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The Leafs and Islanders have a fair bit of history between them. The Mike Peca/Darcy Tucker incident, the Leafs trading up to acquire Luke Schenn, and even the Islanders beating the Devils (who played Scott Clemmenson instead of Martin Brodeur) in a shootout to knock the Leafs out of the 2006-07 playoffs by one point in the final game of the season. Tonight, they meet again in Toronto.
Despite playing at 0.500 hockey, a win for New York tonight could very well put them into the top 8 in the East – a much different stat than a year ago when they finished last in the league and were mathematically out of the playoffs in early January. The Islanders can pay thanks to the incredible chemistry between John Tavares (9-10-19) and Matt Moulson (10-8-18). It should be mentioned that Matt Moulson was drafted in the 9th round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins and in his 29 games before joining the Islanders organization, he had tallied just 10 points. Give credit to John Tavares who has certainly made at least one player around him much better than he really is.
The Islanders have dropped each of their last two games after going 2-0-2 in their first four on this 7 game road swing. Toronto is their final stop, and they'd like to come out on top before heading home.
''It definitely wasn't our game tonight,'' Islanders winger Trent Hunter said after Saturday's loss. ''Sometimes it takes a few minutes to get your legs going after playing the night before, but that wasn't the case. We can't use that as an excuse that we played (Friday) night."
Ian White credits the Leafs win over the Capitals on Saturday night as a sign that the team actually does have an idenity. ''It shows we got character,'' Leafs defenseman Ian White said. ''We're not just going to fold over and skate away.''
Brian Burke is believed to still stand behind his comments prior to Saturday night's game. Despite the team winning in the shootout, it's only a step in the right direction. The Leafs need to continue their strong effort in putting a string of wins together.
"If we don't start winning, we have two options," Burke said. "One, we make a trade, and if I could make one that puts us in the playoffs, I would. But trades are hard to make. Two, we send somebody on a one-way (contract) down and call up the kids. That's the next step. We waive them and send them down, and if we lose them (on a waiver claim), we lose them."
History has showed the Leafs let up after a strong performance. We'll see if the same can be said after tonight's game. It is yet to be announced whether Gustavsson or Toskala will get the start, but after Toskala's strong performance, he could very well have earned himself a consecutive game.
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Faceoff % – TOR 19th (49.1%), NYI 18th (49.2%)
Average Shots For: TOR 2nd (33.5), NYI 14th (30.2)
Average Shots Against: TOR 21st (30.9), NYI 27th (32.9)
Average Goals For: TOR 23rd (2.52), NYI 18th (2.70)
Average Goals Against: TOR 30th (3.62), NYI 20th (2.91)
5 on 5 Goals For/Against Ratio: TOR 29th (0.70), NYI 24th (0.85)
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MONZA, Italy (AP) — Sebastian Vettel withstood a tricky start from pole position to win the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday and extend his hefty championship lead over Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso, who finished second.
Vettel locked his tires on the first turn as the Ferrari of Felipe Massa pressured him from behind, but after that the German consolidated his advantage to beat Alonso by 5.4 seconds and Red Bull teammate Mark Webber by 6.3.
"This is the best podium of season, I'm very proud," Vettel said. "We had problems with the gearboxes at the end, but I was OK because I had a good cushion and it was a fantastic win."
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Monza is the home race for Ferrari fans and there were loud jeers when Vettel was on the podium.
"You can hear the difference when you don't win here in a red suit but it means you have done well and beaten the red men (of Ferrari)," Vettel said. "The more booing we get the better we've done today. I don't blame the people to be honest, it's in their genes. They love Ferrari."
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With seven races remaining, it looks increasingly likely that Vettel will clinch a fourth straight Formula One title.
"It's a very big gap and we don't have enough races and we don't have the speed now to win consecutive races," Alonso said. "We need to be lucky and we need to have some DNF (Did Not Finish) from Sebastian."
It was Vettel's third career win at Monza — his first was with Toro Rosso in 2008 and then Red Bull in 2011 — his sixth of the season and 32nd overall, moving him level with Alonso's total wins.
He was more emotional than usual — pumping his fist several times as he walked up the steps to the podium — and with good reason. He now leads two-time former champion Alonso by 53 points and Lewis Hamilton by 81 with 175 available.
The last driver to win here from anywhere other than pole was Rubens Barrichello from fifth spot on the grid in 2009, and Alonso never really looked like doing that after starting from the same position.
"Second place is good, to have this podium ceremony which is the most spectacular podium of the year," Alonso told thousands of his fans. "Hopefully we'll come back next year and have first place."
Vettel shook his head vigorously in celebration and let out his trademark high-pitched whoop as he celebrated his third win in the past four races. Given his tough start, it was more impressive than his dominant performance at the Belgian GP two weeks ago.
"Very good boys, very good race," Vettel yelled over his car radio. "Sorry for the lock up into the first corner, made the first stint a bit tricky."
Massa finished fourth ahead of German drivers Nico Hulkenberg — a season's best for Sauber — and Nico Rosberg, on a poor day for Mercedes.
There was light rainfall about one hour before the race, but the sunshine returned for the start.
Vettel started from pole for the fourth time this campaign and 40th in his career, but the first since the Canadian GP in June.
He struggled to hold on to the lead after the first turn as Massa boldly passed Hulkenberg and Webber to jump from fourth to second.
Roared on by thousands of flag-waving tifosi, Ferrari had a point to prove and Alonso brilliantly overtook Webber on the outside and then zoomed ahead of Massa.
After 10 of 53 laps, Vettel led Alonso by about five seconds, but engineers told him that his front right tire had taken some damage and Alonso began to shave some time off.
Vettel pitted on lap 24, switching to hard tires, followed shortly by Webber and Massa, but Alonso stayed out until lap 28 as leading drivers chose a one-stop strategy.
In his last ever European race before he retires from F1 at the end of the season, Webber got his first ever podium at Monza.
"Good battle with Fernando," Webber said. "Last time in Monza, so thank you very much."
Briton Paul di Resta's race lasted only a few seconds after he sustained damage to the front left tire of his Force India car. He appeared to hit the back of Romain Grosjean's Lotus and stewards were investigating the incident. Kimi Raikkonen had to pit early with front-wing damage to his Lotus and finished 11th.
Hamilton, starting from 12th after his worst qualifying performance this campaign, finished ninth.
"It is a nightmare weekend for me," Hamilton said.
Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne also abandoned.
1. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Red Bull, 1 hour, 18 minutes, 33.352 seconds, 53 laps.
2. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Ferrari, 1:18:38.819, 53.
3. Mark Webber, Australia, Red Bull, 1:18:39.702, 53.
4. Felipe Massa, Brazil, Ferrari, 1:18:42.713, 53.
5. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Sauber, 1:18:43.707, 53.
6. Nico Rosberg, Germany, Mercedes, 1:18:44.351, 53.
7. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Toro Rosso, 1:19:05.681, 53.
8. Romain Grosjean, France, Lotus, 1:19:06.482, 53.
9. Lewis Hamilton, England, Mercedes, 1:19:06.879, 53.
10. Jenson Button, England, McLaren, 1:19:11.679, 53.
11. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Lotus, 1:19:12.047, 53.
12. Sergio Perez, Mexico, McLaren, 1:19:13.117, 53.
13. Esteban Gutierrez, Mexico, Sauber, 1:19:14.232, 53.
14. Pastor Maldonado, Venezuela, Williams, 1:19:22.437, 53.
15. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Williams, 1:19:30.179, 53.
