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Dedicated hotkeys for email and scheduler also enable fast access to frequently used menus for enhanced speed and convenience.
2.8" TFT Capacitive Touch Display. Feel the difference of Bar Qwerty enhanced by touch.
The benefits of a 2.8" TFT capacitive touch display on a bar qwerty device can be experienced firsthand expecially when editing emails or documents - bar qwerty allows for fast and accurate typing while touch display enables quick navigation within pages and item selection with the touch of a finger. You can also conveniently expand specific areas of a webpage or enlarge your photos by simply pinch zooming in and out using your fingers.
Portrait Texting Experience
When compared with the landscape screen display of other bar qwerty devices, LG-C660's enlarged 2.8" TFT portrait screen display allows you to read more lines of an email and view more contents of a webpage in a single view with less scrolling. It also enables fuller enjoyment of games without the manipulation of screen size ratio.
800MHz CPU.
Powerful performance that won't keep you waiting.
A faster CPU means faster web-browsing, application start-up, and offers powerful multi-media data processing with 33% faster CPU clock when compared to 600MHz CPU of other competitive brands.
Enhanced Connectivity.
Speed that keeps up with your life.
Enjoy faster web browsing and contents downloading and sharing with LG-C660's Wi-Fi™ 802.11 b/g/n, which is approximately 20% faster than a standard Wi-Fi™ 802.11b/g.
And with Bluetooth 3.0, you can now share large videos and your favorite music with friends and family, while consuming less battery.
1500mAH Battery.
Enjoy more with a longer lasting battery.
The largest battery in its class enables you to chat more, groove more, watch more, and web surf more without concern of battery run-out.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is an incredibly complex disease — both in terms of treatment, and society's view of it. While some even go so far as to claim it doesn't exist, there's still a huge amount of research going into the topic, including trying to pick apart what might trigger the disorder. And now, new research published by the Mayo Clinic seems to have spotted one possible cause for the disease.
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Building on new information on the effects of anesthetics on the brains of young mammals, the researchers studied medical records of thousands of children from the Rochester Epidemiology Project. Using information on more than 5,000 children born between January 1, 1976, and December 31, 1982, the researchers analyzed those diagnosed with ADHD and their surgical history.
What they discovered was that those who went under general anesthetic multiple times before the age of two saw a major uptick in the occurrence of ADHD. Once this is adjusted for all other conditions, it seems that going under multiple times puts children much more at risk for the disease. Children who didn't undergo anesthesia at that age had a 7.3% diagnosis rate, and having just one procedure under general caused a minor increase, to 10.7%. But those with two or more procedures under their belt had more than double the risk, 17.9% of them were diagnosed with ADHD.
Naturally, there are plenty of caveats. There's the eternal and obvious correlation/causation clause, but the researchers also point out that it's impossible to separate the effects of the anesthesia from the effects of the surgery itself. Maybe the very act of being operated on at that age is enough to raise the rate of the disease.
If this information proves correct, it might make for some tough choices for new parents — operate now and risk later problems, or delay as long as possible?


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A Tuesday night meeting answered questions from the area�s home school community regarding recently implemented school standards.
A Tuesday night meeting answered questions from the area�s home school community regarding recently implemented school standards.
The meeting, organized by Elizabeth Berg and a group of other parents and grandparents in Onslow County, included speakers from the North Carolina Education Alliance and the American Principles Project � neither of which are in favor of the adoption of Common Core � as well as a petition to pause the implementation of Common Core.
More than 100 people, mostly home school parents, gathered at First Freewill Baptist Church to hear the speakers and ask questions.
Among them was Cherie Martin of Jacksonville, who currently home schools her 5-year-old and her 7-year-old. She also has a 2-year-old.
Martin said she attended the meeting to get �an understanding of what Common Core is ... I want to know how it�ll affect home schoolers just to be informed.�
The Common Core State Standards state what students are expected to learn in math and English language arts, according to the Common Core website. Onslow County Schools has been working to implement the standards for four years.
According to Jane Robbins, senior fellow with the American Principles Project, it is not uncommon for parents to not know what Common Core is because �it was designed to be implemented quickly and quietly and under the radar.�
Several states, including North Carolina, took on the Common Core standards as a result of applying for the Race to the Top grant through the U.S. Department of Education, she said. North Carolina received $400 million through the grant program, according to her presentation.
However, Robbins said that the standards are not currently affecting the home school and private school communities.
Robbins told the audience that the standards are designed to ensure the children gain 21st century skills, not �academic knowledge.� She also said that data will be mined from the Common Core aligned tests in order to track children from Pre-K until they�re in the work force.
Lindalyn Kakadelis, director of the North Carolina Education Alliance, told those gathered at the meeting that now is the time to get their voices heard since there are six new members of the state board of education who did not approve the implementation.
�When you live in America, if you make enough noise you can get things done,� she said.
Kakadelis said that the boards of education in two North Carolina counties, including New Hanover, have asked for clarification on the standards. Kakadelis said she would like to see the standards removed from state statutes so �we can start working on the school board.�
In the meantime, she, Robbins and Rep. Chris Millis, R-Onslow, encouraged parents to contact their elected officials in order to make their opinion known.
�We�re in a marathon not a sprint,� Kakadelis said.
Jacksonville resident Mona Thompson said she attended to �get educated.� The former teacher said
the standards reminded her of standards seen in the past.
�It all seems reflective � different name, different control,� she said.
Martin said she would recommend parents attend presentations on Common Core in order to learn more about it.
�We�re all concerned about our kids� education; and if we�re all concerned we need to understand it, just to be good citizens,� she said.
Amanda Hickey is the government reporter at The Daily News. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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On the first day of 2013, the amount of taxes that top U.S. stock market investors will have to pay on the dividends they earn will increase. The only question at this point is by how much. Will taxes on dividends rise from 15% to 18.8% because of the ObamaCare tax on investment income that will take effect on that date or will dividend taxes rise from 15% to 43.4% thanks to the additional tax increase related to the 2003 Bush-era tax cuts that are currently set to expire after the last day of 2012?
That question matters today because, as expected, influential investors are pushing companies to boost their dividend payouts in December 2012 to beat the clock on the dividend tax increases that will take place in 2013.
