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The evidence of knowledge and intent necessary to prove possession of marijuana is sufficient if a defendant recognized, picked up, and attempted to conceal marijuana that had been tossed into her lap.
Appeal from Ellis District Court; WILLIAM J. MADDEN, judge. Opinion filed March 2, 2001. Affirmed.
Michael S. Holland II, of Holland and Holland, of Russell, for appellant.
Thomas J. Drees, county attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before GREEN, P.J., BEIER, J., and DAVID PRAGER, Chief Justice Retired, assigned.
BEIER, J.: Defendant-appellant Sabrina Carrasco challenges her conviction of possession of marijuana, contending her action in removing a bag of marijuana that had been tossed into her lap could not constitute possession.
The essential facts are these: Police stopped a car driven by Carrasco's boyfriend. Carrasco was sitting on the passenger side of the front seat. When the car was pulled over, Carrasco's boyfriend threw a bag of marijuana onto her lap. She recognized it as marijuana and placed it between her seat and the door next to it. She testified she was trying to conceal the marijuana from the police and prevent her boyfriend, who had a previous drug conviction, from getting into trouble.
When one of the officers observed the marijuana and its location, he arrested Carrasco for possession. Carrasco told the officer that the marijuana did not belong to her, that she did not know to whom it belonged, and that "they were being set up."
At trial, the district court made the following ruling from the bench:
"Well, even giving her the benefit of the doubt on the story, the county attorney's correct that the mere act of taking something and sticking it down there would be obviously not an egregious case of possession, but it is exercising control over the property which is general intent. I think that they've proven it. I guess that, as I said, assuming what she said was the sequence of events, it would not be a particularly egregious violation, but it is, and I find her guilty."
Carrasco identifies the standard of review in this case as de novo, arguing the district court incorrectly ruled as a matter of law that her actions in picking up the marijuana and tossing it constituted possession. She is actually challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting her conviction. When the sufficiency of the evidence is challenged in a criminal case, the standard of review is whether, after review of all the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, this court is convinced a rational factfinder could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Mason, 268 Kan. 37, 39, 986 P.2d 387 (1999).
Possession of marijuana requires the follow essential elements: "(1) that the defendant possessed the marijuana, and (2) that [s]he did so intentionally. Possession of a controlled substance requires that one have control over the substance with knowledge of and the intent to have such control." State v. Geddes, 17 Kan. App. 2d 588, 590-91, 841 P.2d 1088 (1992), rev. denied 252 Kan. 1094 (1993) (quoting State v. Flinchpaugh, 232 Kan. 831, Syl. ¶ 1, 659 P.2d 208 [1983]). Knowledge of the presence of the controlled substance with the intent to exercise control is essential. State v. LaGrange, 21 Kan. App. 2d 477, 479, 901 P.2d 44, rev. denied 258 Kan. 861 (1995).
Carrasco argues she had no intent to control the marijuana because she merely removed it from her lap. She contends that, if she can be found guilty, anyone who has a bag of marijuana dropped unexpectedly in his or her lap could be convicted of possession. This is untrue. Even if Carrasco's version of events were the one we must accept on appellate review, there would be sufficient evidence to convict her of possession.
Carrasco fails to mention that after she identified the substance in her lap as marijuana, she did not simply push or throw it away. Rather, she testified to picking the marijuana up and placing it between the passenger door and the passenger seat in an effort to hide it from the police. This was a calculated action demonstrating knowledge of the presence of the marijuana and intent to exercise control over it. As the district court noted, this possession was fleeting but adequate to meet the State's burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.


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Long-Time Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye Dies at 88
Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii died Monday evening in Washington, D.C., after suffering respiratory failure. WSJ's Naftali Bendavid looks back at Sen. Inouye's life that spanned the WWII battlefields to almost nine consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate.
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Babbel for Windows 8 – Five questions for Dari Salimi
Dari is our product manager for mobile Apps and these days he's a very sought after man here at Babbel. Nevertheless our Blog author Aishah was able to track him down and ask him a few questions to coincide with the upcoming Babbel for Windows 8 release on 26th October (and the corresponding Babbel for Windows 8 App). Privately Dari is a committed Apple user. Nevertheless he is certainly very happy with the new Apps, especially from a visual perspective.
What do you do at Babbel? Do you actually ever get around to learning yourself?
For me it's more a case of "learning by testing". But of course a lot of it sticks. I would say my favourite language to learn is Spanish.
I've been at Babbel for about a year. When I started here the vocab trainer for iPhone had already been developed. Since then we have optimised the Apps for iPad and also brought one out for Android.
As you say, there is already Babbel for iOS and Android. Why then soon for Windows 8 as well?
Our Apps for iOS and Android are very successful – the subject of learning is not only becoming more and more relevant, but also more popular. We had the opportunity to take a look at Windows 8 and the technology behind it as part of a collaborative project with Microsoft in Berlin. Coming into direct contact with Microsoft experts tipped the balance. Of course I had already wondered if and when we would start work on an App for Windows 8. But now we are going to be the first provider of a language learning App in the Windows Store, and that's something we can be very proud of.
What is special about Windows 8?
I find the most interesting aspect is their attempt to join together mobile and stationary usage. Windows 8 doesn't just support conventional PC use via mouse and keyboard, but also touchscreens, which are most widely distributed among mobile devices. Also the design of the user interface has changed dramatically. For us it is a welcome change, which suits our audiovisual vocab trainers perfectly.
What was it like to collaborate with Microsoft? Was it the start of a beautiful friendship?
It was definitely an enjoyable collaboration, especially since we didn't just work with a contact person for the business side, but we also had access to a developer at Microsoft. This direct communication made the whole development process much smoother. We are excited to see how things develop, although as yet we haven't forged any concrete plans. First of all we need to wait and see how Windows 8 and especially the Babbel Apps for Windows 8 are received by the users. The much-loved voice recognition will be added as an update, since for technical reasons we were unable to include it in the release version. A conversion for Windows Phone 8 would likewise be another interesting step. For the time being it will be just for PC and tablet. Another option would be to integrate all of the web-accessible courses into the App. We certainly have a lot to think about.
What can the user expect from the Babbel App for Windows 8?
With the official release all of the eleven Babbel languages will be available as individual Apps in the Windows Store under the category 'Education'. As far as content and didactics go, we will be staying true to our existing Apps and the Babbel concept. In my opinion our Apps fit really well to the new Windows 8 look. But most of all the user can expect one thing: lots of fun!
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Jones relishing opportunity to be part of camp
PEORIA, Ariz. -- When James Jones sits at his locker in the shiny new Spring Training facility of the Mariners, he looks straight across at a fellow named Felix Hernandez.
To his right, another 15 feet away, resides Robinson Cano. That's $415 million worth of baseball talent -- two of the top 11 paid players in the history of the game -- hanging out within earshot of the young outfielder who just got his first sniff of Triple-A ball with a four-game promotion at the end of last season.
