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Understanding Dark Souls difficulty
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Due to a supposed mistranslated statement of the Dark Souls designer, a lot of people were talking about a more easy and accessible Dark Souls experience "so everyone could play the game".
Well, I got news, everyone can play the game now, exactly as it is.
Dark Souls is not difficult because it requires inhuman skill (like some platformers). In fact, in that regard it is much easier than any super Mario game.
Dark Souls is difficult for many people because it requires a skill set that is lost to gamers nowadays (and most people in general):
. patience;
It is a unique experience because while playing you do not evolve your character as much as you evolve yourself as a player. It is unbelievably rewarding to decipher the innumerous secrets of the game. That's the game, the discovery. The game is not about running around killing monsters.
It is insanely awesome to see that something that looked like impossible a few hours ago you can now do with your eyes closed (well, maybe one eye closed).
Putting a minimap, an extensive tutorial and save points on the game would not make the game easier - it would be creating another game - one that is simply not nearly as interesting or innovative.
Dark Souls is a unique, intelligent new experience, we really should not be trying to make it equal to other thousands of games.
I understand the frustration if you want to experience the setting but thinks the experience is too hard. But, honestly, have you even tried? Most people shy away from the game because of its fame alone.
A friend of mine have arthritis and cannot play most fight games and platformers and, after a little bit of effort he finished the game twice already.
I am not a very accomplished player also. I can't memorize patterns very well, I can't do a combo in a fighting game for the life of me and cannot drive in a straight line in racing games. And I completed the new content for the game dying only twice.
The famous super uber difficulty of Dark Souls (and Demons Souls for that matter), can be easily conquered by rethinking yourself as a gamer, being more methodical in your approach.
Some people say that an easy mode doesn't hurt because you doesn't have to play it. But the fact that Dark Souls have only one setting of difficulty works as a watermark, a parameter for your successes and failures.
This is what makes people to come back to the game - discovering the new ways to kill a boss or getting the most difficult equipment should be a reference to all. Why? Simply because there's no game that does it now. Comparing notes, efforts and challenges is part of the game. Some things in the game are meant to be very hard to discover and an easy way around it just kills the sense of accomplishment that is so impressive in this game.
Hell, the game became huge mostly because of its style and difficulty. Why try to make something so innovative into another triple A title with all the trappings that executives think that are required for a game to succeed?
In any case, the discussion is moot because lazy people are already cheating their way into the game, making everything supereasy. Which would be fine, I think, if they weren't bringing their fake accomplishments online, to the multiplayer component of the game.
But this is people for you. There will always be someone ready to spoil everyone's fun on the behalf of their fun. We cannot do much about this, unfortunately.
What we can do is enjoy one of the greatest games of all time in the way that made it one of the greatest games of all time: difficult, but conquerable.
Capcha: comfort zone. So true...
This is true.
I think games these days hold your hand for a lot so people have become lazy. For example: Prince of Persia (2008) - theres a button which pretty much tells you exactly where and how you can reach where you need to go and in the boss fights it tells you exactly what to press and when. In the PoP trilogy, this didn't exist and it was fun to figure out how you can make it to X ledge and how to defeat certain bosses. As you pointed out, many games have more checkpoints hints etc to help which adds a certain level of easiness and I think it makes you a bit more mindless as well.
I picked up Dark Souls the other day, and I can safely say I was one of the people you mentioned who forgot about the skill set you need for this game, but now I'm starting to enjoy the game because I realized that this game requires you to adapt and be patient for the openings etc (this was applicable to many older games).
Yeah you're right. It's not difficult; just requires practice and patience.
Thing is, I don't think anything else on this matter can be said outside of this video..
So yeah. It cannot happen. If they want a more 'accessible' game...don't make it a part of the Souls series.
Welcome to Dark Souls! Check out the channel I linked; the guy's amazing.
I don't think Dark Souls is above having an easier difficulty.
As long as the original difficulty is kept intact I don't see why this should be a big deal.
I do agree with about the skills set and all that BUT (and this is a big sweaty one) i would appreciate that the game explains some basic stuff like, what does this allegiance give me? What does this symbol mean in the black smith upgrade part? OOH goody i got a buff .... what does it do (more accurately by how much does it increase)?
It is true it is fun to stroll around and find things out by your own, true, but i find it slightly obnoxious if you have to check out FAQs to get basic info.
Other thing I would like to see improved is the dodge response, when i press the button once with no direction i want to dodge back and when i press it again while pressing the analog stick all the way to the left, i do NOT want to dodge roll strait in front of me T.T
And last rant is about boss damage, I don't mind 1 hit kills if i can dodge them, I do mind when the same attack can take away 1/4 of my life and the next same hit, instant death with full health, this is very obvious against the "fire giant" (boss right after the fire spider boss)
I do like the game but it frustrates me to no end when people call it "world crushing hard", no it is not a game that is that hard, not easy yes but most of the difficulty comes from the total lack of info on some important things, very unintuitive and especially OBNOXIOUS level design (how many times you were stuck in an area for a while and after 4/5 back tracks, OOH there was a stair/ladder here, i luve you bad design <3 )
So basically the game is not bad, and actually fun (more like, this ****ing game won't beat me) but it could use some optimization on several points to make it allot better.
Not above, no. The problem is that the difficulty is so integral to the game experience that it would not be Dark Souls anymore. It would play like a totally different game.
To yaydod:
yeah, the game is not perfect, but some of this stuff is actually not really related with the difficulty per se, although they can add to frustration.
The whole covenant thing I guess was poorly implemented - more mysterious than it should be and less rewarding than it could be.
The delay on the dodge can also be annoying.
Also to king billi: and I guess that Dark Souls already has an easy mode: it is called time. People just don't have the patience to understand the game anymore.
capcha: bee line. Very appropriate, that exactly how people want their games nowadays. Nothing wrong with that, but we should not want all games to provide the same experience, the same level of challenge, etc.
I dont know man.
For the little I TRIED (key word) to play the pc version of this game, it seemed a tad boring. But I only played around 10 minutes or so, I didnt gave it much of a chance... But then again, thats because I dosnt really seem to want that chance, because of the fucked up camera controls, the ingame cursor (I LOL´D when I saw that. Classic) and Then theres the whole XBOX buttons instead of the pc ones... Umm, yeah. Bad port much? I could deal with Binary Domain pretty quickly, in fact It was only the first half an hour or so that I couldt dominate the controls, after that I was more then fine and completed it in the hardest difficulty with little trouble (Then again thats not saying much, the game is rather easy. Very.)
For a game thats famous for its difficulty, I excepted the pc port to have accuarate controls, at the very least...
The only "skill" Dark Souls requires is knowledge. The game isn't difficult in the sense that it requires training and reflexes, in fact the combat is deliberately slow-paced. And it is that way because it's designed with its online hint system in mind. Take away the secrets and traps, and that system is broken.
To get more people to play the game, you don't have to make it easier, but more accessible. Making the player figure out your game without him putting effort in figuring out your game is an art within game design.
