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Death To Evony; Alienware Talks PC Perception
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Comment spam, lewd advertising, and stolen assets abound for Evony
I am so glad that these Civony/Evony people are finally getting called out. Their shady ads featuring stolen art assets are everywhere. I can only hope they haven't tricked many people into playing, but I know that mammary glands are powerful things.
Interview: Alienware CEO Lewis On PC Gaming Market, Perception
This is a big one, and I will admit that I skimmed a bit, but there's some interesting stuff here. Particularly, the acknowledgment that the general perception of the PC gaming market's health is largely due to a lack of marketing and representation; that's interesting coming from a PC manufacturer, not to mention a founder of the PC Gaming Alliance. Next up: much respect to Chris Remo for not letting the comment about $1,500 – $2,500 being what somebody needs to spend on a gaming PC slip by. The notion that a person needs to spend more than $700 to play any game is one that is hurting the platform. Finally, I very much like the idea of Steam being pre-installed on Dell and Alienware systems. I'm no fan of crapware, but if they're injecting new machines with a bunch of it anyway, they may as well throw in something great like Steam.
Quick Look: ArmA II
This just tickled me.
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PC Gaming: Its Problems Stem From Mistreatment
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The PC is treated as a second-rate game platform. This is evidenced most strongly both by game publishers' treatment of the PC versions of their multi-platform games as well as how the games press covers PC games whether they be multi-platform or exclusive. For roughly the last six years the PC has been perceived as being a dying platform. While some players have definitely shifted from PC to video game consoles during this same time frame, things aren't that bad; the PC platform's biggest problem is still the perception that gamers, game makers, and game journalists have of it. This problem, left to fester, has begun to have distinct effects on the way PC games are treated.
Publishers, when they even make a PC version of their game, don't treat it as well as they do the console versions. Development of the PC version of multi-platform games is often outsourced to a third party, and the quality of the product suffers as a result. But it isn't always a problem of outsourcing; sometimes developers are simply told to focus their foremost efforts on the console versions. Marketing of the PC version also takes a hit; it is not uncommon for the PC version of a game to be released weeks to months after the console versions. Rarely will the PC version even be mentioned in magazine and comic book ads, much less television adverts; it will just be tossed out and left up to word of mouth and the virtually non-existent retail spaces to sell it to people.

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Batman: No Man's Land Volume 2 is the middle bit between Cataclysm/No Man's Land Volume 1 and it's conclusion in No Man's Land Volume 3. Volume 2 is notable for being more about Batman and his allies than the solo quest he was in in the first volume. Batman calls his allies for help to work together to bring Gotham city from the brink following the Earthquake and the tribal behaviour of many inhabitants. It's also notable for the introduction of Cassandra Cain and her subsequent transformation into the then new Batgirl.
Just like any major crossover arc with more than one volume, No Man's Land Volume 2 is a hefty read with 512 pages collecting 20 issues from various characters and series' as well as being written and drawn by a few people – this can create a disjointed experience but a good one nonetheless.
No Man's Land Volume 2 (New Edition) collects Batman #567-#568, Detective Comics #734-#735, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #119-#121, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #87-#88, Batman Chronicles #17, Robin #67, Nightwing #35-#37, Catwoman #72-#74, Azrael: Agent of the Bat #56-57 and Young Justice: No Man's Land #1.
Volume 1 was a long, hard slog which was relatively slow paced and quite isolated. There wasn't much team work to be seen in the book and it was pretty much every man to himself. No Man's Land Volume 2 is definitely not like at all and Batman finally calls in his allies (Nightwing, Robin, Azrael) to help him with the total mess that is Gotham. When I read Batman say "Call them" to Oracle I thought thank god for that – as a crossover arc, Volume 1 seemed way more Batman than it needed to be and other than Azrael from time to time it was all him. However, what I didn't think was great was how quickly they all got there – when you get to the part where Catwoman has a really hard time getting in it is mystifying how Nightwing and Robin got in so easily.
Whilst many parts of No Man's Land Volume 1 where from the perspective of many of the citizens, No Man's Land Volume 2 is entirely from the perspectives of the characters – the effect of this, on me, was that it made Gotham city look a little better and not all that bad. Volume 2 may make you wonder by the end of it "How are the people doing?". Maybe we'll find out in Volume 3.
The first part of No Man's Land Volume 2 is the continuation of the various gang wars that begin in Volume 1. It's a strong start that's all Batman fan favourite stuff – there's also some more of the internal affairs plaguing the GCPD (or Blue Boys as they're named in NML). The Bat stuff, the GCPD and the Gang Wars (mostly Two-Face's rise) are the three favourite parts of the whole NML saga of mine so far so I was pleased with this bit – the pacing was great, there was nothing over the top and the art work of the destroyed Gotham was consistent with what it was in Vol. 1 and also what you'd expect it to look like after an Earthquake. However after 4 good issues DC must have decided that No Man's Land Vol 2 was too heavy in nature and inserted Young Justice in there.
I'm a little disappointed in the inclusion of a new female villain in Echo who came as quickly as she went.
Now, if you're a fan of Young Justice then you'll think it's great but the issue titled "Road Trip" can only be described as a travesty and just completely out of place in No Man's Land. It is a childish and 'goofy' issue where the kids of Young Justice – Superboy, Robin (before he comes into No Man's Land proper), Impulse and a special guest character in Lagoon Boy. It's not that it's a bad stand alone issue, it's just that it's a bad issue when read in the context of NML as a collected edition where one issues follows another. The various writers have worked hard to paint Gotham as a no-go zone and then these kids come in, mess around, then leave. Personally, if you're reading this before you read No Man's Land itself, skip this part.