PEORIA, Ariz. -- When James Jones sits at his locker in the shiny new Spring Training facility of the Mariners, he looks straight across at a fellow named Felix Hernandez.
To his right, another 15 feet away, resides Robinson Cano. That's $415 million worth of baseball talent -- two of the top 11 paid players in the history of the game -- hanging out within earshot of the young outfielder who just got his first sniff of Triple-A ball with a four-game promotion at the end of last season.
Now three weeks into his first Major League camp, Jones still grins at the thought of his new neighbors.
"The first few days of camp I was kind of still in awe," admitted the 25-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y. "These guys are at the top of the game right now in baseball. But I'm getting used to it, just seeing how they go about their business, because they're doing something right."
Jones isn't ranked among the Mariners top prospects on most lists, most likely because he's older than the majority of the "upside" kids who fall in those categories. But the 6-foot-4, 200-pounder has caught manager Lloyd McClendon's eye this spring, and has come a long way from his days at Long Island University, where he was a pitcher and outfielder before being drafted by Seattle in the fourth round in 2009.
"He's a pretty interesting young man. He's very talented and I really like what I've seen," McClendon said. "I don't think he's going to knock on the door, I think he's going to knock the door down when he's ready to get there."
Jones hit .275 with 14 doubles, 10 triples, six homers and 28 stolen bases in 101 games for Double-A Jackson last season, despite a month on the disabled list with a strained triceps. He'll likely start this season in Tacoma, where he went 5-for-15 with two doubles in his four-game callup in the final days of 2013, but the Mariners have him on their 40-man roster, and he's certainly on McClendon's radar now.
"I think he needs the reps and continue to get better," said the new skipper. "I think he's going to come on very, very quick."
Jones has impacted several Cactus League games already this spring with his bat and legs, including getting a hit, scoring two runs and stealing a base in Thursday's 7-4 victory over the White Sox. . He's played in seven of the team's nine games this spring and taken advantage of the opportunity by hitting .375 (6-for-16) with a home run, five runs, four RBIs and a stolen base.
In Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Dodgers, he displayed the speed threat that McClendon loves by hitting a single, drawing a wild throw to first from veteran reliever Jamey Wright that allowed him to scoot into third base, then scoring on Cano's single.
"It's definitely fun to contribute to the team and just bring the energy out there," Jones said. "I just love playing, and I'm going to try to bring energy every day."
Not everything has gone perfectly -- he misread a ground ball in the Dodgers game and got picked off third base, and he had some adventures in a tough sun while playing center field in Wednesday's 8-5 loss to the Indians.
But it's all part of the learning curve for a young man who was recruited only by Long Island University coming out of the High School of Telecommunications in Brooklyn and spent his first four years in the Mariners system learning the game in Class A ball.
Growing up as a baseball player in New York City is an interesting experience. Jones said playing the outfield for Long Island University wasn't easy because on high flies, the ball would blend into the backdrop of the buildings behind the stadium.
Thus, while many outfielders grumble about the tough blue sky and bright sun in Cactus League games in Arizona, Jones has seen worse.
"I'd go with the blue skies because sometimes [on Long Island] you get glare off those windows and it gets real tough," he said.
Jones is one of several youngsters benefitting greatly from the teachings of new outfield coach Andy Van Slyke, who has challenged his group from Day 1 of camp with a series of aggressive drills that require tracking ball after ball up against the wall or over the head or with a coach flipping flash cards in front of them that require looking down and then back up to find the ball again.
"He's a really good outfield coach," Jones said. "I like what he says about practicing hard so in the game, it slows up for you. He's definitely doing that. I feel more comfortable in center field with all the drills he's been doing, running back on the ball, taking my eye off of it. I'm just taking everything in with him. I'm listening."
It's the same approach he's using in the clubhouse as well. Having one of the best left-handed hitters in the game to watch and learn from is a situation he's not taking for granted.
"I haven't picked his brain yet," Jones said of Cano, "but I've been watching his swing, watching his approach. You definitely see there's a purpose with every swing, even in the cages.
"His swing is very pleasing to the eye. He makes it look so easy. It's effortless. He's like a real handsy guy. You can see his approach in batting practice, he's working to all the fields, not just pulling everything. I'm just looking and watching."
And he'll keep employing that eyes-wide-open approach as long as they let him this spring.
"I love it so far," Jones said. "I'm just going to take everything in, keep learning and be a sponge out there."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.


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DANBURY, CT-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's baseball team broke a 6-6 tie with eight runs in the seventh inning, then scored five more in the eighth to defeat host Western Connecticut State, 19-7, and earn a split of their Little East Conference doubleheader at Westside Field Saturday. The Colonials won the opener, 18-0.
Freshman second Nate Farias (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS) broke a 6-6 tie with an infield grounder in the top of the seventh inning of the nightcap. Sophomore center fielder Wayne Bolz (Billerica, MA/Billerica Memorial HS) drove in a run with a single, sophomore designated hitter Bedward Ortiz (La Vega, DR/Worcester Doherty HS) added an RBI single, freshman center fielder Ryan Medeiros (Acushnet, MA/New Bedford HS) knocked in two runs with a double, freshman right fielder Luke Bomback (Swansea, MA/Case HS) doubled home another run, and junior third baseman Corey Allison (Taunton, MA/Coyle-Cassidy HS) drove in the final two runs of the inning with a single. Medeiros drove in two runs and Allison had another RBI in the five-run eighth, after which the game ended because of the 10-run rule.
Senior right-hander Pat Lavey (Cranston, RI/Cranston East HS) went all the way for the Corsairs and earned the win, improving to 3-0. Dave Alarcon, the second WCSU pitcher, took the loss and fell to 0-2.
Western Connecticut scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning of the opener, then scored 14 runs in their final three at bats to end the game after seven innings due to the 10-run rule. First baseman Bill Eannotti homered and drove in three runs for the Colonials, while second baseman Zack Dandrea, shortstop Bobby Coyne and catcher David Simone also drove in three runs apiece. Nick Vig went the route for WCSU, earning the win and improving to 2-5. Sophomore Karney Boff (Dighton, MA/Dighton Rehoboth HS) started and took the loss and fell to 4-3.
"I liked the way we responded, especially after we went down, 4-0 in the first inning of the second game," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Bob Prince. "Our backs were against the wall, and we needed a split after we lost the first game. We responded and we came back in the second game, we got 24 hits and we made the plays."
UMass Dartmouth is now 14-18 and 3-7 in the Little East Conference, while Western Connecticut State is now 13-18 and 2-8 in the LEC. The Corsairs will return to action when they visit Babson Monday.


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How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
Discover the magic of Dr. Seuss' classic holiday tale How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical at the Lutcher Theater on Saturday, Nov. 16, with two shows at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $65-$35.
The record-setting Broadway holiday sensation, which features the hit songs "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and "Welcome Christmas" from the original animated special, makes its Lutcher debut this weekend with Max the Dog narrating as the mean and scheming Grinch, whose heart is "two sizes too small," decides to steal Christmas away from the holiday loving Whos.
