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Jimquisition: The Beautiful Irony of PC Gaming
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Great video!! Absolute truth about PC gaming right there.
*hides GTX 580 SLi*
I have a pretty crappy PC and I can run Recettear just fine. I just had to mess around in the options for a bit, disable some things, but it runs decently.
I agree with you, Jim. PC games offer a unique experience that cannot be told on consoles.
But you wouldn't think that with the gaming communities I've seen. Especially on Gametrailers.com
Not to trash the website, but to their PC gamer, graphics are everything. If a game has bad graphics, it's a bad game. No matter how up their alley the game is. If it has good graphics, then it is automatically good. No matter how contrived or awkward the gameplay is.
On the other side of the coin, I find plenty of games on consoles that would never be adequately told on PCs. Particularly games by From Software like Armored Core and Demon's Souls.
Sure, you could emulate it. But you will never have the true experience of playing those kinds of games when at your desk.
Yep everyone who proves you wrong is trolling. You are just that awesome. Man I wish I was you.
Give it a year and I'll have 2 of those...
I don't know how far this has gone, but I see your Curse of Monkey Island (still one of my all time favorite games) and raise you Space Quest 1! Muahahahaha.
The most hysterical thing to me about all the bloviating you read on the internet on the great "PC vs Console" flame war of doom, is that the future is PC gaming.
It's just not the PC gaming we are used to calling "PC Gaming".
Already with systems like Onlive, you'll be seeing more remote gaming sessions streamed to either a television via a set top box, or more likely, as an application that you download for free on your home computer that you use for school or work.
The technology for this already exists and is being implemented as we speak. There are geographically located virtualization farms out there that run these virtual machines for remote access and modifying this into a game subscription model isn't the work of sci-fi, it's just a matter of time.
I know it bugs the hell out of a lot of people, but consoles and especially physical media are on their way out. It won't happen in the next few years, but within the next decade or so, I see it being the business model that publishers are exclusively pushing because it eliminates both piracy and their profit sharing with retailers and distributors.
Never underestimate the power of market forces.
I might be missing the point, but all I got from Jim today was that "PC gaming is much more versatile". It can do the high-end graphics stuff, as well as run some smaller developer titles that are awesome sauce, including old school titles through emulators and wrappers and thing.
Torchlight is fantastic and even has a netbook mode. And yes, upgrading my computer to play Witcher 2 was nowhere near as expensive as I thought it would be, and I had to upgrade everything from motherboard up - RAM, GPU, CPU, PSU (my, what a bunch of 3-letter acronyms).
But yeah, granted not everyone has the know-how to do this properly and affordably. I notice that also as some developers get more ambitious in keeping up with PC, they push those framerates quite hard, and playing at 720p on my xbox gets a bit jaggy at times. I mean still very playable, just not quite as smooth and fast as PC, but maybe I notice that more since I have my PC hooked up to the TV.
get a 680...
capitalism hooo!
i felt that was necessary right there...
OT: nice, i usually don't watch these but was slightly intrigued, and liked it. Def will check out more in the future.
Soooooooo, Jim worships Slaanesh right?
Anyway good vid, haters gonna hate etc. etc.
I never had Any bugs in EYE whatsoever. Not even One.
OT: It is Nice that Stereotypes can be cleared out from time to time.
But it's not misinformation. If I want to play something like Dues EX I do need a really good and really expensive computer. A lot of the big mainstream games are graphics intensive and you can't get past the fact that you need a computer than can cope with that. You don't /need/ to put lots of money into a good computer, it's just if you don't do so you miss most of the mainstream releases...?
I don't particularly buy the whole genre argument some people mentioned in the facebook comments. RTS games are a tad trickier, but I'm comfortable enough with any other genre to play just fine. But hey, unless I exclusively stuck to one genre, I couldn't see much reason to buy an entire new machine for a tad more convenience.
That being said I agree with the video. I use both consoles and a PC. The consoles are for mainstream titles (with the occasional Xbox Live Indie game) while my PC gaming is done pretty much exclusively via Steam. I love buying old games that are years old at discounted prices. There are quite a few I wanted back in the day I could never afford, and I'm free to play them. It's also where I go to play the strange Indie games. None of my PC games are particularly graphic intensive, but I love them all the same. (Unless the graphics are outright ugly it doesn't really reduce my enjoyment of the game) There's no doubt the PC offers are truly unique experience I wouldn't otherwise have, but I don't think I'd put all my eggs in that basket. So yes, I do both, and frankly it works out cheaper than just buying one high-performance computer. : )
Edit: It should be obvious, but I'm referring to the new Dues Ex.
my pc has a Q6600 intel CPU, and a 3850 graphic card from ati and i still can run the newest games with a resolution of 1920x1080 and everything on high. no problems.
i did play "amnesia" and "the void" and they are both good games. sure they are not up to date with the graphics but the games as such are good. "amnesia" was good but dint find it scary at all. "the void" was really something special. use colours to defend and fight..., no way you can do this with a controller (console), to draw these symbols. i can recommend "the void" if you like something different for a change. surely worth a look. but its a slow game but really special made. available on steam ;) .
sure, graphics are important but does not have to look amazing. as long it suits well with the atmosphere it wants to create, thats all i need. thats why i cant understand some people who complain about the source engine. i think its still a very good looking graphic which looks amazing and detailed. its hardware friendly and it works perfectly on slow pc's.
