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Toyo Open Country - Tire ReviewPosted in How To on June 1, 2013
Kids these days with their computers. What can't they do? Three-dimensional printers that whittle a working steam shovel, program your DVR from the other side of the country, and make a mild-mannered all-terrain tire work like an aggressive mud-terrain in the dirt. We know we blather on and on about how good the modern crop of all terrains work off-road and how well behaved modern mud-terrains are on the street, but unless you lived through the howling, squirming, blocky ride characteristics of the old mud tires or suffered the anemic, pantywaist, hopeless off-road performance of old-school all-terrains, you have no idea how good we have it nowadays.
We've lived with several sets of the previous Toyo Open Country A/T, so we've got a good baseline for comparison for the redesigned A/T II. In short, the old tires worked extremely well, but wore rather quickly. Toyo has addressed this with a new rubber compound and tweaking of the tread's siping shape and the addition of tie bars between the outer lugs to stabilize the tread blocks. As a result, the Open Country A/T II offers 40 percent longer tread life than the previous A/T, with a 65,000-mile warranty. So you'll be living with them for a long time. But will you want to? To find out we had a set of 31x10.50R15s mounted on a set of tough, affordable 15x8 Black Mountain powdercoated steel wheels from Collins Bros Jeep, bolted them to our YJ test vehicle, and hit the road for a couple months.
It's the same modern all-terrain story here, but we may as well tell it again. Rain, shine, wet, dry, the new Toyo Open Country A/T II excels on-road. They're so quiet you just can't hear them in a Wrangler with a soft top, and they roll so buttery smooth it's silly. With all four tires at our as-tested street pressure of 32 psi, in twisty mountain roads we noticed a bit more stability when cornering hard compared with other tires we've run on the test Jeep, and we zipped through standing water without any hint of hydroplaning or instability. As an added bonus, we saw a 1 mpg bump in economy as compared with another set of 31x10.50R15 tires we were running, so the tread seems efficient as well. In roughly 10,000 on-road miles we noticed the slightest feathering on the outside of the front tires' tread blocks, but that's about it.
We were fortunate this time around to find just about every terrain to take these tires through including the ever-elusive (for Southern California) mud and snow. All of our off-road testing was done with the fronts at 10 psi and the rears at 8 psi. For starters, despite their pedestrian appearance, the deep voids between the treads and stone ejection blocks do a nice job at keeping the treads from flinging small stones at the underside of the vehicle. They also aided in mud use. The treads did pack, as would be expected, but judicious throttle would clear the tires enough to keep biting and chewing forward. We did reach the limits of the tires in mud and had to take a strap a few times, but overall we got farther into the slop than anybody thought we had business being. As for snow use, the tires did better on hard-packed snow and ice than they did in deeper, powdery snow. They just didn't seem to have the bite to pull us very well when the white stuff got deep. They redeemed themselves in the rocks, however, with tacky grip on all but the smoothest, sheer faces. In those instances we'd get a little slip but then the tread would recover and pull us up and over obstacles with little drama. One of the most surprising areas of performance was in sand, where the tires just floated on top no matter how much throttle we fed them. There was no furrowing, hopping, or bucking as we chewed our way forward.
Sure, they don't like taffy mud and deep snow, but really, what all-terrain does? For what they are and how civilized they behave on the street, if you're looking for a set of tires for your multi-purpose Jeep, these won't disappoint and will stick around for at least 65,000 miles.
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hy everybody,
now you should check this out, this is the sickest board i ride from my friend Tom Bourdeau,maybe you saw the video "one week session" with the tahitian tattoo style, look nice.
I use the Haura for the waves sessions cause i can turn it like a mutant.
and the Mana is a really fast board and super good for tricks.
+ a totally new quickstrap system
and i tell you what, it's not easy to brake even Tamatoa tried.so go on http://www.tbkiteboarding.com to see the stuff.

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Sean Miles is giving the term "walkie talkies" a brand new meaning. The U.K. artist has created a series of "handsets" by embedding cellphones into the soles of various vintage shoes, including a Christian Louboutin heel, a Nike Air trainer, a classic men's brogue, and a Hunter Wellington boot. No new cellphones were harmed in the making of the wacky devices: Miles worked with O2, a mobile telecommunications provider that also pays people to recycle unwanted gadgets, to transform outdated Nokia and LG models into fully functional—and wearable—works of art.
Miles created his shoe-phones not only for amusement's sake but also to get people talking about the need to recycle, rather than throw away, old electronics. "I've been using them while out with friends and they never fail to start a conversation, even when I'm not using them as a phone!" he told the Daily Mail on Monday.
Britons purchase roughly 30 million new cellphones every year, according to O2.
Britons purchase roughly 30 million new cellphones every year, according to O2.
Britons purchase roughly 30 million new cellphones every year, according to O2. "While we may not be able to upcycle every phone that we receive, I hope that this project will prompt a few more of the 30 million people a year who buy a new handset to recycle their old one," Bill Eyres, head of the company's recycling arm, said. "There's a huge environmental need to dig out old gadgets so they can be used again, rather than lying unused and unloved in the drawer."
O2 either sends recycled phones along for others to use or strips them of their metals for repurposing. "We've all got a role to play in making sure that phones live on even when we've finished with them," Eyres added.
Miles isn't planning on stopping at shoes, either. The designer has his eye on phone-bags (so we don't have to scramble to find our phones in the bottomless pits of our purses) and phone-gloves next. "I wondered how I could make phones that people might be embarrassed to be seen with into something that would give them a new lease of life—which is what upcycling is all about," he said.
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It is simple logic: two people together can achieve more than one person by himself. And if the second person happens to be God Almighty, then, there are no limits to how much can be accomplished! And so, it's just a wise decision to receive Him into your life!
God is a person and can be either received into your life or rejected. He is not just a power or spirit or a consciousness; He is a person. He has revealed himself through Jesus Christ.
Is that the question you are asking yourself?
After achieving all that you wanted to achieve, after reaching the place and position in your life that you wanted to reach, after having the money you always wanted to have, after having a name and a fair amount of fame in your life, after having tried all that you wanted to try to make your life happier – are you still unsatisfied? Or maybe you have achieved nothing in life and feel you are a 'nobody' in this life and so are unsatisfied. In pursuit of satisfaction you may have tried everything possible - being with family, hanging out for endless hours with friends, movies, drinking, smoking, drugs, pornography and maybe even sex! But you still feel an emptiness that nothing can fill, a longing no one can satisfy. You feel you are still missing something.
Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…
(1 Cor 13:7-8)
Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget. See, I have carved you on the palms of My hands. (Isaish 49:15-16)
Jesus loves you, wants to bless you abundantly and wants to make you a blessing!
Your life on the earth is not a mere accident, a mistake or by chance. God has a plan and purpose for your life on the earth and He desires to have a personal relationship with you! When you come to know God personally and experience His love, when you start focusing on eternal truths and seek His plan and go about fulfilling the purpose for which He created you, then you will have a peace, joy and satisfaction that you would never have otherwise and enjoy His abundant blessings in your everyday life… you will find meaning and purpose in life and start experiencing the FULLNESS of LIFE that Jesus promised.
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Romans 8:28 : 'And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose'
Ephesians 3:20 : 'Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think'.
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Chancellor's Column - March 2004
College Construction Projects Benefit Many
1992. That was the year the cold war officially ended, Johnny Carson retired from "The Tonight Show," and the Washington Redskins won the Super Bowl. It was also the last year that there was significant capital construction on most of our Oklahoma public college campuses.
Certainly, a lot has happened on our campuses in the last 12 years. Just think of the hundreds of thousands of students who filled the classrooms, used the labs and lived in the dorms. In 12 years, our institutions have produced about 280,000 degreed graduates, the majority of whom now live and work in our state.
Those graduates can be justly proud of their degrees and their institutions, but not all of the facilities they studied in would generate that same sense of pride. Frankly, some of our facilities are just worn out, others are outdated, and many are simply overcrowded. Access and safety standards have changed over the last dozen years as well, creating the need for redesign and reconstruction.
Our record-breaking enrollment figures are good news for our state's future, but they create increasing challenges for our colleges and universities. In just the last four years, enrollment has increased by more than 20,000 students. It is unrealistic to expect that our aging buildings and infrastructure can hold up without needed improvements.
After a long and careful study of the systemwide requirements, our institutions have worked together to develop a plan that will deal with many of their most pressing construction needs. One hundred forty individual projects in 36 communities throughout the state have been identified. Most of the projects involve classroom renovations or new construction. Other construction includes 16 science or research facility projects and two major library renovations.
With improved facilities, we will be better able to prepare our young people for the highly competitive job market. A better educated workforce attracts new businesses, nurtures existing ones and builds stronger communities.
These construction projects will occur throughout the state and would result in nearly 4,000 additional construction jobs during the lifespan of the projects in rural as well as urban areas. And, after completion, the libraries, fine arts centers and other facilities will be an integral part of the community.
1992 was the last time a higher education construction bond issue was brought to a vote of the people, and it passed with more than 70 percent of the vote. It is my hope that our legislative leaders and the governor will bring a $500 million bond issue for a vote this fall.
Yes, much has changed since 1992, but our respect for higher education and our understanding of the need to improve our campuses have not. More information on these projects is available, and I urge you to contact me with questions.


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The Wearing of the IT Green
The Wearing of the IT Green
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Another way to streamline data center resource consumption is through virtualization. Solutions like VMwares can consolidate a mob of sprawling servers into just a few machines, reducing floor space, cooling and power requirements.
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No-hitter could be Beckett's crowning achievement
Josh Beckett may someday look back and see Sunday afternoon as the best, most satisfying day he had in baseball. OK, pitching brilliantly in the clinching game of a World Series is pretty good.
But when Beckett did that in 2003, he hadn't been the places he has been the last 11 years. He hadn't been traded twice. He wasn't approaching the twilight of his career. He wasn't coming back from a complicated surgical procedure to remove a rib to lessen nerve irritation that affected his right shoulder and hands.View Full Game Coverage
Josh Beckett may someday look back and see Sunday afternoon as the best, most satisfying day he had in baseball. OK, pitching brilliantly in the clinching game of a World Series is pretty good.
But when Beckett did that in 2003, he hadn't been the places he has been the last 11 years. He hadn't been traded twice. He wasn't approaching the twilight of his career. He wasn't coming back from a complicated surgical procedure to remove a rib to lessen nerve irritation that affected his right shoulder and hands.View Full Game Coverage
In 2003, he wasn't attempting to reprove himself. His no-hitter against the Phillies on Sunday was as good as pitching can be. It was power. It was timing. It was location. There were fastballs on the hands one moment, curveballs away the next. There were changeups scattered here, there and everywhere.
Beckett began the game by throwing Phillies leadoff man Ben Revere seven straight fastballs, all between 91-93 mph. It was as if he established a baseline right off from which everything would come.
Beckett rode the fastball all day, but when he struck out Ryan Howard with it in the first inning, he set him up with a nasty curveball-changeup combination. In the fourth inning, he threw Jimmy Rollins three straight curveballs before finishing with four straight fastballs.
He was commanding the strike zone and keeping hitters off balance, almost never giving them the same look two pitches in a row. At some point, the Phillies had to know they were beaten. Beckett simply was too good.
Beckett finished the eighth by striking out Cesar Hernandez on back-to-back changeups -- nasty ones thrown with the same arm action as his fastball. He threw Tony Gwynn Jr. a pair of curveballs to open the ninth, then went fastball-changeup-fastball to get an infield popup.
When the Phillies looked for a fastball, they got a changeup. When they guessed changeup, they got one of those big, tantalizing curveballs.
Beckett finished with Chase Utley. By then, he had to be fighting both exhaustion and nerves, knowing what was on the line. He missed with a pair of curveballs, then got Utley to swing at a change. He missed with a fastball, then Utley took a curve and a change to end the game on a called strike, the last two of Beckett's 128 pitches.
This 6-0 victory for the Dodgers doubled as a day when the world learned what only a few people have known. That is, Josh Beckett's pitching aptitude is high, very high -- maybe as high as anyone in the game.
He has had a fascinating career in that way. Sometimes, he shows his worst side to the public. He says exactly the wrong thing and really doesn't care what you, I or anyone else thinks.
It's as if he can't turn off the competitive fire he knows he must take to the mound. Or maybe he simply doesn't want to reveal too much of himself. Whatever it is, Beckett has always known the finer points of his craft.
Through 14 big league seasons, when he hasn't been fighting injuries or himself, he has had the ability to dominate a game the way only a few can. This afternoon was not about lighting up a radar gun. Rather, it was taking a couple of decades of throwing baseballs and thinking about throwing baseballs, and using all of it.