The Grinch broke box office records for two consecutive years on Broadway during its holiday engagements at the St. James (2007) and Hilton (2006) theatres in New York. Since then, thousands of families across America have been delighted by this heart-warming holiday musical, which The New York Times praised as "100 times better than any bedside story" and the Gannett papers hailed as "A genius of a show! A total delight for both kids and adults."
Magnificent sets (John Lee Beatty) and costumes (Robert Morgan) inspired by Dr. Seuss' original illustrations help transport audiences to the whimsical world of Whoville, while the music and book of Mel Marvin and Timothy Mason breathe new life into this timeless story of the true meaning of Christmas. The 2012 production is directed by Matt August and choreographed by Bob Richard based on the original choreography by John DeLuca and originally created by three-time Tony Award winning director Jack O'Brien.
Max the Dog (played by a human) narrates the story on stage. However, in the full-length film released in 2000, directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey, Max was actually played by six different dogs, and all were mixed-breed shelter rescues. So it is in the spirit of pet shelter rescue and Christmas that the Lutcher asks area residents to demonstrate "Max"-imum Heart by bringing donations of pet food to the performance, helping rescue animals to enjoy full tummies this holiday season.
Humane Society Board Member Amy Bean states, "The Humane Society of Southeast Texas Shelter, a non-profit organization, goes through approximately 150 pounds of food a week. This includes dog and cat food. We rely 100 percent on the community to meet our needs and provide food for our animals at the shelter. We prefer to feed Purina products. We need kitten chow and canned food for our younger and underweight animals, as well as regular bagged food. We appreciate the help the community gives us filling this important need."
Donations may be dropped off before show times in the Lutcher Theater first floor lobby. In appreciation, donors will receive a heart sticker displaying Max the dog along with the sentiment, "I Have "Max"-imum Heart!"
The Lutcher Theater is at 707 Main Ave in Orange. For more information, view lutcher.org.


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Stumbled! awesome photo i was just checkin out venus last night in close conjunction to juipiter great time of the year lots going on in the sky!
thnx for stumblin'
Yeah thats photoshopped my friends for sure, venus is much bigger and you can see the pixels
Everyone's so quick to call photoshopped! Nice photo, mate
Of course you can see thee pixels. You're looking at a friggin' computer monitor! They're all pixels…
When a body passes in front of the sun, all we see is a black disk. We're not likely to see the planet as a sphere as it's depicted in the picture. That's why I think it's photshopped.
Ken Jenkins#8
Transits of Venus are very rare occurring every 121.5 or 105.5 years. When they happen they happen in a pair (each transit of the pair separated by eight years). The last transit (being the first transit in the most recent pair) was June 8, 2004 with the other transit to occur June 6, 2012 (so mark your calendar!!). The previous transits pair occurred in 1874 and 1882, the next pair will occur 2117 and 2125.
The link below is from 2004 and is what you would actually see with no image modification but with proper filtering.
Obligatory warning here: THE SUN SHOULD NEVER BE OBSERVED DIRECTLY. AN APPROPRIATE UV FILTER MUST BE USED OR PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE COULD OCCUR
Sting & The Police#9
Theres a little black spot on the sun todayyyyy, it's the same old thing as yesterdayyyy……..
People are so quick to shout photoshop when they see something they dont see everyday. Maybe you are also experts of astronomy too? Occasions like this do happen you know, and someone was there to capture it on film. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Great photo by the way.
Stumblin', kick ass photo.
Judging by the planet's size in proportion to the Sun and the cloud formations, either Venus has gotten a hell of a lot bigger, or a hell of a lot closer! Or a combination of both! If it were night time, it would surely be one hell of a bright ass star(planet) in the night sky! Anyway, enough of the "hell of a" 's. Cool pic, nonetheless. Even if it has been photo-"manipulated".
I watched Venus transit the sun, and this looks just like it, though it's either the end of the transit or the photo has been mirrored.
Why is it so cloudy?
humpty dumpty sat on a wall blah blah blah
we have a lot of experts here. The significance of the set of these photos is that one of them shows a mercury and venus transit due to occur 100,000 years from now. and yes the size is exactly right
god some people are so fucking retarded. it's not photoshopped, it's a photo of another planet passing in front of the sun, which (believe it or not, people) actually DOES happen! Yes, shockhorror, these things happen.
It never ceases to amaze me how gullible people are when the encounter the old 'shopped meme.
It's an obvious shop.. look at the pixels.
"look at the pixels"…obvious shit to say to defend your weak "photoshop" claim. SHUT UP! It's a great pic
p.s. Jafo, it IS a black disk, you moron.
i was stumbling when i happened upon this and, i must say, that this is realllllly cool.
i am most certainly not an expert on this kind of thing so i'm not going to shout accusations about whether or not this was photoshopped.
in my opinion, it's a really cool picture and definitely not something i see everyday, so great job
I am an expert…
The planet Venus is a real photo but the sun was added later to make it appear as if the planet Venus was truly in front of the sun, or to put it another way, the sun was in back of Venus.
Now I hope this clears up any confusion.
It didn't clear up shit?
Hmmm… I am so sorry.
for fuck's sake, seriously? IN BACK OF VENUS?!?!?! all i read is the last comment–someone who says they're an expert–and whether jokingly or not, they still say something completely stupid! by the way, the correct way to say it is 'behind venus', in case you retards still have no idea what i'm talking about. just BEHIND. one word. fuck.
by the way, even if it is photoshopped, it's still venus passing in front of the fucking sun if they say it is! it's ART, fucktards!
At least one of the experts here seems to think Venus is further away than the sun, and couldn't possibly get between earth and sun. That to me sums up any serious debate on the internet.
[quote comment="31472"]At least one of the experts here seems to think Venus is further away than the sun, and couldn't possibly get between earth and sun. That to me sums up any serious debate on the internet.[/quote]
Venus orbit is between Sun and Earth… ofcource if we wont count Mercury.
sigh. And people wonder why some say we're doomed as a race.
Excuse me. I'm going to go find a place where I can sob uncontrollably.
"Obscenity is the last refuge of the average motherfucker."
— anonymous
You do realise that you're on the internet, people-who-are-flaming-the-meme-spammers?
And yes, I'm also an expert, MSc in astronomy I'll have you know, and it has been 'shoped I can tell from the pixels and having seen a few in my time.
That is a perfectly reasonable picture. The scale, image, brightness etc… are all within expected boundaries. And no you don't see a "black disk" when something of that size and distance passes in front of the sun you moron. If that were the case the sun would be polka-dotted with all the stellar bodies that get between us and the sun. For the same reason you see a light bulb even though it's covered in dust – the dust is not transparent, it's just so small the the light bends around it easily. Also the same reason we see stars "twinkle" as millions of asteroids pass between us and them. And yes there are pixels, but not any more than the pixels at the edge of the sun or in the clouds. No reason to believe it's altered.
