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Turn up the decibels with passion-fuelled music festivals in a land where music is part of life
Traditional Irish music festivals
Traditional Irish music is celebrated with passion and energy all year long. As it's 2013, the year of The Gathering, Ireland's musical output has gone into overdrive with thousands of music festivals all over the island, from way down in the southwest's Kingdom of Kerry all the way up to Northern Ireland in the UK City of Culture 2013 Derry~Londonderry.
Within Derry~Londonderry's 17th century walls, the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil has trad musicians honing their skills to perform on the big occasion. The Fleadh brings a festival atmosphere to the city, and come night time the pubs fill up with revellers and the sounds of traditional Irish music. Prepare yourself for on street ceilís (traditional Irish dancing) and a great time.
Unofficial trad capital of Ireland
This would be the beautiful County Clare on the western coast of the island. Clare can claim one of Ireland's grandest attractions: The Cliffs of Moher and The Burren. But apart from these raw beauties, it's trad music that weaves a thread through County Clare. One of the best to look out for is the Feakle International Music Festival: raved about by CN Traveler in its best festivals of the world series, Feakle celebrates the rich tradition of music over five days.
Dublin bigs it up in trad circles
When it comes to trad festivals Dublin is massive! The Temple Bar Trad Fest takes place over six days with over 200 events in the heart of Dublin City, Temple Bar. Every pub, club and street corner becomes a stage for trad musicians from all over Ireland and beyond. Set right in the middle of the city, you can enjoy a music festival and a new city at the same time.
Ready to rock?
Ireland has earned a reputation in Europe as one of the leading summer destinations for rock festivals. And Electric Picnic is one of the best. Big bands, big DJs and a big heart is the mantra for the wonderfully boutique Festival in County Laois, which has been termed 'everything a festival should be' by music critics.
Let's not forget Slane Castle. Each year the Castle and grounds in County Meath are transformed into a festival site. Past bands to have rocked Slane include The Rolling Stones, Queens of the Stone Age and U2.
There are hundreds of smaller independent festivals all over the island, too, many of which offer camping facilities. Check out sites for Knockanstockan in County Wicklow or Indie-pendence in County Cork. So pack your tent, dust off your aviator sunglasses and get ready to rock in Ireland!
Keeping it classical
There's a real buzz to the country's top classical and choral events including Summer Music on the Shannon in County Galway, which is packed with young performers and renowned professionals; the Ardee Baroque in County Louth, Ireland's only festival of orchestral Baroque Music; and the Carrick Water Music Festival in rural County Leitrim.
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A night at the opera
Chamber music aficionados will delight at the quality of the music at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, which takes place in the rugged and beautiful West Cork. The New Ross Piano Festival further up the coastline in Wexford aims to celebrate the versatility, virtuosity and variety of piano playing styles; while it would be sheer craziness to miss out on the Sligo International Choral Festival, an exciting competition featuring choirs from all over the world.
We love a bit of Opera in Ireland, too. A magical atmosphere descends on Wexford during the celebrated Wexford Festival Opera. Now regarded as one of the premier opera events across Europe, the festival attracts a glittering selection of performers with its impressive venues and brilliant atmosphere.
Jazz festivals in Ireland
Jazz hands at the ready, because if you love jazz music, you've come to the right place. Every October Cork City becomes the jazz centre of the universe for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. The brightest stars come out to shine for this festival. Past performers include, De La Soul, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Hancock. Over 90 venues across Cork City host gigs, and the entire city is flooded with jazz fans and travelling musicians.
Ireland's biggest jazz extravaganza, though, belongs to the city of Derry~Londonderry. The Walled City hosts jazz musicians from all over the world for the four days of jazz madness that is The City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival. Jazz, blues, swing, jive…you name, they'll be playing it…
So no matter what genre of music event you prefer, be it a cosy pub corner in Feakle or in an ocean of music fans at Electric Picnic, Ireland has the music festival to get you rockin'.
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5:30pm / Screening // "HIDE" / curated and introduced by keynote speaker Hanna Rose Shell.
Saturday, April 4th
9:15–11:00am / Panel 1 // Imagination & Representation
Brady Fletcher (University of Rochester), "Reel Animals: The Ethnographic Impulse in Contemporary Environmental Nonfiction Film"
Jim Supanick (Pratt Institute/The New School) "Experimental Science Fiction and the Reimagination of Disaster: Steven Matheson's Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel"
Graig Uhlin (New York University), "Sunshine, Herzog, and the Ecological Sublime"
Emily Carpenter and Katherine Chandler (University of California, Berkeley), "'There's Lots of World Out There': Screen, Landscape, and Special Affect in WALL-E"
11:15am–12:45pm / Panel 2 // Performance & Participation
Cristie Ellis (Johns Hopkins University), "Absorption in the Urban Montages of Whitman and Vertov"
Emily Capper (University of Chicago), "Tele-Creatures: Nam June Paik's Television Work Circa 1963"
Ken Yoshida (University of California, Irvine), "The Debates of Environment in Postwar Japan"
2:00–3:30pm / Panel 3 // System, Energy, Ecology
Michael Hirsch (European Graduate School), "It's Not Easy Bein' Green: Five Theses on Virilio's Grey Ecology"
Scott Richmond (University of Chicago), "What Does the Cinema Afford? Or, an Ecological Approach to Cinematic Kinesthesis"
James Nisbet (Stanford University), "PhotoEnergie and the Fernsehgalerie"
3:45–5:15pm / Panel 4 // Science, Shape, Becoming
Hank Scotch (University of Chicago), "Liquid Perception and the American Avant-Garde"
Rebekah Rutkoff (CUNY), "Plant Morphology and Experimental Film"
Inga Pollmann (University of Chicago), "The Axolotl and the Cinema:Bazin, Merleau-Ponty, and Evolution"
5:30pm / Keynote Address //
"Predator-Prey: Cinema, Nature, Ecology"
Hanna Rose Shell, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT.