I don't know about the sword either, then maybe fan boy love to Warhammer?
I liked it, a lot, thank you Jim. *huge smile*
My only ask, could you make a small definition for each video, please?
Love "Jester's of the Moon" in the background. anyway I totally agree that you find incredibly good games that don't require a beast to run. Especially when the originality of next gen games has gone completely down the toilet (I'm looking at you MW3 and BF3).
Only problem with PC gaming as I see it is that the primary PC gaming operating system is owned by a company that's best interest is to see PC gaming die in a fire.
Well, console gaming does have one advantage: No DRM.
Anyways, did we really need another video about how great pc gaming is? Yes, it's good, thanks, I really needed to be told that again. Also, nothing better then being told something we've heard a million times from a pompous annoying obese asshole.
Read the EULA of any PC game, unless you bought it before 2005 or from from GOG you don't own it either, you just have a licence to use it. Don't go accusing Bioware of selling their souls to EA either.
Graphics are nice and all and I'll admit I do like a good looking game, however the games I'm playing the most at the moment are Frozen Synapse, Minecraft, and well yes Deus Ex: Human Resources is an ok looking game but not overly resource intensive.
I suppose that only really strengthens my arguement against it in that respect. But even ones you download from others places (GOG, Amazon, etc) won't lock you out for being 'banned' from them (though I doubt you could be banned from those places anyways unless you got caught doing something illegal like using other's credit cards). It might be in the EULA, but Steam, or any other major 'pc platform' I suppose, makes it easy to lock you out of all of your games for doing something wrong in just one of them.
Also, where did the Bioware thing come from anyways? I don't remember mentioning them at all...
I'd say that Frozen Synapsis and Minecraft don't really use great graphical power because they decide to go with a very stylized look. Sort of like what they did for Limbo; get rid of the need for graphics since there's no budget to make them by giving the game 'it's own style.' Not that that's a bad thing mind you.
EA locked a guy out of Dragon Age 2 completely because he said the Bioware had sold their souls to EA on a Bioware forum. It isn't just Steam that can stop you accessing your software. Ubisoft, EA and others can do it too.
thats just bragging rights, again like trying to prove a point you use whatever ammunition you have regardless of if it fits with your ideals.
lol This is so freaking true.
I can play Crysis 2 on max graphics and it looks so freaking beautiful you want to cry but OH MY GOD do I feel horribly guilty when I wander off and play Arcanum or Bastion or somthing.
I imagine looking across to the perpex window of my rig and seeing my second GTX580 graphics card with a forever alone face taped on to it.
If anything really high spec games are the least of what I play. Even Skyrim doesn't have DX11 and tessalation. (Although there is going to be a high res texture pack I think)
However Crysis 2, DA2 and to a lesser extent Deus EX (The TR:Underworld engine? Really guys?).
Why wasn't Dwarf Fortress mentioned as low graphic, highly immersive PC game. It's ASCII (can g et graphics pack) and its the best game I have ever played.
So you start the video by naming multiplat titles (Torchlight, Portal 2), mention PC's second biggest flaw (constant upgrades) and downplay that by syaing that you can play old games on it like as if only PC offers that ability - forgetting PSN and Virtual Console much?
This video is nothing more than highly biased BS. The biggest flaw that PC gaming has is the elitist fanboys who are fed by this kind of misinformed gobbledygook. Guess what, PC is no better and no worse than consoles in all reality. Both have moments of greatness, due to some very creative titles (minecraft, LBP, etc) ; and moments that are not so great due to reliance on stagnant genres (*cough*FPS*cough*); and everything in between. I myself prefer to be able to experience this by not having to place a small fortune in upgrading every other year (money saved that I can put into more games), but hey, whatever floats your boat.
Videos like this do nothing but feed the appetite of voracious elitist fanboys by providing only half of the equation. We need less of them.
If you like PC, great! I do enjoy some PC games as well (Starcraft, Civ). But don't try to convince me that most of the nonsense in this video can ONLY be applied to PC. I play a lot of old games, on my consoles. Do I care if they don't always look all new and shiny? No, I don't.
Um, sorry, but I don't mean to be a dick or anything (I dunno what it is about this forum that just makes us all raging savages...) but I don't recall him saying anything about constant upgrades other than the fact that he is upgrading THIS YEAR for battlefield 3.
Also, time and time again, us PC gamers have been trying to say that "Constant upgrades" is a myth. Those who upgrade bi-yearly are usually hardware-nuts who like me love the feeling of building a PC, or have a game that is not available on console that has rather steep requirements for one reason or another. But Just because you can't play crysis on full doesnt make you a non-PC gamer. Don't listen to the hardliners. You can probably get away with upgrading every 4 years and still be able to play modern games in the 5th (albeit with tuned down settings).
Its just while we are elitist often, it doesnt help if opposition and critics of PC gaming spread misinformation like that. Again, I'm sorry if I'm coming off as elitist, but I just want to, as many PC gamers, clear up that myth.
That's only because of the bane of the gaming industry - exclusivity. I would love to see Armored Core on PC. We need a good mech sim game on PC since Microsoft bought rights to the Mechwarrior series, turned it into an arcade style shitfest, and made it console-only.