Stumbled on. Cool pic (real or fake). Drago, the stars "twinkle" because of atmospheric disturbance, not "as millions of asteroids pass between us and them". That's why the Hubble takes such clear pictures (there is almost no "atmosphere", i.e. gasses in orbit to distort the images).
Also, refer to Quote #8 by Ken Jenkins to see a real picture of Venus transiting the Sun.
Be careful what you source. Perhaps atmospheric refraction causes minor shifts in light intensity and even visible wavelength, but personally I've never noticed a star change color. The brilliant flash that stars occasionally reveal is not, however due to any atmosphere. It is a phenomenon known as "microlensing", and has been being studied since the 90′s. Here's one possible source. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_6_113/ai_n6249026/
The only citation I could find regarding atmospheric interference was published on an "ask an astronomer" site in over a decade ago. Also try http://www.wbabin.net/mathis/mathis24.pdf for another peer-reviewed source. Keep up with the science.
BTW – the reason the Hubble takes such clear images? It takes stills.
It's photoshopped: in order for the Sun to be that large behind the object the photo would have to have been taken from space. also, you can clearly see clouds in the picture. and there are no clouds in space. plus the 'planet' would have appeared completely blacked out, a bit like when you can't see someone shining a torch at you if it's completely dark.
Quad Mire#33
That's not photoshopped you MORON that's a force field. Damn!
- Planet Venus Passing in Front of the Sun-Astronomy News Blog (Dec 24, 2008 @ 11:43 am)
- uberVU - social comments (Jan 29, 2010 @ 19:34 pm)


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In Pics: Munster Players Continue To Visit Summer Camps
24th July 2014 By Munster Rugby
This week children attending the Summer Camps at Killarney, Waterpark and Cobh enjoyed fun activities with added excitement when some of the Munster Rugby players paid a visit.
This week children attending the Summer Camps at Killarney, Waterpark and Cobh enjoyed fun activities with added excitement when some of the Munster Rugby players paid a visit.
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The boys and girls attending the Cobh camp were delighted to meet Billy Holland, John Ryan and Seán Dougall.
Johne Murphy, Andrew Conway and Felix Jones paid a visit to the Killarney Camp while Robin Copeland, Dave Foley and Paddy Butler took a trip to Waterford to visit the camp taking place at Waterpark RFC.
Next week the Summer Camps will take place at Muskerry, Thurles and Tralee.
A limited number of places are still available to purchase for each camp, so if you want to guarantee a place at your preferred venue, don't delay and book online by clicking here
This summer Munster Rugby has a total of 23 venues throughout the whole province (please see below for your nearest venue). Camp fee is €85 per child with a family discount of a second and subsequent child at €75.
Each camp takes place over one week (Monday through to Friday inclusive) between 9:30am and 1:30pm.
Alternatively book your Summer Camp place by downloading the application form here.
Each participant will receive an Official Summer Camp Pack comprising an adidas Summer Camp T-Shirt, adidas Shorts, adidas Socks, adidas Draw-String Bag, Mouth Guard and one Junior ticket to a Munster match.
Children who participate in the camps will get the chance to make new friends, learn more about rugby values such as team work, respect and integrity, and also become more aware of the importance of physical fitness. All this while learning to develop the basic rugby skills of passing, tackling (in a controlled environment), evasion and kicking. Most of all we guarantee lots of fun!
To facilitate the appropriate attention, participants will be divided by their age into groups. Central to the Munster Rugby Summer Camps philosophy is ensuring the introduction to the game of Rugby in a safe and controlled manner.
The Camps will be managed and run by fully accredited I.R.F.U. Mini Rugby coaches. All Summer Camp staff have undertaken the National Garda Vetting process required to comply with the IRFU policy regarding recruitment and vetting to work in age grade rugby.
For any more information please contact Munster Rugby on 021-4323563 (9am – 5.00pm)
Week 5: Monday 28th July – Friday 1st August
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Week 6: Monday 4th – Friday 8th August
Ballincollig RFC
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Week 7: Monday 11th – Friday 15th August
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Week 8: Monday 18th – Friday 22nd August
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Lather bowl is 6" (15 cm) wide by 2" (5 cm) deep
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Just how much fun has it been here with Boris as mayor?
Johnson has surely just enjoyed the best six months of his life. He has that aura about him as if extreme good fortune, public adulation and even better times round the corner can be taken as read. The sort of aura, in fact, that befits the leader of a cult – the cult of Boris-mania. London has long been too small for Boris; now Britain is too. The cult is going global.
This golden chapter in Johnson's life began back in May when he regained traditionally-Labour London in the mayoral elections. His grudging victory speech should not be used to belittle Johnson's achievement. It may have been close, his opponent Ken Livingstone may have been damaged goods, he may have been particularly well-funded (although due to some fancy accounting we will probably never know) but Johnson won the London mayoral elections when his party was 19 points behind in the national polls. I said then and I repeat now, that was some victory.
Since that dramatic night the dividends have been abundant, even overflowing – for Boris. He has topped popularity polls for politicians, regularly eclipsed David Cameron and allowed others to nurture the beginnings of a fanclub on the Parliamentary backbenches on his behalf. He emerged relatively unscathed from an outing on the Late Show with David Letterman in New York (unlike David Cameron) and plugged his book on London (or more accurately himself). He has presided over a triumphant Olympics back home (and somehow embodied its upbeat mood), was hailed like a rock-star and even by his own admission harvested far more credit than he deserved. His buoyant style suited the occasion so perfectly that he could even get away with defiantly entertaining Rupert Murdoch at an Olympic swimming event without being bulldozed by Tom Watson & Co. (Actually there must have been a lot of schmoozing going on as Johnson has just sought to take £57,000 out of the City Hall contingency fund to help pay for it.)
When he worked the Hyde Park crowd so brilliantly by presenting Mitt Romney (who had unwisely criticised London's 2012 preparations) as a bogie man, Johnson's stage turn appeared on an Obama re-election video. At that point my phone started ringing. When he topped the news bulletins again by accidentally on purpose getting stuck on a zip wire waving two union flags, the mobile went into meltdown. Journalists from Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, Australia, Italy, Spain and the US all wanted to know more about "your Boris". The nice man from the Washington Post said his editors had been speculating just how much more fun life would be in DC with Johnson as mayor.
So just how much fun has it been here with Johnson as mayor? Well, Olympics apart, perhaps it has not been quite so side-splitting as some seem to have expected. Johnson was pretty invisible in the lead-up to the Olympics – which may be why he found time shortly after being elected for that publicity tour of North America. Since the Games, however, we have witnessed both the more serious side of Johnson (time to look prime ministerial now) and the one that appears to believe that election promises are not meant to be kept.
