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The Federal Reserve lowered the boom on credit card companies last December with new regulations that take effect 18 months later. Among the rules, banks generally won't be able to raise your rate in the first year an account is opened or use two-cycle billing, which bases the rate on a cardholder's average daily balance over two months, instead of one.
Despite these reforms, many consumer advocates believe the Fed failed to complete the job. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) introduced bills to make the Fed's regulations go into effect sooner. They and consumer groups including Consumers Union, the Consumer Federation of America, the Center for Responsible Lending, and the National Consumer Law Center also think the following reforms are needed to make credit cards fairer for consumers.
1. A national usury rate
Consumers should not have to pay extortionate interest, like the penalty rates charged to nearly half of cardholders with revolving balances. Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) has proposed a maximum annual percentage rate (APR) of 36 percent.
2. Truly "fixed" rates
Card issuers say they must adjust rates to reflect the shifting creditworthiness of their customers. But funny thing: they never lower your rate when you become more creditworthy. The Fed's rules require fixed rates to stay fixed for the first year. But banks should be required to keep rates fixed for another year or two, depending on the customer's credit score. If the score drops after year one, the card could expire in three to six months and the issuer could then cancel the card or raise the rate.
3. Rate hikes confined to future charges
A card issuer can apply a new, higher interest rate not only to future purchases but to existing balances, too. "Banks should not be able to change the rate retroactively," says Joshua Frank, senior researcher with the Center for Responsible Lending.
4. A "hard" credit limit
Why do card companies set a credit limit if they let customers exceed it — for a fee of $39 or so? Issuers say they offer the loophole because they don't want consumers to be embarrassed having a charge publicly declined. But many customers would appreciate the turndown, rather than a steep surprise fee.
5. An end to universal default
Credit card issuers should be prohibited from raising a customer's rate just because he was late paying another bill.
6. No more soliciting students
To keep students from graduating with thousands of dollars in credit card debt, banks should be prohibited from soliciting them.
7. Redemption from default-rate hell
Consumers should not be required to live with a 25 to 30 percent penalty rate forever just because they default on their cards by missing payments once or twice. If a cardholder pays his bills on time for six months or so after a default, the issuer should reward him by lowering his penalty rate.

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Jacqueline Durran, last night's winner of an Oscar for her costume designs for "Anna Karenina," appeared on a thought-provoking panel of leading costume designers brought together on campus Friday by UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television. The second annual "Sketch to Screen: Costume Design Oscar Celebration" also paid tribute to the late David Copley, whose endownment to TFT created the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, the first of its kind in the world. Among those who provided an indepth look at costume design were designers for "Silver Linings Playbook," "Les Misérables," "Lincoln," "Argo" and "Moonrise Kingdom." Deborah Nadoolman Landis, founding director and chair of the Copley center, moderated.


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- adj. sprawling.
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- adj. spread out irregularly
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If other countries were as wealthy as the U.S., had as much land suitable for development as the U.S., and were less contrained by historical circumstances such as road widths established in medieval times, they would probably be just as sprawly as the U.S.
To the extent that European nations and other advanced democracies are less sprawly and less car-oriented than the U.S., the difference is mainly the result of geography, income and historical contingency, not preference.
The urban form is the environmental form and we are still committed to making our region be even more sprawly than it now is.
PSRC's forecasting assumes quite large increases in the region's population, and since GHG emissions are a global problem, every person who moves in from an area that does worse (like the sprawly cities that many Seattle transplants come from) will represent a net improvement in overall GHG emissions.
We are simply adding a bit of rail to what will remain a sprawly road based system.
Sunset is a bit sprawly, in an attractive way, unlike Firefly which is redder in winter but more upright.
Happy birthday, you crazy big sprawly central Canadian city!
"The spider?" said I. "The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow."
It is a sprawly place, with no apparent urban planning.
All that night the sprawly writing on the pages, the constant mistakes in spelling and grammar, and the weird punctuation danced before his eyes.


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ANATOMY OF A CONTENDER: A writer's passion for the story of assassinated politico Harvey Milk helped lure Sean Penn and make 'Milk' a realityIn early 2007, Dustin Lance Black was making yet another trip up the Golden State Freeway to San Francisco.
For the past two and a half years, he'd been driving there from Los Angeles on breaks from his job as a staff writer on HBO's "Big Love," interviewing friends and foes of Harvey Milk -- the gay San Francisco city supervisor who was assassinated in 1978 -- in an effort to put together a big-screen biopic about him. Others had tried and failed, and they had studio backing. Black had no development deal, no stars or producers attached -- nothing other than a personal credit card to pay for expenses and an obsessive passion for his subject.
"Harvey made me feel like we have a history, like (gay people) have forefathers, and I had this strange fatherly connection to the man," Black says. "But I'd ask fellow gay friends if they'd ever heard of Harvey Milk and they'd think I was talking about some dairy company."
Through the whole process Cleve Jones, a Milk associate, had been Black's right-hand man, putting him in contact with others who had known Milk. Now, while Black was driving, Jones told him he had a "friend" who would be perfect to direct the film. It was Gus Van Sant.
Van Sant ("Good Willing Hunting," "My Own Private Idaho") was well-acquainted with Milk. Back in the early '90s, he had replaced director Oliver Stone on a Milk biopic in development at Warner Bros. In the course of researching it, he had gotten to know Jones.
But Van Sant was skeptical. "(Jones) had originally been talking about a musical about his life, and all of a sudden it wasn't a musical, it was a film about Harvey," he recalls.
Despite this, he met with Black and Jones. A week and a half later, when Black finished a satisfactory draft, he sent it to Van Sant in Portland, Ore., and in spring 2007, Van Sant committed to make the movie.
An article in the trades prompted Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, the Oscar-winning producing team behind 1999's "American Beauty" and 2003's "Big Fish," to come on board. But two big pieces of the puzzle were still not in place: an actor to play the self-proclaimed "Mayor of Castro Street" and the money to make the movie.
The filmmakers' first choice to star was Sean Penn, whom Van Sant had offered the part years ago when he was working on the abortive Milk biopic. Penn invited Black and Van Sant to visit him at his home across the bay from San Francisco in Marin County.
"We chatted a little bit about the history of Harvey, and Sean made it clear that he wanted to pull no punches in the movie," Black says. "We didn't want a sanitized Castro of the '70s. We wanted to really show it for what it was, with all the sexuality and political fervor of the movement."
The producers were able to line up a pair of independent production/financing entities to bankroll the film, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Groundswell Prods. But with potential strikes looming on the part of the WGA and SAG, the producers feared if cameras didn't start rolling by September or October, the film would never get made. As the budget climbed north toward $20 million, Kimmel got cold feet and backed out.
