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OTTAWA — Comparisons with the Nixon administration and Watergate are being raised following revelations the Harper government ordered "enemy" lists compiled in advance of this week's cabinet shuffle.
The Prime Minister's Office sent an email to Conservative ministerial aides on July 4 asking to develop lists of troublesome bureaucrats as well as "friend and enemy stakeholders" for incoming ministers and their staff.
The PMO has refused to comment on the controversy, which erupted after emails outlining the order were leaked to media outlets in Ottawa by an unidentified source on Monday, the same day as the federal cabinet shuffle.
Postmedia News has confirmed through several sources that the emails are authentic, although it was unclear whether the lists were actually created and distributed to new ministers after the shuffle.
The order was considered controversial from the beginning, one insider said, prompting an immediate pushback from some corners and contributing to the decision not to compile a list of "bureaucrats that can't take no (or yes) for an answer."
Some also reportedly questioned the wisdom of putting the order down in writing for fear it could be leaked and prompt the type of controversy that has, in fact, erupted.
Former environment minister Peter Kent, who is now a Conservative backbencher, said in an interview with Postmedia News that he had not seen nor was aware of any such request from the PMO.
He added it makes perfect sense for an incoming minister to be briefed on those organizations and interest groups he or she can expect to interact with on the new file.
But Kent said "friend and enemy" language is not only "juvenile," but harkens to former U.S. president Richard Nixon's so-called "Enemies List," the existence of which was revealed during the Watergate scandal.
"That was the nomenclature used by Nixon," he said. "His political horizon was divided very starkly into friends and enemies. The use of the word 'enemies list,' for those of us of a certain generation, it evokes nothing less than thoughts of Nixon and Watergate."
Independent MP Brent Rathgeber, who resigned from the Conservative caucus in June, described the existence of such lists as "inappropriate" and contributing to the "dysfunctional workplace" that Ottawa has become.
However, he said he was not surprised the order was issued given the "very young, very hyper-partisan individuals" in the PMO "who see the world in black and white."
"Just the language I think is very, very troubling," Rathgeber said. "We can have respectful discussions and disagree with each other without resorting to name-calling or vilification by referring to somebody as an 'enemy.' "
This isn't the first time the conduct and competence of the staff in Harper's taxpayer-funded office have been under the microscope since Nigel Wright resigned as the prime minister's chief of staff in May for cutting a personal cheque to Sen. Mike Duffy.
They were also outed for trying to distribute documents to media in secret about paid speeches Liberal leader Justin Trudeau made before he was elected to Parliament, and reportedly deployed phoney protesters to disrupt a Trudeau news conference on Parliament Hill last month.
"Stop Mulcair" signs were also distributed to cabinet ministers in what some saw as an amateurish stunt designed to poke fun at NDP leader Tom Mulcair after he failed to stop his vehicle for Parliament Hill security.
The Conservatives have also in the past made their refusal to engage with some groups and organizations, such as unions and civil society groups, a point of pride.
But observers and critics say the creation of "enemy" lists is more troubling as it vilifies those whose opinions differ from the Tories, and they say contributes to the us-versus-them attitude that has stymied dialogue and debate since the Harper government came to power.
"They don't view us as citizens with strongly held opinions that come from places of principle," said Council of Canadians executive director Garry Neil. "They view us as eco-terrorists. They see us as standing with the child pornographers. I mean that's the way they view politics."
Neil said he would be shocked if his organization, which has been a vocal critic of the government on everything from free trade to immigration to Conservative crime bills, wasn't on at least one enemies list.
Pointing to the robo-calls and the Senate expenses scandals as examples, NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus said if one sees "a world of loyalists and enemies," it becomes easier to justify bending or breaking the rules to hold onto power.
"In the Harper world, you're either with him or against him," he said. "It's something you saw in the United States with Nixon. … It's kind of the paranoid black-and-white world that I think is anathema to a modern democracy."


