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Sammy Almashat, M.D., M.P.H. On April 24, 2013, the lives of over 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh readying for a grueling day shift were extinguished in an instant.[1] Housing a sprawling garment manufacturing plant, the Rana Plaza building outside the capital, Dhaka, collapsed onto the workers inside, burying many alive. The collapse was the world's deadliest industrial disaster since the 1984 Bhopal chemical spill across the border in India.[2] For many in the West, the disaster — the aftermath of which was broadcast around the world — offered a rare glimpse of the daily reality for hundreds of millions of garment and other low-wage laborers toiling away in so-called developing nations producing goods for Western shelves. Public outrage after the accident was reflected in statements from figures as notable as Pope Francis, who decried as "slave labor" the conditions prevailing at Rana Plaza at the time of the collapse.[3] Even some of the Western corporations whose garment production at some point involved the plant felt compelled to acknowledge their role and commit to compensating the families of the deceased (although other corporate customers attempted to distance themselves from the tragedy).[4] However, none of the corporations that profited from the workers' labor could claim that this was an unforeseen tragedy. Though the Rana Plaza collapse was by far the deadliest, it was certainly not the first worksite disaster to hit Bangladesh's garment industry in recent years. Nor, sadly, has it been the last. Tragedy the norm Bangladesh's garment industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades,[5] with its rock-bottom wages and its immense, precariously employed and non-unionized labor force highly attractive to multinational clothing manufacturers and retailers. An estimated 4 million garment workers are employed in 5,000 factories across the country, and the industry is expected to quadruple in size over the next 20 years.[6] Bangladesh's rise to become the second-largest garment exporter in the world[7] has resulted in feverish construction of a growing number of garment plants. Shoddy construction and a lack of even the most minimal safety precautions have led to the following major incidents since 2005 (all incidents prior to 2012 were gleaned from a detailed November 2012 report by the Clean Clothes Campaign, a European anti-sweatshop group[8]):
Tip of the iceberg Horrific as these incidents are, they are merely the most visible of the myriad occupational hazards afflicting Bangladesh's textile labor army. Far less attention has been paid to the chronic safety and health dangers that are an inherent feature of garment manufacturing. The constant repetitive motions and inhuman pace of production inflict enduring musculoskeletal injuries of the sort that are, unfortunately, also common in many American workplaces.[17] Dust and other aerosolized particulate matter — especially in the poorly ventilated rooms characteristic of Bangladeshi garment plants[18] — can be inhaled, potentially leading to lung damage.[19] Workers risk having limbs crushed or cut by machinery and cutting tools used in the production process. High noise levels can pose hearing risks, and the temperatures generated within the overcrowded plants can result in heat-related injuries. Psychological stresses stemming from the grueling work and the treatment meted out by management are likely even more pervasive. More than 80 percent of the country's garment workers are women[20] who are often subjected to sexual harassment at jobs on which they and their families depend for survival. Sexual harassment and other forms of verbal and physical abuse are widespread in the factories, according to the nonprofit Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.[21],[22] Worker repression underlies abysmal conditions The intimidation of workers extends well beyond the factories. The overlords of the country's garment industry, often with the tacit approval of a government at the mercy of foreign investors,[23] have harassed, beaten and even killed leaders seeking to unionize the textile labor force.[24] On April 5, 2012, Aminul Islam, a prominent labor leader and organizer, was found dead, his body mutilated and dumped on the side of a road. Local advocates attributed the act to government security forces serving the interests of the country's powerful garment owners.[25] The publicity surrounding the Rana Plaza disaster spurred the passage of legislation that made it easier for workers to form unions, and forced owners to subsequently accede to the creation of 50 factory-level unions.[26] However, Human Rights Watch reported that, based on interviews with 47 workers in 21 factories in and around Dhaka after October 2013, worker intimidation remains rife, with workers beaten, fired and attacked by local gangsters for trying to unionize.[27] Previously, less than 1 percent of Bangladesh's garment workers were unionized, according to the GlobalPost news site.[28] As a result, in 2013, garment workers were paid less in Bangladesh than anywhere else in the world, with monthly wages starting at just $37.[29] After Rana Plaza, garment workers successfully fought for a minimum wage increase to $68 per month, but this is still lower than the minimum wage of other leading apparel-producing countries in Asia,[30] and even this paltry mandate is allegedly being flouted by some factory owners.[31] (Mostly Western) clothing corporations feign innocence Most corporations whose products were made in Rana Plaza initially distanced themselves from the collapse, offering only shallow expressions of shock and sympathy for the families of the killed and injured and insisting that ties to the facility were minimal.[32] Only one retailer, the British company Primark, pledged to offer both immediate and long-term assistance for injured victims and families of the deceased. Two other companies made less concrete promises of future compensation. (Britain's Guardian newspaper has published an online interactive guide with floor-by-floor details of the involvement of international clothing corporations in the Rana Plaza assembly plant at the time of, and in the year prior to, the collapse.[33]) None of the companies mentioned the long series of accidents (listed above) that had occurred with striking consistency in the years prior to the collapse. They also omitted that most international retailers had twice rebuffed attempts by international labor organizations to garner formal commitments from them to improve labor conditions at the Bangladeshi plants. In 2011, the International Labor Rights Forum presented the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement to over a dozen of the world's largest clothing brands and retailers, including Wal-Mart, Gap and H&M (Wal-Mart, but not Gap and H&M, sold clothes made in Rana Plaza[34]). According to Time magazine, the companies rejected the agreement "because of the extra costs involved and the possibility of incurring legal action."[35] An updated proposal was offered to the corporations in November 2012, but only two companies signed on.[36] Rana Plaza changed this dynamic, as the international brands for which Bangladeshi workers — at Rana Plaza and elsewhere — were producing clothes came under intense scrutiny and could no longer dismiss such entreaties with little fanfare. In May 2013, nearly three dozen European retailers signed a legally binding agreement,[37] the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, in which they agreed to underwrite inspections and any necessary safety improvements to Bangladeshi garment plants.[38] By March 2014, a total of 150 clothing brands from over 20 countries had joined the accord.[39] A group of 26 North American retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target and Gap, refused to join the agreement, instead entering into a parallel arrangement, the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.[40] Both agreements provide initial financing for inspections, but the North American retailers' agreement, unlike the European-led accord, does not guarantee financing for all required safety upgrades and — crucially — is not legally binding on the companies.