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CHAMPAIGN – The killing of a Beason couple and three of their children led many in their tiny central Illinois farming community to begin locking their doors at night, and nearly four years later, their home stands as a constant reminder of their brutal deaths.
On Monday, the first of two brothers charged in their killings is scheduled to stand trial in Peoria. Christopher Harris has pleaded not guilty to more than 50 counts of murder in the September 2009 killings of Raymond "Rick" Gee, 46, his wife Ruth Gee, 39, and three of the children – Justina Constant, 16; Dillen Constant, 14; and Austin Gee, 11. They all were beaten to death with a tire iron in their home, and only the couple's 3-year-old daughter, Tabitha, survived.
Jury selection could begin Tuesday and may take several days. The rest of the trial could take about a week. Harris' brother, Jason Harris, is also charged with more than 50 counts of murder in the case, and his trial hasn't been scheduled yet.
The attack on the family sent a wave of fear through Beason, a community of about 200 residents. Until police arrested the Harris brothers, who are from Armington, Beason was on edge.
"Not many people lock their doors here," Brittney Fillmore, who went to school with Justina and Dillen, said at the time. "Something like this isn't what you'd expect, especially happening in a small town where everybody knows each other."
Neither Christopher Harris' lawyers nor prosecutors from the state Attorney General's office or Logan County were willing to talk about the case, citing a gag order.
The brothers' indictments accuse them of breaking into the home intending to sexually assault Justina Constant and rob the family. A laptop computer was stolen. Prosecutors have said they believe Christopher Harris, who is now 33, is primarily responsible. Jason Harris, now 25, is expected to testify that while he waited outside, he saw his brother follow Dillen Constant out of the home with a tire iron.
In court, Christopher Harris' attorneys have admitted that he killed Dillen Constant. But they say he acted to save his own life, arguing in pretrial hearings that the Harris brothers went to the Gee home to buy marijuana, and that Christopher Harris walked in on the teenager slaughtering his own family.
"[Constant] killed his family," attorney Dan Fultz said in a hearing last September, according to The [Bloomington] Pantagraph. He argued that the boy was heavily influenced by violent video games: "He had violent tendencies toward everybody."
Defense lawyers plan to use testimony from an expert on violent video games and records of the boy's troubles – including fights at school and threats made against other students – to make their case.
Prosecutors have said the defense's theory is based on guess work.
"The defense has made no showing that this information is contained in the records," Assistant Attorney General Steve Nate said during a hearing last year as defense lawyers tried to gain access to the boy's records. "They're guessing. They're hoping to find something."
The trial was moved to Peoria after Harris' attorneys argued their client might not get a fair trial in Lincoln, the Logan County seat. The killings have remained a regular part of news coverage in the area, and the county has just 30,000 residents.
In Beason, the Gee house is now boarded up. It's sat as a crime scene since the bodies were discovered.
Defense attorneys had hoped to take jurors to the home to show them its relatively small size and to give them an idea of what a violent struggle in such a small space might be like.
Peter Naylor, one of Christopher Harris' lawyers, argued during one hearing that his client couldn't have been involved in the violent struggle believed to have resulted in the family's deaths "and walked away without injuries."
Harris lawyers have said he showed no sign of injuries in the days after the killings.
Scott Drazewski, the McLean County Judge who will hear the case, said that ideally jurors could visit the home, but in this case agreed with prosecutors that blood and other remnants of the struggle that have never been cleaned up make the home a health hazard.
Jurors instead will have to rely on thousands of photos and several videos of the home's interior.
DNA evidence taken from Raymond Gee's fingernails also may be considered. Defense lawyers say testing has ruled out Christopher Harris and everyone else in the home, except Dillen Constant, as a potential source of that DNA.
After the Gees were killed, many local residents sought comfort by gathering at Beason United Methodist Church.
The Rev. Darrel Howard only came to the church in 2010, but he knows the story of the killings well. The church's 60 members have tried to move on but, "there's always going to be that sorrow."
The house, he said, "is always a reminder, every time you pass the place. It is exactly the way it was."
Howard said the Beason killings, like the deaths of five people slain in the small western Illinois town of Manchester just this month — or even the bombings at the Boston Marathon — are evidence of evil that can be fought with acts of good.
"It hits home," he said. "These things don't just happen to somebody else — we're all connected in that way."


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|February 9, 2012, 01:49 PM
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Let's Talk about hunting the Moon, Mojo and good luck.
Since the hunting forum is slow lately.
Good mojo, bad mojo?
Tricks based on fact.
Stuff that works that others may find odd?
What have you found that works for you, lucky shirt, de-scenting rituals. Ect.
I was always told that I would never have success on a full moon. I was hard headed and dismissed it as an old wives tale....but I have never had any luck on s full moon, despite countless tries, after all you can see pretty good. I am beginning to find the best time is after the new moon when it stays up two to three hours after sunset.
|February 9, 2012, 04:30 PM
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The best trick for me is being in the woods, mountains, or desert.
No matter the moon, the time of day, or good luck tokens, I've yet to shoot a deer when I wasn't in the woods, mountains, or desert. I spend all the time I can there during a hunt.
|February 9, 2012, 07:48 PM
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Well said Daryl. I try to make my own luck because you can't get the shot if you aren't in the woods. The one thing you can predict about hunting is that you can't predict an animals behavior.
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|February 9, 2012, 08:27 PM
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Smoke like a fiend!! Ever since I (had to) quit, I've seen half as many bucks as I used to. Maybe the smoke covered some other old man odor, I don't know.
I was walking along years ago during gun season up in north western Wisconsin, rifle on my back and a cigarette in my mouth and met a young fawn face to face. I mean it sniffed my clothes! Then it went to eating the leaves on the bush next to us. SIL used to say deer loved to eat tobacco. Must have been a southern deer up visiting some relatives.
|February 9, 2012, 10:18 PM
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Wanna see a nice trophy buck or a turkey with an 11" beard and 1 3/4" spurs, just stop hunting long enough to 'take a leak'.
Never fails, you can hunt for days and not see a thing. Be standing there with the wrong gun in your hand and the biggest trophy around will walk right passed you.
|February 10, 2012, 12:19 AM
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That also works deer hunting when taking a dump.
The trick is to "make believe" you're doing it but really are ready to shoot!
|February 10, 2012, 01:58 AM
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You won't kill (insert quarry) in your den! I hunt when I can.
I do not like to deer hunt opposite a full moon. My deer sightings always go down. Full moon afternoon hunts seem the worst. I've started to hunt mid-day on full moons, say 9:00-2:00Pm, but can't really say that's made a difference.
I try and hunt w/ a plan, ..... quarry is here, going to go here, I need to be overthere, like that sort of. I hate hunting blind, but know a lot of guys who do just that. Two of the best bucks on the local WMA were killed by guys who just walked to a spot and plunked down and the deer showed up. No clue to deer behavior, the rut, etc. May be something to being " random."
Critters get pretty good at predicting humans, ever notice how somebody w/o a clue kills a big buck?
Spring turkey. Stay in the woods, hunt hard. Can't say how many times I've got on birds mid-moring, mid-day, late in the season, after many have quit and gone home.
|February 10, 2012, 08:32 AM
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So how's this?
