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Luminaria: Volume 1, Issue 9
by Nathan Schiller on November 13, 2012 in Luminaria with No Comments »IN THIS ISSUE
- Letter from the Editor
- Learning the Tricks to College Life
- Learning How to Learn: Academia's Best Kept Secret
- Learners Who Inherit the Future
- Study Skills
Letter from the Editor
Sujey Batista, Writing Specialist
"The future belongs to those who are capable of being retrained again and again."
—Daniel Burns
Salutations Readers,
Our latest issue discusses one of the most valuable skills one can possess as a student and working professional: the ability to learn. Lifelong learning is vital for those who seek success throughout their working lives. Those who can successfully acquire and apply this part skill, part survival tactic are more likely to thrive in today's dynamic and fast-paced world. Lifelong learners embrace the idea of learning as a mechanism for improvement as professionals and human beings.
The submissions from our team explore this topic from a variety of angles. Aside from providing readers with a conceptual understanding of the skill, we discuss the relevance of this ability in correlation with current workforce trends and its connection to Purpose-Centered Education. The issue features an interactive piece that explores the benefits of study skills as an effective learning strategy. Another section, dedicated to the student reader, provides insight on skills that, when mastered, can ease the challenges of college life. We've provided our readers with valuable insight that, in combination with a self-directed attitude and open-mind, can help anyone accomplish their most valued goals. Enjoy!
Learning the Tricks to College Life
Nathan Schiller, Writing Specialist
A college education is predicated on learning, but learning need not be confined to the classroom. Indeed, there are everyday skills that comprise the college lifestyle that we are not born with. But when mastered, these everyday skills are ones that can help you with your classroom learning.
1. Learning to become organized.
Assessing the situation. One of the biggest obstacles a college student must overcome is poor organization. I cannot tell you how many times I have been unable to work with a student because he/she is frantically searching through a 5-inch-thick pile of arbitrarily put-together papers that he/she keeps in his/her book bag for a single assignment sheet. This wastes not only time but energy, as the student becomes increasingly upset and angry with the situation—a difficult mood to overcome when trying to write, say, a critical essay.
And just as you might accumulate so many pieces of physical paper, you accumulate many digital pieces of paper. Think of how many Word documents you've started, worked on, and forgotten about. Suddenly, it's a month later, and you need one of these pieces of paper. Trouble is, you can't remember for your life where you saved the file. And the even bigger problem is that you have absolutely no idea under what name you saved it. It could be buried on your laptop, on one of your six flash drives (only two of which you can locate), or on the desktop of a random computer in the library.
Learning the trick. Organization is one of the easiest problems to solve, but most people never do so. Why? Because it's not instantaneously easy. You can't just shove all your papers into a single manila folder or save all your files in your computer's "documents" folder; doing so will lead to the same sorts of problems that plagued you in the first place. Organization takes planning. Not excessive amounts of planning, but you certainly have to think things through.
If you have five classes, you should have one paper folder for each class. Inside each folder, you can use paper clips, or dividers within the folder, to organize by, say, class notes, assignments, and reading materials. Now imagine the exact same system of classification applied to the computer: folders within folders within folders. If you can put names to these folders, and you can always understand what type of paper or file you need to save in the folder, you will never spend excessive amounts of time on a futile search for your materials.
2. Learning the right mindset.
Assessing the situation. College classes can be exceedingly difficult, and that makes it easy to resent your decision to attend school. Everyone who has been through at least a single semester of college is able to identify with the dreaded feeling of realizing that you have a math test, a group presentation, and two papers due on Monday . . . and it's already Friday . . . and you still haven't finished your homework for the week, let alone thought about the assignments. It's a terrible situation, because there is seemingly no way out. Writing a paper? It's a long, arduous, tedious process in and of itself, one that might take weeks, depending on the topic and the research. And now you have to write two? And memorize five different formulas? And communicate with your group members, whose email addresses you've misplaced?! At this point, you might as well just give up completely. Forget about everything; hang out with your friends, see a movie, sleep in. You'll never finish everything, so just do nothing. It's the easiest way to approach the situation. But it's also the worst way because it is, without question, the least productive.
Learning the trick. In the midst of a seemingly impossible situation, the last thing you want to do is become overly emotional, because doing so leads to rash assertions: I'll never finish this paper; the test material is too hard. Once you get on a roll, the defeatist attitude becomes inexorable. Next thing you know, you're convincing yourself that you're the kind of person who gets something in their head and can't get it out.
Okay. If you trace the thought process of the previous paragraph back to its root, you'll see that the entire situation gets out of hand not because of reality but because of emotions. Now, I'm not a mental health professional, so rather than talk about controlling your emotions (though that's a noble and worthy thing to do), I'm going to focus on an alternative philosophy regarding college life: the clinical, technical perspective.
The basic thrust of this idea is that any task in the world, whether it's related to your career, you social life, or your student days, becomes drastically easier when you view it in segments and installments, as opposed to one massive, looming entity. Pretend you're a mountaineer. Now imagine yourself standing at the base of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. When you gaze up at the peak, which, set against the majestic blue sky, seems so tall, it may seem like no person could reach the summit. And it is true that until the middle of the 20th century, everyone who had attempted to climb it had failed. But then two people did it, then more, and although various factors make it a vastly difficult peak to climb, reaching the top has been proven, over and over again, to be within the realm of human possibility. If someone else can do it, can you? Of course? But you're staring up at it—it's so high!—how is it possible?
3. Learning time management.
Assessing the situation. Now, pretend you're in your impossible school situation. Think it's different than your attempt to climb Mt. Everest (snow and ice vs. books and computers)? You're right, it is different . . . but it contains the same underlying principles.
It's Friday night. You need to focus, just for a few minutes, on your first paper. Turns out that, after re-reading the assignment sheet and brainstorming for ten minutes (just ten minutes!), you have an idea of what you want to say and a basic structure for how to say it. You get on the computer and, over the next two hours, type out a strong rough draft. In less than three hours, you've completed your first task.
Looking ahead, you now have Saturday and Sunday to write a paper, study for the math test, and revise this paper. Assuming you've paid attention in class and completed all the assignments and done most of the readings, you will have an easier time with this work—just like how your first paper turned out not to be so difficult. So you make a study schedule for the weekend, even working in some free time for yourself, and as you check your email before bed, you see that not everyone is as clumsy as you—in fact, your group members just wrote to say that most of the project is done; all that's left are revisions.
Oh, of course, now you remember! You had actually done a fair amount of work on it in the past two weeks, had even completed your part; it's just that when you realized you had four things to do, you lost all perspective and assumed the worst. Now things are looking up.
Learning the trick. What I'm advocating is a focus away from an emotional outlook ("this task just feels impossible") and toward an industrial one ("this task requires me to do this"). Often, the reality of a situation is inversely proportional to how we perceive the situation. Yes, college can be very hard. It is designed that way, with lots of extensive, overlapping projects, and for a good reason—we don't want slackers checking our tonsils, doing our taxes or teaching our children. If you can approach these tough situations from a clinical perspective, you can reduce their difficulty to a series of simple tasks. This is one of the first steps toward learning how to learn.
Learning How to Learn: Academia's Best Kept Secret
Sujey Batista, Writing Specialist
Educators aim to equip students with an array of skills and talents that essentially prepare students for the professional world. Yet arguably, the most important skill for success—the ability to learn—is not intrinsically taught in the class room. However, as alarming as that may be, there is hope for those who possess a self-directed attitude.
Learning how to learn is a byproduct of the self-directed student's learning experience.
Over the course of my life, I've acquired the ability to "learn how to learn." While there is no single moment I can attribute for the acquisition of this skill, I can credit a culmination of experiences, especially some beyond my undergraduate years.
One experience in particular serves as evidence that the ability to learn is both expected and tested upon entry into the professional world, and even more importantly that a self-directed attitude is elemental to acquiring that skill.
When I first arrived at the LEC toward the end of the spring 2011 semester, I was very eager to start working with students. The first few students I sat with had relatively simple issues concerning sentence structure, mechanics, and organization. Everything seemed to be going smoothly; that is until, I encountered the Constructive Action.
My supervisor briefly mentioned the document during my orientation, but the exact particulars were unclear. Initially it sounded like any other end-of-term paper.
