about feelings of late twentieth-century love and desperation, recognized and embraced, but systematically channeled (some might say perverted) into safe areas where they can be controlled and then drawn from, like reservoirs of hope and despair.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday looks like a more or less unconventional triangle, but it's really two parallel love stories that happen to have a single love object. He's Bob Elkin (Murray Head), an artist in his early twenties who makes kinetic sculptures, which are created out of the glass and metal that house a see-through civilization, and that are set in motion by the same electricity that powers the telephones through which the timetables of his two affairs are kept remarkably untangled.
In what at first appears to be a perfect arrangement, agreed to by all, the boy divides his love and affection and physical presence between Dr. Daniel Hirsch (Finch), a successful London general practitioner in his forties, and Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson), a woman in her thirties, the survivor of a dull, middle-class marriage and the possessor of what someone describes, not too fondly, as "that piercing, educated mind."
The film is mostly about how these two intelligent people make do in what they both recognize as the final days of their affairs, during which Britain is wobbling along the edge of a financial crisis, and London itself sometimes seems to be on the verge of turning into a hallucination, as when we see groups of crazily dressed young people roller-skating through wet night streets in images that, like the feelings of Daniel and Alex, are vivid and mysterious and immensely sad.
At one point, when the boy has let it be known that he just might go to America, although he doesn't want to end the affair, Alex, in desperation, says that they have to pack it in. "I've had it with this business that anything is better than nothing," she screams, more at herself than at him. "There have to be times when nothing is better than anything!" And this, of course, is the cry of a time and a people for whom being sophisticated and controlled and cool is, ultimately, not enough.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday is Schlesinger's (Darling, Midnight Cowboy) wisest, least sentimental film, an almost perfect realization of Penelope Gilliatt's original screenplay, which is, I think, just about the best original screenplay since Eric Rohmer's Claire's Knee.
Like Rohmer, Miss Gilliatt, who is a novelist and short story writer as well as a film critic, has the extraordinary ability to create intelligent characters who don't sound like mouthpieces, to capture those looks and sounds of the surface of things that suggest the universes just beneath, and to write dialogue that is simultaneously rueful and funny, and as spontaneous as love itself.
It's a movie of unusual tensions and reserves, qualities reflected in the performances of both Finch, whose homosexual doctor has, at least, the stability of his large Jewish family, and Miss Jackson, who has come to be the movies' foremost actress of on-edge roles. As the bisexual boy, who is a sort of embodiment of the so-called new morality, which, in this case, amounts to enlightened selfishness, Murray Head is remarkably appealing, largely, I suspect, because the screenplay accepts him without tears or analysis.
There are, in the back of my mind, all sorts of questions about the relationship between the doctor and Alex, who meet in the film just once, in a scene of almost exquisite feeling. Does the awarenesseach of the othersomehow enrich their affairs? I would suppose it does, but these questions are part of the film's complex underground that makes its serene surface so fascinating.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday opened yesterday at the Coronet Theater, where, I'm sure, it will remain for a long, long time.
Directed by John Schlesinger; written by Penelope Gilliatt; cinematographer, Billy Williams; edited by Richard Marden; music by Ron Geesin; production designer, Luciana Arrighi; produced by Joseph Janni; released by United Artists. Running time: 110 minutes.


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[WYD] I'm On The Road Again (Day 1801)
Addy Lawrence
I have to type fast, I have a CS request pending and this paper could move countries at any minute.
On a contemplated change...
It's been tough to find a place in this game where I can have fun. eUS didn't work and eCan v2.0 really hasn't got my juices flowing.
I intend to join up with my old fighting buddies and head for a new country where we can make a fresh start and a real positive difference.
Too much bad kharma in eCan and eUS, gotta move on.
I have an MU available if anyone's interested.
It's been a slice, I'll likely be back but I don't know when.
Who's your daddy?
Addy's your daddy!!!
Be interesting to see if the rest of the eWorld is any different. If you find utopia let us know or at the very least, let Rolo know. He has done his best to create utopia here and it would be nice to send him there.
I remember a long time ago, back in Bruck's Canucks, we joked about moving to some small country to "kick back". At the time we thought it would be South Africa.
For me, I'm hoping eIndia is that place.
I can't let go of the past in eCan, and the past can't let go of me. There are too many obvious things that are wrong here that can't be fixed the way I believe they should be fixed. Heck, maybe it is only me that believes that fixing is required.
India is a fresh start.
you can't wait till after we RW back out regions? your one of our top fighters!
Typical. Taking advice from aeriala? Move on when things don't go your way...
this captain is eager to return to his homeland in the Kush mountains
Thanks for stopping by, making a huge deal about running for a political position you had 0 chance of winning, and then when you lose leave again almost immediately.
Until we meet again Aeriala. I mean Addy. Until we meet again Addy.
