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From basic obstetrical management to urgent/critical obstetrical situations
CAE Lucina is the only wireless childbirth simulator with validated, integrated maternal-fetal physiology and interchangeable static cervices to train on all the stages of delivery and the rare emergency scenario. Lucina brings an impressive blend of features to the market including a more realistic and controllable birthing process, better articulation for labor and delivery maneuvers, and predicted APGAR scores based on the integrated maternal-fetal physiology. From normal delivery and breech birth to shoulder dystocia and eclampsia, Lucina does it all. With 5 pre-configured Simulated Clinical Experiences (SCEs), Lucina allows instructors to increase throughput and manage multiple demands effortlessly.
Learn more about Lucina
CAE LucinaAR with Microsoft HoloLens is a breakthrough in healthcare simulation, the world's first patient simulator with modeled physiology that is represented in stunning anatomical holograms. Learners gain a view inside the mother as the fetus descends the birthing canal, and they witness how their actions impact mother-baby safety. CAE's integration of augmented reality into a simulator with responsive physiology delivers deeper understanding and an unprecedented shared training experience.
Lucina is a hybrid solution for both obstetrical patient management training and non-gravid, female patient care education. Tuck the simulated fetus into the delivery abdomen and Lucina is ready for OB rounds
Realistic palpable uterine contractions, a reliable birthing mechanism supporting automatic descent, and crowning and rotation of the fetus provide true-to-life learning experiences
Advanced CPR metrics measure the consistency of compressions and ventilations, as well as coronary and cerebral perfusion. Hand placement, chest recoil, and left lateral tilt are detected and logged by the Müse operating system.
10 pre-configured Simulated Clinical Experiences (SCE's) that come ready to operate, from normal vaginal delivery to urgent and interventional birthing maneuvers (including Leopold's Maneuver, Zavanelli Maneuver, Trendelenburg position, shoulder dystocia, vertex and breech delivery)
Integrated maternal-fetal physiological modeling
Maternal aesthetics built from real patient measurements
Realistic and consistent birth canal
Accurate fetal descent and rotation
Multiple birthing positions: lithotomy, sitting and all fours
Rectal suppository administration and epidural port with infusion and aspiration
C-section team training support
Postpartum hemorrhaging, including Class III hemorrhage
Contracted and boggy uterus
With integrated physiology that is based on validated models of cardiovascular, respiratory and pharmacological systems, Müse accurately mimics medical conditions and responds automatically to clinical interventions. That means your learners get a consistent, objective learning experience every time until they master the skills necessary to save a human life. All patient simulators come with the Müse software platform.
Through Acentium, we offer flexible rates on financing from $10,000 to $1.5 Million.Custom Financing Options
"Lucina goes beyond the call of duty. Her physiologic response increases fidelity and extends beyond OB scenarios. Best of all, CAE customer service is out of this world! "
Kim Hinrichs
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The worldwide success of Train to Busan was unexpected but it was also a wonderful surprise thanks to its brilliant production. What if I say that there are many more great movies in the Korean film industry?
The one thing we are reminded of this year is that a movie doesn't have to come from Hollywood for it to be good, so here's our 2016 movie picks from South Korea, the Land of the Morning Calm.
The World of Us
It's not often the big screen gives way to child actors to lead the storyline of a movie but The World of Us took that chance with this inspiring and realistic story about a 10-year old outcast, Sun finding hope in her newfound friend, Jia, during summer. When troubles seem to be clearing up, the bullying continues after the break. Jia slowly turns her back on Sun to join the cool kids that have been bullying her at school. This is a story of how friendship can hurt and heal when you least expect it.
CEO Seung Joo and detective Jung Tae have been friends for half their lives so when both of them lose their precious cell phone and a gun to the same four rebellious high school students, they need to work together to retrieve them without getting their butts kicked. A high-paced chase is set in motion and we get an action comedy about two middle-aged guys chasing a bunch of delinquent high-schoolers.
Unforgettable (Pure Love)
Unforgettable is a story of first love lost in time and reappearing 23 years later through a letter addressed to a radio DJ, Soo-Ok. Years ago, five friends spent the summer together and not knowingly Beom Sil and Soo-Ok fell in love. However, feelings were concealed and the memories were buried as life went on until Soo-Ok received a letter from Beom Sil and all the forgotten feelings relentlessly resurfaced.
The Wailing
When an old Japanese man joins the small community of the peaceful Goksung village, everybody is suspicious of his reserved manner. The town is thrown into panic following a number of mysterious and violent deaths causing fingers to be pointed at the outcast. Officer Jung Goo is in charge of the case but when his own daughter starts to show similar symptoms as the other victims, he is forced to work with a shaman to save her whilst investigating the old man. The Wailing made it into the list of top grossing Korean movies this year and this horror thriller received a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Let's leave it at that.

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From late August through September, the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Free Thursday Film Series becomes the Free International Cinema Series as part of ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico's Thirteenth Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture. The schedule includes two films that will be shown during the free Global Fiesta on September 23. The screening of "The Distinguished Citizen" is also presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes, as the opening film of the fifth annual ¡Cine Magnífico! Latino Film Festival, as well as the International Cinema Series.
All films screen at the National Hispanic Cultural Center at 7 PM unless otherwise noted. All films are free; tickets to the Thursday films are available at the Center one hour before each screening.
August 31, 7 PM
"Neruda" (Chile, 2016)
Director: Pablo Larraín
Spanish with English subtitles; 107 minutes; rated R.
In post-World War II Chile, a police prefect pursues Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, now a fugitive in his own country for joining the Communist Party. In this story of a persecuted artist and his obsessive adversary, Neruda sees his chance to become a symbol for liberty as well as a literary legend.
Golden Globe Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film
"Is 'Neruda' a cinematic play, a poem, a biopic? In this near-perfect homage to a literary giant, it's all open to interpretation."
—Globe and Mail (Toronto)
"A stunningly inventive take on the function rather than the life of a writer."
September 7, 7 PM
"The Way Home (Jibeuro)" (Korea, 2002)
Director: Lee Jeong-hyang
Korean with English subtitles; 85 minutes; not rated.
Seven-year-old Sang-woo, raised in the city, is left with his grandmother in a remote village while his mother looks for work. Selfish and disrespectful, he quickly comes into conflict with her old-fashioned ways and his rural surroundings, but through her patience and devotion learns empathy and the importance of family.
"Deceptively simple, deeply satisfying"
—Philadelphia Inquirer
"Profoundly moving"
—Washington Post
September 14, 7 PM
"The Distinguished Citizen (El Ciudadano Ilustre)" (Argentina/Spain, 2016)
Directors: Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Spanish with English subtitles; 118 minutes; not rated.
Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes, as part of the fifth annual ¡Cine Magnífico! Latino Film Festival as well as the International Cinema Series.
Nobel Prize-winning, Barcelona-based novelist Daniel Mantovani enjoys the fruits of his success, but feels it is spoiling the integrity of his work. Desperate for self-renovation, he accepts an invitation to receive an award in his hometown of Salas, Argentina, returning, for the first time in 40 years, to be feted—and confronted—by the people who have informed his life's work.
"A light dramatic comedy about art, fame and small-town jealousy, the film benefits from a laughs-filled screenplay… and also from the appropriately weary star power of lead actor Oscar Martinez."
—Hollywood Reporter
"Mostly it's the script, performances and sure sense of comic timing that make Cohn and Duprat's follow-up to The Man Next Door such a delight."
—Screen Daily
September 21, 7 PM
"Baran" (Iran, 2001)
Director: Majid Majidi
Persian/Azerbaijani with English subtitles; 94 minutes; rated PG.
Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker on a construction site in Tehran, is assigned heavier tasks to compensate for the lesser strength of a new Afghan refugee worker, Rahmat. Resenting this, he initially treats his co-worker cruelly, but the revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
"It reminds us of what a film can be when it's drawn from the heart of an artist who believes in the medium as something more than a product or commodity."
—Boston Globe
"A work of delicate and unmistakable beauty"
—San Francisco Chronicle
(Screening in the Wells Fargo Auditorium as part of the ¡Globalquerque! 2017 Free Global Fiesta)
Selected Films from the Wisdom Archive
The Wisdom Archive, the brainchild of Santa-Fe based, Emmy award-winning documentarian Scott Andrews, is a video "seed bank" of traditional culture—a collection of filmed portraits of cultural masters from around the world doing what they do best. Filmmaker Andrews will be at the screening.