Here, because about two-thirds of all the ordinary dividends that will be subject to the higher dividend taxes are earned by people with household incomes over $250,000, at least if you go by the IRS' tax return statistics for 2009 [ Excel spreadsheet], the most recent year for which data is available at this writing, and because these same people who will be most subject to the higher taxes are the ones who have the ability to affect the amount and timing of corporate dividend payments, all investors will be affected by their response to the tax increase. [We should note that this point will likely be lost on the more clueless commenters of Seeking Alpha.]
That brings up an interesting question. Where will the companies that act to boost their dividends in 2012 get the money to pay them?
Today, we can reveal that the companies acting to beat the clock on higher dividend taxes for their shareholders are pulling the money to pay them from the funds that they might otherwise have used to pay dividends in the first quarter of 2013:
In our chart, we observe that the expected dividends expected to be paid out in the first quarter of 2013 has declined sharply in the weeks following the 6 November 2012 re-election of President Barack Obama, which ensured that these dividend tax increases would take place. Meanwhile, we see that the level of dividends expected to be paid out in later quarters of 2013 are very little changed - it would seem that only the amount of dividends expected to be paid in 2013-Q1 have been affected in the weeks since higher dividend taxes in the U.S. became a sure thing.
The reason why has to do with the way companies actually accumulate the funds to pay their dividends, where they set aside money well in advance of the dates the payments will be recorded, or transferred to their shareholders. Here, the actual funds to pay out dividends in 2012 are being pulled from the funds that are already being reserved to pay dividends in the first quarter of 2013.
So it's not personal and it's not something that reflects a worsening outlook for the U.S.' economic performance in the first quarter of 2013. It's simply a transfer of income from the future to the present for the purpose of avoiding tomorrow's higher taxes. Exactly the sort of rational actions that we should expect such influential investors to pursue in this situation.
As we close, we should note that these actions related to higher dividend taxes in 2013 are far from over. While the incentives are such that the immediate focus will be for companies to make either higher or special dividend payments in these last weeks of 2012, the ongoing incentives for dividend taxes are such that dividends cuts will be favored in federal tax law. And right now, there's no imperative for companies to rush to announce those kinds of negative changes in their dividend policies until after the end of the year.
Consider this thought experiment. We've shown that companies today are raiding the funds they've set aside to pay dividends to their shareholders in the first quarter of 2013 for the sake of racing to beat the clock on the dividend cliff. Where might they then get the funds to cover the amount of dividends that they are expected to pay out in 2013-Q1 without negatively affecting either the investors or the economy? Will they raid the funds being set aside to pay out dividends in the second quarter of 2013 or might they cut back on their other business expenses? Will they do it all over again when it comes time to pay out dividends in the second quarter of 2013? And what about the third quarter? How long can raiding the future for sustaining the expected benefits of the present continue?
At a certain point, things that cannot continue will stop. In this scenario, cutting dividends to shareholders will be the easiest way for the endless raids on the future to stop. When that happens, a lot of not-so-influential investors who rely on dividend income for things like their retirement or pension income can expect to find themselves worse off as a result of the federal government's actions to increase its taxes on dividends for the highest income earners.
And that's how those with incomes of less than $250,000 per year will share in the price of paying higher dividend taxes. Just because they don't write big checks to the I.R.S. doesn't mean they won't feel the pinch in their pocketbooks....
Major Dividend Event Timeline
- 19 March 2012: CNN Money: Apple announces dividend and stock buyback
- 25 April 2012: Bloomberg: Exxon Becomes World's Largest Dividend Payer with 21% Increase
- 24 October 2012: Investors Become Nearsighted
- 25 October 2012: Political Calculations: The Dividend Cliff
- 7 November 2012: Political Calculations: Eroding Dividends and Failing QE
- 9 November 2012: InvestorPlace: 26 Companies Increasing Dividends
- 19 November 2012: NY Times: Early Dividend for Wal-Mart Is Latest Move in Tax Tactics
- 19 November 2012: Bloomberg Businessweek: Special Dividends Surge Fourfold as U.S. Tax Increase Looms
- 20 November 2012: Fox Business: December's Dividend Bonanza
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Red-White Web 2.0 - The buttons are nice. The search bar looks like a candy bar. The color combination is good. A template true to its name.
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Listen to Arnulfo Velasquez on Arizona Spotlight:
Arnulfo Velasquez, math teacher at Roskruge Billingual Magnet Middle School, has been in the field for about 50 years. He's taught mostly in bilingual classrooms.
He said when students don't know how to speak English well, and they are in the process of improving their English skills, difficult tests, such as AIMS, such tests become more language focused. They may be good at math and other topics, but the language barrier is a thick wall standing in their way.
"We need to make sure we have the tools to correctly assess our students, and know exactly their level of mathematical understanding, otherwise we'll continue failing on educating many of these language learning students in our classrooms," he said.
Most of his students, if not all, are bilingual -English and Spanish speakers, Velasquez said.
"So, to serve those student, and to make our math education an enriched experience for them, we have to use both languages and alternate them during the week or (even) during the day," he said. "The needs of those students are different than those who have only one language (as a tool)."
Velasquez also uses music and songs to help students with their mathematical skills.
"(For instance), I've had a positive experience using songs for students to remember the order of operations," he said.
American Graduate segments were produced in corporation with Tucson Values Teachers.


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What are Promoted Tweets?
Promoted Tweets | Promoted Trends | Promoted Accounts | Political Ads
What are Promoted Tweets?
- Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets purchased by advertisers who want to reach a wider group of users or to spark engagement from their existing followers.
- Promoted Tweets are clearly labeled as Promoted when an advertiser is paying for their placement on Twitter. In every other respect, Promoted Tweets act just like regular Tweets and can be retweeted, replied to, favorited and more.
When should I use Promoted Tweets?
Promoted Tweets are regular Tweets with the added bonus that they can reach more people who are interested in your business. They should be used to place your best content in front of the audience that matters to you at the right time.
If your goal is to drive a particular action via Twitter, Promoted Tweets are a great place to promote engaging content that includes a call to action to users. Using Promoted Tweets you can:
- Drive website traffic by asking users to click on your best content
- Offer coupons and deals in the copy of your Tweets
- Drive leads using Lead Generation Cards
- Promote sales and giveaways
If your goal is to drive awareness for your business, Promoted Tweets can do this in a variety of ways:
- Expand the reach of your content like blog posts, white papers, and more
- Connect with influencers and brand advocates by ensuring they see your content
- Promote awareness around events and product launches
- Ask for retweets to gain an even broader audience for your messages
Where do users see Promoted Tweets?
