1/2 kg Labahita, filleted and cut into 1-1/2” x 1-1/2” cubes
3/4 tbsp calamansi juice
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 pc small onion, chopped
150 g potatoes, cut into cubes
100 g carrot, cut into cubes
1 pouch (115 g) DEL MONTE Original Style Tomato Sauce
1/4 cup cooked/frozen green peas
1 pc small red bell pepper, cut into strips
Procedure:
1. Marinate Labahita in 1-1/3 tsp soy sauce, 1/8 tsp iodized fine salt (or 1/2 tbsp rock salt), calamansi juice and 1/4 tsp pepper for 30 minutes.
2. Fry until brown. Set aside.
3. SAUTÉ garlic and onion. Add potatoes, carrot, DEL MONTE Tomato Sauce and 1/4 cup water.
4. Simmer until vegetables are cooked. Add green peas, bell pepper and 1/3 tsp iodized fine salt or (1/3 tbsp iodized rock salt). Add fish.
5. Simmer for 3 minutes.
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The Umbrella Corporation is a fictional bioengineering pharmaceutical company in the Resident Evil universe. It is portrayed in the games as a major international player in a number of markets including pharmaceuticals, medical hardware, defense, and computers along with more clandestine operations utilizing genetic engineering and accused viral weaponry. The company is also presented as having a more public face, producing cosmetics, consumer products and foods.
One of Umbrella's subsidiaries is a private military contractor with a highly-trained security force capable of rescue, reconnaissance, and paramilitary operations. The corporation uses the force to secure and protect its assets and high profile employees.
The back story of the Umbrella Corporation gives it as founded in 1968 by Lord Ozwell E. Spencer, Sir Edward Ashford and Dr. James Marcus at the corporation's Raccoon City facilities while Spencer maintained control over the company for the next thirty years. Soon Umbrella had multiple research facilities and various research being done on various viruses - G-virus, T-virus, Nemesis parasite, etc. - but it was the Arklay Research Facility that became the most prominent together with nearby Arklayonnel and also contained a cutting-edge laboratory installation. However, it was noted by researcher Albert Wesker that the military potential of the T-virus would never make up for the cost of research and production, and that the Arklay facility seemed to be deliberately placed in an area where any leak would cause an uncontrollable outbreak.
Spencer eventually grew distrustful of Marcus, as he was worried that the scientist, who had recently started to make a comeback with his research project, might endanger his position as the Umbrella Corporation's key figure. Spencer arranged for his assassination by Wesker and William Birkin in 1988. Birkin took over Marcus' research soon after and was credited as the inventor of the T-virus.
Umbrella's fortunes failed to improve after the Raccoon City incident. The US government was forced to take extreme measures to ensure the spread of the T-virus was stopped. "Mission: Code XX" was approved, and Raccoon City was annihilated by a nuclear missile strike (or by multiple high explosive ballistic missiles or by aerial bombing, depending upon which game ending is viewed). Despite the apparent disastrous effects this would bring for Umbrella, Spencer used his immense wealth and assets in an attempt to cover up the catastrophe as the result of a government conspiracy. Because most of the evidence of Umbrella's involvement had been destroyed by the strike, Umbrella managed to drag out the legal proceedings.
Shortly after the Raccoon City incident, the US government began a formal investigation of Umbrella's business practices. Several further disasters virtually ensured Umbrella's eventual collapse: On Sheena Island, an Umbrella senior executive, Vincent Goldman, unleashed the T-virus on its citizens in a bid to cover up his business on the island that had not been accepted by Umbrella's executive board and emerge as the sole survivor of the incident, bringing vital research data regarding the new Tyrant project—Hypnos T-Type—with him. However, an undercover investigator Ark Thompson, operating on behalf of Leon S. Kennedy, a survivor of the Raccoon City incident, succeeded in stopping Goldman's plans, resulting in his death and the loss of data regarding the new Tyrant type. Thompson emerged as a survivor of the incident along with two local children.
