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This generation, namely the last couple of years of it, has seen some potentially fantastic games fall to the hands of hackers and bugs. Every Call of Duty title has experienced some sort of plaguing bug or wave of hackers that ultimately makes the game less enjoyable, and Skyrim, as us PS3 gamers need not remember, is still experiencing one of the biggest developer screw ups of the generation.
Why is this happening? Why, after several years of these consoles being out, are these types of issues still persisting? Is it unreasonable to expect Activision, Infinity Ward, and Treyarch to create a stable title after several years and unprecedented sales figures? Are we being too critical of a developer as top-tier as Bethesda that utterly fails to code for one of the primary consoles of the generation?
Is it indolence on the part of developers and publishers?
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First Skyrim, Now Black Ops II
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I can see where you're from, and what I do hate the most about publishers & producers it's the fact that the people like the one behind Skyrim (bethesda or whatever) don't give a single damn about their PS3 fan base, they gave them a $#@!ty buggyland game, with no signs of a patch for a while, and they're like since this game is so bad we just won't release any DLC on the PS3, I mean after all the crap they make their PS3 fan base go through with their $#@! game they truly don't give a crap. I bought Fallout 3 & New Vegas, but after this I am done with this company, they don't care about us, I couldn't care about them either. Stuff like that pisses me off.
11-20-2012 #3
You have a point, but I'm just dropping in to say that I've been playing black ops 2 on ps3 I'm half way through the campaign and played 11h multiplayer and have had ZERO issues aside from two day 1 connection issues.
Most ps3 ports/versions are fine and people over react imo. But yeah... Bethesda are great devs but their ps3 $#@! ups are inexcusable
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The whole Skyrim debacle just saddens me. As a fan of Elder Scrolls since Morrowind, the thought of not playing the expansions is disheartening. Not to mention all the patches the PS3 players had to wait for so the game would be playable in some cases.
As for COD, are the older ones still hacked? If so, I'm not surprised. It costs money for those devs to make patches, and it's not cheap.
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Dont know much about skyrim but the thing concerning cod is that every protection or system can be hacked. There is nothing which cant be hacked. The only thing is to improve the games protection from hacks further so that not every 12 years old kid could bridge it.
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With the Xbox and the PS3, and the disks just being all burned duplicates, everything should be the same. Why are people having different experiences? I personally hardly ever experience bugs or glitches in my PS3 or 360 games either. But some people sure have all the luck and seem to find the show stopping bugs.
As for the discrepancy between BO2 on the 360 and PS3, I guess I would just chalk it up to the PS3 still not being as easy to develop for. Both consoles are at 70 million sold, so I can't see them choosing one or the other based on popularity to spend more development time on...when it's pretty much an even race.
I know that Treyarch is aware of BO2 bugs in the PS3 version, so I am not saying they don't exist (otherwise they wouldn't have released a PS3 specific patch and say there is more to fix yet). What really cooks my goose is, don't they have some outside beta testers, or a testing farm of PS3's (and 360s)?Last edited by Soldier 95B; 11-20-2012 at 12:18.
11-20-2012 #9
I'm not sure what's wrong with the PS3. Typically when a game works on the 360 it works for everyone on the 360, but throughout this generation I've seen numerous stories where a game (Fallout 3, Skyrim, Wipeout, LBP1 and 2, etc) just wildly vary with the PS3. I can't imagine why, but it's as if the PS3's internal environment is unstable in some cases. Not saying it's not the developer's fault, but when you see a pattern like this you have to wonder if Sony did something that could have helped cause this.
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It's the users that are making it seem like a variable experience. If every person on the PS3 that plays skyrim do the exact thing in the same place that has the problems, they will all have that problem. Same with BLOPS2. If you don't play the parts wher ethe problems exist, you can claim you don't have those problems.
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It has more to do with porting and coding for the, Playstation 3 along with a convenient debug mode the Xbox 360 has compared to Sony's console - all of us know this so we should consider this fact with the majority of multiplatform titles. Some 3rd party developers have managed to pull it off with little issues so it all depends on their talent pool. If Sony play their cards right next generation, we'll start seeing improvements.
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Just to note A team of 100 testers testing for 10 hours per day for 6 months cannot do the same amount of testing hours as 1million players in 1 hour.
They are going to have to start introducing anticheat into console games pretty soon I think.Last edited by keefy; 11-20-2012 at 21:25.
11-21-2012 #13
Bethesda's PS3 games have all been under-par. I guess Oblivion was okay but it came out later I think.
As for CoD, it's been great. I had a few crashes on day one but after 1.30 the game has been fine for me and many others (I've been lurking the gaf BO2 thread). No more blurry graphics, no more crashing and matchmaking is painless. The only problem atm is the lag compensation but all versions of the game suffer from that
I think it's worth mentioning that Bethesda recently acknowledged their problems with developing on the PS3, and the whole dawnguard dlc thing etc is on them. Not that there was ever any doubt, but to answer your question - no we're not being too critical of a dev like Bethesda for failing
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To this day I believe that playstation is a foreign product trying to find its way to America. But like a post said before most ports are decent its just solely on if the devs give a $#@! or not
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I feel like one would need to be a professional cook to be worthy of such a magnificent kitchen, but that doesn't stop the rest of us from dreaming! Landmark Kitchens was commissioned for the complete overhaul of the original Victorian cabinetry in this seaside home, in addition to the manufacture of new cabinets and redesign of the kitchen and dining area. The result is truly stunning. Be sure to read more about it here!
