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Human rights & the 'online game provider'
The Council of Europe (CoE) has developed two sets of Guidelines that seek to interpret Human Rights in an online context. On 6 May 2009 there is a Council convened workshop in Strasbourg to explore the guidelines. Prof Bartle and I (with my think tank hat on) are speaking at the meeting.
In this post I've provided a short background to the context of the documents and some of my views on the way that key concepts are constructed in the guidelines intended for online game providers. I think that the Council would appreciated a wide set of views on these guidelines as they seem sincere in trying to gather input from a wide set of actors, hence I post these views here to gather your comments.
The guidelines at hand are"
- "Human Rights Guidelines for Online Games Providers"
- "Human Rights Guidelines for Internet Service Providers"
These seek to outline how these two industries can promote rights as defined in the "Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms" in the context of their customers and citizens generally.
The rights focus of both of these documents is Article 10 of the Convention:
2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
Looking at the document "Human Rights Guidelines for Online Games Providers" I want to look at the opening section of the document (see below). Given its title I am taking this to be an overall conception of the key actors involved in the rights at hand and a normative view of what roles they should take, I believe this needs some examination.
"Understanding the role and position of online games providers in respecting and promoting human rights
Providers (designers and publishers) of online games design and make available products which can promote the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, in particular the freedom to express, to create and to exchange content and communications while respecting the rights of others. Designed and provided in an appropriate manner, games can be powerful tools to enhance learning, creativity and social interaction, thereby helping users to benefit from the information society.
However, like other content, online games may also inadvertently impact on the rights and sensibilities of individuals, in particular children, as well as their dignity. The potential impact of such games may increase as they allow the gaming experience to become more creative and interactive (as the possibilities for expression, interaction and exchange of content with other gamers increase) and ever more realistic (as the visual effects of games develop).
Online games can play an important positive role in the lives and development of individuals, especially for children and young people. It suffices to consider the importance of rights and freedoms, values and dignity, into the embedded design and marketing of games. In this regard, it is recalled that the exercise of freedom of expression carries with it duties and responsibilities, in particular as regards the protection of health and morals and the rights of others, which publishers of online games are encouraged to bear in mind when deciding on the content of their games.
Games designers and publishers are therefore encouraged to promote and facilitate gamers' well-being and should regularly assess and evaluate their information policies and practices, in particular regarding child safety and responsible use, while respecting fundamental rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression and the right to privacy and secrecy of correspondence. At the same time it should be noted that member states, civil society, other private sector actors, parents and gamers themselves have important roles to play in engaging in multistakeholder co-operation, promoting gaming literacy for children and assisting game providers in fulfilling their role.
In this regard, designers and publishers of online games are encouraged to take note of, discuss and make their best efforts to comply with the following guidelines (below) and to consider making reference to them within their games and in their enduser agreements.
The appended guidelines are without prejudice to and must be read in conjunction with the obligations applicable to online games providers and their activities under national, European and international law." (Human Rights Guidelines for Online Games Providers page 4)
The key actor here seems to be the 'online game provider'. Interestingly the guidelines conflate designer and publisher – whereas of course these are often separate entities with very different outlooks and drivers.
What providers do under this text is exercise 'freedom of expression' while moral constraints are covered there seems no recognition of economic and social factors that might constrain this 'freedom'.
While the text goes on to say that providers are 'encouraged' in respect of 'gamers' wellbeing. There are a several instances in the text where providers are reminded that they have 'duties and responsibilities' in respect of rights.
The artifacts under consideration are variously referred to as 'product', 'content', 'embedded design' and 'marketing'. The artifacts have the ability it assumed to 'promote' the exercise of rights and have a role in the 'development of individuals; as well as potentially being able to 'inadvertently impact' actors. It is also noted that the 'gaming experience' can become more 'interactive' allowing the gamer to exercise expression. Many other potential social goods that can result through interaction with an online game are noted.
Here the artifacts seem at once to be static entities but at the same time things that can have a complex role in lives and inter relations of actors. So while it is acknowledged that there is increase interactivity neither the agency of the actors nor the affordances of the artifacts seem to play much of a part in this description. Critically, it seems to me, the technical-social nexus of the online game as a site in which the rights at hand can be expressed or restricted by the actors that use the online game seems to be passed over setting rights guardianship into an implied hierarchy where the end user is almost passive.
What's more as I have noted in previous works the act of giving primacy to the 'artifact' nature of online games, as opposed to the 'place' like nature or 'contractual' nature that many of them have sets any discourse about them in a particular direction.
Lastly the other key actors appear to be 'children', 'users', 'individuals', 'gamers', 'member states', 'civil society', 'other private sector actors' and 'parents'.
As noted above, the relationship between the users of the artifacts and the creators and other actors seems to imply a hierarchy. What's more the text sees to put emphasis on protecting and keeping children safe.
There are many categories that are overlooked by this typology, those I suggest are useful to incorporate into an analysis of online games include the following:
'adult gamers' – while this is possibly the larges single category of gamer it often seems overlooked. From a policy point of view this strikes me as problematic as it does not seem to me that it is self evident that the rights of child gamers trump those of adult gamers in all circumstances, and even if they do the case needs to be explicitly stated.
'player community' – in many online games the notion of and the feeling of belonging to a community is key the experience of the game and many of the goods suggested by the guidelines.
'user generated content' – there is mention of users and expression the idea that users might them selves be active in the generation of game content for other users which might include: text, the act of gaming, mods, fanfic and other content that some how becomes part of the gaming experience – seems missing.
In these categories it seems to me that their might be an implication of active-agency that seems lacking in the text in relation to the notion of any agent using an online game.
Other categories we might consider include: 'game designers', the 'games industry', 'retailers', 'self governance structures', 'guilds', 'consumers' and 'professional and industry bodies'.
In summary this definition of roles appears to set up an industry with freedom that is bounded only by rights-related duties and users, primarily children, that interact with relatively fixed artifacts in ways that have relatively defined outcomes on them that they have little control upon. A key invisible category is assumed presence of the Council of Europe itself the author of the document.
I suggest that a more rounded approach to rights online should include a more granular understanding of how the practices of game production and use come about through a much more complex interplay of actors. What's more key elements of context to take into account include the notion of a game as a system of constraints and acts within a game as being fictional or symbolic.