Well addy I hope you find what you are looking for. When I left I did a tour and ended up settling in Australia to help out. I found that at least being English speaking allowed me to integrate into their country. I found living in Romania very difficult even though a commune welcomed me with open arms.
And is there something wrong with eCanada? You bet. In the words of a very obsevant irishman: Canada is amongst the most disgusting, repulsing communities in the game.
I love the negativity and animosity people harbor over a browser game, it's very cute.
I love the negativity and animosity people harbor over a browser game, it's very cute. x2
"Thanks for stopping by, making a huge deal about running for a political position you had 0 chance of winning, and then when you lose leave again almost immediately."
My chances were much better than 0 albeit less than 50/50, and I still maintain I'd have done a better job. MDP was more active when I challenged for the lead, they returned to hibernation after PP election.
MDP failed to earn its share of congress seats and the Coalition failed to earn its share as well. Who won?
"You have no future in eCanada, and no one to blame but yourself for it."
I wouldn't use the word "blame", I prefer "responsibility". I am responsible for my future and I fully admit that my future is definitely affected by my past. I am proud of my past, warts and all, and I wouldn't change anything.
I have a future in whichever country I choose to play this game, including eCanada.
Good luck on cementing your CPF legacy, that was an enlightening video FunkyHitler.
"MDP failed to earn its share of congress seats and the Coalition failed to earn its share as well. Who won?"
MDP is in the 5 hold for parties, and took 3rd in total votes. They're also the only party that got more Congressional votes then they have members aside from the CPF. I don't see how that's failing to earn it's share.
Addy save spot for me in eIndia, never know when you need to make a quick escape
@Muglack: MDP is on the way out, you guys have been bleeding members ever since Rylde's presidency. Good luck in the future.
a) There's no "you guys". I'm in the MDP because I figured it was my best bet to get a spot on the congressional ballot. Since I was given the 3 hole it turns out I was right.
I don't know if you've noticed, but EVERYONE is bleeding members. The CPF had over 200 at one point, and you're down to 167. Clan Wolf went from ~150 at their peak to 116 now. It has nothing to do with the parties, and everything to do with the country.
It's like every day there's a different article announcing a return or a departure. Usually it's from the same people who wrote 5 other such articles before....
"It has nothing to do with the parties, and everything to do with the country. "
Holy cow Mugfail, do you not see the irony in your statement?
"MDP is in the 5 hold for parties, and took 3rd in total votes."
The diehard MDP would consider 2nd place a failure, and 3rd even worse.
The MDP Dictator didn't even release a congress article, heck, he didn't even release an article of any kind after the 15th. He was handpicked by the Coalition to keep the Coalition in place and the MDP weak.
Cue the Coalition propagandists to refute my comment and contest that I'm poorly informed.
I ran out of characters so I wasn't able to articulate my point as well as I would of liked.
"It has nothing to do with individual parties, but a breakdown of the country and more generally the game as a whole."
As for the election, I agree with the lack of articles assessment. TAFKAV (The Artist Formerly Known As Venerable) dropped the ball. But a 3rd place finish under the current system would of been fine given membership levels, and the lack of strategy involved these days.
meaning you failed at both and now your country hoping hoping to get a break.
What is this?You are reading an article written by a citizen of eRepublik, an immersive multiplayer strategy game based on real life countries. Create your own character and help your country achieve its glory while establishing yourself as a war hero, renowned publisher or finance guru.


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Manassero becomes youngest winner in BMW PGA Championship historyMay 26, 2013
VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) -- Italy's Matteo Manassero became the youngest champion in the 58-year history of the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday, beating England's Simon Khan with a birdie on the fourth hole of a playoff.
Manassero, at 20 years, 37 days, made amends for letting victory slip away two years ago at Wentworth. The previous youngest winner was Scotland's Bernhard Gallacher in 1969 at 20 years, 97 days. With the victory, his fourth European Tour title, Manassero qualified for the U.S. Open next month and avoided a 36-hole qualifier Monday at Walton Heath.
"I'm feeling amazing about this win. I also feel really proud and honored to have won the flagship event," he said. "I feel extremely happy. Extremely happy because this place has always had a real special feeling to me and I was in contention in 2011, (but) couldn't do it. That was Luke's (Donald) time, but I'm so proud to win this year."
Manassero closed with a 3-under 69 to match Khan and Scotland's Marc Warren at 10-under 278. Khan finished with a 66. Warren, eliminated on the first extra hole, shot a 69. Manassero and Khan each birdied the first three extra holes.
Manassero became the youngest winner on tour at 17 years, 188 days in the 2010 Castellon Masters in Spain. He added a second title five months later in the 2011 Malaysian Open, and won the Singapore Open last November.
He joined Costantino Rocca (1996) as the only Italian winners in the event and earned $1,012,928.
"I now have to be obviously looking at the next Ryder Cup and I really want to be there, and that's all I can say," Manassero said. "I can certainly say to you that I feel good in match play because I've done well at the Accenture Match Play Championship, and I've played a lot of match play as an amateur."