At 34, Beckett no longer can run it up to home plate at 97 mph the way he once did. Big deal, he said.
"Everyone loses velocity as they get older," he said last spring.
He has always understood pitching.
"Pitching translates," he said.
Beckett was 20 years old when he spoke those words, and he shouldn't have been so wise. The Marlins had made him the second pick in the 1999 First-Year Player Draft because he could throw nearly 100 mph.
He understood that a fastball on the hands was a good pitch at any level. He also understood that locating pitches and keeping hitters off balance would make all those other pitches better.
That was true at Spring (Texas) High School, and Beckett believed in his heart it would be true in every game he ever pitched. Because he did have the great fastball and because he was brash, some people never saw that he was the complete package.
When he has been healthy -- and he has been frustrated by an assortment of injuries through the years -- he has been capable of throwing games as good as anyone. When he stepped on the mound at Yankee Stadium for Game 6 of the 2003 World Series, he was prepared for that moment.
He threw hard. He threw devastating breaking pitches too. He challenged the Yankees and dominated them with a five-hit shutout that clinched a championship.
Beckett was a big kid -- 6-foot-4 or so -- and so like every other Texas kid who threw hard, scouts saw him as the second coming of Nolan Ryan or Roger Clemens.
Beckett loved throwing hard. He also loved frustrating hitters. He absolutely loved perfecting his craft, tinkering with his pitches, getting better and better at every level.
This season began with uncertainty. Beckett was about to turn 34 and coming off a season in which he made just eight starts for the Dodgers. He was recovering from a complicated surgical procedure, and it was impossible to know how much high-level baseball he had left.
He has been terrific through his first nine starts, though, and besides making a statement for himself Sunday afternoon, Beckett made one for the Dodgers. If he continues to pitch this way -- and if Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke stay healthy -- the Dodgers have a chance to be scary good.
Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. This was a 34-year-old pitcher -- a guy making his 321st start and winning his 135th game, a guy who has had trouble staying healthy -- pitching one of those games that could serve as a learning tool for every young pitcher.
Beckett has never feared losing 3-4 mph of velocity because he knew that pitching was about more than that. This game verified his opinions, and while he had to be swirling with emotions in the postgame celebration, it may have occurred to him that this next chapter of his career may just be the best of all.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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Pomona promises plentiful open space, numerous amenities and luxurious homes infused with relaxing coastal charm. Pomona's master plan calls for an array of amenities designed to encourage active lifestyles - This includes a recreational center, a swimming pool, an event lawn, and a children's playground. Residents can look forward to being zoned to Alvin ISD's newest high school opening in August 2016, Shadow Creek High School, and will enjoy the benefit of an on-site elementary school in the near future. Mustang Bayou traverses the community, and developers are constantly inventing new ways to enhance the natural beauty and functionality of the waterway. More than 300 acres of the 1,000-acre property is dedicated to wetlands and protective waters. Residents won't have to venture far as this strategically located development is located along the Highway 288 growth corridor in Manvel, Pomona offers access to local shopping, the Medical Center, Downtown Houston, the Galleria and more.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008
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The tournament dueling is back with the official software of the 2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Tournament. Battle it out on two exciting game modes: World Championship mode and the new Duel World mode, where you can venture through events, meet duel spirits, and buy new cards.
Release Date: December 4, 2007


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As I can see in the comments of my last post, a bunch of you already guessed that my crustacean visitor was a curacha from Zamboanga. It's always a thrill to see such passion for local crustaceans. I'd love to give out prizes but I hope you will all be happy with a virtual-pat on the back for now…PAT-PAT 🙂
So yes, this not-so-little beauty is a curacha! (I have to point out here that many find this crab to be horrible-looking and scary, but that is a matter of perspective I think) It's a very popular deep-sea crustacean found in the waters of Zamboanga, a province in the southern part of the Philippines, where spectacular seafood abound. It is likened to a cross between a crab and a lobster. Whether raw or cooked, it's this brilliant reddish color. They say that curacha can only be found in the waters around Zamboanga, however, it seems that they are either the same as, or at least related to, the spanner crab or red frog crab that can be found in east and west coasts of Australia. Whatever the case, they are delicious and I am happy to share their provenance with my friendly Australian neighbors 🙂
I first tried curacha during a trip to Zamboanga in 2005 to visit my then-boyfriend's (now-husband) hometown and, much to my surprise and delight, also to get engaged! Although the proposal was the highlight of the trip, the awesome seafood was also part of the wonderful experience that is Zamboanga. I am a big lover of crustaceans so I was eager to try the much-talked-about curacha and it did not disappoint. Unlike most crabs whose majority of meat can be found in their claws, the mother-load of the curacha's meat is found in its body (although the claws also have meat). This one pictured here easily fed C and I to nirvanic fullness!
This fellow (and three of its siblings) arrived on our doorstep care of my father-in-law, who sent them from Zamboanga. He boils them fresh from the market over there, then freezes them and sends them to Manila. To say I was excited to receive them is an understatement. As I happily re-packed them in Ziploc bags (one in each gallon sized bag!), I already had the perfect way to prepare our first one. Another of C's generous relatives gave us a kilo of Alavar sauce. A popular culinary highlight of Zamboanga, Alavar sauce is a deliciously secret blend of coconut milk and spices served and sold in Alavar Seafood Restaurant. Curacha with Alavar sauce is a dish not to be missed when visiting Zamboanga, a veritable institution really, so of course I had to prepare my first curacha this way.
Curacha con salsa Alavar*
- 1 large curacha, boiled until just done (do not overcook!)
- 500 grams Alavar sauce (approximate – depends on how sauce-y you want your dish…just a tip, the extra sauce is amazing on steaming hot rice!)
- 1-inch piece ginger, peeled and sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1-2 pieces sili pangsigang (long green chili – other chilis can be used, just adjust to your own heat factor)
- Vegetable or canola oil
– Chop curacha in 2-4 pieces (first slice in half lengthways, then cracking it widthways is easy…which you can opt to do or not). Remove "lungs" (those weird finger-like things you also find in other crabs) and discard. Set crab pieces aside.
– Heat oil in a large wok or kawali. When oil is hot add garlic, onions, ginger, and chilis and sauté until onion is translucent.
– Add Alavar sauce and sauté for a few minutes until flavors meld and sauce is bubbling a bit.
– Add curacha pieces and toss until heated through.