In a further post I may explore in detail the actual guidelines that are suggested in the document.
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I think that the overall statement in the guidelines lacked of any deeper examination of the online gaming context. The categories that Ren suggests are, actually, what any lawyer or non-lawyer with relevant experience would have expected to be (at least) mentioned.
Certainly, the fact that some sort of semi-official initiative is being shown, should be considered encouraging. To what ends, however? For the taken directions simply reverberated the well known perspectives found in European declarative documents: on game content there is hardly any difference to the generally held positions over minors and conventional media and video-games (e.g. violence, politically ethical censorship); on online service providers (OSPs) it is the same hesitant pseudo-paternalistic attitude, which relies on the providers' general responsibility without setting clear the particular accounts which require more focused action.
In other words, the view on online worlds per se falls short of addressing the complications of the online service structure as a source for human rights discussion and got attached to, in my opinion, dated and anyway self-evident (in European law) appreciations of circulated media.
Again, it is important that they stepped forward with it. From experience, though, it feels awkward that they are stepping forward with it…
Posted Apr 27, 2009 6:44:15 AM | link
"Human rights guideline for online games providers" has a big section on Internet filtering, which seems wierdly out of place - most of what it talks about is relevant to ISP's, which are the subject of the other document.
Online games usually do filter chat, but this is rather different from filtering by an ISP (technically, and possibly also from a policy standpoint).
I think an interesting discussion could be had on whether game publishers should be treated differently from ISPs on this.
Posted Apr 27, 2009 8:54:46 AM | link
Before removing gamer-generated
content from a game, you should
take care to verify the illegality or
harmfulness of the content, for
instance by contacting the competent
authority law-enforcement
1. Or rather, you should follow the same procedures that web hosting companies have established for dealing with complaints that a user's web site is hosting illegal content. In the UK, I understand there's a code of practise that ISP's abuse teams follow, so that they can take down allegedly illegal content without being prosecuted themselves for looking at it.
2. This recommendation makes sense for platforms like Second Life or Metaplace. But earlier in the document, these were ruled out of scope as "not games". In a more themed, game-like world, the people running the game are likely to want to remove UGC for far more draconian reasons: e.g. it doesn't fit with the theme of the world.
Posted Apr 27, 2009 12:32:20 PM | link
I read the above section on removing gamer-generated content a little differently. To me, it seemed to suggest that the only valid reasons for removing content were to do with its illegality or harmfulness. This is because the document goes on to say:
"Acting without first checking and verifying may be considered as an interference with legal content and with the rights and freedoms of those gamers creating and communicating such content, in particular the right to freedom of
expression and information."
In other words, if you delete content for other reasons (eg. quality, consistency, context, operational) then you could be interfering with the rights of those who created the content.
Needless to say, if this were enforced then it would result in fewer MMOs allowing any form of user-created content for fear of being stuck with it. We'd get less opportunity for creativity, not more.
Posted Apr 28, 2009 3:04:48 AM | link
Another issue that the document raises is that of racist content. Early on, it says attention should be paid to:
"content which conveys messages of aggressive nationalism, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, racism or intolerance in general including when such
messages are concealed"
We later get half a page of detail on the subject which looks awfully like it could cover Horde v Alliance in WoW. The fact that such an artificial conflict doesn't use "real" races (which don't feature other than in choice of skin colour for humans) is no defence, because of the bit about concealment above.
Personally - and I've said this before - I feel that races in MMOs (and RPGs in general) can indeed be read as a real-world racist statements. They can be read in other ways too (eg. as a comment on class-based societies), but the fact that many designers put them in without giving any thought to what they mean (ie. elves and dwarfs are just part of the paradigm) makes them open to being interpreted at face value. Trolls, orcs, tauren etc. are explicitly called "races", therefore sanctioning (through gameplay mechanics) antipathy between confederations of these races does look to be saying that sanctions on the basis of race are OK. Even when you look to the original sources, you get a problem: Tolkien's orcs were created evil, essentially as a religious metaphor - they weren't a "race" in the sense that modern MMOs use the term. We got that all by ourselves.
Posted Apr 28, 2009 3:06:59 AM | link
As a final point, consider the following two paragraphs on children and MMOs (well, MMOGs, since all online games are lumped together):
"Declares that, other than in the context of law enforcement, there should be no lasting or permanently accessible record of the content created by children on the Internet which challenges their dignity, security and privacy
or otherwise renders them vulnerablenow or at a later stage in their lives;"
"Invites member states, together, where appropriate, with other relevant stakeholders, to explore the feasibility of removing or deleting such content, including its traces (logs, records and processing), within a
reasonably short period of time."
So ... they want member states to lean on developers to make them delete content created by children (as if developers can ever know it WAS created by children!), but they also say that this doesn't apply in the context of law enforcement. If recent proposals by the UK government are anything to go by, these are polar opposites: either you have to delete everything or you have to keep everything (for a year, in this example). This shows how completely governments can trump human rights legislation if they so choose, under the banner of "law enforcement". Yet if a company wanted to keep a database (eg. of anonymised communications that they can check incoming text against to identify potential child abusers - and some child-focused virtual worlds do do this) they couldn't.
Oh well, at least these are "guidelines" and not "laws".
Posted Apr 28, 2009 3:25:29 AM | link
As with most of their (european bureaucrats) definitions, what they mean is very diffuse to some extend. It seems obvious to me, that the creators of that document only have a very rudimentary view on computergames in general. Let me pick out their views of racism as well, like they convey it in this statement:
"Being aware that video games with a racist content, whose existence in member countries is unfortunately beyond doubt, convey a message of aggressive nationalism, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or intolerance in general, concealed behind or combined with violence or mockery"
Racism is a problem, but where exactly "real" racism starts and when it is not a "concept of a playerenemy" is often difficult to ascertain. Let me explain what i mean by this strange distinction. There is, of course, "open" racism in some games, as those are even used for certain propaganda interests - Like some games created by developers close to the Hezbollah, in which you could throw stones and shoot the "evil infidel oppressors" (e.g. israeli soldiers). Other forms of racism are quite different, as they create a certain negative "image" of certain groups of people, like Robert Purangao noted about certain stereotypes delivered in some games, here in grand theft auto III: "Parungao noted that nonwhite characters in Grand Theft Auto III were mainly criminals and obstacles to be disposed of by the white hero." (Source: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/warcraft3reignofchaos/news.html?sid=6154591)
The Problem here is obvious - the developers of the games want to create a very stereotyped world so the player will find it easy to discern "who are the bad guys". BUT that is a real problem, since there now is the possibility, that players (who always seem to lack the ability to reflect their actions and are mindless consumers) cement their thinking in these stereotypes as well. They work in close correlation in how other (national) media work, since e.g. one of the most prominent criminals in the US always seems to be a black in his middle twenties, armed and dangerous.