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Can you cure gay people?
James O'Brien speaks to a woman who believes that she can - and the conversation was fascinating!
- almost 4 years ago
I never said "The only difference between live and friend ship is sex". of course that's groundless. Love AND attraction are choices. period. To make them some genetic event is simply Alice in Wonderland. Reality is harsh. no matter who or why someone what's to believe otherwise. sex, love and attraction are all choices we make. Homosexual people choose to have sex, love and have affection for the same sex. The preposterous idea that they could NEVER make the conventional choice to love, have sex with, and place their affections on a person of the same sex is naive.
- almost 4 years ago
@rthomasfrench Sorry I didn't see your comment until now. I find your theory, that the only difference between love and friendship is sex, to be completely groundless.
Likewise this idea that you have that sexuality unites people and allows them to have one voice and share one opinion. You can not say that gay people as a group are for or against divorce or marriage or anything like that, the only thing they have in common is that they are gay.
You don't seem to understand what gay means so I will explain it:
It means loving someone who is the same gender as you. It means being sexually attracted to someone the same gender as you.
It doesn't mean anything else. It has nothing to do with the other things you talked about.
- over 5 years ago
Hello rabbitwho, I do hope this site isn't going to deteriorate into the same juvenile attack banter that other sites do, like Twitter. I much prefer to keep a spirit of respect and intelligent discourse. Although I do so appreciate your pop logic. Sort of like Meatloaf sells lots of records so it must be good music.... I too have had close male friends for 40 years, does that mean we're homosexual? I am happy to support your uncles God given right to have that relationship and I am glad he has managed to have found happiness in it. More than can be said for many of your uncles detractors. Isn't it funny that the same group that will support the right to have multiple partners, and no fault divorce, is the same group that will use the argument that the length of their relationship is virtuous proof that homosexuality is genetic. Try to connect those dots in anthropology, sociology or biology class. Sad & failed logic I'd say. Your argument is very weak. Almost as weak as O'Briens. Can we get someone who can address the ethos & morays question? No one is refuting the God given right of people to engage in homosexual behavior by choice. I am so sorry that nature is so ruthless and self promoting that homosexuality would breed itself out of existence…rather quickly. It's the silly notion that the extremely small homosexual community would try to redefine science, Love, marriage and family for the rest of the population of the world. Just because they want to believe that the sun rises in the west won't make the rest of us, who know otherwise, believe it. Reality is such an unforgiving bugger. Sorry, that particular emperor has no clothes.
- over 5 years ago
@rthomasfrench My uncle has been with his partner for 40 years, you think they stayed together for 40 years because of sex rather than love? You must think gay sex is amazing.
- over 5 years ago
I cured my gay uncle! He had a sore throat and a blocked nose and I told him to drink hot tea and lemon with a spoon of honey and he said the next day he felt much better. I think it works on straight people too, try it!
- over 5 years ago
O'Brien's premise is preposterous. His ridiculous notion that you should be able to" turn" a straight person into a homosexual if you could "turn" a homosexual straight is just plain silly and designed to defame the whole point. His condescension to her premises was insulting and her patience speaks to her character, and his. There IS a standard of overall social & mental health. Until the last 2 or 3 decades the totality of history deemed homosexuality abhorrent behavior. Sexual intimacy is NOT love. To compare homosexual affection as healthy love, although politically correct and becoming more "socially acceptable", is beyond comprehension, scientifically unsupportable and intellectually dishonest. His ignorance and blurring of the lines of ethos and morays exposes his ignorance and pop cultural ideology. His abstract approach to religion, which he portrays as a sort of Voo Doo shell game is the standard talking points that paint the tender Mercies of God as hate. This precious woman has compassion on homosexuals when even Darwin would deem homosexuality a defective gene. How sad to be O'Brien.


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Fringe is gearing up for its fifth and final season, but it will do so without one of its head honchos.
TVGuide.com has learned exclusively that Jeff Pinkner, an executive producer who has run the Fox series alongside J.H. Wyman since Season 2, has stepped down. Sources tell us it was Pinkner's decision to exit the series in order to pursue other projects and that it was an amicable split. Pinkner will not retain his executive producer credit and Wyman will be the sole showrunner for the final season.
Fringe Postmortem: What's in store for the fifth and final season?
"We're so excited to begin work on a fifth season of Fringe and to be able to deliver the 13 final episodes to our passionate and devoted fans," Fringe co-creator/executive producer J.J. Abrams said in a statement. "For four years, J.H. Wyman and Jeff Pinkner have worked tirelessly as a team to keep all the worlds in order on Fringe. We're thankful for the invaluable contributions Jeff has made to the show and of course wish him well and look forward to working together in the future. J.H. Wyman's importance to Fringe cannot be overstated, however, and I'm thrilled that he will continue as showrunner for the concluding chapters of our story. We can't wait for our fans to see what we have in store for them in the wild conclusion of Fringe."
