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Pastoral spectacular-sounding harmonies
Mix one part classic pop; one part emotive rock n' roll swagger and you'll get THE MORNING BIRDS - a cool Indie Pop Band from Idyllwild, CA featuring the awesome twosome - Jennifer Thorington and Samuel Markus who play sublime pop and experimental (and super luscious) rock'n' roll.
The Morning Birds are a pleasant hybrid of sonic and spiritual understandings expressed through music, art, and moving images. The Morning Birds cinematic tones make you feel as if you're floating on a cumulous cloud at daybreak being transported to another time and place. Enuff said, Hearing is Believing!! Hear why they are different & shop one of their 6 great Morning Birds albums now @ www.themorningbirds.bandcamp.com. Alternatively, check out their website and like their fanpage on Facebook.
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JohnnyTwoToes finds this neo-crime noir interesting but disjointed!
Killing Them Softly is a strange crime film that is most notable for the presence of Brad Pitt, a vastly under rated actor whose seems to be dismissed for his acting because of his good looks. I will wager Brad Pitt (good looks aside) can do just about any genre of film including horror. Even as good as Robert DeNiro is at enveloping himself into a character, DeNiro cannot do horror as he poorly showed in Hide and Seek (2005). It was perhaps the one time I saw Robert DeNiro out of place.
In Killing Them Softly, Pitt plays Jackie Cogan, an elite mob enforcer who is called to a run after the local mob groups have all been robbed at their card games. Cogan arrives and begins to piece together the goings on in this little po-dunk town. Since we know who does the robbing, there is not much mystery as to what Cogan will find out. As expected, it does not take Cogan long to figure out what justice to dispense and to whom. Cogan is briefed by the local mob lawyer (a nonchalant Richard Jenkins) and their conversations are the best things in this film. They seem to know what needs to be done but, even in mob land there is method to their madness and so rules and protocol must be followed.
Enter Mickey (James Gandolfini). Mickey is a hard living, brutal, has-been enforcer who still works when he needs to; in between getting popped by the local authorities and doing jail time. He arrives in town to take care of one of the bozos but immediately becomes intoxicated and exhausted by the local ladies of the night. He is apparently going through a nasty divorce, is violating his parole and is close to a nervous breakdown. Put a gun in his hand, and you will have anarchy. Why they call him is anybodies guess.
Killing Them Softly is a nice attempt at neo-crime noir and Pitt does extremely well as Cogan; a quiet observer of people. "These guys can't do nothin' quietly. They can't keep their big mouths shut. That's where I come in. I like killing them softly. It gets the job done," Cogan laments to lawyer Driver (Jenkins). The problem I had with Killing Them Softly is that nothing seems left to the imagination. Everything is explained, and I did not need this to be explained.
There is a running gag throughout this film as former President Bush and President Obama are heard in audio clips talking about the US banking crisis. These are played as we see shots of the dumpy town on skid row. Apparently things are tough all over, even for the crooks.
Killing The Softly was written and directed by Andrew Dominik who worked with Pitt on The Assassination Of The Outlaw Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford ("The Outlaw" was later dropped by the studio because the damn title was long enough at it was). It was a better film and again featured an Oscar caliber performance by Pitt. Dominik wrote the screenplay for Killing Them Softly from the George V. Higgins novel "Cogan's Trade") and either the book or the screenplay could have used some more detail on characters and less on the daily machinations of the mob. I mean, really, what was the point of Mickey's character. It's a distraction that could have been written differently or just done away with all together.
Still, Killing Them Softly is not a total waste of time. It has a cool vibe to it and the acting is first rate including those of Ray Liotta and Scoot McNairy. This is a so-so film that I was really hoping would have been great. It's short so at a run time of about 96 minutes you won't have to sit too long to get to the predictable end of a film that you see coming.
Labels: 2000s, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Movie, Movie Reviews, Thriller
Drugs, Disco and lotsa Sex 70's Style
Its told, Paul Thomas Anderson, the writer, director, and co-producer of the Oscar nominated Boogie Nights (1997), was obsessed with porn from an early age. This started with his childhood belief that a neighborhood house had been the site of at least one porno shoot, and, this obsession continued through his adolescence. The mid to late 70s, the period of Anderson's studious attention here, was porn's golden age – before AIDS, before Just Say No, before the advent of video and the decline in production values it wrought, seemingly before irony – and he has fashioned a loving, sincere elegy for the embarrassing excesses of the era.
It's worth noting that the title of the film does indeed represent the first popular unironic use of the word "Boogie", and Anderson skillfully checks his cynicism at the door in telling the tale of young Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) from Reseda, who dreams of making himself into something better and harbors a thirteen-inch co-star in his Wranglers.
Boogie Nights is essentially the universal story of one man's rise and fall (if you'll excuse a pun), his struggle to keep on truckin'. But what a universe the film takes place in. The club where Eddie washes dishes is a gathering place for porn-industry luminaries like director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), earthy legend Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), insecure stud du jour Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), and high-school ingenue Rollergirl (Heather Graham).
When Jack is tipped off to Eddie's potential (already displaying the self-promotional savvy that will mark his future career, Eddie has been selling peeks), he quickly recruits the young stallion for his stable of actors, luring him not so much with promises of money or fame as with fatherly concern, interested conversation, stiff drinks by the pool, and naked chicks on the sofa. It's a pitch tailor made for an impressionable boy, and one of the strengths of Anderson's direction – and, yes, Wahlberg's fine acting – is that they never let you forget that deep down, the film's hero is just a big dumb kid.
You can tell that the film was a labor of love for Anderson; not just care but joy is lavished on his direction and compositions. The opening scene, a dizzy long tracking shot that snakes into and around the club where Jack holds court, contains a contagious excitement for the vitality of the actors – the camera just wants to get next to them, and you do too. It feels like a hybrid of Alan Rudolph and early Spielberg, wit without angst.
Burt Reynolds, turns in a restrained, unobtrusive performance, conveying sadness transfigured into the best possible course of action. William H. Macy, in a smallish part, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Scotty, the boom mike guy, are very good and touching. Anderson's handling of the diverse ensemble cast is indeed so deftly handled.
The music too lifts up the movie to grander heights, although the songs aren't original here. Assembled by Karyn Rachtman, who was the brains and ears behind the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, it's pitch-perfect for the film and nearly constant, like a groovy tapestry backdrop. To the strains of "You Sexy Thing," Anderson's camera plunges underwater, even, to film Eddie cavorting with starlets in the rippling chlorinated blue, and you're almost underwater too with the perfection of it all, not wanting to have to come up for air.
The ending though is sort of a cop-out. Maybe Anderson, as a first-time writer/director, either lacked the confidence to see his vision through or was afraid to risk his future career with the reputation as the guy who loosed on the public the idea that such giddy hedonism could go unpunished. As a result Boogie Nights lets go of its claim to subversiveness and bogs down in the same emotional populism that ruined The People vs. Larry Flynt. Yet, even after so many years, this is a great watch.
Labels: 90s, Cinema, Cult, Drama, Movie, Movie Reviews, Sex, Sexploitation
A post-grunge fav from the archives
Staind is part of the post-grunge, nu-metal generation coming out into the light in 1995. Having released over 7 albums to date, this track is from their 1999 second album - Dysfunction. Staind displays an obvious Alice in Chains connection: vocal harmonies, melody lines, guitar lines but to dismiss Staind as purely an Alice in Chains clone is not to give justice to the work presented in Dysfunction.
Dysfunction is a alternative grunge blend - a swirl of Alice in Chains meets Coal Chamber, it flirts with Tool and Soundgarden, it's best friends with Korn and Deftones, it's Creed and Stone Temple Pilots. Original? Yes and no - Given that last sentence, a little stretch on the imagination but they're good at it. The music is driving, punchy, heavy and might make you exceed the speed limit while listening on the way to work. "Home" as expected was a slow rising radio hit. Bottom line: if you're a fan of any of above mentioned bands, check out Staind and this killer track.
Labels: 90s, Alternative Rock, Grunge, Heavy Metal, Music, Music Reviews, Rock
A visceral under-rated remake that deserves a larger audience
1995's Judge Dredd was savaged by critics when it was released. A critical failure, many die hard Dredd comic fans (on which it was based) hated its tongue and cheek humor and general silliness. I did not hate it and rather found its campiness quite endearing. Besides, you don't often get to see Sylvester Stallone don an over the top role and still have genuine fun.
By comparison, Dredd of 2012 is, to my understanding a more faithful adaptation of the comic book and a solid sci-fi actioner in its own right. Set in a dystopian future of huge urban scrawls, abject poverty, crime and colossal sepia-toned skyscraper towns, Dredd has a more' real' feel to it that adds to its advantage.
The film starts in Mega City, a endlessly sprawling metropolis of concrete, neon and people. Massive skyscrapers that can house thousands of poor residents jut out of the ground like pillars from a distance. Most of the city shots are real shots of Johannesburg, South Africa that were digitally altered to create the monstrous urban structures but its done superbly.
As expected, Mega-City is a crime ridden dung heap ruled over by the menacing Ma-Ma (Lena Headey), a vicious psychopath and drug queen who also controls the black market on a new best selling, time-shifting mind drug, Slo-Mo. So, its upto the lawful Judges, by the book administrators of the law (played very well by Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby) to take her down and keep civil order as best they can.
As an emotionless judge, jury and executioner all in one, Karl Urban in the lead role here is truly magnetic. You never get to see his face yet, he brings plenty of depth to the character. Olivia Thirlby as his young rookie with a conscience adds a certain girlish innocence to the script when the movie starts but is a mature pass-out by the time all the bloodbath subsides and the movie ends.