True, there has been some fancy footwork over the third runway at Heathrow – which I believe he is right to oppose. But a lot of his carefully orchestrated outbursts appear to be directed at increasing Cameron's discomfort rather than finding a solution – and, shock horror, Johnson has indeed now been accused of politicising the row! Indeed, who really believes that Boris Island is ever going to happen? An achievable solution to air capacity is what we need. This probably means maximising use of what we've already got (and yes maybe revisiting expansion of Stansted and/or Gatwick) while avoiding more planes over one of Europe's most densely populated areas. Boring for a politician intent on a grand legacy maybe. But what we don't need is some madcap attempt to out-macho Cameron's pet (and possibly equally deluded) HS2 high-speed link.
Johnson has also been busy rattling his Eurosceptic sabre, dissing House of Lords reforms and being rude about Nick Clegg. He has consequently cheered up a lot of disconsolate MPs and other Tories who are expecting to be wiped out in 2015 and enjoy a spot of refreshing coalition and Euro-bashing. But these are all words. Where Johnson has proved weakest is in actions on the home ground of the mayoralty. For one, he has backtracked for one on his election pledge of '1,000 more police officers in London' claiming it had been misconstrued.
He has continued to claim that we are on course to introduce driverless trains on the Tube network – against vehement denials from Transport for London of which Johnson is chairman. The TfL line is that there are no plans even to test such trains anywhere on the network because of safety concerns.
And as for those 200,000 new jobs he promised before the election, well now Johnson asserts that it is not the job of the mayor to create jobs. Promises to bear down on transport fare rises this year, saw them being put up by more than inflation once again this week and a doubling of the charges for his Boris Bikes scheme.Indeed, Boris Bikes, often held up as Johnson's great achievement are said to be on track to lose some £200 million of taxpayers' money. Johnson's cable car is also breaking the bank, with only a trickle of riders now the Olympics are over and a tendency to close completely at the first sign of a breeze. That is presumably goodbye to more taxpayers' money then. Indeed with the financial drain of the bikes or the cable car, some argue that fare rises would not be necessary at all. Something to think about next time you top up your Oyster card.
Lastly, after months if not years of wrangling and litigation over the future of that glorious Olympic stadium, City Hall has now slipped out a statement that it will lie empty until at least 2016. Some legacy, what a crying shame.
No wonder that old warhorse Lord Tebbit has grumbled about Johnson's unsuitability for Number 10, while Johnson's former boss Sir Max Hastings wrote in the Daily Mail that he would trust him with neither his wife nor his wallet. Ken Clarke, whom Johnson backed for party leader in 2001, urged him to pipe down and get on with the serious job he already has rather than manoevering for another one. Sounds like good advice.


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For whatever reason, I reluctantly have refused to adopt the proper methods for typing throughout my schooling and career. Sure, I took the required typing class in middle school, but I was able to meet all of the requirements, speed and accuracy, while maintaining my classic "hunt and peck" style. Back then, I wasn't as open minded and willing to learn as I should have been. The truth is, I have more typographical errors these days as a result of my stubborn, short-sighted approach. But recently, I had a typographical error that worked to my advantage. I was pecking away at the key board when all of a sudden the little red line showed up beneath a word on my computer screen to indicate that I had mistyped yet another family member of the English language.
D and S are right next to one another on the keyboard, so it was understandable that I was off by one key when I typed Merchandining instead of Merchandising. I quickly went back to correct the mistake, but then paused when I realized what I had accidentally created … Merchandining! Had I followed an earlier desire to pursue a career in industrial engineering, this probably would not have meant very much. But I didn't - and it did. Merchandining. It was merchandising during the dining experience. Of course! The wheels in my head started cranking and churning in overtime, as often happens when a new idea strikes with such clarity. What an opportunity this could turn out to be.
Defining the Concept
Stealing once again from my friend and internationally recognized colleague, Dr. Christopher Muller, there is a growing movement away from the Restaurant Business and towards the Business of Restaurants. Thinking of our commercial foodservice establishments in the same way that retailers think about the available space on their floors is quite appropriate. As an industry, we must explore ways to maximize the sales per available square foot in a foodservice establishment, and Merchandining offers unique potential in doing so. Retailers have focused upon the actions of their customers, reviewing and studying their every move with scientific accuracy. They have been able to determine that the placement of a particular product within the store will affect the sales. The lighting, display materials, background music being played, members of the shopper's party, age, colors selected, and an infinite number of other such factors all influence the way the a retailer's customers purchase goods and services within the confines of the retailing environment.
Once these characteristics have been defined, the retailers then use the results of their studies to determine required changes that they hope will result in increased sales. The key point is that they utilize the data they have collected to develop a solution that will positively impact the store's performance. Often times, these procedural alterations include the physical facility. For example, the results may indicate that a display near the front entrance is being overlooked by potential shoppers because they are still moving at such a quick pace when they enter the store, they have completely missed the merchandise. Moving the display further from the entrance, but still within sight from the entrance, may increase sales of the product. The shoppers will have slowed down to a standard stroll pace that is more common during shopping mode, and will have been allowed the time for the display to catch their attention.
In another example, retailers have found that merchandising clothing which is folded, displayed on table or counter tops, and easily accessible to the shopper is more effective in many cases than simply hanging the clothes on a hanger on a rack. Think of many of the clothing retailers that you see in a mall these days - that is exactly what they do. They present the clothing to the shopper in a format that the subconscious can more easily decipher and relate. It is a more inviting display method. And, yes … the result is increased sales. There are, of course, numerous other examples.
Merchandining Applied
I will argue that we, as the commercial foodservice industry, do not understand our customers as well as the retailers understand their customers. If we offer a table dessert at the end of a meal, they may say yes or no, but do we understand why? What are the factors that drove this decision? Continuing with this example, we know that showing a dessert makes it harder for a guest to say no and improves sales, but do we understand how coloring, portion size, presentation method, and other such factors truly play into the diner's decision making? I do not believe so. More importantly, this is a very simplistic example … what are the other factors that drive purchasing decisions throughout the dining experience?
As the sophistication level continues to increase within the foodservice industry, I believe that the next step in the evolution of the commercial foodservice industry will be a focus on learning even more about our customers and their habits throughout the various stages of the dining experience. I am already aware of research that is being conducted by one of my former professors, Stephani Robson, at the Hotel School at Cornell which isolates the differences in average time and average check depending on the type of seating - booth, table, banquet, bar stool, etc. This is a step in the right direction, but there are so many other variables that should be considered.
How does the lighting affect the purchasing decision? What aspects of the experience should the customers see, and what should we keep hidden? Should we move some of the functions that are currently reserved for the back-of-house to the front-of-house? Should we display items we currently conceal, and perhaps conceal items that we currently display? What role should technology play in the dining experience - should we consider LCD table tops? What can we do to up-sell entrées during the appetizer course, and desserts during the entrée course?
