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Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:08:00
Things I meant to post over the last week
1. The Swayze is responding well to treatment. Go Swayze. It's time to not be nice to that cancer.
2. Bret and the girls wrecked the house they were staying in, and VH1 didn't bother to buy the promised insurance. Gee, what a surprise. VH1 is an irresponsible organization and those whores have about as much respect for property as they do for themselves. Oh and Bret Michaels is a douchebag.
3. Is PC gaming dead? Hell yes it is. I've said this before, but it bears repeating: PC gaming is a never-ending cycle of upgrades and driver problems. Every two or three years, the latest and greatest game will require a new graphics card. The high end is always brutal, cost-wise. $500 bucks. A really good latest-gen upper midrange card goes about $200-$250. Budget cards worth buying are $175.
On the off years when you aren't upgrading video cards, you need to upgrade your CPU to keep up with the video card you plan to get next year. And every so often you'll need a new motherboard. And fans will burn out. Power supplies go bad. Your entire PC will be replaced a part at a time over a three-to-five year lifespan, and while you can build a rig for a grand, if you want a good rig you'll be spending about two grand. Or just buy a whole new rig every three years. For $2000.
OR...you could buy an Xbox 360 for $250-$400 (depending on the model) and be done with it. Add in a second controller and a year of Xbox Live and you still can't break $700. Done and dusted. The games rock. If online is your thing there is no better matchmaking right now than Live. It's simple, easy, and like they always say about Macs, it just works. Except for the red rings of death. But they're doing what they can to make good on those problems.
Maybe the PS3 is more your speed. Do it. It's the best Blu-Ray player around right now, and you get to play MGS and SOCOM. I'm not dying for a PS3, but when we get an HD TV, I may look at it just for the movie capability. And SOCOM. :)
4. Brokeback Mountain is a shit film, regardless of its alleged social import. Rann nails the very exact thing that I complained about when I first saw it: These are two lying pieces of shit who destroyed their families because they were too cowardly to be who they were. The fact that they are gay is not a reason to justify that they are lying cheaters. They are not heroes, and the movie did nothing to frame gay people as normal in the minds of AJMG (Average Joe Movie Goer). Plus it was plodding, boring, an hour too long and slower than dial-up internet access. It was poorly directed and poorly edited. Fuck Brokeback Mountain.
Posted by JimK at 08:08 PM on April 11, 2008
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#1 Posted by Noblebrown on 04/11 at 09:59 PM -
Is PC gaming dead? No, and it never will be.
Why? Because computer will always be multifunction devices. With your computer, whether it's a souped-up rig or a dumpster-diver eMachine, will always be able to do far more overall than any console. Hop online, edit movies, manage photos, 3D modeling, etc, etc, etc, and play some games, too.
Now, if you're saying that hardcore PC gaming is dead, well...you're wrong again. Consoles are good. Consoles are fun. But consoles are not nearly as flexible and do not let you do anywhere near as much as the computer. A lot of the hardcore gamer crowd build their own rigs, tweak, overclock, and otherwise modify their machines. That's part of the fun. Consoles are locked down and constantly discourage that kind of thing outside of a few sterile, if useful areas. In addition, some games are simply better on the computer while some are better on the console. I remember running GTA 1 on a PS1 emulator. I had to get a PS 1-style controller to play it because the keyboard was too awkward. However, I've never been able to get used to a controller for a FPS. A mouse is just more accurate. In addition, any game that requires any real amount of text input or constant selection of items, abilities, etc sucks on a controller unless someone made a very damned good interface. Each has their strength, and you don't need to spend money out the wazoo to play the latest games, nor do you have to play them at the highest detail settings. Plus, you can always resell old parts on eBay or Craigslist to recoup some of the money. Hardcore PC gaming may lose some popularity to consoles, but it's not going to die anytime soon.
#2 Posted by JimK on 04/11 at 10:46 PM -
I used to make ALL those arguments. Then I got off the treadmill. My wallet thanks me daily.
I'm *sure* there will be the one-off game on the PC that will interest me (like Crysis) but the cost is just too. damn. much. Plus all that driver trouble makes me mental.
#3 Posted by Buzzion on 04/11 at 11:30 PM -
From the article
Sahranavard found holes in the walls and ceilings, the doors had been removed, most of his grass and outdoor plants had died, and the interior of the home had been almost entirely repainted.
Does that mean that the carpeting belonged to this guy?
#4 Posted by Noblebrown on 04/11 at 11:41 PM -
To each their own. My system hasn't given me any driver troubles yet, but I think the wife's machine has a bad video card. I'll RMA it as soon as I get ahold of a decent interim card. Choose components carefully and you can minimize the troubles.
And it's not like consoles don't have their fun issues. Just look at the goddamned XBox 360 and all the fun with that. MS was already losing money on it, but now they're losing a fuckton more because of the extended warranty for defective units, of which there are many.
#5 Posted by miguelito on 04/12 at 01:50 AM -
Allow me to save time on the gaming thread and just say ditto to Jim's reply in slot #2 above. :)
The exact same thinking is exactly why I have both a Tivo S3 in my living room, and an HD in my bedroom (when I wanted HD in there). I periodically look at mythTV and it's just really cool and all.. but I KNOW that it will just suck a chunk out of my life. I won't be able to stop myself from playing with things on it to push the envelope time and time again, and likely breaking things. It wouldn't be worth doing a myth setup with a honking massive server in my home office that does the recording (on multiple HD cards of course for recording multiple shows at once in HD) with lightweight front-ends. But in the end.. I deal with computer crap all day (and then some) at work, and just got tired of dealing with the same stuff at home… so while they might not have all the bells and whistles, I'm more then satisfied with my Tivos with cablecards for now. Oh, and an AppleTV for some stuff too. :)
For computer use, it's all OSX and Linux for me anymore.. I've basically eradicated windows from most of my life (save the vm I have to rdp to at work for outlook calendaring.. bah).
