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06-06-2012 #51
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06-06-2012 #52
^ Er, you do realise we are simply discussing whether its scripted or not. Get over it?
06-06-2012 #53
I dont care if its scripted or not.
Game looks hella awesome and i will play it either way.
Naughty God can take my money.
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06-06-2012 #54
I meant DarkNemesis and RedDragon7. No one is doubting the game too much and it's not 'negative crap' being thrown around. That's all I'm trying to say.
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06-06-2012 #56
I love the brutality of it; however, if it is being targeted for a Teen rating, then it's most likely not designed throughout with that brutality in mind, which would be disappointing.
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06-06-2012 #58
Haha Yeah Joel smashes a guys face into the corner of a draw, blows a guys head off and in the closed truck demo pushes a dudes head into a shard of glass. This ain't no teenie game.
06-06-2012 #59
Thank you for restoring my hope lol.
06-06-2012 #60
Well i think Ghost has a point.At the first look it seems all scripted but when u take a second look u can see how the scene could have been played completely different. If you are a good in shooting then i guess u could take out every foe with a single shoot. But if you are bad in shooting u need to go into close combat like ND did it with Uncharted 3. It depends where and how u take an enemy out. If he is near a wall u smash his head into it, if he is near some chair or bottle u take that to smash his head etc. I mean sure some little sequence will take the control when u have done the right thing (like every ordinary QTE) but its up to you how u want to take out the enemy and that is the brilliant part of this game.
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06-06-2012 #61
ND gameplay interview.
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06-06-2012 #62
hopefully you can also try to sneak past stealthily. my main annoyance with Uncharted 3 was how it set up sections that made you think you could clear an area quietly but ultimately it was impossible. an added challenge for that with this game is you're not just sneaking by yourself.
so far, some details that I love about this game:
- no health regeneration
- very limited resources
- inventory with crafting
- its brutality
- your tag along seems to not be a complete liability
- it's not JUST a zombie game, we have enough of them really.
one of my big hopes for this game is that you will be able to lure infected to humans and vice-versa, to take care of the problem for you.
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06-07-2012 #64
I only now go around to watch this video, it was quite something
Once more into the fray.
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day.
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06-08-2012 #65
This is what Uncharted was supposed to be like.
If this game is truly open-world (which I don't know if it is or not) then it has the potential to be the best game ever made...right now it still looks very impressive and immersive even if it is linear (which it has to be, no way they can produce those graphics with an open world).
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06-08-2012 #67
It's definitely not open world, but if there's exploration (like Fallout where you explore offices - desks, cupboards etc.) then it'll last me a long time because I like to search EVERYTHING which is why I get so many hours out of those games.
06-08-2012 #68
E3 2012: The Last of Us is nothing like you think it is
Not all devs lie and ND made it clear since the reveal that A.I. would be their number 1 focus. Wouldn't surprise me to hear people still doubt it for the hell of it.
06-08-2012 #69
Weird. I haven't seen anyone doubt the AI of the game so far.
06-08-2012 #70
Its the contextual animaiton that I truley find amazing.
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06-08-2012 #72
It sure is weird...
There's no way the animations and enemy pathing[part of the A.I.] will be that smooth and convenient in the final game, so people shouldn't hype themselves up for that. I do expect there to be some excellent bending and great contextual attacks though.Well, firstly, you admit that you don't understand what anyone means by an event being scripted. The convenience of the battle and how all of the enemies, along with the girl, acted is really obvious at times.[A.I.] This is an easy thing to set up when the game has been played beforehand and then showed off to the crowd after being recorded because Naughty can guide what happens. Don't get upset just because people have realistic expectations in mind for a video game.
06-08-2012 #73
The placements of the enemies, in tandmen with the animations and attacks, was smooth and convenient. See how that has nothing to do with what that article is referring to? I hope so.
06-08-2012 #74
This is some kojima $#@!...really I never expected A.I. advancements from ND.
Yes but it's still far better than anything we've seen on consoles thus far.
Also i didn't see a lot of button sequences in that video which leads me to believe that you don't have much control over the character during those fight scenes...but this is only a small amount of gameplay and could be much better.
Wait, what are you talking about? Huh?
Could be better? What else is better?! I wanna know so I can play it now!
Sir, I nominate you the king of this thread.
What makes you think that you don't have control over your character during fights?Last edited by Omar; 06-08-2012 at 04:19.
06-08-2012 #75
Go watch the interviews and such where they talk about these things. The attacks and animations depends on where the fight takes place;doorway, wall, other objects. How can it not be that smooth when they have proved it to us and behind closed doors to the press? They aren't going to foolishly control one area to perfection and then let the animations and attacks go to hell for the rest of the game smh. ND has simply blown your mind to the point of you being in disbelief. Keep up with the news if you want to argue a point.
And of course there are enemies placed at certain points;searching for goods, ect. What game telling a good story doesn't have enemies placed at certain points? Ex. Enemies placed at the Area A, searching for goods;ND's way of selling the story and emotions brought from having to survive. The player disrupts them at Area A. They react to the player's actions and go into defense mode. They don't just go to Area B every time after leaving A. The player's actions will decide if the A.I goes to Area B,C,D or E.
