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Busy day here at WPCentral and for Windows Phone. While we just reported the official Skype app going "gold" and hitting version 1.0 users can also go get the official SkyDrive app which is now at version 2.0. Coming out last December, the official SkyDrive app was a long over-due addition to Windows Phone and this update coincides nicely with the recent backend changes, including more friendly URLs.
There doesn't seem to be that many new features but there are a few that we've noticed. The UI has been re-worked a bit especially for dialogs and menu options. In addition, the ability to batch-select items for deletion or moving will come as a great tool for many
It also looks like you can manage permissions for folders and files directly now, allowing certain items to be shared and edited with others. Even more cool, you choose contacts from the People Hub to share those files, even granting editing access (it will even alert them that you've shared items). This should be a big feature for those who need to do online collaboration or need others to view something with minimal effort.
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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is a way for an HIV-negative person who is at risk of HIV infection to reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV. It involves taking anti-HIV drugs on a regular basis. PrEP provides only partial protection from HIV infection and is not intended to replace consistent condom use, new needles or other ways of preventing HIV. PrEP has not been approved by Health Canada; however, one type of PrEP (daily oral Truvada pills) has been approved in the United States. This form of PrEP may be available in Canada from doctors who are willing to prescribe it "off-label." Truvada as PrEP is much less effective at reducing the risk of HIV transmission if pills are not taken daily.
What Is PrEP?
PrEP is a new HIV prevention method. It involves an HIV-negative individual taking anti-HIV drugs in an effort to reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV. A person at risk of infection needs to take anti-HIV drugs on a regular basis -- starting before being exposed to HIV and continuing afterwards. A person using PrEP needs to take the drugs exactly as directed. They also need to commit to regular doctor's appointments, so that any side effects can be monitored and they can be tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
There are several types of PrEP being investigated. PrEP drugs may be available in a variety of formats, including pills (oral PrEP), a vaginal/rectal gel (topical PrEP), or injections. The drugs may need to be taken every day, or before and after sex, or intermittently (once or twice a week).
Does PrEP Work?
Only one form of PrEP has been approved for HIV prevention in the United States (although not in Canada). The approved form of PrEP is the use of a daily pill containing the anti-HIV drugs tenofovir and emtricitabine (known by the brand name Truvada). It has been approved for gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) and heterosexual men and women who are at risk of sexual transmission of HIV. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed guidelines for the prescription of daily Truvada as PrEP to MSM, heterosexual men and women, and people who use injection drugs. However, PrEP only provides partial protection from HIV infection and is not intended to replace other forms of HIV prevention. Research shows that adherence is crucial for oral PrEP to work.
Many other forms of PrEP are in different stages of research. There are studies looking at the safety and effectiveness of a particular type of PrEP (such as pills or gels) in a specific population (such as gay and bisexual men, people who use injection drugs, or heterosexual men and women). Some types of PrEP have been found to be effective at reducing the risk of HIV transmission for specific populations. The research findings for each form of PrEP are summarized below.
Pills (Oral PrEP)
In some research studies, HIV-negative people are asked to take an anti-HIV pill every day to see if it will provide some protection against HIV infection. This type of PrEP is similar to the birth control pills women take daily to prevent pregnancy or the medications people travelling to certain tropical countries take daily to prevent malaria. These studies suggest that certain forms of daily oral PrEP can reduce the sexual transmission of HIV for HIV-negative men and women, including gay and bisexual men, and heterosexual men and women.
In one study, HIV-negative gay and bisexual men who were asked to take an anti-HIV pill (Truvada) every day reduced their overall risk of HIV infection by 44%. Men who said they took the pill more consistently reduced their risk by as much as 73%. Additional analysis suggests the level of protection may be even higher among those who took Truvada every day, as determined by drug levels in the blood. In other studies, the same PrEP strategy (daily Truvada) provided similar levels of protection for heterosexual men and women. An anti-HIV pill containing tenofovir alone was also found to be effective for heterosexual men and women and people who use injection drugs.
Surprisingly, two studies found that an anti-HIV pill (Truvada) taken every day did not work for women. However, women in these studies were not taking PrEP consistently.
Vaginal Gels (Topical PrEP)
Other research studies are looking at gels that contain anti-HIV drugs. One study found that HIV-negative women who applied an anti-HIV gel (containing tenofovir) into the vagina before and after sex reduced their risk of infection by 39%. Women who applied the gel more consistently reduced their risk of infection by as much as 54%. Surprisingly, another study found daily use of the same gel did not work for women. However, women in this study were not using the gel consistently.
More studies are needed to determine if a vaginal gel works and to determine whether the gel would work if used rectally.
Long-Lasting Injections and Intravaginal Rings
Small research studies are investigating long-lasting forms of PrEP, such as injections and intravaginal rings, which would only need to be used monthly. It will be several years before large studies are conducted to determine whether these forms of PrEP work.
Is PrEP Intended to Replace Condoms and Other Ways of Preventing HIV?
No. People who use PrEP may be partially protected from HIV infection but not fully protected. Also, PrEP is not expected to protect against other STIs, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia or syphilis, or other infections that are transmitted by sharing injection drug use equipment, such as hepatitis C. This means that it will still be possible for a person using PrEP to become infected with HIV, hepatitis C and other STIs.
People who use PrEP will also need to use other prevention methods, such as condoms, and new needles, to reduce the risk of infection with HIV, hepatitis C or other STIs. If people using PrEP stop using condoms or new needles, their risk for HIV infection may actually increase because PrEP may be less effective than other prevention methods.
Is PrEP a "Morning-After" Pill for People Accidentally Exposed to HIV?
No. With PrEP, a person will need to recognize that they are at risk of infection and begin taking anti-HIV drugs on a regular basis before an exposure occurs.
For people who may have been accidentally exposed to HIV (at work or through unprotected sex, for example), there is another prevention method called post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). With PEP, an HIV-negative person needs to start taking a combination of anti-HIV drugs as soon as possible (within 72 hours) after a potential exposure to HIV and must continue taking the drugs every day for four full weeks.
It is easy to confuse PEP and PrEP because they both involve the use of anti-HIV drugs by HIV-negative people to prevent HIV infection.
What Are the Advantages of PrEP?
PrEP provides an additional prevention method that can be used in combination with other prevention strategies, to help protect a person from HIV infection.
Although PrEP is not intended to replace other methods for HIV prevention, in certain situations it may provide an alternative form of prevention for those who do not use condoms or new needles regularly. For example, PrEP may provide another method of protection for those who are unable to negotiate condom use with their partner(s), people in serodiscordant relationships (where one partner is HIV-negative and the other is HIV-positive) who wish to conceive a child, or people who inject drugs but are not able to obtain new needles.
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It's not often that we encounter a porn star from Wales, but Sophie Dee represents her home country proudly. Born in a town called Llanelli, Sophie worked dozens of jobs such as waiting tables and hairdressing before deciding to embark on a new adventure in adult entertainment at age 21. Her perky tits and icy blue eyes were great assets for just such a career.
Sophie started modeling and working at a strip club, worked on a live TV show called Babecast, and became a topless model in a UK newspaper called The Daily Sport. Her only regret is not starting sooner. She got a breast enhancement in March 2009, bringing her already curvaceous body to a stunning 36F-26-38.