I do miss a keyboard/trackball setup for some games, but have gotten quite used to the sticks for FPS games. I suck at strategy games so I don't play those.. nor do I play any MMORPGs right now because they just suck up way too much time and money.. with far too much repetition for me. The last game I put a ton of time into was Puzzle Quest… on my mac (though it was a PC game wrapped in a transgaming wine layer).
BTW Jim, yeah the PS3 kicks ass as a player. I've had nothing but excellent experiences with blu-ray, and I haven't even updated my TV and receiver yet. Still using a 2001 model Mitsu 65" RPTV (pre-DLP) that can do 1080i (not 720p though) and using component video with TOSLINK for sound. Hoping to upgrade to a kick ass Samsung DLP (eyeing the 72" model :D) and a receiver with HDMI that can support the raw PCM audio on the blu-rays. My PS3 is my default DVD player now too.. mostly I switched for lack of yet another component input but I actually really like the interface and quality. I've only had a few games on the PS3 thus far, but they were loads of fun too. I tend to buy for the 360 when something is there for both.. mostly so I can switch between movie and game without having to get up… yeah I'm lazy.
As far as the 360 reliability.. had 2 of 3 consoles die on me.. last was my elite that it took them a month to send back a replacement on. All that had failed was the DVD drive (not an RRoD like the other one). My guess is something on the mobo actually died (like sata chipset) otherwise you'd think they'd just replace an el-cheapo DVD drive. Am a tad pissed they didn't even bother to ever update me with an email about it, nor let me know it was shipping when they stressed how important it was to be home to sign for it.
#6 Posted by miguelito on 04/12 at 01:51 AM -
Oh and the defining reason I prefer console games vs PC anymore: I can play games sitting in my comfy recliner on a huge screen with my kick ass stereo system (and huge powered subwoofer) vs having to sit in my home office where my PC is. Granted I have a pretty damn nice surround speaker set (a Klipsch computer set) in there… but it just isn't the same as relaxing in the living room.
#7 Posted by Drumwaster on 04/12 at 12:53 PM -
I have been saying the same thing about BBM ever since it came out. Aside from the "sweeping landscapes" ("Sound of Music" did it much better), there is no good reason to make this movie, with the sole exception of making a film about gay characters. It does little to erase any stereotypes, does less than nothing to show those selfsame gay characters in any kind of positive light, and (if the main characters weren't gay) would have been roundly panned by critics everywhere.
It wasn't even a satisfying romance.
Definite thumbs down, and you may now start with the "homophobic" insults.
#8 Posted by ErikTheRed on 04/12 at 02:10 PM -
I've been looking into a PS3 (for the BluRay, of course) and here's one thing that kind of surprised me: games on consoles are consistently $15 to $20 more per game than PC games. Now consider the fact that game publishers justified the (in my opinion) ridiculously high cost of PC games on "T3h Piracy! T3h Piracy!" why in the name of Zeus' sphincter do we have to pay 33% more for the "pirate-proof" games on the XBox / PS3? Just curious. It's not like it costs them a huge pile of money to change the 15 lines of code that differentiate Madden 2006 and Madden 2007.
Now that I've got my commie-hippie anti-capitalist bitching and whining out of the way, are there any good games for the PS3 that can be played by two players on the same console that aren't the "Virtua Fighter" genre? Help an out-of-touch gamer out, here.
#9 Posted by matthean on 04/14 at 12:04 PM -
Reasons why I still PC game.
1. Console gaming is heavily FPS based. The number of actually good, innovative, etc. FPS games that come out is maybe one per year. My friend who is a console crack head has even said he's tired of all of the FPS games that come out and has started to skip on getting whatever the so called latest and greatest one there is.
If you want to blame the need to upgrade for PC games, blame, surprise, FPS games.
Oh, and I suck at FPS games. :p
2. MMOs haven't really transitioned to consoles yet even though XBox Live is an awesome online tool. You want to declare PC gaming dead? Get something on the console to actually overtake WoW.
I am currently still playing an MMO for over 30 months and I see zero reason for me to move away from it. Only Champions Online would peek my interest right now for a possible MMO on a console. The eventual KotoR MMO that Bioware is working on despite it's halfhearted claims to deny it would be one of the 800lb gorillas I would be all over.
3. The Wii is a great little party game device, but more towards a gimmick of a gaming console. Yes, it sold a TON of units. Doesn't mean hardcore gamers are all over it.
4. The PS3 is so awesome of a gaming console at this stage that the PS2 STILL outsells it and I've seen PS3 commercials that only promote the Blue-Ray aspect. I don't have a TV that really benefits from Blue-Ray, nor the desire to upgrade considering I can watch all the TV I need via online and play DVDs on my PC.
5. Just try to find a 360 hardcore gamer who can't say "My 360 died." My friend had two 360s die. He knows a guy who pimped out his 360 with extra fans just so he wouldn't have yet another one die on him.
6. There is a wealth of games that I could play with my current PC, which isn't built for games and over two years old.
#10 Posted by Rann Aridorn on 04/14 at 05:54 PM -
1. If you think the majority of what's coming out for consoles is just FPSes, then you're not paying attention to what's coming out for consoles. Not a huge surprise since, by the sound of it, you don't do much console gaming.
And it kind of damages your point when you admit that the thing "afflicting" consoles is also what fucks up PC gaming.
2. FFXI and Phantasy Star Online. Both MMOs, both pre-current gen. While new ones haven't really sprung up, doesn't mean they couldn't.
Setting "beat WoW" as a measure of anything's success is pretty ridiculous. That's like saying that to be a success at basketball, you have to break all of Michael Jordan's records (and endorsement deals).