Once this travesty is over that's when Batman calls in for aid. The allies all have their part to play thanks to Batman's orders – I'll start by looking into Robin's bit, he has one issue to himself in this and shares it all with Nightwing. It's full of one liners as you'd expect and some quite colourful art from Staz Johnson, Adrienne Roy and Stan Woch. Robin and Nightwin need to get to Blackgate for Nightwing to complete his mission at Blackgate. Robin #67 also features Tommy Mangles and Gearhead as the token villain. I'd class Robin's part in No Man's Land Volume 2 as the "fun bit" but it did very little to continue the story or add anything to increase the tension in Gotham.
Azrael has had some input in NML already as we saw his part in getting to Gotham City in the first place in No Man's Land Vol 1 and it's continued in Volume 2 in a much better way. The artwork for a start got a major upgrade and is now in line with most of the other issues included. Crossover arcs and having so many artists involved can sometimes create a disjointed experience and I was pleased with the better looking Azrael issues. Storywise, I found it to be pretty decent as he works together with the new Batgirl Cassandra Cain and finally takes down Nicholas Scratch – it all felt very Mad Max-esque especially when you see the way Scratch is dressed. As a point to add, Azrael could never have done it without Cain, either.
Nicholas Scratch was built up quite a bit in Volume 1 which made me think that that the confrontation between him and Azrael would be huge and action-packed. It wasn't. Nicholas Scratch was a fairly lame character who was 'defeated' a little too easily, he had amassed a pretty impressive army, seemed to be always one step ahead of Azrael but was too easily defeated by some simple reverse psychology on Azrael's part. Funnily enough Andrew Asberry compared Scratch to Aladdin Sane and I could see where he was coming from, personally I thought Scratch was more Wez from Mad Max.
At this point in Batman No Man's Land Volume 2 it's a decently sized break from Batman and moves on to Nightwing's part to play as he needs to infiltrate Blackgate prison and take it back for the Bat family. Standing in his way are the wardens Batman left to run the place, Lock-up, KGBeast and the Trigger Twins. I found this portion of the book a little bit slapstick when compared to Batman, a little darker than Robin – just the right place for a Nightwing story. I found it an interesting read how Nightwing has to use his wits as he is caught and thrown in with some of the inmates (Black Mask is in there and there's something not quite right about his face). He uses them to his advantage to be able to get out and turn the tables on the captors. Not once did Nightwing actually get into any mortal danger but as that chapter ends you get the sense that the tides are turning to Batman's favour.
The artwork in the Nightwing segment isn't as strong or consistent as there rest of NML (vol 1 included) and together with the slightly lighter plot line brings the reader out of the dark a bit, it almost makes you forget everything that's been happening on the outside. McDaniel's has a tendency for bolder colours and a stretched finish which removes a lot of the realism from the characters themselves.
After a long period away, Batman returns with a few issues involving Clayface and Poison Ivy. Although I was glad to see the Dark Knight back I was a bit baffled with the plot which ties the three of them together. First, Clayface has effectively trapped Poison Ivy for the last 6 months to create loads of fruit and veg for him to profit on – what does Clayface need with money? And where exactly can he spend it in No Man's Land? Second, once Ivy is released she is able to swiftly defeat Clayface, why not just do that straight away?
The review of Batman No Mans Land Volume 2 is already getting a bit long and I'm a bit tired writing about it so we'll round off swift with the sizeably with the Catwoman portion which is actually quite long. Batman needs Catwoman to get him some disks from Manhattan (we've already covered her getting into Gotham) and the contents of said disks are unknown. The bizarre part of this whole adventure is that the disks are being guarded by people in Bruce Wayne's empty – but she still has to steal them! Why didn't Bruce just call to say it was ok? The writers really stretched the caper as much as humanly possible and threw in Hardcases Inc, Maxie Zeus and some henchmen allies to boot. One thing you won't help notice from this part is how extremely curvaceous Catwoman is, and at times a bit distracting. Shouldn't even have been included in No Man's Land if you ask me.
Lastly, and I mean lastly, Batman has a pointless encounter with Freeze which looked rushed and the dialogue is nothing short of terrible. A really bad ending to an OK book overall.
No Man's Land as a series is a long hard slog to get through. Volume 2 is a change of pace and content from the first volume which focuses a lot more on the allies and not how terrible the situation is. Throw in some so-so issues in Young Justice, Nightwing and Catwoman issues and you're sadly left with a long and pretty mediocre collected edition.


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Fall 2011 Getaway Weekend UPDATE Oct 3rd "New Route INFO"
Was in VT this weekend. Yes there is a lot of road damage/closed roads. I have mapped out some changes for the Sat tour so we will still have good roads and good stops. We will encounter 4-5 sections that may still not be repaved. Longest is about 200 feet, most are less than 30 feet. I will note them on the route maps so just take it easy there. Also see comments in yellow below.
Where: Stratton Mountain Inn, Stratton Mountain Road, Bondville VT. (www.stratton.com) The Inn is located in the heart of the Stratton Mountain complex and was one of the earliest facilities built on the mountain overlooking the valley. There is plenty of paved parking along with a bar, lounge and restaurant area, plus an on-site sauna and hot tub on the lower level.
Other amenities: The health club is approximately one mile away and includes a 75 ft. indoor heated pool, steam room, exercise equipment, message and fitness classes. There is a small fee per guest for use of the club, which is optional and payable by each guest. There is also a tennis facility with indoor and outdoor courts available, where guests can book court time individually. The championship golf course may or may not be open, weather permitting. There are other public courses in Manchester VT.
(1 night, Saturday 10-22-11 minimum; with a second night on Friday 10-21-11 optional) Check in is 5:00PM. Early arrivals will be checked in based on room availability. Check-out is 11:00AM. Late check-out may incur a fee.
Price: $79 per night single or double occupancy plus applicable taxes and resort fee. (Approx. 20% total) Each room has 2 beds. Extra adult (up to two, in a room) is $20 each per night. Children up to 17 years old are no additional charge.
responsible for booking their room using their own credit card. Contact Stratton directly at 1-800-Stratton and identify yourself as attending the North Country Region Porsche Club of America Fall Event. At the time you book your room, also send an email to Social@ncr-pca.org identifying who will be attending and for how many nights so the Social chairperson can reconcile attendance with the Inn manager. This is critical to ensure everyone is booked properly and to get a headcount for meals.