If you wanna see a deer, go coyote hunting.
If you wanna see a pig, go deer hunting.
If you wanna see a coyote, don't take a rifle. Just watch it sit there watching you at an easy shooting distance.
Wanna see a half grown goat in a coon trap, set a coon trap.
If you wanna see a cat, look delicious.
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|February 10, 2012, 10:17 AM
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Dont use the sling on your rifle untill your dragging one out.If your gun is on your back its hard to get a bead.
Dont P into the wind on a full moon pretty much brings bad luck.Not to mention it makes your boots soggy.
|February 10, 2012, 10:27 AM
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For scent.
I do have a 'teeth' brushing routine ("tooth" brushing is for okies) before I go out, I brush as normal then brush and rinse with peroxide. If you've never done this more stuff comes out than a pawn shop mosins first cleaning.
|February 10, 2012, 12:37 PM
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I had a good deer season this year and contibute it to changing things up somewhat over past seasons.
I wash all of my clothes in the No Scent Laundry detergent, hang outside to dry and leave in outdoor aired area, bath with the soap, wash my hair with the No Scent Shampoo. I wear rubber boots all the time. I got into my stand at least 1hr before first light and two hours at lest before the evening hunt period. Stay quiet and still no matter how many mosquitos are chewing on me. Peed in a thermos type screw on top water bottle. I didn't blow grunt calls, doe bleats or put out scent bombs. All of this combined and I ended up seeing deer of some sort, type and size 75% of the times that I sat. Any time I varied that routine or falied to do something to control my scent, I got blanked.
Oh yeah, and go every chance you get. Like others said you won't see them siting on the couch. Well, you could, but some dude will be shooting them right after they let them out of the pen with a TV camera on it.
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|February 10, 2012, 12:48 PM
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I started leaving my clothes out side also.
|February 10, 2012, 03:19 PM
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I have never noticed scent frightening a deer away. Raising it's head and finding the smell interesting, yes, but turning and running at scent alone, no. Most of the guys in our club smell like bacon and last night's whiskey anyway, and they get enough deer to please them.
|February 10, 2012, 05:11 PM
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I think if the whole woods smells like bacon and whiskey the deer won't even come into the woods!
|February 10, 2012, 07:09 PM
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I have seen deer scent me while hunting on the ground. Once a young buck was walking by my set up and when he crossed the wind blown scent path his head came up quickly, he looked around and just took off running. They will smell you and I don't think there is really any 100% effective cure for it. You can lessen the effects of your scent but not completely IMO.
Most of the deer that wind you you never see. Now that I've gotten a little older I generally sit in my elevated box blind with a heater(new this year) and hope for the best.
This season I took a decient 130+ class 8-point, a good sized boar hog and a coyote. All from my comfortable blind with windows taken from an old camping trailer. It took years of feeding to build the trafic I see.( yes, we hunt over feeders in Texas. but I won't shoot any thing under mine, at least not yet).
|February 10, 2012, 07:33 PM
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I hunt during the day if theres been a full moon, but avoid spotlighting as past experience has proved ineffective. When in Zimbabwe recently on a 2 week plains game hunt, we had a full moon on arrival. Our guide stated the hunting would improve during the week as the moon became smaller. Sure enough, as the moon began fading we would seen more game during the day. The guides theory was the plains game could see predators more easily on a moon lit night & feed and move around more than usual. They would then bed down for most of the day.
Most new handheld GPS units have a hunting/fishing almanac, stating best hunting/fishing times & dates. I never base any of my hunting/fishing on these times or dates ,& only found this function on my GPS unit one day when I was bored. Interestingly, after several successful hunts & hot fishing sessions, I have later consulted the GPS hunting/fishing almanac & the times have coincided with its predictions. I'm still not a 100% believer, but for laughs you should check this GPS function when next hunting/fishing, you might be surprised.
|February 10, 2012, 10:25 PM
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My best luck comes when I am unprepared. Wanna see pigs? Go squirrel hunting. Want to kill something? Leave your skinning knife at home. Want to try and get dead pigs out of the woods? Let your brother drive in his Neon, because you're only squirrel hunting.
|February 11, 2012, 12:21 AM
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If I'm hunting on the ground and it's somewhat warm (~45 degrees) I'll scrape the top layer of soil off and get a strong earthy scent to help cover up. This year I used cotton balls soaked in vanilla extract and tossed them all around the area. Had a large doe literally run right towards me within about 45 minutes and held her curiosity long enough for me to get a perfect neck shot! This was right after a full moon.
|February 11, 2012, 03:29 AM
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I tried vanilla this year and thought that was one of the reasons I had such a lousy season. Who knows? The more things I try the less I appear to know. Think I'll bring my radio out with me and listen to some tunes while hunting next year. And maybe have my daughter walk through the woods playing her bagpipes. (She's really good...)
|February 11, 2012, 08:21 AM
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Well I've been having a bit of a run for the last couple of years involving my cell phone. During the 2009 and 2010 seasons, my cell phone seemingly attracted 4 different deer to me ........all of which ended up in the freezer. Basically, an important call would come in, I'd grit my teeth and answer it with a "hello, what is it, I'm in the woods" .......and next thing you know, bippity-boppity-boo there's a deer staring at you. One of those calls sent 2 deer to me within about 30 seconds of each other.
Well that little trend got me 2 bucks and 2 does, so during this season I received a call late one uneventful morning and needed to answer it. I did, and didn't see anything of interest..........until I hung up and went to put the phone back in my pocket. That was when I saw that a NICE doe had been standing right in my blind spot (covered up with my arm while talking) no more than 30 yards away. Well it was cold, and as soon as I let out that long hard breath I had apparently been holding in........she was gone. Like it or not that dang phone has some funny woods-magic in it.
Other than that, I steer a wide path from the "scent elimination" products.....if I want to smell better for the deer I roll around in the field and rub myself against trees. I use my normal soap, shampoo, aftershave, deodorant, etc.etc. During the best deer season I ever had the only scent I used was saw-dust and shavings from a big red oak that had fallen in the yard. When we had to cut it up I saved a bunch and put it in the bags with my hunting clothes.
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|February 11, 2012, 12:03 PM
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Warbird: Not bad ideas! I was playing Angry Birds on my iPhone on the last two outings where I shot deer this season, so maybe a little party music might do the trick!
|February 11, 2012, 01:00 PM
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I step in every wet cow patty in my route.
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|February 12, 2012, 11:57 AM
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I have had great sucess hunting Deer Mid Day during a Full Moon, alot of times when the Moon is bright at night, the Deer seem to not move good early in the morning, but come out later like 11 00 in the morning.
When Not in Deer Season, I hunt Racoon with Coonhounds, and some nights when the moon was bright, were good, some nights the hounds treed on Den Trees. I took a young friend hunting night before last, and we Treed Two Coons, the game was stirring pretty well, last night we treed one, but had a couple of bad turnouts without much luck. Ofcourse we had unusually cold conditons for this area, and the game was not stirring well.