My first official confrontation with the CA occurred during a session with an MBA student named Alexia*. Like most graduate students, she was concerned with the quality of her work and wanted it assessed by an expert pair of eyes. She was in her last purpose and under immense pressure. I was able to answer some of her questions, but far too often I found myself saying, "I need to get back to you on that." It's the best way to say that you have no clue.
Before that point, I thought I knew everything there was to know about academic writing. But here was a document that was completely foreign to me and that I knew I needed to learn more about. It's erroneous to assume that there isn't room for growth in one's skill sets, even after being in a field or industry for a long time. Unconsciously, I had taken the first step in learning how to learn; keeping an open mind. Be open-minded and accept challenges even if it contests your most founded beliefs.
I now had a learning goal that I was seeking to accomplish.
Everyone has a particular learning style, and knowing one's style is essential in accomplishing any learning goal. For me, traditional instruction has always been an effective learning strategy, and so I thought that sitting in on a CA class would be a good way for me to learn the CA. My supervisor advised me to sit in on Professor Damian's Purpose III CA course, which focused on promoting empowerment through teaching and communication.
Now I had to take the next step: action. Wanting to do something and actually doing it are two very different things. A positive attitude alone will not help you reach your goal; action is required. The very next week I sat in Professor Damian's class. Because practice and application helps solidify newly learned concepts, I took the next and most logical step; I wrote a CA of my own. Completing a CA turned out to be most effective learning strategy. I realized that the CA is more than just a document; it's a record of action and implementation toward the accomplishment of a goal.
After accomplishing my goal, my sessions with students were far more productive and fruitful and I no longer dreaded student questions about the CA. The experience even helped me become a better a teacher. I remembered what it was like to be a student, struggling to learn something new.
*Names have been changed.
Learners Who Inherit the Future
Parker Pracjek, Academic Coordinator
"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
—Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
If we look at our current cultural and financial landscape, marked by global financial instability, repeated recessions, spread of information and an explosion of personal and global networks, we can see that the rate and depth of change is like none seen before in human history. Given so much uncertainty in the midst of a learning revolution, how can we plot our course of life-long learning? What to pursue?! For today's college student, life-long learning is less an idyllic pursuit of being a well-rounded or interesting individual, and much more of a developmental skill crucial for social empowerment and employment in an increasingly unpredictable workforce environment.
The term "life-long learning" is both self-evident (of course we learn throughout life) and layered in meaning and application. The concept is infused with meaning depending on the cultural times, as it is certainly not a modern coinage. With any significant cultural, industrial or technological shift, there are newly-zealous proponents of life-long learning—all with very reasonable perspectives and agendas. I will survey a few recent perspectives related to workforce trends here and link them to the unique Purpose-Centered Education model at Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY).
Shifting Workforce Landscape
For both working professionals and college students alike, some sobering trends are emerging. As Robert Safian (2012) at Fast Company recently noted,
the vast bulk of our institutions—educational, corporate, political—are not built for flux. Few traditional career tactics train us for an era where the most important skill is the ability to acquire new skills.
Institutions aside, humans are highly adaptable and made for flux. And luckily for students of MCNY, their institution was founded in direct response to higher learning institutions' inability to adapt quickly to the times (Cohen, 1977). While the MCNY student may be at certain advantages, no emerging or established professional will likely be immune to the far-reaching shifts now requiring very specific learning skills.
The UNESCO Institute for Education (2001) estimates that "60% of trades and jobs to be performed in the next two decades or so are not yet known." Perhaps "sobering" was too light a term, as the gravity of their findings means that the working skills you had five years ago may not serve you well any longer. Not only are trade forecasts shifting, but years on a job is as well. Kamenets (2012) reports that "the median number of years a U.S. worker has been in his or her current job is just 4.4, down sharply since the 1970's." Indeed, this shifting landscape necessitates a conceptual shift; no longer do metaphors such as progressing upward along a hierarchical "career ladder" make the same sense as they did even a decade ago. Even the idea of "success" has to be re-framed, as diversity of job types actually becomes desirable to employers, revealing that a worker may have a prized set of adaptive learning skills (Fidler, 2012).
It is certainly impractical to assume that we all must always be in higher education/training programs perpetually. Indeed, more than ever before, learning to learn (the ability to acquire new skills) is the most relevant and sustainable educational and professional pursuit.
Given the national decline of job tenure and impossibility of predicting future trade prospects, the Institute for the Future (an independent nonprofit research group based in California), has developed a set of "proficiencies and abilities across different jobs and work settings" that are fueled by various disruptive shifts they call "drivers" The six drivers shaping this new landscape are:
1. Extreme Longevity: increasing global lifespans change the nature of careers and learning
2. Computational world: massive increase in sensors and processing power make the world a programmable system
3. Superstructed organizations: social technologies drive new forms of production and value creation
4. Rise of smart machines and systems: workplace robotics nudge human workers out of rote, repetitive tasks
5. New media ecology: new communication tools require new media literacies beyond text
6. Globally-connected world: increased global interconnectivity puts diversity and adaptability at the center of organizational operations
They next defined key work skills that will be required in the next 10 years:
Sense-making | ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed |
Social intelligence | ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions |
Novel & adaptive thinking | proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based |
Cross-cultural competency | ability to operate in different cultural settings |
Computational thinking | ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning |
New-media literacy | ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication |
Transdisciplinarity | literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines |
Design mindset | ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes |
Cognitive load management | ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques |
Virtual collaboration | ability to work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team |
Looking at Living Problems
While, at first glance, this formulation of skill sets may seem especially well-suited for the business world, it is certainly applicable to other sectors. (It is noteworthy that two of the skill sets hinge on competencies in new/virtual media.) Broader and more nuanced formulations have emerged from other perspectives that can inform the above model. UNESCO's "Revisiting Lifelong Learning" (2001) sets out a very useful "constellation of characteristics of the lifelong learner." There is a beautiful synchronicity between these precepts and the defining vision of MCNY's founder, Audrey Cohen, of "teach[ing] students to look at living problems in the real world in a comprehensive way"(p.6).
Let's consider the overlap between UNESCO's designations and MCNY's Purpose-Centered Education model's Constructive Action.
1. The learner as an active and creative explorer of the world
"His/her interaction with the environment is informed by his/her hypotheses, perceptions, aspirations, values, attitudes, cognitive styles, etc. The learner can also anticipate future developments, test hypotheses and create. Learning is an interplay between the learner and his/her learning environments" (Medel-Añonuevo, Ohsako, Mauch, p9).
The MCNY Constructive Action(CA) is "a set of learning activities and a learning product designed to improve a social environment or social relations, or to foster human development or well-being. As activities, the CA is conducted within a specified social environment, allowing for supervision and feedback. As product, the CA is either a document or portfolio that includes a review of pertinent literature, a rationale for the CA, formulation of goals/objectives, selection and justification of targeted actions, a statement of findings justified by evidence, and an interpretation of findings in terms of review literature and next steps"(Grallo, 2012).
MCNY calls on all students to be active and creative explorers of the world through the CA, a "living case study" (Cohen, 1978, p. 4). The Constructive Action as a set of 'learning activities' undergirds many of the skills UNESCO noted, especially the Plan of Action section, where students create a short-term goal and related objectives and devise strategies for meeting the goal and evaluating their actions within their specified social learning environment in a semester period.
2. The learner as a reflexive agent
"Learning facilitates a process which enables the learner to reflect on his/her life and environment. The learner's reflexivity cannot be sufficiently guaranteed by external learning resources or teachers and mentors alone. Lifelong learning needs to aim at building this competency through the eyes of the learner. […]Another way to promote learner reflexivity is to encourage his/her own active engagement in problems. The learner needs to self-question and critically analyze learning processes and results. Learner comprehension and self-management of learning processes and results are two important bases for the development of self-reflexivity." (Medel-Añonuevo, Ohsako, Mauch, p. 9).
The Constructive Action is built on the very premise of engagement with real-life problems (Cohen, 1997, p.8). Students use reflection through distinct CA sections for self-assessment, assess a community or work situation and reflectively analyze the strategies implemented to affect a change.
3. The learner as a self-actualizing agent
"Self-actualization(or fulfilling one's potential as an individual), curiosity, and exploration are lifelong drivers of human action" (Medel-Añonuevo, Ohsako, Mauch, p.10).