- At the top of relevant search results pages on twitter.com. Promoted Tweets from our advertising partners are called out at the top of some search results pages on Twitter.com and through select ecosystem partners.
- In Search Results for a Promoted Trend. Users may also see a Promoted Tweet in the search results when they click on a Promoted Trend.
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Eva Hesse (American, Hamburg, Germany 1936 - 1970 New York)
Laocoön, 1966
Plastic tubing, rope, wire, papier-mâché, cloth, paint
Overall: 130 x 23 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (330.2 x 59 x 59 cm)
Each cube: 23 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (59 x 59 x 59 cm)
Fund for Contemporary Art, and gift from the artist and Fischbach Gallery, 1970
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In Laocoön, the regular structure of a stack of cubes is invaded by a tangle of falling, looping, slithering coils. The title of the work refers to the well-known Hellenistic sculpture of the Trojan priest Laocoön and his two sons, their bodies trapped in the grip of pythons sent by the gods.
Hesse began Laocoön in late 1965, near the end of an eighteen-month sojourn in Germany. It was during this period that Hesse first shifted her attention from drawing and painting to sculpture, and began to explore the sculptural problems that would find form in her mature works. Laocoön's juxtaposition of a geometric structure with dangling or piercing lines is already evident in the artist's small reliefs of 1964.1 Plaster, cord, and industrial tubing had been favorite materials since 1964, around the same time when Hesse discovered the repetitive procedures of wrapping and binding. These materials and processes appear in the plastered and clothbound armature and snakes of Laocoön2, and in many other sculptures throughout her career. It was also in 1965 that Hesse first visited the Vatican Museum in Rome and saw the Hellenistic sculpture Laocoön, which she would have already known from art history courses taken at Yale.
One of Hesse's rare freestanding sculptures,3 Laocoön took many months to complete. The sculptor Ray Donarski helped plan the construction of the plastic pipe armature. The pliant material permitted Hesse to cut and glue each module herself; she then covered the pipes with papier-mâché, and painted them grey. She made the "snakes"--her own term4--by wrapping wires first with cloth, and again with thinner wire before painting.5
In the
first version of Laocoön, the grey paint was broadly graded from light to dark in opposite directions on the coils and armature respectively. To achieve a greater sense of visual unity and textural consistency, Hesse soon reworked the entire piece, wrapping the armature in cloth as she had done with the snakes, and adding more papier-mâché to the armature so that its thickness was even throughout. She painted the entire work in a single tone of light grey paint and added many more coils.6
A preparatory drawing exists for the armature.7 Hesse executed three drawings of the sculpture after it was completed: a brief small sketch on the back cover of her diary, among similar sketches of major works completed between September 1965 and March 1966; a miniscule thumbnail sketch in a slightly later diary;8 and a wash drawing in which the armature has seven modules rather than six.9
Laocoön belongs to a moment in which the precepts of Minimalism were being challenged, rejected, or radically extended by a number of young sculptors. Laocoön's armature is based on the Minimalist principle of the repeated module or grid; a set of stacked cubes, the structure also refers to the cube permutations of the conceptual artist So LeWittl, a close friend of Hesse. The rationale of the armature, however, is buried under a chaotic accumulation of tangled lines, and in lieu of the hard geometry and apparent finitude of the Minimalist object, Laocoön insists on the physical contingency of sculpture. Labor and materiality, the forces of gravity and entropy, and the viewer's bodily claims on the work of sculpture are blatant in Laocoön's forms, textures, and structural relationships. Like several other important works completed by Hesse in 1966,10 Laocoön is an early example of these new, so-called post-minimalist tendencies in sculpture, which can also be seen in AMAM works by Robert Morris, Alan Saret, Robert Smithson, and Jackie Winsor.11
The Oberlin work was not exhibited publicly in Hesse's lifetime, but it would have been seen by the many artists and writers who were interested in her work, including Smithson, LeWitt, Mel Bochner, Morris, Klaus Kertess, and Lucy Lippard. In the summer of 1966, Lippard suggested that Hesse show Laocoön in the Eccentric Abstraction exhibition organized by Lippard at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, in September, but Hesse decided that the exposed hardware of the gallery ceiling would interfere with the work.
A. Kurlander
Work reproduced with permission of Robert Miller, New York
Eva Hesse was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1936 to Jewish parents. The family fled to Holland in 1938 and to New York in 1939.
Hesse studied at the Art Students League, then at Cooper Union and Yale University, where she received her B.A. in 1959. Her many (abstract) drawings of around 1960-64 show her working with "the shapes...with which she had always been obsessed--irregular rectangles, parabolas, trailing linear ends, curving forms and circles bound or bulged out of symmetry."12
Her first sculptures date from 1964, during an eighteen-month stay in Germany with her husband, the sculptor Tom Doyle. Her first solo show of three-dimensional work, held at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, in 1964, consisted of thirty-six drawings and fourteen reliefs made of plaster and cord, either tightly bound or loosely hanging. On her return to New York in 1965, she began to focus and clarify her forms and to work on a large scale. That year was her first period of great productivity and achievement; her earliest significant sculptures--Laocoon, Metronomic Irregularity, Ennead, and Hang-Up--were completed during 1965-66, and her work appeared in the important group exhibitions, Abstract Inflationism and Stuffed Expressionism(Graham Gallery, New York, May 1966), and Eccentric Abstraction (Fischbach Gallery, New York, October 1966). Both exhibitions were organized by Lucy Lippard, Hesse's early supporter and most astute critic.
From 1968 onwards she worked frequently in fiberglass, producing some of her most daring attenuations of sculptural "structure," as in the hanging, tangled fiberglass of Right After (1969, Milwaukee Art Museum). She was included in Robert Morris's Nine in a Warehouse exhibition, held at the Castelli warehouse in 1969 (as was Alan Saret and Richard Serra), and the important When Attitudes Become Form traveling exhibition of the same year.