7:30pm / Screening // Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance

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For me, that means application software that is part of the company infrastructure.
I specifically mentioned 'application software' to separate it from the network and/or systems software that is crucial but doesn't really fall under the umbrella of 'enterprise' software. Perl, in and of itself is not 'enterprise' software, although there may be Perl applications that fall into that category.
I've skimmed over the other answers, and at least one refers to the 'expensive salesmen and consultants' part of Enterprise Software. Something like SAP or PeopleSoft comes to mind there. The whole 'enterprise' thing makes me squirm -- it makes me think of expensively suited and well-coiffed professionals sitting at glass conference tables pulling glossy brochures out of spanking new leather briefcases. Of course it's going to be expensive, they answer bluntly .. but how much is your business worth? As they gently pooh-pooh your home grown system built with open source tools.
It seems 'enterprise' means you're not smart enough to be able to build your own system, so you have to hire outside help to do that. Why reinvent the wheel, right? Well, reinventing the wheel can be cheaper in the long run if it's going to be 1/3 the cost of a consultant. And, at the end of the project, all the knowledge on how the system works will reside within the company, rather than inside someone's well-coiffed head. And anyway, that head is at some other client now and doesn't have time for you.
No, I am not a fan of 'enterprise' software as built by expensive consultants.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
sun and shine
My great friend Annie and I took our chitlins down to Florida for a last minute girl get-away. We're quite fortunate to have such superbly awesome neighbors and friends. Our five-year-olds have grown up together and are 'best' friends, but can egg one-another on like antagonistic little sisters. Nothing a beach can't cure!
Some highlights from our sunny trip: the ringling circus museum model , the mote aquarium and the ski-a-rees.
I always dread returning home from holiday or any sort of get-away , but this time was different. my partner surprised me with freshly painted rooms, home repair and mopped floors which makes coming back to real-life quite A-OK!
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- nan said...
wow, a really lovely set of photos! and you've arranged them beautifully.
- February 25, 2012 at 8:11 AM
- kindra said...
hey thanks Nan---
the Florida light and natural forms are great to work with!
- February 26, 2012 at 6:46 AM
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Superbly awesome
in every way!
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- pat said...
awesome... missed the belly the first time around.. ooooh, love the jellyfish and sea horses!
- February 28, 2012 at 7:52 PM
- brooklyn_codger said...
Once I came back from a trip to find that Greg had cleaned all the carpets! Best. This looks super fun.
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Wow. Is that like a little circus? It's lovely! So is your childs face!<33
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- February 4, 2013 at 5:06 AM
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Looks like fun! Love the sweet photos in here, surely beach is one of the best mediator. :) Got my eye on your next posts.
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Event Dates: 15-28 March 2012
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Dear colleagues,
We are organising a special themed session on language evolution at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, which is held in Durham, UK, 25th-28th March 2012 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/jeremy.kendal/EHBEA2012/Welcome.html). EHBEA is an excellent venue for interdisciplinary work on the cultural and biological evolution of human behaviour, including language. Given that EHBEA is running shortly after EVOLANG next year, we are happy for research that is targeted at EVOLANG to also be submitted here, although note that the audience for each is likely to be different.
If you would like to submit an abstract for consideration as part of this themed session, please follow the submission instructions on the EHBEA website, marking your abstract as for consideration in the language evolution special session, organised by Simon Kirby and Kenny Smith. Abstracts will be independently reviewed by the usual EHBEA reviewers, so bear that in mind when preparing your submission. The themed session will only run if sufficient abstracts are accepted – of course, papers on language evolution could be presented independently as standard EHBEA talks.
The deadline for submissions is November 25th.
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Cubs extend the winning streak to 7, cut the Brewers lead to 6.5, and you have to think did a little psycho-damage to Cordero and the Brewer team.
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This is maybe not news: Four Eastern European field athletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens have been stripped of their medals after testing positive for PEDs. IOC rules allow samples to be frozen for eight years, then re-tested, since the technology now allows for identification of substances that were undetectable at the time. The four athletes' pee was unfrozen, tested, and found to contain anabolic steroids.
Russia's Svetlana Krivelyova (bronze, shot put), Belarus's Ivan Tsikhan (silver, hammer throw) and Iryna Yatchenko (bronze, discus), and Ukraine's Yuriy Bilonog (gold, shot put) have all been stripped of their medals.
Bilonog's best put was exactly the same distance as American Adam Nelson, but got the win on a tiebreaker. Bilonog's retroactive disqualification means that everyone else moves up on the podium, giving Nelson his first ever Olympic gold medal.
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The highly traditional "Munich Christmas Market" invites you to the Marienplatz with its historic town hall. It's just a few steps to Germany's biggest "Kripperlmarkt", where you can find everything that belongs at a Christmas crip. When the live music rings out daily from the town hall's balcony you find yourself completely immersed in Advent. In the Himmelswerkstadt children don shimmering robes and golden wings to become little angels who bake, draw and make models. You might bump into Bishop Nicholas with his companion "Krampus" in the Budengassen, giving life to a five hundred year old Alpine tradition.
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Is Montana Home to One of the Deadliest Roads in America?
The answer to this question should be no surprise. Of course Montana is home to one of the top 10 deadliest roads in America. Montana is still wild and untamed compared to most of the United States.