I have noticed over the years that an East Wind, usually has poor hunting, Ive seen it eneough to believe it.
But as one poster mentioned you will not do any good hunting if you dont go.
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"The Jesuit. Conversations with Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio" will be reissued Tuesday as "The Jesuit. The story of Francisco, The Argentine Pope," said Maria Estomba, a spokeswoman for the Argentine branch of the Spanish publishing house Ediciones B.
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Mass Effect is part KOTOR and Jade Empire, part Gears Of War and Ghost Recon, but does it live up to the hype its title suggests?.
Edge writes:
"So what, exactly, is a mass effect? Is it something to do with the outcome of elaborate physics experiments? Is it a time and space altering technology created by ancient aliens? (Apparently, it is.) Or is it what happens when BioWare, famed for Baldur's Gate and Knights Of The Old Republic, decides to make its own version of Star Wars?"
4 bucks say no.
Thought this was a new review.
Everyone send me your home address... I'll send 4 dollars.. in a box... mind the ticking.
It's already there (And has been for some time if I'm not mistaken):
You're the worst kind of fanboy, you don't even try to make points your motives are based from pure malice and never have any points or at least points adults can decipher.
This game has raised the bar so high I have trouble Appreciating other games. Its going to take monsters like Alan Wake and Project Offset to get my heart pumping in excitement
again. You should try to save your bubbles by not trolling with your worthless opinions and comments.
...and wil4hire instantly owes everyone on N4G 4 dollars. I'll PM you my mailing address and await my money.
Edit: It comes with a free watch? Better be a Rolex.
this year the Ps3 got *****. Let's "wait" for 2008.
alan wake was cancelled instead their using the tech theyv'e made for MAX
PAYNE 3: The Golden Year......someone bought someone, and that company leaned towards Micro$ way
i was excited about a next gen max payne, but what more can they pull out of the story he went from 20 to 45 and 60-somthing would be weird and in the story he made it sound like nothing exciting happened any of the years earlier.....i suspect L.A. Noire will be the same type of thing
wasnt Marvels "The Punisher's" pretty much the same story as max paynes?
i wish Bungie would go back to when they were a part of rockstar games, Take 2, and 2K games , and would make an awsome game but micro$ still has a leash on them SUX
Care to provide a link showing that Alan Wake is cancelled??
I believe just a few weeks ago when the Sony tard Shane B. from 1up went on about a particular high profile game being cancelled for the 360. The Alan Wake dev's were quick to say "it is not our game!".
And Oni was published by Rockstar but Bungie was never a part of them.
I can see by your anti-MS comments you are just a hater and a poor one at that.
edge 2 most unrealable review site, just behind gamespot
They are pure garbage.
A 7 is an insult to this game. I believe it deserves the 9's it has received. It's funny because Oblivion had a lot of the same issues this game did but everyone put it on a pedestal and praised it.
I'd like to know if you were saying the exact same thing when they gave Halo3 10/10 a couple of months back.
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That's the best reviewer EVER :)
Seriously, it is becoming more and more clear that we should all review games for themselves and do not trust outside reviews.
I'll switch to my own review when I find it convenient. "say my favorite game on my favorite console wont deliver I'll switch to petition/conspiracy mode". Oh yeah I already feel better, yes I feel much better.
didnt they give bioshock an 8?
Mass Effect has a few issues but its a game that the whole experience is far greater than the sum of its parts.its not the kind of game you just simply go into and rate GRAPHICS,SOUND,GAMEPLAY and so on then take the average and give it a score,that to me just dosent work for a game like this.You have to look at how its trying to push what is achievable in the RPG sector and if it has succeeded in that sector, which it most definitely has.
EDGE is seriously loosing its credibility
Yep, just checked meta. They gave Bioshock an 8, the lowest score on metacritic. So apparently they really do fail at reviewing, at least with two games that deserve at least a 9.
Edit: Just before anyone starts saying they're biased against the 360, they gave Halo 3 a 10.
True and that's the reason I hate EDGE and believe they are less reliable than GameSpot. And now their 7 for Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed proves that they are the worst.
And they are NOT to harsh in general. They gave 9 to PGR4 and 7 to MOH: Airbourne.
Isnt that sweet, now the 360 fanboys are b!tching about review scores. When its not the PS3 fanboys then its the 360 ones. You people are pathetic! stop caring about other peoples review scores. Judge it for yourselves
in my opinion not ONE game out this year earned anything more than 8/10. giving games high 9's or 10 is rediculous, a game will never be perfect and there for doesnt earn 10/10, fame rates, texture pop anything, its all still an error.
if you guys enjoy playing the game thats ALL that matters, the only opinion that you need is your own. All this "EDGE are lossing respect/credibility" its stupid, why? just because they didnt score a game you like 10/10? people are allowed different opinions, thats why they are called OPINIONS!
If EDGE was consistant and gave all games 5-7s, it was acceptable BUT this is the same EDGE that gave 10/10 to Halo 3 and 9/10 to PGR4.
but, if they gave great scores to Halo and PGR, both 360 and a lower score to ME that to me shows there is no bias happening, something which 90% of this website claim reviewrs to be. so what exactly do people what? do you need reassurance that your game is good? maybe this is just how the reviewer saw the game, i personally have played very little ME, but from what ive played id give it 5/10 purely because its not my thing, now does that make me evil in your eyes? im confused as to what you people want from reviews, 10/10 and its biased, 7/10 and they lose credibility/respect. its a rewiew, an opinion, a point of view, a personal judgement, its not the word of god.
Brother! Amen! Problem is that most of these people on these sites are fanboys who cant take any form of critismism about their systems or its games.
HALO 3 is that single player was ok again hyped too much and failed to deliver, online is terrible I give it a 7/10.
PGR4 well BC will never get it right as PGR2 felt and played the best so PGR4 gets a 7/10.
Mass Effect gets a 9/10 it would have got 10 if it didnt have texture pop up issues and frame rate issues other than that the game is fantastic and I am now on my 3rd playthrough!
"Even you, the one supposedly in charge of the game's narrative, feel emotionally suppressed. That Mass Effect presents the same binary moral choices as KOTOR is no surprise – the Dark/Light balance there becomes Paragon/Renegade here – but you'd have expected a more nuanced result after all these years. The conversation wheel, which pops up early to keep the speech rolling, asks you to choose tone rather than precise words. At worst, the choices are so moderate as to be more or less the same, and the words which come out don't relate."
And the dialogue system that soooo many have praised isn't the revoulution like i thought it wouldn't be. there's no way in hell it would've been possible for it to be as great as i thought without advanced sims' style A.I.
i wish people didnt spout that crap "omg western rpgs are better because you're making your story and you have choice"
no son with a lot of these wrpgs there are still rigid walls you HAVE to go down. You only have the choice to view the storyline bioware have crafted for you from different angles. It's still essentially the same story(20 hr). The shift in (space odyssey) narrative if the character was truly liberated and you had choice should have resulted in a mix of character types i.e. (godfather=mob boss) (taxi driver=loner) (raging bull=short tempered boxer).
You're character should be able to go down similar routes as diverse as this effortlessly.