16. Charles Pic, France, Caterham, 1:19:17.871, 52.
17. Giedo van der Garde, Netherlands, Caterham, 1:19:32.969, 52.
18. Jules Bianchi, France, Marussia, 1:19:40.301, 52.
19. Max Chilton, England, Marussia, 1:19:52.527, 52.
Did Not Finish
Adrian Sutil, Germany, Force India, 52.
Jean-Eric Vergne, France, Toro Rosso, 14.
Did Not Start
Paul di Resta, Scotland, Force India.


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Money managers are seldom singled out for their innovation in technology, but a consulting firm has done just that.
On Thursday, kasina LLC released its annual ranking of fund providers that it says offer the most engaging and substantive web experience for advisers.
Just one in five advisers are using asset managers' own websites to research their funds, according to kasina data, but firms are working hard to change that by designing more-compelling websites.
"It's the cost of doing business today," said Mark McKenna, head of global marketing at Putnam Investments, which ranked second on kasina's list of fund websites. "We compete in a global environment on a daily basis and we're striving to be the best."
OppenheimerFunds Inc., which rolled out a redesigned website for advisers last month, ranked first in kasina's list of mutual fund sponsors, while the Royce Funds from Legg Mason Inc. rounded out the top three.
Among ETF sponsors, The Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc.'s iShares unit and The Charles Schwab Corp. were at the top of the heap.
These companies aren't your grandfather's staid financial services firms. They use social media, ambitious data visualizations and seamless integration for mobile phones and tablet devices to stand out in the crowded $15 trillion U.S. market for funds which advisers help their clients navigate.
In the process, the web has forced asset managers to reinvent the role of wholesalers, sales professionals from asset management firms who used to be one of advisers sources for information. Now they meet with advisers who come prepared with reams — or tablets — full of information from third-party sources such as Morningstar Inc., Bloomberg or IndexUniverse LLC.
Increasingly, money managers are looking outside the financial services industry to innovative, consumer-facing e-commerce websites for guidance on how to market their brand, executives said. When OppenheimerFunds redesigned its website, the company turned to Zappos.com, Amazon.com, the Food Network and Ticketmaster.com for inspiration, said Erik Schneberger, head of digital strategy for the mutual fund firm.
OppenheimerFunds redesigned its website to show more personality, making videos with its portfolio managers, and in it, they discuss not just their investment strategy but their lives and hobbies.
It's a way for the firm to distinguish its personality and expertise, a crucial exercise for the asset manager that wants to stand out, according to Julia Binder, who wrote kasina's study.
"Online, people are very averse to the traditional product pitch," Ms. Binder said. "They're looking for solutions to problems, and advisers are too, especially since 2008, 2009, when their phones were ringing off the hook. They want to know how to hedge against volatility; they want to know how they can help members of the 'sandwich' generation that are trying to help their parents, trying to provide for their retirement, trying to put their kids through school."
The asset managers, therefore, have embraced the challenge of delivering compelling and informative content, much like the news and data services such as Reuters News and Dow Jones. Putnam Investments, for instance, is boiling down its analysis of the long-term U.S. debt crisis into an accessible graphic primer. Its website includes a way to compare funds it provides with those of competitors, as well as a blog on how advisers can use technology, Mr. McKenna said.
Asset managers could always connect with advisers through wholesalers, advertisements on third-party websites and through content deals with brokerage intranets. But on asset managers' websites, no matter what the content, the firm's sales pitch is never more than a click away.
"If you're silent, then you're basically opening the door to losing a customer, but if you speak, in my view, then you have an opportunity to invite them into your thinking, learning more about your investment process and having that type of engagement and dialogue about your brand," Ms. Binder said. "The more products you can introduce to an adviser who's considering your brand, the more opportunities you have to do business."


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Go to the basket. Don't settle for the jumper, take it to the hole! These refrains, which can be heard universally in basketball games at virtually all levels of play, usually apply just as much to the NBA.
It's simple logic you would think. Getting close to the basket means you are going to make an extremely high percentage of your shots at that distance. In turn, taking a lot of shots at the rim is always a good idea. Layups, dunks, putbacks, tips are generally positives for any team on the floor.
Unfortunately for your Boston Celtics, that logic has not been a reality, not only in this series, but for the better part of the last two years in their matchups against the formidable defense of the Miami Heat.
The C's as a team haven't been a big fan of going to the rim all year. They took just 22.5 attempts per game at the basket in the regular season, which was the fifth lowest tally in the NBA. Instead, as we all know, Boston has been reliant on their jumper much of the year, as the mid-range games of Kevin Garnett, Brandon Bass and Ray Allen et al led Boston to taking 23.7 jumpers each contest from 16-23 feet, the 3rd highest number in the league.
The fact that Boston takes so many shots from one of the most inefficient places on the floor and the fact they had a bottom five offensive rating in the NBA this season is no coincidence. However, that's who they are and they play the mid-range game almost as well as anyone, hitting 41.7 percent of those long jumpers, good enough for third in the league.
Despite Boston generally shying away from the rim in the regular season, they were an average team finishing upon getting there, hitting 63 percent of their attempts, which was slightly above the league average of 62.6 percent. That 63 number is a drop from previous years, but still an entirely respectable number.
As the Celtics find themselves in a 2-0 hole in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat, one of the major reasons for this deficit has been the C's inability to finish around the rim while being contested by this vaunted Heat defense.
Through two games, the C's have hit just 52.7 percent of their shots at the basket, a tremendous drop from their regular season mark of 63 percent. Boston and specifically Rajon Rondo have been getting to the bucket more than ever, but he hasn't been able to make the most of his opportunities from close range. Instead, like the rest of the C's he's struggled mightily. Check out the breakdown of attempts over the first two games at the rim.
Rondo: 11-of-23
Pierce: 5-of-10
Garnett: 5-of-9
Bass: 3-of-6
Doc Rivers has voiced several times to the media that the C's have been very aggressive this series and the numbers here back it up. For some perspective, all of these guys have shot more from close-range than they did on average during the regular season, but Rondo has blown his averages out of the water. The All-Star has more than doubled his regular season mark in attempts per game, taking 11.5 this series compared to just five usually before the postseason started.
That kind of aggression bodes well for Boston in this series, but one fact remains clear: The C's have to be better from close range. However, that's easier said than done.
The problem is Miami ranks highly among the elite in the league at defending the rim. Between the freakish athleticism of Dwayne Wade and LeBron James and the underrated shot blocking ability of Joel Anthony, the Heat have an undersized but very formidable group to contest shots.
During the regular season, they were the second best team in the league defending their basket, allowing opponents to hit just 57.7 percent of their attempts from inside three feet, a superb number.
Not only is Miami great at denying baskets from close range, they block shots with tremendous success as well, averaging six blocks a game against the C's in the regular season this year. Through two games in this series, they have 16 blocks already.
Now while it might be easy to attribute the C's struggles at the basket as a couple bad games within a very small sample size, that's not the case in this particular matchup. In fact, Boston's problems at the rim have been a rule rather than the exception over the past two years against Miami, especially in the postseason.
In Boston's 2011 4-1 loss in the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Heat, they shot just 56.4 percent from within three feet in that series. Combined with their numbers this postseason, the C's have hit just 55.2 percent of their shots (95-of-172) at the rim over seven postseason games. That's a dismal number that would have placed Boston at the bottom of the league.
Now there are different names and faces on both sides this year, but the core pieces remain in place on both sides, making those numbers very relevant. (Miami was top in the league defending the rim last year as well).
