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Photo Gallery: 1993 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra R at the Chicago Auto Show
Yesterday Ford debuted the new 2013 Shelby GT500 Convertible, but in our opinion the real star of the show is this 1993 Mustang SVT Cobra R. Ford brought out the car to celebrate the 20th anniversary of SVT, a fitting tribute since the 1993 SVT Cobra made its debut at the Chicago Auto Show exactly two decades ago.
Although it doesn't have the horsepower of the modern Shelby (who could have imagined in 1993 that a factory Mustang would have 650 horsepower), the 1993 Mustang SVT Cobra R was capable of impressive performance. The 5.0-liter high-output V8 rated at 235 horsepower is the same as the one in the standard SVT Cobra, but the two cars have many differences. Visual changes include the removal of the fog lights to feed cool air to the brakes, and Ford also fitted special 17-inch aluminum wheels and Goodyear tires. Inside the car has been stripped of anything nonessential, and the radio, air conditioning, rear seats and all sound deadening material are absent. Ford didn't stop there, though, and added larger front and rear brakes, adjustable Koni shocks with heavy duty springs, larger front and rear anti-roll bar and a strut tower brace. Finally, additional modifications for track use included a power steering fluid cooler, an external engine oil cooler and an aluminum radiator.
The performance of the 1993 Mustang SVT Cobra R was impressive for the time, with testing showing that the car was capable of going 0-60 mph in 5.5 seconds and running the 1/4 mile in 14 seconds flat at 100 mph. The real value of the car, though, is its rarity. Only 107 were ever produced by Ford.
We went through the 1993 Mustang SVT Cobra R on display at the Chicago Auto Show in detail, and Ford even allowed us to photograph the interior and open up the engine bay to have a look at the motor. Amazingly, only 4,183 miles have been put on the car since now.
Check out the 1993 Mustang SVT Cobra R in detail in the gallery below.
Photos ©2012 MustangsDaily.com
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The new moon is right in front of us, but its absent light reveals plenty
Friday marks new moon. You might think that the new moon is lost behind the sun. But the moon is roughly 250,000 miles from earth, while the sun is more than 90 million miles away. So the moon can never be behind the sun. Rather, new moon is right in front of us, directly between earth and the sun, invisible in the blinding glare.
This makes for dark night skies much of the week, allowing you to spot more dim and distant celestial objects.
One of those is Uranus, which reaches opposition October 3. The planet is its closest to earth, rising as the sun sets and setting with sunrise the next morning. Even so, at magnitude 5.7 Uranus is at the threshold of what the unaided eye can see. Worse yet, the distant planet is amid the dim stars of Pisces, so there is little to guide you. Your best bet is to look with binoculars at 7:30pm when Uranus will be due east 15 degrees above the horizon. At best it will appear as a small blue-green dot, its steady glow distinguishing it from any nearby stars.
This year's Draconid meteor shower, which peaks between Monday night and Tuesday morning, will also benefit from the moon's absence, with a thin crescent setting early in the evening. The meteors appear to emanate from the constellation Draco the dragon, which is already at its zenith come sunset. Typically a minor shower generating 10 meteors an hour, the dragon sometimes awakens in a fury, as in 1933 and 1946 when the sky was ablaze with thousands of meteors. Could the dragon again roar this year? Watch to find out.
Finally, use the moon's absence to search the pre-dawn sky for the elusive zodiacal light, also called false dawn. It appears as a faint glow rising from the east horizon. What you're seeing are specks of dust left over from the formation of the solar system orbiting the sun and illuminated by its light.


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South African Journal of Science
On-line version ISSN 1996-7489
Print version ISSN 0038-2353
S. Afr. j. sci. vol.103 n.7-8 Pretoria Jul./Aug. 2007
Monitoring effects of anthropogenic climate change on ecosystems: a role for systematic ecological observation?
Guy F. MidgleyI, *; Steven L. ChownII; Barney S. KgopeI
IGlobal Change Research Group, Ecology and Conservation, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa
IIDST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
We consider here the opportunities and challenges for South Africa in long-term ecological research (LTER) to detect the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on biota (as one of several competing objectives of long-term monitoring). The LTER approach has high potential for this purpose in South Africa because of a wealth of historical climate data relative to much of the African continent, and good representation of many African ecosystem types. However, there are substantial challenges to the identification and attribution of climate change impacts on African ecosystems. These are posed by climate variability at a range of time scales, the importance of rainfall rather than temperature as an ecological driver, and the significance of fire as a stochastic disturbance. An awareness of environmental and climate history will be crucial to interpreting data on trends, and sites with established historical data should be preferred for this reason. The placement of LTER sites to provide representivity of ecosystem types may unintentionally limit the detectability of climate change impacts, because change might best be detected in ecotonal or azonal environments. This could be overcome by additional experimental manipulations at LTER sites to 'force' anticipated changes and characterize species and ecosystem responses. A focus on the detection of climate change would sharpen an LTER programme's emphasis over time and provide policy advice, and science training rationales for the long term. It should especially interpret key information to decision-makers as a priority.
At the heart of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Article 2 describes its objective as 'stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system', and goes further to define this as a level that would not compromise food production, would allow sustainable economic development, and should be 'achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change' (see http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/ conveng.pdf). It is not surprising, therefore, that some of the most powerful data that have influenced policy debate in the climate change arena derive from longitudinal studies of wild organisms and ecosystems that reveal their responses to climate trends.13 Indeed, in the development of reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, the premier policy-relevant compendium of climate change information), the first powerful compilation of such recorded responses was carried out for the Third Assessment Report.4 The success and influence of this contribution has ensured that, in the Fourth Assessment Report, an entire chapter has been devoted to this topic (Working Group 2, Chapter 1, Assessment of Observed Changes and Responses in Natural and Managed Systems; see http://www.ipcc.ch/activity/ wg2outlines.pdf).