All you're really doing is deviating from the inevitable big choice in slight ways that don't give that much emotional satisfaction. In order for their hyped system to work they'd need to literally construct widely different story elements.
but then that'd annoy the star-wars fappers that are the one's who'll give this flawed game 10/10. "omg i'm in star trek" ugh
if you're WRPG character doesn't react realistically to every minute change in the narrative stream with realism, then it flops. What bioware did (i didnt even see this coming) was they made sure that a lot of the time 2 or so of your responses in a specific scene would get the same results. With 22,000 lines of dialogue what else are they gonna do?
everything i guessed would make this game a dissapointment has come up. From the emotionless trader/medic/soldier npcs, to the recycled sub-quest areas, and excess of futurist sterile silver locations.
More worthless PS3 fanboy spam I guess PS3 doesn't have a game big enough for haters to try and pick it apart due to envy and spite.
Like A child's rant you can rip apart any game with a fanatical standard.
Leave no one wants to hear you PS3 fanboyism(almost a sickness or social dissorder its so bad).
This PS3 fanboy comes in here to complain about things no other console game has added to gaming and speaks from a supposed standpoint as if the PS3 has a game this complex. lol
Please help shut this troll up how he avoids attention is beyond me, he's in every 360 thread talking stupid sh*t)
He didn't say anything untrue though. Read through it and you'll realize that. It's more of a question of: does that stuff bother you at all? The answer from most people would be 'no'.
I'm undecided myself. Kotor was a lot of fun, but there was something dull about the dialogue and "choices" I got to make. I imagine Mass Effect is similar, though I haven't played it yet.
If i had posted "MAsss effect is the suxxxoorrss lol 360tards" yeah you'd have the right to call it spam.
"I guess the ps3 doesn't have a game"
see the thing is, i had wanted mass effect since 05-06 ish but then as more vids got released i started to lower my expectations a lot.
by no means am i saying its a terrible terrible game, just that it was overhyped to hell, and the selling point for a lot of gamers out there isn't that its a revolutionary rpg(cause it aint), but how well it lives up to their ideals of a star-trek/star wars simulation.
there are many who share this OPINION (just check the GS ME forums)
There's a few long-time 360 fanboys on GS who are faaar more critical about the game than i am.
grow up dude.
That depends on who's playing it. The guy's a rabid troll matter of fact you should shut your ignorant ass up unless you have played it *not talking to you if you played it*
Its what he's doing thats bugging me not what he's saying.
He trolls these threads, how many times do we need to hear from this guy about this game every other ME thread he spews the same sh*t. Sure some don't like it but this PS3 fanboy troll needs to grow up, it only takes a few times to express your feelings about this game not every GOD DAM POST ABOUT ME.
HE's just a clever PS3 fanatic...
I doubt this POS played it yet he spams every ME post for the most part saying things that are the opisite of what the owners view as value.
What is he doing? making sure all 14 million 360 owners know he thinks this game is average and worth a 5 out of 10?. If PS3 fanboys payed half the attention to the PS3 and its games that they do with the Xbox side of things PS3 would be selling more software etc.
So if you haven't played a game, you're not allowed to find any flaws in it? Hmm...here are a couple recent quotes from you...
"I'd be worried about Killzone 2 not this game..
LOL You PS3 fanboys are comming in here to spite this game because KillZone 2 looks like a PS2 game."
"They were smoking Dope Uncharted looks like sh*t in my opinion"
Oops, caught red-handed!
And just for good measure I'll let you know that I think Mass Effect should be right up there for Game of the Year.
Yah A high scoring game should not be picked apart when its greatness easily outshines flaws although what that fanboy" was pointing out! are not flaws 99% of casual and hardcore gamers alike would be concerned with.
WTF is he even talking about in his original post anyways?(post #7).
This comforts PS3 fanboys trying to pick apart this title and makes them feel better about the PS3 purchase ingnoring the bulk of the reviews but writting off the game with the handful of bad reviews.
He keeps comming back thats the problem.
i dont even have a ps3 yet.
"Yah A high scoring game should not be picked apart when its greatness easily outshines flaws although what that fanboy" was pointing out! are not flaws 99% of casual and hardcore gamers alike would be concerned with.
WTF is he even talking about in his original post anyways?(post #7)."
for a moment i actually thought i'd take you seriously.
Its kinda sad that you saw my original post as a Ps3 vs 360 debate.
it wasn't at all. If you re-read it there is no mention of either ps3 or 360. If ME had come out on the ps3 i'd be doing the same thing. if you look at my post history you'll know i'm a bioware fan. I've played Baldurs gate, nevewinter, icewind dale, kotor(one of my favourite games ever) played jade empire(didnt finish).
Another reason why i posted this was because of posters like you, zhuk and the mart, who were saying silly things along the lines of; "the ps3 will never dream of having an rpg like this" "there won't be a game as good as this on ps3 ever!"
why do waste your time with PoGreenshit? he's a fanatical xbot turd who thinks anyone critical of a 360 game is a PS3 fan....."he needs heavy meds" is an understatement for this spaz.
LOL You make it too easy for people to rip on you. Prismo totally exposed you for the hypocrite you are (which happens so often now its funny). There isnt a bigger hypocrite on N4G. I cant imagine you even have any cred with 360 fans anymore. How is allforcalisto's post any different from your posts in just about every PS3 review or preview? I cant believe you responded without even acknowledging what he was actually saying, you just don't get it. I guess thats the Power of Denial.
PowerofGreen, I believe what you are doing is known to psychologists as "projection." Nowhere in allforcalisto's original post did he even mention the PS3; you did that in your post and then proceeded to confuse the issue, having no idea what he even said. Your responses are some b4tsh1t funny stuff and your insanity has made my morning, but even though I have been personally entertained by you, might I suggest seeking one of these mental health professionals out because it is clear you are seeing and hearing things that aren't there, and that is a very serious issue.
has it's faults but nothing worth crying about.
If you don't like the game then don't play.
Guess the reviewer didn't get the cheque from M$.
always spewing so much hate and just when I think he can't embarrass himself any worse than he has before, he manages to prove me wrong, ha ha....keep the 4 bucks, I think you need it.=
btw, to each his own, I'm loving ME, its taking too much of my time right now some of my bud's keep sending messages to get me to play some COD4, but I've been too deep in the story, think I'll take a break though and play a few rounds with 'em tommorrow, anyway lol @ the haters=
ME has good reviews.
So how come all the beeyotching by some crybabies?
If you don't like the game then don't play...
WTG The Mart, (just post the truth) I bet we get a couple "Mass Eflops" and "RROD" comments in here. They call it a flop but it's done better than everything they have in reviews and in sales, so what do they call the PS3 games successes? I just love smelling the jealousy in the air, it smells like "victory". Well you (LOL) allways have "08" but I wonder what your going to say when you lose then to? wait till "09"?
No one got owned with that link... Gamerankings is an affiliate of Cnet and Microsoft... they're notorious for not using sites for reviews on Sony's end when it suits them and using them when it suits them for xbox 360 reviews and overall %'s. Those % sites, both of them... are piece's of jokes! Bias as they come. R&C has 13 reviews now, all above 9's that were never counted. Why is that? Would you like the list? Uncharted has 8 9+ scores that have never been counted. why si that? Are they gonna get around to these sometime?