[41] In the aftermath of the tragedy, the United Nations' International Labour Organization set up a Donor Trust Fund to provide financial compensation for the victims and their families.[42] However, almost a year had passed since the incident before Wal-Mart, Gap and Children's Place became the first American companies to donate to the fund.[43] The three companies donated a total of just $2.2 million, an amount dismissed as "pitifully low" by Irene Zeldenrust, international coordinator of the Clean Clothes Campaign, which had fought hard to create the fund.[44] Commenting on Wal-Mart's meager contribution relative to its enormous revenues, Zeldenrust noted: "This is the first time Wal-Mart has contributed to any compensation fund for loss of income and medical costs — that is a positive step. But this … is a token amount considering Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world."[45] Overall, as of March 28, only $14 million of the $40 million sought for the victims had been committed to the fund by clothing corporations.[46] Little change for Bangladesh's 'wretched' As the media's attention has since turned elsewhere, business as usual has returned to Bangladesh's garment districts, with few, if any, repercussions for the international manufacturers and retailers involved. The first safety inspections mandated by the two safety accords are now underway, with 250 factories (of the 5,000 in operation in the country) scheduled to be inspected every month.[47] However, these inspections have come too late for the (at least) 18 workers killed on the job in Bangladeshi garment plants since the Rana Plaza collapse. Furthermore, the inspections are focused on preventing further disasters similar to Rana Plaza and will almost certainly have no effect on the chronic illnesses and injuries resulting from the grueling pace of the manufacturing process itself.[48] Continued crackdowns on worker organizing efforts leave little hope that the existing power relations between worker and owner (who are themselves beholden to Western multinational corporations) within the garment industry will change to any great extent. Ultimately, until the neoliberal economic policies underlying the working conditions in Bangladesh and other so-called developing nations are successfully overthrown, the "slave labor" described by the pope will continue to replenish the stocks of trendy fashion outlets across the global North. And what philosopher and writer Frantz Fanon once dubbed the "wretched of the earth" will continue to die or be maimed doing so.
Clothing manufacturers and retailers have largely shirked any responsibility for Rana Plaza and other Bangladeshi garment factory tragedies. The Clean Clothes Campaign has been at the forefront of the effort to hold accountable Western corporations operating in Bangladesh. The organization has set up a Web page, "Who Needs to Pay Up," which contains a list of companies that have, and have not, donated to the Donor Trust Fund to compensate victims of the Rana Plaza collapse and their families. Companies that have signed on to the legally binding Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (as opposed to the nonbinding Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety) can be found here. Western consumers can aid the campaign by buying clothes only from manufacturers and retailers that have signed the legally binding accord and given adequately to the Donor Trust Fund, while boycotting the rest. But it is doubtful whether a boycott alone can succeed in changing the corporations' calculus. Organizations such as the International Labor Rights Forum have called for more direct actions, such as signing petitions and protesting at store locations and social media sites, to shame the companies into meeting their obligations. Standing in solidarity with Bangladeshi workers through, for example, participation in the Clean Clothes Campaign's Living Wage movement is another means by which Western consumers can go beyond individual purchasing decisions to alleviate some of the miserable conditions for the workers who make our clothes.
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RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Latvia's prime minister resigned on Tuesday after accepting political responsibility for the collapse of a supermarket roof in the capital that killed 54 people. Valdis Dombrovskis' decision means his center-right government automatically falls. He was the longest serving prime minister in Latvia's history.
"Considering the ... tragedy and all the related circumstances, the country needs a government that has a majority support in parliament and can solve the situation that has arisen in the country," Dombrovskis told journalists after meeting President Andris Berzins.
Last week's collapse of the Maxima supermarket was the worst disaster since Latvia declared its independence from Soviet Union in 1991, and has caused outrage among Latvians.
Police have opened a criminal investigation into the cause of last week's tragedy. Possible explanations for the disaster include a flawed design, substandard construction materials, and corruption.
Berzins has accepted the resignation and is now searching for a candidate who will need to put together a new coalition, the president's office said.
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BERLIN, June 22, 2013 (AFP) - Jan Ullrich, Germany's only winner of the Tour de France, has for the first time admitted to doping with the help of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes who ran a large-scale doping network.
"Yes, I had access to treatment from Fuentes," the 1997 winner of the Tour de France told German weekly Focus in its edition to appear on Monday. "At that time, nearly everyone was using doping substances and I used nothing that the others were not using."
In the Focus report, Ullrich has insisted he used no other doping substance other than his own blood, presumably with transfusions to combat the effects of lactic acid.
Ullrich, who also won road race gold and time trial silver medals at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, said he was motivated by the desire to be competing on a level playing field with his main rivals.
"In my view you can only call it cheating on my part when it is clear that I have gained an unfair advantage," he argued. "That was not the case. All I wanted was everyone to have the same chances of winning."
He also told Focus he believed that the main factors contributing towards his success in cycling were pure talent, effort, team spirit and the will to win and that the damage he had done by doping was mainly to himself.
"It was myself who suffered most because of this episode as concerns my public image and what it meant for my own health," he said. "Now it is time to bring down the curtain on all of this. I want to look to the future and no longer be dragged back to the past."
Ullrich's doping admission comes months after a similar public pronouncement by his greatest career rival and nemesis Lance Armstrong. The seven-time Tour de France winner, admitted to doping throughout his career in January and was subsequently stripped of his Tour titles and banned for life.
Ullrich finished second three times to Armstrong in the Tour de France in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and was also runner-up behind Italian Marco Pantani in 1998.
"We are both guilty," said Ullrich, referring to the American. "I am no better than Armstrong, but no worse either. The great heroes of old are now people with failings that we've got to come to terms with. I always knew that even Lance Armstrong would not get away with it."
Having drawn sharp criticism from the cycling community after his confession, Ullrich received some support from his old rival Armstrong.
"Jan Ullrich? Warm hearted. Amazing athlete. Great competitor. Loved toeing the line with you, my friend," tweeted Armstrong on Saturday.
The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) last year published a devastating report, accusing Armstrong of orchestrating the biggest doping program in the history of sport. He was later banned from cycling for life and stripped of his record seven Tour de France wins. He admitted in a television interview aired in January that those victories were fueled by a cocktail of banned drugs.