Abrams, who co-created the show with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, selected Pinkner to be showrunner of Fringe in Season 1. He was joined by Wyman in Season 2 as co-showrunner and executive producer.
Fox announces fall premiere dates
Pinkner was expected to join Wyman and the cast — including Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole and John Noble — for the show's final Comic-Con panel Sunday, July 15 in Hall H, but he will not be attending.
The fifth and final season of Fringe will premiere Friday, Sept. 28 at 9/8c.
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As if I didn't already hate this winter enough, the gas bill was over $600 last month. That's almost twice what January usually costs us, and it's enough to screw up February's household budget.
"What, did someone leave a door open all month or something?" I asked as I wrote the check. Sure, January was the coldest month in the history of Januaries, but something else must be amiss to blow through that much heating fuel.
It had to be the family thermostat tamperers – those who don't care that every time they push the button to crank the heat, someone at the other end of the line is adding a few zeroes to the bill. And the tamperer is not I.
I can live comfortably at 68 degrees. Sure, that temperature makes me not want to get out of bed in the morning, and I always feel a little bit exposed around the shoulders, but they say that's the best temperature for a house. Whoever they are.
I've left the house in the morning, having spent a goose-bumpy couple of hours cleaning the kitchen and writing a column, and then arrived home that evening to a greenhouse. In my absence, someone will have cranked the heat to 74. They'll open swimming pools in colder weather than that.
"Who turned this up?" I'll ask as I peel off layers, and nobody will step forward to claim responsibility. This is usually followed by my lecture about money not growing on trees and you're not paying the bill and put on a sweater, doofus! But man, the heat is nice while it lasts, which is usually an hour or so. In a big house with radiators, the warm is slow to come but slow to leave.
Before the polar vortex of last month, the coldest weather I've ever experienced was in Chicago in 1982. A graduate student at Northwestern University, I lived in tiny dorm room with a single, malfunctioning window. The top pane didn't quite stay pushed up, leaving a one-inch gap between me and the cold.
Temperatures reached 17 below that winter – that's before the wind chill – and the custodian never did come around to fix the window. Every night I slept in a room in which I could see my exhaled breath. My parents did all they could do from 500 miles away and sent an electric blanket. I wore it all the time when I was in the dorm, and would have worn it outside on campus if the power cord were long enough.
Electric blankets are better now, I'm sure. I could probably find electric slippers and battery-operated long johns to wear around the house. That way, I could keep the furnace low enough to recoup some of what January cost me. First, I'll have to put a lockbox on the thermostat. The other people in this house just aren't as tough as I am.
Heck, I could go as low at 62 degrees. I saw a report last week that said cold bodies burn more calories. If that's true, and if I could handle it, a steady household temperature in the low 60 degrees would save me some serious money. And also, make me skinny, skinny, skinny. It sounds like the perfect plan. Summer and swimsuit season are coming soon.
If only.
Beth Dolinar can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I am living with Bipolar Disorder and I am not on any medication. My doctor has tried all the new meds, and none work for me. Is there a med you could suggest? I have depression, obsession-compulsions. My doctor has tried everything but says my body resists these meds. Is this correct? How can one function without meds?
You have described a situation that unfortunately is not uncommon - bipolar disorder with resistant depression and even obsessions and compulsions. I'm not sure what "everything" is, but there are numerous medications and combinations that can be considered and even such treatments as electroconvulsive therapy in the most resistant form of the disorder. My recommendation would be to work with your current psychiatrist, but get a second opinion at an academic center that specializes in bipolar disorder for an evaluation. They also may have a research protocol with investigational medications that might be an alternative.
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A sudden switch from feature phones to smartphones in China is catching everyone off guard - including China's domestic handset vendors.
A sudden switch from feature phones to smartphones in China is catching everyone off guard including Chinas domestic handset vendors.
The growing smartphone trend in China isnt the usual China hype. This isnt just some aspirational free-market trend, either. Its happening, right now.
Chinas insatiable appetite for smartphones is coming on fast and furious. What appears to be almost an abrupt switch to smartphones is forcing feature phone OEMs and ODMs in China to scramble looking for total turnkey smartphone solutions. They need to design, build and deliver today -- not six months from now.
MediaTek appears to be the biggest beneficiary of this new trend.
In a recent investors meeting, MediaTek president C.J. Hsieh revised his estimate for the companys own smartphone chipset sales in 2012 from 75 million units to 95 million units. Earlier this year, MediaTeks own projection for smartphone chipsets was 50 million.
The demand is real, and its proving a pleasant surprise, even for MediaTek.
In the 2G market, MediaTek became very successful by offering innovative turnkey solutions to help cell phone makers reduce design cycle and costs. With smartphone demand rising, feature phone OEMs/ODMs are turning to MediaTek and asking for the miracle all over again: Do what you did for us [with feature phones], now for smartphones.
