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Monday, June 29, 2009
Carrot on a Stick
This is not about the in game item that you get from a quest in Zul'Farrak. Carrot on a Stick is what WoW does so very well. There is always that one (or more) things out of reach that keep you going in the game. It could be anything. A piece of gear, a vanity pet, or even taking down a raid boss.
The thing about the carrot on a stick is that there will always be a new one dangled in front of you no matter what level of player you are. New raid bosses and gear for raiders, new mounts and gear for PvPers, more dailies for people who are into that kind of thing. It will pretty much never end.
That said, is it really that bad? Blizzard gets what they want in subscription fees, and we get what we want.....a game we enjoy playing. When you beat a game, there is a sense of satisfaction....but there is also a tinge of sadness. If you had an enjoyable experience, you will probably play it over. Part of the beauty of WoW is that you can play it over any way you want. There are no limitations to what you can do depending on how much time you have.
Yesterday, I finally got one of those carrots on a stick. The Royal Crest of Lordaeron. It was not really an upgrade over my Titansteel Shieldwall, but I WANTED IT. I was sick of looking at the same shield since the day I turned 80. I ran CoS despite being exalted with the Northrend Factions for that shield. I got many people their mounts for that shield. Then it finally dropped....and I am already looking ahead to the next carrot.
My next carrots are of course the emblem change that will allow me to upgrade several pieces of gear and still let me run Heroics, which are still very fun to me. The other carrot is yet another shield....The Northern Barrier. I have yet to see it on the AH, but will pay a pretty penny for it when I do. Money is really no object at this point for me.
The carrot will dangle constantly. For some people this is an annoyance. For others it is a good thing. You will get to play that game you love in the way you love for much much longer if a new carrot appears to replace the old. I say enjoy the carrots while they last. This game will not be around forever and one day, you will have to find a different kind of carrot to follow.
4 comments:
- Syrana said...
I say enjoy the carrots while they last.
I shall enjoy the carrots til the garden is empty. ;)
- June 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Occeleta said...
Yeah. There is always a carrot. It's just sometimes people get bored of chasing such carrots and start looking for some radishes or cucumbers. Dang it, now I want a salad.
- June 29, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Yes these 'carrots' are my drug of choice and I need to score
- June 30, 2009 at 1:39 AM
- Fish said...
yeah, I ran through CoS a time or 2 and I have the worst luck with drops EVER so I just made the Titansteel shield. I have serious doubts I'll ever get either the red sword or the slayer of lifeless, just like I never got the sun eater. . .I hate things based on RNG.
- June 30, 2009 at 8:54 AM
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Journalist Still Thinks Newspapers Should Collude To Stop Giving Away Free Content
from the learn-some-economics dept
But the bigger point is that Lazarus insists that since digital advertising revenue remains a small percentage of newspaper revenue, it means that it can't support a newsroom. This is clueless on a number of different points. First, it's using a snapshot view of a very dynamic world. Digital revenues are growing at a rapid clip, as there are both more readers and more advertisers buying online ads. Compare that to the pace (and direction) of growth for traditional newspaper revenue... and suddenly the digital realm doesn't look so bad. Second, it assumes (incorrectly) that online ads are the sole source of revenue. As plenty of other newspapers are discovering, if you stop focusing so much on being "newspapers" and start realizing that what you deliver needs to change as the market has changed, you'll find that there are plenty of ways to afford to pay journalists -- and in some cases, they'll even be able to make significantly more than before. Of course, you'd expect that sort of analysis not to come from some junk blog, but from a "real" journalist. So why is it the other way?

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Peck era begins in softball
Feb. 12, 2006
Snow may be flying, but it's softball season for the Lady Bisons.First-year coach Kristin Peck's first games didn't go as she planned with the Lady Bisons losing 3-0 and 9-4 Sunday afternoon at Birmingham-Southern in Birmingham, Ala. In the opener a three-run third inning was all Birmingham-Southern needed for the victory. Sara Meek was on the mound for the Lady Bisons. She gave up six hits and also struck out six. Kristina Villavicencio gave up only four hits and struck out four for the win. In game two the scored was tied 2-2 going into the fourth inning. A grand slam by Birmingham-Southern's Brooke Reed broke the game open. In the fourth. Birmingham-Southern also added two more runs in the inning to take an 8-2 lead. The Lady Bisons responded with two runs in the top of the sixth. Birmingham-Southern scored the ninth run on a bases-loaded walk in sixth. Julia Davidson slammed a solo home run for the Lady Bisons in the fourth inning. Allison Tyree started for the Lady Bisons pitching 3.1 innings and allowing four runs on two hits with three strikeouts. Erin Haggard started for Birmingham-Southern, but Rachel Sanifel picked up the victory in relief.


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Bitfenix Shinobi Review
When considering a case for any project, an important consideration may be how much expansion you plan to do over the course of your build's lifetime. It's not exactly great if you want to add more hard drives, but the case you bought only accepts four hard disks and those bays are already taken. That's why it's important to consider a chassis wisely and if your intention is expanding to more than four 3.5" drives, then Bitfenix has a solution for you with the Shinobi case. The Shinobi offers you a total of eight 3.5" bays for your hard disk drives, and one of the eight can even accomodate a 2.5" or 3.5" device mounted externally, with the included 5.25" adatper. The bay converter also allows you to mount either a 2.5" or 3.5" SSD or HDD internally. These are just some of the many great features the Shinobi has to offer, with more expansion-related features than just these. If you're keen on finding out, read on while we take a closer look.
Closer Look:
At first glance, we don't know too much about the case, other than the fact we have the windowed version as opposed to the windowless. On the right side of the box we have a printed list of specifications and a look at the top front of the case. The back of the box gives a glance at some of the other features that the case has, like the surface of the outside and its expandable cooling system. Bringing up the rear with the left side of the box we are reintroduced to the fact that this is the windowed version of the case, as well as some UPC symbols.
Once open, we find the case sandwiched between two pieces of Styrofoam. The case is given some additional protection through plastic wrapping around it.
The cooling capability of this case is amazing, but just how good is it? You'll have to read on.


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Headlines for Saturday:
|@1330-1415 Finish writing lab (teaching)
|See if we can merge planner/muse and planner/emacs-wiki with a unified backend, thanks to firstname.lastname@example.com/planner--merge--1.0 (planner)
|Fix team lists, remove wanting gan : E-Mail from Peter Shepard (teaching)
|Sync with planner-muse (planner)
|@1030-1600 Attend ACM programming tryouts at BA3175 (AcmTraining)
|Fix my mail
|Write Jill Franklin another note (social)
|Check out mario.upb.edu.ph/thesis/slides.html
|there were so many babes at the MS booth
|<roll eyes> It figures. Of all the sneaky, underhanded tricks... ;)
|they even had Barbie Almalbis of Barbie's cradle
|Yeah. Manny Amador was saying PLUG only had one booth babe - me! *laughs*
I know all's fair in love and business, but must Microsoft _really_
stoop to stuff like that? All the comments I get about
From Jijo's comments:
It was truly weird entering the exhibit area to be greeted by their big booth located front and center, with attractive (and distracting) Microsoft Babes at their booth and at the entrance. I also caught the tail end of a talk on Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005, which was a time slot ahead of my talk, in the same room.