In each successive Constructive Action, students practice self-actualization by assessing a need or opportunity in their work or community, creatively imagining possible avenues of addressing the need, and making a plan to enact specific strategies that build on their developing personal and professional skills. As they strive to meet any need or opportunity, they must employ their best professional skills and values, always fueling an ever-deeper personal understanding of themselves and the world.
4. The learner as an integrator of learning
"The challenge for the lifelong learner is the so-called integration of thinking, feeling and action. Another aspect of integration involves managing learning opportunities, taking advantage of all the different learning settings, whether in-school or out-of-school, formal or informal, and across a wide range of learning content"(Medel-Añonuevo, Ohsako, Mauch, p.10-11).
The founder of MCNY, Audrey Cohen (1997), speaks directly to this marker of lifelong learning (26 years before the UNESCO report), noting that hers "is the one model that does not separate the mind from the body, thought from action, or the client from the professional, and that bases advancement and status on performance" (p.26). As integrators of learning, MCNY students are empowered to be agents of social change. To be empowered, "one must be informed, able to negotiate with or through the many systems which affect one's life and capable of using these systems on one's own behalf. One must take control of one's own life. If there is to be social justice, citizens must act as integrating agents for their own needs" (Cohen, 1978, p. 2).
Here we see an impressive link between characteristics of life-long learners and an institutional model that actively demands that students produce new relevant skills while assessing and reflecting on self, others, systems, skill sets and values. MCNY and faculty seem to be well-poised to not only "weather" the learning revolution, but to excel and be leaders in defining what is educative and employable.
While most of the Institute for the Future's work skills can neatly function within UNESCO's four characteristics, the latter is especially rich in its consideration of the holistic learner. As a precursor to the more recent work, a 1996 UNESCO report acknowledged that
not only must [the concept of lifelong learning] adapt to changes in the nature of work, but it must also constitute a continuous process of forming whole beings—their knowledge and aptitudes, as well as the critical faculty and ability to act. It should enable people to develop awareness of themselves and their environment and encourage them to play their social role and work in the community (p.3).
While the breakneck speed of global change directly impacts the local and international workforce and the relevance of our training, it also opens up an unbelievable array of opportunities, resources and connectivity, not for the worker, but for the human. For, where "social intelligence" makes for meaningful workplace interaction, so, too, does it release nations from the grip of dictators. Where "novel and adaptive thinking" can win clients in major advertising firms, so, too, does it make for better communities when used by city councils and community boards. "Transdisciplinarity" and "cognitive load management" make for dynamic supervisors and leaders as well as helping to keep a conversation alive and meaningful at the dinner table with three teenagers. Through the practice and thoughtful application of these learning skills, our lives can be enriched and empowered on many levels.
To MCNY students and others pursuing higher education, I urge you to look beyond that which is rote or rule-based, notions that are deceptively "predictable", and satisfaction with specialization. Instead, actively nurture all that makes you adaptive, inquisitive, humbled, driven, and absolutely fascinated by your very own questions and pursuits.
Cohen, A. (1997) The Third Alternative, New York: Audrey Cohen College.
Fidler, D. (Jan 24, 2012) The Re-working of "Work". Retrieved from http://www.iftf.org/reworkingwork
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Grallo, R. (2012). Personal communication.
Institute for the Future for Apollo Research Institute (2011) Future Work Skills 2020. Retrieved from http://apolloresearchinstitute.com/sites/default/files/future_work_skills_2020_full_research_r eport_final_1.pdf
Kamenetz, A. (January 12, 2012). The Four-Year Career. Retrieved from http://www.fastcompany.com/1802731/four-year-career
Medel-Añonuevo, C., Ohsako, T., Mauch, W. (2001). Revisiting Lifelong Learning for the 21st Century. UNESCO Institute for Education. Retrieved from http://www.unesco.org/education/uie/pdf/revisitingLLL.pdf
Safian, R. (January 9, 2012). This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business. Retrieved from http://www.fastcompany.com/1802732/generation- flux-meet-pioneers-new-and-chaotic-frontier-business
Study Skills
Aleksandr Rusinov, Math Specialist


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- "Portal was a test-bed. Portal 2 is a game."
- —Doug Lombardi[src]
Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It was released on April 19, 2011 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Portal 2 is a sequel to Portal so this the first game to be create by Valve to be rated E10+, compared to the M rating of all of their previous titles excluding the first Portal game and the original Day of Defeat, which were rated T.
First hinted in the update made to Portal in March 2010 as part of the Portal ARG, it was announced on March 5, 2010 to be released in fall 2010,[4] but was later announced on June 9, 2010 as delayed until an unspecified date in 2011,[5] until it was said to be released on February 9, 2011.[6] This date was again delayed to April 19.[7]
Portal 2 was previewed in the twelve-page cover story of the April 2010 issue of Game Informer, revealing some plot details and new gameplay features.[8] It was also confirmed that GLaDOS was indeed still alive, and would return as the main antagonist.[9] In addition, Game Informer and other sources confirmed a co-op mode for up to two players with its own separate campaign.[9] The co-op campaign was said to have its separate credits, and would take place after the single player story.[10][11] Valve was also scheduled to unveil the Portal 2 World Premiere on June 14, at their E3 2010 press conference,[12] but later canceled the showing of Portal 2 on the 14th through a humorous e-mail, to be replaced with a "surprise". The game was shown in the form of a demo at Valve's own booth instead,[13] and on June 15, the first Portal 2 trailer was shown during the Sony press conference, with the "surprise" apparently being its release on the PlayStation 3 console, which was originally not the case.
- Chell
- ATLAS and P-body
- GLaDOS
- Wheatley (Intelligence Dampening Sphere)
- Cave Johnson (Portraits and voice only)
- Caroline (Hidden portrait and voice only)
- Doug Rattmann (Scribblings only)
- Space Core
- Adventure Core ("Rick")
- Factual Core
- GLaDOS (First half of single-player)
- Aperture Science Sentry Turret
- Wheatley (Second half of single-player)
The gameplay of Portal 2 is based on its predecessor Portal, where the player, with the use of portals, solves puzzles. New gameplay elements such as Mobility Gels, the Aerial Faith Plate and the Thermal Discouragement Beam were implemented as means for the player to master in order to solve puzzles.
Chell no longer wears the Advanced Knee Replacement, but instead suited in the new Aperture Science Long Fall Boots. Combat plays a slightly larger role than in the last game, seeing as Chell is always meeting with enemies along the way.
Co-op campaign
Cooperative play is a new game mode introduced to Portal 2. The campaign features two characters, ATLAS and P-body. The two players must work together to pass tests and areas outside the test chambers. The developers implemented robotic characters in order to ease explanation of a respawning system, giving the story explanation that humans could not be trusted.
The gameplay is very similar to single-player mode, with the addition of object-specific buttons and tools to aid in cooperative play, as well as 8 gestures.
The Co-op campaign also contains whiteboards with writings found in images from The Potato Sack, That are found in final test chambers, that are out of the testing track.
As mentioned in The Final Hours of Portal 2, Portal 2 stemmed from F-STOP, which originally was a prequel to the first game set during Cave Johnson's era. F-STOP was not to feature portals; what remains of it in the final game is the Enrichment Shafts.
In 2007, Kim Swift stated that future Portal developments would depend on the community's reactions, saying, "We're still playing it by ear at this point, figuring out if we want to do multi-player next, or Portal 2, or release map packs."[14][15] On January 31, 2008, Lombardi confirmed that "more Portal" would be forthcoming, and promised that the additional content would not just be "more puzzles";[16] an interview with Kim Swift on February 21, 2008 revealed that a full sequel, Portal 2, would be coming.[17] Swift also stated that the team creating the Portal sequel were deciding upon the design they should implement and that a multiplayer Portal "from a technology standpoint is possible",[18] though Swift had previously stated they tried a Portal multiplayer deathmatch variant, but admitted that "it's less fun than you'd think."[19]
On June 10, 2008, Kotaku reported that Valve was seeking voice actors for the character role of Aperture Science CEO Cave Johnson and suggested that the second game may be a prequel to the Portal events.[20] However, it was later suggested on Kombo.com it could be a sequel, with Johnson as another AI.[21]
On April 8, 2011, lead writer Chet Faliszek gave an interview to Beefyjack where he discusses a variety of topics, including allusions to how Portal 2's story will fit into the overall Half Life universe and the secret to Valve's success when it comes to producing games being lots of playtesting.[22]
On April 13, 2011, Doug Lombardi, Valve's VP of Marketing, posted details of Portal 2's PS3 Steam integration on the official US Playstation Blog. He noted that it will "offer cross-platform matchmaking, gameplay, friends, chat, and achievements" and will also allow players to save their progress, in both the co-op and single-player mode, to the Steam Cloud, which means gamers can continue any saved game on the PS3. Achievements will sync up as well. All in all, these features will, according to Lombardi, make the PS3 version of Portal 2 "the best console version of the game."[23]
Achievements and trophies
Portal 2 has 51 PC achievements,[24] 50 Xbox 360 achievements[25] with a total of 1000 Gamerscore points, and 51 trophies;[26] 42 bronze trophies, 5 silver trophies, 3 gold trophies and 1 platinum trophy.