According to World Health Organization, the United States is much more dangerous than most European countries. The death rate in the United States is 11 people per 100,000, which is triple that of death rates in the United Kingdom.
Arizona, South Carolina, Colorado, Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Ohio and Nevada share the title of having the deadliest roads in America with Montana. The stretches of road run from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, Fort Wayne to Toledo, and Fairbanks to the North Slope.
Not only is Montana home to one of the top 10 deadliest roads, Montana is home to the stretch of road with the highest fatality rate. Highway 2 is Montana's deadliest road.It runs from the North Dakota border to the Idaho border and is mostly flat with a few scattered hills and quite a few curves. A large contributing factor to this being the deadliest road is that parts of this highway are long rural stretches of road, which can take ambulances up to 80 minutes to respond. People also drive faster on Highway 2 because there is little traffic.
I am also willing to bet that intoxicated driving and wildlife may be a few more contributing factors to Highway 2's fatality rates.
I'm not surprised that Montana made the top of this list. Being a driver in this state, I know these roads and how treacherous they can be. The danger can come from the weather, other drivers, animals or just the road itself. Not every state has to deal with tornadoes, blizzards, drunk drivers and grizzly bears.
Montana has many great things to offer. We have numerous parks and tons of outdoor activities that require traveling on our roads. It is important to remember to always drive safely, whether it be on infamous Highway 2, or any of Montana's other roads.
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of the University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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Businesses do not Exist
I am not certain if it is a matter of being lazy or if it is nature's way of not burdening us with too much detail but regardless of the reason people do not 'think' correctly about governments, religions, races or businesses. Our thinking falls down when referring to any group or entity as if is one thing.
We often hear about how inefficient "the government" is in the US. "The government can not run anything" or "the military and intelligence should not be used in the same sentence". What we are failing to realize is the government is not one thing – it is many. The military (while being protrayed as having some questionable purchasing practices) is composed of many brilliant people. The military is many.
And when we speak about business we should remember that it is not just one thing. I spent seven years in the role of CIO. One of the challenges facing CIOs centers on the idea of aligning IT with 'the business'. And here is when I learned that 'the business' does not exist. The business is a collection of disparate groups, all sharing a common banner, but operating relatively independently of each other. Each have their own metrics, own goals, objectives, and key performance indicators. Each being led by a person wishing to have a World Class organization.
Essentially each department is a business within a business. I witnessed it first hand when I sat in on the assessment of the alignment of an IT department with the rest of the business. The findings were not in favor of the IT department. The consulting company determined that more than 80% of the IT projects did not support the key drivers for the business. The consulting company therefore determined the IT department was not aligned with the business. Just how wrong the consulting company was became apparent when it was discovered that every one of those projects originated outside of IT. Those projects came from 'the business'.
What you have is the situation where 'the business is not aligned with the business'. Actually there is no such thing as 'the business'. 'The business' was never designed as an entity but instead it evolved one decision at a time and just happens to look the way it looks.
This is the primary achilles heel for every business – business executives do not understand that the business they are leading actually has a design and that design is as tangible as the design of their products or processes. Nor do they understand that the design of a business has the greatest impact on the performance of 'the business'.
Wouldn't you like to see what your business design looks like? Wouldn't you like to be able to analyze the performance capabilities of your design and make any necessary changes to improve its performance?
If you took the time to have your business designed – then your business would actually exist. Without the design your business is really just a bunch of departments acting mostly independently. Good luck with that.


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I echo the 'Wow, that JCTucker from the internet is a swell guy' sentiment, but I don't have an active XBL subscription so I'm a good deal more likely to pick this up on Playstation the first time I see a price dip.
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Posted 07 November 2016 - 06:03 PM
I echo the 'Wow, that JCTucker from the internet is a swell guy' sentiment, but I don't have an active XBL subscription so I'm a good deal more likely to pick this up on Playstation the first time I see a price dip.
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Posted 06 December 2016 - 12:18 PM
So, Angel City. It's the first of TF2's free expansions. Normally, when an old map gets ported into a new game, there's a huge concern about how any new systems or mechanics will impact it. Lockout Syndrome, if you will.
So, one of the biggest changes for Titanfall 2 is the fact that builds on Titans are fixed, for the most part. No more sniping Ogres or machine gun Stryders. If you want cluster missiles, you have to use Northstar (Stryder). If you want the 40MM, you are locked into Tone. And so forth. When you get past this (took me about 2 sessions), you can see the benefits. When you see a mech, you know what you're up against before a shot is fired. You have to actually work as a team. A Tone can use their Sonar Pulse to show where enemies are holed up, and a Northstar can then cluster missile them, or Scorch can use their thermite bomb
Angel City, with its superb verticality that offers zero cover with practically every building having an internal area, was always the iconic Titanfall map. And, frankly, it is the best map for TF2 to this point.
Posted 06 December 2016 - 04:12 PM
Posted 06 December 2016 - 06:05 PM
That's the thing, though, right? Why are so many of the maps that shipped with this sequel so... gross? To be clear, the single player for this was a ton of fun, and I dip a toe into PvP most nights, but who made these maps? Whether you care about aesthetics or the flow of gameplay, the maps that shipped with the game come up waaaaaaaay short. I'm going to be douchey and say je ne sais quoi, but Bungie has it and Respawn doesn't yet.
Posted 07 December 2016 - 09:55 AM
Black Water Canal is the only map I actually like in this game (haven't been able to play Angel City yet). The vanilla game's maps either have way too much open space, little/no verticality, or both (and it's usually both). If the gunplay wasn't so close to perfect this game's multiplayer would suck. I was surprised at how bland the maps were after Titanfall 1 had a pretty great selection when it shipped.