3. Just because the Wii is an underpowered party favor doesn't say anything about the other consoles.
4. So you don't want what the PS3 offers. That doesn't make it a bad console. I'm sure they could offer the Mattheanstation, but it probably wouldn't really cover its production costs.
5. Again, you're having to apply qualifiers. "Hardcore". Okay, so the thing won't stand up to being run fifteen hours of intense play a day. If you're very "hardcore" with your PC, I'm gonna have to ask you how many parts you've burned out in it and had to replace.
6. Yeah, if by "wealth of games" you mean "The ten bucks or less bin at Best Buy". Mmm-mmmm, that's some good Mah-jong!
I mean, seriously, it sounds like your measure of success for console vs. PC is "If it has WoW and CoX, it wins". You seem to have a pretty narrow gaming window, so declaring one side the victor over the other because it fits your personal window is kinda silly.
I personally don't think either side will ever really "die" because there's always going to be a certain niche that a genre of game will fit into on one side or the other better. I do think one or the other side is going to have to adapt very heavily at some point, though, and I think that side is the PC.
The PC gaming industry has used a PR spin that would do the Democrats proud where they've convinced a significant portion of the gaming public that the more intense a game's system requirements, the better that game is. Everyone was gushing about, whatsit, Crysis? its system requirements like that automatically made it super-beautiful. And by all accounts it's a very pretty game.
But it has those intense system requirements because the programmers were too fucking lazy to figure out how to get the same effect with a less intensive pulldown. They knew they didn't HAVE to trim the fat or make it run smoother, because the PC gamers would instead rush out to upgrade their systems as fast as they could, and be grateful for it, viewing it as a hallmark of the game's quality instead of what it was, bloat.
Now, I'm not saying that if they wanted to, they could make it look its best on five year old low-end hardware, but I'm willing to bet money that they could've made it look its best without using requirements that some people believed no typical gaming rig out at the time of its release could actually meet.
#11 Posted by JimK on 04/14 at 06:55 PM -
Man, this "Console vs. PC" is the new Mac vs. PC. :)
Re: the Crysis stuff. It's not just the pretty. It;s the physics. Knowing that they would have 99% of the gamer rigs with dual cores, 2GB of ram or better and a certain ground floor of GPU, they went for broke.
In a way that's great, because it drives the high end. Crysis may have helped push what was the high end (financially) into the middle, making "decent" rigs far more affordable for all, and we need things like that. A rising tide raises all boats and all that. I don't want to see developers stop pushing the envelope.
It would be nice if they were better programmers, though.
My declaration of the "death" of PC gaming is, of course, hyperbole. It will never die. Some things will always require more horsepower. Until MS opens up the XBox to mice & keyboards natively, some things will always be easier or better on a PC. But for everyday, for cost per hour of enjoyment, for ease of use...I'm damn glad I made the switch.
I use to preach...nay, rail...against consoles. I was hard fucking core. Back in the day I had a video card add-on that gave me 12 extra megs and a 3D processor just so I could get better framerate in Quake. I was the first person I knew with 384 megs of RAM in a *home* machine that wasn't for a job. My bona fides are for the reals. I just cannot see how it's worth the constant upgrade cycle anymore when for so, so SO much less, I get such a bigger bang for my buck.
BUT: If you are a WOW freak, I get why you are attached to your PC. I have never played WOW for just that reason; I could see it taking over my life and I just do not want that. Too many other great things to play. :)
I miss my ASDF and my twitchy mousing, for certain. I SUCK at deathmatching now, which is why I never do it. Console deathmatching in FPS games doesn't work for me, but everything else does. I think the next generation will be mouse/keyboard and/or controller, you watch. Sony and MS want to get *all* the gamers, and that is the last great stumbling block.
#12 Posted by Buzzion on 04/14 at 07:20 PM -
Simple rule for me: Nintendo and PC.
I'm a Nintendo fanboy, those are the systems I have always had and likely will continue to get. The Wii is definitely fun to play and is capable of plenty of good gaming beyond simple "novelty" and probably has done more for Microsoft and Sony in the future than will be realized. In the 80's Nintendo resurrected video games for the masses and now they've opened the market to those left out of the "hardcore gamer" market. More people are exposed to the games and when the next gen comes may want to buy the latest systems.
For other games its why I like PC. It allows me to go out and play games that don't come out for my console of choice. And it definitely does play some games a whole lot better than a PC can. Go and try to play Jedi Knight 2 or Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on the consoles. Then play it on the PC. Its a completely different experience and the control on PC is lightyears beyond the control on console. That's what worries me on The Force Unleashed. Its made for consoles and not even coming out for PC.
#13 Posted by miguelito on 04/14 at 07:21 PM -
I use to preach...nay, rail...against consoles. I was hard fucking core. Back in the day I had a video card add-on that gave me 12 extra megs and a 3D processor just so I could get better framerate in Quake. I was the first person I knew with 384 megs of RAM in a *home* machine that wasn't for a job. My bona fides are for the reals. I just cannot see how it's worth the constant upgrade cycle anymore when for so, so SO much less, I get such a bigger bang for my buck.
I used to be the same way. These days, I love being able to pickup the controller… turn on the console (either one), flip inputs, and start playing.. then flip back to Tivo/movie. Yeah, I'm lazy. :) Ironically I grew up with exposure to the Intellivision, then we had a Coleco, NES, then an SNES.. then I got into PCs and went that way for awhile. The PS2 was what finally got me back into consoles again. I did both for awhile, but the current-gen stuff is just good enough to make me avoid the PC anymore.
I also just got so tired of trying to keep up with video cards, CPU/mobo upgrades, OS crap, etc… I hardly ever even boot my "gaming" box anymore. Well, that's not true, I guess I've actually had it on most of the time, but booted into linux so I can do stuff at home vs having to do it across the VPN for testing at work.