"We had to begin to cash-flow the movie and make a pay-or-play commitment to Sean," Groundswell chief Michael London recalls. "Then we turned to Focus Features to come in as our co-financier and distributor, and they said yes. The project was structured as a negative pickup, so Groundswell oversaw the production and the business affairs."
Principal photography on "Milk" commenced in San Francisco in the third week of January. For a time, the filmmakers thought they might save money by shooting just a few days of exteriors there and the rest in Vancouver, but in the end authenticity was worth the additional expense. The city gave the production modest discounts on police and parking costs, and allowed the filmmakers to shoot extensively in City Hall, as well as in the Castro Street neighborhood that was home to Harvey and his shop that launched his political career, Castro Camera.
"The feel of the place seems remarkably similar to what it was 30 years ago, so it really felt like a bit of a time machine walking onto that street," London says. "And that gave the actors a tremendous amount of inspiration."
Another source of inspiration was the presence of many of the real-life figures from Milk's life, in addition to Jones (played by Emile Hirsch in the film), who was on set every day as a consultant on the film. All were moved by Penn's performance as Milk.
"Sean would come on to the set in the morning after going through hair and makeup and wardrobe and deliver dialogue as Harvey Milk, and it would just take their breath away," Cohen says. "They felt like the essence of Harvey was back with them."
To prepare for his role, Penn slimmed down to better resemble the lanky Milk and studied all available film and video clips of the man, absorbing every physical and verbal mannerism. Extensive makeup work also helped.
"One night we were re-creating a TV broadcast that was done live from Castro Camera on the night that Harvey won an election," Jinks says. "On the real night, Harvey probably had a cocktail or two and made a grammatical error in the way he was speaking on TV. Well, that had been corrected in the script. But when Sean went to do it, he did it exactly the way Harvey did it. The script supervisor said, 'Sean, you messed up.' And he said, 'No, I didn't. Check the tape.' And if you look back at the actual tape of Harvey, and then Sean doing this little snippet, it's just identical. Everything he does -- every head move, every glance, every smile is pure Harvey."
While Penn gave them pure Milk, Van Sant and the producers had to rely on the people of San Francisco to lend authenticity and scale to the film's four major crowd scenes, shot over the course of three nights. Residents were invited to come decked out in '70s clothes. They were supplemented by a handful of paid extras, dressed from head to toe by costume designer Danny Glicker.
The filmmakers had some real-life Capra-esque drama the night they re-created a candlelight march held in the wake of the assassination of Milk and Mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) by city supervisor Dan White (Josh Brolin). A call went out for people to show up at 11 p.m. for the scene, which wouldn't start shooting until midnight. No one knew how long people would stay, or how many would show up.
In the end, "thousands and thousands of people came," many of whom had been there for the real march 30 years earlier, "really just to pay a final homage to Harvey Milk," London says. "That was an incredible thing to witness."


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Trexin brings analytics to the front lines
It's really about exploratory analysis, raucous analysis, problem-solving analysis – that's where Tableau is head and shoulders above everybody else.
|How are you using Tableau at Trexin?
|We focus heavily on strategy and analytics, and we use Tableau in most of our engagements.
|And why did you choose Tableau as your primary tool for the new company? Did you use it before, in your work at Ernst & Young?
|Yes, I've been using Tableau since version 1.2 or 1.3. I've done a lot of work in trade data analysis on Wall Street and a lot of work with the SEC. Trade data analysis involves millions, sometimes billions, of transactions, depending on your time period, and compliance is a big deal with FINRA and the SEC. In the New York Stock Exchange, sometimes sub-exchanges are actually where the biggest things happen, so the visualization got introduced to be able to spot anomalies, whether they were the types of errors that would be from trade ahead violations or different types of rules and groupings that would get dropped. If you trace trades throughout the different trading desks as they go through their whole lives of executions and orders, you can visually see everything happen. We used it for compliance. So that's what really brought Tableau into us. We did that at Ernst & Young, and since then we've published an article on it and we've done a lot. We've grown it, and we use Tableau in almost everything now.
|Are you typically working with one source or a lot of different sources when pulling information?
|We pull from multiple sources because, especially an example like trade data, it comes from many different trading desks. It can originate from many different areas, but it usually needs to be consolidated for analytics. Very rarely is Tableau the only tool used. It's really used for the demonstration and the testing and the understanding of data. We use it for exploratory purposes.
|When you first started using Tableau, what were the things that surprised or impressed you?
|Tableau is really an exploratory tool, so the biggest surprise was just the ease of use. You can quickly pull up the visualizations and drill down, and if something doesn't work out you just undo it and redo it. We use calculative fields pretty heavily. We also use multiple tables quite a bit. You could write a command that could do the same work, but with Tableau you can do it much faster and just shortcut it. You can see patterns and trends that you want to drill down on much easier, especially when you're looking at thousands and thousands of lines of data. You can pick out that one thing that really makes a difference.
|Have you gotten feedback about Tableau from your clients?
|Pretty much every place we've taken it, the client ends up becoming a Tableau customer. The last client I worked with actually had Tableau, but it was a rogue installation by an IT guy who managed to get approval to buy it, and he was using it for his own purpose. We'll take it from the deep depths of IT, and we'll use it with the senior executives and do an interactive session.
|How has your history of working with Tableau influenced your vision for Trexin Consulting?
|In setting up the new company, we have a concept we use "analytics to action," which is really picking up from the "Competing on Analytics" article that came out in January of 2006 in the Harvard Business Review. The article demonstrated how companies can use analytics for competitive advantage, but what's really been happening out there is that the business intelligence movement has created big consolidations of data with very little ROI. Companies are not really using the data in day-to-day business. The idea of analytics to action – the whole reason that we've set up this area – is so that we can push analytics out to the front lines of business. It's really about business users. Getting out to the front end, you make it exploratory. You put the data at their fingertips.
Tableau is one of the key pieces of software that we push out there. We're going through our clients' processes, optimizing the way that they use their data, and giving their users the power of the tools. It might be in compliance and risk analytics. We've also done a lot with customer analytics and then the executives use it quite a bit. For people that become super users, Tableau becomes ubiquitous with Excel. They use Excel for stuff, but very rarely will they only use Excel. They'll pick up Tableau. I've even seen people analyzing their project plans in Tableau because once you get used to it, it's such a fast way to bring up everything.
|How about an example of how you're using Tableau in this way?
|The main example is raucous analysis. It's a great example because it brings in multidisciplinary teams. Very rarely can an IT guy understand why some coding thing isn't working or why some data is getting lost. It's all about the business use. So, we use the visual analytics with these multidisciplinary teams, where you have the developers, the data owner, and often the business process owner. You're trying to find anomalies and understand why they're happening. Rarely does one person really know, because they don't know all the business imperatives that led to that error.