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Crock-Pot Sweet-and-Sour Chicken Wings
I used organic chicken for this recipe as that is what we eat. I only recommend this if you do not mind large pieces of chicken and the chicken to peel from the bone. I find the organic chicken is larger then the regular version. The chicken is still good but you will need a fork. Sorry about the messy bowl picture, but I tried to keep the sides pretty but this was not the recipe for that!!
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Prep Time | 30minutes |
Cook Time | 240minutes |
- 16 Whole chicken wings and legs
- 1 Cup granulated sugar (Plus 2 tablespoons)
- 1 Cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 Cup ketchup
- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
- 3 Cubes chicken bouillon
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- Combine Sugar, Cider Vinegar, Ketchup, Soy Sauce and Bouillon Cubes in sauce pan.
- Heat to a boil.
- Placed Chicken wings and legs in crock-pot.
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Quinoa Salad With Kale, Butternut Squash & Crimini Mushrooms
So don't worry, you're not on the wrong blog. I really am sharing a gluten-free, vegan recipe. I'll snap out of it soon. Who's up for cookies as my next recipe?! Kidding. Mostly.
Alright listen, I'm not a huge quinoa person. I know people rave about it for it's health benefits, but I've always been kind of thrown by the fact it has a freaking tail once you cook it. It's fine, texturally speaking. And if you cook it in stock instead of water, it tastes better. Kale I totally dig. Kale is hot right now, are y'all over kale yet? I'm not into kale because it's trendy, I legit love all dark leafy greens. Mustard greens are actually my favorite, but kale is what they had at the store. I tried to have a combo of acid and heat in these veggies. Dark leafy greens are delicious when cooked with a little vinegar or lemon juice as well as some hot pepper flakes or hot sauce. You could put whatever veggies you have on hand in this dish. If you weren't angling for a meatless meal, some sausage would be a nice addition. Or duh, you could put an egg on it. Come to think of it, an alternate title for this post could be "This Would Be Better With An Egg On It."
This is one of those simple dishes that for the most part comes together in one skillet. It serves six, so I will be eating leftovers for a while.
1 1/2 cups uncooked quinoa
3 cups low sodium stock (chicken or veggie, your preference)
1/2 large yellow onion
1 bag kale (approximately 5 or 6 cups, ribs removed)
1 medium butternut squash, cubed (about 2 cups)
1 package crimini mushrooms, sliced
3 Tablespoons olive oil
Salt & pepper to taste
Red pepper flake to taste
Zest of one lemon
Juice of 1/2 lemon
First, rinse the dry quinoa thoroughly in cold water. In a medium pot bring the stock to a boil. Add the quinoa, stir, let it return to a full boil, then cover and reduce heat to low. Set a timer for 15 minutes and begin cooking the veggies.
In a very large saute pan over medium-high heat, saute the onions in olive oil for around 2 minutes or until they begin to become translucent. Add in the mushrooms, butternut squash, and then 2/3s of the kale on top of that. Feel free to walk away for a while. Nothing bad will happen. Kale is pretty sturdy and takes a few minutes to soften up. Once it starts to wilt, add in the remaining kale as well as the red pepper flake, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Saute the veg, stirring occasionally for 5-7 minutes. Add in a few dashes of stock and work the yummy brown bits (technical term is fond, but who says that?) off of the pan.
By now the quinoa should be done cooking. Leave the lid on, move it off the heat and let it sit there for 5 more minutes. Lower the heat for your veggies to medium-low. Finally, fluff the quinoa with a fork and dump it into the saute pan. Fold quinoa into the veggies to combine all the ingredients.
Boom. Done. 20 minute dinner.
You should probably put a fried egg on top of that. I wish I had.
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YUMM! I'm loving quinoa as of two weeks ago when I made this avocado, purple onion version. It's all about what you put with it. This recipe looks fabulous!
This was excellent! Loved the addition of the lemon zest & juice, and red pepper. Really kicked it up!


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Roger Federer thinks he made mistakes this year by playing when injured, but insists he is ready for a strong finish to his most difficult season.
Ahead of his hometown Swiss Indoors tournament, Federer said he regretted playing matches with back problems at Indian Wells in March, and Hamburg and Gstaad in July 2013.
"With hindsight, I shouldn't have done. They were errors," said the now seventh-ranked Federer, who has been one of the most durable players on tour throughout his career.
The 32-year-old Swiss said he felt "physically and mentally" prepared for a possible 15 matches in three season-ending weeks at Basel, the Paris Masters and ATP World Tour Finals in London.
Still, Federer - who has a relatively modest 36-13 season record - was cautious when asked if he could repeat his title hat trick of 2011.
"I don't know if my level of play is strong enough to do it now," he said. "That would be a bit bizarre for me if I start saying that I'm going to win the last 15 matches of the season.
"I have to hope so because I know that I can play really well, especially indoor. That starts here in Basel with the advantage of playing at home."