Now I use the money I used to continually spend on computer bits for a really nice laptop (macbook pro) and I'm about ready to upgrade my TV and receiver.. which will give me a much better gaming AND movie/TV experience.
BUT: If you are a WOW freak, I get why you are attached to your PC. I have never played WOW for just that reason; I could see it taking over my life and I just do not want that. Too many other great things to play. :)
Yeah, no desire for me to go there either. I played Everquest for awhile back when it was pretty new and it ended up being exactly what I hate. There was just far too much time required in doing repetitious work to try to build up experience. The final nail in the coffin was the night that a group of us from work planned to meat to play together. A couple of us were on the phone (pre-teamspeak days) and we spent about 45min getting to where the rest were. When we finally got to the right zone we were about 1/2 way across when we were attacked by a big group of monsters (I forget which) which apparently hated me. I was killed pretty fast. My friends stayed and kept on eye on my stuff while I spent another 45min trying to get back.. which resulted in me running into a train as soon as I entered the zone again, without any chance to even try to turn around and leave. Right then and there I quit for good. It was just such a stupid waste of time.
I know some people enjoy the time they spend online playing those games, and the community sense they get, and more power to you/them… but I like being able to play games in spurts when I want to, vs having to plan the time to make it worthwhile. For the planned time and camaraderie, I'll stick to poker get-togethers and such.
I'm glad we have the choices and options though. Competition always drives more development and gives us more in the end.
Oh, and I do agree that it's frustrating that most console games tend to cost more (at least shortly after release) when you'd think it should be the opposite (less random hw setups, more controlled patching system, etc). I think some of that is the licensing fees to get on the console in the first place.. which isn't there on the PC side.
#14 Posted by matthean on 04/15 at 05:47 PM -
1. No, I don't actually keep up with a gaming magazine anymore since I don't really go into Gamestop that much right now, so in a way I am out of the so called loop. I still have three different set of friends who I talk to regularly and the games that they are playing. By in large it's talk about FPS games. If you list the big name games that have come out, or are coming out for the PS3/360, it's slanted towards FPS games. Yes, there are other type of games coming out, but they get far less press. See Vegas 2 TV ad as proof.
2. I meant good MMOs. :p WoW IS a freak of nature in terms of numbers. Having successful MMOs on consoles isn't the same as sticking a fork in PC gaming. In order to do that, consoles need to dominate PC games so badly that people can't really think of reasons to play games on a PC. Think of how much Halo 3 made. WoW even now brings in roughly a minimum of $150 mil per month in subscriptions alone.
3. I wasn't trying to imply anything about the other consoles. The Wii is going to take some time to get a catalog of games going that will get more of the hardcore base into it. Certainly games like Super Smash Brothers Brawl is helping.
4. The PS3 is a good Blue-Ray player. You'll find very few gamers saying it's currently the best system for games. If you are buying a PS3 for games, you are doing so in hoping that you get your money's worth at some point.
5. If you play 15 hours of gaming a day, seek help. My friend who went through two 360s has a full time job. Another friend had one go out very soon after he got it and he has a full time job, goes part time to school, and has a girl friend. The fact that MS went and changed the warranty because so many machines were dying on people should tell you how much of an epic fail their hardware has been.
In two plus years of me having my PC I replaced one part and it was more my own fault then anything else. I pretty much always have my PC on, and often leave my browser(Firefox) running. Firefox is well known to be something you want to close once in a while. My carpet shags bad, so over time the fan in my power supply started being noisey. I switched it out and changed some things around and it's been fine since.
6. City of Heroes, Company of Heroes, Dawn of War series, and The Orange Box to name a few. You know, things that won awards when they came out. No, I can't run Crysis, which does look freaking sweet on a PC, but then I'm perfectly fine with that.
When I play a game, I will play it a ton and thus I miss out on a number of games by default. The fact that I am credited on Jarulf's Guide for Diablo, made a JavaScript version of a rookie converter for Front Page Sports: Football which I played for at least 7/8 years and will be making some guides for City of Heroes that will be bare minimum of 10 pages in Word should back this claim up. Seriously, I was thinking about Diablo recently for whatever reason when suddenly I went, "Hey, isn't the the minimal number of damage to perma stun Diablo on the first online difficultly setting...Oh wait. I still remember that and I didn't even look it up."
#15 Posted by miguelito on 04/15 at 06:40 PM -
The Wii is going to take some time to get a catalog of games going that will get more of the hardcore base into it.
Hey, Wii Fit is coming soon. Hah.
4. The PS3 is a good Blue-Ray player. You'll find very few gamers saying it's currently the best system for games. If you are buying a PS3 for games, you are doing so in hoping that you get your money's worth at some point.
Or.. you can't afford more then one console, and go for the PS3 for games and because it's a great player. :P
I, on the other hand, have all 3 current consoles (and 2 360s).. so nyah. Only reason I have 2 360s is I bought an elite for the HDMI port and larger drive.. and I keep the old one for a mobile Rock Band setup that doesn't require me to tear down my normal setup each time. Good thing I had it too.. my elite ate it (drive refused to read any discs anymore) and it took them a month to decide to send a replacement vs replacing the drive. I had my first one RROD too, so yeah, the quality on the 360s is ass. The PS3 has been rock solid though, and I've left it on for days at a time.. since it's my default movie player now, I sometimes forget to turn it off.
5. If you play 15 hours of gaming a day, seek help.
Constantly, yes.. but if you've never done this, then you're just not a hardcore gamer.. sorry. Kidding.. well, only 1/2. I remember when I was younger and did a few damn near full-weekend sprees on games like the Wing Commander series, or Half-life.
I actually will do an almost full-weekend on a game once or twice a year, if there's a great new game out. Did it with Orange Box on the 360.. played through HL-2 and ep1 for the 3rd and 2nd times respectively (previously on the PC), then ep2, and Portal. Having played on both PC and console, I thought I was going to hate it on the console, I actually found it was just as fun.