– Serve immediately with hot steamed rice. Serves 2.
A few notes:
– I already had pre-boiled curacha, so this recipe reflects that. I'm sure it would be even better to cook the curacha directly in the sauce.
– Although Alavar sauce is delicious, I like to punch things up by adding extra spices and chilis.
– This is my first time to prepare this and I'm very open to suggestions!
If anyone out there makes it to Zamboanga, you must try this! Or if you have access to curacha and Alavar sauce in Manila (I hear they have a branch in Quezon city), make this dish post haste (although I'm sure if you have access to both then you already have made this)! The curacha's body is filled with sweet and succulent meat. Just like the last time I had it, every time I poked my fingers in the shell more and more of the luxurious meat came out. It really is as good as all that. Aside from coconut milk and "secret spices", Alavar sauce supposedly also contains crab fat. Now imagine that for a moment…crab in crab fat. Wait, it gets better (or worse, depending on perspective). As we are devouring this meal, C suddenly bursts out, "Omg! I think I found the aligue (crab fat)!" So make that crabfat found in the crab cooked in crabfat. There is only one place for that…on my rice!
I will leave you now to imagine what we looked like after this meal. Full to bursting, crab bits all over our hands, Alavar stains on our mouths, and a little bit incoherent. Not such a pretty sight let me tell you. Then again, that's a matter of perspective.
*This is not Spanish. It's Chavacano, Zamboanga's native dialect 🙂


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As we contemplate the specter of a reckless North Korea and a fanatical and suicidal Iran both bent on acquiring and using nuclear weapons, the old schemes of deterrence lose their valence. While Churchill thought the deterrence of mutual assured destruction between the superpowers would work (peace would be "the sturdy child of terror"), he was less optimistic about proliferation, as seen in this comment from 1946:
In these present days we dwell strangely and precariously under the shield and protection of the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb is still only in the hands of a State and nation [the U.S.] which we know will never use it except in the cause of right and freedom. But it may well be that in a few years this awful agency of destruction will be widespread and the catastrophe following from its use by several warring nations will not only bring to an end all that we call civilization but may possibly disintegrate the globe itself.
About Iran, Churchill wrote in 1920:
It is a very melancholy thing to contemplate the possibility of an ancient capital of a monarchy like that of Persia being engulfed in the tide of barbarism, and a culture which, though primitive in many respects, is nevertheless ancient. . .
At the time Churchill was worried about the possibility of Communist revolution. Doubtless he'd think what has befallen it today is much worse.


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How to be a good employee! (or How to manage when your manager isn't managing)
I, like you, definitely do judge a book by its cover. So this book cover really needs to speak to the spirit of what I'm trying to say, to effectively reach positive employees who are looking for tools to help them make more of a difference. It needs to be modern, clear and catchy - to stand proudly and yet distinctly in the business books or personal development section of a bookstore.
I have managed several teams of young staff who didn't have much experience in effectively managing their workload and navigating a large organisation. My own journey is one from back room tech to senior strategic leader, so in some ways this is an autobiographical text on how to grow yourself from the edge of decision making to the core.
The book is fun, somewhat story based and very practical. I intend to use it as a workbook for new staff who need to learn these lessons, and I hope other managers might also see value in using it this way.
There are two key markets for this book:
i) Positive employees who would like to make more of a difference in their organisation, but feel disempowered, or mildly frustrated by bureaucracy, ineffective organisation and undermanaged (by managers who aren't taking the time to foster healthy teams that grow and improve). [ I say positive, because if you're so depressed and frustrated that you'd rather burn the building down then you probably won't buy into some of the altruistic messages of this book :-) ]
ii) Managers who would like to spend more time coaching junior staff, but don't have the time to spare. These managers can see this as a practical workbook they can use with their staff members to help them grow into effective employees who form part of a high performance workteam.
I want a clear and catchy presentation. I prefer simple and clean over complex and arty. An accompanying image that relates to the book title would be good too.
Some covers I like (picking from amazon.com biz bestsellers):
Undercover Boss: Inside the TV Phenomenon ...
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Lessons of a Brand Manager
Stumbling on Wins
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide ...
Carrots and Sticks Don't Work
Some covers I *don't* like:
Appetite for America
The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
How To Speak and Write Correctly
I realise many of the books I've noted that I like look similar (big text, clear and a simple accompanying pic) but you can try something different - it's more the clean and clear look I'm wanting than that style per se. Although I do like that style, I still want to stand out a little :-)
Any images used should have clear attribution (preferably creative commons/royalty free).
I am happy to take suggestions on the book title too; at this stage it's a little tongue-in-cheek and that works for me :-)
(BTW, 'How to manage when your manage isn't managing' is intended to be the subtitle, not an alternative title :-)
Attached is a brief book summary.


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An introduction to the operations function in business for managing the resources (including people, facilities, inventories, processes, and systems) that create value (in the form of a product or a service) for an organization. The qualitative and quantitative aspects of managing a supply chain will be covered through topics such as product/process design, quality management, inventory control, and scheduling. Students will use computer technology and library resources to analyze issues, often in teams. Prerequisites: 313-10700, 313-10800, or 313-11100; 313-14400, 313-24300, or 313-24400; 880-22600; junior standing. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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Friday, October 28, 2011
American Pie
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- heavy hedonist said...
Thanks, Barbara, for the idea of adding apple butter to pumpkin pie. I'm a long-time foodie, but I have never seen this recipe before. Can't wait to try it!
- October 28, 2011 at 11:12 PM
- Barbara Scott said...
It is yummy. I learned the recioe after seeing the long line waiting to pay $5 a slice for it at a fundraising buffet.
- October 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM
- marybelle said...
I have never eaten Pumpkin Pie. Not something that appeals terribly. I should give it a go since people rave.
- October 29, 2011 at 7:06 PM
- Caroline Clemmons said...
Thanks for the post, Barbara. You ALMOST made me want to cook. LOL
- October 30, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- Donna M. McDine said...
Thanks for the wonderful recipe. Sounds delicious!
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Portland, OR, is known for its food trucks, but apparently that's not the only local food on wheels. "One night, I walked by someone singing at the top of their lungs while dressed as a taco and on roller skates," says Simon Tam, leader of the band The Slants. "It was just another ordinary evening out in Portland."
No surprise, the city famous for its flagrant quirkiness ranked near the top among Travel + Leisure readers for a high density of hipsters—locals who embody the cutting edge of culture while also embracing simple, retro charms.