Raucous analysis becomes a very interactive session. I've done it with litigations support where I've had attorneys in there. I'm an attorney too, so I know these guys don't know what's going on, but we'll bring it on the screen. We have a big conference room, and we'll be bringing up the trade data. It's usually about SEC litigation or something in that regard, and we will literally show them what's happening in the data. They'll say "oh yeah, that's cool!" and they'll all act like this is normal that they can literally drill down in real time and understand why an area of trade is happening the way it is, why they see this clustering. Then you have someone else in the room that says, "oh, that's when this got caught in the outage" or "that's why we had all those volume issues" and they'll pull it together. Another thing might be, "well, that trader is a specialist – he's also making his book." Which means, he's not just trading on behalf of the customer, but also on behalf of his company at that time.
|So it's not just an analytics tool – it's a problem solver.
|That's what we use it for. In fact, the static reports – most static reports and dashboards or anything you get out of a warehouse in all these great business intelligence tools – have a declining value. When they first come out, they're very insightful, but then over time, people get used to them. The data becomes more stagnant and they tend to look past them. There are lots of tools out there that quite frankly do great graphics. If you take the time and write the code, you can create great dashboards and make things pretty in a number of products. What you can't do is interactively explore and break down the data. It's really about exploratory analysis, raucous analysis, problem-solving analysis – that's where Tableau is head and shoulders above everybody else. The other tools just don't do it as easily or as quickly, and make it harder to bring in to the business users.
|Tell me about your first "aha" moment with Tableau.
|I think I was the first one to reach out from Ernst & Young. I downloaded the demo, and when I first pulled it in, it was looking at trade data for a compliance project. The intuitiveness of the tool just made sense. Early in my career, I built analytics tools and one of the problems that we always had was how to solve quickly moving data, quickly visualizing it and then saving that work in your work books. Usually it required complex equal statements to get it done. Tableau usually guesses right when you just drag the data across, and that's when it's really exciting. You see it happen so quickly.
|We've talked a lot about how you use Tableau to find anomalies in trade data. Tell me about some other ways you're helping clients with the software.
|We talk about compliance in trading, but the same principles apply in multiple industries. We have used it for customer data. We've also used it for claims data in medical environments. You have heavy compliance in medical claims coding. Tableau is extremely powerful there because there you have to group different types of medical claims under different codes and procedures, and then are things that require overwrites and different subcodes. Many times we find providers don't get paid because of coding errors.
It's all about compliance within the data. In financial services, that keeps people out of jail, for the most part. In medical claims, it's money that hits the bottom line every time you find those anomalies. Usually when something got spit out for not following the proper rules and the proper coding, it didn't get paid. So every time you find that when you're dealing with a health care provider, they end up resubmitting it and making money.


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La Danza Mille volte o mio tesoro Duetto con Recvo... Musical manuscript full score
Oblong folio (290 x 220 mm). Sewn. Notated in brown ink on 12-stave paper. 1f. (decorative title with text within a carefully executed oval floral watercolor border signed Luisa Ottoboni), [44, ii (blank)] pp. Unpaginated. Watermark: [?]"AMasso." Ascription to title: "Del Sig. Duca Capece Scondito Dilettante Napolitano."
A recitative ("Ah non più mia speranza"; 14 pp.) and duet ("Mille volte o mio tesoro"; 30 pp.) for the characters of Nice (soprano) and Tirsi (tenor). Recitative accompanied by 2 Violini, Viole, 2 Clarini, 2 Oboè, 2 Fagotti, and Basso; duet accompanied by 2 Violini, Viole, 2 Flauti, 2 Oboè, 2 Clarinetti, 2 Cor[ni] in Effaut [=F], 2 Fagotti, and Basso.
With "Partiture B.a II." in purple pencil to lower left corner of title.
An attractive and well-preserved manuscript written and notated in an accomplished calligraphic hand.
The composer is a rather obscure figure. Northwestern University holds manuscripts of two of his works:
- La corona di rose cantata a tre voci. Unpublished cantata for bass and two sopranos with orchestra (2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, harp and strings). 'Composita espressamente, e dedicata alla Sigra. Contessa Pappafava, nata Ottoboni.' 286 pp., 22 x 29 cm., "dal Duca Capece Scondito, dilettante Napoletano." In brown ink with watercolor border of flowers and musical instruments to title. Tentatively dated 1830-1839. The first page of music, in the same hand as the present manuscript, is accessible online. The description of the artwork to the title further supports the notion that both manuscripts were created at the same time and by the same team.
- "Soffra in pace il dio dell' armi: terzetto [nell' opera] Briseide / musica del diletante Duca Capece Scondito. [27] pp., 23 x 29 cm. In brown ink. Vocal trio opera excerpt for the characters Briseide, Agamemnon and Achille, with orchestral accompaniment. Tentatively dated 1810. Item #27199
Price: $575.00 other currencies


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The Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly interested in trading point guard Steve Nash to the Indiana Pacers for two dynamic players. Is it possible that Los Angeles would double-cross Nash like this?
Lakers general manager Mike Kupchak has insisted over and over again that he has no intentions of making any bold moves before the Feb. 21 NBA trade deadline, especially deals involving Nash or center Dwight Howard. However, ESPN reported that there is some truth to the rumors circulating about a Los Angeles-Indiana blockbuster trade that could result in both teams gaining a significant edge in their respective conference.
The deal would involve sending Nash to the Pacers in exchange for point guard George Hill and small forward Danny Granger. Obviously, Granger has not played at all this season due to a knee injury, but several reports suggest he will be making his debut soon.
This trade would benefit Indiana in a big way by giving the team a solid point guard who could flourish in the Pacers system. Center Roy Hibbert and small forward Paul George would become even more of a threat on the court with Nash dishing them the ball. This has to be intriguing for the 39-year-old as he will finally be able to get spread his wings again and play up to his abilities instead of shedding skin for Kobe Bryant.
Nash's numbers this season (11.8 points, 7.4 assists) are the lowest he has put up per game in a long time. It would be one thing if the Lakers were dominating their foes like they were supposed to, but it is another when they are 10th in the Western Conference standings.
Hibbert, George and the rest of the Pacers would learn more than they could handle from Nash and the franchise would benefit from it long after the 16-year veteran hangs it up. Indiana is also a contender in the Eastern Conference as they currently sit in the third seed with a 32-21 record. Time is running out for Nash to win an NBA championship and as weird as it is to say, he has a better shot with the Pacers then the Lakers from the look of it.
Los Angeles would also hugely benefit from acquiring a very talented young point guard who has plenty of tread left on the tires. The 26-year-old Hill is posting career numbers this season as he is averaging 14.7 points and 4.9 assists per game while shooting 44.1 percent from the floor. Those numbers will most likely go down playing with Bryant, but at least the Lakers will have a sure thing at point guard for the foreseeable future.