Industry watchers point to MediaTeks record. The case in point is Lenovos A60 smartphone that got widely popular in 2011. Using MediaTeks first 3G smartphone platform launched in May, 2011, Lenovo delivered the companys first smartphone in retail stores in August, 2011. Without leveraging MediaTeks hallmark strength intimate knowledge on its customers abilities and wants -- the quick turnaround from chip to system design to product launch wouldnt have been possible.
While some may say that Android has leveled the playing field for handset OEMs/ODMs, making it easy for them to design smartphones, the reality might be more complicated. Feature phone OEMs and ODMs need to learn everything from hardware to software to make smartphones sing. Shoving a Qualcomm snapdragon apps processor down their throats is a dubious approach.
Urban-rural income gap gets bigger
Income inequality between those who live in cities and those in the rural areas is expanding in China.
Quoting The Urban Blue Book: China City Development Report No. 5, released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Tuesday (Aug. 14th), Xinhua, Chinas state-controlled media agency, reported that China's per capita urban income last year was about 5.2 times that of the countryside.
This makes the income gap about 26 percent higher than that of 1997 and 68 percent higher than 1985, the report said, adding it far exceeded figures of the same kind in many foreign countries.
The Urban Blue Book also noted that the number of urbanites has surpassed the number of rural residents in China, with the urbanization rate reaching 51.27 percent. This significant change in the country's social structure almost inevitably ushers in the "city-based society" that occurred in the West with the Industrial Revolution, more than a century ago.
However, Xinhua reported that there is still a long way to go for China to become truly city-based. The majority of migrant workers and farmers-turned-city dwellers find it hard to blend into urban life, and most Chinese cities lack distinguished features and cultures, the Urban Blue Book said.
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F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate
Review by sfcalimari
"an action-packed and very fun game, but certainly a bit watered down"
Perseus Mandate
Another year, another FEAR expansion. What always set FEAR apart from the other 4.3 million fps games for pc was its slow-mo and also its unique mesh of action with horror movie-style storytelling. But what dragged FEAR down was repetitive levels and having to face the same types of enemies and tactics 500 times in a row. Extraction Point had a bit more level and weaponry variety, but was shorter and the story was a bit watered down. So how does Perseus Mandate stack up? Pretty well overall.
Perseus Mandate has you as a different character than the "Point Man" you played in FEAR and Extraction Point. This time you're some soldier dude from a different organization sent into the same area that Point Man was sent into. Yeah, there's not much explanation of what your job is. Some guy tells you "go in there!" or something and the next thing you know you're under fire from replica soldiers.
This kind of sums up the game really. The story and atmosphere elements that were so strong in FEAR have really been watered down, but the frenetic action has been kept in place, and in many places the game feels a lot more intense and action-packed than the previous installments.
Basically the gameplay is still the same as FEAR. For some unexplained reason you have the same slow-mo powers that Point Man did, which is fine because the slow-mo is what sets this game apart. It never gets old to carefully line up a shotgun blast and turn your enemy into a cloud of dust. The same great ragdoll effects are here. The only real change I can think of is that you get to use a couple of new weapons. One is an assault rifle with a scope which isn't that different from the one you've been using since FEAR, although it is noticeably more powerful. Also there's a "lightning bolt" gun which shoots out a bolt that bounces from one enemy to any nearby enemies. It's not terribly useful or powerful and as usual you only get a tiny bit of ammunition for it.
As for levels, well again FEAR was great but the levels were ridiculously repetitive sometimes. Perseus Mandate has a bit more level variety, which keeps things fresher. Some of the underground levels are really well done and visually interesting, but unfortunately these are usually empty of enemies. You'll mainly be fighting in the sorts of levels you saw in the previous games--laboratories, tunnels, office buildings, etc. There could have been a bit more variety and honestly couldn't they try to set up some large outdoors areas for a change? Oh well.
As for the type of gameplay you encounter, well again if you've played FEAR you won't see much new here. You move along a linear corridor, encounter enemies, fight them, then move on. Sometimes you will need to hunt for a switch or a door so you can progress. And sometimes you'll be wandering down some corridor and something extremely freaky but predictable will happen. Rule #4,653 of horror movies: if you are all alone in a desolate place and the music suddenly starts sounding creepy and forboding, something is about to jump out at you.
And how about the enemies? Well again you will be fighting all the enemy types you have seen before, with a few new ones. The main new type is the Nightcrawlers, who are mysterious mercenaries. Honestly they are exactly like the replica soldiers you have been blasting away since FEAR. They look about the same, behave the same during combat, and even cuss and shout the same as the replicas. So nothing really new here, just kind of a palette swap. For one thing they don't fight alongside the heavy armor troopers that the replicas have, and those heavy armor types were often the most challenging enemies to face, so in a way the Nightcrawlers are maybe on the whole easier to deal with, which is a bit weak. They do however have some guys who are able to dash around quickly and evade your bullets, kind of like the Matrix or something. They're very challenging to beat and a little annoying, good luck.