There are an infinite number of questions that need to be answered, and I would suggest that we as an industry need to begin focusing on the task at hand. It is my belief that we are leaving a great deal of money on the table. The good news is that the tools to assist us with this research have improved exponentially in recent years. There are programs now available that access the sales information from the POS system, and break it down in a number of different ways - by item, by server, by time of day, and so on. The more data that we are able to collect, the more specific (and successful) the approach will be.
Do not underestimate the potential that this field of study will have. Looking at many of the large chains, same store sales are a key indicator for their overall performance. A better understanding of our customers, combined with modifications to the facility required to support the new programs, will result in increased sales. It is going to happen. It has to happen. It is the next logical step. And to think that this line of thought all began with a simple typographical error.


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Imagine spending all day sightseeing, taking a shower and a nap, and then looking out of the window to see the sky as bright as midday. Your body kicks into overdrive, and the whole day seems to lie ahead of you. The streets throng with people toting guitars and bottles of champagne or vodka; naval cadets and their girlfriends walking arm in arm, and pensioners performing impromptu tea-dances on the riverbank. The smell of black tobacco mingles with the perfume of lilac in parks full of sunbathers. It's eight o'clock in the evening, and St Petersburg is gearing up for another of its White Nights.
Freezing cold and dark for three months of the year, St Petersburg enjoys six weeks of sweltering heat when the sun barely dips below the horizon – its famous Byele Nochy, or White Nights. Children are banished to dachas in the countryside with grandparents, leaving parents free to enjoy themselves. Life becomes a sequence of tsusovki (gatherings), as people encounter long-lost friends strolling on Nevsky prospekt or feasting in the Summer Garden at midnight.
To avoid disrupting the daytime flow of traffic, the city's bridges are raised from 2am onwards to allow a stream of ships to sail upriver into Russia's vast interior. Although normally not a spectacle, during White Nights everyone converges on the River Neva embankments to watch, while bottles are passed from person to person, and strangers join impromptu singsongs around anyone with a guitar or harmonium – chorusing folk ballads or "thieves' songs" from the Gulag. Those with money often hire a boat to cruise the canals that wend through the heart of the city.
The bridges are briefly lowered during the middle of the night, allowing queues of traffic fifteen minutes to race across. Keeping in lane is entirely ignored, with drivers jockeying for position as if it was a chariot race. By this time, people are stripping off and jumping into the Neva – those too prodigiously drunk to realize go swimming fully clothed.
The White Nights last from June 11 to July 2.
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The Surf City Ocean Pier opened March 22 for its 40th season.
The Surf City Ocean Pier opened March 22 for its 40th season.
The pier is an area icon that has provided memories to countless residents and visitors over the years, said Craig Stinson, the director of the Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce.
�A beach doesn�t feel like a beach without a pier,� Stinson said, adding that the pier has been an area tourist draw for its four decades. He said folks flock to Surf City because of the pier.
Even for those who don�t fish, the pier offers memories.
�Everyone who�s been here has memories of walking on the pier and looking at the ocean below,� he said. �It�s something that doesn�t ever leave you.�
The pier, owned and operated by the same family since 1973, is celebrating its 40th anniversary all season.
In 1973 the pier was old and in poor condition when Edwin P. Lore Jr., of Smithfield, found the price to be acceptable. Lore was looking for something to do since his career as a surveyor was cut short with the development of a severe allergy to yellow jacket stings.
He spent year one learning the ins and outs of operating a fishing pier along with his wife, Miriam and two sons, Steve and Edwin.
In 1974, a fierce nor�easter destroyed much of the pier just after Thanksgiving. The Lore family rebuilt the pier in 1975. The pier withstood several storms over the years until Hurricane Fran wiped it out in 1996. The family rebuilt again.
�During the year I will be reminiscing about some of my experiences during my time at the pier,� said the younger Edwin Lore.
He now owns the pier and plans to continue to do so as a family tradition.
�Here�s to another 40 years,� said Allan Libby, director of the Surf City Visitor�s Center.
Libby said the pier was a long-standing tradition.
�For some fishing is a hobby; for some fishing is a passion,� he said. �The pier is here for both.�
Libby said the family-friendly atmosphere the pier provides makes it special along North Carolina�s coast.
�The pier doesn�t allow alcohol, which means you don�t have to worry about some drunk next to you and your kids getting loud or upset or using foul language,� Libby said.
He called the Lore family �great neighbors and good folks� and that their pier �is the anchor of the local economy.�
The pier will commemorate its anniversary with several events throughout the year.
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The first time I had a whoopie pie was 15 years ago and completely by accident. I had found a sandwich cookie recipe in one of my mother's cook books and begged her to make it with me. I remember the chocolate cookies being moist like cake and the icing tasted like no other. We only made them once as the cookbook was lent to a friend and never seen again.
I would dream about those cookies and subconsciously was on the hunt for another fresh batch. Every recipe I tried after that became a horrid mess of typical vanilla icing and cookies that in no way resembled cake. Years later the whoopie pie trend emerged and I finally re-discovered that magical cookie of my childhood.
One evening, after being horribly nostalgic, I picked up a box of fruit loops as a late night snack. The first bite yielded memories of elementary school and early morning chaos. By the second bite I had a revelation! The mysterious taste of fruit loops was no longer a mystery!
I ran to my spice cabinet and searched through the endless glass bottles until I found one in particular; cardamon. The spice that only saw the light of day during a curry cook-off was the secret ingredient in my childhood cereal!
Upon this discovery I began to imagine all the new baking possibilities. Cardamon rice pudding, cardamon lime pie, cardamon cake, and that's when it hit me; Fruit Loop inspired whoopie pies. Combining cardamon cookies with a light and fluffy fruit flavoured icing would make everything wrong in the world right. So today I say farewell to my diet (at least for now) and hello to orange and green coloured carbs.
Froot Loop Whoopie Pies
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ Tsp. baking soda
- ½ Tsp. salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 Tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp. ground cardamom
Lime Filling
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ½ cup marshmallow cream
- ½ Tsp Vanilla
- 1 Tsp. Lime zest
- 1 Tbsp. fresh lime juice
Mandarin Filling
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ½ cup marshmallow cream
- ½ Tsp Vanilla
- 1 Tsp. Mandarin zest
- 1 Tbsp. fresh mandarin juice
- Preheat Oven to 350.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spray with cooking oil; set aside. (Or alternately use a whoopie pie pan)
- In a large bowl cream together the sugar with ½ cup shortening using an electric mixer. Add eggs and continue to mix until well combined.
- Add flour, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, vanilla and cardamon and blend on low speed for one minute. Increase speed to medium and continue to mix for an additional two minutes ensuring to scrape down the sides.
- Scoop one tablespoon of batter onto the prepared pan about an inch apart. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes until no indentation appears when the top is lightly touched.
- Let cool on cookie sheet or in whoopie pie pan for two minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack until cooled.
- While cookies are cooling prepare the filling. Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl. Using an electric mixer beat on low for one minute.
- Add desired amount of food colouring, increase speed to high and continue to beat for an additional two minutes. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- To assemble cookies place a dollop of icing on the centre of the flat side of one cookie. Top with another cookie and press gently together to evenly spread the icing. Repeat for all cookies.