Now making her home in L.A., Sophie's showing she's got what it takes to become the nastiest slut on the block. Sophie's shenanigans include hot lesbian sex (Girls Tribbing Girls: Dani And Sophie from Girl Candy Films), breast-obsessed hardcore (Busty Babes from CW WOW Productions), and interracial adult humor (Official Next Friday Parody from Zero Tolerance).
In 2011, Sophie's star began to rise in mainstream entertainment. She landed roles in horror films (Unmimely Demise and Theater of Derange) and an independent film titled Ricky Longdick and the Golden Error Of Porn. Sophie has also appeared on American TV in the Showtime surveillance series Look and the CW's 90210. Eagle-eyed fans Down Under might also have spotted her on the cover of the Australian edition of People magazine in 2011.


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Fridge essentials
The ice cube is the very cornerstone of civilised entertaining, perhaps even of civilisation itself.
Its very presence in your fridge suggests someone who has foresight (you filled the trays), cares about others and pays their electricity bills.
My mother will just about wipe a person who doesn't have ice cubes on hand and, as with her considerable intelligence, compassion and good looks, she has also passed onto me an almost obsessive habit of refilling the trays after they've been emptied of their frozen cargo.
This has bled into other aspects of my entertaining, so you will never attend a party for which I have some degree of responsibility and be served warm beer; in fact there will be reserve bags of clear cubes stacked in the bath, in the laundry and the deep freeze because you can never, ever have too much ice.
So, if we start with ice cubes as the absolute essential to have in your fridge (or freezer) - the one thing no man or woman should be without in their Westinghouse - what then do we add to the list? ... more
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Group mentality
A dozen rugby league players stand around a naked 19-year-old woman, half of them having sex with her, others masturbating as they watch on.
Seven years later it is revealed one of the instigators of the gang-bang is an Australian television icon; the woman involved says her life has been ruined.
Average Aussies everywhere are stunned and outraged by the description of events and the lack of remorse displayed by the men involved; the personality loses his job.
Columnists vent; talk back radio crackles, then slowly, uneasily, men around the country are forced to examine their attitudes, their actions, their pasts; they wonder ... what does this make me? ... more
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Reveal yourself
Got an email from a 30-year-old Tasmanian geologist a few weeks ago who wanted to know what are the demographics of All Men Are Liars' readers.
We had a little bit of a peek at what many of you do for a living, judging by your responses to the post 'The Two Things', where some revealed the stuff you need to know about certain professions and past-times.
Today, I'd like to take it a bit further. Granted, many of you may not care who reads this blog, but after 34 months writing it, more than 140,000 reader comments and tens of millions of page impressions, I'm just a little curious as to who you all are.
I've given you plenty of (admittedly egocentric) detail about my own life, in particular this 5,000 word post answering reader questions back in 2006 ... so, disembodied voices from the ether, now it's your turn ... more
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Make way for tomorrow
The very best habit I have developed in the last 12 months is taking a swim each morning with a bunch of mature-age gentlemen (and women) at my local beach.
Swimming has been a solo pursuit of mine for years; doing laps of pools or the beach, competing in ocean races; it's kept me sane and though I've always thoroughly enjoyed it, there's not a lot of camaraderie to the sport.
That all changed when I started the 9am ritual of meeting the old boys at my surf club, from where we'd wander to the south end of our beach, swim out through the breakers, bob around for a minute or two, then race en masse through shoals of salmon (and whatever is chasing them) to the other side of the bay.
Having this kind of mature, masculine energy around me has become a simple, profound joy for me nowadays, especially because it gives me the opportunity to ask the gents questions about how they've dealt with certain situations in their lives or that of their children ... more
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The Most Interesting Man in the World
I'm pretty sure these ads haven't aired here, but the Mexican beer Dos Equis has been running a great advertising campaign in the US for a couple of years now called The Most Interesting Man in the World.
Some of the copy reads thus: "When it is raining, it is because he is sad. Even his parrot's advice is insightful. If there were an interesting gland, his would be larger than most men's entire lower intestines. His shirts never wrinkle."
"He is left-handed. And right-handed. Even if he forgets to put postage on his mail, it gets there. He once knew a call was a wrong number, even though the person on the other end wouldn't admit it. You can see his charisma from space. He's a lover, not a fighter, but he's also a fighter, so don't get any ideas."
You get the picture. What I find interesting, is that the actor playing The Most Interesting Man in the World, one Jonathan Goldsmith, is obviously in his 50s or 60s, so it's a pretty brave departure for a brewery to lionise a man of advancing years instead of a sporting hero or metrosexual buck.
I'll embed the videos below the jump so you can check them out, but the concept of 'The Most Interesting Man in the World' ads got me thinking ... just who I would bestow that title on in real life? ... more
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More of everything now
Fast food. Express post. Movies on demand. Overnight success. Twitter. Instant replay. Instant messaging. Instant gratification!
Want to frustrate an Australian? Make them wait for something.
Want to drive them insane? Make them wait without mobile coverage so they can't text or email or tweet.
As a generation we want more of everything now and if we can't have it, we at least want to distract ourselves with ipods or Facebook updates or talkback tripe because otherwise we're left with just us and our thoughts and for many that's more terrifying than driving at 120km/h while texting ... more
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Fringe dwellers
Some of you may have seen the documentary Solo that aired on the ABC a couple of weeks ago about Andrew McAuley's ill-fated attempt to be the first man to cross the Tasman, paddling 1600km in a kayak.
Directed by Jennifer Peedom and David Michôd, Solo, utilises unsettling footage McAuley shot of himself with a camera mounted to the bow of his kayak. The vessel was recovered a day or so after he disappeared, about 30 nautical miles short of his destination of Milford Sound, New Zealand.
Solo is a distressing yet riveting look at what drove a father and husband to risk, then lose his life attempting something no-one had then achieved and the conflict inherent in McAuley's decision is stunningly captured in this piece of video (jump to the 3:35 mark and let it run).
When I watched the doco with my girlfriend, she said to me "you're never doing something like that" and I agreed; I couldn't understand the why anyone would want to leave behind their lover and family to risk death. Then a few weeks ago, I had the chance to meet and go rock climbing with another stone cold Aussie hellman - Dr Glenn Singleman - and, as I dangled over a 100m high cliff, the mindset of this type of thrill-seeker came into sharp relief ... more
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Anything less than perfect is failure
When you think about all the competing variables that two people bring to a relationship - likes, dislikes, sexual kinks, baggage, addictions, exes, family and mental issues, children - it's amazing human beings last as couples for days or months, let alone years and decades.
Why then do we constantly heap the condemnation of "failure" on any relationship that ends prior to the death of either party or dissolves before the couple get married?
Just because a person has had a series of respectful six or nine month 'relationettes', does this make them any less accomplished than another who's been stuck in a destructive partnership for five years?
I think the tendency to apply the label of failure to relationships that are anything less than perfect saddles many people with impossible expectations and the result is unhappy couples destined to become unrealistic singles ... more
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Choose your battles
As I've written previously, there's a saying that "every man becomes a feminist when he has a daughter" because suddenly guys see their attitudes and that of their mates through the prism of "that could be my little girl they're talking about."
It's a pity the same perception shift doesn't occur in so many women, with huge numbers of mothers continuing to transmit the trivial obsessions of shoe shopping, beauty products and fashion magazines to their baby girls.
