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- Sorry 'bout the delay--I'm an aunt! <g> Elise Marie Boss was born
Thursday. She looks--well, remarkably like a newborn. Very cute.
Anyways, personal note aside, onward with the fic!
Title: Reaction Shot
Author: jenn (jenn@...)
Codes: Logan
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Logan reacts to the S/R hall thing. Set before "As the Mutant
Turns", and after "Rogue Laughter". Pick your place in the timeline. <G>
Go Andy.
Author Notes: I'm an aunt! So, dedicated to my new niece Elise, who shall
never, ever, ever read this if I can possibly prevent it.
Archiving: RRindex at Indulgence, Muse's Fool, WRFA, XMMFC
Disclaimer: Not mine. How depressing.
Feedback: With double caffeinated anything, gratefully accepted.
He got the bag packed in one shot, kicking the wet boots to a corner of the
room where with any luck they'd ruin the paint job on the wall.
Stupid, stupid.
Not the first time, not the last, more angry than he could remember ever
being, he stripped off his wet shirt and threw it to the polished hardwood
floor. Water stains be damned.
Stupid, stupid, *stupid*.
Talk about jumping and telling her things he'd never told *anyone*, never
even fucking *thought* about, and--and this. Crawling up Summers like she
wanted to climb under his skin, not just his pants.
Well, fuck it. Complex, complex, sticky, bad situation, go with the
instincts, go with his nature, and get the hell out before he got in too
deep and *really* fucked himself up. He didn't need this. Didn't need any
of this.
He wondered, through a haze of red that seemed just two steps from being
uncontrollable, what exactly he thought he'd be leaving in.
Whoa. Slow down. Hadn't thought 'bout that. Stripping his jeans, he let
practicality take over, soothing everything back into crystal clarity. He
needed to leave. Therefore, he needed something to leave *in*. He could
walk--except, of course, walking to Canada just seemed like less than
great, and all the money he had was there.
Fuck Sabretooth and God, did he miss his camper right now.
Slowly, he redressed in dry clothes from the closet, and almost choked when
he could smell Rogue soaked into the fabric. She'd brought these in here
herself--her duty, he supposed, feeling that burst of red heat that
threatened to simply shut down upper brain function. Hand out the clothes
to the new people. Don't hurt their pride by telling them the truth. Be
nice to the new guy, and don't tell him you'd sooner settle for the guy who
dumped you for the new hot redhead than ever even consider....
"Consider what?"
Damn good question. Consider what? Logan tossed his jacket on the bed,
locking his teeth together over the words that wanted to follow.
Shit. He was even talking to himself now.
And *why* was he so fucking angry? Pretty brunette--but that's all she
was. Just a pretty brunette. Attracted, sure he was. She was gorgeous,
she looked good in wet white shirts, and she had a hell of a temper. He
could find that in any bar in any city in any fucking place on the map,
just point and go, dollar a dozen, any one of them would work out just
And he could *touch* them.
Slamming his old boots onto the floor, he turned on the door and took a
long breath. It'd been a long damn time since he let his temper get
control of his reason--too long. He knew better than this. Animals acted
like this. Not people.
Taking another steadying breath, he turned back and paced to the edge of
the bed. He knew for absolute fact that walking out of this room right
this instant was a bad idea. He wasn't thinking clearly, one, and two,
he'd be walking right by Scott and Rogue's--*their* room, and that was a
level of masochism that he could honestly say he'd never aspired to. He
had a sensitive enough sense of smell, and he didn't want to risk losing
what remained of his logic.
There had to be an explanation for this. Taking another long breath, Logan
sat down on the edge of the bed and thought it through. He'd wanted to
leave for awhile. He stayed, maybe, to get a chance at the untouchable
girl, and because he had nothing better to do. Okay, fair enough. That
worked. She wasn't interested. So he'd leave. It didn't mean anything.
He was pissed because she wasn't what she seemed. He'd never thought of
her as the type to play one man off another, but she had, and she'd done it
expertly, and she had her reward. She got what she wanted. Well, fucking
good for her. Had to admire her skill.
And she didn't mean anything to him. So she was less than he thought she
was. She wasn't as honest, as clear--she'd fooled him. That's what pissed
him off. He'd been played and he hated that he'd misjudged her.
Well, okay, so that definitely made the anger logical. Definitely.
Having neatly categorized it in his mind, Logan figured it would be
relatively safe to get the hell out of here and forget this place ever
Picking up his boots, he walked back to the bed and slid them on, wishing
they fit as well--no, didn't matter. Didn't need Rogue-chosen boots.
Shit, he'd leave the clothes, except until he got back to Canada, he had
nothing in funds. Standing up, he looked around the quiet room, taking
another calming breath, before hooking the bag over his shoulder.
Tossing the bag back on the bed, Logan paced to the window. He didn't like
this--this utterly out of the blue behavior. This had to stop. If he
left, it sure as hell wouldn't be because of her. It was because it was
time to go, not because a little brunette bitch had screwed him over. No.
Not because of that. His pride just couldn't take that. She wasn't that
fucking important, damn it.
If he left right now, she'd sure as hell think it was because of her. And
that was something he couldn't stomach. Period and end. No one--no
woman--made him walk. That was the fucking line he drew right there. No
one had ever had that kind of power over him before and he'd be six feet
under and fucking *dismembered* before he'd let it happen now.
So there it was.
Logan looked at the bag.
Shit, that meant he had to unpack again.
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Korda Silences Sampras by Taking the FifthBy Jennifer Frey
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1 — This time, Pete Sampras was not nauseous or emotional or carrying some heavy personal burden. There was no virus that weakened his body, no trauma that tore at his heart. Today at the U.S. Open, Sampras was simply human. He was a human who made too many mistakes.
In a gritty, five-set match that included three rain delays and three tiebreakers, Sampras's supreme serve disappeared at the most crucial of times. His usually quick feet grew sluggish. His backhand fell in love with the net. It was a stunning performance for the world's top-ranked tennis player, who fell to No. 15 Petr Korda, 6-7 (7-4), 7-5, 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 7-6 (7-3), in what was only a fourth-round match.
It was so stunning, in fact, that the instant after Korda served up his final winner, he slapped both hands to his head and let his mouth hang agape. It wasn't until a full minute later, Korda finally remembered to execute his trademark scissors kick of celebration. He had to recover from the shock first.
"I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning and I'm going to be disappointed," said Sampras, who won two Grand Slam events this year and the past two U.S. Opens. "I definitely wanted this title. It's the biggest one we have here in the United States."
A five-set loser to Sampras at Wimbledon earlier this summer, Korda now advances to the quarterfinals, where he will face unseeded Jonas Bjorkman in what is now a wide-open bracket. The power left in this tournament now appears to rest in the other side of the draw, where No. 2 Michael Chang and the unpredictable Andre Agassi have quickly become title favorites.
"It would be pretty tough for [Korda] to win it," Sampras predicted after his demise. "I probably see Agassi or Chang winning it now."