Portal 2 has received universal critical acclaim and currently holds a 95/100 on Metacritic. Critics praised nearly every aspect of it, particularly its use of humor. Many also find the game's difficulty at just the right level, saying it's not so hard that it's frustrating, and yet hard enough that you get a sense of success after completing a level.
Portal 2 features an interactive teaser for the then upcoming film Super 8 directed by J. J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg and released in 2011. In the teaser, the player starts in a train that soon derails (after about a minute). Following the accident, the player walks through the aftermath of the crash until arriving to a boxcar with an armored door. Something smashes the door open, then the teaser cuts to black, and is followed by the roar of an escaped creature, until the Super 8 title is shown, ending the teaser.
Downloadable content
Sixense DLC
A level pack was made available for those that purchased the Razer Hydra motion controller. It consists of six normal chambers and seven advanced chambers. With the DLC installed, the portal gun gains several new abilities. The new features work in both the extra levels and the main campaign, but are disabled in the co-op campaign. This pack was later released for the PlayStation 3's Move controllers, under the name "Portal 2: In Motion".
The first new ability is One to One, which allows the player to rotate a held object in three dimensions, as well as hold it further away through the use of an energy beam. The beam does not have infinite range, only allowing the object to be held about three or four panel lengths away. This allows for precision aiming with the Weighted Pivot Cube, and can be used to place cubes on buttons that would otherwise be out of reach.
The second ability is portal surfing. This ability allows the player to move their portals after placing them. Unlike One to One, this works at any distance. Portals can be tilted to either side and moved along walls, so long as the surface in question can support a portal. This is a necessary aspect of several tests, which have portal surfaces too short for a portal to form on vertically, necessitating that it be dragged there horizontally. Dragging portals also allows the player to move themselves or objects across a room while suspended in an Excursion Funnel. Tilting a portal connected to a Hard Light Bridge allows the bridge to be turned on its side as a shield if necessary, or moved along with the player to block a turret. The spreading of Mobility Gels can also be controlled with much greater ease.
The final ability is scaling, which allows the portal gun to alter the dimensions of a special Scaling Cube. The cube can be shrunk to fit through a tight space, stretched out and flattened to serve as a bridge, or even enlarged to cover multiple buttons at once. In addition, the scaling cube's mass increases or decreases in proportion to its size. This allows a sufficiently enlarged cube to smash through panes of glass an ordinary cube could not, as well as crush turrets or the player if it lands on them.
Portal 2: Peer Review
Portal 2: Peer Review was developed for Portal 2 and was released on October 4, 2011. The DLC was launched across all platforms (Steam, Xbox Live, PSN) free of charge. It continues the story of ATLAS and P-Body as they assist GLaDOS in finding a mysterious intruder in the facility, and adds a challenge mode for both singleplayer and co-op maps, allowing a player to race certain maps, trying to place the least amount of portals in the shortest amount of time, as well as compare their scores with other users.[27]
The Perpetual Testing Initiative
The Perpetual Testing Initiative is a level editing and sharing service for the PC and Mac versions of Portal 2, released by Valve on May 8th 2012. It is free for all who purchased Portal 2, and is included directly in the game. Users can create levels, and play them, and also share them online for other players to play. The level editor features a simple interface, and the ability to test play the level. The story line, albeit simple, involves Cave Johnson, the test subjects of Aperture Science, and multiple universes.
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- ↑ Eurogamer - "Portal 2 due out this Christmas"
- ↑ Portal 2 at E3 on YouTube
- ↑ Game Informer, April 2010 issue
- ↑ Portal 2 Announced - March 5, 2010 - on Steampowered.com
- ↑ Portal 2 Delayed to 2011 on IGN
- ↑ Gamescom: Portal 2 release date confirmed on ComputerAndVideoGames.com
- ↑ Portal 2 spawning on April 21 in Australia
- ↑ Game Informer April Preview
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Gamestop Portal 2 page
- ↑ Portal 2 will have two end credit sequences
- ↑ Portal 2 - Chet Faliszek Q&A Feature
- ↑ E3 2010 – Video Game Convention – Gaming News, Previews, Press Conferences, Trailers, Demos
- ↑ Valve Replaces Pre-E3 Portal 2 Reveal With "Surprise"
- ↑ Bramwell, Tom (2007-05-15). Portal: First Impressions. Eurogamer. Retrieved on 2007-10-05.
- ↑ Francis, Tom (2007-05-09). PC Preview: Portal - PC Gamer Magazine. ComputerAndVideoGames.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-05.
- ↑ Purchese, Rob (2008-01-31). More Portal for sure. Eurogamer. Retrieved on 2008-01-30.
- ↑ Brandon, Nick (2008-02-21). Portal 2 Confirmed by Valve. Shacknews. Retrieved on 2008-02-21.
- ↑ Multiplayer Portal possible. Gametrailers TV. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
- ↑ Faylor, Chris (2008-02-23). GDC 08: Portal Creators on Writing, Multiplayer, Government Interrogation Techniques. Shacknews. Retrieved on 2008-02-23.
- ↑ Plunkett, Luke (2008-06-10). Casting call reveals Portal 2 details. Kotaku. Retrieved on 2008-07-18.
- ↑ Levin, Phillip (2008-06-10). Rumor: Portal 2 Casting Begins, Sample Script Page Leaked!. Kombo.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-18.
- ↑ Pickard, James (2011-04-08). Interview with Vavle's Chet Faliszek. Beefyjack. Retrieved on 2011-04-08.
- ↑ Lombardi, Doug (2011-04-13). Valve Reveals Portal 2 for Playstation 3: Steam Details. Official US Playstation Blog. Retrieved on 2011-04-13.
- ↑ http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Portal2/achievements/
- ↑ http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/portal-2/achievements/
- ↑ http://www.ps3trophies.org/game/portal-2/trophies/
- ↑ [1] on Videogamer.com
External links
- Official Portal 2 website
- Portal 2 on the Steam Store
- Portal 2 at the Internet Movie Database
- Game Informer's Portal 2 March 2010 Hub
- Portal 2 section of the Steam forums

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Fraser Island dingo attack won't affect tourism
Tourism operators on Queensland's Fraser Island say they don't believe a dingo attack on a four-year-old girl will deter visitors, even though it almost mirrors an attack at the same place last year.
The girl was bitten on the thigh, buttocks and lower back as she played close to her father's vehicle on the beach near the Eurong township, on the island's east coast, yesterday afternoon.
She was treated by paramedics at the scene while a hunt began for the dingo responsible.
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) spokesman Terry Harper said the attack would have been generated by people illegally feeding the animals, which caused them to approach people more often.
He said the animal, which had been identified but not yet found, would have to be humanely destroyed.
The potentially dangerous nature of the island's dingoes was highlighted in 2001 when nine-year-old Clinton Gage was mauled to death by two dingoes at Waddy Point, in the island's north-east.
Last September, another four-year-old girl was attacked by a dingo at Eurong in similar circumstances to yesterday's event.
Photographs which captured the 2006 incident showed the girl playing on the beach with her family before a dingo ran towards her and attacked.
She was rescued by her parents.
Another attack had occurred a month earlier at Happy Valley, north of Eurong, and, more recently, rangers had to put down a dingo which had been behaving aggressively around Eurong.
But tourism operators said dingoes went part and parcel with visiting the island and they did not expect tourist numbers to be affected by the latest attack.