Federer, a five-time Swiss Indoors champion, opens Monday against 60th-ranked Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.
In his far from typical season, Federer has regularly lost to unseeded opponents since injuring his back in March.
Initially, he had shrugged off "a little tweak" after getting hurt during a routine victory over Ivan Dodig of Croatia in the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, California.
"I should never have played after Dodig," Federer reflected on Sunday, saying he lost practice time in the following weeks.
After his shocking second-round defeat at Wimbledon, against Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine, Federer opted to play on clay in July rather than rest to prepare for hard-court events ahead of the US Open.
"I should have abandoned in Hamburg, not played Gstaad. Nevertheless, I played, I tried," said Federer, who sustained back-to-back losses against unheralded opponents.
As a result, Federer has yet to secure his place at the eight-man ATP finals which he has won a record six times.
Federer is fighting for one of the three remaining places with fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, and Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet, who won the Kremlin Cup title Sunday in Moscow.
Federer and Wawrinka could meet in the final at Basel, where they are seeded No. 3 and 4, respectively. Gasquet is the No. 5 seed.
"I will be happy if Stan qualifies," Federer said. "If that meant I will miss it, I honestly won't care. That means he was the better player for the year."


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Tighter parole rules for repeat sex offenders: Wu TAIPEI--Premier Wu Den-yin said yesterday that he was supporting an initiative to tighten the threshold for parole in cases of repeat sex offenders, as a way of helping to protect innocent people. "Showing mercy to wicked people is tantamount to enacting cruelty on kind ones," the premier said at a legislative hearing on a recent case in which a 13-year girl was raped and killed by a frequent sex offender suspect. Police arrested a suspect surnamed Lin after they reviewed footage from street cameras and found the girl's bicycle near his home in Yunlin County. Lin confessed to strangling the girl to death as she fiercely resisted his attempts to rape her. The case has triggered massive public outcry, as Lin had a record of two sex offence convictions and had just been released from jail on parole in February. Questioning were raised in public forums on whether the country's parole laws were being abused, particularly in cases involving repeat sex offenders. The family of the latest rape victim has raised the question of whether the crime prevention authorities in Yunlin County had failed in their duties by not mandating that Lin wear an electronic tag, as is required for sex offenders on parole. "How can such villains be freed from prison over and over and allowed to hurt more innocent people?" the girl's father asked. He called on the government to immediately revise the existing policies on preventing sex crimes. Premier Wu said that the Justice Ministry should also consider a regulation that would require sex offenders on parole to wear GPS devices that would allow full time monitoring. |
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I've mentioned my brother before, and it's appropriate here to mention him again. He's a devout evangelical Christian, and a blue-blooded liberal. I won't try to guess his stance on various political issues, but he certainly sees himself as pro-science. He's a big fan of guys like Francis Collins and Ken Miller, devout Christians who also happen to be prominent biologists who speak out against the folly of creationism. It was Miller, after all, who helped expose Intelligent Design for the pseudoscience it is – in no small part by exposing its most prominent advocates' ignorance – in the famous Dover trial.
I'm not sure how to quantify what Christian charities have done for the world, but it's undoubtedly no small contribution. And while atheists are quick to point out the abject idiocy of the Pope preaching the sinfulness of condom use to AIDS-ravaged Africans, Catholic charities are some of the most efficacious and prominent on the continent. Meanwhile, believers are quick to point out the "atheist regimes" of Stalin and Mao, and the millions who died under their rule (Hitler is often wrongly tossed in there, but he was a Christian).
Unfortunately, it's all beside the point.
Atheists point out the atrocities committed by religious people and in the name of religion (there's a difference) to show that religion often is and often has been not a source of charity and love, but of tyranny and cruelty. History is mired with blood spilled in the name of spreading religion: the Saxon wars, the Crusades, the Inquisition, Encomienda. The pro-slavery South of the 19th Century was overwhelmingly Christian (the whole Atlantic slave trade was masterminded by the Christian West), as was the pro-segregation South of the 20th. The primary opposition to the equality of woman and homosexuals both here and abroad comes from religion – overwhelmingly so, in fact. Even today, in the US, while Christians don't advocate the burqas and dehumanization of women as some Arab nations do, a visit to Christian conservative website will find a plethora of arguments regarding women as submissive to the authority of their husbands – not equal partners. I'm also unable to find any sort of secular opposition to gay rights, particularly since the scientific verdict has been in for quite some time.
And there's more. There's no opposition to the forward march of science outside of religious circles. While Intelligent Design advocates attempted to cast a veneer of scientific respectability over their pseudoscientific nonsense, the infamous Wedge Document revealed them for what they are – Christian fundamentalists hellbent on subverting science education. Christian hucksters exploit millions under the frauds of "prosperity preaching" which encourages people to give thousands to already-wealthy churches with the promise that God will magically bless them financially as a reward for their sacrifice, and millions are duped into giving money and forsaking medical care for the dangerous fraud of faith healing. And all this doesn't even touch the modern extremes of terrorism and war advocated in the name of religion.
No one is arguing that all believers are like this, or that religion inevitably leads to such things. Rather, the argument is that faith is the problem. We believe that the core of the problem is the idea that it is not only acceptable, but even virtuous to believe things about reality based on faith. We new atheists are empiricists, and we think that the only justified believes are those based solely upon evidence.
