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940. You state that "the Government's treatment
of regional and local newspapers adversely contrasts with its
proposals for broadcast media". Does that mean you do not
accept the contention of the commercial radio sector that the
greatest burden of the proposed rules on local cross-media ownership
falls on the radio sector?
(Mr Parker) I think we are making two basic points
here: the first is that the legislation is proactively promoting
consolidation of radio and television and our view, as David has
already stated, is that we have a sense that the proposals that
are currently on the table are more regulatory rather than less
regulatory, which is what we were promised. We cannot miss the
point that has been made earlier that the current framework is
a single page in the document and yet the new proposals run to
two pages, even if we are not yet familiar with the detail of
them. So our sense is that, purely from a local newspaper perspective,
the proposals as currently framed are more regulatory rather than
deregulatory, as we have been promised.
941. As you know the government is proposing
to lift a prohibition on the ownership of broadcast licences,
and you are concerned about the potential for government-controlled
broadcasting. Do you think your concerns about local authority
ownership of broadcast licences could be met through licensing
conditions, or do you believe that the existing prohibition should
not be lifted? In other words, do you think you could control
it or would you like to see the existing prohibition going on?
(Mr Parker) I think we would like the current situation
continue. We are concerned about two aspects on local authorities:
one is whether that is the appropriate way in which public money
should be dispensed or spent and, secondly, whether a local authority
will be able and capable to deal with the potential commercial
and other conflicts of interest that may arise between editorial
content and any advertising content that that radio station or
broadcast media may carry.
942. So you would like the existing system to
(Mr Parker) Yes.
943. I want to extend your logic on newspaper
mergers to cross-media ownership. Imagine I am the MP for Cambridge
rather than Newcastle-under-Lyme. The logic of your argument is
that I should have no concern, there should be no public interest
issues involved at all, were the newspapers in Cambridge to be
concentrated in one hand along with the local radio stations,
leaving just the BBC as the sole independent radio voice. Is that
your view? That there would be no public interest in issues arising
out of that situation occurring?
(Mr Parker) No, we are not saying that there is no
public interest. I think what we have commented on in terms of
the ownership regulations is that, as far as radio is concerned,
we have a concern that in some of the market places that we could
be talking about it may be impractical to have three radio stations.
There are some markets at the moment where there are only two
radio stations and, at the moment, local newspaper publishers
are allowed to own one of those two subject to a public interest
test and we would like to see that continue. As far as the issue
of the local newspaper itself is concerned and content, we believe,
as others have said before us, that if a local newspaper publisher
is not responsive to and is not alive and alert to the needs of
its market place, then at the time competition will emerge.
944. So taking Cambridge as an example, you
do see a case in viewing cross-media ownership issues in principle
for a public interest test but not purely reflecting newspaper
merger issues?
(Mr Newell) At the moment the position will be, because
of the economics of the media industry and the way in which we
compete, in particular, for advertisers and the way in which the
regional local newspaper industry has developed, that it would
be very rare anywhere in the country at the moment in a town such
as Cambridge for there to be a number of local newspaper players.
Consolidation through economics and for other reasons has already
occurred in many areas and has been subject to vigorous newspaper
specific merger regime. In nearly all cases, and there have been
over 100 in the current regime, the Competition Commission have
practically spent more time looking at newspaper transfer cases
than at any other sector of the economy in local and regional
newspaper cases, and in nearly all cases there has never been
a finding on grounds of editorial freedom or editorial content
that the mergers should not go through, so we live in the real
media world at present that I describe. What the government proposals
allow which would not happen at the moment is, if the owner of
the Cambridge paper were to buy a very small circulation newspaper
on the fringes of Cambridgeshire, the Secretary of State would
have the discretion on public interest grounds to trigger a reference
mechanism. That is an increase in the application of statutory
control rather than a decrease, and the point I was making earlier
is that it is of particular concern to small and medium-sized
publishers who have to compete with all the other range of media
and who also have to survive economically 70 or 80 per cent on
advertising revenue.
945. Can I extend the invitation I mentioned
earlier to other newspaper owners? You are clearly attracted by
the so-called light touch, less regulation, and that has an appeal
but necessarily means a move to self-regulation. Mr Kass made
the point that to be successful that form of regulation has to
be credible and perceptively credible. Do you have suggestions
as to how self-regulation might be framed in order to sustain
and also to win, over time, public confidence and, if you do,
could you get back to us quite quickly?
(Mr Parker) As far as self-regulation is concerned
as it applies to local newspapers and regional newspapers, we
have a fairly flourishing and we believe successful self-regulatory
framework through PCC in terms of editorial content and also through
the ASA, the Advertising Standards Authority, in the context of
946. One of the points that ISBA made is it
needs to be demonstrably working. There have been arguments, for
example, that the PCC is rather good but that the PCC does not
have a great deal of public confidence attached to it?
(Mr Parker) With respect, we are here to represent
the interests of local and regional newspapers. Every single survey
that we have ever conducted, either independently or by individual
member companies, has pointed to the fact that local and regional
newspapers are trusted as a medium more than any other, so we
would argue and suggest that that is a reflection of the fact
that self-regulation is working pretty well.
947. I am really offering you an opportunity,
which you may decide that you do not want to take, that if you
want to move away from regulation to self-regulation, then the
onus comes on you to strengthen self-regulation to the point where
it gains enormous credibility and confidence, and you may be right
in terms of the area you specifically represent but I am challenging
you and saying that if you want to avoid regulatory creep, then
there is a moral obligation on you to look at your own self-regulatory
practices and say, "Look, not only are they working but,
year on year, we have strengthened them".
(Mr Parker) Yes.
948. May I ask the Bill team whether there are
any questions on the move from the de minimis area from circulation
to a rather more complex formula?
(Mr Metcalfe) The provisions on de minimis would align
the new regime with the general merger regime being incorporated
into the Enterprise Bill and are similar to the general merger
de minimis provisions in the current Fair Trading Act.
Chairman: Are there any other questions that
have arisen as a result of the evidence? If not, thank you all
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Environmental Controls Go Gold
A party is certainly in order for the team at Priva. The kind of party that only comes around every 50 years. "We're still in the planning process," says Priva communications specialist Pam Cicci.
Priva, a company that specializes in climate control for greenhouse horticulture, got its start back in 1959 under the name Valk & Prins, in De Lier, Netherlands. Back then, this family-owned business began as an importer of heaters for greenhouses.
Swift, successful years followed its inception. With innovation in the forefront, Valk and Prins changed its name to Priva in 1965. In the mid-1970s, Priva took a huge technological step and developed the first process computer for horticulture.
Now celebrating its 50th year in the industry, the independent Priva is a global market leader in process control for the protected horticulture industry. It devotes 35 percent of its personnel to product development and now has six branch offices: in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Canada and China.
Businesswoman Of The Year
This past March, Priva garnered some well-deserved attention and it wasn't for a product or service. Priva's general manager, Meiny Prins, can now be called Businesswoman of the Year (Prix Veuve Clicquot) for 2009. This prestigious prize is awarded in 17 countries and presented as a means to motivate female entrepreneurship and management.
During her acceptance speech, Prins touched on themes that have helped her and Priva stand out in a global market: entrepreneurship, sustainability, innovation, technology and family-run businesses. Meiny is the second generation to run the business.
Now Introducing…
Near the end of 2008 at Horti Fair in Amsterdam, Priva introduced a new and updated line of products for greenhouses with a focus on water efficiency, user friendliness and energy savings, Cicci says.
"Priva Office Direct is much more user friendly. Working with the Priva Intégro process computer, these two systems ensure optimum climate control for crop," Cicci says. Some updates include instant insight in water management, remote control, alarms by SMS and new product dashboards. The Priva Intégro 727 was officially launched during its Horti Fair exhibition.
A new version of PrivAssist also debuted. The updated PrivAssist can compare the quality and efficiency of labor and production processes. It can detect diseases, pests and defects in installations.