In this year's America's Favorite Cities survey, readers rated 35 major metropolitan areas for qualities such as wine bars, walkable streets, and great weather. To discern the biggest hipster concentrations, we combined the results for offbeat and tech-savvy locals; great microbrews and coffee bars; a buzzing live music scene; and plenty of flea markets.
This year, the top hipster cities included San Francisco, where Hayes Valley's Proxy Project features food and art in shipping containers, and Minneapolis, where residents love their polka-infused supper club. For travelers, following the trail left by hipsters usually pays off—both in good culture and a lot of fun.
That doesn't make you a hipster, of course. "Perhaps the most 'ironic' thing about Portland," adds Tam, "is that very few people will actually admit to being a hipster."


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by JAM
I have been having a good time shooting over the past month or so. As the days go by I find myself taking so many photos and not really being able to do anything with them. They are just sitting around filling up my hard drive. Well, here is my answer, a little view in to what has been happening and what I have been shooting. This mix of photos are from when I made my way south to clearwater to shred with Tad, over to the east coast (tourist central), cocoa beach to do some ocean winching with some of the scene 1 crew, and some shots from some sick winch spots around orlando. In between all that traveling we have been getting some good riding time in and some good shots on lake nan and pearl. Hopefully that has set you guys and girls up for the pictures that are going with this little article. They aren't all from one trip or all from the same day, lets just think of it as a way to show some of the action that has been going down around here lately. It isn't going to stop here. Summer is pretty much in full swing, at least for me it is, so that means more wakeskating and more pictures. I hope you enjoy seeing pictures of Andrew Pastura because he seems to follow me around, or maybe I am the one following him around. It's a tough call. I have a feeling that the amount of progression we see over this summer is going to be mind blowing.


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Born in: Houston
Height: 1.69 m
Spouse/Ex-: Jay-Z
father: Mathew Knowles
mother: Celestine Beyonce
siblings: Nixon Knowles, Solange Knowles
children: Blue Ivy Carter
Personality: ESFP
City, States, Provinces & Districts: Texas
Founder/Co-Founder: Survivor Foundation
Net worth: $450 million as of Dec 6, 2016
education: St. Mary's Elementary School, Parker Elementary School, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Alief Elsik High School,
awards: 2012 - International Artist Award for best female artist
2011 - Billboard Millennium Award for best music
2008 - Legend Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts
2010 - Grammy awards won for female artist
- MTV Video Music Award for best muisc
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Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter, a singer more popularly known just as Beyonce, is a R&B artist who rose to fame as the lead singer of the all-girls group Destiny's Child which also had the likes of Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams in the line-up. After a highly successful stint with the group which became one of the world's best selling girl groups of all time, Beyonce embarked on a career as a solo artist. Her solo career began with a bang—her debut album won five Grammy Awards and sold over 11 million copies worldwide. Even as a child she had displayed a keen interest in music and dancing from an early age and regularly participated in local talent shows. She surprised her school authorities when she won a school talent show when she was just seven by beating the other contestants who were well into their teenage. She formed a girls' group while she was still very young with some of her friends. Her father recognized the potential his daughter had and decided to become her manager. Her group, which later became famous as Destiny's Child, went on to become a highly popular music group following which Beyonce ventured into an even more successful solo career as a singer and actress.
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She attended St. Mary's Elementary School where she also learned to dance. She loved singing from a young age.
She enrolled in Parker Elementary School, a music magnet school in 1990 and also attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before moving on to the Alief Elsik High School.
She auditioned for an all-girl entertainment group when she was eight. She was selected along with Kelly Rowland and LaTavia Roberson and put in a group called Girl's Tyme with three other girls. The group performed in several talent shows and later bagged a contract with Columbia Records.Continue Reading Below
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Their second album, 'The Writing's on the Wall' was out in 1999. It spawned the group's first No.1 single, 'Jumpin' Jumpin' and also the super hit songs 'Bills Bills Bills' and 'Say My Name'. The album sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.
Their third album, 'Survivor' was even a bigger success than its predecessors. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and earned the group several Grammy Award nominations. The singles 'Survivor' and 'Bootylicious' became very popular.
Motivated by the success of her girls' group, Beyonce embarked on a solo career with her debut solo album, 'Dangerously in Love' in 2003. The songs included uptempos and ballads inspired by R&B and soul genres with elements of hip hop and Arabic music. The album was a huge hit which established her as a solo star.
She released her next album, 'B'Day' on her 25th birthday, 4 September, 2006. The music style of the album is borrowed from a range of styles like funk, hip hop and R&B that were popular during the 1970s-80s. The album was reviewed very positively.
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'I Am… Sasha Fierce' was one of the most successful albums of her career so far. The album was inspired by folk and alternative rock and went on to be platinum certified in over 17 worldwide markets. The album garnered a whooping eight Grammy Award nominations, winning five of them.
She has won 17 Grammy Awards from 46 nominations, becoming the third most honored woman in Grammy History. Her most recent Grammy win is for Best Traditional R&B Performance for the song 'Love on Top' in 2013.
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While I get those fans who are whining, and do not wish to disparage their concerns, I do not think that following suit would be conducive to progress as I would only be jumping into the proverbial line.
I believe the balancing of pvp, and pve is impossible at this point in time. Skills, and gear bonuses meant for pve, and pvp counter buffs/nerfs pouring over into each other will continue to threaten balance.
I propose a solution.
Each gear set should have pvp only bonuses. The pve bonuses should cease to pour into pvp play all together.
Pvp is in dire need of a fair, and inviting even playing ground with all out gun battles being waged, and overall team strategy playing a major factor in who succeeds.
Pve is about dealing with crowds of overpowered AI where pvp is about dealing with teams of four or less most of the time. This is the problem.
How can the developers expect the same gear bonuses, and combos used to deal with AI to work in pvp?
What we have now is gear set combinations optimized to help us succeed in Pve that outright obliterate in pvp.
So, I say again...Separate PVE, and PVP gear set bonuses. Pve bonuses won't work in Pvp, and Pvp bonuses won't work in Pve.
This will also simplify the balancing, so Devs can work on one or the other without worrying about the effects their changes our having on the opposite side, and we won't see this disastrous balancing act being played out at the gamers' expense.
Thank you.