Liberal and moderate believers believe that faith is fully justified, and that the conservatives, fundamentalists and extremists are just doing it wrong. They're reading the wrong holy book, or reading the right one but interpreting it wrong. They might claim God speaks to them, but they're wrong because, well, God spoke to those moderates and said something different. The problem is that this is an argument from consequences. The problems are many:
- There is no objective, independently verifiable criteria for the proper interpretation of any holy book
- There is no way to independently verify claims that God spoke to anyone, or to ascertain what God's intentions are
- Research already indicates that people simply impose their own sociocultural biases on their theology, molding the latter to conform to the former, which clearly undermines the validity of religion as any sort of moral compass.
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Synopsis: A Blast of Gamma Rays and Positrons
The next generation of ultrahigh-power lasers, reaching the range of 10 petawatts, will enable new light-matter interactions, according to simulations published in Physical Review Letters. Christopher Ridgers of the University of Oxford, UK, and his colleagues have shown that 10 petawatt pulses hitting an aluminum foil could produce an electron-positron plasma 10 million times denser than any previous experiment, as well as a record-breaking intensity of gamma rays. These conditions would allow studies of conditions similar to those in plasmas produced by black holes and pulsars.
The team had to account for so-called nonlinear quantum electrodynamic (QED) processes that involve many photons interacting and that were not important in previous simulations of lower-power lasers. In particular, the two processes they considered are synchrotron radiation (gamma rays) from electrons accelerated by the strong laser field and electron-positron pair production from gamma rays. Ridgers et al. modeled the feedback between these two effects and also the feedback between them and more conventional plasma physics phenomena, such as the reduction of the laser's electric field when it propagates inside a dense plasma. The feedback between QED and conventional plasma processes led the team to call a plasma in this new regime a "QED plasma."
Researchers have high hopes for the benefits of 10 petawatt lasers—they could improve cancer treatment as part of new ion acceleration systems, and they could provide attosecond pulses for metrology with unprecedented precision. But designers must account for the newly modeled QED effects as they work toward these applications, according to Ridgers et al. – David Ehrenstein


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The choice is not a popular one on Komarr, where a betrayal a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. Thus, the Komarrans surrounding Miles could be loyal subjects, potential hostages, innocent victims, or rebels ready for revenge.
Lies within lies, treachery within treachery - Miles is caught in a race against time to stop a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever. His burning hope lies in an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.
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"Bujold retains the wit, intelligence, action, and great character development that have made the Miles Vorkosigan series so superior. In Komarr she proves once again that it is possible for the latest book in a series to be as good as the first." (Voya)
"As usual, Bujold tells a fast-moving story that combines just the right amount of action and wit as Miles continues to mature in a manner unusually complex for a series protagonist....[Bujold's] work remains among the most enjoyable and rewarding in contemporary SF." (Publishers Weekly)
"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful"
Miles undertakes his first ever job in his new position as Imperial Auditor and at the same time, he meets Ekaterin Vorsoisson, a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage. OK, that may not sound like the most gripping novel summary of all time but really this is fantastic. It mixes light social comedy with serious meditations on the nature of power and personal happiness with a gripping detective story. As ever it is read brilliantly by Grover Gardner.
In case you're wondering the chronological order of the Miles Vorkosigan novels is this:
Warrior's Apprentice
The Vor Game
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance
A Civil Campaign
Diplomatic Immunity
However, it doesn't matter too much about reading them in the right order as Bujold didn't right them in chronological order, and anyway has said that she wrote them bearing in mind that readers might encounter them out of order.
In addition there is are 3 short stories originally published in a single volume that can be slotted in among the novels, and there are two novels, Shards of Honor and Barrayar, which deal with Miles's parents.
"Komarr is wonderful"
Another amazing book by LMB. Miles is back on form. I'm starting to dread the day I'm done with the series.
"Excellent series"
Good reader helps you to get into the book. Wish ther were more of this excellent series. Well worth the purchase.
Part of a series but can be read as a standalone. Will read again.
Just wish there were more
"Great Grover Gardner"
I thoroughly enjoy Bujold's writing style her subtle humor and solid plots are good and strong not overly complicated but edge of seat, Ekaterine is truly a match for Miles and occasionally the wry dry humor makes me laugh out loud, a bit strange when no one can see you are reading....
Grover Gardners narration is addictive his ability to convey different characters with a slight change of voice brings the story to life and the pace allows my middle aged mind to relax and become absorbed, thanks to all involved.
"More of a set up book for the rest of the series"
This one (in the series) has the feel of a set up for the rest of the books that come after it. On its own it is a good book, but if it is taken as a piece of the large picture of the series then it really keeps your interest. It still has some good action, mystery, and suspense. The characters introduced and developed end up playing key roles in the plots to come in future books. For these reasons, I have to take a starr off my review even though I loved the book. I love the series! If you like the 'Prince Roger' series by David Weber and John Ringo then you will love these too!
""He's not so short. He's just concentrated.""