"Monsieur Gonzales: The Last 'Plieur de Codre'": In the spring of 1999, in the Dordogne region of France, Monsieur Gonzales, an elderly local farmer, demonstrates his skill, all but extinct today, in splitting and shaving willow saplings with ancient tools into the flexible wooden bands traditionally used to hoop cognac barrels. 8 minutes.
"Edgar González: Mezcalero!": In the highland rainforest of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, outside the Zapotec village of San Cristobal Lachirioag, Edgar González is recovering an ancient tradition of handcrafting the sacred spirit of his forefathers—mezcal—while combatting the culture-destroying loss of young people from his community. 16 minutes.
"Cipriano Vigil: Músico de la Gente": The life story of the "New Mexico State Treasure" and acknowledged master of northern New Mexico music, El Rito's Cipriano Vigil. From a lifetime of collecting music of the "viejitos" and performing with family and friends at the Smithsonian and throughout the Southwest, Cipriano has created a legacy of traditional works and serves as an authentic voice for his people. 38 minutes.
Saturday, September 23, 1:30 PM
(Screening in the Wells Fargo Auditorium as part of the ¡Globalquerque! 2017 Free Global Fiesta)
"Samba" (France, 2014)
Directors: Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano
French with English subtitles; 118 minutes; rated R.
Samba, who has migrated to France from Senegal following the death of his father, lives under constant threat of deportation and is willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers. He is on the verge of giving up when a group from the local immigration advocacy center takes up his cause, changing all of their lives in the process.
"The delightful push-pull pairing of Omar Sy and Charlotte Gainsbourg makes this bittersweet comi-drama about connections a rich and engaging experience."
—Urban Cinefile
"Gainsbourg and Sy play off each other wonderfully, emphasizing how these characters relate to each other as people; their scenes together feel emotionally honest."
—Chicago Reader
September 28, 7 PM
"The Wonders (Le Meraviglie)" (Italy, 2015)
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Italian with English subtitles; 100 minutes; not rated.
The dynamics of the overcrowded household of a family of beekeepers, living in stark isolation in central Italy, are disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenaged boy, taken in as a farmhand, and a production crew recruiting local farmers to participate in a cheesy televised celebration of ancient Etruscan culture.
"A story that frames a familiar conflict—the collision of modernity and tradition—in intriguingly off-center ways, alive with piercing detail."
—Los Angeles Times
"A personal, intimate film riffing on the wonderful strangeness of families—equally capable of love and destructiveness, happiness and despair, often all at the same time."
—Time Out


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Dentists > Teresa Jordan, DMD
Teresa Jordan, DMD
Board Certified Pediatric Dentist
- Certificate of Pediatric Dentistry – Howard University – Washington, DC
- Master's of Public Health – University of Medicine and Dentistry – Newark, NJ
- Advanced Education in General Dentistry – Columbia University and new York Presbyterian Hospital – New York, NY
- DMD – University of Medicine and Dentistry – Newark, NJ
- BS in Biology – Spelman College – Atlanta, GA
- American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, Diplomate
- American Dental Association
- American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
- Dr. Jordan's hobbies include extreme sports. She has been hot air ballooning, hang gliding, sky diving, and parasailing.
- Other hobbies include spending time with her husband, eating, traveling, and watching the Food Network Channel.
- Dr. Jordan loves to learn and challenge herself.
- As a native of Atlanta, Dr. Jordan is excited to be back home and looks forward to serving the oral health needs of the children in this community.


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Welcome to Year 1!
Miss McNamara and Mrs Walker
Welcome to Year 1. The children have returned to school after Christmas very happy and excited about the rest of the school year. We will try to give you a flavour of what happens on this page.
Important Dates
26/4/16 - School photographer in
28/4/16 - Sports Festival @ JCCS
2/5/16 - Run for Fun @ St Theresa's
26/5/16- Multi-skills Festival @CHCHS
26/5/16 - Enterprise Market Day
26/5/16 - FoSP's School Disco
10/6/16 - Trip to Filey
13/6/16 - Y1 Phonics Screening Week
16/6/16 - Sports Afternoon
20/6/16 - School Closed (Training Day)
29/6/16 - School Feast Day Mass
22/7/16 - End of school!
'We are each unique and beautiful but together we are a masterpiece'
Click on the links below to see some of the ways we are expanding our brains this year!


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Community Groups Week of Feb. 26th/
Community Groups Week of February 26th.
Announcements :
Missions/Outreach : Last week we announced that we have 3 incredible mission trips planned for 2017 and we are excited to invite you to find out more about them.
This year we'll be going Haiti, Guatemala and our Student Ministry is doing a student and family trip to the Bahamas.
If you are interested in missions, then we'd love to encourage you to contact the church office and we'll send you some more information this week.
* Very Important: Please click on the link below for the week # 5 Leader video:
Main Text: 1 Timothy 6:17-18
Sermon Title: Activate, Part 3: Compulsive Generosity
Sermon Topic: (Not to be read or e-mailed to your group … this is for the leader's review and recollection)
When we come to the realization that it is God who has provided us with all of our resources (intellectual, relational, financial, etc..) we must conclude that He has resourced us for a purpose. That's, kind of, the hard facts. Moreover, joyful & authentic generosity with those resources ultimately comes down to a condition of the heart. Little doubt that we have each been impacted by joyful giving. In those moments, those times, we are displaying the kind of compelling and contagious giving that can fuel our Christian lives. Not only do we become the kind of generous person God desires but we become the kind of people others want to be around. A heart that has been changed by the gospel is a heart that can and should display this contagious generosity! God has shown us profound generosity in freely giving us Christ. It's that same kind of generosity we are to have with others.
(Please feel free to modify questions to accommodate your specific group!)
HIGH/LOW: What was the high point of your week and the low point?
Please read: 1 Timothy 6: 17-18
As you reflect, what has given you joy to give? Why has that impacted you?
What does generosity have to do with the gospel?
What is difficult about generosity?
God has given us resources to enjoy! How do we do that in a way that honors Him?
Who is someone you know that is truly generous?
What is contagious about their demeanor?
What has God reminded you of this week in order to use your life for something that matters?
How are you uniquely positioned to use your resources for good? What are ways to do that?
If generosity is a "heart issue," what does it say about our hearts when we are not generous or unwilling to be so?
Are you READY for opportunities to be generous? What does that look like?
Everyone has suffered through an interaction with a truly selfish person. There is no conversation that they are unable to bring the focal point back to themselves. There are no victories for others that they are truly happy about. It is more than frustrating. It is repellent. It's hard to enjoy being around someone like that. But the reality is, that person is probably not enjoying their life either. But on the other hand each of us have probably been around a truly giving person. Not someone who is generous to manipulate or to get something in return. There is just a generous spirit about them. They are truly interested in others. They freely share what is theirs for the pure joy of it. Those types of people are attractive and magnetic. They are not just a joy to be around, their genuine joy is contagious. Those individuals have found the joy of a generous life.
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Gotta have it!
CHEFMAMAROSAPublished: October 6, 20164 views
Published: October 6, 2016
We have all met materialistic people. These individuals want the best of the best, but even when their demands are met, these types of characters may not be happy. And now, new research suggests that materialistic individuals are more likely to be depressed and unsatisfied with life. Need I say more


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- Home
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- Plaza Improvement Task Force 2018/19
Plaza Improvement Task Force 2018/2019
Regular 2018/2019 Plaza Improvement Task Force meetings will begin once all members have been appointed.
About The Task Force
The 2018/2019 Plaza Improvement Task Force has been created to identify, prioritize and make recommendations to the City Council on projects and programs that would improve the downtown Plaza neighborhood.
The Arcata Plaza serves as the epicenter of the community and as the economic hub for Arcata businesses. Shoppers, employees, merchants, tourists, students and families who visit Arcata all take away impressions of our community based on their experiences in the Plaza, and in recent years, the Plaza has seen an increase in aggressive interactions and calls for police service. Based on community outreach and concerns, Arcata City Council created the 2018/2019 Plaza Improvement Task Force to help restore the Arcata Plaza as the centerpiece of the Arcata community.
The 2018/2019 Plaza Improvement Task Force will primarily focus on general safety, economic development, infrastructure improvements, beautification and an increase of Plaza-based community activities. Members of the Task Force will also collaborate with key stakeholders and residents to identify priority projects and programs to increase public use and reduce calls for police service.
Meetings & Agendas
Once all members are appointed, the 2018/2019 Plaza Improvement Task Force will hold regular monthly meetings beginning as early as July 2018, and Task Force duties will on conclude on Friday, April 5, 2019, upon delivery of their final report unless extended by the City Council.