Pete Travis, who gave us Vantage Point and End Game directs with kinetic flair and the result is a viscerally raw, gritty and intense movie experience. The action scenes alone warrant a viewing and at just 95 minutes, its timed just right. A poor marketing strategy to position this as a 3D movie was the root cause for its market failure. Let it not deter you from watching what is actually a stunningly well made action entertainer. JohnnyTwoToes
Labels: 2000s, Action, Cinema, Crime, Cult, Movie, Movie Reviews, Science Fiction
A underrated balladish tune
With haunting melodies, thoughtful lyrics and a truly hypnotic voice, Andy Ruck creates musical poetry that demands attention and touches your heartstrings. You can sample his mastery on this popular track "DOWN", a gut wrenching tune on domestic abuse that has already crossed over 100000 views on Youtube. Don't be fooled by the rather simple looking video and the slow start, the track really takes off in the second half....its been on my play list the entire last week.
Andy is currently gearing up to propel his long awaited 14 track debut album "PICTURES" on sale now. Know more about Andy on his website .
Labels: 2000s, Music, Pop, Pop Rock
Awesome FREE indie pop track
Checkout "Soul Rising", a great new track by BLACK BOX DOWN, the side-project of STAARK songwriter/producer Matt Cumming. Matt wrote and recorded this haunting song by himself in just ONE day and yet, it sounds supremely awesome - a rather striking song with slightly strange lyrics!
Download "Soul Rising" for FREE along with an equally great free track "Call Your Bluff" from the official band site. Pls do share the love by liking the BBD Facebook fanpage too!
Labels: 2000s, Free Downloads, Free Mp3, Freebies, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Music, Pop
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Is free internet TV over broadband the next big thing?
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Sick of hearing broadband providers harp on about speeds and contention ratios? Magnet chief executive, Mark Kellett, has said providers should offer something different and, true to his word, today the company introduced free, live IPTV to PCs on 10Mbps and 24Mbps connections.
Magnet has created a basic free package of five TV channels including RTÉ, RTÉ2, TV3, TG4 and Bubble Hits. The package includes 12 free radio stations that will come as part of a choice of broadband and phone packages starting at €29.99.
Magnet said it intends to broaden the offering by including additional bundles of channels, such as those provided by Virgin and Dave, for an additional subscription fee.
The IPTV service is effectively driven via a multicast one-stream connection and the software electronic programme guide (EPG) was developed in conjunction with Inuk Networks.
The service can be viewed by PC or Mac users and Kellett said Magnet is working on a Red Hat Linux version.
"This TV in the PC widens the audience and attractiveness of Magnet to the consumer," Kellett (pictured) told siliconrepublic.com. "The offer today is not just about speed, it's about content and broadening our offer to consumers.
"We predict this will have a major impact on customer acquisition. Customers today are faced with a choice, either you buy the fastest available or the cheapest available – there's nothing else in the market. What this is saying to customers, there's something else in terms of innovative services that will change the user experience."
According to Kellett, the service will also enable Magnet subscribers with a number of PCs in their household to enable multi-room TV without having to pay an additional cost or see a drop in service quality.
"This is also about the cost experience. This service allows for multi-room viewing and it's free TV. You don't have to buy a set-top box. It's quite a dramatic change for the TV landscape, particularly for the TV providers and especially the broadcasters. It's a pretty significant opportunity for Magnet."
He hinted at future social networking applications that Magnet hopes to deploy around the PC TV screen, as well as advertising and commissioning models with video game companies, for example.
Kellett also said it is a good way of allowing households to move to digital TV without having to pay for an expensive set-top box or trying to figure out digital terrestrial TV (DTT).
"It raises an obvious question for the economic benefits of DTT, given that we could compress this down to 800Kbps and that means we have the potential to provide this across a wide footprint and customer base. It then raises questions around what is the necessity of DTT.
"DTT right now is being positioned in such a way that you need to buy a set-top box and pay €9.99 for channels that we launched today for free. You don't need a set-top box, or pay a subscription, it's free as part of the package.
"There may be places where DTT has a natural home but with our launch today we will address 500,000 homes and certainly there's an opportunity for us to grow our customer base and the footprint of the addressable market over the coming months and years."
Kellett said the service is currently available to new and existing customers and the company would be willing to work with other providers if their infrastructure can carry the service.
"The problem is that some providers haven't been investing in infrastructure … they've been investing in marketing campaigns instead. But if we were to provide this over their infrastructure, it may well crash their infrastructure," he warned.
Pictured: Mark Kellett, Magnet chief executive
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"The future is going to be negotiated, not dictated": Labour figures speak out for PR
Photograph: Josiah Mortimer. ERS
Posted on the 1st October 2021
"We can't build a just society on rotten democratic foundations," the ERS' Jess Garland told Labour conference on Monday.
The vast majority of local party delegates agreed – with 80% backing a motion for Labour to support a shift to a proportional voting system. (Though unfortunately, the vote fell after unions rejected it).
Westminster's voting system gives extensive power to governments, with few checks and balances. Across the country – and increasingly within the Labour party – people are realising that this skews not just our politics, but our economy too.
At the Politics for the Many event in Brighton this week, Jess pointed to £3.6bn in Towns Fund cash – meant to help struggling communities – prioritised towards Conservative seats.
With an undeserved majority, the government is able to skew resources, as well as the rules of the game, to its advantage. From voter ID rules, to appointing dozens of unelected peers in the House of Lords, we're seeing that right now.
For these reasons and more, Westminster's politics is uniquely vulnerable to 'corporate capture', Open Labour's Keiran O'Neill told the Politics for the Many (P4M) event
But a new book from Politics for the Many – the ERS-backed trade union campaign for political reform – is a blueprint for how we should reform the British state.
Sadly, Labour at a UK-wide level is "nowhere near as ambitious as it needs to be," Keiran said. He called for the party to deliver on the policy commitment it has had for nearly a century and "abolish the House of Lords."
"We need to drag our broken structures kicking and screaming into 21st century," he added.
PR-backing Labour MP Clive Lewis pointed to the absurdity of Britain's current constitution. "We're the only country in Europe that has First Past the Post for its main elections – except Belarus. I'm struggling to see why Labour has to debate this issue."
Lewis told members that he is often asked if the UK party system would change with PR. "There would be a realignment – but we shouldn't be afraid of people's votes counting," he noted.
As things stand, the gains of one government are easily toppled by the next, in a damaging 'see saw' of policy making from one single-party government to the next. "By 2015, most of the previous Labour governments' changes had gone. Where are the Sure Start centres?"
He urged his party to get behind a fairer voting system. The UK's existence may depend on it: "Brexit has put rocket boosters on the breakup of the UK," Clive Lewis said.
We've already seen PR work well across the country. "There was a Labour-Lib Dem coalition in Scotland, and a Labour-Plaid Cymru coalition in Wales. They worked!" Open Labour's Keiran O'Neill said.
Backing real democracy is about values, not just outcomes, Jess Garland said. It was a view that resonated in the meeting room: "Everyone should have an equal vote, no matter what their background is," one delegate said. "We must change our electoral system to one that reflects our values."
Later, in Monday's debate on the conference floor, delegate after delegate got up to give heartfelt speeches for real reform at Westminster.
One young member said: "I have friends who are young, who don't see the value of going to vote. They disengage.
"I have friends in strong Tory seats who are Labour voters, who don't see the point in voters. We must change that, and reenergise our democracy."
And then the 'v word' again: "These are fundamental values."
This is going to require pushing for a culture shift in Labour and beyond: "The future is going to be negotiated, not dictated," according to Clive Lewis. Labour must join other pro-PR parties and embrace a more cooperative form of politics.
Are you a trade unionist? Join the union-focused campaign for proportional representation today for free.
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Chemistry is often referred to as the central science because it seems to unify the other branches of natural science together, including biology, geology, and physics. Many believe the origins of chemistry to be traced back several thousands of years, to the practice of alchemy.
This master's degree aims to reach the second level of education in chemical engineering. Graduates will have a high ability to design products and processes related to chemical engineering. They will also have a strong professional grounding because their work placement and master's theses will be conducted primarily in the chemical industry (i.e. in companies and organisations outside the university).
The Nano Science and Technology (NSNT) Programme, defined on the basis of the three above elements, aims to educate students with the necessary interdisciplinary knowledge to contribute to the long-term nanoscale research and development, which will lead to potential breakthroughs in areas such as materials and manufacturing, nanoelectronics, medicine and healthcare, environment, energy, chemicals, and biotechnology.
The MPhil programme is a research-based degree consisting of approved coursework and an original research thesis. It is designed with flexibility in order that students may tailor course selections according to their needs and interests in the field of Chemistry. Submission and successful defence of a thesis based on original research are required to obtain the degree.
The discipline of material science and engineering consists of 3 subordinate discipline of master on material science, material processing engineering, and materials physics and chemistry. This discipline aims to study the structure, processing, and properties of one material and investigate the relationships of these factors. The mandatory core courses include material analysis and characterization, selected topics of materials physics and so on. The main research area covers valence electron structure and materials design, the theory and application of material structure control under an external field.