Lastly, the revised NutriJet is Priva's answer to excellent water management during a time when nutrient prices continue to increase. The NutriJet is a standardized dosing system that works in open fields and hydroponics.
Along with innovation, Priva places a premium on precision and making it a goal to shrink heating and cooling costs for growers. "We offer energy consultations," Cicci says. "Within the first visit, a greenhouse can reduce 5 percent of its energy costs."

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Anne Hegerty Married, Husband, Children, Partner or Lesbian
Published On: 20 Jul, 2016
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|Date of Birth
|July 14, 1958
|60 Years 1 Month(s)
|Television Personality
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The English television personality Anne Solway Hegerty, better known as Anne Hegerty is of British nationality and white ethnicity. Famed as a former journalist, she is also a freelance editor. She was born in the year 1958 in City of Westminster, London, England. She lights her birthday candle in 14th of July. She was raised by her parents, Kenneth and Shirley Brereton Hegerty in Wood Green. She has a sibling. She currently serves as a "Chasers" on the ITV game show "The Chase" along with Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Paul Sinha, and Jenny Ryan. Academic proofreader Anne is Chasers on the Australian version of the show.
The Governess lady is active on social networking sites with 21.2k followers. She sometimes gets offensive comments due to her excessive weight. She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 2005. Though her exact height is not known, she looks quite short. Moreover, her bio can be grabbed from Wiki sites. The humorous cheeky Anne is admired by millions of people.
Since her childhood, she was extremely talented and brilliant. She has starred in numerous quiz shows including Mastermind, Fifteen to One, Brain of Britain, Are You an Egghead? And so on. With all the passion and hard work, she participated in the Bolton Premier Quiz League. She has listed in the world Quizzing Championships and ranked in 40th in June 2014. She subsequently debuted in the Pantomime "Cinderella" as the wicked stepmother at the Grange Theatre in Northwich. After that, she starred in the pantomime "Jack and the Beanstalk" as Fleshcreep in December 2015. After that in 2016, she appeared in the pantomime "Beauty and the Beast" as Enchantress at the Palace Theatre. She has not yet disclosed her net worth in the media. Since she is the Queen of all the show she has worked in, she might have earned a tremendous salary. Her net worth might be in a million dollars.
Moving towards her personal life, she has always stayed far away from the media if it comes to her personal life. Despite her success, she has kept her personal life very low profile. What might be the reason to keep her personal life as a mystery? Maybe she doesn't want to get trapped in controversy. She is most likely unmarried and has never gone through a divorce. She has also not adopted any children. So far we know, her name is never linked to any other man. She is massively rumored as a lesbian and gay. However, she has denied it. Her fans are dreadful to know about her boyfriend, partner or husband. She currently resides in Manchester, England with her family.
Response Regarding Lesbian Issues
@exonian234 I'm not a lesbian, so wouldn't want a girlfriend, and I keep my private life private :)— Anne Hegerty (@anne_hegerty) October 8, 2014


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Pakistan bomb kills six police polio guards in Charsadda
A bomb targeting a polio security team in north-west Pakistan has killed six policemen and a boy, police say.
The blast occurred near a police van in a market in Charsadda district, injuring at least nine others.
On Tuesday, three health workers taking part in a polio vaccination drive were killed in the southern city of Karachi.
Pakistan is one of three countries where polio remains endemic. Militants oppose the polio schemes which they see as a cover for international espionage.
Militants also accuse health workers of being part of a Western plot to sterilise Muslims.
Police say Wednesday's bomb in Sardheri Bazaar, about 30km (20 miles) north of the city of Peshawar, was detonated remotely.
"Seven people including six police personnel and a child were killed," senior police official Shafiullah told the AFP news agency.
The police van had been taking officers to guard polio vaccination teams in the north-west.
The attack is the latest in a series targeting polio teams in the country, even though the vaccination scheme won the backing last year of a prominent religious seminary said to wield influence over Taliban groups.
Poliomyelitis, which causes spinal and respiratory paralysis, can kill and remains incurable but vaccines have assisted in its almost total eradication today.
However, it is on the rise in Pakistan, due in part to militant resistance to mass vaccination campaigns.
It also remains endemic in Nigeria and Afghanistan, but WHO officials stress that progress in battling the disease is being made in these countries.
Earlier this month India declared itself polio-free, three years after its last reported case. It was a landmark in the global battle against the disease, and largely due to a massive and sustained vaccination campaign.


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Does anybody else notice that us stoners have own words that only we use frequently? ex: "far out" "dank" "trippy" "duuuuude..." and not to mention all the ones we make up ourselves....
comment all of your stonerisms
groovy, diggin it, kaleidoscopic, mind blowing, psychedelic.
hell yea glad to see someone else uses groovy. I use radical as well, has a nice ring to it.
i like to use the word gnarly when the opportunity presents itsself
hell yea "dude that's gnarly!" as a substitute for weird, but it has a broad range of meanings
broad indeed
Because of stonerism's I told the guys at subway that I was "down for American cheese." They instantly knew I was a stoner and I got a free sandwhich.
really tho?
dude thats the dankest shit ever
I like to say rad it's a savage fuckin word and I think everyone should use it
Fuckin awesome, raw, the bomb diggidy, in Florida they like to say rawsome a lot..but I don't like that.
Lol I live in Florida and never in my life have I heard that word.
Me either. Maybe it's a northern Florida thing? Miami sure doesn't say that.
Maybe it's because you're a Retired Stoner?
I still smoke
Just not everyday.
If I had a penny everytime someone said something about my username, I would have 13 pennies.
when friend ross does something awesome it's rossome
I aint ever heard that beforeand and ive lived hereall my life what part are you from
im in texas but im only here for a year, but back in philly we always said chalk it, so legit, bangin, gank, jawn, merked n mangled
god i hate it when people say legit. i will fucking stab the word right out of their mouth. damn you legit
hella is worse though lol
That because you're not from NorCali, Ahaha its all good bud
I call people bud because bro just reminds me of jersey shore. I hate that show. I say Pro or Pro status as well.
Consume Cannabis, give grass some class.
I say pro status fucking all the time
same with awk haha has anyone heard that being said? "awk"
I hate when people do that. It just looks....well, awkward. Can't just have that one syllable, wtf
Nuclear or nukes (extreme bombness of course)
like flame or rockin'
are you living in the 70s or something?
Hella, and i find myself saying "man!" when I'm really stoned. Like one time I was stoned and I said to my dad, " Come on, Man" and I thought I was about to get caught.
I'm pretty cheesed right now..it's a Wisconsin thing
Dank bombskies sticky icky and sometimes we yell out
Get groovey, funky faced, post up, Blaze for Days,
Hard to do when youre sober.
Shallaboloogen, Shall-uh-buh-loogin (We refer to this as the point where one is so high that they are too high to conversate and don't need anymore ganja inhalation although never refuse a bowl if offered)
That's wassup, word, and spliffin'.
And if parents or non-smokers/anti pot people are around we say, "Do you guys want to go Bowling?"
Bowling made me ROTFL for a good 2 minutes. I am now going to go "bowling" a lot more often.
Breeze - like man or dude
"Sup Breeze?"
that's terrific
My friends and I just make a bunch of funny noises usually.
when we are all meeting up to smoke we tell each other its gonna be a BLAMAZING time... its weird but i like it haha
Cyff- blazing with more than 4 heads
Heads- person
Footlong- 12" blunt
Skeed- high
Skyed- high
Where my dawgs at?
We call being high smacked, we call marijuana pack, loud is good weed, unks are those annoying people that are always trying to bum weed off people. If kids at school come up to my car trying to spark, I say "you better take two steps and walk it out, ya unk" and then speed off.
man it sure is loaded out today - means ur baked, never woulda guessed huh
I made up one with my friend when we was faded lol, "3D it to me dude" Meaning throw it to me.. because it's all like 3D and in your face.. Get it?:D
this hahaa
northern cali-grown. we consistantly say hella, dude, chyeah, yee, dope (cool), lifted (lit), tree (weed).