I'm not saying you dislike the game or trying to attack you. I'm just trying to point out to you that the things you are concerned about have already been solved. ND are working some wicked magic here.Last edited by Two4DaMoney; 06-08-2012 at 04:33.
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Had Elvis left the drugs alone, he might have celebrated turning 78 today.
Drugs, maybe more than fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, took him away even before he fell off the toilet at Graceland and left that big hole in the heart of American music lovers.
But Elvis was about much more than music.
In a changing time when superstardom meant more than Michael Jackson ever did – Michael, who married and divorced Elvis' precious daughter Lisa Marie (a relationship that Elvis, had he lived, would have no doubt stopped hard before it started) – Elvis rose above the crowd for several reasons.
The sneer hijacked countless black leather jacket-wearing hoods smoking non-filter cigarettes on street corners and wiping greasy hands on white T-shirts their mothers washed by hand. Elvis' soft skin and dark eyes easily made teenage girls cry, their lives forever changing because of him, his hair and his heart that they knew held a place for them.
My father even liked Elvis. And Shamus was not easily impressed. He eventually hated the Beatles and anybody else who came from England to play rock and roll. He hated native-born American rockers as well. When I mentioned Jimi Hendrix at the dinner table one night Shamus looked me long in the eye, slowly pushed his chair from the table and silently walked away.
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Shamus loved his mother as well. And when my grandmother died, the loss took so much out of my father than he turned away from a promising career as a professional heavyweight boxer to instead enlist in the state police.
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Did someone mention jokes? Two nuns are riding bicycles from the convent into town. One observes to the other, "This is the first time I've come this way," and the other says, "It's the cobblestones." | |
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Ed Mcmahon (right behind you):
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DDGatGoD: Good one | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:25pm
stingy d:
aw man i was hoping we were gonna hear jeru... | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:26pm
stingy d:
oh yea... does anyone reccomend an internet service provider? | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:34pm
stingy d:
cool. well anyway im reading about 360 deals for recording artists.... weeeird and scaaary. | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:35pm
i thought this was omar souleyman | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:37pm
then i thought it was sir richard bishop...now i see it is 'true players'...anyway, it's really awesome. enjoying the show! | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:38pm
Stingy, Don't know what is available over in Brooklyn. I have ATT DSL and it is ok for home use. Actually that statement should probably be reversed these days...I know I definitely need more bandwidth at home that I do at work since I cant watch videos, etc. at work. | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:38pm
stingy d:
omar souleyman would crush this guy with raw energy | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:39pm
true players:
is posted at differentwaters.blogspot.com | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:44pm
Ahh, thanks.... funny I don't know that blog but the WFMU rss reader must have had it. | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:50pm
north guinea hills:
i am concurring w/ stingy d's statement.... | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:53pm
the timekeeper at the bell:
I think you are only here until 5, no? | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:54pm
yep, I'm in old Irene shift mode.... right, 5pm it is! | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:55pm
Hi Woody, great show! One comment... I think the title of that Richard Bishop piece should be "Enta Omri" (You Are My Life), not "Omni" | |
Mon. 8/3/09 4:57pm
Thanks Sybil..... fixed! | |
Mon. 8/3/09 5:00pm
north guinea hills:
wow, nice new susie ibarra! | |
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Report by Rashmi r Parida; Bhubaneswar: National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), a Navratna PSU under Ministry of Mines, Govt of India, has placed order to import two lakh tonnes of coal to tide over the present crisis.
The decision was taken by a Committee of Directors on Tuesday evening. Sourcing coal from Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL, a subsidiary of Coal India Limited), NALCO�s 1200 MW thermal captive power plant at Angul in Orissa supplies power to the company�s aluminium smelter located nearby. The imported coal would start arriving after a week, sources said.
�We were losing around one crore rupees everyday due to short supply of coal from the linkage provided to us by MCL,� says Shri B.L. Bagra, CMD of NALCO. �We have been receiving on an average 7400 tonnes of coal per day through this linkage for the past two weeks, as against our daily requirement of 12,000 tonnes, primarily due to heavy rainfall. As a result, we were constrained to shut down 60 out of 960 operational pots from last Thursday at our Smelter to ensure safe operations of the remaining pots. However, it�s a temporary closure,� Shri Bagra clarified.
NALCO�s smelter produces approximately 37,000 tonnes of metal a month. Although the production may decline slightly by around 2100 to 2400 tonnes for a month due to the disruption, the coal crisis however will not affect the company's annual output targets, Shri Bagra added.
�To overcome the crisis, we reached out to Ministry of Mines, Ministry of Coal and Railways authorities. The Coal Ministry advised MCL to arrange supply of coal from other mines located in Talcher and Ib areas. In turn, MCL has responded to open supplies from Hingula and Kanika mines. The movement from these mines has helped NALCO in salvaging the situation. The smelter is still operating with the help of State grid to the extent of receiving 100 MW of power regularly,� Shri Bagra concluded.


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Worst: Ryback Should Probably Talk Less
So, I guess it's appropriate to start this week's column by saying how hard I'm turning on Ryback, and now a couple of interference runs in pay-per-view main events have taken me to the heights of Funkasaurus Debut to the bowels of Funkasaurus Now.
