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This pack includes the original GTA IV game (I reviewed this elsewhere) and two new stories featuring all-new characters, The Lost and the Damned and the Ballad of Gay Tony.
I bought this pack having already purchased GTA IV on Steam. There is a large modding community for the GTA series and I needed all of the expansion packs to benefit from this.
In The Lost and the Damned you take control of Johnny Klebitz, a Lieutenant in a Liberty City biker gang. The story revolves around the power struggle going on within the gang and is used as a basis for introducing new features. In some missions you're required to ride in formation, and towards the end of the game you can summon your gang to help out on missions. You can also summon your friends and buy guns off them, or get one of them to drop a bike off for you.
This works well and you really get a feeling of being part of a gang, and they don't relentlessly hassle you like in the original game.
There's some awesome new weapons, including the powerful Street Sweeper shotgun, and a grenade launcher. These new guns are a lot of fun.
There have been no changes made to the graphics engine, but there are new radio station tracks. Probably the biggest change made is how the bikes handle. You've now got a wide variety of motorbikes to choose from and they all have different characteristics. Thankfully they've made it harder to fall off the bikes which is very helpful in missions.
Thematically the game suited me very well, although I can understand some people won't like the new music or the characters. Great pains are taken to establish the fact that, despite being a biker gang, they're not racist or sexist. Indeed, Johnny himself is Jewish and some of the first missions revolve around taking on a rival biker gang who are racist.
In TBOGT you assume the role of Luis Lopez, a bodyguard of club owner Gay Tony. The story is way more far-fetched and outrageous than TLATD, throughout the course of the story you'll find yourself base-jumping, flying gold-plated helicopter gunships and meeting some very odd people.
The missions are definitely more 'out-there' reminding me of the sillier missions from the last GTA games. One will have you playing some golf on a driving range with an informer as the target, in another you will be parachuting onto a moving lorry.
There's more weapons, including a cool handgun and some enjoyable new remote explosives, along with a machine gun and some other bits. You also get some new vehicles, mostly in the sports/executive range. Again more tracks have been added to the radio stations, and there's the usual side missions that you can take on if you're bored.
This pack is tremendous value for money. With each story you get many hours of gameplay, and its interesting to see how the stories of the three characters interweave. Ensure to check the GTA modding community as well for more skins, weapons and vehicles.
If you have the High Spec computer required to play this game, then it is definately a must buy.
The game holds host too two completely seperate story lines, though they do intertwine with one another every so often. The first story is The Lost and Damned, where you lead a Biker gang to dominate the competition. This game is good, though i find the story line did get a bit boring, and the extra weapons you get aren't as good as they are in the other story. The Ballad of Gay Tony is the second story and is much better than the other. In this story you run a series of nightclubs with your buisness partner Tony, and have a lot of debt problems that you are trying to get rid of. The storyline in this game is much better and has lots of twists and turns which keep you entertained throughout.
The weapons in the Ballad of Gay Tony are much much cooler and better than have ever appeared in any GTA game. The Explosive Shotgun is a personal favourite, ruining a car in just 2 shots. The vehicles in The Ballad of Gay Tony are also much better, with a range of new sports cars, and a Noose Tank which has the same weapon capabilities of the explosive shotgun, just mounted on a turret. In the Lost and Damned all you really get is a few new bikes, which to be honest, are all kind of the same.
Nevertheless, this game is still worth purchasing, even if it is just for the Ballad of Gay Tony storyline. Even if you are not playing the missions, the game is great for keeping you entertained running round the city crashing cars and blowing up stuff, GTA style.
The PC port of GTA IV was a failure. Its performance was dreadful, and has remained dreadful as of the date of this review despite numerous patches being released during the intervening year and a half. The game itself was marred by poor AI and clunky controls, and these problems existed across gaming platforms from day one. GTA: Episodes From Liberty City (EFLC) is built upon the same engine as GTA IV, and therefore suffers from the same problems. A new patch was released to coincide with the release of the PC version of EFLC, which aimed to both patch the new game(s) and also to bring the original GTA IV up to date with the improvements of EFLC. The patch had almost no impact on the game's poor performance, although it did add a few more graphics options which allowed more control over shadows and anisotropic filtering. It also solved the problem people have had with drivers of vehicles being invisible at relatively short distances; now you can snipe them from rooftops instead of firing fruitlessly into Herbie Goes Bananas-style self-driving cars.
The performance of the game aside, EFLC is a rather measly offering. The game consists of two separate episodes, "The Lost and Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony". The set is advertised as being "two complete games", but even taken together they don't amount to half of what GTA IV was in terms of the number of missions, characters and side quests which were available. You can complete each game in one or two sittings if you skip the cut-scenes, use cabs and trains when possible and don't die too often.
In "The Lost and Damned" (TLAD) you are a member of a criminal motorcycle club, a club which featured in several missions in GTA IV. The story begins with the leader of the gang, Billy Grey, being released from prison, ready to take over once again. Prior to his release your character, Johnny Klebitz, was acting boss and had managed to keep things on a relatively even keel with regards to the heat from the cops and the gang's relationship with other gangs from around Liberty City. Billy quickly falls into old habits and begins dragging the club down with him through his destructive behaviour. Many of the game's missions overlap with those from GTA IV which featured the gang, and Niko - the main character from the original game - makes several appearances, as do several other familiar characters from the original.
The game understandably makes heavy use of motorcycles as the primary means of transportation, and the mechanics for these vehicles have greatly improved compared to how they were in GTA IV. There are many new bikes and other vehicles to choose from, as well as a handful of new weapons. The new weapons are as follows:
[Automatic 9mm]: a handgun which is capable of automatic fire.
[Sawed-off Shotgun]: a double-barrelled shotgun with a very wide spread and a lot of power if used in close quarters combat.
[Assault Shotgun]: a shotgun which is capable of automatic fire and has a large ammunition capacity.
[Grenade Launcher]: fires a single grenade which explodes after several seconds.
[Pipe Bombs]: essentially the same as hand grenades, these bombs are thrown and detonate after several seconds.
[Half a Pool Cue]: a short pool cue used for battering enemies.
All of the weapons from GTA IV are included as well. A quick list of these weapons follows:
* Pistol
* Desert Eagle pistol
* Micro-SMG
* Pump-action Shotgun
* Combat Shotgun
* AK47 Assault Rifle
* M4 Carbine
* M40A1 Sniper Rifle
* PSG-1 Sniper Rifle
* Molotov Cocktails
* Hand Grenades
* Baseball bat
* Knife
The voice acting in TLAD is pretty standard GTA fare. The only noticeably weak link in the cast is the actor who plays Johnny Klebitz, the main character. He sounds rather strained, like he's trying a little too hard to sound like a tough biker type and instead ends up sounding like a bratty adolescent. The actor who plays Billy Grey is mostly convincing, although his incessant jokey sarcastic tone belies the apparent cold blooded nature of the character. This probably has more to do with the writing than the way he's played, however.