Also, why is every official xbox site and mag used for xbox 360 overalls, when a great deal of Sony's official sites can't be used? Why is that?
R&C scores... not used
gameplayer - 8/10
loadingreality 9.5/10
justpressplay 9.5/10
ign AU - 9.4/10
slashdot - 8/10
gamesarefun - 10/10
pcn - 9/10
sydney morning herald- 9/10
wonderwallweb - 9.8/10
playtm - 8.2/10
videogamemedia - 9.3/10
play:digitial video review - 10/10
netjak - 9.6/10.
Wanna talk about it?
http://www.metacritic.com/s... haha
now R&C http://www.metacritic.com/g... 8.9 ohhhh that must have hurt.
"..they're notorious for not using sites for reviews on Sony's end when it suits them and using them when it suits them for xbox 360 reviews and overall %'s. Those % sites, both of them... are piece's of jokes! Bias as they come. R&C has 13 reviews now, all above 9's that were never counted. Why is that? Would you like the list? Uncharted has 8 9+ scores that have never been counted. why si that? Are they gonna get around to these sometime?
Also, why is every official xbox site and mag used for xbox 360 overalls, when a great deal of Sony's official sites can't be used? Why is that?
Wanna talk about it?"
Sure! By the looks of things, there are quite a few official PS sites and mags used in average score (some from the below list are def official, not sure about the names):
PS3 Advanced 95.0%
PSM Magazine 95.0%
PSM3 Magazine UK 93.0%
Playstation Official Magazine UK 90.0%
Playstation 2 Mag UK(OPM UK) 90.0%
PSX Extreme 90.0%
If they're being biased then why not keep all of them out of the score?
What sites are missing anyway?
To test your theory, I've searched your list of 'excluded' reviews and I can't find a single one of them on Mass Effects review page - are these sources usually provided for 360 games?
If not, then they're probably just too low-key or unreliable to use as part of the metascore - that's why they're left out. There's no bias here.
Also IGN's scores are listed, so why do they need to also list IGN AUs?
i'll beat u in anything and mass effect is and ripoff of Starwars da force unleashed ms just rushed it so it b out there 1st thats why its garbage like u PLAY BEYOND P.S. u aint king of sh*t u boylover
Why don't you do us a favor and go SPAM the Sony side of this site with your "wit" and "intelligence"?? I think it's past your bedtime anyways..
This is about what I would've given it... I spent 6 hours on it and it was just littered with technical limitations. Slowdown, pop up, muddy textures... It was inconsistent and, although, fun... it just didn't do it for me. It's not the end all be all game. As I've said many times, had this been for pc and pc only... it would've been special. The consoles limited the scope of this game. Bar closed.
I think it's official...you took the crown from Maddens Raider for being the biggest bi*ch here. Damn you whine alot. But be careful...wil4hire is catching up.
Imagining this game running on my monster rig without crappy framerates and glitches galore makes my mouth salivate.
i stoped reading after 6 hours spent, how can you review a rpg on 6 hours? no wonder ur games blog blows.
This game is a 9+, below that just pure retarded. Game of the year better than Bioshock
Speaking of console limitations:
So with all the AC bugs on the PS3, that means the console is on its limit ?
Pardon me ?
It is all about polishing, trust me !
ME uses 6,79 gigs on the DVD DL (8,5 gigs capacity), it is not nearly filled (please, don't bring up the notorious "Oh boy, with Blu ray, everything would have gone better"-topic, that's pointless) !
Bioware just should have held the game back for another month to polish it (The same goes for AC !). That's it !
mass effect is one of the best games ive played this year, truely is epic and you can make it as long as you want, im now on my second playthrough and its completey different from my first playthrough as now im choosing different dialog.
if you have a 360 i recomend playing this game.
Having completed Mass Effect yesterday I have to say I agree with what Edge said in their review, but would have given a score of 8/10 rather than 7.
I loved almost every moment of the game. After CoD4 it's my favourite game of the year, but that doesn't mean I can not be objective and see it's faults. In my opinion the game is worth 8/10 and no more.
This year we've seen a lot of games get crazy high scores, and while I don't always agree with Edge they are usually on the money with their reviews (if not overall scores). It's nice to see a few publications and websites (such as Eurogamer) give honest reviews and not be swayed by advertising money or publisher pressure.
i knew it , Xbots must be crying right now
One review that's quite a bit lower than the average (91%) and it's suddenly a flop?
Nice trolling - you got some totally banzored logic there.
Toll alert!
We understand you are so insecure about your gaming choice that you need to come in here a say stupid things like this. I highly doubt you are old enough to play an M rated game.
Last Place Syndrome confirmed..
A game site isn't unreliable before it have been proven that
_A_ It recieves money from someone connected to gaming (unless it is ad money)
_B_ Given Hour of Victory a 9+
This reviewer got a opinion, now you guy are talking trash about Edge because of a game critic's opinion? Wow, you like Halo, you must be complete dumbasses.
See how that works?
Now go away and don't come back 'till you got something proper to say.
Oh, and to the guy above me claiming ME is a flop... Just... No... A game critic gives it a 7/10 and it's a flop?
Seriously man... <_<
I think this is the best 7 game I have played in my life. Is kind of difficult to judge this game. Its a 10 experience game but an 7 overall. Final review: Buy this game. But i agree with the 7. it just have some thing that lower the score. I dont even know what im saying. This game make me confuse
Mass Effect didn't live up to the hype.
One of the huge PS3 exclusives Ratchet and Clank Future gets a 7.5 from Gamespot
Now one of the huge 360 exclusives gets a 7/10 from EDGE...
Hey, I guess its even then... its fair
So Halo 3 gets a 10/10 from Edge and the PS3 fanboys go nuts. Now Mass Effect gets a 7/10 from Edge and the PS3 fanboys go nuts.
Which nut are you?
7/10 is fair, i don't think i've ever been quite so disappointed by a game that promised so much.
Basically, Mass Effect is as Great as you make it. IF you suck the story will suck. If you cant kill the enemy clean you have the wrong loadout. If you are missing the point you have not done any codex homework. If you have no sence of direction you are lost. If you didnt pace yourself and has burned yourself out trying to beat the in one sitting for 20+ hours we cannot believe you because your judgement has been impaired due to lack of sleep. Mass effect has lived up to the hype. It was exactly as advertised. Sci-Fi adventure, No desicion is easy, Galactic political drama. In that aspect, it seems any score less than a 9 is from a burnout. It will be o.k. you guys still have uncharted and all you have to do is go straight. dont worry about games to complex for children who cannot read or know the meaning of action vs. consequence. This Message has been RAM MAGNUMS APPROOVED...
They have been spitting games out like clockwork. They are what next generation games are all about. All the games we know and love with more graphics. Games never before done. A system we all appreciate and respect for always being first and on time. Xbox will continue to surprise all of us. Except those who are willing to look into our business and criticise everything from the disc to the package in came in. If only other would pay attention to those japanese people who create games for them, then maybe they could actually get a game they cannot criticise.