Even though Granger has not played all season and it is unknown how much of an effect his knee injury will have on his game, Los Angeles is still getting a legitimate scorer (18.2 career points per game). This trade could single-handedly get the Lakers back on track and give them the extra tools they need to make a run at a postseason berth.
One thing worth pointing out is that the Pacers will want something more than just Nash coming their way for good reason. One rumor is that Metta World Peace could be the guy to seal the deal for Los Angeles, but I cannot imagine a world in which Indiana accepts the small forward's return with arms wide open. Therefore, the Lakers would have to figure out another player to complete the deal or send draft picks.
Is this a trade that Lakers and Pacers fans would like to see happen?


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Over the course of eight half-hour episodes, Anderson visits the most unique food fairs in the nation, sampling local specialties and meeting the characters devoted to the regional cuisine. Along the way, he visits the Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and highlights delicious classics such as shrimp tacos, shrimp boil and shrimp jambalaya, as well as innovative shrimp ice cream.
In one episode, Anderson attends the Magnolia Blossom Festival & World Championship Steak Cook-Off in Magnolia, Arkansas, where more than 4,000 different kinds of mouthwatering rib-eye steaks compete to be the best of the best and for a $10,000 prize. He also visits the Long Grove Strawberry Festival, where more than 20,000 attendees flock to Long Grove, Illinois, for three "berry" special days of enjoying all things strawberry, including strawberry ricotta ravioli and strawberry balsamic chicken.
In another episode, he stops by Ribfest Chicago for a world-class rib-eating showdown that draws top competitive eaters from around the globe. Throughout the season, Anderson also gets a taste of the South Carolina Poultry Festival in Batesberg; the Jambalaya Festival in Gonzalez, Louisiana; the Blue Ridge BBQ Festival in Tyron, North Carolina; as well as the Rockwood Ice Cream Festival in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Is an 8GB RAM 1600MHz good to load games fast and how to overclock processor without losing lifespan?
I would like to know if there is a big difference between the 1600MHz RAM and the 2400MHz. Am gonna buy, so I want to know first to not take any stupid step. :P
And how to overclock the processor and/or VGA without losing their lifespan or getting them hot?
My PC RIG here: http://goo.gl/GnLYz
And I have 5 fans in the motherboard and 3 built in the VGA and 7 in the case.
8GB of ram at 1600MHz is quite enough for gaming, in fact, you don't really need a super ram for gaming, what makes the difference in that sector is the graphics card. Check the benchmarks and buy a good price/quality one, that's the thing you should focus on!
About the overclocking, I'm no expert, but I know it increases the chances of a PC failure. I advise you to just try doing your things without overclocking, if then think you need more power, do it at your own risk.
Dispite everything, my final advise goes to: if you have a good CPU and GPU don't overclock, buy the RAM if you want to but don't mind the 2400MHz one. A thing you should look into is an SSD, that can really fast things up, I garantee you (the hard drive is the bottleneck in a PC's speed, so the faster it is the better)
RAM speed gets into play into loading of programs.You can get to know whether your motherboard supports 2400 MHz RAM by performing a scan at crucial.com site.
Looking into the amount of fans you have,the only thing you have to make sure that the processor has copper cooling having direct contact to processor like cooler(cooler master,antec etc. brands) and not the stock one,since you mentioned water cooling is costly in your country.
Also,since,you have so many fans,it can create so much noise after a certain time period as they collect dust over a time,so invest in a sound suppressor and clean the fans for optimal cooling.
Memory speed generally does not make a massive difference to the total PC's performance, and as Hovsep rightly observes, for games the most important component is the graphic card. Your PC is pretty fast as it is, so don't worry about the memory speed unduly. However, you might want to get an SSD, or perhaps and SSD cache drive which will speed up read access from the hard disc. It may not make a huge difference to gameplaying (depending on the game, I suppose), but everything will load much quicker to begin with.
The RAM answers itself as both the i7-3770K and the G1.Sniper only supports DDR3 up to 1600MHz. Technically you can buy higher spec RAM and run them at lower frequency but usually they will be more expensive.
Given your question I assume you don't have much prior experience with overclocking. Therefor I suggest not to do it to begin with. Basically you are voiding the warranty of your brand new system while doing something that can potentially 'kill' your GPU, CPU, motherboard and whatnot.
If some software shipped with your motherboard or GPU has an overclocking feature feel free to use it as they usually stay within safe range. Beyond that I would wait until 2-3 years later when most warranties are expired and you may need the additional performance.
Last but not least if you do want to overclock your CPU you should get a decent cooler to keep it on low temperatures. Since none is mention I assume you will be using the stock Intel cooler.
Memory speed would matter more for AMD APU's than it would for Intel I series processors. Get the highest affordable speed, but don't expect such a high performance gains from anything above 1866MHz. 1600MHz should be sufficient with decent savings over the highest speed RAM, but I would go one step higher if possible. GPU and processor speed means a lot more, especially with gaming concerns. Another thing to consider would be using an SSD for your OS and games, but the cost would probably be higher than you would like.
By the way, you are already installing an overclocked GPU into your system, so I really don't think you really have to go any further. The i7 processor is plenty fast, and any overclocking of the processor would show minimal performance gains for most games, if at all. I really would suggest trying the system out before making any changes. Tweak the system settings and have minimal background services running to ensure the system is running efficiently, then think about overclocking ONLY if you really think it would help. Generally, 10-15% increase in processor clock speed would be okay, especially with as many fans as you have in the computer case. The processor overclocking settings should be in the BIOS, but mostly depends on the motherboard being used. This should give you more information about overclocking your CPU: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/279408-29-bridge-overclocking-guide-3770k
The speed of RAM is not particularly relevant to PC game performance. So you should probably just buy the slower RAM, since it will provide almost identical performance for less.
well games benefit more from the graphic card memory, if you have dual or more screen then best to get a graphic card with plenty of ram also the ram speed can do good also.
you have a good RIG i am not sure if you will benefit a lot from overclocking...perhaps you will benefit from running games on ssd?
i think Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 on the board has a button dedicated for automatic overclocking?
also go for water cooling if you want to overclock.
I have only one screen 20" and resolution 1600x900 i think :P
I will check this link :D
about water cooling its kinda expensive in my country and my rig too so i cant buy water cooling now :/


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I can't seem to get the mature version of Quentin to trigger for a second character. I've said all the same things I said before. I have a higher charisma. I am not sure what else would affect getting the mature version of his story to pop up. Anyone else having issues? I made a third character and she seemed to get the mature version.