Roughly the eighth book featuring Miles Vorkosigan in Lois McMaster Bujold's ever-entertaining space opera series the Vorkosigan Saga is Komarr (1998). It opens about three months after the events of the last one, Memory (1997), when the brilliant, curious, hyperactive, and independent Miles apparently found his calling as an Imperial Auditor, a detective/diplomat/judge/paladin who speaks with "the Emperor's Voice." Because Miles and his eight fellow Auditors wield the authority of the Emperor without rules as they solve unusual, challenging, and politically delicate cases, it would seem to be an ideal gig for Miles. And it is, but for one small drawback: it tends to put him on the defensive and to deny him his "forward momentum" that has entertainingly (for us) helped him get into and out of so much trouble in past novels. In this one Miles has traveled to Komarr with his older Auditor colleague Vorbathys to investigate the accident which may be sabotage by which a freight space ship crashed into the solar mirror system vital to the ongoing terraforming of the harsh planet. And it just so happens that Vorbathys and Miles will be staying with the family of the older man's niece, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, whose husband Etienne is the administrator in charge of terraforming in the part of Komarr most affected by the accident/sabotage.
Bujold alternates chapters told from the points of view of Miles and Ekaterin, whose husband is a domineering, serial job-changer who refers to Miles behind his back as "the Vor dwarf" (readers familiar with the series know that an assassination attempt on his parents while he was inside his mother's womb made Miles unnaturally short and large headed). The most interesting parts of this book depict Ekaterin's unhealthy relationship with her selfish and manipulative husband (sex with whom is a nightmarish labor for which she must "hypnotize" herself via ugly fantasies into being able to respond with "natural" passion to avoid his resentful guilt-trips), her curious feelings about Miles (how did he receive and survive the myriad scars on his stunted body?), and his attraction to her (which involves sensual dreams, wistful conjugal fantasies, asides like "Down boy, don't even think about it," and rhetorical questions like "So what is this thing you have about tall women and unrequited love?") It's neat for the lonely Miles to take a back seat every other chapter to a potentially strong but hitherto "self-effacing and self-erasing" woman as she wonders, "How did I grow so small?" and begins to realize that she owns herself.
All of the above is complicated by the fact that Miles, Vorbathys, and the Vorsoissons hail from Barrayar, the homeworld of the Empire that some decades ago violently absorbed Komarr so as to be able to control the planet's many wormhole jump points, which still makes some of the native Komarrans resentful if not rebellious. And by the fact that Ekaterin's husband and their young son Nikolai have a genetically-transmitted, AIDS-like adult-onset disease, her husband having refused thus far to be treated for it because of the attendant shame on being perceived to be a "mutant" in the still too macho and patriarchal Barrayaran culture. Bujold highlights that culture by having her Barrayaran characters think of, allude to, or talk about apt Barrayaran sayings, fairy tales, epic poems, legends, and such that emphasize their dread of mutants and their celebration of self-sacrificing women and heroic men.
Throughout the novel, Bujold writes plenty of her trademark witty lines of dialogue and italicized inner thoughts:
"Tien with a plan was about as reassuring as a two-year-old with a charged plasma arc."
"How could you be lovers with someone and yet feel that every moment alone with them intruded upon your privacy, your dignity?"
"I spent a career fighting the powers that be, now I am them."
"Marriage was not an experience she cared to repeat."
Grover Garden gives his usual professional reading of the novel: nothing fancy, a limited number of voices, none of which are very different from each other, but all easy to listen to (and only his voice could belong to Miles!).
Although to move her plot forward Bujold has Miles act a few times in ways that are, given the situation and his character, unbelievably obtuse or reckless, she tells an involving mystery and an appealingly awkward romance, and I recommend Komarr for fans of entertaining, political, cultural and psychological space opera who don't require violent, large-scale, and pyrotechnic action.
"Great Characters, Great Story"
I have only recently discovered Bujold, and only in the context of her audiobooks, but I have found all of her works to be entertaining and sophisticated works for the genre. Komarr brings a new twist to the Miles saga, by telling half of the story from the point of view of Ekaterina, a female co-equal protagonist. Bujold's strength is no doubt her memorable and quirky characters, and here she develops not just more Miles, but a totally new character as well. And she throws in a mystery that drives the plot along very effectively. No doubt this is not her best novel, but as an audiobook, with a narrator who is totally in command of the material, this is a terrific "listen."
"Not exciting, but it was ok. It kept my interest."
Inhabitants of Komarr live in domes and wear oxygen masks when outside. The planet is in process of being transformed into a more habitable place with the use of a solar mirror. The mirror is shattered by a starship. Miles is sent by the emperor of Barrayar to investigate. Miles and his co-investigator stay with Ekaterin and her husband Tien during the investigation.
Ekaterin is unhappy in her marriage. Because of her husband's demands Ekaterin suppresses her personality. She lives as a stone but must pretend to enjoy Tien. She doesn't stand up to Tien to get medical help for their son. She doesn't have much backbone, but she does some smart and brave things later.
When pregnant with Miles, his mother was exposed to chemicals which caused birth defects. Miles is 4'9" tall due to skeletal problems and periodically has epileptic-type convulsions. He has a brilliant mind and had many successes as a spy and negotiator for the government (in prior books). He is currently a government auditor (investigator).