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In 2010, Western Geco reported revenues of $1.99 billion, a drop of 6% compared to 2009 levels.[26] While offset by higher margins from Multiclient operations, lower pricing and activity in Marine operations as well as reduced profitability for Land and Data Processing partially led to the decline in operating income. Pretax operating margin declined 194 basis points to 13.4%. Pretax operating income of $267 million was 18% lower than 2009.[27]
M-I SWACO is a supplier of drilling fluid systems that aid in drilling performance.[28] In August 2010, M-I SWACO became part of Schlumberger through its merger with Smith International. Fourth-quarter 2010 revenue increased 4% sequentially, reach $1.18 billion.[29] Pretax operating income for the final quarter of 2010 was $149 million, which was a 6% increase from the previous quarter in 2010.[30] Late in 2010, revenue and earnings growth has been partially drive by increases in Canadian rig counts and demand for drilling technology and solutions in North America.[31]
Acquired in August 2010, Smith engages in the design, manufacture, and provision of the most advanced drill bits for all environments.[32] The company also offers services, including services and products for reaming, jarring, fishing, and sidetracking, together with a wide selection of tubulars and surface equipment. Smith Oilfield reported revenue of $729 million for the final quarter of 2010.[33] The 11% sequential growth in revenue was partially due to strong demand for drill bits in North America and Europe/CIS/Africa areas. For the fourth quarter 2010, pretax operating income of $106 million was up 54% sequentially.[34]
In 2010, Schlumberger announced the acquisition of Smith International.[35]From the deal, Schlumberger acquires Smith's drill bit manufacturing business, a segment in which Schlumberger did not have significant operations. The company expects the demand for service-intensive deep water and shale gas drilling to rise in the future, and drill bit manufacturing operations have the potential of giving Schlumberger an advantage in both the types products it offers and overall efficiency. The Smith acquisition was completed in late August 2010.[36]
In 2010, Schlumberger also acquired Nexus Geosciences, Inc., a Houston-based company provides integrated seismic software and services for rapid imaging, and Geoservices, an oilfield services company with expertise in mud logging, slickline, and production surveillance operations.[37] Acquisitions provide Schlumberger the opportunity to diversify and expand upon the services it offers. However, numerous acquisitions has the potential of requiring schlumberger to increase its debt-load for financing.
Many western oil majors are spending billions of dollars on exploration operations in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Brazil, and offshore West Africa in the hopes of making similar finds.[38] For companies like Schlumberger, the deepwater oil finds have the potential of boosting sales of advanced, and expensive equipment.[39] However, increased deepwater drilling also has the potential of creating a technological race between many of the big oilfield services companies.
By operating in over 80 countries worldwide, a majority of Schlumberger's revenue growth comes from operations outside of the United States.[40] Schlumberger operates worldwide for a good reason; the company's two fastest growing GeoMarkets are the Latin America and Europe/CIS/Africa operations because operations in sales of well testing and well development equipment and services in Russia, Venezuela, and Brazil.[41] Operations in these countries required Schlumberger's equipment and operational knowledge in order to test, analyze and developed oilfields discovered.[42]> Developing new fields in Russia, Venezula, and Brazil requires technologically advanced equipment, and Schlumberger's sales in these regions have the potential of benefiting from increased investments in the development of new and current oilfields.
However, Schlumberger's vast operations expose the company's operations and profitability to regional political risk. Regional instability or economic uncertainty have the potential of affecting oilfield developments in a country, and reduces the need for equipment from service companies like Schlumberger.[43]
Currency inflation also has the potential of reducing revenues from the sale oilfield services. Revenues from Latin American operations have the potential of declining or rising based on the country's inflation rate.[44]
Baker Hughes (BHI): Baker Hughes is an oilfield services company that sells drilling equipment and provides technology services that help oil E&P companies to drill oil wells.[45] The company operates in two segments: the Drilling and Evaluation segment, and the Completion and Production segment.[46] The drilling and evaluation operations supply products and services like drill bits and wireline logging that are used to drill and evaluate oil and natural gas reservoirs.[47] The company's Completion and Production segment supplies equipment and provides services that aid exploration and production companies from the completion of a well to the end of the reservoir's life.
Halliburton Company (HAL): Halliburton supplies oill and natural gas companies equipment and services that help them extract crude oil and natural gas from the ground.[48] The company's Completion and Production operations consist of production enhancement services, completion tools and services, and cementing services designed for completed and operational wells.[49] Oil and natural gas companies can use the equipment and technology provided by Halliburton's Drilling and Evaluation Segment to analyze potential well sites and begin drilling.[50]
BJ Services Company (BJS): BJ Services provides pressure pumping and other oilfield services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies.[51] BJ Service's oilfield services operations provide equipment that help oil and natural gas companies develop and maintain wells.[52] BJ Services is now owned by Baker Hughes.


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If you subscribed to this blog during the contest period, be sure to check your inbox and spam box (I imagine anything with "contest" in its subject line or body might be fair game for the spam box) to see if you have received an e-mail from me announcing that you have won.
It should be from: email@example.com
If that is the case, please respond to me as soon as possible with your mailing address (as per the instructions in the e-mail) because I'd love to get you this stuff by Saturday so you can wear it out to your local Tea Party protest or to see fireworks and celebrate our nation's independence.
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True or False: Mac OS X Panther is not affected by viruses. Could someone give me some insight on virus vulnerabilities in panther?
Another Mac question is gcc installed by default in Panther???
I belive it has the same/similar issues that Unix does because of their sameness.. Lol
Yes its true: In its two years of service, there are no viruses for MAC OS X Panther. That doesn't mean that there wont be, so using an antivirus on it, is still recommended.
First, the Mac OS X operating system is built on Unix, an industrial-strength operating system used in business, science and education. And OS X doesn't enable users -- or hackers who hijack user accounts -- to alter certain core files and features of its Unix underpinnings. By contrast, Windows XP users are given "full administrator" privileges that viruses and hackers can usurp to do damage.
read the whole article: http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20031023.html
Panther has synced with FreeBSD 5, and has incorporated gcc 3.3 as its default compiler
Here's a review on the Panther OS: http://www.macwrite.com/criticalmass...d-mac-os-x.php
There are at present two viruses which have been written specifically for Mac OS X, these are:
Both of these viruses were pretty usless when it came to actually doing anything, but they did bring forward some interesting ideas.
Trojans are something that could be written for OS X very easily as its more down to the user having to actually run the file. So user error is more to blame with trojans, and considering there are something in the range of a little under a thousand viruses for unix/linux of which some would run effectively on OS X, and some which would partly run and probably do more damage than they were meant to in the first place because of the changes in Darwin.
Worms however will be something that will be very few and far between for OS X. I cannot think of any method apart from things like 'Apple Remote Events' and 'ssh' which would allow a program to install itself to a Mac, but this could change.
At present Mac is a secure platform because no one is writing any viruses for it, but there is no reason why this could not change.
I work for an anti-virus company and of the 98+ thousand viruses that we detect something in the area of maybe 100 have anything to do with Mac specifically. At the moment Windows is the target, and in my opinion will be for a long long time to come.