There is no such confusion in the women's draw, where four of the top seeds — No. 1 Martina Hingis, No. 3 Jana Novotna, No. 6 Lindsay Davenport and No. 10 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario — advanced with straight-set victories in fourth-round matches this afternoon. Hingis beat Florencia Labat, 6-0, 6-2, and has yet to drop a set at this tournament.
Like Hingis, Sampras strolled through the first week of this tournament, his performance at a peak level that made most think there was little chance he wouldn't claim his fifth Open title. At almost every Grand Slam, though, Sampras seems to have one match that turns into an epic — one match when he teeters on the brink of disaster, but rarely topples off.
"I've been in this situation a lot," Sampras said today, almost sighing, "and the majority of the time I've come through. But I'm not going to come through all the time."
There was sense that he would come through when the fifth-set tiebreaker started early this evening at Arthur Ashe Stadium. It seemed impossible that Sampras would not prevail this time, just as he had last year at the Open, when Alex Corretja took him through five draining sets and Sampras left his guts on the court — literally. Instead, the tiebreaker was most certainly a letdown: Sampras was quickly down 3-0 on three consecutive backhand errors, and he never got closer than 5-2. He double-faulted, of all things, to set up match point for Korda, who finished it off with a service winner.
"It was a long day with the rain and everything," said Sampras, who had 66 unforced errors, 19 in the fifth set. "When we were 5-all in the fifth I'm sure we were both feeling it, but I felt strong. I felt fine today."
The match was a roller-coaster, with Sampras's game varying widely from set to set and game to game. In the first set, he saved himself with four straight brilliant serves when Korda had triple set point, then saved himself again in the tiebreaker, when he trailed 2-4 before reeling off five straight points.
He destroyed himself with two double faults in the crucial 11th game of the second set, when Korda broke him to take a 6-5 lead, then served out the set. And in the third set, Sampras lost his backhand, and Korda took him apart in the tiebreaker — Sampras's only two points came on aces. "I just didn't put the clamps on him when I had him," Sampras said.
In the fourth set, the rains came in earnest, forcing a third, extensive break. Leading 1-0 but looking rather exhausted, Sampras packed his bags and headed for the players' locker room for a much-needed break.
He returned looking like a different player and pounded his way to a 6-3 fourth-set victory. Korda — a tall, bird-like man prone to showing emotion — seemed ruffled. And the next set started out no better for the Czech. Sampras's first serve of the first game was an ace. He held, and broke Korda in the next game with a backhand so spectacular that the normally sedate Sampras celebrated a la Jimmy Connors. And he started the next game with an ace as well. Ahead 3-0 early, Sampras looked ready to finish the nonsense. But Korda was not ready to let him do that.
Seizing on the backhand that had been his best weapon all day — the left-handed Korda paints the lines like a master — and suddenly serving up aces like he was, well, Sampras, Korda stormed back to win three straight games and tie the fifth set at 3-3.
"When he gets hot, there's nothing you can do," Sampras said. "He just raised his level from 3-1 in the fifth to the tiebreaker."
Both players held serve until the match advanced to the tiebreaker and then even Sampras was thinking about his marathon against Corretja last year. He won then when he was sick and nauseous and reeling over the recent death of his coach, Tim Gullikson. This time, though, he just couldn't survive.
"It reminded me of my match with Corretja," Sampras admitted. "I came from basically out of the match and ended up winning it and winning the tournament." Then he shrugged.
"Maybe what comes around, goes around," he said.


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Ok, I dated my boyfriend for 2 years, and about half a year into our relationship, his father was diagnosed with cancer. Things were a little rough at first, but we managed to get through it. About a month before our 2 year, I left for a trip for 5 weeks. When I came back, things felt different between us. I could tell he wasn't talking to me, but I noticed over the years he'd become a lot more snappy. On our 2 year anniversary, we broke up, because he told me he didn't have time for a relationship and any drama. The funny part was all the drama came from his bad mood. He was always cranky because of work, school and his family. He's mostly stressed because in school, he's taking a program that is eventually being cut, so he has a limited time to get it done, but he also has to constantly take care of his family. Anyways, I was completely devastated when we broke up, and I knew he was too. A day later he texted me telling me he was sorry, and to be safe. A week later, he begged me to talk to him because he missed me and said he needed me. I loved him so much, that of course I wanted to be there for him. We met up and decided we still loved each other, and we'd have a kind of friends with benefits relationship until he could be with me properly. So over the last few months he's been on and off with me. One week he texts me every day, telling me how much he loves me etc. he even said that he was here for me, and vice versa, and I was touched because at the time my father was in the hospital. The next week, he doesn't text me at all, and when he does, it feels cold and from an acquaintance. We only see each other once maybe every few weeks if we're lucky, that's why we were trying to text. So this whole week has been crazy... My friend was convinced I was in love with her boyfriend because he hugged me while I was sick (a horrible, long, other story), and messages my boyfriend telling him I was cheating on him. He didn't believe her of course, and trusted me and we continued But last week, he came to a Halloween party with me for all my friends, and I could tell something was bothering him. I tried all night making him laugh, but he wasn't in the mood. I was driving him home, and he just told me how stressed he was with school and dad, and I told him I was worried. Well I get home and he's left a text saying I shouldn't worry about him, that he'll get better, but this is why he couldn't commit. We argued over what the definition of a relationship was. He thinks it isn't one because he has no money or time for me, and I told him it didn't matter because we loved each other, and that's what made it a relationship. Basically we argued and he said a bunch of hurtful comments... And then told me he was bailing on Saturday because he wanted to be alone. I hate how one minute he tells me things, then the next, he doesn't. What do I do? He says hurtful things every time he's upset. Basically I'm hurt and we haven't spoken on almost a week. What do I do?
My ex bf's dad is dying, still loves me, but can't commit
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Information Technology or IT Resource Management has its own challenges and problems. With a lot of companies focusing on optimizing resources the resource management function has become a core activity. In this article I have listed a few practices than can help a resource manager manage the resources effectively.
|IT Resource Management
#1 : Maintain a resource plan
- Always maintain a resource plan.
- It does not mater which resource management tool you use it is important that a resource manager always has access to latest resource allocations.
- You may use a Simple Resource Plan, Resource Matrix or Advanced Resource Plan.
- The resource plan is like a contract between everyone so the plan should be up to date.
- Use a resource plan which supports multiple projects. You may also consider using Capacity Planner.
#2 : Have dedicated resource manager
- This is very effective if you have a large team of resources or software developers.
- The resource manager will be responsible for updating the resourcing plans and will be the single point of contact for resource allocations.
- The resource manager should track only the resource loading. How the resources utilized in a project is a project manager's responsibility.
#3: Regularly update. review and publish resource plans
- It is important to update the resource plan regularly.
- I will recommend that you update the plan at least once a week.
- Review the plan with team managers and project managers at least once in two weeks.