Posted 07 December 2016 - 01:05 PM
Black Water Canal is the only map I actually like in this game (haven't been able to play Angel City yet). The vanilla game's maps either have way too much open space, little/no verticality, or both (and it's usually both). If the gunplay wasn't so close to perfect this game's multiplayer would suck. I was surprised at how bland the maps were after Titanfall 1 had a pretty great selection when it shipped.
That map has such variety, which makes it great. It's like the inverse of Angel City. The middle is where the height is. If you are on the outskirts, you are low. And, again, lots of complex buildings.
100% agree on the point about the maps. It's like they were designed by people who couldn't get out of a 2D CoD space. It's like they started with a CoD map, then threw up some panels and junk to wall run on. Which, go back to the single player now... Those levels were amazingly designed - the time thingy one, the ARC gun one, the one where you had to get the HBO Signal back... It's like the multiplayer people from the first game were designing the SP maps, and the MP map design was handed off to contract workers from Hammerhead.
I do agree with 'Cuse about the maps, though.
I can't tell Forward Base Kodai apart from Drydock apart from Homestead apart from Eden apart from Boomtown. I can't remember "Is this the one with the middle hallway with the glass or the one with the big tower or the one with the big open bay in the middle that has a dome."
Here's the differences, just me thinking about them:
Crash Site - the worst. Just bad
Eden - the one where no points can be grabbed by Titans (this is a recurring theme).
FB Kodai - I think it has the ship in the middle
Boomtown - the one from the Beta that looks like Aleppo. People hide in the droppod by the score.
Homestead - the tower thingy that has some fun wallrunning just before you die because everyone goes to the tower and dies. Also, a bunch of wide open fields that just doesn't seem like a good fit for a game all about traversal.
Complex - the one that looks like it's open, but you're really in a biodome thing so your Titan is constantly dropping a half mile away.
Drydock - The one with the glass hallway that holds B point. Also no points capturable by Titans.
Exoplanet - The one with the train rail?
Blackwater Canal - the good one.
Posted 08 December 2016 - 02:50 PM
The maps are poop. But the game is still great.
Maps I like:
Maps I nothing:
Maps I hate:
Ironically, writing all these out makes it look like I have a favorable opinion of the maps overall. I do, in part, but the game needs more diversity. The critique that some of these maps focus far too much on flat terrain is valid, even in the maps I listed that I liked.
Posted 09 December 2016 - 06:57 AM
First off, what makes Angel City so damn special:
And, please excuse the Old Man Aim:
I'll go a tad more in depth:
Boomtown - This is the map that looks most like the old maps, but it's just a poor attempt at capturing the aesthetic of the original. The buildings, while having interiors, are mostly just one level, requiring a double jump to get on. Think back to Angel City. Hell, just look at AC in this game. Getting to the top of most buildings requires momentum and combination jumps. If you screw something up and have to mantle onto something, you're likely dead. There is one high point / tower to get on, but no one does because it's just so obvious.
Eden - This is the one with the train rail. Getting on top of the rail requires a bare bones combination jump. Getting on top of the rail quickly is a great way to First Strike. There is a needlessly complex choke point opposite the rail side. When I'm on that side of the map, I hate it. Options are go inside the little room (Bank location), or try to wall run quickly by. There is no "up and over" and to get through the middle, you have to circle back to the building entrance.
Exoplanet - this is the one with the B point that can be captured from the bottom (the room even looks like kinda like Midship!). Some buildings require momentum and combination jumps to ascend, but not enough. Having no points easily attackable by Titans leads us to losing far too many matches we shouldn't be.
FB Kodai - this is the one with the B point in the elevated glass hallway. And, again, no points capturable by Titans, but both A and C can be easily attacked. There are a couple of interesting areas for firefights, but Titanfall is about "the plays" not point and shoot.
Drydock - The one I constantly confuse with Kodai. The twin elevated hallways around the Pelican in the middle make for some nice distance pinging. But, again, that's not what TF is about. I do appreciate the multi-lane setup this map has going for it. It makes each Titan useful in different scenarios.
Complex - This maps sucks because of the biodome panels. There are no ways to build momentum, the hallways are too far spread to make high level wallrunning an option, despite the vertical layout screaming "run along us way up high!"
That's all I feel like typing right now
Posted 13 December 2016 - 02:26 PM
So is this worth buying just for the single player? It's 50% off on PSN but I can't see myself playing the multiplayer atm.
Posted 13 December 2016 - 05:44 PM
Posted 15 December 2016 - 05:40 PM
Yeah, picked it up. Probably make a good Christmas present for myself.
Posted 20 December 2016 - 01:32 PM
Vanwadnoobian, the game is on its way. I think.
Posted 20 December 2016 - 02:16 PM
You the best, tucker. Should be on this weekend.
Posted 31 December 2016 - 04:35 PM
So I've seen reviews saying that this is the best campaign of this generation, instant classic type of thing. Is that all hype or is it really that good?
Posted 02 January 2017 - 08:04 AM
If the "generation" is just every Call of Duty since 4/other twitch shooters and the Battlefield games, then yeah probably. Playing through the levels is extremely fun since Titanfall's shooting and movement mechanics are almost flawless and the maps take full advantage of them, and it explores some cool gameplay concepts in each level that never overstay their welcome. The story itself is a typical "A Boy and His Robot Buddy" thing without many surprises, and the main character is just another Joe Shooter. It's still my favorite FPS campaign in years, right up there with DOOM, but going into the game expecting to be floored will probably leave you disappointed.