As pointed out by another poster here, there are games with a totally fictional worlds as well who use the concept of races to discern "who is the enemy/friend". Problematic in this sense is again a thinking in stereotypes. Lets take the typical orc character (not in world of warcraft, but more in general). Orcs are evil. They breed fast, act brutally, look like some mutated humanoid with savage features and some sick skincolor, and are always minions of some dark god that needs them to drink blood, act savage and kill humans. The player is often completely legitimated as a "Hero" to just chop heads of when orcs are concerned. A very distinctive set of stereotypes is used here that include aspects of xenophobia, racism and intolerance to create the perfect evil creature. Mind me, even the fables of old used this way of creating "the ideal evil".
Here comes the great dilemma for developers of games that include some sort of "enemy" concept - players expect some sort of clear "signals" on who is the enemy and who is not - especially if any sort of violence is legitimated by the game to use against this "enemy". And the designers give it to them in the way they think it is expected: Give them vile orcs to slay, everyone knows orcs are evil. To sum up the problems i have with this paper, it probably never went in depth with game development concepts and player expectations, it just throws some diffuse guidelines around that racism in games is bad.
I would have suggested a more realistic approach in specifically addressing politically motivated racism in games (Propaganda and the like)that expresses the clear goal to motivate the player to adopt an racist ideology. The next step would be addressing games that depend on realistic settings and heavily use negative stereotypes (the black guy is always a criminal). Here it would be a good idea to advice designers and developers to balance the use of this stereotypes with positive ones, so you won`t get the impression that one type of "race" is always connected to, lets say, a criminal act. Like having a black criminal, but also a black police officer (sry for this very simple example). The other discussion here is the question of the "child-", "youth-" and adult- player which is not really well adressed, but i think about putting this in a seperate comment.
Posted Apr 28, 2009 10:28:45 AM | link
A scary document.
You wanted games to be "important"? Well, welcome to that world, with this document as your reward.
Besides the obvious tensions that the comments here have quickly revealed, there is the fundamental contradiction that all documents like this one contain:
"It should, where appropriate, call upon member states and the private sector, respectively, to ensure and to facilitate all users' right to freedom of expression and information, in particular as regards their freedom to receive information without interference by public authorities..."
...unless, of course, those public authorities take it upon themselves to write a document like this one.
Posted Apr 30, 2009 3:05:22 AM | link
It's also interesting that they don't mention sex in games.
I see two aspects to this document.
The first aspect is issues that are specific to on-line games:
- On-line games mix commerially produced mass-media content with chat or "user-generated content". Second Life and the like are declared outside the document's scope, with good reason, but even in a WoW-like game users can still chat to each other. This raises the issue of what standards of censorship to apply - the standards for broadcast television, or the standards for a private communication between individuals? Should different kinds of content in a game be subject to different standards of censorship?
- It is technically possible to monitor and filter chat between private individuals. This gives the government - and private corporations that are not democratically accountable - unprecedented powers of surveillance and censorship.
- Such filtering doesn't actually work very well, at least at the moment (e.g. "socialism", "scunthorpe" etc). The poor reliability of the technology becomes important when we consider issues of public choice economics - market forces are not effective if the government makes it mandatory to use a particular product (and hence, government-mandated use of a poor-quality product will likely ensure that it remains of poor quality)
- Some the story-lines that have become popular in the MMO genre are particularly worrying to European governments (e.g. war between opposing racial or national groups).
The second aspect of the document is an ambivalence over censorship that could just as well apply to other media, such as printed books.
Posted Apr 30, 2009 6:50:43 AM | link
The part that I found most interesting was :
iii. include among the licensing conditions
for broadcasters certain obligations
concerning the portrayal of
violence, accompanied by dissuasive
measures of an administrative
nature, such as non-renewal of the
licence when these obligations are
not respected;
At a glance, that sounds somewhat ominous.
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Never read a bad word about Manta. Cheetah Hunt seems to have disappointed many.
I suspect the reason Cheetah Hunt disappointed some of the coaster fraternity was that they assumed Busch Gardens were going to deliver another extreme thrill machine - a reasonable assumption since all the other major coasters at the park deliver pretty solid thrills and regularly score highly in coaster fan polls. However I think Busch pulled a blinder here as they have created a terrific FAMILY coaster - something original and clever that totally fits within their ethos and portfolio of attractions, but which allows people who would not normally venture onto say Montu or Shiekra to enjoy a coaster experience. I'm really looking forward to riding it and reckon it will be a total blast. I already expect it to rate high on my 'fun-ometer'.
That said I also can't wait to ride Manta which seems to be just one of the most perfectly conceived coasters ever - from line to ride, theme to thrills. Manta is the winner here for sure, but it isn't because there's anything wrong with Cheetah Hunt.
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I haven't been on Cheetah Hunt though. I hate voting but not having gone on both rides, but in this category I can't imagine that Cheetah Hunt is as good as Manta. I really thought this one would be a straight win for Manta. I'm curious as to why people voted for Cheetah Hunt. It looks good, just curious.
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Had to go Manta on this one.
Pity about the ride, though.
Cheetah Hunt is a bland, ultimately boring ride while Manta is one of the crown jewels of flying coasters (I have not personally ridden Tatsu, so I cannot compare the two. I've heard conflicting reports on which is better, usually flavored by an east coast/west coast bias). Manta wins by a mile here.