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Mother who vowed to slim for son dies after gastric surgery
A mother who wanted to lose weight for the sake of her young son died from complications just days after having gastric bypass surgery.
By Laura Clout 25 June 2008 • 17:18 pm
Suzanne Murphy, 29, requested the major operation because she felt her obesity limited the things she could do with her five-year-old son Jacob. After a 16-month wait, she was admitted to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for surgery on October 31, 2006, but died from multiple organ failure four days later.
In a note left under her son's pillow before the operation, Miss Murphy wrote, "I don't want my baggage to become a weight you have to carry, son."
An inquest heard how although she had contracted MRSA in hospital, Miss Murphy was likely to have died from an extreme reaction to the operation, exacerbated by her obesity.
At the hearing in Huddersfield, her sister Linda Richardson said in a statement: "She had put on a lot of weight over the years and felt it was stopping her doing the things she wanted to with Jacob."
In the note to her son Miss Murphy wrote: "To my beautiful baby boy. All you have to know is mummy is doing this for you and me.
"Mummy has carried a lot of weight in my head and heart and body for as long as I can remember - I don't want my baggage to become a weight you have to carry, son.
"You know mummy is strong and would do anything for you - get the stars from the sky if I could - but with this problem darling mummy can't do it alone. I need a helping hand. So when the nice doctors said they could help me with getting the weight off the outside, mummy thought very long and carefully and finally said 'Yes please'."
Miss Murphy, from Lightcliffe near Halifax in West Yorkshire, added that she wanted to give them both a "fresh start" saying: "You are my oxygen. I love you so much I want you to have the best and happiest life I can give."
A gastric bypass reduces the size of the stomach and the digestive system, leaving patients able to eat only small meals and absorb fewer calories.
Miss Murphy who weighed over 19 stones, was put on the list for the operation after tests showed she did not have a unusually high risk of complications.
However, after the successful surgery, doctors noticed her pulse had quickened and her blood count had dropped, and performed a blood transfusion.
They carried out an exploratory operation 24 hours later and could find little wrong, but her condition continued to deteriorate.
Her organs began to fail and she died on November 4.
Dr Dominic Bell, who prepared an independent report for the hearing, said she may have been a victim of systemic inflammatory response syndrome, an acute reaction suffered by some patients, which can be triggered by infection, trauma and surgery. The coroner recorded a verdict of misadventure.
After the case, Ms Richardson said: "They swept the bug issue under the carpet and put it down to everything else. But this has been going on for two years so at least we have an answer, even if it's not the one we want."