- Publish the resource plan to everyone including the team on regular basis.
#4 : Leave enough room for other day to day activities
- Anyone working in a software or IT company has to spend time on other tasks like meetings, performance reviews, training and other such day to day routine tasks.
- It is important that a resource manager leaves room for such activities and so does the project manager.
- This can be achieved by reducing the resource availability for everyone by certain %.
- The % of time spent on such tasks will very from organisation to organisation.
- By looking at the time sheet data for resources you will be able to get an approximate idea about the time resources spend on other activities.
#5: Maintain a resource leave and public holiday register
- It is vital for a resource manager to know who is on leave and for how much time.
- Without knowing the leave plan allocating resources is very dangerous as the project managers will assume the resources are available and plan the project.
#6 : Enforce additional leave approval policies
- Implement policies outside normal HR Policies.
- For example 1 day leave needs to approved one week in advance, one week should be notified one month in advance and anything more than that a quarter in advance.
- This will allow the resource manager to plan accordingly.
- Always insist on a backup being identified for the resource going on leave.
#7 : Automate and track resource time sheets
- It is important to know here your resources are spending time.
- There are quite a few systems which allow you track time. One of them is JIRA.
- Having the ability to track time allows a resource manager to compare actual vs planned.
#8 : Demand to see project plans and track project progress
- After a resource manager assigns resources to a project it is the project managers responsibility to make sure the software resources are utilized.
- But it is important that a resource manger knows when the project will start and complete so that he can plan next assignments for the resources.
- Also, knowing the project plan helps in understanding how much work load each resource has.
- The resource manager may also be able to identify opportunities where resources can be shared across projects.
- Check how your project managers can plan project resources effectively.
# 9 : Actively track resource cost
- Depending on the resource pool different resources will have different costs.
- It is up to the resource manager to actively track resource costs and inform the project managers of any cost changes to the resources.
- Also, track that the resource are billable on the right project. It is very easy for a resource to get distracted on non-billable tasks.
- You may consider using Excel Budget Template for resource cost tracking.
#10 : Automate resource requests
- It is helpful in tracking and maintaining audit log when resources are requested.
- It also allows the resource manager to ask for any additional information required as most of the system allow customization.
- It is easier to enforce standards when requests are automated.
#11 : Have a resource approval hierarchy
- Always have a approval hierarchy to make sure that you are making the right decisions.
- In some organisations the resources are jointly owned and having approval hierarchy gives an opportunity to validate the resource requests.
- Senior managers in the approval hierarchy can also validate the alignment of the resource requests with the organisations priorities.
#12 : Plan forward for long term and be conscious of upcoming projects
- Always try to plan forward and keep your resource plans updated for at least one quarter in advance.
- Also, keep a track of the new upcoming projects to find out what kind of resources will be needed.
- In the software development world is always possible to predict the projects.
- Also, a good pratice is to keep fixed number of resources as buffer.
#13 : Keep buffer for on-boarding and training
- When a new resource is on-boarded it takes a while for the resource to start getting productive.
- Make sure that the project manager leaves buffer for the boarding and training activity in the project plan,
- Some buffer is needed to be maintained when a new resource from a different project joins.
- Most of the software or IT Projects get delayed or change plans. So having this buffer is always a good idea.


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Broughton-in-Furness: Log store, at 12 Broughton Tower, for R. Parsons; (two applications received: full planning/listed building) installation of water tank and replacement package treatment plant/to convert existing drying room 2 to toilet, shower and washroom. To install wc and wash hand basin in bedroom 1. To refurbish kitchen, at Mountain Hut, Seathwaite, for Derrick Richmond, University of Leeds; reduce height of garden wall to 2.3m, at Sunny Brae, The Square, for S. Cockcroft.
Cockermouth: New proposed three bedroom family dwelling (Resubmission of 7/2013/2240), at land at The Larches, Wythop Mill, Embleton, for Jeff McMaster; confirmation of compliance with condition no.18 of planning approval 7/2011/2071 relating to approval of painting colour, at Low Barkhouse, Setmurthy, for P. Currie, The Lakes Distillery.
Grange-over-Sands: Construction of small conservatory, at 1 Sunnyside Cottages, Meathop, for J. Redman.
Kendal: Steel frame manure store building, at Nook Farm, Underbarrow, for Mr and Mrs T.W. and C.S. Shepherd.
Keswick: (two applications received: advertisement/full planning) Projecting sign and internally illuminated ATM fascia/installation of ATM to shop front, at Derwent Service Station, Penrith Road, for J. Handcock, Task Project Management Ltd; proposed connecting stair between the lower and upper ground floor level of the existing Sixth Form Block at Keswick School, at Keswick School, Vicarage Hill, for Mrs Dawn Boyes, on behalf of the Governors of Keswick School; (two applications received: listed building/full planning) internal alterations to facilitate change of use to restaurant/cafe/proposed change of use of ground floor and first floor area - A1 (retail) to A3 (restaurant/cafe), at Up and Running, 91 Main Street, for Simon Ruggles; replacement windows, doors and garage door on front elevation, at Shorley Mews, Shorley Lane, for Paul Cheshire.
Penrith: (two applications received: listed building/full planning) Construction of two storey extension to the rear of the house, plus replacement of rotten timber windows to the front elevation with windows to match, at The Hollies, Askham, for R. Green; construction of detached garage and wood store, at Mellguards Cottage, Howtown, for Mr and Mrs B. Bew; detached building comprising of car port and secure storage, at Mellfell Barn, Thackthwaite, for R. Kellet.
Seascale: Extensions to bungalow, at The Beeches, Gosforth, for Lowery Venus Properties Ltd.


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Offset Software was a video game development company based in Newport Beach, California. It was founded by Sam McGrath, Travis Stringer, Trevor Stringer and Rod Green; except for Green, they had worked for S2 Games developing Savage: The Battle for Newerth,[1] which won the grand prize at the Independent Games Festival in 2004.[2]
The company had one game under development, a first-person "shooter" with the working title "Project Offset". (Some official preview videos have shown third-person views for close-quarters combat.) The game featured a detailed high fantasy world. It was showcased on Attack of the Show! in 2005.[3]
In February 2008, Intel acquired Offset Software,[4] having purchased the Havok engine in 2007.[5]
Intel canceled the game in mid 2010, citing "recent changes in our product roadmap" (possibly meaning the failure of Larrabee as a consumer product).[6] The founders of Offset Software have moved to a new game development studio named Fractiv LLC.[7]
- ↑ Peplinski, Jon (September 3, 2005). "Project Offset Article". SFFWorld.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/5mCs7yZpW. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
- ↑ The 12th Annual Independent Games Festival - 2004 Finalists & Winners. Independent Games Festival. Archived from the original on December 22, 2009 Retrieved on December 22, 2009
- ↑ Project Offset, The Lush, Chris Gore. Attack of the Show! (October 25, 2005). Archived from the original on December 22, 2009 Retrieved on December 22, 2009
- ↑ "Intel Acquires Offset Software, Project Offset Engine". Gamasutra. February 25, 2008. Archived from the original on December 22, 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/5mCrF9Uss. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
- ↑ Hruska, Joel (February 25, 2008). "Why Intel bought Project Offset and the Offset Engine". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on December 22, 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/5mCrNElKd. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
- ↑ Callaham, John (July 1, 2010). "Project Offset officially shut down at Intel; founders launch Fractiv LLC". Big Download. http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/07/01/project-offset-officially-shut-down-at-intel-founders-launches/.
