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Monday, June 11, 2012
McSorley's for Sale?
A few weeks ago, our artist friend Randy Hage went by McSorley's to take some photos (perhaps a new miniature is in the works).
He reported back with some startling news: "There were about 4 or 5 guys out front in a group and one off to the side. The guy to the side asked me why I was taking photos of the place. He said that he was the owner of the building and had been trying hard to sell the place. Said he was tired of the city and wanted to move up to Albany."
I've tried, but have not been able to confirm this information (I'll leave that to those blessed with press credentials and writing staffs). There's no "for sale" sign on the building and I can't find a listing, either. Maybe it was a joke? Or is that wishful thinking?
Still, I would not be surprised. Though the pub still packs in the crowds (go early if you want to enjoy the place), the city hasn't been kind to McSorley's lately.
In 2011, the New York City Health Department forced McSorley's to clean the famous dust from the ancient wishbones that have dangled above the bar since doughboys left them there for luck in World War I. Bloomberg's henchmen also banned Minnie, the McSorley's cat, from the bar where she and her many predecessors have reigned from the beginning.
As Dan Barry put it in his article about these assaults on the bar's traditions: "old New York and new New York remain in conflict, and old New York is losing."
The building and business are owned by Matthew Maher. He started as a barman in 1964 and took over in 1977, so it's no wonder he's tired. But if Mr. Maher sells and heads to Albany, what will become of our storied ale house?
In a time when cold-hearted, trendy restaurateurs are taking over the city's classic spots to theme-park the past and cash in on nostalgia, let's hope the high-end, velvet-rope sharks aren't circling. I don't want my "McSorley's Bed & Breakfast" nightmare to come true.
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27 comments:
- EV Grieve said...
I wouldn't be surprised either.... And I imagine the place will soon be home to $24 burgers.
- June 11, 2012 at 7:29 AM
That would be just classic, wouldn't it. A place that has existed for over 150 years sold and turned into some tattooed faux-bohemian's dream restaurant. If McSorley's is sold, I swear I'm moving to L.A., I can't take this shit anymore.
- June 11, 2012 at 7:54 AM
- John M said...
Berlin, Anon. Move there, the East side is still kind of what our LES used to be.
- June 11, 2012 at 8:33 AM
- Brooks of Sheffield said...
Did you contact the owner?
- June 11, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
i wasn't able to get in touch with anyone. i figure someone else might have better luck. maybe you?
- June 11, 2012 at 8:55 AM
- Little Earthquake said...
And there's the rub. This guy could sell to someone intent on maintaining the business and the building and staying true to history, but he'll probably get a lot more money if he sells to someone who has other plans. Certainly Maher is entitled to as much money as he sees fit and it's not for us to judge him on his personal and financial future. It's purely hypothetical but I'd love to see what some of us would do in this position. I'm willing to bet that history and preservation wouldn't necessarily come first.
- June 11, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- Shawn Chittle said...
1977-2012 is quite a run. Who can blame the guy.
It's sad there is no next generation to leave it to, or some caretaker who loves McSoreley's as it is and can afford to buy the building/bar and keep it going for generations to come.
- June 11, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- Marty Wombacher said...
I pray that John DeLucie isn't eyeballing the joint. If this turns out to be true, go there at noon on a weekday and get a cheese and crackers plate while you still can.
- June 11, 2012 at 9:33 AM
So the writer of this article hasn't spoken with Matty, his daughter Theresa, or any of the long-time staff? Doesn't sound like any of the prior commentors have any knowledge to share either. Albany?!
- June 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM
- Brooks of Sheffield said...
Uh. DeLucie.
John DeLucie, Graydon Carter, Michael Bloomberg, Amanda Burden: the four horsemen of the Old New York Apocalypse.
- June 11, 2012 at 9:56 AM
John Shultz is rumored to have bought the bar .
- June 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Worse yet, someone will buy it, and "re-invent" it as an "olde Nieu Yorke" bar. Reminds me of "Closing Time" by Joseph Heller. It ends with a society wedding (arranged by Yossarian) in the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The event planners cleanse the place of all the winos and bums and hookers and homeless folks - and hire actors to play winos and bums and hookers and homeless folks. Welcome to Pseudo York City!
- June 11, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
John Schultz? please tell us more.
- June 11, 2012 at 12:00 PM
- Ms. said...
Damn it!! I hardly ever go to bars anymore (except for poetry readings) but the eviction of a cat truly angers me. I'll watch with curiosity for developments.
- June 11, 2012 at 12:11 PM
- Goggla said...
Please, please, please, no.
- June 11, 2012 at 1:38 PM
John Shultz is a McSorleys regular who's been unsuccessfully trying to buy the bar for years , hes rumored to have a consortium in place that are willing to pay any price for the old ale house .
- June 11, 2012 at 2:23 PM
- esquared said...
Don't know if the rumour is true or not, but it is inevitable with what's happening in the EV/NYC.
Just to echo Casino:
"...Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? ... Junk bonds."
- June 11, 2012 at 2:24 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thanks Anon--if John Schultz is a regular and wants to keep the bar as it is, then this is good news.
- June 11, 2012 at 2:41 PM
The real value of the property is from the apartments upstairs, some of which have always gone to people who worked there. McSorley's itself is so small a place, and the kitchen so tiny (a friend cooked there in the '90s; it was barely big enough for the two of us) that even by Manhattan standards a restaurant would be an iffy proposition.
- June 11, 2012 at 2:57 PM
- EV Grieve said...
OK then.
WIll go back to worrying about Katz's now...
- June 11, 2012 at 9:41 PM
- JakeGould said...
Jeremiah, take a break. Cut down your posts to even fewer a week & commit yourself to only posting things you genuinely research. Because the fact you would post gossip like this—with 100% no facts—and lament about a non-closing is really depressing. It's like you want the place to close so you can wrench yourself into a knot over it.
Seriously, do you think a place like McSorley's would go up for sale and you would be the first to hear?
- June 11, 2012 at 10:27 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
Jake, for some reason you're always urging me to take a break. maybe you need a break from reading me.
- June 11, 2012 at 10:33 PM
brooks of sheffield: what is the problem w/GRAYDON CARTER??? he has kept the waverly inn exactly like it was in 1920. same as i remember it in the 60s. i was there about 3/12 yrs ago. the food was amazing, service great, employees very intelligent. i could live w/out his bar scene. thats where he puts the people who are tacky loud & dumb. i would prefer he was more exclusive, but he did say he was democratic. here is a beautiful historic place, whats your problem?
- June 11, 2012 at 11:54 PM
Jeremiah, consider your chain yanked several times over. John Schultz and a consortium - stop it, please. You're killing me.
- June 12, 2012 at 9:16 AM
McSorley's is a gold mine. Cash, half-filled mugs of ale, always packed, etc.