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ZEELAND (WHTC) - Looking for a place to get rid of your Christmas tree? Local governmental units have begun accepting trees for disposal. In Zeeland, you can drop off your natural tree at the Brush Drop-Off facility on Riley Street, between Centennial and Fairview, Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon. The site will be manned, and you will need proof that you live within the city limits. If you can't drop it off today, you can bring it to the Riley Street site next Saturday. In Holland, if you have curbside trash and recycling pickup service, you can just leave your tree on the same day as your garbage pickup through January 11. Make sure the tree is cut to 6 feet or less and all decorations, lights, etc., have been removed. If you don't have curbside pickup, you can drop off your tree at Smallenburg Park, near Municipal Stadium, through January 19.
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The Utah AG's office vows aggressive prosecution of fundamentalist Mormons who "marry" young girls
Clinton Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt lays claim to an environmental legacy. Too bad it's a monumental disappointment.
While the state and the Sierra Club jockey to curb urban expansion, the Secretary of the Interior is quietly pushing his own proposal. We've got the maps.
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Mar 29, 2014
Agencies often provide flat designs to web developers as a specification, but these only scratch the surface of a true website functional specification. This is a check-list of features which can be fleshed out to start the journey towards a full functional spec.
Jan 31, 2014
A presentation I made at ustwo's Tech Thursday about Seinfeld Technique and how it can help coders to get their personal projects moving.
Dec 14, 2013
Notes to myself on generators and how to create them with generator expressions and the yield statement.
Nov 19, 2013
Should detailed history be kept for development features, if so, where?
Nov 01, 2013
This week I presented at Vim-London about vi nature and the benefits for using it in more than vim.
Oct 22, 2013
Notes to myself about Python decorators with a focus on making them testable.
Jul 14, 2013
So you want to earn some extra cash on your weekends, what should you charge?
Jun 16, 2013
Talk at Pyramid London meetup about testing strategies for Pyramid applications.
May 08, 2013
Talk at the first Pyramid London meetup about the Pyramid Router, URL Traversal and Dispatch.
Apr 28, 2013
Reincublog is a super mini Django blog weekend hack, coded as part of a recruitment process.
Mar 29, 2013
Migrating a project from Django 1.4 to Django 1.5 had a couple of gotchas that cost me dev time.
Feb 21, 2013
A tweaked fork of the Pelican Svbtle theme with some cleaned CSS and HTML.
Jan 25, 2013
A newly structured documentation site and tutorial for the online editor.
Jan 20, 2013
Using Pelican to generate this blog, a move away from Jekyll and to some pure Python.
Jan 20, 2013
My Mako question got no views and no answers - should we be using Mako if things are so quiet?
Nov 30, 2012
Updates to pyramid_simpleauth to allow for uppercase passwords and some bug fixes.
Sep 25, 2012
Some small updates to the django-mailchimp library to upgrade to the latest Mailchimp API.
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Nitrogen needs to be kept cold in order to stay in liquid form. When released into a car engine, the nitrogen is then heated and expands to create energy. The expanding nitrogen powers turbines the same way combustion in a gasoline-powered engine moves pistons. Nitrogen is abundant in our atmosphere and cars powered by it don't create as many harmful emissions as gas and diesel do, but they're not really viable because there's no network of nitrogen fueling stations in America.
Among the notable attempts at creating a nitrogen-powered car concerned work done at the University of Washington in the late 1990s on the LN2000, a prototype vehicle that used the body of a mail truck and was powered by -- you guessed it! -- liquid nitrogen. The team asserted that to create a truly non-polluting car, inventors had to move away from electric and gasoline power sources. So they built the LN2000, which worked like a steam engine, except that the power came not from the steam of boiling water but from the vaporization of cold liquid nitrogen. True, any plant that would be used to create liquid nitrogen would likely be run on fossil fuel, but the car's developers recognized the trade-off could be acceptable [source: Orwig].
Another nitrogen-powered car was developed around the same time at the University of North Texas, using a cryogenic heat engine driven by liquid nitrogen. The no-emission car was called the CoolLN2Car, and the interesting thing about the cryogenic engine was that its fuel source could be either liquefied air or liquid nitrogen. You get liquefied air by grabbing air from the atmosphere and cooling and compressing it. Liquid nitrogen takes a similar approach with nitrogen gas. Using liquefied air, air is heated and expanded, only without using combustion, which would pollute the air. So, in essence, the car ran clean exhaust [source: Univ. of North Texas].
While science and society have yet to see a highway full of nitrogen-powered cars as of yet, it's a safe bet such ideas won't be abandoned.
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I actually agree....
Especially when it comes to PvP, being able to coordinate 5 characters at once completely eliminates a game dynamic; that is, to be able to get different people to work on the same objective.
Just recently I ran into a multiboxer in Arathi Basin; 4 Elemental Shamans tied together with a Paladin healing the main. They could basically one-shot anything that came near, avoided fears with grounding totems and cleanses from the paladin....
Needless to say, this is NOT fun to play against, and I fail to see what pleasure someone could get in killing people in this way. Short term excitement, perhaps, but I must be missing the long-term fun in this. It's like climbing a mountain by riding a helicopter up.... there's no effort involved in it past the technical know-how required to set up that system.
Still, it's a free world, and to each their own I suppose.
ive nvr actually tried it tho ive always thought multiboxing was kinda neat
and ive always figured that all anyone would hav to say to all those RPers who object to it is that ur toons could all be like psychically linked twins, triplets, quadruplets etc and hav a whole backstory to it
I'm guessing you're on the Ruin battlegroup, Jhestor? I hate facing that jerk... 4 chain lightnings is absurd to deal with.. We petitioned on it being ignorant of the policies, but the GM said there's nothing he can do,. But he did tell us a little secret: figure out which one is the main, and focus fire on him. Once he's dead, it screws up the rest of them. Makes sense, since three are in one place, and the main is in the graveyard. It actually wasn't a problem after we killed him once.


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I guess I'm very slow in the brain dept this morning because I kept trying to find the little puppies LOL. Thennnn I realized it was a bunch of stuffed toys. Yes,very cute! Cute dog!
They sure are cute babies.
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Owned by one silly Springer Spaniel, with pawprints on my heart left by many other pets!