Task Force Members
The Task Force will consist of 9 members, with 4 members being appointed by Arcata City Committees including the Parks & Recreation Committee, Economic Development Committee, Transportation Safety Committee and Public Safety Committee. In addition, one member will be appointed by and serve as a representative of the Arcata Chamber of Commerce and another will be appointed by and serve as a representative of Arcata Main Street.
The City of Arcata is currently seeking applications for the 3 remaining at-large members of the Task Force. All interested community members are encouraged to apply, especially those who are currently involved in Plaza engagement groups. See current vacancies and residency qualifications.
Applications must be turned in to the City Manager's Office at City Hall, located at 736 F Street in Arcata and will be accepted until all positions are filled.


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Teen Photosets » Lovely & Leggy
Lovely & Leggy
Featuring: Diana
Date: May 6th, 2013
Photos: 40
Diana is out for a picnic. But the only thing to munch on is her delicious, bald pussy. As you may remember from Diana's first appearance in the Jan. '13 issue, she enjoys spending time (and stripping down butt-naked) in the great outdoors. "It is always cold in Russia," she told our photographer. "So whenever it is warm I try to spend as much time as possible outside. I like to go on picnics and long walks. If no one is around I will get naked and lie in the sun." When the weather is warm Diana will do more than just sun bathe. "I have had sex outdoors before. But I will only take off my clothes around someone that I know, not a stranger! From what my friends have told me, a lot of us Russians like to fuck outdoors when the sun is out and it is warm.
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Kelly and I are playing Settlers of Catan for the first time. Well, maybe not the very first time. I think we both played once or twice at BYU when everyone else loved the game, and I think we both were thoroughly confused because everyone else already knew how to play to trounce the newbies without remorse.
So now we're actually trying to learn. We're using the Starting Set-up for Beginners, and we were really careful to match the example map exactly. We didn't even let two mountains be in opposite places from each other. We even made them face the same way as in the picture.
We're gonna be so good at this.


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I find it hard to believe that a storm in the Bahamas now would still be around in almost 2 weeks. They are digging up all sorts of possible scenarios that they could win. I saw some more of the "Ohio could hold up election results for weeks" headlines today.
I sincerely hope it's not so close that any of this nonsense comes into play.
If the storm causes power outages from Norfolk, to Buffalo, to Boston, there won't be enough crews to get the power back on in a week. Imagine the looting if power in New York were out for three days ...
They have it making landfall in 5 days.
And if the power goes out in Philly, New York, or Boston, looting occurs, then the National Guard gets called out. So then the election goes on with Guard troops in the streets. I can see Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on the TV now crying voter suppression ...
If Sandy does brush the Northeast it'll be Sunday into Monday. I'm sure everything will be okay by the following Tuesday on election day.
The storm won't still be around. But it's aftereffects could well be.


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How to make the perfect rice krispies. There are tons of recipes out there to make rice krispies either use small marshmallows or big marshmallows. But I find this recipe to be the easiest and they turn out very good.
Perfect Rice Krispies
6 cups (1/ 1/2- 10 oz bags) mini marshmallows, divided
6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
3 tablespoon butter
1. Melt the butter in a large skillet, over medium-low heat.
2. Once the butter is melted, add in 4 cups (1-10 oz bag) of mini marshmallows
3. Melt the marshmallows over low heat, stirring frequently
4. Once the marshmallows are completely melted, add in the cereal 2 cups at a time, mixing well after each addition.
5. Once the cereal and marshmallows are well combined, toss in the remaining 2 cups of mini marshmallows and fold them into the marshmallow cereal.
6. You can keep the heat on low or totally turn it off - it depends if you want the mini marshmallows to melt a little bit or not)
7. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with nonstick spray and transfer the rice krispies treat mixture into the dish.
8. Press the mixture down with your fingertips or you could also use wax paper to press it down firmly into the pan.
9. Allow the mixture to cool before cutting into squares.


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Being an entrepreneur means that you should have the ability to adapt and move forward with the situations that are depending on the external factors that are there in the world. The world is adapting technology and technology plays a major role in any situation of the world today. This is mainly due to how easy our lives are made because of the technology, and how convenient it is to use technology. As entrepreneurs, this should be understood and understanding this could lead you to adapt more technology to be ahead of the curve. There are many tech solutions that would come in advantage to a mind that is seeking opportunities to grow.
A good entrepreneur would know that the mere presence of technology is not a call to adapt it immediately. It should be of use. While with the skills that the entrepreneur has developed, he or she may see a clear opportunity in any situation. However, there are certain technologies such as enterprise resource planning in Singapore, which is known in short as ERP software would clearly be of benefit. Installation of such software and monitoring and analyzing the resources within the enterprise while providing necessary solutions and strategies is great proof of how an entrepreneur could handle new technology for the better.
There are many uses of ERP software that an entrepreneur could utilize to make a good situation better. One as an entrepreneur should have the ability to analyze the existing solutions, access exact stock levels and then choose the best form of ERP software to go with, whether it is a cloud ERP solution or any other potentially good ERP solution. With the introduction of technology such as this, the world has undergone a revolutionary change, and as a potential stakeholder of shaping the future of the business world, one would have to know of the changes and the advancements of the field in order to take the maximum out of the situation at hand.
This is why embracing new technology as entrepreneurs is important. While there is a chance that all the new technology might not be for the better, there are breakthroughs that could help an entrepreneur achieve great things in the future such as the above mentioned ERP solutions. Knowing and usage of such technology will increase the productivity and the work capacity significantly. The insight into business and enterprise management that an ERP system would offer is unmatched by any other software at the moment. Therefore, it is important to know about such technology and adapt to the ones that are offering the best results.


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Todd Staples Op-ed: Building the Right Republican Platform
As Texas Republicans, we have the opportunity to set the tone for the rest of the nation. Let's not pick sides, let's pick what is right for Texas and right for America, without compromising conservative principles in the process. Washington continues to


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A New Book on Vanderhorst's Work
A story based on
by George A. Romero
I write fiction. Fantasy and horror fiction, mostly for motion pictures. I can't resist bizarre tales of the unfamiliar, the unexpected. My friend Stephen King's imagination never fails to amaze me and his dedication and craftsmanship inspire awe. Here is a thumbnail sketch of a story that Stephen might enjoy.
They were in the Yacht Club, where they had so often gathered for coffee or tea or brunch on a sunny summer Sunday. They only knew one another as "That woman" or "That man," "Club member, you know."
When they had left home that morning, all of them, that's where they were going. To The Club. When they arrived and took their seats, the place seemed to be what it had always been, its blond woods and occasionally hung portraiture offering, as always, something more than was ever offered by family, by business firm, by church. Those institutions offered membership, but it came with strings attached… obligations, responsibilities. The Club offered both membership and privacy. One often went to The Club with family members in tow, or members of the firm or clergy, so the privacy was rarely absolute. But the promise of it, the idea that one had earned a place in this place, was enough. To know that if family matters got too sticky or if talk of some client or another became too political, one could escape to the lounge or the cigar room or the steam chamber… . To know that one was, by membership, automatically permitted to escape into those places… . That was enough.
But on this sunny summer Sunday, things had somehow changed.
Nothing had changed when the members first arrived. Things changed sometime after they had all taken their seats and placed their orders, sometime before the waiters returned with flutes and snifters and plates of finger sandwiches perched, as if glued, on silver trays.
The last thought the man had before he moved his chair was, "I wonder where all the waiters have gone?" There were no waiters, no waitresses… . There was no staff anywhere in sight. The man took the chair from its spot near the fireplace. Normally he would have asked someone to carry it for him. It was a heavy chair, not one of those modern things, plastic posing as wood, and the embroidered fabric on the seat and the back seemed to have been stuffed with some element that, while soft and pliable, must have either been as densely packed as lead balls in a shotgun shell or must have, each bit of it, weighed a ton. "God, I'm not strong enough to move this thing," he thought as he lifted the chair away from its spot and struggled to carry it towards the centre of The Club's great room.
He didn't blame the wood. In his mind he blamed the upholstery, and whatever science had created a substance that, while soft and pliable, weighed as much as "Fat Man" or "Little Boy" (those were the names painted onto the casings of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki). The man who carried the chair had always been afraid of bombs, afraid of violence. He had always thought… dreamed… had nightmares about a day when he would come to a violent end, though there was not much chance of that ever happening. He was privileged. Though not anywhere near having cleared his first million, he believed it to be inevitable that he would clear that million, and at least two or three more after that. He believed it was his right, his duty, his fate.