It's a bit much to expect men to take the insoluble issues of western gender equality seriously - things like abortion rights, equal pay and sexual discrimination in the workplace - when millions of intelligent women spend their days consumed with what Gwyneth Paltrow is wearing.
If female opinion makers and power brokers spent a quarter of the time they devoted to worrying about which celebrity woman has had plastic surgery, to an issue like universal free day care - the groundswell of media and community pressure would be overwhelming.
Seriously, put free day care on the front page of every woman's magazine for the next six months and tell me it would not be pushed to the forefront of the national consciousness and to the top of the Federal government's agenda where it rightly should be ... more
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The Two Things
I'm not in the habit of lifting ideas from other blogs but this one sent to me by reader Elizabeth a few months ago struck me as the perfect Friday distraction, as well as great method for you all to distill your thoughts on your professions, hobbies and other cultural oddities.
Back in 2004, an economist named Glen Whitman recounted on his blog Agoraphilia meeting a stranger at bar who asked him "so, what are the Two Things about economics?"
Unsure what the man meant, Glen asked for clarification and the stranger replied: "You know, the Two Things. For every subject, there are really only two things you need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or just not important."
Said Glen: "Oh, okay, here are the Two Things about economics. One: Incentives matter. Two: There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Since then, Glenn has been collecting Two Things by playing the game with people he meets, as I did on a business trip to Melbourne, Wednesday, asking the flight attendant what were the Two Things you had to know about her job.
She thought for a moment and said, "the two things you need to know about being a flight attendant: 1. Safety before service. 2. Have great hair" ... more
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The first time ... almost
When you're a boy, there comes a confusing yet thrilling time around age 12 or 13, when you morph from being this sexless "o" floating in gender's alphabet soup, grow a "tail" (♂) so to speak, and become a son of Mars.
Massive changes occur as a boy's brain literally starts to talk to his balls, his body pulsing with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), testes increase in volume seven-fold, bones become denser and heavier, musculature develops, hair sprouts, his voice deepens yet, ironically, demands for pocket money become shrill.
Boys have already seen the girls they've grown up with get taller and grow lumps and curves and begin to eye off older dudes. Now the process has started with them, dots join in their heads, the female geometry heaves out of the horizon and suddenly they find themselves forever in The Land of Sex.
Their friends begin talking and lying about it, they can't stop thinking about it and once they get their first girlfriend and some pashing and heavy petting ensues, every thought gets compacted and pushed to the side to give space in their head for ssseeeeeexxxx ... more
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Domino's dirty deeds discussed
It's been a big couple of weeks for YouTube, with it's most popular upload ever and now one of the most creative uses of the website by a mainstream corporation, this spectacularly sincere apology by Domino's CEO Patrick Doyle.
You might have seen this video last week of two hardhead North Carolina Domino's employees fouling and farting on food for customers in what was a massive public relations disaster for the fast food chain.
However, Doyle, thanks to a seriously well-crafted response, not to mention a sizable dollop of personal presence and integrity has gone a long way towards repairing the damage. The owners of the Coogee Bay Hotel should take note ... more
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She doesn't know her place
If you're not living under a bridge talking to fleas, you've probably heard the name Susan Boyle and likely been one of the more than 60 million people worldwide who've viewed her variety show performance on YouTube.
I've been thinking a lot about Susan and the similarities in her story to her predecessor, mobile phone salesman Paul Potts who won the first season of the same reality TV show, Britain's Got Talent.
The thing that made Susan's appearance on the show all the more remarkable was that she faced a hostile audience that openly mocked her, yet she silenced and won them over within four or five bars of her rendition of Les Miserables' 'I Dreamed a Dream'.
Potts faced no such hostility during his audition in 2007 and the reason was he knew his place: he was fat, ugly, poorly dressed, a typical schlub and the look on his face when he fronted the judges was almost pitiful - like he was bracing for the inevitable rejection and bullying that had crowded his youth.
Susan Boyle, however, did not know her place: she was old, fat, ugly, dowdy, unemployed and didn't pluck her eyebrows, yet she had sass, she refused to shuffle meekly onto the stage, her body language said "like it or lump it" ... more
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Mourning Susan Tsvangirai
Early last month the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, was injured in a car accident when his four-wheel-drive collided head-on with a lorry near the capital of Harare. His wife of 31 years, Susan Tsvangirai, died at the scene.
I'm not sure what it was about the accounts of her death but it prompted me to do a bit of reading about Susan and Morgan and was soon touched by the obvious strength of their union.
According to The Independent, Morgan first saw Susan in 1976 when he was a foreman at the mines in Bindura and she was visiting an uncle. "He reportedly nudged the friend who was walking next to him and declared 'That is the girl I am going to marry!'"
Since their marriage in 1978, which bore six children, Susan was by all accounts Morgan's rock as the then-opposition leader survived an assassination attempt, was imprisoned, endured a lengthy treason trial, was badly beaten and this year was shoe-horned into a power-sharing agreement with his long-time foe President Robert Mugabe.
(According to The Independent, the joke doing the rounds in Zimbabwe says that the reason Tsvangirai was brought into the government was so Mugabe "could shoot him from point blank range.")
I reckon Susan Tsvangirai must have been a pretty remarkable woman, who will be dreadfully missed by her husband and for some reason her story and passing really brought home to me just how traumatic it must be to lose your one and only; the person you were put on this earth to walk with ... more
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Two days after conducting its first 787 test flight since the Dreamliner was grounded last month amid battery problems, Boeing (BA) conducted a second test flight Monday afternoon.
The jet maker also warned Monday in securities filings that the battery mishaps could have a "material effect" on its financial position. Boeing said it is unable to reasonably estimate a loss because the ultimate cost will depend on the probe's findings.
The ZA005, Boeing's fifth Dreamliner flight test airplane that was also used in Boeing's first test flight on Saturday, operated in and out of Boeing Field in Seattle.The flight left Boeing Field at 10:17 a.m. Pacific time and returned at 11:46 a.m. Pacific time. Boeing said the pilots reported that the flight was uneventful.
No further test flights are planned at this time.
Boeing conducted its first test flight on Saturday after receiving approval from the Federal Aviation Administration as part of ongoing efforts to test the in-flight performance of the 787's batteries, which were the cause of a series of problems last month that led to an emergency landing in Tokyo and prompted safety regulators to ground all 50 Dreamliners currently in operation around the world.
The jet maker said the plane flew for two hours and 19 minutes on Saturday afternoon. It contained a crew of 13 people who were monitoring the main and auxiliary batteries. The crew reported the flight was largely "uneventful."
The FAA allowed Boeing last week to begin conducting test flights as part of the investigation. Data gathered in these test flights are considered part of the probe into the recent 787 events.
It is not clear what exactly is causing the battery meltdowns. The problems first began on Jan. 7, when the auxiliary battery pack of a grounded Dreamliner caught fire. That launched a National Transportation Safety Board probe, which remains ongoing.
Last week, the NTSB identified the cause of the fire in one of eight cells of the auxiliary battery, but it continues to look for flaws in the battery's design or manufacturing in an effort to get to the root cause of the fires.
This post originally appeared on FoxBusiness and was written by Jennifer Booton.