Systematic environmental monitoring has long been recognized as a key support for rational policy-making, and an important early-warning mechanism.5 It is interesting to note that the publication of reports relating to climate change and long-term ecological research (LTER) seems to have been stimulated by the release of IPCC reports (Fig. 1), possibly indicating a growing appreciation of the policy value of such studies, and prompting further publication of data sets and conceptual designs for more efficient and policy-relevant monitoring systems.6 We briefly review here the results and influence of some key LTER studies for their relevance to interpreting climate change impacts, which is arguably one of the most significant roles for the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) initiative in South Africa.46
Studies using systematic site-based observation
The longest-running records of systematic observation most often are of phenological phenomena (the timing of growth and development events), generally of plants, e.g. ref. 7. Many such studies were summarized by Hughes8 in one of the first attempts at a comprehensive assessment. It is clear from this and subsequent studies that reliable, long-running biological response data sets are concentrated in the northern hemisphere.9 A main reason for the successful extraction of trends from these data sets is that growth stages monitored (e.g. bud-break, leafing-out, flowering) are generally limited by low temperatures, and may show a threshold-type response.10 It comes as no surprise, therefore, that a large majority of studies successfully identifying climate change impacts on these processes11 are situated in parts of the world where ecological processes are limited by low temperatures,12 enabling detection of consistent trends even in marine environments.13 This is not to say that temperature responses are always simple to interpret, as evidenced, for example, by complex changes in bird populations as a function of brood activity.14
Studies involving changes in low-temperature limitations have also identified consistent shifts in species' range, such as in altitude15 or tree-lines16 and even in shifts in geographic range polewards over large regions.9,11 Significant range shifts have emerged generally in vagile organisms such as butterflies,1 with a few exceptions.17 Incipient range shifts in plants may be detected as changes in population growth rate, especially in long-lived plants such as the kokerboom (Aloe dichotoma)18 or in forest trees.19 Studies of range shifts most positively identify such changes through records of new appearances, indicating range expansion.20 Range contraction21 is more difficult to demonstrate directly. Local species extinction and even global extinction such as recorded for the Costa Rican golden toad22 indicate a range loss. Attributing such an effect to local climatic changes may be complex, however, and requires explanations that tease apart ancillary and synergistic stresses, such as the impact of disease on climate-stressed populations.23
Complex multi-species studies that provide insight into ecosystem characteristics and processes such as community composition and biomass production24 have been carried out by re-analysing long-term data sets from studies that were originally established for reasons not related to climate change at all. Some studies (unfortunately, often of shorter duration) have identified strong predatorhost relationships that operate either independently of or in addition to climate regimes.25 Such studies underline the importance of flexible, integrated and sufficiently complete sampling regimes that are robust enough to allow trends to be detected or positively refuted.
As the policy imperative for LTER has grown, e.g. ref. 26, a need for an integrated view of anthropogenic impacts on natural ecosystems and biogeochemical cycling has emerged. The first major studies to monitor the global biogeochemical cycles were those of the carbon cycle, established in the late 1950s on Mauna Loa, Hawaii,27 and these remain relevant.28 Today, large spatial scale studies involving cooperative groups and consortia have been initiated, e.g. ref. 29, and these now involve established long-term monitoring sites for both changes in ecosystem composition and productivity, e.g. ref. 30, and measurement of ecosystem-level physiological characteristics, e.g. ref. 31.
Significant concerns have been expressed, however, about blocks between monitoring efforts and policy making. For example, despite the annual investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States in environmental monitoring, access to data and information for policy and decision makers has been lacking. This limits the extent to which policies may be updated in order to meet desired objectives, and suggests careful attention to the production of annual statistical reports and interpretational summaries from LTER efforts.32 This is a significant challenge for LTER projects that might be addressed, for example, by clear linkages with national programmes such as State of the Environment reporting (http://www.ngo.grida.no/soesa/ nsoer/).
In the southern hemisphere, LTER research has a narrower scope and a shorter history than north of the equator. Indeed, recent reviews have highlighted the comparative dearth of long-term research in the southern hemisphere.3,9 In the south, LTER efforts to detect climate change impacts may be complicated by the hemispheric difference in environmental controls of ecosystem processes,33 namely energy-related factors in the north in contrast to water-related factors in the south. Nonetheless, significant effects related to climate change have been detected through LTER, such as in marine communities,34 and in studies of island environments of the southern oceans.35 Long-term monitoring of seabird populations has been a critical policy input for marine resource management.36
Some terrestrial monitoring studies have also detected trends in the southern hemisphere, such as in forest trees of the South American tropics, where significant increases in individual plant turnover and biomass have been documented.30 In South Africa, game counts and other forms of wildlife monitoring in terrestrial ecosystems have provided early insights into the potential influence of climate change on wildlife populations, such as in the Kruger National Park.37
Looking to the future SAEON-based opportunities and potential limitations
Many modelling studies based on empirical correlations of species relationships with climate (the so-called bioclimatic niche approach) suggest that species ranges and abundance should be sensitive to climate change.8,3841 Systematic observations could therefore provide a sensitive test of these projections by monitoring species turnover in time, with the added benefit of revealing the demographic processes that accompany range shifts. Recent developments in detecting climate change effects on ecosystems and wild species have begun to invoke the stringent requirement of 'joint attribution'42 that is, a statistical match between modelled expectations of climate changes and their impacts on the ecosystem as predicted and observed. Early work of this type on Aloe dichotoma has achieved some success.18
The likelihood of future joint attribution in southern Africa remains slim, nonetheless, given the few studies in this area under way. A lack of credible evidence that climate change is affecting biodiversity and ecosystems, either positively or negatively, or that predicted effects are being realized, will ultimately undermine a key voice for climate policy and adaptation measures in South Africa. A pressing goal of SAEON should be the development of coupled modelling and empirical studies over a range of time scales that can further the achievement of joint attribution.
Given the wealth of biodiversity in southern Africa, and the wide array of plant and animal 'functional types', this region seems to offer excellent opportunities to use a national network of systematically observed sites for changes in abundance and/or species distributions that may confirm or refute expected responses to climate trends. The region has also developed a significant store of species distribution databases (though recognizing the considerable taxonomic bias thereof and the poor quality of invertebrate databases),43 and fine-grained climate and substrate spatial information. Such resources have fuelled a productive effort in modelling the potential responses of many hundreds of species, including invasive aliens, to potential anthropogenic climate changes.3841 This represents a powerful data set to guide focused monitoring efforts at the national scale, especially if combined with future modelling efforts that should develop projections for changes in ecosystem processes (such as fire and biological invasions), and range shifts for a broader range of vagile functional types such as birds and insects, under a broader set of climate change scenarios.