Hesse became ill with cancer in the late 1960s, and died in 1970 at the age of thirty-four. She kept a diary since her childhood, the contents of which have inspired many accounts of possible parallels between her often traumatic life and her sculpture. Her work is closely associated with Minimalism, and is now regarded as a critical factor in the varied recastings of that movement throughout the later 1960s and early '70s.
General References
Eva Hesse: A Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1972.
Lippard, Lucy R. Eva Hesse. New York, 1976.
Cooper, Helen A., et al. Eva Hesse: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1992.
With Fischbach Gallery, New York
Gift/purchase from Fischbach Gallery and Eva Hesse in 1970
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1972-73. Eva Hesse: A Memorial Exhibition. 7 December - 11 February (also shown at Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery). Cat. no. 11.
Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 1980. From Reinhardt to Christo: Works Acquired through the Benefaction of the Late Ruth C. Roush. 20 February - 19 March. Cat. no. 25.
Smithson, Robert. "Quasi-Infinites and the Waning Space." Arts Magazine 41, no. 1 (November 1966), pp. 30-31. Reprinted in The Writings of Robert Smithson. Edited by Nancy Holt. New York, 1979, pp. 34-35.
Lippard, Lucy R. "Eva Hesse: The Circle." Art in America 59, no. 3 (May-June 1971), p. 68. Reprinted in The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry and Gesture. Edited by Richard Armstrong and Richard Marshall. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1990, p. 232.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. "Post-Minimalism into Sublime." Artforum 10, no. 3 (November 1971), pp. 35-40. (A revised version of this essay was published as "Eva Hesse: More Light on the Transition from Post-Minimalism to the Sublime," in Eva Hesse: A Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1972, unpaginated, cited below.)
Shearer, Linda. "Eva Hesse: Last Works." In Eva Hesse: A Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1972, unpaginated.
Levin, Kim. "Eva Hesse: Notes on New Beginnings." Art News 72, no. 2 (February 1973), p. 71.
Lippard, Lucy R. Eva Hesse. New York, 1976, pp. 9, 32, 58-59, 62, 70, 84-85, 149, 187.
Johnson, Ellen H. "American Art of the Twentieth Century." Apollo 103, no. 168 (February 1976), p. 131.
Olander, William. In From Reinhardt to Christo: Works Acquired through the Benefaction of the Late Ruth C. Roush. Exh. cat., Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 1980, pp. 12, 16, cat. no. 12.
Johnson, Ellen H. "Order and Chaos: From the Diaries of Eva Hesse." Art in America 71, no. 6 (Summer 1983), pp. 111, 115.
Barrette, Bill. Eva Hesse Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1989, pp. 84-86, no. 31.
Prinz, Jessica. Art Discourse/Discourse in Art. New Brunswick, N.J., 1991, pp. 86-87, 89-90. Reprint and commentary on 1966 essay by Robert Smithson, cited above.
Cooper, Helen A., et al. Eva Hesse: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1992, pp. 37-38, 66, 92, 106-7.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "A New Retrospective Annoints Eva Hesse Empress of the Absurd." Elle 7, no. 8 (April 1992), p. 94.
Nemett, Barry. Images, Objects, and Ideas: Viewing the Visual Arts. Fort Worth, 1992, p. 133.
David, Catherine, and Corinne Diserens. Eva Hesse. Exh. cat., IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, 1993, pp. 10, 13, 36, 44, 170, 177, 179.
Krauss, Rosalind E. <U The Optical Unconscious >. Cambridge, Mass., 1993, p. 313.
Ziesche, Angela. Das Schwere und das Leichte (Kunstlerinnen des 20.Jahrhunderts. Cologne, 1995, pp. 63-65, ill. p. 64.
Technical Data
The armature is formed of six separate, stacked cubes made of hollow plastic tubing wrapped in cloth, covered with papier-mâché, and painted (probably with acrylic). The piece may be broken down into two parts for travel, as the top three units fit into the bottom three. The plastic tubing is open and accessible at the top.
The rope of hanging coils (or "snakes") has been wrapped with cloth and an iron alloy wire. The coils are removable and flexible; they have a tendency to settle and straighten as they reach the bottom of the armature, which accounts for the varied appearance of the coils in different photographs of the work.
Minor paint losses on the armature reveal the brown paper of the papier-mâché. Several hairline cracks are visible in the paper, particularly in the horizontal cross-members; the cracks appear to be stable. Minor staining, the result of dust accumulation, is evident throughout the work.
1. Bill Barrette, Eva Hesse Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1989), pp. 20-46, nos. 1-14.
2. See, for example, Seven Poles (1970, reinforced fiberglass over polyethylene over aluminum wire, Paris, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou); reproduced in Bill Barrette, Eva Hesse Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1989), p. 238, no. 103.
3. Hesse's first freestanding work was Untitled (Spoke Piece), September 1965; Bill Barrette, Eva Hesse Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1989), p. 50, no. 15. Hesse had the work destroyed shortly before she died.
4. Helen A. Cooper et al., Eva Hesse: A Retrospective (exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1992), p. 38.
5. Helen A. Cooper et al., Eva Hesse: A Retrospective(exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1992), p. 84.
6. Lucy R. Lippard, Eva Hesse (New York, 1976), p. 58.
7. Study for "Laocoön," 1965-66, pen and ink with graphite, 43.2 x 21.6 cm (AMAM inv. 77.52.1).
8. The two ink thumbnail sketches are in: "Notebook: Eva Hesse-Doyle, March 26, 1965," AMAM inv. 77.52.27; and "Eva Hesse-Doyle, Summer 1966, June," AMAM inv. 77.52.31.
9. 61.6 x 38.1 cm, AMAM inv. 77.52.2.
10. Ennead, 1966, dyed string and painted papier-mâché, private collection; Metronomic Irregularity, 1966, painted wood, sculp-metal, and cotten-covered wire, estate of Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt, New York; and the immensely successful Hang-Up, January 1966, acrylic on cloth, wood, and steel, The Art Institute of Chicago. Reproduced in Bill Barrette, Eva Hesse Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1989), nos. 32, 37, and 22, respectively.
11. Laocoön is discussed in Robert Smithson's essay, "Quasi-Infinites and the Waning Space," Arts Magazine 41, no. 1 (November 1966), pp. 30-31; reprinted in The Writings of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt (New York, 1979), pp. 34-35.