I talk like I normally do. So... I'm the weird one here.
Gaspin--refers to the point where you try to talk, but you have severe cotton mouth so it sounds like you're taking your last breath.
Thug it--refers to doing something like a boss.
Yo--replaces "Hey" or "Dude"
Winning--that Charlie Sheen shit!
man, chill, yo, hahaha, fo real
gas-this bud is so gas
zooted - im so zooted
zoot - im zoot
uhhh i have more but to lazy to type them
The guy I smoke with always says "That's whats up"
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text: Piers Morgan told Jay Carney on Thursday night that there wasn't an "air of authority or leadership" around the administration concerning their response to the recent scandals. "It doesn't lend a great air of authority or leadership to any of this process," Morgan said. "That the AP can be targeted in this pretty shocking manner, many media people feel, and that the White House or the Attorney General himself — whose department it is — don't seem to have a clue either that it was going on or, indeed, how far it goes now."


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"I can no longer abide the packet type au jus -- it's just too salty and the taste just seems to be off somehow. We used to spend hours baking trays of beef bones in the restaurant kitchen to make the best au jus, but who has the time (or the bones?) to do that at home? Anyway, I've been messing with alternative au jus recipes for years, to no avail until NOW. When I bake a beef roast, I elevate it above the bottom of my roasting pan/Dutch oven and then I pour in about 3/4 of a cup of water before I season the roast with salt and pepper. I rarely sear my roasts anymore because they are plenty juicy when I use this method, (e.g., 275 degrees F. for 4 1/2 hours for a 2# roast, covered). Anyway, this yields about 1 cup of drippings at the end, which I use to make my au jus. When I find a perfectly marbled roast, with not too much fat around the outside edges, I find that the drippings are excellent for this recipe because there is just enough fat in the drippings to add a good amount of flavor. In the end, you can use this au jus for anything up to, and including, prime rib -- it's just great. The key ingredients, I think, are the Mrs. Dash, garlic and herb blend, (something I just started using recently), in combination with the Kitchen Bouquet. A small amount of the latter goes a LONG way! I hope you enjoy the ease of preparation and the great flavor of this au jus as much as my own family does!"
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- 15 ounces beef broth, canned
- 1⁄4 cup water, warm
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- 1⁄2 teaspoon Mrs. Dash onion and herb seasoning
- 1⁄2 teaspoon seasoning salt
- In a small bowl, combine the water and cornstarch and whisk with a fork until the blend is completely dissolved. Set aside.
- In a large skillet, over medium heat, pour in the drippings, broth, Kitchen Bouquet, Mrs. Dash, and seasoned salt and bring to a boil. When it boils, whisk in the cornstarch and water mix and continue whisking until it thickens slightly and then remove from heat.
- Pour this sauce over any sort of cooked beef or use as a sauce over beef and noodles.
- NOTE: Sometimes beef drippings can be really salty so add the seasoned salt ONLY after tasting the sauce.
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What's the sound of a blog staring in on itself? This guy creates the blog Gawkerist to comment on Gawker for the sole purpose of getting a job writing for the company...it'd all be somewhat amusing except for the queasy, self-congratulatory tone and rapid descent into narcissism.
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The other unanticipated development was the fevered speculation about my identity. Former GM editorial director Choire Sicha, at that time still blogging for Sploid (and now an editor at the New York Observer), noted amusingly about Gawkerist, "it's well-written, so it has to be someone we know."
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That is a timely and excellent tip as I'm about to go plant shopping this week!
Just a guideline. There have been many times when I've bought a plant with lots if roots growing out the bottom but I just had to have it. Have fun shopping


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CDC IXIS also promoted Spiro Christopulos to VP, director of finance. He will be responsible for financial management and control, including planning and analysis, budgeting and asset reporting. Prior to joining CDC IXIS, Christopulos served as assistant controller of Equis Financial Group.


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Telangiectasias, commonly known as spider veins, is a condition in which clusters of small dilated red or purple blood vessels appear on the legs, feet and face. Spider veins usually occur between the ages of 18-35 years and peaks between the ages of 50-60 years. They are quite common and can affect both men and women. In fact, as many as 79% of adult males and 88% of adult females develop spider veins during their lifetime.
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Chapter Mailing Address
CAHS Vancouver
3489 Lakedale Avenue
Burnaby, British Columbia,
Our chapter works to preserve the aviation history and heritage of the province of British Columbia. To achieve this, we hold monthly meetings that vary from guest speakers, slide shows, power point presentations, videos, and trivia quizzes. Come out, and enjoy an evening of entertainment and learning with fellow aviation enthusiasts of all ages!
Meetings: LAST MONDAY of the month, except for July and August, when we do not meet.
Note also that this does NOT mean the 4th Monday, as some months have 5 Mondays!
Location: Richmond Cultural Centre, 7700 Minoru Boulevard, Richmond, British Columbia (See Map)
Time: 1900 Hours
Landing Fee: $2
Annual Fee: $15
CAHS Vancouver
3489 Lakedale Avenue
Burnaby, British Columbia,
Meeting dates for 2017 will be as follows (mark your calendars):
Monday, 30 January (5th Monday)
Monday, 27 February
Monday, 27 March
Monday, 24 April
Monday, 29 May (5th Monday)
Monday, 26 June
Monday, 25 September
Monday, 30 October (5th Monday)
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ARTIST: Polluted Axis
ALBUM: The Ruin Nation
LABEL: Crunch Pod
Genre: Noise
REVIEWER: Bug Gigabyte
What the artist has to say:
Straight off Polluted Axis's website (www.PollutedAxis.com):
"This isn't a remix CD. It's not a demo. This is the original rhythmic noise version of The Trepanation Nation before I completely re-wrote it as my debut on Crunch Pod. There are 3 tracks that got re-worked for the CD and 4 of the original tracks that didn't make it."
My thoughts on this production:
Bore Hole
I like when a track gets straight to the point. After listening to a song for so long I like to fast forward past all the slow openings and put it on right before it jams. This is not the case on this production because it comes right at you like a freight train. I do wish I could hear something before hand to tell me shit is about to get real heavy or a better build up. This track would definitely be a club hard hitter. When I say hard, the sound of this track is like pushing the signals into overload. I love the use of percussion and how they act like it belongs with the synths.
Have Ether, Will Drill (All Out Of Ether)
The opening sound gives the sense of a drill about to do some major damage on your brain. I find this track hits way harder than first one did. I do wish I could hear more change ups in the arrangement on this track. This track offers a feeling, that all the sounds are about to bleed out of the speakers! (The fans for this type of style would consider this to be a good thing.)
Oopsy, Lobotomy
This track is one of my favorites. There are two different elements that make this track stand out: The sound of the killer bass drum and the break core influence. By the time I was done with this track I definitely wanted to hear more of it.
The Trepanation Nation (The Ruin Nation)
When using an 8 bit type opening, it is a great way to bring back memories for some of us. The feeling of the groove is what makes this track stand out above the rest. You can't go wrong with the hard noise drum fills, in between a hard pounding bass drum. The break down where the 8bit comes back in the second time around is great breather for some. I get a really happy feeling when there is some type of release going on with this one. The weight is still there but some of it has gotten off my shoulders.
Brain Pulse
Recycling a sound from the first track is a great way to keep up the feel of the album going. I really like the upbeat bass drum and the pure white noise acting as a snare/open high hat. There is one sound stuttering out of time, but I do get the sense this was done on purpose.
Increased Blood Brain Volume (Bleeding Out)
I recommend to everyone, do not put the bass drum in the stereo field, you have to keep the sound in the mono channel. I do believe this track is an exception. The way it was presented it gave a sense of an explosion when more sounds came in, creating a great flow throughout the mix.