It is not only climate trends that may force ecosystem modificationschanges in atmospheric CO2 alone are believed to be able to alter the relative success of plant functional types by favouring, for example, woody plants coexisting with grasses in savanna-type ecosystems.44 Long-term monitoring of permanent plots with controlled fire frequency in key sites around the country has been crucial in developing an early understanding of how this trend may alter southern African ecosystem structure and function.45 More recent modelling of CO2 fertilization effects suggest that even semi-desert regions may experience some increase in vegetation cover as CO2 continues to rise and possibly ameliorate or counteract the potentially adverse effects of warming and increasing soil water stress.46 Many large-scale experiments in the northern hemisphere have simulated this atmospheric change and discovered some ameliorating impacts,47 but only one such experiment48 has been conducted in the southern hemisphere.
While the potential role of LTER in detecting the effect of climate change is promising, significant barriers remain to establishing credible links between climate change trends and ecological responses in South Africa, and indeed in broader regions of the southern hemisphere. There are three main reasons for this:
Species ranges and ecosystem function may be controlled by water availability and drought, rather than linear and/or threshold-type temperature effects.49,50 This implies that climates in South Africa are typical of parts of the world where few ecological changes have been attributed to climate change, and stochastic events may trigger changes in ecosystem states. Teasing apart water and temperature control on plant species composition is critical in projecting the effect of climate change on tree success in South African grasslands, for example, where frost has been proposed as a primary limiting factor.51 Several other factors may, however, be dominant drivers.45
Species occurrence and ecological success and ecosystem function are significantly affected by fire regime in many parts of the region,45,52 obscuring or complicating the attribution of climate change impacts.
LTER sites are selected to represent 'typical' biomes or ecosystem types, a strategy that possibly limits the sensitivity of their component species to climate change, as sites may be positioned far from the 'edge' of biome and species ranges.
To counter these limitations, LTER efforts need careful strategizing to avoid obvious pitfalls.
Extreme events: It will be important to account carefully for inherently variable southern African rainfall,53 due especially to an apparent quasi-cyclical pattern on roughly decadal time scales,54 often associated with remote changes in sea-surface temperatures and global oscillations such as the El NiñoSouthern Oscillation.55 An awareness of environmental and climate history will be crucial to interpreting data on trends observations beginning after the severe drought of 19251934 would likely yield rather different trends from observations started after the good rainfall seasons of the 1970s. Sites with already established historical data should be preferred for this reason. Importantly, LTER efforts should avoid poor integration between observations made on different aspects of the environments at different sites that may result from a narrow focus of individual projects. The independent monitoring of different environmental features has previously been noted as an unintended weakness in LTER.6
Many challenges are associated with long-term monitoring of extreme climatic events, and the maintenance of consistency of observational methods is key.56 In order to define an event statistically, the use of multiple variables to define events is advisable, and should facilitate the identification of trends, especially if events can be monitored over spatial scales broader than that of a single site. Appropriate statistical methods for defining extreme events should also be carefully considered.57 Given that there are substantial difficulties associated even with identifying extreme climate events and detecting their trends,56 there will be an even greater onus on careful and reproducible observations of biota. Indeed, such transient-type responses have been suggested as the key to understanding long-term ecological change.52 Investigations of the changing variance in systems may likewise provide a key indicator of the likely imminence of ecological transition.58,59
Fire impacts: While fire is widely recognized as a driver of ecosystem structure, function and species composition, most work in this arena has focused on plant species, vegetation and ecosystem nutrient cycling. Rather little is known about the effects of fire on fauna, e.g. ref. 60. Unfortunately, fire frequency and intensity are functions of climatic factors, and may therefore be expected to change as climate alters,61 as has been observed in temperate ecosystems.62 A key decision on LTER sites will centre on fire management the maintenance of a range of fire regimes in fire-prone environments will be desirable, while the possible introduction of fire as a novel ecosystem disturbance in non-fire-prone sites will increasingly become relevant if warming trends continue. This is an issue that needs careful deliberation.
Site representivity: In LTER focused on the detection of climate change effects, placement of observation sites can be optimized to increase the probability of detecting trends. This may be carried out in one way by assessing where climate changes themselves may be more likely, or by positioning sites at points where change may be inherently more detectible. The importance of ecotonal vegetation types as areas that may be sensitive to changes in environmental conditions has long been recognized, and they may therefore be useful in change detection. For example, Stohlgren63 described the arrangement of forty-two 1000-m2 plots in characteristic forest types and intervening ecotones, on 14 vegetation transects. Permanent monitoring transects such as these should be designed and implemented to detect species compositional change over time, and especially to detect increasing prevalence of alien organisms, e.g. ref. 64.
What is clear is that a strategy of selecting representative ecosystem types for long-term monitoring may result in site placement well within the geographical borders of target biomes or ecosystem types. Such a strategy reduces the chances of detecting species and ecosystem responses to climate changes, as these 'typical' sites may be far from ecotonal regions where component species are more likely to experience limiting climatic drivers. This shortcoming might be overcome by using experimental treatments that drive climatic conditions to more extreme levels,65,66 or simulate anticipated human impacts such as eutrophication, e.g. ref. 67. In addition, altitudinal transects, and transects which span the boundaries of one or more biomes, may be of particular significance for detecting the effects of change, especially where such change is predicted to be rapid, as is the case in some areas of the Grassland/Savanna, Succulent Karoo and Fynbos biomes.45,64,68
Taken together, the use of altitudinal transects and experimental treatments (such as drought, warming or CO2 fertilization) to 'force' responses or control disturbance regimes would be a useful addition to LTER and would help to address all three challenges identified above. Such treatments may also provide insights into anticipated responses in biota69 that may guide ongoing detection of change by the LTER programme.
In summary, while the detection of the effects of climate change is only one of several primary objectives, SAEON provides a rare opportunity to coordinate this important objective countrywide, to maximize the chance for ecological work to guide policy. The cost of coordinating observations, as suggested above, is not likely to be much higher than that of programmes of independent observations. The cost of implementing experimental treatments replicated between SAEON sites will be high, however, but will provide useful opportunities to train and employ ecologists in a policy-relevant field that is urgently needed in this country. A focus on detecting climate change through SAEON would likely both sharpen the emphasis of monitoring protocols over time, and provide a rationale for maintaining funding inputs, science training and capacity building for the long haul, especially if the information generated were interpreted for the benefit of policy-making.
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On a side note, I don't believe we've been getting enough viewer feedback so we're still looking at ways to make the podcast more accessible.
You should try copying Call of Duty. I heard that works.
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Posted 04 August 2013 - 07:01 PM
On a side note, I don't believe we've been getting enough viewer feedback so we're still looking at ways to make the podcast more accessible.