Just minutes from Raleigh, you will feel like you are miles away. Parker Falls is extremely private with tons of space. A perfect place to raise a family, Parker Croft certainly has homes with rooms big enough for everyone. A newly developed neighborhood, Park Falls has something for everyone, even basements (not common in Raleigh). Go North on Creedmoor Road and from I540 take a left towards Mount Vernon Church Road, left on Olde Creedmoor, then a right to Parker Falls!


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Toukiden 2 Review - Oni Hunter XX
By: Andrew Stretch
Monster Hunting games have been a popular genre since their conception, the struggle to not only face foes but to upgrade and improve constantly is one that works well to draw fans in. Toukiden 2 takes this formula and expands upon it in all the right ways. Continuing on from the previously released Toukiden: The Age of Demons you are once again thrown into a medieval Japanese world where Oni, demons, plague the lands threatening to wipe out all human life as they expand their domain. In this world, though there is hope as special Oni hunters called Slayers are trained to protect the last of the settlements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMBWOVZL8LU The game begins during the time of the Awakening when the Oni first came to the world through a mysterious portal to another realm. It was during this time that you were part of a group of slayers tasked with protecting Yokohama. During the battle against the Oni, you ended up getting trapped in one of their portals appearing elsewhere in the world. When you awaken in Mahoraba, a small town to the East, you learn from the professor who saved you that the battle that you have just come from actually occurred 10 years in the past. She continues to inform you that since then mankind has been on the defense as Oni and an airborne poison called Miasma has been spreading through the land. Conflicts in Toukiden 2 aren't just outside the walls of Mahoraba either as there is a heated conflict between the Guards and the Samurai who both protect the village. The Guards who have always lived in the village don't believe that the Samurai, the outsiders, should be given as much protection from Oni attacks. Over the course of this story, you're not only introduced to the world around you but also to a variety of interesting characters from inside the village, most of them having complete story arcs throughout the main narrative. This works well not only to help you get a better feel for the world but to also create fully fleshed out and characters that are easy to relate to. The subplot between the insiders and outsiders also leaves the village in an almost constant state of unrest having characters deal with personal and class-based differences. During the main game, you trade between being in the village, or in the open world. While in the village you're able to communicate with other NPC's, visit the variety of different stores, and select your party members. Once you gather your party and head out into the world it's up to you to fight off all kinds of monsters that you might encounter. The Oni in Toukiden 2 come in three different variety; small like the goblins, medium monsters such as the Aquaclaw, or the downright terrifying large Oni that tend to tower over you at almost double your height. Usually, as you head out on a quest your aim will be to reach a certain point of the map or track down a monster that has been terrorizing the village, once you encounter the monster it is up to you and your party to take it down. While you are progressing towards the mission goal you will encounter these smaller monsters, you can defeat them for monster parts or just run by them without giving them a second thought.
Be sure to keep an eye out for parts about to break off!
The main fights of the missions play out quite similar to battles you would expect from other games such as Monster Hunter, upon entering each Oni's domain you begin to attack working at weak points in an attempt to stun the beasts. An interesting spin on the monster hunting formula is that in Toukiden 2 as you do damage to these weak points (usually the arms, legs, and wings of the monsters), you can eventually break them off. In turn, if you break off certain vital limbs, the monsters will be forced to change their battle strategy altogether. This could be a small change such as an enemy getting a protective electric aura up to a change drastic enough to have you rethink your strategy going forward. One four armed Oni in particular, after removing both of his legs will turn himself upside down and use each of his arms as a new leg. During the shift of form in the battle the arms that used to be out of reach are now within your grasp, the downside to this is a change in attack patterns and speed requiring you to watch his movements unless you want to be sent flying. It's not just big changes either, the attention to detail in the monster's reactions from having limbs severed can even have a monster doubling over their leg holding it in pain.
Battle > Get Gear > Bigger Battles, not too difficult, right?
As you adventure and complete quests, you're able to collect better monsters gear, with that you can go back to town and craft better weapons and armor, all to go out once again and fight even harder enemies for their spoils. Now, this is the same loop as a lot of other monster hunting games, but Toukiden 2 tries to become more accessible to players by having its drops be more common and more plentiful. There will be plenty of seasoned players complaining that the requirements to get the higher tier armor is too easy but there is also a barrier of entry to be argued for that you don't need to fight the same monster five times for just one item upgrade. Each new piece of equipment you unlock or weapon you purchase also looks different cosmetically, allowing you to mix and match between different aesthetic styles. Even better, as you unlock more and more of the open world, a lot of the monsters that you would set out on quests to find can be found along the way to the next big bad. Out to fight a Brutebeast? Why not take on a Bladetail along the way? It's through this that you never feel like you need to hold back and grind before being able to progress again, you're able to do both at the same time. You are also able to take on missions that allow you to not only gain new powers but also hunt for specific monsters and their parts.
Team up with friends or people online to face monsters
Stemming from the missions available to your player in the single player there are also multiple levels of missions that you can take part in in the multiplayer portion of Toukiden 2. To access this you just need to approach the portal stone and choose a lobby to join. In multiplayer you have access to the structured missions, not the open world sadly, but you can upgrade yourself in town and when you or someone else in your party of four have selected a mission will all embark on it. When you begin the multiplayer you will have access to the first phase of missions, by completing all of the red missions you're granted access to the second phase, you can continue this process up until phase 12 where you're be facing some really tough fights. For the purpose of leveling, you're only able to access the phases of the lowest member of your party. This is a good way to help the less powerful players catch up faster, as well as a good way to ensure that the game doesn't become too broken having a phase 1 player get carried through the higher phases. Every player you meet while player online will also be added to an ever-growing roster of "ghosts" that are AI you can ask to join your party in multiplayer. This can mean even if a player has to leave the party you can just ask their AI to join your party, don't expect if your AI is used to receive any spoils though. For the truly daring players, there are also endless dungeons where you fight wave after wave of bosses. You enter at level 1 and you try to last as long as you can with more and more powerful enemies appearing as you progress. The only way to leave the dungeon is by choosing to embark every 5th floor, but you can expect to lose your loot if your party happens to fail in between checkpoints. Toukiden 2 has a fully voiced Japanese cast for all of the main characters, though there are no proper cutscenes the genuine dialogue helps to add more authenticity to the old Japan design that the title took. This can be quite confusing during battles as characters can be telling you important information or revealing story elements forcing you to look away from the action to read the subtitles. Background music also draws heavily from the Japanese theme including a wide variety of traditional instruments. As you progress through the game you will find yourself enjoying most of the tracks, even if sometimes you can barely hear it under the crash of metal meeting monster. Toukiden 2 takes the monster hunting formula, opens it out to the world, and provides a sufficient challenge to complete the game. More determined player are able to easily get the most out of the game though with so much content available post main quest line. The story is independent to that of the first game and because of this, the game ensures to fill players in so that it is accessible to those who haven't. Toukiden 2 was reviewed on PlayStation 4 with a code provided by the publisher. It is also available on PlayStation Vita and PC via Steam.
There is plenty here to entertain the casual players to the hardcore fans of monster hunting series. With a well built world and story driven characters you'll always be wanting to fight just one more monster, on your own or with a party of friends.
Addictive Upgrades
Interesting Story
Easy To Join Multiplayer
Cosmetic Changes
Mission Based Multiplayer
Some Repetitive Battles
Andrew Stretch
Lover of all video games but classic 3D platformers like Spyro will always have a special place in my heart. No matter where or when always up to talk about video games.


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NBC's latest show, Kings, debuted to fairly poor ratings on Sunday night, with its two hour pilot episode, garnering only 6 million viewers. This is a real shame, because this is possibly one of the best starts to a television show that I've ever seen, and following that train of thought, something struck me.
This is the type of show that the SciFi (I refuse to call it SyFy) Channel needs in its programming.
Kings, like all good genre stories, has an odd, hard to market concept - it is set in a sort of alternate reality or history, in the country Gilboa, which vaguely resembles the United States. People have cell phones, cars, flat screen TVs, and have been embroiled with a war against a neighboring country, Gath. Gilboa seems to have undergone a huge war to unify the country, and we see instances of this in the first couple minutes of the show, as the new capital is dedicated, before fast forwarding several years later, to the next conflict, where the King's son, Jack, has been captured, and is later rescued by David Shepherd, where he also destroys a 'Goliath' tank. David is then brought into a much larger world of politics and a number of entanglements as political boundries shift. This is a smart show, one that has some intelligence behind it, and I really hope that this show will continue with that trend long after the pilot. Considering that most pilot episodes tend to be a lesser episode of the series, this does bode well for the show.
Almost everything was done right for this. The episode, directed by Francis Lawrence (director of I Am Legend), is beautifully shot and edited, with rich colors and fantastic angles that really capture both the action and emotion of the scenes. The soundtrack is fantastic, and I really hope that we'll see a release for this at some point down the road. But above and beyond that, this is a good story, and provides a good demonstration of how a genre story should work; one where the audience can focus on the characters and storyline, while accepting the premise with a little suspension of disbelief.
Part of the advantage here is that this is set in an 'Alternate History' or 'Alternate Reality' earth. While the political structure is different, the history is different, there has been enough development in the show where it is easily recognizable to anyone who tunes in. If this was explicity a science fiction show, there would be the push to introduce some sorts of weird technology or terminology. Instead, things can be largely taken at face value, which really makes me think that this would be a worthy show of the SciFi channel, because of this approach to storytelling that made Battlestar Galactica so good.
This type of storytelling really exeplified Galactica - it took familiar concepts and transposed them into a fantastic setting. The technobabble, aliens, odd technology and things harder to explain all went out the door, in favor of a more story and character oriented show. Kings is following in that logic. It doesn't matter that the story is set in another world - for all we know, it could be on a completely different planet - what does matter is that we now have a story that we can invest ourselves in, and grow to care about the characters and their plight.
As I noted above, this show would be perfect for the SciFi channel, because it sort of fits into what they have been showing, and there is an audience that is already predisposed towards suspending their disbelief for a good story. (whether SciFi likes that or not...) While watching the episode, I felt that this is the sort of show that the upcoming Caprica should be, and given the recent announcements with the SciFi channel's name and their recent history with content and programming, this feels like it is the perfect show to transfer over - it is highly accessible to a non-genre familiar audience, but has enough there for a genre audience to enjoy. Additionally, the show is highly appealing to a more, shall we say, cultured audience. The level of storytelling and sophistication is certainly not appealing to a broad audience, as the ratings have proved, but it is intelligently written and plotted out, and should appeal to certain demographics.
What I really like, most of all, is that this show shows a good story - this is something that doesn't seem to happen very often on the television. Hopefully, with all 13 episodes filmed, we'll see the complete run broadcast. If not, we'll likely see the rest of it at some point down the road. There's a lot of potential here.