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Age of the Earth
See also Counterexamples to an Old Earth.
The Age of the Earth has been a matter of interest to humans for millennia. The subject is still debated today, particularly between young-Earth scientists, who believe that the Earth is only approximately 6,000-10,000 years old, and most scientific organisations who believe that Earth is approximately 4.54 billion years.[1][1] The scientific evidence points to a young age of the earth and the universe, and the biblical creation organization Creation Ministries International published an article entitled 101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe, which further argues for the young age of the Earth.
Old Earth advocates rely on one flawed assumption to the exclusion of other evidence, similar to how an investigator may mistakenly rely on one eyewitness's opinion to the exclusion of all else. In fact, eyewitness testimony is proven to be less reliable to than other indicators, just as the assumption by Old Earth proponents that the rate of radioactive decay has always been constant is flawed. In fact, a large number of physical processes, such as neutron capture and fluctuations in solar radiation, can affect the rate of radioactive decay of elements in the Earth's crust and render radioactive dating measurements unreliable with errors up to 5%, depending upon the specific methods used.[2] Even so, such an error will not cause a calculation of the age of the Earth based on radiometric dating to be off by up to five orders of magnitude.
Historical views
For most of recorded history humans of many backgrounds, such as St. Barnabas and St. Irenæus,[3] viewed the age of the Earth to be around 6,000 years.[4]
Saint Cyril who came into Great Moravia (present day Slovakia and Moravia in Czech Republic) from Byzantine Empire in 863 as Christian missionary wrote in his poem Proglas[5] (dedicated to his works on translation of the four biblical Gospels to Slavonic language) following sentence that brings testimony about the perception of the age of the world that time:
To the holy Gospels I am the Foreword for as it was promised by the prophets Christ comes to gather the nations for he sheds light on the world entire. That is what happened in our seventh millennium
In 1830, Dr. Hales published a list of 120 historical authorities from various cultures who had decided on an official date of creation. These ranged from 6984 B.C. to 3616 B.C.[8]
Included in Hales' list is James Ussher, who calculated the famous date of 4004 B.C. for creation. Young Earth creationists still consider this date to be close to the actual date.
In 1778 George-Louis Lecrerc, Count of Buffon, proposed that the Earth was about 74,832 years old.[9] James Hutton, while not proposing a date, dismissed the Biblical account and claimed in 1785 that there was not evidence of a beginning at all.[9] Charles Lyell supported Hutton's idea in 1830, in Principles of Geology.[9]
In 1854 Hermann von Helmholtz estimated an age of between 20 and 40 million years.[9] Around the same time Lord Kelvin put his mind to deriving an age, and came up with a range between 20 million years and 400 million years. He later refined that down to between 20 million and 40 million years.[9] More recent discoveries of radioactivity and mantle convection explain why the assumptions Helmholtz and Kelvin made resulted in dates that are much lower than current uniformitarian estimates.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica discussed dates up to 500 million years.[10]
By about 1930, J. H. Jeans was arguing for an age of the Earth of around two billion years.[11]
Using circular logic -- assuming that decay rates remained constant despite necessarily changing physical characteristics as time approached the origin -- Old Earth proponents insist that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old based on an assumption of constancy in Potassium-argon (K:Ar) decay rates and other radiometric methods.[12]
William R. Corliss is a cataloger of scientific anomalies (observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms) and has published many works on the subject.[13] He also wrote 13 books for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a dozen educational booklets for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and a dozen articles for the National Science Foundation (NSF).[14] The science magazine New Scientist had an article which focused on the career of William Corliss.[15] New Scientist wrote regarding Corliss's work: "All I can say to Corliss is carry on cataloging". [16] Arthur C. Clarke described Corliss as "Fort's latter-day - and much more scientific - successor."[17]
Corliss's work on geological anomalies catalogs scores of anomalies which challenge the old-earth paradigm.[18]
- Burnet, Thomas, The Sacred Theory of the Earth, chapter V, 1691.
- Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition (1911). On-line page facsimiles.
- Hammerton, J.A. (Ed.), "Universal History of the World" (8 volumes) The Educational Book Co., London, c1930.
- Batten, Don, Old-earth or young-earth belief: Which belief is the recent aberration?, Creation 24(1):24–27, December 2001.
- The age of the Earth (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)).
- Peck WH, Valley JW, Wilde SA, and Graham CM (2000) Ion microprobe Evidence for Pre-4.4 Ga Continental Crust and Low Temperature Water/Rock Interaction. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr, vol 32, no. 7.
External Links
- Age of the earth by Creation Ministries International
- How old is the earth? - Refuting evolution - Chapter 8 by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati at Creation Ministries International
- Age of the Earth and Universe by Creation Ministries International
- ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml
- ↑ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536205000138#bib6
- ↑ Burnet, p. 259.
- ↑ Burnet, p. 258.
- ↑ Proglas (Slovak). sme.sk. "The parchment version of Proglas in Cyrillic from 13th century was discovered in 1858 by Russian Slavic scholar Hilferding"
- ↑ Proglas, the foreword to the Old Church Slavonic translation of the four Gospels. The Centre for Information on Literature, Slovakia.
- ↑ Konštantín Filozof. Proglas (Slovak). sme.sk. "Under the seventh millennium is meant here the age from the creation of the world. The figure was composed of the time elapsed by the birth of Christ, i.e. 5508 years, on top of which was added 863 years (date for the arrival of Constantine and Methodius to Moravia). The result was 6371 years, thus the seventh millennium."
- ↑ Batten 2002 quotes from "Young's Analytical Concordance of the Holy Bible", 1879 8th Edition, 1939, which relates this, and reproduces the selection of the dates from Young.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, pp 650-651.
- ↑ Universal History of the World, p.76.
- ↑ Peck, 2000, p.376.
- ↑ Science Frontiers (Corliss' web-site)
- ↑ Corliss, 2002
- ↑ Adrian Hope, Finding a Home for Stray Fact, New Scientist, July 14, 1977, p. 83
- ↑ Quoted on the Science Frontiers web-site
- ↑ Clarke, Arthur C. (1990) Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography. Gollancz. Page 110
- ↑ Geological Catalogs (Science Frontiers)


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2. Be very careful with the earth symbol, as it is the low voltage 5V or 12V common point and NOT the Power Line Earth!
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to test our wildest ideas with no immediate need for...
Scampy, these solid state switch come already equipped with a current limiting resistor already integrated inside the switch.
If you place a led with its resistor in parrallel to the ssr there is...
I think that you are all missing one very important point.
Arduino and the Pi, have brought into our world a whole demographic of new users, ranging from Chefs to gardeners including artists and...
A somewhat poor analogy but relevant none the less: An OCR (optical character recognition) system was developed to transfer data however was discontinued as it was found a skilled typist could enter...Normnet - 21st September 2018, 04:59
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Both your replies have been implemented now I am running again..... Always have problems with the If/Then/Next Endif stuff :-)
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I agree with this.