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Posted 06 August 2013 - 01:50 AM
Drew, if no one else wants in on Skull Girls, I'll go ahead and get the 2-pack. What's your steam id?
Posted 06 August 2013 - 08:02 PM
No no, Dual. First, you must withold the last 20 minutes of your podcast and charge extra for it on top of your absurd listening fee. Then you must offer that last 20 minutes for free as part of your subscription plan that offers jack shit other than the last 20 minutes of the podcast. You must then recycle your talks on a yearly basis with minor updates.
Posted 08 August 2013 - 08:40 AM
Seriously, one of my favorites of this generation. I couldn't find one hidden orb, and this was back when I was compulsive about Achievements. Fuck that noise.
I'm one godforsaken, illusive pigeon away from 100% completion on GTA IV. Achievements are evil.
Posted 09 August 2013 - 08:12 AM
Spies vs Mercs is looking really good and I was kinda blown away after they announced that Arkham Origins was going to have a multiplayer mode that seems to play very similar to a game mode I loved back in Metal Gear Online with Snake & Otacon vs two other competing teams.
I'm not totally thrilled with Spies vs Mercs as of yet. My problems include:
- Maps seem small.
- Spies have guns (seriously, why the fuck would you do this?)
- A designer said this line, "Yeah the mercs best weapon is distance, spies are deadly up close." And considering spies can just taze and knife you from the front? I believe them.
- lolcrossbow. #yearofthebow
However, I do think some things look promising. Such as art direction, darkness of levels (even in regular mode,) and kill speeds on spies.
As it stands? I'll probably buy it. But that's simply because I have expendable income, and I'm an idiot.
Posted 09 August 2013 - 10:45 AM
Drew, if no one else wants in on Skull Girls, I'll go ahead and get the 2-pack. What's your steam id?
DrewMcDuffy or maybe AvalonDrew... I'm not sure exactly. If you search for both you'll probably find me. Just look for the little girl avatar, can't miss it.
Posted 11 August 2013 - 04:10 AM
You didn't mention it was a "slightly above the nips but otherwise completely naked" little girl avatar. But I added you anyway.
EDIT: Bought it. Now, if you'd just accept mah danged friend request, I'd send you the game.
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I bet you were feeling pretty happy with Congress a little bit ago. Get ready to go back to normal! The College Opportunity and Affordability passed the House today (sounds good so far, right?), but it carries a provision that forces schools to make plans for network filtering mojo and a legal alternative to P2P file-sharing.
Luckily, the provision doesn't have much in the way of teeth right now, but an amendment to safeguard schools' federal funding if they don't comply was pulled yesterday, so it could quickly grow some. Just another reminder of why gov't peeps who know tech and aren't easily confused by slick lobbying are important. [Ars Technica]


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Welcome to 2010!
My goal with Washington Wine Report is to bring Washington wine to you and to bring you to Washington wine. That remains my mission this year. As we start the New Year, however, there are a number of things I hope to accomplish. These can be generally summarized as 1) improving the content on the blog 2) improving the ability to get at the content and 3) providing as much transparency as possible into what I do and how I do it when reviewing wines.
In terms of improving content, there are a number of things I am looking to do this year. One is to spend more time in the vineyards and at wineries. In particular, I am looking to go to wineries and areas I haven't been to before or been to in some time. In the past, my travels have been limited by work and activities related to mountain climbing (I teach climbing in the winter and spring and climb every weekend in the summer). This has necessitated that my trips to wine country are less frequent than I would like, forcing me to be more selective about where I go and when I go.
As some of you know, my workplace shut its Seattle-area office at the end of 2009 (you shouldn't cry any tears for me on this one I assure you). My loss is your gain, as I will be looking to use some of my additional time while I look for work traveling around Washington wine country. My hope is that this will allow me to bring more information to you about Washington's many producers than I have been able to in the past.
In terms of improving the ability to get at content, as with any blog, content gets easily lost. While there are labels and search functionality, they are not as robust as I would like. I will be looking to address this in a number of ways over the course of the year, but the first one is by having a tasting note database that readers can peruse. This will be, initially, just a downloadable spreadsheet that will include information about producer, vintage, rating, etc. My hope is that this will allow readers to more easily get at some of the review information in a summarized, searchable, sortable form. Look for this in the coming days.
In terms of transparency, inspired by research I did for a series of posts comparing the major print publications last year, I plan to provide more visibility into what I do, how I do it, and why I do it. To this end, I will be dedicating a post to my rating system system - what it is, how it came to be, and why I have stuck with it. While I don't plan to make substantive changes to how I taste or rate wine, my goal is to provide as much visibility as possible for readers. Additionally, I will dedicate a separate post to background information about the blog itself – what its goal is, how it came to be, how I taste wine, and what my ethical standards and disclosure policies are.
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Thad W. Says:
I am looking forward to following your coverage in 2010. Sorry to hear about the change in your work situation, but am glad you're going to invest the extra time connecting us to Washington wine. And it's terrific seeing the recent posts explaining more about you and your approach reviewing wine. Keep up the good work, Sean!
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Many thanks Thad. Here's to great things in 2010!
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Not big on posting comments but felt compelled because of all the great work you do for the Washington wine industry and commsumers all over.
You are valuable resource for Washington wine lovers. Hope you can continue. Maybe we can lobby the industry for support.
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Southern Man, thanks for the comment and compliments. Much appreciated.


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The agency has reintroduced the Coke hunk in a 60-second spot called "the gardener", which uses the Etta James track 'I Just Want To Make Love To You' from the famous Diet Coke "hunk" spot from 1996.
BETC London, which was appointed to the £40m pan-European Diet Coke creative account last August, has created a spot featuring a group of female Diet Coke drinkers on a hill.
The women spot the "hunk" mowing the grass and one of them rolls a can of the drink towards him as part of a plan to induce him to remove his t-shirt.
The launch of the ad was promoted with a teaser 20-second clip on the Diet Coke Facebook page.
On its Facebook page, the brand states, "'I just wanna make love to you!' Here's your very first look at the new Diet Coke Hunk! Don't forget to share with your friends..."
The full ad appeared on the Facebook page at 11.30am today (the time in the original ad) and will air on TV from March as part of an integrated campaign.
Clive Pickering was the writer of the ad and Neil Dawson was the art director. It was directed by Rocky Morton from MJZ.
Last year, Campaign's sister magazine Marketing revealed Diet Coke was going to put its 30th birthday at the centre of its UK marketing plans for 2013.