Oh, wait, it's Microsoft. Right. They're not exactly known for ethics.
This is what makes me grit my teeth and remember that somewhere in Microsoft are good people who like making things that help others. I have friends who work at Microsoft. They're decent people.
They're just weighed down by a terrible corporate culture that focuses on crushing the competition. Court docs: Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google. At least IBM has guidelines telling employees never to trash-talk the competitors.
Congratulations, Microsoft. You've just succeeded in your marketing objective: distract people from your real problems.
When are we going to see _real_ answers to the stuff we keep complaining about?
I'm going to write someone I know in Microsoft to say how disappointed I am in their marketing...
UPDATE: - Clair's entry
Wow, that's an amazing post you did on call centers. I agree. Call centers (as well as nursing, another industry for which the Philippines is being known as a "factory") are not bad things. It's just sad that many young Filipinos see them as their only viable option for making money *legally*.
You really should write more opinion posts, Sacha. :-) Speaking of which, what's your opinion on technology replacing human workers in the long run? Just curious.
Ooooh. Something else to write about. =)
People have always been afraid that they'll be replaced by technology. Angry Luddites smashed Jacquard looms in 1811, afraid that automated weaving would kill the need for master craftsmen. Factory workers protested the introduction of robots and automated assembly lines. Teachers worried that the introduction of the Internet would phase out the need for schools.
Will technology replace human workers?
Yes! Technology should do the dangerous work. Technology should do the boring work. Technology should free us to pursue what we're interested in!
This anxiety about technology is _not_ new. Think about books and you can imagine that many a monk saw the Gutenberg press as a work of evil. Think about spreadsheets and imagine all of those human calculators crunching numbers. Heck, think about your electronic calculator and imagine having to do square roots on your fingers or on an abacus.
I think there will always be a need for human creativity, human insight, human connection. I think technology frees us to focus on more creative things. We can focus on the big picture.
Technology not only makes things easier, but it also transforms what we do. Take the Internet, for example. I just can't imagine tapping all this information and keeping in touch with so many people without the Internet. It would be too much work! Technology not only makes existing things easier. It also makes new things possible.
There are many things we'll still choose to do ourselves. I write lots of letters by hand even though e-mail is much cheaper and more convenient. I handwash many of my clothes even though I've been told that they'll survive the gentle cycle of the washing machine. I play around with paper forms for organizing my life, even as I work on an electronic personal information manager.
What does technology do, though? It widens the divide. You need capital to buy technology, and technology amplifies your advantage. You need time to learn technology, and most people at the bottom of the heap don't feel they have enough time for themselves. (And what little time they _do_ have, they waste on television!) You need confidence to learn and experiment, and far too many people are afraid to break something or don't believe in themselves enough.
So _that's_ where I think the problem lies: not in technology itself, but in our response to change. I want to help people realize that they can and should keep learning. If people embrace change and grow with it, then how can they be afraid of technology?
There's another phonecard without connection fees, but the cellphone rate for that one is probably higher. I'll try getting that one later.
All in all, I see an article written in your inimitable style; concise and non-argumentative - did you know you sound like you're talking even when you're writing? =)
So I thought about recording MP3s of a couple of entries so that people who don't know what I sound like can imagine me. 'course, I was just reading prepared text, so I'm not as bubbly as I can get in casual conversations. But it's a good start, and it'll get better as I get used to it. =)
- On call centers - Technology and humans
|but the babes where fun!!!! *hides*
|And people wonder why there aren't many girls into IT... ;)
|clair hasn't told you about Red Hat's booth
|it had this huge pic of carmen electra saying fsck me...
Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with sofware applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more. Onlife then indexes the contents of your shoebox, makes it searchable and displays all the interactions between you and your favorite apps over time.
It's like Remembrance Agent (Emacs) and Dashboard (GNOME), but cooler.
That settles it. I want a Mac when this computer falls apart. =) All the interesting productivity developments are happening on Macs.
E-Mail from Sven Kloppenburg
It's much, much better than my kludgy attempts when I wrote the first port of Planner to Muse. I kept running into problems thinking of an elegant way to combine both backends. I just wanted to get Planner out the door, so I tagged a new branch and replaced all the emacs-wiki code with muse equivalents.
That spurred a lot of development on the planner-muse front, and we blessed Michael Olson's tree as the canonical planner-muse branch. Keeping up with patches became a real headache, though, because of all the translation between branches.
I've tagged a new tree off Yann Hodique's branch and made emacs-wiki work again. I've also brought it up to the latest dev (I think!), and I'll be using it for the next few weeks. A number of modules still require emacs-wiki, and with the Planner community's help, we hope to open them up to Muse people as well!
You can grab the merged tree with
tla register-archive http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/arch tla get email@example.com/planner--merge--1.0 planner
Back up your plans and customize planner-backend. Have fun!
I firmly believe that tech graduates should be exposed to customers and trained to communicate even if they're eventually going to go into deep systems hackery. There might be better ways to learn these things, but a call center job isn't a complete waste of time. If people learn how to make the most of even their call center experience, then they'll be much better off.
If people think that call centers are a dead end--well, that's _our_ fault! Are we building the companies that provide opportunities for others? Are we offering interesting challenges and competitive salaries to attract and retain people? Or are we just sitting back and complaining about the lack of real opportunities in the Philippines?


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Star Parker Urges Changes in Public Educationby John Dykstra '13 • April 1, 2011 Share:
Star Parker once led an aggressive lifestyle that ranged from constant drug activity to visiting abortion clinics on several occasions. Parker related her Christian conversion to how America can better the quality of public education.
"I got engaged in much activity from constant drug activity to being knocked-up and being in and out of abortion clinics," Parker said. "It wasn't until my Christian conversion that I changed my life. What is interesting about that time in my life is I was able to transition out of there and go back to save those who are still there."
Parker's talk focused on reinstating the morals of the past in order to better public education. Her talk was sponsored by the Wabash Conservative Union.
"We just can't go on like this against our core principles," Parker said. "Our nation was founded on the principles of personal responsibility and freedom. And we are at a critical cross point similar to where we were in the 1850s where we had to look at critical issues and say we cannot go on anymore."
"If you have broken values, you have broken families. And unfortunately for these liberal ideas, they are equal opportunity destroyers."
Parker argued that liberal ideas have provided a wide variety of families with an education that is low in quality.
"I think that many people who yearn to be free, who know about core principles and raising proper families, want the best for their children," she said. "And education is critical to getting on the first tier of economic independence."
President of the Wabash Conservative Union Jacob Nettnay said the topic of Parker's topic needs to be recognized more.
"The topic of Parker's talk is definitely something that needs to be talked about in this country," Nettnay said. "We are under-serving the people who need help the most."
Wabash students admired Parker for her direct attack on public education.
"She definitely wasn't afraid to speak her mind," said Adam Current '11. "Obviously she is taking from a system she came out of. I admire her brutal honesty in terms of how she portrayed her opinion and how aware she made me of issues our country will be facing in the future."
Paul Hudak '13 agreed with Parker's opinion that Americans need to become less dependent on the government and hold themselves responsible for a change in society.