That's what the status screen is for and if you level up, it displays the changes a stat gives you in the level up screen.
Dodge usually works fine if you are locked on on the enemy. you have to be careful not to press it more than once though, because it won't be cancel-able.
It depends on how it hits you. If it scrapes your side or hits you with the very tip of its attack it obviously does less damage than when it hits you head-on.
I guess the main problem is that the game really needs a controller. I cannot imagine playing it any other way. If you manage to get one, give the game another chance.
The port for PC was really much more like an emulator: you can play the game exactly as it is on consoles on your computer. It is still the best version of the game (specially with the resolution fix), but I understand that it might not be enough from the perspective of a joystickless PC gamer. :)
"Joystickless PC gamer" haha, thats funny now that you said it. Its a bit weird too because I started gaming with a PS1... But I always want to play my PC games with the classic keyboard + Mouse. I just think it has to be that way (Luckily I dont like fighting games/ Hack and Slash games so no problem with those).
Maybeeeee someday I will plug in my joystick for PC and give this game another chance, I guess.
I'm a fan of the keyboard and mouse myself, but I'm beginning to understand that some control schemes on certain games are simply much better with controllers. I guess that's to be expected when we want varied experiences, but takes some getting used to...
I think you misunderstood me, for example the harden spell for pyro, it says that it increases your defense etc.. but it does not show up in the stats, and when a buff shows up (like the one on the dragon sword) i didn't see any variations in stat screen either.
The funny part is that i failed dodge his previous attack but i was next to his "arm" not under it, healed up back to full health, after failing another dodge (still full health) he kills me with the same attack animation.
Whatever the case, how does it matter in any way? A difficulty setting is merely an option - it's not like you would have to use it yourself.
I only played it a couple of times, but from what I've played, it's basically just dodging...and pretty much just dodging with some evasion.
Tried playing it on the PC, but the controls were just shitty as fuck.
I've always wanted to play a more sombre, ambient old school RPG that doesn't try to be Lord of the Rings filmed by Michael Bay.
I guess you mean Ceaseless Discharge. I usually lure him over the cliff because he is very hard to defeat otherwise thanks to his high damage. He oneshots you even with some of the better armors.
It completely goes against the whole spirit of the game. The game is about being without any kind of solid assistance (why they opted for no online "co-op mode"), in a world that is mysterious and where you can only rely on your wits. Add an easy mode and you may as well throw in a map, or perhaps a companion.
Agreeded. I too understand this, but even thougt I just KNOW I will have a better experience playing the game with joystick, I just wanna use the good old Keyboard/Mouse.
Again, it helps that I usually avoid the games where the joystick is considerated a must use, such as fighting games and Hack and slash, plus I dont like them so why would I want to play them in the first place, lol. And I guess some racing games, too, except I DO like those and for one occasion I did use a joystick (Flatout 1 and 2, great games)...
But I get the feeling this is getting off topic. Shame because it was a fun conversation, XD.
I talked a little bit about it on the op.
Part of the sense of accomplishment is doing things in a different way or in a more efficient way than others. Or even doing things that people do not think are even possible, like beating a boss naked.
After beating the game once, this sharing experience with the community goes a long way to give the game longevity and replayability. If it is possible for a player to accomplishing those same things without effort, you lose that watermark, that frame of reference of what'a a challenge and what is not.
Granted, this is a very subjective thing, but that's part of the beauty of this game, it is really not obvious.
I agree that a easy setting in most games is not a problem at all, but, as Epic Name Bro said, the possibility to fail is something really important to the game ethos.
Why some people climb mountains? It is a mix of a personal challenge, the joy of the sport itself and the knowledge that not everyone can do it. That's the Dark Souls experience.
But you can just as well rent a helicopter to take you to the top or let someone carry you up there. That fact does not take away the accomplishment of climbing a mountain by yourself, just as the existence of lower difficulty settings doesn't diminish the "bragging rights" of higher ones.
Also, on a personal note: if the game had an easy mode I would probably have succumbed to it, robbing myself of the true experience of the game.
On the very first boss, on the undead asylum, I simply did not understand what I had to do and died numerous times until I finally beat the thing with the hilt sword. I thought to myself: "My god, this game is insanely difficult, this is going to be impossible to play".
My second breaking point was the Capra Demon, which I fought without resins and with an unupgraded weapon. This kind of suffering is crucial to a later part in the game when you see 12 of those guys waiting for you (and you destroy them).
If you do not want to discover those things for yourself, you can always look at youtube to see the tricks to each boss and there you have your easy mode. If you cannot execute the tricks you see on youtube than this is really not the game for you (but a lot of other games would not be either).
I agree. Those shortcuts are already in the game. Most of the bosses have very easy ways to deal with them. In some you do not even risk to get harmed. Not every game need direction arrows and glowing spots.
Seriously, in the videogame world nowadays people are just too used to the mountain coming to them.
I just have a problem with people complaining that a game "sucks because its too hard". If you cant beat the game then its not the game that sucks, its YOU that sucks! Quitting is for pussies, only if you persist will you know the true feeling of achievement.
HEAR HEAR! SIR!. I really wish people would go halfway through the game before trying to decide whether a different difficulty is appropriate.
And you know what? I'm one of those pussies. I love fighting games but I'm terrible at them, so I always go to the easy settings first thing.
I'm really happy that such a thing as easy settings exist. I just do not agree that every game needs them. Some games are made to be leisurely enjoyed and some games are made to be conquered.
And I also agree that some games can be a mix of the two. But not all.
Capcha: real mccoy!
Hmm, putting aside the sometimes unfair deaths (fuck anyone who says all deaths are fair, I have several examples if anyone wants to test me) later on the difficulty felt kinda samey...
If there is a doorway, there will be one guy ahead of the doorway and two in the blind spots to the side of the doorway. To punish the idiots who rush after the one they can see. This happens extremely often, it just gets boring to be honest. You play the game long enough to read what the game is going to do, which to some people is good but if they are really going for difficulty then wouldn't it make sense to switch up the tricks a tad?
It's still a good game don't get me wrong but I would like the level of trickiness of Sen's Fortress applied to whole game but in smaller doses pretty much.
Also would it kill them to make the story elements somewhat noticeable on your first,second or even third playthrough? No and don't tell me to look at the wiki, if I have to read a wiki to understand the majority of the story and characters you're clearly doing it wrong.
There's having a subtle underlying story then there's having fuck all happen. In fact I wouldn't blame anyone for giving up before the Gargoyles because you have literally no motivation to go through all this shit. Apart from the basic "this shit will not beat me" mentality you may or may not have.
Out of curiousity, would everyone agree with having an easy mode if the current (default regular game not NG+ or NG++) was the easy mode? I would be totally fine with that but Im curious what others would say.