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War is monstrous--a plague on mankind, an evil. Such is the modern attitude, but it was not the attitude of our ancestors. As late as the nineteenth century, they thought of going to war as a perfectly acceptable legal procedure. In particular, they thought of a pitched battle as a lawful way of settling an international dispute, a kind of trial that produced a lawful verdict through a day of slaughter.
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Barbaric indeed, from the modern point of view. Yet the old law of victory served to keep war within limits. It laid down ground rules, and encouraged commanders to keep their fighting within the limits of pitched battle. Especially in the eighteenth century, the Golden Age of limited warfare, the law of victory presided over a style of civilized monarchical warfare far more contained than our wars today.
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Overall, I think this recipe is good. I did add the extra soy sauce as previous reviewers suggested, left out the chili (for my kids) and thought it still had a great flavor. *However*, I did NOT feel comfortable about the way the broth "cooked" the beef. I was very careful to follow the directions, but ended up putting everything back into the pot to let the beef cook more. Despite that, my family devoured it all. I'm not looking for a really authentic pho, so for us it worked and I'll probably make it again.
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- Calories: 303
- Fat: 8.3g
- Saturated fat: 3.2g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.4g
- Protein: 24.2g
- Carbohydrate: 31.1g
- Fiber: 2.8g
- Cholesterol: 51mg
- Iron: 4.2mg
- Sodium: 900mg
- Calcium: 120mg
- 1 (8-ounce) sirloin steak
- 4 ounces uncooked wide rice stick noodles
- 1 1/2 cups thinly sliced yellow onion
- 3 whole cloves
- 2 cardamom pods
- 2 garlic cloves, halved
- 1 (3-inch) piece peeled fresh ginger, thinly sliced
- 1 star anise
- 4 cups fat-free, less-sodium beef broth
- 2 cups water
- 1 tablespoon less-sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons fish sauce
- 4 cups baby bok choy leaves
- 1 cup snow peas, trimmed
- 1 small fresh Thai chile, thinly sliced into rings
- 1 cup fresh bean sprouts
- 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves
- 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
- 4 lime wedges
- 1. Freeze beef for 10 minutes; cut across grain into 1/8-inch-thick slices.
- 2. Cook noodles according to package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water; drain.
- 3. Place onion and next 5 ingredients (through star anise) in a large saucepan; cook over medium-high heat 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add broth and 2 cups water; bring to a boil. Strain broth mixture though a fine sieve over a bowl; discard solids. Return broth to pan. Add soy sauce, sugar, and fish sauce; bring to a boil. Add bok choy and snow peas; simmer 4 minutes or until peas are crisp-tender and bok choy wilts.
- 4. Arrange 1/2 cup noodles into each of 4 large bowls. Divide raw beef and chile slices evenly among bowls. Ladle about 1 2/3 cups hot soup over each serving (broth will cook beef). Top each serving with 1/4 cup bean sprouts, 1 tablespoon basil, and 1 tablespoon mint. Serve with lime wedges.
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The Kansas City Chiefs have told the Kansas City Star that the reports that the team has sold the naming rights to Arrowhead Stadium to a corporate sponsor are inaccurate.
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A team spokeswoman said the team has been involved in naming rights discussions since 2006 but that there is no deal in place, no announcement planned, and that neither is expected in the immediate future.
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Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Designing our guest room
Last month I showed you how we had renovated our guest room. Today I want to share with you my design for the room...
A few weeks before we had finished renovating the guest room, the lovely Peeps at Argos contacted me asking if I would like to receive some of their products to style in my home and share them with you. The timing was perfect! we are having guests to stay next month and I had literally no furniture and next to nothing in the way of home furnishings to go in our new guest room so I jumped at the chance to be given £500 to spend at Argos...
I started to plan out my guest room by spending hours looking at inspiration and researching guest room ideas.
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Think about what you'd expect to find in a 5 star hotel.
Choose a theme that is personal to you and go from there.
Give your guests a nice calming place to relax and feel at home.
Your guest room design should not only be comfortable but also a little fun.
So I started to think about what I have loved about my favourite hotels and all the added extras that would make my guests feel super comfortable.
With all my ideas whirling around in my head I came up with this colour and theme inspiration...
I was thinking white furniture with pops of colour in soft furnishings and accessories.
Then the hard part! Working out how I was going to furnish our quirky long narrow bedroom...
One thing was for sure, the double bed would have to sit below the window at the end of the room and could not have a foot board as you would more than likely have to get in to it from the base. So I chose the Scandinavia solid pine white double bed with slatted headboard, a mattress, double duvet, pair of pillows, white fitted sheets and a white pin tucked duvet cover.
I really wanted to provide bedside tables so my guests could keep a bottle of water, alarm clock, nik naks etc close to hand. But as the space was too tight I had to come up with something a little different! After much thought I opted for a pair of L shaped shelves I could hang on the wall either side of the bed. I would need to paint them white but I just loved there unusual shape and how much storage you could get out of them. I also loved the idea of them housing a pretty glass bottle of water in the long sections. So both guests would have there own bottles!
Whilst searching for shelves on Argos I came across the lovely cube shelves, a perfect place for displaying some coloured accessories and my pretty coloured Wallpaper travel guides. After checking the measurements I decided to go with them as they would fit perfectly on my sloping wall.
Due to the shape of the room I decided that a wardrobe would be too imposing but I still wanted to provide my guests with some hanging space."Why don't I make the little foyer at the top of the stairs a little dressing area!"
I found the perfect answer in a white finished solid pine storage unit with four coat hooks and three baskets with cut out handles for easy access to contents. I could hang it from the wall placing a monks bench style laundry bin below, that also conveniently doubles up as a seat. To add colour, comfort and interest I'm going to make a comfy patterned cover cushion for the top of the bench.