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Almeda ist der Name mehrerer Orte in den Vereinigten Staaten:

 Almeda (South Carolina), im Hampton County
 Almeda (Texas), im Harris County
 Almeda Beach, im Bay County, Michigan
 Almeda Genoa, im Harris County, Texas
 Almeda Manor, im Harris County, Texas
 Almeda Plaza, im Harris County, Texas

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 Almeda Riddle (1898–1986), US-amerikanische Sängerin

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 Almeda GmbH, Tochterfirma der SHL Telemedizin GmbH München
 Almeda Ditch, Kanal im Jackson County, Colorado
 Almeda Lake, See im Flathead County, Montana
 Almeda Mine, Mine im Josephine County, Oregon
 Almeda County Park, Park im Josephine County, Oregon
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release. Anticipation was high for the release of Hunted in 2016, the sophomore album from Denver's Khemmis and follow up to acclaimed debut Absolution. Rather than the all too common sophomore slump, the band raised the stakes and blew everyone away with their rapidly progressing songwriting and production quality, culminating in Hunted being named Album Of The Year for 2016 by Decibel Magazine. Now in 2018, after wrapping up the Decibel Magazine Tour with Enslaved, Wolves In The Throne Room and Myrkur, the excitement for their third album Desolation is palpable across the metal spectrum. From the stadium-sized opening notes of "Bloodletting," it is immediately evident that the band are again putting distance between themselves and their earlier influences to inform a sound that is singularly their own. Working for the third time with Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, the band and producer now have the familiarity and mutual experience to arrive at the perfect symbiosis of songwriting, arrangement and production value. While Khemmis are undeniably influenced by doom and classic metal, to tag them with those labels doesn't do justice to what's accomplished on this album, a perfect representation of modern heavy metal in 2018 that integrates the past in a way only possible in the present.
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Founded in 1991 Immortal has often been the bench mark when it comes to quality extreme metal. The Norwegian natives released their debut album "Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism" in 1992. Since then they have released eight full length releases, the last two, "All Shall Fall" (2009) and "Sons of Northern Darkness" (2002), were released on Nuclear Blast.
Forever Black [LP]
Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release from the iconic metal band. Cirith Ungol first appeared on the scene with their self-financed debut album, Frost and Fire, via their own Liquid Flame Records imprint in April 1981. It was obscure and arcane, mysterious and eccentric, epic and expansive, but most of all unfailingly, bone-crushingly heavy, dark and doom-filled. Now, as the Cirith Ungol resurrection enters it's fifth year, the band proudly presents Forever Black, Cirith Ungol's first collection of all-new material in 29 years! Make no mistake: Forever Black is a classic Cirith Ungol album in every sense of the word. The trademark dark and foreboding riffs, pounding rhythms, and soul-searing vocal attack are instantly recognizable as the Kings of the Dead. From a songwriting standpoint, Forever Black touches on all of the elements that make Cirith Ungol revered, from the exhilarating uptempo call to arms that is "Legions Arise" to the clever incorporation of past glories in "The Frost Monstreme" to the somber and dynamic "Stormbringer" to the primal chest-beating epic finale of the title track. Lyrically, Forever Black explores topics ranging from high fantasy themes to rallying cries for the legions to apocalyptic visions of burning fires, incarnate evil and jet- black darkness. The icing on the cake is the striking cover painting by Michael Whelan, whose magnificent visuals remain inextricably associated with Cirith Ungol.
Sings Elvis [LP]
Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 2020 studio album from punk/metal icon and powerhouse vocalist Glenn Danzig paying tribute to his idol and inspiration, Elvis Presley. Features 14 unforgettable interpretations of well-known Elvis classics and unheralded deep cuts that will thrill fans of both of these kings of rock music. Highlights include Danzig's sinister take on "Fever" and a truly haunting version of "Always On My Mind!" Danzig is no stranger to working with American music royalty having written songs for both Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison!
Weapons Of Tomorrow [LP]
Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. Weapons of Tomorrow is poised to be a new-age metal standard, thundering forward with modern influences while staying true to the unmistakable sound of Warbringer! The sixth studio album by the Californian thrash metal overlords will stir up the heavy metal scene with an impressive balancing act between power, heavy and the finest thrash metal. With insanely fast and brutal riffs, as soon as the dynamic, energetic opening track "Firepower Kills" begins, the listener is given a perfect impression as to where this beast of an album will lead them - crushing ears and minds from start to end! With John Kevill's powerful voice and the furious riffage and grooves of his band, Warbringer embarks on a new level of metal while never losing their old school-inspired roots. One thing is for sure, tracks such as "The Black Hand Reaches Out" will become the ultimate headbanger anthem. Weapons of Tomorrow is thrash metal in a class of it's own!
Abigail [Limited Edition Blue LP]
Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. Reissue. Abigail is the second King Diamond album and their first concept album. It was released in 1987. This album has sold over 175,000 copies in North America alone. Abigail is the last album to feature guitarist Michael Denner and bassist Timi Hansen.
Abigail [Import Vinyl]
Holland Import
Melissa [Limited Edition Yellow & Black LP]
Limited yellow/black colored vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. Melissa is the debut studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, originally released in October 1983. It was the first album released by Roadrunner Records. This was also the first Mercyful Fate effort to get an official release in the United States.
Return Of The Vampire [Limited Edition Blue LP]
Limited blue vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. Reissue. Return of the Vampire is a compilation album of rare demo tracks by Mercyful Fate recorded before their first, official release in 1982. It was originally released in 1992.
Don't Break The Oath
Gatefold slip sleeve CD w/high end cardboard to emulate a "Vinyl" release. Reissue. Don't Break the Oath is the second studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, originally released in 1984. The style Mercyful Fate employed on Don't Break the Oath resembled a mixture of heavy metal with progressive elements, lyrically preoccupied with Satan and the occult and distinguished by King Diamond's theatrical falsetto vocals. Although very influential to future black metal bands due to it's lyrical content, the music itself is more reminiscent of traditional heavy metal.
City Burials [LP]
Formed in 1991 by Jonas Renkse & Anders Nyström, and transitioning from early pioneers of the rising black/death/doom movement, to powerhouses of the progressive metallic rock genre, the Swedish connoisseurs of melancholy return with their stellar new opus, City Burials - the band's eleventh studio album, & first since 2016's haunting The Fall of Hearts was brought before the world.
With the winds of a new direction steering the band on their latest journey, City Burials stands as Katatonia's new triumph of deep & enigmatic progressive rock – the fruits of a rejuvenating and profound chapter in the band's legacy; a catalyst for its creators, with a collection of moments constructed out of the fragments of an ever-evolving life. Compiled into one of their most important modern works and statements to date, the finely-honed instrumentation provides a multi-textured backdrop with the voice of Jonas Renkse guiding us through these latest trials of loss and ruin.
Beyond their core creative duo, Katatonia are very much a full-blown band, and the chemistry between Jonas, Anders and their band mates – bassist Niklas Sandin, drummer Daniel Moilanen and most recent recruit, guitarist Roger Öjersson – has never sounded more potent, with City Burials being the first album Katatonia have made since Öjersson became a full-time member.
Inspired by an injection of fresh blood into Katatonia's creative brew, City Burials is an album that sees the band reclaim part of their heavy metal roots, via several moments of exuberant, old school classicism, deftly woven into these new songs' kaleidoscopic fabric. Resulting in an album that looks certain to push the band ever further into the spotlight.