The Trephining Manual (Fuck The Manual)
"Fuck The Manual" is a great way to describe this song. I love it for its harsh guitar, high pitched percussive, ring noise and the use of white noise as a snare. The only problem I have with this track is the arpeggiator. I find the pitch is wrong in relation to the overall pitch of the track. This is a great ending track for the album if you can get past the arpeggiator.
Over all sound:
I feel that this album needs a little more mixing of frequency, but I must say the levels were spot on. I would also like to see more transitions and more use of panning on the stereo spectrum.
Recommended listening situation:
I recommend listening to this production in the car, in a club, on a horror movie/ dark sci-fi movie soundtrack, about to engage in a fight, and during sex.
Would I buy it? Yes
On a scale from 1 to 10:
1 = I'm using it for target practice
10 = I have three backup copies in case zombies break out.
Answer = 8.
The use of distortion was fantastic! Some sounds which should be synths were definitely drums. If you were not looking, you would have never known.
Some sounds in the same frequency range over powered each other and they were both hungry and trying to fight over the bread.
Now other noise bands listen to this….this is what a bass drum is supposed to sound like!
Final Thoughts:
You defiantly would like this, if you like minimal, hard hitting, noise crunching, experimental dance music. I would consider this band to fuck the dance floor up with me.
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The excitement continues to grow as the 11U Jr. Canes football team has won their way into the American Youth Football National Championship Game. The Jr. Canes won their game against the Maryland District Heights Chiefs 13-6.
On Friday, December 9th at 9am, the Jr. Canes will play for the National Championship against the Wilmington Pilots.
Jr. Canes football is part of the New Britain Hurricanes Youth Football & Cheerleading organization. As its Facebook page says, "The primary goal of the New Britain Jr Hurricanes Youth Football and Cheerleading program is to develop young men and women; who, through participation in the program, will naturally progress into the New Britain High School Football and Cheerleading program; creating a feeder system for football and cheerleading that will focus on the student-athlete as a whole and produce successful community contributors as well as fundamentally sound football players and cheerleaders."


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The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Advisory for portions of Oahu until 12:15 p.m.
Forecasters said at 9:10 a.m., a rain gauge in Punaluu recorded rain falling at a rate of one inch per hour. Radar also showed more thundershowers that will be moving onto Windward Oahu during the morning.
Other locations in the advisory include but are not limited to Punaluu, Waiahole, Waikane, Laie, Kaneohe Marine Corps Base, Kahaluu, Kaaawa and Hauula.
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Step into the Light
Mental and Physical Health Are Connected
Specific Disorders Require Psychiatric Care
Sometimes counseling and community support are not enough and a person will need medication to help them recover. If a client's condition warrants it, our psychiatrists may prescribe medication. The medication's effects are closely monitored and adjustments are made as necessary.
Each client's physical condition is closely supervised and depending on need, the treatment team may include:
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- Posted By Jill-LA
- 1 Comment on Splatter!
- Category: Art, Paint
Lighten Up!
Posted By Jill-LA | Jan 28, 2012 | 12 Comments | Category: Decorating, Design Inspiration, Paint
Occasionally it's refreshing to see interiors that are airy, light, and bright. While dark colors can be exciting and dramatic, lighter colors tend to be more soothing. Often times, clients request warm colors for the sake of having some richness to their rooms. Yet, this past week I did a paint color consultation for a client's new home where we went with "barely there colors" – paint colors almost devoid of anything but a hint of color. Sometimes it's nice to "lighten up!"
{image via Hometown Girl}
Tone on tone, whites and creams.
Benjamin Moore Elmira White HC-84
{image via Pinterest}
A crisp white, bright entry!
Benjamin Moore Decorator White 1-04
{image via Home-Styling}
Light with a subtle hint of pink.
Benjamin Moore Mirage White 2116-70
{image via House & Home}
Cool blues and grays.
Benjamin Moore Wales Gray 1585
{image via Pinterest}
Off-whites and grays.
Benjamin Moore Owl Gray 2137-60
{image via Pinterest}
Cabinets painted in greige with a soft white contrast.
Benjamin Moore Ozark Shadow AC-26
{image via Pinterest}
A tone on tone affect with a hint of warmth.
Benjamin Moore Lancaster Whitewash HC-174
{*for E., for giving me the great quote}
- Posted By Jill-LA
- 12 Comments on Lighten Up!
- Category: Decorating, Design Inspiration, Paint
DIY Kitchen Transformations
Posted By Jill-LA | Feb 20, 2011 | 8 Comments | Category: Budget Design, Kitchens, Paint
As an interior designer, I love to see a great transformation. Whether it's a piece of furniture repurposed or an entire room transformed – the process of changing or transforming things is usually really exciting. So recently when I was invited to experience two new products in kitchen transformations from Rust-Oleum – I was curious to see how this product could work and what the outcome would be.
Rust-Oleum Transformations has two kits for the DIY-er to transform kitchen cabinets or kitchen countertops as an inexpensive and efficient alternative to replacing cabinets or countertops entirely. Experiencing the product for myself, I can say the process is simple and easy to use (that's coming from a person who isn't capable of anything DIY-the fact that I could actually do this was a bit exhilarating for me!). The kit includes everything needed to complete the project. (The kits can also be used for bathroom counters/cabinets or even furniture.)
With the help of the people from Rust-Oleum, each of us got to test out both the countertop kit and the cabinet kit, using the easy step by step process.
The kits come with everything needed to complete the project. The countertops involve five steps, and the cabinets involve four steps. Depending on the size of your kitchen most transformation projects could be completed in a weekend.
Here I am, happily sanding a laminate countertop sample (in preparation to resurface it).
The countertop kit comes with five color options, from light to dark, replicating a "granite like" finish (solid finishes are not yet available).
There are many options to chose from for the cabinet colors.
The kits can be purchased from local home improvement stores (such as Home Depot, Lowe's, etc) or visit the Rust-Oleum Transformations website for more info, including details and tutorials. The retail price for a newly resurfaced countertop kit is $250 and cabinets $150 (depending on your square footage).
The outcome?
Countertops and cabinets that look like they were custom without the custom price!
Thank you to Rust-Oleum for inviting me to experience the products hands-on!
- Posted By Jill-LA
- 8 Comments on DIY Kitchen Transformations
- Category: Budget Design, Kitchens, Paint
Le Corbusier Collection Paint
Posted By Jill-LA | Nov 06, 2010 | 3 Comments | Category: Color, Designers, Paint
When imagining the work of Le Corbusier, vivid colors may not come into play. Most photographs of his work were in black and white. Our perceptions of early Modernism — at the Bauhaus design school in the 1920s or the purist villas that Le Corbusier was building in France — are shaped by the photographs taken at the time, which were all in black and white. But, in fact, modernists interiors were much more vivid than that and Le Corbusier happen to be a gifted colorists who used rich, vibrant colors in his interiors.
Black & white photo of Le Corbusier building in Berlin.
Le Corbusier building in Berlin, with color.
Le Corbusier apartment building in Marseille.
Le Corbusier Center.
Developed from the 1920's and onward, the 63 shades are super vivid. Apparently, the paint is made from natural mineral pigments (non toxic), including lapis lazuli and "green umber from ancient sources on the island of Cyprus." Most paint manufactures today produce their colors from industrious pigments.
There is also a book available, a 174-page book titled "Le Corbusier Polychromie Architecturale" available on Amazon.
Article via Dwell.com
- Posted By Jill-LA
- 3 Comments on Le Corbusier Collection Paint
- Category: Color, Designers, Paint
Chevron Walls
Posted By Jill-LA | Oct 23, 2010 | 11 Comments | Category: Decorating, Paint, Trends, Walls
via Design Sponge
Loving these chevron painted walls! I have been doing painted stripes on walls in a few projects lately, but I would love to experiment with a chevron or herringbone striped wall in a future project! These rooms were recently featured on CasaSugar, "Trend Alert: Chevron Walls." Have any of you ever painted a wall in a chevron pattern? If so, I'd love to see! (Tweet me with a pic @JSInteriorDes) I may just want to add to this post!
via Live Like You
via Style Files
via Sabbe
And if you don't want to paint an entire wall – you can always add chevron with (DIY) artwork.
via Walnut Wallpaper
Or with wallpaper!