My problem with PC gaming isn't financial, got nothing to do with upgrading my computer or anything like that. No, my issue is that every single person I know who labels themselves as a PC Gamer is such an elitist fuckpuppet about it and all spend frighteningly large amounts of time telling me how inferior my consoles are to their PCs that it makes me avoid it almost entirely out of spite.
Damn. I saw that chainsword in the gamestop rewards program (lol people who hate gamestop) for like, 80000 points, and it was in limited quantities....and it ran out within a couple hours.
If there's one thing that warhammer fans are known for it's a disposable income.
if you are statisfied with playing it on a graphical level identical to an xbox360, you can get a very, VERY cheap pc, for less or about the same as you would have to invest in a console. of course, if you want everything cranked up to the max, you'll have to pay for it. but don't forget: an xbox is just a small, pretty outdated pc itself. how many years is that thing old now? 4? you can get a 4 year old pc with similar power for next to nothing. this age old argument for consoles is nothing but fabrication and/or misinformed drivel.
What the fuck. Chainsword replica. Want, want it like ...like a triple cunted hooker.
Armies and tables cost a s*** ton
Escapist could quite easily have practised some quality control and maybe not pay their inferior content providers but instead pay those that might want to leave when not paid.
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(WNN/GDN): Sofala Province, MOZAMBIQUE: Along a dirt road in Mozambique's Sofala province, a long line of men on bicycles stretches into the distance, each carrying an impossibly big bag of charcoal strapped to his bike. The journey to town takes two days from where they or their families cut down trees and put logs in earth-covered pits to smoulder, to produce the charcoal.
It is a common sight in a country where 80% of people rely on charcoal for cooking. Each year the charcoal sellers' journey gets longer as locals and foreign logging companies chop down indigenous forests, the source of coal in this southern African nation.
However, breaking the country's dependence on "dirty" fuel is the aim of a for-profit venture called CleanStar that began selling ethanol cooking stoves in the capital, Maputo, this year. The ethanol is made from cassava, or mandioca, which is grown in virtually every backyard here. "Interesting. The alcohol they use comes from mandioca, a product that is produced a lot here. That is good," says one curious potential customer, Maputo taxi driver Milton Bilale.
With the price of charcoal in Maputo's many open-air markets rising sharply, CleanStar is banking on being able to corner a tidy slice of the domestic fuel market by offering a clean alternative at no greater cost. The project's backers, including Danish biotech giant Novozymes (whose enzymes turn the cassava into ethanol), believe that if it takes off here, it can be replicated in any number of eastern and southern African countries where charcoal prices are spiking and a growing population of urban poor are prepared to spend their disposable income on "aspirational" consumer products.
"We want to demonstrate that you can use this technology, you can work with the bottom of the pyramid and you can make money," says the Novozymes president Steen Riisgaard.
So far, the response has been fairly enthusiastic. "We like it very much. You don't dirty the pan because you don't dirty your hands. It is fast. You get the food quickly," says Rosa Lina Manhiça, a grandmother who lives in the Maputo neighbourhood of Mavalane, where the product is being piloted.
Designed by the Swedish firm Dometic, the stove was first used on a large scale in Ethiopian refugee camps. Its stable base makes it difficult for children to knock over. The fuel inside will not spill out, nor does the stove produce black, asthma-causing smoke the way charcoal burners do. So it is safe to cook with inside the house. White and easy to clean, it is a step closer to an electric hob.
"Many women work in the city and see people using electric stoves," says CleanStar's sales director, Thelma Venishand, who claims the stoves have become something of a status symbol. "You would usually find this in the living room, not the kitchen," she adds. "People like these stoves. We don't get headaches any more from smoke. But the problem is the price," says another Mavalane homemaker, Maria Douça. Already heavily subsided, the cost of $30 (£19) is nevertheless the equivalent of a week's wages in this lower-income neighbourhood.
Dometic will have to be able to track the stoves' use over time so that auditors can verify the amount of carbon replaced – a prerequisite to generating carbon credits. These carbon credits will be sold on international carbon trading markets to polluting industries that want to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch invested $4m in the project with the expectation of being able to trade the carbon credits it generates, once the project gets UN approval.
"Based on the fact that we are displacing charcoal, that we know there is a huge amount of carbon benefit even with one cooking stove, our expectation is that this is going to deliver the kinds of volumes that are very interesting for us," says the bank's global head of carbon markets, Abyd Karmali.
Until recently, carbon market investors preferred large-scale initiatives in China and India that generated high returns with low risk. What has changed is that from next year the EU has decided to restrict new carbon credits accepted by its emissions trading programme – the world's biggest carbon trading market. Only new credits from least-developed countries will be eligible. Suddenly, investors are sitting up and taking notice of projects like CleanStar.
Mozambique is one of the world's 10 fastest-growing economies and recent big discoveries in coal and gas have made it increasingly attractive as an investment destination. "There is no reason why it can't be a destination for carbon as well," adds Karmali.
Vast coal reserves to the east of the country are driving the frenetic pace of economic growth. Foreign mining companies have begun exporting coal to India and China where it will be used to make steel, fuelling rapid industrial development and contributing to further global warming.
In an ironic twist, CleanStar has built what it claims is the world's first sustainable cooking fuel plant close to the Port of Beira, Sofala province, and just a few hundred metres away from the railway line carrying coal to the coast for export. When the plant came on line in late May it used cassava imported from neighbouring South Africa as a temporary solution. Eventually the plan is to source the fuel from farmers in the nearby village of Savane.