"She hit some points that might have made some people unhappy of what she was saying maybe because she was striking at home," Hudak said." I agree that people need to stop relying on government spending. We need to focus on bettering education and encasing our own efforts into the program as well."
Parker used Harriet Tubman's contribution to the Underground Railroad as a metaphor to how people can change the public education system for the better.
"There were four million slaves in this country and Harriet Tubman rescued 75 and she's in history," Parker said "because to those 75, that was important."
Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy.
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But isn't tha ... oh ...
I'm getting out now. :(
Well that was an arse of a review, a very firm arse which stuck together very well.
And the humor in this one was nice.
... I wonder what Yahtzee thinks of Saints Row 4 so far (Since we all know he wants to marry Saints Row 2). XD
Yahtzee, I sense a growing trend of using strategically placed pauses to set up jokes, like the Poo Map thing from your SimCity review. And you showed us a Back to the Future Shout out and Marvel gag in one screen! Yeah, I saw that 616 Continuity line on your board. Are you trying to tell us something?
All I got from this review are butts. There were a lot of butts in this review. Butts
Hmm. I don't think that's exactly true, though this is kind a personal interpretation: See, when Elizabeth expands the tears, I don't think she's just taking herself and Booker through a portal to a completely separate reality. It's more like she's taking another reality and...superimposing it over the existing one. Remember how all the dead guards "inherited" their memories of their formerly dead selves: This means that the two realities are connected at least in some way. My personal theory is that there's only ever one true version of the universe, and all the other universes don't actually exist until somebody observes them. It's like Schrodinger's Cat. The cat is alive and dead until someone observes it in either state, and at that point whichever state isn't observed simply collapses. [1] Basically, Elizabeth has the power to open the box and see the cat in both states, and choose for herself which state becomes "reality".
So she IS technically responsible for choosing the "Shit Has Gotten Messy" reality and bringing it into existence, even if she was only trying to move some guns. Though you could argue that moving those guns was directly related to the shit getting messy, and Elizabeth knew that at the time she was trying to move them. The phrase "uprising" had already been thrown around, she knew what she getting into.
[1] Unless I don't understand Schrodinger's Cat nearly as well as I think I do, which is extremely possible.
"Pretentious". Thank you, that was the word I was looking for when trying to appease the murderous rabble that was trying to lynch me for not liking Bioshock Infinite.
Yeah, I don't like it (that includes generic reskinned squadmate #31471823 that somehow got people claiming she is not generic reskinned squadmate #31471823), but that's just personal taste of course.
thats not good considering bioshock felt its gameplay was lacking compared to SS2, with the minor exception of big daddies.
Welp, even Yahtzee likes this one. Guess I am the only organism who didn't liked it.
While I never finished the game, as I realized that the slippery slope the game plot was sliding towards had spikes at the bottom, I found my view of the game very grounded (sorry for the pun).
I saw all the reviews giving this game glowing recommendations, and after getting as has as I did my only question was... "How?" The game is fun, don't flame me, but the plot is not that strong. Compared to the first Bioshock game, the plot is like the movie 'Click' with Adam Sandler. Elizabeth is less companion and ally, but more like a plot continuation device and random ammo/health generator.
I saw a youtube video which showed all the points in the game that seemed weak. I am happy Yahtzee enjoyed the game as it is good, it is even great, but only to a point. If you want me to give a score out of 10, I would say 8.5.
For those who rave about the game and think it is the best thing since ('last great game'), check out this link and tell me what you thought of the points made.
Edited because I linked the wrong video....
The problem (for me) with the final level is that the game spent the entire time not giving a shit if I was any good or not, and then the game suddenly introduces a way to fail, creating a difficulty curve that can best be described as a flat highway that ends in a brick wall.
Hell no. Its got ammo coming out its ass. Actually was kinda fun, since I got to focus more on whether the weapon I was using was actually the right weapon for the job instead of whether or not the game would fuck me over by not having any ammo for it for the next 2 hours.
1:00 (Draws pistol) Before I hurt someone. 1:50 Sweet analogy. XD 5:04 (Looks up picture) Huh. Well, what do you know? She does.
Personally, I didn't find it all that hard. I beat it on my first try. Of course, I was playing on medium the first time I was on there, so I guess that explains it.
I played it on hard and needed two tries, because I was kind of missing the point the first time. The ship was almost destroyed before I even started destroying the zeppelins.
It's good that I know them already, now that I'm going for 1999 mode without spending a dollar at any Dollar Bill. ;)
Sorry to say it is credible. The reality is that the internet is very slow in our country and very very expensive. We still have 1Gigabyte caps... Yea you do get better but then you are talking about big money.
Even this Forum takes about 2 minutes to load and jumping from page to page take about 1 minute if I am lucky. The truth is "fast and affordable" doesn't exist here... That is also the reason why I took up fishing... Gaming became to expensive... The updates are MASSIVE and it just takes to long. But thankfully the review clips allows me to see what I miss so I am thankful for them. Really they make my day.
If I want to play a game that needs online support it will take about half the day to update and by that time I get to play the weekend is a memory. In short it sucks but it is the truth.
You are welcome to PM me and I will send you some info on the speeds and cost of our internet. It is scary expensive...
Genuinely surprised Yahtzee liked this game. I thought for sure he'd say the plot is a fucking mess. When you introduce time travel and multiple universes you're asking for plot holes. There is far too much suspension of disbelief needed for my tastes. When fans need to make videos and graphs explaining the ending then something has gone wrong. Anyone who's familiar with the grandfather paradox knows why the ending is bullshit. The game is up its own arse far further than first thought. 7/10
I still think you're exaggerating. I'm pretty sure Google would time-out your connection well before five minutes. And if The Escapist pages take only 2 minutes to load, how does Google take 5 minutes, when it's a much smaller page, hosted on much faster servers?
So as long as society doesn't embrace Objectivism, nobody will be short-sighted, or their short-sightedness won't be a major problem? Pretty sure short-sightedness will horribly derail pretty much any system...
Oh, I nearly forgot. One of my my favorite things about this game is that when you launch it on a PS3, the first thing you see is a warning about the hazards of the Playstation Move, and how annoying it is to set up. It's essentially an anti-advertisement, saying "Whatever you do, don't buy a Playstation Move!"
I really don't know what your problem is? Yes Google "times-out" all the time hence the 5 minutes now I may have neglected to say that I have to hit the "f5" key a couple of times. But that is like saying you have to chew your food. Obviously the connection is good at times but most of the time I am lucky if I get to log in without a time out.
Sorry, let me clarify that. In Bioshock the plasmids are dangerous substances with negative side effects (turning people into splicers). Now most modern economies go for a free market approach (to widely vary degrees of course), but just because its a free market doesn't mean there are some limits, I can't for example go into a store and buy a nuke for what should be fairly obvious reasons.
Now in a regular (non extremist objectivist) society plasmids, with their negative side effects, would be a controlled substance. But in Bioshock because Ryan is so determined to keep the government from interfering with trade he refuses to do so. As a result, short sightedness in the population causes an arms race as people splice more and more to keep ahead (as I recall because of the rioting and civil war). Thus leading to most of the population descending into splicers and Ryan eventually needing to release the gas that lets him control them, thus reinforcing the central irony. That in his quest to be totally Objectivist he became a dictator.