City Burials was produced by Nyström/Renkse and recorded at Soundtrade Studios, Tri-Lamb Studios & The City Of Glass, throughout October & November 2019, with engineering work handled by Karl Daniel Lidén with mixing and mastering by Jacob Hansen. The album also features a guest appearance by Anni Bernhard, the voice behind Stockholm based act Full of Keys. Artwork appears courtesy of Lasse Hoile, the image itself representing the ongoing era of the Dead End King.
The band will be supporting the release with festivals and touring planned throughout 2020 and 2021 including an appearance at 2020's Psycho Festival.
Love At First Sting [Vinyl]
Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing of this album by the German metal band. This heavyweight slab of vinyl is reissued to celebrate Scorpions' 50th Anniversary. Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by Scorpions. It was released on March 27, 1984 on Harvest/EMI and Mercury. Love at First Sting is notable in that it was one of the first digitally recorded hard rock records ever released. It became the group's most successful album in the USA, where it peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1984, and went double-platinum by the end of the year, reaching triple-platinum status in 1995. The song "Rock You Like a Hurricane" reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the same year, "Still Loving You" reached #64 on the same chart, #14 in Germany, #3 in the French and Swiss Top 50.
Master Of The Moon [LP]
Originally released in 2004, Master Of The Moon was the final studio album under the DIO band name and featured the line-up of Ronnie James Dio (Vocals), Craig Goldy (Guitar), Jeff Pilson (Bass), & Simon Wright (Drums). LP includes limited edition lenticular LP sized print and 180g vinyl.
Angry Machines [LP]
Originally released in 1996 and featuring the line-up of Ronnie James Dio (Vocals), Tracy G (Guitars), Jeff Pilson (Bass), Vinny Appice (Drums) & Scott Warren (Keyboards)
Magica [2LP]
Originally released in 2000 and featuring the line-up of Ronnie James Dio (Vocals), Craig Goldy (Guitars), Jimmy Bain (Bass), & Simon Wright (Drums) the 2LP set includes a bonus 7" of studio track "Electra" and the CD/digital version features 10 never released before Magica tracks performed on tour in 2001. LP includes limited edition lenticular LP sized art print and on 180g vinyl.
Killing The Dragon [LP]
Originally released in 2002 and featuring the line-up of Ronnie James Dio (Vocals), Doug Aldrich (Guitars), Jimmy Bain (Bass), & Simon Wright (Drums). The LP includes a limited edition lenticular LP sized print and 180g vinyl.
Bomber: 40th Anniversary Edition [3LP]
1979 was MOTÖRHEAD year – the year of 'Bomber'. MOTÖRHEAD, the loudest band in the world, with the power and force of a hundred pneumatic drills they destroyed the nation over and again and no-one, repeat no-one, remained unaffected by them – everyone was torn limb from limb. The album 'Bomber' and was ten times more powerful than their first album 'Motörhead', which was a killer in itself. The production was in the capable and experienced hands of one Jimmy Miller, whose previous successes had been with the likes of the Rolling Stones. He brought out the very best in the boys and the total effect was lethal. 'Bomber' is full of real skullcrackers, brain damaging to the nth degree and with the hit single 'Bomber' and tracks like 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' you can doubtless guess the destroying effect of the whole affair. That's Motörhead; straight, basic, down to earth rock and roll, with absolutely no holds barred.
Overkill: 40th Anniversary Edition [3LP]
1979 was MOTÖRHEAD year – the year of 'Overkill'. MOTÖRHEAD, the loudest band in the world, with the power and force of a hundred pneumatic drills they destroyed the nation over and again and no-one, repeat no-one, remained unaffected by them – everyone was torn limb from limb. The album 'Overkill' and was ten times more powerful than their first album 'Motörhead', which was a killer in itself. The production was in the capable and experienced hands of one Jimmy Miller, whose previous successes had been with the likes of the Rolling Stones. He brought out the very best in the boys and the total effect was lethal. 'Overkill' is full of real skullcrackers, brain damaging to the nth degree and with the hit singles 'Overkill' and 'No Class' you can doubtless guess the destroying effect of the whole affair. That's Motörhead; straight, basic, down to earth rock and roll, with absolutely no holds barred.
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Posted in Antichrist, Devil, Returning to the Father, Spiritual Warfare, The Coming of the Kingdom, The Son's Words, Tribulation and tagged Christianity, Devil, God, Religion and Spirituality, The Son's Words, Tribulation on August 18, 2013 by mba.
"'It is not those who say to Me, "Lord, Lord," who will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the person who does the Will of My Father in heaven. When the day comes many will say to Me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your Name, cast out demons in Your Name, work many miracles in Your Name?" Then I shall tell them to their faces: I have never known you; away from Me, you evil men!'" (Mt 7:21-23).
Posted in Jesus, The Son's Words, Thoughts for the Day and tagged Christianity, God, Jesus, Religion and Spirituality, The Son's Words on November 28, 2012 by mba.
Posted in Jesus, The Son's Words and tagged Jesus, The Son's Words on June 5, 2012 by mba.
"Come and unburden yourself to Me. I love you, as I love all My children, but they do not want to come and see Me anymore, even though I wait for them in the Tabernacles of the world. Oh, how I love My children! If you knew, you would come" (5/21/12).
Posted in Jesus, The Son's Words and tagged Jesus, The Son's Words on May 22, 2012 by mba.
"You are seeing with your own eyes the (lack of) devotion that they have toward Me" (5/14/12, about a Mass held hurriedly).
Posted in Jesus, The Son's Words and tagged Jesus, The Son's Words on May 14, 2012 by mba.
Posted in God the Father, Jesus, Signs of the Times, The Church, The Coming of the Kingdom, The Mystical Body, The Son's Words, Tribulation and tagged God the Father, Jesus, The Church, The Son's Words, Tribulation on May 6, 2012 by mba.
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Posted in God the Father, Jesus, The Son's Words, Tribulation and tagged God the Father, Jesus, The Son's Words, Tribulation on March 1, 2012 by mba.
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Beratan Lake is a beautiful wide lake encircled by the cool temperature and blanketed by fog especially in the evening. The water is clear and calm with beautiful Mountain as backdrop view that make you will forbear staying there. There are plenty of traditional boats standby at the lakeside which is used by fisherman and found local people are fishing to add the beauty of this place.
Kintamani is a name of countryside located in the hill and the beautiful panorama surround it. We can see beautiful panorama from Kintamani to overview the active volcano of Batur Mount and wide Lake of Batur in a valley. It is situated in the plateau area with cool weather surround it.
Jatiluwih is a favorite tourist destination in Bali famous with the beautiful rice terrace unfolding from the foot of mountain until the coastal side. It is one of places to visit in Bali with the beautiful view as according to its name from Jati and luwih, where Jati mean really and Luwih meaning especial, good, and beautiful or the equivalent.
Lovina Beach is the famous tourist place in north part of Bali with the spectacular of dolphin watching tour on the calm seawater. It is situated in the costal side of Singaraja regency with black sand unfolding along the beach area. The sea water is very calm with coconut trees are planted throughout the beach.
In the early morning we will drive you to the northern beach of Bali , to the Lovina beach resort. This beach has a volcanic black sand. By motorboat we go to see the attraction of the friendly dancing dolphins, welcoming the sun rise. For optional, you also can do snorkeling in this beach, where you can see a clear under water view of coral and fish.
Gunung Kawi is a Hindu Temple complex with old omission from the stone era located in Gianyar regency. Based on the inscription of Tengkulak A on 945 saka (Balinese calendar) which is released by Marakata King, the ancient omission complex is located at the Pekerisan River then it is called Katyangan Amarawati. Pekerisan River is also named by Jalu which is according to the inscription chiseled on the above of the biggest temple door sound 'Haji Lumahing Jalu'.
is old heritage park from Karangasem Kingdom in the era of Dutch colonial. It is a beautiful historical site featured by the old traditional building designed by the European style set on the huge fishpond surrounded by the tropical ambience. It is located 5 kilometers from Amlapura town and very close the beautiful black sandy beach.