Any reservation made now will be on an "as available" basis.
Meals: We plan to have a group dinner Saturday night Oct 22nd at Morgan's Bane Steakhouse, in the Stone's Lodge Inn. It is located on Rt 30 almost directly across from the Stratton Mtn access road, in Bondville, 10 minutes from the Stratton Mtn Inn. Dinner will be at 7:30 and you can choose from the menu and pay individually. There is also the funky Fat Spy Tavern adjacent to the steakhouse, with pool tables, big screen TV, and so on.
There is a continental breakfast included with your room which will be our "group" breakfast. If you wish to have a hot breakfast there are several places in Manchester Vt. (about 30 mins from Stratton.) Upstairs for Breakfast on Rt 7A in the center of Manchester. The Little Rooster on Rt 11 and 30 between Stratton and Manchester, and the Lawyer and Baker on Bonnet St (Rt 30 just west of Rt 7A in Manchester.) There is also supposed to be a new breakfast place opening in Oct on Rt 30 just west of the Stratton Mtn access road.
For those arriving Friday and who want fine dining (pricey) either as a small group or individually consider the following . If as a group let me know and I will attempt to get an early reservation. In any case you will need to reserve a table well in advance of Friday. Bistro Henry on Rt 30 just north of the intersection with Rt 7, The Perfect Wife also on Rt 30 near Bistro Henry, Mistral on Tollgate Rd off of Rt 30 between Stratton and Manchester, Chantecleer on Rt 7A north of Manchester in East Dorset, The Reluctant Panther Inn on West Rd off of Rt 7A about a mile south on Manchester center. For those willing to travel about 50 minutes north from Stratton to Wallingford, the Victorian Inn on Rt 7 has great food and a big wine cellar. For less pricy fare there is the Manchester Bar and Grill on Rt 30 just north of Rt 7, The Sirloin Saloon at the intersection of RT 30 and 7A in Manchester, Gringo Jacks southwestern grille, on 7A just north of Manchster center. You will need to call any of these for a reservation well in advance.
hiking and biking, motor cycle rentals, golf and tennis, fly fishing instruction (Orvis is in Manchester, VT.!!!). Any of these can be booked directly with the Stratton Inn management or by going to the associated websites. Each activity is at the discretion of each attendee and any fee will be paid directly by the attendee. Bennington VT is approx. 20-30 minutes away, Clark Art Museum in Williamstown MA is approx 50 min away and MASS MOCA in North Adams MA is approx. 1 hr and 15mins away.
How to get there: Your GPS or Google Maps are your best friend. For those wishing to travel together and want a fun route, consider meeting at Applebee's in Keene NH at the traffic circle of Rt 101 and Rt 10/12. If you are traveling on Saturday and want to meet up with the tour see the directions below.
If you want to explore from Keene on Fri or Sat, consider Rt 12 north to Walpole NH and find the Boggy Meadow Cheese Plant, 13 Boggy Meadow Lane, or the Walpole Mtn View Winery at Barnett Hill Vineyard, 114 Barnet Hill Rd. Then cross the CT river to Rt 5 north to Rt 121 west, to Grafton VT and stop at the Grafton Village Cheese shop on Townshend Rd just south of Grafton. (some of the roads in Grafton area have been repaired, but may still have dirt sections. see my comment at the begining of this post. I will note them on mileage instructions I send later in Oct. Keep going south to Townshend Vt where you take Rt 30 west all the way to Bondville and the Stratton Mtn access Rd. I will likely take this route Friday PM so hope to see you at Applebees around 1PM. I will send email addresses of attendees to all attendees so you can pair up and travel together if you wish, taking whatever route you want.
Saturday 10-22-11 Tour #1: I am creating a fun, scenic drive through Southern VT and Eastern NY. Still working out the details but I've driven most of the roads and will have a "short" route and a "long route" mapped. The intent is to include a Winery visit and tasting, plus a visit to a cheese and country store and perhaps a bakery. (I know how NCRers like to eat and drink.) Plus the Bennington Battle Monument, Bennington VT History Museum and Hemmings museum and store are on route. Maps will be provided and you can travel at your own pace.
We will be stopping for lunch at the Anchor restaurant on South Main St in Wilmington VT on Saturday about 12:30. If you are driving in on Saturday from the Brattleboro VT area west on Rt 9, and want to meet us for the rest of the tour, take a left at the red light at the intersection of Rt 9 west and Rt 100 north. The Anchor is one block down on the left, with parking in the back or a public lot one block further down S. Main St. This is approx. 50-60 minutes (36 miles) west of the Rt 101/10 traffic circle in Keene NH or 18 miles west of the Brattleboro Vt interchange of Rt 91 and Rt9.
Saturday 10/22/11 Tour #2 Some folks may travel to the Saratoga Automobile Museum, 110 Avenue of the Pines, Saratoga Springs, NY to see the Porsche exhibit. It is open 10AM to 5PM. It is about 2 hrs west of Manchester Vt in a fairly straight drive according to Mapquest. Details on the exhibit can be found at www.saratogaautomuseum.org and there is a separate article elsewhere on the NCR website. The museum is offering a discount rate to PCA members. Perhaps lunch at the Gideon Putnam Resort just down the street?? Those taking this trip should plan on taking the most major roads you can as those scenic back roads may not be passable.
Sunday 10/23/11: We are planning to drive to the top of Mt Equinox after breakfast, weather permitting for a final group event. Will leave for the drive from Stratton about 10:00 AM Sunday. It is approx 30 mins to get to the entrance to Skyline Drive on Rt 7A about 5 miles south of the center of Manchester. Toll is $12. Hopefully the weather, (no black ice) will cooperate. It is a spectacular drive and is the venue for a VSCCA hillclimb each summer.