So your right, short sightedness is a problem in any society, but one of the ideas the game explores is that an objectivist society that embraces the philosophy to an extreme will see that problem come to the forefront.
Not saying the game is right one way or the other, just explaining what the game was going for IMO and just praising it for tying a central game mechanic to its story.
hahaaaaaa! Great review! Also a damn fine game, even for how up its own but it was of course.
I personally really like this interpretation, because a.) it doesn't have a bunch of loose ends like "What about the other elizabeth?" and "How is it that songbird is still hunting you?", b.) It doesn't feel like you left the universe you started out in 3 universes back and never went back(of course, at the end it doesn't really mater) and finally, c.) it fits in a lot more with the whole "why elizabeth was kept in a tower" thing, because a reality warper who can create a new universe because she wants to is pretty fucking dangerous.
[1] Unless I don't understand Schrodinger's Cat nearly as well as I think I do, which is extremely possible.
To paraphrase Cath from The Last Express, Just because they have a sympathetic cause doesn't mean they aren't terrorists. In real life, a lot of groups that were fighting oppression ended up committing a lot of the same kind of sins once they managed to overthrow their oppressors.
One of my favorite examples of this was Max Robespierre, from the French Revolution. The man was a lawyer for basic human rights before the revolution, only to be one of those most responsible for the Reign of Terror, where pretty much anyone who had formerly had any kind of power(the church and the landed) ended up getting their heads cut off(regardless if they had committed any actual crimes againest the poor).
The revolution will not be civilized, indeed.
Yahtzee praising games is rare, don't get used to this guys XD
I have to go listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwzNN4IMyx8
I think a lot of hyping this game comes from people who like to think of themselves as clever for understanding the plot twist, and the hate similarily comes from people who like to think of themselves as even more clever for pointing out obvious nitpicks.
Yes, the game's interpretation of the multiple universe theory is shaky, there are certainly plotholes, but I for one did not care while playing it. Sure, after the fact you can sit here and write up a list of inconsistencies, but thats besides the point. The question is do the inconsistencies hurt suspension of disbelief while playing it, and for the overwhelming majority of people, the answer is no.
The whole vigor thing was poorly implemented into the storyline, but then again did it need to? Bioshock 1 build it's storyline around the plasmids, but it wasn't a game about the dangers of biotechnology specifically. The connection between gameplay and story wasn't integral to the game, and neither is the disconnection between the two in Infinite a major problem.
I also don't get why the weapons would have to be anything flashy. Does it matter whether the machine gun shoots wasps or bullets? What matters is that the guns don't all feel the same and allow as many gameplay styles as possible. I think the more important issue is that, due to the shield, long range cover based combat is strictly superior, which renders many of the mid-range weapons (like the standard machine gun) pretty pointless.
The real issue I have with the game is how the combat hurts the pacing of the story. Especially towards the end, where the story picks up a lot of speed, but the battles slow down quite a bit due to the sheer numbers of enemies and appearance of multiple patriots or a Handyman. The worst offender was the battle against Lady Comstock, doing the exact same thing three times in a row. In a game where death has next to no adverse effects, there really is no point in drawing fights out for so long. I assume the developers felt that the playtime really was kind of short for a full price game, and tried to pad it out a bit.
I also didn't like how you basically became a one-man army towards the end, slaughtering enemies left and right. It made me feel a slight disconnect to the combat, and it really did not fit the story all too well. At least in Bioschock 1, you are a genetically engineered superhuman, but in Infinite, you are just a generic soldier. It would have been more believable to have the Vox uprising (it's already a very convenient Rebellion, why not expand on that) do the heavy lifting while you fight key engagements.
So the game had me frustrated at points, the difficulty curve isn't quite perfect, but overall it was just great fun playing it. Engaging story, interesting ideas, good combat. No game is ever perfect, but Infinite is about as good a game as you can ever expect. Everyone feeling disappointed needs to seriously adjust their expectations.
The problem is that you said it takes 5 minutes to load. That's not what's happening - you appear to be having intermittent connection problems, Loading time doesn't seem to be the main problem. Each time you hit "reload" - the timer starts again. So, while you may have waited 5 minutes to eventually load the page, that doesn't mean it took 5 minutes to load.
That's not really ironic... if you observe society and history closely, that's pretty obviously where Objectivism leads to. Putting the individual above all else, and completely eschewing collectivism or community, will end up in dictatorship and fascism.
It's not really rocket science, but for some reason Objectivists have a peculiar blind spot about this. I guess much like Communists have a blind spot when it comes to over-emphasis on the collective over the individual. Neither of these extremes work outside of imaginary utopias.
Hm, maybe it's about cleverness and plot twists, probably it is true for some, but i'd actually point out the second argument of yours, expectations and to that game design.
Now looking at Infinite, the problem isn't really the ending that much, partially because Levine promoted it differently and said in advance "it will be special, but i don't know how it will effect the players, if they'll like it or not" (or something like that). I have mixed feelings about the ending, pretty much because all this multidimension-stuff looks kind of messy to me to begin with, but they designed the ending rather well, as narration (even if it suuucks gameplay-wise, considering for about 20mins you have nothing to do but walk after Elisapeth, but whatever).
And then (while BS2 was thrown out somewhat "hasty", but i'll just avoid to further include it in this now), they have more experience, more money, more time and more support to produce another game to the series they call "Infinite"!
This simply makes Infinite worse than BioShock and for what? For creating a more generic shooter, which could appeal to more people who probably haven't played the former Shock-titles and to make easy money that way (interestingly enough this was already pointed out by SystemShock fans about the creation of BioShock)! I was skeptical when Levine already stated, that they would try to be more "appealing", when the "controversy" about the cover-art arose, but i still hoped it would only be to better hook those who wouldn't have played the former titles, but still bring what those who had played them would be expecting.
Dude you are welcome to think whatever you want. Fact is you cannot tell me what I experienced. Is it a browser problem a connection problem or a virus. I don't know... But this is what I do know.
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I thought he was just hammering home the pretentious point. It's a good book, but it does at times get a bit too enamored with itself. The entire endingwas a bit pretentious in how DFW chose to write it.
Kind of like what Yahtzee was saying about Bioshock Infinite.
Or maybe it was Hamlet.
How was I being a jerk? I was just speaking factually. I never called you names or did anything personal, I was just discussing technical issues.
This has to be the most backhanded and uncertain compliment to a game I have ever seen, and I absolutely love it. Praise without gushing, and criticism without polarization. Fantastic.
20 Minutes? Not quite. I think you are exaggerating quite a bit here. And the question is how else could it have been done? The ending required a lot of exposition, and that couldn't exactly be handed to you while you were fighting. As far as ending sequences go, it was actually refreshingly interactive, requiring you do actually do the actions, which increased your identification with the character and hence the emotional impact.
There is a difference between "hype" and false advertising. A hype is something mainly generated by the playerbase (though it can be fanned by the publishers) and the developers are probably the people who have the least to do with it. Hyping up a game is always bad. You can never fulfill hyped up expectations. That is why if you, as a gamer, allow yourself to get hyped up for a game, you are making a mistake that will likely sour your enjoyment of the game. We know advertisements and trailers make things look more awesome than they probably are. We know that for all the advertisement, the game will likely have at least a few significant flaws. However, insofar as you are accusing the game of flat out false advertisement:
That is simply factually false. The Trailers did not spoil actual scenes from the game, that is true. But all the elements were there. The Trailers showcased no feature that wasn't actually in the game. The only thing different is the sequence of events, and that was perfectly fine, as it actually meant the devs did do the extra work to create realistic trailers without spoiling any actual story.