He hated all the things that he had to do in order to be a person. He felt that he had been born a human and that should be the only requirement. Having been born, though that brought no particular distinction, ought to be enough to qualify as A Person. But over the years he had found that more impressive credentials were required for inclusion in most societies. The societies he preferred were the so-called Polite Societies: universities, fraternities, The Club. But he found, as any aspirant finds, that he continually had to prove his worth. Pay the membership fee, pay the tithe, pay the alimony, pay the tax… pay the piper. (The Club had once hired a piper, a real, honest-to-God bagpiper, in full dress kilt. The man who now carried his own chair had paid the piper's fee [$125 an hour times five hours] because he was the one who had originally suggested the idea that a bagpiper be hired to honour The Club's dead… not lost to some war but lost to squalls and wickedly swinging spars during The America's Cup.)
The Club was a yacht club. Its members were dedicated… or were expected to be dedicated… to the purity of boating as a sport. The man who carried the chair had never raised sail, never set his soft hands on a tiller, never regurgitated his caviar brunch over the rail in a gale, but, oh, how he wanted to do all of those things. "Some day," he thought, "some day… when time permits… when family, the firm, the church have had their way with me… when I'm finished… when I've retired… when I'm all used up…
I'll take to the sea. Some day."
He wasn't old, at least he didn't think himself old, though he was nearer his end than his beginning (fifty-something, sixty-something… could it be seventy-something? There were moments when he honestly couldn't remember). Years ago he had let his hair grow long, well down onto his shoulders, and he had defiantly let it remain at that length, cautioning his barber that there would be no tip if it were shortened beyond the tolerance of a child of the '60s. Over the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and on beyond 9/11, the same barber had dutifully complied, never allowing the blades of his shears to slice into the comfort zone (it's all about comfort, isn't it? In the end?), and in the end, the barber had always been generously tipped. The hair on the head of the man who carried the chair remained long, even after it turned white and began to stubbornly leave its strands on the lapels of the deeply black jacket he always wore when he went to The Club on a sunny summer Sunday.
As he dragged the chair, that heavy (why was it so heavy?) chair away from the fireplace towards the centre of the great room, he noticed someone was looking at him. A man, not far away, sitting alone just as he, himself, had planned to do.
The other man, the observer, was dressed in a grey suit and was wearing eyeglasses, very large ones. (God… he looked like me. I couldn't see him clearly, he was too far in the distance, or maybe I wasn't looking carefully enough, but I got the distinct impression that… he looked liked me! He also looked like a friend of mine named Rob. But Rob doesn't wear big, obvious eyeglasses. I do.)
The observer was sitting in a chair that had also been removed from any sort of normal position. Sitting. And watching. Alert, as was no one else in the great room.
(He wasn't me, after all. He was… watching me. No, not watching… watching the man with the long white hair who was struggling to drag a heavy chair to the place where he wanted it to be. Was I the man with the long white hair, or was I the man who was observing? Was I involved at all? If so… why? I questioned myself, yet I knew that I was. Involved. Strangely involved. Why?)
The man with the long white hair struggled, without servants, to bring his heavy chair to the centre of the great room… a familiar room. Eventually he placed it directly under the apex of the domed ceiling above him. And he sat, remembering that ceiling from all the years he had spent beneath it… all the years he had admired and wondered at its frescoes of angels and demons and damned souls. "Why," he had always thought, "The Club's ceiling rivals the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel."
But now, suddenly… there were no frescoes. There was nothing on which a fresco might have been tattooed. There was… .nothing at all. No ceiling… just an open space… and above, up and beyond, a deep-blue sky with wispy white clouds that seemed to dance like the Musketeers who once courted queens. The other man, the one in the grey suit who seemed to look like me… who also looked like my friend Rob… never seemed to take note of the fact that the ceiling had somehow vanished. He simply continued to watch, continued to observe.
Why wasn't he amazed? The world was changing… . At least the ceiling was changing… morphing into something that it had never been before. All that was once familiar had suddenly become unfamiliar. Why wasn't the man in the grey suit amazed by the transformation? Did he somehow expect that a change was coming so that, when it came, he was not perturbed by it?
Or was he… God? Was he somehow causing the change? Was he… or I… making The Club into something that it had never been? Something that neither it nor its members had ever intended it to be… yet something that all its members had forever wanted it to be… .
A place that imitates life, but is not life…
… a place where fantasies, whether they be of harems or whirling dervishes or pots full of gold, come true…
… but only for Members.
Why do any of us become Members of anything? For the sake of acceptance? Because we want to be included? Is "inclusion" the beginning and the end? Is there someone out there, some unseen God, who wants to, needs to, insists on including us? Someone to whom we are expected to be grateful? Why can't we simply include ourselves in this thing called humanity? In whatever cause, whatever society, whatever Club… without obligation, but with a caveat that reads, "I'm with ya now, but if you disappoint me, I am so outa here!"
We pick our poisons. And The Club—anybody's club… is a sort of poison. A sort of tribal confirmation: "I'll always be here, don't worry that I'm ever gonna change, because I won't."
A comfort level.
One sunny summer Sunday, the man with the long white hair realized that The Club wasn't nearly what he had always expected it to be. Suddenly he found it severely lacking. Sitting in his chair, the one he had struggled to drag away from the fireplace, looking up at a ceiling that was once made of plaster but was now non-existent, he had an epiphany. "I've been fooling myself," he concluded. "I've let myself be distracted by… expectations! Expectations don't materialize just because you want them to. You've got to bring them into being somehow. You've got to make them into something real. You've got to make them into… your goal!"
Once the man had his epiphany, the changes came much more rapidly. Suddenly there was water… all over the place… lapping over the members' shoes, coughing up onto the cuffs of their trousers and dresses.
No one seemed to notice. Except for the man who had carried the chair… and the observer with the large eyeglasses. Those two members noticed all of the changes that came. Though neither of them seemed particularly moved or affected. They showed no outward reaction, made no gesture that might indicate alarm or fright or even amusement. They simply sat in their chairs, appearing not to notice what was happening around them. Appearing utterly unconcerned.
Of course, all the others in the room seemed equally unconcerned. But that was because they hadn't noticed any change. Had the waiters re-entered, no doubt they would have been unconcerned as well. Because they, too, would not have noticed any change. They would have carried on with the business of an ordinary sunny Sunday, confident… (while, at the same time, secretly disappointed)… that The Club was a constant… a never-changing, never-surprising certainty.
But the two… the ones who had moved their chairs to abnormal positions… though neither showed any outward reaction… were fully aware of what was happening around them. They had expected, hoped, dreamed that some day the world would take an unexpected turn… and that day had finally come.
It was like a dream. But they weren't asleep. This was really happening. The older ones in the room sat in captain's chairs, in armchairs, some in wicker-backs around a dining table… while the younger ones sat on the benches of what appeared to be Atlantic-class sailing yachts.
There were BOATS! Sporting schooners, sails billowing, gliding across what was once an oaken floor but had now been transformed into a salty sea. The man with the long white hair sat under the vanished dome and calmly inhaled the freshness of an ocean breeze. All of this seemed perfectly natural to him. All his life he had known that some day this moment would come. It had to come. It had always been peculiarly… expected. And privilege and wherewithal… membership… had always seemed to provide some sort of guarantee.
So he sat, quite relaxed, in a chair he had moved into an abnormal position. Watching. Quietly pleased… while that other man… the one with the big eyeglasses, who looks a bit like me… a bit like my friend Rob… also watched.
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James S. TURNER, Appellant
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
Elaine A. LEE, Appellant
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 11918.
No. 11920.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued March 26, 1954.
Decided April 1, 1954.
Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Mr. DeLong Harris, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Curtis P. Mitchell, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.
Mr. Samuel J. L'Hommedieu, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., and Lewis A. Carroll and Arthur J. McLaughlin, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.
Mr. William J. Peck, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at time record was filed, entered an appearance for appellee.
Before EDGERTON, PRETTYMAN, and BAZELON, Circuit Judges.
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Russell Claridge completed a foundation course at Hereford College. He then went to work for Valley Forge where he worked with a number of skilled blacksmiths and fabricators to create bespoke ironwork that can be seen in many location in and around central London. After working there for a number of years Russell took a break from the metal industry. However May 2016 saw Russell take over at Woodpeckers Forge where he now takes commissions of all aspects of metalwork as well as creating his own pieces to be shown in galleries and build up his portfolio of work. More information on previous commissions can be found at www.russellclaridge.co.uk. If you wish to commission work from Russell Claridge please email him at [email protected]. Any further details that you wish to discuss by telephone on 07766 387 446.