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With the announced SAT changes, many college bound students, parents, and counselors are understandably more angst-ridden than usual about the test and how to effectively prep for it. This, unfortunately, means that some less-than-scrupulous test prep companies will seek to take advantage of that concern to turn a quick profit. These companies are rushing to market with "the first prep guide for the 2016 SAT" that is "guaranteed to boost your score." Hopefully we'll be able to dispel some of the myth, rumor, and panic surrounding the new tests with a few reminders. So here is your quick guide to preparing for the new SAT:
Seniors and Juniors (class of 2015 and 2016) should ignore the new SAT
The new SAT will first be administered as a PSAT in October of 2015, which means the classes of 2015 and 2016 will not take the new SAT. So if you're in these groups, enjoy the fact that the current form of the SAT is known, has many official and unofficial practice tests available, and can be prepared for reliably.
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Given all the unknowns about the new SAT and the College Board's history of continuing to tinker with test redesigns until the very last minute, it only makes sense to avoid being a guinea pig for the first round of the New SAT. Students in the Class of 2017 would be smart to seriously consider preparing for and taking the ACT. The ACT is accepted by all colleges and, since it's not undergoing significant changes in the next 2 years, there will be lots of practice material and prep programs available to help you get your best score.
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Each year we get many calls from parents of 9th graders looking to begin preparing for the SAT early. This is always a questionable prospect, since much of the content of the SAT (e.g. geometry) hasn't even been covered in school yet. Freshmen should focus on completing their schoolwork, reading, building a strong vocabulary, and developing their career and life interests. By increasing reading ability and language fluency, a student will improve their test scores. This year more than others, there is little gain for a freshman to focus on SAT prep directly, since by the time the class of 2018 is ready to take the SAT, it will be a whole new test with all new strategies.
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The new SAT is still a largely unknown entity. No one (probably not even the College Board) knows exactly what that test will look like. While College Board has released some descriptions about the test, we've yet to see a full test and its supporting data. There have been some sample questions released that comprise about a third of the exam, and the new SAT is projected to have 153 questions. With so few questions released, there is no reliable way to develop testing strategies or know what content to become familiar with (no school has a "Heart of Algebra" or "Founding Documents" class). The College Board says a full length PSAT (nope not SAT) will be released in March 2015, which means any prep products that are released before March 2015 will be largely based on extrapolation, guesswork, and assumption.
As for those prep companies trying to sell you materials, courses, and tutoring for the new SAT, you should keep in mind that they are effectively offering to sell you a wedding dress before you've even gotten engaged. The new SAT is still a largely unknown thing. Buying something now to prepare for it is probably no more effective than just going to school and doing well in math and English classes.


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Eric recorded the album in his ramshackle house in upstate New York: amplifiers in the kitchen, in the hallway, bass amp in the guest bedroom, microphones up the staircase, speaker cabinets in doorways, frenetic bursts of guitar feedback exploding out of the kitchen…He's been living like this for years, since the 1980s drove him screaming from legitimate recording studios. A way of life transported from England to France, to England, back again to France, and finally to America.
Eric played electric guitars and bass throughout, strummed a scratchy 3/4 size Framus Teenager acoustic (bought from an old blues singer down in Georgia) against simplistic drum loops of his own creation. Here and there he called on friends and neighbours – Brian Dewan manned a malfunctioning Wurlitzer organ and other dodgy keyboards, bringing in cheap but magnificent synthetic choirs. Jane Scarpantoni played the cello. Alexander Turnquist guested on the e-bow guitar. Eric's wife Amy Rigby assisted on piano, banjo and vocal harmonies. Eric treated and manipulated the sounds the American musicians made as they were being recorded.
And so through random scrawls of guitars and loops and drones, meditations emerged on desperation (Property Shows), regret (Days Of My Life); fast food (Sysco Trucks), self-advancement (Up The Fuselage), pop fame lost and resurrected (Boy Band), firearms and civil liberties (White Bread): white bread built this land of milk and money…
Other songs are autobiographical and personal – Several Shades Of Green, Transitory Thing: I carried a case full of dirty clothes halfway around the world, when luggage was smaller and the chances were plenty I drank beer and sang songs for girls. The album ends with Have A Great Day, an immigrant's open-eyed appreciation of his new home: Judy In Disguise, Bobbie Gentry's Mississippi skies Trains rolling by Sears bungalow homes…
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I like narrow trousers. I'm pretty sure this isn't a fashion thing – they are trendy and have been for a good year or two, but I think it has influenced my choice in tailoring for longer than that.