- Posted By Jill-LA
- 11 Comments on Chevron Walls
- Category: Decorating, Paint, Trends, Walls
Color Inspiration
Posted By Jill-LA | Jan 06, 2010 | 1 Comment | Category: Color, Design Inspiration, Paint
I was just looking at the website Devine Color for inspiration on a color palette for a client project and came across their "collections." A wonderful assortment of colors grouped into collections that are aptly named. This is such a great site for finding inspiration and color resources. I have actually featured it before and continue to come back to the site as a great resource. Here are the collections in groupings, take a look at the site for the names of each color per grouping. Hopefully, you will find an inspiring color palette!
- Posted By Jill-LA
- 1 Comment on Color Inspiration
- Category: Color, Design Inspiration, Paint
That's an idea!
Posted By Jill-LA | Jun 01, 2009 | 1 Comment | Category: Decorating, Paint, Walls
Lately, I've had a few posts featuring chalkboard paint. Well, I just came across "Idea Paint" (featured in Elle Decor magazine this month!). Idea Paint is a paint that can be applied to any surface (walls, furniture) and used as a dry erase board. Great for work, school, or home environments!
- Posted By Jill-LA
- 1 Comment on That's an idea!
- Category: Decorating, Paint, Walls
Living In Color
Posted By Jill-LA | Apr 27, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Color, Paint
I just received an email from Benjamin Moore announcing a new blog dedicated to the world of color and design. I think it's worth a read! Check it out: Living in Color with Sonu.
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- Category: Color, Paint


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This 3,042-square-foot contemporary house is as distinctive inside as it is from the sidewalk.
Pitched gable roofs intersect at each end, and the vertical board siding is contrasted with panels of native stone. The stone work carries through from the screen wall around the landscaped entry court and into the entry hall floor.


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With more than 800 nationwide stores, Jamba Juice has been squeezing delicious, hand-crafted, made-to-order juices for nearly 25 years.
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Plugin "Vote it up" does not count
Resolved chrissmit
Hi all,
I've installed the plugin "Vote it up" on my site (http://nwib.be )
When different people vote up a post, it does not get displayed as the totalled-up amount.
Any clue on how to fix this?
This plugin isn't working for me either. In my case it seems to be because it expects a root folder installation of WordPress, whereas I have WordPress files kept in their own folder, called 'wordpress'
This means that the plugin is trying to call all the required files for the wrong location, eg:
When in fact, they are all stored here:
I've been able to hard code the correct paths to the files in the header, but the voting button still uses a bit of javascript which also looks for files in a root wordpress install. It means that although I now get the vote counter displaying, and the vote management page does list any content containing the voting code, it will not actually record any counts.
Until I can tell the plugin that it is not where it thinks it is, I'm not sure what I can do! Part from look for another basic voting plugin, but I'm not having much luck there either!
Does it look like you might be having the same problem? Hopefully we can get it cracked!
Might have sorted it for my own problem, hopefully it will fix yours too!
I Found this post here:
where it points you towards changing the actual wordpress url used for the plugin, rather than the site url. In my version of vote-it-up, it was on line 57. As he mentions in the link above, I cahnged
$edir = get_bloginfo('url')."/".$edir;
$edir = get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/".$edir;
It is now working and recording counts for me, although I'm sure I've bust something else further down the line! If anyone sees a problem with what I've done, I'd be grateful for the feedback!
Seems odd that it isn't a bigger deal, I thought putting WordPress in its own folder was a common practice?chrissmit
Hi Mat,
For me this solved it too. Great. Thanks for the tip!
No worries!
Of course now I'm having trouble with other parts of the plugin! Can't see to find a way to test it properly, because as soon as you post one vote, it blocks you for making any more votes! Does it seem as though it is set up to only let you vote on one thing as well? I must have it configured incorrectly somewhere?chrissmit
Hi Mat,
It makes sense that you can only vote one's on a blog post. Otherwise you can "up" your own post through the roof.
For me it seems to work. I can vote from my Mac and iPhone. It keeps adding the votes.
If you'd like me to vote for yours let me know (just to see if it actually adds the votes).
I'm havin' problems with my Vote It Up plug in also…
Let me explain. I'm having a small video contest on my website: indiespot.tv
one of the video someone submitted went viral and has been getting a lot of votes over the past couple of days, everything was going fine, but today it seems the vote counter got stuck at 1992
I did a couple of tests and noticed that if I voted while I was signed in to the website, as an admin or reader, I could vote and it keeps track fine, but when I'm not logged in, and I'm only a guest to the website, then those votes don't get counted. I looked into it further, and of course, most votes submitted where from guests, so it was working for a long while, but it seems like now it has stopped accepting guests votes, for this particular entry: http://j35.us/suvad-veletanlic
I read in the plugin page that it has a technical limit of about 8000 votes from guests, which we are far from getting there, so I don't see why I'm having this issue. Apparently a lot of people at the moment are trying to cast their vote for this one entry and they are not able to do it, so needless to say, we are getting a lot of angry people asking what the problem is. We're gonna start getting death threats soon.
If anyone has had a problem like this before and has a solutions, please help us out here, we would really appreciate it. Is there a way to refresh this, will re-installing the plug-in erase all our current votes? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Some Tech Specs:
URL: http://indiespot.tv
PHP Version: 5.2.17
WP Version: 3.2.1
Active Theme: Video Flick 2.4
URLOpen Method: curl
Plugin Version: 2.66
AdRotate 3.6.4
Akismet 2.5.3
Disqus Comment System 2.66
Requirements Check 0.6
Simple Post Thumbnails 1.5
Simple Video Embedder 2.2
Vote It Up 1.2.2makeupedia
How do I echo the amount of counts after someone has voted?
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We love to exfoliate. However, every time we go to a specialty store or even a pharmacy to purchase fun and new facial exfoliating cream or body exfoliating cream they seem to get more expensive. [facial exfoliants]
I think it's something to do with feeling the grinds on the skin feels like you're really getting rid of the dirt, germs and bacteria that is why we like to exfoliate so much.
Here we are going to show you how to make your own skin exfoliating cream at home with a few things from your kitchen.
We call this exfoliating cream Pineapple Mask. You need pineapple, papaya and honey.
If you can get fresh pineapple chunks that is best however if you have canned pineapple at home you can use that as well. Mash equal amounts of pineapple and papaya together.
We won't tell you how much to use because you will use equal amounts of however much you want to make.
You may be making pineapple mask for you only or you may be making it for a girls' night in! After you mash this together, add about a ½ to full teaspoon of honey.
Mash everything together. I like to put this mixture in the fridge for awhile because I like the way cool creams feel on my face however once the pineapple exfoliate mask is mashed you are ready to apply if you wish.
Apply evenly and generously to your face and let sit for 10 to 15 minutes. You feel clean, smooth and exfoliated when you wash the mask off.
The benefits to our pineapple mask are the pineapple and papaya are exfoliants and the honey is soothing to the skin.


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Saturday, 13 February 2010
Game Review - Dragon Age (Late Impressions Edition)
Dragon Age is big. Really, hugely, massively big. Bigger than a big whale balanced on the shoulders of an even bigger whale who has put on some weight. This is a fantasy RPG that attempts to be every bit as epic as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and GRR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
You take on the role of one of six origins, human noble, dwarf commoner, dwarf noble, city elf, Dalish elf, and finally, mage. Each origin has its own unique beginning to the game where you learn the ropes of combat and abilities whilst suffering some heart rending tragedy which forces you to leave home and join the Grey Wardens. The origin stories do a marvellous job of setting the scene and providing you with a unique political viewpoint of Ferelden. A human noble will have a very different view of the world to a Dalish elf, for example. The origins serve not only as a functional tutorial but also as a taster of the moral choices that you'll be making later in the game.