Want to expand the numbers to include the regular season from both years as an even bigger sample size? The numbers only slightly improve, with Boston hitting just 57.6 percent of their attempts at the bucket over 15 contests, still a huge drop from Boston's season average, and a mark that would rank among the league's worst.
So what's the solution here for the Celts? Should they stop attacking the rim as much if they can't finish? Should they be getting to the line more? Like Doc, I'm not going to touch that one. I will say the numbers show the C's are being extremely aggressive, much more so than in the regular season, in getting to the rim and an increase in free throws has not been proportional in accounting for the spike during this series, especially during Game 1. However, that may just be because Miami does a better job than most teams at contesting without fouling. Or maybe the C's are getting slightly hosed. I'll let you the reader decide.
With that said the C's have to do better job finishing. Period. They can't afford to miss nearly one out of every two shots at the basket moving forward if they want to have any hope of turning this matchup into a series.
That starts with Rondo, who ironically is shooting 75 percent from mid-range (9-of-12!) through these first two defeats. I almost feel foolish picking on the guy after his Game 2, but in order for Boston to win this series, he needs to make more than half of his shots at the rim. Pierce, Garnett and Bass all need to be better too, and finish their opportunities from close range.
All of these guys obviously can do better and I think they will. If not though, Boston's season could be coming to an end as soon as Sunday.
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|This area shows pictures taken from the indirect penetration of hurricane Georges on September 25, 1998 in southern Dade county, Florida. The core of the storm hit the southern Florida Keys but was not chased because the road to the keys was close by state troopers. Some severe feeder bands and winds were still experienced. The storm core had winds up to 100 MPH in a diffuse eyewall. Conditions in the chase areas had winds up to 70 MPH or more. The storm formed in the Atlantic, smashed into Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba then onto the Florida Keys before going into the Gulf of Mexico.
|A spiral rain band, or feeder band, rotates into the south Dade county area near the roadblock of the roadway into the Florida Keys. Winds in this rain squall gust over 70 MPH with very heavy rains during the wee hours of September 25, 1998. The closed roadway prevented a chase track into the Keys to the core of Georges.
|In South Beach, Florida, at sunrise on September 25, 1998, 50 MPH winds churn up the ocean into a white choppy mess. The hurricane surf here is in excess of ten feet high and tides are a few feet above normal. The eye of the storm was off the Florida Keys as the time, but this area is to the right side, or "dirty side" of the hurricane.
|Palm trees sway in South Beach, Florida as hurricane Georges passes through the Florida Keys to the south on the morning of September 25, 1998. Winds here are over 50 MPH with higher gusts in squalls. This area is on the forward right quadrant of the hurricane, which has strong winds extending farthest from the storm center.
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Glasgow 2014: Threat of transport strikes in Glasgow before Games
Staff at two of Glasgow's key transport operators are to be balloted on industrial action ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
Engineers at First Bus and Subway staff will vote before the end of June.
Glasgow 2014 has been billed as a "public transport games", with up to 500,000 extra journeys expected on the busiest days.
About 150 bus engineers at First Group Glasgow are being balloted after they rejected a 0.5% pay offer.
Unite union members at Strathclyde Partnership Transport's Subway will vote over claims they will receive no extra payment for the increased work and demands during the Games.
An SPT spokeswoman said that claim was simply not true and they were disappointed the union was threatening to jeopardise transport during the Games.
The spokeswoman added: "SPT has made it clear that any Subway staff requested to work additional hours will be paid in line with their current terms and conditions.
"We are also not sure why certain staff are being balloted for possible industrial action as they have not been requested to work additional hours during the Games.
'Welcoming reputation'
"However, it is incredibly disappointing that Unite is threatening to jeopardise the transport arrangements during the largest multi-sport event Scotland has ever hosted.
"We would urge Unite to consider the impact on customers and potential damage to Glasgow's welcoming reputation and call off the ballot."
First Group Glasgow said it was "extremely surprised and disappointed" that Unite has decided to ballot its engineering members for industrial action.
Spokeswoman Fiona Kerr said: "We have serious concerns that union officials have failed to properly consult with their members.
"Nor have they sought to bring in ACAS to help us reach agreement. Officially balloting members at this stage is premature at best. "
She added: "We are operating in a very challenging market in Glasgow, put under extra pressure by cuts in funding and increasing costs.
"In the last two years we have taken the hard decisions to close a depot and to implement a two-year wage freeze for many of our drivers.
"We are simply not prepared to fund a pay award by asking customers to pay higher fares."
The strikes threat comes as the RMT announced its members at ScotRail will receive additional payments of up to £275.
Intense demand
RMT acting general secretary Mick Cash said: "We are pleased to be able to confirm that we have secured an agreement which will properly reward all staff involved in delivering services throughout the Games.
"It is only right that those carrying the pressure of operating services against a backdrop of intense demand are recognised.
"The deal we have now signed off does just that.
"We also have an agreement in place that no staff will be dismissed from their posts throughout the duration of the Games."
A ScotRail spokesman said: "We welcome the agreement with the RMT and look forward to providing the most extensive train timetable that Scotland has ever seen for the Commonwealth Games."
The train drivers union Aslef has yet to agree terms.
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About The Neighbourhood (Clarke)
Clarke is the original Hawthorne Village and one of the first neighbourhoods developed in New Milton starting in the year 2000. The neighbourhood boundaries are Derry Road on the south side, James Snow Parkway on the east, the green space along the CP Rail Line to the north and Thompson Road to the west.
The homes in this area were built between 2000 and 2014. Homebuilders include Mattamy, Tiffany, Beaver Hall, Falcon Crest and Mill Wood. Getting in and out of the area is quick and easy with James Snow taking you straight to the 401 Highway and Derry Road to the 407 Highway. Thompson Road on the east side of the neighbourhood connects you to many shopping plazas, grocery stores and restaurants.


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Kukru.com is created to offer products that are good for your health and share authentic 3 steps recipes. Kukru means Kitchen in Sranangtongo, the language of Surinam. Surinam is a beautiful country where different cooking styles, cultures and even religions coexist in peace.We treat this online kitchen as our own kitchen. Our guests regardless of race or religion get the best quality food and drinks. The vision of us is to deliver our guests on Kukru.com a sense of satisfaction with our healthy products, ingredients and recipes.Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments.
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A Fernandina Beach man died of a leg wound and another man was injured during a St. Johns County bar brawl late Thursday, the Sheriff's Office said.
Rickie Wayne Starling, 39, died after being hospitalized following a disturbance at the Crow Bar, 2045 Florida 16. No arrests have been reported.
Deputies were called to the bar about 11:30 p.m. and found Scott Douglas Kerins, 45, of St. Augustine standing outside holding a knife, the Sheriff's Office said. He had some minor injuries and was treated and released at a hospital.
Starling was found inside the bar suffering from the leg wound, which wasn't further described by police. The Sheriff's Office said he was taken to Flagler Hospital, where he died.
Investigators questioned Kerins, but he was freed. No other details have been released about the attack.
Brenda Starling, Rickie Starling's aunt, said the plumber was married and had two daughters. Starling said she had no idea what happened to her nephew.
"He was always a good person. He always took care of his family," Starling said. "I don't understand how he can be in a place like that and get into a confrontation. He's not like that."
The investigation is continuing.
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The display is pretty huge at 4 and 3.8-inches, and has a resolution of 640×480. It's pretty much a great photo dump and video player, if you fit yet another gadget into our camera bag. We may have to take out all this Jello Pudding. Damn it.
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3 minutes of Exercise a week
You may have heard some of murmurings in the press at the moment do with the 3-minute exercise protocol? If you haven't it all revolves around the program BBC Horizon: The Truth About Exercise. It was presented by Dr. Michael Mosley and all in all was a pretty good rounded view.