(Side note on very narrow trousers: They only ever look good on thin people. Do not wear them if you have any softness around the middle. They will make you look immeasurably fatter. Like a blancmange on matchsticks in fact. I'm consistently amazed at exactly how fat they can make men look that I would otherwise have considered slim.)
I like narrow trousers because they suit, to my eye, my other clothing choices – slim shoes and tailored jackets. Having a rather large number of shoes I would like to display, it also helps having slimmer trousers that will rest on to of the shoe and not envelop it.
I know it was considered stylish for a long time to pair fuller, wider trousers with short, nipped jackets (Cary Grant, Oxford Bags) but I prefer to put together items that balance rather than contrast. As Coco Chanel said: "Fashion is architecture; it's a matter of proportions."
However, I have a problem: perhaps due to several years of cycling, I have larger than average thighs and bottom. So trousers that are too narrow or too low-waisted get as far as my thighs and stop. This is particularly a problem with contemporary jeans, though less so with formal trousers.
For jeans, I end up going for more traditional cuts – Levi's 501s are pretty good, as are the Kilgour range of jeans, which are purposefully cut higher and use a clean, dark indigo in order to be smarter.
As a result of this, it is always worth me keeping in mind how narrow I like trousers to be, in precise measurements, when trying trousers on. Without a ready comparison, it can be surprisingly hard to try on a new pair of trousers and get an idea of how narrow they are compared to your optimum width. You can, of course, compare them to the trousers you were wearing that day, but if these are very different in style or material they won't help much.
It also helps to get an assistant to pin the trousers at the length you would have them hemmed to – width can vary surprisingly along the trouser leg, and it is easier to see the width when the ends are not crumpled up on top of your shoe.
All of which is a long way of saying that I now make a point of knowing the widths I prefer, in inches. I recommend doing something similar.
My preferences are (measured as the circumference of the leg at the bottom – just measure the width when flat and double it):
Suit trousers – 16 inches. (Anything less than this I would class as very narrow).
Jeans or more casual trousers – 17 inches.
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A copy of the bill, titled the "Qualifying Renewable Chemical Production Tax Credit Act of 2013," provided by Stabenow's office specifies that the bill would add a new section to Internal Revenue Code. The new section, would establish a renewable chemical production tax credit equal to 15 cents per pound of eligible content of renewable chemical produced by a taxpayer. Eligible content is defined as the biobased content percentage of the total mass of organic carbon in a chemical.
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"When we grow things here and make things here we create jobs here. These tax cuts for our domestic bio-based manufacturing companies will help spur innovation, grow the economy and create jobs across the country," said Stabenow in a statement.
The Biotechnology Industry Organization has spoken out in support of the bill. "Creating a level playing field in tax policy will help U.S. industrial biotech companies innovate and develop new products," said Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of BIO. "Putting homegrown technologies to work will create high-quality rural jobs, spur economic growth, and improve environmental health. We thank Senator Stabenow for supporting innovation and helping U.S. companies compete in a rapidly growing global chemicals market."


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Before we crunch the numbers lets go ahead and anticipate the talking points for today: Meg Whitman will be in Camarillo this morning and she will be talking with the media.
The subject will come up and she will say the following: "We knew the race was going to get tighter at the end."
"He's spent 15 million dollars spreading falsehoods about me and that has something to do with it."
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"The only poll that counts is the one on election day."
The first answer is true, the second is sort of 'half' true and the third use to be the case but isn't quite so anymore.
The former eBay CEO spent a fortune on media since the end of last year and as a result catapulted ahead in the GOP race for Governor. Two months ago she had a 40 point lead over Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. But Poizner still had money and the Whitman people remained a little fearful. Hoping that they would insure entice Poizner to blow his cash well before the election the Whitman campaign went negative early ("reason #12 why not to trust Steve Poizner: he wears ballet slippers") Poiz didn't bite. Instead he saved much of his war chest until now and is using it to pummel Whitman on Immigration and Goldman Sachs… two issues he was handed late in the game (see related article)
And the punches have been landing.
The Public Police Institute of California says Whitman's support has dropped 23 points since March and now her lead over Poizner is 38 to 29 percent among registered Republicans likely to vote in the June primary. Now that's still a nine point lead… but it is a far cry from where it was.
Poizner has also pulled down Whitman's numbers against Democrat Jerry Brown. In a hypothetical race Brown, who once trailed Whitman, now leads by several points. Whitman still does better against Brown than Poizner does but that doesn't seem to matter much with Republican voters.