Your character becomes a member of the Grey Wardens, an elite unit of warriors charged with saving the world (yes, just like the Spectres in Mass Effect.) It's a trope that serves well within the setting and provides the impetus and motivation to save the world from the coming Blight. The Blight is an invasion of hideous monsters (the Darkspawn) that rise up from the subterranean depths of Ferelden (the fantasy land you inhabit) causing misery and destruction wherever they roam. The Blight is led by a demonically possessed dragon which must be put down in order to stop the rampaging Darkspawn army. In order to achieve this not insubstantial objective you'll need to wander the length and breadth of Ferelden recruiting forces for your own army as you go.
Cue visits to remote locations such as an extensive underground dwarf city, a forest populated by elves and werewolves, remote castles and fortresses, and a sprawling capital city. The design of each zone is unique and contains some stunning views of the local landscape. It's a pity that although attempts have been made to add unique wrinkles to each race and location, it's pretty standard fantasy fare. Dwarfs live underground, elves live in forests, and humans live in vague approximations of medieval villages and cities. Dragon Age doesn't try to subvert genre expectations; it creates a familiar but engrossing fantasy world and is largely successful.
Combat is tough, especially so if you choose not to include a mage in your four man party. Mages provide the usual assortment of ranged damage, healing, ability buffs, and crowd control. The robed spell flingers are absolutely essential to your progress through the many combats dotted throughout the game. It is essential that you use tactics if you play at the default difficulty setting, the game facilitates tactical thinking via its pause and play system which will be familiar to any players of previous Bioware RPGs such as Baldur's Gate. For those who haven't, you can pause combat at any time, issue commands to your party members and then unpause to see the results. Combat occurs in real time but can be paused at any point in order to issue commands. There is also a new tactics feature which allows you to set default behaviour and commands to your companions. Tired of manually activating all of your fighter's abilities? You can use the tactics tool to set the character to switch on his abilities at the start of a fight, have him use a health potion when his health drops to a certain level, or give you a hug when the Darkspawn kill one of your loved ones. One word of warning though, ranged combat tactics seem to be hard to instil in your companions, they have a tendency to draw a blade as soon as anyone gets even slightly close, despite what you may have told them to do.
Alternatively, if you don't want to play with combat tactics you can set the difficulty to Easy and breeze through fights with little effort. This may be an attractive option to some as the sheer amount of combat in some areas (especially toward the end of the game) can get a little tiring. It certainly doesn't take anything away from the story if you decide to make things easy on yourself and reduce combat difficulty. If anything it'll stop you from getting fatigued in some of the more combat heavy areas.
Dragon Age doesn't have a morality system as such. This means that every quest involving a moral choice can be resolved without the game judging you by adding or docking points on a morality bar. However, this new freedom to make any decision without judgement is hampered by the reactions of your comrades. Some of your followers will approve of heavy handed tactics and harsh decisions whilst some prefer the softly, softly approach. Your decisions and dialogue choices will either improve or reduce your influence with your buddies. If you increase approval high enough, your pals will gain access to stat boosts and offer side quests. So far so good, but then the game introduces something that makes a mockery of inter party diplomacy – gifts. You see, your followers are very shallow, very shallow indeed. Did you offend someone in your group by constantly kicking puppies and thrashing peasants? Why not offer the offended party member a shiny bauble? They'll instantly forget what a massive idiot you are. It's a shame that the game works so hard to create relationships via dialogue options but cheapens it with this slightly ridiculous gift system.
Another thing that bugs me is why the hell do people drink poultices in this world? I guess Bioware wanted to use a different word than potion but they could have at least chosen a word that was accurate. You place a poultice on a wound, you don't ingest it.
Minor carping aside, Dragon Age is a fantastic piece of work. I spent about 80 hours wandering around Ferelden and enjoyed pretty much every minute of it. This is the best fantasy RPG of recent years, and is sure to be regarded as a classic in future lists. I'm looking forward to how Bioware will develop the Dragon Age franchise, especially in light of the huge positive reaction to the RPG statistics lite approach of Mass Effect 2. Will a Dragon Age sequel retain its stat crunchiness or will it drop some of the stats and inventory management to become a more streamlined experience? Ultimately, I don't care how many statistics are in my game as long as the high standard of roleplaying storytelling and decision making is retained. Dragon Age is the nerdier, acne ridden cousin of Mass Effect 2 but that doesn't make it any less remarkable and absorbing.
Oh, hey! The game only costs £14.99 at Play.com right now. Give it a try.
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Game Review - Mass Effect 2 - Also Things What Happened In My Game
This is going to be a gushing review. Absolutely gushing. Sickeningly gushing. So gushing you'll wonder if you've come to the right blog. Look at the image above, it's pretty kick-ass and that's what Mass Effect 2 is all about - kick-ass moments. I'm not talking vacuous Michael Bay moments (although there are explosions and gunplay aplenty), I'm talking emotional, impactful, kick-ass moments. Moments that had me cheering one minute and cringing in anticipation the next. This is the thing, Mass Effect 2 is possibly one of the most engaging game narratives ever created. HYPERBOLE ENGINE ENGAGED.
Look above these words, it's Shepard in the Afterlife. He's obviously dead. OR IS HE?
Mass Effect 2 begins with a fantastic opening sequence. Part cut-scene and part interactive, the game opens with a bang and engages you emotionally from the outset and provides you with sufficient motivation for the rest of the game. After this introduction you can make changes to your Shepard if you've imported him/her from the first Mass Effect. You can then change class or alter your ugly face. I still have the PC that ran the original game and so my save game was still available but I understand that this may not be the case for most PC gamers, so I recommend this site if you want to import a Shepard close to your own experience.
I could waffle about the story but I don't want to spoil anything - well, apart from at the bottom of this post where I'll be throwing spoiler bombs around as I reminisce about my experiences in the game. The story is such a joy to experience fresh that I wouldn't wish to spoil anything for anyone. The main storyline focuses on Shepard's efforts to hire a Dirty Dozen-esque collection of space bastards in an effort to defeat a new, terrifying enemy. It's a story you can play through pretty quickly if you just want to recruit squad members and blast off into the unknown. But I don't think anyone would want to do that because each squad member has his/her/it own quests which are all engaging stories in their own right. As in the first game you can roam around your ship, The Normandy, and chat to your crewmates, each time revealing something about each character until eventually they'll ask for help in some serious matter they'd like to resolve. Even the sidequests are all different this time - gone are the cookie cutter space dungeons of the first game. This time sidequests all take in unique environments and include their own little narratives.
Conversations can be influenced by your rank in Paragon or Renegade alignment. As you make decisions in the game your Paragon and Renegade ratings will increase. It's up to you where most of the points will fall. I admit that I played as a Paragon Shepard but when I maxed out my Paragon rating I did start to choose Renegade options to spice things up. What makes the morality of Mass Effect great is that there is no black and white morality. Renegade Shepard wants to save the universe just as much as Paragon Shepard, it's just that the Renegade version acts like angry Jack Bauer at the beginning of season two of 24. A new feature in ME2 is the Paragon/Renegade actions that you can take during conversations. Paragon actions involve saving lives whereas Renegade actions involve sudden, hilarious violence. They're a fantastic addition to the Bioware school of conversation.
Combat is much, much better than in the first Mass Effect. Mass Effect 2 is now an efficient shooter that, for me, matches the twitch shooting thrills of Gears of War. The tropes of the third person shooter are present, chest high walls for cover, firefights in areas filled with said walls, enemies that dart between the walls, and melee enemies that induce terror because cover does absolutely no fucking good against them and OH MY GOD THEY'RE SCREAMING AND MOANING AS THEY APPROACH! GET THEM OFF ME! Sorry. To spice things up, you are now equipped with a host of powers, for example, Soldiers can slow down time to line up a perfect shot and have different ammunition types to suit any occasion. Other powers such as invisibility and telekinesis are available depending on which class you choose. Your squadmates are fairly competent as semi-autonomous allies. You won't need to frequently pause and issue commands as they'll generally go about the business of butchering your enemies with little input from you. They're even capable of using their powers without encouragement and spout one liners as they do so (Mordin has the best lines here).
