Fortunately, the quality in this bottle was worth paying the £55 for. Instead we must go on our findings in terms of smell and taste. T houghts: As always with no age statement whiskies, there’s no way of knowing exactly what your money is buying. Water brings forth more smoke and spice before a dry, woody finish. Water brings out more of the peat smoke and a blast of sea breeze. Smell: Recognisably Highland Park with heather honey, vanilla, malt and cereal notes. Matured in refill casks, it was bottled at 47% abv, without colouring and retails at around £55. Valfather is described as the peatiest release from Highland Park though I was unable to find the specifics of why that was so. This treasure trove of myth and legend has long been mined for the marketing purposes of Highland Park. Orkney was home to a Viking settlement at least as early as 780AD and their influence can still be seen in the landscape and culture of the islands today. You may well wonder what any of that has to do with a Scotch whisky distillery and that would be understandable, but don’t strain too much. These 7th century standing stones show Odin depicted as a great eagle beside the Valknut, a symbol theorised by some to represent the great God’s ability to inspire courage in men and foster fear in his enemies. To create the packaging for the Valfather single malt, Highland Park employed the services of Danish designer Jim Lyngvild, who based his work on ancient picture stones from Stora Hammars in Gotland, Sweden. Prior to every human conflict, Odin was said to choose the victor, before sending the Valkyries to carry the fallen back to Valhalla. Odin made his home in the magnificent hall of Valhalla in Asgard, where he would feast on the souls of heroes who died in battle. It is the third and final entry in the Viking Legend series and is named after Odin, the Allfather, chief of the Gods. Highland Park’s Valfather, it will come as no surprise to learn, takes its inspiration from Norse mythology. Instead, I wanted to use whisky as a jumping off point to tell stories, and so I often enjoy delving into the folklore that inspired a bottle’s name. Despite the name of this website however, I never really set out to focus purely on reviewing drams. ![]() Especially when age statements disappeared and were replaced by a host of Gaelic words and the names of various Viking Gods. What I think irritates people, is an absence of useful, practical information about the spirit they’re buying. This isn’t really a complaint you understand, I’ve always enjoyed history and folklore and Scotland seems to have more than its fair share of interesting tales to be told, so I don’t see too much of a problem with connecting whisky to some of those stories. They’re certainly not the only brand to draw on local legend for their marketing, but it’s hard to think of anyone that’s gone for it with quite the same vigour. Highland Park are well known (and often derided) for their fondness of Viking and Norse culture.
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![]() 215-horsepower, 3.7-liter V-6, iron block/aluminum cylinder heads, single overhead camshaft, two valves per cylinder, 235 pounds-feet of torque.Models with the standard 3.7-liter V-6 have a fuel-saver light that lets the driver know when the truck is being driven efficiently.Ī new six-speed automatic transmission, which replaces last year’s five-speed automatic, is available. The front chin spoiler’s length is designed to improve aerodynamics, and the fuel system automatically stops sending gasoline to the engine when the truck decelerates. Several minor features help the Ram’s fuel economy. Available rear-seat entertainment system.Available dual-zone automatic climate control.Available heated and ventilated front seats.Rear seat heating available in Quad Cab, crew cab.The Laramie Longhorn is equipped with all of the standard equipment found on the Ram Laramie plus navigation radio, remote start, backup camera, front ventilated seats and rear heated seats. 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Their only recourse is the ban the accounts and tell players it's "illegal" - under their rules - but not illegal in the legal sense of the word. If you own a copy of the game and you are generating resources in the game nothing prevents you from selling those resources that you effectively generated for a profit. This is also in a way the same argument why they can't sue gold sellers to shut them down. I don't recall ever getting cease and desist letters. I used to host a private server for Diablo 2 and had about 500 accounts registered, I own a physical copy even after decided to no longer support the game, so solution was to host my own. Blizzard did not shut them down - I suspect it is because of the ownership issue. ![]() DOTA effectively spun off into DOTA2, while using Blizzard assets, development and trademarks for the initial run. If this was the case, Blizzard would have shut down DOTA long ago as DOTA was profiting off WC2Editor and third party scripting for a game within the WC3 system that used Blizzard trademarks and everything - but claimed copyfight for DOTA's creator. It does not mean you cannot host your own server, run your own settings and are forced to play on retail. NC owns the trademark which means you can't develop something that is a copy and or whatever. Private for profit servers are somewhat more questionable, but I suspect the same argument can be made that owners of a copy of the game can host a game for others to play with. Because the game is only hosted online does not change the calculus that the copy is still owned by us and nothing stops us from doing a 127.0.0.1 to host a server to play the game solo. My understanding is that if we bought a physical copy, the game is effectively owned by us. As I will no longer able to access their service (which allows access), it would be an illegal practice to deny me this, wouldn't it? If I am not proven wrongly, I'm just going to assume that when Aion is shut down in NA that I am able to host my own servers in order to continue to be able to access the goods I paid for. What I want to know is what do NCsoft plan to do for the people they will have shafted when the servers shut down?Ĭonsumer protection laws in my country are very specific, very good to the consumer, and are automatically agreed upon by producers when they decide to sell things here. In the scheme of things, by going free to play AND denying users the 'right' to access private servers, NCsoft have taken away the value inherent of the goods that I purchased, and have not ensured access to that good in the future. ![]() Aion no longer requires a subscription to access Aion now no longer requires a CD key to create an accountĤ. Aion used to cost money to access, requiring a subscriptionģ. Aion cost money to purchase in the beginning, requiring a CD key to create an accountĢ. Now, I am a little confused as to where Aion sits on this list.