What is pulling Whitman down, or so it seems, is her approach to illegal immigration. While she has former Governor Pete Wilson on the radio saying she would be "tough as nails" on the issue, the fact is Whitman opposes SB 1070 in Arizona. While that measure may be unpopular with most politicians, and the media, the fact is the vast majority of voters around the nation and in California agree with it. Poizner's attacks that Whitman benefited personally from her ties with Goldman Sachs may also have an immigration component in that the ads maker her appear like the kind of rich CEO who employs undocumented workers and has little regard if they are taking roofing, drywall or construction jobs.
Meg still may win. If not she will own a dubious record: that of the most expensive, but failed, campaign in California history.
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Here is Part Two of Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Jump from Leigh Montville's new book, "Evel:The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend."
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The time was 3:36 in the afternoon of September 8, 1974. The numbers came through the radio in the pilot helmet clamped tight over the man of the moment's troubled head. No stopping now. He was going to travel over Snake River Canyon in this bucket of previously used bolts. Or not.
There was no turning back now. He was strapped into this compartment in the front end of this retread airplane fuel tank that had been salvaged from a government junkyard, one of those fuel tanks you see on the wingtips of fi ghter planes or private jets, a fuel tank that cost no more than $100 as scrap metal. He waited to be blasted into the sky. Maybe blasted to smithereens. Blasted in some manner or shape or form. That was for sure.
The fuel tank, which was supposed to be a rocket of course, had been altered, painted, given some kind of "jet propulsion" system, a set of surplus helicopter fi ns had been stuck on the side, and some corporate logos had been added to complete the red-white-and-blue American commercial package, but truth was truth: he was riding a homemade piece of shit. Three smart kids with an Encyclopedia Brittanica and a whole lot of spare time could have made this thing. Shot it off from their backyard.
Nine . . .
The sense of doom that had been an undigested worry in his stomach for the longest time had grown and grown in the past months, days, hours, and now, in the fi nal minutes and seconds, it filled his entire body, gushed out, covered his every word and action. He was a dead man. He had talked so much about the risk, the peril involved, while selling this event, this stunt, this whatever it was across the country, that he had convinced himself. He was a goner. He had created his own demise, built it from scratch, from an idea in his head to a public extravaganza televised around the world. "Man Kills Himself." Come on, folks. Get your money up. Bring the wife and kids. "Right now I don't think I've got better than a fifty-fifty chance of making it," he had told Robert Boyle of Sports Illustrated. "It's an awful feeling. I can't sleep nights. I toss and turn, and all I can see is that big ugly hole in the ground grinning up at me like a death's head. You know, I've always been concerned about kids—not just my own three, but all kids— what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of an inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down a path to self-destruction. Our house in Butte is surrounded night and day by people wanting to take a look at me, to take something as a souvenir. And that damn little Robbie of mine, the 11-year-old, you know what he's gone and done, He has got a big old sign out in front that says 'SEE EVEL JR JUMP—25 CENTS.' It's not a good thing."
Eight . . .
Push the button. That was all he had to do. Push the button and away he went. He had little control over what happened next. He had no steering wheel. He had no gears to shift. Nothing. He was so cramped he couldn't put his arms out and attempt to fl y as a last gasp if trouble arose. The last- resort personal parachute hanging from his chest was nuisance rather than comfort. He had his hand on the lever for the drogue shoot, that was it. Wait ten seconds after liftoff and let it go. It would work without him if he passed out. He really was a passenger, not a driver. When he pushed that one button in front of him, the plug would be pulled on the seventy-seven- gallon boiler underneath, the water inside superheated in the past fourteen hours to 475 degrees, and 5,000 pounds of steam pressure would be released. The old airplane fuel tank . . . okay, the rocket . . .the rocket would be traveling at 200 miles per hour by the time it reached the end of the 108- foot ramp into the sky, traveling as fast as 400 miles per hour when it hit the height of its arc, 2,000 feet in the air. (Plus the 540- foot drop into the canyon. That meant he would be almost half a mile off the ground.) If all went well, the drogue parachute and then the big parachute would deploy from the back of the rocket, and he would slow down as he reached the other side. He would be traveling no more than fifteen miles per hour when a pointed shock absorber, sort of a pogo stick on the front of the rocket, would cushion the landing on the moonscape on the other side.