12. Lucy Lippard, "Eva Hesse: The Circle," Art in America 59, no. 3 (May-June 1971), p. 68.


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Roger Ailes doesn't think homosexuals are out to get him. He frequently jokes about his weight. He doesn't believe Rupert Murdoch calls him "cuckoo," but brags that his boss does call him "paranoid" — and he's wealthier for it. If Fox News headquarters is under attack, Ailes plans to stay behind, with a monitor to watch others scurrying out of the building.
If you've been wondering what's on the mind of Roger Ailes, now you know. The chairman and CEO of Fox News gave us a statement — remarkable in its detail and vitriol — quarreling with the portrayal of him in Jonathan Alter's new book about the 2012 campaign, "The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies." Ailes is billed as one of those enemies, with cameos through the book (one index entry: "Ailes, Roger, paranoia of"). Many of the allegations are rehashed from a 2011 Rolling Stone piece by Tim Dickinson, but Ailes took aim at Alter.
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"Jonathan Alter got 3 out of 13 items within a range of being at least partially correct," Ailes wrote in an email to us. "The rest are patently, provably false and Alter either needs to check into a first year journalism program at Columbia or a rage counseling center immediately."
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Ailes: "He says I tried to bombproof the office by ordering bombproof glass because I thought that homosexuals might shoot at me. First of all, Alter must be homophobic to even think like that. If a bomb goes off the whole damn building goes down, it doesn't matter what glass you have. It's a stupid accusation. I came into this office 17 years ago, the same windows exist and the blinds are frequently open."


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Obama Names Deputy Defense Secretary, Top Pentagon Officials
By Philip Rucker
President-elect Barack Obama officially named William J. Lynn III as deputy secretary of defense today and also announced several other top Pentagon officials who will work under Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Lynn served as under secretary of defense and comptroller in the Clinton Administration, where he was the Pentagon's chief financial officer, and currently serves as a senior vice president at Raytheon Company.
Obama also tapped Robert F. Hale, currently executive director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers and a former assistant secretary of the Air Force, for the comptroller position. Michèle Flournoy, co-founder and president of the Center for a New American Strategy and a key official in Obama's transition, will become under secretary of defense for policy. Meanwhile, Jeh Charles Johnson, a partner in the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison law firm, will become general counsel at the Pentagon.
"I am confident that these distinguished individuals have the expertise and commitment needed to help me implement a sustainable national security strategy that combats 21st century threats and keeps the American people safe," Obama said in a statement. "They share with me the utmost respect for our brave men and women in uniform, and will work day and night to support our troops, strengthen our military, and advance our capacity to carry out 21st century missions."
He continued: "Together with Secretary Gates and our military, we will work to responsibly end the war in Iraq, defeat al Qaeda and the Taliban, and renew America's strength and standing in the world. I am honored that they have joined me in this mission, and I trust that they will serve the American people well."
Below are the full biographies of the nominees, as provided by the Obama transition office:
William J. Lynn III, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Lynn brings decades of experience and expertise in reforming government spending and making the tough choices necessary to ensure that American tax dollars are spent wisely. Lynn served as the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) from 1997 to 2001. In that position, he was the chief financial officer for the Department of Defense and the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for all budgetary and fiscal matters. From 1993 to 1997, Lynn was the director of program analysis and evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he oversaw all aspects of the DoD's strategic planning process. Lynn was awarded three DoD medals for distinguished public service, the Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and awards from the Army, Navy and Air Force. He also received the 2000 Distinguished Federal Leadership Award from the Association of Government Accountants for his efforts to improve defense accounting practices. Lynn currently serves as senior vice president of Government Operations and Strategy at Raytheon Company. Before entering the DoD in 1993, Lynn served for six years on the staff of Senator Edward Kennedy as liaison to the Senate Armed Services Committee. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the National Defense University, on the professional staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses and served as the executive director of the Defense Organization Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Lynn has a law degree from Cornell Law School and a Master's in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is married with a daughter.
Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
Hale currently serves as the Executive Director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers (ASMC). From 1994 to 2001 Mr. Hale was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller). He was responsible for the Air Force budget and all aspects of Air Force financial management. He also spearheaded creation of the first-ever certification program for defense financial managers. Hale served for twelve years as head of the defense unit of the Congressional Budget Office. Early in his career, Hale served on active duty as a Navy officer and worked for the Center for Naval Analyses. Robert Hale holds a BS with honors from Stanford University as well as an MS from Stanford and an MBA from George Washington University. He is also a Fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration. Mr. Hale has served on the Defense Business Board and recently completed service on a Congressionally-mandated Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care. He is a former National President of the American Society of Military Comptrollers and is a Certified Defense Financial Manager with acquisition specialty.
Michèle Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense (Policy)
In January 2007, Flournoy cofounded and was named president of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a venture dedicated to advancing a strong, centrist national security strategy. Prior to joining CNAS, she was a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she worked on a broad range of defense policy and international security issues. Previously, she was a distinguished research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (NDU), where she founded and led the university's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) working group, which was chartered by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop intellectual capital in preparation for the Department of Defense's 2001 QDR. Prior to joining NDU, she was dual-hatted as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and threat reduction and deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy. In that capacity, she oversaw three policy offices in the Office of the Secretary of Defense: Strategy; Requirements, Plans, and Counterproliferation; and Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs. Flournoy was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1996, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1998, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 2000. In addition to several edited volumes and reports, she has authored dozens of articles on international security issues. Flournoy holds a B.A. in social studies from Harvard University and an M.Litt. in international relations from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar.
Jeh Charles Johnson, General Counsel
Johnson is a partner in the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, based in New York City. Johnson's career has been a mixture of successful private law practice (as an experienced trial lawyer) and distinguished public service (as a federal prosecutor and presidential appointee). At age 47, he was elected a Fellow in the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers. Johnson's career as a trial lawyer began in 1989-91, as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted public corruption cases. He served three years as a federal prosecutor. In 1998, Johnson left Paul, Weiss for 27 months when President Clinton appointed him General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, following nomination and confirmation by the United States Senate. While in that position, Johnson was awarded the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service. In 2007-08, Johnson served as a foreign policy advisor to President-elect Obama's campaign. Johnson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a graduate of Morehouse College and Columbia Law School.