I also wanted to provide my guests with a table that could be used for a laptop and some storage drawers so I chose the Scandinavia dressing table that matches the Scandinavia bed. I have bought a bright coloured Tolix chair to use at the table so my guests could use the dressing table stool as a luggage rack!
My wonderfully generous order from Argos arrives at the end of this week and I can't wait to see what it will all look like. Loads of photos coming soon...
Have a sweet day!
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050, 2007 (07 plate) for sale for Ł3500. The bike has been mainly used for motorway commuting to work for a 40 mile trip; with a bit of restraint it can do 55mpg on the motorway. I have used it for longer trips including The Lakes, Wales and Scotland for summer climbing trips; no doubt it could easily handle an Alpine adventure if the owner were so inclined.
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On Friday, the Maine Red Claws selected Jeremiah Rivers, Doc's oldest son, in the fifth round of the 2012 NBA Development League Draft. Rivers played college basketball at Georgetown University, before transferring to Indiana University. Unlike his younger brother Austin, Jeremiah was not drafted in the NBA draft and has had a tough road to the NBA. After going undrafted after graduation from Indiana, Rivers signed with Mega Vizura from Serbia in August 2011. He injured his ankle in January and missed the rest of the 2011–12 season. He played 14 games for the Serbian team, scoring 6.2 points per game. He had double ankle surgery and while still rehabbing, he played with the New York Knicks summer league team in Las Vegas this past summer. He averaged 3.5 points and 1.8 rebounds in four games with the New York Knicks. His ankles were still a concern, however and he wasn't able to play up to his capabilities. Now healthy, his ultimate goal is to earn a spot on an NBA roster. He plans to take a page from his dad's playbook and focus on playing team ball for the Red Claws as a team rather than his individual performance. Jeremiah will begin his career with the Red Claws on November 12 when their training camp opens. On November 12, Doc will be coaching the Celtics in a game against the Bulls in Chicago and Austin will be preparing for a game later that week in Houston against the Rockets. I'm sure Doc will be keeping an eye on his eldest son as he plays with the Celtics D-League team. [Discuss on CG Forums!]
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Delaware's Dr. J. Nigel Ellis Receives ASSE's Highest Honor
Des Plaines, IL (June 15, 2010) — In recognition of his outstanding service and dedication to the safety profession, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently named member Dr. J. Nigel Ellis of Wilmington, DE, as Society Fellow. Ellis received the award today during ASSE's annual Professional Development Conference (PDC) and Exposition – Safety 2010, in Baltimore, MD. The Society Fellow is the highest honor granted by ASSE, recognizing professional members who have displayed life-long excellence in safety and service. Nominated by their peers, region or chapter, candidates for the Society Fellow honor are selected based upon their work, involvement in ASSE and long-term contributions in advancing the safety profession.
Ellis is the President of Ellis Fall Safety Solutions, LLC, Division of DSC. His company provides fall protection assessment, engineering, installation and workplace training on effective use of fall safety products. With over 39 years of experience in safety engineering, Ellis has spoken at leading industry association and society meetings, including ASSE conferences. He has developed coursework and materials for safety training courses, such as Competent and Qualified Persons for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Training Institute. Ellis has performed fall hazard assessments at hundreds of facilities and construction sites worldwide and has been retained as a fall safety expert in approximately 1,000 fall-related cases in the U.S.
As an ASSE member for 34 years, Ellis has been an active Society member at the chapter and national levels. Ellis was president of the Lower Delaware Valley Chapter from 1995-1996 and strived to increase membership attendance at chapter meetings. He was selected as Newsletter Editor for ASSE's Engineering Practice Specialty in 2005 and spent three years recruiting talented contributors for the newsletter, including those who composed articles to address key issues and attract attention of prominent CEO's in the areas of safety planning and support. Ellis was awarded the 2006 ASSE Most Improved Newsletter Award for his efforts and also received the 2006 Safety Professional of the Year (SPY) in Engineering. He became the Assistant Administrator of the Engineering Practice Specialty in 2008.
When asked about Ellis's qualifications for the honor of ASSE Fellow, sponsor, Society Fellow and distinguished ASSE member Earnest Harper, CSP, DABFE, DABFET, CFC, stated, "Dr. Ellis is truly a pioneer of safety. As an ASSE member, my safety career began in 1970 when the U.S. was still in its infancy regarding industrial work and safety engineering. It was in the harsh light of those difficult initial years of safety testing and development that I came to know and appreciate the many contributions Dr. Ellis made and continues to make in the field." He also commented, "Today, as a consultant and expert witness, fall injury cases included, Dr. Ellis remains my 'go-to' expert in several areas. Although I have come to call Nigel a friend and colleague, his experience, knowledge, extensive published works and willingness to share with other ASSE safety professionals is exemplary and he is very deserving of this high honor."
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In the FIDS from UFIS Airport Solutions (UFIS-AS) this flexibility is an integral part of the system. With the introduction of the UFIS® WebFIDS module, a customer can now operate an even wider variety of displays from a single system.
Displays with proprietary controllers and graphics software common to the airport industry such as dZine controllers or Solution Space can be incorporated into the system just as easily as displays with a PC-based controller using a browser as the display medium. Large character-based displays like LCD and LED display boards can also be incorporated into the system but large LCD-TFT displays are now offering a viable alternative to these, providing greater flexibility in the information displayed. "Flight information and anything else you can show on a web site can be shown on a FIDS display if that is what you want," said Reiner Sternitzke, UFIS-AS's product manager.
An offshoot of this development was a mechanism for providing flight information to a web portal at any configurable interval.
One of the disadvantages of previous browser-based FIDS solutions was that if the network went down or the server failed temporarily, the display would show the typical "web page not found" screen. This has been resolved in UFIS-AS's WebFIDS module. Even when the server fails, the screens will continue to display the last information they received from the server. Once the connection to the server has been restored, updated information will be sent to the displays. While tested thoroughly in development, this new feature has also proven successful in real-time situations.