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Access denied: Stadium parking irks handicapped fan
When a steel door crushed Tom Woodson's foot back in 1998, many aspects of his life changed in an instant. But at least one thing remained the same: his love of UVA football.
In 2000, after eight surgeries to restore function to his injured limb had failed, Woodson opted for amputation. Then began his new life, complete with a prosthetic leg adorned with the Cavalier V and crossed swords. But for the longtime season-ticket holder, getting to the games at Scott Stadium has proven an unexpected challenge. Woodson hopes UVA might consider some changes in its handicap parking policies.
Becca White, UVA's director of parking and transportation, says UVA's current parking policies already offer handicapped fans easy game-day access. In addition to discounted parking and a $3 shuttle from the Water Street parking garage downtown, handicapped fans can park free in a lot near the JAG school, at the corner of Arlington and Massie roads, and catch a free, handicap-accessible shuttle between that lot and the stadium. The free shuttle runs two hours before games, White says, and continues running until every fan has been delivered back to his or her car following the final whistle.
But Woodson says that solution is problematic.
"I have to stand there and wait," he explains, something that causes him considerable physical discomfort. And then there's the trouble at the end of the game.
"If the bus leaves at the end of the third quarter, and you're not on that bus," he says, "there's no telling when you'll get back to your car."
Getting dropped off near the arena entrance is also not an option, unless Woodson arrives two hours before kick-off. For security and traffic purposes, general traffic is diverted away from the stadium.
"I understand about the terror things, and I'm glad they make it safe in that way," says Woodson, "but there are handicapped people who are trying to be honest, to get close."
It's not as if Scott Stadium doesn't have handicapped spaces closer by– in fact, there are 39 of them, in accordance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. But on game day, using those spaces requires both a handicap and a donation, says White. Only "qualified donors"– those who've given at least $1,100– get the plum spots, according to Virginia Athletics Foundation spokesperson Joe Hall.
For Woodson, who lauds the stadium's other handicapped accessible features– ramps, railings, restrooms– that's small consolation.
"You still have to pay for handicapped parking," says Woodson, whose budget won't allow for a hefty donation. "I get penalized," he says. "That's just the way I see it."
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MANILA, Philippines -- Most of the sailors on a U.S. Navy minesweeper that struck a coral reef in the Philippines left the ship Friday for safety reasons after initial efforts to free the vessel failed, the Navy said.
The ship ran aground Thursday while in transit through the Tubbataha National Marine Park, a coral sanctuary in the Sulu Sea, 640 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Manila. There were no injuries or oil leaks, and Philippine authorities were trying to evaluate damage to the protected coral reef, designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said 72 of the 79 crew of the USS Guardian were transferred to a military support vessel by small boat. A small team of personnel will remain aboard and attempt to free the ship with minimal environmental impact, the statement said. The remaining seven sailors, including the commanding and the executive officer, will also be transferred if conditions become unsafe.
Philippine officials said the weather was choppy Friday with strong winds and rough seas.
The World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines said that according to an initial visual inspection, the 68-meter- (74-yard-) long, 1,300-ton Guardian damaged at least 10 meters of the reef. Aerial photographs provided by the Philippine military showed the ship's bow sitting atop corals in shallow turquoise waters. The stern was floating in the deep blue waters. The Navy said the cause of the grounding, which took place around 2 a.m. Thursday, was under investigation.
Angelique Songco, head of the government's Protected Area Management Board, said it was unclear how much of the reef was damaged. She said the government imposes a fine of about $300 per square meter of damaged coral.
In 2005, the environmental group Greenpeace was fined almost $7,000 after its flagship struck a reef in the same area.
Songco said that park rangers were not allowed to board the ship for inspection and were told to contact the U.S. Embassy in Manila. Their radio calls to the ship were ignored, she said. The U.S. Navy statement said that "the government of the Philippines was promptly informed of the incident and is being updated regularly."
Philippine military spokesman Maj. Oliver Banaria said the U.S. Navy did not request assistance from the Philippines.
U.S. Navy ships have stepped up visits to Philippine ports for refueling, rest and recreation, plus joint military exercises as a result of a redeployment of U.S. forces in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Philippines, a U.S. defense treaty ally, has been entangled in a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea.
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It may be the first time England have trained together this year, but Gary Cahill believes the feelgood factor is still present around the Three Lions squad.
An excellent start to the 2016 European Championship qualifying campaign, which has drawn four wins from their four games to date, sees Roy Hodgson's men sitting top of Group E.
And Dronfield-born turned international defender, via Bramall Lane, Cahill, is looking forward to Friday's meeting with Lithuania at Wembley.
"I think it's still a feelgood factor from the results since from the summer," he said.
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Cahill has also sung the praises of Harry Kane as the clamour builds for the Tottenham striker to be given his international bow on Friday.
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Chelsea defender Cahill needs no reminders of Kane's talents after the 21-year-old scored twice in Spurs' 5-3 victory over the Blues on New Year's Day. "He's a real handful, a fantastic talent," said Cahill.
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Kane has scored 29 goals in all competitions and 19 so far in his first full season in the Barclays Premier League, including a treble against Leicester on Saturday. Kane's hopes of a debut this Friday were boosted by the injury-enforced withdrawal of Liverpool forward Daniel Sturridge.
On whether Kane will be ready to start against Lithuania, Cahill added: "We've got four top strikers here, all champing at the bit to play, all good enough to play and Harry's in that bracket. He's in top form in that league and I'm sure that he feels he's ready to play, but of course it's down to the manager."


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Stew is an NPC that sells items cheaply. However, he only sells one item at a time.
Which items sold by Stew, will net a profit when resold to Jani (a merchant buying and selling at normal prices) (and assuming the player character is wearing the Wastelander or Crimson Elite armor, which both give a 5% discount on all cash purchases)?
Stew regularly changes the item he is currenty selling. I also would like to know: What determines when will Stew change the item he is currently selling?
The RAGE wiki already lists some of the items sold by Stew that will net a profit when resold to Jani, but I'd like to know about the rest as Stew regularly changes the items he is selling.


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Pork tenderloin is about as lean as it comes so it's a great healthy option, but it shouldn't be overcooked as it can dry out. Maple and mustard make a sweet-and-savory mahogany-colored sauce. A delicate note of sage gives it a wintery touch. Fresh thyme or rosemary also work if you prefer. Serve with barley, roasted squash and a Pinot Noir.