Don't worry about it being gentrified. No one is that stupid.
I remember Maher when he first got there in 1964 as a waiter. I doubt he would sell it to someone who would gut it.
- June 12, 2012 at 7:15 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
we all want to believe this could never happen, but recent history has surprised us again and again, as iconic treasures have been snatched away, gutted or else polished and preserved behind a velvet rope. anything in this city can be lost. love it while you can.
- June 13, 2012 at 7:54 AM
Although Mattie runs the place, it is a family business, "Owned and Operated by the Maher Family, Inc.", as it says on the window. If Matt ever retires it'll stay in the family.
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The Metro series has become a surprise success story over the last few years, pushing strong production values, an interesting and moody world as well as an atmosphere that evokes a sense of sadness rarely seen in modern games. Metro 2033, 2010's sleeper hit, managed to set the framework for an interesting game but failed to incorporate any sort of meaningful interaction to the experience. Last Light, set one year after the events of 2033, manages to impress with various mechanical improvements to the gameplay. But what really makes Last Light stand out against the crowd is how atmospheric the game is. Last Light is a testament to narrative craftsmanship through world-building and should be played for that reason alone.
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I played Dragon Age II on a whim, when so many people actively hate a game its difficult to expect it to be any good. After playing Dragon Age II I can now safely say all of those people are insane. Dragon Age II is an exemplary role-playing game, because despite how large game worlds become, how ever many advancements are made that let you bludgeon giant rats in a sewer, BioWare have crafted a game that lets you truly roleplay a character as you see fit. And the decisions you make in that role come with lasting consequences that make Dragon Age II absolutely stunning.
You start off choosing a class and the choice carries meaning as a different character in the story will survive based on your choice at the very start. Dragon Age II begins at the same time as Dragon Age: Origins, but as Hawke and his family escape the destruction of Lothering. You lose your status, everything you ever owned and start life anew as a refugee in Kirkwall.
The game is set almost entirely in the city of Kirkwall with the occasional trip outside of the city, Dragon Age II emulates the familiarity of learning a city across the years. It starts out alien but eventually it becomes home, a place you know like the back of your hand. Its a feeling most videogames avoid as you hop across the world, righting wrongs in every impoverished town you enter.
Dragon Age II is a very personal game. Set across roughly a decade you play the role of Hawke as he grows from refugee to Champion of Kirkwall. Major decisions in game can have lasting consequences. Even skipping minor sidequests can cut off chunks of the game for later years.
The cast of characters that surround Hawke have some of the most interesting personalities in the genre. Their banter inbetween combat manages to surpass even the skits of the Tales series. And even seeing your crew of misfits make fun of the NPCs you save helps you grow fonder of them. Its more akin to dealing with regular problems and how people would react in those situations. Each of the characters are severely flawed in personality with different weaknesses and BioWare have done an admirable job to bring those weaknesses to light, from Avelines inability to express her feelings of love, Merrills overall awkwardness in society, or Anders just, well I hate that guy.
Those characters have lives of their own that they live out as Hawke grows. They can come and go, whether thats leaving the party for the duration of the game, dying or even having a relationship with another character either from your party or an NPC in the story. Dont romance a character and he or she may end up finding another mate, closing off that option for later. If you do romance them you can call it a one-night stand or aim to continue for a relationship. Its entirely up to you. But most importantly is whether your party members are your friends or your rivals.
If you want to be wishy washy and try to be friends with everyone or attempt to please everyone youre doing things wrong. Dragon Age II avoids the love-hate or good-bad relationships and aims for which character is your friend and which is your rival and each side of the spectrum leads to different benefits for you. Try and tiptoe around the system and you may simply be stuck with a character that does not trust you at all when the moment comes.
The most noted improvement is BioWares use of the dialogue wheel. Dragon Age II gets rid of the Mass Effect series red for renegade, blue for paragon choices that limit role playing to two styles. In Dragon Age II there are three choices to make for every response you give whether its speaking politely, being a bit of a prig or just sassing the person you are speaking to. But these choices are made based on the situation and how you feel about it. While I generally tended to play my Hawke as a roguish jokester there were choices where it made more sense to be angry or more sense to be understanding. It would simply not suit my character to crack a joke over a victims dead body. But it would also not suit him to be polite to every jerk that passed his way.
You can play Hawke however you like and that level of role-playing is absolutely refreshing. You can get angry about blood magic in one conversation with your team and it can lead to a rivalry with one character and friendship with two others. You can make fun of an Orlesian noblewoman and watch some of your saucier friends crack up and join you while the more uptight ones may find it disrespectful. But there are no real guidelines to play by; you simply play Hawke as you want. Its a level of role-playing freedom that feels only possible because of Dragon Age IIs focus on the characters and how they grow over the years.
With that said, the storytelling and writing take some risks that really help the game as well, from cheeky references to moments of absolute hilarity. Varric, one of the first party members you come across, serves as the narrator of your journey and depending on whether you are friends with him or a rival there may be a few liberties taken with the story. There were moments of playfulness in Dragon Age II that have not been in other BioWare games and with its reception Im afraid we may not see those again for some time.
Each act is set years apart from one another so the game implies that you simply live your life regularly until something demands you get to work. Whether thats building a fortune for yourself or something more sinister down the line, the game never makes it about the world but always about the characters.
Despite all of my praise for characters, storytelling and the overall writing and themes of the game, Dragon Age II falls under a lot of scrutiny for not being like Dragon Age: Origins when it comes to combat (and just about everything else). While the combat is less challenging than in Origins you can still set up tactics for your team, position them how you like and while the game doesnt have the same overhead camera as Origins, you can still scroll up a fair distance to see the battles. It was fun with fluid animations and various combos you could have your team execute and I preferred the easier difficulty that let me focus more on my characters and choices and less on surviving a battle against four wolves. Admittedly, enemies are like ninja as they jump down off of rooftops to face you. Its funny and a little weird, but its a minor quibble.
Character progression in Dragon Age II is absolutely spectacular though. It really lets you focus on improving in the areas you like. You can play your character as a jack of all trades but that wont help you much in the long run. Specialization is important, so you can play a mage as an elemental damage dealer and a healer or you can play the mage as someone with a focus on entropy and spirit magic or maybe blood magic is more up your alley. Play a rogue that likes to make the battlefield an area of confusion for enemies or go for an archer waiting in the distance. Focus on daggers and assassin abilities or choose to be a duelist. Each skill tree is independent of the others and lets you level through them as you please, and focusing on two or three trees will help make all the difference in combat.
What really brings Dragon Age II down are the repeated environments for the dungeons. It is absolutely ridiculous. Under no circumstances should a game reuse dungeon maps at the level Dragon Age II does, particularly with BioWare being such a large team. There have to be maybe ten, if not less, dungeon maps and they are constantly reused for each minor quest you take on. Oftentimes you will enter a dungeon and part of it will be blocked off, the next time that dungeon is reused the part you explored will be blocked off and the other open. Its very lazy and very noticeable and one of the worst uses of recycled environments in a major game release in some time.