ġ. ![]() Years ago, I bought a physical copy of Aion (and payed subscription fees), before it became free to play. When the Aion servers are shut down, the ability to play the game for which I paid for is taken away, as supposedly playing on private servers is a breach of the EULA. (It’s also a little weird that flooded tiles appear as pillaged and in flames until they become completely submerged, which doesn’t quite match up with what’s happening.) Of course, like a lot of things in Civilization, it’s a little odd and anachronistic to be playing as a tribal nation with club-wielding warriors and yet have precise awareness of which tiles will almost inevitably flood a few thousand years later. Again, this isn’t something that will happen suddenly and take you off guard in an unfair way, because at the very start of a game you can see the which tiles will flood in which order and there’s a new climate info screen that clearly breaks down exactly what’s happening. ![]() But the real game-changing element – and something entirely new to Civilization as a series – is that as temperatures rise, your world’s ice caps start melting and sea levels rise, causing entire coastal tiles to go the way of Atlantis. The new Climate Change system is related to disasters in that it uses an increase in storms and floods as part of its major consequences for burning too much coal and oil to power your cities’ factories, forcing you to weigh the short-term benefit of maximizing productivity against the long-term cost. ![]() But if you don’t care for that element of randomness in your 4X strategy, disasters can be turned off (or cranked up) using a slider on the game configuration screen. I love having disasters in play, because not only do they add to gameplay variety but they bring an important element of the real world to Civ VI that’s been conspicuously missing all this time. On top of that, mid-game technologies allow you to mitigate floods with dams, giving you fertility benefits with none of the damaging drawbacks. And even when disasters do strike and leave a swath of your land’s improvements in ruins, the residual effect is increased fertility, which can help you recover quickly even if some of your population is wiped out. Floods and volcanic eruptions only take place on riverbanks and next to giant volcanos, obviously, so you know what you’re getting into when you build a city there. At the same time, they’re significant enough events that areas of the map that would’ve been previously effectively locked down and on autopilot can now spontaneously become problems that require thinking about solutions for again. These are a great, never-before-seen (unless you count Civ IV’s random events) addition that, with the exception of generally less-destructive storms and droughts, are telegraphed clearly enough that they rarely feel like they’re coming out of left field to go full Pompeii on you. “Gathering Storm’s titular feature, though, is its natural disasters. It was a refreshingly distinctive set of priorities. ![]() However, they get major production bonuses to unimproved forests and rainforests, and to fishing boats, which can make their developed territory look very different from any other civilization’s. The Maori are also incapable of permanently harvesting resources and can’t recruit great writers, which are significant limitations. Mansa Musa of Mali is up a similar creek if he has no desert tiles in cities from which to send his traders for extra gold, and Pachacuti of the Inca without mountain tiles to mine for production is like a fish out of water.For my first full game, I played (on King difficulty) as Kupe of the Maori, who starts on the ocean with sailing technology unlocked – which is great except that you have to spend a few turns looking for dry land, which can set you behind the pack. A couple are probably a little too specialized to be practical unless you’re playing a very specific scenario: Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier, for instance, is great if you happen to start at the north or south of the map, but his ability to build farms on tundra means he’s out of his element in the tropics. 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It returns with a team time trial in Verona, travels south to Lago Laceno in Campania and north through several cities, such as Assisi. The Giro this year, May 5 to 27, starts in Herning, Denmark, for three days. Stage 13 of 2011 Giro d’Italia started in Spilimbergo.Īlmost making it sound like a ham sandwich, Zomegnan says, “You select your important starting and ending points, and put the Giro d’Italia in the middle.” The mountain stages tend to come towards the tail-end, and especially on the weekends, to take advantage of their beauty and difficulty. “There’s no space for triviality” and so even sprint stages will have a twist. He says it is in between those points – cities and villages – you are able to “draw lines” to create stages. “Every Giro has to have a concept,” Zomegnan explains, “and around that concept you can build fixed points.” Zomegnan basically restored the Giro back to its post-war glory, when Vincenzo Torriani designed and directed the Giro. In his time, he brought Lance Armstrong to race, big-money sponsor contracts and cleaned up after predecessor Carmine Castellano. He wrote for La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper before becoming the director of its great three-week race. Zomegnan, with his grey-hair and roundish figure, is from northern Italy’s Lombardia region, which helps explain his gruff and no-nonsense attitude. “It is like creating art for someone who may not even be an artist.” Angelo Zomegnan (left) during the press conference last year announcing the start in Denmark. “As a boy, I was drawn in to the way they linked all the cities, the mountains, the flats and the descents,” says former race director, Angelo Zomegnan. The party stays the same year after year, but ingredients change. The Giro d’Italia has the looks it’s been attracting teams and their cyclists for one hundred years, from Felice Gimondi to Alberto Contador, from Mario Cipollini to Cadel Evans. 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These headlights do not require any bulbs, as they have full LED units in-built for a brighter, sharper. It does happen where both driving lights will go out. 5R style Headlights for the Halogen Headlight MK7 Golf. When I engage the parking break and off then the driving LEDs will start again but 30sec - 1min later either the same side or the other side is out. The remaining on side will continue to flicker a little like its continuing to do a systems check. Like some of the newest Audi models, these headlights feature sequential indicators. These dual projector headlight assemblies from ZiZa are designed to replicate that look and apply it to MK6 models. When I start the car, it runs through the systems check fine, and then 30sec - 1min after running one of the driving lights will go out (can be either or, not just one side). One thing that makes the MK7 Golf R such a great looking car are the unique headlights featuring the dual U-shaped LED daytime running lights. 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