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Well, it's been a whole year since I started the ole travel blog and I decided to reflect on the last year of travel. I am going to talk about the best place(s) we ate (sometimes it is too hard to choose one), the best place(s) we visited, the best place(s) we hoteled, and the best thing(s) we did. Of course, I will give you an overall snapshot of our travels at the end of the post, so you can get some travel inspiration. Sit back, relax, and make 2017 the year you get out there and travel in those vacation pants!!! Hope you start planning that next vacay, stat! Continue reading
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|At the official Hot Springs National Park entrance in Hot Springs, Arkansas. August -2016
In August we flew to Northern Texas because my baby brother got married. My husband reminded me that I had never been to Arkansas, so we had to plan a little road trip out of Texas while we were out there. We wound up in Hot Springs, Arkansas for a four night trip, and let's just say, this place was made to be blogged about. Hot Springs, Arkansas is the home of Hot Springs National Park and it is exactly what it sounds like. People at the turn of the century flocked to Hot Springs to take advantage of all the bath houses that sprouted up in the town due to the natural hot springs in the area. Well, eight of the original buildings remain standing today, and two of them are still working bath houses. Read on to find out how you can plan an amazing adventure to this fantastic place.
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CACAO CEREMONY: WAY OF THE WARRIOR HEART – Spring Equinox September 2017
Brisbane we are so blessed to welcome this INCREDIBLE man Matiu Te Huki from New Zealand to join us in Ceremony. We worked together recently in Sydney & after experiencing the healing power of his work & presence I knew we had to invite him to Brisbane to help us create something special for the Spring Equinox light/dark interplay.
And we are super joyful to be collaborating together again! Matiu & I love this work deeply – it is important, powerful work - and in full respect for this, and each other, we offer you this beautiful Ceremony, from our hearts to yours.
Fusing the strength of the warrior essence with the devotional heart of the feminine, this 7 hour workshop will create space to embody, honour & celebrate the different aspects of masculine & feminine within us all.
Petra will guide us in ancient shamanic ritual of Cacao Ceremony, creating a sacred space to connect deeply with our heart-centred, authentic selves. With a focus on masculine / feminine embodiment, she will lead us in gentle & connecting self/partner processes that support healing & empowerment to arise.
Steeped in authenticity, integrity & wisdom, the practices we engage in while working with Cacao's medicine on the highest level in Ceremony, creates a unique vehicle for transformation. Using shamanic engagement, meditation, somatic therapy & self/partner processes, the result of these deeply held journeys is inner radiance, super-sharp clarity and powerful integration.
Matiu will lead us in ancient ancestral practices such as the hongi (breath of life) & the Haka (men & women together), guiding us deep into our loving warrior selves. Skilfully taking us through a masculine/feminine path of trust and surrender, Matiu will use his embodied presence, and his skills of unifying & reassuring guidance, to hold space for the power of the divine masculine to show up, supporting the divine feminine to flow freely.
We will create space to explore, release & integrate experiences of the past to support our own personal journey to freedom...
And then we shall DANCE! And Matiu's music is incredible. His soulful roots music has a strong Maori flavor backed by grabbing grooves, deep, beautifully crafted bass-lines, funky rhythms & magical melodies. The soul-stirring messages in his music are unifying & uplifting. We shall sing, dance & celebrate! YES PLEASE.
To finish, we shall ride the waves of the Spring Equinox energies (see info below) to plant powerful intentions on what we're ready to create in our lives/for the world on this topic. Intentions create our reality, and the Equinox is the perfect time to get clear, stand true and aim high.
This workshop is a powerful invitation for empowerment & healing; 7 hours of deep process, ancient practise, meditation, community connection, dance, sacred Ceremony, somatic process, embodied presence, & joy.
It's time to feel the full-force of our warrior hearts. It's time to stand as One.
Matiu & I are so excited to be co-creating this powerful force-field with you!
Please help us to gather equal #'s men & women, as this equality will best support the group process energies - please invite your people!
DATE: Sunday September 24 2017
TIME: 3pm – 10pm. Please arrive 2.30pm & be on time.
DOORS SHUT 3.15pm, and Ceremony begins. No refunds for lateness.
EXCHANGE: $125.00 + bf
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If you are currently being treated for depression, Cacao may not be the medicine for you. The tryptophan and monoamino oxidase inhibitors of the Cacao are a bad mix with anti-depressant medicine. Can cause severe migraine, or worse. Please get in contact with me to discuss if this is a consideration for you.
A full Ceremonial dose of Cacao is given for you to open powerfully to your hearts nectar in this alchemic journey of love. Petra works with only the most refined and pure Cacao possible, straight from the rainforests of Guatemala. Cacao has been used for centuries in different cultures as a tool to facilitate a reflective & meditative experience that focuses on the heart-space. The euphoria-inducing properties of Cacao help us to connect deeply to the love, & ultimate truth, that sits inside our hearts.
The Spring Equinox symbolizes what an initiate goes through in a definitive & important stage of self-realisation, where the struggle between darkness & light creates the opposition needed to attain immortality. This is symbolized by the dark half of the year on one side of the spring equinox sun, & the light half of the year on the other.
Known for the wisdom, integrity & authenticity she brings to her Ceremonial spaces, Petra is dedicated to all people walking in their most empowered essence. She creates a deliciously ripe yet safe container for people to explore true connection & healing, in this moment.
She alchemises the practices of psychosomatic bodywork therapy, ancient Ceremonial methodology, clearing of the emotional/psychological temples, trauma therapy, and practical, heart-centred action to support people to sings their soul's essence.
Petra brings an embodied quality of warrior & heart to her Cacao Ceremonies, her individual sessions, the online workshop space she facilitates, and the pilgrimages she leads around the world. She has studied the Science of Psychology at Uni with a minor in Counselling, holds Cert III in Psychosomatic Therapy, specialises in neural re-wiring, & has a compulsive tendency to do cartwheels and handstands whenever she's in a park. And dance. Anywhere, anytime!
Matiu is a powerful Ceremonial space holder, a Maori cultural advisor for national organisations & a soulful Maori roots musician. He helps participants connect more deeply with their internal warrior, their leader & their ancestors. Matiu has over 20 years experience as a Maori language and performance teacher, he is a playwrite, musician, facilitator, Maori cultural advisor for national organisations and a leader amongst his own communities.


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Lanesboro Triathlon Club will be hosting the 2016 Two Provinces Triathlon on Saturday July 16th. A magnificent event in the stunning setting of Lanesboro and Lough Ree, the sprint triathlon takes in a 750m swim in Lough Ree, a 20km closed road cycle, followed by a 5km run through a woodland trail finishing up on a flat, closed road circuit.
McNally Motors Toyota are delighted to be among the main sponsors of this years event. There's even a couple of staff members taking part! Keep an eye out for John Compton and dealer principal, Paul McNally who'll be hoping for 'personal bests' on the day. (Good luck lads!)
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SATURDAY FAMILY ACADEMY (SFA) is a program dedicated to facilitating parental involvement in education which is critical and necessary to student success.
Registration is free and includes all six (6) Saturday sessions, held 10am-1pm at the Cuyahoga Community College's Metropolitan Campus. Pre-registration is encouraged. Completed forms can be returned by email to email@example.com or be brought to the Saturday session.
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However we tried that, and definitely that didn't sound to work with Facebook internal algorithm. We haven't had good experience in the past (yes, let's say "it wasn't good"), so is not a feature we are aiming to add to AdEspresso (as a matter of fact, we removed it at some point in the past).
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Lots of fun from the world of next-gen consoles this week.
It all started on Monday when US news sources started picking up on a preview of Splinter Cell: Conviction featured on Aussie site, Gameplayer. In it, the game's producer Dany Lepage seems to trash PS3's AI capabilities. From the preview:
"So, Conviction is confirmed for PC and Xbox 360. But what about the other consoles? Double Agent was a 360 exclusive for a whole week. On this issue, Danny could give us a firm answer. "It's NEVER gonna come out on the PS3 or the Wii." It's a logical decision. Nintendo's console simply doesn't have the graphical horsepower, and he candidly told us how the PS3 can't handle AI nearly as well as the 360."
Naturally, Xbox fanboys leapt on this delicious titbit like banned attack dogs.
Probably not, so far as both console exist, there will always be fanboys, and fanboys will always defend their pride for their consoles.
Agree 100% plus bubbles. So true.
True, fanboys will never give up but come on, its usually fun to watch their fanboy wars (But not always).