Final thoughts. If you did not stop at Hemmings or the Bennington Monument on Saturday they are worth the trip south on Rt 7 or Rt 7A to Bennington. They are on Rt 9 West from the center of Bennington. After you can take Rt 9 East all the way to RT 91 or to Keene NH, or you can continue south on Rt 7 to Williamstown, MA then south on Rte 7 to the Mass Turnpike in Lee MA. If you want to travel home east on Rte 2 you need to access Rte 2 in Greenfield MA as sections in Charlemont and Florida MA which is between North Adams and Greenfield have been washed away.
For those traveling north, take Rt 11 out of Manchester east to Rt 100 which is an excellent, sometimes bumpy ride, up to Rt 4 east to White River Junction. I understand that Rte 100 in Lowell-Killington area is now open, but I do not know if it is repaved.


And just like that, with no announcements, quietly and beautifully spring has arrived.
For us, it arrived this past Sunday when our little Phoebes came back to visit the nest where they raised three young last year. (We also have some blooming flowers, crocus and coltsfoot!) I will have to admit, I was not the first one to notice their return. They are curious little birds and visit each window in the house where they hover effortlessly, checking in on us. The curiosity of these little birds always sparks the primal instinct of our three indoor cats and Leela, the most beautiful orange cat in the whole wide world, is trying to tell me that they are back…and that I need to pay attention!
Eastern Phoebes are a grayish, robin sized, shy but curious, migratory flycatcher and are one of the first birds to arrive back in the spring. They tend to look "fluffy" to me and will always have the very characteristic tail bob when they perch – like this one as it sits on our garden fence.
This pair has come back to reuse the nest they built on our gutter last year. High enough to be protected from predators and close enough to the roof to be sheltered from the weather, but also too high for me to peek in on them – or to get very good pictures.
In 1804 John James Audubon banded the very first bird in the United States – which just happens to be the Eastern Phoebe. Like a good little ornithologist, I will montior the female's work on nest repair, building, egg laying, incubation and rearing. I will document their progress through binoculars for the Citizen Science Program, Neighborhood Nestwatch. Seems simple, but if these two can travel to Mexico and back every spring, repair a nest, raise one or maybe even two clutches of babies, then this is the least I can do. You can do this too – help scientists gather data to help them learn about migration, urbanization effects and nest success rates. When we all work together, in each of our own little corners of the world, small things add up to BIG things.
So GLAD spring is finally finding its way to western Pennsylvania. I looked up the newspaper report from last year on the eagle's nest. It says, "along the Connoquenessing Creek near the Ellport Bridge in Wayne Township". Not an exact location, since there are two bridges in Ellport, but maybe it will be more visible before the leaves emerge. The article reports that it may be a pair of eagles that moved from a nest near Camp Allegheny. That would be just a little further down the road from Ellport headed toward Portersvile, bear left right after crossing the bridge. If anyone finds the nest, please let us know!


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Updates on the Federal Vision in the Presbyterian Church in America
This weekend the Pacific Northwest Presbytery of the PCA has scheduled the "trial" of Federal Visionist Peter Leithart for June 3-4, 2011, just prior to the PCA's General Assembly. This presbytery has already stated that Leithart doesn't teach anything out of accord with the Westminster Standards. Leithart teaches at Doug Wilson's New Saint Andrews College and pastors Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, Idaho – a church in the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC).
Update: In an email sent out to all its members the Northwest Presbytery made the following announcement about the trial of Leithart:
And as mentioned before, we will be in Executive Session, so the contents of the proceedings may not be shared, personally or electronically, with those who are not members of our Presbytery, either during or after the trial, and may only be discussed with members of our Presbytery who were present in the Executive Session. Once Presbytery acts on the Commission's findings (in October), those findings and Presbytery's decision will become a matter of public record. (source: http://theaquilareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4760:pcas-pacific-northwest-presbytery-changes-times-publishes-closed-meeting-guidelines-for-trial-of-peter-leithart&catid=50:churches&Itemid=133)
We wonder why our nation's government is corrupt with all of its lack of transparency and all of its secret meetings; our nation's government is following the church -- as the church goes so goes the nation. Though this is called a trial, it is being carried out behind closed doors, with no light from the press, nor is anything going to be made public until October. "For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light" (Mark 4:22). "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops" (Luke 12:1c-3). "Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest may also fear" (1 Timothy 5:20).
Meanwhile the Federal Vision is alive and well in the Missouri Presbytery, where Jeffrey Meyers has been exonerated by that presbytery, despite a Letter of Concern that clearly showed (from Meyers' own words) that Meyers does in fact teach Federal Vision theology.
It remains to be seen whether the PCA will rid itself of the leaven of the Federal Vision.


But also one of the "real" bikes is SWiMBO's so that doesn't count.
The 83 Kawa 1100 is a friends who lives in the UK, the 85 700sc is a friends that I istalled a new rear on the night before. The other 6 plus my other VF1000R which was on my lift in the garage are mine.
I am perpetually transitioning from MPD (multiple project disorder) to MBD.
You have two 5G's (minor case of OCD) but, and this is worrying, NO 3 or 4G !
Everyone should have an RC36.
My wife says I'm done. If Honda comes out with the V4 Homologation bike I may have to thin the herd a little bit.
I wish I had a picture of my garage. I only have two, my 94 VFR and a 93 CB750 Nighthawk(might start a Seven-Fifty conversion) so far, with my ATV stuffed in behind them. My girlfriend says I don't need anymore, we will see.
oh and I am just starting my vfr collection. if anybody wants to donate a 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th gen I would accept it. you know for the greater good.
Dutchy, thanks for starting this--I get to see more of Seb's photos! Drool.
Sadly, I only have two bikes.
In My Garage::2006 VFR800 Cosmic Black - All stock so far!