That said, the graphics have improved dramatically over Dragon Age: Origins, so even if environments repeat, at least they look pretty good. Character models and designs have improved dramatically as well, most noticeable should be Isabella who had a brief cameo in Dragon Age: Origins but is now one of your main companions. Her character model is significantly improved over the original. The visuals quality is closer to Mass Effect quality right now, though the use of colors is full of earth tones are far less of Mass Effects sci-fi trappings and fancy light shows.
The voice acting as usual is absolutely top-notch. Characters come alive and the improved facial features help convey emotions better than before. The low and fierce grumbling of the Qunari can unsettle anyone, while Varrics cheery demeanor will make you wish he was your constant drinking buddy. The soundtrack is decidedly different from Dragon Age: Origins, although that makes sense since one is about stopping essentially a worldwide crisis and the other is a personal story, but the score works, and the liveliness of a place like The Hanged Man pub helps highlight some of the audio in the game.
Dragon Age IIs character progression already make it a fun game to play, but the creative storytelling method employed along with the excellent characters elevate it beyond fun. But most importantly BioWares emphasis on creating a game where you play the role of a character rather than leveling up some faceless guy in an open world is what makes Dragon Age II so special. You care about your family, your friends, your city and the conflicts that rise. As cool as it is to become the Champion of Kirkwall, what made it special was that it happened the way I wanted it to happen, in an absolutely romanticized way that made Hawke seem like a legend. I couldnt ask for more than that.
Ellis calls MGS5 sexist and Kojima a "man baby"
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Who's David Ellis again?
We know Kojima's Metal Gear universe is hardly realistic and going for sexualized designs, and openly admitting to doing that, is A-OK with me. Acting like openly sexualized designs are a bad thing when you're involved with the sexualization of an AI from hologram to semi-solid woman with firm ass, large breasts, flat stomach and waving hair... not so much. Go home Ellis, you're drunk. And the real man baby.
Don't get me wrong, Quiet's design is neither appealing or attractive. But knowing Kojima and his ridiculous stories it'll likely be explained. I still have no idea how Cortana became a sex kitten. This is the pot calling the kettle black, but the kettle admitted what it did and is happy to do what it's doing. The pot's in full denial and trying to be a voice of reason. F*ck the pot.
Thank you GameStop!
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For all the outrage over GameStop reprinting and selling Xenoblade Chronicles at $90 (the average price on Ebay) they've managed to actually drive that price down with their greedy reprint. I purchased Xenoblade Chronicles for $65. Sure, it's used, but it beats $90. No tax either, so if I had bought the game when it was available I guess I'd have saved $10 or something. Either way, I'm eager to see if this game is as amazing as the folks who play it say it is. At this point I might as well pick up Pandora's Tower too to just complete the Operation Rainfall initiative. I'll wait on that one though, it's cheap. I don't see the price jumping to $90 anytime soon.
I also purchased Metro Last Light since it's on sale for $20. Not expecting it to be nearly as memorable as BioShock Infinite but with 2013's releases being fairly forgettable thus far I figure what's one more piece of fodder. Regardless, I'm living in 2011 right now, playing Dragon Age II and Zelda: Skyward Sword. Once I beat DA2 I'll move on to either Dead Space 3 or Metro Last Light for a semi-spooky shooter experience from this year. As with Metro, I'm not expecting Dead Space 3 to be anything more than pure fluff. Basically, there's room to surprise me.
After Skyward Sword on the console side of things I'll either jump to Xenoblade or The Last Story. The Last Story looks more appealing to me, it always has, but Xenoblade is that sort of sought after fruit that comes along once in a while so maybe I'll start with that. Either way, I'm still roughly halfway through Skyward Sword so it'll be awhile before I get to either of the RPGs.
This Week's Favorites
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2013 is the 25th anniversary of Falcom's pioneering JRPG. It started as a sort of Zelda-like game back in 1988, just with a fully realized world, excellent characters and an ambitious narrative and has since evolved into one of the most challenging and fast-paced action RPG experiences on the market. Memories of Celceta is the game to be released for the Silver Anniversary and the special anniversary edition will come with a three CD soundtrack spanning the entire series' best works (and a map I guess, but I just want my 3CD set).
2. Nintendo makes a handheld for children
In the process people who are over the age of seven are pissed off and think Nintendo is stupid. RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!
Keiji Inafune is still hurting from the cancellation of MegaMan Legends 3. Sure he followed it up with Soul Sacrifice at his new team, but has taken to Kickstarter to show Capcom what's what with MegaMan. The Mighty No. 9 is his new game, a true MegaMan title sans MegaMan. Our main guy is Beck, a blue robot that didn't fall victim to the virus that took his other robo buddies down. The name of his sidekick/partner is Call. Like, Beck and Call. I love it. I pledged and after a day or two on the web the Kickstarter is literally half way to its goal. Also, blue is apparently Keiji Inafune's favorite color. Just watch the Kickstarter video. Manami Matsumae has also created one hell of a bitchin' theme song for the game. MegaMan would be proud.
It's a free to play puzzle RPG I found by GungHo on my phone. They've reached 20 million downloads like a day after I downloaded the app. The game tries to combine Poke'mon monster collecting and colorbased puzzle matching. Colors that match are based on monster abilities to red orbs are fire damage, blue is water, etc. But you can create your team based on the cost of how much a monster is worth to your own level and you can choose any combination of monster types, though if you don't add certain types you have to try and use the color orbs to help boost your damage through combos since those orbs won't do damage on their own. The only thing the game charges you money for are the magic crystals. You get a crystal if you complete a dungeon on the first run without dying, consecutive logins, etc. You use the magic crystals to gamble for new rare monsters, or to continue from where you died and other things. You can't buy monsters to win or level them up with money so the game remains fair while those who spend end up gambling. It's a ton of fun!
5. Rune Raiders
Another free to play game with an excellent pay system I just became aware of. Rune Raiders features basic RPG aspects, basic Turn-based Strategy design and lets you play everything you like. You build a party based on your preferences, from having a healer, mage, warrior, etc in the group (up to 6 total) and guiding them to the end of the level while killing all enemies and doing so in as few turns as possible and with as few deaths as possible. The game released with 20 levels and a bunch of character classes, Retro 64 later released an expansion set in an ice world for $1 and a new character class, the Rocketeer, for $1. For those that don't have smartphones, you can check out Retro 64's web browser version of it sans expansion pack and new character. Great game.
For those of you wondering what game could warrant me spending $60
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There is only one.
Suffice it to say, RPGFan seems to hold the series with the same level of reverence that I do.