The side missions are scarce, and are primarily focused on gang wars (taking a selection of your crew with you to wipe out a rival gang) and racing. The racing is reminiscent of the old DOS game Road Rash; you are allowed to carry a baseball bat with you during races, and you're allowed to whack anyone who gets too close to you. Obviously the races are all conducted on motorcycles - if you turn up to a race in a car or on foot you'll get a message on-screen telling you to find a bike.
Besides these side quests you also have some largely meaningless activities you can perform, such as killing 50 seagulls or playing air hockey at the bowling alley. The air hockey is a very underdeveloped minigame, and it's both hilarious and frustrating to watch your AI opponent attempt to figure out how to get the puck out of the corner of the table. A way of earning easy money in TLAD is to participate in arm wrestling competitions, which are performed by frantically moving your mouse around in every direction.
TLAD is undoubtedly the shorter of the two episodes, and the tone of TLAD is a little more reined in and gritty than that of The Ballad of Gay Tony (TBOGT). The game is enjoyable, and it's certainly worth a look if you're into this series, but don't expect anything on the scale of GTA IV. This might sound obvious given that TLAD and TBOGT were originally downloadable content, but unsuspecting gamers might be drawn in by the promise of two "complete games" and I want to make it clear that these are nowhere near complete.
The Ballad of Gay Tony is the "wackier" of the two episodes, with a lot of San Andreas-like missions involving parachuting onto the backs of trucks and stealing helicopters from cruise ships. The character you play is Luis Fernando Lopez, a bodyguard and hitman from the Dominican Republic. He works for Gay Tony, the owner of the hottest straight and gay clubs in Liberty City. Tony's involvement with shady characters from the criminal underworld inevitably spills over into Luis' life, who ends up working for some of them and killing others. Many missions undertaken in TBOGT once again overlap with events which took place in GTA IV, and indeed in TLAD. Niko, Johnny and Billy all make appearances and many of the plot points from GTA IV and TLAD start to make a little more sense when they're all pulled together in TBOGT. I've heard the nature of the plots in these gamed compared to the film Pulp Fiction, a film which masterfully intertwines many seemingly unrelated storylines into one, and I'd have to agree with that.
As was the case with TLAD, TBOGT introduces several new vehicles and weapons into the game world. The new weapons found in TLAD are not available in TBOGT, but the new weapons you do have access to are as follows:
[Sticky Bombs]: these are remotely detonated charges which can be thrown against walls and vehicles, or just dropped at one's feet.
[.44 Pistol]: a new and improved handgun which packs a lot of punch but has a lower rate of fire and a slower reload than other pistols.
[Gold SMG]: a golden sub-machine-gun, this weapon is given to you by an associate after the successful completion of a certain mission.
[FN P90]: a silenced machine gun with a high rate of fire, plenty of power and a high degree of accuracy.
[Explosive Shotgun]: while this automatic shotgun can be used with standard ammunition it can also be fitted with explosive cartridges, which put massive dents in vehicles and send enemy NPCs flying.
[Advanced MG]: a heavy-duty machine-gun with a very high rate of fire and a massive ammunition clip. It's not very accurate compared to the other machine-guns in the game, but with a rate of fire as high as this you're not likely to miss twice.
[Advanced Sniper Rifle]: a sniper rifle with a much greater range than that of the rifles from previous games. It can be used with explosive rounds, but these rounds can only be used after a cheat code is entered.
The standard list of weapons from GTA IV and TLAD are also present in TBOGT. The full list can be found above.
For the first time since GTA: San Andreas players can use parachutes to perform base jumps and survive high falls.
The voice actor who plays Luis is superb, and has a genuinely menacing presence. He's a likeable character in many respects, but it's also clear that it takes little to send him into a murderous rage, and this juxtaposition of a frightening psychopath with a nice chap just making a living is written and played flawlessly. As was the case with TLAD the cast is generally typical of the GTA style and tone. Given that this episode is about gay nightclubs you can expect to see at least one or two homosexual stereotypes lifted straight out of a 1970s sitcom.
Side quests in TBOGT include cage fighting for money, base jumps, triathlon racing (parachuting from a plane or helicopter into a boat, then you sale ashore and drive a car for the remainder of the race), nightclub management (essentially being the club's bouncer), drug wars with rival gangs and killing another 50 seagulls.
TBOGT reminds me of San Andreas a great deal, and I think the developers were trying to recapture the gaming experience of San Andreas intentionally.
Both TBOG and TLAD feature further side missions in the form of "random characters". These people appear on your map as icons, and when approached you'll be treated to a cut-scene during which the character tells you of some problem they're having and asks you for help with it. Completing the mission often earns you money, and the characters are often people you've met, worked with or helped earlier in the game. The missions are quite fun, and when the relevant icon appears on your map you'll find yourself dropping whatever else you were doing and attending to it immediately. Often the availability of these characters depends on decisions you've made throughout the game. For instance, if you kill someone who would have become one of these characters later you'll obviously have missed out on whatever missions he/she would have wanted you to complete. It gives the game a certain degree of replayability on its own, and coerces you into make different decisions the second time around.
The games are third-person shooters, which means you'll have an over-the-shoulder view of your character throughout. The game has a cover system, which involves tapping Q in order to send your character behind a wall or a doorway, ready to shoot blindly around the corner or to poke his head out to get a more accurate shot. This is one of the game's most irritating features, simply because of how unresponsive your character is when he's in this state. During a shoot-out seconds can mean the difference between life and death, and the cover system holds you back bigtime. Likewise, the general control system of your character feels heavy, weighted-down and insensitive. You sometimes have to release all of the buttons and then press them down again in order to stop your character from running in the wrong direction. These problems have plagued GTA IV and now they plague EFLC.
Luckily you are not forced to engage in friendship activities which was something GTA IV insisted upon. You can use your mobile phone's contact list to ask friends out for drinks, games or food but you don't have to. Likewise, you don't have to search for or maintain romantic relationships. Thank you, Rockstar Games!
The multiplayer is largely the same as it is in GTA IV, with some game modes simply renamed to reflect the Episode you're playing. I don't play online, but here are the modes which are available:
[ Witness Protection ]: a team-based mode in which a biker gang and the police do battle for the lives of witnesses in buses being escorted to court.
[ Race ]: The same as the racing which takes place in the single player game, but here you're playing against other gamers.
[ Lone Wolf Biker ]: a player tries to remain alive for as long a possible whilst the other players chase after him. Whomever kills you becomes the Lone Wolf, and whomever remains as the Lone Wolf for the longest wins the round.
[ Own the City ]: players attempt to gain control of territories around the city.
[ Club Business ]: plays take orders on cell phones telling them to carry out certain tasks in teams of 8.
[ Chopper Vs. Chopper ]: a biker tries to reach checkpoints before a helicopter kills him/her.
[ Deathmatch/Team Deathmatch ]: the object of the game is to simply wipe out your enemies.
[ Free Mode ]: players can roam the city freely with friends, taking part in base jumps and other activities.
[ Racing ]: self-explanatory, really!