Thats what make gaming fun though, Imagine if everyone accepted their console and they was no bashing and everything just seemed perfect. It would be cool but that would get boring fast.
So true. It would get so boring. Anyway, it's nice to such vocal members of the gaming community, or as the media calls them, fanboys, out and about complaining consistently about the console(s) they loathe. Internet forums survive on the confrontations of these "fanboys", and this site would be considerably be less popular without them.
Toally agreed Merc3nary. Without those fanboy wars, gaming would become boring too fast. Its the same as a world where everyone agrees with the other and thus there is no discussion, talk and such. Of course, Fanboy wars are far more intense than a friendly discussion but they're still pretty fun sometimes.
GTA and halo stand out for me
but most games have mindless drones / or mindless drones which shout grenade
were still light years away on both concoles to start slagging over AI
That is not true Merc3nary. I ALWAYS give clear and level headed opinions about all consoles, and I'm a self labeled fanboy. For example...
The Xbox 360 SUCKS brown juice.
The PS3 is DA BOMB!!
See, very level minded and non-biased.......NAT!!
Has there ever been great AI in a game? FEAR. Half Life.
But Splinter Cell? Please. I really like the games. I have the books and soundtracks and have them on every platform to date. But seriously, the AI in there took the short bus to Ubisoft. Dumber than a bucket of nails.
Worst part? Emo Fisher. Ubisoft said they want you to feel for Sam. What? They are trashing the original...in grand fashion. It is Sam Fisher, not Emo Fisher. He had grey hair then Mathieu Ferland decided that wasn't cool. There was such an over whelming outcry over that on the official forums too. What a mistake.
Look, the real badasses in this world are not 19 year old guys that are highly trained and have years of actual experience. The Pepsi generation can suck it on that one.
They want us to feel for Sam. Alas, woe is Sam. You want to know what I need to feel for Sam Fisher? I'll tell you. There is a moment on a roof top in Chaos Theory when you are looking for Dvorak. There is a guy patrolling there you can grab, shoot or ignore. If you grab him he says,
"How about you let me go and I'll teach you a lesson."
Sam responds, "Tough guy huh. How about I cut off one of your ears and we see how tough you are."
That's it. That's all I need to understand Sam. He is a hard as nails veteran. Now Ubisoft has it up their butt they want to get into movies and they think movies = drama. Give me a friggin break. Give Splinter Cell fans a break. Shut up with the AI comments and make a damn Splinter Cell game. Not teletubbies, but instead Race Bannon. Not Janeway, but instead Kirk. Not George Clooney, but instead Christian Bale.
i agree.
also just wanted to say i found this bit of the text amusing.
"he candidly told us how the PS3 can't handle AI nearly as well as the 360."
Naturally, Xbox fanboys leapt on this delicious titbit like banned attack dogs."
that kinda thing happens all the time but when its pointed out in an article it does make me laugh lol
Wow, I tried to post this story based Merc3nary's tip but system prevented me and warned that "This story is currently being submitted by Merc3nary"! and now its submitted NOT by Merc3nary. :)
Anyway, good find. But I think the real Specs VS war will come when Killzone 2 and GTA4 are released and could bring millions of spec related discussions.
When TNS is around, am cautious about what i post, I thought he was going to report this as a duplicate,(he always finds something, is amazing how he does that). I got to the preview section then said..nah..forget it...:)
I saw the tip as well and thought this was pretty damn good, it's been funny watching both sides fighting all this week with every tech "victory" that's come out.
its never going 2 end until sumbody gets kill off me want 2 kill the xbox 360 we must kill bill gates iff me want 2 kill the playstation 3 we must kill the guy dat made sony but first we have 2 hold both hostages n make dem have sex with each other fanboys attack
Not as long as people write stories like this and developers make comments like the ones in the story.
and I agree. I think the blogosphere and sites like this are adding just as much fuel to the fire as the fanboys are.
they wont stop ever.
Not if there are guys like C*CK out there to f**k up the peace line. (Comment #3 is a good example.)
do u know the the guy that u use his picture? i mean wats the name o fthe anime?
I don't see it ending anytime soon
On the other hand, the last Splinter Cell had a worse version on the PS3, the dark parts weren't dark (washed out, but that's about average on the PS3).
So I am glad this next Splinter Cell is exclusive on the 360. Actually its proven over and over again with the multiplatform games that the 360 version is the best one.
THen we get the Sony defence force:
- bad port
- lazy devs
- its EA
- not enough time
- PS3 devkits shorter in their hands
In the end. It doesn't matter. The PS3 doesn't deliver. It's on the market almost a full year and still behind a lot. Next gen didn't start when Sony said it would with the PS3.
Updated Bioshock reviews:
PC Gamer UK: 9.5
Game Informer: 10
Alternative Press: 10
Xbox World: 9.4
Gamers: 9.8
Gametrailers: 10
PCZone: 9.6
AP Mag: 10
GameInformer: 10
Gamesradar: 10
Another 10. AAA and GOTY contender. Console Exclusive on the 360!
Halo 3, Mass Effect, Alan Wake, PGR4. Upcoming AAA's. And Splinter Cell: Conviction will be up there also with those
Perfect example of why the wars are here to stay.
i would add, that he is the perfect example why pregnant women shouldn't smoke marihuana ;)
I would also add, that this is why incest is wrong
He is just passionate, but at least he does it in a respectful way. He doesn't personally attack people which I can respect(like all the replies to his comment did). He takes a lot of sh*t and while I don't always agree with him he sure can rile up a crowd!!
but no know I can fry eggs every morning with it.. it overheats like crazy!! faster breakfast!!!
and I thought the ps3 was the barbeque HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
-Killzone 2
-Heveanly Sword
and many more...
Wow, is this the kind of tripe you get on here! Hmmm, let me take care of this xbot right away...
First of all. Nice of you to casually bring up a 1st gen Splinter Cell on the PS3 while completely disregarding the "bad port" "time" and dev kits." Sorry. But we're not going to let you get away with that one. You might think it's pointless. But it's just as much a factor on any game that starts on a PC/360 centric platform first. Lazy EA? Nope. That's already been refuted. By PS3fanboys? Nope. Try EA themselves...
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News... (Yeah, they pretty much about cover everything you dismissed so easily - Time, ports, familiarity, dev kits).
"...what most people do not realize is hours of research which goes into fully understanding the hardware demands for each console. In the case of the next-generation consoles, many publishers have been developing titles for the Xbox 360 for over 3 1/2 years while everyone who publishes now for the PlayStation 3 with the exception of Sony has been developing for the PlayStation 3 for only a little over one full year. The differences in the overall knowledge of the hardware is vastly different for both consoles and, as is the case with newer technology, it is very difficult to get it right the first time."
Sorry. Try again.
Next, you say the PS3 has been on the market for *almost* a year (try 9 months) and casually forget the 360 has been on the market for *almost* two years (1 year 9 months). So spare us the Bioshock scores. I mean, come on. Do you honestly think that if Halo 1 and 2 didn't do much for the 360 Freezebox that Bioshock (which could end up on the PS3 anyways) will change much? What will happen is that those xbox only games will get played by PC gamers and xbot base. Just like always. And please spare us with the Halo this, halo that...we get it. Xbot fans like Halo!
What's funny is that you continue to ignore the changes in the media, PS3 sales and overall mood regarding the PS3. Even developers are starting to come out of the woodworks and complain about the DVD9 limitations on the 360. They are complaining about the lack of HDD on the core 360. They are complaining about the lack of freedom on xbox marketplace vs the PSN. I mean, it's just gets better and better for the PS3...slowly but surely. Yet, you ignore these factors with crap like "The PS3 doesn't deliver" and then bring up the last "Splinter Cell?" Weak man, weak...
mmike855 made a good post. The truth of the matter is that spec wars have died down substantially over the last few months. We don't hear as much about the RSX vs the ATI GPUs. We don't hear about Blu-ray vs DVD9 SPEEDS. And we don't hear about 512MB vs 256MB x 2 RAM much...it's all been beaten to death. Sure, we'll get a few new xbot trolls now and again. But those kids are pounced on really quick with their outdated info.
As more games come out -- as the old saying goes "the Proof is in the pudding." Game performance is will all that matters. And yes. The PS3 will have their "Gears" as a showcase. Not sure if it will be KZ2 or not. But nevertheless it will happen. And yes. The PS3 pinnacle show piece will look better than Gears. Bank on it!