That is all highly subjective. As I said, the plot certainly has holes, but none of them in any way affect the impact of the story as you play it. The plot and characters are certainly not on the level of good Literature, but they are still a fair bit ahead of the crowd. This goes back to "if you expect the game to be the best of everything ever made, you are going to be disappointed".
Also I can't find a single point about the combat that the first Bioshock did better than infinite. You do remember how tedious the big daddy fights could be, or how not having the right ammunition at hand could screw you up, of how all enemies where basically the same? There is a lot of selective perception going on in regards to Bioshock 1.
The weapon limit was functionally the same in Bioshock. Sure you could carry all the weapons, but you needed ammo for them, and you could only upgrade 2 to 3 weapons fully, which meant that, in practice, you were pretty much restricted to those. Neither do the vigors have less functionality than the plasmids, the functionality is just differently integrated. The only thing clearly missing is rage, but that always was an inferior possession anyways. Saying the combat in Infinite isn't perfect is fine, but I feel the people heavily criticising it tend to leave out all the interesting ideas that the game at least tried: Sky rail combat, switching between tears, heavy emphasis on positioning and traps.
I get how people who expected the game to be more like system shock are disappointed. But who are you to judge what the developers should have provided? I find that argument terribly pretentious. I have watched that video review people have posted here, and it's main point is, similarily to yours, how the author thinks the game should have been done:
I think that if you honestly go back to Bioshock 1 and make a list of all the pros and cons of this game, the list of cons wouldn't be shorter than in Infinite. And if the game is up there with one of the best FPS/RPGs ever made, then why, really, would anyone be disappointed? Even if you expected the game to be "much better" than the original Bioshock, "pretty much as good as" would still be 9/10, would it not?
God only Knows came out in the 60's. Hint hint.
He didn't like the ending of the first Bioshock?
He must have gotten the "evil" ending, because the "good" ending stuck with me like few other endings have and almost moved me to tears.
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The viewer requiring drags to scroll down on a pdf is insanity. From what i have used, metro apps seem to only have more support to emulate a finger instead of being thought of as an actual mouse.
The default Metro UI controls do indeed allow for mouse scroll in lists and canvases -- exactly where you'd expect it. For example, see the Mail and People apps. (The People app scrolls horizontally.)
If the PDF viewer does not scroll, then that's either because they wrote their own custom control, or because they turned it off for whatever reason. Nothing to do with Metro itself.
It is true, though, that some of the apps lack mouse-friendliness. In Mail, for example, you cannot drag items into folders with the mouse or stylus. It is an enormous waste of time to bring up the menu to move items into folders -- especially since you cannot mousedrag-to-scroll inside the list (you have to use the scrollbar or scrollwheel).


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its nearly that time again - have started shopping by ordering each of my girls and hubby a road id bracelet - any other suggestions for great bike related stuff - two of them got new road bikes for their birthdays so that's out.....
ages: 17, 20, 26 and 31 - all started riding this year and have done a couple of 100km with me and still turn up to ride 3 or 4 times a week so going well.
Anyone have some suggestions for great jerseys - what i like may not be cool enough -- thanks in advance -
I got my present early a new selle smp glider seat and a coach to teach me how to really use all those gears and a physio to keep the back and legs working well enough to go to the coach....
Hubby stuck working in remote WA - no bikes allowed so he is spinning away bored stupid - are there any training/motivating type DVDs that anyone can recommend?
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I have one, very comfortable and fits well
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Otherwise, any random bike stuff is good, but getting crappy items of clothing or weird books or coffee cups covered in a motif of your chosen hobby is rank. I have received some weird stuff over the years as people try and buy hobby related items.
Neat tools, like the Crank Brothers tyre lever, or allen key sets are OK stocking fillers.
Bling wheels would be even better. Bling wheels are good !!
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i've asked for lots of things (but with the amount of stuff I've bought in the last month will get a lump of charcoal0
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my list of most appreciated products
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Arm coolers to prevent sunburn De Soto are great
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Or book a cycling 'holiday' or long weekend a few months in advance and give them an itinerary of rides on xmas day...
My wife always finds it difficult to buy me 'stuff' cause, as a guy I don't need lots of new clothes or anything, and most things that are less than a couple of hundred bucks I just buy myself...
But she always books 'events' - like concert tickets, or a weekend away etc.
So why not do this.
Find a cabin/house in a nice place that has lots of decent rides. Look up some rides/maps etc and have 2 or three rides planned out.. spend each morning riding, each afternoon relaxing with a few beers in the sun. What could be better?!
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think the pink flloyd jersey for the bloke - not sure the girls would have any idea who they were!! callous youth -
He and I are going to europe next year so maybe will buy him some good maps - preferably some with flat rides as well as the mountains -
also as we are in qld no real need for really long knicks - can anyone recommend a good brand of fleecies for cold days (we will be there either April May or Aug/sept depending on his work.
maybe a merino undershirt - are they good value?
think i will put a tool kit together for each of the girls in a top tube bag along with some socks etc as a stocking present -
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Kathe Birnbaum's friends know well enough not to nibble on the treats one finds on display throughout her Greenwich home -- not before asking her first, that is.
A small dish of pastries in a guest bedroom prove a tasty looking case in point. With a dusting of what appears to be confectioners' sugar, they would make an excellent accompaniment to late-afternoon tea.
In reality, they are best served alongside a bath towel.
"They are soaps," Birnbaum said playfully, as she continued a recent tour of her second floor.
Artificial food displays aside, Birnbaum has created a home with style and warmth by putting her passions, pursuits and, most importantly, her personality at the forefront.
It exudes from the artful objects she has created and placed in display cases. It can be felt in the handmade needlework that hangs on the walls or is seen on the pillows that offer a visitor a comfortable seat. It can be seen in a table that Birnbaum transformed into an ode to travel and fine wine, with its border of wine corks and lacquered top of wine labels and foreign currency.
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"I always say start from a place of love and stay the course," she said, while standing in her kitchen on a recent morning. "If you don't start from a place of love, you are never going to be happy."
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"I can't think of one thing in this house I don't love," she said. "Never underestimate the details."
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With any renovation project a major investment, Barymow said customers should take the time to think about how the space will be used and choose the elements that not only reflect personality but add value.
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Birnbaum advised getting those favored objects out of closets and storage space, and searching for treasure in your backyard. With a little attention and artistry, they take on new life, such as the books she has created into sculptural pieces, folding pages into interesting shapes and sizes.
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Sunday Brunch…Wheat Bhatura with its only accompaniment Chole..yum.yum.yum!! A simple and easy Punjabi recipe prepared with whole wheat flour instead of maida (refined flour). Nothing can beat Chole-Bhature Combo – its like they are made for each other – taste heavenly, crispy and fluffy. Bhatura just like poori is a popular deep fried North Indian dish served with chole, pickled chilies and onions on the side.