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Note to yoga teachers: When I modify a pose to deepen or come into a different pose during your class, it is not because I get an ego boost, to show off my flexibility, or otherwise seek attention. It is also not because what you are offering and you, by extension, are not "enough," or that I don't respect you. Rather, it is because my body craves more depth and expression in a given posture and denying this engenders poignant longing. This impulse bubbles up from deep within.
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This is why I lurk in the back corner of your class, because I anticipate these impulses arising and wish to be as non-distracting to you and fellow students as possible. It is also why I will often approach you, depending on your style and training background, to explain why I will likely need to riff a deep psoas, ITB band, or shoulder stretch to feel complete in my practice.
However, as I suggested recently, I've also found great value in tempering my body's impulses to respect and honor the context and teachings. The unfulfilled interoceptive impulses that arise provide me with a rich laboratory to sit in the presence of longing. I've engaged with this often, particularly in classes where the lineage is less receptive to modifications or deviations. This is an important inquiry.
In my Kripalu years, I was a fixture in the back corner of class, where the culture encouraged engagement with the teacher as inspiration rather than prototype. I loved this. Why, I wondered, don't more studios offer open practice space or classes where students are encouraged to use the instructor's teachings as a riff for their own flow? When appropriately contextualized by the instructor, this can be inspiring to other students who learn that this expression is not attention grabbing, but driven by prana, the divine life force energy that flows through us all.
I quickly learned, however, that this unique approach was not often appreciated. While there is great merit in allowing the body's wisdom—prana—to guide the flow, as it did years ago for kundalini master Swami Kripalu, I ultimately learned much from sitting with, rather than acting out, my impulses towards and avoidance of certain asana or practices. I've thus grown to appreciate that while the body's intelligence should be honored wherever possible, when attending a yoga class it is important to honor the context. These days, I view the koshas—body, breath, mind, emotions, spirit—as continuous with the environment, including those who surround me, and temper my pranic impulses with this in mind.
This occurs, however, with varying degrees of success. At a recent Pilates class, after 30 minutes of full-on abdominal/psoas contraction, as if my body had a will of its own, in defiance it lifted into a delicious wheel pose. Guilt arose, as I sensed the instructor's irritation. "Show off," I imagined her thinking, though this was the least of my motives.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? If so, which aspect(s)?
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WARNING! Extremely erotic & suggestive content inside! Michael gets naked! Ok, not really but he might as well since he rips his kemeja a few times and works his body like he is making love. Please enjoy responsibly!
This is rehearsal footage from the This Is It Tour 2009 released oleh promoter AEG. Footage from a June 23, 2009 rehearsal, just 48 hours before his death. Contrary to reports, he looks good on stage.


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I went to an art Exhibit last night in Jersey City called Balance Hair Salon.
here's some info of the event from the link that we've found from the NJ.com site.
What: UFO Abductee Experiences Exhibition
When: Tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Balance Hair Salon, 18 Erie St., Jersey City
Details: Huggins will show his painted depictions of his abductions of aliens and discuss his extra-terrestrial life.
It also cover more insider stories regarding the Abduction experience of David Huggins.
I have yet to set-up an appointment interview with him. However, Me and my girlfriend did asked him a couple of quick questions regarding some of the painting visuals and how it was like.
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5 things you didn't know about singer James Bay
Musician James Bay's voice is as beautiful as a pair of Rag and Bone boots in fall. The 23-year-old singer has made a name for himself as an English soul-singer, whose skills on the guitar are unparalleled (think John Mayer, but British). After releasing his second EP last month, Bay has performed at Bonnaroo Music Festival and has been making the rounds at clubs and venues. His voice is seriously dynamic and we couldn't help but do a little digging into this singer's story. Here's what we found out:
1) His music makes us feel things ... just listen!
2) He taught himself to play guitar by ear at 11-years-old.
3) He really, really likes to wear fedora's.
4) A video of him performing made it's way onto YouTube, caught the eye of an A&R rep who later signed Bay to Republic Records.
5) He has an odd (and striking) resemblance to Johnny Depp.
James is one of those artists we'll be hearing about soon, so you're welcome! You can listen to more music off his new EP, Let it Go here.


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Michael Phelps edges Ryan Lochte in 100 backstroke
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Michael Phelps won the 100-meter backstroke on Saturday at the Bulldog Grand Slam, edging Ryan Lochte in another encouraging performance in his comeback.
Phelps, who retired after the last Olympics and stayed away from the pool for more than a year, finished in 53.88 seconds. Lochte was second at 54.40, and Olympian Tyler Clary finished third in 55.41.
This is his first meet for Lochte since he reinjured his surgically repaired left knee at the Mesa Grand Prix in April. He also lost to Phelps on Friday night, grabbing second in the 100 butterfly with a time of 53.08 seconds that was well off Phelps' winning swim of 51.67.
The hastily arranged event on the University of Georgia campus gives some of the top swimmers on the East Coast a chance to swim one more time competitively before the next month's national championships in Irvine, California.
The results from nationals, as well as the Pan Pacific Championships being held in Australia later in August, will determine the U.S. team for the 2015 world championships.
Lochte gets another shot at Phelps when the two compete in the 100 freestyle on Sunday. Lochte also is scheduled for the 200 individual medley and the 200 backstroke on Sunday.
Other Olympians who were victorious Saturday included Camille Adams, who won the 200 butterfly in 2:08.45, and Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace of the Bahamas and Auburn University, who won the 50 freestyle in 24.67. Bruno Fratus of Brazil won the men's 50 freestyle in 22.09, and Connor Jaeger took the men's 400 freestyle in 3:45.34.
Georgia's Chase Kalisz (men's 200 butterfly) and Nicholas Fink (men's 200 breaststroke), 17-year-old Kathleen Baker (women's 100 backstroke) and California's Cierra Runge (women's 400 freestyle) also posted wins on Saturday. Former Georgia swimmer Melanie Margalis won the women's 200 breaststroke with a personal best time of 2:27.06.


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"Eat It to Save It!" Bristol Bay Salmon Dinner on July 24th
Join Slow Food Seattle in supporting the great advocacy work of Save Bristol Bay on Tuesday, July 24th at Local 360 with SFS board member and Top Chef alum, Chef Robin Leventhal to cook up awareness and support with their Eat It to Save It Bristol Bay Salmon Dinner. Joining the ranks of more than 50 restaurants nationwide, the event promises to shine a light on a proposed Pebble mine at Bristol Bay, Alaska that threatens to change the landscape of our ecosystem and the very survival of the northwest's most beloved fish - the sockeye salmon.