What made people so hot for the campaign was how surprisingly good it was, not because everyone was expecting something amazing. The original didn't even have one and every other game in this genre of FPS has such abysmally low expectations for their single player that the fact Respawn put a ton of care into theirs helped boost its positive press. Go into it neutral expecting it to be fun and I think you'll get a lot out of it. Expecting Halo 1 and Martin Scorsese from the start, not so much.
Posted 03 January 2017 - 08:25 AM
The good:
Every level in the game introduces something unique. The first level is your basic "you can walk on walls" tutorial.
The next level introduces puzzles in that you're out of your Titan, opening various panels for it to move through the area.
There's a level that has a prefab plant that has some of the most unique perspectives I've ever encountered.
There's the "Press LB to do something awesome that I won't spoil for you" level.
The ARC Cannon "grappling hook" level.
There's one level in the third act that has you running in an enemy ship. Then you have to wallrun on a friendly ship. To reach the next area of the enemy ship you're currently on. I don't care that I'm thinking "The atmospheric stream passing over these hulls should swipe me straight to the ground..." because next thing you know, you're powersliding into an enemy army, shotgun blazing.
The level before that is an all out Titan on Titan assault. Like, 20 Titans on the field.
The Bad:
The protoganist is really no different than any other generic FPS White Dude. All of the emotion really comes from the robot, and that's a waste.
The Ugly:
If you played the first game, that whole storyline was essentially scrapped. There is a passing reference to Demeter (the whole point of the first game was "We destroy this base, we cut off the IMC because reasons."). Admiral Graves is nowhere to be seen (same for Bish and Spyglass). They kept Blisk (I'll fight you for free, Graves), but he's just a merc working for the IMC. I think they would've scrapped Sarah, too, if she wasn't omnipresent in the first game's marketing.
The only reference at all to the previous game's version of the IMC is the "remnant fleet" during Bounty Hunt multiplayer.
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Monday Musette
Gosh. The Iraqis had a rare daylight curfew over the weekend in order to prevent sectarian violence and possibly head off civil war. Or so we're told. If this story is accurate, 1300 Iraqis died in the last week. My guess is that the civil war is well underway and has been for some time.
You almost feel sorry for Scott McClelland and the other wingnut
spin-meisters when they have to put the best face on it. Almost.
Hey guys, it already IS a civil war. It has been for some time. Denying it
will not make it go away.
From the Washington Post:
Toll in Iraq's Deadly Surge: 1,300
BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 -- Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest of the war outside of major U.S. offensives, according to Baghdad's main morgue.
Finally! The Winter Olympics are OVER!
NBC lost their butt on this one as it was the least-watched winter Olympics since 1988. Still, you have to wonder how they could screw it up so badly...
(Just back from commercial)
"And we're here for the start of the men's final in the 30 kilometer ski
whatchamacallit. The favorites are some guys from Sweden and Norway that no one ever heard of...oh, wait! There's the starting gun! They're off - charging through the snow for thirty kilometers! We'll be right back with live coverage after this."
(Fifteen commercials later)
"We're at the mid-point of the men's 30 kilometer whatchacallit, and Wxxx Wxxx, the lone American in the field is nowhere in sight. Here with more of his poignant story is Marv."
"I'm here in Wxx's home town where he grew up as a boy, overcoming an acute nearly life-threatening bout of acne in his teenage years. We'll be back with more of his poignant story after this."
(Seventeen commercials later)
"We seem to have missed the finish, but you'll be able to catch it later on tape. Here with the heart breaking story of the tape-delay technicians bout with nearly terminal foot fungus, is our intrepid reporter Marv."
I can't imagine why no one watched.


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Hi all,
This pod cast popped up on one of my professional newsgroups.
"Beyond Economic Growth
April 14, 2007 Total time: 57:03
Speaker: Joshua Farley, Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont and Fellow with the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.
Here, Farley challenges the view that continuous economic growth on a planet with finite resources is possible or even desirable, particularly in the wealthy countries. He asks the question, "Is it the magic of the market or the magic of fossil fuels (which we're rapidly depleting) that has driven economic growth and consumption?" He discusses why the market economy has failed to account for declining ecosystem services, the life support services of the planet, suggesting that economic growth actually has the opportunity costs of eliminating or severely degrading the ecosystem services that belong to the commons. He goes on to suggest that the scale of the economy and just distribution have to take precedence over the neoclassical economic focus of allocation of scarce resources and offers some solutions to replace the conventional economic paradigm with a sustainable economy based on ecological economics."
I thought I would offer this to see what you think about it.
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Dead link. It sounds like the usual marxist tripe hidden under a swath of green.
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The free market requires that all costs of a transaction are born by buyer and seller. Thus, pollution is a violation of the free market, and as such IMHO fair game for taxation, penalties, etc. IN LIEU OF taxation of good things like income, profit, savings, inheritance, etc.
As for the problem of the public commons, the simple fact is that Marxist and State driven economies tend to have absolutely terrible records when it comes to protecting the environment e.g. Russia, China. The simple fact is the the relatively free market economies tend to produce the standard of living which enables concern for the environment.
We have seen numerous examples of what happens when a forest is not owned--everyone cuts down trees before someone else does-- net result, no forest) and when a forest is owned--owners self-interest is to harvest at sustaining levels. Did you know that the forest seen in the beginning of "The Last of the Mohicans" was filmed in a lumber company's forest? This applies to animals too. Where the Masai can make $ off lion and elephant related tourism, they stop trying to eliminate them.
In short the argument of the piece you post is, IMHO, "the usual marxist tripe hidden under a swatch of green."