Blair Hyland, who works at Eurong Beach Resort, close to where yesterday's attack occurred, said tourists did not appear to be particularly worried today.
"There was a news crew and stuff here but that's pretty much all that's happened," Ms Hyland said.
Ms Hyland said the attack was worrying, but most visitors understood dingoes were something they had to live with when they came to the island, and did not feed them.
"It is worrying ... it will happen every now and again but it's just a sad thing I guess," she said.
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(CNN) -- When a group halfway around the world, without setting foot on American soil, can claim responsibility for preventing a man in Wichita, Kansas, or a woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, from gaining online access to his or her own money in the local bank, it would seem to be a pretty big deal. Something to worry about.
That is allegedly what happened in recent weeks, as six big U.S. banks had their websites jammed, one after another, preventing their customers from logging on to their personal or business accounts, and from paying bills online.
The banks affected were Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and PNC. A hacker group, saying it was based in the Middle East, asserted it was behind the cyber attacks; it remains uncertain whether they, or someone else, carried out the attacks.
And, last week, Politico reported:
"White House Press Secretary Jay Carney downplayed a report that Chinese hackers had infiltrated a secure national security network used to control nuclear codes, saying the perpetrators breached an 'unclassified' system.
"There is 'no indication whatsoever that exfiltration of data' occurred, he told reporters. . . Such attacks, he added, 'are not infrequent.'"
Any time the prefix "cyber" appears in front of another word -- cyber crime; cyberterrorism; cyber warfare -- it can have the effect of making the concept seem slightly less substantial. It's sort of like when the word "virtual" precedes a standard-issue noun: virtual reality is not reality; a virtual store is distinct from a brick-and-mortar operation.
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But as we live more and more of our lives online, and as basic needs such as electricity, water supply, transportation and communication depend increasingly on digital commands, the distinction is rapidly disappearing. Disrupt the digital world and you disrupt real lives -- you throw daily existence into uncharted territory.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, we were told that there had been ample warning signs that went unheeded. If there ever is a concerted and darkly effective cyber attack on the United States -- one that robs millions of people of baseline necessities -- we won't be able to say that no one told us this might someday happen. We have been told, for years.
In 1997, according to a report in the New York Times that year, a White House commission found that the U.S. was vulnerable to computer-based attacks "upon crucial industries like electrical power, telecommunications, transportation and significant centers of the economy."
The concern appeared to be shared by people on both sides of the political aisle. At a 2004 Senate subcommittee session, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said: "We don't take cyberterrorism as seriously as we should. A terrorist could theoretically use a computer to open up floodgates of a dam, disrupt the operations of an aircraft control tower or shut down the New York Stock Exchange."
Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, at the same hearing, said: "We've seen reports that al Qaeda has explored the possibility of damaging some of our key computer systems, seeking to cripple electric power grids, transportation systems, even financial institutions. Just imagine what chaos would result if a cyber attack were coordinated with a more conventional strike, such as bombing a highly populated area and then tampering with emergency systems to thwart hospitals and first responders caring for wounded civilians."
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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, at a speech in San Francisco earlier this year, said: "State-sponsored hackers are patient and calculating. They have the time, the money and the resources to burrow in, and to wait. They may come and go, conducting reconnaissance and exfiltrating bits of seemingly innocuous information -- information that in the aggregate may be of high value."
The Department of Homeland Security operates programs that include the National Cyber Alert System, the National Cyber Response Coordination Group and a security exercise known as Cyber Storm. Yet with all this, most of us -- as thoroughly as we have come to depend upon digital technology -- don't have much of an idea about how it really works.
If your car won't start, you may feel qualified to pop open the hood and try to figure out how to fix it; if your lights go out, you probably know where the fuse box is. Digital outages are more mysterious; when systems go dead, there is a feeling of low-grade helplessness, but usually the confidence that someone, somewhere, is working to bring them back to life.
Thus, the specter of some future cyber attack is troubling precisely because most of us have little sense of how we would individually combat such an incident. Even the terminology is open to dispute. The other afternoon I reached Internet security expert Bruce Schneier in London, where he was attending a conference. I knew he was skeptical about what he considers the inflation of language surrounding computer-based threats, especially terms like "cyber warfare."
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"War is bombs dropping on you," he told me. "War is tanks in your city. War is not your computer being hacked. In any war, there will be a cyberspace component. Wars are fought on all fronts. And cyber crime -- crime -- happens a lot. But that is not war."
Still, as the New York Times reported from Aspen, Colorado, over the summer:
"The top American military official responsible for defending the United States against cyber attacks said Thursday that there had been a 17-fold increase in computer attacks on American infrastructure between 2009 and 2011, initiated by criminal gangs, hackers and other nations.
"The assessment by Gen. Keith B. Alexander, who heads the National Security Agency and also the newly created United States Cyber Command, appears to be the government's first official acknowledgment of the pace at which America's electricity grids, water supplies, computer and cellphone networks and other infrastructure are coming under attack."
Meanwhile, there's the matter of those six major banks, and the customers who couldn't log on to get to their money.
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Choosing a Dealer - What to Look For
snakeweasel a Certified Edmunds Poster.Posts: 13,373To be perfectly honest we don't know what those 6 or 7 salesmen mulling around the showroom were actually doing. They could have been taking care of 6-7 customers at the time.
Also to be honest if I were a salesman I would wonder about someone who bypassed the showroom and went straight to the lot. I would think that they would be the least likely to buy as they are not going into an area where they can sit in a car and talk to people. In other words it takes two to tango and maybe unhappy gave to many bad signals. Maybe unhappy should have gone inside where he might have been perceived as a buyer instead of a tire kicker.2008 Sebring Ragtop, 2011 Hyundai Sonata.
jipster Louisville, KentuckyPosts: 5,440While anything is possible snake, except the Cubs winning another World Series, it is highly doubtful that 6-7 salesman "milling around" the entrance to the dealership were taking care of other customers.
The fact that unhappy was looking for 30 minutes may show she was more than a tire kicker. The fact that she was unhappy with the experience shows the salemen did a poor job of picking up her "signals". I always go straight to the lot to see if they have anything I'm interested in. It's a lot quicker and less hassle than having to get a salesmen, who will then want to spend an hour or two with you. -
snakeweasel a Certified Edmunds Poster.Posts: 13,373it is highly doubtful that 6-7 salesman "milling around" the entrance to the dealership were taking care of other customers.
First of all we only know what the poster is telling us. That means there is no definition of what "milling around" means. Secondly we don't know what day or time it was. If it was a Saturday afternoon it is very possible that all the salesmen were tied up with current customers.
And all of this ignores the fact that he made himself a low target on their radar.
The fact that unhappy was looking for 30 minutes may show she was more than a tire kicker.
That may or may not be the case. When I was in retail sales we once had someone complain that they had been waiting nearly a half hour to be waited on. I knew for a fact it was barely ten minutes (as the manager I kept tabs on what was going on in the store). So I wonder if it was truly 30 minutes. Secondly I am one of those "tire kickers" who just occasionally goes to a dealership just to look (FWIW I tell any salesman that approaches that that is why I am there just to look) and have spend nearly that much time looking at cars.
My point being that 1.) the salesmen might have been busy and 2.) unhappy might just have been giving the salesmen the wrong signals.
The fact that she was unhappy with the experience shows the salesmen did a poor job of picking up her "signals".
Two things 1.) somepeople are just not happy unless they are unhappy. Any sales professional will tell you that some people just can't be made happy. 2.) Maybe the salesmen did a poor job at picking up her signals simply because she did a poor job giving out her signals. Communication is a two way street. As I said if she just ignored the showroom and went directly to the lot and just looked at cars I would expect that a seasoned sales professional would not consider her serious.
I mean if I were serious in buying a car the first thing I would do is go into the show room, not the lot.2008 Sebring Ragtop, 2011 Hyundai Sonata.
geffen Posts: 278I would have to agree, if you are seriously considering making a car purchase and there are no salesmen to be found on the lot, usually as soon as you walk through the doors of the dealership there is a receptionist that can direct you to the first available salesman, sometimes they'll have one paged or you are usually greeted by a salesman as soon as you enter the dealership doors. In my opinion I dont think unhappy was really seriously considering to make a purchase at that particular lot.
boomchek Vancouver, BC, CanadaPosts: 5,314Yes, someone should have upped unhappy, but then if you need service, or help, ASK FOR IT.