As in much of rural Mozambique, malnutrition is rife in Savane. Farmers eke out an existence based on subsistence cropping, with little or no access to fertilisers and no means of storing their harvest to be able to eat all year round. CleanStar wants farmers in the area to sign up to a sustainable farming model, which will involve rotating cassava, sorghum and vegetable crops, but also planting indigenous trees to reforest an area denuded of the coastal forest that covered it just 20 years ago.
"When you fly over this region now you see this patchwork of degraded farms. In 10 years time I imagine strips of rich forest in between a vibrant, productive agricultural zone," says CleanStar's managing partner, Sagun Saxena.
Villagers are curious about the project, but they have also seen several donor-driven agricultural initiatives start up and fail. Mother of seven Ana Antonio is one of several thousand Savane residents who have agreed to take part. With the first of her new cassava crop poking out of the earth in her front yard, she is waiting to see how this initiative might benefit her family.
In the meantime, she says, she will go on supplementing her income the old way by cutting down trees and burning the logs in earth-covered pits. "We will still make charcoal. The children need this and that for school and it costs a lot. It is the only way to make sure they don't drop out of school," she says.
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First, the
HTTPGetAsync method creates a new instance of the
web::http::client:http_client class to maintain a connection with the REST API whose base URI is
http://localhost:58957/api/. Then, the method manually builds up an HTTP
GET request with a header that specifies the content type (
application/json) and sets the request URI to groups. This way, the HTTP
GET request will be made to
http_request request(methods::GET); request.headers().set_content_type(L"application/json"); request.set_request_uri(U("groups"));
The following lines show the initial code that makes the request and return the resulting
task instance that represents the asynchronous operation. The
request method uses the previously built
http_request instance (
request) as an argument. Notice that the
then method adds a continuation
task to the
task that executes the request. This task receives an
http_response instance (
response) and returns a
pplx::task<json::value>, i.e., a
task that will return a
return client .request(request) .then([](http_response response) -> pplx::task<json::value> { ...
After the request is processed, the code after the
then continuation will be executed in a new task. If the status code of the response is OK, the code returns the result of the
response.extract_json() method. This method extracts the body of the response message into a JSON value, checking that the content type is
application/json. The method does the extraction in a new task and returns a
pplx::task<json::value> instance.
There is another
then method that adds a continuation
task to the one that analyzes the response. This
task receives a
pplx::task<json::value> instance (
previousTask) and starts executing when the JSON value is available. The code calls the
previousTask.get method to retrieve the
json::value extracted from the body of the response and uses it as an argument to call the
DisplayJSONValue method.
}).then([](pplx::task<json::value> previousTask) { try { json::value const & value = previousTask.get(); DisplayJSONValue(value); } catch (http_exception const & e) { std::wcout << e.what() << std::endl; } });
The JSON response includes nested objects, so the
DisplayJSONValue method is prepared to deal with them. First, the method checks whether the received
json::value (
v) is null or not. Then, the code uses the
cbegin and
cend methods combined with the
for statement to loop over each element in the object. The
cbegin method gets the beginning const iterator element for a composite JSON value and the
cend method gets the end
const iterator element.
for (auto iter = v.cbegin(); iter != v.cend(); ++iter)
The code within the
for loop makes sure that it gets the values as
const references in order to avoid copying the whole JSON value recursively, a situation that would be too expensive for nested objects. The code retrieves the first stored value (
key) and the second stored value (
value) for each element.
const json::value &key = iter->first; const json::value &value = iter->second;
Then, the code checks whether the retrieved value is either an object (
value.is_object() returns
true) or an array (
value.is_array() returns
true). If this condition evaluates to true, the value is an object with children or an array, and therefore, the code displays the key as a string to indicate the parent's element name that will be listed when the key isn't null. Then, the code must loop over each element in the object or array, and therefore, it just calls the
DisplayJSONValue method with the retrieved value as an argument. This way, with just a few lines of code, the different chained asynchronous methods analyze the response, extract the body of the response into a JSON value and iterate over the different nested JSON elements to display their keys and values. When the value isn't either an object or an array, the code displays both the key and the value as strings. The JSON response used in the example is a bit complex in order to represent a real-life JSON response and not just a few simple values without nested objects. In fact, arrays and nested objects make things a bit more complicated and the example demonstrates that you can easily work with them with the different methods in
if (value.is_object() || value.is_array()) { if ((!key.is_null()) && (key.is_string())) { std::wcout << L"Parent: " << key.as_string() << std::endl; } DisplayJSONValue(value); if ((!key.is_null()) && (key.is_string())) { std::wcout << L"End of Parent: " << key.as_string() << std::endl; } } else { std::wcout << L"Key: " << key.as_string() << L", Value: " << value.to_string() << std::endl; }
The following lines show the results displayed in the console after executing the code with the previously shown JSON response.