- ↑ www.fractiv.com


text: Just on the heels of the news that the shooting of Barfee has been postponed following the spat between Ileana DCruz and Priyanka Chopra, with the former asking director Anurag Basu for more footage, news has it that Priyanka is not in the next schedule of the film. It is not sure when she will join the unit of the film.The unit of Barfee, including Ranbir Kapoor and Ileana DCruz will resume the shooting of the film next week without Priyanka. Sources said that it is not sure when she would join the unit, as she is currently busy with Kunal Kohlis film. She will attend the IIFA awards and then return to the sets of Kohlis film. The source also said that she wants the issues on her role be sorted out first before resuming the shooting.However, producer Siddharth Roy Kapoor said that the unit of Barfee will shoot in Darjeeling for a couple of weeks starting tomorrow (June 15). He added that Priyanka would join them for the Kolkata schedule in July.


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Residential Conveyancing Solicitor
- Recruiter
- Michael Page Legal
- Location
- England, West Midlands, Birmingham
- Salary
- £35000 per annum
- Posted
- 07 Oct 2016
- Closes
- 28 Oct 2016
- Ref
- 13717515/001
- Contact
- Conor Farrell
- Job Title
- Solicitor
- Practice Area
- Residential Property / Conveyancing
- PQE Level
- 2-4
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
A small but progressive law firm based outside of Birmingham city centre are growing their property team and are looking to bring a Residential Conveyancing Solicitor on board.
Client Details
A West Midlands private practice.
The successful Residential Conveyancing Solicitor / Licenced Conveyancer will join a private practice based outside of Birmingham city centre and will join a busy and established property team.
You will be working alongside an experienced conveyancer and will have support from 4 support staff who will assist with anything from general secretarial work through to client inception and compliance.
The firm has a case management system and a consistent workload which is generated from word of mouth and relationships with intermediaries. The firm does not pay for referrals and is not volume in nature.
This is a great opportunity if you are looking to move to an established local firm with an excellent working environment and culture. As the team is small, you will have opportunities for progression and development.
The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years' experience and will be competent at running a residential property case through from start to finish. You will either be a solicitor, licenced conveyancer or legal executive.
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Salary is negotiable depending on experience.


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Japan, Iran and Russia connection
Seeing the headline in today's New York Post that Japan is relinquishing to the USA more than 700 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium and a large quantity of highly enriched uranium, a decades-old research stockpile that is large enough to build dozens of nuclear weapons I believe is an example of what O is pushing for in backroom talks with Israel. I have wrote before that I think he is deceptively and discreetly in additional backroom conversations with Iran about the nuclear program, slowly getting the pieces in place to come at Netanyahu and Israel about the unverified nuclear program they have.
Note that the nuclear talks with Iran have only let up pressure on the Iranians in return for what has in essence their appearing to be nice.
And while mentioning Iran I figure I should "put out there" the whole Russia/Ukrainian/Crimea drama. Why put it like that? Because I think it is all linked and throw in also Syria. The thought occurred to me yesterday "what if Crimea and yet to unfold events in Ukraine is merely "payment" to Putin for his actions in: 1) changing the story line is Syria so O could save some face 2) future leveraging of Russia's unique position and relationship with Iran as the nuclear drama unfolds?" What if the so-called "powers that be" treated Crimea and quite possibly Ukraine as a pawn and sacrificed it for what they consider "the greater good"?
But back to Iran and Israel – I believe Kerry and O's beating of the peace war drums in reference to the Palestinians and Israel peace talks is the equivalent of pounding a piece of meat to tenderize it for cooking. All the actions will lead to the Iranian and/or USA demand for Israel to relinquish their nuclear weapons. Why? To aid the Muslim world as well as any other anti-Semitic peoples in their quest to rid the world of the nation of Israel and the Jews. If you are someone who has studied Bible prophecy you know that this will happen again and it will be far more effective than when Hitler tried it. It will happen.
Lie now, deal with it later
"Health industry officials say ObamaCare-related premiums will double in some parts of the country, countering claims recently made by the administration.
The expected rate hikes will be announced in the coming months amid an intense election year, when control of the Senate is up for grabs. The sticker shock would likely bolster the GOP's prospects in November and hamper ObamaCare insurance enrollment efforts in 2015.
The industry complaints come less than a week after Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to downplay concerns about rising premiums in the healthcare sector. She told lawmakers rates would increase in 2015 but grow more slowly than in the past.
"The increases are far less significant than what they were prior to the Affordable Care Act," the secretary said in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee.
Her comment baffled insurance officials, who said it runs counter to the industry's consensus about next year.
"It's pretty shortsighted because I think everybody knows that the way the exchange has rolled out … is going to lead to higher costs," said one senior insurance executive who requested anonymity.
From the Daily Caller
Health insurance premiums have risen more after Obamacare than the average premium increases over the eight years before it became law, according to the private health exchange eHealthInsurance.
The individual market for health insurance as seen premiums rise by 39 percent since February 2013, eHealth reports. Without a subsidy, the average individual premium is now $274 a month. Families have been hit even harder with an average increase of 56 percent over the same period — average premiums are now $663 per family, over $426 last year.
Between 2005 and 2013, average premiums for individual plans increased 37 percent and average family premiums were upped 31 percent. So they have risen faster under Obamacare than in the previous eight years.
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Lie now and deal with it later is the SOP for the Obama administration when it comes to the so-called Affordable Care Act which the name itself is guilty of the rule. Lie now, it has been the go to for many of his poor policies and actions. Lie now because he wants something done and despite what he believes about himself, he doesn't know everything or even half so. Policies and actions of this president are not based off of or from strong and sound foundations. But he doesn't want to be bothered with such details because he believes he is right so – say and do whatever needs to be done to get done what I want. That is the summation of this president. He wants the pomp but not the circumstance. He must be worshipped but don't hold him accountable. He is a monstrosity born from the superficial narcissistic bent of our society. God, in His infinite wisdom, gave us – the citizens of the USA – a president we deserved. Heaven help us. Now Almighty God let us have an American Spring so the ship of our country can be righted and healed.
Great article by Noonan about the drama and swirl around Putin and the Ukraine
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The ineptitude of Obama paved the way for Putin to act in the Ukraine.
This will be interesting to watch as it unfolds.