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Recently, Tofurky made its way into a variety of vegan prepared foods and meals, including pot pie, quiche and pocket-style sandwiches. The pot pie comes in a Chick'N variety. The 7.5-oz. single-serve pie contains 440 calories, 24g of fat and 11g of protein. The 7.5-oz. Sausage and Veggie Quiche contains 450 calories, 22g of fat and 23g of protein. The pockets come in three varieties: BBQ Chick'N, Pepperoni Pizza and Turk'y Broccoli and Cheddar. Each 8-oz. box contains two pockets, with each pocket containing 270-300 calories, 4-6g of fat and 6-10g of protein, depending on variety. All of the products are microwaveable.


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Ok, so we made this haunted house last year, but my kids absolutely loved making it. We had been to the library where there was a display of recycled art that kids of varying ages had made and it was so awesome. That's where the inspiration for this haunted house came from.
When I brought it out this year as a decoration, they just want to play with it. I think we need to make more, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
We took a couple of empty boxes {we used a tissue box, a necklace box, and some plastic baby food containers} and painted them. At the time, it was just Lou and Maisy doing the painting because Mina was too young still. Each of us painted a different part of the house.
Lou {whose favorite color is purple} painted this section of egg carton to go on top of the house. Maisy painted the necklace box a spooky red color, and I painted the base of the house black.
Then they each painted a baby food container, but then they decided to stack them all and attach them to the roof as a chimney.


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Failed to format the selected partition 0x8004242d
I came across this error while trying to install Windows 7. It wouldn't let me install over my previous install on a SSD disk, I think because it was BIOS formatted and I now had to install Windows 7 using UEFI. I also could not create a USB bootable disk that would allow BIOS startup (it would report just "Disk error"). How annoying!!
To fix this error, instead of trying to "format" the partition, I just deleted it and then created it new. Now I have three partitions: one System, one MSR (Reserved) and one Primary.
Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation.This took me two hours to debug and finally resolve. This error can mean almost anything. There are some important tools that will help you solve this error:
- Shift-F10 - opens up a command prompt
- C:/windows/panther - contains setup logs
- mmc - opens up the management console, you can then add Computer Management (etc) snap-ins
- findstr - a grep-ish string finder, so you can type file | findstr /r /c:"string" /i
You can also use tracerpt to translate the setup log (binary) into a human-readable format, you can do this all within the command prompt. This can help you find invalid/bad registry keys that you can delete with REG DELETE
cd /windows/panther tracerpt setup.etl -o logfile.csv -of CSV
Another option is to install Windows 7 in legacy mode instead of UEFI mode. I've never had a single problem installing Windows in legacy/BIOS mode. There are some other steps that didn't help me.
But if you are post-SP1, there are significantly fewer options. The answer that worked for me was posted by MarkBeacom:
Hit SHIFT-F10 to bring up command prompt.
type MMC
Click File -> Add/Remove Snap-in... (Or CTRL+M)
Select Computer Management (Double click and Finish on Local Computer)
Click OK
Double click Computer Management (Local) -> System Tools -> Local Users and Groups -> Users -> Double Click Administrator -> Uncheck Account is disabled -> OK
Now right click Administrator -> Set Password... -> Set a decent password to get started.
Now, restart. Should be good to go.
If this doesn't work try next step:
SHIFT-F10 to bring up command prompt.
type: CD C:/windows/system32/oobe
type msoobe
Make a generic account and password. hit finish (if it requests a product key and you have one, enter it now. if OEM/No key required, just finish). Set time/date. Finish.
Should be good to go.
My next idea after this was to check my BIOS settings and turn off any SSD performance options - my setuperr.log file was reporting only the following line (which I don't actually think was fatal):
2012-07-29 15:49:51, Error [0x0606cc] IBS ApplyDiskOperationUsingService: Failed to correctly apply disk operation of type [0xe]; hr = 0x8007009a[gle=0x0000009a] 2012-07-29 15:49:51, Error [0x060492] IBS PerformDiskOperation:Disk operation of type [14] failed; hr = 0x8007009a
My next three options after this were to:
- Disable UEFI, install using BIOS (I already tried this, I would only get a "disk error" on the command prompt)
- Try to Repair Install using the same install media (not confident this would have worked)
- Use a different install media (e.g. Windows 7 without SP1) to reinstall
- Re-slipstream the ISO image and add all of the device drivers specific to my new hardware (I would have had to learn how to slipstream drivers into an ISO), rewrite the ISO to USB and then reinstall - to verify that it wasn't a driver issue
- Install Linux instead.
Creating a symbolic directory link
Within a command prompt as administrator:
mklink /j "c:/virtual directory" "c:/actual source directory"
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We may have installed the clutch seal from the crank side instead of the clutch side. common assembly mistake given the GS160 parts manual diagram illustration is incorrect. According to Gene Meredith of Scooters Originali, the GS/SS are the only Vespa motors the clutch seal is installed from the clutch side before the bearing. the GS160 shop manual drawing and directions confirm this assembly sequence.
this assembly photo shows the bearing installed, which confirms we installed the seal from the crank side
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here's a past discussion on Modern Vespa:
Recent discussion on GS/SS group
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"If the seal is seated at idle it would run fine. We had to fix 3 GSs from another shop where this seal was put in back wards… im thinking that its under load that the seal pops or spins out. Just running through the issues I have seen on GS/SS. At least you can split a GS case in the engine with just minimal prep work and then you could see behind the crank to check that seal…"
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Aw, Dad! Father Captures 25 Years of Christmas Mornings [VIDEO]
For children, there's nothing quite like Christmas morning — the joy and anticipation are palpable on their little faces. So parents eternally videotape the proceedings, including one father who caught the annual moment that his kids came bounding down the stairs on Christmas morn for more than two decades.
As Nick Confalone — one of those kids — explained:
Every year, our dad would tape us coming down the stairs. This is a compilation of all the videos I could find. Relatives and pets grow up and disappear, and new extended family members appear in their place."
He added that the "new guy" alongside his sister in the later clips is her husband.
The music is from 'A Charlie Brown Christmas,' but it could've just as easily been 'The Way We Were.' Take a look at a quarter-century of memories below.
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this is even better than GREP, which i quite liked.
has it really been a year since your last film?
especially if you have access to good actors, which evidently you do.
(was his real motivation supposed to be known only at the end?)
we wonder how many times this has happened.. in light of this, starting the title with "to" might be appropriate. it feels like it starts mid sentence, and the ongoing nature of this guys problem seems deeper embedded.
My favorite part was the lack of faces. Besides keeping the focus where it should be, it has the same effect a novel does, where you start to fill in the faces yourself and become sort of a collaborator.
Did you shoot this with all practical lights or did you use anything? fills possibly? either way i think the visual aesthetic was great.
Have you tried a cut without the music? The kind of stark realism you achieved so well is kind of taken away whenever the music track came in.
watched it over coffee this morning. goes great with coffee


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Americans are hard workers
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I know I shouldn't be asking these kinds of questions, but it keeps rolling around in my mind — the idea that saving is good, overspending is not. The other night, while watching the news, one of the concerns expressed was how much longer we are living than we did 20 years ago. Well, it's no surprise. Medicine is more advanced, folks are taking better care of their health on their own, and voila! The benefit is longer and healthier lives. This is good news, Yes?