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What a cute assortment of babies......lol Looks something like my house when I clean up. They do get so protective of those toys.....mine hides her favourites in her bed, don't know how she sleeps with all those other babies but she seems to have no trouble.
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People are switching the cell phones more often today. In the past, prices and contracts had made it difficult for a person to decide to change their cell phone for a newer model, but with the quick changing in technology, a newer, better cell phone with must have features can be in the market only months after you made your purchase.
Take the iPhone for example. You had to have the original iPhone when it first came out and waited in line to get it. A year later a 3G version was released, and since you are in a 3G area you upgraded. And now the 3G S model is available, and with the faster processor you figured you should keep up with the times and pick up that one as well.
In some cases you can upgrade your phone by returning the old one and paying some fee to get the newer one. But that is not always the case. For me, I had a cheap Motorola phone that worked fine for a few years, and then had to get a BlackBerry for work. I was not using my cell phone much and my company does not mind if I make the occasional personal call on my work phone, so there was no need for me to pay the monthly bills on my Motorola phone.
I do not want to simply throw the phone out, so right now it is sitting in a box with other obsolete gadgets that I have. A Samsung MP3 player from 2001. A GameBoy SP (upgraded to the DS). An 802.11b router.
Where do I go to get rid of these things? There are a number of options. For the cell phone, most service providers offer a way to return obsolete phones.AT&T Reuse & Recycle
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Some big box stores take obsolete electronics as well, including batteries, ink cartridges, and portable electronics. At certain times they even take old TVs (and give you a credit towards a new one).Electronics & Gift Card Recycling at Best Buy
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"And when the groove is dead and gone, you know that love survives." -Michael JacksonMy heart is broken tonight. MJ was a HUGE part of my life. I remember the first time I saw the Thriller video (I was 6 and flipping through channels late at night), then watching it over and over when I was 11, so excited that I'd be dancing to it in competition. I remember sitting on the floor watching "Scream" with Janet, thinking "this is epic." I remember seeing the "Bad" video at my grandparents' house. I remember my heart breaking when allegations came out against him, and it continued to break for him over the last decade or so. When "Invincible" came out, I bought it the first day and wore it out. We used to blast it on the way to school.
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Are the PCIe ssd's any different as there are some of those that are bootable and faster than a sata connection ?
That or maybe a hybrid drive like the seagate momentus xt
Are the PCIe ssd's any different as there are some of those that are bootable and faster than a sata connection ?
That or maybe a hybrid drive like the seagate momentus xt
Sorry to add another slightly off topic post to this thread but - I think you'll find it difficult to get many people to be able to demonstrate where they've had long life SSD's for two reasons.
1) The price of SSD's is still relatively high, compared with traditional disks anyway and if you translate that back four or five years to think how expensive they were back then I don't think you'll find many people have had them fitted that long.
2) Any makes / models of SSD that have lasted that long will probably now be discontinued so to get the same one's might be tough.
Sorry - I hope you find the info you're after, I think your SSD crusade is worthwhile. Hopefully some more posts like the previous person who said they'd had a fair few SSD's in for almost three years roll in.
I trust SSDs far more for longevity than spinning disc HDDs now. Fairly low failure rates, but for laptops especially it's working out well here. Oldest I have is a Crucial M4 64GB - that must be nigh on three years old now, and is perfect. Only had one SSD failure of 300 odd, but that was broken from the box (Sandisk).
with an SSD - typically a Micron C400 (a.k.a Crucial M4) or Samsung PM830 (a.k.a Samsung 830).
Regarding the number of writes...
NAND endurance is something that always raises questions among those considering a move to solid state storage. Even though we have showed more than once that the endurance of today's MLC NAND based SSDs is more than enough for even enterprise workloads, the misconception of SSDs having a short lifespan still lives. Back in the day when we had 3Xnm MLC NAND with 5,000 P/E cycles, people were worried about wearing out their SSDs, although there was absolutely nothing to worry about. The move to ~20nm MLC NAND has reduced the available P/E cycles to 3,000, but that's still plenty.
Client workloads rarely exceed 10GiB of writes per day on average and write amplification should stay within reasonable magnitudes as well. (Source)
We have quite a few now, and haven't had any problems, although we've only been running them about a year or 2.
We order most of our PCs from viglen and have never had a problem with them supplying ssds, but then we buy our own equipment rather than leasing or whatever.
I haven't heard any issues with ssds that would put me off. For normal desktop usage, they are great, and much faster. Even if they are a bit more unreliable, they aren't expensive to replace, and not much more than a standard hard disk. We regularly replace dead hard disks anyway - I don't think ssds will be any worse.
Well after a good discussion (and a 19 slide PowerPoint) all has been sorted out :)
The chaps at the MSP have also done some more reading at their end as well and have seen good things so....................pure SSD school on the way!
Thanks to all that contributed and provided ideas/links!
Being quite an early adopter of SSDs in our school I can give some stats.
We have mostly 1st generation intel X25-Ms and latest generation 520 series here.
We have 500+ machines with them in ranging from 1 to 4 years old.
No failures at all. Quite amazing really compared to old mechanical drives.
I also use them on my file servers and a huge volume web server. They have been running happily for a couple of years reading and writing gigabytes of data every day with no troubles at all.
I wouldn't believe anyone quoting the old wives tale of SSDs running out of write cycles, I've never seen it happen in the real world even on non TRIM firmware.
3.5 years, 5.68tb, no TRIM :)
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As far as limited life goes, it was suggested to me back in the early days of SSDs that it was sensible (under Windows) to ensure the drives weren't being automatically defragged or indexed - neither of which is of much benefit on a student PC anyway.
I have lots Crucial SSD's (different versions) none have failed and one has been running for 27,598 hours which is what 3 years 1month? Powered up time. It still has an estimated 9 years left on it. It's already had over 5 GB read and written to it today.
This year I swapped out and started using SSD's in classrooms and so far no problems.
EDIT: Thinking about it I had one Crucial SSD fail around 3 to 4 years ago. Back then sudden power losses could cause SSD's to fail but that is far less of a problem now.
My home PC's SSD must be coming upto 4 years now and still working perfectly. At work we have some coming upto the 2 year mark and all is well. We use Stone here so have a 5 year warranty anyway. The way I see it is a network machine is not going to have much to write to it after the initial build and a few updates so its great for industry.