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Skincare and Cosmetics is merging…this is the point where I am supposed to have some kind of scientific stuff ad include my evidence and what not but you don't need that! As a beauty junkie, you should already know, these days nearly all cosmetics have some kind of 'beneficial' goodness (or so they say) in it. SPF for example is common in Foundation even though SPF is really a skincare issue.
I have been using Nar's Firming Foundation for a while…now. I use Stromboli, a medium oilve shade:
They say: For the first time, a NARS foundation formula with increased skin benefits that not only reveal a flawless and radiant complexion, but also help to minimize imperfections while improving skin's resilience.
* Exclusive Polypeptide Firming Complex™ helps firm and lift skin
* Antioxidants help protect against free radical damage
* Firming peptides help to reduce the look of creases associated with aging
* Includes brown algae, organic gotu kola, boswellia and a patented Gatuline RP combined with Vitamin C
* Skin feels significantly firmer and visibly lifted after 8 weeks
* Available in 16 synthetic fragrance-free shades, with a pump dispenser
As you can see a nice range of colours here, Nars has always catered for the very fair and very dark skinned ladies which is great
This is a liquid foundation but a medium thick one, not a sheer. Therefore the coverage is actually medium and gives a polished, glowy finish. There is no real scent and it blends in quite easy – you have to really work it into the skin though.
You are supposed to see lifting effects especially on the wrinkles – my skin does look better but I have also been using La Mer Cosmetics and Elemis so I can't specify which product made me skin look better and less wrinkly.
The finish is quite a polished one – the kind of skin you would go for you you were going to wear red lips. I like a medium coverage so this works really well for me coverage wise.
However, I have had a problem with this product – about 5 hours into wear, it begins to congeal on my skin, most obviously the oily parts like my forehead. It kind of bunches on my skin looking greasy and a bit odd, so then I have to rub it back in. This is somewhat problematic – I had a friend who used to have congealed foundation around her nose constantly, and boy did it used to do my head in. But it looks great on by cheeks all day.
Eek I think its about £34 / $50 which is a lot but not ridiculous. I think this could work perfectly on drier skins on combos like me then it does go a bit odd on the skin. If you want to try this then get a sample of it and see how it settles. At the moment I am obsessed with my La Mer Foundation which gives me an amazing even glow.
For me, personally and my skintype, I have to give this foundation:
Just because it does cost quite a lot and I don't like the bunchy thing on the skin.
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Hit from the Tong
Hit from the Tong is a mission in GTA Chinatown Wars given to the protaganist by Zhou Ming from the counstruction yard in Algonquin.
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|[[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars|Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]][[Appearance::Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars| ]]
|Zhou Ming
|Zhou Ming and his bodyguards
|Construction site in Algonquin
|Salt in the Wound
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|Clear the Pier
Once you have walked into the marker, destroy the gate lock (using the pen on the touchscreen for DS, tapping the shoulder buttons for PSP). After the lock is broken, walk in and two triads will approach you. After the cutscene finishes, a bunch of Triads will attack. Kill all of the Triads, and you encounter Zhou in the middle of the three buildings. After another short cutscene, Zhou enters a helicopter and more Triads attack, eliminate them and proceed over to the first elevator. After breaking the lock and going to the top of the building, Zhou will proceed to attack you in the helicopter.
The helicopter is invunerable to everything but rockets, so grab the Rocket Launcher nearby and fire at Zhou. After a few shots, Zhou flies off, when he does this, you are prompted to head down to the ground, where more Triads are waiting, kill them and go to the top of the second building. Following the same technique as before, damage Zhou to the point where he flies away. After this, head down to the ground again and defeat more Triads. After they are killed, head to the top of the third building to face Zhou for the last time. When Zhou's health bar is completely depleted, mission complete.
Triad: Haung's here to kill Zhou! Kill the little snot!
(Huang encounters Zhou)
Huang: You arrogant treacherous shit!
Zhou: Why the hell would I betray the Triads? I was going to be boss.
Huang:The FIB sheet names you and Chan as their contacts.
Zhou: Bullshit! You're being played, rich kid ... Don't make me kill you.
Huang: Whatever you say, Zhou.
(Zhou gets in the helicopter)
(Huang shoots down helicopter)
Zhou NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The reward is $1000 and if Clear the Pier has been completed, Salt in the Wound is unlocked.


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This 51-minute yoga practice focuses on Elena Brower's Anusara-inspired Yoga for Beginners DVD.
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All ages, abilities and experience levels are invited to build a personal home yoga practice while checking out the variety of free library resources available to help guide you. As a community of yogis, we focus on a different yoga instructor's DVD or CD during each session. Soak up the support of the local yoga community while absorbing the teaching of some of the world's most esteemed yogis projected on the big screen and/or the surround sound in Library Hall. Work at your own pace throughout each session.


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Stock index futures edged higher on Thursday, putting the S&P 500 on track to snap a three-day skid, as U.S. President Barack Obama returned to Washington to restart negotiations over the "fiscal cliff."
Obama cut short a Christmas holiday in Hawaii to fly back to the capital and make another push for a deal between Democrats and Republicans to head off devastating tax hikes and spending cuts set to begin on January 1.
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In a sign of a possible way to break the deadlock in Congress, Republican House Speaker John Boehner said if the Democrat-controlled Senate were to pass a bill, the House would at least consider it.
"As we've seen this year, the market really trades on the last headline or the last sound bite that you get in spite of fundamental indicators," said Keith Bliss, senior vice-president at Cuttone & Co in New York.
"For this week, it's been all about when they are going to have a conversation and what that conversation is going to be like."
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced the first of a series of measures that should push back the government's debt ceiling by around two months.
Economic data expected on Thursday includes weekly initial jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. Economists in a Reuters survey forecast a total of 360,000 new filings, compared with 361,000 filings in the previous week.
Also due at 8:30 a.m. is the Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index for November.
Later in the session at 10 a.m., investors will eye December consumer confidence and November new home sales data. The Conference Board's main consumer confidence index is expected to show a reading of 70 versus the 73.7 reported in November while new home sales are expected to show a total of 378,000 annualized units.
The benchmark S&P 500 index has fallen 1.7 percent over the past three sessions as negotiations over the budget crisis have stalled, its longest losing streak since mid-November.
But the S&P has recouped nearly all of its declines suffered in the wake of the U.S. elections and is up 12.9 percent for the year, putting it on pace for its best year since 2009.
S&P 500 futures rose 2.4 points and were above fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 4 points, and Nasdaq 100 futures gained 6.25 points.
Marvell Technology Group cut losses in premarket trading after it said it would seek to overturn a jury's finding of patent infringement. Marvell stock was down 3 percent at $7.18. Shares had fallen earlier after a federal jury found the company infringed two patents held by Carnegie Mellon University and ordered the chipmaker to pay $1.17 billion in damages.
European shares edged higher on Thursday, with mining stocks among the best performers, although concerns over the outcome of U.S. budget talks prevented many investors from taking on big, new equity positions.
Asian shares rose amid caution ahead of the U.S. fiscal negotiations, while the yen hit a 21-month low against the dollar on the prospect of drastic monetary easing and massive state spending.
(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Kenneth Barry)


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