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Interesting responses! So now the link is live.
The basic idea is that economic health is defined as growth (increasing economy) in fundamental economic theory. But physical/ecological constraints to growth are often neglected or if they are included it is only with reference to the effects on costs. The idea that there is an actual upper limit to the amount of matter that is available is in fact defined by the first law of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics is that the universe tends to disorder. This means that things do not spontaneously organize over time. (Stuff breaks down. You have to use more energy to build stuff naturally and man made than will be contained in the thing you make...building always results in waste heat). How does this relate to economics?
It means that economic laws have to be a subset of physical and natural laws. It means that we live in a closed system and that energy flows through the closed system of matter from the sun back out into space as heat and in the process we do things with it. It means that there is a limit to how much of anything is available and defines that we must pay attention to what happens when we are finished with tings that we make.
So I think a question to ponder is: do you have to have growth for an economy to be successful? Can an economy in steady state feel good to live in. Can people be happy and feel accomplished in a state where as the Tao says:
"He who feels that he has enough will always have enough"
Does this concept mean we relegate ourselves to marxist tripe? I don't think that necessarily follows. Perhaps it means things like:
consciously choosing a certain level of consumption is reasonable or is a function of what is available. And that we tax energy use/waste production as you say.
Recognizing that managing waste (what do I do with my computer when I am done with it?) is engineered into the manufacturing process even as the anabolic (development) side of the engineering process is perfected.
Idea 2.
Island systems in biology are limited to a certain amount of space ecologically. They are microcosms for the whole planet. An island ecology is not based on matter that is outside of the island for the most part though there is some flows into and out of any island (they are not perfectly closed).
In island systems "abundance" is scale dependent. If I am an ant living on the island, the available space that I have seems infinite. If I were one of a population of caribou on the same island, then resources seem more scarce. If ants are so successful that they fill up the whole island with population and growth, a whole bunch of things start to change. Competition becomes a factor in survival as opposed to pioneering capacity. These kind of things are useful models. Some ecological systems can remain extremely stable for a long time. Some oscillate. Some undergo catastrophic failure. Sometimes its hard to tell what is going to happen in such a model system. Sometimes its not that hard at all.
Our economic systems are a subset of these processes not the other way around as near as I can tell. I dont think your comment indicated that you felt otherwise.
Idea 3.
There is a theory of change that has been recently proposed that recognizes a multi scalar cyclical process that occurs in systems. It's called Panarchy
It was developed by a fellow named Hollings who worked at the Sante Fe Institute...a group that focuses on complexity theory.
This concept of change suggests that systems have 4 states of change:
1. pioneering new ideas (building them up)
2. stabilization and competition
3. revolt and system collapse
4. innovation and evolution
These stages feed one into the other rather like a 4 part yin/yang. By recognizing what phase of the system you are in you may be able to develop policies best suited to the circumstances. This concept is being studied in ecology as well as in economics and in other systems as well.
What doe this mean to our countries, our families and our lives?
It may mean that we are riding a bunch of waves and we'd best prepare ourselves for inevitable changes.
It may also mean that we have an opportunity to learn and to perhaps develop some ways of either utilizing these cycles of change or of slowing down of speeding up...or stabilizing processes.
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Advantages of strategic ambiguityMorsing, Mette; Langer, Roy (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper we analyze the construction of corporate social responsibility in the business press as an act of strategic ambiguity. While corporate social responsibility (CSR) generally evokes positive associations in public opinion, this paper demonstrates that these associations are based on a broadly encompassing and ambiguous definition of CSR. Our empirical data shows how the business press in its discourse on CSR provides no clarity on the definition of CSR in terms of a coherent motive, a dominant stakeholder or a consistent issue, but rather maintains ambiguity and imprecision about the meaning and content of CSR. While ambiguity and imprecision may be seen as an act of uncertainty in a passing stage when a new phenomenon emerges and develops, our longitudinal data demonstrates how ambiguity is preserved during a ten year period in four different daily newspapers. Ambiguity is systematically maintained in the business press. We refer to this process as strategic ambiguity. The paper discusses the potential value and limitations of framing CSR in a state of strategic ambiguity in the context of the concurrent rethinking of the role of business in modern welfare societies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7125
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What in Sam Hill would you like to see?
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Friend Jeff...welcome back! I hope you had an enjoyable and successful trip.ReplyDelete
I find it fitting that the previous 'entree'' was the amazing drawing of the 'Bunco Brain'. [love it]
Since you asked...I would like to know more specifics about the thinking and the 'lenghts' that JRS II and his men went to...to acheieve their goals.
The whole psychological aspect of all the well thought out deception is compelling and extremely interesting.
I can't help thinking of the movie.."The Sting".
One example that I read about, that blew me away was: During the stampede through "White Pass", several members of the gang actually left Skaguay, and went on a 'fake stampede' with cotton stuffed backpacks and sleds carrying lightweight fake cargo with axe handles etc. sticking out.
They presented themselves as regular...and 'very benevolent and helpful regular folks seeking the same ultimate goal of gold....when in fact their only interest was fleeceing those along the beginning of the trail with their bunco games and other schemes.
Talk about 'survival of the fittest'! lol
Friend Jeff: One further suggestion: Is it possible to have a click on feature for 'New Post's'?ReplyDelete
I am a member of other forums and this is a Great feature...when comments are entered on older posts.
Without this feature most folks would never know something has been added to a particular thread.
Thank-you for your consideration.
Friend, Rich.ReplyDelete
In the first sidebar to the right you will see the new "recent comments" app. This should do the trick.