Eatinger identified as CIA top lawyer central to Feinstein's statement
The top CIA lawyer mentioned and central to the comments Feinstein made about the ongoing unethical and illegal actions of the CIA is Robert Eatinger.
The Guardian has an article following the comments and what has transpired since.
From the Guardian article:
"Eatinger, a longtime agency lawyer with counter-terrorism experience, was cited on Monday by the panel's chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein of California, in her seminal speech lashing out at the CIA. Without naming him, Feinstein indicated he was instrumental in the agency's now-abandoned torture practices, and had been cited over 1,600 times in the classified Senate torture investigation.
Feinstein said Eatinger, whom senators have taken care not to name, had alerted the Justice Department to her staff's removal of a CIA document from a classified facility – which both Feinstein and Udall cite as a conflict of interest.
Ahead of Krass's arrival at the CIA, Udall called on Eatinger to immediately recuse himself from any internal matters related to either the torture inquiry or the Senate panel generally. "We need to correct the record on the CIA's coercive detention and interrogation program and declassify the Senate intelligence committee's exhaustive study of it. I released my hold on Caroline Krass's nomination today and voted for her to help change the direction of the agency," Udall said in a statement on Thursday.
In a statement, CIA director John Brennan said was "extremely pleased" that the Senate had confirmed Krass, and praised Eatinger as "an exemplary public servant who has demonstrated throughout his career exceptional competence and integrity"."
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Considering what has come to light publicly I wonder just how long Brennan will remain as the CIA Director. I suggest within the next year he will make a statement he wants to now spend more time with family and friends and pursue some new interests. Which is all good because he is corrupt as well.
36.8% – the real unemployment number of 2013
The real unemployment number for 2013: 36.8%
Ukraine: word of warning – focus on allies in Europe not the USA
Ukraine's interim prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk needs to speak with eastern European countries such as Poland about the willingness and integrity of Obama and his administration. Ukraine needs to use EU allies such as Merkel to broker a draw down of escalation and the actual removal of troops from Crimea. Putin is a chess player and I am certain that his posturing with Crimea is to get the Ukrainian government to keep the ties with Russia and be part of the bloc as the previous Russian crony had decided. Yatsenyuk needs to be cautious with his words and urgent admonition that Ukraine is looking westward and that is where it will go. He needs to focus on the matter about his country and Russia and put that matter to the side. It may be quite possible once he talks with Putin to identify a third option that will allow both sides to get what they want.
But still — bottom-line —- For the sake of the Ukrainians, Yatsenyuk do not rely on Obama.
GM and the lack of CSR in the ignition issue on the Saturn ION
My wife and I can report from first hand experience the danger this issue caused.
We own a 2007 Saturn ION3. I was the primary driver of the car the first couple years then she took it over when we purchased a Highlander. In the first couple years I experienced three times when the ignition decided to turn itself off while I was driving. Two on a winding road in our subdivision and once on the highway. The first two times I figured I somehow bumped the key but the third time while driving on the highway I was certain I hadn't and lets just say for a minute their things were REALLY freaking interesting. I took the car to the Saturn dealer and they looked at it and said nothing was wrong with it and that they were unable to duplicate the error. They suggested I check the weight of my keys which was not the issue for it contained the fob, ignition key and one house key. When wifey became the primary driver of the car she was aware of the matter and had changed her key ring to only have the fob and the ignition key. Guess what happened? Driving down a busy road the ignition turned off. We took the car back to the dealer and requested they change out the ignition tumbler and they said they did. Since we had the tumbler replaced we have not had an issue with ignition. Do you consider that coincidence? (please refer to Gibbs' Rule #39 – There is no such thing as a coincidence)
If memory serves me correctly the CEO in 2001 was Wagoner. Seems like someone needs to talk to him and review files pertaining to him.


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Cooking for wine #1: Loire cab franc
Following on from my previous post about matching rioja with Roman pot lamb (here), and inspired by a recent food matching faux-pas, I've been thinking about what dish would best complement a classic Loire cabernet franc. A good cabernet franc, such our Domaine des Roches Neuves' 2010 Saumur-Champigny, is a smoky, savoury, sumptuous delight. Balancing bright berry fruit and floral nuances with a green pepper sapidity, a well-made cabernet franc like this makes a very food friendly wine. From experience though, I can tell you that it doesn't go at all with roasted pork and apple sauce, which not only conflicts over the acidity of apples, but also jar withs the fatty sweetness of the meat. What was I thinking? Oh well, we live and learn. My ideal cab franc match would need to be meaty, but with a good capsicum/green pepper element to harmonise with the wine's savouriness. A fiery chilli-con-carne came to mind, but then the chilli/tannin spectre raised its head, and a decent cab franc should have fairly firm tannins, so I shelved that idea and instead opted for a classic Hungarian pörkölt, a slow-cooked, meaty, paprika-rich stew scented with caraway and pepper. At least that's my version of a pörkölt, I don't want to get into a fight with any Hungarian purists out there. Pörkölt, like borscht, seems to be one of those European dishes that doesn't have a definitive recipe, but which people will get quite irate about (usually because your version isn't the same as the version their mum makes). Now, I might not be a native, but I have been to Hungary plenty of times, had/made many a pörkölt and read a few Gundel books, so I've got a fair idea about my Hungarian food. So here's my recipe for lamb pörkölt: Dry-fry a tblsp of caraway seeds until fragrant, set aside, then fry off a couple of medium-sliced onions until soft and yellow. Add quarter of a lamb shoulder, cut into decent sized chunks. Brown the meat, turn off the heat and stir in two good tablespoons of paprika (ideally Hungarian and ideally really good quality – like my mother-in-law makes). Back on the heat, season with salt, pepper and the ground caraway seeds, then stir in enough water to make a consistency like blood. Cover and cook very gently for an hour and a half, stirring occasionally to make sure nothing's sticking and the consistency is still good. You don't want it too dry, or too wet. Once the lamb is starting to 'collapse', add two/three sliced white (ideally) or green peppers and one large chopped fresh tomato. Leave the lid off and cook for another 30 mins until everything's cooked, keeping an eye on the consistency. Check seasoning, add some chopped marjoram/oregano/parsley and serve with boiled or baked potatoes and whatever greens you have. Get happy. My hunch proved a pretty good one. The pörkölt – all sweet fatty lamb, savoury green pepperiness and fragrant, earthy, every-so-slightly-spicy depths – married really well with the bright berry fruit flavours, smoky floral nuances and grippy 'green' acidity of the Saumur-Champigny. A good wine match is when both the food and the wine are elevated and, if you like, 'completed' by the other, and I think we had that going on here. A very satisfying meal. So, if you don't know the Cabernet Franc grape, or if you've had a bad experience with it (roast pork, perhaps?) I'd urge you to give it another shot and, ideally, get it going with some good home-cooked Hungarian food. Trust me, you'll be in hog's heaven. With so many wines leaning towards a sweet, easy-going, food-not-required style these days, it's lovely to experiment with those that still come into their own with food. The Loire valley is the key place to look for the best cab francs, but keep an eye on ABVs, you find some upwards of 14% these days which are fruit bombs. At around 12.5%, you tend to get a far more 'classic' character.