This reads like a mystery - a long slow process of investigation with an eventual climax with the bad guys. The good guys win through smarts and bravery. This is not romance. A couple is not together at the end, but there is potential for romance in a sequel. Miles is attracted to Ekaterin, but she does not know it. She has not reciprocated. These are the two main characters in the story. She has accidental and coincidental interactions with the bad guys which keeps her in the story.
For me, I would have preferred more interesting characters. Many of the characters' interactions and conversations were normal. Their actions could easily be set in current day earth - just change the bubble pods to automobiles and add some titles like "my lord auditor." Sci fi fans should like this more than I. Wormholes facilitate interplanetary travel.
I didn't know until after I finished this book that this is book #11 in a series with Miles as the main character.
I was uncomfortable with the narrator. I suppose he was ok, but his voice irritated me. His interpretation of different personalities might be different than mine.
Ending: good guys win.
Genre: sci-fi mystery.
"Worth the second read"
Komarr has grown on me considerably since I first read it in paperback years ago. I enjoyed it then but didn't find it as memorable as some of the others in the series, and yet listening to it in audio for the first time I discovered a whole lot I missed earlier. All the same, my rating is for the author rather than the narrator, who is very solid but more of a 4 than a 5. There are a few misreadings and what I think of as mispronunciations, although they might in fact be the different pronunciations standard in different countries and generations. Plus he sounds like he has a bit of a cold during some of the chapters, poor lad. I do like the fact that he narrates all the MV novels and have become very comfortable with his reading style. As far as Komarr is concerned, the plot serves the characters pretty well, and the characters themselves are complex enough to be interesting without being confusing.
"Even weak Bujold is Great..."
Bujold is one of my favorite modern Sci Fi authors. Her characterization is very strong, with wit, intelligence, good stories, and even some romance ??? I think. Komarr is no exception. Komarr has less action than almost any of the other Vorkosigan novels, yet it had enough for me. It is truly remarkable that Bujold has written so many good books. Komarr has a nice little mystery and some action, but it is mostly character development and relationship building. This was not my favorite Bujold novel, but it was nevertheless superior to almost any other Sci Fi out there.
"A mystery to solve"
There is a mystery to solve on Komarr and Miles is sent in his new role as Imperial Auditor. There he befriends a Vor woman who has an unhappy marriage and a son with a genetic disorder. Each of them learns a lot from the other and Miles specifically has some insights about his own body image. To enjoy this story fully, you should read The Borders of Infinity first.
"Miles in Love??? Oh My. what a tangle as usual."
With his usual "grace" Miles falls in love. This is the funny,heart warming, and just plain action packied good fun that we have come to expect from Bujold. This audio book is well presented and well paced. The Narrator even captures the wry wit of Miles.
The ending was perfect with just the right touch of humor.
The scene where Miles and Ekaterin go shopping was especially well done. The Madam shall we wade line delivered with just the right touch.
I can see this as a romantic sci fi movie. It is enough of a stand alone story that it could be adapted but the Tag line would have to be Love blooms under glass or something like that.
Get this book you wll enjoy it. It is one of ther author's best and is an excellent place to start in the series if you have not encountered Miles before now.
"Good place to start for a wonderful collection"
Admonition: I finished this series months ago but I just slammed a new SciFi compenduim so hard in a review that I felt bad, hence this review. :)
Some time ago I finished the last of the Vorkosigan series -- every reading was just outstanding. Lois McMaster Bujold is a strong writer with a good technical/science background. She is the perfect scientist, warrior, politician and all of the stories are woven like a cat's cradle of these elements.
Very much recommended.
"Least favorite of the series"
This has been my least favorite book of the series so far. It was his first book in his new role, and it was a little rough. Not a lot of excitement and the plot kind of plodding along. At no point in this book did I feel excited to find out what happened next. It definitely had the feeling to be a setup book for the series. It was still a decent listen, just not nearly as good as the rest.
They focused a lot of character development, but the main plot was very weak and when it finally crested at it's high point, it was kind of a dud.


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Cox Announces "Missing Children" Donation Box Scammer to Get Jail Time
Contact: John Sellek or Joy Yearout 517-373-8060October 27, 2010
LANSING - Attorney General Mike Cox today announced that Joseph Carr was sentenced to serve six months in the Ingham County Jail for his role in a donation box charity scam. Carr was convicted of one count of false pretenses over $1,000, a felony, one count of soliciting charitable donations without a license, a six-month misdemeanor, and one count of acting as a professional fundraiser without filing a license application, a six-month misdemeanor.
Carr's convictions were the result of Cox's charges against Carr for preying on mid-Michigan residents' generosity by placing charitable donation collection boxes in nearly 90 local businesses as a part of a "Missing Children" charity scam. Judge Joyce Draganchuk sentenced Carr to serve 60 months on probation, perform 480 hours of community service, and pay $12,000 in restitution to the Michigan Amber Alert Foundation to help locate missing children.
"This sentence will serve as punishment to Joseph Carr, but it should also serve as a warning to other scammers who consider preying on the generosity of the public," said Cox. "Every day, thousands of local charities across our state serve Michigan communities honorably. We will continue to prosecute criminals who exploit the generosity of Michigan residents and undermine the public's faith in charities."