The graphics are largely the same as those of GTA IV; photo-realistic, and still hold up well several years after the engine was fist developed. The performance of the game has already been discussed, but here are the minimum system requirements:
[CPU]: Intel Core 2 DUO 1.8GHz or equivalent/better
[Graphics Card]: 256MB of on-board RAM, preferably something along the lines of an nVidia 7900 or an ATI X1900
[RAM]: 1GB (1.5GB for operating systems later than Windows XP)
[Hard Drive Space]: 18GB
[Operating System]: Windows XP or later
Installing the game will take some time, given the sheer scope of the game's engine and textures. The game is spread over two DVD9s (dual-layered DVDs) and you'll need around 18GB of free space to install it. With the new patch you no longer need to install or use the Rockstar Social Club to play the game, and can instead remain offline. However, you still have to activate your license online and you still have to revoke your license when you decide to uninstall the game, as was the case with GTA IV. You do NOT need GTA IV installed in order to play EFLC - this game is a standalone release.
Overall EFLC is a great game, held back only by its brevity and its lazy PC implementation, hence the three-star rating. If you decide to play through GTA IV, TLAD and TBOGT in sequence you'll find it to be a satisfying and engrossing experience. If you haven't played GTA IV certain parts of the game will make little sense to you, and if you haven't played GTA IV recently you'll probably find yourself irritated afresh by EFLC's clunky controls and inconsistent performance.


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A Valley Stream man was arrested Monday on a weapons charge after he fired a gunshot into the air during a verbal dispute in front of his home, police said.
A 69-year-old witness saw Brandon J. Schmidt, 21, of 63 W. Valley Blvd., involved in an altercation with a 27-year-old male, "then pointed a black handgun into the air and fired one round," Nassau County police said in a Tuesday news release.
No injuries were reported, and a 9-millimeter shell casing was recovered at the scene, police said.
Schmidt fled in a 2008 Honda, and later surrendered to Fourth Squad detectives and was arrested at 10:10 a.m. on charges of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree criminal use of a firearm and second-degree reckless endangerment, police said.
He is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday in First District Court, Hempstead.

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The Celtics are many years removed from the days of bake sales and birthday celebrations, but that doesn't mean they can't mark milestones with confectionery treats.
Doc Rivers decided to bust out the baked goodies this week as he marked his 400th career regular-season win. He had Georgetown Cupcakes send a box of deluxe cupcakes with Celtics-themed decorating to each member of the team, with the boxes showing up in each player's locker before Thursday night's game against the Lakers.
The pink boxes, which came with a thank you written on a green notecard, were enough of a boost that the C's went out and trampled the Lakers 116-95. Boston has now won six in a row – and every game since point guard Rajon Rondo went down with a season-ending ACL injury.
While the surplus of sugar may not have been the cause of the latest win, Rivers' gesture — to thank each player for being part of his 400th win — did leave an impression.
"It's really cool that somebody would do that," guard Avery Bradley said, according to Comcast Sports Net.
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Wan Abu Seman, Sharifah Zainaf (2010) Integration of design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) and theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) for design improvement. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
The quality of the product mostly depends on element such as product design, material used, function, assembly time and manufacturing cost. So a systematic method procedure needs to achieve the target need. Methods to be developed are with the help of TRIZ (the Russian abbreviation of the theory of inventive problem solving) and DFMA (design for manufacturing assembly approach). These methods focus on innovation within the whole function and mechanism structure of the base product. The approach methods been used based on criteria in each method and all the criteria will be analysed during product design stage. During the stage of design, a significant amount of information is gathered and analyzed to support the decision making process that leads to the synthesis of products. This approach first reveals the contradictions that block the target quality from being reached, based on the engineering solutions that the current base product employs and the phenomena that take place while the base product is performing its function. This will make product more competitive and effective with good quality and at the same time reduce the conflict faces.
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Thanksgiving, a day families congregate to observe their blessings, should be no different in practice for your favorite rappers. But as a precaution, Hip-Hop Wired took the time to list MCs, who in the words of the great "Prince Akeem" should be "very happy to be here."
No, this isn't a diss. If anything, it's an homage of sorts. Managing to maintain success in Hip-Hop is a feat in itself, but this list of wordsmiths have experienced adversities in their careers that would have ethered most, for lack of a better term.
That said, these are 10 rappers who should be thankful to have a career. See our selections in the gallery on the following pages. Feel free to agree or disagree in the comments.
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Microsoft has a lot to be proud of. As of February 2013, 46 million Xbox 360 owners are subscribers to their Xbox Live service, and have purchased 24 million Kinect Sensors as well as 76 million Xbox 360 consoles.
All subscribers have access to the dozens of media and social network services including YouTube, last.fm, Amazon Instant Video, Netflix and Skype. Online events like Play Xbox Live Arcade Mondays, GamerchiX Ladies Night and Xbox All-Nighter are held weekly to keep gamers engaged.
But with the PlayStation Meeting event last month in New York City, all eyes are on Sony and their now-unveiled PlayStation 4.
Sony was laser focused on showing gamers that the game console is a computing beast that is made for developers and players. The PS4 stirred a lot of excitement for its release this holiday season.
If Microsoft wants to keep all the gamers' attention and stay ahead of this coming generation of home gaming consoles, their reveal of the next Xbox must be the showstopper the PS4 was.
Two huge bullet points for the announcement of the PS4 were the system being gamer-focused and the integration of sharing gameplay.
Under the gaming category on YouTube, game commentaries are popular. A good percentage of the videos uploaded daily were recorded on an Xbox 360 through external recording. If the next Xbox could have straight and fast edit and upload to YouTube built into the operating system, it could be monumental in the existing YouTube community.
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Survival kit information......and training ???
August 23, 2006, 10:25 AM
Does anyone have a training regiment which concentrates on survival skills?
August 23, 2006, 11:46 AM
Take what you think you need for 3 days in the area. Go out an live in the wilderness for 3 days.
Next time, take less.
Then less.
Eventually, you will be able to survive with what you can put in your pockets and maybe a small knapsack.
August 23, 2006, 11:49 AM
Surviving what exactly?
A bear attack, a Katrina type event, civil unrest, bioterror..etc?
Are you going to bug out or stay at home? Do you have a family?
There is a wealth of information contained herein. Get specific and the members will fatten you up on food for thought.
My area of knowledge is primarily outdoor survival skills.
August 23, 2006, 12:14 PM
Virgil, Thats what I"m looking for Knowledge on wilderness survival. I live in Hurricane threatened Florida so my kit is tailored to surviving short term in the event of a natural disaster like a cane. My focus is now on preparing for the aftermath of a Bio/radio/chemical terror attack. If my family is not directly affected by the attack itself, the complications of such an attack could be just as bad or worst. Food shortages due to trucking restrictions etc. could lead to a civil unrest. Millions of unprepared citizens growing hungry will cause unparalleled violence this country has never seen. My food stores won't last forever and would become targets of hungry hoards of violent civilians. An option to both the above concerns would be to bug out into the woods. I'm already set in defensive or offensive tactics in any environment however I lack enough knowledge to extract everything the woods can offer in food, shelter, and concealment. If this is your specialty what would your LONG TERM kit include? What basic skills/tips can you give us? Thanks for the help.