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Is anyone else getting a weird sound at around 4:10?
Those people are going to be the death of games.
Aw, no mention of the asshole narrator? God, he makes the multiplayer unplayable with his asshole comments. Anyways, I deeply regret buying this game. I guess I thought that there'd be more to it than what was in the demo, and there really wasn't. And I think the reason that they recycled the setting from the first one is because Micro$oft gave them only 8 months to make this game. At least that's the hope.
That there is cell phone interference. Guess Yahtzee should record without his phone in the room. Or tell whoever else is in the room with him to shut their phone off.
Anyway, another quality vid.
I liked the original Crackdown but since they appear to have changed very little, after massive happy go explosion sandbox games like Red Faction Guerrilla and Just Cause 2 it's now lacking.
I mean in Just Cause 2 you could be more creative with more than just cars. Although you said female rebel leaders are good where in that game she's secretly villainous... oh wait, she's not white. Nevermind then haha!
...and yes Doom 2 was a great sequel.
RE: the weird sound:
It's not really cellphone interference... well not directly, anyway. It's actually Bluetooth interference. The way Bluetooth works is that it scans occassionally to see if there is a better channel to connect on. What you're hearing is that scan registering on an audio device. If you have a cell that is doing it but don't have a Bluetooth headset, I'd be willing to bet you at least have the Bluetooth feature set to on, because when you're getting a call, the phone is checking to see if there is a Bluetooth headset out there to send the audio to.
My guess is that Yahtzee was using a Bluetooth mouse or something on a Laptop, and his mic picked it up.
On newer devices, you shouldn't hear it, because most of the device manufacturers have removed that specific range from the scan.
I was kinda hoping he'd do SC2, but I guess 2 days isn't long enough...
Or.. come to think of it, when was the last time he reviewed a PC title? And I don't mean one that is 360/PS3/PC compatible either...
Personnaly I didn't find CD1 to be "all that" and I pretty much figured that CD2 was going to nothing but a shameless cash grab.
Makes me long for another Freedom Force game!
At leist THEY were good!
Huh? In just the last month we've seen
Arma II: Operation Arrowhead
and others...
Great as always.
I wonder how long it's been since Crackdown1 has been released, because it seams the developers could of done that in a month or two.
Yahtzee makes a statement in this critique that, by some, may be considered simultaneously sexist and racist at the same time(it would have been brilliant if he could have made it anti-religious, too); it's when he talks about the beautiful, young female leader of the rebel gang and that the good guys have to be beautiful and white. Before people start jumping all over me, I'm not at all offended by the remark because I don't stick up my arse the size of the Chrysler building, as some other members of minorities and religious groups seem to have(I'm a black guy, in case you are wondering). What the statement did is make me pensive of the fact that it is a delightfully subtle observation of the woefully immature state of video games in regards to race and gender, in general.
In many ways, it seems like the attitudes of the games industry are completely exempt from the requirement that things move forward in time; instead, these same attitudes seem to be taking to moving backwards in time, at least relatively. More and more, I keep seeing trite retreads of old attitudes that have long since outdated reality and are just, at best, farcical ignorance. In many ways, it shows the insular nature of the games industry and the community as a whole with respect to connecting with the outside world.
Well, had to inject that bit of rant. I return you to your standard flame wars and mocking of others. Carry on.
It seems that the designers were trying too hard to achieve the level of awesome that Crackdown 1 had. They chose to throw in a bunch of gimmicks which took away some of the stuff that made the previous game awesome, like the Agency vehicles which adapted and changed according to your skill.
They even threw in a physics linking ball so you can dick around more because doing the same stinking thing over and over again is boring.
But honestly, this is just the product of Microsoft Games throwing a bunch of money at a new company who has barely anything to do with the original game just because the head of Microsoft Games wanted a new Crackdown. Honestly, I would have gladly waited for Realtime Worlds to get to a point after APB came out where they could make a true, good sequel and continue from the ending of the first game.
Not all of them are PC only though. I could see him reviewing Transformers but not the others, for example he doesn't review DLC and re-releases.
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I agree with this as another WoW Subscriber. :) And I have a job in sunlight. Only thing that's happened to me so far is a tan. Damn you, sun!
I'd rather he review games that ARE multi-platform available. Though I did pull those names from a list of PC reviews. But some of them are available on other platforms. That's a good thing in terms of reviews that are interesting to more people.
am a bit surprised that he chose to do Crackdown 2, but he made a lotta good points
At about the 4 minute, 12 second point, somebody's cell phone signal decided to participate in the Zero Punctuation review.
Anywho, sounds to me like they were too busy with APB to make Crackdown 2 a worthy successor.
Great Review as always, cheers!
Yes, we all did. It's the sound of a GSM cellphone going off way too close to a speaker or microphone. It's the 850 or 900 mhz (depending on which region you're in). 800 mhz nextels make a 'tick-tick-ti-tick-tick' sound
My awesome CDMA phone (GO USA DERP DERP) causes no such interference.
This knowledge comes of being a recovering cellphone nerd.
crackdown 2 is crap.
I'm not sure too many people actually care. Most people here commenting most likely haven't played Crackdown 2 or any other previous game before but they don't care, they just want Yahtzee to rip on them. The more interesting reactions come from fanboys who are more prominent on exclusive games.
The day before the release of Crackdown 2, I switched my pre-order, bought StarCraft 1 (because I didn't own it, so fuck you), and then picked up Just Cause 2 off Steam.. this review sums up my thoughts nicely... I don't care how little a story the game has, but it should have some sense of progression, and not repetition. Essentially the "Assassin's Creed 1 effect" or "AC1 syndrome"
Yeah, at least they could have given the city a significant re-design, like GTAIV did. Not like I was planning on playing either Crackdown or the sequel, but still.
It's not even that. The gameplay is so dynamic and varied in SR2, and it's f'ing crazy what you can pull off, so what more could you expect when you're essentially rubbing your testicles on someone's face while firing twin magnums into the chest of a cop?? :\ ... While on FIRE!!
100% right, unfortunately.
I liked CD1 so much. I was so excited for CD2. And it was a huge letdown.
If this game can make a good chunk of money get away with being a copy pasta.....
The car, has to jump...
Funny review anyway..
Having played Crackdown 2 on my brother's Xbox360, I must agree with what was said during the review. It just becomes (quickly) one Cell/Freak fight after another. Getting the beacons from Cell wasn't really that hard and once you got at least 1/2 of all your powerups, the beacon that kills the Freaks wasn't hard to defend either.
The game took me a good few weeks to finish because I got tired of fighting/killing/running over various living things with cars after about 1/2 an hour or so. But my brother likes it, and it's his money *Shrug*
Anyone else (who finished the game) get the feeling that they might be shooting for a third one? I only ask because of the end scene with the Cell leader and that agent hand.