This, of course, was all hypothesis. No one ever had done this.


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Jordan Miller was good for the job. Her managers say her work was stellar.
"She knows her stuff, she's very good at what she does," said University of Michigan spokesman Rick Fitzgerald.
But Miller didn't quite meet all of the qualifications. Sources tell Local 4 it was her ex-husband who ratted her out. He took to the social media site Reddit revealing Miller had lied on her resume.
He posted quote: "Having been royally screwed over by this woman's lies myself, I decided to file a FOIA request with U of M to obtain these documents."
Miller's resume and application said she had a bachelors degree in Journalism from Columbia.
The university believed her and gave her the Director of Social Media position, making $100,000 a year.
"We certainly never had any reason to not believe her resume," said Fitzgerald.
Sources say the ex- husband posted a degree verification document online, which showed Miller never received a degree from Columbia.
The university looked into it and found that Miller had not finished getting her degree.
"We did not do the verification by our outside source for educational background," Fitzgerald said.
Miller resigned from her position. She released a statement saying, "My intention was never to deceive the university, but i acknowledge that I made a mistake, and I'm very sorry."
More stories from the University of Michigan
Police: University of Michigan student robed at knife-point
University of Michigan police issue crime alert after attempted apartment break-in


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So you have a presentation that you've prepared in Keynote. But it turns out you don't have Keynote anymore, your computer crashed, or you want to send it to someone who doesn't have Keynote. What then?
This was the dilemma when Frustrated Sue ... er, I mean SFSuzi (that's her SecondLife name ... used to protect the innocent) asked for my help in converting her Keynote presentation to JPEG files so she could use them during her SecondLife book club presentation next week.
First problem: Suzi's Keynote was an old version and would not save her presentation as JPEG files. Not a huge problem, since I have PowerPoint and it will open Keynote files and can save as JPEG ... or so we thought.
Second problem: Suzi was in the midst of packing to go out of town tomorrow and would not return until Sunday. (This really didn't seem like a problem at the time since it would only take a couple of minutes to convert these files, right?)
Time check: We started at around 5:30 p.m.
First, Suzi tried to email it to me but it was too big (34MB). Not to worry! We created a file in Dropbox and went from there. Suzi originally gave me the first 4 slides, and it - quite literally - took me 2 seconds to convert them to JPEGs and save them in Dropbox for her to retrieve. Then we realized that her presentation had 8 slides. She then gave me the entire presentation (43MB).
So I open PowerPoint and try to open the file from Dropbox. Nothin' doin'. PowerPoint does not recognize .key extensions. Hmmm ... what the heck? It worked a minute ago.
Off to the internet I go, looking for a Keynote to PowerPoint converter. I found one. It redirected me to some Blackberry program that seemed like a scam. Dead end.
No worries ... iPad to the rescue! I have Dropbox on my iPad, so I'll just open it on there, convert it to PowerPoint, get back on my PC and open it in PowerPoint, and then we'll have JPEGs. Nope. Turns out I don't have Keynote on my iPad. I can order it for $9.99, but the iPad version doesn't convert files anyway, so what's the point?
I know! GoogleDocs! Surely that can convert ANYTHING! Wanna bet? Only option it gave me was to save it back to my PC as a .key file.
I was starting to get worried that I wouldn't have this presentation converted before Suzi left town. I was absolutely not going to let this file defeat me! SUZI MUST HAVE HER SLIDES!
I recalled a post that Dick Eastman made about LibreOffice, an open source suite of programs much like Microsoft Office. Maybe I can download that and it will open for me in there. Nope. It works JUST like Microsoft Office. It doesn't recognize the .key extension either. I had been meaning to download it anyway, so at least it wasn't a waste.
All this technology and no one has figured out how to get Keynote files to open in PowerPoint? Seriously?
Then I grew a brain.
I realized that the first batch of slides Suzi sent had already been converted to .ppt (which is why it was so easy to make the JPEGs). So I sent her an email and asked her to convert the presentation to .ppt and drop it back in the folder. She sent me back an email and said "I thought that's what I sent! I'll fix it immediately!" By this time, I'm actually LOLing. This is Suzi's first presentation, and I offered to help (being the seasoned professional that I am ... see my post about that here). But it has turned into the blind leading the blind. She dropped the converted file into the folder, and 2 seconds later I had converted the slides to JPEGs and dropped them back in the folder.