WebFIDS was originally developed as part of the project with Delhi International Airport. It has been running successfully there since June 2008. There are more than 400 displays throughout the airport including 27 gate monitors and 174 check-in counter monitors.
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At the other end of the spectrum, WebFIDS was recently installed at Chisinau International Airport, Moldova. Handling only 1.2 million passengers per year, Chisinau falls in the small-size category of airports.
"Chisinau proved to be an excellent project for the second installation of WebFIDS," said Holger Mattig, president & CEO of UFIS-AS. "It is a smaller, regional airport which allows us to showcase the WebFIDS module for this size airport."
Thirty-one displays with flight information are placed throughout the airport including those showing arrival and departure information, gate displays, and check-in counter displays. Up-to-date flight information for the displays is being provided through UFIS® Airport Operational database (AODB), Flight Information Processing System (FIPS), and telex processing.
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Sean Riley said...
This is the guy who does the regular roleplay column. You really think he limits himself to either faction? RPers are, as a rule, incurable altaholics.
while I agree the lay out of AV is an issue playing horde in av for 2 years I have no sympathy at all for the alliance. And the Horde AV que's in my battle group(Cyclone) are almost instant. I would also add that the "bottleneck" At frostwolf is still easy to get around by jumping the fence. Also if you just stand at the flag at iceblood Grave yard you still can't defend the gap nearly as well stormpike.
If you ask me the alliance problem is there are starting to have a bigger AFK problem than the horde in AV at least thats what I see when I'm playing.
I will give you this Stoneheath needs to be moved back or the horde starting area to let the alliance have a fair chance at defending it.
The only thing ive wondered about this supposed imbalance is that IB is supposed to be easy to retake from the south. Well so is SH but from the north. In the midst of a large horde offensive push to Dun Baldar, the alliance can utilize the eastern pass directly south of their starting point. It can easily be used to conduct a surprise attack on the by then horde controlled SH GY, thus sending the entire horde offence back to IB GY once they die.
P.S. Im a rogue so i always try to ninja the Dun Baldar towers/gy, something that became FAR easier in 2.3. I just dont see the alliance taking advantage of this as much as they should. It forces the other side to dedicate several people just to eliminate one player causing trouble far behind the front lines.


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Issue No.526
25 Jun., 2007
Kong Professional Teachers' Union
Fight for four important educational issues!
PTU News Reporter
PTU is now fighting for the rights of secondary and primary school teachers regarding four important issues. First, we urge the government to readjust the pay adjustment of those teachers recruited from 2000 to 2006 according to their seniority. Second, curriculum development officers should be changed to regular posts with no pay cut. Third, 150 government schoolteachers appointed on agreement terms have changed to permanent terms. Fourth, job-transfer of surplus primary school teachers should be arranged properly. We are now negotiating under a rational ground with EMB for a consensus on those issues. However, if we find any policy unreasonable and communication between us can no longer continue, we are always ready to invite all those colleagues concerned to come together and fight for the justice and the rights of all teachers.
First, according to the new pay adjustment, the government fails to adjust the pay rise of the teachers recruited from 2000 to 2006 according to their seniority. PTU has consulted our members five times about this and Cheung Man Kwong, President of PTU, has expressed several times in different Legco commissions that although he agreed to the salary level raise for teachers, the current pay scale adjustment is unfair and unreasonable for senior teachers. Owing to the insistence of the government on the pay scale adjustments, our union took to the streets on 16th of June with 1500 teachers to fight for a pay rise according to experience and qualifications.
Moreover, the restriction on the number of graduate master (GM) teachers has forced those degree-holder teachers, or even master-degree-holder teachers to be certificate master (CM) teachers, with a lower level of salary. We deem this unreasonable exploitation.
Finally, Tong Chung-fun, our executive committee member, on behalf of teachers concerned, made two requests to the government. First, the current pay scale adjustment is unfair and unreasonable for senior teachers and therefore we urge the government to recognize the seniority of those earlier-recruited teachers and pay them according to their seniority. Second, we urge the government to relax the restrictions on the number of GM teachers, so that degree-holder-CM -teachers can be paid at the same level of salary as GM teachers.
We believe that despite the pay rise after pay scale adjustments, CM teachers still suffer from an unreasonable remuneration unless the restriction on the number of GM teachers per school is relaxed. Therefore, we cordially invite those members to show our solidarity, come and join the forum held at 15:00 on 30th of June and the march held at 15:00 of the 1st of July at Victoria Park, to urge the government to propose a reasonable pay scale adjustment for teachers, and to relax the restrictions on the number of GM teachers as soon as possible.
Second, those primary school curriculum development officers, who are hired on agreement terms, can now be changed to the permanent terms. However, the starting point for this rank would be reduced to point 30, though they have reached point 33 of the pay scale in the same post. We believe that this unfair adjustment is doing harm to the morale and stability of the educational professionals and therefore we are looking forward to resolving this issue with EMB.
Cheung reiterated that though new appointees to a specific rank receive pay at the starting salary point laid down for that rank, there is also an exception written in the document (LC Paper No. CB(1)623/06-07(03)): "Where the appointment authority is faced with serious recruitment difficulties or where the experience of a new recruit, irrespective of whether or not he / she was a former NCSC staff, is considered particularly valuable for meeting operational needs, the appointment authority may grant incremental credits for experience to the new recruit." In Hong Kong, more than 500 primary schools have hired a curriculum development officer, and every school could only hire one of them. They are so unique to every school, and with their working experiences gained in schools, they understand well the operation of the curriculum development and are able to develop curricula catering for the special needs of the students at school. Due to their work effectiveness, the government now changes the posts of these officers to be on permanent terms. Therefore, it is not reasonable to pay them according to the starting point of the rank. They should receive pay with their experiences fully recognized.