Update: I redownloaded and created a new char and got the more mature version... but I can't exactly do that for every single one of these so is there something I can do next time I can't get the mature version to trigger?
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* World shares firm on views Fed will delay paring stimulus
* European shares close at 5-year highs; Wall St slips a tad
* Dollar index steady near 8-month low; dollar gains on yen
By Herbert Lash
NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The dollar gained and global
equity markets traded at five-year highs on Monday, buoyed by a
benign outlook for stocks as investors awaited a backlog of U.S.
economic data that may yield clues on when the Federal Reserve
will begin to cut its stimulus program.
Wall Street retreated a tad after earlier gains on the
realization that last week's deal over the U.S. fiscal impasse
did not resolve the issue and will likely keep the Fed's
bond-buying in place well into 2014, which would be good for
U.S. stocks trended lower on a less-than-stellar outlook for
corporate earnings. Of the 104 companies in the S&P; 500 that
have sor far reported third-quarter results, 61.5 percent have
beaten estimates, slightly lower that a 20-year average.
"It's too early to tell if results are strong, and so far
they're not enough to get excited or nervous about," said David
Carter, chief investment officer at Lenox Wealth Advisors in New
Carter added that early results have suggested that "revenue
growth looks mediocre, but valuations remain attractive, so we
remain optimistic about equities." he said.
The United States is enjoying moderate growth with tame
inflation, a Goldilocks economic climate that is neither too hot
nor too cold but has been distorted by the Fed's intervention.
"I wouldn't bet against the market in the short term.
Investors as a group seem to have decided that the Fed is on
board for the foreseeable future," said Brad McMillan, chief
investment officer at Commonwealth Financial in Waltham,
Massachusetts. "It's Goldilocks's evil twin."
MSCI's world equity index, which tracks
shares in 45 countries, fell 0.03 percent, but the FTSEurofirst
300 index of leading European shares rose 0.27 percent
to close at 1,281.09.
Solid corporate earnings from the likes of Philips,
whose shares jumped 6.5 percent after the Dutch maker of
healthcare equipment and energy-efficient lighting reported a
near tripling of its third-quarter net profit, lifted European
The S&P; 500 hit a record high early in the session, boosted
by gains in Apple after a bullish research note, but
lackluster results from McDonald's Corp. weighed on the
Dow and S&P;, which reversed gains to trade slightly lower. The
Nasdaq later retreated as well.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 27.91
points, or 0.18 percent, at 15,371.74. The Standard & Poor's 500
Index was down 3.12 points, or 0.18 percent, at 1,741.38.
The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 2.02 points, or 0.05
percent, at 3,912.26.
The day's U.S. economic data supported views of modest
growth and combined with the prospect of renewed political
gridlock at the beginning of 2014, the Fed's stimulus program
may stay intact for months, if not more.
"This is a weird case, I acknowledge, but as long as things
don't get too good, it's actually better. We want to grow a
little bit but not fast enough to pull the stimulus back,"
McMillan said.
U.S. home resales fell in September and prices rose at their
slowest pace in five months, the latest signs higher mortgage
rates were taking some edge off the housing market recovery.
The National Association of Realtors said on Monday that
home sales fell 1.9 percent in September to an annual rate of
5.29 million units. August's sales pace was revised down to 5.39
million units from the previously reported 5.48 million units.
U.S. Treasuries prices dipped ahead of Tuesday's release of
employment data for September, after the partial U.S. government
shutdown for more than two weeks delayed economic releases and
increased concerns that the closures will weigh on growth.
"The (data) expectations are probably that it has a better
chance of being stronger because it was pre-government
shutdown," said Charles Comiskey, head of Treasuries trading at
Bank of Nova Scotia in New York.
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell
5/32 in price to yield 2.6068 percent.
Bund futures dipped 14 ticks to settle at 139.91,
having risen more than a point since the U.S. debt deal late on
Wednesday. Cash 10-year German yields were 1 basis
point higher at 1.85 percent.
The dollar climbed against the yen and the Swiss franc as a
few investors positioned for an expected strong U.S. jobs data
reading on Tuesday, which will provide new fodder for the debate
over when the Fed will begin to scale back monetary stimulus.
Economists polled by Reuters expect jobs growth of around
180,000 and an unemployment rate steady at 7.3 percent.
"For now, all eyes will turn to U.S. nonfarm payrolls data
tomorrow, with markets anticipating a print near the 180K
level," said Boris Schlossberg, managing director of FX strategy
at BK Asset Management in New York. "If the numbers are close to
expectations, the greenback could see a relief rebound as the
week proceeds."
The dollar rose 0.48 percent against the yen to 98.17 yen
, inching toward a near three-week high of 99.00 yen set
last Thursday. Against the Swiss franc, the dollar was up 0.03
percent at 0.9020 franc.
The dollar index was up 0.06 percent at 79.700.
U.S. crude slipped below $100 per barrel on pressure from
strong supply, but losses were limited by hopes the Fed will
delay curbing its money-printing program until next year.
Stocks of U.S. crude oil gained 4.0 million barrels, almost
double the forecast for a build of 2.2 million barrels,
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Brent crude futures for December delivery slipped 30
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U.S. crude oil futures for November delivery settled
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So we can disable the laugh track.
Or maybe select how dumbed down we want an episode of Horizon. Though we's probably end up with just the opening and closing credits on that one.
Future broadcasting could resemble IKEA flat pack furniture - with the bits and pieces of each transmission assembled at home, perhaps in ways not intended by the designer - if boffins at the BBC get their way. The traditional approach is to mix the media before it's transmitted in a linear stream. But brainboxes at BBC R&D …
Or maybe select how dumbed down we want an episode of Horizon. Though we's probably end up with just the opening and closing credits on that one.
Or, apparently, we'll all form some kind of "conformation bias" and all cut out the same thing...
I know the Beeb are famous for their birtspeak, but did he actually mean "conformation bias"?
Yup, or add and remove and component part. Say you want to remove the ticker from BBC News. Mr Orlowski seems to have avoided writing about any benefits and focussed solely on attacking the BBC as usual.
I read the whole article and thought something wasn't right, when I saw the author I realised it was an Orlowski classic. ;)
The blog text says "conformation bias", but the words are linked to Wikipedia on "Confirmation bias", so it's a typo - o and i being together on the keyboard.
It's an interesting idea - but maybe easiest to deliver on a PC or similar powerful media player. I don't know if a Smart TV could do it. Hmm. Maybe with Android appearing in that market...
I'd like to disable the pointless pre-introductions and post-title-introductions in documentaries and just get on with the programme.
"...you want to remove the ticker from BBC News..."
Comic Lewis Black on (I think) CNN. He, as guest, forced them to remove the ticker. I assume it's on YouTube somewhere.