I think Ryback has an upside. I've always liked Skip Sheffield, and I feel like if you pulled the cameras away from him a little and highlighted his strengths without throwing him out there with a microphone to open Raw he could still be a thing. Unfortunately for all of us, there he is with a microphone opening Raw, yammering on like he's Vader in that one episode of 'Boy Meets World,' screaming in Mr. Feeny's face about how he's THE FACE OF FEAR and being taken seriously by nobody because the crowd is just Cory Matthews (me), Shawn Hunter (Dave Shoemaker) and a bunch of extras who were just told to show up and have no idea what's happening (everybody else on the Internet). Yes, the only way I justify being a blogger is by imagining myself as the protagonist of a 1990s sitcom. Sorry for inadvertently making you Joey The Rat, Guy At Bleacher Report.
You know what made those weird, rambling Ultimate Warrior interviews so great? The fact that they happened right before his matches. It felt like he'd just been wandering around in circles backstage mumbling to himself, and it was close enough to go-time that Mean Gene could say HEY ULTIMATE WARRIOR and uncork him. So he'd be all THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION IS THE DESTINY OF YOUR DOWNFALL HO KOGAN, FOR IT IS THE HAND OF AN AIRPLANE THAT MAKES OUTER SPACE RELEVANT, and you'd be all YEAH THIS GUY'S F**KING INSANE and five minutes later he's press slamming dudes with tassles on his shoes and it all goes together. Imagine if Warrior had to open shows with 10 minute promos to nobody in particular, never looking into the camera and just saying things about how he's a BEAST and how he must FEAST and how he is on top of the food chain and you are just YEAST. You'd f**king hate it, because there'd be an hour and a half between the bat-shit and the slamming.
Here's a quick outline for any WWE guys reading on how to fix Ryback, or at least preserve him for future shows and stories:
1. Don't let him talk if he's supposed to be a savage cyborg (or whatever).
2. Do not under any circumstances let him beat three promising wrestlers by himself at TLC. Put Stansky in the Olive Garden Hospitaliano uniform and pretend like you accidentally called him Seth Rollins.
3. Make him stop leading his own chants. It was embarrassing when Edge tried to do it, and it's worse here. We're noticing it, and we're wrestling fans — we don't want to be a part of any club that would have us as a member.
4. Do something to teach WWE fans how to count on rhythm. It's supposed to be "FEED (pause) ME (pause) MORE," like a King's declaration, not "FEEDMEMORE, FEEDMEMORE," like E-C-Dub. Trust me, it's more fun when you do it right.
5. Maybe make him a part of a group to take the focus off of him for a while. It seems like he'd more effective as the NEVER MIND THAT SHIT HERE COMES MONGO type, rather than the "these FANS want to see me take the WWE Championship!" type.
If you can do one or more of those things, you're moving in the right direction. If you can do all five, the next steps are "lose the RVD tights" and "just bring back Batista already".
Worst: So Long, Lord Tensai, And Thanks For All The F**KING NOTHING
Earlier this year, WWE had four concurrent "unstoppable" winning streak new guys: Ryback, Brodus Clay, Antonio Cesaro and Lord Tensai. Five if you count Damien Sandow. The key to winning a lot in WWE is to always be just arriving. That's why you can't beat the Rock. He's gone for seven years and has saved up SO MUCH POWER. If you're Brodus Clay and you're here every week, your power keeps going down until you can't beat anybody. See also: Viscera, The Great Khali and every other unstoppable monster giant who loses whenever someone more important needs a win.
Sandow seems to be doing fine (despite that horrible, immediate Survivor Series loss). Cesaro is GREAT, because they haven't thrown him in to lose to Cena or Orton or whoever and have let him pick the bones of guys like R-Truth for a while. Ryback is starting his descent from Main Event to "wrestling NXT guys in a gimmick match, probably". Brodus ran headfirst into a wall called RACIST WRESTLEMANIA SKETCH and has never recovered. Pretty sure Naomi could've done better against Antonio Cesaro last night. But worst of all is Tensai, who brick by brick lost everything that made him an identifiable character — the plus-sized Muta costume, the green mist, the spit hand of doom, Sakamoto, his title as "lord," basic wrestling ability — and just became the fattest, saddest jobber on the roster.
If the rumors of massive roster cuts are true, let me, the biggest Giant Bernard fan you know (probably), be the first to hope Lord is the first one out the f**king door.
Best: Wade Barrett Decimating Kofi Kingston
Surprisingly, Wade Barrett versus Kofi Kingston was my favorite match on the show. They worked hard to find the perfect formula for me to enjoy a Kofi match: Kofi must have the piss beaten out of him by his opponent for 10 minutes before being elbowed in the eyeball and pinned. Who knew?
Worst: There Is No Reason For This To Be A Non-Title Match
The only downside to the match is that it wasn't for the Intercontinental Championship. I write a lot about how pointless non-title matches are as stepping stones to title matches — if you're building a challenger to the IC Champion, have him beat OTHER guys so we can wonder whether or not he'll take the strap and be interested in your goddamn mid-carders and tune in to see what happens — but I don't think I've ever expressed how sick I am with WWE treating secondary titles as situationally important.