I always liked the idea of disabling gear set bonuses altogether and just leaving EDR so people aren't worrying about groups who have perfect synergy and can still survive sticky bombs. This way people who don't have perfect gear sets but they have good rolls on random pieces can be just as competitive because they don't have to worry about having 5 piece sentry or 4 piece reclaimer because it doesn't work in PVP combat. It becomes more about your skill and stats since this game is mostly about those.
Separate the bonuses for pvp, and pve.
Off the subject, for those proposing a pve only dz I wholeheartedly disagree on the grounds that the Dark Zone is intended to be a dog eat dog territory with ever changing scenerios where AI enemies participate. There is a special kind of chaos generated by the inclusion of pvp players, pve players, and AI enemies in one area.
The problem with pve'ers in the Dark Zone is most of the time they aren't given a sporting chance. This solution should fix this problem bringing life back into the dz for pve'ers, pvp'ers alike.
So would there even be any need to extract in the PVE DZ? Why not just give everyone on the game who walks into the DZ max rolled gear set items of every type along with free guns of all types with brutal deadly and fierce on each one? No need to work for them or take any risk. Farming would take on a whole new meaning. Just spend hours of killing bosses and obtaining supply drops for 50 gear set pieces a night along with 70 new 229 guns. Yeah.... big fix. We can call it the sissy zone. As a matter of fact one already exist. It's called everywhere outside of the DZ. It's unbelievable that this is the biggest gripe on the game.
This is a good suggestion, but its to late. If you look at other games with pve/pvp elements this is part of the design of the game, all pve perks are disabled and pvp perks (or none at all) engage for pvp play. Think of the hours it would take to not only change all the gear in the game, but try to make sure it synergizes properly and it doesn't cause more things to bug out. With as many issues as they need to fix currently, the chances of them having the manpower for something like this is nil. Honestly, this should have been the design from the start, with gear sets like nomad and others that weren't preferable in pve having better bonuses in pvp, making each gear set desirable for its designed roll. As has been said before, Massive was way over their heads designing this game, but I put a lot of the blame on Ubisoft because they actually have decades more experience in games and didn't have the foresight to see what issues might crop up along the way. They should have had a game designer working with Massive all along, catching things like power creep and helping design end game content. Massive did a really good job designing the initial game and thru level 30, but the pvp/pk system and end game content are all signs of a team that doesn't know what they are doing. It doesn't help that this game was release about 6 months before it would have been ready, without anywhere near enough play testing and bug fixing.
We are currently discussing and exploring options for all areas of the game's balance, PvP included. That said, this is solid feedback that can be forwarded along to the team. I appreciate that.
On the second topic here, the PvE DZ idea, this is again feedback we are hearing loud and clear. It needs to be noted, however, that this approach would need a fair amount of tuning to prevent it from being too over simplified.
As with all things, no promise is to be made at this time. Just know that we hear you and are exploring our options.
Thanks Agents.
Besides, where's the element of impending threat of being ganked, and the relief from a hectic, chaotic successful extraction?
That's why pve only dz is a no go.
Fix pvp, pve-fix the dz for everyone.
I seen your name above a players head and thought it sounded familar and then it clicked. Once in a lifetime oppurtunity I couldnt pass up lol.
We are all very passionate about this game, mods and devs included. Lets make it better, you know?
Thanks for being involved. It goes a long way.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Alf Siewers, associate professor of English, teaches at the intersection where the humanities and the natural environment meet. We ask Siewers, one of three professors leading the second offering of Bucknell on the Susquehanna this fall, about his scholarship.
Q: Explain what you mean by environmental humanities.
A: Environmental humanities is a growing interdisciplinary effort at institutions around the world, and at Bucknell, aimed at bringing qualitative perspectives to the usually quantitative issues involved in environmental studies. In other words, issues about values and the way in which social behaviors and cultural ethics shape our environment to a large degree.
We can think about the environment scientifically, and that's very important. But changes have to come through social behavior. And that is related to cultural values and, ultimately, on my side of things, with storytelling and how we imagine and form narratives about our lives in relation to nature and the environment.
Q: What are some of the things that Bucknell is doing in this area?
A: We've already seen Bucknell play a key role in the emergence of the Susquehanna heritage trail that's being considered by the National Parks Service. It's a way to increase focus on conservation and related issues along the river. Greater awareness on the part of people in the region about place and landscape and heritage contributes to greater caring and appreciation for the area. I think a lot of people living in the area already have that, but it's not always connected on a regional scale.
Another project at Bucknell is the Stories of the Susquehanna Project. That is a series of books that the Bucknell University Press will be partnering with the Environmental Center on, to emphasize a kind of storytelling-humanities approach to a whole range of issues from natural history and Native American history to community studies and literary history as they relate to the nature of the region. We hope to produce volumes accessible to the public as well as to scholars. They'll have a strong online component with GIS (Geographic Information System)-style mapping, a digital atlas and curriculum for schools.
Q: The Susquehanna Valley River Region seems to be a rich area for study and analysis on so many levels.
A: Going back to prehistoric times and early contact times this was a key corridor for Native Americans going from the Great Lakes region and to the Chesapeake Bay.
There were some really important early contacts between Native Americans and Euro-Americans here. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the period I'm focused on in my own work, the area also saw some really important figures involved in forming new or adapted ideas about nature from their engagement with the Susquehanna Valley. It was perceived as both a frontier and a kind of Eden-like area at that time, right after Indian removal. A lot of people were re-imagining or projecting their imaginations onto the area.
Q: Who were these people?
You had writers such as James Fenimore Cooper writing his "Leatherstocking Tales" at the Susquehanna headwaters. You had Susan Fenimore Cooper there also - his daughter who is credited as the first published American woman nature writer and is being rediscovered by readers today. And you had at the Susquehanna Confluence Joseph Priestly, an internationally renowned scientist and religious philosopher. He was very influential on a number of America's founding fathers in his views on science and nature.
Samuel Coleridge, one of the great romantic poets right at the center of the Romantic Movement in England, wrote about the Susquehanna Valley at this time too. He imagined a utopian project here, and what happened to that utopian project in Coleridge's mind in relation to his disillusionment with certain aspects of science as it was developing parallels in some ways the resistance by the Coopers to American enthusiasm for exploitation of the natural world in the Susquehanna Valley at that time.
That was the same time frame, paradoxically, that saw not coincidentally both many utopian visions of the valley and the beginning of large-scale exploitation of its natural resources - lumber, coal and the growth of industries whose effects are still with us in the valley today.