But Ullrich's confession has been branded "too little, too late" by Thomas Bach, the president of the German Olympic Federation.
"Jan Ullrich had his chance for a creditable admission a couple of years ago and he missed it," said Bach, who is seen as favorite to succeed International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge when he steps down in September. "Today's confirmation of some of the already well known and established facts helps neither Jan Ullrich nor cycling."
Ullrich was barred from the Tour de France in 2006 amid speculation that he had used illegal substances. He retired from cycling in February 2007, denying that he had ever cheated. He was later found guilty of a doping offense by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in February 2012 and was retroactively banned from August of that year with all results gained since May 2005 wiped from his slate.
Long before Armstrong and Ullrich's doping admissions, the sport of cycling had a tarnished reputation in Germany, where national broadcasters opted not to carry live Tour de France coverage. Rudolf Scharping, president of the German Cycling Federation, said the confession should have come five years ago.
"It is far too late to try and clean things up," he said of the cyclist who retired in February, 2007, denying that he had ever cheated. "He could have helped the sport of cycling if he had laid everything out on the table much earlier.
2007 or 2008 would have been an appropriate time. He would have also been able to help himself, but now this is just the repetition of things long-since known, except this time they come from his mouth."
Anti-doping campaigner Werner Franke, who received a gag order in 2006 from a German court after accusing Ullrich of doping, was also highly critical of his compatriot's confession.
"That is a new European record in lying," the molecular biologist told SID, an AFP subsidiary. "In 2006 or 2007, he insisted, in four different languages, that he did not know Mr Fuentes. He then obtained a court injunction against me that took four and a half years to overturn."
Franke has insisted Ullrich used aggressive tactics, similar to Armstrong, in order to keep any opponents silent, but was scathing of the lawyers who helped him maintain the silence.
"These are the biggest crooks who have gotten him into this mess of lies," said Franke.
Germany's Anti Doping Agency (NADA) has already said it will investigate.
"For the sport to be clean, it is important that he not only admits his crime, but also mentions the names of other participants in the background. NADA will also try to make contact with Jan Ullrich to find out more clues and background," it said in a statement.
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1997 Tour de France winner confesses to working with disgraced doctor Eufemiano Fuentes
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UC Davis researchers discover cartilage-stabilizing protein also drives cartilage growth
New finding is critical to expanding osteoarthritis treatments
UC Davis researchers have discovered that the protein responsible for the structural integrity of cartilage has a major role in creating it as well. The protein -- known as COMP for cartilage oligomeric matrix protein -- binds to growth-promoting molecules and links them with the cellular framework that forms cartilage.
"Researchers primarily view COMP as a bridge that holds the extracellular pieces of cartilage together," said Dominik Haudenschild, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at UC Davis and senior author of the study. "Now we know that it also actively captures and delivers to that cellular framework the specialized growth factors that determine how and when cartilage is created."
The investigators also discovered that COMP increases the production of growth factors called transforming growth factor-beta, or TGF-β, creating a supportive environment for the development of new cartilage.
Haudenschild's research focuses on identifying biological pathways that could lead to earlier diagnosis and new interventions for osteoarthritis, which occurs when the cartilage cushion in joints degrades. The disease is typically diagnosed when that cushion is almost gone and bone is rubbing against bone. At that point, surgical repairs and pain management are the best treatment options.
"The more we know about what it takes to create and maintain healthy cartilage, the more opportunities there are to develop drugs that preserve and encourage that process," he said.
The current study, published in the December 16 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, has important implications for tissue engineering as well.
"There is a big drive now for lab-developed substitutes that could replace natural cartilage," said Haudenschild. "It's possible that COMP could be used to enhance the tissue-building process. Stimulating COMP production in cells could also help concentrate the growth factors that promote this process."
In conducting the study, Haudenschild and his team used electron microscopy to determine the five-armed structure of COMP. They then studied the binding of COMP and TGF-β in cell cultures, revealing that COMP can bind up to two TGF-β molecules per arm. They also looked at the effects of COMP on the production of additional TGF-β, noting that COMP has a key role in regulating TGF-β activity within the cellular framework for cartilage.
In additional experiments, the team noted the optimal conditions for COMP binding, suggesting that research aimed at finding new treatments for osteoarthritis focus on recreating these conditions. The outcomes indicate that pH and manganese both improve COMP's natural ability to bind TGF-β.
Haudenschild and his colleagues are currently developing animal-model studies of osteoarthritis. Their hope is to further establish the role of COMP in healthy cartilage and look for ways to advance its activity in joints where osteoarthritis has already set in.
"We hope these basic research findings will lead to interventions that prevent the breakdown of cartilage that causes osteoarthristis," said Haudenschild.
In addition to Haudenschild, UC Davis study authors were Eunmee Hong, Jasper Yik, Kaylene Snow, Chitrangada Acharya, Yoshikazu Takada and Paul Di Cesare. Other authors were Brett Chromy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Matthias Mörgelin of Sweden's Lund University.
The research was supported by UC Davis departmental startup funds and by the Swedish Research Council. Recombinant human BMP-7 was donated by Stryker Biotech.
The UC Davis Department of Orthopaedic Surgery provides comprehensive medical and surgical care of the musculoskeletal system for both adults and children. As a leading West Coast center for orthopaedic care, the department provides a full spectrum of treatment specialties, including joint reconstruction, microvascular surgery, sports medicine and pediatric orthopaedics. UC Davis was ranked 35th among orthopaedic surgery departments nationwide by U.S. News & World Report for 2010-11. For more information, visit the department's website.


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News look for Google Blog Search
Posted by Mark White, Blog Consultant in Blogging News , Business Uses , FAQs & Q&AsGoogle Blog Search has just had a bit of a facelift, though it's not so much of a 'new look' as a 'news look' given that they have essentially taken the format that they use for Google News and applied it here.
In many respects though, that's a very sensible route to take. Blogs do tend to fulfil a dual role of providing the latest news on topics where timing is critical as well as being a type of interactive website where good information is always in demand no matter when it was posted. In the case of Google Blog Search, their results are skewed massively towards the most recent information posted – even when sorted in terms of relevance rather than date. Probably better this way or we would simply be looking largely at a rehash of Google's main index and that's not what we are after here.