Apparently the news is mixed. Many of us elderly persons never expected to outlive our own forecast of fourscore and 10. However, the fact is, we are getting older every day. The downside: Lots of seniors are getting jobs to supplement/complement their retirement savings. They are outliving their forecast and are working to put groceries in the pantry and food on the table.
Well, it's no wonder we're having issues — the bank and Wall Street crisis, the automobile manufacturers, and the unemployment numbers have been a big draw on the economy, as well as retiree's bank accounts and IRAs. Add to this the costs of fuel, once again at a healthy $3.79 in Moose Lake, (.20¢ cheaper in the Twin Cities) and we are all struggling to stay above water. I have decided that home is pretty appealing. Who goes for pleasure anymore? The pleasure of driving through the woods and up the North Shore is inhibited by the diminishing gas in the old automobile tank.
I've been reading an interesting mystery about nitrogen. Now I'm wondering if nitrogen could be used in some formula for propulsion of automobiles. There are certainly many ways it can be used for combustion, so why not as a fuel? It would probably break down into nitroglycerin and blow us all up to smithereens. Instead of propelling us forward, it might just send us up to the clouds.
Still, I do wonder why the price of gasoline remains so high when the news hounds tell us the U.S. has humongous oil reserves. Is there something we're missing? Is there some reason why some of us can't benefit from these reserves? Is there a reason that families have to choose between paying for gas to get to work and paying for food, medicine, or heaven forbid, a night at the movies?
I think we live in a great country. I think our great country does have to start helping those of us loyal Americans who have given our best to be good citizens. I think we need revised tax laws that are fair and just. I think we need representatives at the government level who speak for us and not for Oil Companies, Drug Companies, and the like.
We Americans are hard workers. We have done a great deal to serve our country. We have provided human power for the armed forces. we have provided nurses, doctors, teachers, truck drivers, grocers, bankers, etc. People from all the various career choices who have made this country what it is deserve respect. We expect to be heard by our representatives. We deserve to be able to maintain lives filled with dignity and grace.
I still ask the question my son verbalized to me this week: Why did we bail out banks and Wall Street for $850,000,000,000 when we could have given every citizen $1,000,000 at a cost of about $390,000,000? That money would have been spent to cover bills, short and in some cases long-term debt. The money would have hit the marketplace immediately and done a world of good. Now we have bailed out banks, once again charging exorbitant interest rates, and the people are in worse shape? How does this make sense?
Oh well, I'm just an elder, who in Washington is going to listen to me?


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text: Indeed, the multiple processes accessing the device made significantly degrade performance. Fortunately for us, as well, access speed is limited by the NFS/SMB and the network, not by array performance. Unfortunately, the unit is online now and I can't fiddle around with the settings and test it further. WRT reliability, we have seen the array drop to degraded mode because of a single drive failure. We have also a single drive take down the entire IDE port. This results in the md device disappearing until you swap out the offending drive and restart the array. There is no data here. Usually one drive goes and the array goes into degraded mode and starts reconstructing on the spare. Then the second goes and the array disappears. It is a bit disconcerting to do ls /raid and get nothing back. Changing out the drive and restarting pulls everything back. I can honestly say that the only data loss that I have had on these arrays came when a maintenance person completely unplugged one of the arrays from the UPS. It caused low-level corruption on 5 of the 9 drives in the array. We ended up using a Windows 98 boot floppy with Maxtor's Powermax utility to patch them all back up. It took many hours. This is the WORST possible scenario, BTW. Even reseting the system gives the EIDE devices a chance to flush their caches and maintain low-level integrity. Cutting the power can leave the array/drives inconsistent on the filesystem, device (/dev/md0), and hardware-format datagram levels. So, lock your arrays in a cabinet! 8) Mike >From: Jurgen Botz <jurgen at botz.org> >To: mprinkey at aeolusresearch.com (Michael Prinkey) >CC: beowulf at beowulf.org >Subject: Re: Linux Software RAID5 Performance >Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 10:25:31 -0800 > >Michael Prinkey wrote: > > Again, performance (see below) is remarkably good, especially >considering > > all of the strikes against this configuration: EIDE instead of SCSI, >UDMA66 > > instead of 100/133, 5400-RPM instead of 7200-RPM, and master/slave >drives on > > each port instead of a single drive per port. > >With regard to the master/slave config... I note that your performance >test is a single reader/writer... in this config with RAID5 I would >expect the performance to be quite good even with 2 drives per IDE >controller. But if you have several processes doing disk I/O >simultaneously you should see a rather more precipitous drop in >performance than you would with a single drive per IDE controller. >I'm working on testing a very similar config right now and that's >one of my findings (which I had expected) but our application for this >is not very performance sensitive so it's not a big deal. > >A more important issue for me is reliability, and I'm somewhat >concerned about failure modes. For example, can an IDE drive fail >in such a way that if will disable the controller or the other >drive on the same controller? If so, that would seriously limit >the usefulness of RAID5 in this config. In general how good is >Linux software RAID's failure handling? Etc. > >:j > > >-- >Jürgen Botz | While differing widely in the various >jurgen at botz.org | little bits we know, in our infinite > | ignorance we are all equal. -Karl >Popper > > >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx


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Shirley sat in the front row of new hire orientation. Her face beamed with the enthusiastic glow of a new nurse. She eagerly asked questions, scribbled notes and participated in group discussions. Shirley is not your average graduate nurse…she was 60 years old when she graduated from nursing school.
Her childhood dream had always been to become a nurse. However, her family could not afford to send her to nursing school. At the age of seventeen she married her high school sweetheart Bill. After the last of their three children started school, Shirley began work as a bookkeeper in Bill's real estate office. Life was good…but from time to time she still regretted not following her dream of becoming a nurse.
Their lives were suddenly turned upside down after Bill was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Shirley became his primary caregiver; learning everything she could about his illness. Throughout Bill's numerous hospitalizations, she had the opportunity to closely observe nurses as they worked. Shirley was inspired by their compassion, intelligence and technical skills.
During a blessed period of remission, they made plans for Shirley's future. Bill helped her select the nursing school she would attend. He lived long enough to watch his bride graduate nursing school and begin her new life. According to Shirley, "I am doing this for both of us".
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The Medical Board of California has faulted a doctor in the 2010 death of a Lap-Band patient who had surgery at a clinic affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign, filing charges that could cause him to lose his license to practice.
The board has accused Dr. Daniel Shin, an anesthesiologist, of "gross negligence" in his care of patient Tamara Walter, who died Dec. 26, 2010, at age 52, three days after she had a Lap-Band implanted at a clinic in Beverly Hills.
The medical board said Shin failed to adequately respond to Walter's worsening condition after surgery and left her with a nurse for more than an hour, despite signs that she was struggling. Shin was on probation with the medical board at the time of the weight-loss surgery because of a 2007 criminal conviction for using a meat cleaver to assault someone attempting to serve him legal documents at his home in Torrance, according to medical board records.
Shin could not be reached. The address he lists with the medical board is for a postal box rental business in Marina del Rey. He did not respond to a request for comment mailed to that address.
The accusation requests that Shin be punished by suspension or revocation of his license. If Shin and the board cannot agree on appropriate discipline, the matter may end up before an administrative law judge, who would consider evidence and recommend an appropriate resolution.