I agree that the game definately doesnt need to be accessible to everyone, at least not in a way that isnt done already. Everyone can play it, everyone can practice against fights and play the same game. There are tons of strategy videos and full walkthroughs/lets plays on youtube. Not to mention 2 very well done wiki's. The only real thing hurting the experience right now IMO is all the PVP twinks
There is something to be said about being able to finish a game that other people cant. I mean I cant for the life of me finish Ninja Gaiden (the original) despite thousands of hours put into it but I take some ammount of pride in the fact that I could finish Dark souls. I could hack it and some gamers cant. Maybe thats a little selfish but no more so then people wanting the game to be easier for them
I still say the game should have more save points. If I've already proven I can get passed an area, being forced to go through it again is not going to do anything but raise my blood pressure.
I applaud what Dark Souls is doing, but I think, sometimes, people are holding on to the wrong things.
Furthermore, if you say that Dark Souls is all about the difficulty, and sacrificing that would diminish it, then you can't really praise the story, setting, etc. (not saying you would, just for instance).
The desire for an "easier" mode is rooted in an urge to see that rest of the game without the difficulty. If you claim that shouldn't be done, then you're insinuating that those things are without value. Only the difficulty is noteworthy.
This is my main problem with Dark Souls. Information that should be fairly standard and easy to access is completely absent from this game, and we have to resort to guessing and compiling hit-and-miss data on outside wikis. I don't want maps and walkthroughs and that kind of hand-holding, but detailed item stats? Straight-forward answers about faction rewards? This isn't rocket science.
Still, I guess you can't have a perfect game. Maybe the next Souls game will learn even more from user feedback.
I kind of like the WTF is going on thing of the beginning, but I get what you are saying. :)
Even following the story is different in this game (most of it are in the items description) and sparse NPCs dialogue.
I also don't think that the game is perfect and several aspects of it can improve (including difficulty, which could be toned down in a few cases but could also easily be even higher in several spots), but a whole dedicated easy mode is something largely unnecessary.
Imagine a beautiful girl that is pretty hard to get. The difficulty is not the girl - what you want is the girl but the difficulty would make a stolen kiss an even more rewarding accomplishment.
I think Dark Souls should be one game. It really works beautifully like that. The unifying experience makes the whole "difficult" way more interesting.
Looks like you missed some crucial tactics on the first few bosses, making it MUCH harder than it needs to be XD
I remember when my friend showed me demons souls, he thought i was going to be destroyed on the first few levels. What he didnt know was that i play last gen games and further fairly often. So like you siad, my "correct skill set" was fairly well honed XD
Like you said, the games really not that hard, you just have to play it slowly, which i did once i saw how much damage a hit from an enemy takes from you!
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Why 2007 & Newer ULSD Emission Vehicles Don't Like Biodiesel
I just had a great chat with Jeff @ SunBreak Biofuels (Great guy!) & learned some interesting things about why these new fangled 2007+ Emission Diesel Vehicles aren't liking Biodiesel.
Here's what he shared....
To meet the new emission standards, diesel engine manufacturers have added a "post-combustion" burst of fuel into the cylinder.
What's this mean?
Well, it means that after the compression stroke is done and the cylinder is in the down position, as it heads into the exhaust stroke, the fuel injector sprays a dose of fuel into the cylinder.
The theory is that by spraying fuel into an already heated cylinder chamber, the heat will vaporize the fuel (not burn it, just vaporize it) and the exhaust stroke will push this unburned fuel out with the exhaust.
This unburned fuel then hits the new Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF) and helps to burn off the particulates built up on the DPF.
In otherwords, the engine manufacturers have found that by squirting unburned fuel into the exhaust, it hits the DPF with hot exhaust gasses & more fully burns off the particulates that have built up on the DPF's.
The Problem With Biodiesel
Biodiesel is "leaking" into the crankcase oil.
This happens because Biodiesel doesn't "vaporize" as fast as diesel fuel (because it has a much higher boiling point, one of it's supposed "strong points").
Because it doesn't vaporize as well, a portion of it sticks to the piston walls instead of all going out with the exhaust gasses.
As the piston goes back down and then heads back up into the compression stroke, the Biodiesel is blowing right past the rings down into the crankcase and getting into the engine oil.
But wait, it gets worse!
Biodiesel in engine oil isn't ALL that bad because, well, it does have a bit of viscosity to it (quite a bit in fact, enough that we like to even brag about it)....but the problem is that over time the Biodiesel raises the level of the oil in the crank-case to the point that the crankshaft can start "splashing" in the Biodiesel-laden engine oil.
This can cause "foaming" to occur, and then as the foam builds up inside the engine, "too much of a good thing" can start to hurt the components.
So how bad is it?
Well, according to VW, after using B5 in a new engine for a few thousand miles, they drained out the crankcase oil and over 40% of the oil was contaminated with Biodiesel.
According to Jeff Brandt, even in his new Dodge Ram, he's seen contamination building up with as little as 1800 miles of driving.
He said when he drained out the oil it was really liquidy, almost like the consistency of water.
What About The DPF?
My initial thought with these things was that the Biodiesel was also fouling these, but Jeff's take is that the exhaust gasses are hot enough that any Bio that gets in there is doing it's job & burning right & he's yet to hear of a plugged DPF because of Biodiesel use in the vehicle.
So What Can Be Done?
Some engine manufacturer's have installed a small fuel injector in the exhaust itself to spray the fuel with instead of adding a "post-injection" squirt of fuel in the cylinder.
This gets rid of the issue completely.
For those engines that squirt the fuel as a "Post-combustion injection" (after the combustion has occured in the piston), it may be possible to override the computer and stop the "post-combustion" fuel being injected; but it's tricky.
If you don't remove the DPF and you do eliminate this "post injection" it can cause the DPF's to get plugged up.
You can also remove the DPF on the vehicle, but this technically makes the vehicle illegal to drive on public roads making it an "off-road vehicle" only.
The other option would be to override the computer so that it will only perform the post-combustion injection if you're running Diesel fuel, but that'd require some sort of manual intervention from the driver to tell the computer that there's only diesel in the tank.
Jeff thinks that we may see a couple things happen in the near future.
1) Someone may be able to develop an additive that can lower Biodiesel's boiling point (kind of far fetched admittedly and a lot of work to do)
2) Aftermarket "tuning chips" will be made available to kill that "post-combustion" injection in the computer
3) People will just rip out the DPF's and kill the "post-combustion injection" altogether & drive the trucks on road anyway.
By the way, killing that Post-combustion injection event may even get you a couple extra miles per gallon.
Either way, it's not a great thing for those of us wanting to run high blends of Biodiesel in new diesel vehicles.
Neither he nor I know exactly how Ford & GM are accomplishing reducing the emissions, but Jeff thinks that they're both doing something similar (post-combusion injection event).
...for those of you wanting to run Bio in your new post emission vehicle, be sure to check the engine oil constantly to ensure the level isn't getting too high and also change the oil out more often if you plan to run high blends.
Anyway, figured since this was news to me I thought I'd pass it on.
Jeff said if he has time he'll come in here & post to this thread with anything additional he hears about as well.
Additional Resources
I'll be adding to this section as people post resources & forum posts about this issue.