In this recipe I have shown both the methods of preparing bhatura – Whole wheat flour bhatura and Maida bhatura. Method is same for both the bhaturas, only ingredients are slightly different. Wheat flour bhatura is kneaded in milk and curd and no water is added to the dough. Though this dough DOESN'T require any resting/sitting time but I still allow it to sit for 2-3 hours and they puff up beautifully. When Chole bhature is on the menu – I soak the chana a night before and in the morning with my morning tea I knead the dough, let it sit and by brunch time (11:30) its ready.
I always cook wheat bhatura along with my chole for two reasons – first, wheat flour is healthier (rich in fiber, folate, riboflavin and vitamins) than maida (where the the refining process destroys all its's vitamin content) and secondly, wheat bhatura are denser and has a thick outer crust which keeps it fluffy for a longer period of time.
Everyone in my family absolutely loves this recipe and leftovers are tasty and wonderful too. 🙂
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- 2-1/4 cups Whole Wheat flour
- 3/4 cup Milk
- 1/4 cup Curd (thick Market curd/yogurt)
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1/4 -1/2 teaspoon Sugar
- 1/2 - 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 tablespoon Oil to finish up the dough
- 2-1/4 cup Maida
- 3 tablespoon Sooji (Semolina)
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1/2 -1 teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 -1/2 teaspoon Sugar
- 1/4 cup Curd (thick Market curd/yogurt)
- 1/4 - 3/4 cup Warm water to knead the dough
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Calling all social singles in New York City! The New York Irish Center in Long Island City is hosting a blind date night on February 8. It's the perfect opportunity to nab a date in time for Valentine's Day and help raise funds to bring an acclaimed new show to Ireland.
Award winning Irish actress Jo Kinsella will play the role as blind date host at the event.
Based on the hit British dating game show, the night will bring singles of all ages and sexes together for an evening of laughter and romance. Participants will ask questions to three possible suitors, whose identity will be revealed after they choose their blind date.
After the reveal, the couple will select their date from a number of options including a romantic gondola ride, movie night, and a shopping spree to name a few. There will also be spot prizes on the night.
With endless possibilities on the night for singles who are willing to mingle, the occasion has already been endorsed by playwright Jimmy Kerr and champion boxer (and now actor) John Duddy.
All proceeds will go towards bringing the cast of Laoise Sexton's 'For Love' to Ireland for the show's upcoming countrywide tour.
Starring Duddy, Georgina McKevitt and Kinsella, the play revolves around the "mating habits and close encounters of a bunch of 30-somethings" in what is described as a dark "blue comedy."
"We need your support to bring this play home to Ireland," Kinsella said.
Originally from Co. Kilkenny, Kinsella was awarded the "The 1st Irish Special Achievement Award for Remarkable contributions to 1st Irish Theatre Festival 2012" in which she performed in two plays "House Strictly Private" by Jimmy Kerr and "For Love" by Laoisa Sexton.
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Find a way to decode links from specific web page to enable fast scrapping in Python
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I would like to scrap a site that has data protected by script. I would like that you find a fast way to get data from a series of links that would enable full scrapping of data from this site.
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The sites seem very scrape-able. Contact me and we can discuss. My name is Anson and I am a programmer of about 10 years now. I build web scrapers and do data mining and extraction professionally using Python.
I can have you to decode data. So you can enable full scrapping of data from this site. Contact me and we talk more details.
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My evil secret.
Skip business school, I advise those who want to accelerate a management career; instead, spend a few years in a mental hospital.
You could even work there.
It's good to know something about irrational behavior because there are days when everyone at work seems, more or less, insane. Usually what that means, of course, is that we just don't understand them.
What's more surprising—we often don't understand ourselves.


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Cabrera, Luis (2007) The inconveniences of transnational democracy. Ethics & International Affairs, 21 (02). p. 219. ISSN 0892-6794
Cabrera, Luis (2008) Global citizenship as the completion of cosmopolitanism. Journal of International Political Theory, 4 (1). p. 84. ISSN 1755-0882
Cabrera, Luis and Anastasi, Jeffery (2008) Transborder service learning: new fronteras in civic engagement. PS: Political Science & Politics, April. pp. 393-399. ISSN 1049-0965
Cabrera, Luis (2010) Underground railroads: citizen entitlements and unauthorized mobility in the antebellum period and today. Journal of Global Ethics, 6 (3). p. 223. ISSN 1744-9626


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Regarding the concerns raised by Carson about having to join a mailing list to see the "Other Members." A quick solution to this is that if a person wants to help, they have to give a name for credit or they won't get listed under the staff. If for some reason they don't want their name listed, then it should be their responsibility to contact the committee (or whomever is doing the web design/programming) and have their name removed and not anyone else's.

This doesn't seem like that big a deal. In my opinion, it should be: if you help, you're listed in the credits. If you don't want your name listed, you shouldn't get involved. The anonymity of the Internet has been taken too far.
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Title: Radio Selected Clusters of Galaxies at High Redshift
Abstract: Previous studies have shown that three-component radio sources exhibiting some degree of bending between components are likely to be found in galaxy clusters. Often this radio emission is associated with a cD type galaxy at the center of a cluster. We have cross-correlated the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with samples selected from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters (FIRST) catalog and measured the richness of the cluster environments surrounding three- component sources exhibiting both bent and straight lobes. This has lead to the discovery and classification of a large number of galaxy clusters out to a redshift of z ~ 0.5. For both bent- and straight- lobed sources without an optical counterpart it is likely that the radio emission is associated with a galaxy fainter than m_r=22 (the limiting magnitude of the SDSS) and at a redshift higher than z~0.8. We propose to observe a small sub-sample of these sources with the FLAMINGOS instrument on the Mayall 4-m telescope in an attempt to discover if these sources are located in high redshift (z\gtrsim0.8) galaxy clusters. In our visually-selected bent radio source sample, 78% of sources with counterparts in the SDSS are associated with clusters.
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QPR attacker Adel Taarabt has revealed his desire to represent Morocco during the upcoming African Cup of Nations.
The 23-year-old admitted last week that he was struggling with the decision after being asked by Rs boss Harry Redknapp to skip the tournament to stay and aid the struggling side's battle against relegation.
However, following his two-goal match-winning display against Fulham at the weekend, Taarabt has outlined his determination to win a recall to the Morocco squad after learning that new Atlas Lions coach Rachid Taoussi wants to select him.
"I will do everything I can to prove to him that I deserve to be there," Taarabt told www.lequipe.fr.
"[Redknapp] came to see me to ask me not to go but I told him, 'If they call me, I can't refuse, boss. I love my country, I love the Moroccan people and football means a lot to them'.
"I warned him that the only solution was that the coach doesn't call me up.
"The coach isn't obliged to take me. I hope to be at the African Nations Cup but even if I'm not there, and that would be painful, I will be the biggest Morocco supporter."
Since Redknapp's appointment as manager, the Rs are unbeaten in four games and claimed their first Premier League win of the season on Saturday to take them off the foot of the table.
Taarabt was sold by his new manager to QPR while at Tottenham, but he revealed his enjoyment at working under Redknapp at Loftus Road and is in no hurry to leave the club in light of recent speculation linking him elsewhere.