So the story is all kinds of wonderful and the combat is greatly improved but what about the RPG elements? Well, they're downsized. But I would ask the question, "what do you consider to be RPG elements?" Because if you mean stats and numbers then that's roll playing and *role* playing. ME2 is a fantastic role playing game because it presents you with characters and decisions that are immersive and engaging - not because you're armed with a +5 shotgun. Think back to the first game, did you really enjoy managing your inventory? Do you miss sorting through tens of items, converting them to omni-gel and selling them to the crew member who refused to just give you stuff? The tedious number crunching is gone, now when you find a new, superior, weapon you just equip it. No fuss, you just do the sensible thing and pick it up. You no longer have to buy weapons and armour from one of your own crew, now you research better technologies and use elements hoovered up from nearby planets to fund the research. Once you've created the new item, it's available for use straight away. It's a lot less tedious and fits into the fiction of the universe.
Character progression is slightly simplified from the first game but is no less interesting. You will have only a handful of powers to choose from and only a certain number of points to spread amongst them. You can specialise some powers and will need to make the decision as to how you will focus your abilities. It's not dumbed-down, it's just more simple and elegant. Gone are the largely meaningless numbers and levels, now the numbers are crunched down into 4 levels of skill in each power.
I love this game. I think it can be completed in about 20 hours but I invested just under 50 because I didn't want to leave. The final hour of the game is thrilling and the decisions made will obviously cause repercussions in the third game. I can't wait to see what Shepard does next.
Okay under the load screen I will be discussing my experience in the game. DO NOT READ ON IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE GAME. I'm serious, people.
Oh man, that last mission.
I passed it with flying colours. Only I didn't. You see, nobody died on my team (because I am great) but my entire crew, including the cute and lovely Yeoman Kelly was pulped by the Collectors. I was horrified that my attempt to explore every square inch of the galaxy had led to the death of my favourite minor character. Dr Chakwas survived and she asked why I took so long. Commander Shepard gave some platitude about needing to be ready before going on the suicide mission but I knew the truth - I was dicking about looking for easy credits and XP that I didn't need. I've never felt so guilty in a game. What really killed me was my return to the Captain's Cabin after finishing the game and finding my fish tank full of dead fish. Fish that Kelly used to feed. *sob*
Bioware tricked me. Normally the plot will say that you only have 24 hours to save the universe but will then allow you to tit around to your heart's content. Only this time it doesn't apply, the longer you take, the more crew members die. I have since gone back and replayed the conclusion to the game and saved Kelly because I want her to appear in ME3. But man, that image of dead fish will haunt me for a while yet.
I also rejected Tali's romantic advances, and felt like an utter bastard. Her reply was along the lines of "Of course, why would you be interested." It broke my heart. Of course I was kind of interested but I'd already pimped Shepard out to Yvonne Strahovski. I mean, come on, it's Yvonne Strahovski! Tali's dejected response was heart breaking. But let's face it, I couldn't figure out how we'd get up to any inter species hanky panky anyway - Tali lives in a special suit which stops her from dying of the common cold. A romantic dalliance would be all kinds of unhygienic.
In one scene I took a Renegade action, thinking it would be oh so cool and hilarious. The only problem is that I felt like an utter dick afterwards. In one mission you encounter a few scared Salarian construction workers and one of them pulls a gun on you. The Renegade action button appeared and I duly pressed it thinking that Shepard would disarm the panicking alien. What he did was punch the scared guy out and then made a pithy comment. I was shocked. Shepard was acting like a big, dumb, jock, bully and I'd told him to do it. The other Salarians looked more frightened and worried than ever but unfortunately I couldn't select "Apologise profusely" as a conversation option. Man, I'm such a dick.
I didn't learn my lesson from the Salarian though, as later on in the game I wanted to extract some information from a young street hood called Mouse. Mouse was reluctant to give up some information on an assassination and when the Renegade option flashed up, I took it. I punched the poor kid in the face and threw him to the ground, he instantly gave up the information and I felt like a bully. This time there was an apology option but the kid brushed it off and limped away, blood covering his face. Man, I'm such a dick.
Those moments were depressing for me but one moment made up for it all. A moment that had me laughing like a mad man. I headbutted Worf in the face. Michael Dorn was moaning and talking smack, the Renegade option came up and I headbutted him. It was so unexpected, so brilliant that I couldn't believe what just happened. That memory more than makes up for all the poor decisions I made.
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Just over a week ago I was driving a rental car through Joshua Tree National Park, my husband in the passenger seat. I haven't been to many deserts, and my husband has been to even fewer. We did the park from top to bottom; a local friend later described the more obscure south entrance as the "hipster" one, if National Parks can have hipster points of interest. When you drive Joshua Tree north to south you start off high and roll slowly downhill; for long stretches of the trip I realized I hadn't touched the gas pedal at all for several minutes, was just lightly grazing the brake while gravity did the work.
The west entrance appears some time after the Visitor Center, where we stopped to use the restroom and to peruse the handful of informative exhibits. From there, we drove through a curious little neighborhood of short dreamlike houses set in the middle of low-fenced yards of red-brown dirt, stuck here and there with a Joshua tree, each looking like a tangled fist reaching out of the ground on a spindly arm.
Once inside the park itself, the Joshua trees are endless. It's not like the desert I imagined, not like the red rocks of Nevada and Arizona. It's vigorously green and alive. A short drive in, we stop at an empty picnic area and I get out of the car, to take a picture. I immediately see some kind of sand-colored desert chipmunk. I didn't know deserts had chipmunks, but there it is, fluffy tail and stripes and all, crouched in the shade of a low yucca plant, holding something small between its paws.
My husband stays in the car. The NPS website had a whole section about "bee safety" at Joshua Tree -- it warned that bees in dry weather are drawn to moisture anywhere they can find it, and sometimes they can find it on your car's air conditioning apparatus, or in the sweat on your face. They just want your water to take back to cool their hives, the literature explained. Don't swat at them, that might make them angry and sting you. The literature did not offer any suggestions on how to otherwise handle an intrusive bee. I wonder if they can be reasoned with.
My husband, normally the intrepid sort, harbors a deep dislike of bees, so he chooses to enjoy the scenery from the cool interior of the car. It's probably a wise decision, considering the temperature outside is something like 116F. It doesn't bother me, though -- or it might, but I can't recognize it. I'm never bothered in the desert. My mind slows down, I'm not distracted, I forget that I've ever been anywhere else, like all my life I've been a lizard secretly posing as a person, and returned to my natural home I forget all about being a person, and when I step from my car and face the Joshua Tree landscape all I can imagine doing is walking away into that place, away from the road and everything else, forever.
Back in the other world, I recall this feeling as a sort of vertigo, only instead of standing at a great height and feeling drunk with the possibility of falling, I stand at the edge of the road's asphalt knowing every step I take out among the shrubs and strange desert trees, more of my humanness will fall away from me, I will be scooping it from my soul and dropping it by handfuls with every movement.
I step back, onto the parking lot of the empty picnic area, where I remember who I am. I listen to the silence. Such a silence. I try to record the silence in a video on my phone, but it will never sound the same later, because how do you capture nothing, how do you wrap nothing up and save it to return to when you need it? It is a perfect silence, and when a bird sings or a lizard crunches into a dried out desert shrub, it only draws a clearer line around the quiet. It is a silence I want to live inside, it is the calmest place I've ever been.
I pull my husband from the car so he can hear it, assuring him that there are no bees. When we've stopped moving, he smiles at me broadly, as if the silence is a magic trick. I'm smiling too. We both stand as still as we can, listening, until he says he can hear the folds of my skirt rustling in the slight breeze. We can hear each other breathing.