Listen, I'm not saying much, but all I'm saying is a certain Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand needs a remake, ASAP.
I love it when Nintendo is smart
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Let's be real, the 2DS is a great idea no matter what Tom McShea says because despite his stance that it's Nintendo stepping away from their own values I'd argue it's Nintendo stepping back towards their own values. They call the 2DS an "entry-level" system. Remember when every Nintendo handheld had an entry level price point for mass market appeal? The Gameboy was not the coolest piece of tech, neither was the DS. But they outsold the premium-priced competition time and time again. There was no premium price, it simply was not a thing.
The design of the 2DS isn't particularly appealing but it does improve how hardy the system should be for children ready to play a new Poke'mon game when it releases day and date with that game. It removes the annoying and superfluous 3D feature of the system all in one. But the price is the issue and it always has been. The 3DS started at $249. An absolutely outrageous price for a handheld. Cut down to $170 it's still too high, and that's not counting the pricing of the XL models at $199. Remember when the GameCube launched for $199? Or the Wii at $249? What happened to THAT Nintendo? The succcessful Nintendo that aimed to include all consumers with their pricing?
Nintendo's made some bad decisions. The cost of a functioning screen on the WiiU gamepad has likely driven that system's price higher than it would normally be and in similar fashion, the cost of a screen that produces 3D visuals (sans glasses at that) is also an unnecessary cost that not every player would even utilize. The fact that the 2DS exists so close to the $99 price point ($129) for a handheld is absolutely perfect. Sure, it's designed like a poor man's tablet but who cares? If all you want are the games without paying the price for a premium feature that isn't even fully utilized by most devs then Nintendo made the right choice.
Sometimes you need to step back and evaluate your decisions. The 3DS may have a nice library of games, but when you sell a handheld with a warning against 3D you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot. The 2DS has a great price point, plays all the same games with no real difference functionally beyond a visual gimmick. Nintendo's concern shouldn't be 3DS owners moaning at the new "entry level's" existence because those same users have likely forgotten what it meant to buy a Nintendo handheld. Everything was entry level, it wasn't a term you used to try and make it seem like something cooler existed. Welcome back to your core values, Nintendo.
EA lets you return digital games through Origin
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It's not a 30 day return policy, but you have either 7 days from date of purchase or once you install and start the game you have one day. But you get a full refund if the game just doesn't work, or you're bored out of your mind with it. It only applies to EA's own titles for now.
So far in 2013 this has been EA:
"Guys, take Dead Space 3 and a bunch of other games, pay what you want, we aren't keeping a penny. It's all going to charity. BTW, we're already over $7 million!"
"Guys, you don't like Origin, we get it. But what if you buy one of our games and you just don't like it? Return it!"
These are things I'm digging. Very much so at that.
Ahem, Valve?
"We don't have a return policy. Tough shit."
If this catches on with all publishers through Origin I might just go to the dark side.
Hard Reset is garbage
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I played for 12 minutes. And as fully prepared as I am to hear some folks tell me I need to give it more of a chance I know the game's not going to be anything more than what I saw in those first few minutes. Bigger enemies, sure. More explosive weapons, sure. Better gameplay? Not in this game.
Run forward, gang of enemies run toward you, backpedal as quickly as you can while holding down the fire button.
I get that it's supposed to be old-school. But old-school needs better design than backpedal and hold the fire button down. There's no way in hell this game will get any better. If you want a good, old-school shooter play Painkiller. It's like $10 on GoG. Fun fact, you don't have to backpedal. Enemies actually die when you shoot them.
The enemies in Hard Reset are massive bullet-sponges and there's no weight to the gunplay. The team put all their focus into making the game look fantastic that they forget to make it actually fun to play. The defense of some people of this stuff of "These are B-level games and you should be happy to play them" is ass backwards.
Pretty, but not fun. It doesn't take more than ten minutes to see that.
With Hard Reset as total garbage that leaves the following indie titles:
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Lone Survivor
A lot of people seem to consider a backlog to be when they haven't beaten games but I never understood that mentality. If you don't like something why would you keep playing it? I've got better things to do than play Hard Reset. I'll gladly try a game out, but if I don't like it I move on from it.


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Best Sandwich
Relish Sandwich Shop
Hey, guess what? Relish's Uptown store is now open for dinner. Think about how much you love Relish's sandwiches—how its chefs knead out creamy globes of mozzarella fresh each day, how they take time to hand-crank black pepper onto each sliced-to-order tomato. Now imagine the care and attention they lavish on every step of assembling your beloved, award-winning sandwich and what kind of magic they could work on a meal like dinner. Now go get the car keys, because your fantasy is a short trip away from becoming a reality. (LM)
2) Baggin's Gourmet Sandwiches
3) DG's Deli
Best Salad
Dion's Pizza
Maybe it's funny that Dion's Pizza continues to win accolades for salad, but those teenagers really know what to do with a head of lettuce. Soaked in that delectable Greek dressing, some people probably don't even realize they're eating raw vegetables. (JCC)
3) Tie: Il Vicino, The Grove Café and Market
Best Steakhouse
Paul's Monterey Inn
Food trends come and go, but steak is forever. Proof positive comes in the form of Paul's Monterey Inn, a lava-
2) Tie: Marcello's Chophouse, Vernon's Hidden Valley Steakhouse
Best Barbecue
Rudy's "Country Store" and Bar-BQ
We'll forgive the fact that it's a chain out of Texas—mostly because we can't stop eating the no-nonsense oak-wood-smoked brisket, sausage, pork and chicken. We love the cheesy, misspelled condiment labels, the stacks of white bread, the butcher-
2) Mr. Powdrell's Barbeque House
3) The Quarters
Best Burger
Blake's Lotaburger
Amidst chain-dominated fast-food joints, Blake's makes burgers more like the hamburger huts of yesteryear. It's still meat on a bun delivered minutes after ordered, but these beef patties respect themselves more than the too-common diabetes dens that shall remain unnamed. (JCC)
2) Owl Café
3) Tie: Bubsters Burger Grill, Independence Grill, Little Red Hamburger Hut
Best Pasta
Pasta seems simple, but there are so many ways it can go wrong. That's why it's nice to have a restaurant that does it right. Vivace chef and owner Joey Minarsich whips up more than 30 pasta dishes from scratch, from mezzaluna alla bettola to rigatoni con salsa rosato. Delizioso! (CC)
2) Tie: Scalo Northern Italian Grill, Trombino's Bistro Italiano
Best Bread
Golden Crown Panadería