I've got this bad...I have garages in three countries with at least one bike in them. Needless to say, the big problem for us "sufferers" is riding all of the bikes we already have. "After all, what is a motorcycle for if it isn't action?" I now just say that I'm the curator of a private collection of old motorcycles and people stop bothering me about it!
Really like your Crosstour. Really interesting bike that fits right between the Africa Twin and the VFR1200X.
I have a small garage and four bikes. Something has to give as I can barely walk around in it.
its called a "addition" make that garage bigger..
Well should I get an African Twin or a Crosstourer? And then what bike to replace; VFR, KLR or Goldwing? Garage is getting full with 3 bikes, trailer and one actual cage.


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VC Pick: The Lake House (2006)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A house is not a home, it seems,
Until it houses someone's dreams,
And even if its tenant leaves,
Some part remains beneath the eaves.
Although no new dreams now reside
Within a home unoccupied,
The traces of its owners past
Remain in spirit, left to last.
These ghosts, perhaps, I'd like to meet.
Perhaps I have upon the street.
We both have shared a home, almost,
And when I move, I'll be the ghost.
In honor of Valentine's Day and her upcoming birthday, I'll be reviewing a VC pick each week for the next month, and The Lake House is the first in her honor. As my VC well knows, I do love a good supernatural romance, especially when its otherworldly elements set it apart from the typical romantic clichés. I found The Lake House to be one of the better members of the genre, pairing Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock again twelve years after Speed.
Based on the 2000 Korean film Il Mare, The Lake House follows Dr. Kate Forster (Bullock) and architect Alex Wyler (Reeves) as the former moves out of the titular glass home and the latter moves in. The hook is that they're doing so two years apart, with Alex in 2004 and Kate in 2006. A mail-forwarding note that Kate leaves behind somehow ends up in Alex's mailbox two years earlier, and the two discover that they can communicate with each other through their time-traveling letters. I personally love the idea of a pen-pal relationship spanning time itself, and even if the mailbox's mysterious powers are never explained, the chemistry between Bullock and Reeves is just as evident here as it was in Speed, despite the fact they're separated from each other much of the time. Also in fine form are Shohreh Aghdashloo as Kate's doctor friend and Christopher Plummer as Alex's father and architectural teacher who actually built the lake house.
Oddly enough, the film that kept coming to mind as I watched The Lake House was last year's anime hit Your Name, another film where two likable characters are separated by time and tragedy and rarely get to meet face to face. Going into the similarities would require too many spoilers, but while Your Name was a better film overall, it's worth noting the parallels to this earlier movie and the still earlier Il Mare.
While some might consider The Lake House maudlin, I thought its emotional scenes were highly effective, whether it be the inner longing of Alex's visit to Kate before she knows of their relationship or the retrospective of Alex's rocky bond with his father. As for the ending, I saw the "twist" coming a mile away, but the film kept me in doubt as to whether its separation romance would go the way of City of Angels (did NOT like) or Sleepless in Seattle (DID like). As my VC pointed out to me, the chemistry and anticipation of love between the two leads kept us invested in the outcome, and while it toyed with my expectations, the end at least provided the kind of old-fashioned satisfaction that too many modern romances try to avoid for some reason.
The only explanation I have that The Lake House isn't List-Worthy stemmed from a review I read after seeing it, which pointed out the holes in its time-travel aspects. As much as I want to disregard them, I must admit it's true; even the most basic laws of time travel are pretty much ignored. For instance, Alex plants a tree outside Kate's apartment to surprise her, and in her time, it suddenly appears. While it's a neat visual and a sweet gesture, that tree planted two years earlier should have always been there, such that Kate would never know it hadn't been there before. Though my VC doesn't mind, for reasons like this, The Lake House has gone down a tiny bit in my estimation, but it's still a lovely and poignant romance, just one that shouldn't really be thought of any deeper than a Shyamalan movie.
Best line: (Alex, of the lake house) "Dad knew how to build a house, not a home."
VC's best line: (Alex, after glimpsing Kate in 2004) "I don't know if you remember, but we saw each other. That is, I saw you. You never told me… how beautiful you were." (Kate) "Well, maybe you saw someone else. That was a bad hair year for me."
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This is an interesting read! I really enjoy hearing your thoughts. I haven't seen The Lake House, but I'd heard of it, and I thought it sounded like a great idea for a film.
The time travel thing is hard to pin down, because it's all based on imaginary ideas and logic. But the writers can make up what ever they like.
I always thought in Back to the Future, I don't think he would have had that family portrait photo at all after he separated his parents from getting together – he wouldn't have it, and have the people in it gradually fading away, because nobody would ever have taken it in the first place 🙂 But maybe he would. In a way, I think it's a really complicated fantasy science situation. Because I think that he should be able to continue to exist, because he's from an entirely different timeline! His timeline could be destroyed, so that he would have nowhere to return to, but he could just exist as an impossible person!
In Frequency, John Caviezel's character is changing the past, but he still remembers everything that happened before he changed anything. And they are very selective about what changes in the present as a result of changed in the past, because it would spoil the movie if it didn't go a very specific way.
I suppose that's the joy of fiction! This has really been fun – your posts always take me to places in my mind that I never expected to go 🙂 Thank you 😀
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, and I'm glad my posts have that kind of effect. That's always the goal at least. There are a lot of possibilities when it comes to the time travel genre, and that's probably why I find it so fascinating.
I think Lost probably had the best explanation for time travel: that if you think you've changed something in the past, the truth is that it always happened that way and you just never knew about it. That may make the most sense from a logical point of view, but I love how different storytellers bend the rules to tell a compelling tale, even if there are a few paradoxes along the way. 🙂
Absolutely 😀 Yesterday we watched an episode of Voyager called "Relativity" which has a lot of fun time travel stuff in it, and it's fantastic! The crew of the Starfleet timeship are going about through time, correcting problems through out history which are the result of careless time travel. I love that episode, it's so interesting 😀
I love that episode too! Voyager really did time travel episodes well. Now I'm in a Star Trek mood myself.