Shortly afterwords, Claire Redfield, sister of STARS Alpha team member Chris Redfield and also a survivor of the Raccoon City incident, broke into Umbrella's Paris facilities in search of her brother. She was captured and sent to Umbrella's facility on Rockfort Island. While there, she witnessed Wesker attack the island in search of the T-Veronica virus, another derivative of the T-virus. Escaping the island, she found herself trapped at the Antarctic Transport Terminal, another Umbrella Facility, where Edward Ashford's granddaughter, Alexia Ashford, awoke from a self-induced coma with a desire to establish a new world order. Alexia was eventually killed and the Facility destroyed by Chris and Claire Redfield.
In 2002, Morpheus D. Duvall, a former Umbrella researcher who Umbrella officially blamed for the incident at the Arklay Laboratory, stole vials of T-virus from Umbrella's Paris facility, then hijacked the Umbrella-owned cruise ship, Spencer Rain, upon which Umbrella had been trying to sell some of its latest BOWs to the highest bidder in a last ditch attempt to obtain financial resources for the company's continued survival. All passengers and crew on the ship were infected with the T-virus, and Morpheus also stole a sample of Umbrella's most powerful virus, the tG-virus, a blend of the T and G viruses. Morpheus planned to launch missiles containing the T-virus at American and Chinese cities unless the governments of both countries paid him excessive amounts of money. Due to the intervention of Anti-Umbrella agent Bruce McGivern, Morpheus was stopped and Umbrella lost the Spencer Rain and all research data and BOW specimens on it, as well as the remains of their waste disposal facility and secret underwater research laboratory on an unnamed island in the Atlantic Ocean.
Due to the series of disasters plaguing the company, and the ongoing legal proceedings against them, Umbrella's stock prices plummeted. By the early 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation's ruin was nearly absolute. Umbrella retained one last major stronghold located in southern Russia. Following Spencer's disappearance, this facility was placed under the leadership of Sergei Vladimir, and now housed the UMF-013, a supercomputer containing all of the company's data.
In 2003, Umbrella's stronghold came under attack by special forces troops led by Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, along with an unrelated attack by Albert Wesker. While the special forces secured the facility and destroyed the T-ALOS project, Wesker infiltrated the facility and assassinated Vladimir, stealing all the data from the UMF-013. Wesker then turned incriminating data over to the prosecutors working against Umbrella, and testified, under the guise as a friend of Ozwell. Five years after Raccoon City's destruction, Umbrella was finally found guilty on all charges of its involvement in that massacre and an international manhunt by the FBI and the FSB had started to bring Spencer to justice.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, known in Japan as Biohazard: Operation Raccoon City (バイオハザード オペレーション・ラクーンシティ Baiohazādo Operēshon Rakūn Shiti is a third-person shooter video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, co-developed by Slant Six Games and Capcom. It was released on March 20, 2012 in North America, March 22, 2012 in Australia, March 23, 2012 in Europe and April 26, 2012 in Japan.
It is part of the Resident Evil series, being set around the same time as Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and featuring the characters from these two games, though it is a non-canon hypothetical scenario. The game follows a group of elite paramilitary mercenaries for the Umbrella Corporation during the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City.
The game was met with a mixed and often negative critical reception, but became a commercial success nevertheless, selling more than 2 million units.
Umbrella Security Service (USS) Delta team enters the Raccoon City Underground Laboratory, where they meet up with Alpha team leader HUNK. Their mission is to assist Alpha team in stopping Dr. William Birkin from handing over his T-virus research to the U.S. military and retrieve the G-virus. On their way to Birkin's lab, they find Birkin has paid numerous Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service (UBCS) mercenaries to work for him while the deal goes forward. When they reach Birkin's lab, the doctor is shot, and HUNK and another Alpha leave with the samples. They soon find that Birkin survived the attack and infected himself with the virus. The Birkin creature proceeds to kill off most of Alpha team before disappearing; HUNK offers to go back in search of the sample.
Not long after the battle, it becomes evident that the T-virus has leaked city-wide, and people are beginning to transform into flesh-hungry zombies. In what they see as a punishment by USS command, Delta team is ordered to remove evidence of Umbrella's role in the outbreak. Heading into Raccoon City Hall, Delta team meets with a UBCS mercenary and their monitor Nicholai Ginovaef; he is soon revealed as a traitor and attempts to kill Delta team.