Sure, you love bread, but sometimes a loaf just seems too pedestrian. Some days, you need your bread in the form of a Thanksgiving turkey or a horse-drawn buggy. Thank your bread-sculpted stars for Golden Crown. It also has green chile bread so good you'll howl, as evidenced by the coyote that decorates each loaf. There's no reason why bread should be boring. (EAH)
2) Great Harvest Bread Company
Best Soup
Flying Star Café
This is not a soup town. Few places do it, and do it well, so coming by a truly excellent bowl of liquid sustenance is as rare as sighting a pegacorn flying over a double rainbow. Nevertheless, good soup does indeed exist here, and our readers find it at Flying Star Café. (JCC)
Best French Fries
Blake's Lotaburger
Some studies have shown that potatoes cooked at a very high heat produce carcinogens. But who cares what some egghead scientist in a lab eating bean sprouts says? French fries are among the world's most satisfying foods. And in this corner of the world, Blake's does them the best. (JCC)
3) Tie: O'Niell's Pub, Slate Street Café
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Best Tacos
Taquería Mexico
Well, if you can't trust the tacos at a place called Taquería Mexico, what can you trust? Don't let the humble exterior fool you. In fact, use it as a guide. There are no blue Margaritas here. This is serious street food straight outta Mexico. Fight for one of the few tables, or line up with the hungry construction workers outside. Throw some carnitas, a little beef or (if you dare) chicharrónes on a tortilla and get to munching! (DOL)
Best Pizza
Dion's Pizza
Is it the crispy crust? The choice toppings? Whatever the reasons, longtime 505 favorite Dion's Pizza grabs the gold in this most coveted of categories. (MD)
2) Farina Pizzeria and Wine Bar
3) Il Vicino
Best Calamari
Scalo Northern Italian Grill
Isn't it just a little weird that fried tentacles have made a home for themselves on menus across America? ... No? Not weird? When the craving for deep-fried sea monster strikes, Burqueños know they can wash it down with a superb Chianti at Scalo. (JCC)
3) Tie: Seasons Rotisserie & Grill, Yanni's Mediterranean Grill and Opa Bar
Best Hotdogs
Dog House Drive In
Hotdog, this place is on a roll! For the two years we've run the Best Hotdog category, you've declared the same wiener. The other places just can't ketchup—our readers relish Dog House Drive In the most. (Corny puns? Never. Corn dog buns.) (LM)
2) Top Dog
Best Nachos
Gecko's Bar and Tapas
Less of a food item and more of a social interaction over beers, nachos are an underrated nosh. Anybody can throw melted cheese over some chips, but Gecko's goes whole hog with chicken, cheddar, green chile and .. oh, my lord, black bean pepperoni puree! (DOL)
2) Tie: El Pinto, Los Cuates
3) Tie: Kelly's Brew Pub, Taco Cabana
Best Egg Rolls
Asian Noodle Bar
Do deep-fried crispy rolls with sweet chile sauce sound good to you? Well, our readers say Downtown's Asian Noodle Bar does it up best, and we've got no reason to argue with them. (DOL)
3) Japengo
Best Sushi
Shogun Sushi
If your sushi requirements include inventive rolls, friendly staff and food delivered on boats, then Shogun Sushi is quite a catch. This Nob Hill mainstay has all of your rainbow roll, green chile roll and saki needs covered. Vegetarian? Yeah, they've got food for you, too. (EAH)
2) Pacific Rim Asian Bistro and Buddha Lounge
3) Tie: I Love Sushi and Teppan, Japanese Kitchen
Best Meat Loaf
Tie:66 Diner, The Range Café
There's only one thing that could be better than a meat loaf sandwich from the 66 Diner or The Range Café, both of whom tied for best loaf of meat: Those same meat loaf sandwiches with more slices of meat loaf acting as the "bread." We know. So genius. (LM)
Best Wings
Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar
No buffalos were hurt in the making of these wings. Folks have stampeded Buffalo Wild Wings since the franchise opened in Albuquerque last summer, with its beer and other non-winged dishes on the menu. But BWW keeps the sports-watching, wing-craving crowd satisfied with buckets of coatings far beyond the hot, vinegary sauce that Buffalo, N.Y., made famous. (LM)
2) Hooters
3) Tie: Seasons Rotisserie & Grill, WingBasket, Wingstop
Best Soda Fountain
66 Diner
Here's a suggestion: Next time you go to the 66 Diner, ask for a chocolate-banana malt or milkshake. It's not on the menu, but it will live on in your dreams long after it's gone. That's one of the great things about this Albuquerque institution—you can get what you want, you'll get it fast and it'll knock your argyle socks off. (CC)
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Best Bar Food
Two Fools Tavern
When you fancy meeting your mates for a pint and a craic, Two Fools Tavern is pleased to supply your bangers and mash. Traditional Irish pub fare, from beef boxty to corned beef and cabbage, and a meticulously designed interior make Two Fools as close to the real deal as you'll find. And if there's one thing we should trust the Irish about, aside from where me pot o' gold is, it's fried food and spirits. (EAH)
Best Wine List
Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro
"I'm really in the mood for an Acacia Merlot, but the truth is, I sound so much cooler ordering the Dehesa la Granja from Spain." Yeah, we've all been there, and the best place to find yourself in this predicament is Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro. From a spectacularly appointed restaurant replete with rich, dark wood to a "storm the Bastille"-style cellar bar, Zinc's wine list has familiar favorites and esoteric exotics. By the half-glass or whole bottle, from New Zealand's "Bordeaux" blends to homegrown sparklers, Zinc pours to your heart's desire. If you can't decide, try a flight or ask your server. They're more than happy to direct you to a wine that complements your meal, and, surprisingly often, your pocketbook. (MT)
2) Artichoke Café and Wine Bar
Best Beer Selection
Kelly's Brew Pub
Albuquerque's favorite patio is also home to its favorite beer selection. With more than 20 of its own brews on tap, Kelly's covers the gamut, from Weizens and Apricots to Porters and Stouts. And if for some reason there's nothing you see to your liking, no worries: At Kelly's, you can brew your own. (EAH)
3) Tie: Chama River Brewing Company, Marble Brewery
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A variety of aerial apparatuses and stilt work with interactive projections performed to a choir of women's voices.
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text: Migration Info The migration of this species is divided into two distinct movements, one along the U.S. west coast and the other through the Great Basin and the Rockies. Birds move along the coast quite rapidly during the month of April, but those that migrate inland move through later, and some don't arrive in the northernmost portion of their breeding range until early June. If you are lucky enough to live where you can listen to Lazuli Buntings when they first arrive in spring, you may hear a distinct change as the young males learn their local dialect, and each develops a unique sound. First-year males arrive in the breeding area without a song. They piece together song fragments from other males they hear for a few days, and then settle on their own song, which they will use exclusively for the rest of their lives. This is one of the reasons that it is so difficult to characterize the song of this species; each population tends to have a "neighborhood" dialect.


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By Errol Castens/NEMS Daily Journal
OXFORD – A nine-passenger Cessna Caravan sat on the tarmac at Clegg Field in Oxford on Wednesday afternoon, with scores of people admiring its wide leather seats and ample luggage bay.