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Forza Motorsport 3
Review by Rage028
"Forza 3 the best on the market?"
Forza Motorsport 3, No Game Competes with it right now.
Forza 3 according to Dan Greenwalt is the best there is, the ultimate driving simulator and it has no competition on the market. I'm going to review it and dissect the game for people that might still be deciding on whether or not to buy it. So keeping that in mind, we should expect something amazing and ground-breaking in Forza, especially while we wait for Gran Turismo 5.
Car List: 8/10
The game has 400 cars, most of them are cars you'd actually want to drive. This is a good thing. However some cars that you would want are missing. Why is there no stock version of the '08 Dodge Viper SRT-10? There's the ACR version. Why isn't there a Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) V-Spec II Nur? Why in particular must we have the '93 and not the '94 version of the R32 GT-R? Some of the latest cars available are here, 2010 Nissan 370Z, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS, but why not the 2010 Ford Mustang GT? I'm sure there's an explanation for these. Forza's car collection is good, it's smaller than Gran Turismo 4s and Gran Turismo PSP, but most people don't need 20 MX-5s, 30 Skylines and 20 Lancer Evos. However, it is important to have the best of each, so the best MX-5, the best Skyline and the best Evo.
However! If you don't buy the Limited Edition of the Game you're seriously short-changing yourself. In Australia its $20 difference for the Limited Edition. Never mind the extra things you get with the game, you actually miss out on some cars in the game if you don't buy the Limited Edition. The VIP car pack has in it the '08 Aston Martin DBS, '09 Corvette ZR1, '07 Ferrari F430 Scuderia, '07 Lamborghini Gallardo (pronounced Gayardo) Superleggera, and the '07 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. These are cars you will actually want to drive!
Presentation: Graphics and Sound 5/10
The first thing you see when you load the game up is Turn10's logo, then the Microsoft Game Studios, and then Forza Motorsport 3's start video. Now the game's native resolution is 720p, which is 1280x720 for anyone that isn't aware. The video immediately showcases Audi's R8 5.2 FSI. The camera spins around the car and then the car feeds onto a race track, then the cheesy music starts. We get to see some LMP type cars race each other at LeMans in France, some V8 supercars and drifting. The Drifting has been done completely incorrectly, the Nissan S15 drifts with its tail right at the guardrail on a mountain pass. The correct method for drifting has the nose of the car at the inner edge of the corner so the car goes right around the apex to have the fastest racing line. Clearly Forza is focusing on dramatic effect rather than demonstrating proper driving technique or proper racing.
All the menus function quite well, your current vehicle is panned around and shown off and the menu hides itself if you don't touch your controller. The car itself looks quite impressive in this mode. Even the tyres on the car look good. However the car causes the background and surrounding area to look cheap and tacky. It seems that Turn 10 have simply applied textures to the road surface, the brick wall on the mountain pass and the scenery. Even the guard rails look flat. The lighting is imperfect and for a game that is apparently the best on the market it seems like a half-done job. So much more effort could have been put into the visual representation of the car and its surroundings. You only need to look at Gran Turismo 5 : Prologue's handling of this similar situation with the car in the background. However keep in mind that Gran Turismo 5's native resolution is 1080p, which is 1920 x 1080.
When you go to "Buy" a car the level of detail in the car seems to drop dramatically. The cars do look good, don't get me wrong, but in the sense that you're not looking at a true physical car anymore. There are graphical flaws, for example the paint stripe has strange edges and isn't straight. One would expect a certain level of perfection especially in this component of the game when the only thing the Xbox360 has to render is the car itself. The lighting is also quite peculiar, it doesn't fall the right way on the cars. I'm also quite certain the exhaust pipe on the '08 Dodge Viper SRT-10 is larger than is graphically presented here, as I've seen it in real life. The cars in this mode look more like plastic models that you put together yourself before they've been painted in most cases.
Time to race! I'll talk about the realism later; here I will focus mainly on how it feels to be in a race. When you first load into the menu for the race, allowing you to set up your car and your assists etc, you can hear the audience at the race track. The camera travels around the course and you can see various corners. Immediately you can see the lack of visual quality at 720p. So you start your race and you get to see the nose of your car roll up to the grid and then the engine revs and you get to see your car vibrate. The trees look cheap, like there's a trunk and then the leaves are just bits of paper attached to it, with a drawing of leaves on it. The grass looks even worse. There's just no racing atmosphere, it's simply you and the road. Never mind your 7 opponents, they don't contribute to the atmosphere either, there's no intensity like Racedriver GRID had. The only time you feel like you're racing is when you look at the stop watch and have opponents around you, or you remind yourself you're playing a racing 'simulator'.
You get 4 different viewpoints when racing. Bumper, In car, 3rd person, extended 3rd person. Personally I prefer in-car view if I can get it, otherwise bumper cam. Both in-car and bumper cam have serious flaws. Bumper cam, seems to be too far forward of the nose of the car OR the car isn't a physical object until you hit something. Particularly in split screen mode, I noticed that when you get right on the tail of an opponent, your camera goes through your opponent before you have even collided. In car view on the other hand, it's almost as your driver has a neck like a giraffe and the view point is situated almost directly above the steering wheel. In real life you are taught to sit yourself properly in a car so that you can look at your side-view mirror and rear-view mirror. Well, in Forza you can't unless you play with some advanced settings (but this warps the view of everything). By default, your mirrors are useless. When you use the right thumbstick to look around the car, if you go past the front 160 degrees or so, if you look to your left, right or behind the car isn't rendered, you're not actually in a car, you're given a complete unobstructed view of everything around you. You don't look out your windows and you can't see the back seats if the car has them. Turn 10 needs to look at what Polyphony has done in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue for an example.
Sounds? Well, when it comes to the car and it's engine, nothing short of amazing. The music? It's not bad; half the songs I swear were used in Midnight Club: Los Angeles. That's not a bad thing necessarily. The in game while racing experience when it comes to sound is pretty involving it's a shame the graphics let it down. The music when you're in the menus is pretty entertaining; I haven't gotten bored of it yet.
Overall? Forza can be pretty, but it's not always pretty. In most cases it just does the job, it achieves the bare minimum of what it needs to achieve. I guess the best way to sum it up is the word "cute". It does run at a solid 60 FPS which is easy on the eye though, this is a great thing but nothing new. It's definitely not eye-candy except at the Main Menu screen. When it comes down to presentation, it is nowhere near the best on the market. It looks better than GRID, worse than Gran Turismo.