They'll put the US title on a guy for like, eight months and have him defend it twice. The second time is when he'll lose it. Cody Rhodes, I'm looking in your direction. In-between he'll lose a handful of non-title matches, effectively making the guy with the belt the worst guy in the ring and valuing shit like "making a statement" over winning and having tangible evidence that you are the best. But then they'll get to the end of the run and start pretending like the champion has done all these great things, and is one of the "best champions we've ever had," and how the US title has been on the waist of Stone Cold Steve Austin and Ric Flair and Harley Race.
All I'm asking is for some consistency. If the title isn't important, don't pretend it is when you need it. If it IS important, as it should be, be brave enough to WRITE it as important, and to have it change hands when your champ loses. That's the entire point of being champion — the moment when you lose the belt, and the next guy takes over. If it has to jump around a lot because of your ADHD, fine, but at least let it stand as a symbol of who won last.
Note: Wade Barrett totally won last.
Worst: Matt Striker's Face
I don't care if it's Movember or NaNoGroFacialHairMo or what, you should not be allowed on TV looking like a teen girl's half-assed manga interpretation of Hulk Hogan. I take back what I said about Tensai being the first out the door. Put him on all fours and let Matt Striker ride him through the door like a big gross molerat pony.


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Well, I have been busy trying to keep up with my #dontsithome reputation and I have not had the time to put together my April Bucket List! And it's already the 12th...where has 2013 gone?!
Below are activities I have already done, have planned,and hoping to do in April!
April 1 - New Jersey Devils v. New York Islanders hockey game
at the Prudential Center
April 2 - The foodie walking tour Dishcrawl in Jersey City, NJ.
The next Dishcrawl JC is April 30th! Check out my photo of the Freedom Tower from Jersey City and information about Dishcrawl on their website: http://dishcrawl.com/jcfoodadventure2/
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April 3 - New York Yankees v. Boston Red Sox baseball game
April 4 - Don't Sit Home 1,000 Facebook Likes Celebration
at Wicked Wolf Tavern in Hoboken, NJ
April 5 - Bacon Fridays happy hour at Dewey's Flatiron,
then pool and darts at The Hog Pit!
April 6 - Macy's Flower Show, Radegast Hall & Biergarten and Cave Singers show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
My blog post: http://dontsithome.blogspot.com/2013/04/macys-flower-show-free-fun-beautiful-in.html |
Radegast Hall & Biergarten in Williamsburg |
April 9 - My first coed softball game of the season!
April 11 - Lucky Guy play by Nora Ephron staring Tom Hanks!
http://www.luckyguyplay.com/ |
April 12 - Celebrated National Grilled Cheese Day...I had a Cuban from Brother Jimmy's BBQ in Midtown...it wasn't a grilled cheese sandwich, but there was melted cheese so I count that as celebrating!
April 13 - The Nomad Truck Grand Opening at The Village Pourhouse during the day, then having a Moroccan dinner at Cafe Mogador in the East Village and then seeing the Cold War Kids at Webster Hall
April 16 - Groupon Golf Lesson at The Golf Club at Chelsea Piers
April 18th to 22nd - Don't Sit Home will be coming to you from California for a few days! #dontsithome CA addition!
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April 23 - Playing in the ZogSports and American Honey Bar-sity Athletics Celebrity Kickball Game in Times Square in NYC! How awesome!
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April 25 - My friend's birthday dinner at ABC kitchen in NYC...I heard it's delicious!
April 27 - Study abroad reunion at Stout in NYC. I had the awesome opportunity to live in England for four months at Wroxton College! At night I have a birthday party at The Dove Parlour in NYC.
April 30 - Wines of Portugal 2013 Grand Tasting in NYC http://www.winesofportugal.com/us/
I would usually add more to my bucket list, but this list will definitely keep me busy and I know more events will come up as the month goes along!
Stay tuned and #dontsithome :)
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Though Marie, of Siler City, North Carolina, first saw Summerville native and musician Jas perform in Columbia, it wasn't until the next concert of his she attended—in Charlotte—that the pair met. After two years of friendship the couple began dating, and a year and a half later, Jas proposed during a trip to Walt Disney World. The couple, who reside in Davenport, Florida, wed at First Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina, then received guests at a reception held at The Century Room.
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Peanut Dip
Peanut dip is a dipping sauce made with peanuts or peanut butter and several other ingredients which often include garlic, sugar, soy sauce, lime juice, and many more. Though peanut butter is commonly used to prepare the dipping sauce; however, the Thai peanut dip recipe, which is quite popular, often suggests the use of peanuts to prepare the sauce. Peanut dipping sauce can be served warm, cold, or at room temperature, along with vegetables, chips, noodles, and several other dishes.
Ingredients, Preparation Overview, Serving, and Storage of Thai Peanut Dipping Sauce
A popular Thai peanut dipping sauce recipe suggests the use of unsalted and dry roasted peanuts, water, minced garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil, brown sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, cayenne pepper, and coconut milk as the essential ingredients. A variant of this dip suggests using tamarind paste in place of lime juice and Thai chili sauce in place of cayenne pepper.
The sauce is prepared by blending together all the ingredients until smooth and then placing it in microwave for a few minutes. It is often served warm with spring rolls or fresh vegetables. This sauce can also be combined with noodles.
The Thai peanut dipping sauce can be stored in refrigerator for around two weeks, if kept properly covered; freezer should be used for storing the sauce beyond two weeks. Also, the sauce tends to become thick when allowed to sit; hence little amount of coconut milk or water should be added for thinning it out.