One thing that does stand out is that the enemy AI seems dumber than in earlier games. The enemies don't really try to do much other than hide behind cover or rush at you firing wildly. They don't try to flank you by using a side passage you didn't know about, as sometimes happens in FEAR or Extraction Point. Part of this issue is probably that the levels are so linear that maybe the enemies don't have any options to move around laterally. Also the enemies never seem to react when you use your flashlightone of the most intense things about FEAR or EP was that enemies would spot you if you used your light. So overall the enemies are still pretty tough and seem to outnumber you even more than in previous games, so the game is very intense...it's just that the enemy AI doesn't have the kind of polish that made gameplay stand out in the previous installments.
Yes, the graphics are noticeably worse than even FEAR. Yes, Perseus Mandate just came out in November 2007, and FEAR came out in 2005. I played through FEAR for the first time just before playing Perseus Mandate, and I definitely noticed that FEAR looks a lot more polished. Perseus Mandate does not look horrible, just a bit less polished and dated. But it is odd that I can run a brand new game at max settings and it looks worse than when I play two-year-old FEAR on medium settings.
The same eerie sound effects and ambient music as in FEAR. The sound and music really set the mood. I also liked the "action" music that plays whenever you are spotted by the enemy and get into a massive firefight, it seems a bit more intense than the previous FEAR games.
Well kind of a weak point here. FEAR was a lot of fun mainly because of the eerie and fairly compelling story. Perseus Mandate has a story but honestly it just seems a bit thrown together, and some of the enemy NPC characters are just silly. You won't really learn much from this game, so again the main point is blasting baddies, not so much getting involved in a compelling storyline.
Again, I state that this game is just pure action. If you are dying for more FEAR but are getting tired of replaying the other FEAR games, and you want some new levels to play in, this is a good game to get. It won't amaze you like playing FEAR for the first time did, and it's mostly just a rehash of levels and gameplay you've seen in FEAR and EP, but it's fun enough and the action is fast and furious enough to warrant a playthrough. I wouldn't quite say that it is worth the full $30 it is being sold for now, so maybe $20 is a rather better price for it.
So I would have to give this game a 7. It's not bad, and it's a blast to play through, it's just not as great as it could have been, and it's definitely not as great as the original FEAR.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 12/29/07
Game Release: F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate (US, 11/06/07)
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Sorry Panthers, but give me Rivers vs. Wilson
Posted January 6, 2014
Eight quarterbacks are still standing in this NFL season and two – San Diego's Philip Rivers and Seattle's Russell Wilson – are N.C. State products.
Carolina Panthers fans will just have to forgive me for hoping Rivers and Wilson also will be the last two in the championship chase on Super Bowl Sunday – Feb. 2 in New Jersey's MetLife Stadium.
It's not that I have anything at all against the Panthers' Cam Newton or any of the other surviving team leaders.
A title for Panthers' owner Jerry Richardson, 77, would be a just reward for a man who has devoted much of his life to establishing Charlotte and the Carolinas as major players in the world of professional sports.
A Super Bowl win for Denver and 37-year-old Peyton Manning obviously would be a crowning achievement in a remarkable recovery from injuries that could have ended his record-setting career.
A win by New Orleans would give Drew Brees, who will turn 35 on Jan. 15, two rings and a straight shot to the Hall of Fame.
In only his third season with the Indianapolis Colts, young Andrew Luck already has established that the franchise's rich quarterback legacy – Manning, John Unitas, Earl Morrall, Bert Jones – will continue for years to come.
With one more championship, New England's Tom Brady would join Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana as the only quarterbacks with four rings.
Colin Kaepernick taking San Francisco to two straight Super Bowls would be an indication of pending greatness for a former Nevada Wolf Pack quarterback who overcame some of the same obstacles that confronted Wilson.
But there is one big – literally – difference between Wilson and the 6-4, 230-pound Kaepernick, who may not have had the prototypical NFL skill set but did have the size to make the 49ers and a few other teams believe he could be a quick fit.
At 5-11 and 205 pounds, Wilson, a third-round draft pick in 2011, would join Brees (6-0, 205), Fran Tarkenton (6-0, 190), Joe Theismann (6-0, 195) and Bob Griese (6-1, 190) as the smallest Super Bowl starters ever.
Had it not been for Seattle coach Pete Carroll's willingness to think outside the quarterback box, Wilson may not have been drafted at all, much less given a quick chance to earn a starting role.
A Super Bowl win for Wilson would be something right out the basketball movie "Hoosiers" – a win for all the little guys who never got there.
Chargers have frustrating franchise history
Rivers, 32, is in danger of falling into the category of a long-time starter whose career ends with a stuffed stat sheet but very little meaningful hardware.
To a degree, Rivers is dealing with a Chargers curse of sorts.