Biodiesel Magazine Article
Understanding the Post-injection Problem
Diesel Power Magazine
Article on how to remove a DPF filter (This article has "Mysteriously" been removed...hmmmm)
(WARNING: Removing the DPF makes your truck "For Off-Road Use Only" and voids the warranty.)
Infopop Forum Posts
B100 use in post-injection modern diesels, leading to high engine wear
Biodiesel getting into engine oil
Mechanics Please Help: Problems with '07 6.7L Dodge
BurnVeg Forum Post:
Warning:danger of using VO/>B5 on many vehicles >=2007
Diesel Place Forum Post:
Removing a DPF on a Duramax
Below is a list of engine manufacturers that produce diesel engines sold in the United States.
If you'd like to see this issue changed in the future, be sure to write to your favorite engine manufacturer below and let them know that you'd like to see their DPF design changed so as to allow Biodiesel to be used in blends higher than B5 in their engines.
Case New Holland
Harold Boyanovsky
President and Chief Executive Officer
CHN Global N.V.
100 South Saunders Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045 USA
Theodore M Solso
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
PO Box 3005
Columbus IN 47202-3005
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
General Motors
300 Renaissance Center
Detroit, MI 48265
Len Hunt
Executive Vice President
Volkswagen of America, Inc.
2200 Ferdinand Porsche Road
Herndon, VA 20171
James Owens
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Caterpillar Inc.
100 NE Adams Street,
Peoria, Illinois 61629
Detroit Diesel
Carsten Reinhardt
President and Chief Executive Officer
Detroit Diesel Corporation
13400 Outer Dr. West
Detroit, MI 48239-4001
Daniel Ustian
President and Chief Executive Officer
Navistar International
4201 Winfield Rd
Warrenville, IL 60555
Ernst Lieb
President and CEO
Mercedes-Benz USA
Mercedes Benz One Mercedes Drive
P.O. Box 350
Montvale, New Jersey 07645
Robert Nardelli
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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For a great example of points to cover in your letter, be sure to check out the Spring 2009 Biodiesel Magazine article by Kumar Plocher (page 6). See more info on Biodiesel Smarter here:
Feel free to comment, correct, or post to this....this was just news to me & I thought I'd pass it on.
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Yes this has been discussed at length in these threads (and many others), but its important enough to keep re-posting about it:
B100 use in post-injection modern diesels, leading to high engine wear
Warning:danger of using VO/>B5 on many vehicles >=2007
Biodiesel getting into engine oil
YVORMV - Your veg. oil results may vary, see www.burnveg.com/forum
95 Dodge Cummins 4x4
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There are some people working on the problem, but its not easy, it involves doing the following hacking (differently) for each vehicle:
You need to remove the physical DPF and reprogram the fuel injection tables to prevent the late stage fuel injection and finally, reprogram the MIL indication light to prevent the Malfunction or "Check engine" light from coming on. All of which void the warrranty, are illegal, and may not work.
YVORMV - Your veg. oil results may vary, see www.burnveg.com/forum
95 Dodge Cummins 4x4
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Here is another recent good thread about this, the problem is popping up everywhere:
Mechanics Please Help: Problems with '07 6.7L Dodge
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A custom burned chip, that's the only thing that is going to work long-term, mass use, and legally.
What I see: the Regen is disabled at all times, with a timer built in to the new chip that blinks your Check Engine light at some set interval (so as to discern it from an actual engine problem which will light the Check Engine solidly). When you see the light, you need to run 100% diesel in the next tank full, hit some sort of indicator button under the dash to clear the light & inform the chip diesel is in the tank, then the chip allows Regen for some interval that corresponds to less than that tank full and you move on.
So to run B100 in your new diesel, right away you are gonna know you need to drop $300 on a chip, assuming somebody actually sees the need to make and market one. Or $1000 for a one-off chip.
Yeah, I'll be running 12V Cummins trucks the rest of my life. 12V in the Bronco, 12V in the Cherokee, 12V in the Kaiser, 12V the Rat Rod, 12V every truck I lay my hand on until I'm old and gray and senile from the french-fry fumes.
I've been wondering if it's possible to set up a two-tank system with a sensor that is triggered by the 'regen' cycle, and switches the fuel supply over to diesel for just the regen. It should be easy to do (just use a OBD-II or whatever the modern equivalent is, to give the two-tank kit's microcontroller the signal to switch over to diesel). That assumes that the regen runs long enough to make that switchover make sense.
I htink this is first suggested by someone in one of the above posts that Sunwizard probably just linked.
Another option would be to have a small dino-diesel-only tank for the DPF, but I suspect that would also mean a separate injection pump. But any way you slice it, it's not good.
Yes, thank God that the EPA has decided to make vehicles that used to get 22 mpg, and 'vastly improve' their emissions so that they now get 14 mpg 10 years later. Dodge Ram with the cummins engine has done exactly this. So drop fuel economy by 35%, producing tons more carbon dioxide, but it's so much better because there's 0.0001% less other 'bad' emissions AND fund our favorite terrorists in one breath. I only wonder if the EPA is headed by some Saudi Nationals! Meanwhile 90% of other nations are laughing at us & getting twice our fuel economy, with only slightly worse emissions and not giving a hoot about emissions...
Gritch moan.
Sadly, that's not even the case, as the older engines were much cleaner running on biodiesel than these newer ones are running on diesel.
BTW, this is the kind of engine that CARB is requiring owners of CA diesel trucks 15k GVW and higher to switch over to in the next few years, at a retrofit cost of around $20k per vehicle (assuming you don't want to dish out $100k for a new rig). I assume this will be fought, HARD, by all the fleet folks, myself included, already dealing with this **** economy.
Next step, I'm sure, is schoolbusses.
They don't make it easy for us, folks.
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The EPA has nothing to do with what idiotic technology the automakers decided to use. There were a number of other ways they could have accomplished the same particulate reduction goal, but they all chose to use a (particularly, ha ha) bad one both from the perspective of biodiesel, and of fuel economy.
You know, in chatting with Jeff, it seems the easiest solution to fixing them so they'd run Bio would've been to stick an injector in the exhaust system itself & kill the Post-Combustion Injection in the piston.
This would've eliminated the problem all-together because A) No Bio would be squirted on the pistons post-combustion B) The DPF would still work with Bio being sprayed into the exhaust.
I'm guessing it has to do with the heat inside that piston helping to vaporize the fuel, but I'd imagine it's pretty darn hot in the exhaust manifold too....
Just my take on it.
Like I said, I sure hope Honda has come up with something better. I guess CAT has already stuck an injector in the exhaust making them easily adaptable to Bio.....
As an initial solution, I tend toward Ryan's idea, with a little more automation...
Develop and install sensor to measure or infer the concentration of Biodiesel in the fuel (they can already infer the concentration of Ethanol in Gasoline). Upon requiring a DPF burn off, allow it if B0 is sensed, flash a lamp if not, so the driver can put B0 in next time.
The potential problem with this is the frequency of the DPF burn off. I have no idea how often the engine controller thinks it is necessary, but if it is more than once per tank of fuel, this solution is a non-starter anyway.