Peanut Dip Recipe Variations
A few popular peanut dip recipe variations are discussed hereunder:
- Spicy peanut dip- the spicy peanut dipping sauce is prepared by sautéing ginger, garlic, and shallots in some oil, until shallots get soft, and then adding red pepper (crushed), curry powder, chicken broth, lime juice, brown sugar, soy sauce, and peanut butter. The sauce is simmered for a few minutes before stirring in pepper and salt. It can be served at room temperature or chilled.
- Peanut dip for fruits- peanut based dip for fruits is prepared by mixing together cream cheese, vanilla, peanuts, and brown sugar and refrigerating it for a few hours. It is served popularly with apple wedges.
- Asian peanut dip- it is a blend of peanut butter, low-fat tofu, brown sugar, lime juice, soy sauce, red pepper (crushed), and crushed garlic cloves. The dip is refrigerated before serving.
Serving Peanut Dips
A few serving suggestions with respect to peanut dips are mentioned hereunder:
- The Thai peanut dipping sauce goes well not only with fresh vegetables, noodles, or spring rolls, but is also a perfect accompaniment to cucumber slices, and shrimp chips. Further to that, it acts as a very nice salad dressing and pairs well with rice too.
- Peanut dips also pair well with grilled chicken strips.
- The dip can also be served as a spread for sandwiches.
- Peanut dip is a perfect accompaniment to fruits also.


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The Mountain Goats Squash Beef With Nas
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, getting ready to do some stuff
Mountain Goats Bowery Ballroom October 29, 2005
I showed up to the Mountain Goats party late, really late, 4AD-era late. The Mountain Goats cult has existed for nearly as long as the Mountain Goats themselves have existed, since a mental-hospital nurse named John Darnielle began recording songs on a boombox with an acoustic guitar in 1991, putting them out on cassette-only albums. 1991 was a long time ago, and now Darnielle is a big-label artist, signed to 4AD and making use of all the pretty cursive cover-art and moody, expansive production that the label must include in its contracts. Plenty of his cult professes to miss the tape-hiss and bleated immediacy of Darnielle's earlier work, the stuff he did before he had a string section at his disposal. I started last year with We Shall All Be Healed, Darnielle's second 4AD album, and so all that production sounds natural to me. WSABH doesn't skimp on the qualities that Darnielle's cult always loved about him: his forcefully nasal blurt of a voice, his percussively driving acoustic guitar, his gloriously refracted/emotionally concrete lyrics. The album just lays a thick carpet of swelling cellos and swirling pianos under all that stuff, giving it heft and warmth and grandeur. But then, I've never heard the vast majority of his older work. As with Lungfish or Three 6 Mafia, I like that there's this whole universe of stuff he did a long time ago, ready for me as soon as I decide I'm ready to start exploring it. Or that's what I thought before Saturday night's show, anyway. I can be really stupid sometimes. Some of these songs I heard that night, I can't believe I'd never let myself hear these songs before.
Earlier this year, Darnielle released his third 4AD album, The Sunset Tree, and I'll be shocked if this album doesn't end up at the top of my P&J ballot. The Sunset Tree is Darnielle's album-length exploration of his relationship with his abusive stepfather, the effects that his stepfather's abuse had on him at the time and have on him still. Musically, it's a gorgeous record, full of all the swelling and pounding I loved on WSABH. Lyrically, it's fucking corrosive and harrowing, and it still turns me into jelly every time I listen to it, which is often. I don't want to get too emo about the album in this space, but I love it. When I heard The Sunset Tree, I created this mental narrative of Darnielle's career in which The Sunset Tree is the final triumph, the ultimate use of Darnielle's heartfelt eloquence and unblinking fury, the end result of a career spent honing his gift. Turns out I was wrong. He's been this good for years.
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The Mountain Goats' stage presentation is simple: Darnielle on acoustic guitar, another guy on bass, playing old songs and new songs and talking between the songs. The opening band, the Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, backs them on a couple of songs. It's a singer-songwriter show, and it's a good one. Between songs, Darnielle is as wired as he is erudite, introducing his songs in an embarrassed mile-a-minute stammer. The bass player's accompaniment is minimal and generally unnecessary; he's there mostly to hammer Darnielle's best lines home by joining him in a piercing harmony. He's a hypeman, basically. And so Darnielle doesn't have the uplifting curlicues of his 4AD stuff to fall back on; it's basically just him, playing the way he once recorded. And he delivers his songs with total conviction, grinning and baring his teeth and scrunching his face up during the instrumental passages. This minimal presentation lets his lyrics come through clearly, as they should. And those lyrics, on the older songs as on the newer ones, have a gutpunch psychic force that just completely knocks me dead. I'd quote them, but I don't want to drain them of their context. I'm not a good enough writer to do them justice.
This is all critic-friendly stuff, of course, the acoustic guitars and enigmatic history and fierce literary fluency. Someone at the show yelled "Jess Harvell says hi" at one point, and I don't even think it was Jess Harvell. Darnielle is a critic himself, writing with enormous grace and passion about obscure metal and Europop on his Last Plane to Jakarta zine and website. But the audience at Saturday night's show was something I haven't yet seen in New York: a crowd that simply demands a second encore, that cheers loudly and enthusiastically throughout the set, that gives the guy onstage a hero's greeting. Critics don't do that stuff, but at least in this case, maybe we should.