Later, the team is sent out around Raccoon Park to find the Nemesis-T Type, which has gone rogue. A second parasite is injected into its body in order to bring it back under control. Shortly after this mission is completed, the team is then sent out to the Raccoon City Police Department, ordered to kill any surviving police officers and destroy evidence linking the company to the outbreak. When this is done, the team exits the station, and soon after encounter Leon S. Kennedy, whom they begin to hunt down along with Sherry Birkin. After they find and corner Leon, Claire Redfield and Sherry, the game can end in two ways: in one ending, the two surviving members of the team resign from Umbrella over their abandonment during the mission and betray them by letting the three live; in the other, Leon and Claire are executed and Sherry is sent to an Umbrella facility.
There are 12 playable characters in the game, with six characters for each side. On the Umbrella Security Service team there is: Vector (Andrew Kishino), the team's recon expert and is equipped with a cloaking ability; Beltway (Ramon Fernandez), who is proficient in the use of explosives; Bertha (Lydia Look), the medic; Spectre (David Cooley), the marksman; Four Eyes (Gwendoline Yeo), the scientist, with the ability to program the bio-organic weapons (BOWs); and Lupo (Nika Futterman), who is the team leader. On the United States Special Ops team, Willow (Rebecca Riedy) is the recon expert; Dee-Ay (Robin Atkin Downes) is the team leader; Tweed (Tess Masters) is the demolitions expert; Harley (Gregg Berger) is the medic; Shona (Imari Williams) is the field scientist; and Party Girl (Catherine Taber) is the sniper.
Alongside the single player mode, the game also offers four-player co-operative Raccoon Mode, which pits the USS against the U.S. Special Ops teams.
The zombies in the game are able to attack the player in a multitude of ways. A zombie mutant that gets too close to the player will usually attempt to grapple the player, prompting the player to rapidly shake his/her analogue stick to avoid getting bitten. Players who are unsuccessful in doing this will be infected for a limited amount of time. Whilst they are infected they gain small bonuses at the expense of a slowly depleting health bar. If a player is successfully bitten and later runs out of time after becoming infected, the player will lose control of their character and begin attacking their former teammates until killed, allowing the player to respawn. There are additional enemy types in the game besides zombies, such as Lickers, Hunters, and Cerberuses. Furthermore, the players are able to control them under certain circumstances.
Heroes Mode is an online multiplayer feature allowing to play characters such as Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliviera, plus Ada Wong, HUNK, Nicholai Ginovaef, and a new character, Lone Wolf. Xbox 360-exclusive Nemesis Mode allows one player to control Nemesis and use him to kill the other team.
There are films that stumble and fall, only to rise up and erase any memory of its own blunders. There are also flicks that stumble, fall and ultimately sink into an inescapable pit of fecal matter, no saving grace to be found. Killer Holiday, unfortunately fits into the latter category. Nearly every cliché mistake an indie production can make, is made by this crew. The story is seriously implausible; the characters are horribly offensive and not in the least bit likeable; synergy and cohesion between the crew is totally and completely absent; suspense is outright discarded; not a single participant performs as would be expected from a competent thespian; it’s highly predictable; and the editing feels so amateur it’s embarrassing. Imagine someone without the beginning of the know-how required to assemble a stellar picture, and then imagine that individual attempting to rip off Quentin Tarantino’s visual style. Sound stomach turning? It is.
The fact that Marty Thomas, who’s been involved in film to one extent or another for ages, made this piece, is utterly unbelievable. It’s as though the man fell asleep at the wheel... or opted to make an intentional joke of celluloid. Either way, it isn’t exactly appealing... hell it isn’t close to appealing. It’s abysmal, a black eye on the indie branch of the genre tree. And it shouldn’t have been.