August 23, 2006, 02:11 PM
Boy, are you sure you want to bug out of your house? Bugging out alone is one thing, but with a family in tow, thats another thing all together.
For starters, get a good topographical map of your area and a compass, then learn how to use them. Obtain a means for guaranteed water, fire, and shelter. You can go for a long time without much food.
Do your homework, and practice a few things. Like Tiny advises, go out and camp, get hungry and cold. Most of the discomfort is in your mind.
Find a way out of town using side streets and back roads, then pre-run them.
Get a solar/windup radio. A bug out kit is personal, but make sure you have meds, insurance papers, maps and so on. Will you take pets?
You'll see a 'cane coming for days, I would hope, but I keep a mini kit in my jeep, and my wife keeps one in her SUV, then we have a more substantial kit at home. It is stored where we would ride out a tornado.
My paradigm is different from yours, as I live in a very isolated and rual area of Michigan's north woods, and I intend on staying put should something goofy happen.
It's your call obviously, but I would consider staying with your supplies and defending your home, rather than carrying supplies out into the open where you have a lot less control.
The Katrina-esque roaming gangs would probably move on once they realized you meant business.
Do a bit of homework, and practice some techniques. Don't be in such a hurry to leave your supplies and shelter.
August 23, 2006, 03:16 PM
Is there any wilderness east of the Mississippi?
I suggest you stock up on what your county government suggests and while you're at it, check out what the Federal government thinks about it. Disasters, such as they are, happen with depressing frequency, although with comforting regularity in places that ever have them. I have suggested in other threads that we all need thicker doors, so maybe that's a place to start.
August 23, 2006, 03:27 PM
Vigil, For short duration survival situations I would definitely try to stay put. I can defend the house and supplies, no problem. Especially with family and neighbors helping. Bugging out to the woods would be only if A. The house became indefensible. B. My supplies run out in the house and no end to the situations is near. C. If the problem was so obviously bad with no fix possible for months or more.
If C. happened I would conceder getting out early to stake a claim in the woods (which might be crowded if I wait).
The Katrina-esque roaming gangs would probably move on once they realized you meant business.
Agreed once the first two or three drop the others will flee I'm sure. The problem for me is if things get so bad that the choice is get shot by a home defender or die of starvation. Hunger will change things.
August 23, 2006, 03:33 PM
Is there any wilderness east of the Mississippi?
Don't know. Here in Florida we have Ocala National Forest for wilderness and the everglades for marshland styled woods. Either is okay with me. Food to be had everywhere, concealment, shelter, etc. Yes I own a canoe for the Glades.
August 23, 2006, 03:59 PM
I think I'd rather be in my home with no supplies than in the woods around a bunch of freaked out, displaced strangers, with no supplies.. Heck, barricade yourself in a grocery store. I think your chances would be better in town because that's where the stuff is.
I can picture what you are thinking, but think of it this way; if most of the folks panic and flee, the best place for you to be is were thay aren't... like your own back yard.
You can store enough in your own house to last months.
August 23, 2006, 04:41 PM
Virgil, If it goes on for months ie no food in stores etc. people will begin to starve to death. The average human can go three weeks without food. So if the average unprepared fool rations what little food they can scape up plus they eat the neighborhood dogs and cats etc. I estimate this time can be stretched for a few weeks or so. If it goes on for months everything eatable will be long gone locally within weeks. Katrina shows what the hunger of less than a week will do to less civilized citizens. Imagine them after a month or more. I live in a subdivision and while defense is possible from less than focused groups, a large group of determined bad guys could easily breech the defenses leaving no place to run for me and the family. Think about covering all sides of your home simultaneously from multiple moving targets shooting back...................reality dictates that chances of survival are slim. Sure many will die trying but if I die my kids die. It would be a hard decision (to leave) but getting away from the hungry mobs and deep into the woods might be better. At least if a perimeter breech is made escape deeper into the woods is possible. Tough choices hope it never comes down to it.
August 23, 2006, 05:52 PM
Try this site. They have good information on putting together Survival Kits, as well as other Survival Information: http://www.survival.com
August 23, 2006, 06:05 PM
I understand your tactical dilema.
If things got that bad, then yes I agree, time to go.
I'm sure you can find text books/guide books about native Floridian flora and fauna (say that 5 times fast) that can help you pick out the berries, mushrooms, roots, grubs, reeds and what not you can ingest http://www.floridata.com/lists/vegetables_n_edible_plants.cfm
Learn to field dress and preserve game. Store salt.
Get Portable fishing gear or net.
Tactically, this is a pretty good basic list http://www.michiganmilitia.com/literature/level_1.htm
Never hurts to prepare your body http://www.michiganmilitia.com/evmm/medic/ptpage.html
Go out and really rough it for a few days. Great training, and you'll develop skills fast, and a good feel for what needs to be in your bug out load.
Bud Helms
August 23, 2006, 06:37 PM
threegun:Does anyone have a training regiment which concentrates on survival skills? Threegun asked about a training regimen, even though he said training regiment. If no one has any training regimen suggestions, and I haven't seen any, then this begins to look like another SHTF/BOB thread and we all know we don't do that on TFL ... don't we?
August 23, 2006, 08:09 PM
regimen; a system of diet, exercise,etc. for improvement of health.
regiment; to organize systematically.
I want a training program targeted to survival skills not for training my body. Regiment is listed in Webster as posted above. I don't think regimen is what I wanted as Websters lists it as a system of diet for improvement of health.
I am happy so far with most of the helpful links and suggestions. Mr. Helms please be patient, perhaps even more helpful info will come next. Thanks.
Dave R
August 23, 2006, 08:21 PM
What Tiny said. Go camping.
Get involved in Boy Scouts. They're all about SHTF training, in disguise. :D
Bud Helms
August 23, 2006, 09:41 PM
So you're actually looking for a training regiment? :D Well, I stand corrected! But what does survival training have to do with firearms? What you need is the US Army! ;)
August 24, 2006, 06:18 AM
But what does survival training have to do with firearms? What you need is the US Army!
I agree that the Army would help but they won't take an old, slightly overweight, flat footed, man with a not 100 percent heart. My heart got me rejected in my teens at a physical. I'm sure it ain't any better at 38 years old.
But what does survival training have to do with firearms?
Technically nothing. However they go hand in hand if the SHTF. Just as a handgun is useless without proper tactics all my rifles, shotguns, and pistols aren't going to help much in a survival situation without knowledge from how to choose the correct weapon to which plants are edible.
August 24, 2006, 08:18 AM
I owuld get a good book on survival such as the one by Lofty Wiseman or Eddie McGee. Read it, study it and try stuff. Some things you can do in your back yard.
When i think of a survival kit, I think of something you have incase you find yourself stranded or lose your pack, so I carry a kit no bigger than a pack of cigarettes. Most items in it are multipurpose and are tested. They will ensure or at least prolong my survival, and cover shelter, signals, water, fire and food. I think both of the books I mentioned give advice on items to choose.