Now, in regards to "comment #1," you wish to know more specifics about the thinking and the 'lengths' that J.R.S. II and his men went to...to achieve their goals (of obtaining a victims money).
There are numerous hints and explanations spread throughout my book, but perhaps my favorite appears on pages 492-494. As it is wordy I decided to make a post about it that you can see HERE.
Thanks Jeff! How in the world I missed the 'recent comments' column is beyond me. Doh!ReplyDelete
That is very helpful!
Thanks also for the refernce from your book....re: 'bunco brain thinking' etc.
I read the entire book, but still find myself going back often to to reread certain portions.
You didn't miss the "recent comments" column. I just added it per your good suggestion.ReplyDelete
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WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - U.S. defense budget cuts will affect the Army's plan to develop a new ground combat vehicle and most other acquisition programs, with some facing delays or cancellation, Army Secretary John McHugh said on Monday.
"I find it difficult to envision any significant number of our developmental initiatives that won't be affected," McHugh told reporters at the annual Association of the U.S. Army conference. "And some we'll have to cancel."
McHugh singled out developing a new ground combat vehicle and improving the Army's communications and computer network as priorities, but, he said, even those programs would have to be revamped if mandatory across-the-board budget cuts remained in place.
General Dynamics Corp, which built the M1A1 Abrams tank, BAE Systems Plc, maker of the Bradley fighting vehicle, and Boeing Co, which builds several different helicopters for the Army, and others were looking for clues to the impact of spending cuts.
Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno told reporters the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, which is to replace the workhorse Humvees used by the military, and replacements for the UH-60, CH-47 and Apache helicopters were also priorities.
"The bottom line is we can't afford all of that. And so we're going to have to make some tough decisions," he said, adding that analysis was underway to help make those decisions.
He said the current budget environment meant the Army might have to delay some weapons programs by four to five years.
Neither McHugh nor Odierno provided details on exactly which programs might be cancelled, revamped or delayed.
Army acquisition chief Heidi Shyu later told reporters the Ground Combat Vehicle program and the Armed Aerial Scout program, which was aimed at replacing aging OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopters, were at risk unless Congress reversed across-the-board budget cuts mandated by sequestration.
"Either we are going to delay it or we're going to have to terminate it or we're going to have to continue on and finish a certain phase," Shyu said of the two programs.
She said understood industry's need for more certainty, but said the Army's acquisition plans were "lurching because our budget is lurching. We have no control over that."
Acquisition programs were hardest hit because it took longer to generate savings from troop reductions, and operations and maintenance accounts were still stretched by the war in Afghanistan, Shyu said.
Decisions about future end strength and military readiness also played into acquisition decisions, Shyu said, noting that military commanders were having to weigh what capabilities they could give up, and what was "good enough."
Shyu said the Army would continue to invest in research on lighter weight armor and other promising technologies, as well as incremental upgrades to existing weapons.
She said BAE System's Paladin Integrated Management program, which enhances the reliability of the M109A6 howitzer, just won approval from the high-level Defense Acquisition Board to start low-rate initial production.
The Army planned to proceed with some procurement plans, including an integrated air missile defense and a $6 billion program for a Armored Multipurpose Vehicle to replace M113 vehicles.
Shyu said she was working to safeguard the Army's multiyear procurement agreements, including one signed in June for new CH-47 helicopters built by Boeing, but they might have to be broken or renegotiated if sequestration cuts continued through fiscal year 2017.


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Brazil's international profile remained on the rise, but its government consistently failed to show leadership on press freedom issues. Anti-press violence surged with four work-related fatalities; the country's ranking also worsened on CPJ's Impunity Index, which highlights countries where journalists are killed regularly and the authorities fail to solve the crimes. Along with India and Pakistan—two other countries that rank poorly on the Impunity Index—Brazil raised objections to a comprehensive UNESCO proposal to help nations combat impunity and protect journalists. In the face of heavy criticism, U.N. Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti later expressed broad support for press freedom and elements of the UNESCO plan. But the government's commitment to free expression came into question in another important international matter. Brazil supported an Ecuadoran-led effort to weaken the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the human rights monitoring body of the Organization of American States, and its special rapporteur for freedom of expression. In December, investigative reporter and CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee Mauri König fled Brazil after receiving death threats related to his coverage of police corruption. President Dilma Rousseff's government did usher in two measures promoting the public's right to know. Rousseff signed into law an access-to-information measure and created a commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
Four journalists were killed in Brazil in direct retaliation for their reporting. A fifth journalist was killed under unclear circumstances, and CPJ continues to investigate.
The 24 work-related murders of journalists over the past two decades make Brazil the third deadliest country in the Americas, behind only Colombia and Mexico, and 11th in the world, CPJ research shows.
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A São Paulo court ordered a former army colonel, Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, to pay damages to the family of journalist Luiz Eduardo da Rocha Merlino, who was tortured and killed while jailed in 1971, during the country's military dictatorship. It is the first time an individual has been ordered to pay compensation for dictatorship-era crimes.
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The Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has given birth prematurely to a baby boy while in custody.
Attorneys for Shannon Guess Richardson and husband Nathan said she gave birth July 4 to a boy named Brody. Shannon Richardson's attorney, Tonda Curry, said the baby faces serious medical issues due to the premature birth and remains hospitalized.
John Delk, Nathan Richardson's attorney, said the boy weighed less than 2 pounds at birth and was four months premature.
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After reading @jkerian's comment in this post, I started thinking about this. Here's the comment in full:
On a side note, all days ending in '4' are also irregular, and use ~よっか. So the 14th is じゅうよっか, the 24th is にじゅうよっか, even though all the other days >10 switch over to ~にち
Obviously the most calendar days is 31, but does this rule apply if I want to refer to the 34th day? Or 84? Or any number of day that ends in 4? Or twenty (
はつか - 20日)? Or do these rules only apply to so-called "calendar" speak?