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So, once again we see Barack Hussein Obama
talking out of both sides of his big lying
mouth as to not appointing lobbyists to key
positions,when he just did so today in our
US Defense Department. How long will it still take all these American Idiot Obama
fawning,swooning,butt kissing kool aid drinking Obamabot Cult Members to wake up and stop worshiping their fake Messiah?
I bet both Barack Obama and Joe Biden end
up Impeached before 2012.
Posted by: sherrykay2008 | January 8, 2009 6:01 PM
Losercuda, you are correct. However, Obama hasn't talked about lobbyists in a while and I guess having one isn't that bad. But you are right he did say he wasn't bringing them into his administration.
Posted by: TheDiplomat | January 8, 2009 5:33 PM
Ok - Lets be serious.
For the last year, all we have heard is that Obama was going to "shake up" Washington and it was going to "change." Almost alway first on the list was that he wasn't going to accept lobbyists' money and wasn't going to bring them into his administration.
He just gave the 2nd-most important job in DoD to a super-lobbyist. It is almost comical that the fact Bill Lynn worked for Raytheon for almost 8 years merited one passing sentence in the press release. It is the longest job he has held in his career.
Don't get me wrong. He is smart, talented, and will do an excellent job.
But please leave all the "change" garbage back on the campaign. It is time to be straight with people and just say you're going to get the best people available.
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THURSDAY, March 12, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Living close to parks and other play areas may keep children more active and help combat the continued increase in childhood obesity, Canadian researchers report.
For every park found within a half-mile of home, a girl's likelihood of walking to school doubled and a boy's odds of taking part in leisure walking increased by 60 percent, according to the findings, scheduled to be presented at an American Heart Association conference in Palm Harbor, Fla.
"There was a strong association between walking and the number of nearby public open recreational spaces, including neighborhood parks, playgrounds and sports fields," the study's lead author, Tracie A. Barnett, a researcher at Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center and Université de Montréal in Canada, said in a news release issued by the Heart Association. "We were able to relate the proximity and number of parks to how often children aged 8 to 10 years walked."
The finding "is important because active transportation is a promising public health strategy for increasing overall physical activity, and for helping to curb the obesity epidemic," she said.
Data for the study came from 300 families and more than 600 children participating in a study of weight and cardiometabolic risk in kids. Children in the study were all considered at a high risk for obesity because at least one parent already was obese. The researchers said that the findings were consistent even when factoring in family income and average level of education in the neighborhood, a measure of economic advantage.
Childhood and adolescent obesity increased three-fold in the past two decades, a rapid climb that Barnett said is thought to be more environmental than biological.
"In the past few decades, we have become more sedentary due to the increased use of labor-saving devices, motorized transportation, television and computers," she said. "In addition, children are spending more time inside, yet we know that spending time outdoors is an important determinant of activity. In future urban improvements, consideration must be given to parks, outdoor recreational areas and walking or cycling infrastructure in order to increase active living. Equally important is that the parks and recreational areas are well maintained and are safe."
The researchers plan to continue following the participant families for the next decade, or until the children turn 18, to measure how environment affects their weight.
According to an American Heart Association statement issued in June, "walkable" neighborhoods -- featuring sidewalks and places for physical activity -- can make it easier for people to get daily exercise and can help fight the climbing obesity rates.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about childhood obesity.


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EDIT: Wow don't know why I would've thought that. I didn't think it would let me manually choose a binary. Shows how often I have a problem/rename a binary
EDIT AGAIN: Wow, that actually worked! Very interesting. Who would know that if the 1st_read.bin was too far into the file system that the Dreamcast would just stop looking for it? I guess that's a fix on record for selfbooting KOF 95.
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16 servings
Active Time:
30 minutes
Total Time:
3 1/2 hours (including cooling time)
You don't have to have pumpkin pie to still enjoy pumpkin and spice in a Thanksgiving dessert. This tender, moist cake uses pureed pumpkin to replace much of the fat and is delicately seasoned with classic Thanksgiving flavors.
1 cup all-purpose, flour
3/4 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, (not Dutch-process)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup nonfat buttermilk
1 15-ounce can unsweetened pumpkin puree
3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 large egg white, at room temperature
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup light corn syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Glaze & Garnish
1/2 cup packed confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon nonfat buttermilk
2 tablespoons mini chocolate chips, or toasted chopped nuts (see Tip)
To prepare cake: Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 12-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray.
Whisk all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, granulated sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice and salt in a medium bowl.
Blend 1 cup buttermilk, pumpkin puree and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed. Beat in whole egg and egg white. Stir in oil, corn syrup and vanilla. Gradually add the dry ingredients, stirring until just combined. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan.
Bake the cake until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out with only a few moist crumbs attached, 1 to 1 1/4 hours. Let cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove from the pan and let cool completely on the rack, about 2 hours.
To glaze & garnish cake: Combine confectioners' sugar and 1 tablespoon buttermilk in a small bowl, stirring until completely smooth. Place the cake on a serving plate and drizzle the glaze over the top; garnish with chocolate chips (or chopped nuts) while the glaze is still moist.
Tips & Notes
Make Ahead Tip: Prepare through Step 4 up to 1 day ahead. Glaze and garnish (Step 5) shortly before serving. Equipment: 12-cup Bundt pan
Tips: To warm an egg to room temperature, either set it out on the counter for 15 minutes or submerge it (in the shell) in a bowl of lukewarm (not hot) water for 5 minutes.
To toast chopped nuts & seeds: Cook in a small dry skillet over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until fragrant and lightly browned, 2 to 4 minutes.
Recipe by EatingWell.com
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I see your points Jesse, but you still haven't addressed the big question: What could possibly happen if those rebels escaped to tell someone? Let's just pretend that the crew escapes before being killed or sent off to prison. What can they do about it? They don't have the plans. You keep bringing up that the Empire wouldn't leave things to chance or risk, but what actual risk is there?
I think you're downplaying the potential for POWs as well. Destroying Yavin isn't going to take out all the Rebels - these guys could be useful in so many ways. Who did they get the info from? What spies might be in the Empire's ranks? Where were the rebels getting their funding? Who was supporting them? What other bases might they have? Who in the senate is loyal to the Rebellion? Heck, just getting a few rebel codes out of them could prove very useful. Further interrogation might yield some of those answers. If not, I still don't see any risk at all in keeping them alive, so why not try to make sleeper agents or slaves out of them?