Word of Shin's potential discipline comes one day after Lap-Band maker Allergan Inc. said it would no longer sell the device to surgery centers affiliated with 1-800-GET-THIN, a marketing firm that has plastered ads for Lap-Band surgeries along Southern California freeways and on television, radio and the Internet.
1-800-GET-THIN is facing a state Department of Insurance investigation for possible insurance fraud by the surgery centers. In December, the Food and Drug Administration accused the marketing company of misleading advertising for failing to provide adequate warnings about the risks of the surgery.
The Wilshire Boulevard facility at which Walter was treated, now called New Life Surgery Center, said in a statement Friday that Shin no longer practices at the center or its affiliates.
"First and foremost, we want to express our deepest condolences to Ms. Walter's family," the statement said. "With regard to Dr. Shin, he is no longer practicing at any of our surgery centers, as has been the case since the incident in question."
Walter, a grocery store assistant manager who lived in Lawndale, is one of at least five patients to die since 2009 following Lap-Band surgeries at clinics affiliated with 1-800-GET-THIN, according to lawsuits, autopsy reports and other public records.
According to the medical board's accusation, Walter began to show signs of distress shortly after the surgery. She was unable to maintain adequate oxygen in her blood, so Shin transferred her back to the operating room and reinserted a "mask airway" to help her breathe, the accusation said.
Walter continued to struggle to get enough oxygen, the accusation said. Medical staff suctioned pink frothy fluid out of Walter's breathing tube and administered medication to help her breathe, according to the accusation. Less than three hours after surgery, Shin left Walter in the care of a nurse with training in anesthesiology, the report said.
The nurse later called Shin by telephone to say Walter was still struggling and might have a collapsed lung, the accusation said.
Shin returned to the surgery center 85 minutes after leaving, according to the accusation. But within 20 minutes, Walter stopped breathing. Paramedics took Walter to a nearby hospital, where she later died.
The medical board faulted Shin for failing to transfer Walter to a hospital much sooner than he did and for leaving her in the care of a nurse, despite signs of her deteriorating condition.
The medical board accusation does not refer to Walter by name, instead listing her as "T.W." But the date and details listed in the accusation leave no doubt that it refers to Walter, said Kathryn Trepinski, an attorney who represents Walter's family in a lawsuit against Shin, 1-800-GET-THIN and the surgery centers.
"The details contained in this accusation are extremely disturbing, chilling even. They chronicle the dying moments of Tamara Walter as she struggled to breathe," Trepinski said.
"This is a series of medical catastrophes. Ms. Walter was struggling to breathe … and 911 was not called. She began foaming at the mouth and still 911 was not called. But most troubling is from 4 p.m. to 5:25 p.m. her physicians abandoned her. Her anesthesiologist, Dr. Shin, left her in the care of a nurse."
The accusation also faults Shin for his treatment of two other patients, including a woman identified as "A.E." who died Oct. 29, 2009, after Shin gave her an epidural during childbirth at Hemet Valley Medical Center in Hemet.
Trepinski said she hopes the medical board revokes Shin's license to practice.
The Medical Board of California has faulted a doctor in the 2010 death of a Lap-Band patient who had surgery at a clinic affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign, filing charges that could cause him to lose his license to practice.


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This piece that I am looking at looks very like the Salviati dolphin goblet I had recently - I am still learning about these dolphins, is the view of the team that this is an old one or a new one? The base isn't very clear (the light in the auction room wasn't that good) but it has a broken pontil in the centre, which (in theory) might mean it is an old one?
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|My mom and grandmother with Clifton and Minnie (Dudgeon) White. You can see the previous four generation photo with this group here.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Wordless Wednesday - The next four generations
7 comments:
- Simply Lokal said...
Great picture of the generations! - Revis
- July 31, 2013 at 10:26 AM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Thank you, Revis! I love these types of photos and I'm lucky that my mother's side took a lot!
- July 31, 2013 at 1:12 PM
- Simply Lokal said...
You are lucky indeed! Lots of families have no pictures at all!
- Revis
- August 1, 2013 at 1:15 PM
- Queen Bee said...
I always enjoy seeing multiple-generation family photos. You're fortunate to have several of these four generation pictures with some of the same family members. Did you notice Minnie was crossing her arms in both four generation photos?
- August 1, 2013 at 10:50 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Queen Bee, good eyes! Now that I think about it she is crossing her arms in most of the photos I have of her. Very interesting!
- August 2, 2013 at 10:14 AM
- Rita Schmidt Martin said...
This is a great picture. Don't you love the wallpaper? My photos from the same era are almost identical - right down to that wallpaper!
- August 5, 2013 at 8:43 AM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Rita, too funny, that is great wallpaper!
- August 5, 2013 at 9:00 AM


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Tony Humes has set about the task of restoring the confidence of his Colchester United players, following his first full day in charge.
The newly-appointed U's boss took training for the first time at Florence Park yesterday, after taking over from Joe Dunne in the hot seat.
Humes is keen to boost the morale of his players following a miserable start to the season, where they have failed to win any of their opening five league matches.
And as he prepares to take charge of his first game at Walsall this weekend, the new Colchester manager is keen to keep spirits up.
Humes said: "We need to keep them in the right frame of mind to go and perform on Saturday.
"It's a case of building the confidence and the belief of the players - they are good players and their performances are good.
"It's still early in the season.
"There's only been one point on the board but I think the performances have warranted more than that.
"On the positive side, at least the team is playing to a decent standard.
"The results haven't been fantastic or as good as could have been and that's the one thing that we have to turn around.
"The scoring of goals and the conceding of them will ultimately affect the results.
"But if the performances continue to improve as they have done, it shows that it's going in the right direction."
Humes was an uncompromising defender during his playing days, where he clocked up more than 300 appearances for Ipswich Town and Wrexham.
The 48-year old is keen to see his team display a similar kind of determination and desire, as they go in search for their first League One victory.
But Humes says he also wants his side to maintain the same kind of passing football they had displayed under Dunne, in the opening weeks of the season.
"You want a resilient team," added Humes, who was academy director at Wrexham before taking up a position within Ipswich's youth set-up in 2001.
"Your ambition if you're involved in football is to create a team that can do anything.
"You want a team that can play football, be resilient, deal with the physical side of the game but also be creative and play at a decent tempo."
Humes has completed his first signing as U's boss after signing former Ipswich midfielder Byron Lawrence on a one-year deal.
For four pages of Colchester United coverage, including the views of Tony Humes, Robbie Cowling, Paul Abrahams and Bobby Hunt, see Wednesday's Daily Gazette.


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Wild Mushrooms Will Be Celebrated October 19-21, 2012 at Boreas Inn!
August 1, 2013 by: Susan Goldsmith
We are concerned about the lack of rain in the Pacific Northwest because with the rains come the beautiful, plentiful wild mushrooms. Only a couple of tenths of rain have fallen, mostly as mist, since mid-July. The chanterelle season, in and around the Long Beach, Washington Peninsula, was surprisingly good in spite of the dry weather. But come rain or shine, we will be celebrating the Wild Mushroom from October 19-21 for the 11th year of Boreas Inn's Annual Wild Mushroom Celebration! Veronica Williams, our "All Wild" professional forager will be available to take our guests foraging on Saturday the 20th. She will also host a discussion in the Boreas living room that is open to the public on Sunday the 21st. She always brings dehydrated wild mushrooms to sell along with her Wild Mushroom cookbook. Please call if you're planning on attending the very informal discussion at 11 a.m. on Sunday, the 20th!