I agree and also don't think happy was there for buying a car. They were probably "getting a feel" for the market and what not.
If I'm in a position to buy, or am after something, I will go ask for help if nobody appraoches me, instead of standing around waiting, timing the response time, or observing what others are or are not doing.
How hard is it to ask for assistance?2007 BMW 328i Sports Pkg
joel0622 Posts: 3,302Like I have said before it is a double edge sword. Some people you either get the "No one wanted to waited on me" complaint or the "We drove up and they pounced on us" complaint.
Most people now days seem to appreciate it when they pull up and are allowed to browse around and get there bearings. When they are ready for help they ask. -
isellhondas Issaquah WashingtonPosts: 19,205I don't understand. If a person is SERIOUS about buying a car, they should walk into the showroom and ask for a salesperson.
But, yes, someone should have approached the customer on the lot. A lot of shoppers hate being pounced on and they want their space. Unhappy's body language may have portrayed that of a tire kicker or a service customer killing time while their oil was being changed. -
jipster Louisville, KentuckyPosts: 5,440someone should have approached the customer on the lot.
Whether an ice cream licker or tire kicker, the customer should have been waited on.
But, I find it hard to understand how someone such as yourself, who prides himself on customer service, would have such difficulty understanding how "some" customers would want to be waited on in a timely manner.
From a consumers perspective, I expect to be waited on... not to have to chase down some salesman "milling around", who can't properly read body language.
Nobody likes being "pounced on", but we're talking 30 minutes here folks. Unless snake wants the original poster to "define" exactly what 30 minutes means... that's much to long. -
isellhondas Issaquah WashingtonPosts: 19,205Agreed, but still...I know I would have walked into the store WAY before 30 minutes went by.
They may not have been "milling around" or maybe they were and simply sized the customer up as a non-buyer. Not a smart thing to do but it happens.
I just got a "poor me" feeling after reading the original post. -
fullhouse3 Posts: 2I advice you to read my article in my carspace blogs, Its all about car dealers. here is the link of my carspace blogs
nortsr1 Posts: 1,060Fullhouse3:
That is a great car space blog that you have set up.Lots of 'make sense' tips.
Kirstie_H Posts: 11,008Gee, it looks like two things to me - 1) an article about dangers such as mobile phones & worn windshield wipers, and 2) a blatant advertisement for your business.
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herbvictim Posts: 1Dealership from hell .. this is the worst honda dealer in the world. Pure evil. Just finished writing out the BBB complaint for my experience with them.
These guys played all the tricks -- bait-and-switch, high pressure sales tactics, forcing you to take their financing, "come on down", you name it. And this happened at the highest level of the dealership -- the general manager.
I HIGHLY recommend that you DO NOT enter this dealership. These evil guys have so many tricks up their sleeves that you stand no chance. And it all starts at the top: The General Manager, Mike Kelly.
So it does not matter how "nice" the lowly sales guy is and how he is treating you. This dealership is run by a General Manager from hell and if you enter this dealership, you will pay for it.
As you can see, I am really mad -- and have just finished writing out my BBB complaint about this dealership and Mike Kelly. -
tidester Posts: 10,059You may want to consider writing up your experience in Dealer Ratings and Reviews.
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bar20 Posts: 15This is about a new car purchase as I don't buy used cars anymore. If I want to test drive a vehicle, I tell the salesman I am looking at a number of different cars and I am just test driving today. Once I know which vehicle I want to purchase I do my research for pricing, colors, options etc. I go to Autotrader.com and CARS.com. I check what's advertised on these two sites. I put in the distance I am willing to travel to purchase the car. I try to buy from the dealer that has the car I want in their stock. I try not to have a dealer search other dealers inventory because usually they have to charge you more. All manufactures have web sites and you can check inventory at different dealers. Most of them you can also download the MSRP which you will show you the color, interior and factory options that are on the car. Once I find a car, I then ask them to get me their internet quote. If you have done your homework you should know if there are any factory rebates. I like to do a country wide search on Autotrader.com. If there is a certain model I put that in the description to only bring up what I am looking for. There are not a lot of dealers that have a discount price on Autotrader but there are some. This will give you an idea what a dealer can do.
I then either use the internet pricing or I will go to the dealers web site and ask for a price from there. Normally if I get a high price I don't bother responding and ignore that dealer.A good internet salesman will give you a great price up front. Most dealers will meet another dealers price if you have it in writing ie: e-mail quote. If you want to buy the car and you are financing get a interest rate from your bank or credit union and be prequalified before you go into the dealer. Have the dealer e-mail you a work sheet showing you the cost plus tax,license,doc fees etc. Make sure he has them all on the quote. If you have a trade-in see if they will give you a price over the phone. Some dealers will some won't. Usually if I had a trade-in I would try and sell it to a private party first before going through the dealer as you will be lucky to get half it's value.
Remember there are several ways the dealer can make money on the car. The price of the car,your trade-in, the financing if you let the dealer handle it, and extras like extended warranties and other stuff that is usually sold by the finance guy. Don't let them get you into monthly payments and what you can afford. That's where your bank or CU come in. You should know what the payments and financing time period. Be very carefull because let's say you want to finace for 48 months and you tell them you have your own financing, they will ask you what you are getting and they will say if they can beat that will you use them. I have had them come back with a $25.00 per month lower payment, but when asked, I found out it was for 60 months. Before you go see the finance guy have them put it in writing. I don't buy extended warrantys or the other stuff the finance guy is pitching. If you don't either just say no! Just remember that a dealer will try and make as big a profit as he can from your sale. Remember at every step, selling price, trade-in, financing,add-ons be in control, and you do this by knowledge! -
madmanmoo Posts: 2,039Don't let them get you into monthly payments and what you can afford. That's where your bank or CU come in.
Ya, because the bank or CU don't care about making money. They are completely different than the dealership. :blush: -
fezo Manahawkin, NJPosts: 10,327Very good, moo. Glad to see you understand......
One of the fezo rules on dealerships is if the flag out on the pole is larger than the dealership itself this is a bad sign. For the most part the bigger the flag the worse the dealership.2013 Mazda 5 Grand Touring, 2010 Toyota Prius IV. 2007 Toyota Camry XLE, 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999 Mazda Miata -
Mr_Shiftright CaliforniaPosts: 55,501So are you going to coin the phrase: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a bad dealership?" :P
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fezo Manahawkin, NJPosts: 10,327Yes, that's basically correct...
Of course if you look at the papers (what are those?) you can tell ahead of time who will have the biggest flag because they have the biggest screamer ads.2013 Mazda 5 Grand Touring, 2010 Toyota Prius IV. 2007 Toyota Camry XLE, 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999 Mazda Miata -
joel0622 Posts: 3,302Ya, because the bank or CU don't care about making money. They are completely different than the dealership.
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Mr_Shiftright CaliforniaPosts: 55,501GEEZ and all this time I was thinking that my bank was a philanthropic institution. :shades:
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exb0 Posts: 539Actually, most Credit Unions are "not-for-profit" organizations. Yes, they do charge interest on their loans, but usually not as much as retail banks, and definitely not as much F&I guys try to charge. Therefore, it is a good idea to see what rate someone could get before they go to a dealership.
woolyback Posts: 45Just about sealed the deal on a new car but one thing bothers me.
The dealer where I finally decided to buy the car didn't have the car on the lot in the color or extras that I wanted.
He is at this moment having one brought in from another dealer, he wanted charge me extra for that but I refused and got the same price that we had agreed on if he'd had one on his lot.
While we were doing the paperwork I found that I would be paying sales tax on the price that the car was selling for at this other lot. Not on the final price that we had agreed on for the car.
Does this sound right or is there room for argument here.
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oldfarmer50 Posts: 9,087"...paying sales tax on the price the car was selling for at this other lot..."
Not a sales tax expert but that not only sounds like like a dealer scam but also like tax fraud. I know my state only requires tax to be charged on the actually sales price. I think your dealer is trying to make some money off you.