"Thirty-five years ago this year, the old Southern Airways … flew their last flight out of this very airport," said Stan Little, CEO of a new airline that will offer daily service. "Thirty-five years later, Southern Airways Express is back in Oxford."
Little's remarks came at a press conference and ribbon-cutting for the hybrid air service – not quite conventional airline, not quite charter – that will fly 12 routes a week from Oxford starting June 20 that include Destin and Panama City, Fla., adding New Orleans on June 26.
The unconventional airline's appeals include 15-minute check-ins, online security screening and nonstop flights to small airports near city centers or beaches. Southern Airways Express' twin-prop planes offer spacious leather upholstery, free use of iPads, great views, no luggage fees and fares ranging from $129 to $249 each way, with Sunday night flights at just $18 to $38.
Many in the crowd could be heard making plans for their next beach vacation.
"We're going to take our baby-sitter with us to Destin," said one woman as she climbed aboard. "I told her I'd check out the plane today."
A young boy, admiring the cockpit and the pilots' blue suede shoes, declared himself to be an aspiring aviator.
One person with a personal interest in the air service was Susan Dempsey, a stewardess on Southern Airways DC-3s during the 1960s, when a typical flight from New Orleans to Atlanta included several stops.
"They didn't serve food on board, but you had time to go into the Laurel cafeteria and order your lunch," she said. "It was a wonderful experience. It was a lot of Northern people, and they loved my Southern accent; they kept me talking on the mike."
Company counsel and director Jay Hughes is confident of the service's business model.
"We went live on the Internet … last Thursday, and so far there's been an overwhelming response, with about 70 percent of our available seats sold through the summer," he said. "We think we are beneficiaries of travelers' frustrations with the larger airports and going through all the security with them – and the fact that Delta has eliminated just about all direct flights from Memphis to any leisure destinations."
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Used to remove overburden to expose the coal seams in the Diplomat Mine. Retired in 1984. The large dipper bucket on the right is all that remains of the "Mr. Diplomat" shovel, the largest ever used in Canada. It was 30 cubic yards. The rest of the shovel which weighed over 1250 tons was cut up for scrap in 1984.


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Wow, totally forgot about this.
been trying to work on a few things, I started the netmd-dev mailing list and the libnetmd project.
these are for the NetMD product line that Sony started with minidisc's. They allow for USB transfer to a MD player, plus other levels of control.
We currently cannot download tracks, but can do the full array of track editing features.
I'm also working on a kernel module to allow USB URB sniffing to help future USB developers out.


text: Coding takes many years to do right. Even I can't get stuff to look decent in a few hours. I've spent a few hours on a 150 line Python script that does freqency counting, and the code lay out looks like crap! I've only been doing Python for two years now, and am no where near being good at it. I have been doing C for 10 years, and it took me a good 5+ years before I considered myself fluent. You don't get good over night, you have to spend many hours working on different projects just doing what you want to. You'll learn to code better as time goes on. Also, don't forget to read other peoples code too, you'll get ideas on how to better do stuff this way too.


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It's Super Bowl weekend and all eyes are on the Crescent City. A lotta cars, people, freaks, geeks and jeeps. It's New Orleans during Mardi Gras is what most would say, but then you add in the biggest American sports weekend and, in one word, it's…bonkers. Speaking of Jeeps, I've been rolling around to this new Action Bronson "Strictly 4 The Jeeps." I think this may be the hottest Bronson record yet. It has that mainstream club feel for newbies but still maintains its hardcore edge for his real fans. If your knowledgeable in your hip-hop history, you'll recognize the beat and how Action's throwback flow pays homage to a classic hip hop record from a Queens legend.
After I heard rumors of The Goodie Mob reuniting last year, I stayed tuned into what was moving musically in Atlanta. When I peeped this new Cee Lo record "Only You," like a quickie, I was disappointed but excited at the same time. No Kudjo or Gipp on this with Cee Lo, just Lauriana Mae. I mean, don't get me wrong, "Only You" is an incredible record that will probably give Mr. Green another Top 40 hit. Lauriana Mae is super duper exquisite with her vocals. But when are we going to hear that vintage Cee Lo once again, with one of The ATL's most groundbreaking hip-hop groups in Goodie?
Last week at Chung King studios in NYC, Joe Budden held an album preview listening. It was free liquor, hookah smoke (weed smoke once Big Kap arrived) and Joey's finest new tunes off of his new album No Love Lost, which drops this Tuesday. Without a doubt, one of the stand out tracks on the album is "NBA (Never Going Broke)." It stands out because it features Wiz Khalifa and French Montana. But also the wordplay or the play on words is super dope. Joe Budden touches on everything about his reality "NBA" life from ballin' to groupie broads. He even touches on the Nets relocation to Brooklyn, go figure…
At this point, anything Brooklyn MC Joey BadA$$ does musically gets the attention it deserves. So this whole thing that has erupted with West Coast rapper Lil B has turned into a somewhat-but-not-really sort of beef. This week it all came to ahead as both rappers fired missiles at each other from their respective coasts. This is definitely not the 2013 version East Coast vs. West Coast (just don't tell that to the NY Post) but great beef in rap always makes for memorable diss records. So in this corner, from the Bay Area, weighing in at probably 100lbs, at best, is Lil B the Based God AKA Pink Flame… with his say or song on it, "I'm The BadA$$."
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It's official, here and here.
It wasn't a great surprise to any of us at that point, we had spend the last month assuming this would be the outcome, but it still is sad. The engineering team we had was truly awesome and I'll miss the people.
So now what ? Well, frankly I'm been more and more dissappointed with the gnome community as such, so I won't be weeping if I'm not getting a job in some gnome/linux/free-software company, even though it'd be nice. I'd like to work on setting up a server for the trilobite-install stuff, frankly, I still believe it's the coolest apt-get clone for rpm distros. If anyone wants to work on this, feel free to contact me (eskil at eskil dot dk).
So now I'm looking for a new job, and it's not going well. Even though I've only had two interviews the outlook isn't good. Both companies turned me down for hard-to-parse reasons and I suspect that it's the H1B visa issue. Most other companies reeled backwards as soon as they realised that they would have to sponsor a visa transferral. But I have about six weeks till the cash dries up, so I won't be planning relocation for the next five weeks.
Ikke meget at sige. Jeg vil foretraekke at blive her, da en flytning igen simpelthen bare er for besvaerligt. Men hvis der ikke er jobs at faa (industrien har virkeligt taget et nedsving), saa maa jeg vel nok se mig om efter groennere marker.