Quote from: JediJman on May 17, 2012, 12:35 AMI see your points Jesse, but you still haven't addressed the big question: What could possibly happen if those rebels escaped to tell someone? Let's just pretend that the crew escapes before being killed or sent off to prison. What can they do about it? They don't have the plans. You keep bringing up that the Empire wouldn't leave things to chance or risk, but what actual risk is there? I've addressed that... They simply don't know what those Rebels do, or do not know....Again, forget taking the risk, however slight, and kill them. Problem solved for certain then.
That aside though, there's use, but this is a MASSIVE galaxy. I think you're not acknowledging the sheer scope of the Star Wars universe... The Tantive IV is one ship. A small one at that, with a fairly small crew. Whatever you might gain, does it outweigh what you could possibly lose by letting anyone with any sliver of access to the station's plans go?
If the Death Star fails, the Emperor will find that many worlds will rebel against him, and he lost his super weapon to keep things in line.
You really haven't addressed it. Maybe I'm not being clear enough in my question: I want to know a made up scenario where this Tantiv IV crew could make any kind of difference in the outcome. You're saying to kill them no matter what the risk and I'm saying the risk is so inconcievably small that it just doesn't matter.
You also argue that these guys are grunts that probably don't have any useful information. So your assumption is that they know enough about the Death Star to potentially cause it's downfall if they could get away, but they couldn't possibly have any useful knowledge about the inner workings of the Rebellion?
Those are some really subjective assumptions. Honestly, I can see the Empire not really caring one way or another about these guys. If they killed the crew, I think it's more out of simple convenience than any perceived risk of a leak.
Sure it's a big galaxy, but how big is the rebellion? They launch a few dozen ships to attack the death star out of their main base. That's it? You want to talk risk - how about the risk that these guys know something valuable that you're not going to get out of them if they're dead?
Surely the Empire has a better system for managing security codes than a handful of scattered, poorly funded rebels.
And just to build on that idea, keep in mind that the Empire was not done just because the Emperor and Second Death Star were blown away. In much the same way, other Rebels or new Rebels would still be out there even if the Yavin base was destroyed. If you were confident that you're about to blow away the rebel base like Tarkin was, then the smart priority would be on keeping these prisoners to extract any knowledge you could from them.
Disagree. The Death Star did fail and we don't see any evidence that all the worlds joined up to overthrow him.
I'm not sure when the Calmari joined up - maybe the loss of the Death Star contributed to them joining the rebellion, but that's just my speculation. The Empire had a pretty firm grasp on the galaxy even without the Death Star - the DS is just meant to be an ultimate solution.
The Emperor and Tarkin were supremely confident in the station, so much so that they disband the senate before the DS even goes live. I can't see those guys really caring one way or another about the survivng crerw making any kind of impact whatsoever.
Now, if the Empire was run by Hasbro, I could definitely see them killing people off to make sure no one gets the news out before them.
Trust me, they don't care. It's more likely the sites would be at each other's throats. Hasbro just would sit back and laugh at the free advertising.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Review
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Review
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is much like its predecessors: a bombastic but brief single player campaign coupled with laser-focused multiplayer.
Crap storm coming :\
Pretty much. Doesn't matter how good the game actually might be, tons of people who haven't played it will come in and say it's the worst game ever made.
OT: Since I'm not interested in multi-player, I'll probably pick this up after a price drop. Having just finished Modern Warfare 2 a few days ago (I have a massive backlog of games to work through) I gotta say I'm interested to see how it ends and I love the way Modern Warfare does the single player because, love it or hate it, it is pretty much like a big old action movie.
I only own and play MW1, can I just keep doing that instead?
I expected as much - I'm a little put-off by the '4.5 star' ranking, though. That seems a tad generous given the fact that this seems like little more than a rehash of the previous two MW titles.
the images and gameplayed he showed really contrasted from what he said, it honestly looked lackluster and didnt seem like much was new, just sort of re-skinned.
No one's gonna be happy about the reviews. The screaming hardcores will start throwing around GOTY and BEST EVAH! While the head-shaking haters are gonna claim uninspired drivel.
I have no plan on buying the game any time soon. Not as a commentary on its perceived quality or lack thereof, but rather because paying $60 for a game at this point in my life can't be rationalized.
And so it begins. *Sets up a chair*
OT: Good review, although I only read the written review. I don't watch the video reviews. I'm a stickler for written reviews.
The review felt forced--as if the reviewer was forced to be diplomatic by the editor. "The game has enough new features to seem fresh" as opposed to, let's say "staying fresh"? Maybe I'm reading too much into it, I don't know. Was an uncomfortable review to watch.
The 5 hour estimated single player time is generous on its own. I beat the game on Veteran in a little over 7 hours on my first go through the game and I honestly was rather upset at how weak the entire game was. I always enjoyed the Call of Duty series single player for its difficult Veteran mode, but the last couple games have become far too easy in my opinion.
The 4.5 you gave is undermined by your caveat of "if you're not fatigued by the series". A 4.5 should be something that anyone who likes shooters should probably buy. The text itself though, is fine.
Or maybe you got better ;) I know I died a lot on the normal difficulty > . >
Personally, I enjoyed the single player and felt annoyed that many reviewers just ignore this portion of the game to spend the entire review talking about how the multiplayer is the same or how the graphics are not pushing your PC to limit or even failing to run smoothly which is damn important in a multiplayer for people less fortunate to have a killer rig. So yes, I love IW and MW3 for using an 'older' engine, but damn, the game is pretty, from the submarine hunting mission to the sandstorm one, I didn't turn my eyes away from the screen a single moment.
I love BF, but BF3 is just not in my alley thanks to the QTE-heavy single player. But then again, CoD does suffer from a similar problem with way too many cutscenes that take control away from the player or turret sections which i despise though the ones in MW3 were definitely fun as hell like controlling the ground drone to unleash a hail on bullets on Makarov's bros.
Don't even get me started with how I hate Zombies and always wanted a survival mode that feels closer to MW than a Zombie game. Hurray for a real Survival mode!
Wait... so if the singleplayer letting you down is why you dislike BF3 then what BF games did you actually like? Because while BC/BC2 were alright (I stress alright), almost every other BF game didn't have a single player campaign at all.