Gameplay & Simulation 6/10
The events list is quite varied and will keep anyone entertained for hours. If you can stomach a bit of a grind and the way the cars drive, the game has hours upon hours of racing. It has racing between the different classes of cars in the game, different drive trains and car types, e.g.: 3-door, 2 door coupes, hatchbacks etc. The game has the excellent feature where you can view a list of opponents before entering the event itself. Thumbs up to Turn 10 for this feature. It's something missing from Gran Turismo currently. The game also lets you know if cars you currently own are eligible for events OR if you don't have any OR if your current car (the one you're in) can enter. Fortunately the game has a search feature for the cars and allows you to search amongst the classes, drive trains FWD, RWD or AWD. However the search feature is a bit lacking, it'd be nice if you could search via the criterion of some of the events. Just now I'm having to go through the whole list of affordable cars (which is a lot when you've got $300,000) for a 5-door car. There's some events which require a 4 cylinder, 6 cylinder, 8 cylinder etc car. Unfortunately... when you look at the cars it doesn't say. You can only see the displacement of the car. This is useless. However you can press X a few times to see a list of all the cars which you can buy and then sort them via pretty much everything under the sun. It's just not pretty and the list doesn't go full-screen.
For a simulation game it has a incredibly inappropriate treatment (almost infantile) of cars. Sure it has an excellent car list and they're modelled fairly well. What Forza does wrong is this, when you go to select a car or buy a car you're presented with bars that rate the car. You get speed, handling, acceleration, launch and braking, these grey bars are apparently representative of the vehicle at hand. So my Ford Fiesta had 4.0 speed, 4.9 handling, 3.5 acceleration, 4.5 launch and 4.8 braking. What does it mean? Who knows!? 4.0 speed, does that mean a top speed of 100mph? or 120mph? or 240kph? 3.5 acceleration? is that a 0-60mph relative comparison? or 0-100? or a 1/4 mile time? On the other hand my Nissan 370Z has 6.6 speed, 5.6 handling, 5.5 acceleration, 6.4 launch and 5.3 braking. Only arcade games treat cars in such a manner, such as GRID and the Need for Speed series. Gran Turismo presents the player with the car's dimensions, Length, Width, Height, Power, Torque, Displacement, Engine type, Drive Train, and numerous other information in a table. Forza does give you the power, torque, weight, weight balance and displacement but where's all the other information? Certainly for the team that modelled all the cars at Turn 10 it wouldn't have been too difficult to provide all the other information about the car? You can also "benchmark" your car and Forza does a calculation of the car's acceleration 0-60mph, 0-100mph, top speed, braking distance from 60mph-0, 100mph-0 and lateral gs. Which is nice, except that the numbers are wrong. Using the 370Z as an example again, it should stop at 100-105ft from 60mph as demonstrated by various car magazines and reviews but Forza says it'll stop in 130ft. That's a big difference.
So far I'm at driver level 38 and I've accumulated a fair selection of performance cars including the Ford GT, driving it is amazingly easy. I am playing Forza at the maximum simulation settings with all assists off to give me the most authentic driving experience. What I can say generally is that the game is incredibly forgiving, because cars don't behave the way they should (as they would in real life) you can brake later than you should and you aren't severely penalised. In a powerful rear wheel drive car in real life if you inadvertently let one wheel slip onto the grass, sand or dirt on the side of the track you'll spin out. The sudden loss of traction to one of your primary drive wheels upsets the car and you're gone. Not so in Forza. I've found the dirt / grass / sand to be incredibly forgiving, almost a safety net at times when you've gone in too fast into a corner. The cars just have no feel to them at all. All FWD cars feel the same, all RWD cars feel the same and all AWD cars feel the same. Just add more HP to them and they move faster, that's it. I can honestly say that when driving the 2005 Mustang GT downhill it felt nothing like my own personal experience driving a Mustang downhill in California when I had the fortune of driving downhill from Yosemite National Park to Fresno in July 2008. The driving is quaint in the game. Certainly understeer and oversteer are mimicked in the game but they're not exactly simulation. Some things are overly exaggerated while others are not even felt. The Nissan 350Z and 370Z feel nothing like the way the cars behave in real life. It's like there's a complete loss in translation in language barrier between the tires, the car and you at the controller.
Opponents in Forza appear pretty incompetent. All they seem to do is stick to a set path and only deviate when absolutely necessary. They have NO CLUE where you are at all and they don't care. On hard difficulty your first 5 opponents are easy enough to get by but the final 2 will drive flawlessly. Because they're taking the best line there's seldom enough time in say a 3 lap race in a small course to catch up and overtake. It's almost as if the other 5 guys are protecting the top 2. There's only ever 7 opponents and you always start in last at the beginning of the game. It seems that as you progress you get to move up the grid. There's no way to qualify to bump your position. This is a minor thing but could frustrate a lot of people. Gran Turismo 4 was bashed severely by Forza fanboys because it only had 5 opponents, well Forza 3 still has as many opponents as Forza 2. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue can have 15 opponents for you to race. So already the game that is supposedly the best on the market now has less opponents for you to race against than the 'half-game' that GT5 Prologue is.
Gran Turismo as Forza's direct competitor on the PS2 and PS3 teaches the player real driving techniques, such as how to handle the different drive trains, how to pass an opponent and how to approach different types of corners. While Forza doesn't necessarily need to teach the player how to drive, it wouldn't be appropriate. Techniques such as slow-in fast-out are unnecessary. There appears to be almost an infinite number of different lines that a player can use to drive around in Forza and it doesn't really hurt you during a race. While Gran Turismo in License Tests test the skills of the driver with benchmark times of bronze silver and gold, where a gold can be only 0.2s difference and on the track it means 1ft / 0.3m of difference in position or 5ft or a few metres of extra braking distance, Forza lacks the precision that Gran Turismo offers. Previous iterations of Forza bragged about how many more calculations the physics engine was performing compared to its competitors in the industry. I'll point this out, it doesn't matter how many calculations you're performing if your maths is wrong. See above for braking distances as example.
The "real life" circuits in the game are nothing like their real-life counterparts. You need only watch a race at Suzuka, Motegi, Nurburgring or Laguna Seca to see the difference. This is something that Turn 10 has really dropped the ball on. The roads are far wider and more forgiving than they are in real life. So where I mentioned above that precision is lacking in driving and handling, the same is reflected in the circuits. The real life circuits are too wide and the corners either too forgiving or even more difficult than the ones present in real life. I don't need to expand on this anymore as anyone who has seen Forza's representation of Suzuka and has watched Formula 1 will know the difference.
So far one of the best things about the gameplay is the way the game rewards you as you increase your Driver experience points or XP. Each time you level up you are given a free car. I'm not quite certain if it's random but often the game is saving you quite a bit of money. It's nice of them to do so, this is excellent because it encourages you to try a variety of cars and often provides you with a car you'll need later for other events in the game. Gran Turismo always hurt the player when it came to things like this, you'd spend at least a few minutes in Gran Turismo playing particular races to win a particular car which could sell for a large sum of money to make a purchase of a car which could participate in another event.