August 24, 2006, 10:37 AM
pretty good info
August 24, 2006, 11:33 AM
Garry, Nice link thanks.
Chorlton, I have a mini kit already. I also have been working on a larger (long term kit) for a while now. I lack knowledge in shelter construction from available materials, food procurement (besides hunting, fishing, and trapping), and preservation of food without refrigeration. Garry's link will help tons. I plan on putting instructions on small note sheets and laminating them. Especially edible or otherwise useful plants in my area.
August 24, 2006, 02:11 PM
I saw this thread and it got me thinking I should study up also. First stop...local library. So yesterday after reading this thread I stopped by the library on my way to work and checked out a book called Practical Outdoor Survival: A Modern Approach To Staying Alive In The Wilderness. Author is Len McDougall. The author is a full-time outdoor writer and photographer. He says he learned most of what he knows from growing up around Native-American Indians in upper Michigan. Everything in the book, he says, has been personally put to use. He even suggests getting a .22 rifle. So far I am about half way through the book and it seems to be very informative. Alot more informative than my old Boy Scout Handbook.
August 24, 2006, 02:13 PM
Here's Lofty's book:
Get to know the plants in your area, and use them as often as possible (not just in an emergency).
Denny Hansen
August 24, 2006, 03:14 PM
Ron Hood, along with Jeff Randall, writes our survival column Against All Odds in S.W.A.T. There's some good info on many subjects at this website: http://www.survival.com/IVB/
August 26, 2006, 03:27 AM
Denny, Thanks for that link. Once I have completed my kit I will photograph it and post the final product or at least as it exists then (always adding things etc).
August 30, 2006, 03:22 PM
Have you field tested this kit? Or is it strictly theoretical?
August 30, 2006, 04:13 PM
Is there any wilderness east of the Mississippi?
Yes, there certainly is. I'm guessing you've never been to big chunks of PA, Southern OH, upstate NY, VA, WVA, or KY. There's still plenty of wilderness here.
I suggest you get a good first-aid kit:
and some potable-aqua tablets:
and some MREs:
I keep about a dozen-or-so around for "just in case." If they're good enough for my young friend currently stationed in Baghdad, they're good enough for me.
Arizona Fusilier
August 30, 2006, 08:31 PM
The best training is "hands-on"; I don't think there is anything practical you could rehearse for the awful scenario you described, or that you would want to.
Hunting and fishing are the two that have the most applicability to long term situations, and they can be fun, too. That's the primary reason I go out every year.
Other than that, read alot. I confess, I have found a few of these links interesting and have added them to my favorites.
One other thing; figure out the exact parameters under which you would "bug out" and discuss them frankly and forthrightly with your family ahead of time. All the planning you make will go out the window when your wife/SO insists you remain where you're at because you can't take the family china.
August 31, 2006, 01:34 PM
Katrina proved to my family that I am not a crazy gun nut but rather prepared. I had been telling them for years to get prepared with only a chuckle as a response. Now they realize that I was right. If the time comes and things are so bad as to have to bug out there will be not questions from the wife. If one does pop up surprisingly a simple trip into the bug out bag for some duct tape and off we go LOL.
tINY, As it stands now my kit contents are theoretical or better put untested. I plan on testing some of the snare traps and shelter constructing information soon. My boys love the camping type trips. Information is crucial.
August 31, 2006, 02:01 PM
Like skeeter said, there are lots of woods east of the Ol' Miss, From the Pocono Mountains across Northern PA and Southern NY and into parts of OH is a vast stretch of prime wilderness, aka my favorite hunting grounds. The Blue Ridge mountains, Smokey Mt Nation Park, Finger Lakes, Everglades, most of WV, Heck they filmed Deliverance in GA. Unfortunately unlike the West we have more private land here that has been developed. I think the ratio between Public/Protected land and Private land is a lot greater in the west than the east. The east has been settled longer, so less unspoiled woods, but there is still a good portion left. I'll admit though, unlike out West if you get lost in the eastern wood all you need is to walk 20 miles straight in any direction and you will hit a house, road, or some sort of civilization. I have been to CO, WY, AZ and in some areas where it seems there is not a soul for hundreds of mile.
Back to the subject of the post. Big things you need to think about in survivial prep regardless of the situation is Water, Food, Fire, Shelter, and Protection. Rule of thumb seems to be food and water for 3 days, otherwise pack according to the enviroment you are likely to be in. As long as you understand the basic concept of how to hunt/trap/kill/prepare an animinal, how to find/decontaminate water, how to make an improvised shelter, how to make fire, how to defend yourself (2 and 4 legged threats) and how to take care of yourself and others (first aid, basic hygiene, sewing, etc.) you will be fine.
September 2, 2006, 11:30 AM
I see some mention of MRE's in theis post. I don't have them in my pack. I carry two boxes of high energy bars. They are sufficiant to get me to the point I can forage.
My pack is light.
Two coils soft wire
3 1/4" snares without stops
Pack packers water filter.
3 knives
small aluminum pot with lid
Rain gear
8x8 sheet of plactic
2 bankets
plant I.D books
first aid kit
100rds 357mag ammo
bullet mold
2 pounds lead
1/2 pound powder
200 primers
lee loader 357
50 357 brass, pre primed
150ft GI cord.
Fire kit.
4" gp100
Winchester legacy 357 rifle
That gets me to my "go to" spot were I have stuff cached
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I downloaded the slack pkg from linuxpackages.net and also something called wine-builder.
I did an installpkg Wine-2003508.tgz and ran it getting and no .wine error, so I created a wine directory hope that it would generate it's own config file, but sure enough it didn't
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labr@, it's nice that you found a package, which I had, but it doesn't help solve the no config file
OK, I'm pressing on trying to get wine to work on slack9.0. A noobie question,,,according to the wine howto from winehq, I'm supposed to create directories, one of them being "Program Files". However, mkdir can't make such a file as it will create two separate files. Or, should that be "Program_Files"? How can one create "Program Files" through mkdir? As a note, the sample config, system.ini and win.ini are located in /usr/doc/wine-20030508/samples.
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Thanks for the tips. I think I've got it half-way working right as invoking wine does not complain something about config. However, I tried running mshearts as a test and it gives me something incompatible then goes through "font metrics" which goes and on. I'm not running kde and that is the only package not installed in this system. Any thoughts?
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- Mémin, Jean & Mishura, Yulia & Valkeila, Esko, 2001. "Inequalities for the moments of Wiener integrals with respect to a fractional Brownian motion," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 51(2), pages 197-206, January.
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My name is Billy Lutz. I am affiliated with Bonafide Boarding. We are looking at putting a twitter widget on our website. The only problem is that when we put the code into our site, nothing shows up. The code appears to be vertically spaced to not allow our site to read it. Can you please help me out with this? Thank you for your time.
Billy Lutz
Hi Billy, would you please include the code you're pasting into your website's HTML (or a link to the site in question)? If you could also elaborate on "the code appears to be vertically spaced to not allow our site to read it" that would help - I'm not completely sure I understand what you meant by that.