Hvad gik galt med biksen ? Tja, daarligt tidspunkt at soege investering, ideen var ok (havde sine mangler). Derudover var der en del skidte ting, f.eks. hyrede vi alt for mange marketingstumper som bare slugte loen og saa smarte ud, brugte for meget energi paa at lave en nyserlig filhaandteringsdimmelut og alt for faa folk til at implementere de ting som vi skulle tjene penge paa. Intet som bagklogskab.
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I haven't gotten very far into this concept yet, but the ruleset it uses is a tabletop ruleset I've been working on, and I can post that if anybody cares. What I want to know now is how big of a demographic we would have. We want to turn a profit, after all, and even though our expenses more or less amount to a couple programs, energy drinks and pizza, I want to make sure that it will pay out more than the couple hundred we'd be putting into it. Especially since unlike the "Wounded Gaia" pipe dream, this is something that I could actually do at any time without needing many extra resources or any extra training.
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Pipeline 2012: Pharma's Front-Runners
Pipeline 2012: Pharma's Front-Runners
Tofacitinib Pfizer
Indication: Rheumatoid arthritis/plaque psoriasis (Phase III)
What the clinical trials found: Data from a Phase III trial testing tofacitinib vs. Abbott's self-injectable Humira support this oral drug's clinical potential: ACR20: 47%; ACR50: 28%. In response, Humira has claimed ACR20: 65%; ACR50: 52%. Safety appears comparable to that seen with approved RA biologics, although there was a doubling in the rate of infections in the long-term extension studies with the 10mg vs. 5mg dose and possible renal effects. With a broad range of immunosuppresive properties, tofacitinib is being studied in several autoimmune conditions in addition to RA, including ankylosing spondylitis, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and organ transplant rejection.
inThought Approvability Index and Comment: 85% (RA). This JAK inhibitor's oral formulation hits an unmet need in RA. Due to adverse events, our research suggests the drug will be most often used after at least one tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor. Dosing advantages aside, it won't replace the TNF inhibitors, but it will push back use of other biologics. Estimated approval: 2H 2012 for RA, followed by other indications (Source: Wolters Kluwer inThought).
inThought revenue forecast: $1.7 billion in peak sales by 2017
What the analysts are saying: The wave of Phase III reporting by Pfizer appears very positive with efficacy in line with current self-injectable treatments like Humira, with a possibly equal or somewhat better side effect profile. It looks like this will be the first oral treatment to market and an option that compares well against the current therapies. From that standpoint, it should do exceptionally well. —Geoff Penney, VP, research and consulting, GfK HealthCare
Fostamatinib (R788) AstraZeneca + Rigel
Indication: Rheumatoid arthritis (Phase III)
What the clinical trials found: In a three-month Phase II trial, this oral Syk inhibitor was shown to be safe but not effective in RA patients unresponsive to biologic agents. In a six-month Phase II study, it met a primary signs and symptoms efficacy endpoint with responder rates of ACR20: 67%; ACR50: 43%. In the Phase III program, two 12-month studies will test fostamatinib in patiens responding inadequately to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) including methotrexate, and a six-month study will assess fostamatinib in patients who have previously responded inadequately to anti-TNF therapy.
inThought Approvability Index and Comment: 55% (RA). A second oral kinase inhibitor behind tofacitinib, fostamatinib should take some of the $23-billion worldwide market for DMARDs. It may also expand the market on the back of the substantial number of patients who are candidates for biologics but don't use them because of injection fears. Estimated approval: 2014 (Source: Wolters Kluwer inThought).
Revenue forecast: $1.3 billion in peak sales by 2017, says Collins Stewart's Salveen Richter
What the analysts are saying: The jury is still out. We are looking to early Phase III trials (which started at the beginning of 2011) to dispel the more disappointing findings seen in Phase II. But at that point, it does become an issue of second-to-market and what opportunities can AZ/Rigel exploit given Pfizer/tofacitinib's first-to-market status. Once-a-week, twice-a-week and once-a-month injection therapies will still hold appeal, particularly for physicians, despite the pressure from patients to try a needleless option. And research suggests the I.V. and self-injection therapies will continue to be cost competitive, especially given the heavy use of co-pay cards and other patient support programs, so there will be serious cost pressures on both these oral therapy brands when they reach market. —Geoff Penney, VP, research and consulting, GfK HealthCare
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I finally figured how to get a video from FB to RTF.
This is a video of my puppy Riot retrieving in the backyard with hand tossed bumpers. So far his training has been all informal except for the last week where I have started to add some pressure for sit and here, however the heeling, returning with the bumper and spitting them out at my feet are all treat/reward based type of training. He is also in the teething phase so I'm not worried about his goofing with the bumper right now (just a couple weeks ago he had a nice fetch and hold). Also I'm not worried about him spitting the bumper out at my feet - I want him to go get the bumper and come back to me. Also I have not enforced steadiness with him even though he has made the connection to wait until I call his name. Riot is bout 5 months old. He gets hand tossed marks in the back yard in the morning and marks out in the field with a bird thrower (my husband) on the weekends, we have him stretched out to around 100-125 yards with no cover using 3" white bumpers. Daylight savings is really kicking our rears when it comes to training!
At the end of the video I made the mistake of telling him "That's it!" so he decided playing with the bumper/rope that come off was more fun! Also note this training session was all of a couple minutes, long enough to keep his attention span and not too long as to make him be bored and really want to play around (i.e. keep away, chase, not returning, etc).


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132 Young Leaders in Diabetes from all over the world, aged 18-30 and connected by diabetes want to make a change! Watch this video to learn more about us, our vision, and what we would like to achieve.
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WDC TV spoke to the new Presidency of the Young Leaders at the World Diabetes Congress 2013 about the programme, how they got involved and some of the great work they do…


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It's been a difficult week for Lance Armstrong. After he announced that he was stepping down as the chairman of his Livestrong charity, Nike Inc., Anheuser-Busch and several other sponsors ended their contract with the seven-time Tour de France winner because of the "insurmountable evidence" that he was involved in a doping scandal. And now he's lost the titles that are his greatest claim to fame.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) announced Monday (Oct. 22) that it has determined Armstrong will be stripped of his Tour de France titles and banned for life from sanctioned Olympic sports. This news comes following the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency submitting a 200-page report on Oct. 10 that was full of evidence proving Armstrong was involved in "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that [cycling] has ever seen."
"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling and he deserves to be forgotten in cycling," UCI President Pat McQuaid said at a news conference, according to the Associated Press. "This is a landmark day for cycling."
That means Armstrong will no longer be considered the winner of the Tour de France from 1999 to 2005. Tour director Christian Prudhomme said that the race will have no official winners for those years.


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A furious dad says his 2-year-old son was nearly killed by a drunk boatie who who went on to cause another accident.
Waikato farmer Radley Hungerford was at the Waikato River on December 29, getting his van ready to pick up his boat after a day on the water at Horahora near Cambridge. Suddenly, another boat roared into view while Radley's children, including 2-year-old Asher, played on the beach.