Q: This ties in with your Scadden Fellowship, right?
A: This past fall I received a Scadden Fellowship to work on an interdisciplinary project about those views of nature as they were emerging in the early Susquehanna Valley and how they influenced early American culture and American notions of wilderness and nature up to the present day.
Particularly, I am focusing on the Coopers, Coleridge and Priestley and their later influence. For example, James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" were very influential on American notions of wilderness and early American conservationists like Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt read them while he was growing up, and they had an influence on his work on establishing the National Parks system. As part of that project, I'm involving students who are working on their own related research projects.
Q: All of which is why you're looking forward to being one of three professors leading Bucknell on the Susquehanna this fall, right?
A: We'll travel from Cooperstown to the Chesapeake. Last year's program had a greater focus on science and policy. Our program will be more focused on the humanities and community cultural studies, including as core faculty also Associate Professor of Geography Adrian Mulligan and Professor of German and Humanities Katie Faull. The core course that all the students will take focuses on the region's human and cultural geography and environmental issues such as Marcellus Shale gas drilling.
The literature course I'm teaching will cover the issues I've mentioned. Katie's course is going to be on transatlantic notions of nature in the 18th century as they developed in relation to Native American cosmology. Adrian's individual course will, among other things, be on different waves of immigration into the area, changing perceptions in the area in terms of how it would have been perceived by Native Americans as opposed to, say, Irish immigrants. It will carry us into really interesting areas of study such as the Scots-Irish Paxton Boys, whose massacre of Indians in Lancaster set the stage for continental genocide, and the Molly Maguires, an Irish immigrant network of coal workers protesting against inhumane conditions, who were accused of being a subversive, violent, secret society in the 1800s.
We'll be doing short video documentaries of the region. We'll be doing oral history interviews. We'll be doing online mapping using Google Earth and GIS, creative and nonfiction writing, along with more traditional kinds of research papers involving innovative environmental philosophy. There'll be opportunities for both discussion and lecturing and learning by the students at the actual locations that we're talking about. It's a great opportunity as an instructor to be able to do something that goes beyond the classroom, something that expands the walls of the University beyond the campus.
Q: As the first faculty coordinator of the Environmental Center's Nature and Human Communities Initiative for the past couple of years, what are some other things you're been involved in?
A: We have a website that is about to go up for another environmental humanities project that was done last summer — the Susquehanna Valley Summer Writers Institute. Last summer, that received outside funding to support several student writers' research on Marcellus Shale from a community storytelling standpoint. We'll continue that this summer.
We're trying to see how the University as an institution can contribute to environmental writing and research that old-style media used to aspire to do. Direct connections possible at universities between writers and scientists and those engaged in community studies can shape a special role for students in reporting on regional environmental issues today.
We've also been supporting the development of Environmental Connections courses in the humanities but also the social sciences. That's a new curricular requirement as part of the College Core Curriculum. For example, three English courses that I am teaching are Environmental Connections courses.
Colleagues in classics, religion, philosophy, history and foreign languages all have done work or are interested in doing work in environmental humanities. Students are very interested in environmental studies - the number of students in the major has been increasing. But they're also very hungry for a connection between work they're doing in environmental studies and the values and human sides of it.
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When It Comes to Tackling Inequality, Start Early
It seems that everyone is talking about inequality these days, and I, for one, am happy to see this issue at the forefront in the development discussion.
We can look at inequality in a number of ways, which are not unrelated. One of the most visible types of inequality on the radar is inequality of outcomes — things like differences in academic achievements, career progression, earnings, etc. — which, in and of themselves, are not necessarily bad. Rewarding an individual's effort, innate talents and superior life choices can provide incentives for innovation and entrepreneurship, and can help drive growth.
However, not all inequalities are "good." When inequality perpetuates itself because those born poor consistently do not have access to the same opportunities as those born rich, what emerges is a deep structural inequality that is bad for poverty reduction, bad for economic growth, and bad for social cohesion. How pervasive are these deep inequalities? Much more than we would like. Indeed, when we examine what is happening in many countries around the world today, we find large and persistent, even growing, gaps in earnings between rich and poor. And we find that those who start out in poverty or are part of a disadvantaged group tend to remain there, with little opportunity to work their way out.
How do we explain this, and what can we do to tackle it? We need to take a step back and look at where this inequality originates, and that is where the concept of equality of opportunity comes in to play. This concept broadly refers to access to a basic set of services that are necessary, at the minimum, for a child to attain his or her human potential, regardless of the circumstances — such as gender, geographic region, ethnicity, and family background — into which he or she is born. Too often, access to such basic services like electricity, clean water, sanitation, health care and education is much lower among children born into circumstances that place them at a disadvantage. Children from disadvantaged groups thus set off on an unequal path from day one, which curbs their opportunities and potential into adulthood.


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Paris, France – Former champion Roger Federer and David Ferrer won their respective first-round matches as the French Open swung into action Sunday in Paris.
Federer cruised past Spanish qualifier Pablo Carreno-Busta by a 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 margin in 80 minutes on the famed red clay at Roland Garros.
The Swiss superstar fired 10 aces past Carreno-Busta, who was making his Grand Slam debut after winning seven consecutive Futures events.
Federer, who has yet to win a title of any kind in 2013, captured the 2009 French Open crown -- the only one Rafael Nadal hasn't won in the last eight years -- to complete a career Grand Slam.
The 31-year-old Federer, who owns 17 Grand Slam titles, will take on India's Somdev Devvarman in the second round. Devvarman handled Spaniard Daniel Munoz-De La Nava 6-3, 6-3, 7-5.
Ferrer, a semifinalist last year, moved on with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Australia's Marinko Matosevic.
The fourth-seeded Spaniard maintained his record of always reaching at least the second round here. He is playing in his 11th consecutive French Open.
Canadian Milos Raonic, the No. 14 seed, fired 16 aces past Belgian Xavier Malisse en route to a 6-2, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 victory, while 18th-seeded American Sam Querrey beat Slovak Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
Other seeded winners included Frenchmen Gilles Simon and Jeremy Chardy, Italian Andreas Seppi and South African Kevin Anderson. The No. 15 seed Simon rallied past former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt by a 3-6, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 margin, the No. 20 seed Seppi outlasted Argentina's Leonardo Mayer 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 6-4, the 23rd-seeded Anderson handled Ukrainian Illya Marchenko 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 and the 25th-seeded Chardy got past German Benjamin Becker 6-4, 6-2, 7-5.