In the meantime debates have been more focused on the limitations of the 360 rather than the PS3. EA, Epic, Free Radical Design, and Infinity Ward have already come out and stated their concerns. What more do you want? Maybe Bungie can make a statement on how much better Halo 3 could have been if they had Blu-ray! LOL!
Move along sparky!
if your chattin about frying eggs on your 360, then i think this picture would accompany your comment nicely
I do agree with a lot of what you said.. But once again you are another PS3 person who seems to be able to see into the future.
The comment from EA was interesting since Madden actually is their second attempt at the PS3. There have been plenty of launch titles from EA when the console launched and this is their latest release. Maybe we will see it in Madden 09? Or will it still be the same that they are still getting used to it? 2-3 years then maybe?? You tell me since you can see into the future obviously.
Then you use your magical powers of future sight and say this:
"The PS3 will have their "Gears" as a showcase. Not sure if it will be KZ2 or not. But nevertheless it will happen. And yes. The PS3 pinticle show piece will look better than Gears. Bank on it. "
So do you think now that Gears has been made a "poster child" for the 360 that they will never make a better game than that? Bank on this, the 360 will have titles that will outshine Gears, hell even Gears 2 will outshine it and we know that's coming. Even Epic themselves say UT3 will have "Gears plus" graphics.. So it's already happening.. You seem to imply that the 360 hit it's peak and Gears is as good as it gets and that is simply wrong.
Your comments on Blu-ray are good, except you seem to be selling the developers and MS short. They have made comments like you said but they also comment that they find ways around it and will deliver the same experience as the PS3. MS is now allowing games to require an HDD, so these limitations are diminishing.
I can't see the future so I don't know how Blu-ray is going to effect things.. But RIGHT NOW and I think Mart was hitting on this.. The games that are coming out like Bioshock are hitting 10's, so when a PS3 release starts doing this and they say "it's the power of Blu-ray" then I will believe it.. For now, great gaming experiences are happening on DVD9.
1) You say that EA had two tries at the PS3 version (2007 and 2008). Do you know how many tries EA has had for the 360? You seem to forget the mediocre 2006 and 2007 version for the 360. This is not me telling the future. It's just recognizing a pattern and probability. Do you really think that EA will put out another 30fps NFL game even after what they've said and what we've already seen with NGS, Lair, HS, etc...? Please...
2) Gears is the current pinnacle for the 360. It's very texture heavy. Other games will have a more polished look; no doubt. But the devs themselves for Epic have already stated that Gears was near the top in performance. I do believe that we'll see more fine tuning on the 360. But I assure you the PS3 has much farther headroom to go than the 360's. All this "the PS3 is too hard to develop for" will pay off in the end as farther peak. It's going to be interesting seeing the 360 try to keep up with DX10 advancements too. Limits reach way earlier than on the open-sourced, independent Cell/RSX.
The PS3 will start slower. But gain momentum that will blow people away. KZ2, HS, MS, Lair, R&C, DF, CoD4, UT3 are just the start.
3) Yes, I know that theMART was talking about NOW (today's offering). But his post was weak and to make matters worse. He's arguing a losing battle over time.
4) There's nothing I can do to convince you in regards to Blu-ray. You'll just have to see it with your own eyes/ears.
This is from the Epic themselves. So I don't know where you got that Epic said it's at the top of its performance.
Like I said UT3 is supposed to have "Gears plus" graphics and that is coming to the 360 so I believe the 360 has a lot of life left in it. And with advances in compression, procedural synthesis techniques, etc it will continue to get better even with DVD9.
Btw - I do have a PS3 but unfortunately I don't have a 7.1 sound system that supports HD audio. As I'm sure most people don't, just because the disc can support it doesn't mean you get that experience. What HD receiver do you own btw?
I tell you what. The "a lot of life in the 360" will be judged by the PS3 advancements. You have to have something to compare it to. RIght? Else, you'll never know what you will missing.
This is the same argument I hear over and over. DVD9 is good enough. Ok, fine. Stay with "good enough."
EDIT: I have a 5.1 Denon now (2.0 PCM). But I'm waiting for the Sony 7.1 STR-DA5300ES next month. It's not as expensive as the Denon AVR-4306 series. But seems to offers more (except when the new Denon's com out). It's one of the first 1.3 HDMI supported receivers. And includes...1080/60p and 24p video formats, audio formats TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio. So, it's either that. Or the newer Denons. Not sure...hey! You asked! :P
I've had my current receiver for 3 years. Time for an upgrade.
You prolly already seen this but, since you're on the subject...
Will fanboys ever let it end? Apples and oranges, folks.
And of course you need to keep changing the damn! things to.
on here die. ie flame baiters who like to post PS3 vs 360 and other s#!t. [you all know who you are]
Companies like Sony and Microsoft need fanboys... they provide a great source of free advertising. That's why developer make comments that they know will cause heat.
Fanboys do not determine which console will endup selling more or which format will endup winning.... the console war is an ilusion... as long as companies make money regarless of who sells more... there will always be another iteration. The fanboys think they can determine who wins... if they make lots of noise... and their energy...
With all the articles and flame posted by Sony fanboys about RROD... one would think that the PS3 would have an intallbase of 100,000,000 and blu-ray would be on every home... but no... fanboys do not affect the marketplace on any way shape or form...
gamers will have to do battle.
defense becomes necessary.
...............mag lev super train.............
were no fanboys this site wouldn't exist. The fanboys are all the top contributors such as Merc3nary. Even though he will deny it to the end.
Fanboy articles always get the most traffic too. This whole site is based off of Fanboyism.
All the top contributors are fanboys except for Darthbillboy and Rowland.
All of them Sony fanboys. I'm not bitter or anything but it is true. I also have nothing against it. But don't bash other people when you are no different. I'm not saying I'm any different either so don't throw tomatoes at me.
NO. Not as long as there are foolish allegiance by any side of the isle. Anyway, its a good thing if you think about it. Competition that is. Take EA for example... Their exclusive NFL license lead to two years of crap games. 2K got back in the game and it it a fire under their a*ses!! Just think if 360 stomped the PS3 and the WII into oblivion or vise versa. We would have crap due to the console maker being content and have nothing to compete against.
But I agree with MK_Red on this one. Once titles like Killzone 2 are released, and more are brought to light (Getaway, Heavy Rain), we will all have a lot more to discuss rather than comparing port quality issues. Technically, the showcases will be made by the developers who know best how to utilize the unique hardware of their platform-specific game. Spec-wars have cooled down a little in all seriousness after E3, but I do suspect a rumble up ahead.
Meanwhile the platform that is, in my opinion, overpriced (Wii) is hauling its butt ahead of the competition. The graphics capabilities of the Wii need to be compared with the Gamecube's prowess. For the matter, PS2 was 299 when it was released, and it packed the emotion engine and graphics synthesizer, rumbling controllers, firewire ports, usb ports, and was considered revolutionary. Dreamcast was released for 249 and was a highly innovative and capable machine. If you think the price for the Wii goes into manufacturing the motion sensitive controllers, consider this: nobody talks about 6AXIS control capabilities and motion sensitive controls when they talk about why the PS3 is so expensive.
right now 360 has the advantage obviously because most multiplatform games are slightly better on 360. i think it will stay this way until 2008. in 07 microsoft has halo, bioshock, and mass effect, 3 huge games. sony has a lot of smaller titles like lair, warhawk, uncharted, but they also have heavenly sword. in 2008, sony starts off with killzone 2, mgs4, and little big planet (and burnout paradise). sonys 3 huge exclusives in Q1 will help their sales a ton and then due to the bigger install base, they will get more support from 3rd partys. i think it will always be close between sony and microsoft, but the ps3 will emerge as the better console in 2008.
Specwars will end if ppl notice that actually it doesnt matter on what they play, but, in what they play.
Start comparing game to game, not console to console.
I own a 360 and have not had any hardware issues at all since I bought it in March of 2006. I am waiting for the PS3 to come down to an acceptable price $399.99 or lower to purchase it. then I can really let the comparisons begin. Till then let the fanboy wars continue.