Multiplayer will eat everything.
The enemy leader's a hot chick? BLASPHEMY!!!
Oh, and Yahtzee, thanks for your ending credits message.
For those who don't know, just as I didn't, that message opened my eyes to this:
the game was...somewhat fun until I had to do an enemy stronghold in front of a building yet the rest of the enemies were on the roof. The building couldn't be climbed and anytime I tried to climb another building so I can jump across to the actual roof, the game threatens to abort the mission. It's then I thought "okay screw this" and uninstalled everything and took it back
Well, this is certainly true. I enjoy the reviews even if I never had any intention of buying the game at all - which for me is any console only game, irregardless of which console, or any platformer. I do find it more interesting though if it is a game that I did have some intention or consideration of purchasing. Alpha Protocol fell into that category. I almost pre-ordered it, but I'm glad I didn't.
Is crackdown the one with the harpoon gun that lets you attach people to cars?
I love harpoon guns in games.
The Agency were explained as pretty much being the biggest bastards in the world in the first game, I guess the devs figured that you don't need to know that in the second and then at least if you're evil, you'll be taking over the world with evil for the purposes of law and order.
Anyway, I loved playing this game and I loved watching your video about this game that I loved.
I could see the wider appeal but Yahtzee rips on games more than the average reviewer, I'm not sure if they're the first place to go when looking into a game.
Also, sorry to nit-pick but "irregardless" is incorrect.
Yeah, I asked this questiona couple of days ago and some people told me it's because those people respond too early to have possibly watched the video. But this second guy talks about the interference so he has clearly watched it.
That's just how things work here. Some people reported me for something incredibly lame recently. I mean really. One day I'll get suspended for nothing and that'll just be how the cookie crumbles then, I guess.
Also, I actually went to look at my cellphone. Which was in another room.
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Before I went to college, I drove a tow truck in Birmingham (Michigan) for a while. We had the police contract so I got to see all kinds of stuff. Those tales are the subject of this week's podcast.
We got calls during the day and anyone at the station would take those. But overnight, when the station was closed, I would get the calls. 3 AM and the phone rings? Sure, get dressed, go get the wrecker and see what the drunks have gotten themselves into this time.
Telephone poles, houses, buildings, ditches, you name it. No matter how large or out of the roadway, a drunk could hit it. And there were accidents too. The weirdest were one-car accidents. How does someone roll a car on flat ground and dry pavement in the summer?
I have written about this once, and even done a podcast a long time ago about it. But I realized that I had more stories, so here they are:
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Cuas hit a two-run double in a four-run third inning, then added a sacrifice fly in the seventh on Friday to give the sixth-seeded Terrapins (36-19) a 5-0 lead.
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Today was tough — there was a lot of COTD material out there — but you've all spoken and settled upon this delightful bon mot from Nan Little:
I don't have any babies OR ambition. I HAVE IT ALL!
I'll drink to that! Which I can do, because I also have no babies or ambition.
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CakeSpy Note: The best part about being a professional cake gumshoe? Meeting other pastry enthusiasts and learning about their bakery adventures. What follows is a Gumshoe report of Levallois, which is just outside of Paris and dubbed "honorary 21st arrondissement", contributed by Robert N. Mayer of Salt Lake City. Who is this fella? "As a professor of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah, I take my consumption seriously and believe that my findings should be validated by others."
This past April, CakeSpy reported having visited over the course of seven days a bakery (or other sugar‐oriented place) in each of Paris' 20 districts (arrondissements). My first thought was that I should don my running shoes and try to perform the same feat in one day. But that would only attest to my envy.
Instead, I broke some new ground, literally. Just outside the Paris Périphérique Highway but still on the Metro line lies the city of Levallois‐Perret. Although it occupies less than one square mile, Levallois is full of street names that evoke French history (Danton, Voltaire, Victor Hugo), and, more important to me, is more densely packed with pâtisseries and boulangeries than any arrondissement in Paris proper. It also has a lively covered market on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, a pedestrian‐only street, and a quaint city hall.
It is ironic that rue Louise Michel (1830‐1905) is named after a French anarchist who sentenced to prison for leading a Paris mob in pillaging a baker's shop. That's because rue Louise Michel is home to four fine bakeries:
Fougeret Henry, 16 rue Louise Michel
This is the archetype of a traditional, neighborhood bakery, down to the baby blue paint and paintings that surround the front door.
L'Atelier des Pains, 32 rue Louise Michel
With its original location in Courbevoie, this new bakery has taken Levallois by storm. From the front window, you can see their pastries and breads coming out of a huge, shiny over. The fruit tarts are especially good, but the lunch crowd lines up for their baguette sandwiches.
Maison Baillon, 57 rue Louise Michel
Baker Philippe Baillon has won the award for the best baguette in the Haut de Seine region three times in the last eight years. This shop in Levallois is his second, the original being in nearby Neuilly. I particularly like the well‐browned palmier.
Festival des Pains, 85 rue Louise Michel
The wide smile of the baker is almost as good as the pastries in this new shop; I zeroed in on the items with pistachios.
Of course, if you manage to escape rue Louise Michel with your sweet tooth intact, you are within two blocks of:
Boulangerie Alain Bernard, 6 place Henri Barbusse
Alain recently took over a bakery that used to attract me with its pear tart. Alain is partial to brioche dough. You practically need sunglasses to look at the brioche with its bright pink pralines.
G Jusseaume, 16, rue Henri Barbusse
OK, this is technically a traiteur rather than a patisserie, but the shop (located on the pedestrians‐only block) makes its pastries on site. I enjoyed the fruit tart shaped like a bird's nest.
Eric Kayser, 19 rue Trébois
True, this is one of 19 locations in the Paris area, but even its chocolate chip cookie was worth trying.
Le Grenier à Pain, 53 rue du Président Wilson
Most bakeries occupy corner lots, but this one is tucked into the middle of the block. The breads are notable and change every day. I opted for a chocolate item that resembled a bouchon with its gooey middle.
If you get back on the metro at the Anatole France stop, you might stop at William Galland, 73 rue Carnot, where I learned to love the almond croissant, and Jeanne, 63 rue Voltaire.
You won't find web sites for these (mostly) family‐owned bakeries. Nor will you hear a lot of English spoken in Levallois. It's the real France. But the people will take the time to communicate with you if you're willing to use whatever French you have and let them take it from there.
CakeSpy Note: and it's a sure bet that if you try to communicate, the rewards will be sweet.


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Some quick thoughts about a few cultural activities I got up to this weekend... 1)Liz Caruana is a fabulous art and commercial photographer in the Bay Area. Friday night saw the launch of Caruana's new collection of photographs in book and gallery exhibition form at Carte Blanche Gallery in The Mission. The series, The Bay: Creators of Style, lis at the intersection of Caruana's work as an art and commercial photographer in its depiction of portraits of Bay Area fashion designers. The images are glossy, vivid and unabashedly pose-y. It's … [Read more...]
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