EMB replied that they would consider making a special arrangement for those officers, and that is, under the existing policies, rules and principles, the current curriculum development officer can change to the new rank of curriculum development officers on permanent terms, and be paid according to their experience. Finally we invited all officers to attend our forum where we reported to them the result our discussion with EMB, and those officers agreed that we should accept the proposal raised by EMB.
Third, concerning the terms of appointment of government school teachers, Cheung has also urged the government to change those government school teachers appointed on three-and-three-year agreement terms to the appointment on permanent terms, and he wrote to EMB and Civil Service Bureau again on 23rd of May to remind the government of the promise. The government has recently replied to Cheung that after the new entry system adopted in 2001, they have hired till now around 390 teachers, and owing to the decreasing number of students, there will be surplus teachers in the government schools in the long run. However, after considering the long-term demand for the educational service and the civil service establishment, the government has decided to change the 100 assistant primary school masters (GM or CM) and 50 assistant government secondary school education officers appointed on agreement terms to the permanent terms, starting from September of 2007.
For the issue of surplus teachers, as usual, we have been striving to resolve the problems before the next school year. And in February and May of this year, we held formal meetings with EMB, to review the progress of the early retirement scheme for school teachers and to propose some improvement measures about the scheme to the Bureau. In this school year, the EMB has provided the teaching staff with 300 places of the early retirement scheme. Moreover, starting from 8th of May, PTU also accepted the job transfer application of those surplus teachers, and 200 of them had submitted their application before the deadline of 8th of July. Half of them have succeeded in the transfer, and we believe that the number of the successful cases will still be increasing.
All in all, PTU has been adopting the resolutions of our annual general meeting of members, and keeps on fighting for the justice and rights of all our members on rational grounds, but we do not rule out the possibility of peaceful protests, and that is the basic human rights protected by our legal system. Please come forward and support our actions. We are most grateful for the opinions and criticisms of all front-line teachers, thanks to which we can always be on the alert and call upon more teachers for solidarity, so that we can keep on struggling for our quality education.


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If you've ever been moved by the beauty of ballet, you know that dance evokes emotions for spectators and dancers alike.
For Julie England, to see a dance come to life on the stage is nothing short of pure magic.
One day, Tarzan Dan got a Facebook message from Bridgett Zehr. He's a morning man at 101.5 KOOL FM (and a four-time winner of the Canadian Radio Announcer of the Year).
Fashion and philanthropy were the order of the evening recently as upscale retailer Holt Renfrew partnered with the Calgary Health Trust to raise funds in support of the Best Beginning Program — an invaluable tool offering prenatal support to pregnant women in need.
Jean Grand-Maitre's dance roots might be classical ballet, but the origin story of his passion for the form was pure Hollywood. "I grew up watching Fred Astaire," he says, "and that was what made me want to dance."
Alberta Ballet announced a 2014-15 season Monday that features the return of a few old favourites, touring shows from Monaco and Houston, and a new take on an old classic. That would be Carmen (March 26-28), which will be choreographed by Alberta Ballet's own Yukichi Hattori, on a bill that also features Forgotten Land, with choreography by Jiri Kylian. The company performs Don Quixote (Sept. 25-27), The Three Musketeers (Oct. 23-25), and The Nutcracker (Dec. 18-24). In February, they'll remount Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (Feb. 12-14), with new songs from Sarah McLachlan and choreography from Jean Grand-Maitre. The all-male parody ensemble Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will be presented Jan. 16-17, while Stanton Welch and the Houston Ballet present Les Bayadere April 30 to May 2.
Created specifically for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet by choreographer Jorden Morris, Moulin Rouge returns to the big screen in a decidedly different pair of shoes.
Created specifically for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet by choreographer Jorden Morris, Moulin Rouge returns to the big screen in a decidedly different pair of shoes.
Just because something's a fairy tale doesn't make it a kid's story. That's Alberta Ballet artistic director Jean Grand Maitre's way of saying Calgary audiences shouldn't mistake the Montreal import of Sleeping Beauty that rolls into the Jubilee Auditorium Thursday night for a certain animated Disney classic.
Calgary may be in the grips of a global organized crime ring after more reports of scammers trying to sneak jewelry off of elderly people while distracting them.
The Banff Centre's Dance Masters summer presentations soared into flight once again with four performances courtesy of its Professional Dance Program last week.
Jean Grand-Maître's first ballet about the Prairies tells the story of Prairie love with kd lang. Inside, he talks about his pop ballet series and Balletlujah's motorcycle scene.
Alberta Ballet has worked their way through the music Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Sarah McLachlan and kd lang. Swerve figures out where they go next.
James Ehnes plays a 300-year-old violin (valued at around $8 million) for a living, but — to paraphrase Basil Fawlty (in a much different context) — don't talk about the violin. "No one goes to a concert to hear an instrument," Ehnes says. "They go to hear the music."
If you have a dramatic Black Swan or maybe a Tina twinkle toes in your household, ballet summer camp might just be the perfect way for them to ease into the study of one of the most celebrated dance forms.
If you were wondering whether a bitter 1984 British coal miner's strike could be transformed into an uplifting musical, Billy Elliot answered that and then some Tuesday night. Hell yes!
When the Alberta Ballet last performed Mozart's Requiem, in 2006, some members of the dance company used 9/11 as a kind of sense memory for a piece the company describes as "a tribute to lives lost in modern conflicts." Now, seven years later, for the Japanese contingent of the company, they're relying on something even more personal: the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown that left Japan devastated.
For Laura Gorenstein Miller, dance is more than just perfect line or musicality. "Dance is a phenomenal way to tell a story," she says, "because we all speak the universal language of movement."
The ballet-based fitness craze leaps into the Calgary market with the opening of Barre Body Fit.


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