I think a better solution, which will rapidly be adopted, is the injection of the burn off fuel downstream of the engine itself. As noted, this will eliminate the issue completely. I doubt that this would require an expensive high pressure injector either.
Remove DPF, gut it, replace. Reprogram to disable and be done with it. Any emissions test done on your vehicle while running B100 will come back with a pass anyway, so what's the big deal to be in full compliance ? Politics is all about appearing-to-do anyway. Merely MO.
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I think that it is a conspiracy. the oil companys influance the auto makers. after all we are the compitition. If the biodiesel makers are all stamped out sooner or later . then we have to buy from the oil company. the monopoly is regained . control of the people is their goal.
just my 2 cents from (Ron's X files)
The number of people using B100 is vanishingly small; there is no competition. I doubt if they even think about B100, and if they did, quickly dismissed it as an insignificant market. They only want to meet whatever emission standards are required to sell more overpriced new vehicles.
N'attribuez jamais à la malveillance ce qui relève purement de l'incompétence ( Napoléon)
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. Napoleon Bonaparte
Well, it certainly IS one or the other, either intentional malice or gross incompetance, although when you look at Mercedes and their dumping down on the quality of their injectors and IP since 2006, which have nothing to do with emissions, making their new models biodiesel incompatible the choice is clear. One poster here asked a dealer about The Smart car and others' inability to use B100 and was told that "they are too advanced for it" pretty much capped it for me.
Intentional malice gets my vote.
The homebased market may be seen as insignificant at first glance now, but with the popularity of BD and other homebased fuels gaining ground, not to mention governments mandating biodiesel use in all fuel levels in ever increasing percentages is just one more thing that the greedy and the control freekish oil and car industies,who are in bed together or we'd have a wide selection of vehicles powered by anything BUT fosil fuels, get nervous about and in their paranoia and substantial financial reserves wish to quash anything that even hints at breaking away from their grip.
Remember, there is no price fixing at the pumps, they all sell at the same price out of sheer coincidence (and government mandating pricing).
Oil prices do what they want to do when they want to do it and no one can do anything to stop them 'cause they have governmental approval for what they are doing no matter the harm to the social infrasture or thhose who suffer from price gouging.
When fuel prices went sky high over the last years we were all told about this sing song about demand having fallen off and that caused the increase, and then the fiscal meltdown started happening and petrol dropped like a rock but diesel stayed disproportionately high (keeping the hurt going as all prices fall directly from transportation costs and they all use diesel fuel). The old hold out about home heating oil be the culprit is always ready to be pulled out but when is the last time you heard of a diesel pump running dry in winter ? Has NEVER happened here. Only home heating issue I've heard of is Citco in the USA offering low income people a break on fuel oil so they wouldn't have to decide between food and heat but this was from that 'tyrant Hugo Chavez' so it doesn't count ... Exxon didn't bat an eye at freezing people to death and still couldn't give a crap. Big Oil doesn't have one altruistic bone in it's entire structural makeup
so going from there to conspiring with auto makers to see to it that the monopoly (which is clearly anti-trust) keeps going is not that far of a stretch.
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Yeah, I vote for incompetence.
great info Graydon, thanks. Kind o reminds me of 1957 when a chevy coud get 21mpg w/ plastic seat covers and no seat belt. Now its over 50 years gone by and EPA gets us about 18mpg for a car of the same weight. Of course now you get a safe seat for the squeelers too. Yup love the EPA.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Shaun,
#1: this is NOT about B100. This is about stamping out all blends, because none of them work with this technology, as currently designed/constructed.
#2: in California, they are FORCING all truck owners over 15k GVWR to switch to this, at owner's expense. The regulation is set, and has to be taken down. This will kill the California biodiesel industry.
#3: the perpetrator here is the California Air Resources Board, which is the reason why the OEMs are putting in these things in the first place. Lest anyone believe that CARB is fuel neutral and just cares about the environment, they should look at CARB's history of being anti-biodiesel (a recent example is biodiesel being left out of the Carl Moyer program, which forced people to replace stationary diesel engines with propane and CNG alternatives). CARB is trying to outlaw biodiesel and biodiesel blends in CA, and by doing so, is influencing the OEMs, and the future of biodiesel in America.
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So the Triple Crown wound up being a big bust this year. And even though the news is kinda bittersweet/poignant/ironic for us alkies who thought we'd finally found our spirit animal in a horse named I'll Have Another, it's no bigs. Let's keep sippin' juleps all the same. Let's just make 'em stiffer to take the edge off.
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The 1792 Kentucky White Dog Julep
(As seen on Liquor.com)
2 to 3 ounces Georgia Moon Corn Whiskey
1/2 ounce water
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
6 to 8 mint leaves, plus a sprig to garnish
Stir sugar and water together in highball glass until dissolved. Add leaves, muddle slightly. Pack highball glass with crushed ice, then add whiskey. Stir, add more ice to fill, garnish with mint sprig.
Tasting Notes
As published, Wondrich's recipe calls for any white whiskey that can be called "unaged corn or rye." My much-cherished Georgia Moon is the former. Use a corn whiskey and it'll be a significantly sweeter drink; in fact, it tasted like summery corn on the cob in a way.
Sean was apparently feeling Wondrich-frisky as well when he helped assemble this drink. As you can see by the pics he took, he chose to eschew Wondrich's suggestion of a highball glass and instead poured it into a redneck-apropos Mason jar. (A teeny one at that.)


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Chris Martinez, Santa Clara, Black jar carved with an avanyu and geometric design
Pueblo: Santa Clara
Dimensions: 6 3/4 in H by 8 1/4 in Dia
Item Number: xxscf9061
Price: $ 350
Description: Black jar carved with an avanyu and geometric design
Condition: Excellentℑs=4
Signature: Chris Martinez Santa Clara Pueblo
Date Created: 2019
Chris MartinezSanta Clara
Born to parents Barbara and Manuel Martinez in October 1968 at Santa Clara Pueblo, Chris Martinez began learning to make pottery from his grandmother, Flora Naranjo, when he was fourteen years old. His brother and sister, Sammy Naranjo and Vickie Martinez, also learned the traditional way of making pottery from their grandmother. By the time he was ten Chris was already making spending money by preparing clay for Margaret Tafoya and Teresita Naranjo.
Chris works in both black and red pottery styles, specializing in large jars and low shouldered bowls. His pots are characterized by bold carving and fine stone polishing. Over the years Chris has developed his own unique style of carving the avanyu (the water serpent of the Santa Clara Tewa people). He has also elaborated on the forms he learned from his grandmother, creating his own designs that also incorporate eagle feathers and other symbols of his culture.
Chris tells us his favorite shapes to work with are saucer-shaped water jars and his favorite design is the avanyu. He also says his inspiration comes from within.
While Chris makes pottery when he's home, he has also worked for the US Forest Service for more than twenty years, battling wildfires all across the West. He says he has a very special relationship with the element of fire, carefully tending his own fires to make his pottery and then working to help put out great forest fires. That strength of purpose is evident in his work.