Calling HTTPGetAsync... Content type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Content length: 1715bytes Key: Title, Value: "Cloud" Key: Subtitle, Value: "Cloud Developer" Key: Description, Value: "Cloud feature articles" Key: MainPage, Value: "cloud" Parent: Items Key: Title, Value: "AMD's Bold ARM Server Gambit" Key: Subtitle, Value: "AMD's Bold ARM Server Gambit" Key: Description, Value: "By combining 64-bit ARM processors with server-side te chnology, the company that led the x86 architecture into the 64-bit world is hop ing to reinvent the data center and give itself new life." Key: Content, Value: "Content for AMD's Bold ARM Server Gambit..." Key: MainPage, Value: "cloud/amds-bold-arm-server-gambit/240012549" Key: Id, Value: "240012549" Key: Title, Value: "How Atlassian moved a code base of 21,000 files with more th an 47,000 commits on its best-selling product from Subversion to Git without sto pping the development workflow." Key: Subtitle, Value: "Migrating from Subversion to Git and the Lessons Learned" Key: Description, Value: "It is incredible how the cloud growths" Key: Content, Value: "Content for Migrating from Subversion to Git and the Lesso ns Learned..." Key: MainPage, Value: "cloud/migrating-from-subversion-to-git-and-the/240009175" Key: Id, Value: "120020304050" End of Parent: Items Key: Id, Value: "1" Key: Title, Value: "Mobile" Key: Subtitle, Value: "Mobile Developer" Key: Description, Value: "Mobile feature articles" Key: MainPage, Value: "mobile" Key: Items, Value: null Key: Id, Value: "2" Key: Title, Value: "Parallel" Key: Subtitle, Value: "Parallel Programming" Key: Description, Value: "Parallel feature articles" Key: MainPage, Value: "parallel" Key: Items, Value: null Key: Id, Value: "3" Key: Title, Value: ".NET" Key: Subtitle, Value: "M-Dev" Key: Description, Value: "The world of Microsoft Developers" Key: MainPage, Value: "windows" Key: Items, Value: null Key: Id, Value: "4" Key: Title, Value: "JVM Languages" Key: Subtitle, Value: "Powered by Java Virtual Machine" Key: Description, Value: "The world of JVM languages" Key: MainPage, Value: "jvm" Key: Items, Value: null Key: Id, Value: "5" Key: Title, Value: "C/C++" Key: Subtitle, Value: "Powered by C/C++" Key: Description, Value: "The world of C/++ developers" Key: MainPage, Value: "cpp" Key: Items, Value: null Key: Id, Value: "6"
As you work with many chained asynchronous tasks, you might be wondering about the difficulties when debugging the different pieces of code that execute on diverse tasks. The debugging features available in Visual Studio 2012 didn't provide all the necessary information for developers to understand the state of asynchronous code execution nor easily find and fix the asynchronous code. However, Visual Studio 2013 introduced async-aware debugging and made many changes to the different debugging windows that developers were accustomed to watching in Visual Studio 2012.
Visual Studio 2013 makes it easier for you to debug the asynchronous code that you usually write when working with C++ REST SDK. Figure 1 shows the enhanced Call Stack window in Visual Studio 2013 that displays allows you to know how you arrived to the actual line within the
DisplayJSONValue. If you want to dive deeper on the new Visual Studio 2013 async-aware debugging features, you can read Visual Studio 2013 Asynchronous Debugging. That article is in C#, but you can use the same features in your C++ code with the asynchronous calls generated with the C++ REST SDK.
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Creating JSON Objects
Creating JSON objects with the C++ REST SDK is not as easy as it is with JavaScript, however, the boilerplate is significantly reduced in C++. The following lines show a sample
CreateAndDisplayJSONObject method that creates a JSON object with many keys and values that were part of the sample JSON response.
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Gakuen Hall is the only known example of a Japanese culture and language school designed and built by Japanese as a reaction to the California public school segregation laws of 1921. When the Japanese were forced into relocation camps during World War II, the local landowner held the building in trust until the Japanese could return. Today the building serves as a community center for the Japanese residents of Walnut Grove.
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HOPEDALE - Oyster harvests along the Gulf Coast have declined dramatically in the four years since the BP oil spill.
Even after a slight rebound last year, thousands of acres of Louisiana oyster beds are producing less than a third of what they did before the nation's worst offshore oil disaster.
Louisiana used to produce one-third of the nation's oyster harvest - up to 7 million pounds of meat a year. The total haul in 2012 was barely half a million pounds, and last year was back up to almost 1 million.
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Djokovic rolls along in rainy Paris
Paris, France – World No. 1 Novak Djokovic was an easy second-round winner Thursday at a rainy 2013 French Open.
The Serbian star dismantled promising Argentine left-hander Guido Pella 6-2, 6-0, 6-2 in 1 hour, 26 minutes at Stade Roland Garros, where rain interrupted play several times on Day 5 and forced the suspension or postponement of several matches.
The reigning Australian Open champion Djokovic was last year's French and U.S. Open runner-up. He lost to Rafael Nadal in a marquee Paris finale.
Djokovic needs a French Open title to complete a career Grand Slam.
Up next for the Serbian slugger will be 26th-seeded rising Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, who topped 19-year-old French wild card Lucas Pouille 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 on a wet, chilly day. The 22-year-old Dimitrov beat Djokovic on red clay at the Madrid Masters three weeks ago.
The third-seeded former No. 1 Nadal had his second-rounder against Slovak Martin Klizan postponed until Friday. The seven-time champ is seeking a fourth straight title at Roland Garros.
Thirteenth-seeded Japanese Kei Nishikori held off Slovenian Grega Zemlja 6-1, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4, while 16th-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber advanced via walkover when Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu pulled out of the draw due to an ankle injury.