The research basically proved that taking yourself to the absolute maximum exertion for a total of 1 minute in 20 second bursts three times per week had nearly all the health benefits (not the ascetic I hasten to add) and more so than completing 4 hours steady state cardiovascular training per week- the benefits were- glucose release from the muscle stores, and increasing insulin sensitivity by an average of 24%. Vo2 Max (the bench mark of cardiovascular performance) was also increased in around 15% of participants.
The other basic tenant was that genetically people are very different- there are some that respond extremely well to any training stimulus. They grouped people into responders and non-responders. Responders being those who's Vo2 max was markedly increased by the high intensity interval training HIIT. This was the above 15% percentile. And non-responders who saw little or no increase.
So what does this all mean for your average Jo? Does this mean they can all pack up their training kit, chuck in their sweat towel and head home to the couch- thankfully not. Lets look at it in a bit more detail.
First up the idea that HIIT training is far better for you than long steady state training is not new. Well at least not amongst more informed trainers and trainees! I've never advocated long steady state running or any type of long steady state CV. Not only does it wear your joints away- just check out my dad- he was a competitive triathlete and marathon runner- now nearly every joint in his body is being replaced through wear, long steady state training also raises cortisol- the stress hormone within the body.
When left to rage unabated cortisol not only is bad for health but also causes fat storage especially around the abdomen- how many fat runners have you seen- I've seen lots. Cortisol also is responsible for muscle and strength deterioration. I've always advised my clients to work on HIIT principles for improving VO2 Max- either in sprints, heavy kettlebell work and full body plyometrics and other savagely taxing means.
What the study also doesn't do is look at the right amount of HIIT. All the study does do is prove that HIIT is far better than long steady state training.
I can guarantee that yes the responder group increased their VO2 max by performing the HIIT on the given protocol (the 3 minutes) and there was a marked improvement against the other responder group in the long steady state training group, but what the study doesn't look at significantly is what if you actually increase the amount of HIIT the individual is performing and not just perform the minimum. I can assure you that if the responder group performed 6-8 rounds of the HIIT protocol so 8 minutes of all out hit 3 times per week their increase in VO2 max would have been massive. Also I can assure them that if they had made the non responder group treble their level of HIIT in the week they would have seen a good improvement in this test group too- yes not as much as the responder group but still a marked improvement.
I've trained so called non responders- in fact 50% of my clients could fall into this group- I've taken people who are in no way genetically gifted and pushed their Vo2 max to levels that would put most people to shame. But it does take more HIIT training than 3 minutes per week. Sometimes it takes a lot more. But improvements are always made with hard work. Of course there will be those who excel on even the tiniest stimulus- we can all envy them but for the rest of us it takes more work. This is where I feel this study is slightly dangerous and misleading. It gives people the chance to lump themselves in with the non -responders and so feel more HIIT exercise isn't beneficial. Luckily this isn't the case you just have to do the right exercise- in this case more HIIT and not long steady training training. Not only that but more HIIT would increase muscular strength, endurance, power and bring about muscular growth if the right exercises were chosen so why wouldn't you do more when you would achieve all these benefits along with the VO2 max increases- why would you just settle for increased insulin sensitivity and glucose response??
I also had one last comment about the program. The trouble is with true HIIT is that it is painful. Very painful. More painful than most people can bear- and there's the rub. Most people- your average man or woman will in no way be able to take themselves to the level that is needed in that 20 seconds to be a true HIIT interval. Some will but most won't. This is where my job as a trainer comes in to take people beyond that threshold, to enter in where your brain wants to shut off and shut the body down. When your brain is saying no, I say yes, and keep you working- few people have the ability alone to take themselves to the limit that is needed to be a true HIIT interval to do so you have to like pain and be really used to it- yes your brain does adapt to deal with the pain of training- but that takes a lot of time and most people never reach it unless they have been pushed their regularly by someone else or born in a with strange masochistic nature- myself included!


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The legend of Reelfoot Lake is known by almost everyone in the area. But, in case you not from around here...this is it
A description of the New Madrid earthquakes that formed Reelfoot Lake in 1811-1812...continued
Reelfoot's scenic boat cruises May - October for over 50 years it's been one of Reelfoot's feature attractions...here's more
The "Lake Boat" is one of Reelfoot's most treasured creations, and the Calhoun family has been making them by hand since the 1910's ...here's more about Calhoun Boat Works
Every year the state park holds an event called the swamp tromp. It's a walk through the remote area of Reelfoot and provide a unique look at the lake...for more information
We get a lot of questions about snakes at Reelfoot. It seems that there are some misconceptions. Well, here's a brief article from Lexie Leonard about...Reelfoot Snakes
The Riverboat Ferry in Hickman, Ky is one of the few ferries left in the country. It's only 20 miles from Reelfoot. For more info...visit their website
We get plenty of emails asking about boat requirements and regulations on Reelfoot. There aren't actually any restrictions for boats on Reelfoot. But, there are a few things...you ought to know
The annual Reelfoot Lake Arts and Crafts festival is held each year on the first weekend of October it's truly a big event...for details
A flock of White Pelicans were caught in the hail storm near Lennox. Residents found the huge birds walking around the neighborhood and called the Reelfoot State Park to help ...continued
Reelfoot snake stories are often that, stories. Well this is one that's true...from the book Reelfoot Lake Treasures by Lexie Leonard.
Reelfoot Lake Round House Reunion... music event
This auto tour...courtesy of Reelfoot Lake State Park, offers a nice drive for viewing Reelfoot Lake.
Reelfoot Lake offers some excellent opportunities for canoeing. Here's a little more...information on canoeing at Reelfoot
Reelfoot is known for it's snakes. But despite many fears, encounters are few and far between. For some Tennessee snake facts...click here
Reelfoot Lake Eagle Festival....schedule
This article is from Lexie Leonard's book Reelfoot Lake Treasures and it also contains an amazing picture of Reelfoot from 1914...check it out
The staff of the West Tennessee Refuge Complex (which Reelfoot NWR is a part of) has received a customer service excellence award from the Department of the Interior...here's more
Christine Donald of the Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge has gotten a lot accomplished with a little money. Even with cutbacks of funds, she continues to get things done around the lake...continued
The Reelfoot Lake Waterfowl Festival is held every August. Activities include the Reelfoot Lake Grand American Duck and Goose Calling Championship, a duck call auction and various exhibits...for more information
Raptors cage behind the Reelfoot Lake State Park museum provides an up
close encounter with eagles, hawks and other birds of prey.
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Integrating NOSQL Data Sources with Data Virtualization
NOSQL data stores are proliferating as a means of supporting web-scale data. Recently predictive analytics, voice-of-the-customer, churn, fraud and other "big data" use cases have emerged to further accelerate demand.
There are a wide variety of NOSQL systems, each with their own set of use-cases and advantages. This paper describes the primary NOSQL data sources in the market today and how to integrate them with other sources using the Composite Data Virtualization Platform.


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Friends, not the tv series, but the friends we have in our lives and who are divided on many categories. Every now and then we look at these categories, we try to sift them and mostly we move friends from a category to another given the moments and experiences we have lived and this behavior looks so natural as humans.
Then you meet 1 new person, in a social gathering or at your workplace or thru common friends.