So what Google Blog Search is good at is letting you find the latest information appearing in blogs – does very much what is says on the tin, so to speak – and so the redesign is clearly playing to its strengths. It also benefits from Google's general uncluttered approach which I sometimes think that Technorati might like to be mindful of again. So check it out and don't forget to use the RSS feature – will save you masses of time!
A quick run through
So what do you get for your beta now and how can you use it. Well, on the homepage, you now get a pre selected set of blog posts in the main results area and, in the lefthand sidebar, you can select one of 11 other pre-ordained categories to look at. Alternatively you can of course head straight for the search box at the top.
Once you've searched on a term, you've got the chance to do some filtering, essentially on how recent you want the results to be – you can also sort the results either by relevancy or time, though this makes less difference than you might think. From a business perspective, a really important function sits rather inconspicuously at the bottom of the lefthand sidebar where you can quickly set up either a Google Alert or an RSS Feed for the search terms you've just used. Can save you loads of time and keep you up to date!
So overall, it's a change but not a revolutionary one by any means – more a shuffle forward and to the side rather than a giant leap. I do, however, find myself using it more than Technorati now for general searches, although to track links etc I still return to the Big T.
As an aside, at this time of intense political as well as economic debate over in the US, I like the fact that Google chooses to re-iterate at the bottom of the homepage "The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program". So that's all okay then …
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How many calories in blood??Moderator: BioTeam
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Re: How many calories in blood??Blood (not human) is used as food in many cultures. Examples include blood sausage, ducks' blood soup and "blood tofu" (congealed blood cut into cubes and used in stir-fry). Heating the blood via cooking would deactivate any bacteria, viruses or parasites.
Oh, my earlier answer of a bit more than 400 calories was for a standard U.S. donation of 500 ml. So a liter's worth would be twice that. gayoc - yes, very little from the glucose in blood, but you have to also count the protein and fat content. Most of the calories are from the protein.
I agree with DavidnotMD.
The Masai tribe in Africa drink raw cattle blood. I'm here looking for the calories in blood because I love black pudding (which is made from mostly cooked pig blood and cereal). Thinking eating it grilled would be ok as blood itself didn't have calories. Obviously I was wrong. Back to the low calorie diet drawing board...
Re: How many calories in blood??In my knowledge I think 1 pint of human blood includes 650 calories...
To Wilddrwarf,
I think you are too certain in your condemnation of the person asking question. There is another explanation for the question. While giving (donating) blood, I have often wondered how many calories I am loosing during the donation. This is certainly something the blood bank might be interested in advertising in order to incentivize donors if they knew how many calories they were getting rid of. Sounds Ike it is the equivalent of running 2 km!
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My Posture Well...I was looking at my photos the other day and would like a few opinions regaurding my posture. I feel like it looks at thought im sitting up so strait im actually arching my back....now I naturally have a sort of arch to my back...im going to post a pic of me standing on the ground that displays this as an example...but Im wondering if its something I need to try and correct or something I just shouldent worry about. Its more noticable when I ride my arabian...im wonding if perhaps the saddle is causing it cause its a little smaller then the saddle I use on my gelding but I have always felt it fit me and is comfortable to ride in. It looks a bit small but is very comfy and fits her well too....so maybe im just going nutz or something but opinions would still be nice. The white horse is the arabian and the black is my gelding. Also my legs look off in the pic on my arab cause i was nudging her along. She knew I was trying to pose and wanted to stop to help me but i wanted the pic with her walking for some reason. I also know I have a bad habbit of sticking my foot too far into the sturip...im working on that :oops: I dont do any competetive riding at the moment...just pleasure trail riding...but competetive trail might be nice in the future so if this is a major issue of some sort I want to be correcting it. I dont come up sore or anything, it just looked odd to me in photos... http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ngfromhose.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...o/SANY0544.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1..._6592330_n.jpg |
i actually like your posture on your gleding on the arab you do arch your back a little more then usual however that does seem to be caused by your saddle i would probably look into one that is about half a size bigger also your back may look worse because (as you said you were pushing her forward even though you shouldn't need your leg back that far) it causes you to be more forward and you might be over compensating trying to stay back and straight. Just my opinion my back also tends to have a slight curve when i real push to sit straight though. |
Thank you...that actually makes good sense (the pushing forward while compensating to look strait for a photo thing) and ill start looking into possibly getting a new saddle...I would have to sell that one to get a new one...or trade it...might take a while, but I can live till then I guess...time to hit up the equipment classifieds. I also forgot to mention that my leg was that far back mostly due to needing to lengthen my sturips...I had just purchased that saddle and was getting use to it. I got on it the other day and was like 'wtf my knees are in my chest?' lol Thanks for reminding me to include that bit of info. :) |
haha glad I could help :]. And ya your legs do look overly bent haha but then again a few girls and i used to ride with pretty short stirrups just cause our 'trainers' at the time never told us other wise thank god i rode bareback often or i'd have no good leg control hah starting to relengthen my stirrups now |
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The pic on your gelding, upper body looks great. I'd drop your stirrups a bit. That would allow you to get your leg back under you a bit more and allow you to push down your heels and have a good anchor. Imagine dropping a string with a weight from your shoulder, your shoulder, hip & heel should all be aligned. The photo on your arab, I'd chock that one up to the saddle. You look much more comfortable in the first saddle on your gelding. |
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Following on from the first part of our exclusive interview with the BioShock 2 team last week, here are the game's creators' thoughts on the multiplayer experience of the highly-anticipated sequel, out today.
What kind of multiplayer modes have been developed for BioShock 2 and how has the feel of the single player campaign been captured?
Melissa Miller: There are seven modes, five base modes and two variations. We didn't want to tack multiplayer on just so we could say we've ticked all the boxes, we wanted to make sure it made sense within the Rapture universe. We also wanted to create a compelling game play experience, there is a story arc that happens throughout multiplayer but if you just want to get online with your friends it totally supports that too. We're never going to force our story on anybody, if you just want to play a cool shooter with interesting game play modes then you can do that.
We use play testing to help us understand the game, where we're going right and wrong. There are times when things are going so well that we've had people come in who have never played the first BioShock and as they're testing they're saying "You know what? I think I'm going to go try that BioShock game."
How much pressure do you feel to please fans of the solo experience? Was co-op play ever considered?