Also on Day 5, rising 24th-seeded French favorite Benoit Paire played in between raindrops to beat Pole Lukasz Kubot 7-6 (7-2), 6-2, 6-4, 27th-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini foiled Czech Lukas Rosol 6-2, 7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 6-1, and Romanian veteran Victor Hanescu was leading Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-6 when the oft-injured Russian retired due to a left thigh problem. Paire will tangle with Nishikori in the round of 32.
Ninth-seeded Swiss Stan Wawrinka was leading Argentine Horacio Zeballos 6-2, 7-6 (7-2), 3-3, 29th-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny was ahead of Argentine Federico Delbonis 6-3, 1-1, and former world No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko of Russia was leading Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 3-2 in the first set when play was called for the day.
The third round will commence Friday, including matches for second-seeded former No. 1 great Roger Federer, fourth-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer and sixth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Federer will take on 30th-seeded Frenchman Julien Benneteau, who upset the Swiss icon in Rotterdam earlier this year, while Ferrer will face left-handed fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez and the former Aussie Open runner-up Tsonga will battle 25th-seeded compatriot Jeremy Chardy.


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Simply ideal for an escape to the country, and with lots of exciting city breaks to be had too, our hotels in South-West England are a fantastic choice for a getaway. With unique local cuisine, breath-taking spots to reconnect with nature and lots of nationally-renowned tourist attractions, this region has much to offer.
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Located on the stunning English Riviera, Torquay has plenty to offer including exhilarating water sports, breath-taking scenery, 22 miles of golden beaches and plenty of Torquay hotels to choose from. A short distance from many of the hotels in Torquay you will find plenty to see and do.
A much-loved seaside resort for decades, check out our great range of hotels in Weston-super-Mare and discover everything this classic getaway destination has to offer. Whether you're looking for a relaxing retreat by the seaside, an active break around pretty Somerset, or a fun-filled weekend away with the family, our Weston-super-Mare hotels should be well-suited to your needs.
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Spotlight: Interventions to Reduce HIV and STD Transmission Risk Behaviors Following Prison Release
A Conversation With Dr. Richard Wolitski
The results of the START Study, a randomized controlled trial of interventions to reduce HIV/STD risk behaviors among 522 young men being released from prison in four states (California, Mississippi, Rhode Island and Wisconsin), were recently published in the American Journal of Public Health. IDCR Chief Editor, Dr. David Wohl, spoke with Dr. Richard Wolitski, lead author of the study, which was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Wolitski is the Acting Deputy Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences in the CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
David Wohl (DW): You led what many consider to be a very important and unique study looking at reducing HIV and STD risk behaviors among young men released from prison. Could describe the two interventions that were studied?
Richard Wolitski (RW): The Project START intervention was collaboratively developed by researchers at the four sites and CDC. It compared the relative efficacy of two different interventions. The first intervention was a single-session intervention that was conducted before participants were released from prison. The single-session intervention was based on a brief HIV risk assessment and risk-reduction planning intervention developed by Grinstead and colleagues that had previously been shown to reduce risk in this population. We compared the effects of the single-session intervention with those of the six-session enhanced intervention.
The enhanced intervention was meant to provide a bridge between incarceration and then reintegration into the community. The enhanced intervention had two sessions that were conducted before participants were released. The first of these was identical to the single-session intervention, and the second session focused more broadly on the individual participant's needs after release. It included an assessment of needs and planning for housing, employment, financial problems, social relationships, and avoiding reincarceration. Then participants had four additional scheduled interventions after release. These interventions were client-centered and adopted elements of prevention case management and motivational interviewing.
DW: When I think about that kind of case management and a client-driven approach, I would think that there might be some variability in the frequency with which case managers, following release, would interact with participants. Was there any freedom on the part of the case managers in the enhanced intervention or were they restricted to only four sessions with the participant after release?
RW: All the participants were scheduled to receive four scheduled interventions, but we also made it possible for the participants to receive additional sessions as needed during the three-month intervention period following release. There weren't that many people who received additional sessions. There were a total of just 91 additional enhanced intervention sessions that were delivered to 49 participants, and most of those, 61%, received only one additional session.
DW: What were the main results of the study?
RW: The enhanced intervention was associated with a significant overall reduction in sexual risk behaviors 24 weeks after release. More specifically, we found that men who received the enhanced intervention were significantly less likely to report unprotected sex the last time they had sex and during the full recall period. Although there was a significant overall reduction in sexual risk, this reduction was due almost entirely to reductions in risk with the participants' main or primary partners.
DW: There are few studies that have shown positive changes in risk behavior in general, and certainly there remains very limited data about interventions for an incarcerated or recently incarcerated population. However, I was surprised that we did not see greater differences at week 12 -- at the end of the enhanced intervention. The only significant difference was seen at week 24, which is three months after the intervention was completed. Any thoughts about why you saw a greater effect after the intervention ceases?
RW: That's a really good question. One thing that's important to keep in mind is that at the 12-week interview, the participants were asked about their risk behavior since their first week of release from prison. The period of time that participants are reporting on includes a time period where enhanced intervention participants had received very little of the intervention, so it's really only at the 24-week assessment that we can look at behavior change after participants had a chance to receive the full intervention.