At the beginning, you are cautious then with time you start discovering how good this person is and how much value and positivity he is bringing into your life. With more time, you get to know how ethical and transparent he is to this friendship, and how this person sometimes becomes a mentor on many and different subjects (life and/or business), then you realize that all these positive qualities and attitudes are given to you without expecting anything in return while he keeps pushing you all the way up by being extremely supportive and without judging you.
Yes, quality friends can still be found! I have found one.


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Consumer Reports vouches for Apple's Bumper as resolution to iPhone 4 antenna bug
Date: Thursday, July 15th, 2010, 04:49
Category: iPhone, News
There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for Apple's iPhone 4 reception issues. On Wednesday, Consumer Reports announced that Apple iPhone 4 owners can eliminate reception problems by enclosing their phones in the "Bumper" case Apple sells.
The findings could presage a decision by Apple to offer iPhone 4 owners a free Bumper, as the publication confirmed yesterday that it has been in contact with Apple over its testing results.
Per Macworld UK, the consumer testing organization said it could not recommend the iPhone 4 because of major reception issues when users touched the external antenna, the publication's engineers went back into their lab to retest with iPhones equipped with Bumpers.
Apple's Bumper, which retails for US$29, represents the company's first efforts to move into the iPhone case market.
"With the Bumper fitted, we repeated the test procedure, placing a finger on the Bumper at the point at which it covers the gap [on the lower left side of the case]," said Paul Reynolds, Consumer Reports's electronics editor, in an entry on the magazine's blog on Wednesday afternoon.
The publication tested only Apple's Bumper, although another Consumer Reports editor said yesterday that it was planning on evaluating several different cases.
"The result was a negligible drop in signal strength – so slight that it would not have any effect, in our judgment."
On Monday, Consumer Reports explained its could-not-recommend decision by describing testing of three different iPhone 4s in its radio frequency (RF) isolation chamber, where a cell tower emulator simulates real-world signals.
The magazine's engineers also tested several other AT&T-sold phones, including the iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre. None of those phones showed the signal-loss problems of the iPhone 4.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available and I'll happily trade you my first born for a Bumper should the need arise…


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Tomorrow is the Autumnal Equinox: the first day of Fall.
Equinox is a sort of contraction, stemming from two Latin words: aequus, meaning "equal" and nox, meaning "night." During the Autumnal Equinox (and again for the Vernal or Spring Equinox) day and night are approximately the same length of time: 12 hours.
Since the Autumnal Equinox signals the end of Summer and the beginning of Fall, you might be thinking that this prompt is going to devolve into discussing all things Autumn. Not at all.
The Equinox got me thinking about dividing things into halves, or even opposites: an equal portion of day and night, light and dark, yin and yang.
Here's Your Prompt:
- Write about "your better half." I'm not talking about your spouse or your partner. Write about the half of you who is the better person. If that doesn't appeal, write about the half of you who is not the better person. Write about your alter ego or your super-villain. Write about the evil person you would be, if you didn't have this better half.
- Choose a pair from the list of opposites below and write a scene or poem about them:
- admit – deny
- clockwise – counterclockwise
- student – teacher
- blunt – sharp
- freedom – captivity
- clever – stupid
- doctor patient
- East – West or North – South
- horizontal – vertical
- Lips half-willing in a doorway.
Lips half-singing at a window.
Eyes half-dreaming in the walls.
Feet half-dancing in a kitchen.
Even the clocks half-yawn the hours
And the farmers make half-answers.
~ From Cornhuskers, (Chapter 10), 1918 – Carl Sandburg
- Choose an opposite Point of View (POV): If you tend to write characters who are predominantly male, try writing as a female.
- As half in shade and half in sun
This world along its path advances…
~ Thomas Moore
- Write an essay from the standpoint opposite of your own beliefs. For example, if you hate cats, write an essay about how much you love cats. Support this essay with facts.
- Write a story, poem, essay or journal entry about something that happened — or someone or something who acted – opposite of what it should. For instance, you could write about a flower that bloomed at night. Your idea could be fictional. Ask yourself, "What if 'this' happened?"
Good Luck!
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"We will respect whatever decision the riders and Wouter's team, Leopard-Trek, will take," race director Angelo Zomegnan told a news conference.
"It is up to them to decide. But there will be no festive music or the usual celebrations, whatever happens. This is a press conference I wish I had never had to give."
Traditionally after a death in a race, a minute's silence is held at the start of the following day, the peloton will tackle the stage at a slow pace and the deceased rider's teammates come to the front of the bunch for the final kilometre.
The process is known as neutralisation.
Zomegnan said that on the Giro's eighth stage to Tropea, there had been plans to mourn the victims of a mass accident last December when seven amateur cyclists were killed by a car.
"Now, sadly, we have to pay homage to one more rider," he said.
"I feel obliged to share with you a text message I received today, reminding me that this is a sport where everybody applauds the riders, but that they all risk their lives in every single metre of the course.
"When something terrible occurs we all have to be by their side."
Race doctor Giovanni Tredici revealed the battle to save Weylandt's life had been a desperate struggle by the roadside with the 26-year-old suffering multiple injuries including to his skull.
"The attempts to revive the rider lasted 45 minutes," he said.
"I was the first to intervene, I reached the scene barely 30 seconds after he had crashed, and I was quickly joined by other experts, including a team doctor.
"But the situation was very serious, we could not do anything despite our best efforts."
Zomegnan refused to reveal exact details of how the accident happened, saying it was being investigated by a magistrate who was talking to riders who had witnessed Weylandt's fatal crash.
He did say they had kept news of his death secret for a short time so that family members could be informed.
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A recent graduate from the Television Broadcasting & Communications Media program at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Clayton has already embarked upon an impressive career in production.
Having written, directed and even starred in multiple short films, Clayton quickly found himself working in industry as a production assistant over two seasons of Big Brother Canada. Other resume highlights include similar starring roles as a P.A. for The Canadian Screen Awards, The Juno Awards, The Canadian Country Music Awards, Much Music Video Awards, The Amazing Race Canada, Canada's Smartest Person, Cineplex Pre-Show & much more.
At Double Barrel, Clayton utilizes his time and detail management skills to coordinate shoots and ensure efficiency on set. He is looking forward to growing as a producer within the Double Barrel team!


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Laptop / Printer Station – Laptop slides out when in use. Used Blu Motion Hidden Slides. Printer does a great job of countering the weight of the slide.
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#1 posted 03-30-2014 01:58 PM
Nice slide out holder. I need to find out more about those slides. It has a very clean look using them!!
-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!
#2 posted 03-30-2014 02:28 PM
It's a nice practical project.
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#3 posted 04-03-2014 03:52 PM
So cool! Like the sliding tray, it's a neat and functional project. Great job!
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One month after a successful start up, Cargo B Airlines is in the final phase of adding a second B747 to its fleet. In cooperation with the Belgian Authorities and after the required formalities this aircraft will be registered as OO CBB and made ready for operations.
The regular services to Libreville, Johannesburg and Nairobi started on the14th of October with two weekly flights from Brussels. In addition to the regular African flights, the airline has operated charter flights to Cairo, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salam. The second aircraft will be used to increase the frequencies on the African network. This will be followed by the planned start up of South American services at the beginning of 2008.
In due course, Cargo B will also look at other markets and destinations. Brussels clearly is an ideal operational cargo hub for both import and export, with efficient road and rail connections as well as a global cargo flight network.
At the last board meeting, Henny Essenberg was appointed as a new board member. He has had over 35 years' experience in a wide range of responsibilities and competences within the airline industry.
After his studies in Economics at the Rotterdam University, he joined KLM in 1970 and was, as Vice President Cargo Services (1990-1995), responsible for the world wide operational processes of KLM Cargo with a fleet of 747-combis and 747-freighters, under wet lease contracts for both Martinair and Atlas Air.