Newcastle Centre offers a wide range of activities suitable for all ages including Annesley Health Suite, Karate, Baby Sensory, Aerobics, Ju-Jitsu, Special Events, Pilates, Tae Kwon Do, and much more. Meeting Rooms for hire, Conference Facilities and Citizens Advice Bureau. Seasonal Facilities are Tropicana Outdoor Heated Swimming Pool Rock Pool – Outdoor Sea Water pool, Pedalo Swans and Go-Karts Please see website for full programme. Prices and concessions see website.


The Science Centre (Building 302) provides accommodation for the Schools of Psychology, Chemistry and Environment in addition to staff spaces for the Faculty of Science itself. It is designed as the anchor of The University of Auckland's Science Precinct.
Located on the edge of the city campus, the project responds to a brief that sought to increase the University's presence at a key gateway whilst bringing together new and existing facilities within the precinct.
Formally the project is organised to offer a generous "window into the life of the University" for passers-by and the city at large, whilst the provision of new sheltered edges to the street and ground plane linkages weave a connective network between the public realm and the campus community.
The building is based on an organisational strategy that promotes social and academic interaction. As with many previous Architectus projects, the arrangement of the spaces in section is key. Activities are organised around a series of staggered "rooms" and a connecting atrium, creating a flexible environment for research, learning and interdisciplinary communication.


Rogue-like zombie survival game March Of The Living unveiled, seeking votes on Steam Greenlight - Use a Potion!
"Players choose a starting character from an unlockable list and start their journey toward a rumored safe haven where they'll be protected from the deadly infection. Along the way they'll meet allies, defeat foes and battle through the infected. Players need to carefully manage their resources and make the tough decisions necessary to ensure the survival of their group.
Whilst we see a ton of zombie games these days there's something about March Of The Living that I'm really digging. The developers have described it as FTL mixed with The Walking Dead – that sound's pretty sweet to me.
You can vote for March Of The Living on Steam Greenlight by clicking this link. The game is due to arrive on PC and Mac sometime during Spring 2016.


Mr Taylor is a dentist. Two of his patients paid into a monthly dental payment scheme which entitled them to a specific number of check-ups every year.
On a number of occasions, these regular appointments were cancelled by Mr Taylor. The patients both wrote letters of complaint to Mr Taylor and asked for a refund of their monthly payments but their letters were ignored.
The patients then contacted the company which ran the dental payment scheme and asked for assistance in resolving their complaints. The representative from the payment scheme sent four letters to Mr Taylor, all of which were ignored and also left a number of voicemail messages for him, but the telephone calls were not returned. When the company reported this to the patients, they decided to complain to the GDC.
provide a constructive response to the complaint.
5.3.3 You should aim to resolve complaints as efficiently, effectively and politely as possible.
5.3.4 You must respond to complaints within the time limits set out in your complaints procedure.
The case was referred to the Investigating Committee. The Investigating Committee was concerned by Mr Taylor's attitude towards his patients and his repeated failure to engage with appropriate agencies in the interests of patients and decided to refer him to the Professional Conduct Committee.
The Professional Conduct Committee considered the case and thought that Mr Taylor's behaviour was a clear breach of a fundamental standard expected of a dental professional. It thought his conduct fell far below what was expected of a registrant and had the potential to bring the profession into disrepute.
The committee felt that Mr Taylor's behaviour could be remediated, but was concerned that he had shown no insight into his failings or taken any steps to address them. The committee was also concerned by Mr Taylor's poor attitude, his failure to engage with the patients and payment scheme provider and also his failure to engage with his regulatory body. The committee decided to issue Mr Taylor with a reprimand.
Most complaints can be easily dealt with at a practice level as long as you don't ignore them. Ignoring a complaint will only make the patient more angry and may result in them raising their complaint with us. Often a simple apology or an offer to put things right is all that patients want and the sooner you put the things right, the better. If you receive a complaint from a patient you should acknowledge it and provide the patient with a response within the time limits set out in your complaints handling procedure.
It is your responsibility to deal with complaints properly and professionally. Check that there is a complaints procedure in place where you work and make sure that it's clearly displayed in a place where patients can see it. You should not act defensively if someone complains – try to see complaints as an opportunity to improve your practice. If despite your best efforts to resolve the complaint the patient remains dissatisfied, tell them about other avenues that are open to them such as the Dental Complaints Service or the local NHS (or equivalent health service) complaints procedures.