Joseph Carr, 55, of Williamston placed collection boxes at 88 retail locations across Lansing, East Lansing, Grand Ledge, Holt, Okemos and Williamston. From February through June, 2009, Carr collected between $1,500 and $2,000 a month from unsuspecting customers who were told their donations would be used to help find missing children through an organization called the "Beacon Project." Instead, Carr allegedly used the money to pay his personal living expenses.
Michigan law requires most charities apply for and receive a solicitation license from the Attorney General's Office. In addition, professional fundraisers, like Carr, who receive money for soliciting charitable donations must also obtain a license and maintain a $10,000 bond for the protection of charities and the public.
For tips on wise charitable giving or to see if a charity is licensed to solicit in Michigan, please visit www.michigan.gov/ag and click on "Charities," or call the Attorney General's Charitable Trust Section at (517) 373-1152.


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Free your mind and enjoy this quiet contemplative union of airy classics and the sounds of songbirds streams and ocean surf. 1. Prelude In C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier 2. Adagio From Violin Sonata No. 5 In F major Op. 24 "Spring" 3. Largo From Symphony No. 88 In G major 4. Preludes Book 1 No. 8 Girl With The Flaxen Hair 5. Larghetto From Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op. 21 6. Adagio From Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major 7. Larghetto From Symphony No. 1 In B Flat Major Op. 38 "Spring" 8. Andante From String Quartet No. 12 in C minor 9. Adagio From Sonata No. 6 Op. 1 10. Andante Cantabile From String Quartet No. 1 in D major Op. 11
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Operads are powerful tools, and this is the book in which to read about them.
--Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
Operads are mathematical devices that describe algebraic structures of many varieties and in various categories. Operads are particularly important in categories with a good notion of "homotopy", where they play a key role in organizing hierarchies of higher homotopies. Significant examples from algebraic topology first appeared in the sixties, although the formal definition and appropriate generality were not forged until the seventies. In the nineties, a renaissance and further development of the theory were inspired by the discovery of new relationships with graph cohomology, representation theory, algebraic geometry, derived categories, Morse theory, symplectic and contact geometry, combinatorics, knot theory, moduli spaces, cyclic cohomology, and, last but not least, theoretical physics, especially string field theory and deformation quantization.
The book contains a detailed and comprehensive historical introduction describing the development of operad theory from the initial period when it was a rather specialized tool in homotopy theory to the present when operads have a wide range of applications in algebra, topology, and mathematical physics. Many results and applications currently scattered in the literature are brought together here along with new results and insights. The basic definitions and constructions are carefully explained and include many details not found in any of the standard literature.
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ALBERT LEA, Minn. — He was a man who left many people smiling after he was with them, but now those conversations are simply memories.
73-year-old Orrie Jirele was duck hunting Saturday when he suffered a heart attack and died, but his memory will live on in the halls of the Albert Lea high school and throughout the town.
The former basketball coach has been a substitute teacher for the past decade, but always stopped by to say hello when he had the chance.
To many, he was an inspiration.
"The one word when I think of Orrie is passion. He had passion for kids, he had passion for basketball and music and teaching and whenever he talked to you, you were the most important person at that moment in his life," said Max Jeffrey, who grew up knowing Jirele.
Funeral services for Jirele will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at St. Theodore Catholic Church in Albert Lea. Visitation will be held Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Bonnerup Funeral Service in Albert Lea.


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When peanut acreage began its meteoric rise in popularity in South Carolina in 2003, Landy and Hugh Weathers took a wait-and-see attitude. In 2004, serendipity stepped in and they began growing peanuts, which has had a positive effect on their dairy operation.
Their peanut production efficiency has also led them to being named the Farm Press Peanut Profitability Award winners for the Upper Southeast — Virginia/Carolina — area.
Weathers dairy was established in 1927. Though it remains their primary farming enterprise, the addition of peanuts to their row crop rotation has indirectly affected their cost of producing feed for their 600 or so head of dairy cows, and has improved the quality of milk they get.
They jokingly refer to their business relationship as a split family. Landy earned a degree in agronomy from Clemson and Hugh earned a degree in business accounting from the University of South Carolina. Both are active in farm leadership. Landy is one of four vice-presidents of the South Carolina Farm Bureau. Hugh is Commissioner of Agriculture and Industry in South Carolina.
Since 2002, peanut production in South Carolina has grown from 10,000 acres to over 60,000 acres, with nearly 50 percent of that production in a small area in the central part of the peanut belt that stretches in a two-county wide belt from Georgia to North Carolina. The Weathers brothers farm in the heart of that peanut hub, in Bowman, S.C., which is about 50 miles from Charleston.
How the Weathers brothers got into peanut farming is a little bit of luck — both bad and good, and some careful planning for the future. Circle W Farms is the Weathers brothers' agronomic crops operation, and is responsible for providing feed for their dairy operation.
"The primary roughage for our dairy has always been corn silage. We have always known there are other ways to feed cows that are more efficient and healthier than a corn silage ration. We have dabbled in wheat, oats and ryegrass over the years. The best of those options is clearly ryegrass, but it creates major problems because it is such a tough crop to get rid of once you harvest it," Weathers notes
"In the summer of 2003, we had a terribly wet summer, and we didn't get all our corn harvested before it over-matured. We ended up with about half a crop of corn, and we knew we wouldn't have enough silage to feed our dairy cows, so we planted ryegrass in the fall. By green chopping the ryegrass in the fall, we were able to make enough silage to get by until the 2004 corn crop was harvested," he explains.