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Santa Clara Pueblo
Ruins at Puye Cliffs, Santa Clara Pueblo
Santa Clara Pueblo straddles the Rio Grande about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. Of all the pueblos, Santa Clara has the largest number of potters.
The ancestral roots of the Santa Clara people have been traced to the pueblos in the Mesa Verde region in southwestern Colorado. When that area began to get dry between about 1100 and 1300, some of the people migrated to the Chama River Valley and constructed Poshuouinge (about 3 miles south of what is now Abiquiu on the edge of the mesa above the Chama River). Eventually reaching two and three stories high with up to 700 rooms on the ground floor, Poshuouinge was inhabited from about 1375 to about 1475. Drought then again forced the people to move, some of them going to the area of Puye (on the eastern slopes of the Pajarito Plateau of the Jemez Mountains) and others to Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo, along the Rio Grande). Beginning around 1580, drought forced the residents of the Puye area to relocate closer to the Rio Grande and they founded what we now know as Santa Clara Pueblo on the west bank of the river, between San Juan and San Ildefonso Pueblos.
In 1598 Spanish colonists from nearby Yunque (the seat of Spanish government near San Juan Pueblo) brought the first missionaries to Santa Clara. That led to the first mission church being built around 1622. However, the Santa Clarans chafed under the weight of Spanish rule like the other pueblos did and were in the forefront of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. One pueblo resident, a mixed black and Tewa man named Domingo Naranjo, was one of the rebellion's ringleaders. When Don Diego de Vargas came back to the area in 1694, he found most of the Santa Clarans on top of nearby Black Mesa (with the people of San Ildefonso). An extended siege didn't subdue them so eventually, the two sides negotiated a treaty and the people returned to their pueblo. However, successive invasions and occupations by northern Europeans took their toll on the tribe over the next 250 years. The Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 almost wiped them out.
Today, Santa Clara Pueblo is home to as many as 2,600 people and they comprise probably the largest per capita number of artists of any North American tribe (estimates of the number of potters run as high as 1-in-4 residents).
Today's pottery from Santa Clara is typically either black or red. It is usually highly polished and designs might be deeply carved or etched ("sgraffito") into the pot's surface. The water serpent, ("avanyu"), is a traditional design motif of Santa Clara pottery. Another motif comes from the legend that a bear helped the people find water during a drought. The bear paw has appeared on their pottery ever since.
One of the reasons for the distinction this pueblo has received is because of the evolving artistry the potters have brought to the craft. Not only did this pueblo produce excellent black and redware, several notable innovations helped move pottery from the realm of utilitarian vessels into the domain of art. Different styles of polychrome redware emerged in the 1920's-1930's. In the early 1960's experiments with stone inlay, incising and double firing began. Modern potters have also extended the tradition with unusual shapes, slips and designs, illustrating what one Santa Clara potter said: "At Santa Clara, being non-traditional is the tradition." (This refers strictly to artistic expression; the method of creating pottery remains traditional).
Santa Clara Pueblo is home to a number of famous pottery families: Tafoya, Baca, Gutierrez, Naranjo, Suazo, Chavarria, Garcia, Vigil, Tapia - to name a few.
Santa Clara Pueblo at Wikipedia
Pueblos of the Rio Grande, Daniel Gibson, ISBN-13:978-1-887896-26-9, Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2001
Upper photo courtesy of Einar Kvaran, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
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Pottery Care & Consideration
- The most obvious tip: Yes, the pots will break if you drop them!
- Do not expose pottery to water (Inside or outside). Do not wipe with a damp cloth.
- Dust pottery only with a soft, smooth cloth (no terry cloth or textured fabric). A very soft paintbrush (sable or camel) can be used.
- Always use two hands to carry your pot: one on top and one on the bottom, or one hand on each side. Be careful with handles, they can be fragile. Do not grip or lift pots by the rim. Take care when wearing jewelry, rings can scratch the finish.
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- Prevent pots from sliding. Consider attaching a small wooden molding to the front of shelves. Line shelves with non-slip material (a thin sheet of rubber foam, Styrofoam sheeting, etc.)
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In Greenwich: Pianist Goode set to inaugurate Tisch Memorial Concert series
To remember a beloved friend, mother, wife, pianist and music mentor, what better choice than to organize a memorial concert series in her name? And then to inaugurate the series with one of the world's most celebrated pianists: Richard Goode.
The life and passions of a late Pound Ridge, N.Y., musician, piano teacher and former lawyer will be celebrated annually, beginning Sunday, Nov. 17, with the Wendy Tisch Memorial Concert series, hosted by the Schubert Club of Fairfield County, at First Congregational Church in Greenwich.
Tisch died on Sept. 5, 2012, at age 59.
Schubert Club spokeswoman Nancy Weber explained that "Wendy ... was very active in the Schubert Club. After her death, her husband, Richard Tisch, asked the Schubert Club to present an annual concert."
But not just any concert. These concerts will feature "a world-class pianist to honor her memory and to give people the opportunity to hear the most accomplished pianists of our time."
Goode, in a chat from his New York City residence, said for the intimate 4 p.m. recital, he has chosen works by "two poets who loved the written word and wrote their best poetry in music," Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Claude Debussy (1862-1918).
Renowned for his Schubert acumen, Goode will devote the first half of the program to that composer. Featured will be Twelve Deutsche Landler, D. 790 (a dozen traditional German-Austrian folk dances in three-quarter time) and the composer's Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959 in four movements.
Following intermission, Debussy's Preludes, Book 1, a set of 12 songs, will be the focus. Each has a poetic, evocative title, Goode said, such as, "The sounds and the fragrances swirl through the evening air" taken from a line in a poem by Charles Baudelaire, "The hills of Anacapri," "Footsteps in the snow" and "The submerged cathedral."
A virtuoso pianist of the highest order, Goode has received glowing reviews around the world for his recitals, concerto concerts and chamber music work. Simply put, "He is one of the exemplary pianists of our day," according to the Sunday Times of London.
The New York Times puts it this way, "It is virtually impossible to walk away from one of Mr. Goode's recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight, subtle or otherwise, in the works he plays or about pianism itself."
Where does this passion come?
Goode, a founding member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, said semi-jokingly that it came from a "semi-musical family" -- his father was a piano tuner and his mother an amateur violinist.
Growing up in the East Bronx -- he recently turned 70 -- Goode said he was surrounded by music. His parents, he said, hoped he would become a violinist, but sent him initially to a neighborhood piano teacher in order that he get a solid musical education. But it quickly became clear that his soul belonged to the piano.
His great work ethic and love of the piano repertoire would bring him to the attention of some of the greatest piano teachers then alive: Elvira Szigeti, Claude Frank, and subsequently Nadia Reisenberg, Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Rudolf Serkin, with whom he studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.
The decision to become a professional pianist was not a difficult one, said Goode, who is co-artistic director of the renowned Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont.