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As it turns out, I actually have the soundtrack from this film on CD despite never seeing it. When I was a kid, I found it relaxing to go to sleep to, considering the nature of most of the songs… That aside, it sounds like an interesting film! Time travel is always a difficult concept to nail correctly regardless of the medium, and a director has to be very detail oriented to try and prevent plot holes…which you pointed out. Regardless, it seems like a unique concept for a romance drama, with A-list actors, so color me intrigued!
I highly recommend checking it out. I don't remember the soundtrack standing out that much, but I listen to a lot of movie scores as peaceful background music, and they're often better heard on their own. I'll have to remind myself of it.


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Mr Sunak's 'Spring Statement' – a man without a fallback
Government announcement of the Spring Statement CASHBACK
Mr Sunak's Spring Statement was far less impressive than his rhetoric has made it appear. Once again a senior member of this administration reaches a Gold Standard in rhetoric, but at best a Bronze one in achievement. The claim does not stand up to examination that these were the largest reductions in personal taxation for three (or was it four?) decades, nor that most will benefit by £300 per annum or more.
Many will be worse off by a lot more than that, when their employers make them redundant on account of the significant and unmitigated increases in Employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs).
CLICK HERE for our arithmetic on actual Employee NICs in 2021/2, 2022/3, from 2023/4 onwards, and what they would have been had Mr Sunak not rowed back on his previous proposal.
A presentational irritant is that the advertised raising of the NICs Primary Threshold for employees to £12,570 is not what is happening in 2022/3. The increase only kicks in as from July 2022 so it is only for ¾ of a year. Until July the annualized Primary Threshold remains at £9,880. It is only from April 2023 that the figure of £12,570 applies for the full year.
Publicity around the Spring Statement has prominently featured claims that people will be over £300 per annum better off, but this is not the case for all. Employee NICs will only reduce by a figure above £300 if one's wages are in the region of £15,000 and for the full tax year of 2023/4, because of the staggered introduction of the raised Primary Threshold. At levels of wages below and above £15,000 the reductions are smaller. People earning less than the current Primary Threshold will not benefit at all. People earning between £35-45,000 will pay more NICs in 2022/3 but less from 2023/4. People earning above £45,000 will be worse off as from now and ad infinitum.
The above figures compare what people will pay in 2022/3 and 2023/4 with what they paid in 2021/2.
The government has chosen a different basis of comparison. Their chosen comparison is against what people would have paid if Mr Sunak's original proposals had stood. Under that gloss everyone earning above £15,000 will pay £267 less in 2022/3 and £356 less in 2023/4.
However, these are only tax reductions if you believe that it is a reduction when a government decides not to go through with a planned increase. If your definition of a reduction is that the government takes less of your money than it did before, then these claimed 'reductions' are a deception.
One problem for employees is that their employers will still be paying increased Employer NICs. The uplift to Employer NICs has not been reduced by the Spring Statement and they were already considerably larger than the NICs for employees: they begin at a lower level than Employee NICs and do not have a major step-down at the Upper Earnings Limit of £50,270.
They will be 15.05%, up from 13.8%, starting at annual wages of £9,100 (as opposed to £9,880 and then £12,570 for Employee NICs), and remaining at 15.05% above and beyond the Upper Earnings Limit of £50,270 (they reduce to 3.25% for Employees above this figure).
This will simply lead to higher unemployment, or else to manoeuvres to get employees onto lower wages. We will not have seen the last of the cases similar to the recent one at P&O.
In formal terms the 1.25% increases in NICs transmute into the 'Health and Social Care Levy' from April 2023. They then become a separate levy but guided by the NIC framework (although there is no guarantee of their continuing to do so).
This legerdemain enables Mr Sunak to execute a neat trick to catch more people into his net. From April 2023 people who are above the state pensionable age but who are still working will begin to be liable for the 1.25% 'Health and Social Care Levy', whereas they are not liable for NICs. This will dissuade people in this age category from working to a level they do not have to, resulting in lower tax takings, not higher ones.
Then there is the question of funding for the purposes that the increased NICs and the 'Health and Social Care Levy' were meant to be put to. The increased tax revenues were sold to the British public as hypothecated levies for a distinct purpose, except now they will not be large enough if those purposes continue to require £12 billion per annum.
The extra NICs collected in 2022/3 were meant to help clear the NHS backlog. Now the Spring Statement has 'given back' £6.25 billion. How will this missing amount be replaced so that £12 billion can still be spent in the NHS in 2022/3?
Similarly, the separate 'Health and Social Care Levy' from April 2023 was supposed to continue to bring in £12 billion annually and was meant to go to local authorities to better provision Adult Social Care. How will the shortfall of £6.25 billion per annum be filled from April 2023 onwards?
We know how it is being filled between April 2022 and March 2023.
Eagle-eyed Council Tax payers will have noticed a sharp increase in the component of their bills for 2022/3 which is the Adult Social Care Precept. Surrey County Council, by way of example, has attempted to portray a 33% increase as a 3% increase. They did this by portraying the increase in the Adult Social Care Precept as a percentage of the total Council Tax bill for 2021/2: 'The £67.12 increase in 2022/3 is 3% of the 2021/2 overall Valuation Band F charge of £2,237.56'. In fact, for a Band F property, the Precept went up by £67.12 from £200.79 to £267.91 – 33% not 3%.
This major increase for 2022/3 is justified on the immediate need for more funding for Adult Social Care, whereas the NICs money is being applied for the NHS backlog during 2022/3.
From April 2023 the 'Health and Social Care Levy' should have been replacing the 2022/3 increase in the Adult Social Care Precept. However, since only half of the expected amount will now be available to central government, will only half the amount flow down to local authorities? Will their response in turn be to retain the Adult Social Care Precept at its 2022/3 level instead of returning it to the 2021/2 level, or making a partial reduction, or even putting through a further increase? This would be a breach of faith with Council Tax payers, and perpetrated both by central and local government.