"He is a peerless motivator," he continued. "You believe you are the best player in the world when he talks to you.
"Before matches he is very strong. When you go on the pitch you fear nothing. At the end of the match against Fulham, he came to me to say, 'I told you that you were as good as Berbatov'.
"I see all the clubs linked with my name but I've just signed for four years at QPR. The chairman has said that he wouldn't see me. I don't know what would happen if someone offered 20 million. But I love the club and the fans. And they love me too."


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What I wrote: We were the only family in town with a library in the house. When the carpenter put up all the shelves in the combination dining room/library/office for my Dad, he asked, "You opening up a grocery story or what?" When we told him it was for the books, he grunted and said, "Past the Bible and the Sears catalog, don't have much use for them myself."
The room was soon filled with books, top to bottom. I learned to read early, and
after I mastered the comics in the newspaper, and the Betsey McCall section of my mother's McCall's magazine, I began to read National Geographic.
One day, I considered all the books in our library and asked my father if I could read one. (It wold not have occurred to me to simply take a book without asking. Different times, very different upbringing.) My father told me, kindly, that I wouldn't understand them.
"Why not?" I asked. "I can read English."
My father smiled and handed me a physics book. "Read this, then," he said.
I worked through the introduction, getting the words right, but with no idea about the ideas in the book. At 5 years, physics isn't a familiar concept.
I remember the mix of awe, anger and concern that I could not grasp the material. It was English. I knew how to read English. Why couldn't I understand this English?
Slowly I came to understand the difference between reading and comprehension; between seeing and knowing. The complex relationship between seeing words and understanding concepts came slowly to me, but I began to read more, eager for the ability to link words to concepts.
There are still many books I don't understand, and many I don't try to understand, but the joy and mystery of reading can fill me with a joy that few other things can reach. I hope the love of reading doesn't fade away, replaced by electronic pastimes. Reading was my comfort, excitement and cure for loneliness. It still is.
What is your first memory of reading?
—Quinn McDonald is pretty sure that people who are good writers also love to read.


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This is the players' copy, signed only by Lambeau. The other would have been signed by McGroraty and returned to the Packers.
The document is an interesting look at the indentured servitude NFL players of the time lived under; my brother (who asked to be described as "a crackerjack attorney") got a huge kick out of parsing the language, noting that Section 9 eliminates any leverage a player might conceivably have. The real gem from our sports æsthetics perspective, however, is the accompanying cover letter:
A gorgeous example of 1940s team letterhead. I particularly love the graphic at the top, with the small figures rushing the line. The elegant script "Packers" is notable for its strong vertical "k", the quotation marks breaking the arc of the elegant script "P", and the way the foot of the "P" forms a football shape to enclose "THE".
Shame about the photocopy - I'd love to see this in a better resolution, not to mention in color.
Along the bottom of the page, you can just make out "Five Times World Champions." Just five months later the letterhead would be out of date, as the Big Bay Blues defeated the New York Giants in the 1944 Championship Game to claim Curly Lambeau's sixth and final title.
As for Mr. McGroraty, it appears that he never made it out of Training Camp. A search of the Packers' all time roster fails to turn up anyone by that name. But for one brief Training Camp (presuming he actually returned the contract), he was a member of the greatest pro football team in the world. Signed, sealed, and delivered.
UPDATED 1/25/2012: We now have an example in color, re-used in 1950 by staff members engaged in the team's third stock drive:
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Diversification: It's not just for your portfolio
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Operating your communications program in silos is a bad idea. But the death spawn of this shortsightedness is putting all your eggs in one basket; operate in a vacuum; living in a bubble – whatever you want to call it.
I know it seems crazy (who would do something like this?), but it does happen. When it does, it creates a business environment that is doomed to failure.
If there's only one way for people to interact with your business, you are really asking a lot from a potential customer to find out about your products and services. It's like using one finger to pick up a spoon. It may be possible, but why put yourself through all that extra effort when you have four more that can make the job so much quicker, easier, and effective? So make it easy for people to find you where they are looking. If you're not, you can bet on it that a competitor is and that customer is likely going to find them first. Read more of this post


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Randell Makinson, a forceful advocate for preservation of the rambling Greene & Greene bungalows that came to be seen as graceful emblems of early 20th century California, has died. He was 81.
His death at his Pasadena home on Tuesday was caused by cancer, said officials at USC, where he was a retired member of the architecture faculty.
A USC-trained architect, Makinson was largely responsible for securing public access to Pasadena's Gamble House the only home designed by the brothers Charles and Henry Greene that outsiders regularly can tour. He also helped restore other Greene & Greene homes and never lost his enthusiasm for their elegant Craftsman simplicity, whether it was expressed in what he called "the wooden wonders" of Pasadena or an airy stone house on a Carmel cliff.
"It's just 200 feet off a busy highway and yet, once through the gate and onto that rocky bluff, all the problems of the day are gone," he said of the Carmel house in a 1998 USC publication. "Throw away your
His enthusiasm for homes and furnishings designed by the Greenes was contagious, said Gamble House director Ted Bosley.
"People who may never have heard about them would walk away from a conversation with Randell thinking they'd just discovered the next Picasso," he told The Times.
Born in Los Angeles on June 29, 1932, and raised in Glendale, Randell Lee Makinson sensed early in life that he wanted to be an architect. On his way to school, he took note of the houses. He felt duped, he later told interviewers, when he realized that what appeared to be Spanish-style beams poking through a home's stucco were just chunks of dark wood affixed to the exterior.
In 1954, he was a third-year student at USC's architecture school when a visiting professor observed that the school had only one slide photograph of the Greene brothers' work. By then many of their 200 or so California homes had been demolished. An owner or two even opted for a more modern, ranch-style look by shearing off their houses' second stories.
"For decades, no one gave a darn about bungalows, Greene & Greene, (or) older houses," Makinson told a Times reporter in 2005. He said a onetime prospective buyer of the 1908 Gamble House wanted to slap a coat of white on its teak and mahogany walls. At another point, a developer was talking about acquiring the block for a fancy high-rise.
When the young Makinson took his professor's cue and set up a camera tripod outside the Gamble House, a tall, unsmiling man in a dark suit came out and demanded an explanation. An heir to the Procter & Gamble soap fortune, Cecil Gamble was satisfied with what he heard and offered the fledgling architect a guided tour.
"In the next three-and-a-half hours, I saw his garden, his azaleas, his gardenias and his birds," Makinson said. "He showed me the entire house, basement to third floor, and we ended up sitting on the carpet, looking at the blueprint."
For Makinson, it was the start of a lengthy friendship with the Gambles and a lifelong enthusiasm for their home's designers.
Charles Sumner Greene and his younger brother Henry Mather Greene were Midwesterners who graduated from
While Japanese touches pepper their work — a frieze in the Gamble House shows Mt. Fuji — the Greenes "attempted with an almost religious zeal," to tailor homes to the demands of their surroundings and the tastes of their owners, Makinson wrote in a 1977 book.
In Pasadena and Los Angeles, their "ultimate bungalows," as Makinson called them, were built with dark shingled exteriors, high ceilings, long overhangs, sleeping porches, exposed beams, intricate woodwork, and leaded glass windows. California historian Kevin Starr described them as "poems in wood and light."