Considering how many elements you can mix and match
sound - regular, hd, other language (Welsh, Gaelic, Urdu etc)
video - reduced resolution for mobile, regular, hd, 3D
text - subtitles, enhanced subtitles, programme notes, transcript, other language subtitles
additional video - signed for the deaf
All of these things are already catered for in various ways and do not need "O-O broadcasting" to make them possible.
We're talking about separating out unique elements of the picture here, not just putting video, sound and additional data channels in different combinations.
Looks like the obvious is missing (even though it's coming under the BBC banner) - adverts. Adverts customised and inserted into the "product" targeted at who the system thinks is viewing, and at what location. (Anyone want to take bets that that is the part of the system that is not user-configurable?)
Not necessarily for the video part. In that regard, I think it's being done a bit inefficiently, though correct me if I'm mistaken. I'll admit I'm drifting from the topic at hand, but what I'm discussing seems more realistic AT THIS STAGE. Are TV video transmissions of a single quality or of a progressive quality such that the first bit of a frame produces a low resolution frame and then other parts refine it into a higher resolution over several stages like a progressive JPEG does? I would think for a more mobile world a progressive-quality stream would be more versatile without having to retransmit the same image multiple times, unless the overhead involved with progressive quality outstrips the costs of just transmitting the image multiple times.
Overly-subtle attempt at humour or fall in to self-parody?
>All the better to get the commie propaganda out there to the TV-watching sheeple.
The alternative model gives us Fox News, News International and James Murdoch.
Adult readers here may care to watch Armando Ianucci's riposte to Murdoch Jr's claim that "only the guarantee of quality is profit" here in his BAFTA lecture:
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- your post contains the portmanteau word 'sheeple' therefore your point is invalid
So true. How can anyone be taken seriously that uses such hackneyed phrases, thinking they make themselves look 'cool' and 'edgy', whatever that might be.
Title says it all really. Already digital cannot get the pips right with satellite being worse than terrestrial...
But shurely using audio broadcast entertainment channels for time-setting is a technology that's had its day, wot with ntp being pretty much universal ?? And if you're off-net, there's always MSF.
I still ring the speaking clock twice a year - dial 123
But as empowered users surely we should be able to choose for ourselves when we want to hear the pips. Nobody wants to be told their watch is wrong after all. There would be panic on the streets.
No, far better that you inform your television/radio/media centre what time you think it is, and it adjusts the pips accordingly.
We must be forward looking in these matters.
BBC World Service on SiriusXM satellite radio in North America, the Top-of-the-Hour beep is about 15 to 18 seconds late even now. It's a bit pointless (the delayed beep).
Watching NASA launches via several feed options reveals latency variations of up to 20 seconds! That's just the delta latency from one feed to the other.
At least they've made some good progress on Lip Sync. It used to be a very common problem, but seems to be rare these days.
The axis of time folks, the axis of time. Don't forget the axis of time.
>> I still ring the speaking clock twice a year - dial 123
By a strange and satisfying coincidence 123 is also the UDP port used by the network time protocol (NTP)
Wow! Think of all the data you imagine might be useful to someone, so you could transmit it all.... every mic and camera feed from a concert or game.... do your own mixing at home!
What more reason to we need? Gotta have the NBN now! at the full wack!
We were supposed to have this with DVDs and the multi-angle feature. All the early players supported it, none of the DVDs contained any multi-angle stuff. 15 years later I own precisely one (1) DVD that has multi-camera shots. (A documentary on Apollo 8, with launch sequences) but I have to open a menu and select change camera angle on my DVD player, since the manufacturers decided (correctly IMHO) that multi-angle didn't need to be on the remote because nothing supported it.
Does anyone else know of any other mult-angle DVDs?
Not strictly camera angles, but an anime DVD I had used them cleverly so depending on your language selection (provided you did it through the menu) the credits would be different to match the JP or EN voice talent you'd just been listening to.
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Memory says that The Matrix DVD has multi-angle stuff on the behind the scenes bit about the shooting of bullet-time or the like. Also Men In Black had a deconstruction of the tunnel scene (where they drive on the roof of the tunnel), and you could switch between the layers that were composed into the final sequence.
My memory could be failing me though, and they weren't great uses of the technology at that.
One advantage to this proposed system: viewers can mute background music in a programme so as to make dialogue clearer. Complaints to the BBC about background music in programmes are very common, and not just from the hearing impaired.
I wouldn't want to mute, but being able to adjust the volume of dialogue, music and sound effects would be very useful indeed.
...being able to mute laughter tracks is a must though.
"But don't underestimate the appeal of O-O transmission to two groups of people. One is BBC middle management, who will form "a metadata working group" at the drop of hat, and spend years having meetings which typically achieve nothing - but consume a lot of license fee money.
The other group is TV manufacturers, who are facing a grim future as undifferentiated, commoditised floggers of flat panels. O-O might allow them to sell more expensive sets.
And with 3D flopping, they need some magic marketing woo from somewhere
I suggest that, for once, the brains at the BBC would think about the content they broadcast rather than the technical methods that accomplish the that aspect of delivery.
Technically, HD video and sound is all well and good but it does NOTHING to the diet of food-orientated, the shambling housing-orientated and the hard-hammered auction-orientated rubbish, much of which is badly upscaled SD, repeated Ad Nauseam.
This time, please, consider new and exciting, challenging and educational content before, once more, going down some technological cul-de-sac.
A smarter, more intelligent viewer/ information consumer/provider is a real and present danger to brainwashing programs and projects.
"Technically, HD video and sound is all well and good but it does NOTHING to the diet of food-orientated, the shambling housing-orientated and the hard-hammered auction-orientated rubbish, much of which is badly upscaled SD, repeated Ad Nauseam."
You're channelling Patrick Moore. And I agree with you. It was a pity that Patrick choose to blame it on feminism, and thus cause his valid points to lost amongst the inevitable noise.
I think it's a crying shame how adherents of identity politics will happily dismiss valid points purely because they prefer playing the man over playing the ball.
so in other words, your mobile device downloads 1 gigabit of data just so it can get at the 150 megabits of data it actually needs and discards the rest
good show BBC, way to support the phone companies in their ongoing battle to cap and charge the masses.
Alternatively, it transmits the meta data first, then only the media objects you select from the menu/filter system, potentially saving bandwidth transmitting unnecessary language options, scaled down resolutions etc.
If the selection changes mid-transmission, just start streaming the new objects and stop streaming the old ones.
This is exactly how digital TV already works. A multicast mpeg transport stream is broadcast containing separate elementary streams for each video, audio, subtitle and interactive track. There is also some metadata (PAT and PMT tables) which associate which streams go together. It's not unusual for a programme to be broadcast with multiple audio streams (english, welsh + english audiodescriptive for instance) and being able to select different video streams is also regularly used for wimbledon and similar.