That would be the code. And when we put it in the website nothing happens. I am not sure why this is..
Seems to work fine for me, make sure you're including a script tag with http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js:
Same thing is happening here.. it just displays a blank square, no tweets. Here's my code, was working a few days ago..
It looks like there's currently a bug with the API server which breaks widgets. We don't have an ETA on a fix, but you shouldn't have to do anything in the meantime -- we'll fix this on our end as soon as we can.
Any updates....I am having the same issues with my profile widget......
"To complete this form, please complete the word verification below."I cant write because of this damn error. There is no word!
ok, quick question, even though at the time of grabbing the widget code i had kept the preference to Do not show TIMESTAMPS, but they're appearing(as fas as i can remember it was working fine earlier). I double checked and the timestamps is set to "false", so why do i see them now?
Hello, my widget was working fine till last week. Since then I have the same problem as written above. The space for the widget is displayed as empty frame but tweets won't appear.
How do you add a scroll to your twitter widget?
How do you filter the search widget to contain only the most recent tweets (say in the last 3 days) and have them ordered by date? Can this be done?
Here is the code we are currently working with:
Thanks in advance for your help.
I have been designing 3 versions of my website with Dreamweaver. I had the twitter widget in all three and when I previewed the pages in the browser, they worked absolutely fine until yesterday. When I try to preview the page in the browser (i've tried all the browsers - IE, FF, Chrome), nothing comes up at all, not even a box. I tried copying the code from twitter and re-pasting it into the html, but it still doesn't show up. Since they were working fine and then all the sudden stopped without me even touching anything in the html, I'm thinking it's something with twitter. Do I have to change a setting in my account or something?
same issue here didnt change nothing and yelled at my twitter guy and just locks up my website software and shows nothing ....
we need to get this taken care of its making my website building impossible.... its been almost 2 days whats the heck is going on over there !!!
Can you explain the issue you're having? When you're viewing the site and the widgets are not appearing, are you doing os when loading the pages from a web server or just directly from the filesystem?
The same thing has happened to me. It still works for published pages, just not on local machine. IE9 locks up for several seconds and finally displays page but without Twitter widget. Safari 5 doesn't lock up but also doesn't display widget. Very tedious for developing!
Same thing happening here. I pasted the code in html, but nothinig shows up when "previewing." I am using CS4 with Dreamweaver
My twitter profile widget was displaying fine until about 3 days ago. I'm using iweb. Copied and pasted a newly generated html code from twitter and it still does nothing.
Same problem for me. Twitter widget works on published web pages, but has stopped working (did work before) on local file system copy of website.


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ReportViewer: Grouping Data in RDLC Report
In my previous tutorial I discussed on how to create a sub report and pass a parameter value in ReportViewer.
Sub report is useful if you can't group data to display the related record. This is true with Order-Details report. However, sub reports in RDLC seems too slow when rendering a report. As much as possible, try to avoid using sub report if it can be done using Groupings.
In this VB.NET 2010 project, you'll see how easy it is to create Groupings to get the same output as my previous tutorial.
All you need in an RDLC report is to create a group, for example an OrderID field. It's better to create a group using a Key or Primary Key. This is due to the fact that sometimes a "Name" field for example could create duplicate entry but actually two different instances.
Note: Due to the size or complexity of this submission, the author has submitted it as a .zip file to shorten your download time. After downloading it, you will need a program like Winzip to decompress it.
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l3oatsu (not verified)
Mon, 02/13/2012 - 17:24
Thanks for source code.
Thanks for this source code. I have problem about grouping with Reportviewer and can't find a solution. Many thanks again
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Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:47
Thank you for share
Thank you for share
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Sat, 12/22/2012 - 02:08
Thanks for the code.
Thanks for the code.
Thu, 10/31/2013 - 19:47
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Wed, 11/13/2013 - 21:08
Third level?
Hi, thanks for sharing, I have a question though, what if the Mozzarella Di Giovanni comes from different vendors, and every vendor has a price and we need to display this info the same way as a third level deeper. How could we do the grouping to handle this so the report would look like this:
10248 Wilman Kala
Qty---Vendor----Product Name--------------Unit Price-------Total
--2---Vendor1---Mozzarella Di Giovanni----30---------------60
--3---Vendor2---Mozzarella Di Giovanni----40---------------120
Kamal Singh (not verified)
Thu, 05/29/2014 - 15:20
Thanks sir For Sharing
Thanks sir For Sharing


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View from the Bay mentioned Norman's Ice Cream in the Cannery at Fisherman's Wharf.
In addition to sundaes (sauce is made with Belgium chocolate) they also have halo halo.
They have been in business four years and eight months.
Norman's Ice Cream & Freezes
2801 Leavenworth St (415) 346-3046
San Francisco, CA 94133
*** Note: HEAVILY edited on Saturday July 8th at about 3pm thanks to Atomica's post below. I thought Norman made his own ice cream. It is Mitchell's.


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Bomb and other attacks in Iraq killed more than 20 people on Thursday, including a tribal sheikh involved in fighting Al-Qaeda, a day after a bid to assassinate the Polish ambassador, officials said.
Sheikh Maawia Naji Jebara and five bodyguards were killed in central Salaheddin province when a roadside bomb exploded under their convoy near the central city of Samarra, a senior police officer told AFP.
Jebara, who received serious head injuries in the attack, died later in a US military hospital, an official at the Kirkuk joint coordination centre said.
He was a senior member of the Salaheddin Awakening Council, a coalition of tribes in the Tikrit district formed to fight Al-Qaeda.
Jebara was travelling on the main road near Samarra, about 100 kilometres (63 miles) north of Baghdad, when the blast occurred mid-afternoon, the police official said.
The mayor of Iskandariyah, a mixed Shiite-Sunni town 60 kilometres south of Baghdad, and four of his bodyguards were killed by a roadside bomb on their way to work, police said. Another bodyguard was wounded.
"An improvised explosive device planted at the side of the road exploded while the vehicle of Abbas al-Khafaji, mayor of the district, was passing by," a police official said.
The mayor and four of his bodyguards died, the official said.
Two car bombs also exploded in the Iraqi capital, killing at least seven people, interior ministry and defence officials said.
A bomb in a minibus exploded in Al-Zafaraniyah in southeast Baghdad, killing four people and wounding eight, while another killed three and wounded eight in Garage Amana in the centre of the capital.
Separately, gunmen killed police Brigadier General Ihsan Abdul Karim in a drive-by shooting as he left his home in Babel, south of Baghdad, police said.
Late afternoon, a suicide car bomber blew himself at a crowded market place in the northern town of Tal Afar, killing three people and wounding 57, said the mayor of the town, Brigadier Najem Abdallah.
The attack in the town of Sunni and Shiite Turkomans took place about an hour before sunset, when Muslims observing Ramadan were to break their daily fast, Abdallah said.
A Sunni MP, meanwhile, was among nearly two dozen people detained at the weekend when the US military raided a suspected Al-Qaeda gathering, a parliamentary spokesman said on Thursday.