In other words it is possible that the give-out via reduced NICs will be taken back via a refusal at the local authority level to return the Adult Social Care Precept to its 2021/2 level, or by central government only paying on what comes in, or a combination of the two.
There is a further irritant around the VAT on petrol.
VAT accrues on the large Fuel Duty component of the price of a litre of fuel.[1] In what way does the Fuel Duty 'add value', such that Value Added Tax should be applied to it? If VAT was only applied to the price before the Fuel Duty (which was 57.95p a litre before the 5p cut), then VAT would have accrued on 80p out of the 165p price-at-the-pump instead of on 138p. That would have knocked 11.6p off the price-per-litre (20% of 58p). The imposition of VAT payable to the government on a price artificially inflated by the government's imposition of an extra duty should be subjected to a legal challenge, or simply changed.
Summary Rating for claims of and on Mr Sunak: Ba1 on the Moody's Investors Service rating system – Speculative, with Substantial Credit Risk (aka he's winging it and out of his depth).
[1] https://www.nationalworld.com/lifestyle/cars/cost-of-fuel-breakdown-2022-price-petrol-diesel-taxes-oil-fuel-duty-3595047 accessed on 24 March 2022


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Full steam ahead as plans revealed for Darlington station redevelopment
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has today (11 May) unveiled what a revitalised Darlington Station will look like once a major multi-million redevelopment is complete - meaning more frequent and better services across the region and beyond.
The £100million scheme, which has been backed by the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority with £25million, will see a raft of works carried out to both sides of the station delivering new platforms, a new entrance, station building and transport interchange.
The new-look station will improve connections not just nationally via the East Coast Main Line, but to other stations across the region as well.
The major redevelopment work will see three new platforms on the east side of the existing station to accommodate current and additional services, a new station building and a new footbridge linking the new platforms and building with the existing station.
An upgrade to the Victoria Road entranceway and car park, pick up and drop off points on the western side of the station is planned, alongside new road layouts, wider pavements and improvements to walking and cycling access, all to make the station easier to reach no matter how passengers are getting there.
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said "The development of Darlington Station will be transformational for our region and is an essential part of my plan to give thousands of passengers from across Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool the faster, more frequent and better-quality services that they rightfully deserve.
"With the town set to host hundreds of staff from the Treasury and Department for International Trade, and as lockdown restrictions are lifted to allow travel for leisure as well as business, it is only right that we have a station that is fit-for-purpose with enhanced local services and links to London.
"Access to good-quality, reliable and affordable public transport is key to my plan for jobs and our recovery post-coronavirus. It's pointless creating good-quality, well-paid jobs if hard working local people cannot easily get around the region. Increasing the frequency of services and train routes, and making the station better to use than ever, will make sure local people can take full advantage of jobs, training and education opportunities while the modern station helps attract even more investment to our area."
Heather Scott, Leader of Darlington Borough Council, said: "These are ambitious plans for an ambitious town, and I am delighted to share these now, alongside our partners. These are once in a generation changes that will help to support and drive our plans to make Darlington and the rest of the Tees Valley a place where people want to live, work and enjoy.
"The scale of works is huge and will see the areas around each side of the existing station totally transformed. It is important that our residents are able to consider what is planned and share their views."
Significant progress on the scheme has been made since the business case was submitted to Government in January 2020, including some land acquisition adjacent to the station. A formal planning application is set to be submitted in June.
Work is planned to be completed in December 2024, in time for 2025's 200th anniversary celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, recognising Darlington as the birthplace of the modern railway.
Rail investment across the Tees Valley continues at a pace, with the new platform at Middlesbrough railway station set to be completed this month, allowing the introduction of LNER's Azuma trains to London in December. Millions of pounds are also being invested to improve railway stations at Hartlepool, Billingham, Eaglescliffe, and Teesside Airport station amongst others.
To have your say on the plans for Darlington railway station, visit www.darlington.gov.uk/consultations


And apparently, the myriad of pharmaceuticals Bob is exposing me to is not doing me serious harm.
That's what blood tests appear to show (we're awaiting confirmation from the doctor). So that's good news! For the time being he can stay on the Interferon A that is helping his skin. His white blood cell count is a little low, but overall his bloodwork look a whole lot better.
I've been anemic since I can remember, and my test results show cell count highs and lows all over the map.
Oh -- Bob wants to mention that I was originally going to show an image of his brain, but it was too enormous to fit on the page.


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A brand new examine raises hopes of saving one of many final animals of its sort.
A sufferer of poaching, the northern white rhino inhabitants has been lowered to simply two females, that are each unable to breed.
DNA proof exhibits the rhino is extra intently associated than beforehand thought to its southern white cousin.
Creating rhino hybrids utilizing IVF is prone to have a optimistic final result, say scientists, though this feature is taken into account a final resort.
The white rhino break up into two divided populations residing within the north and south of Africa round a million years in the past.
However an in depth evaluation of DNA from residing rhinos and museum specimens exhibits the northern and southern populations combined and bred at instances after this date, maybe as not too long ago as 14,000 years in the past.
"Even though they began to diverge a million years in the past, we present that they've been exchanging genes throughout that interval, presumably as not too long ago because the final ice age, when the African savannah expanded and reconnected the 2 populations," lead researcher Dr Michael Bruford of Cardiff College advised BBC Information.
Cross breeding utilizing assisted reproductive expertise might probably act to rescue the northern white rhino from its present predicament, he mentioned.
The northern white rhino was as soon as frequent all through the north of the African continent, together with Uganda, South Sudan, the DRC and Chad.
Unlawful searching to fulfill demand for rhino horn triggered a speedy decline within the wild, and the rhino sub-species was declared extinct on the wild in 2008.