There probably is scope for better metadata and user interfaces to identify what each of the streams are/package combinations together, but mostly we just seem to be in a timewarp back to when people sprinkled 'object oriented' because it is new and exciting.
@ The Mole
Exactly. Thanks for saving me the typing.
Being that it's really just an extension of the present system, I suppose it'll make implementation pretty straightforward.
I think it's a mostly-harmless good concept.
.. would be to be able to turn off gratuitous background music, all pre-recorded trails and interference on the tv screen like "coming next", "press red", silly little logos and continuity announcers crashing credits.
Will I be able to stabilise the wobbly camera and crash zooms?
@This Side Up - My thoughs exactly. I already get rid of most of the crap by only watching iPlayer, not live or recorded off-air programmes.
Turn off the bloody lens flare too.
".. would be to be able to turn off gratuitous background music, all pre-recorded trails and interference on the tv screen like "coming next", "press red", silly little logos and continuity announcers crashing credits."
This comes up on Points of View basically every week and the response is always the same,
"yeah, we know you don't want that shit but damn it you are going to know what is coming next, you have to know what the damn channel is without pressing your info button and you will use those damn red button services - or not, but fuck if we're going to listen to the mere people who watch TV on this".
And the eye-wateringly distracting dark "vignette" around 75% of Top Gear's articles.
Vaguely interesting idea, but we've seen from the world of web development the difficulties involved in getting of content to work across multiple browser - especially where high quality presentation is expected.
> allow "a viewer to have the programme content tailored to their taste or mood"
Surely the way to do this would be a combination of features inside the telly?
It would start with image and voice recognition and end up with real-time video editing / substitution. That would allow users (or viewers, in old-fashioned parlance) to choose what attributes the individuals on their TV programmes had. So if they didn't like the voice of a particular "star" they could access a menu and change the pitch, gender or accent (maybe even language, too) of the speech that issues forth from their gob. It wouldn't be a huge step to do the same with the video, so actors clothes could be changed (or removed, or covered up - the "fig-leaf" filter) and themes added. Likewise with their faces and physical attributes.
From the broadcasters' side, this would make complaints a thing of the past. If you didn't like a programme - they it's your own fault for not tailoring it to something more palatable. Offended by the language - why didn't you use a *beep* filter?
For the users, the possibilities are endless. Not only could you substitute Her Maj. in to do the weather forecast, but you could buy add-ons and customisations and maybe even third party mashups and reworkings.
However, the best feature would be that there would never be the need to make an original programme ever again. Gone would be repeats in the orthodox sense. Yes, it would still be Dad's Army (special centenary anniversary edition) but Captain Mainwaring could be replaced with Arnie, Corporal Jones with Catherine Tate's Lauren and so on ...
Of course, you'd never be able to trust a news broadcast - or any other factual programme, ever again. But the downfall of democracy is a small price to pay for a limitless supply of crappy TV.
An upvote isn't enough. Have a beer.
"But don't underestimate the appeal of O-O transmission to two groups of people. One is BBC middle management, who will form "a metadata working group" at the drop of hat, and spend years having meetings which typically achieve nothing - but consume a lot of license fee money."
A lot of good tech has come from BBC - look at iPlayer for example - yes I know it has/had it's faults but for me it always seems to work and dishes up whatever programme I want to see.
Object-oriented programming failed 20 years ago? Goddamit I must be imagining all those objects I've coded for the last 20 years!
Clearly you are a figment of your own imagination
Please don't shoot the messenger, but OOP never really persuaded everyone, LOL
http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/oopbad.htm (how did one geocities site survive?)
Can't please all the people all the time, etc :)


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"There'd better be sago at the end of this…"
A friend asked me the other day if I had an SEO strategy in place for this site. I replied that I barely have a site, let alone a strategy. But that led me to investigate Google Analytics to see how people are finding idbuythatforadollar.co.uk.
The results were alarming: while most people search for the name of the blog (hooray!) there were a few notable exceptions. Unfortunately, these searchers often bounced off when they realised they weren't going to find what they were looking for. Looking at their keywords, they probably never will but, anyway, not feeling particularly inspired at the moment, I've decided to investigate further.
Example 1: Little Big Vern
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It seems people are still picking up the pieces from what could well be Gazza's most disastrous fishing trip of last year. Several months later, there are still many unanswered questions, some of which are only coming to light now.
While people are busy looking for answers to: 'Did Moat have help?' and 'How was he able to evade capture for so long?' it's inevitable that some questions will fall through the cracks, lost in time, like Tears for Fears. So it's clearly up to armchair detectives to uncover the biggest mystery: how big was the little version of the real-life Big Vern?
What did they find?
When searching 'Raoul Moat penis size' on this very site it brings up the following: 'Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.' Which is either a comment on the negative side effects of steroid abuse, or the kind of sobering statement of truth you'd expect from an emotionless robotic bastard. Either way, our have-a-go Hercule was probably disappointed to find my Sports Champions review. If you're out there, please don't give up. Or do. Whatever.
Example 2: The search for sago
Keywords: where can I buy sago pudding in morecambe
What were they after?
Lacking the keen detective sense that should be entrenched after years of James Ellroy novels, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that our searcher probably lives in Morecambe, or visits when searching for sago pudding – a quest that has so far proved fruitless.
What did they find?
I find it quite hard to describe some of the content of my site; it's quite rambling, strange, and humorous. If someone were to ask me what it's like I wouldn't have a clue. However, if someone were to say they were looking for sago pudding in Morecambe, and ask if my site could help, I would have to say probably not. Though they'd hopefully find some comfort in my CODBLOPS review, while they rubbed their sago-deficient tummies.
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What did they find?
My CODBLOPS review referred to the Call of Duty brand looking like 'a cow covered in tits' through its publishers' special 'money goggles', so it's not like we're in the wrong ballpark here. In fact, for some reason I feel a special kinship with this visitor, despite the fact he probably hates my guts for reneging on the promise of boob-strapped bovines.
Dead Rising 2
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Dead Rising 2: Not afraid of asking the important questions.
As the old saying goes: 'Zombies improve anything'. Look at the films they've enlivened with their shambling grotesqueness. Night of the Living Dead would be like a more annoying Noah Baumbach film if it weren't for zombies turning up to eat Barbra's brother – though I'd put money on it still being better than Margot at the Wedding.
Video games are no exception to the rule, as virtual shoplifting simulator Dead Rising 2 demonstrates. Without zombies you'd be walking around a deserted shopping centre in Las Vegas looking for things to take, which isn't too far removed from that Michael Jackson documentary a few years back. I guess they thought having MJ in a game called Dead Rising might have been poor taste. Then again, they recently announced a Jackson MMO so who knows if taste comes into it. Maybe they realised having Martin Bashir asking you for a running commentary of your actions every few seconds would be un fun, or that you'd get bored of hearing the "I'm dancing on your stupid face, Martin" sample.