"You make a decision like that out of need," he said, laughing. "There comes a realization that you must have music in your life, that it fills a great need within you and moves you in mysterious ways ... both intellectually and emotionally.
"And then the time comes when you give yourself over completely -- when you realize that music is an essential thirst that nothing else can satisfy."
Although Goode has performed concerti with just about every major orchestra in the world -- and enjoys the experience enormously -- he said his heart truly belongs to the recital stage, performing alone.
"On the whole, the solo recitals are most fulfilling" -- one of the many reasons that he is looking forward to the Nov. 17 event. Another is the intimacy of most recital halls: The seating capacity of the FCC in Greenwich is about 400.
"Recitals give me the freedom to explore ... knowing that the only one I need to agree with is myself."
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Ben Quilty's Self Portrait After Madrid was made after spending four months in Spain during the second half of 2007. Quilty was awarded a residency in the Barcelona studio by The Australia Council for the Arts.
While in Spain, he spent a short time in Madrid visiting the Prado Museum, which features one of the world's finest collections of European art.
"The Prado is like a big cathedral – the beginning of contemporary art as we know it. Heaven and hell, life and death," says Quilty. "I found the experience of seeing the work there overwhelming.
"The painting I've made is about anxiety and I wanted the image to make the viewer feel uneasy and confronted by my big worried head.
"At the same time the 2007 federal election was coming to a head. I was nervous about it, and the vast distance only made me feel more uneasy and helpless. I wanted the painting to reflect that anxiety as well."
Born in Sydney in 1973, Quilty has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) from Sydney College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Communication from the University of Western Sydney. In 2002, he won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and has worked as a full-time artist since. He has had 12 solo exhibitions including Death Wish at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery and has participated in over 60 group exhibitions including Truth and Likeness at the National Portrait Gallery in 2006. He was a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize in 2006. In 2009 The University of Queensland Art Museum will hold a major touring survey of Quilty's work. This is his fourth time in the Archibald Prize.


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Opening ceremonies for the 14th Annual Mills County Relay For Life will take place Saturday, at 4 p.m., on the track at Ram Memorial Field in Glenwood. The event is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.
Leading the way for the first lap of the relay will be this year's Relay For Life Ambassadors - Mike Bolan, Lyle Jones, Karen O'Dell, Wilma Ring and Kathy Ryan. The traditional team lap will also take place at the start of the relay.
Eleven games ago, following a tough 2-0 loss to Omaha South to drop his team to 5-2 on the season, Glenwood soccer coach Mike Artist had to come to a decision:
Keep juggling his line up, searching for a right combination that might work or just stick with one line up and let the chips fall where they may.
Artist chose the latter.
Taylor Kaufman and Drake Ruth combined for a no-hit, 1-0 Glenwood victory over Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson on Friday.
The win was Class 3A, No. 2-ranked Rams' third straight to open the season.
Kaufman started the game and fanned 10 in five innings before giving way to Ruth in the sixth. Kaufman (1-0) earned the win and Ruth the save.
Kaufman and left-fielder Kyle Wheeler each had one of the Rams' two hits. Kaufman also drew a walk, stole a base and scored the game's lone run.
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The Fremont-Mills softball team went 1-2 at the Red Oak Softball Tournament on Saturday.
The Knights (3-3) opened the tournament with a 2-1 victory over Griswold before dropping their final two tournament games 9-1 to Walnut and 4-3 to the host Tigers.
Against Griswold, Knight pitcher Mindy Lorimor fanned 16, allowed just four hits and no earned runs for the win. Shortstop Emily Smith went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead the Knights' offense.
Lorimor allowed seven hits and four earned runs against Red Oak to record her first loss of the season.
The Fremont-Mills baseball team pounded out 10 hits but it was not enough as Villisca edged the Knights 10-9 in Corner Conference baseball on Friday.
Seth Phillips went 4-for-5 with two doubles and two runs driven in for the Knights (1-2).
Clayton Wilson and James Hill each added two hits.
Austin Hansen started the game on the hill for the Knights but left without a decision following the fourth inning after allowing three hits and no earned runs. Derrian Bredberg pitched the fifth, allowing five hits and four earned runs to take the loss.
DES MOINES - It wasn't the place (12th) nor the points (22) Glenwood track coach Mark Starner hoped for coming out of the Iowa State Track Meet but there is one thing his team did take away from its three days at state that excites the coach.
Of the 12 events the Glenwood boys qualified for at state, all but one of the athletes in those spots will be back next season.
The Glenwood boys soccer team wrapped up the Hawkeye 10 Conference title with a dominating 3-0 victory over Denison last Monday.
The Rams (14-2 overall, 5-1 in the conference) have won eight straight games. Glenwood has also now captured two of the past three Hawkeye 10 titles.
"It was nice to see," said Glenwood coach Mike Artist of his team's conference title. "It was one of our goals. Two out of the last three isn't bad."
Gretchen Dehn 's first goal of the season and the 10th for the Rams on the night ended a 10-0 victory over Riverside on Friday.
The Rams' season-high 10 goals came from six different scorers.
"I don't like doing that (scoring 10 goals) to a team. I honestly didn't know what the score was," said Glenwood coach Brad Silvey.
Mallory Hoyt had a hat trick in the win and Michaela Moore added two goals.
The Glenwood girls and boys track teams combined to qualify in 16 events for the Iowa State Track Meet at Friday's Class 3A District Meet in Atlantic.
The Rams' 16 state qualifiers will begin their quest for state gold on Friday at the Iowa State Track Meet at Des Moines' Drake Stadium.
Jefferson-Scranton won the district team title with 152 points, to edged runner up Harlan and the third place Rams. In the individual standings, the Glenwood boys earned three gold medals on the day and advanced in 12 events.
The question gave Glenwood coach Bret Elam pause.
After three straight 20 win seasons and with his top four pitchers and top five hitters returning, is the Glenwood baseball team the favorite in the Hawkeye 10 Conference this season?
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Almost Human is an action-packed police procedural set 35 years in the future, when police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.
The year is 2048. Meet Detective John Kennex, a cop who survived one of the most catastrophic attacks ever made against the police department. After waking up from a 17-month coma, he can't remember much - except that his partner was killed, he lost one of his legs and he is now outfitted with a highly sophisticated synthetic appendage.
By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. And despite his passionate aversion to androids, John is paired up with Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses. Although such responses were deemed flaws, it is in these "flaws" that John relates to Dorian most. After all, John is part-machine now, and Dorian is part-human. John and Dorian's understanding of each other not only complements them, it connects them.
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Cerealism: Art Made from Breakfast Cereal!
In the vein of Carl Warner's foodscapes and Brittany Powell's sandwich art, Phoenix-based photographer Ernie Button creates landscapes using cereal, a genre he has (quite appropriately and hilariously) called Cerealism.