Also posting wins on Day 1 were Frenchman Michael Llodra, Serbian Viktor Troicki, Portugal's Joao Sousa, Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, Slovenia's Blaz Kavcic and Czech Jan Hajek.
One match was suspended due to darkness, with Marcel Granollers, the 31st seed, and fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez tied at two sets apiece.
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I prefer Ogre Battle: 64 given this one has a fighting system ripped off of Final Fantasy Tactics, so not very innovative.
Inspired by my recent fighting game kick, I was messing around with different Mugen games, like the improved Mortal Kombat Trilogy (including every iteration of the characters, like MKI Reptile) and a couple of promising Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter games that ultimately disappointed. I really wish someone took the Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter idea and really did it justice. I'd basically make it MKII vs SFII and use the SNK vs Capcom Chaos sprites for the Street Fighter characters. Throw in every combination of MK or SF control schemes and options with all characters, and keep it conservative otherwise (don't do too much, and what you do, do well), and it'd be a lot of fun.
I was playing the ps2 berserk game only to fight zodd, I don't go any further since I don't know what they are saying .
Tactics Ogre: The Knight of LodisI prefer Ogre Battle: 64 given this one has a fighting system ripped off of Final Fantasy Tactics, so not very innovative.
Waiting for batman I cant stop playing the demo.
Silent Hill 3!I'm blown away by the graphics on this game, the characters look better than Silent Hill Homecoming.
I uninstalled mine as soon as I finished it. It was fun, but the demo was such an experience on a wire I can't imagine it would have much replay value.
You're just getting to that one eh? Its definitely on my Top 5 of all time. I'm just starting Homecoming myself.Also just finished Fallout 3, and have been playing Prototype, which is a pretty amazing game in many regards. Definitely something everyone should try.
Replaying Shadow of the Colossus in hard mode(which I got after beating it the first time) . Here I come!
Shadow Complex for the moment. Nostalgia everywhere.
Playing Fable at the moment.I'll probably get this next. Is it as good as they say?
Fable or Fable II?
I'd recommend it purely as a support for great games on the Marketplace at $15 instead of mediocre rehashes at $10 that may have no replay.


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Fabio Borini bagged a brace on his debut as Swansea comfortably brushed aside Nottingham Forest to record their first victory in four games and leave their promotion rivals winless in seven attempts.
The on-loan Chelsea striker, who arrived earlier this week on a deal until the end of the season, coolly opened his Swans account from close range shortly after the impressive Scott Sinclair had registered his 17th league goal of the season with a sublime virtuoso effort in the 21st minute.
City were firmly in command and Italy Under-21 international Borini smashed against a post, before Kris Boyd - making his first Forest start - gave the visitors hope with a neat finish on the stroke of half-time.
But it did not last long as man-of-the-match Borini capped a debut to remember with a simple second just before the hour mark.
Paul Anderson added an unjust slant on the scoreline in injury time, making it 3-2, before then heading against the woodwork as Forest came close to snatching a undeserved point.
Victory was no less than Swansea deserved from a scintillating display, with a large gulf in class between them and out-of-sorts Forest at the Liberty Stadium.
Brendan Rodgers` side started on the front foot amid a fast-paced opening to proceedings, with Reds defender Paul Konchesky appearing fortunate to get away with a challenge on City winger Nathan Dyer in the penalty area.
The first real chance of the afternoon came in the 17th minute as Sinclair saw his effort turned around a post by Lee Camp.
Boyd forced a solid save from Dorus de Vries at the other end as the visitors momentarily got some kind of foothold in the encounter.
But it was then that the hosts broke the deadlock courtesy of a great solo goal from Sinclair.
The ball broke kindly for the former Chelsea winger around 15 yards into the Forest half on the left, and he ran unchallenged all the way across to the right-hand side of the penalty area before firing back across Camp and into the net.
Five minutes later and it was 2-0 as Borini bagged his first goal in the white of Swansea.
Angel Rangel got to the byline and cut the ball back for the 19-year-old Italian who saw his initial effort blocked, but the rebound bounced back into his path and he kept his composure amid four or five lunging challenges to pick his spot.
Swansea were firmly in control and Borini drilled an effort against the woodwork seven minutes before the break.
But, out of the blue, Boyd gave Forest hope just before half-time as he received a pass from Nathan Tyson on the byline, turned and fired past De Vries who could only get a hand on it.
And the Reds could have been level before the break as Luke Chambers` header came agonisingly close.
Stephen Dobbie forced Camp into an early save at the start of the second half before Mark Gower drilled across goal as Swans continued to dominate after the break.
Sinclair was constantly causing problems when running at the Forest defence and he created City`s third with another dazzling charge which resulted in Camp parrying his effort into the path of Borini, who was left with his second simple finish.
Borini could only find the side-netting in the 80th minute with his hat-trick begging.
But Swans were made to sweat as Paul Anderson grabbed an injury-time second for Forest, before heading against a post.
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March 05, 2010. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software, maker of the leading solutions for natural 3D environments, today announced it is seeking submissions for its upcoming 2010 show reel.
Following the success of the 2009 show reel, e-on software invites all Vue artists to submit recent commercial projects that involved Vue or Ozone for inclusion in the 2010 show reel, whether film, commercial, TV show, broadcast, music video, game cinematic, architectural walkthrough, or any other form of commercial animation project.
All submissions included in the show reel will receive full credit in a standardized format during playback of the corresponding sequence (at submitter's discretion: company logo, project title and/or client name).
E-on software's 2010 show reel will be showcased throughout the year at different tradeshows and conventions and in particular at Siggraph, July 25 - 29, Los Angeles (CA - USA).
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E-on software is also interested in receiving high resolution imagery for inclusion in its marketing collateral.
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We all love Lynne aka Lily's Quilts don't we?! She is hosting a fun link up over on her blog, Fresh Sewing Day.
Last month was all about small sewing projects for me. I made coasters and a potholder, and now I can not bare to actually use them and get them dirty :S And this little egg rug that I love!
I really enjoyed making this egg rug tutorial. It just makes my day when I see other people frying them up! here and here
Today I'm enjoying some self indulgent sewing. The weatherman predicted summer for tomorrow so when I found this lovely soft voile at the market this morning I could not resist a new summer dress.
Now lets hope that sun will shine tomorrow and that I actually manage to finish this in time to wear it.
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