DW: You mentioned that the enhanced intervention seemed to motivate participants to practice safer sex with their main partners, more so than non-main partners, and studies of HIV-infected releasees have shown that HIV-infected former inmates are more likely to practice unsafe sex with their main partner, with whom they may feel more comfortable with than casual partners. The finding that the intervention seemed to work more so with the main partners seems particularly significant.
RW: One of the things to understand about this population is that many of the men had already reduced their risk with their non-main partners and that the highest levels of risk were observed with main partners. So, I think in part what's happening here is that the enhanced intervention sensitized men to the potential risks of contracting HIV or another sexually transmitted infection from their main partners or also sensitized them to the possibility that they might be putting their main partner at risk. Many of these main partners were also at risk --- one third of the men who had a main partner believed that this partner had one or more risk factors for HIV, hepatitis or other sexually transmitted infection.
DW: Are there any plans to evaluate longer-term differences between the study arms, beyond week 24?
RW: At this time, we don't have any plans to do that. However, the CDC is supporting the packaging of the Project START intervention for dissemination to the CDC's prevention partners. This means that there will be additional opportunities to evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention as it is being delivered by local agencies.
DW: Do you think, given what you now know from looking closely at the results, that a three-month post-release intervention is sufficient?
RW: A three-month post-intervention follow-up is an acceptable standard in the field, and this follow-up is longer than others that have been used in HIV prevention studies with incarcerated men. Certainly, having a longer follow-up is better, but it requires additional resources that were not available for this study. It's possible that, given the comprehensive nature of this intervention, some of the participants established a stable pattern of behaviors that allowed them to maintain reduced risk behaviors over time. But we really don't know that at this point in time.
DW: The results that you found at week 24 after release were significant, but 68% of those receiving the enhanced intervention reported unsafe risk behaviors, albeit versus 78% of those in the single session arm. How could anyone get excited about over two thirds of the people in the enhanced intervention still practicing risky behavior?
RW: We have to be realistic about what any one intervention can accomplish. A lot of people would have thought that it would be difficult or impossible to see any risk reduction in this population. As you know, incarcerated men are sometimes viewed as people who really don't care about their own health or the health of their partners, and this study demonstrates that it is actually possible to motivate these men to reduce their risk behavior. It does indicate, though, that there is a need for additional intervention for some men, or perhaps different types of intervention for men who did not respond to this particular intervention.
DW: Your study concentrated on people following release, and a common misperception, is that HIV-infected people in prison acquire their infection during incarceration. The CDC took a lead with a study of an outbreak of acute or transmitted HIV within a correctional system in Georgia. Your study focused on people getting out of prison, versus an intervention to try to reduce acquisition of HIV within a correctional system. Why?
RW: One thing that is important to keep in mind is that incarcerated men continue to be part of the communities that they came from, and that most men who are incarcerated will be re-released back into the community. Addressing this period of transition from incarceration to release is really critical for public health. We chose to focus on this period after release in part because we wanted to design an intervention that would be feasible for health departments or community-based organizations to implement in collaboration with local correctional facilities. So our primary interest here was driven by the types of organizations that we thought might be implementing this intervention in the future.
DW: Right. In your conclusion to the paper you call upon community-based organizations and health departments to work in tandem with correctional institutions to improve the well-being of people such as those who enrolled in your study. Given what you've learned and your experience, what do you see as being obstacles to that kind of cooperation and how your results might help us to overcome them?
RW: The most important thing that this study shows is that this type of intervention is feasible and can be efficacious in reducing risk behavior among incarcerated young men. There are a number of challenges that people face when coming from outside correctional settings and trying to conduct this type of intervention, and one of the biggest challenges is gaining entry into the facilities. What we hope is that this paper and this study will give health departments and community-based organizations that are interested in establishing those relationships with correctional facilities a model that they can show to local correctional facilities to show that this can work.
DW: You mentioned earlier that the intervention is going to be packaged and become more accessible. Any details about how those who are interested in learning more about the program can get the materials to actually start to implement their version?
RW: Probably the best thing that I could do is to refer people to the CDC website (www.cdc.gov/hiv/PROJECTS/ProjectSTART), where there is additional information that is online about the study. The actual intervention package will not be available for another year or two, from the CDC. Some of the local researchers may be willing to provide additional information in the interim, but readers would have to contact them directly. The contact information for all principal investigators is listed on the Project START website.
DW: So, summing-up, the take-home lessons from the START Study seem to be that, even in this difficult-to-reach and difficult-to-change population, you can see some change in risky behavior in a positive direction, and while this is encouraging, the results certainly points to the need for further development of interventions to complement this one. Is that fair to say? Is there anything more you'd say to expand upon that?
RW: I think that's a good summarization of the study, and I would say that Project START can be an important part of a comprehensive strategy for reducing HIV transmission among incarcerated men and their sex partners. Other elements of that approach include HIV testing upon entry and release from prison, as well as interventions that are designed specifically for persons living with HIV and AIDS.


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It was an ominous day for Australia, which they spend forlornly, Alastair Cook was the reason behind Aussies's despond, Cook devastated hosts bowling department by another catastrophic century in second battle for Ashes. He played one of stunning inning of unbeaten 136 in Ashes history, to gave full command to England.