Earlier this yr, Sudan, the final male northern white rhino, died on the age of 45.
Two females are left – his daughter and granddaughter, who stay in Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, the place they're guarded across the clock. Nonetheless, each have well being issues of their very own and can't breed naturally.
The southern white rhino is present in southern Africa, together with South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.
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Jury Awards $1 Million to Man Mistakenly Shot by Milwaukee Police
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Back in August 2006, Milwaukee Police Department ("MPD") Detective Rudolfo Gomez, Jr. received a tip regarding illegal weapons. Based upon this information, Detective Gomez applied for and received a "no-knock" warrant, which allowed an MPD Swat Team to break into the house of the alleged suspect, Richard Betker. During the execution of the warrant, Mr. Betker grabbed his bedside gun when he heard people who he thought were intruders, but were in fact police officers, smash through the doors of his home. When Mr. Betker extended his gun into a doorway to show the "intruders" that he was able to defend himself, the police shot Mr. Betker, who sustained injuries to his hand and shoulder.
Following the incident, Mr. Betker and his wife sued the City of Milwaukee and several police officers, including Detective Gomez. The Betkers alleged that the defendants violated their constitutional rights and that Detective Gomez included untrue statements in the affidavit he submitted to obtain the "no-knock" warrant. The court dismissed all defendants except for Detective Gomez. On Wednesday, November 20, 2013, following a three-day trial, the jury issued a verdict, awarding the Betkers $1 million in damages. Because Detective Gomez was within the scope of his employment with the MPD at the time of the incident, the City of Milwaukee is liable for the $1 million jury verdict.
The incident with the Betkers is not the first allegation of misconduct against Detective Gomez. He is currently facing charges that he beat a handcuffed suspect at the Milwaukee Police Administration Building in August 2013. In addition, Detective Gomez was arrested, but not criminally charged, in 2012 for allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence. Also, attorneys for the woman charged in a fetal abduction case claimed that Detective Gomez questioned the woman improperly. While the investigation into the August 2013 alleged beating was pending, Detective Gomez filed for duty disability, claiming that he suffered a mental breakdown as a result of investigating the murders of children. As previously reported on our Blog here, several MPD officers facing investigations for alleged misconduct have applied for duty disability, claiming to suffer stress from the investigations.
The civil rights lawyers of Samster, Konkel & Safran, S.C. congratulate the jury in the Betkers' case for holding Detective Gomez and the City of Milwaukee accountable for police misconduct. We have represented and currently represent numerous victims of alleged MPD officer misconduct. We believe that it is important to hold police officers accountable, to prevent future instances of misconduct and to improve citizen trust in the police.


A man in an excavator knocked down a wall Feb. 27 at the site of a former trucking terminal in Roseville that's on its way to becoming McGough's new headquarters.
Arden Hills city officials are rejecting Ramsey County's demand for mediation sessions to iron out differences in the development of the former Twin Cities Army Ammunition Site.
DFL legislators have put forth a suite of bills aimed at combating poverty in Minnesota.
Mike Munzenrider Roseville is giving up to $3 million in tax breaks to Colder Products Company. The manufacturer of quick disconnect couplings is relocating its headquarters to 2814 Cleveland Ave.
Roseville has committed tax breaks to a manufacturing company that's planning to bring its "worldwide corporate headquarters" to the city.
The Arden Hills Public Works director will resign her post this month, and two workers in the department have already left.
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The three versions of Apple's new tablet, with three models priced at US $ 199, $299 and $399 for 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB respectively. Apple may also sell a its iPhone 4S with less internal storage for $99.
Plus you pay to network carrier company.
Otherwise you can get iPhone unlocked and contract free for such prices: $649 (16 GB), $749 (32 GB) and $849 (64 GB).
A survey carried out by Techbargains showed that 22 percent of Android users are willing to dump their current handset for the new iPhone, while 38 percent of BlackBerry owners say they will buy the new iPhone.
But the group that is showing the strongest demand for the new iPhone are current iPhone owners. 64 percent of iPhone 4S owners said they will buy the new iPhone, along with 71 percent of iPhone 3G owners. However, the crowd most eager for the iPhone 5 is iPhone 4 owners, with a massive 74 percent saying that they will buy the new iPhone.
So lot of those old, unwanted iPhones will either be sold on the secondhand market, or passed on to family members or friends, adding to the iPhone user base.
The new A6 chip has affected how fast the iPhone operates.
From now wi-fi supports all existing statndards.
Apple advertised 8 hours 3G browsing time, 8 hours talk time, 10 hours video playback. Those figures still need to be confirmed by testing.
While there will be cries that the iPhone 5 is 'just a longer iPhone', it remains a significant hardware change for the phone that hasn't really had a good going over for a couple of years. Apple has worked wonders to reduce the overall size and weight while upping the power.


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GUATEMALA: SEVENTH PEACE TOUR FROM 7 TO 10 FEBRUARY
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GUATEMALA. From 7 to 10 February, the Seventh Tour Por La Paz, organized by the Amancio Foundation, Samuel Villatoro, with the endorsement of the Guatemalan Cycling Federation, the first international route race in Guatemala, will be attended by United States cyclists. United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Belize and Guatemala.
There will be 4 stages, the first will be 90 kilometers, exit and finish at km 36, in front of Restaurante, El Potrero, circuit between Barberena and El Cerinal.
The second stage will be made of Super 24, Escuintla, will take route to Puerto San Jose, Masagua and El Autodromo, Pedro Cofiño, 102 kilometers for the elite, in the same day will compete categories, master, promotional and female with different mileage.
The third stage will run on Carretera al Atlántico, exit at km 16, will take route to Sanarate to connect with Jalapa, a stage that will present high mountain, especially in the final part of the race, will be 95 km of competition.
The last day will be played the Olympic circuit in zone 5, it will be a test by time, plus one round, for each of the categories. (Nery Ajsivinac / Press F.G.C)