MM: Well co-op really seems to be one of the most popular ways to play these days, but BioShock's theme is in many ways about the emotion of loneliness. In the first story for example you're basically walking through this tragic city all by yourself. Similarly in the sequel where you play as a Big Daddy, it just wouldn't make sense to us to have two Bid Daddies going through Rapture together. Players will have the opportunity to cooperate with each other during the team based multiplayer modes however.
Multiplayer has really given us the opportunity to explore splicer characters. Who are these people who came to Rapture and how did they become these crazy people you found in the first, and the second, game? What led to their Adam addiction? We've got a number of characters you can choose from for multiplayer, each with their own personalities for players to explore. For example, one is a housewife character, what would a house wife be like in Rapture? She didn't get invited, she wasn't one of the best and brightest, her husband was.
Was multiplayer ever considered for the original BioShock or is this a completely brand new concept for the sequel?
JT: For the first game the problems of just making a single player BioShock when there was no such thing as a BioShock were plenty. For the second game, one of the things we cited as ripe with potential was the combatorial mechanics. BioShock was a beast in that it awards you all these opportunities to express yourself: I will now make peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches or whatever you want to (laughs). That's entirely up to you, but because it's a kind of 'have it your way game' we don't force you to use tool A, B or C. You can go through the game simply blasting everyone with the machine gun and we support that.
In multiplayer though, there's this potential expression of mastery based on how aggressive the environment is. Against intelligent opponents you really need to climb that curve of understanding to harness your weapons and tools. For example, what we see in team games is one person taking the ice plasmid, and another taking arrow dash. The first guy will freeze an opponent into a block of ice, the other guy's already in motion with the arrow dash and instantly shatters the target. That kind of mechanic is almost like survival of the fittest, it shows just how post-Darwin Rapture is.
It requires the survival pressures of multiplayer for players to truly get their heads around the tools on offer; that's why multiplayer was born. The [splicer] civil war, the period of 1959-1960 before Jack arrives into Rapture in 1960, is best represented by multiplayer because it requires tonnes of very intelligent splicers, slowly going insane, fighting over Adam. Adam improves their odds of survival and that's exactly what you're doing in all multiplayer modes in one form or another; you're earning Adam to go up through the ranking system, earn new tools and so forth.
You mentioned that there are multiple splicers to play as during multiplayer, how does that work within the game?
JT: The game stores a mechanical core of your profile and you can scan that into any of the splicer characters whenever you want; that variety is definitely important to replayability. As you earn new tiers in the ranking system you get access to these diaries which describe the story arc of each of the characters.
MM: The ranking system is necessary to give some background to the multiplayer modes. The civil war has broken out and you can't even leave your front door without a fireball being launched at your head. The two factions (fighting for Ryan or Fontaine) are fighting in the city so what the splicers featured in multiplayer do is get involved in this consumer reward program. It basically uses these people, who are desperate for new defensive or offensive abilities, to test out plasmids and weapons that haven't hit the market yet; they're basically human lab rats for this company Sinclair Solutions. Sinclair himself features in the single player mode which is another way for us to expand the storyline.
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Ever since real estate investment trusts began reeling in boatloads of capital in early 2009 by issuing new common stock, observers have predicted that these investor-landlords would dominate the extremely competitive market place for high-quality office buildings, hotels and shopping centers for the next few years.
That's because the highly leveraged private equity funds–either on their own or in partnership with foreign buyers, investment banks and high-net-worth individuals–had been crushed by heavy debtloads that left no room for collapsing rents and occupancy levels. REITs generally operate at low ratios of debt-to-equity, but when REIT shares collapsed with the market in 2008, those ratios suddenly shot higher.
REITs like Simon Property Group, Equity Residential, Digital Realty Trust and others successfully issued equity, and at the same time saw their share prices begin climbing. The result was that by late 2009 they had lots of capital, had paid down lots of debt, and were keen to start buying income-adding properties at a time when asset values had been squashed and competitors had been effectively cut off from the capital markets.
REIT shares climbed out of the cellar as companies fortified their balance sheets and the world stepped away from the brink. Now they have to put that capital to work. After all, REITs, which have to pay out 90% of pretax income in dividends, have very limited choices in how they can make more money on any scale from operations. They can tighten up internally and squeeze out more from existing properties by trimming management costs. They can also sell properties, but that's not exactly a solution for long-term growth. What they can do is buy more income-producing properties. That's exactly what's happening, according to our research at Real Capital Analytics, where we track investment in commercial properties of $5 million and higher.
REITs have dominated the property investment market this year. As a group, they've made some 25% of all commercial property acquisitions, far more than institutions, private equity groups or foreign buyers. It is rare to see such a high percentage of deals done by REITs.
Aggressive Buyers, Better Investments
All that spending translates pretty well into share-price growth. REITs have spent nearly $14 billion on properties in 2010, and the 15 most aggressive REIT buyers have accounted for $9.1 billion of that. As a group, these 15 companies have produced a total return of 26.6% so far this year, against 20.4% for the benchmark SNL REIT Equity total-return index.
That's not to say each of those 15 companies has outperformed. Only 9 have topped the REIT index, and only 4 also beat their own property-sector index: Hersha Hospitality Trust, Equity Residential Trust, SL Green Realty Trust and Digital Realty Trust.
Hersha (HT,6) is a small-cap hotel company with a $750 million market cap. It has bulked up on hotels in markets where budget-conscious travelers have a hard time finding a decent room, like Manhattan and Washington, D.C. Hersha has already spent $289 million this year to buy six properties, most recently a Hampton Inn in D.C. for $73 million. Its total return this year is 86%, even though SNL's hotel REIT index is up only 15% this year.
Apartment REIT Equity Residential (EQR, 49.5), with board chairman Sam Zell, has spent a whopping $999.5 million on 11 properties this year and its total return so far is 48%, beating the return on the SNL apartment index of 36%.
SL Green (SLG, 68.5) and Digital Realty (DLR, 60) prove the value of shrewd management and smart buying. So far in 2010 SL Green has spent $557 million on three properties and returned 42% to shareholders. Digital has acquired $1.2 billion in 13 new properties and has returned 18%.
Acquisitive REIT Benchmark Beaters
YTD Property Purchase
Digital Realty Trust: $1.2 billion
Equity Residential: $1 billion
SL Green: $557 million
Hersha Hospitality Trust: $290 million
Peter Slatin is editor of the Forbes/Slatin Real Estate Report (see forbes.com/slatin) and editorial director of Real Capital Analytics.