Hi all, A little late to the party here.
I would like to add our take on this from the viewpoint of a UK System Builder and manufacturer of desktops to education. My perspective on SSD is that since January 2013 around 70% of our build to Education have been SSD based. We have seen massive SSD uptake since the pesky HDD floods in October 2011.
I don't have the figures to hand but we have a hell of a lot more HDD failures than SSD. Arguably our HDD fleet in warranty is over 5yrs of sales opposed to SSD which is just over 2yrs.
When it comes to SSD I would recommend investing a few extra pound and look at Intel 335 , Crucial M500 (new M4), Samsung 840, or if on a budget Kingston. There are cheaper SSD out there but the aformentioned are definitely worth a few extra quid. The cheaper drives tend to use a cheaper controller and Nand Flash which will equate to less write durability (higher failure rate) and slower performance.
Many hosting companies we provide with servers are choosing High-end consumer drives over enterprise SSD. Current warranted durability on SSD is high, Old EOL Intel 320 and 330 Series SSD are warranted by intel for 5 and 3 yrs respectively with upto 20GB write per day. We did the math with a customer www.elastichosts.com and we figured that the Crucial M500 were warranted for 40GB write / day over their 3yr warranty.
This is even stated as their warranty- CT120M500SSD1 - 120GB, 2.5-inch Solid State Drive , from Crucial.com (Check Product details Tab)
My conclusion from failure rate and manufacturer warranty, the days of questionable SSD reliability are over.
To comment on @jamesfed initial issue with his integrator argueing the toss with warranty/ reliability, I suspect this is not a reliability case as all the UK Integrators Im aware of are quoting SSD.
The reasoning is more likely to be an issue with a large pile of HDD sitting in a warehouse for 2013 rollouts not getting any smaller each day due to SSD over HDD demand. For me this would represent a big problem. The longer the HDD are there the less money they will be worth, business is business
@VeryPC_Andy, just a quick question but have you got any stats for failure by brand of SSD? Particularly Intel?
We've been using Intel drives all along and never had one fail, I'm wondering if this 0% rate scales up to thousands or 10s of thousands of machines?
For Data on failure rate I need to check with support team for Intel RMA record vs purchase ledger for each drive sku . So will require a bit of homework......
I'll happily check and post the figures - I'm on holiday next week to Greece but apparently all the sun will be here... so it'll have to wait a little while.
The Intel 335 is warranted for 3 Year - and has is warranted at a "minimum life" of 20GB /Day for 3 year.
Intel® Solid-State Drive 335 Series: Specification Section 2.6
Samsung PRO 840 is 40GB/day 5 year warranty .
SSD 840 Pro Series - 128 GB 2.5 inch MZ-7PD128 | Samsung SSD - TECH SPECS check warranty section
If you push the limits of over 40GB / Day the warranty is invalid. I can only assume is this is if you do 5 Years of 40GB a day in 3 Years and try to make a warranty claim .
Very late to party here but thought I might add.
Feel free to correct me but i believe the very old Asus eee 2g surf nettops were based on a 2gig ssd which out of the 35 we bought coming up to 5 years ago we have had not a single failed unit (apart from a few broken screens and keyboards).


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•For all the latest passive house events, visit the Passive House Alliance US Calendar
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan to Deliver Opening Keynote Address at
PHIUS 8th Annual North American Passive House Conference
Passive House Institute US (PHIUS) announced today that Shaun Donovan, Secretary for U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD), will deliver the keynote address at the 8th Annual North American Passive House Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Thursday morning, October 17, 2013.
PHIUS Receives Richard King Mellon Foundation Grant to
Support Eighth Annual North American Passive House Conference
Thanks to the generosity and vision of the Richard King
Mellon Foundation, the Eighth Annual North American Passive House Conference promises to be the largest and most important to date, bringing passive building leaders and exhibitors from around the globe, and showcasing the Pittsburgh region's vibrant green building community and
PHIUS Launches Window Data Certification Program
At its September, 2012 national conference in Denver, PHIUS rolled out the first phase of the domestic (North American) passive house window certification program. The initial goal is to calculate and make available valid thermal performance parameters for US windows so that designers will have more choices and can do building energy models with more confidence in their accuracy.
Fraunhofer Announces WUFI Passive, a Collaboration with PHIUS
Presseinformation 6.09.2012
Fraunhofer-Institute for Building Physics (IBP) has developed, in cooperation with the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS), the WUFI® Passive design software for Passive Houses in North America. The Fraunhofer IBP's hygrothermal analysis software WUFI® Plus was the basis for this new modeling tool.
Energy Department Announces New Partnership to Certify Zero Net-Energy Ready Homes
August 20, 2012
The Energy Department today announced a new partnership between the Department's Challenge Home program and Passive House Institute US (PHIUS) on a voluntary certification process for homes that are so energy-efficient, they can offset most or all of their utility bills with a small renewable energy system.
7th Annual North American Passive House Conference, September 27-30,
Denver, Colo.
July 6, 2012
Dr. Joseph Lstiburek of Building Science Corporation and Amory Lovins of
Rocky Mountain Institute to Speak.
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Full Program: Cadillac adds a coupe to its CTS lineup, and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet. 27:10
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Full Program: A duo of heavy duty pickup trucks from GM, and the family sedan shootout. 27:10
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Full Program: The Obama administration searches for new ways to stimulate the job market. 24:18
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David Hume's "Of Miracles": A Summary
Of course, not everything is universally agreed upon. Did OJ Simpson really kill Nicole? Well, I mean, the evidence seems pretty compelling to all of us out here, but the 12 people whose opinion really mattered, who really got treated to the full exposition of the evidence, said they weren't sure. So we can't say outright, "He absolutely killed that bitch." At best we can say, "Probably. He probably absolutely killed that bitch." Really, we should say, "Maybe. Maybe he absolutely killed that bitch." We have to weigh the evidence and the testimony, just as with any claim - we can only believe a claim insofar as the evidence favors it over its denial. Sometimes, it's just barely.