Makinson's take on the Greenes' style was more kinetic.
It "flips you up and down and lands you on your feet again," he told USC's Trojan Family magazine. The buildings "tell you how to move from one place to another naturally, with light or forms that draw you along."
Even after the Greenes' homes and the furnishings they designed fell out of vogue, their style reverberated.
"One can honestly say that half a century of small houses in the Western United States would not have been the same had the Greenes never produced their few exquisitely wrought houses for a tiny cultural elite," wrote Reyner Banham a British architectural historian, in his introduction to Makinson's 1977 "Greene & Greene."
In 1966, Makinson persuaded the Gambles to donate their home for use as a public resource. Owned by the city of Pasadena and operated by USC, the house draws some 30,000 visitors annually.
The project became an international model of "how to manage significant architecture and make it publicly accessible," said Robert Harris, a former dean of the USC School of Architecture.
Makinson was the Gamble House's curator when it opened. In 1992, he retired as its director.
With Makinson as an authoritative booster, public consciousness of the Craftsman style skyrocketed. He wrote six books, all on Greene & Greene, and led a five-year effort — "the granddaddy of all restorations," as he called it -- at the Blacker House the Greenes' 12,000-square-foot Pasadena masterwork.
With photographer Thomas A. Heinz, he detailed that restoration in a 2000 book that included a 15-page, black-and-white photo gallery by actor
For years, the Blacker House had deteriorated. In 1985, the Texas cattleman who bought it stripped it of its stained glass windows and 53 Greene & Greene-designed lighting fixtures, prompting an outcry among preservationists and a number of local ordinances aimed at keeping such landmarks whole.
In 2006, Makinson had to confront his own controversy. Anonymously, he had sold Greene & Greene desks, sconces, mirrors and other furnishings at an auction that netted $2.8 million. When his identity was later revealed, he came under fire for dealing in items that some preservationists felt he should have protected.
Some of the furnishings were gifts to him from the Gambles and other Greene & Greene owners, he told The Times in 2005. Others were collecting dust in basements or bound for the dump had he not used his own money to buy them.
"Any value they might have had," he said, "is value I have helped develop over the last half-century." he said.
He said medical bills forced him to sell the collection rather than donate it.
Makinson, who never married, is survived by a sister.
The disclosure of his involvement in the sale rankled many but the controversy dimmed.
"We recognized there were differences of opinion and we moved on," said longtime local preservationist Claire Bogaard. "This is Pasadena."
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Winnebago Renovating Rally Grounds Facility
April 26, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Winnebago Renovating Rally Grounds Facility
Winnebago Industries Inc. is renovating its Rally Grounds Activity Complex, according to a press release.
The facility, located adjacent to the company's Forest City, Iowa, headquarters and main manufacturing complex, is undergoing a series of planned renovations. Improvements include surface leveling of Section A of the original Rally Grounds along with upgraded 50-amp electrical service in that section.
The company noted that when the Rally Grounds were originally developed in the 1970's, RVs were typically smaller than they are today and did not incorporate many of today's modern features such as slideouts. These upgrades provide more user-friendly accommodations for today's RVer. The entire facility is also receiving a Wi-Fi system enhancement to improve visitors' access to Internet service on site.
Director of Marketing Chad Reece added, "Ongoing improvements make our Rally Grounds Activity Complex, which is already a uniquely premier location for RV-related and other gatherings, even better. We look forward to showcasing these improvements when we host our annual WIT Club Grand National Rally July 21-26 and other events moving forward."
Winnebago Industries' Rally Grounds Activity Complex has electrical hookups for over 1,300 RVs and dry camping space to accommodate several hundred more. On-site amenities include sanitary dump stations, rest room/shower house facilities, a 3,000 seat outdoor amphitheater, an air conditioned 60-foot by 200-foot carpeted meeting facility with a hard surface dance floor area. A second air conditioned meeting facility that can accommodate up to 125 people includes a bar/lounge area.
Two covered pavilion areas provide additional outdoor meeting space and a professionally managed food service is conveniently located on the grounds. The Rally Grounds Activity Complex is available for a multitude of events throughout the year. For more information about the use of the facility, please contact Lisa Cronkwright, events coordinator, at (641) 585-6464 or at email@example.com.


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So this is a new one. The agency that wanted to charge me $1,050 to answer a Colorado Open Records Act request now wants me to pay them to monitor me.
That's right.
Readers might remember that I'm getting around the $1,050 charge by offering to examine the documents in question in person.
So the media relations contact (who, by the way, is very nice and professional, despite her department's odd policies) e-mails this gem: "It is our practice to have a city employee periodically monitor anyone reviewing our files, at a flat charge of $35 paid in advance."
What halcyon days these are for open government.
For the record, I have spent weeks of my life in rooms reviewing public documents and have never once been accused of doing anything improper with them.
Would love to hear from others if they think this is proper, and any of their tales of odd open-records hurdles they've encountered.


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Win Four Pack Of Tickets to The Kellogs Tour of Gymnastics Champions
The US Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team team just won gold at the 2012 London Olympics and they're coming to Lubbock to show off their skills and celebrate. You can be a part of the action to as they invade the Hub City on Sunday, October 7th, at the United Spirit Arena.
A lucky winner will score themselves a four pack of tickets from National Travel to see the gymnastics tour when it comes to Lubbock. All of your favorite Olympians, both male and female, will be in attendance to show off their skills. You won't want to miss this big show.
VIP members can use their points to enter to win these coveted tickets. It's going to be a sell out so make sure you enter for your chance to score your four pack.
Not a VIP Member? That's no problem. You can become a VIP member when you click here. It only takes a few minutes and you'll be eligible to win tickets to this and many other contests we have as well as get insider information!
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EDIT: Thanks everyone for participating! I've given everyone 10 community points for entering their layout, and our big winner this week is Moontje! Congrats, you should have an extra 50 DCs in your account now, which are in addition to your daily limit, so there's no hurry to spend them. Looking forward to next week's challenge, hope to see you there!
Now that the gallery is up it's time we had a challenge! Be sure to read the rules first and you will need to apply for access to the gallery. Be sure to do this before the deadline so you aren't stuck!
This challenge will not have a voting period or a winner for the most hearts. Let's see how things go and focus on everyone having a great time!
All submissions must be posted here and tagged correctly before November 1, 2012. I will lock this thread at noon EEST, at which point I will award the points and randomly select a winner.
Hopefully there won't be too many kinks this time around and everyone will have a great time.
Now for the challenge details:
It's a scraplift challenge!
Layout by Em T
I saw this layout a few weeks ago and loved it. There are so many wonderful things involved from the black & white mixed with color, to the theme and paint effects. Your job is to pick something from this layout that inspires you and interpret it in your own way.
Important Details
Due Date: November 1, 2012 noon EEST
Tag: challenge scraplift nov 1 2012
Make sure you use this tag exactly, so we can browse easily through the gallery and see all the submissions.


text:
2007-10-31 / Opinion
Endorsements November '07
It is not easy to go before the public, outline a plan for governance, promote a political philosophy and ask for voters' support. Any candidate who assumes his or her role responsibly and seriously puts in a lot of time and money, and makes a personal commitment in order to provide voters a choice at the polls should be commended.
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