I realize there are probably better ways of saying such things, but here are some examples:
- 事故から44日目 → The 44th day since the accident. (よんじゅうよっかめ or よんじゅうよ(ん)にちめ?)
- 裁判長は犯人に120日間の懲役を申し渡した。 → The judge sentenced the criminal to 120 days in prison. (ひゃくはつかかん or ひゃくにじゅうにちかん?)
- 宇宙探査機が2374日間で往復した。 → The spacecraft made its round-trip in 2374 days. (にせんさんびゃくななじゅうよっかかん or にせんさんびゃくななじゅうよ(ん)にちかん?)


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The end of the hot and sunny days of summer is getting near but that is not a reason not to make the best of what's left. There are numerous ways you can enjoy the summer and some of those include going on a vacation to a place that has a sea or if you prefer a mountain resort. But you can't always be somewhere, so you should make sure that you can enjoy the beautiful weather even when you are at home. Do you feel your backyard lacks attitude and style? When was the last time you enjoyed spending some relaxing time out there? Summer is just around the corner and whether you have a big or small family, this is the ideal season to spend time having fun outside. Outdoor activities don't have to be far from home when you have an inviting area designated for it.
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Tons of people headed to lower Manhattan today to cheer on a team from New Jersey. It's nice to see Eli so nattily dressed. That guy's gonna get cool yet!
We've always been annoyed by the phrase "Canyon of Heroes." Strahan looks happy, though. And honestly: That middle guy, man, those kickers come in all shapes and sizes.


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While it's easy to know what project different groups are CURRENTLY working on, it's a little harder to know about future projects, or user-bought projects. This thread is meant to be a record of all possible or upcoming projects for the Tei'kaliath clan's group and Ther'avar, to encourage discussion between members for the creation of projects that could potentially further our clan's interest and bring it further, and lastly, to help us put an order on our list of priority. There are a few rules however.
Potential projects must:
A- Be serious(No Tik'tikki Dust, sorry!)
B- Be potentially feasible(No death ray for the techs, though a battle golem is acceptable as a very long-term project)
C- Fulfil a current or future, important need of the clan, in one way or another
All projects are welcome, be it from a normal member, a ranked member, a faceless, or a group of people. If you have a project to submit, send me a pm with:
1- A project title
2- The name of the person/group who came up with the ideas(Ex: Madea and Thalar, or the Engineers)
3- Who it concerns, aka who will potentially have the responsability of making it come true(Ex: Harvesters, Blacksmith, Joint effort of the Warriors/Miners, blahblahblah)
4- What kind of project it is(Short term, Long term, Unknown)
5- What need does it fulfill(optional)
6- As much details as you can give about your projects
I will try to keep this thread as up to date as possible, however remember that I'm just a normal member with many other things to do, and a short attention span to boot, so don't be surprised if your project is only put here a day or two after you sent them to me =p
Last but not the least, do remember that while every projects are welcome, it's up to the ranked member to decide which to select, when to do it and how to do it. So if they select a project different from the one you originally designed, or if they make some change to your grand project, go cry to them


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This Sunday at 2 p.m. KPAC 88.3 FM airs the penultimate broadcast in their summer series from the San Antonio Symphony's 2011-2012 season. This Sunday at 2 pm the Symphony is led by Sebastian Lang-Lessing in Beethoven symphonies no. 6 & no. 7.
Beethoven's Ninth casts a big shadow over his other works. Certainly in terms of popularity and ticket sales, the Ninth (to be broadcast the following Sunday) is the top seller. But 6 & 7 are remarkable compositions, and they had a huge impact on future composers. The Sixth is the Beethoven symphony most dominated by a program. The tone poems and program music by Liszt and other 19th century composers that followed Beethoven were immensely influence by the "Pastoral." Certainly composers before Beethoven wrote music influenced by stories and themes. But, the Sixth takes it a bit further.
Beethoven's original title for this work was Pastoral Symphony-or Recollections of Country Life. In 1823 Beethoven's friend Anton Schindler wrote, "Passing through the pleasant meadow-valley between Heiligenstadt and Grinzing, which is traversed by a gently murmuring brook that hurries down from a nearby mountain and is bordered with high elms, Beethoven repeatedly stopped and let his glances roam, full of happiness, over the glorious landscape. … 'Here I composed the Scene by the brook,' Beethoven said, 'and the yellowhammers up there, the quails, nightingales, and cuckoos around about, composed with me.' " Beethoven's subtitles of the five movements are:
"Awakening of cheerful feelings upon arriving in the country"
"Scene by the brook"
"Merry gathering of peasants"
"The tempest"
"Pastoral Song – Feelings of joy and gratitude after the Storm"
This idea of program music vs. absolute music is one of the biggest battles of the 19th century. The Wagner/Liszt school vs. the Brahms school is largely about this issue. You will be able to hear from both sides in the upcoming Symphony season, as Sebastian Lang-Lessing offers a Brahms Festival in January and February and then leads the orchestra in orchestral highlights from Wagner's Ring Cycle in March.
The Seventh also introduces dramatic new concepts. The rhythmic insistence of the last movement must have been an influence on the 20th century minimalist school of composition. The slow movement is one of the best things Beethoven wrote. And that is saying a lot!
There were a lot of great performances during the 2011-2012 season. My personal favorite was Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Enjoy it again this Sunday at 2 p.m. on KPAC.
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