Nayyif Jassim Mohammed from the Concord Front, the main Sunni Arab bloc in parliament, was among those seized in Sharqat, about 300 kilometres northwest of the Iraqi capital, the spokesman told AFP.
The attack on Jebara in Salaheddin comes three weeks after prominent tribal leader Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Reesha was killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, capital of western Anbar province, claimed later by Al-Qaeda.
Abu Reesha was the pioneer of the so-called Awakening process which is spreading across the country whereby tribesmen are banding together and joining US forces to chase Al-Qaeda out of their districts.
Al-Qaeda after the assassination of Abu Reesha warned it would target others involved in similar initiatives alongside the US military.
The wave of attacks came a day after Poland's ambassador narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Baghdad that left one Polish bodyguard and two Iraqis dead.
Three roadside bombs, timed to go off at short intervals, ripped through ambassador Edward Pietrzyk's convoy on Wednesday as he left his residence in the Al-Arasat neighbourhood.


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CHICAGO -- It had been 18 years since a player led his team in scoring without starting a single game before Lou Williams turned the trick this season.
Dell Curry did it for the Charlotte Hornets in 1993-94, averaging 16.3 points per game, all those points gathered after watching the opening tap from the bench.
Like Williams, Curry was an unabashed scorer who could make a 3-point shot from pretty much anywhere. Like Williams, defense wasn't his strong suit.
There is one point of interest about Dell Curry's career that Williams would like to not see become part of his biography when he hangs up his Converse: In the playoffs, Curry became a far less significant player than in the regular season.
On the surface, being a gunner seems primal. Rule No. 1: Put the ball in the hoop. Rule No. 2: See Rule No. 1.
Tonight, Williams will come off the bench for the Sixers for the 145th straight time for Doug Collins. His role in Game 2 of the first-round playoff series against the Chicago Bulls will be to score, and score, and score some more.
There wasn't enough scoring by him in Game 1 -- nine points, just one field goal. The Sixers thrive when Williams makes shots. He knows it. He breaks down his offensive responsibilities with the same level of scrutiny Andre Iguodala uses at the defensive end. He knows what the Bulls do to combat him: Limit his looks.
"Against this team I get one shot per 3-4 minutes," Williams said. "It's a situation where I'm not getting a lot of rhythm shots. They play me differently defensively than any other team.
"It's not really a team I've had a lot of reps against -- games where I get six shots, eight shots, nine shots."
Teams with a defense as proud as Chicago's have an agenda when it comes to a scorer like Williams: Don't let him even get started.
In Game 1, the Bulls' backcourt got the better of the Sixers' guards. But that happens when you have Derrick Rose.
However, for the rest of this series there will be no more Rose. That means Rip Hamilton shouldn't have the luxury of having his off-the-ball skills maximize by his backcourt partner's ability to attract two defenders. It means C.J. Watson can't get away with 11 so-so minutes. It means John Lucas -- an even more slightly built version of Williams -- won't watch the entire game from the bench.
Chicago's backcourt will be less explosive, more flawed. It is Williams' chance to be the one guy the Sixers have who can fuel a scoring flurry to erase a deficit, or extend a lead.
"I think that against everybody," Williams said. "I always think that, whether it's C.J. Watson or any of the guards who have similar roles to me.
"It won't be any different for John Lucas -- he's a pro. He's on a team where he has two guards in front of him that basically have cemented their jobs here. But, I think on any other team he can be a starter or a (first) backup. That's definitely a matchup I look forward to, but definitely a matchup I have to dominate, too."
Williams has emerged over the last two years as one of the best bench players in the league. Dell Curry had that reputation, too. But his teams went 3-10 in postseason series for his career.
He never made it beyond the second round.
This is Williams' fifth postseason dance. He's still looking for that first series win. He doesn't want to remain oh-for-his postseason career.
Now that Chicago is without Rose, no Sixer means more to exposing that loss than Williams.
"If I'm in a position to attack, that's where I have success against them," he said. "Maybe it's one of the situations where I get one good game in the series and maybe it snowballs."


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Nico HülkenbergNicknamed `The Hulk`, Nico Hülkenberg has shown his potential to be at the top flight of racing as he earned his team Williams, their first pole position in five years in his debut season in Formula One racing.
After he started karting at the age of 10, Hülkenberg became German Junior Champion five years into the racing when he was 15. In 2005 he debuted in German Formula BMW and took the title. Later he moved to Formula 3 Euroseries where he took the title in 2008. Hülkenberg became the first driver to have won GP2 series before completing the final round in 2009.
He was signed by Williams as their test driver for 2008 season and was promoted to partner Rubens Barrichello for the racing team in 2009 and handed the team a pole position in his debut season in 2010.
However, he was replaced by Pastor Maldonado at Williams but his immense potential and a promising start earned him the role of a Friday test driver at Force India in 2011.
In December 2011, Hülkenberg was named the Silverstone based outfit's one of the drivers for the following season. The 25 year old registered his best ever finish at the Belgian Grand Prix at fourth position.
- Feroz Khan
Paul di RestaPaul di Resta belongs to a family that has strong racing connections as his two cousins; Dario Franchitti and sports car driver Marino Franchitti are Indy car champion and Indy 500 winners.
Resta began karting when he was eight and moved to Formula Renault in 2003 and added a race victory to his name. He subsequently moved to Formula Three Euroseries in 2005 where his contemporaries included the likes of future F1 world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.
He won the 2006 title leaving behind teammate Vettel at second position. This should have translated into a move to Formula One but instead he chose DTM when Vettel by the end of the year was racing in Formula One circuits.
His links with Mercedes at DTM earned him a test at Force India where after some strong performances, he was announced as the team`s test driver for the 2010 season after Vitantonio Liuzzi was promoted to the race team.
Resta then debuted for the racing team in 2011 at Australian Grand Prix scoring his first points in his debut race.
- Feroz Khan
Team ownerThe chairman of United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines, Vijay Mallya has a flamboyant personality and his image of being the king of good times makes him a media magnate.
He along with Dutch businessman Michiel Mol bought Spyker F1 team for 88 million Euros. Since then he has been the driving force behind bringing the financially troubled Silverstone based motor racing outfit back from oblivion.
Mallya has a keen interest in sports as he owns IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore and owns East Bengal Football club as well. In October 2011, Sahara India Group picked a 42.5% stake in Force India and the team was renamed as Sahara Force India that sponsors Indian cricket team as well.
The stake worth 100 million USD hopefully will give a major fillip to the team`s R&D programmes.
- Feroz Khan
Sahara Force IndiaSilverstone based Sahara Force India traces its origins to the Jordan Grand Prix team that was formed in 1991. After a few successful years at the premier racing event, the team ran into financial troubles and was sold to Midland group in 2005.
In the mid of 2006 Formula One season, it was bought by Spyker cars company before a consortium lead by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya bought the team for 88 million Euros in 2007. The team was rechristened as Force India and since 2008 has been actively participating in the Formula One World Championship.