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for the last week or so i've been building two big guides for table lighting. ac and i have been trying to find a desk lamp we both approve of (we share our bedroom office space) so i've been shopping for a while now. i thought i'd compile some of my favorite into two guides: lamps grouped by style and lamps under or around $100. my favorites are grouped by style but because the price skewed a little high on those i figured it was only fair to create a slideshow of lighting that was cute but still affordable. you can click here to check out the budget lighting, here for the non-budget lighting and here to check out the home page for guides i've created so far (beds, bedding, desks, dining chairs, etc.) a guide to ceiling and floor lights is up next…
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You guides are great! They have such great variety. I'm going to have to go shopping!
omg, you have to get the dog one!
i soooo love this site. never fails to brighten up my day. (got you linked to my blog already!) cheers
Target has fabulous lamps! I am glad someone else knows my secret :)
I'm looking for table lamps now and your guides are so helpful. Thank you! You have impeccable taste.
thanks guys- so glad you like them :)
grace, we've had the larger version of nicholas furrow's red light district lamp for about a year, and i must say – it's my husband's favorite thing in our whole apartment. the light is VERY red, so its utility as a desk lamp is kind of questionable, but as an atmospheric piece, yeow! it's off the charts.
i think nicholas made a few green versions when he first started with the lamps (dave at the future perfect had a few), but there must have been fewer of those vintage shades – i haven't seen that version in years. i bet those would be beautiful as well.
I'm confused – slide 9 seems to have 8 lamps and only 7 listed in the description.
love your guides! love your site! this is a timely guide for me too.
hmm…slide number eight has eight lamps and eight sources, slide nine has seven lights and 5 descriptions because the little trio of mibo lamps is all a variation on one lamp- the link goes to the lamp with the different shade options. did you mean a different slide?
ah! you mean the affordable lighting guide.
slide number nine IS missing one, you're right. so sorry, i'll fix that next week when i go to the office. that piece is from target as well.
Thanks so much for this guide. The lamp without a lampshade next to my living room couch has been taunting me since I moved in 2 months ago.
I actually think that there are a lot of decently cute table lamps for not very much – I actually got a cute mini lamp for only $25 at Mxyplxyz or some other variation of those letters…
However, a floor lamp has taken me weeks and I still haven't found one I really like.
Have you seen the lamps from Shine Home? They are a fabulous company. Beautiful products made in Southern California. Check them out http://www.shineeveryday.com
nice lamps…great work
yep! there are a couple shine lamps in the non-under $100 lamp slideshow :)
Great artwork !!
I love these lamps
Can you tell me where I can find the last lamp on the first row of the in the second set of pics? The HG links are still down, otherwise I would just look myself.
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nevermind… found it on DWR… why isn't I can't ever fall in love with a cheap lamp from Target? :-) Steak appetite on a hamburger budget.
can you tell me where your guides are now that houseandgarden is gone?
Hi Grace! Is there a new link for your table lamp guides? I'm on the hunt for on-a-budget apartment lighting. Thanks!
the house and garden links no longer work. Just so you know…
These links all go to Architectural Digest. What's up with that?
Can you please tell me where the lamp at the top, right hand side is from? The blue one with the green shade. Thanks!
Do you have a source for the first lamp on the left side of the first image? Looks perfect for my bedroom!
Hey Grace, all the links point to Architectural Digest, I can't seem to find the lamps!
OH. Nevermind. I see your post now. Too bad!
I just love the lamp that is tall, blue, and has the white drum shade with green patterning on it. WHere can i find this lamp? or even just the shade? thanks
Will you create an updated Table Lamp Guide? Will be so helpful! thanks
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* Opposition boycott means fewer than half of districts are being contested
* Threat of further violence could keep voters away
* Impasse between two dominant parties fuels worries of economic stagnation
By Serajul Quadir and Nandita Bose
DHAKA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Bangladesh holds a parliamentary election on Sunday, a contest boycotted by the main opposition, marred by violence that has killed more than 100 people and shunned by international observers.
Polls were due to open at 8 a.m. (0200 GMT) and close at 4 p.m., although with fewer than half of the 300 parliamentary seats being contested, the ruling Awami League was poised to sweep to victory.
The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) urged voters to stay away from the "farcical" election.
The impasse between the country's two dominant parties, which shows no sign of easing, undermines the poll's legitimacy and is fuelling worries of economic stagnation and further violence in the impoverished South Asian nation of 160 million.
Either Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia has been prime minister for all but two of the past 22 years and the two are bitter rivals.
"These elections are in no way going to help resolve the stalemate we have seen in the past few months," said Iftekhar Zaman, executive director of global anti-corruption body Transparency International in Bangladesh.
"The parliament which will emerge will be one without an opposition and so there will be a very big legitimacy crisis."
Turnout was also likely to be crimped by fears of violence. More than 120 polling places have been set ablaze since Friday, an election commission official told Reuters. Much of the unrest has been in rural areas.
The election commission sent a text message on Saturday to voters saying their security was ensured and urging them to turn out. "Please go to cast your vote without any fear and hassle," it said.
Army troops have been deployed since Dec. 26 to maintain order during the election.
The BNP is protesting against the prime minister's scrapping of the practice of having a caretaker government oversee elections. Many of its leaders are in jail or in hiding.
The Awami League says the interim government system has failed in the past.
The country's $22 billion garment industry, which accounts for 80 percent of its exports, has been disrupted by transportation blockades ahead of the election.
The European Union, a duty free market for nearly 60 percent of Bangladesh's garment exports, has refused to send election observers, as have the United States and the Commonwealth, a grouping of 53 mainly former British colonies.
Mohammad Selim, a rickshaw puller from the Jatrabari area of Dhaka, said that although he was frustrated by the one-sided nature of the election, he still planned to vote.
But Mohammad Mostafa, from the northern district of Rangpur, said he felt no urge to go home from Dhaka and cast his vote. "This year, it seems to me meaningless." (Additional reporting by Ruma Paul; Writing by Tony Munroe; Editing by Ron Popeski)


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Great White Idea: More Efficient Windmills, Airplanes and Ships With Shark Skin
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While butterfly populations worldwide struggle to stay afloat as the global temperature rises and changes their migration patterns and food sources, scientists have been hard at work coming up with their replacement - the
Slime Mold Shows Smartest Way to Get from New York to California (Video)
Back in January, we showed you a project that highlighted the intelligence of mold - er, it's efficiency at finding food, at least. This efficiency was used in an experiment to figure out the best routes for transportation in Tokyo.