As Mr. Button explains on his website,
...it is clear that breakfast cereal has changed from mere nutrition to sheer entertainment. The cereal aisle has become a cornucopia of vibrantly colored marshmallows that resemble people and objects and characters from movies, as if they were calling out to have their portraits taken, to be the center of attention. However, on the other side of the aisle sits the more 'adult' cereals (i.e. fiber, bran). Having lived in Arizona for over 35 years, those cereals upon close inspection resemble some of the shapes and colors and textures of the southwestern desert.
Thus, he began to construct landscapes that would "utilize the natural earth tones of certain cereals" by placing photographs of Arizona skies in the background, and putting cereal pieces in the foreground, giving the final image "an odd sense of reality." See more of Ernie Button's work at his website!
As someone who's spent a significant amount of time in the Midwest, I think the "bales of wheat" against a setting sun is my favorite!
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In this book, we have described the joyous faith in Allah manifested by the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) and the Prophet Lot (pbuh), how they turned to our Lord in all of their actions, their superior moral values, and their difficult struggles against their pagan and sinful peoples. The Prophet Abraham (pbuh) relayed the Divine message to his tribe with great determination and, thanks to his submission to Allah, was patient and steady in all circumstances. The Prophet Lot (pbuh) struggled patiently with his tribe, calling on them to believe in Allah and abandon their immorality. These prophets, made superior to the worlds by Allah, won His good pleasure due to the deep faith and superior moral values they exhibited throughout their lives. In the end, they achieved their true abode in Paradise, with its infinite blessings.
The greatest aim of each believer's life is to follow in the footsteps of the prophets, each of whom was a guide to the true way, and thus become servants with whom Allah is pleased. Allah gives the glad tidings of the reward awaiting such believers:
Whoever obeys Allah and the messenger will be with those whom Allah has blessed: the prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth, the martyrs, and the righteous. What excellent company such people are! (Surat an-Nisa', 69)
In order to become Allah's friend and be with the prophets in the Hereafter, believers must live in accord with Allah's good pleasure, always trust in Him, and hold Him and His religion above everything else. Whoever demonstrates these virtues and thus lives according to the Prophet Abraham's (pbuh) words that"I have submitted to the Lord of the worlds," can expect the greatest happiness from Allah and to reach salvation.
The fact that many people remain heedless of His existence must not deceive anyone. The Prophet Abraham (pbuh) called on his pagan tribe to believe, even though he was alone, and our Lord praised this moral virtue: "Abraham was a community in himself…" (Surat an-Nahl, 120). The Prophet Lot (pbuh), together with a very few believers, displayed his very superior submission to Allah and called on his largely homosexual tribe to abandon their immoral lifestyles and to believe (Surat adh-Dhariyat, 36). Those very few believing people, however, were much stronger than all of their people, for they had Allah's help and support.
The important thing is to understand that Allah controls everything that exists, all of which has submitted to Him, and to live accordingly. The Prophet Abraham (pbuh) and the Prophet Lot (pbuh) understood this truth and became His friends. Like them, all believers must seek to achieve the same level of deep faith and spirituality and make a serious effort to become His friend.


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Friday, March 30, 2012
Lady Tweed
Hat: {mon tissu} Feather Wrapped Fedora ~ Straw
Hair: Elikatira - Show - Black 04
Skin: -Tres Blah- {Light} Blessa: Catty
Earrings: Dark Mouse - Charming Birds Earrings
Top: ISON - shear layered shirt (at collabor88)
Bra: Willow~ Sweetheart Bra
Pants: Aura - Class Act Pants (mesh) (new)
Bracelet: *League* Vintage Lace Hand Bracelet
Bag: [LeLutka] GUAJIRA bag/coffee
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at your door
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Earrings: Caroline's Jewelry- Vintage Pearl Drop Earrings
Necklace: Caroline's Jewelry - Vintage Watch Key Necklace
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Waking Dream
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Pants: Baiastice_Joho high waist pants
Flats: Ingenue :: Organique Flats (new @ collabor88)
Bag: Tee*fy My Ugly Scary Cat (group gift)
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Green Garden
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Kumi Pony Mesh Hair
Skin: Fashionably Dead - Bird Skin - Matte Cateye 4
Top: ISON - shear layered shirt (new @ collabor88)
Shorts: *Ninia* Aztec shorts
Leggings: urbana. Kim Leggings Black
Platforms: Kyoot - Platform Wedges (new @ collabor88)
Bag: *Tea Time* - World Bag
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Glasses: MIEL MEOW PEEPERS - candy gloss (My Attic Event)
Necklace: Izzie's - Rose Stone Necklace (Limited Couture Event)
Necklace 2: Magic Nook - Peace Necklace
Top: Nylon Outfitters - Tie Shirt - White Watercolors (new)
Undershirt: [ SAKIDE ] See-through Ribbed Shirt White
Shorts: Tres Blah - C88 Board Shorts - Foam (new @ collabor88)
Tights: Honey Kitty - (mint)thin border socks
Tea Bag: cluttered. tea is what winners drink (new)
Shoes: Tokidoki - Gio high-top shoes (grey) (new--stumblebum item)
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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Hair: .: vive nine :. Feuille in PopMotion (parted) (new @ collabor88)
Skin: Fashionably Dead - Bird Skin - Matte Cateye 4
Glasses: (Yummy) Mom Shades 2.0
Necklace: *League* 3Vintage Necklaces
Top: Nylon Outfitters - Rosey Outlook Jacket (new @ collabor88)
Skirt: Willow~ Maxi Skirt - Slate
Shoes: ::Duh!:: Parisian Stripe Ballet Flat
Bag: Tokidoki - peace satchel
Poses: (pda) for march c88 (new @ collabor88)
Flowers: Trompe Loeil - Mesh Flowers (new @ collabor88)
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Floral Mix
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Skin: ~Mynerva~Group Gift 3~Milena Preview Update Porcelain
Glasses: (Yummy) Round Shades - Tortoise
Necklace: Paper Couture - Agate Bib Necklace
Dress: AlaFolie - Printed Stretch (mesh)
Tights: Kyoot - Sisley Tights (new @ collarbor88)
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Shoes: ISON - color block prism pump (new @ collabor88)
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Skin: *MY UGLYDOROTHY -Serah08(Salmon)
Bag: Tokidoki - peace satchel (greyscale) (new-gatcha)
Vest: *COCO*_ShortVest(StripeBlack)
Necklace: Dark Mouse - Sage Advice Pearl Necklace
Shirt: Kyoot - Portland Tee (Antelope) (new-stumblebum item)
Skirt: urbana. Reina Skirt
Tights: *blowpop* Seamed Fishnet Tights
Boots: Leverocci - Range Boots
(Decor: Paintings - Paparazzi Studios ; Clock - Northwest; Rug - LISP)
Posted by Estella Magic at 3:21 PM 1 comment:
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Zigana - Hunters hide out (EPOCH event--beast)
Dress: Willow - The PIcard Dress (EPOCH event--art of escher)
Hair: Aoharu - Gemma
Skin: My Ugly Dorothy - Serah
Necklace: Yummy - Miss Havisham's Broken Heart (collabor88)
Posted by Estella Magic at 1:17 AM No comments:
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