You're probably doing Halloween stuff tonight, but if you're not, you should go see the Mountain Goats at the Knitting Factory.
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The Weighting Process in the SHIW
The design of a probability sample jointly determines the method used to select sampling units from the population and the estimator of the population parameter. If the sampling fraction is constant for all the units in the sample, then the unweighted sampling mean is an unbiased estimator. In the Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), units included in the sample have unequal probabilities of selection and each observation is weighted using the inverse of the proper sampling fraction (design weight) adjusted for the response mechanism (nonresponse weight) and for other factors such as imperfect coverage. In this paper we present the weighting scheme of the SHIW and assess its impact on bias and variance of selected estimators. Empirical evidences show that the increasing variability induced by using weighted estimators is compensated by the bias reduction even when performing analysis on sample domains. A set of longitudinal weights is also proposed to account for the selection process and the attrition of the SHIW panel component. These weights, giving their enhanced description of the �panel population�, should be better suited to perform longitudinal analysis; nevertheless their higher variance implies that they wouldn�t always be preferable in terms of mean square error.
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"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
The majority of the people that work for me, barely speak english, let alone understand the words that I would learn. Kinda like when they are trying to tell me something in broken english. they get frustrated because they can't tell me what they want to say and I look at them with that "deer in the headlights" look. Luckily, my fellow supervisor is fluent in both languages. I am glad that I finally started a thread that everyone enjoys. It has been some interesting reading to say the least.
We talk about the value of words. We may subscribe to MW word-a-day websites. We may endeavor to learn a new word every day and use it in a sentence. What do we really know about the loom of language? The origins of the words we use every day as opposed to those that we use infrequently?
To know the origin of words is to know how men think.
Our language is truly international. The American speech, like the American people, comes from all over the world. Not two percent of our English words first rose in the British Isles.
(Which may dispute the English only argument so favored by many.)
Somewhere in the Near East they seem to have started, in that Garden of Eden of earliest man, brought home by the three restless mingler's, the soldier, the trader, and the priest.
So we have our modern American language. It includes Greek, Latin, and other Indo-Asian, as well as Germanic, and Celtic words.
G'night, JD
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
It is far easier to spit on the work of others than it is to produce something better yourself.
Brynmoors Prairie Sage JH (Sage) Just a dang fool huntin Dawg
HRCH Calypso Seven Bales High SH (Bailey)
HR Calypso Zoomin Loosies Mad Hader (Maddi) We loved you baby. R.I.P.
HRCH FlatLanders Broken Pistol Ricochet MH (Flinch)
My Christian Name is Michael Baker..
I have gone by "Gooser" since I was a "gossling"
Although I don't know the origin of any of the words in this sentence, I would bet that many of those with more extensive vocabularies are aware of the roots and origins of many of the words they use. I think that I can often recognize latin and greek origins; not so much middle eastern or germanic. The latin and greek root recognition comes from all the taxonomic stuff in biology. These days, one has to wonder how many "English" words have infiltrated their way back into their tongues of origin since not only do soldiers, traders, and priests pick up words, they must surely leave some behind.
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
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Not exactly what I meant. Certainly I am aware that English has in many ways become the lingua franca. I was really referring more to words that started out as latin, greek, arabic, etc., were picked up and Anglicized, and may have now wended their way back into either their language of origin or some other language.
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!
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Don't you love those moments when everything seems to click and it's a complete 'ah-ha!' moment? The beginnings of this dish were already in the works when I had a recent dinner at the newly opened All'onda and the final pieces came together in one of those great moments of clarity: a delicious side of Brussels sprouts. The dish was vinegary, tangy, and had a great crunch from pistachios, which I realized have been a key missing element of my go-to winter vegetable salads.
You might not think that you can be satisfied with just vegetables for dinner, but between the pistachios, various root vegetables and greens, and creamy ricotta, this dish is actually quite filling. I'd initially envisioned this dish being finished under the broiler with a haloumi or feta, but I wound up preferring the cooling aspect of the cheese in contrast to the hot vegetables.
Most of the work for this recipe is the prep, but it's still pretty minimal overall. The key is to try and get the ingredients as similar in size as possible so that they cook evenly. Note that parsnips and carrots, depending on the size you buy, tend to have uneven shapes, so you'll want to quarter the larger rounds to blend in with the rest.
Like a stir fry, this recipe comes together very quickly. I start by softening the onions, followed by the spices and herbs for flavor and depth, and finally add the rest of the vegetables. The pan will be a bit dry at first, to help brown the vegetables, but I later add some stock to help them cook a little faster. Finally, I fold in some kale, toss in the pistachios, give it a drizzle of vinegar for a nice hit of acidity, and top it with ricotta for a rich and creamy finish.
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Oh, the excitement of wrapping Christmas presents. The flurry of looking for the tape, ribbon, bows, stickers, etc. Checking the items for people I bought presents for, I had to remember some of the things I got and who I got them for, as I watched my daughter, Jane, do the work.
Hey, I got to put the name tags on.
I have birthdays this week: Trey Gallegos John Furhman, Elsa Henry, Marion Connor and Jeff Hardin.