We drive up to something called Keys View, from which we are supposed to be able to see the San Andreas fault in the valley below, a neat line sliced through the earth by unseen planetary forces below. It's hazy (a result of pollution, the literature says) and the effect is compounded by smoke from a wildfire in Big Bear, so the overlook seems to peer down into nothing. As the top of the overlook itself is already crowded with seven or eight people -- the only people we will see all day -- we sit in the car, staring over a rock wall with muddled haze beyond, and wait for them to clear out.
Bees appear.
They tap themselves on the windows gingerly, like tiny zombies clamoring for our flesh. They swoop under and around the car. They surround us. We are afraid to get out. "Fuck," I say, "I guess the park service really wasn't kidding about bee safety."
I suggest we move the car a bit down the road and then get out. But how will we get back in, once the bees take the car from us? We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. As soon as the car is parked again, the bees return. They seem angrier now, flinging their tiny bee bodies at the glass, evidently demanding our human water. We don't get out of the car. We drive away, a little terrified. We find an alternate overlook, which is evidently the wheelchair-accessible option, and get out to enjoy that for a few minutes when something buzzes ominously around our heads. We hustle back to the car.
"I am not getting out of the car again," says my husband.
I do get out, again and again. I get out to take pictures. I get out to peer at rocks heaved up from miles below the surface hundreds of millions of years ago. I get out to touch the stalklike trunks of the Joshua trees themselves, to look under low crouching shrubs where lizards are hiding. I know what a rattlesnake sounds like, I know to avoid shady rock piles, I know when to back away.
The official park brochure has a section entitled "THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW," and the first thing on the list is, "People have died here from preventable accidents." The italics are the National Park Service's emphasis, not mine. I didn't read this until later, and it really didn't need to be said anyway; there is something about this otherworldly place that brings one's mortality into vivid focus. Without cell service, without the car, without patrolling Rangers, without water, living in this desert is an impossible mystery. Without all of these things I would die here and be a feast for the creatures that know how to survive, and they would consume what was left of me with no different feeling than if I was a fox or a rat. More than we belong to ourselves, we belong to the dirt, and no amount of intelligence, wit or passion can prevent our eventual absorption by earthly powers whose dominion we only temporarily delude ourselves into forgetting.
We make the whole drive, and at the Cottonwood Visitor Center at the southern end, I use a bathroom with a distressing warning on the door: "Please keep door closed. (Snakes enter and hide behind the toilet.) Thank you." The explanation seems a bit much, but is probably functional; I'm sure everyone makes damn certain that door is closed. I like the matter-of-factness, the inevitability of snakes snaking. I thoroughly interrogate the entire bathroom for snake involvement before using it, thinking how even encroaching civilization must prostrate itself to the desert.
Leaving is difficult. I don't want to go. We drive back to our hotel in La Quinta.
I can't be sure whose idea it was first, to go back -- I think it was mine. Maybe my husband vocalized it first. Either way, after dinner we returned. At the park's southern entrance, we drive into the most complete darkness; the moon is barely a sliver, the high beams on the car casting such impossibly black shadows on either side of us, I hate to use them. We want to see the Milky Way.
Light pollution is so ubiquitous in so much of the US today, we barely realize what we're not seeing in the night sky, that the sky we look up at would be unrecognizeable to people of only a hundred years ago. Joshua Tree, owing to its dry climate, and to being remote and removed from major cities but also accessible to cars, is one of the better places in the country to look into the center of the galaxy.
I wanted to get us back to the parking lot with the snake-toilet bathroom. Traffic is hardly a problem at 1am in Joshua Tree, but being so dark, I felt exposed in the slight roadside turnouts -- on the off chance a car did come by, we could easily be hit in the darkness. I barely realized how slowly I was driving; I felt deeply afraid of the landscape, of the darkness, of the lack of connection to civilization and hypothetical rescue. I considered turning around, driving back to the hotel, watching something innocuous on Netflix on my phone, forgetting that wild places still exist, or that I don't know what to do with myself in them. But we press on. At one point, I pull over to take a deep breath and relax.
My husband says, "Turn off the engine and all the lights for a second," and so I do. And it is terror itself, even inside the car. My phone registers no service. There are Rangers somewhere in this Rhode Island-sized park, but who knows where. It is so dark. The landscape looms black and interminable. We should have brought more water, I think, touching the half-full liter bottle of SmartWater in the cup holder beside me. The literature said you should have a gallon of water per person. I am anxious, scared, I don't know what I am doing, I don't know who I am here in this lightless wilderness, ground down to my basic form, a human, a body, an animal, in the world, nothing else.
I go to restart the car and it doesn't work. My husband and I freeze with shock, and I feel my blood go cold. What's wrong? Why won't the car start? I realize I forgot to take it out of gear before turning it off. It's like the desert is laughing at me. I shift into park, start the engine, and we go on.
At the parking lot, we finally leave the car. The parking lot feels safer, there is more asphalt between us and the unbroken desert, an utterly absurd and meaningless boundary my psyche has drawn between wild and civilization, even though clearly the wild has no problem crossing the line into civilized bathrooms. I look up and feel dizzy. I keep a hand on the car door, sensing a surreal danger that I will be swept off my feet and sucked into space.
The stars are just…. impossible.
There are so many. They feel so close, the whole sky feels fake at first, like my brain can't process it, like the only way I can understand is to tell myself I am standing in a planetarium, that I'm not really here. And then they feel impossibly vast, and I stare at the Milky Way, the galaxy's core, trying to understand what it means. A meteor winks by. I let go of the car.
I don't feel at one with the universe, and I don't feel like I am made of stardust. I feel, rather, a profound appreciation of my own irrelevance. I, as an individual, and everything that I do, and everything that I worry about, it all means nothing against this backdrop of space, as I am standing here in starlight shining from faraway suns that may have gone cold and dark and dead thousands of years ago, this distant ghost light of stars humans will never know standing as a more persistent memory than anything I will leave behind. As revelations go, this one is extraordinarily soothing.
We stand there for a long time, holding hands, studying the stars, my husband and I, until a close encounter with a curious bat echolocating around our heads sends us scuttling back to the car. The bat wins. We're going. At the park's edge, just before rejoining I-10, we discover a stowaway -- a small pale moth has fixed itself to the car's lit instrument panel. I pull over, and we spend another twenty minutes trying to coax the moth out of the car, both of us unwilling to just crush it with a napkin and call it done. "You belong here," I try to explain to it. "You don't really want to leave." I draw it away from the instrument panel with the much brighter flashlight on my phone; with some convincing we brush it out of the open passenger door, and it flashes soft sandy wings at us before vanishing in the dark.
"It'll probably just get eaten by a bat," I say.
"Circle of life," my husband says.
We drive out of Joshua Tree in silence.


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James Franco and Bryan Cranston will collide in a father-meets-daughter's-boyfriend comedy.
The One Who Knocks and the One Who Plays Britney Spears on Piano are about to face off onscreen: Brian Cranston and James Franco will star in John Hamburg's comedy Why Him? "The comedy is set over the holidays, when a Midwestern dad travels with his family to visit his daughter at college, and soon finds himself in a battle for her affections with her brash new tech billionaire boyfriend." It sounds like Meet the Parents, but with the cantankerous ex-CIA father replaced by Bryan Cranston (we're assuming Cranston will play the father and Franco the brash boyfriend, though how great would it be if they reversed it?).
Cranston also has a smaller role in Franco's upcoming adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1936 novel In Dubious Battle, which depicts a worker who organizers a major strike by fruit pickers. The film wrapped up production earlier this year. A release date has not been set, but Franco might as well wait for Why Him? to come out, so the two actors can carpool to premieres and press events.


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167 GOP Congressmen are demanding Boehner name a Select Committee. He is ignoring them. Why? Pat Caddell told Greg Jarret on Fox a few minutes ago it's because Boehner knew what they were doing in Libya and is trying to protect his own hide.
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