Though we were booked up for this event for over six months, we had a cancellation, and the beautiful Pacifica guest room is open for this extra-special weekend. $590 for two people includes 2 nights at Boreas, 2 lavish breakfasts including our five-course Wild Mushroom Celebration Brunch with Veronica on Sunday, a five-course Wild Mushroom and matching Washington Wine dinner for two (with the celebration group!) at Pelicano Restaurant on the Port, all taxes and restaurant gratuity are also included. Add an extra night at our $150 "Walk-in Rate"! (Most of the guests have added a Thursday night to their weekend!) Mushroom foraging with Veronica on Saturday, the 20th, is $45 pp. Call today to get our last room for this relaxing celebration of the wild mushroom extravaganza! This special is not listed on our reservation site, so if you book online, ask for the Wild Mushroom Celebration in your note to us and we will adjust your reservation for you!


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He may not be getting too much air time in the final episodes of season three of 'Glee,' but Derry native Damian McGinty gets to show us his stuff in a cover of One Direction's mega hit song 'What Makes You Beautiful.'
For the 19th episode of the season, the McKinley High kids are heading for senior prom, which is both oddly and hilariously themed prehistoric. In 'Prom-A-Saurus,' the 'Glee' regulars get to share in the celebrations for their senior prom while many viewers are still wondering just what is the fate of certain characters.
Only a few people have been confirmed to return for season four of 'Glee.' The continuity of the show is being kept well under wraps as much of the cast will be graduating high school, leaving opportunities next to endless as to how the storylines will continue.
But Damian McGinty has not said whether or not he is confirmed to be returning to the FOX hit show. As last summer's co-champion of 'The Glee Project,' McGinty was contracted for a seven shows on the series. He has since outlived that contract but is still appearing in episodes, despite having a rather miniscule role on the show. On the show he plays Irish foreign exchange student Rory Flanagan.
McGinty, a former member of Celtic Thunder, was excited to be covering a song by a band that features fellow countryman Niall Horan, who hails from Mullingar in West Meath. McGinty (@DamianMcGinty) tweeted "Very proud to be a part of Glee's WMYB [What Makes You Beautiful].Wouldn't be right if there wasn't an Irishman in there to represent, @NiallOfficial doing a great job."
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Dishonored is a sandbox. Don't let the level-driven narrative focus fool you. Once Corvo Attano is handed a mission and unleashed in the dirty, plague-ridden streets of Dunwall, the methods you use to complete that task are entirely your own to decide. This level of freedom can be daunting though. That's why I want to take some time today to run through some of the less clearly defined game systems and offer some tips for making the most of your time in Dunwall.
Save Early, Save Often
The old PC game adage "save early, save often" should be your mantra while playing Dishonored, especially if you are attempting a non-lethal and/or ghost run through a mission. Get into the mindset of manually saving your game whenever you overcome a particularly challenging obstacle. There are checkpoint locations that autosave for you, but they are relatively few and far between. Dishonored is the rare game that allows you to save anywhere, at virtually any time, and there's a reason for that. 'Take advantage.
Don't Fear the Reaper
Most video games are built around the idea of having you learn as you proceed. Come to a nasty boss fight and you might die a few times, but each new attempt brings added knowledge of patterns to watch for and weaknesses to exploit. Dishonored doesn't feature any boss fights, but it rewards trial-and-error play. Don't be afraid to run out into the open — after saving, of course — and seeing what sort of trouble you stir up. You might be intentionally dooming yourself, but you also might catch sight of an access point that you hadn't noticed before.
Also be sure to take advantage of the no-strings-attached tutorial mission that amounts to Corvo's escape from prison. Achievement/Trophy hunters take special note here: most of the game-spanning goals do not apply during this mission. Take advantage of that to experiment. Learn how Dishonored's stealth system works. Get the hang of blocking and countering in open combat situations. You can do this anywhere in the game, of course, but the first mission is there specifically to train you… so take advantage.
The Path of Which Resistance
Once you've got a handle on how Dishonored works mechanically, it's worth spending some time figuring out how you want to play it. Will you ghost your way through the game, quietly avenging the Empress's murder from the shadows? Would you prefer a more merciful path, never once allowing your blade to taste the enemy's blood? Or will you stalk the streets of the city openly and brazenly, meting out justice as an unstoppable angel of death that strikes fear into the hearts of one and all?
Whether you sneak quietly or go loud, your choices have repercussions as the game unfolds. The attention that you draw to yourself and the death — or lack thereof — that you leave in your wake contributes to the city's overall Chaos level. This determines what sort of resistance that you'll be facing with each new task handed to you. At the end of each mission, you will be given your chaos ranking, but it is about more than just killing, there are certain objectives you can do if you want to raise it that may not be clear. For example, in one mission you are given a non-lethal way to take down a key figure. You could always just kill the target, but for the best chaos boost, complete the non-lethal method, then as others are coming for him, kill him as others look on. Watch the shocked guards then proceed to freak out.
In broad terms, the city becomes increasingly hostile as your Chaos level rises. Conversations with your allies and those overheard will reflect that, and the story is slightly modified to match. Leave too many bodies and alerted guards behind you, and you can expect to encounter a heavier enemy presence during future assignments. Not just town guards either. Your handiwork also quickens the spread of the plague, since there's more rotting meat for the rats to feast on and less guards to enforce the quarantines. This means that you can expect to deal with additional rat swarms and Weepers as well when you have a high Chaos rating.
Of course, maybe that's the challenge you're looking for. There's nothing inherently bad about having a high Chaos rating, especially if you're going lethal and loud all the way. The endgame reflects this, and the final mission will play out much differently. The story's conclusion won't be quite as happy if you choose to bloody your blade too frequently, but the only real "penalty" for a high Chaos rating is stiffer resistance.
Blink Or You'll Miss It
If you are into achievements/trophies and have seen a list of all the available rewards, you may have noticed that there is one for completing the game without unlocking any of Corvo's supernatural abilities. Thankfully, Blink is excluded from that, and for good reason. You're forced to unlock it, sure, but the game is also virtually unplayable without it. Blink allows you to move a short distance (its range can be upgraded) in any direction without anyone noticing, and it's hard to overvalue Blink's usefulness.
You can use it to slip past guards in an open space where they might otherwise catch you. Or locate hard-to-reach access points. Or zip around the battlefield to flank behind an enemy before he realizes what's going on. If you are falling to your death, you can even use it to teleport closer to the ground and drop without taking damage, and if you Blink to within a step of an enemy, you can instantly take out that guard from behind. It is, by far the most flexible ability in Corvo's toolbox. Use it, abuse it, learn it, love it.
Vengeance Can Wait
Take your time in each mission. Dishonored might be a level-based game, but you're not ever following a linear set of corridors from point A to point B. There's a lot of ground to cover in Dunwall, with an assortment of nooks and crannies hiding all of the best gear. Take the time to find them.