Get well/speedy recovery to Eloise Waters, Roy Southard, Pat Nicodemus, Jane Seiloff and Jennifer Mann.
The noon potluck is Friday at Sunset Meadows I. Bingo will follow.
The AARP meeting is at 2 p.m. Monday at Sunset Meadows I.
On a final note, I would like to thank all the groups of carolers, who have come to Sunset Meadows.
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Editor's Notebook: 5/16/12
Jeff Genung
• Why does the weather turn crappy just as I'm getting ready to leave work?
• Congratulations to all the winners in yesterday's school board elections – especially to incumbents Perry Owen, Luke Murphy and Joe Stagliano on the Norwich City Schools board. Long a hotbed of dysfunction and vitriol, the Norwich board seems to have gotten its act together in the last year and apparently the voters agree that the current makeup of volunteers is working. To everyone who was elected or re-elected yesterday: Don't forget who put you in office – listen to your constituents!
• The newsroom team and I attended the 11th annual Commerce Chenango Membership Appreciation luncheon at the Northeast Classic Car Museum today. A nice event, highlighting both the Chamber's accomplishments over the past year and three of its members – Employees of the Elsie Glassett of SFCU, Woman-Owned Business of the Year Dinnett Moore's "A Touch of Moore," and Non-Profit of the Year, the Chenango County Historical Society. The highlight for us, however, was completely unexpected. CEO Steve Craig's speech detailed his first year in the Chamber's top spot, having come from a long career in broadcast journalism. When Steve started talking about changing technology causing an upheaval in the industry, I started to get nervous. But things took an unexpected turn when he told the crowd how lucky this community was to still have a daily newspaper like The Evening Sun, and went further to say we're better than our Binghamton counterpart. High praise, indeed, and followed by an ovation – seated, but I'll take a round of applause however I can get it. Like an abused puppy at the shelter, we as reporters often cringe in fear that a raised hand will strike us rather than pet, so it's always reaffirming to hear something nice. Thanks for the validation, folks. We'll make another one tomorrow.


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Online Class Size
Online Class Size
What is the "ideal" or "maximum" class size for online courses?
Short answer: There is no such thing.
Longer answer: read on...
This is one of the more controversial questions related to online learning. (See, for example, the Distance Education Online Symposium Listserv (DEOS-L) archives for various postings on this topic over the past few years.) My answer to this question is very simple: There is no such thing as an "ideal" class size for online courses.
Class size is an important factor, of course, though not as important as many practitioners believe when they insist (often based on their own personal experience) that there is an optimal maximum class size for online courses. The exact number varies depending on whom you ask -- from around 12-25 students per instructor or facilitator -- but the widespread belief is that the optimal/maximal number is pretty small. Not coincidentally, that's about the same size as an 'ideal' traditional classroom, which of course makes perfect sense: one would expect to find that traditional class sizes are necessary to re-create traditional class experiences.
So if an instructor-centered learning experience is what you want, then a class size of 12-25 students probably is ideal. Creating a manageable interaction volume is the reason most instructors give for smaller class sizes, and limiting class size to this range typically generates a volume of interaction that matches what most instructors feel capable of handling -- if they use instructor-centered practices, that is. Some online instructors (especially new ones) structure their courses so that they need to respond to all student messages. Other instructors allow for student-student communication but still set themselves up as 'command central' for most course interaction. It's no wonder that some instructors then feel the need for interaction volume management strategies, such as setting size or quantity limits on the number of student-to-instructor messages in a given time period.
In my view, however, this is a classic example of "if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten." If you want to think outside this box, there are plenty of examples of online courses being offered effectively with large enrollments:
* Turoff and Hiltz's case study on effectively managing large enrollment online courses (Sloan-C Online Education, Volume 2, 2001) describes how applying six "management principles" enabled online information systems courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology to successfully support 40 to 60 students.
* My case study of selected courses at Northern Virginia Community College (from the same volume) showed how a "tutorial model" of instruction could support classes of 50-100 students with reasonable success. Indeed, one NVCC instructor has taught her entire information systems course load online for years, simultaneously serving 200-250 learners each semester with high course completion rates.
* In courses with experienced, knowledgeable professionals, it only makes sense to enable learners to learn from each other via story-swapping, expertise sharing, and other forms of collaborative learning. This is how FCIB's International Credit and Risk Management course enables a single facilitator to serve an international audience of as many as 80 students in a single course.
* The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Collaborative Breakthrough series used a learning structure which combines team teaching & collaborative learning within a constructivist, results-oriented framework. IHI runs "courses" which have had as many as 500-600 learners and have documented successful results in terms of organizational change and return on investment (or Levels 3 and 4 on the Kirkpatrick scale -- levels which academic institutions usually don't even attempt to measure).
Learning-centered course design provides a lot more flexibility in creating an optimum class size -- it can support smaller class sizes as well as larger ones.
[Originally posted on the SLS Online Learning Blog, November 1, 2004]


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Product Overview
Figure 1. Cisco PRP3-SMDC
Figure 2. Cisco XR 12000 PRP-3 with PRP3-SMDC Inserted
• Supporting up to 10 Gbps of service traffic per daughter card
• Running carrier-grade Layer 3 to Layer 4 services.