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Peter Wehner's Unconstructive Governing Agenda
By Sean Davis
Former Bush adviser Peter Wehner penned a blog post for Commentary earlier this week attacking Texas Gov. Rick Perry's speech at CPAC. Although Perry's speech was well received by the audience and widely praised across the center-right blogosphere, Wehner thinks Perry's sentiments spell nothing but doom for the GOP.
Maybe, but if you're looking for the fruits of one's ideological roots, it makes a lot more sense to look at actual results.
In Wehner's defense, as a former top White House adviser, he had a front-row seat to GOP doom: a Republican Congress resoundingly defeated in 2006 due to the widespread unpopularity of Wehner-style Republican governance, and a White House handed to the Democrats in 2008 (and yet to be reclaimed since) for similar reasons. I worked in Washington at the time most of that happened, and I don't recall any of it being the fault of Rick Perry (full disclosure: I worked for Perry's 2012 presidential campaign, and yes, I've already heard that exact same "oops" joke you're currently cooking up).
Although we know full well the effects on the Republican Party of the style of governance promoted by Wehner — nearly eight years of minority status and counting — let's focus on his specific criticisms of Perry's speech. Wehner criticizes Perry for being a strict constructionist hypocrite: some of the Founding Fathers promoted a strong federal government, Wehner asserts, so Perry should as well:
For starters, Governor Perry's interpretation of enumerated powers is more restrictive than what many of the Federalist Founders believed. (See the essay and here for more.) As for Governor Perry's line of argument: He says the Constitution doesn't give "primary" responsibility over the air we breathe, the land we farm and the water we drink. But in fact, the Constitution doesn't affirm even a secondary role for the areas mentioned by Perry. Is it really his position, then, that the federal government should have no role in education, health care, and clean air and water? What about child immunization? Support for the National Institutes of Health? Pell grants? The GI Bill? All of the New Deal? Bans on child labor?
Child labor? Seriously? We're going to play that game? Contrary to what Wehner asserts, much of what Perry promotes — like local control of education, family control of health care decisions, and an EPA that abides by the quaint notion that agencies should be restrained by the statutes that created them — is actually pretty popular in places that aren't New York City or Washington, D.C.
It's one thing to disagree with Perry and other conservatives about the proper role of the federal government, but it's rather stupid and lazy to imply that big government skeptics are just like child labor exploiters. I'm not going to imply that Wehner's support of various Federalist Founders indicates a support for slavery, and if he wishes for conservatives to take his arguments seriously, he needs to extend the same basic courtesy to us.
But do you know what else was more restrictive than what "many of the Federalist Founders believed"? A lot of things that non-Federalist Founders believed: non-Federalists like George Mason, who was primarily responsible for the Bill of Rights, the tenth item of which delegates to the states and the people all responsibilities not explicitly granted to the federal government. The notion that the bulk of power in the United States was to be reserved for the people and the states in which they lived is not exactly a new idea. Anyone who has ever worked in a sprawling bureaucracy knows exactly why the Founders thought that most power should be decentralized and localized to allow for maximum innovation, flexibility, and responsiveness.
But setting all that aside: we don't need a 10-minute CPAC speech to tell us what Perry's "governing vision" is, because we have 14 years worth of evidence on the reality of Perry's governing results. And it turns out that local control, low taxes, limited government, energy exploration, and commonsense tort reforms are a recipe for economic and political success. Due in large part to the radical differences between Obama's and Perry's visions of government's appropriate role, we really do have two Americas: one where people can't find a decent job, and Texas.
Unsurprisingly, given Wehner's consistent argument that the sputtering ship of state merely needs an abler captain rather than a smaller hull, those actual governing results were never mentioned in his blog post. For nine straight years, Texas has been named the top state in the country for business by Chief Executive magazine. A new study from the Dallas Fed found that "Texas Leads Nation in Creation of Jobs at All Pay Levels."
"Texas has produced hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs across most industries since 2000, making Texas the top destination for domestic migrants
since 2006," the study found. "The data show Texas has experienced far greater growth of 'good' jobs than the rest of the nation has since 2000."
It's no wonder that nearly a million net new people flocked to Texas between 2000 and 2010, the last year for which IRS tax migration data are available. But why focus on actual results when you can nitpick a 10-minute speech to an energetic crowd of conservatives hungry for conservative leadership?
Wehner concludes his column with a rather odd take given the election results for the GOP in 2010 and the increasingly likely results in 2014:
As a political matter, running under the banner of "Get out of the health care business! Get out of the education business!" hardly strikes me as the best way to rally people who are not now voting for the GOP in presidential elections. I'm reminded of the words of the distinguished political scientist James Q. Wilson: "Telling people who want clean air, a safe environment, fewer drug dealers, a decent retirement, and protection against catastrophic medical bills that the government ought not to do these things is wishful or suicidal politics."
Yeah, that whole "get out of the health care business" line was a real disaster for the GOP in 2010. And putting the tinkering technocrat author of Obamacare's rough draft at the top of the 2012 ticket really fanned the flames of a roaring GOP success in 2012.
As a political matter, running under the banner of "Let the federal government pick your doctor for you! Let those guys in Washington borrow another eleventy trillion dollars! Let a barely literate bureaucrat set your child's reading curriculum!" hardly strikes me as the best way for people who aren't liberal Democrats to market themselves.
I'm reminded of the words of the distinguished 40th president: "I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.
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A new form of ebook Digital Rights Management in development shows just how far the book industry is willing to go to stop piracy.
It's called SiDiM, and it's being developed by Darmstadt Technical University in Germany, with backing from the German government and ebook industry. For each individual copy of an ebook, SiDiM applies subtle changes to the text itself, along with other invisible markings.
As TorrentFreak explains, SiDiM might change the word "unsympathetic" to "not sympathetic." This DRM could also alter punctuation and add extra line breaks to the text.
By changing the actual text of an ebook, SiDiM would create unique copies that could be traced to the original owner. In theory, users would be aware of this antipiracy method, and would be discouraged from widely distributing ebooks over the Internet.
The idea of digital watermarking for ebooks is not new. Some publishers, such as Pearson's Peachpit, have the ability to create custom copies of ebooks. Notably, the Harry Potter books from J.K. Rowling's Pottermore site were advertised as DRM-free, but actually contain watermarking from a Dutch company called Booxtream, as The Digital Reader reported last year.
It's not clear why the German publishers consider SiDiM a better solution than these more benign watermarks. Perhaps changing the actual text makes the DRM harder to crack, but authors—particularly those who fuss over every word and punctuation mark—would likely despise the idea, as would readers.
Fortunately, it doesn't appear that any major book publishers are involved in the research, though SiDiM's backers include several companies that deal with ebook marketing and distribution. Publishers have been fretting about ebook piracy for years, but let's hope they'll never go so far as to tarnish their own authors' works.


Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's autocratic president, is a past-master at seizing the moment and turning it to his political advantage.
The latest example is the Jamal Khashoggi affair, which he has managed masterfully, gaining a steadily increasing advantage over his prime rivals in the Muslim world – Saudi Arabia. But how secure is he against repercussions?


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This is one of the few categories of games that a person falls in love with in early childhood and remains a fan of such games until old age.
Fans of the battle games genre can be found among people of all ages.
Feel like a great commander in battle games
Many parents believe that their sons shouldn't get too involved in battle games, because such games teach cruelty. Other parents believe that it is better for the child to realize his desire to fight and shoot in the world of computer online games than to go out looking for adventure.
In battle games, anyone will have the opportunity to lead an army, lead their soldiers into battle, and oppose a merciless enemy. Your army may be armed with different types of weapons, some have never even existed. Online battle games make everything possible, so there are no restrictions in battle games.
Any plots and historical periods of battle games
In the battle games category, you can try your hand at battles against fictional heroes. But battle games open up great opportunities for those who love and know world military history. Over the entire period of humanity's life on planet Earth, there have been many wars that have become legendary. All these great wars are reflected in battle games.
You can take part in the First World War or the Second World War, speaking on the side of the anti-Hitler coalition. You can take part in the Battle of the Ice.
If you have read a lot about the American Civil War, you can take part in the battle on the side of the southerners or northerners.
Depending on which historical period you choose, your weapons will consist of modern weapons or weapons that have not been used for a long time.
If you are interested in how the battles took place in a primitive society, then get ready to use spears and stones, slingshots or throwing constructions in battle.
If you like wars in the Middle Ages more, then you have to fight with swords and heavy crossbows.
Modern battle games use modern weapons, but if you are interested in looking into the future, then you can take part in space battle games.
There is no bad weather for battle games
The most favorite type of battle games for all children is snow battle games, when you can use snowballs as a weapon, and the battle itself takes place in a snow fortress.
If the action takes place in the forest, then anything can be suitable as a weapon for your battles: logs and cones, for example.
In some battle games, the action takes place in the sea or ocean. There are special types of weapons for underwater and surface battles. Combat tactics will also be special.
Modern game developers have come up with many interesting forms of weapons that are familiar to all Internet users. Therefore, all fans of online battle games will have the opportunity to join the battle with emoticons or other Internet characters, for example, Internet memes.
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