The first thing that you should do whenever a new chunk of map loads is pull out your Heart. You receive this item early on in the game, and it points out the location of each Rune (used for upgrading you skills) and Bone Charm (offers passive bonuses) on any given map. Use it when you arrive in a new location to get a sense of what's out there. It is also worth equipping it and using it like an ability now and then. If you do it while pointing at a guard, it will tell you things about them. Doing so when facing a key target will give you a more complete picture of life in Dunwall, and the role they play. If you use the heart without a target in sight, it will tell you a bit about the area you are currently in.
Make finding the Runes a priority before proceeding with your mission. Not only will you gather useful items, you'll also inevitably find other goodies hidden away as well — things like gear, upgrade blueprints, valuable collectibles, and cash-money. Quest-givers too. Keep an eye out for secondary tasks during each mission. Often you'll find that helping someone else unlocks additional access points or offers non-lethal options for neutralizing your primary targets. There are even instances where helping a character at one point will open up other missions later on, while ignoring them, or even killing them will close that thread for good.
Blink is essential for exploration. In planning out your skill upgrades, it's best to prioritize Blink and then at least level one of Agility — which more than doubles your jump height — to aid in your Dunwall wanderings. The first level of Possession helps too, since ratholes sometimes provide access to areas that you wouldn't otherwise be able to reach. If you intend to remain non-lethal, the Dark Vision and Bend Time abilities are handy as well; if you choose to take the bloody path, offensive abilities like Devouring Swarm and Blood Thirsty should be your focus.
Victory Through Experimentation
The city of Dunwall is extremely well designed with regards to offering multiple approaches to most situations, but it's Corvo's toolbox of skills and gear that really allow you to embrace Dishonored's sandbox. Be sure to read the "tips" section for each skill, but it's equally important to simply mess around and see what works. There's not an in-game reward for engineering creative kills, but there's a personal sense of triumph that comes from exploiting the tools laid before you in unexpected ways.
Did you know, for example, that you can rig a rat with a springrazor trap? Try doing that, then using Possession on the rat and walking it right into the middle of a group of enemies. Use Bend Time at the right moment and you can snatch projectiles and grenades right out of the air, adding them to your stock or directing them right back to their sender. Want to get really cute? Use Bend Time to stop a bullet in midair then possess the person that fired it and walk him in front of his own shot.
The possibilities are endless, especially since you can use thrown objects or fired crossbow bolts to direct an enemy's attention in one direction or another. Why distract someone when you can instead draw them over to a location where you've set a trap or used a rewire tool to turn a piece of machinery into your own agent of death? You've got that save anywhere feature, so take advantage of it and experiment to see what sort of inventive tactics you can engineer.
For more on Dishonored, check out our roundup that includes interviews, videos, and our full review here.


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Infante passes final test as Royals set roster
MILWAUKEE -- Good news for Royals watchers: Second baseman Omar Infante is expected to be in the starting lineup on Opening Day at Detroit.
Infante passed his final playing test in a Minor League game on Saturday at Surprise, Ariz., and is almost certain to avoid being on the disabled list when the season begins on Monday afternoon.
MILWAUKEE -- Good news for Royals watchers: Second baseman Omar Infante is expected to be in the starting lineup on Opening Day at Detroit.
Infante passed his final playing test in a Minor League game on Saturday at Surprise, Ariz., and is almost certain to avoid being on the disabled list when the season begins on Monday afternoon.
The Royals placed pitchers Louis Coleman and Luke Hochevar on the disabled list, released veteran catcher Ramon Hernandez and assigned infielder Jason Donald to Triple-A Omaha.
That meant that Pedro Ciriaco is on the 25-man roster as a backup middle infielder, in the event Infante needs relief; that Brett Hayes is the backup catcher as expected, and that the club will open the season with 11 pitchers instead of 12 as originally planned.
Infante played five innings on Saturday, got six trips to the plate and went 3-for-4 with a couple of walks, according to manager Ned Yost. He also turned a couple of double plays.
"I figured he'd be fine," Yost said. "We just had to play it out and see where we were going."
Infante was to join the Royals in Detroit on Saturday night.
That means the 25-man roster is virtually set for the opener, pending Sunday's workout.
"We'll still see how Omar feels, but he's really rebounded nicely the last couple of days, and felt good going into each workout and each game down there," Yost said. "And he's gotten 25 at-bats or so in the last four or five days so it's been a pretty good test for him. He feels pretty good."
Signed to a four-year, $30.25-million contract this winter, Infante was something of a phantom in Spring Training. He played in just eight games, missing time early because of a stiff shoulder and more recently because of a new elbow ailment -- both in his right throwing shoulder.
He was obtained to bat second behind new leadoff man Nori Aoki and team with shortstop Alcides Escobar to form a defensively adept middle of the infield. That seemed in doubt until Infante underwent an extensive program this week to test his elbow and passed the test.
In his limited Cactus League play, Infante hit .333 (8-for-24) including three doubles.
Ciriaco is something of an unknown commodity although he's a regarded as a good defensive middle infielder and has hit well in his limited Major League experience. He's 28 and was a part-time player for the Pirates, Red Sox and Padres before being claimed off waivers by the Royals last July 16. Called up in September by Kansas City, he played in five games.
In his 163 big league games, the right-handed-hitting Ciriaco has a .277 average which is actually four points higher than his career mark in the Minors. He's played seven different positions in the Majors, mostly shortstop (49 games) and third base (47). He's logged 21 games at second base.
Donald, 29, played parts of three big league seasons with the Indians and as a rookie in 2010 started 44 games at shortstop and 40 at second base. He's also played third base and the outfield. The tipping point was that Donald, as a non-roster player, could be sent to the Minors and Ciriaco was out of options.
There was concern at the start of training camp when Coleman's middle finger of his right hand was jammed by a ball during pitchers' fielding practice. It was swollen but soon Coleman resumed pitching and little was said about his finger for several weeks.
Then last Wednesday, Yost mentioned that the finger had continued to bother Coleman and that he had a bone bruise which affected his ability to control his pitches. At that point it appeared the bone bruise might need two more weeks to heal and Coleman was left in Arizona along with Infante.
Hernandez, at 37, was the oldest player still with the Royals and had the most experience with more than 14 years of big league service time. He broke in with the A's and also caught for the Padres, Orioles, Reds, Rockies and Dodgers with a career average of .263. He was in six postseasons, four with the A's.
A sore knee kept Hernandez from catching until late in the Cactus League season, but he played some first base and hit .391 (9-for-23) in 16 games. He had an opt-out in his Minor League contract and exercised it when he did not make the Major League club.
Hayes, a former backup catcher for the Marlins, had been the leader to be behind Salvador Perez throughout camp. He played most of last season with Omaha, batting .233 in 78 games.
Hochevar is out for the season following Tommy John surgery.
Opening Day roster
Pitchers (11) -- Francisley Bueno, Bruce Chen, Tim Collins, Aaron Crow, Wade Davis, Jeremy Guthrie, Kelvin Herrera, Greg Holland, James Shields, Jason Vargas, Yordano Ventura.
Catchers (2) -- Hayes, Perez.
Infielders (7) -- Billy Butler, Ciriaco, Escobar, Eric Hosmer, Infante, Mike Moustakas, Danny Valencia.
Outfielders (5) -- Aoki, Lorenzo Cain, Jarrod Dyson, Alex Gordon, Justin Maxwell.
Disabled list (2) -- Coleman, Hochevar.