Can you imagine going into Best Buy and purchasing a TV during a 50% off sale and then being charged tax on the pre-sale price?2015 Mustang GT, 2009 PT Cruiser, 2004 Chevy Van, 1995 Mark VIII
woolyback Posts: 45That's kind of what I thought, however I will be checking out the final paperwork and if the correct tax amount is not on the paper there will be a problem. I don't mind paying it if it is legal and my dealer is passing on the taxable amount I pay to the state .
madmanmoo Posts: 2,039Hahaha,
I had a customer who needed money down and a cosignor on his car purchase. His uncle, pastor at a megachurch, pulls up in his Bentley to sign the paperwork for his nephew and put $15k down.
The church business is GOOD! -
Mr_Shiftright CaliforniaPosts: 55,501You're not being fair to the pastor. That's probably the only Bentley he owns.
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lhy Posts: 48Are there any websites (besides Edmunds) that provide informative ratings of used car dealerships?
I am looking for reasonably trustworthy used car dealerships in Oregon.
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If we are to believe the words of many Intelligent Design supporters (formerly Creationists (soon-to-be Intelligent Evolutionists (never-to-be Actual Scientists))) then evolution exists but it's far too complex to have just simply evolved into said complexity and must have been designed to simply look complex so as to, er, cause arguments because, ahm, it's fun to annoy scientific people yes? By redefining science to shift away from an observable and measurable basis and towards a "things I thought when I hit my head on the coffee table" basis it is possible for anyone – especially religious anyones who would otherwise struggle to hold down jobs – to label themselves "a scientician", receive funding, write books, and appear on lecture circuits, thereupon to be beswooned by easily-starstruck fundamentalists and power-hungry, small-dicked (sufferers of tiniwilli, to give it the specific medical term) politicians.
Now, proceed to ask an IDiot to speculate what we will evolve into and you'll undoubtedly run into a problem area for these "brains". You see: either we have now stopped evolving because we are the ultimate goal, the pinnacle of achievement, the perfect beings, or there's still some growing to do. They would have us believe that far from being merely an adequate form for this environment at this time, we have instead been manipulated through the aeons at a level far too complicated to require proof and we are either the end result or another link on the path to the ultimate prize.
Which leads to more questions: if we're the ultimate goal then what took the definitely-not-God, oh-no creator so long to reach this point? Couldn't He or She (just kidding: it's He) have taken some shortcuts? Couldn't we have jumped from shrews straight to Homo sapiens or are chimpanzees needed for testing cigarettes? Were the dinosaurs all killed off just so we could run cars because, if not, then it seems pretty cruel to wipe them all out and a significant waste of time in the scheme of things? What happens now that we've become perfect and how can you measure it happening since this is a sciency thing after all? If we're not the ultimate goal then how do – ooh, let's pick a religion at random here – Christians feel about your firm belief that we and – ooh, let's pick a name from history at random here – Jesus are not in God's image, unless God Himself isn't actually perfect or God was created by the not-God creator as well?
The answer to all those questions is simply: Darwin's theory of evolution can't explain everything and my dad is bigger than your dad.
But let's say that somewhere among the lunatic drivel that spews forth from proponents of ID there is some truth; we were designed by a supreme being, someone who might not be the infallible, omniscient, omnipotent God but then again might be and we'll assume is. Further, let's suppose that we are the ultimate design and not at a stage before we start to converge with marsupials because of the usefulness of awesome pouches. Just what, exactly, did God design and should He consider not giving up His day job?
Our ancestors – apes, chimpanzees, orang utans – have considerable amounts of hair and we have less. Some of us have less than others of us and some of us have more. For instance I've seen pictures of some people who would make the Yeti feel naked but that's what happens when you forget that searching for "bears" in Google can have hirsute and naked repercussions.
- Eyebrows – designed to convey the emotion of surprise,
- Pubic hair – designed to prevent misuse of bikinis and Speedos on people who really, really shouldn't be wearing them,
- Armpits – designed to aid identification of hippies and German women from distance,
- Back hair – an abomination put on this planet to test our strength of will against the natural urge to depilate it into oblivion,
- Head hair – shame of passports past is a powerful humbler,
- Facial hair – designed to prevent non-missionary position, other-than-procreational sex through the awesome power of stubble burn.
And then we get to nasal hair. What the hell was God thinking? Did nasal hair really get designed or did a moustache expedition become cut off from the lip? What's that? It stops microbial-sized bad things from being inhaled, traps them, and allows the body's defences to amass and attack? You mean snot. Which is then trapped in the nasal hair. That's the best design the ultimate designer could come up with!? Do you know why we use rinsable or disposable filters rather than a tangled mass of hair in coffee machines? Two words: hair is crap at filtering. And just what possible reason is there for it to keep growing when your nostrils remain the same size? Shoddy design, that's what.
The Back
Do you know what one of the greatest feelings is? When you stretch – really, really stretch with your arms up and your back arched and your teeth clenched – and you get that wave of euphoric bliss washing all over you and you let out a gasp because it's just sooo good. You know it's good because animals do it too and they're connoisseurs of goodness. Cats do it at least thirty times a day inbetween periods of drooling on the sofa and digging their claws into (and ruining) the cushions and you can see them smile with utter joy too. Isn't it just utterly fantastic to have a stretch and turn your muscles to jelly?
But why don't you ever see cats suddenly freeze and start shouting "Arggh! Oh God! My back. Ow-how! Oh Goddamn it to … ya motherfu … aarggh! Fucking back. I'm in agony. I heard it pop. Oh you bastard fu … aarggh! Ow! Damn it!"?
Wings and Gills and Armoured Skin
God: Here it is … the one we've been waiting for … the ultimate design … the perfect being! I call it a … human!
God Design Workshop Audience: Ooh! Get you!
God: Get me indeed. Let me take you through the specs of this ultimate species. As you can see it's bipedal – we did toy with six legs but the economics of keeping the females in shoes was too horrific to contemplate. These things here at the ends of the arms are called "opposable thumbs". Boffins in the lab came up with them and, if they work out as we think they will, then we'll roll out upgrades to the other species, probably starting with the caterpillars.
Audience Member: Sorry, God, may I? These whatever-they-are thumbs; what are they for?
God: Opposable. They have many uses but one I'm particularly fond of is this … hang on … there, it's called a sock puppet and do you see how I can form the mouth?
Audience: Ahhh!
God: Okay, back to the human. Trichromatic vision, two eyes for depth perception, air breathing so it can fit in and manipulate the planet more easily. Notice the large skull; we've got the biggest and latest brain model to go in there. Here in the throat we've added the capability for speech to develop too. No more grunting and pointing and hitting! Any questions?
Audience Member: I can't see a carapace and the exposed flesh looks quite soft. I assume the bones are strengthened to prevent crushing or snapping and there's protection for the organs too.
God: No. Anything else?
Audience Member: Do the wings fold out of the back or is this using a membrane between the arms and torso?
God: No, no wings. It's land-based.
Audience Member: Oh. Will future models have flight capabilities?
God: Not naturally, but in a manner of speaking I guess some will be able to leave the ground.
Audience Member: Doesn't sound very ultimate to me. Fancy not being able to fly. Tell me it swims, though.
God: Oh yes, don't worry about that. Body density and air-filled lungs will make the human really quite buoyant and a wide range of motion of the arms and legs mean swimming will be a doddle, albeit not at very great speed owing to a lack of flippers.
Audience Member: Are those things on the side of the head gills?
God: No, they're ears. Breathing is performed through the mouth here with air traversing down here into the lungs. Fairly standard breathing, taken from the mammal line.
Audience Member: Whoa! You mean it can't actually breathe underwater? It – what? – has to take a breath and hold it in those lungs? Won't that cause problems when it dives down and the pressure increases?
God: Land-based. Land. It's a land creature. It sort of compacts into a squishy mess at high pressures.
Audience Member: Wouldn't it have been more "perfect" to have made it a flying amphibian? With armour. It doesn't even look very luminescent unless that thing at the front between the legs is some kind of torch. Oh, hang on … that's not …?
God: I've got a plan in place to make sure it won't use that that much anyway, okay?


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William Jude Martin, 36, of Tafton, was charged with attempted escape and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer for an incident at the Blooming Grove state police barracks on Aug. 28.
Martin attempted to free himself from police custody after he was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and found to have a bench warrant issued from Pike County. Martin attacked a uniformed trooper in an ambush manner while in a holding area at 2:40 a.m., according to the police report.