Time check: 8:39 p.m. (Yeah, that's 3 hours).
Moral(s) of the story:
1. Never try to convert files while packing for a trip.
2. Simple tasks become brain teasers after a long day of work.
3. Genealogists do it until they get it right!
... and to answer my original question, "what then?" Basically, you better make friends with someone who has a Mac or you're screwed.
Friday, September 30, 2011
A Comedy of Errors (or How Not to Convert Keynote to PowerPoint)
Posted by Unknown at 9:00 AM
Labels: SecondLife, Technology
4 comments:
- Claudia said...
Don't feel bad, I had to Google Keynote and .ppt file to understand what you were doing. I had never heard of Keynote (found out it was Apple) and although I have Powerpoint installed with my Office program, I have never used it. LOL
- September 30, 2011 at 3:02 PM
- Joan said...
That's my girl!! Way to go Jen! #geekgirl :)
- October 2, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Unknown said...
Back from the weekend trip. What Jenny doesn't truly mention is that she saved my sanity with all this. The weekend trip was a good one, I'll try not to schedule things so tightly, and if I don't talk to much, I believe the presentation will work.
- October 2, 2011 at 7:06 PM
- Michelle Goodrum said...
Such a familiar technology story! I feel your pain. Even though it is humorous!
- October 5, 2011 at 1:32 AM


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New e-journal and e-books trials
The Book Library is currently trialing two new resources; the online edition of the London Review of Books and Oxford University Press' Very Short Introductions e-book series.
The London Review of Books is a leading literary and intellectual journal which features frequent contributions from the likes of T.J. Clark, Brian Dillon and Hal foster and has been described byAlan Bennett as 'The liveliest, the most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have.' The online archive covers the entire run of the journal from the first issue in 1979.
Very Short Introductions offers concise introductory texts to a diverse range of subjects written by prominent academics. There are a number of relevant art titles including our own Julian Stallabrass's Very Short Introduction to Contemporary Art as well as many useful titles from other disciplines such as philosophy (including volumes on Foucault, Derrida and Wittgenstein) and history (including The Renaissance, Medieval Britain and Late Antiquity).
Currently the trials are accessible only onsite but should we go ahead with purchase they will also be available remotely.


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International influences and similar histories keep Hong Kong and Macao eternally tied. Separated by only a short ferry ride, this pair of energetic destinations charms with glittering skyscrapers that give way to bustling side streets lined with markets and locally owned establishments touting dynamic cuisine.
Become immersed in Hong Kong and you'll see why this thriving modern getaway earns the designation as "Asia's World City." Discover the many facets of this multicultural destination as you explore attractions loved by locals and diverse neighborhoods that contribute to the distinctive spirit of Hong Kong.
Macao enchants with its rich and dynamic melting pot of cultures. Peruse local markets, sample cuisine and take in the romantic architecture, where early Portuguese influences have created a unique blend of Oriental and Western styles.


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For most of the day Isaac was the #2 highest grossing game on Steam! amazing stuff! thanks to everyone who picked it up and did video play throughs, podcasts and livestreams of the game, its been yet another surreal launch experience .
It might not make sense to most, but launching a game really takes an emotional tole on you regardless of how the game does, so i really want to thank all of you who went out of their ways to live stream the game, sent me awesome emails and fan pics, you really picked me up.... so now to give back!
Well as i mentioned in my previous post, there has been a lot of talk about a Halloween patch next month if the game was received well, this is obviously the case. So on oct.31st be ready for a very dark and jam packed FREE update to isaac, that will add a lot more to the game... but 1st.
Kill mom already!
update notes:
-We are aware of a few bugs (wall bug, secret room bug, alt tab bug, etc) and are compiling an update for this weekend that should fix them.
-The Mac version of the game IS saving your achievements, but not rewarding them yet. Tommy is currently working on an app to fix this this week.. so dont worry mac people, all your achievements are there in your save and will be unlocked on steam once we patch the game!
-Anyone still not getting achievements on Pc after they have updated, delete your local content and redownload the game, it will fix any issues.