The franchise has had some of the most prolific passers in NFL history – Dan Fouts, John Hadl, Brees, Jack Kemp, even Unitas (one season, 1973) in addition to Rivers.
But only once since the NFL merged with the AFL in 1970 have the Chargers reached the Super Bowl and that resulted in a 49-26 loss to the 49ers and Steve Young in 1995 ('94 season).
Before the merger, the Chargers reached five AFL championship games and won just one – a 51-10 rout of the Patriots.
After Sunday's 27-10 upset win at Cincinnati, The San Diego Union Tribune newspaper reported an interesting exchange between Rivers and backup quarterback Charlie Whitehurst, who was arriving at Clemson just about the time that Rivers was ending his four years at State.
"Eight quarters, eight quarters, just eight quarters away (from reaching the Super Bowl)," Rivers said repeatedly.
At Denver (4:30 p.m., Sunday, WRAL), the Chargers will be a 10-point underdog to Manning and the rested Broncos.
Chargers linebacker Donald Butler told reporters, "There's no pressure on us now."
But knowing Rivers, he certainly will not take that sort of carefree attitude into the game. He's running out of chances and no one has worked harder for a championship. He had a distinct last-man-standing, Crockett-like personality in college and that part of his life hasn't changed.
The odds are against Rivers and the Chargers at Denver, just as the odds are against Rivers/Wilson finale. But it would sure be something that Triangle sports fans would remember forever.


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A 24-year-old Taco Bell employee from Dalton, Ga., was arrested for handcuffing a co-worker to him after she refused to go out with him. Managers at the world's most highly regarded hangover-food chain had changed the shift of the 18-year-old woman in order to keep Jason Dean away from her, the Times Free Press reports. But that wasn't good enough; on Monday night, he waited for her in the parking lot after her shift and handcuffed himself to her. Her screams brought out employees who called police, causing Dean to release himself and flee. He was later arrested in his home.
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Truckers protest high cost of fuel
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RIDGEFIELD, N.J. - Tons of freight idled across the country yesterday as independent truckers pulled their rigs off the road while others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices.
Using CB radios and trucking websites, some truckers called for a strike yesterday to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, hoping the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the nation's oil reserves.
"The gas prices are too high," said Lamont Newberne, a trucker from Wilmington, N.C., who along with 200 drivers protested at a New Jersey Turnpike service area. "We don't make enough money to pay our bills and take care of our family."
On the turnpike, southbound rigs staged a short lunchtime protest by moving about 20 miles per hour near Newark, jamming traffic on one of the nation's most heavily traveled highways, authorities said.
By day's end, the protests ended up scattered: major trucking companies were not on board, and Teamsters union officials and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association denied organizing the protests.
Federal law prohibits the association from calling for a strike because it is a trade association.
Clayton Boyce, spokesman for the American Trucking Association, said that diesel prices are the worst he's seen but that his organization does not support or condone the strike.
His group is pushing for a number of measures to keep the prices down or to otherwise help truckers, including allowing exploration of oil-rich areas of the United States that are now off limits and setting a 65-mile-per-hour national speed limit.
Newberne said a typical run carrying produce from Lakeland, Fla., to the Hunt's Point Market in the Bronx had cost $600 to $700 a year ago. It now runs him $1,000.
Outside Chicago, three truck drivers were ticketed for impeding traffic on Interstate 55, driving three abreast at low speeds, the state police said. About 30 truckers drove in a convoy around metropolitan Atlanta at low speeds.
Near Florida's Port of Tampa, more than 50 tractor-trailer rigs sat idle as their drivers demanded that contractors pay them more to cover their fuel and other costs.
"We can no longer haul their stuff for what they're paying," said David Santiago, 35, a trucker for the past 17 years.
Charles Rotenbarger, 49, a trucker from Columbus, Ohio, said he felt helpless.
"The oil company is the boss - what are we going to be able to do about it?" said Rotenbarger, who was at a truck stop in Baldwin, Fla., about 20 miles west of Jacksonville. "The whole world economy is going to be controlled by the oil companies. There's nothing we can do about it."
Jimmy Lowry, 51, of St. Petersburg, Fla., and others said it costs about $1 a mile to drive one of the big rigs, although some companies are offering as little as 87 cents a mile. Diesel cost $4.03 a gallon at the truck stop.


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New Delhi, Aug 21 (ANI): India has asked Pakistan to return all personal belongings of Sarabjit Singh, who was killed in a Lahore jail a few months ago.
Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur had last month requested Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to bring back his belongings from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail.
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BYU football notebook: Bronco Mendenhall decides naming team captains early was wrong
Naval Vet Philadelphia, PAMarch 30, 2012 6:12 p.m.
"Any of those teams, with the exception of BSU on their best year would have been an average team in any of the top 4 BCS conferences and wouuld [sic] never hav sniffed a BCS game."