He was Managing Director of AIR UK (1995-1998) and KLM Executive Vice President Passenger Business (1999-2004), a position where he was involved in realising the Joint Venture with North West Airlines. Since 2002 his main focus was the merger-project with Air France and the introduction to the SKYTEAM-Alliance. He is currently still active in the airline industry as an independent consultant.
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Never bought it myself. Look around for deals on meat and veggies. Don't one stop shop. I coupon like a motherfucker also. If you expend the time to actually SHOP instead of just throw whatever you want into the cart, you'll come out on top. I bought almost three weeks' worth of groceries for a little over $100 last week. Shop at the ethnic stores, too.
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This is the sculpture for Olga and Changa for Jakub Rozalski's 1920+ Series done by Unique Voodoo. We also created the miniature sculpture for Jakub Rozalskis SCYTHE board game base on this sculpture.
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I was directed to Digger by a family member, and I was hooked almost instantly. Despite how it starts seeming kind of silly, Ursula Vernon quickly wins ones heart with her characters, from the somewhat-insane Murai to the overly silly Shadowchild to the humorous and loveable hyena Ed. Ursula Vernon amazed me from the start. Her style of black and white was fantastic for all the underground scenes, her characters were amazing and realistic, and the only character death that I cried over was in her world. It took me mere moments to fall in love with each of her characters, and in one case it took a mere page. 759 pages, and Digger has to deal with a god, yet it doesn't feel like it's going to fast. I can't go into detail about why I like the plot given my 400 word limitation, but I can say that it's honestly amazing how much story was fitted in while the plot felt like it was barely jogging along. Another thing I loved was that the comic was how it managed to get away with being so strange at times. For most artists, it's drawing the line when you have vampire squash and oracular slugs in a work that's supposed to be realistic. Not Ursula Vernon. She includes such oddities into her world without making the comic seem any less serious, at least until Digger comments on the situation. It may not be for everyone, but I would definitely recommend giving it a try, hopefully continuing to the end. There is sorrow, there is humour, and there are things that are simply too ridiculous to be believed. In short, it was one of my favourite comics of all time, and should be checked out thoroughly. It captured my heart, made me laugh, and at the last moment delivered an emotional blow equal to the physical one that I would have received if it had clubbed me over the head with a pickaxe.
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Malcolm Knox's latest book somewhat unwittingly tests an awkward literary question: Where is the line between fiction, biography and myth?
When the well-known Australian author Malcolm Knox recently published his fourth novel, The Life, it was greeted with the serious critical respect due to one of the nation's rising literary stars.
The Life, a tough, bleak, oddly wistful internal narrative of a broken-down surf hero of the 1970s named Dennis Keith, or "DK" as he'd once been known, had 'em raving.
"A gloriously honest, brutal and moving story of a man who was at the top of his game and then pissed it all away," fellow Australian Christos Tsiolkas, author of the much-acclaimed The Slap, wrote on the back cover. "It confirms what ought to be more widely recognised, that he is one of the most considerable of our novelists," wrote the well-known literary critic Peter Pierce in the Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum section.
"Knox has never written better than in The Life," wrote Geordie Williamson in The Australian newspaper. "Page after page is radiant with the energy he brings to bear on Dennis' passion for surfing… It is as though the choice of character – the masculine, working-class strut of a wildly unconstrained id – liberated Knox from bourgeois order and temperance. The ripe demotic of DK's surfie tribe and the playfulness and vulgarity that characterize their golden years are rendered with all the kinetic energy of the waves they live to ride."
Indeed…Yet not long after the reviews began appearing, I found myself fielding phone calls from old surfing friends. Their responses veered from the puzzled to the outraged.
"DK? It's fucken MP!"
By this time I'd read The Life, and my admiration for Malcolm's skill was unable to dispel a distinct unease. Because my mates were right. The story wore a different flesh – names and dates had been changed, purely fictional story arcs had been affixed – but the hard bones of it all corresponded. This DK wasn't a fictional character at all. This was Michael Peterson. Or was it?
Michael Peterson, aka MP, mother Joan, brother Tommy, sister Dot, father unknown, grew up half wild in the late 1960s on Queensland's newly christened Gold Coast, developed a lethal machine-gun power surfing style, won everything there was to win between 1972 and 1975, fell from grace thanks to heavy drug use and what was later diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia, and subsequently became Australian surfing's most mythologized, least known figure.
When I was a kid, steeped in the magical and slightly dangerous surfing world of the mid-'70s, the MP stories had swung and circled through the sport's submarine spoken-word culture, from kid to kid, from older surfer to younger, from personal contacts and third-person accounts, from People Who Knew.
As kids we used to imagine MP's slashing cutbacks as our own, nicknaming them "grrbacks" for the sheer ripping grunt it took to lean that hard into the rail and hold it without the board skipping uncontrollably. We heard of his legendary drug-taking capacity, we heard crazy tales of how he would drink morphine directly from the bottle; we heard things about him that don't bear repeating, and some of us took them literally enough to try them out just in case they worked, rarely with pleasant results.
We didn't know shit about his life; or only the bits and pieces we'd read in surf mags when MP would deign to be interviewed, in which he'd usually sneer at the interviewer with lines like: "I could say, but I won't say". We heard about him hiding in the bushes at Bells Beach after winning the annual Easter contest for the third time, too distrustful to publicly accept the win, or … who knew why? He could say, but he wouldn't.
At his last great stand, the fabled 1977 Stubbies Pro at Burleigh Heads, MP stared the crowd down with his aviator sunglasses, terrified his opposition, won the final, then half collapsed against the wall of the Burleigh public amenities, picture of a burned-out superman.
Then he disappeared, and in his absence the MP mythology grew and grew, its dark magic a counterpoint to surfing's refurbishing image. Graffiti-art versions of his legendary cutback appeared in Gold Coast industrial areas, while along the highway near Kirra Point, billboards featuring the modern stars arose.
Around the turn of the century, Joan Peterson, who'd become official curator of the MP myth, decided it was time for the Book to be written. The baton fell to then Tracks surf magazine editor Sean Doherty, who produced a biography by turns affectionate and revealing. His foreword pictured Michael as he'd become: overweight, dependent on his tough-minded mother, yet still ticking – and keen on a feed, when he could get hold of one without supervision. (At one point, hilariously, Doherty loses track of MP during a rare outing, searches for him in fear of what Joan will say, and finds him in a nearby pub wolfing down a dozen oysters.)
Reduced to such human scale, MP was no longer the dark magician of yore. Yet myths die hard, and every surfer I've ever known from that time has a particular version of the MP myth lodged like concrete in his head. Even Sean Doherty. "I dunno how much of it my book cleared up, to be honest," he told me recently. "It might have just sparked another dozen myths."


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Well, that was a quick year.
Honestly, 2014 has to be one of the quickest years I've ever experienced. It's been a food-filled, pants-expanding kind of year that's been packed with some huge changes in love, life, business and writing.
Kicking Off With A Bang
2014 was always going to kick off with a bang when Ms. Any Given Food became Mrs. Any Given Food on 4 January and things kind of snowballed from there. I think getting married put a different perspective on all things work and play, the former overruling the latter on many occasions which should be a lot better balanced in 2015.
Married life has brought with it an ton of fun meals out (something we've always enjoyed) but also a huge increase in home cooking, with Mrs. Any Given Food also finding her bakers touch, turning out a wild array of cakes and treats which have contributed to that pants-expanding feel to the year.