Sometimes people claim even crazier shit than, "OJ is innocent." What could possibly be crazier than that? Fucking miracles. Occasionally someone insists that somewhere, for some period of time, the laws of nature stopped working and something absolutely batshit insane happened, like the sun danced in the sky or a bro rose from the dead, and he expects you to take him at his word. "No, seriously, bro, I swear. It fucking happened. I saw it!" as if you don't have the right to be incredulous at such a fucking outlandish claim. And then he gets pissed off at you for not believing him - "How could you know? You weren't there! You didn't see it!" So then you have to put on the patient gloves and kindly explain why he should get the fuck out of your face. "Okay dipshit, look. There's a ton of shit I haven't seen. In fact, there's a ton of shit *no one* has seen, like a man coming back from the dead. So you'll excuse me if I look for alternate causes when everyone in the world has, for thousands of years, reported with just about 100% accuracy - 'dead people: still fucking dead' and then suddenly you claim that maybe a hundred of you saw something different."
After all, I only know that everyone everywhere has stayed dead because we all agree that's true. I only know the sun doesn't fucking dance because I've seen it do the exact same thing every day of my life: not fucking dance. So has every single person in the world. It's like we've repeated this experiment billions of times, and now you're telling me that one bro saw something different? It's you against every single person in history. Is it possible you were deceived or mistaken? Doesn't that seem more likely? The evidence doesn't look good, champ.
But what if it's true? What if it really did happen? What would it take to render a miracle probable? Look, I'm all about the possibility that the future won't be exactly like the past - I've built my entire career on the idea - but again, it doesn't look good. So far, no miracle has even close to enough people testifying for it, much less trustworthy people. You say a hundred people witnessed the miracle? Funny how that miracle would entirely confirm the religious beliefs of all hundred of them - what a strange coincidence! Besides, people want to be fooled. They love believing in the supernatural, in shit that seems impossible. Maybe it's not a miracle that Jesus appeared in your ham sandwich - maybe it's just that, given all the ham sandwiches made in history, one of them was bound to look sort of like a guy in flowing robes with long hair eventually. Some people refuse to accept reason and leave their superstitions behind, but that doesn't mean I should have to believe their bullshit.
Plus, have you ever noticed how the more civilized we get, the fewer miracles get reported? It's not strange that none of the crazy shenanigans from the Old Testament happen anymore - it makes prefect sense, really. I guess I could see how you might think a bunch of people dying suddenly is the wrath of some gods, until you learn about germs. Do you think it's strange that the very earth shakes beneath your feet? It's called plate tectonics, bitch, get a taste. Those are the opposite of miraculous, it turns out - it's the laws of nature acting whether we like it or not. It's never long before we come up with ways to actually explain things in accord with everything else, but until then we have thousands of years of literature about miracles to put up with, and thousands of people who prefer to believe that literature than everyone else on the planet, and their own experiences besides.
Except we have a bunch of different literature about miracles. So not only do people who believe in miracles disagree with people who don't, they disagree with people who believe in other miracles. Look, if you want to believe that you saw a guy rise from the dead and no one else did, that's one thing. But you're telling me that you saw a bro rise from the dead, but that someone else in the Middle East making the same claim is obviously a liar and a heretic? Why the fuck should I believe you but not him? Every religion is outweighed by the denial of every other religion, and everyone else in history.
You can't prove religion via miracles, because you can't prove miracles. Your complete suspension of reason in favor of faith is your business, but if you try to 'prove' your religion based on reason, I'm going to embarrass you. Seriously bro, your continued faith is really the only miracle I can believe in, since it violates the very laws of nature and reason more flagrantly than any dancing sun could.
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Holy shit, this was brilliantReplyDelete
Bravo!!! Seriously Bro, you keep getting better and better.ReplyDelete
That was awesome. Good one, bro.ReplyDelete
Beautiful, Bro.ReplyDelete
Kick ass. Keep them coming.ReplyDelete
Hume was either blind or an idiot. Every morning he could observe how sun goes up. How is that not a miracle? Since his definition of miracle is flawed, everything based on that definition is wrong.ReplyDelete
Hume is fucking righteous.ReplyDelete
How is the sun coming up a miracle? I mean, first of all, the sun doesn't even come up. The Earth fucking spins and we're whipped around on its surface, so that half the time we're facing away from the sun.
Sure, if you're willing to define miracles as any event whatso-fucking-ever that makes you feel inspired, there's plenty of bloody miracles. But then, by that standard boobs are the most fucking miraculous thing in my life.
In order for miracles to serve as evidence for supernatural forces, they have to actually be supernatural. As in, outside of nature. As in, fucking miraculous. I mean, what the fuck, seriously? Am I supposed to take the fact that the sun rises as evidence that it's being pushed across the sky by a giant invisible dung beetle? Or maybe it's a flaming chariot?
Grow the fuck up and join us in the 21st century, dude.
"Giant beetle" is just as plausible explanation as gravity. Have you ever seen mr. Gravity moving shit around? You've just seen shit moving, that could easily be God or at least will of God.ReplyDelete
If people would just accept Jesus Christ in their hearts and stop worrying about specifics of God's will, world would be much nicer place.
Nice work bro. Bookmarked.ReplyDelete
@ Stuart Andrews:ReplyDelete
Boobs are miracles.
I think the funny thing about religious people is that they always pick fights with atheists and then atheists get blamed for starting it. I've never met one atheist trying to impose their views on anyone else unless it was in retaliation. That was aimed at dd, please evolve and join us. Best summary by far though IMO. 5/5ReplyDelete
Bravo, bro. Bravo!ReplyDelete
I love your explanations. So many Philosophers I thought were full of crap are turning out to have really interesting ideas, at least seen through your lens.ReplyDelete
The tide goes in. The tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. Miracle. Fact.ReplyDelete
I really hope you're joking, because that's just the applied laws of nature, while a miracle is by definition, an exception to the laws of nature.