The team made its debut with the Australian Grand Prix but had a poor beginning as both of its drivers retired after few laps. The team ended the 2008 season without scoring a point and was placed 10th at the constructors table.
Force India`s best and first ever podium finish came in 2009 Belgian Grand Prix when Giancarlo Fisichella took the pole position and ended the race at second position behind Ferrari`s Kimi Raikkonen.
Since its formation, Force India has shown steady improvements in its car design and development that is reflected on its track performances. The team is currently placed 6th in constructors table.
- Feroz Khan


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The things that scare the characters in ABC's new series "The River" come from potentially supernatural sources. The things that scare Leslie Hope, who stars on the show, were all around her during filming in Hawaii."In my case, a lot of it is grounded in reality, because I'm really afraid of the water and I'm really afraid of bugs," Hope tells Zap2it. "But [on camera], you kind of have to take a leap of faith as an actor. ..."You have to go big or go home. A few times, I can tell you, I was out there running for my life or sobbing uncontrollably, doing what I think of as big acting and thinking, 'Please, God, don't let me be a jerk for doing this. Please let me be doing the same show as everybody else.' It was a definite leap of faith to do it that way, but for me I didn't really know... http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/02/the-river-leslie-hope-on-playing-scared-and-her-characters-big-love.html
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NEWPORT County defender Andrew Hughes is happy to play whatever role his boss asks of him, just as long as he gets to play.
Hughes, 20, who came through the Exiles academy, made his first start of the campaign in Satur-day's 0-0 draw with Stockport County.
The youngster was named man of the match after excelling at the heart of the Newport defence and is hopeful of retaining a starting berth.
He might have a job on his hands with Ismail Yakubu fit and in the squad for tomorrow's trip to Barrow, but Hughes is determined to be a good team man whatever happens.
"I haven't played 90 minutes for about a month, obviously I haven't been playing really much at all so it was great to get a full game under my belt," he said.
"I only found out late in the day I was playing and I was proud of myself with the way I did and to be named man of the match.
"I have to listen to the manager and respect his decisions and his opinion on things, he is doing what is best for the team and I have to do the same, even if that means not starting.
"I just have to make sure that I am right so when I am called upon, I make the best of my opportunity and do a good job. We went six games unbeaten and I could hardly say to the gaffer why wasn't he picking me, because you don't really look to change a winning team."
Hughes is looking more and more familiar in the heart of the defence even though he is primarily a left back, but he admits working day in and day out with ex-Football League campaigners Yakubu and Tony James is helping him too.
"I've learned a lot in training every day alongside Tony James and Ismail Yakubu, playing together and talking together, it's a situation where you can't go far wrong as a developing player," he said.
"They are both really good talkers and I know that's a part of my game I need to work on."
Hughes is also relishing the switch to Rodney Parade.
"It's a dramatic change, it feels more like a football club, even on the pitch, we hear the fans a lot more because they are closer to the pitch, it feels more serious, like we are moving in the direction we want," he claimed.
The Exiles make the long trek to Barrow today having left this morning. They are stopping for a training session at Preston North End's Deepdale before an over-night stay.
The Exiles have no new injury worries.


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Although the USDA lowered its projected 2012-13 corn carryout forecast slightly to 117.6 million tonnes or 13.6% of annual usage, CBOT futures declined modestly after the WASDE report was released Tuesday morning. That probably reflected the fact that the Agriculture Department raised its estimate of Chinese production by 8 million tonnes, thereby suggesting they'll be buying little U.S. corn in the coming months. Traders may also have been disappointed by the minimal 0.5 million-tonne reduction in its forecast for the Argentine crop despite the planting problems Argentine farmers are reportedly encountering lately. Corn is apparently following wheat lower as that market reacts to the bearish USDA numbers. March corn slipped 2 1/2 cents to $7.27 1/2 per bushel, while the December 2013 future was down 9 cents at $6.28 1/4.
The WASDE report held few surprises for soybean traders, with only a minimal shift in forecast ending stocks and no change to anticipated 2013 production out of South America. Chicago futures fell rather substantially in the immediate wake of the report, possibly due to the fact that the USDA lowered its price estimate for the beans: the bearish wheat data and the sharply negative reaction posted by those markets probably weighed upon beans as well. However, the nearby contracts came back later in the day, possibly in reaction to news that China had made a sizable purchase of U.S. beans and/or a report that Argentine crushers are already low on bean stocks with the harvest still months away. January soybeans closed 3 3/4 cents lower at $14.71/bushel, January soybean oil dove 0.96 to 49.89 cents/pound whereas January meal rose $3.6 to $447.5/ton on the day.
As had seemed to be demanded by recent export totals, the USDA cut its wheat export forecast for the third consecutive month on the WASDE report. The 50 million-bushel reduction went straight to projected ending stocks, which rose to 754 million bushels. This easily topped our industry-high forecast, thereby exaggerating its impact upon the futures markets. The negative aspects of the domestic news were also exacerbated by the global numbers, where world production was revised upward by 3.7 million tonnes and usage cut by 1.2 mmt. These easily topped private forecasts, which very likely amplified their negative impact upon prices. March CBOT wheat fell 25 3/4 cents to $8.23/bushel on the day, while its KCBT and MGE counterparts plunged 30 1/4 to $8.73 and 16 to $9.11 1/2, respectively.
Wire service sources cited fund buying and short covering for the morning surge posted by live cattle futures. The WASDE report had little real impact, since the USDA made only a small revision to its 2013 forecasts. The more likely reason for the strong advance stemmed from the wholesale market, where choice cutout had jumped 2.27 cents (to 196.32 cents/pound) on the USDA midday report; rumors to that effect probably played a big role in the morning price spike. Bulls may now be counting upon a cash rebound from last week's surprising drop later this week. The combination of concurrent equity index gains and U.S. dollar losses likely provided support as well. February live cattle jumped 1.67 cents to 131.95 cents/pound, while the April contract was up 1.42 to 135.55 cents/pound.
Given the bullish leadership exhibited by the cattle market, few traders could have been terribly surprised to see hog futures advancing as well. In fact, the cattle news did seem to be pulling the swine market higher despite less than supportive short-term hog and pork fundamentals. The cattle gains seemingly supported the deferred swine contracts as well, although one might just as easily argue that today's grain and soy weakness will translate into reduced feed costs and greater cattle and hog supplies by the middle of next year. The subdued gains posted by the nearby hog contracts probably reflect the ongoing seasonal decline in cash hog and wholesale pork values, with the midday 3.0-cent drop in ham prices very likely weighing heavily upon short-term sentiment. On the other hand, bullish traders may be looking for buying opportunities if/when the traditional December ham breakdown runs its course. February futures rose 0.22 cents higher to 84.20 cents/pound, while the June contract surged 0.65 cents to 99.10 cents/pound.


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For an Indian school student, it is hard to miss Gandhi. The most important personality in modern India, Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' Gandhi is also arguably the most narrowly perceived concept in Indian academia. Any criticism of Gandhi's ideology is unwarranted at worst, and avoided at best. Whatever might be the reason for critiquing Gandhi, it almost always leads to …Read More »
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