Overall: 7/10 (Not an average)
Forza Motorsport 3, its fun. Incredibly fun, you get to buy a decent car, drive it around a track and compete with other cars. It is in some ways a simulator but in most ways not. It's a good attempt, it tries to be Gran Turismo in some ways but be its own in others. For me Forza is a really fun game to play with cars I like that I can do stupid things in because cars don't behave like they should. Forza is definitely the best arcade racing game for this generation. Anyone who expects a complete and accurate representation of physics true to real life will be disappointed. If you're looking for fun, with a semi-realistic approach this is it. I'm glad I bought the game and despite its flaws it wills enterain me and my friends for a while to come. So far I'm Driver Level 38 and still looking forward to putting more hours in. I have to say that the Fujimi Circuirt at 10.2 miles long with its winding up and downhill mountain passes is impressive and fun, this course alone will be driven on many a time in Forza. Don't go buy Forza for the graphics or for an amazing driving experience, go out and buy it because it's fun.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 11/18/09
Game Release: Forza Motorsport 3 (Limited Edition) (AU, 10/23/09)
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Many Thanks to the Damn Greedy Banks
"I am so scared and paranoid at the economic horror that is looming in our future that I have been drinking heavily and consuming various medications in various quantities just so I can stop screaming...in horror about inflation in prices..."
Ed Steer, who is called "correspondent-at-large" at Casey Research, says, "I see that the derivatives market expanded 44% last year (according to the BIS) and now sits at $596 Trillion dollars...that's spelled with a 'T'. If this pace keeps up, by this time next year, total derivatives will exceed one Quadrillion dollars...that's spelled with a 'Q'!!!"
Those of us who are chillingly familiar with the implications implied by three exclamation points gulp in horror. My daughter says, "What are you so afraid of, you Big Mogambo Sissy (BMS)!" and when she laughed at me, I realized that she is right! With a fiat currency, maybe all things ARE possible!
Trying heroically to calm down, I take another look at the sentence, and I can't help but note that global GDP is only about $50 trillion or so, while the Bank of International Settlements says that derivatives alone total $596 trillion, which is staggering enough, but then one's brain is overloaded with the concept of a quadrillion dollars! $1,000,000,000,000,000.00!
When you divide one quadrillion dollars by the measly 100 million workers in the USA who have a non-government job (and thus are the only ones capable of turning a profit through high value-added work), this comes to the amazing sum of $10,000,000.00 for each American worker! Bets are made that total 10 million bucks per private sector worker! How the hell can such bets pay off?
Hell, for the derivatives market to make a profit of 1% is equivalent to $1 million per worker! Hahahaha! It's so insane that it doesn't make any sense, and that is why you soon find your brain whirling, whirling, whirling and you whimper and cry in terror of the unknown and the terrifying unknowable.
Mr. Steer is made of sterner stuff than Big Crybaby Mogambo (BCM), and instead of screaming and crying like a little wuss, he calmly summarizes with "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto..."
And since we are already talking about derivatives and how I am such a wimp, David Morgan of silver-investor.com boldly says that he can "prove perhaps ONE HUNDRED TIMES the amount of silver exists on paper than exists in the physical world."
This affected me enormously; I don't know why. Maybe because I am so scared and paranoid at the economic horror that is looming in our future that I have been drinking heavily and consuming various medications in various quantities just so I can stop screaming, screaming, screaming in horror about inflation in prices, which is always (and necessarily) caused by an inflationary increase in the money supply, which is all thanks to the banks, the damned banks, the damned greedy banks.
But the prospect of 100 ounces of silver being sold short for every ounce of silver in existence was so exciting that I immediately noticed that I was grinning from ear to ear and that my hands were shaking at the Very, Very Happy Prospect (VVHP) of being on the squeezing side of a big short squeeze for a change! Hahaha!
Spontaneously, I started singing in joy, my Melodious Mogambo Voice (MMV) ringing through the spring air as I warbled that old time favorite, "We're in the money! We're in the money! We got a lot of what it takes to get along, because I have silver, and now for once in my pathetic, wretched life, I am going to be the squeezer, while some other sorry bastard is going to be the squeezee, and he'll lose his butt for a change, while we're in the money! We're in the money!"
Everybody was just kind of agog, looking at me with their stupid mouths hanging open, which I innocently mistook for interest and a desire for more, so the second verse went "We're in the money! We're in the money! We got a lot of what it takes to get along and hire lots of lawyers to file lots of nuisance lawsuits against my enemies, like my wife and kids, whom I sue just to show my OTHER enemies the kind of relentless, heartless, grudge-carrying bastard that I am so that they might more accurately anticipate the kind of non-stop, legal butt-kicking they can expect when I finally get around to them, which I will, because I got lots and lots of silver and I can afford it now that we're in the money! We're in the money!"
Mr. Morgan, as I gather from his lack of response to my fabulous song-and-dance act, is not a big fan of spontaneous musical theater, and neither applauded nor put any money in the hat I had conveniently placed on the ground in front of me, along with the helpful little placard that said "Put money in this hat!"
Instead, you could tell by the tone of his voice that he was singularly unimpressed, and went on to reiterate, "The derivatives markets are alive and well in both silver and gold" which is again made obvious when he says, "there is roughly one hundred ounces 'claimed' on paper for every physical ounce of silver."
And not only that, but Ed Steer of GATA puts it as "David Morgan of SilverInvestor.com and The Morgan Report today may have settled the question of manipulation of the silver market. In his new essay, 'Silver Price Manipulation,' Morgan notes that while there is no limit on the creation of paper promises to deliver silver on the New York Commodities Exchange, the exchange limits silver deliveries to 7.5 million ounces per month. That is, the exchange's rules are overwhelmingly stacked in favor of those shorting the metal."
Mr. Morgan says that this answers the question, "'Why doesn't some big investor come along and just buy up the remaining silver?" He says that the answer is that "It cannot be done. There are delivery limits now! Let me repeat!! It cannot be done, there are delivery limits NOW!!"
Even more ominously, he says, "Oh, you might ask, 'Is there any limit to the amount of silver that can be sold on paper?'"
Ominously, he explains that the answer is no, "there is no limit to the amount of paper silver that can be created!", which is bad enough, but apparently there is no limit on the amount of silver to be loaned, either, as Jason Hommel of the silverstockreport.com says that "If The Perth Mint is storing your metal, they admit that they may have loaned your metal out to AGR Matthey", which in turn, he says, shows that "AGR Matthey has well established relationships with the major bullion banks and regularly supplies to them on a contractual basis." What? Hahahaha!
And the proof is allegedly found in the notation that "The $880 million of precious metals deposited by Perth Mint Depository clients (note 17) was used in operations by Gold Corporation as inventory ($381 million - Note 8b)."
Unbelievably, this looks like they are taking your money and buying silver for you, and then loaning the silver to people who sell it, dumping it on the market, driving the price of silver down, which is the opposite of what you wanted when you bought the Perth Mint certificates! Hahahaha! What a scam! Ugh.
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