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Marine life has proved itself a rich source of inspiration for renewable energy innovation. Sharks and kelp have sparked ideas for harnessing wave and tidal power, and humpback whales have bumpy fins
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Scientists have been investigating how to mimic spider silk for years. The seemingly delicate threads actually have a tensile strength five times greater than steel, and the possibilities for using a similar material in
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Comedy king Jerry Lewis plans to film a television special for PBS.
The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that the 86-year-old entertainer is returning to the spotlight Nov. 18 at The Orleans Hotel & Casino.
PBS plans to broadcast "An Evening With Jerry Lewis — Live from Las Vegas!" in March around Lewis' birthday.
Lewis has been busy preparing a Broadway musical version of "The Nutty Professor" based on the 1963 movie that Lewis directed and starred in.
That production has been thrown into uncertainty with the recent death of composer Marvin Hamlisch, who did the score.


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The two act musical explores one of the most dramatic and important times in our history with a song cycle of pop, rock, operetta and country sounds honoring the people and their times. It tells of the experiences of the soldiers and leaders from both the Union and Confederate armies, examines the lives of the lovers and families they left behind, as well as the hopes of the slaves whose freedom was at stake. It will showcase music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy.The June 20 show is free. Other performances are $20.
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Sunday Supper - Community Cookbooks - Part 4 - Florence Salyard
Before tossing out any old and worn out community cookbooks, make sure that you look through them for recipes from your relatives! My Dad managed to salvage the 1950 Hardy, Nebraska
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Sigma has announced a new 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 standard zoom lens designed specifically for APS-C sensor digital SLR cameras. The lens offers a minimum focusing distance of 20cm (7.9") throughout the entire zoom range and a maximum magnification of 1:2.3 enabling extreme close-up photography.
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Large aperture standard zoom lens designed specially for digital SLR cameras
- Minimum focusing distance of 20cm,with an impressive maximum magnification of 1:2.3. at all focal lengths.
- New design and multi layer lens coating reduce flare and ghosting.
- Aspherical and SLD lenses offer excellent correction for various aberrations.
- Large aperture of F2.8 at the wide angle setting.
The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC MACRO lens.The lens is ideally suited for a wide variety of subjects and is designed specifically for digital SLR cameras featuring APS-C size image sensor.
This revolutionary lens has a minimum focusing distance of 20cm (7.9") throughout the entire zoom range. A maximum magnification of 1:2.3 enables extreme close-up photography. An impressive achievement for a standard zoom lens. The new lens design and multi layer lens coating reduce flare and ghosting, a common problem with digital cameras. A Special Low Dispersion (SLD) lens and two aspherical lens elements provide excellent correction for all types of aberrations and produce a high level of optical performance throughout the entire zoom range.
This lens offers a large F2.8 aperture at 17mm wide angle and yet it is compact, with an overall length of just 79mm (3.1") and diameter 82.5mm (3.2"). Performance is superb, even in relatively low light conditions indoors or at dusk.
The lens design incorporates an inner focusing system, which ensures fast AF speed as well as preventing the front of the lens rotating, making it particularly suitable for use with circular polarizing filters and petal shaped lens hoods.
This lens is also equipped with a zoom lock that eliminates "Zoom Creep" during transportation.
Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC MACRO lens Specifications
Focal length | 17-70mm |
Minimum aperture | F22 |
Maximum aperture | F2.8 |
Lens construction | 15 Elements in 12 Groups |
Angle of view | 72.4°-20.2° |
Number of diaphragm blades | 7pcs |
Minimum focusing distance | 20cm (7.9") |
Maximum magnification | 1:2.3 |
Filter size | 72mm |
Lens hood | Petal hood |
Dimensions | Diameter 79mm (3.1in")X Length 82.5mm (3.2") |
Weight | 455gr /16.0oz |
Optional accessories | • EX Filter Multi-Coated UV72 mm 0085126 912451 |
Fittings | • SIGMA AF • NIKON AF • CANON AF • PENTAX AF • KONICA MINOLTA AF • Vignetting will occur if the lens is used with digital cameras with image sensors larger than APS-C size or 35mm SLR cameras |


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A sweet and tart relish that adds vibrant color and intense flavor to classic pork, turkey and chicken dishes, prepare this recipe one day in advance to allow the flavors to meld together.
- 1 12-ounce package cranberries (3 cups)
- 3/4 cup apple juice
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon dried minced onion
- 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 2 medium pears, cored and chopped (2 cups)
- Place the cranberries, apple juice, sugar, lemon juice, onion, and rosemary into a large saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce the heat to medium and cook the mixture for 6 minutes.
- Stir in the pears and continue to simmer the mixture for an additional 2-1/2 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and serve once the relish has cooled.


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Dear Tom and Ray:
I have a 1987 Honda Accord, and the right front CV boot on the drive axle is torn. Mechanic said it would be about $250 to replace, but then said that the tie rod must be removed and needs to be replaced, so it amounts to $500 to repair.
The car has 198,000 miles and is not worth too much more than that. Should I repair, or find another beater?
Meanwhile, I wrapped the boot with plastic bags from the grocery store and wrapped duct tape around the bags and then used wire to hold it in place. I did squirt some grease into the boot before I did this.
Can I get along with this for a while? Is this safe? I'm afraid to go too far from home. — Bo
TOM: Fears often are irrational and misplaced, Bo. Not yours — your fear of not straying too far from home in this heap is entirely justified. And we'd encourage you to abide by it.
RAY: I'm actually less worried about the CV boot than I am about the tie rod. Long before the CV joint fails, the car will make a terrible clacking noise and eventually stop moving. But that's it.
TOM: On the other hand, if the tie rod breaks, you suddenly won't be able to steer the car.
RAY: So if you trust your mechanic, and believe the tie rod really does need to be replaced, I'd spend the $250 on that. That's a threat to your existence; the CV boot is just a threat to your transportation.