Not so TJ. First of all, you're forgetting that many people believe that the 2004 Utes were a better team than the 2008 edition, and the 2008 edition beat 4 ranked teams -- 2 of whom were in the Top-10. And secondly, in 2008, the MWC was actually ranked the 4th best league in college football behind the (1)SEC, (2)Big 12, and (3)Pac-10, and ahead of the (5)ACC, (6)BigTen, and (7)Big East. Epic fail on your part.
By the way -- the WAC, where YOU played YOUR last season, finished DEAD LAST in conference SOS. And you STILL didn't go undefeated. No BCS for you. Again! Haha!
Mid-majors forever.
WON84 PLANO, TXMarch 30, 2012 10:19 a.m.
BlueHusky, let's be fair, there are some objective Ute fans too. That said, there also seem to be quite many who cannot let go of BYU even though their rival is actually in Boulder. I'm even more surprised by this given they lost to their ten loss rival and after this season, they may not face BYU again.
Regarding a BCS game, I think there is a pretty good chance Boise will do it again before BYU does. Simply winning the Big East next season (which is no more difficult than winning the MWC) will do it. I'm also not convinced that the BCS is going to survive so perhaps the better question is which of the three enters a four team playoff first?
Anyways, Utah has a bit of a tougher road. It is very unlikely that they'll come out on top of USC, Oregon, and Stanford in the same season. So, they should be glad about the increased funding from the conference's TV contract but, also realize they are more like Oregon St. (good program but, rarely a BCS Bowl contender) and adjust expectations accordingly.
BlueHusky Mission Viejo, CAMarch 30, 2012 7:17 a.m.
An article on BYU and all the comments are from Utah "fans". My, how they love to hate. True, Utah and BSU went to a couple of BCS games. Good for you. BYU won a National Championship. Good for them.
BYU will be in a BCS game before Utah or Boise do it again.
Have fun getting smacked around by your new conference buddies.
Elmer Fudd Sandy, UtahMarch 29, 2012 4:56 p.m.
"As the first two posters pointed out, uTah and BSU both made it to BCS games. They found the easy path. Play a couple of good teams, a couple of average teams and several not so good teams and go undefeated".
Sooo........BYU was on that same easy path as Utah, Boise State, and TCU to busting into the BCS. BYU has played a couple of good teams, a couple of average teams, and several not so good teams. Why haven't the Cougies gone undefeated and bust into the BCS yet and joined the elite club?
TJ Eagle Mountain, UTMarch 29, 2012 7:36 a.m.
As the first two posters pointed out, uTah and BSU both made it to BCS games. They found the easy path. Play a couple of good teams, a couple of average teams and several not so good teams and go undefeated. They were good teams that were able to do that . Any of those teams, with the exception of BSU on their best year would have been an average team in any of the top 4 BCS conferences and wouuld never hav sniffed a BCS game. The window for that to happen again is closing fast with conference re-alignment but it is not closed all the way. Could happen again.
Pugman TREMONTON, UTMarch 29, 2012 6:48 a.m.
In other news Boise State still continues to look for a kicker!!!!
Tom in CA Vallejo, CAMarch 29, 2012 6:29 a.m.
@boise super blue:
In the not too distant past, boise state was nothing but an after thought. Things can change fast. Don't gloat too much, my friend. Same goes to you, Otis. As for the utes - in the mighty conference of champions, they will be in the middle to bottom most of the time.
BoiseSuperBlue Mars University, MarsMarch 28, 2012 9:59 p.m.
I think you under-estimate how difficult it will be for BYU to ever make it to a BCS bowl. Boise and TCU were able to break in to the BCS because of superior recruiting and coaching at all levels. I just don't think BYU or Coach Mendenhall have the same commitment required to take the team to BCS levels of greatness. Only a few elite teams in the nation will ever be good enough to make it to a BCS game. Just because a team doesn't make it to the BCS doesn't mean the team isn't good. Not every team in football can be excellent.
Otis Spurlock Ogden, UTMarch 28, 2012 9:41 p.m.
Great article. I'm glad that Coach Brocno realized that naming a captain too early can have dire consequences on team leadership.
I like the direction byu football is heading right now. It won't be easy, but if byu continues to improve, it's possible that they could make it to a BCS Bowl in the next 7-10 years. It's also entirely possible that byu could be invited to join a BCS Conference in the next 15-20 years, if they continue to improve.
I think byu is probably where Utah was in 1999. Back in 1999 there was a cultural shift for excellence at Utah and they continued to build on that attitude of excellence for the next ten years. Utah's attitude of excellence took them to 2 BCS Bowl victories and the much coveted invitation to join the elite BCS Conference of Champions.
Who is to say that in 10 years from now, byu couldn't be invited to a BCS Bowl. Utah did it with lots of hard work and I really think byu can do it too.
Y Grad / Y Dad Richland, WAMarch 28, 2012 9:21 p.m.
Uh, this should send Wayne over the edge...