The Eat It to Save It Bristol Bay Salmon Dinner will feature a 3-course menu for $35, with salmon-safe wine pairings for an additional $15, in the main dining room from 3pm to 10pm. There will also be a special opportunity to enjoy a 6-course menu prepared by Chef Leventhal in Local 360's private dining room at 7pm. Offered at $85 per guest, this exquisite meal will feature wine pairings by Novelty Hill • Januik, a salmon-safe winery. A portion of all proceeds for the evening will go to Save Bristol Bay.
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SAN FRANCISCO—VMware is still the big kahuna in virtualization, and the company is hosting its annual VMworld conference this week to show off the latest shiny bits of software that businesses can buy for their data centers. We'll be covering the event in San Francisco to keep you up to date.
Details on the VMware public cloud service that will compete against Amazon could be in the offing. While servers and cloud computing will dominate the agenda today, updates on end user computing (possibly including dual-persona phones) will come tomorrow. For now, we can talk about the new products VMware was willing to reveal in advance of the show.
Along with a new version of its core vSphere virtualization platform, VMware is unveiling new software to virtualize networks and storage. All of these tools, when combined with the forthcoming public cloud service, will help VMware stay competitive against the likes of Microsoft, Red Hat, and the open source OpenStack cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform.
Today, the company is announcing VMware NSX, network virtualization software designed to "deliver the entire networking and security model from Layer2 to Layer 7 in software, decoupled from underlying networking hardware," in VMware's words. It's not exactly a new product—it combines VMware's existing vCloud and Network Security (vCNS) tools with the technology of Nicira, which VMware bought a year ago.
The core parts of NSX include logical switches and routers along with a RESTful API for integration into third-party cloud management platforms, plus a logical firewall, load balancer, and VPN.
"The platform is built around a controller cluster that manages the distribution of logical network functions into hypervisors throughout the data center," VMware said. "The NSX platform delivers the base Layer 2 and Layer 3 network virtualization with add-on software modules for specific Layer 4-7 network services, such as firewall, load balancer and VPN."
While NSX integrates with vSphere and the vCloud Director and Automation Center management tools, it also works with hypervisors and management software beyond VMware's. That includes the Xen Server and KVM hypervisors and the OpenStack and CloudStack cloud management platforms.
NSX will be available in Q4 2013 for a price that has not yet been announced. But the basic networking components that VMware already offers are available in the main vSphere platform, which VMware customers typically own.
"The vCloud Networking and Security that are already in the core vSphere platform will remain there at least for now," Gartner virtualization analyst Chris Wolf told Ars via e-mail. "I expect customers that just want basic network virtualization features to stick with vCNS." vCNS includes a virtual firewall, VPN, and load balancing.
Big, virtual data
Beyond networking, VMware is virtualizing storage—and not for the first time. vSphere already has a virtual storage platform, but VMware said it's going to provide something better in the form of Virtual SAN (vSAN). This lets IT shops "instantly provision VM storage using simple policies" and scale storage capacity and performance up automatically as a cluster of virtual servers grows.
"vSAN is a big deal," Wolf said. "With vSAN, customers can pool local storage on servers and create a storage network without needing any traditional SAN hardware—just servers and local disks. This is a big component for enabling the software-defined data center, and over the long term, vSAN can help organizations reduce their reliance on hardware-based storage solutions. We expect clients to start using vSAN in dev/test environments as a way to cut costs and potentially expand vSAN deployments to VDI [virtual desktop infrastructure] workloads as well."
One big difference between vSAN and VMware's previous storage software is that "you can use local storage and still be able to take advantage of live migration [the ability to move virtual servers from one physical machine to another with no downtime] and high availability," Wolf said. "Previously, organizations would need a third party product like the HP Lefthand VSA to do it. Also, vSAN storage is replicated and highly available. So if a server fails you won't lose any data."
vSAN is heading into a public beta, and general availability is planned for the first half of 2014.
As for the core virtualization platform, VMware is unveiling vSphere with Operations Management version 5.5. A vSphere instance can now manage 320 physical CPUs, up from 160 in vSphere 5.1. Memory support was doubled to 4TB, and support for virtual CPUs doubles to 4,096. The maximum size of a VMDK (virtual machine disk) has dramatically risen from 2TB to 62TB.
Beyond the numbers, some new features make it easier to deploy certain applications and recover from failure. vSphere is now better able to handle the needs of applications requiring low latency, such as in-memory databases, VMware said. Also, a new "Flash Read Cache" virtualizes server-side flash storage to provide a "high performance read cache later that dramatically lowers application latency."
A new high availability feature places an agent inside a virtual machine to monitor the traffic and activity of the application running inside. When something abnormal happens, the VM can be automatically rebooted or a notification can be sent to an administrator. Previously, VMware high availability software would not necessarily realize an application was misbehaving if the virtual machine itself looked fine, VMware product marketing executive Peter Wei told Ars.
Some other improvements to vSphere 5.1:
New vSphere Big Data Extensions: With the new vSphere Big Data Extensions, customers can run Apache Hadoop workloads on vSphere to achieve higher utilization, reliability, and agility. vSphere Big Data Extensions support multiple Hadoop distributions and enable IT to seamlessly deploy, run and manage Hadoop workloads on one common platform.
Enhanced VMware vSphere Replication: vSphere Replication will deliver multiple point-in-time snapshots for more granular recovery. For greater scalability, multiple appliances for replication are supported per vCenter Server. vSphere Replication is also supported for use with vSphere Storage vMotion and Storage DRS.
Enhanced VMware vSphere Data Protection: vSphere Data Protection now restores directly to a host without dependence on VMware vCenter Server. Customers can now backup and restore individual vmdk files and quiesce the vSphere Data Protection appliance for long-term retention purposes.
vSphere with Operations Management 5.5 will be released this quarter, with pricing that starts at $1,745 per processor.
VMware's ambitions are all in the cloud
The above improvements don't come as a big surprise, although they may well be enticing to many VMware customers. More surprising was recent news (which came out a few months ago) of vCloud Hybrid Service, a public infrastructure-as-a-service cloud that customers can access over the Internet, just as they would with Amazon's cloud. vCloud Hybrid Service will integrate with local VMware environments—hence its name.
The service was scheduled to open to early access customers in June and to the general public in the third quarter of this year (i.e., by the end of September). Given that, there's a good chance VMware could reveal more specific rollout dates and pricing this week.