TOM: Eventually, the CV joint will degrade and fail due to lack of lubrication. The repair you did with the plastic bags and duct tape won't help. As you probably know by now, the centrifugal force of the spinning wheel will make that stuff fly off. Or even if it doesn't fly off completely, it won't do much to keep the grease packed into the joint.
RAY: There IS something that does a very good job of holding the grease in there, Bo. It's called a CV boot. And it costs $250.
TOM: But if you're willing to put in a little more time maintaining it, you can pick up a tube of CV grease from your Honda dealer, and then once a week get under the car and squirt some grease into the joint.
RAY: That would push out all the water, rocks and pedestrians that the joint accumulated from the road during the week, and replace it with life-sustaining lubricant. And if you were diligent, and did that once a week or so, the joint could soldier on for a long time.
TOM: It'll take you five minutes every weekend. Well, five minutes to grease the joint, then 15 minutes to clean your hands and two hours to go out and replace the clothes you stained. But that's a safe, acceptable, midrange solution.
RAY: But you can't Mickey Mouse the tie rod, Bo. If that breaks, you'll lose control of the car. So get that fixed right away. Good luck.
You can listen to Tom and Ray Magliozzi's "Car Talk" program at 10 a.m. Saturdays on National Public Radio station WUSF, 89.7 FM.
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Sheahan enrolls in new classroom
by Bill Roose / Detroit Red WingsRiley Sheahan became the fourth Red Wings' prospect to make his NHL debut when he played in Saturday's season finale against the Chicago Blackhawks. (Photo by Dave Reginek) |
Unfortunately, it wasn't the column he hoped to enter first.
Sheahan, who left the University of Notre Dame last month and signed a three-year entry-level contract to become a Red Wings prospect on Thursday, drew the game's first penalty in the season finale against the Chicago Blackhawks.
The 20-year-old center and the Wings' first-round draft pick in 2010, was just relieved that the bad guys didn't score while he served a four-minute minor for high-sticking Chicago forward Jimmy Hayes.
"It was the slowest four minutes of my life, but the guys did a great job killing it off," said Sheahan, who totaled three shots on nine shifts. "(In college) when you high-stick someone, you hit them in the cage and don't really get a penalty for it. The guys did a good job keeping me focused and told me nice work before the penalty."
A month ago, Sheahan was in the middle of a college semester, studying French, criminology and guitar. But making his NHL debut before a nationally televised audience with his parents in the stands was "much better than being in class."
Sheahan was the fourth Wings' prospect to make his league debut this season, joining defenseman Brendan Smith and centers Gustav Nyquist and Joakim Andersson. But unlike the other rookies, Sheahan never went to training camp or played a preseason game with the guys who played with Saturday afternoon.
"To look around and see all the big name players, and realizing who you're talking to, it's hard not to think about what they've accomplished," Sheahan said. "You've just got to stay focused, and try not to be star-struck. At the same time, it's a lot of fun."
Nervous or not, Sheahan took his first shift with 17:34 left in the first period, lining up against Michael Frolik on a face-off to the left of Jimmy Howard.
But 63-seconds later, Sheahan battled Hayes for the puck in front of the Blackhawks bench before high-sticking the Hawks' 6-foot-6 forward in the face that drew blood and earned the Wings' rookie his first double minor.
Sheahan, a 6-foot-2, 202-pound native of St. Catherines, Ontario, had a good scoring chance when he swatted a puck out of the air near the crease that stayed out of the net when he hit Corey Crawford's mask.
In all, Sheahan logged just over six-minutes of ice-time while collecting three shots on goal with one hit and a blocked shot.
"I didn't play him much, but you know a big kill for us when he took his first penalty," Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "You might as well get on-board, he had a chance to score and put it off the goalie's head. But I thought he was a big body down low who could hang onto the puck and made good decisions with the puck. The big thing for us is we don't have a lot of big bodies in our organization, so seeing him was pleasant."
The Wings signed Sheahan to an amateur tryout last month and assigned the big center to Grand Rapids of the American Hockey League where he had a goal and an assist in seven games.
So what was the highlight of the day for Sheahan? Despite the Wings losing 3-2 in a shootout, it was the thrill of watching two of the league's best player-makers. "Just seeing (Pavel) Datsyuk and (Patrick) Kane," Sheahan said, "do those shootout moves at the end."
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Rock of Ages Review.
Rock of Ages isn't your typical tower defence game, in fact it's art style might for a second have you thinking that Monty Python's Terry Giliam had gone and made a video game, he hasn't (though I'd love to see him have a crack at one.) Rock of Ages is the most recent release from Chile based developers ACE Team, yes the folks behind the bizarre first person fighting game Zeno Clash. Their familiar cosmetic oddities are present in Rock of Ages, though to a less freaky and confusing degree.
At its most basic, Rock of Ages is a tower defense game where the objective is to destroy the enemy's gate and flatten one of the many famous historical figures that cower inside; if you do so you win, pretty simple. Rock of Ages takes a page from the artistic styles of historical artwork and the Monty Pythonesque cut out figures give the game a real charming look. As do the between battle cutscenes which splice in a few modern cultural references with takes on famous movies scenes such as 300's "This is Sparta" and Lord of the Rings "you shall not pass" making for amusing moments.
The player takes control of a large boulder and controlling it is both slow and sluggish (as you might expect), unfortunately to many battles end up simply being a case of who can get their boulder down the hill the fastest. The 'tower defense' part of Rock of Ages consists of building of weapons and towers on the play field, with the intention of slowing down and damaging the enemies boulder. It's basic and won't be revolutionising the tower defense genre anytime soon.The relatively slower pace might also frustrate some and while rolling a big boulder and smashing into buildings as its simple thrills, there's little to keep you hooked.
The PS3 version suffers with some framerate drops here and there, especially when the game displays the enemy's boulder on the top right separate screen, but it's more then playable and doesn't quite spoil Rock of Age's charming style. Audio is worth a quick mention to, with silly voices that act as speech for the cutout figures and a pleasant cheery medieval score accompanying it.
Rock of Ages is an odd one, but I'd expect no less from from the folks who brought us Zeno Clash. It's charming, especially if rolling large boulders down a hill and squashing famous figures from history is your sort of thing and while some will find it a little on the irritating side, I can always appreciate a game that travels the less trodden track and in this regard Rock of Ages is recommendable. Flawed but worth a look if your into your tower defense games, double if you like them to be on the strange side.
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