Getting Out And About
2014 was a great year for events. The second coming of Ballymaloe Litfest was just as good as the first, the Biabeag events in Kilkenny drew many a food lover to the Marble City, I managed some restaurant & hotel trips, cooking nights, festivals and more.
Not enough as I would have liked, but certainly enough to satisfy the cravings.
Slowing Down
Looking back at the Any Given Food archives for 2014, things notably slowed down around August 2014, which is the point in the year where work ramped up. The Kilkenny Arts Festival was kicking off, So Kilkenny had its soft launch which meant rather than sitting at restaurants I was on the sidelines of matches, covering local news, filming gigs, writing more articles in four months about Kilkenny and its going ons than I had about food all year.
Couple a trip to the Dublin Fringe Festival with Devious Theatre in September in with producing a 20-part radio comedy series (due for broadcast early 2015) and a return to the stage with War Of Attrition throughout December and the latter stages of the year meant taking the foot off a lot of things food related and in particular, Any Given Food.
All of that too before the day job took off at a rate of knots into the end of the year.
Moving Into 2015
Moving into 2015, however, and the diary is already filling up with food events. So Kilkenny is under control with a team behind it, and while I've plenty enough planned out for Any Given Food and food writing in 2015, I'm also commencing work on another publication in January, more on that in due course.
I'll be out and about with the camera and recording gear in 2015 again for the next round of Biabeag events and after producing a small number of food-related podcasts during 2014, I should be starting the 2015 series of podcasts off again in February combining food chats and recordings from food events.
I'm pretty sure that Any Given Food turns five in 2015 as well so it will be good to be on game and more focused on food writing. You can just hear the resolutions starting to creep out of me now…
Finally, A Thanks
At the end of it all, we're drawing a line under 2014 and I think if there was ever a year of transition on all fronts for me, it was this one.
Thanks to all who've made contact on all matters food over the course of 2014 and wherever you go and whatever you do in 2015, may you knock the hell out of it.
I know I will.


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EA confirms Battlefield 6 is coming in 2018; Battlefield 1 is getting Esports Mode and GOTY Edition this Fall
The Scientifically Proven Best Video Games of All Time: An Introduction and The Top 100
New Retail Releases: Metal Gear Survive, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, More
10 Actresses We Think Could Play Elena Fisher in the Uncharted Movie
10 Actors (and Actresses) We Think Could Play Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect Movie
Pac-Man CE 2 Plus, Payday 2, SteamWorld Dig 2, more coming to Nintendo eShop this week
EA's E3-adjacent EA Play 2018 event will include Battlefield 6, Anthem, new EA Sports games, more
Monster Hunter: World is king of the jungle… and the bestselling game of January 2018
Free Luigi's Balloon World expansion is now available for Super Mario Odyssey
The Behemoth will launch Pit People's "Full Version" on March 2
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Square Enix will have playable demos of Final Fantasy XV, Star Ocean 5, I Am Setsuna, more at PAX East 2016
Square Enix has announced they'll have a big booth (#4044) at this year's PAX East convention. The RPG specialists will have demo stations for more than ten new and upcoming titles on hand, and they also plan to host four panels focusing on their biggest franchises.
Fans of Agent 47 will find a triple shot of Hitman titles on the PAX East show floor as Square Enix will bring demos of Hitman, Hitman: Sniper – Death Valley Challenge Mode, and Hitman Go: VR Edition to Boston. A Hitman-themed panel will target congoers on April 23 as well. Attendees will also get the chance to play the action-packed adventures of Rico Rodriguez with a Just Cause 3: Sky Fortress demo.
For all the RPG fans out there, the publisher will have demo stations available for the upcoming Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness and I Am Setsuna, as well as the currently available Kingdom Hearts Unchained X and Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward (a Heavensward panel will also take place on April 23).
Finally, racing fans will be able to burn rubber through demos of this June's MXGP 2 and the recently released Sebastien Loeb Rally Evo.
Two more panels round out Square Enix's PAX East preparations, including one that's all about Lara Croft, and another that'll look at the cast of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
The 2016 PAX East expo will kick off on Friday, April 22. (more…)
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Xbox Store Today: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Just Cause 3, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, more
Just like this week's PlayStation Store update, Ubisoft and Square Enix are sitting at the top of the Xbox Games Store update with Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege and Just Cause 3.
Ubisoft counter-terrorism shooter for the Xbox One is the first new entry in the series in seven years and promises a new 5v5 "Fortify Versus Defend" mechanic that focuses on environmental destruction (or protection if you're the defending team). And speaking of destruction, Just Cause 3 will let players tear it up on the Xbox One as players will once again step into Rico Rodriguez's wingsuit as he flings himself off cliffs in search of another dictator on another island paradise. Don't forget your grapple gun!
Also available this week is The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, a Diablo-like action RPG that stars the famed vampire hunter. But you'll have to fight more than a few bloodsuckers as mad science run amok "threatens the fragile peace between monster and mortal." If that sounds like your kind of thing, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is available as a free download all month as part of Microsoft's Games With Gold program.
More information on all three of these games (and a few other new releases) can be found after the break. (more…)
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, Just Cause 3, GTA San Andreas, more added to PS Store
We're getting closer to the end of the year, but there's still plenty of life left in Sony's weekly PlayStation Store updates.
Ubisoft leads off this week with the release of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege for the PS4. The counter-terrorism shooter is the first new entry in the series in seven years and promises a new 5v5 "Fortify Versus Defend" mechanic that focuses on environmental destruction (or protection if you're the defending team).
Speaking of destruction, Just Cause 3 is also available for the PS4 from Square Enix and Avalanche Studios this week. Players will once again step into Rico Rodriguez's wingsuit as he flings himself off cliffs in search of another dictator on another island paradise. And don't forget your grapple gun!
Rockstar makes a surprise appearance on the PlayStation Store this week with a PS3 re-release for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. This re-release is no doubt similar to the Xbox-to-Xbox 360 upgrade the game received last year.
Finally this week, The Legend of Kage is now available to download on the PS4 as part of the Arcade Archives series. Kage is one of the best side-scrollers from the 80s, so don't let it sneak up on you!
More information on all of these games (and a few other new releases) can be found after the break. And a full rundown of this week's new game add-ons and discounts can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
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New Releases: Just Cause 3, Rainbow Six Siege, Xenoblade Chronicles X, More
Three big games will be available in stores this week, including the long-awaited continuation of the Xenoblade series and the return of Rico Rodriguez.
That's right, everyone's favorite high-flying secret agent is back in Just Cause 3 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Taking place on a "Mediterranean island paradise," developer Avalanche Studios has promised that players will get to experience "complete vertical freedom" during their adventure with the ability to skydive, BASE jump, and free dive throughout the game's open world.
Also available this week is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege for the PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Teams of five will use tactical strategies to either defend their base or break into it in a new "Infiltrate versus Fortify" style for the operatives versus terrorists series. The oft-forgotten Wii U gets a chance to shine this week too as Nintendo's console is almost home to Xenoblade Chronicles X, another entry in their popular sci-fi RPG series. This time around, Players will be able to ride a personalized mechs called Skells and join online squads to battle massive bosses.
It's not a new game, but a stealth re-release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will also be available in stores for the PS3 this week.
Finally, Microsoft will release the Xbox One 1TB Elite Bundle this week, which includes a 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive for faster access times and an Elite Wireless Controller. But more power requires a bigger credit card as Microsoft has priced the Xbox One 1TB Elite Bundle at $499.99.