I didn't own an X-Box when the original came out so as far as I was aware Dead Rising was the working title for Pele's erectile dysfunction ads. I jest, the original game nearly made me buy a 360 because it looked like someone had reached into my brain and created the world's finest game. And if it weren't for rumours of early X-Boxes sounding like Brian Blessed bringing a mammoth off in a wind tunnel, and getting hot enough to melt the fillings in your neighbours' teeth, I'd have made the leap a long time ago.
Dead Rising 2 offers proper zombies from days of yore, before they learnt skills like running and Krav Maga. It also offers equally old school game mechanics. It's a game that hates you and is more than willing to wee all over the chips you tirelessly made from aspirational potatoes. Think you've reached a point where you can handle its many challenges? It brings out a broadly painted, psychotic Italian chef to remind you that you're a complete pussy.
But keep chugging away at Dead Rising 2 and eventually you'll reach a point where none of its broad racial and sexual stereotypes give you that much bother. And then the wee doth start to flow in the other direction. Of course it helps that 'chugging away' involves twatting zombies about the head with different sized objects and causing comic pratfalls with a variety of different substances. It presents a number of creative options that are perfectly pitched for anyone who has long-harboured dreams of running around a shopping mall, dressed in lady's underwear, beating zombies about the face with a dildo. (You know who you are).
Dead Rising 2 is no Little Big Planet but it presents you with a number of amusing outlets to fulfil your most puerile creative desires. That is, once it's finished beating you about the brow. At first you will find it surly and obnoxious but after a while you'll begin to understand its bizarre logic and see a uniquely amusing character emerge. It's a bit like John Prescott, really. John Prescott with zombies.
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Historic Glasgow South Rotunda to host arts events
An unused historic structure which was part of Glasgow's original Clyde tunnel is to see new life as an arts venue.
The South Rotunda, linked to its north bank twin at Finnieston, formed the Harbour Tunnel, which opened in 1895.
After the tunnel closed in 1980, the North Rotunda saw use as a casino and a restaurant. Its south twin has remained unused apart from a brief spell during the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival.
Next year, it will host a "pop-up" arts festival along with the NTS.
The Tin Forest puppet show, which will take place in July 2014, is being staged by performers from the Scottish Youth Theatre under a wider programme run by the National Theatre for Scotland.
It has been billed as the finalé of an eight-month project across Glasgow and the Commonwealth, and part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.
All performances at the South Rotunda will run during the Commonwealth Games.
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I live go to a rural parish in the deep south, the only Catholic church in my town. Yesterday, I found out that the priest is installing a multimedia system in the church. The church is a 70's style structure, with little art except for the stations of the cross and two big banners (yech) on each side of the tabernacle. The TV screens will be hidden behind the banners in the church. At the meeting where this was announced, I raised several objections about the sacrifice of the Mass being no place to bring in secularizing influences like TV screens, to no avail. The pastor insisted that the Mass would stay reverent (parishioners already talk at the top of their voices before and after Mass) and there need be no concern. The rumor is that he wants them installed because the bishop insists on broadcasting an "annual appeal message" every year and our pastor is tired of rolling in TV monitors. I think that is a lame excuse.Such a thing is not forbidden.
Are permanent video monitors appropriate for the inside of the church? Is such a thing forbidden?


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Dementia is a group of symptoms caused by a wide number of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia , Parkinson's disease and many others. The brain functions of the people with dementia are significantly affected and become impaired over time. Ranging from memory loss to become absolutely unable to recognize self and the external world are the characteristics of dementia.
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Benefits of shower chairs for elderly
For persons with disabilities, taking a shower is no small task. The biggest reason why people decide to get a shower chair in the first place is to ensure safety in the shower. Some shower seats come equipped with a shelf underneath the seat, allowing you to keep all of your shower essentials and other products easily accessible and also out of the way. Shower chair has basic design in common. Bathing is supposed to be relaxing, but it can sometimes feel downright terrifying.
- Getting a shower chair is definitely a wise decision to make, especially if you or a family member is starting to experience mobility or balance problems.
- In addition to adding a shower seat to your bathroom, there are even more ways to make your bathroom more like a spa.
- A shower chair usually consists of several elements or parts.
- The possibility of falling and getting bumps and bruises or ending up in the hospital can cause this to be a dreaded task.
- A shower chair may seem like a very simple device, but the benefits it offers can make a huge difference in your life as well as that of your family.
- A foot seat can also make your shower experience much more luxurious, providing you with a seat to pamper your feet.
These elements or parts include the seat as the main part, the legs, the arm rest, and back rest. Instead of risking your health, here are several reasons why owning your own shower chair is a good idea. These benefits will surely be well worth any amount you spend in buying a quality shower chair. Basically, all shower seats have a surface to sit on and legs or a base to support you.
Your nerves and muscles are on edge, and you are always on the alert for the slightest slip. You know very well that ordinary chairs are purposely made to stand still on living room or dining room floors. In this hub you'll learn why you should consider this important bathroom accessory. Additionally, the seat is designed with wholes or cutouts to result quick drainage. It is enough to get back out in one piece.
But, they cannot just fulfil the needs of bathing. You'll also learn about the different types of shower seats and some things to consider before buying one. In terms of particular design and customization, shower chair comes in various form, type, size, and additional features. With a shower chair, you can actually relax and enjoy getting clean and being under the warm spray. They can be very slippery when placed under the shower.
But for people with disabilities, such as paraplegia and quadriplegia, the wet conditions, protruding fixtures and smaller space make bathrooms even more hazardous. Chairs intended for the shower are non-slip thus eliminating the risk of falling during the process. There are several challenges people in wheelchairs face when making their bathrooms safe for daily usage, but there are also several clinical factors that clients need to consider.
Buying a Shower Chairs in UK
As we said a good shower chair will definitely make life of elderly people easier, but choosing the right chair is not an easy task. There are many different types of shower chairs available on the market and you need to choose the best shower chairs in UK, that not only provide safety but also comfort. In this guide We will look into features that you need to consider while buying.
There are a number of factors one should consider when choosing a shower chair. Ideally, slippery surfaces such as a wet bathroom floor normally pose a slipping hazard even for the fitted and most-sure footed persons. This sliding transfer bench and bath chair for elderly adults allows safe and easy movement out of the shower or tub. This innovative transfer aid, the Deluxe Swivel Bathtub Chair, works very differently. Ask yourself if you need back support, and how much. Continue Reading


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