In 2003, a number of their farm neighbors in Orangeburg County planted peanuts, but the Weathers brothers took a wait-and-see attitude. Their ryegrass crop provided enough silage to significantly reduce the amount of corn they needed. Typically, they would chop the ryegrass in early April and plant corn, but they didn't need corn. They decided to re-nitrate the ryegrass and make a second chop, which put them too late to plant corn, but perfectly timed to plant peanuts.
At that time, Roundup Ready silage varieties of corn were readily available, which allowed them to plant some corn behind ryegrass. It also made it economically feasible for them to use Roundup to burn down ryegrass to plant peanuts.
Another factor in their decision to get into peanut production was the opportunity to go to strip-tillage on most of their row crop land. Though they had used no-till systems for many years, strip-tillage fit better into their cropping practices. In 2004, they planted their first crop of peanuts, including a 10-acre test strip of ryegrass, using a neighbor's strip-tillage equipment, and it worked well.
With the stage set, they purchased an Unverferth ripper-stripper and planted 400 acres of Virginia type peanuts in 2005, strip-tilled, with most acres behind ryegrass. The peanuts planted behind ryegrass did much better than peanuts behind corn.
Another factor was the purchase of a row guidance system, which allowed them to plant peanuts in 30-inch rows and eliminated the need to get a second set of planting equipment. They also dug peanuts using the tractor equipped with the Trimble Guidance System.
The guidance system is part of the long-term plan for Weathers farms. Between them Landy and Hugh Weathers have four sons, all of whom have expressed some interest in the farming operation. Landy's son, Landrum, is a senior at Clemson University and is interested in computerization and precision farming. Hugh's sons Gill and Edward are students at Clemson University, while younger son Julious is a junior in high school.
"We don't know how many, if any, of our sons will want to make farming their career, but we know there is more interest in row cropping than dairy farming, so peanuts are likely to continue to grow in importance in our farming operation," Weathers notes. The use of high tech equipment is an integral part of their college studies, and it is clear to the South Carolina farmer that the next generation of Weathers will make precision farming a big part of future operations.
Weathers says the decision to invest in high tech guidance systems, rather than equipment just to plant peanuts, has paid off in both his peanut and corn crops.
"For example, using the guidance system to apply lime in the spring eliminated overlaps and skips and takes the guesswork out of it. We have seen big benefits in lime, pesticide and fertilizer using the guidance system because we can precisely calculate how much we need to use and use it more efficiently," he says.
Peanuts have made the use of ryegrass more practical in the Weathers dairy operation. Ryegrass, Weathers says, is now an integral part of their dairy program. Prior to peanuts and ryegrass, he says a typical ration for their dairy cows would have been 60-70 pounds per cow, per day of corn silage, depending on time of year and other factors. Now, we use 18-20 pounds of ryegrass silage and 40-45 pounds of corn silage. Ryegrass has allowed them to reduce corn requirements by one-third.
By reducing corn acreage, he can utilize irrigation on most of that crop, significantly reducing the weather-related risk of growing corn. Ryegrass produces a higher quality ration and higher quality milk, all of which helps the bottom line. The land that was freed up was a natural for peanut production.
Gregory is the primary variety for the Weathers brothers, though they grow a few acres of other varieties. All Virginia-type varieties require landplaster, or some source of additional calcium, but the large-kernel Gregory variety has high calcium needs. Ever inventive, the Weathers brothers used sludge from the nearby Santee-Cooper electric plant, with good results.
Since peanuts is not their primary farm enterprise, being creative and innovative has been a way of life for the long-time dairy farmers. "We bought a used two-row combine, which we hook up to a 100 horsepower tractor. That rig picks every fourth windrow, which allows our six row combine to come back and pick the remaining three windrows," Landy Weathers notes.
The only thing new we bought strictly for use on peanuts was a digger. We bought two used combines, and the rest we already had. So, getting into peanuts both fit into our farming operation and was economical to get into, he explains.
"The combination of peanuts, ryegrass, Roundup technology and strip tillage has made a tremendous positive impact on our farming operation," Landy Weathers concludes.
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I have a iPod Touch 2G and it is running stock firmware. original firmware. i downgraded for max performance boost. Now I use ALAC's on it. 90% of the songs on there are CD ripped into ALAC. so generally 800-1000kbps. My ipod freezes and lags every now and then. as in when switching songs and going out, it has this laggy thing to it. and then music would sometimes cut and have that garbled sound for a bit when i switch on the ipod. and then the music app would crash
i have deduced a while ago that the decoding of MPEG 4 wrapped ALAC at such a bit rate takes more effort for the DAC and CPU(mainly CPU) of the ipod, and thus crashes it sometimes. is this true? The ARM cPU used in this is of course old and slow. and despite what regular people think..the older the deivce is doesn't make it slower. i've done a full restore of it to factory firmware. it should be running like the day i got it. it doesn't when the music app is open.
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