A complete rundown of this week's new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tagged Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, Xenoblade Chronicles X
Just Cause 3 gets December 1 release date, E3 trailer
Get your grappling hooks ready! Square Enix announced today that Just Cause 3 will hit the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on December 1st.
"Just Cause 3 is one of our most anticipated titles and we're excited to build on everything the community loved about Just Cause 2," said Phil Rogers, CEO at Square Enix. "With a beautiful 400 square-mile sandbox, Just Cause 3 will offer players almost endless hours of creativity, destruction and awe-inspiring stunts this December 1."
Additionally, Square Enix released a new trailer for the title. The video, "This is Just Cause 3," showcases all the vehicles, weapons, and modes that the game has to offer.
Avalanche and Square Enix unveil first Just Cause 3 gameplay trailer
Square Enix and Avalanche Studios have released the first gameplay trailer for Just Cause 3, going so far as to tell gamers it features "No cut scenes, no scripts, no staging." Said to captured from "actual gameplay," the cinematic presentation is thanks to "great camera angles." I'm not sure I buy it, but the collection of explosions, gunplay, and aerial stunts are certainly impressive.
The trailer also serves as the debut of the Weaponised Vehicle Pack, which will be available as a free bonus to players who pre-order the game. The Weaponised Vehicle Pack includes three luxury vehicles all decked in the finest in heavy weaponry. Perfect for protagonist Rico Rodriguez to use in his quest to free the island of Medici from the evil General Di Ravello.
Just Cause 3 will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One this Fall.
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First Just Cause 3 trailer is on fire and the devs will answer your questions at PAX East 2015
The Just Cause series is known for its big action setpieces as Avalanche Studios has pushed protagonist Rico Rodriguez into (and out of) some of the biggest action movie-style moments ever. With Just Cause 3, the development team has made the jump to the PS4 and Xbox One for the first time and the game's first trailer, dubbed "Firestarter," gives you an idea of their ambition.
PAX East attendees will get an even closer look at Just Cause 3 as several members of the Avalanche team (including Chief Creative Officer Christofer Sundberg and Game Director Roland Lesterlin) will close out the first day's festivities with a behind-the-scenes panel:
Join moderator Greg Miller (http://www.kindafunny.com/) and key members of Avalanche Studios – the makers of Just Cause – as they discuss the series' inspiration and distinctive style and talk about the upcoming Just Cause 3. Panelists will include Christofer Sundberg (Avalanche Studios founder and Chief Creative Officer) Roland Lesterlin (Just Cause 3 Game Director) and Zach Schlappi (Art Director)
Finally, Square Enix has updated the game's release date. Instead of "TBA 2015," we now know that Just Cause 3 will be available for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One this Fall.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One Tagged Just Cause 3, PAX East 2015
Just Cause 3 officially announced for 2015 release on the PC, PS4, Xbox One
After a variety of leaks, fans of the first two games in the franchise have long assumed that Just Cause 3 has been in development at Avalanche Studios. Today, the developer has confirmed that their New York studio has been hard at work on the game for the last three years and that it'll be released in 2015 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The news comes not via publisher Square Enix, but instead from Game Informer, as Just Cause 3 will appear on the cover of the magazine's December issue:
In 2015, the beloved series returns with Just Cause 3 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. We got the chance to be the first people outside of the studio to play not just 10 or 20 minutes, but several hours of the game, set in a fictional Mediterranean archipelago. The time flew by as we tried out the vastly improved parachute and grapple mechanics, terrorized the latest dictator's well-defended bases, and soared through the sky with the all-new wingsuit. Just Cause has never played this smoothly, and as you'll see in the cover story launching digitally today, it's never looked this good.
More details about Just Cause 3 will trickle out of Game Informer's editorial offices all month. And in case you're wondering what the main Avalanche team is working on, they'll release Mad Max in 2015 for WB Games.
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Two recent camping road trips where we relied on the travel time to charge our 2 phones convinced me to build a linear 5v power supply. We use an AM Airband radio in the car that is very sensitive to RF from typical switch modes phone chargers. The IDLA charger we bought even overrides our car FM broadcast radio and makes the scan feature unusable.
I used 2 x 7805 in a die cast box with 2 outputs, for 2 phones, however when the phone batteries are low and you use the phone GPS, the box gets really hot. So I decided to include a 5amp switchmode 12v-to-5v PSU in the box with a switch to toggle between the switchmode and linear PSU depending on the requirements/limitations.
I've labelled the switch: "noise … heat". Select as required for the part of the trip!
Hi Yves
Including that switch "noise / heat" is gold!! : – )
I too was faced by the same dilemma in deciding on a charging method for my recent Galaxy TAB tablet running a mapping programme in my 4WD. As we all know, operating *any* switch mode charger / voltage converter in a vehicle is simply unacceptable if you are trying to simultaneously operate HF and/or VHF! I was just not prepared to compromise my HF mobile-receive performance. As a consequence I decided to design and construct my own linear (ie completely RF noiseless) USB power supply running off the car battery (actually it has to be designed to operate off the vehicle's alternator (ie say 14.2 volts input)). The output is 5v via USB, and I wanted to initially supply 1A. So with 14.2 input, 5V output and a 1A current – this means that a linear charger has to dissipate 9.2W. (This is quite a bit of heat). Again for this initial supply I did not want to use external heatsinks or fans, so I selected a diecast project case to mount it in, and rely on convection cooling off the thick diecast case.
I also decided to use a two stage regulator – for the second stage I used a 7805 regulator, and for the first stage I used a conventional 2N3055 / Zener diode regulator to supply 8v to the 7805. The advantage of this is:
1. A 2N3055 is a very rugged device and should easily handle starting transients etc off the alternator (maybe I am overly cautious, but I didn't want to risk a power supply failure and present 14v on the USB rail, and destroy my brand new Galaxy tablet!!).
2. I mounted the 2N3055 on the opposite side of the case to the 7805 – in this way the two heat sources are distributed
3. I can include additional 7805 regulators off the single 2N3055 arrangement to supply additional USB outlets in the future
I next had to work out how USB charging "works" as I had heard that USB devices "communicate" to work out how much current a dedicated charging port (DCP) (to use its technical term), can supply. I am sure that we have all experienced various combinations of USB chargers / USB devices that will and will not charge correctly! I ignored the Apple devices (who cares about Apples proprietary operation anyway??). After some research (and subsequent mockup and measurements in the shack), I have confirmed that with DCP supplying non Apple devices:
1. With the D+ and D− lines open circuit, the USB device will draw a maximum of 500mA
2. With the D+ and D− lines short circuit, the USB device will draw a maximum of 1A
3. For the USB device to draw more than 2A, different voltages are required to be presented to the D+ and D− lines (more research required here)
So for my application, I set it up to supply 1A, and constructed my USB power supply based on the above, and after my recent trip to the Victorian High Country, I am 100% satisfied with it, and my design criteria. I used it to run my Galaxy tablet, and also to charge my Samsung S6 phone. It was powered up and running every time the engine was running, and on the warmer days (say 30 degrees ambient), the power supply diecast case was very hot to the touch (not quite burning hot, but very hot … as a guess say 55 degrees). This is all as per my design.
And zero additional noise on HF!!
What's next? Next I may look at a 2A USB supply, but as the thermal capacity on my existing diecast case has been reached, in my next design I will need to introduce a heatsink and/or fan arrangement.
73, Tim VK2BT (16-Jan-2017)
You can actually get switched mode 7805 equivalents and if you mount them in a die cast case with proper bypassing, there is no noise ( and no heat!!!) – Horst VK2HL (16-Jan-2017)