Once it's offering both a public cloud service and on-premises virtualization and cloud infrastructure tools, VMware can bolster its case for remaining a better choice than Microsoft, which has the Hyper-V virtualization platform, System Center management tools, and the Windows Azure public cloud.
Hyper-V is steadily closing the feature gap with VMware, and a new Microsoft partnership with Oracle gives its virtualization platform additional credibility in the enterprise virtualization market, which has been dominated by VMware.
While Microsoft is the most pressing threat, VMware also must contend with OpenStack, which customers can use to build Amazon-style infrastructure-as-a-service clouds with any hypervisor. It's a small market today, but adoption by service providers and highly technical enterprises such as CERN indicate OpenStack may have a bright future.
Canonical and Red Hat are both strong contenders for OpenStack deployments. VMware would probably prefer customers use only VMware software, but it is making its products work with OpenStack to accommodate those customers who want both.
"VMware's support for OpenStack will be similar to many of its competitors," Wolf said. "VMware will fully support the OpenStack APIs and give customers the choice to use just OpenStack or go with VMware's proprietary software on top of OpenStack. HP, IBM, Cisco, and all other major competitors are also adding proprietary extensions to 'add value'— translation: still lock customers in. So in the end, most vendor OpenStack implementations will be proprietary to some degree. There's no such thing as a free lunch and vendors in the OpenStack community aren't contributing to OpenStack purely for the good of humanity."


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I'm a complete pinball junkie who is forced to go without a fix. Local arcades in my area have completely vanished, except for one — and it has nothing but fighting and gun games, with a smattering of DDR and skeeball. No pinball to be found. I even searched in an online directory of pinball tables (yes, such online directories exist) and confirmed that — at least as far as the site knew — there were none available within a 25-mile radius of my home.
Now, I love Pinball FX2 and Zen Pinball. Have every table for them and have a good portion of the high scores on my friends list (about half, in a bit of a grudge match against my brother online for the rest). These tables never quite feel like true pinball though, since they do a lot of things that wouldn't be possible on a physical table (moving characters, morphing lanes, special effects, etc.). The Pinball Hall of Fame releases and most recently the Pinball Arcade on XBox Live and PSN are my favorites, since they're digital recreations of actual tables produced over the past 50 years. The Williams collection in particular was amazing since it had my two favorites: Funhouse and Black Knight. But sadly, this is the closest I can come now to getting my pinball fix.
With arcades pretty much on life support in the US and me lacking the $3-10K it costs to buy a table of my own, it's downright depressing to think that traditional pinball machines might be a dying art form. I mean hell, even if I did have the money to buy my own table, the only way to find them is used or refurbished. There is now only ONE company in operation today that still makes new tables (Stern), and they are premium priced collector's items. Digital pinball is fun, sure, but there's just no replacement for actually standing at a machine in person. I can't be one of the only people left who still feel this way.
Does anyone else have this addiction to pinball that has been sorely unsatisfied lately? Or do you have access to an arcade that still houses a table or two? Or even better, actually own a physical table of your own (in which case, I both admire and hate you)?


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Matcha Green Tea Latte
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I prepared my matcha green tea latte with the same procedure one would use for making white hot chocolate. The drink is made with a blend of lightly sweetened matcha green tea, white chocolate, steamed milk and heavy cream. You wouldn't want to drink this every day, but that's what holiday treats are all about!
This recipe can be modified to feature many different seasonal flavors. Peppermint, cinnamon and other spices come to mind. You don't have to go to the local coffee shop to enjoy holiday specials anymore; be your own barista and save the change for stocking stuffers.
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Amazon Quietly Bricked Jailbroken Kindle Devices Last Year
from the taking-money;-building-walls deptIt appears that Amazon is very serious about walling off its garden. Late last year, it pushed out a firmware update for its Amazon Fire TV devices that not only made rooted devices unusable, but prevented Fire TV owners from rolling back firmware to previous, more root-friendly versions. Apparently, Kindle users were also included in this lockdown.
A recent post at Good Reader notes that the latest firmware for Kindles is pretty much identical to its Fire TV firmware, right down to the destruction of functionality.
The new firmware was pushed out to all modern Kindle devices in late November of last year. Anything after version 5.60 will not allow you to hack the firmware and do interesting things like change the screensaver system or install custom apps.And, like its firmware for the Fire TV, rollback to less hack-resistant firmware is nearly impossible. You can force it back, provided you have a soldering iron (and the willingness to apply it to your device) or you can follow a few not-so-simple steps to take your root access back from Amazon. But once again, it's the company removing functionality for the sole purpose of making devices perform the way Amazon wants them to, rather than leaving these sorts of decisions to those who have purchased the devices.
And it's not as though Kindle owners are receiving any heads up from Amazon about the firmware's plans for their jailbroken devices. No mention of it is made in the firmware's specifications, which only tells you about the (supposedly) good things the update will bring: vague "bug fixes and improvements." Softpedia's hosting page for the latest version (5.6.1) goes into a little more detail, but it only contains a list of slightly-upgraded Amazon features, rather than the limitations the firmware will impose on paying customers.
If you like Amazon's walled garden, the company is more than happy to ensure you never find the gate. If you don't, Amazon is more than happy to step in and brick over any openings. The latter does a huge disservice to paying customers who are looking to get the most out of something they purchased and own, but seems to still somehow "belong" to Amazon.
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Dragon Quest gets festive
|Touted as "The Bodily Sensation RPG," Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors for the Nintendo Wii allows players to destroy adorable slime monsters by swinging the Wiimote like a sword.
Dragon Quest Swords uses a battle system reminiscent of first-person shooter arcade games such as House of the Dead and Time Crisis. The Wii picks up on the direction of the player's stabbing motions to stimulate the action of swiping a sword. To defend oneself from incoming attacks, the player can also squeeze the A button to brandish a shield. To inflict damage upon distant enemies, the player can throw a ball of lightning using the B button. There is no MP gauge, so bolts can be hurled liberally.
Swords debuts in Spring of 2007 in Japan with no North American release currently scheduled.
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More manic celebration of Dragon Quest's 20th Anniversary
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We cannot yet confirm that Dragon Quest IX will actually appear on two cartridges, as this image may be the work of a Photoshop deviant. Nevertheless, we added our watermark to further prove that we here at Square Haven are truly living on the edge. Stay tuned to see if this information is reliable or we are just trying to trick you.
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