England started their inning with panic, they faced early loss of Strauss in just second over of the morning, on that occasion, Strauss was on 3 and it was also England's total. After departure of him, Cook and Trott fleshed out a vigorous partnership, which melts every hope for victory of Australia. They gloriously scored 173 runs together by ruining Australian bowling ethics. Aussie lost their temperament by non stop acceleration of opponent's blabber bats.
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ATLANTA - Strong support around Georgia in favor of Sunday alcohol sales is energizing some advocates who say the political climate in the state could finally be ripe to expand gambling interests as governments search for fresh revenue sources.
The state House is looking at betting on horse racing. A report commissioned by the state lottery found that casinos at key locations across the state could generate nearly $1 billion a year.
Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a bill earlier this year that dealt with coin-operated gaming machines but said he would be open to another bill that addressed concerns he had about illegal gambling.
Gambling measures will still be a tough sell in a Republican-led, Bible Belt state. But the mere fact that they are being talked about - not dismissed as a dead on arrival - is a signal to some that that times have changed.
"It's being discussed openly in political and legislative circles, more than I've ever heard," said Tom Perdue, a veteran Georgia Republican strategist.
Perdue said the Sunday sales vote have some lawmakers who have reflexively opposed gambling measures taking a second look.
"They are related," Perdue said. "If not sisters, then definitely cousins."
In Sunday sales votes that took place in counties and cities around the state earlier this month, 105 of the 127 referendums on the ballot passed, according to the Georgia Food Industry Association. The measures flew through without any organized opposition, which has encouraged gambling proponents.
Brian Robinson, a spokesman for Gov. Nathan Deal, said the governor remains opposed to the expansion of gambling.
But Deal's opposition might not kill efforts to bring gambling to Georgia.
Multiple groups have pushed for expanding the state's gaming industry after the lottery started in 1992. Advocates say the state is losing money to neighboring states with more options for players.
One group, the HOPE 20/20 Coalition, is pushing for installing video lottery terminals across the state, a move that would not require a constitutional amendment because state law doesn't specifically ban the machines. Experts estimate the state has between 10,000 and 20,000 illegal video gambling machines already in operation - with profits of about $200,000 each week.
The coalition's aim is to help restore the HOPE scholarship and state's prekindergarten programs back to full funding. The legislature made massive cuts to both programs this year, doing away with full scholarships for all but the state's highest performing students and slashing 20 days out of the pre-k calendar.
The HOPE program also no longer pays for books or campus fees. That means students must shell out thousands more each year to attend college in Georgia.
Deal said the cuts were necessary to prevent the programs from going bankrupt after demand for the scholarships and pre-k outpaced lottery sales.
Georgia lottery board chairman Jimmy Braswell has said the lottery-commissioned study on casinos was meant to "bring some clarity to" how much gaming could raise for the state. The study found that a casino in just downtown Atlanta could bring in nearly $800 million a year if it had 5,000 machines.
"The study shows a potential for a large amount of money, however, there are other social and economic issues to consider," Braswell said in a statement when the study was released in October.
State Rep. Harry Geisinger, a Roswell Republican, is pushing a constitutional amendment that would allow pari-mutuel betting on horse racing in the state. It would need to pass each chamber of the state Legislature by a two-thirds majority and would also need approval by voters.
But it would not need the governor's signature.
Under Geisinger's resolution, money from the horse racing would be poured into the cash-strapped coffers of the HOPE scholarship, pre-k and trauma care.
"Without raising taxes," Geisinger notes. "This would have a huge benefit for Georgia."
Geisinger has been pushing the horse racing initiative for years and says it has bipartisan backing. This year, House Speaker David Ralston gave his blessing to a study committee to give the issue a closer look.
Geisinger said the panel traveled to Lexington, Ky. - on their own dime - to study its impact there. And on Nov. 17, former Breeders' Cup board Chairman Bill Farish and Nick Nicholson, president and CEO of Kentucky's Keeneland Association, trekked to Georgia to meet privately with a group of state legislators and Deal.
In addition to changing attitudes, gambling could get a boost from the sluggish economy. While Georgia's tax receipts have been improving they still lag significantly behind pre-recessionary levels.
Republicans who control both chambers of the state Legislature as well as the governor's mansion are loathe to raise taxes. Gambling revenues would provide a fresh new revenue stream.
"There's not a question that we're in a bad ditch and we need something to jumpstart Atlanta, to jumpstart Georgia," said developer Hal Barry, who's pushing for horse racing in the state.
"When the lottery was voted in, everybody questioned the lottery, and what happened?" he said. "This is something that can help the state of Georgia in a big way."
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ATLANTA - Strong support around Georgia in favor of Sunday alcohol sales is energizing some advocates who say the political climate in the state could finally be ripe to expand gambling interests as governments search for fresh revenue sources.


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Glendale played a starring role in the 1945 movie "Mildred Pierce," the story of a single mother who opens a restaurant right here in the heart of Glendale.
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Chrisman said the movie scenes involving the little real estate building were shot around there — "most likely at a little colonial structure at the northeast corner of Bel Aire and Allen."
Nowadays, Jackson Street looks much like it did when the movie was shot in 1945. Unfortunately, the restaurant is no more. It was significantly altered a few years later by architect John Lautner, a preeminent mid-20th-century architect, according to John Lo Cascio (another past TGHS president) writing in the society's Winter 2004-05 newsletter. It was later demolished.
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