The story pits a psychopathic serial killer against a group of 20-somethings who hit the road for a little spring break insanity. This group never reach their destination, however, as they find themselves drawn to an abandoned carnival/amusement park. It’s here, where the dark ride waits and the creepy hand-crafted creatures reach for human flesh, that a slaughter ensues. A slaughter that should move us – the viewer – in some way, but doesn’t, because it’s bland, boring, and we already hate every single character in the film. Sadly, the villain himself is even an abomination, so we can’t even cheer for the crazed killer.
Killer Holiday never seems to understand itself, which prevents it from ever moving forward in a positive direction. The story is extremely convoluted, and both Thomas and co-writer Jon Zuber attempt to inject as much lunacy as possible, and I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that’s because they couldn’t handle their own story. They couldn’t keep the ball rolling in a straight line, so they look to create the wickedest curve ball known to man. There are multiple layers here, but they’re out of order, jumbled, underdeveloped and often quite vague.
The quality story that could have been told here was swallowed up and devoured by swarm of smoke and mirrors. Sometimes overdressing a product can effectively work to fool viewers. This isn’t one of those times. This story is just cringe worthy.
But the truth of the matter is, Killer Holiday could have delivered some good fun, despite the shitty screenplay. It could have been a self-aware production that knows it isn’t worth attempting to sell with a serious disclaimer. In fact, if you’re looking for a somewhat analogous picture (this one actually rips off quite a few flicks, including the most obvious Saw thievery shot I’ve ever seen) that recognizes its general feebleness and embraces it rather than attempting to mask it, check out Dark Ride. It’s basically Killer Holiday with a far more believable cast, far fewer pointless twists, a menace that actually frightens and a couple characters you can actually get behind. It’s goofy as all hell, but it’s supposed to be goofy, because the concept itself is just a bit too silly to pretend otherwise. And it gets it. Dark Ride fully recognizes its limitations. Killer Holiday doesn’t. It’s an obnoxious, almost pretentious failure of a film that’s more likely to leave consumers angered by wasted dollars than pleased by brainless fun.
Do yourself a serious favor and stay at home, relax... most importantly: skip Killer Holiday!
Currently Resides: Los Angeles, CA Banner: The 411 on Rachel Lara
Lead at The Madness Movie, Lead Actress at "Killer Holiday" THE MOVIE and Co-host at Craveonline.com
Past: Mahalo.com and Umbrella Corporation
Hobbies/Interests:
Gaming (mainly PC and PS3), Literature, Writing, Hanging with Friends, Deep Intellectual Conversations, Travel, Art (mainly sketching), Photography, Colors, Shiny Objects, Ball of Tin Foil, Music, Sport Bikes, Physics, Metaphysics, Technologiezz, Gadgets & Gizmos, Clicks & Keystrokes, PC Building, Natural Disasters, Creature Comforts, Movies, Television.... let's be honest. I came for da beer and da bitches.
Favorite Quotes:
"Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye..." "Measuring success by others' words creates anxiety. What you desire and what you fear are within yourself."
An Actress, Host, Public Relations, Content Director, and Professional Pro..... I am all these things but above all else....
I am a gamer
From the time I could hold a controller, gaming became my #1 obession. This was largely influenced by my big brother, Adam, whose love for this industry and willingness to introduce me into this fantastical world, inspired me to make gaming more than just a hobby...it inspired me to pursue a career in it.
Love for hosting and acting follows close behind and I have been extremely fortunate to be able to make a career out of the three things I am most passionate about.
A "Disclaimer" About Myself:
I dissect unleashed thought that has been served to me in a matter-of-fact manner. Spiritual and free, I do not agree with the popular anthropomorphic personalization of god though I do believe in God. Direct with clear intention, I aim straight to the point but am also amiable.
I will always listen to an ideology placed humbly on the table, for I truly enjoy and encourage developed thoughts from those willing to share their experience and knowledge.
My loyalty is not an aspect of my character in need of an explanation or defense, though it is an aspect of my character that greatly defines who I am. To put it plainly...
Food for Thought...
A question easily posed;
Do we really know who we are, or do we change by the moment? Does one stop to think, to experience...to live? I, myself, genuinely appreciate the beauty that surrounds us and the mysteries that lay hidden throughout this world.
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