I think the Wii is a recycled Gamecube with a glossy white paint job and a magic wand. Thats not innovation thats retardation. Why couldn't Nintendo just release a new controller for the Gamecube, since were essentially getting Gamecube graphics with a different controller scheme for more money than what the Gamecube sells for now $79.99 or what it launched at $199.99 I am sitting on the fence to see if the PS3 can deliver graphics as good as the 360. So far they haven't. Then again Sony has a reputation for promising performance and creating hype that it's consoles never deliver. Look at the PS2. They said it would have CGI-Quality graphics like those found in Toy Story. LIES. ALL LIES. But at least Sony and Microsoft made a significant leap in graphical capability. Shame on you Nintendo.
you say that its just retardation that they threw a new controller on whats essentially a gamecube, and I used to think the same thing and was going to get a 360, but then my friend got a Wii for his birthday and when i played farcry vengeance on the wii with the nunchaku controllers it was actually amazingly fun and i couldn't put it down. the 360 and ps3 are just the next step in the same monotonous course consoles have always followed. keep pumping out the same stuff with better capabilities and higher quality graphics and performance. instead nintendo stepped up and created a completely new way to play video games. the wii was a huge success especially among casual gamers and pretty much has something for all people. im sure most people who read this will call me a nintendo fanboy, but i'm far from it. i actually hate nintendo, i have since the release of the gamecube, and their decision to use cell shading on Windwaker, but they definitely deserve a kudos on what they did with the Wii, shame on you ps3 and 360 for doing the same stuff you've always done.
Don't you just hate when people pick up stories and mix them up, just to justify there opinion. The dude just wants traffic and picks up what fanboys are going crazy for.
LOL, fanboys are the best. blind loyalty to the ends of time. Multi console owner are like generals and majors. fanboys are like grunts more commonly known as cannon fodder.
I think Nintendo proved that creativeness is king when developing software for the hardware...the PS3/360/Wii are all capable of providing developers the muscle for their ambitions, just different approaches...Game Informer's review of Bioshock said that "games just don't come any better than Bioshock" and "would you kindly enter Rapture so that you too can experience the best that video games have to offer" 10/10. I'm sure numerous PS3/360/Wii games will take home honors and accolades from the industry as well...game developers are the real stars...
Why was Activision given credit for CoD 4?
Infinity Ward is the developer.
To me spec wars ended long ago ps3 won that with the cell processor and reaching 200 GFlops and 360 only 113 GFlops
Specs means nothing in the real world btw!
Thats the facts im sorry to say, and for the most part all companys over hype their machines.
Also, who really understands (and i mean properly) all the jargon they blah away to everyone.... very few i can imagine.
All consoles have thier good and bad points.. thats the simple facts of it all :)
it makes ppl like the mart have something to do other than go and rape is brother
we need more video game players, not fanboys
This comes from someone which is always flaming the xbox 360 and who's avatar is made just to start flame wars... o...k.....
At least he is up front about his position instead of acting innocent when he comes into threads about consoles he doesn't own and doesn't like just for the purpose of being an ass. Know anyone like that?
Why ppl include the wii in this debate i'll never know.
Gc with remotes, wow n1.
I wouldnt buy any nintendo system, its just not for me.
Most are kids or puzzle games, you get the odd couple of grownup games from 3rd partys but thats it.
Doesn't interest me and prob never will.
wii execs wake up laughing, hahahh we told you ppl don't want hd.
ms execs wake up crying, Why does this thing melt when u play it too long. Then wake up another day, is this gonna go the way of the xbox. ha ha who cares, they'll still buy our next console with 50% failure rates.
sony execs wake up thinking, We need more games, but i don't want to cut the price as well. Damm we should have put an instruction manual in with the devs kits.
Please bare in mind the vid card on the xbox is an ati card
and the ps3 is an nvidia card.
The ps3 has essentially the 7900gtx or 7950 in there
while the xbox has the 1900xtx or x1950 pro.
The capablity of the two systems are almost equivalent to one another in the gpu area.
It all depends how the developers code instructions as to how their programs communicate between the processor and vid card.
The multiplatforms games do look better on the xbox for NOW vs the ps3 but we are already showing signs that developers are learning how to code for the ps3. Give it time the developers are learning how to program in the cell environment, and Last i read the cell can handle code that is similar to the gpu chips found in the market today.
Hence there is a chance that games MAY look better than the xbox in the near future. Plus blu-ray gives the potential to run games with uncompressed textures.
Looking for a good 360 post and posting it every once in a blue moon to throw people off doesn't make these guy's any different from the guys saying Xbox sucks etc. I can post the ratio of good to bad news post for both these guys.
360's better because I see the games. Thats all that matters
I wouldn't buy into this Sony fanatic fud these guys post(news and comments).
The tone was PS3's the greatest now that the 360 is proving it has the upper hand NOW we get people posting counter messure nonsense. Saying they're equal lets all get along when they been posting rubbish for years.
I know the 360 is more powerful all around; so what if that makes me a fanboy i was bashed the same when saying the same thing to PS2 fanboys after the Xbox launched.
No they will never end, as much as hate the xbois here and love owning them everytime, im glad the nintendo wiitards havent made it around here yet they are reallu annoying and nintendo has been dead since the late 90's.
thats why bois failed at life living in lala land dont want to see the reality shame of your 13 year old xbois thats why u r caught writing PS3 sucks you take this way to seriously.
supercomputer ps3 is outta pc and 180s range already anyway, so why are the specwars still around, ps3 will pull away when even more high budgets are pourn in, ps3 already has surpassed all graphics in its first year, what happens in 08?
by AIZEN SOZUKE
devs need to learn the systems there developing for.and build the game for the strengths of the system even on multiplatform games so they should dev the game for the 360 with the 360 strengths and build ps3 games with the ps 3 strengths. they should spend more time learning the systems instead of bad mouthing them and if need be get sony are ms tech involved.in the long run it would be beneficial to the dev more people would buy the 60 dollar games if they were made for system strengths. instead of porting from one another thats the reason the ports look better on the 360 .because when they port to the ps3 its not using the ps3 strengths in my opinion


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Happy Birthday Mom...
I never understood what a single parent was when I was growing up. I always remembered having a dad who was always just my dad. Even when he wasn't with us all the time, I always had a mom and a dad and it didn't matter who did what. All that mattered is that our needs were being met by someone. I never thought of my mom having to do everything on her own.
School lunches, driving us places, cooking, cleaning, disciplining – that was all her. Every day consistently. I never really understood my mother until I became a "single parent" myself, and now I realize how hard it was for her. My dad was never not there for us, it wasn't like that at all, it's just the little everyday mundane things as a single parent often go unrecognized. At least they did by me for many years.
Life is very rarely perfect, and I'm sure there were struggles, but I try to focus on the things that bring back good memories from my childhood. It's all I have lately, really.
The time she took us all to Florida (even though I was a bratty pre-teen I still enjoyed it), the time she bought us Addams Family cereal and I got to have the Uncle Fester flashlight toy. She baked me the best birthday cakes ever and let me invite every kid I knew, even the ones I didn't like, just so I would get tons of presents. We always had pets. She made my Halloween costumes pretty much every year. They weren't so great, but they did the trick. When we had a car with a hole in the floor of the backseat so you could see the road as the car was driving, she never made me feel like I was going to die. She basically said to ignore the hole and everything will be okay. I'm sure there's a metaphor to use in there somewhere, but for now I'm just thinking back to that big giant floor hole and wondering how I never got splatted by road kill.
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امام رضا علیه السلام
Maxims of Imam Reza (A.S.)
Compiled By: Syed Zainul Abideen Razavi, Tehran, Iran
1. Thankfulness
2. Defence against aggression
3. Planning with prudence
4. Reliance and Betrayal.
5. Wine prohibited, why?
6. Gambling
7. Salaam
8. The Holy Quran
9. Why Fasting?
10. Three accepted with three others (qualities)
11. Salaat
12. Do not ridicule yourself
13. Major sins
14. Spreading Knowledge
15. Womb relatives (Arhaam)
16. Generosity
17. Fragrance
18. Imamat
19. The Medicine of Imam Reza (A.S.)
By the name of God.
May God's blessings be upon Muhammad (SAWA) and his descendants (AS).
I entrust my affair to God. Indeed God is perceiving His servants.
So God protected them from the evils which they contrive
There is no god except You, You are Immaculate.
God suffices us and He is the best pleader
So they returned with God's blessings and grace.
They are untouched by evil.
Whatever God wishes(it happens.)
There is no might and no power except with God.
Whatever God wishes not whatever the people wish.
Whatever God wishes even though people may dislike it.
Sufficient for me is the Lord among all the be-lorded ones.
Sufficient for me is the Creator among all the created ones.
Sufficient for me is the Sustainer among all the sustained ones.
Sufficient for me is God, the Lord of all inhabitants of the world.
Sufficient for me is He who suffices me,
Sufficient for me is the One whose sufficiency never fails.
Sufficient for me is the One, Whose sufficiency for me never failed ever since I existed.
Sufficient for me is God. (There is no god but He, On Him I do rely
And He is the Lord of the Exalted Throne (Arsh).