One thing though, it took more than a week to get the Battlefield 3 review out but very little time to do this one. Furthermore both were reviewed by Justin Clouse so it's not like there'd be too many methodological reasons for the time gap.
So either
Edit* Also there's more people whining about the "incoming shit storm" than there have been people flaming. <3 internet.
I've never played Modern Warfare, but that Kill Confirmed game sounds fun. I have to say, if there was so much a push for multiplayer from most of the game's players, there probably would be more effort put into the single-player. Activision is betting that not making the extra effort is worth it.
No, trust me, I still died plenty, but I've rarely been able to beat one of the CoD games on Veteran as quickly as this. Even Black Ops took me around a week to beat. I remember having to take a few months hiatus from my Cod 3 Veteran run, simply because it got the better of me. I still remember when I finally did beat that game, I felt so fucking happy and accomplished.
Besides, even if I did get better, I still shouldn't be capable of beating the game that quickly on my first play through, on the hardest difficulty. I didn't feel like I did something challenging when it was all done, I just looked at the clock on my xbox and literally said, 'I still got 6 hours until Skyrim comes out'
Ive gotta say the review was well written, but my opinions just dont match up. (To put it out there, im a fan of IW's MW and MW2.)
I honestly believe the Single Player was extremly anti-climatic. A few firefights I liked, but it seemed to be 'Checkpoint... infinite spawn enemies... Checkpoint..." It also seemed like they took every awesome mission from 1 and 2 and tried to reform their new game around it. No creativity really. And the end... oh gosh, im still not happy about the last mission. Horrible ending to a great story. The one good thing I have to say about the story was that it was written well... just alot of fluff in it, and not delivered well.
The multiplayer now... erm... Ill make it short. Horrible spawns, no real tactics, no real sniping, alot of unorganized chaos, always feels cramped, custom classes are chaos, and it inherited the 'get killed around walls' problem from black ops.. Pro's - Pretty good looking maps, love the new game types... erm.. cant think of anymore ATM, but there are some.
So... Yeah... I feel like it was a bad end to the MW series, though it tried to bring some innovation.
Let's see, I played all BF games in multiplayer for quite some time except the console ones like Modern Combat and loved them all. But single player is an important component of the entire package for me now since I don't play online that much. That's why I chose MW3 over BF3, because of extended single player components like Spec Ops. And they never released that co-op part of BF:BC2 for PC too, which was a bit of a disappointment for me, onslaught I believe it was called.
I see. Oh well, enjoy Skyrim and kill a few of the cat people for me. Damn Khajits.
I would, but I've only seen one so far and he tried to assassinate me :<
I have to say, after being an snobby jackass with nothing but Minecraft and Dark Souls and indie games for months, it felt great to sit back and enjoy some spectacle for a change. I think it's safe to say that MW3's single player trounces BF3's, for what that's worth, and the survival and spec ops missions add a lot of life to it.
And multiplayer? Well, I think the truth is that BF3 and MW3 are different enough in philosophy that trying to compare the two is just a waste of time.
So yeah, Modern Warfare 3 is a great game.
See, BF3 was really hilarious. While the MP is excellent, all the SP did was remind me how awesome CoD4:MW1 was.
Sneaky sniper level where you follow your buddy stealthily but end up in a massive firefight anyway? Being executed in front of a camera by some Arab dude? Never seen that before.
OT: The review seemed, as someone already pointed out, rather diplomatic. ;)
In my opinion it was nowhere near as fun as Arkham City or Uncharted 3.
Does it have vehicles in multiplayer?
What is everyone in here going on about? I didn't think this review sounded forced at all. From someone who is neutral on CoD, and is on the fence about buying this one, I think this was a very fair review that did a good job on showing what new features are available.
Well it's not going to be terribly different than the last one and that can be good. If you really liked the last one then you'll be happy with an upgraded version. Personally I enjoyed Battlefield more.
I you like the first 2 you'll probably like this one. I got it for the singleplayer Michael Bayish story. The only reason I still have it is because my friends have it. If you don't have at least 6-9 friends to play with, it probably isn't going to be fun.
Bottom like for me as with most games:
If you like it, be quiet, play it and go on with your life.
If you don't like it, be quiet, don't play it and go on with your life.
Although this is a more toned down version of my methodology its served me well the past 2 decades.
I never owned a CoD game before so i was thinking of changing my policy about them if this looked good.
But it doesn't seem like too much has changed and Miracle of Sound's been mentioning god-awful lag so i doubt i'll give it my time of day.
oh no! a game I hate got a high score!!
aaaaaaaaaaaaand life goes on
Ive only played the mp at a mates house, but while its fun it does seem the same as previous ones and suffers from the same old problems. Xbl seems to be crippled with lag at times and the campers are still out in force.
While its not "ololol itz da terriblez, buyz da skyrimz's now!!!!", it is quite fun and like all the modern warfare series, a nice little time waster.
Agreed. Is it just me, or does Call of Duty really feel similar to the Madden games, in that the tweaks to each new iteration aren't anything major and the core of the game is still, essentially, the same thing. I'm really curious as to how much of this game could have just been DLC for Modern Warfare 2.
Only played the multi player and a bit of spec ops so far, but I am thoroughly enjoying it. There does seem to be some little annoying issues with the multi player though, like seemingly being shot around corners, and Assault rifles seeming over powered/ shotguns and SMG's feeling under powered. But as a whole the multi player it quite fun for me, especially Kill Confirmed!
Nope, but it has remote drones, very much like Frontlines and Homefront, but better.
my major complaint with this review is that he said he bearly played the other CoD games, but wss then able to draw a bunch of comparisons to them
It appears that the review has accidentally included PC under platforms :P
4.5 stars?
If someone can spend 45 minutes listing mostly flaws, I don't think it deserves 4.5 stars.
I mean, shit, you barely mentioned any flaws besides the single player. No matter what the game is, you should be pointing out more than "half-flaws", as with the single player campaign leaving you wanting more "both in the good and the bad sense".
No zombie mode? Fail!
Anyways, I've played MW2 and didn't get the story. I wonder what 'callbacks' to MW2 are there in MW3.
Yeah, basically what it's saying is, "this game is fantastic because some people will like it, 4.5/5, let's not take into account its faults"
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