- Fro-yoMay 10, 2011 at 1:18 AM
You are fucking awesome.ReplyDelete
- BeatinguMay 12, 2011 at 2:25 AM
If there was or wasn't a creator, how would you know unless shown proof? You really think we have evolved to such a great degree that we can disprove books of history? Because let me tell you, we weren't there when these events were written down on parchment. However, we are here today to discuss these books and go out of our way to disprove them. Every once and a while, take a step back and think about why it is so valuable for our "evolved 21st century minds" to disprove this literature that has been past down for thousands of years, and followed by billions. Gravity is real because everyone testifies that it is. Well faith is real, for the same reasons. And if you wanted to know if god was real or not, ask the billions of people who went to their graves believing in him. Brownage.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 18, 2011 at 5:20 PM
@Exhausted: He's fucking quoting Bill O'Reilly if I'm not mistaken, of course he's fucking joking.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 5, 2011 at 4:45 PM
Everyone agrees about gravity, everyone does not agree about God. And you have no idea what billions of people believed.
It's valuable for our "evolved 21st century minds" because people can/do pervert religion to steal and kill.
Billions of people went to their graves because of differences in religion.
Supposing that everything we see, gravity, force, mass, and other everyday things with perfectly reasonable explanations are all works of "god". Furthermore let's assume that all of our hypothesis for what governs the interactions between objects in our physical universe to be inaccurate, "god" controls all interactions. We would then be left with a higher being who allows deadly weapons to work, orchestrates natural disasters that leave hundreds of thousands homeless or dead, and let us utilize atomic energy for the destruction of cities and the immolation of thousands. If this omnipresent, all seeing, all controlling "god" is who you praise, then that is your own choice. But please, please do not tell me what possibly fictional character I need to accept into my life in order to make the world a "nicer place"
You suggest that we do not challenge the books of history. So, then you perpetuate the idea that slavery is acceptable (Leviticus 25:44-46). I think many people the world around would agree that it is only through challenging these ancient dogmas that we have been allowed to advance as humans. Surely we could find passages condoning execution for adultery, and many more things that would be seen as flagrantly unjust today. You may argue that what I reference is in the old testament and things are different in the new testament. Then the logical conclusion is that just as things in the new testaments contradict the old it is our duty to examine the books of history ourselves and refine them again.
- not an idiotOctober 13, 2011 at 2:56 PM
Listen Bro, this summary was real legit. But as for all you religion haters out there you really need to stop thinking that because people believe in religion they are some how less evolved than you. I do not care if you dont believe in religion, but do not belittle someone else because of their beliefs. If you do they are going to say something just like you would. Religion and miracles are wonderful things to believe in, and sometimes there is concrete evidence for them such as an incorruptible body. That is a person who dies but their body does not decay, an example would be St. Bernadette of Lourdes. She died in 1879 but her body is perfectly preserved and on display in France. Not every miraculous thing is going to make sense, that is what faith is for.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 11:49 PM
heres a question, what defines a force of nature? what's to say God isn't a force of nature? As far as the bible explains, God is a huge fucking uberforce of ultranature.ReplyDelete
And in response to joe's response to dd, yes, God lets all this shit happen, this really damn ugly shit, and if you think about it, you can come up with a lot of possible reasons why, at least, I can. God could be testing us, he could let it happen because he thinks of this life as an incredibly short period which decides whether you're ' thrown into the fire', or accepted into the kingdom of awesomesauce, he could let it happen because it helps us develop as a species, what are the lives of 100 people if it teaches us what we need to know in order to bring 1000's into heaven?Replies
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM
well saidDelete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Sorry, bro. Your overconfidence comes across as a little arrogant. When people are into love, wonder, and awe at creation, they begin to believe in miracles of some sort. And people who do aren't always as simple-minded and hateful as you make them out to be. If you believe in God, by definition you believe in the possibility of miracles, and there are plenty of reputable scientists who do. It all depends on your starting assumptions.ReplyDelete


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This was delicious. I only needed to feed 2 so I used 1 tenderloin. I then halved the ingredients for the marinade/sauce. I followed bearpaw's tip & cooked it to 150 degrees . We used mesquite charcoal and that was the perfect compliment to this sauce. It was perfect.
Honey-Bourbon Grilled Pork Tenderloin
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- Calories: 219
- Calories from fat: 30%
- Fat: 7.2g
- Saturated fat: 1.8g
- Monounsaturated fat: 4.1g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.8g
- Protein: 25.4g
- Carbohydrate: 12.9g
- Fiber: 0.3g
- Cholesterol: 79mg
- Iron: 1.7mg
- Sodium: 403mg
- Calcium: 16mg
- 3 (3/4-pound) lean pork tenderloins
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1/2 cup bourbon whiskey
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon minced peeled gingerroot
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Vegetable cooking spray
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups water
- Trim fat from pork. Combine onion and the next 7 ingredients (onion through garlic) in a large zip-top heavy-duty plastic bag. Add pork; seal bag, and marinate in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Remove pork from bag, reserving marinade. Sprinkle salt and pepper over pork.
- Prepare grill. Place the pork on grill rack coated with cooking spray. Cover and cook for 30 minutes or until meat thermometer registers 160°, turning and basting pork occasionally with 1/2 cup marinade. Cut the pork into 1/4-inch-thick slices; set aside, and keep warm.
- Place flour in a small saucepan. Gradually add remaining marinade and water, stirring with a wire whisk until blended. Bring to a boil over medium heat, and cook 3 minutes or until thickened, stirring constantly. Spoon gravy over pork; serve with mashed potatoes, if desired.
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Recipe makes 10 Crab Rangoon
*1 Package Nasoya Egg Roll Wrappers (found in tofu section of grocery store)
- Cut 5 sheets of egg roll wraps in half making 10 rectangles
- In bowl combine the following ingredients:
8 oz Imitation Crab Meat
4 oz Fat Free Cream Cheese
1 Bunch Green Onions (minced)
2 Tablespoons Miracle Whip
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
Preheat oven to 350. Spray cookie sheet w/ non-stick spray. Get bowl of water ready for moistening your fingers to seal the wrappers. Lay out wrappers and put 2 tsp of crab mixture onto one end of each rectangle. Moisten your fingers with water and trace the outside edge of wrapper. Fold over fully covering the mixture. Make sure you have enough of an edge to work with. Sqeeze edges together to ensure a tight seam. Place made crab rangoon on cookie sheet and spray tops w/ non stick cooking spray. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
Calories per Rangoon: 67 (this was calculated using Nasoya wrappers)