"He was at full speed and he came straight back into the beach at my kids. And then at the last minute, one metre from the shore, in knee-deep water, he managed to spin the wheel and went straight into the back of my boat."
The Hungerfords met the power boat operator just after the crash. "He tried to talk to us ... he was so drunk we couldn't understand a thing," he said.
Radley said a police officer approached the boatie, asked him how much he'd been drinking, but made no attempt to keep him out the water.
"Then he started driving along the beach. Another boat towing two biscuits was nearly taken out."
Shortly after, the boatie's wake washed two children off a ski biscuit. The boat then allegedly struck the children's parents after they reached the shore.
Hungerford saw a report about the accident in last weekend's Herald on Sunday and contacted the newspaper.
He said he was told the 25-year-old boatie was a Waikato dairy farmer, though Hungerford did not know his name.
Waikato Regional Council navigation safety programme manager Nicole Botherway said an investigation into the day's events was still underway.
The boatie could face charges under Section 65 of the Maritime Transport Act, which makes "dangerous activity" involving boats an offence, regardless of whether injury or damage occurs.
It cost Hungerford more than $500 to fix the boat. "We didn't really give a stuff about the boat at the time. We left before I got angry."
Police spokeswoman Victoria Evans could not comment on the incident but said it is an offence to operate a boat in a manner which causes unnecessary danger or risk to any other person or to any property, irrespective of whether or not in fact any injury or damage occurs.
"Police can and do prosecute people under this Act, as can Maritime New Zealand," she said.
"Local councils can issue infringement notices to boaties for excess speed, not having an observer and not having lights on at night."
Six weeks ago, coroner Carla na Nagara reminded the public of the "very real risk of being drunk on boats" when she found Porirua resident Patrick Rosson died after falling overboard while urinating off a boat. Rosson was almost three times the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers.


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Colin "Jim" Ledman
Colin James "Jim" Ledman passed away peacefully after a long battle with COPD, on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at the age of 71.
He was born January 26, 1942 to Mary (Sommars) and Darwin Ledman in Viroqua. He grew up in Viola and graduated from Viola High School Class of 1960. On July 15, 1961 he married Judy Appleman at the Salem Ridge Church, La Farge, WI. They spent most of their married life in Viola where they raised three children, Laura, Terrie and Jimmy.
He is survived by his wife, Judy; his three children: Laura (Jeff) Kerkman of Holmen and their family, Alex and Leah; Teresa Oliphant of Viola and her family, Ryan (Ashley) Oliphant, Cody (Jena) Oliphant and their children, Carter and Hayden, and Louis Ludwig; and Jimmy (Darcy) Ledman of Viroqua and their family, Marissa, Sawyer, Bryar, Kaysar and Aniyah. Three brothers: Larry (Barbara) Ledman of Richland Center, Ted (Jean) Ledman of West Salem, and Dick (Rhonda) Ledman of Viola; and a brother-in-law, Jerry Cade of Viroqua; and many nephews, nieces and friends that he kept in contact with via the internet.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his in-laws, Henry and Phyllis Appleman; two sisters: Patty, in infancy and Connie Cade; and a grandson, Benjamin Kerkman.
Jim was known for his "colorful" storytelling, sense of humor and boisterous laugh. He enjoyed sports, politics and computers. He and Connie are now in cahoots together again!
The family would like to thank the Kickapoo Rescue Squad, Vernon Memorial Hospice, Dr. Calkins and Dr. Fouts for all the compassion and care they gave to Jim and his family.
Memorial services will he held at 12:00 noon on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at the Viola United Methodist Church with burial in the Viola Cemetery. Friends may call at the church on Saturday from 11:00 a.m. until time of service at 12:00 noon.
In lieu of flowers and plants memorials may be made to Kickapoo Rescue Squad or Vernon Memorial Hospice.
The Vosseteig Funeral Home's Henthorn Memorial Center of Viola is serving the family.


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April 15, 1977
St. Louis, MO US
Arena (St. Louis)
The Song Remains The Same, (The Rover intro) Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In My Time of Dying, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, Battle of Evermore, Going to California, Black Country Woman, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, White Summer ~ Black Mountainside, Kashmir, (Out On the Tiles intro) Moby Dick, Jimmy Page solo, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven. (no encore)
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Press Review: St Louis: "we aren't going to mess around – we're just going to play," a serious Robert Plant promised the capacity house who'd gathered in the 20,000 seat arena to witness the phoenix-like return of Led Zeppelin to the stage from what Plant euphemized as their "physical interlude" – the forced hiatus that resulted from the critical injuries he suffered in an auto accident during the summer of 1975.
It was obvious from his comment, made two songs into the programme, that Zeppelin weren't interested in tea and sympathy, but rather in defending their supergroup status which, as they well knew, was sorely in need of it in St Louis after their sorry past performances in this city.
Indeed, while they had been, as usual, nearly an hour late in starting, the openers, The Song Remains the Same and a tough, angry version of Sick Again, had offered considerable proof that they meant to keep their lead singer's word. And as if to further confirm it, there already a broken string hanging down from Jimmy Page's tortured double-neck.
But it was not until they were successfully done with the metallic blues of their next song, Nobody's Fault But Mine, that Plant himself (whose stint on harmonica had been Fault's special treat) seemed fully satisfied they would live up to his commitment.
"It looks like it's going to be a good one, he righty, if cautiously surmised, and they quickly moved ahead to In My Time of Dying – It's challenging breaks, and Page's bottleneck leads and Plant's woeful wails all most impressively executed. But should there happen to have been any yet-remaining doubts in anyone's mind as to Zeppelin's fitness, the soul wrenching dealt by Since I've Been Loving You could not help but have dispelled them completely.
Plant's purgative, bleeding cries – so reminiscent of Janis Joplin – and the taunting, almost brutal exchange between his voice and the instruments brought the concert to its first of several climaxes. That there had been a deep-down change in this group was now impossible not to recognize; one could only presume the vicarious effects of Plant's ordeal had served to turn Led Zeppelin inside out. More than making statements, their music was asking questions, to such an extent that most of the songs sounded as if they were ended on the interrogative (as opposed to carelessly open ended).
There was absolutely nothing to deny their purposefulness – no smugness, no sloppiness, and no more holding back. Just an apparent all-out effort on the part of each man to make Led Zeppelin the best and most significant rock band in the world. (MM/ P. Dewing | April 1977)
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I was there and had no drink or smoke and remember it clearly. No encore and Jimmy acting quite drunk at first..I saw the broken strings and thought..oh no...... saw several StL LZ shows and that year after the bicentennial all the fireworks I HATED and felt bad for all the bands especially the GREATEST, LZ. I got two Alembic basses seeing JPJ had switched. I have a handwritten review in a box I will dig out and type up here.


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