Martin had been involved in a vehicle crash on Route 6 near PPL Drive in Palmyra Township. The 1998 Acura he was driving struck a Toyota van from behind. Two of the four passengers in the van were injured and transported to a hospital in Scranton.
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The deadline passed Monday for 775 H.J. Heinz Co. employees in the Pittsburgh area to accept a voluntary buyout offer from the company or commit to going forward under the new corporate culture being established by the food company's new owners.
A company spokesman said today that Heinz would not be releasing the number of those who take the deal, and reiterated that Heinz is not cutting its staffing in the region as a result of the buyouts.
"We have a robust talent pipeline in place to back-fill any vacancies that are created. We look forward to the future, and to achieving our vision with the industry's best team," said Michael Mullen, senior vice president of corporate and government affairs.
Heinz, which makes ketchup, Smart Ones and Ore-Ida products among other things, was founded in Sharpsburg in the 19th century. It was sold for more than $28 billion last year to a partnership of Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital.
The new management has been working through the global operation to cut costs and improve efficiency. Changes have included open office arrangements and zero-based budgeting.
In recognition that the changes have been challenging for some, two weeks ago the company made its offer to all regional employees who had been with Heinz for at least a year, which meant they had started before the June 2013 sale.
Workers were offered buyout deals that started at six months of severance pay and increased depending on years of service, the company said. They were given until Monday to decide.
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what a creep.
1withbuckfever, please keep us posted on the outcome of your calls. I have had enough with this joker and do whatever I can to expose him.
I'm just trying to save my fellow hunters time and $$$$
Dont deal with scott at at Highland County Outfitters or Scott and Laura Outfitters (S&L Outfitters ), hes a crook!
Keeping it at top so one person won't get scammed
Just looked at scott and lauras outfitters to see if our picture was removed from his page.It says website no longer exits.Looks like your warnings are paying off.Keep it going!!
I went through a similar experience with a different outfitter in Ohio a few years ago. Lots of thing did not go as we're explained prior to the hunt and so on. Now the outfitter's website no longer exists as well and it seems they are no longer in business or have changed their name. It is a shame that outfitters like these cost the good honest outfitters clients by running the scams that they are.
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TTT Don't mess with Scott I'm still warning people
Beware read this post
Maybe you should post his last name. Because my name is Scott and I live in highland county and I'm about as honest as they come.
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ttt, if anyone paid to hunt on bottom lane that camper that used to be there was mine, he stole it from me, he tried to get me to go in on his scams and wanted me to guide his turkey hunts. I have plenty of history with scott and even his parents warned me about him being a piece of *****. if anyone needs any additional info feel free to pm me.....
Stay away from this crook
Ttt, He Is Still Waiting On An ***** Whooping From me
I hope he get his whooping from lack of customers
Lost my business son and I were planning trip with highland county outfitters last season luckily I got to know lil doc who hooked us up with some nice pproperty in Clinton county looking forward to scouting this weekend thanks again lil doc.
He got four of us for $1000 two years ago. We thought about little road trip but he will get his on his own for sure.


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September 2009 saw some key security analysis raining directly onto the Adobe PDF platform, particularly with SANS pointing towards remote code execution within PDFs as one of the top threat vectors: Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2009-1862) Adobe Reader Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2009-1493) Kudos to Adobe for patching these
SC Magazine has reminded me today of a new report on the top current security risks, jointly published by SANS, TippingPoint, who provided the attack data, and Qualys, who provided vulnerability data. With impressive modesty and finely-tuned understatement, Alan Paller of SANS describes it as the "best risk report ever". Well, with added analysis and educational
So, back in harness. I've been away for a couple of weeks: not on holiday as such, though I did take some days out, but concentrating on writing: it didn't hurt that I didn't have a full-strength internet connection to distract me, though. Before I left, I was interviewed by a Turkish security site. It
Not one of our Top X lists, this time, but one featured in an article on the SANS site. SANS have been banging the drum for safer coding for quite a while – in fact, they do quite a few courses on safe coding in various development contexts. Admittedly, that gives them a financial incentive to fly
Don't disclose sensitive information on public websites like FaceBook or LinkedIn. Even information that in itself is innocuous can be combined with other harmless information and used in social engineering attacks. Rather than expand on that point, for now, I'm going to point to another "10 ways to protect yourself" resource: the more good advice
Lots of fuss was made about the paper presented at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin yesterday by Alexander Sotirov et al. The paper describes a proof-of-concept attack using a weakness in the MD5 cryptographic hash function to create a rogue Cerification Authority certificate using a hash collision (essentially, two messages with the same MD5


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The owner of the Riviera Hotel & Casino, Riviera Holdings Corporation, has filed for bankruptcy protection under a deal that will transfer ownership of the company to lenders, writes Reuters.
The Riviera has been deeply impacted by the national economic downturn, and its isolation on the north end of the Strip in Las Vegas, where the construction of high-end resorts has been delayed or halted, hasn't helped its situation.
The company also owns the Riviera in Black Hawk, where the filing won't affect daily business, reports The Denver Post. Still, local gaming earnings have taken a hit.
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Hiller, Fasth making play for Game 1 start
EDMONTON, Alberta -- Jonas Hiller or Viktor Fasth? Viktor Fasth or Jonas Hiller?
Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau has quite the decision in front of him, if he hasn't already made it. We do know that one of the two is going to start Game 1 of their Western Conference first-round series.
Who will it be? Boudreau is not saying -- or is he?
"Ah, cripes," he said. "You know what? We might just split each game like my kid does in hockey. Viktor will play the first half and Hilly will play the second half or vice versa. But it sure looks like at this stage that no matter what goalie we choose, the coach can't make the wrong decision."
It was Boudreau's response to Fasth making his case with a 24-save shutout in Monday night's 3-0 win over Edmonton that clinched the Pacific Division title for the Ducks.
Fasth answered Hiller's argument for Game 1 on Sunday, a sharp 27-save effort in a 3-1 win over the same Oilers. After that performance, Boudreau wouldn't say if his decision got easier or harder.
But Boudreau did make it a point to say that Hiller would start Thursday in Vancouver against the playoff-bound Canucks and that his effort Sunday "was a big, big game for him." Hiller also has his wondrous 2009 as the edge in NHL playoff experience.
Fasth, however, gave Boudreau something to think about with his fourth shutout of the season. Afterward, the Swedish netminder wasn't looking at it as a battle for the net.
"Jonas is a great goalie and a great guy," he said. "We push each other every game and every practice. I think it's a good situation for both the team and for us to be able to push each other.
"We're good friends off the ice. On the ice, both wants to play."
After joking about playing both Hiller and Fasth in the same playoff games, Boudreau turned more serious and put the use of the two into play as each competes for the cherished spot.
It isn't unfamiliar territory with the now-seasoned NHL coach. Boudreau used Semyon Varlamov and Michal Neuvirth in the 2011 playoffs with Washington but he theoretically has better options this time around.
"They both want that," Boudreau said. "And I think in the course of a playoff series, I firmly believe both of these guys will play. If you look at it, I think Viktor's been in 24 games and Hilly's been in 25 games this year.
"It's not a question of, 'Man, we have to rely on this one guy.' I think this is one of the few teams -- Vancouver, Chicago -- [where] they got two great goalies they can put in at any point."
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How To Freeze Mashed Spinach
Preserving spinach in its mashed form is always a big problem. But here comes a perfect solution. FREEZING! This form of storing spinach would be a more practical and feasible method at home in order to extend the shelf-life of these nutritious vegetables and ensure its availability off-season. Scroll down this blog to know the exact procedure of freezing mashed spinach.
Things Required:
- Mashed spinach
- Lemon juice/ascorbic acid
- Measuring cups
- Ziploc freezer bags
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- Mix 2-3 teaspoons of lemon juice/ascorbic acid to the mashed spinach in order to avoid discoloration/darkening.
- Using measuring cups measure and fill the mashed spinach in ziploc freezer bags.
- Leave a half inch header space and ensure that there is no air left inside the freezer bag before sealing it.
- Label the bag with the date of storage and quantity of contents in the freezer bag.
- Freeze it up to one month.
Frozen mashed spinach has high water content, which needs to be discarded before using it for culinary purposes. When stored by following the procedure mentioned above, it would taste its best up to one month and can be used whenever required by just de-frosting and thawing it.
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