• Running certain types of protocol offloads that help boost Cisco XR 12000 Series scale
• Supporting all service layer configuration on Cisco IOS XR Software
Features and Benefits
Table 1. Cisco XR 12000 PRP3-SMDC Features and Benefits
• Carrier Grade NAT44
• High availability
• IPv6 rapid deployment (6rd) border relay
• Stateless translator (XLAT)
• BFD offload
Product Specifications
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Note: Cisco PRP3-SMDC is supported with these chassis operating with Cisco IOS XR Software 4.1.1 and later.
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Table 4. Physical and Environmental Specifications
Table 5. Regulatory Approvals
System Requirements
Table 6. System Requirements
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Lisa Morris
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Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lisa graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor's degree in Forestry. Graduate school brought her to the Bluegrass State, where she later attended the University of Kentucky to pursue a master's degree in Forestry with a concentration in strip mine reclamation. Since then she raised two children, working part-time for several organizations before connecting with her conservation roots at The Nature Conservancy in 2005.
After her kids finished with high school, Lisa and her husband moved back to the country. They bought 15 acres along North Elkhorn Creek, built a passive solar home using as many recycled materials as they could find and afford, and planted their property with 800 trees and 10 acres of native warm season grasses and native forbs.
Nature.org: Have you always had an interest in conservation?
Lisa Morris: Yes, my father thought his children should see the United States. So he and my mom packed up their five kids in the station wagon and we explored the country. We read every plaque along the way! For me, the visits to national parks fostered a life-long interest in conservation.
Nature.org: How did your career path lead to working with The Nature Conservancy?
Lisa Morris: I worked in many different types of part-time jobs while raising my two kids, eventually connecting with The Nature Conservancy of Kentucky as a part-time secretary. With the kids grown I now work full-time as the chapter's office manager. When I'm not tending to the office's administrative needs, I'm thrilled to get outside and get my hands dirty!
Nature.org: What projects have your focus these days?
Lisa Morris: In addition to the office work, I participate as part of the burn crew. I also serve as the non-native, invasive species contact for the chapter and oversee a grant that funds the restoration of a barren at the Mammoth Cave National Park.
Nature.org: What do you hope to tackle in the long-term?
Lisa Morris: The Mammoth Cave work will continue until 2014. I am also always working to make The Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's office operations and spaces "greener." And I hope to continue my work on serving as a resource for non-native, invasive species eradication and education – it's a big issue here in Kentucky!


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Aiming to be a tourist-friendly Chi sitdown attraction with a future in casinos, Victor R. Pisano's "The Blues Brothers Revival" is a tawdry, loose, humorless and generally half-baked effort, with a book so weird and wafer-thin it makes no compelling case whatsoever for its own existence.
Aiming to be a tourist-friendly Chi sitdown attraction with a future in casinos, Victor R. Pisano's "The Blues Brothers Revival" is a tawdry, loose, humorless and generally half-baked effort, with a book so weird and wafer-thin it makes no compelling case whatsoever for its own existence.
As a safe blues entry point for middle-aged white guys, the Brothers Blue have a certain ongoing commercial appeal. Pisano's decent band and lively set of backup singers trot out a few likeable standards for auds with expectations only of partying. Production values also are reasonably strong. But without a new writer and some actual jokes added into the mix, this will be nothing more than a bottom-feeding celebrity impersonation show that even Sweet Home Chicago will have trouble swallowing. Pisano, a sometime entertainment exec, is married to Judy Belushi, the late John Belushi's widow. And Dan Aykroyd (who owns the other half of the act born on "Saturday Night Live") also has lent his name and support to the project. Those connections imply a piece of much greater substance than the one delivered. With Jake and Elwood played by Canadian impressionist-comedians Wayne Catania and Kieron Lafferty (Lafferty is pretty good; Catania is pretty bad), the show depicts the Jake character being trapped in Purgatory and needing help from his brother and sundry soul sisters to get him to heaven. Since John Belushi is dead, the post-mortem plot could be regarded as being in questionable taste. But even if one can get past the unseemly prospect of a man writing and directing a musical about his wife's dead first husband, the plot device just doesn't come with enough comedy to make this incarnation of the Blues Brothers likable. For all its flaws, the movie had a sharp, satirical script that contained lots of music set-pieces but also featured some of the wittiest one-liners ever to be tossed out of Lake Michigan. "The Blues Brothers Revival," which feels like a piece of Chi-style long-form improv, has no such sharpness. Despite the plethora of standard musical treats ("Amazing Grace," "Soul Man") churned out in fine style by the band, this is a musical without a book or a decently developed sense of humor, and a revival not worthy of the originals.The Blues Brothers Revival
Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, 350 seats, $50 top
A John Belushi Estate and Dan Aykroyd presentation of the Victor R. Pisano production of a musical revue in two acts, written and directed by Victor R. Pisano.
Musical direction, Ron Walters Jr. Sets, Robert A. Kovach; costumes, Kimberly Morris; lighting, A. Cameron Zetty; sound, Garth Helm. Opened, reviewed April 20, 2004. Running time: 2 HOURS.
Jake - Wayne Catania
Elwood - Kieron Lafferty
With: Pete Peterkin, Precious Jewel, Lavenia Davis, Bethany Thomas, Claudia Walters, Rick Smith, Shamus McClain.